June 27, 2025 • 36 mins
DP reacts to the second round of the NBA Draft. Where does each team stand? Maury Povich breaks down his favorite guests on his new podcast "On Par with Maury Povich," and shares the one time his wife mistook Dan Hicks for Dan Patrick. And Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh humbly breaks down his historic season thus far and shares how he is just "an average-looking dude" walking around cities and not being recognized.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio. Made it to a Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's a meat Friday and apparently it's a surprise menure,
secretive menu. Dylan and Tyler, they are doing double duty today.
Don't know what the menu is for meat Friday? A
collab here? Yes, Dylan, I just sent over to you Dan. Okay,
well you can give me the menu, all right. So
(00:26):
it's actually National Onion Day, Dan, and you know I
hate onions, but we have to honor the national We
do not have to honor onions.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
So you don't want onion rings.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
You guys can have onion rings. What else do you have?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Bloomin onion?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
What else do you have?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
French onion zoop in summer?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Oh my god? Okay, what else do you have?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We also have grilled revis and loaded baked potatoes, okay
with onions, caramelized onions. I'm sure on everything. Okay, great,
thank you? Thanks running it by the home office here.
Welcome to me Friday. Who's got it better than we do?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
No money?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Question mark the Minister of Humors here, Dylan's in for
seating today. Marv is here, Paula, yours truly and the brgs.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
Yes, Paul you I know you pretty well. You really
don't like onions or eat things with onions? Are you
gonna tap out?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Are you gonna? No? No?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I plow through it. Team player, you know, Meet Friday
isn't all about me. It's about us, teamwork. This is
what you do. So I'll try it, and you know,
morale will pick up. I think I got'm low. Now
I'm down in the dumps. Now, you know, I meet
(01:44):
Friday and I'm not feeling great. Didn't know about the menu.
You gave me a heads up that it was a
National onion Day, and as soon as you said it,
I go no. I hate onions. Feels like this was
hidden from me. Feels like it was hidden from me. Yes, Dylan,
what would be worse for you?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
National onion Day or National mayo Day?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Mayonnaise that's number one. Yeah, it's a worthless condiment.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I'm gonna have to disagree. It's just it's bland. But
a turkey sandwich needs mayonnaise on it.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
No, it needs mustard on it.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I can't abide. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
We played golf the other day some of the backroom guys,
and then we went to Seven Seas and had some
beers and wings, and then I ordered a Turkey club
and the waitress goes mayo, and I go, no mustard.
And then Dylan goes, what like you were offended? And
I go, I'm not putting mayo on this flabbergas is
(02:45):
actually the real It's tasted great with mustard. Okay, come on,
let's go, let's get started. Come on, let's go, Come on,
let's rally here. It's a Friday. It's our one ready
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Draft Round two is over. No freshman taken in round two,
eighteen taken in round one. Talk a little bit more
(03:29):
about that coming up. The ex Baltimore Raven kicker Justin
Tucker suspended ten weeks.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
We'll talk about that. Says he's innocent.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Is rep says he's innocent, then why are you accepting
a ten week suspension?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Have that for you coming up?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
This almost feels like something that Maury Povich would have
had on his show. Maury Povich, the former daytime host.
He's got a new podcast, Golf Podcast, talks to some
big stars. Maury Povich, the father will join us coming up.
Marvin was a big Maury Povich fan because he liked
when they would boo people when the guy would come
(04:08):
out to see if he's the You know, two women
are out there, both are pregnant, and then all of
a sudden they do a DNA test and they'd introduced
Jimmy Lipper and then the audience would go.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Boo, boom, Shut up, y'all don't know me. Shout up,
y'all don't even know the whole story. Murray, this is
what happened. It was never Moury, It was Murray, Murray,
Murray Povich, Murray, let me tell you what happened.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yes, Poe.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Maury Povich was pretty groundbreaking at the time because it
was like Oprah and Phil Donahu in the late eighties,
in the early nineties and Maury Povich just before Jerry
Springer kind of took it in that racy direction.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
And Springer took it to another level.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
But Maury Povich, like Maury Povich, wasn't as you know,
down in the trenches the dirt like Jerry Springer was.
Like Springer, Springer was the mayor of Cincinnati and famously
paid a prostate with a check and then they kind
of check came back.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
That's a bananas move. That's how I want to get
caught here.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, but I think Maury gets lumped in with the
Jerry Springer crowd.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
And so we'll talk to Maury Povitch.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
By the way, his father, Shirley Povich, that was his name,
Shirley Povitch, longtime columnists, sports columnists for the Washington Post
and like seventy years something crazy.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
So we'll talk to Maury Povich. She'll join us.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And he's known as the Big Dumper, Cal Rolly, the
Mariners catcher. He's hitting a lot of home runs. Okay,
is this a good nickname? Most people get a nickname,
like Kobe Bryant called himself the Black Mamba. You know,
some guys just say, hey, this is my nickname. This
(05:53):
is where you're called something, And sometimes you have no
choice but to kind of accept it.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
That.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Hey, I'm known as the Big dump. Yes, Pully, it's fun.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
He's a big, thick dude, he's a catcher. It's easy
to get to know him because of cal Rawley. Yeah,
you kind of know that. But if you say, oh,
the big dumper went yard, it makes you it crosses
you over.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Well, let's go around the room. Yeah, your name Big
Dumper Todd. I'm cool with it, okay, Uh, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I'm absolutely cool with that.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Alright, Marvin, I like it, okay, PAULI.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
I don't love it, but once it's in place, you
don't fight it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, I get you know, he's a thick guy. He's
a catcher.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
And I don't know. I don't know. What kind of
sponsorship do you get with the big Dumper dude?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Wifes?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Oh okay, all right, total toilets. Oh okay, okay, we
thought this out charming. How about a dump truck, big,
the big dump truck.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Like a garbage company.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, something I don't know, maybe just him from behind,
and that's the the dump truck logo, the big Dumper.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
He'll join us a little bit later up, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
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Speaker 4 (07:26):
All right, with the draft last night.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It was kind of interesting from the standpoint of you
actually knew some of the players last night. They've been
around for a little while. This is the youngest first
round as far as age goes in NBA history, going
back modern era the ABA NBA merger, so you can
go back to the seventy you know, let's say nineteen
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seventy average age nineteen years, three hundred and eight days.
You had eighteen freshmen taken in the first round. You
also had eight consecutive freshmen taken in the first round.
Second round. It was just a little bit different because
you had guys who were actually juniors, seniors, and you go, yeah,
(08:12):
I remember that guy. Then he played at Florida. Oh
that guy, Yeah, he played at Creighton. And these guys
can make rosters. You know, the guys you're drafting potential
in that first round, the freshman who played one year,
one and done. Where you get somebody who's a little
more seasoned and they're going to be coming in They're
going to be more mature and probably be more accepting
(08:35):
of their role. And these guys will probably be making
you know, there's a few guys in the second round
who will make rosters. The Ace Bailey situation, to me
is interesting because he was drafted by Utah and Danny Ainge.
But Ace Bailey's rep said, Hey, there's teams that we
don't want to go to, we don't want to work
out for, and I believe Utah was one of those teams.
(08:59):
In fact, one was told specifically do not draft him,
and that team could have been Utah. Because Ace Bailey
out of Rutgers, he wanted to go to Brooklyn or Washington,
and there were teams that passed on him, seventy six Ers, Charlotte,
but Utah Danny Ainge is saying, hey, too much talent here,
(09:20):
I'm going to take you. They're not even sure if
he's going to show up. Normally, this is the day
or maybe Saturday, where the player shows up, holds up
the jersey, and meets with the local media. I guess
there's real concern in Utah that he might not be there.
And Summer League starts pretty soon, and I think Utah
(09:43):
they get started before just about anybody. There's real concern
that you might have a guy who may not want
to go to Utah and then what happens after that.
And he's a guy who can play. I mean, he's athletic,
but you know, I think he was just or his
business people said he didn't want to go to seventy
six for whatever reason. Like I think he wants. He
(10:06):
wanted to go where he knew he was going to
play right away. He can put up numbers right away,
and those places. Philadelphia's going to share the ball with
Embiid and you know Paul George Maxie, you know he's
not going to get his touches. Charlotte kind of a mess.
You know, you got a ball dominant guard there. But
(10:28):
I mean they end up taking Canipple from Duke, but
they probably would have taken Ace Bailey if he was
willing to go there. But Utah Danny Ainge, Hey, he's
one of the slicker gms that we've had in recent memory.
And maybe he looked at this and said, it's too
much of a bargain. I can't pass up talent even
if the guy doesn't want to come here.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Yeah, Paul, it does feel like everyone's pointing that Utah
saying that without saying it that Ace Bailey didn't want
to go there. If this were the NFL, Danny Ainge
would draft him and try to package a trade to
Washington or to Brooklyn. But they would do that on
draft night, like back in the day with Eli Manning.
It wouldn't stretch over a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, you wonder if you're taking talent, but what are
you getting with that talent? I mean, I love talent,
but there are times when you're dealing with talent. I
love having it. I don't want to have to, like
you got to deal with this. And you would think
he would be excited to go there, but he might say, hey,
(11:30):
I don't want to live there. Yeah, these other places,
I know I could probably be a star sooner. Like
I understand all that. And he was upfront with people,
but just trying to understand exactly why or why not
with Salt Lake. And you know, the Summer League starts
(11:51):
July fifth, so it starts in California July fifth, It
starts in Salt Lake July fifth, Then it starts in
uh Vegas July tenth. Summer League July fifth is not
very far away. What are we dealing eight days here
before he's got to show up supposed to show up,
(12:12):
Probably needs to show up before that, say a lo
to the media and say how much you love Salt
Lake City. Come in wearing a Karl Malone jersey, you
know Mark Eaton? How about a horny jersey, Jeff HORNI sex, I'm.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Harny for Utah. Who is my guy? Adam Keith nice
at all?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Oh, Andre Carolenko, Young, Darren Williams.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Oh okay, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
So that to me, that's that's that great curiosity of
And I'm gonna guess they didn't even interview the guy.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I'm gonna guess they didn't talk to Hiss Bailey. This
is one of those.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Now sometimes this happens in the NFL, and it'll be
like a guy go, I didn't even talk to these
people Jacksonville Blake Bortles. So they were drafting Blake Bortles.
They never gave you the impression they were drafting Blake Bortles.
They didn't even interview him because everybody thought, oh, man
(13:18):
is Jacksonville taking Johnny Manziel. Then all of a sudden,
they go Lake Bortles, and everybody went, wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
We didn't know anything about this. It does happen.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
And I think he had like thirty five touchdown passes
one year led the NFL maybe in touchdown passes.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Yes, Paul Lake Bortles is still one of the NFL
mysteries that bothered me. I know I shouldn't be making
this left turn. But his second year in the league,
thirty five touchdown passes. Now he had eighteen picks, but
thirty five.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I'll take the thirty five.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Four years later he's out of the sport.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Yeah, how that happened?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, look at Marvin all right.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yes, that threw me off.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
The thirty five touchdown passes.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah, I knew he was the quarterback on the team
that they were up. When the pages in the AFC
champion Chip Gean.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
He was going to go to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
He done seventeen.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
He was going to the super Bowl eight years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
He should have been. Nick Foles.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Bounced around.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, okay, we'll take a break. We got to come
up with the poll question. Dylan, that's your duty today,
since you screwed up the menu.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Screwed up or carefully calculated?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well with you might have been carefully calculated, Dylan line. Yes,
carefully calculated, Tyler. Maybe it was something different, But it's
a meat Friday and morale's high.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Wow. Goodbyes, baked potatoes.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Onions, onions, take a break here back after this Dan
Patrick show.
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Speaker 3 (15:00):
Hi, this is Jay.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
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Ignore that fool.
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Speaker 2 (15:30):
He is the former talk show host and he's got
a new podcast on par with Maury Povich. So you
can check that on it YouTube everywhere you listen to podcasts,
new episodes dropping every Monday. As Maury Povich goes back
to his journalistic roots in depth conversations with the most
influential voices, legendary athletes, groundbreaking journalists, cultural icons, and more.
(15:53):
As we bring in Maury Povich, what do you learn
from somebody when you play a round of golf with them?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Well, I'll tell you. I think you'll learn everything. I
think someone's entire personality comes out on the golf course.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
The good, the bad, the ugly, It is all there.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
And I think you can judge for yourself whether you
want to play with this guy.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Again, I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I think if I was interviewing somebody for a job,
going out and playing golf, I find out how competitive
you are, how honest you are, Are you a storyteller?
Are you courteous to others? And those are all things
that you have to have to work in, you know,
a working environment.
Speaker 9 (16:44):
Yeah, I think, boy, you can tell so much every
you know, every demon that you have comes out, and
every pleasure that you can enjoy comes out.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I mean, that's why I love it so much.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Why also, by.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
The way, the other reason why I love it is
and I don't know if you know the story. Dan,
my father, of course, was the long time seventy five
years sports columnist writer for the Washington Post. He was
a fourteen year old can in Bar Harbor, Maine. That's
where he grew up. And it was a caddie and
(17:21):
he was thrown in with this guy when he was
like fifteen years old. And the guy said, after my
father caddied for him, you're the best caddie. Will my
carriage will pick you up every day at Keebow Valley
Golf Club. And after three years he goes to my
grandmother says to my grandmother, I want to take your
(17:42):
son with me to Washington, d C. I own my
own golf course at my house, and I'll also give
you give him a job. And my grandmother reluctantly said yes.
My father showed up. The first person he caddied for
was President Warren G. Harding, and the guy gave him job.
The guy owned the Washington Post. That was a seventy
(18:05):
five year experience for my.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Father, and your dad was a legendary columnist. Here is
one of the great journalists of his time, and I'm
curious when he sees his son during the you know,
doing the Morey Covid show does what does dad think
about what his son is doing.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
Well, I'll tell you the first national show that he
had to deal with was a current affair, this kind
of tabloid crazy show that I did. And he said
to me, well, son, just don't worry about it. I said, well,
Tom Shales, the Pulitzer Prize winning television critic at The
(18:45):
Washington Post, wrote this terrible story about me.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Dad.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
He used every s word in the world, smarmy, swordid,
everything in the world. Please don't show this mom today.
Don't even look at it. He says, Well, son, you know,
don't worry about Just go about your business.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
It's fine, It's all right.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
I said, yeah, But Dad, he says, you know I
helped to hire Tom Shales at the Washington Post. I said, yeah, that,
but I'm your son.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
He says, you have.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
But good writers are hard to find.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
That was my father. Did you ever get injured on
the Mariy Povich show.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
No, no, never never.
Speaker 9 (19:25):
I mean, you know, it's interesting. Everybody kind of compares
my show with Jerry Springer Show, and Jerry and I
were great friends, and Jerry always made the distinction. I
give him full credit. He said, Mari, here's the difference.
You're the real thing, and my show is wrestling, and.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
That's how, and that's how.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
By the way, I got a story to tell you,
Dan about you many years ago. Connie Chong, as you know,
my wife and I were at the Tahoe Celebrity Tournament
and we're out there one time and this is after you,
this is when you were on sports and she we
loved watching you on Sports Center. I don't know who
you were with at the time, Steiner or somebody who
I can't remember, but we just were enthralled with you.
(20:09):
And so we're at the tournament and I said to
Connie at the cocktail hower, I said, there's Dan. So
she goes over and starts talking and starts telling Dan
how great you are on Sports Center, and how funny
you are and how great you are. And I walk
up behind her and I said, Connie, that's Dan Hicks,
that's not Dan Patrick. And she says, oh, my gosh,
(20:33):
I said, that's Dan Hicks. And then she turns to
me and she says, well, you know, all these white
sports guys look alike.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Fair enough, but I'll take those compliments even if they
went through day. I do remember seeing you and Connie
at Tahoe, Yes, oh yeah, but I've had people think
that I was Stewart's which, yeah, let that one sink in.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
Yeah, well, everybody always mistook me for Springer all the
time on the street.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
I mean, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Was there ever an episode where you had a hard
time doing it or being convinced to do it?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Well, there was.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
There was a couple of episodes the same theme that
that just were astounding that this woman was accusing this
guy of being the father of her twins. And I,
of course, the best thing I ever did was I
never knew the results of anything. I wanted to be
like my guests, my audience. I want to be as
(21:42):
a surprise as anybody. That's why the inflection you are
the father, you are not the father. I open up
this envelope and this guy is the father of one twin,
but not the other. And so I turn around to
the stamp, I went what is this? And then I
find out that with fraternal twins and you're a very
(22:03):
active young lady, you can have two fathers.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
He's Maury Povich. He has a new podcast called On
par with Maury Povich. New episode dump every Monday. It's
available on YouTube or wherever you get your podcast. Who
do you want to interview? Give me your wish list.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
What I'd really like to interview is and by the way,
an old golf buddy of mine is the forty third President.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Of the United States, George W.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
Bush, who I really kind of admire in the way
he's conducted himself after his presidency and so, and he
doesn't give many interviews. I would love to interview him.
I would also like to interview Shaq and Charles because
you know, do they like each other? Don't they like
(22:55):
they play this game. I'd love to have them on
both Shaq as Shaq was always a great fan of
the Marray Show because he said that he and his
buddies used to bet on the guy was the father.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Did you ever feel sorry for a guest, like in
a situation like that where you're revealing information.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
Well, I felt sorry for the woman, the women who
used to come on multiple times and the audience would
boo them, and I was, I was, you know, and
I was. I always felt that they had a certain
amount of courage and bravery for keep coming on to
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find out who the father of their child was. And
so I felt sorry for them every single time it
didn't turn out to be the father.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Because these are life altering moments.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
Absolutely, absolutely, and you know, and I used to get
criticized all the time in the media that I was
exploiting this theme and everything, and I always said, you know,
if I can get two parents the child's life they have,
those kids have a better chance.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
That's it.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Just it's just for real. And so that's how I
hang my hat.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Could you do your show today the same way you
did it given today's guidelines parameters.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
Yeah, I think so I could. I could, but I
think the show ended at the proper time. And by
the way, it hasn't ended.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
The repeats.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
I mean, you know about repeats. I mean the repeats
are getting as good ratings as the originals, and so
I mean, it's just it's a gift that keeps on giving.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Give me your favorite interview so far that you've had
on your podcast.
Speaker 9 (24:36):
Well, it's interesting. I've had so many different ones. I'll
tell you one. I really like. You know who Jeff
Perlman is, the sportswriter, the guy who wrote Winning Time.
I thought he was fascinating. I think he had he
had a lot of good things to say. I have
Barbara Corkan from Shark Tank. Yeah, she's as feisty as
(24:57):
they come, and they're great. And then I this week
is a dear friend of mine, Lewis Black, the great comedian.
And Lewis is a friend of mine. Lewis we knew
Lewis a little bit. And then my wife gave me
a surprise seventieth birthday party many years ago and hires,
(25:20):
unbeknownst to me, Lewis to do the entertainment at my
apartment in New York. Black comes on. The first thing
he says is how far have I fallen? Broadway and
Carnegie Hall and Povich's birthday party.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Well, good luck with the podcast. It's great to thank
you and give my best to Connie. Tell her that
Dan Hicks says, hello.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I sure will nice to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Dan, my bud, Maury Povich, you are not the father.
It's a podcast called on par with Maury Povich.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Patrick Show. He's a nine am Eastern six am Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio WAPP.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Cal Rawley catcher for the Seattle Mariners, and he leads
all the baseball and home runs and RBIs. Twenty twenty
five is obviously a career season, but he's had home
runs before each of the last three seasons. He's led
all catchers twenty seven homers, then thirty, then thirty four
and he joins US now.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Cal.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
What's different this year as opposed to the last couple
of years.
Speaker 10 (26:31):
I think really just me trying to be consistent at
the plate and not you know, going up and changing
a bunch of things mid season, trying to.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
You know, go down rabbit holes. So you know, even
if I do have a bad game or two.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
Just really trying to stay within myself and my approach
and folks on what I can do rather than what
the pitcher's shining to to me.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
How often do you go up to the plate trying
to hit a home run?
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Well, usually when I do, it doesn't work out very well.
Speaker 10 (26:59):
So it's, uh, you know, the I guess the old saying,
you know, kind of happens by accidents, so you know pictures,
you know, you take advantage of the mistakes when they do.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
And I'm just trying to square it up and hit
it through the middle of the field.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
You're in there with some pretty famous people here, Like
when you look at what you've accomplished, the number of
players to reach thirty home runs before the end of June,
Babe Ruth Ken, Griffy Junior, Sammy so said, Mark McGuire,
Barry Bonds, Albert Poohols, Sho hey o Tani, Aaron Judge, Uh,
pretty good list there?
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Does that seem very fitting for?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
But how do you do you embrace this that you belong?
This shouldn't be viewed as who is this guy and
where did he come from? If are you surprised at
how great you have played this year?
Speaker 10 (27:54):
I mean, you know, you always want to have that
confidence as a baseball player going to the box. You
want to feel like you're the player in the world,
right But you know, I think you know the real
side of it now, I don't. You know, it's hard
to kind of fathom, you know, you know, especially when
you're rattle off names like that. So anytime you're in
that kind of you know company with with hearing those names,
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you know you're doing something, you know pretty good. So
really just trying to you know, keep my head down
and try to keep going, you know, not really trying
to think about that too much and just trying to
see how far I can go.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
You get recognized outside of Seattle.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Outside of Seattle, yeah, not very much? No, sometimes, Yeah,
but you.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Could walk out of your hotel in Arlington right now,
Oh yeah, easy and go anywhere. You could go to lunch,
you could wear your jersey, you could wear your full
uniform and people might not realize who you are.
Speaker 10 (28:53):
Yeah, it's uh, it's you know, just a pretty average
looking dude.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
So I'm not you know, Aaron Judge. He's pretty big dude.
You can you can kind of recognize him. Not not
me quite so much.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Okay, but you got a great nickname.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
I think it's yeah, one of the better ones.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
So okay when you first heard it, who gave you
that nickname?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Uh so?
Speaker 10 (29:16):
Jared kellnick We came up through the Miners. He played
with us for a couple of years with the Braves.
Now he he tweeted it out as soon as I debuted,
and you know, I think people thought it was really
funny at first, and then.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Wait, but what leads him to call you the Big Dumper?
Speaker 10 (29:36):
So I have a I have a you know, a
big butt, and that's that's It's kind of been a
running thing since I've been in high school. You know,
it's just kind of been It's like, wow, he just
you know, just kind of sticks out like that guy's
got a really big butt.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
And he was always commenting on in the minor leagues.
Speaker 10 (29:52):
And then and then obviously get called up and that happens,
didn't really play well and then start playing well, and
people just kind of like took off with They loved
it that that was really funny, and Seattle's kind of
made it, made it there kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
So so it's kind of a Kim Kardashian thing, you know.
It's yeah, kind that kind of like your your calling card.
There is there a sponsorship here with the Big Dumper?
Speaker 5 (30:18):
No, I mean not yet. I mean we'll see what.
We'll see what's out there. Maybe getting on this show,
maybe we'll get.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Some how about how about dude wipes, Dude wives would
be a good one, kind of fit.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Right, Uh, Toto toilets.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
There you go. Any kind of a day.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Your agent should be doing this for you.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
I know you you should. They should be on it
after the show.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yes, I mean this is a big deal there, big
big opportunities. We're talking to Cal Rawley, the Mariners catcher.
Who was your like idol or who did you kind
of pattern yourself since you're a switch hitting catcher.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Not many of those?
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Yeah, you're right, there's not a lot of those. I'd say.
Speaker 10 (31:02):
I grew up a diehard Red Sox fan, so Jason
Vertek was kind of my guy growing up.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Have you met him? Yeah, I've got to meet him
a few times.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
He's he's on staff with the Socks right now, so
I got to chat with him a little bit. But yeah,
I loved him obviously, him being a sweat tater catcher
and you know, him having the sea on his chest,
you know, as the captain was was a really cool
thing growing up and just somebody I idled and or
was my idol And it was great to watch. And
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you know, I watched a bunch of other catchers as well,
you know, Bosey Molina, those are some really good ones
as well.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
But but Veritech's the one that sticks out.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I was wondering if there was any correlation between being
a catcher and being a good hitter, because you're so
used to seeing pitches that you call for these pitches,
you know what it looks like, the spin, change up,
how it comes out of the hand. Is there any
correlation there of helping you was a hitter by being
a catcher.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Yeah, I mean I believe so.
Speaker 10 (32:04):
I mean, you know, I think as a catcher, you know,
I spend most of my time doing scouting reports, talking
with pictures about how they want attack hitters, going over
their weaknesses. So I think you can kind of flip
flop that and use that as an advantage as as
a hitter, and you know, you can kind of you
can kind of think along sometimes with with other catchers
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and other pictures and see how they're attacking you and
go off the patterns and past how they pitched you.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
So it's taking some time to kind of learn how
to do that. But but so.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
I'd say that it definitely helps be in the catcher
because you can you can understand that part of a
little bit. But at the end of the day, you
still got to go out and put a good swing
on the ball and and find something in the heart
of the blake.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
How do you feel when the pitch you called for
is hit for a home run?
Speaker 5 (32:55):
You don't feel good?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I mean, do you apologize? Have you pologize to your
picture gone out to the mound?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (33:03):
Because sometimes, I mean, you know, I think at the
end of the day, it's all about execution, you know,
when it's coming out of the picture's hand. But there are
sometimes where you're like, you know, maybe I I messed
that one up, or you know, I think it just
goes hand in hand as a as a battery, you know,
as a picture and catcher. You're working together, and you know,
sometimes you mess up, sometimes you get it right, and
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it's just.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Kind of how it goes.
Speaker 10 (33:25):
As as the catcher, you know, you you you wear
some of those a little harder than others, depending on
the situation and depending on what you call it. So
you know, sometimes it's on the picture, sometimes it's on
the catcher. It's just kind of how it goes.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
How long are you allowed to admire a home run
that you've hit?
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Uh? I think you can take a good look at it,
but you know, you don't want to. You don't want
to be that guy.
Speaker 10 (33:48):
You don't want to take too long, and you know,
you don't want to show anybody up on the opposing side.
And next thing you know, you're one of your teammates
getting thrown at or you're getting thrown at.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
So but once you get past first base, cal oh.
Speaker 10 (34:02):
I you know, I have a pretty decent job. You know,
I don't take too much time around the bases. I
just you know, you gotta show up to the bullpen
because they're rooting on out there, so you give them
a little point and then and then you crossed allme
and you go get the gear on this?
Speaker 5 (34:18):
How it goes?
Speaker 4 (34:20):
What's a home run sound like?
Speaker 10 (34:24):
I mean typically they sound pretty loud that usually when
you get them good, you don't it doesn't feel like.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
You hit anything.
Speaker 10 (34:29):
It just kind of feels like it was just like
a smooth swing, like almost like a dry, dry hack.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
So it feels good.
Speaker 10 (34:35):
And when you get it sweet though you can it's
pretty loud the crack of the bat.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
And what's the stolen bases? What do you got nine
stolen bases?
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Yeah? I got nine this year? I am are.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
You deceptively fast? Say, are you you're sneaky fast?
Speaker 10 (34:52):
Sneaky fast, I think I still I broke the record.
Our manager, here's the catcher for a while with the Mariner,
Stan Wilson, and he had he held the record for
a catcher in the Oregon. I broke it this year
and I thought about doing the whole Rocky.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
After the game.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Today, I'm the greatest, that's right of all.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Did they give you the bag after you set the
organizational record for soling bass?
Speaker 10 (35:19):
No, it was Unfortunately it was only like seven, so
it wasn't number.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Johnny Bench, to me, the greatest catcher I ever saw,
and uh, he's very impressed with you, has some great
things to say about you. That's the highest praise I
think you could get because Bench was a great athlete,
power hitter, and I think the greatest defensive catcher of
all time.
Speaker 10 (35:42):
So yeah, that's I mean, getting getting that kind of
lot from him. And what he said was, you know,
it means the whole world to me. So I got
to meet him this year at the at the Gold
Globe banquet.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Oh cool.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Got to talk with.
Speaker 10 (35:56):
Him for for a couple a couple hours and just
sitting talk ball them and it was just amazing.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Hearing the stories and getting the chat with him was awesome.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Well, great to talk to you. Good luck.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
I think your second in the MVP race according my
odds this morning.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
I've got Aaron Judge and then you.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
So I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I mean, that's not bad not bad company here strike
ing going yeah, all right, Well you can stay anonymous,
maybe just walking around, but not when you come to
the plate. So continue to do that and let's work
on a sponsors ship there.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
Cal, I appreciate you, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
That's Kyle Raleigh calling the big dumper. He's fine with that.
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio. Made it to a Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's a meat Friday and apparently it's a surprise menure,
secretive menu. Dylan and Tyler, they are doing double duty today.
Don't know what the menu is for meat Friday? A
collab here? Yes, Dylan, I just sent over to you Dan. Okay,
well you can give me the menu, all right. So
(00:26):
it's actually National Onion Day, Dan, and you know I
hate onions, but we have to honor the national We
do not have to honor onions.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
So you don't want onion rings.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
You guys can have onion rings. What else do you have?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Bloomin onion?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
What else do you have?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
French onion zoop in summer?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Oh my god? Okay, what else do you have?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We also have grilled revis and loaded baked potatoes, okay
with onions, caramelized onions. I'm sure on everything. Okay, great,
thank you? Thanks running it by the home office here.
Welcome to me Friday. Who's got it better than we do?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
No money?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Question mark the Minister of Humors here, Dylan's in for
seating today. Marv is here, Paula, yours truly and the brgs.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
Yes, Paul you I know you pretty well. You really
don't like onions or eat things with onions? Are you
gonna tap out?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Are you gonna? No? No?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I plow through it. Team player, you know, Meet Friday
isn't all about me. It's about us, teamwork. This is
what you do. So I'll try it, and you know,
morale will pick up. I think I got'm low. Now
I'm down in the dumps. Now, you know, I meet
(01:44):
Friday and I'm not feeling great. Didn't know about the menu.
You gave me a heads up that it was a
National onion Day, and as soon as you said it,
I go no. I hate onions. Feels like this was
hidden from me. Feels like it was hidden from me. Yes, Dylan,
what would be worse for you?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
National onion Day or National mayo Day?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Mayonnaise that's number one. Yeah, it's a worthless condiment.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I'm gonna have to disagree. It's just it's bland. But
a turkey sandwich needs mayonnaise on it.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
No, it needs mustard on it.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I can't abide. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
We played golf the other day some of the backroom guys,
and then we went to Seven Seas and had some
beers and wings, and then I ordered a Turkey club
and the waitress goes mayo, and I go, no mustard.
And then Dylan goes, what like you were offended? And
I go, I'm not putting mayo on this flabbergas is
(02:45):
actually the real It's tasted great with mustard. Okay, come on,
let's go, let's get started. Come on, let's go, Come on,
let's rally here. It's a Friday. It's our one ready
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Draft Round two is over. No freshman taken in round two,
eighteen taken in round one. Talk a little bit more
(03:29):
about that coming up. The ex Baltimore Raven kicker Justin
Tucker suspended ten weeks.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
We'll talk about that. Says he's innocent.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Is rep says he's innocent, then why are you accepting
a ten week suspension?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Have that for you coming up?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
This almost feels like something that Maury Povich would have
had on his show. Maury Povich, the former daytime host.
He's got a new podcast, Golf Podcast, talks to some
big stars. Maury Povich, the father will join us coming up.
Marvin was a big Maury Povich fan because he liked
when they would boo people when the guy would come
(04:08):
out to see if he's the You know, two women
are out there, both are pregnant, and then all of
a sudden they do a DNA test and they'd introduced
Jimmy Lipper and then the audience would go.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Boo, boom, Shut up, y'all don't know me. Shout up,
y'all don't even know the whole story. Murray, this is
what happened. It was never Moury, It was Murray, Murray,
Murray Povich, Murray, let me tell you what happened.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yes, Poe.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Maury Povich was pretty groundbreaking at the time because it
was like Oprah and Phil Donahu in the late eighties,
in the early nineties and Maury Povich just before Jerry
Springer kind of took it in that racy direction.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
And Springer took it to another level.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
But Maury Povich, like Maury Povich, wasn't as you know,
down in the trenches the dirt like Jerry Springer was.
Like Springer, Springer was the mayor of Cincinnati and famously
paid a prostate with a check and then they kind
of check came back.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
That's a bananas move. That's how I want to get
caught here.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, but I think Maury gets lumped in with the
Jerry Springer crowd.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
And so we'll talk to Maury Povitch.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
By the way, his father, Shirley Povich, that was his name,
Shirley Povitch, longtime columnists, sports columnists for the Washington Post
and like seventy years something crazy.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
So we'll talk to Maury Povich. She'll join us.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And he's known as the Big Dumper, Cal Rolly, the
Mariners catcher. He's hitting a lot of home runs. Okay,
is this a good nickname? Most people get a nickname,
like Kobe Bryant called himself the Black Mamba. You know,
some guys just say, hey, this is my nickname. This
(05:53):
is where you're called something, And sometimes you have no
choice but to kind of accept it.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
That.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Hey, I'm known as the Big dump. Yes, Pully, it's fun.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
He's a big, thick dude, he's a catcher. It's easy
to get to know him because of cal Rawley. Yeah,
you kind of know that. But if you say, oh,
the big dumper went yard, it makes you it crosses
you over.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Well, let's go around the room. Yeah, your name Big
Dumper Todd. I'm cool with it, okay, Uh, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I'm absolutely cool with that.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Alright, Marvin, I like it, okay, PAULI.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
I don't love it, but once it's in place, you
don't fight it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, I get you know, he's a thick guy. He's
a catcher.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
And I don't know. I don't know. What kind of
sponsorship do you get with the big Dumper dude?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Wifes?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Oh okay, all right, total toilets. Oh okay, okay, we
thought this out charming. How about a dump truck, big,
the big dump truck.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Like a garbage company.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, something I don't know, maybe just him from behind,
and that's the the dump truck logo, the big Dumper.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
He'll join us a little bit later up, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
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Speaker 4 (07:26):
All right, with the draft last night.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It was kind of interesting from the standpoint of you
actually knew some of the players last night. They've been
around for a little while. This is the youngest first
round as far as age goes in NBA history, going
back modern era the ABA NBA merger, so you can
go back to the seventy you know, let's say nineteen
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seventy average age nineteen years, three hundred and eight days.
You had eighteen freshmen taken in the first round. You
also had eight consecutive freshmen taken in the first round.
Second round. It was just a little bit different because
you had guys who were actually juniors, seniors, and you go, yeah,
(08:12):
I remember that guy. Then he played at Florida. Oh
that guy, Yeah, he played at Creighton. And these guys
can make rosters. You know, the guys you're drafting potential
in that first round, the freshman who played one year,
one and done. Where you get somebody who's a little
more seasoned and they're going to be coming in They're
going to be more mature and probably be more accepting
(08:35):
of their role. And these guys will probably be making
you know, there's a few guys in the second round
who will make rosters. The Ace Bailey situation, to me
is interesting because he was drafted by Utah and Danny Ainge.
But Ace Bailey's rep said, Hey, there's teams that we
don't want to go to, we don't want to work
out for, and I believe Utah was one of those teams.
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In fact, one was told specifically do not draft him,
and that team could have been Utah. Because Ace Bailey
out of Rutgers, he wanted to go to Brooklyn or Washington,
and there were teams that passed on him, seventy six Ers, Charlotte,
but Utah Danny Ainge is saying, hey, too much talent here,
(09:20):
I'm going to take you. They're not even sure if
he's going to show up. Normally, this is the day
or maybe Saturday, where the player shows up, holds up
the jersey, and meets with the local media. I guess
there's real concern in Utah that he might not be there.
And Summer League starts pretty soon, and I think Utah
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they get started before just about anybody. There's real concern
that you might have a guy who may not want
to go to Utah and then what happens after that.
And he's a guy who can play. I mean, he's athletic,
but you know, I think he was just or his
business people said he didn't want to go to seventy
six for whatever reason. Like I think he wants. He
(10:06):
wanted to go where he knew he was going to
play right away. He can put up numbers right away,
and those places. Philadelphia's going to share the ball with
Embiid and you know Paul George Maxie, you know he's
not going to get his touches. Charlotte kind of a mess.
You know, you got a ball dominant guard there. But
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I mean they end up taking Canipple from Duke, but
they probably would have taken Ace Bailey if he was
willing to go there. But Utah Danny Ainge, Hey, he's
one of the slicker gms that we've had in recent memory.
And maybe he looked at this and said, it's too
much of a bargain. I can't pass up talent even
if the guy doesn't want to come here.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Yeah, Paul, it does feel like everyone's pointing that Utah
saying that without saying it that Ace Bailey didn't want
to go there. If this were the NFL, Danny Ainge
would draft him and try to package a trade to
Washington or to Brooklyn. But they would do that on
draft night, like back in the day with Eli Manning.
It wouldn't stretch over a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, you wonder if you're taking talent, but what are
you getting with that talent? I mean, I love talent,
but there are times when you're dealing with talent. I
love having it. I don't want to have to, like
you got to deal with this. And you would think
he would be excited to go there, but he might say, hey,
(11:30):
I don't want to live there. Yeah, these other places,
I know I could probably be a star sooner. Like
I understand all that. And he was upfront with people,
but just trying to understand exactly why or why not
with Salt Lake. And you know, the Summer League starts
(11:51):
July fifth, so it starts in California July fifth, It
starts in Salt Lake July fifth, Then it starts in
uh Vegas July tenth. Summer League July fifth is not
very far away. What are we dealing eight days here
before he's got to show up supposed to show up,
(12:12):
Probably needs to show up before that, say a lo
to the media and say how much you love Salt
Lake City. Come in wearing a Karl Malone jersey, you
know Mark Eaton? How about a horny jersey, Jeff HORNI sex, I'm.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Harny for Utah. Who is my guy? Adam Keith nice
at all?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Oh, Andre Carolenko, Young, Darren Williams.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Oh okay, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
So that to me, that's that's that great curiosity of
And I'm gonna guess they didn't even interview the guy.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I'm gonna guess they didn't talk to Hiss Bailey. This
is one of those.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Now sometimes this happens in the NFL, and it'll be
like a guy go, I didn't even talk to these
people Jacksonville Blake Bortles. So they were drafting Blake Bortles.
They never gave you the impression they were drafting Blake Bortles.
They didn't even interview him because everybody thought, oh, man
(13:18):
is Jacksonville taking Johnny Manziel. Then all of a sudden,
they go Lake Bortles, and everybody went, wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
We didn't know anything about this. It does happen.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
And I think he had like thirty five touchdown passes
one year led the NFL maybe in touchdown passes.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Yes, Paul Lake Bortles is still one of the NFL
mysteries that bothered me. I know I shouldn't be making
this left turn. But his second year in the league,
thirty five touchdown passes. Now he had eighteen picks, but
thirty five.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I'll take the thirty five.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Four years later he's out of the sport.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Yeah, how that happened?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, look at Marvin all right.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yes, that threw me off.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
The thirty five touchdown passes.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah, I knew he was the quarterback on the team
that they were up. When the pages in the AFC
champion Chip Gean.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
He was going to go to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
He done seventeen.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
He was going to the super Bowl eight years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
He should have been. Nick Foles.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Bounced around.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, okay, we'll take a break. We got to come
up with the poll question. Dylan, that's your duty today,
since you screwed up the menu.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Screwed up or carefully calculated?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well with you might have been carefully calculated, Dylan line. Yes,
carefully calculated, Tyler. Maybe it was something different, But it's
a meat Friday and morale's high.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Wow. Goodbyes, baked potatoes.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Onions, onions, take a break here back after this Dan
Patrick show.
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As we bring in Maury Povich, what do you learn
from somebody when you play a round of golf with them?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Well, I'll tell you. I think you'll learn everything. I
think someone's entire personality comes out on the golf course.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
The good, the bad, the ugly, It is all there.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
And I think you can judge for yourself whether you
want to play with this guy.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Again, I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I think if I was interviewing somebody for a job,
going out and playing golf, I find out how competitive
you are, how honest you are, Are you a storyteller?
Are you courteous to others? And those are all things
that you have to have to work in, you know,
a working environment.
Speaker 9 (16:44):
Yeah, I think, boy, you can tell so much every
you know, every demon that you have comes out, and
every pleasure that you can enjoy comes out.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I mean, that's why I love it so much.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Why also, by.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
The way, the other reason why I love it is
and I don't know if you know the story. Dan,
my father, of course, was the long time seventy five
years sports columnist writer for the Washington Post. He was
a fourteen year old can in Bar Harbor, Maine. That's
where he grew up. And it was a caddie and
(17:21):
he was thrown in with this guy when he was
like fifteen years old. And the guy said, after my
father caddied for him, you're the best caddie. Will my
carriage will pick you up every day at Keebow Valley
Golf Club. And after three years he goes to my
grandmother says to my grandmother, I want to take your
(17:42):
son with me to Washington, d C. I own my
own golf course at my house, and I'll also give
you give him a job. And my grandmother reluctantly said yes.
My father showed up. The first person he caddied for
was President Warren G. Harding, and the guy gave him job.
The guy owned the Washington Post. That was a seventy
(18:05):
five year experience for my.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Father, and your dad was a legendary columnist. Here is
one of the great journalists of his time, and I'm
curious when he sees his son during the you know,
doing the Morey Covid show does what does dad think
about what his son is doing.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
Well, I'll tell you the first national show that he
had to deal with was a current affair, this kind
of tabloid crazy show that I did. And he said
to me, well, son, just don't worry about it. I said, well,
Tom Shales, the Pulitzer Prize winning television critic at The
(18:45):
Washington Post, wrote this terrible story about me.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Dad.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
He used every s word in the world, smarmy, swordid,
everything in the world. Please don't show this mom today.
Don't even look at it. He says, Well, son, you know,
don't worry about Just go about your business.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
It's fine, It's all right.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
I said, yeah, But Dad, he says, you know I
helped to hire Tom Shales at the Washington Post. I said, yeah, that,
but I'm your son.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
He says, you have.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
But good writers are hard to find.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
That was my father. Did you ever get injured on
the Mariy Povich show.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
No, no, never never.
Speaker 9 (19:25):
I mean, you know, it's interesting. Everybody kind of compares
my show with Jerry Springer Show, and Jerry and I
were great friends, and Jerry always made the distinction. I
give him full credit. He said, Mari, here's the difference.
You're the real thing, and my show is wrestling, and.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
That's how, and that's how.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
By the way, I got a story to tell you,
Dan about you many years ago. Connie Chong, as you know,
my wife and I were at the Tahoe Celebrity Tournament
and we're out there one time and this is after you,
this is when you were on sports and she we
loved watching you on Sports Center. I don't know who
you were with at the time, Steiner or somebody who
I can't remember, but we just were enthralled with you.
(20:09):
And so we're at the tournament and I said to
Connie at the cocktail hower, I said, there's Dan. So
she goes over and starts talking and starts telling Dan
how great you are on Sports Center, and how funny
you are and how great you are. And I walk
up behind her and I said, Connie, that's Dan Hicks,
that's not Dan Patrick. And she says, oh, my gosh,
(20:33):
I said, that's Dan Hicks. And then she turns to
me and she says, well, you know, all these white
sports guys look alike.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Fair enough, but I'll take those compliments even if they
went through day. I do remember seeing you and Connie
at Tahoe, Yes, oh yeah, but I've had people think
that I was Stewart's which, yeah, let that one sink in.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
Yeah, well, everybody always mistook me for Springer all the
time on the street.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
I mean, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Was there ever an episode where you had a hard
time doing it or being convinced to do it?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Well, there was.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
There was a couple of episodes the same theme that
that just were astounding that this woman was accusing this
guy of being the father of her twins. And I,
of course, the best thing I ever did was I
never knew the results of anything. I wanted to be
like my guests, my audience. I want to be as
(21:42):
a surprise as anybody. That's why the inflection you are
the father, you are not the father. I open up
this envelope and this guy is the father of one twin,
but not the other. And so I turn around to
the stamp, I went what is this? And then I
find out that with fraternal twins and you're a very
(22:03):
active young lady, you can have two fathers.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
He's Maury Povich. He has a new podcast called On
par with Maury Povich. New episode dump every Monday. It's
available on YouTube or wherever you get your podcast. Who
do you want to interview? Give me your wish list.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
What I'd really like to interview is and by the way,
an old golf buddy of mine is the forty third President.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Of the United States, George W.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
Bush, who I really kind of admire in the way
he's conducted himself after his presidency and so, and he
doesn't give many interviews. I would love to interview him.
I would also like to interview Shaq and Charles because
you know, do they like each other? Don't they like
(22:55):
they play this game. I'd love to have them on
both Shaq as Shaq was always a great fan of
the Marray Show because he said that he and his
buddies used to bet on the guy was the father.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Did you ever feel sorry for a guest, like in
a situation like that where you're revealing information.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
Well, I felt sorry for the woman, the women who
used to come on multiple times and the audience would
boo them, and I was, I was, you know, and
I was. I always felt that they had a certain
amount of courage and bravery for keep coming on to
(23:38):
find out who the father of their child was. And
so I felt sorry for them every single time it
didn't turn out to be the father.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Because these are life altering moments.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
Absolutely, absolutely, and you know, and I used to get
criticized all the time in the media that I was
exploiting this theme and everything, and I always said, you know,
if I can get two parents the child's life they have,
those kids have a better chance.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
That's it.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Just it's just for real. And so that's how I
hang my hat.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Could you do your show today the same way you
did it given today's guidelines parameters.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
Yeah, I think so I could. I could, but I
think the show ended at the proper time. And by
the way, it hasn't ended.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
The repeats.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
I mean, you know about repeats. I mean the repeats
are getting as good ratings as the originals, and so
I mean, it's just it's a gift that keeps on giving.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Give me your favorite interview so far that you've had
on your podcast.
Speaker 9 (24:36):
Well, it's interesting. I've had so many different ones. I'll
tell you one. I really like. You know who Jeff
Perlman is, the sportswriter, the guy who wrote Winning Time.
I thought he was fascinating. I think he had he
had a lot of good things to say. I have
Barbara Corkan from Shark Tank. Yeah, she's as feisty as
(24:57):
they come, and they're great. And then I this week
is a dear friend of mine, Lewis Black, the great comedian.
And Lewis is a friend of mine. Lewis we knew
Lewis a little bit. And then my wife gave me
a surprise seventieth birthday party many years ago and hires,
(25:20):
unbeknownst to me, Lewis to do the entertainment at my
apartment in New York. Black comes on. The first thing
he says is how far have I fallen? Broadway and
Carnegie Hall and Povich's birthday party.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Well, good luck with the podcast. It's great to thank
you and give my best to Connie. Tell her that
Dan Hicks says, hello.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I sure will nice to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Dan, my bud, Maury Povich, you are not the father.
It's a podcast called on par with Maury Povich.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Patrick Show. He's a nine am Eastern six am Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio WAPP.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Cal Rawley catcher for the Seattle Mariners, and he leads
all the baseball and home runs and RBIs. Twenty twenty
five is obviously a career season, but he's had home
runs before each of the last three seasons. He's led
all catchers twenty seven homers, then thirty, then thirty four
and he joins US now.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Cal.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
What's different this year as opposed to the last couple
of years.
Speaker 10 (26:31):
I think really just me trying to be consistent at
the plate and not you know, going up and changing
a bunch of things mid season, trying to.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
You know, go down rabbit holes. So you know, even
if I do have a bad game or two.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
Just really trying to stay within myself and my approach
and folks on what I can do rather than what
the pitcher's shining to to me.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
How often do you go up to the plate trying
to hit a home run?
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Well, usually when I do, it doesn't work out very well.
Speaker 10 (26:59):
So it's, uh, you know, the I guess the old saying,
you know, kind of happens by accidents, so you know pictures,
you know, you take advantage of the mistakes when they do.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
And I'm just trying to square it up and hit
it through the middle of the field.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
You're in there with some pretty famous people here, Like
when you look at what you've accomplished, the number of
players to reach thirty home runs before the end of June,
Babe Ruth Ken, Griffy Junior, Sammy so said, Mark McGuire,
Barry Bonds, Albert Poohols, Sho hey o Tani, Aaron Judge, Uh,
pretty good list there?
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Does that seem very fitting for?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
But how do you do you embrace this that you belong?
This shouldn't be viewed as who is this guy and
where did he come from? If are you surprised at
how great you have played this year?
Speaker 10 (27:54):
I mean, you know, you always want to have that
confidence as a baseball player going to the box. You
want to feel like you're the player in the world,
right But you know, I think you know the real
side of it now, I don't. You know, it's hard
to kind of fathom, you know, you know, especially when
you're rattle off names like that. So anytime you're in
that kind of you know company with with hearing those names,
(28:17):
you know you're doing something, you know pretty good. So
really just trying to you know, keep my head down
and try to keep going, you know, not really trying
to think about that too much and just trying to
see how far I can go.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
You get recognized outside of Seattle.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Outside of Seattle, yeah, not very much? No, sometimes, Yeah,
but you.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Could walk out of your hotel in Arlington right now,
Oh yeah, easy and go anywhere. You could go to lunch,
you could wear your jersey, you could wear your full
uniform and people might not realize who you are.
Speaker 10 (28:53):
Yeah, it's uh, it's you know, just a pretty average
looking dude.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
So I'm not you know, Aaron Judge. He's pretty big dude.
You can you can kind of recognize him. Not not
me quite so much.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Okay, but you got a great nickname.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
I think it's yeah, one of the better ones.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
So okay when you first heard it, who gave you
that nickname?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Uh so?
Speaker 10 (29:16):
Jared kellnick We came up through the Miners. He played
with us for a couple of years with the Braves.
Now he he tweeted it out as soon as I debuted,
and you know, I think people thought it was really
funny at first, and then.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Wait, but what leads him to call you the Big Dumper?
Speaker 10 (29:36):
So I have a I have a you know, a
big butt, and that's that's It's kind of been a
running thing since I've been in high school. You know,
it's just kind of been It's like, wow, he just
you know, just kind of sticks out like that guy's
got a really big butt.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
And he was always commenting on in the minor leagues.
Speaker 10 (29:52):
And then and then obviously get called up and that happens,
didn't really play well and then start playing well, and
people just kind of like took off with They loved
it that that was really funny, and Seattle's kind of
made it, made it there kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
So so it's kind of a Kim Kardashian thing, you know.
It's yeah, kind that kind of like your your calling card.
There is there a sponsorship here with the Big Dumper?
Speaker 5 (30:18):
No, I mean not yet. I mean we'll see what.
We'll see what's out there. Maybe getting on this show,
maybe we'll get.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Some how about how about dude wipes, Dude wives would
be a good one, kind of fit.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Right, Uh, Toto toilets.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
There you go. Any kind of a day.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Your agent should be doing this for you.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
I know you you should. They should be on it
after the show.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yes, I mean this is a big deal there, big
big opportunities. We're talking to Cal Rawley, the Mariners catcher.
Who was your like idol or who did you kind
of pattern yourself since you're a switch hitting catcher.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Not many of those?
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Yeah, you're right, there's not a lot of those. I'd say.
Speaker 10 (31:02):
I grew up a diehard Red Sox fan, so Jason
Vertek was kind of my guy growing up.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Have you met him? Yeah, I've got to meet him
a few times.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
He's he's on staff with the Socks right now, so
I got to chat with him a little bit. But yeah,
I loved him obviously, him being a sweat tater catcher
and you know, him having the sea on his chest,
you know, as the captain was was a really cool
thing growing up and just somebody I idled and or
was my idol And it was great to watch. And
(31:33):
you know, I watched a bunch of other catchers as well,
you know, Bosey Molina, those are some really good ones
as well.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
But but Veritech's the one that sticks out.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I was wondering if there was any correlation between being
a catcher and being a good hitter, because you're so
used to seeing pitches that you call for these pitches,
you know what it looks like, the spin, change up,
how it comes out of the hand. Is there any
correlation there of helping you was a hitter by being
a catcher.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Yeah, I mean I believe so.
Speaker 10 (32:04):
I mean, you know, I think as a catcher, you know,
I spend most of my time doing scouting reports, talking
with pictures about how they want attack hitters, going over
their weaknesses. So I think you can kind of flip
flop that and use that as an advantage as as
a hitter, and you know, you can kind of you
can kind of think along sometimes with with other catchers
(32:26):
and other pictures and see how they're attacking you and
go off the patterns and past how they pitched you.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
So it's taking some time to kind of learn how
to do that. But but so.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
I'd say that it definitely helps be in the catcher
because you can you can understand that part of a
little bit. But at the end of the day, you
still got to go out and put a good swing
on the ball and and find something in the heart
of the blake.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
How do you feel when the pitch you called for
is hit for a home run?
Speaker 5 (32:55):
You don't feel good?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I mean, do you apologize? Have you pologize to your
picture gone out to the mound?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (33:03):
Because sometimes, I mean, you know, I think at the
end of the day, it's all about execution, you know,
when it's coming out of the picture's hand. But there are
sometimes where you're like, you know, maybe I I messed
that one up, or you know, I think it just
goes hand in hand as a as a battery, you know,
as a picture and catcher. You're working together, and you know,
sometimes you mess up, sometimes you get it right, and
(33:23):
it's just.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Kind of how it goes.
Speaker 10 (33:25):
As as the catcher, you know, you you you wear
some of those a little harder than others, depending on
the situation and depending on what you call it. So
you know, sometimes it's on the picture, sometimes it's on
the catcher. It's just kind of how it goes.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
How long are you allowed to admire a home run
that you've hit?
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Uh? I think you can take a good look at it,
but you know, you don't want to. You don't want
to be that guy.
Speaker 10 (33:48):
You don't want to take too long, and you know,
you don't want to show anybody up on the opposing side.
And next thing you know, you're one of your teammates
getting thrown at or you're getting thrown at.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
So but once you get past first base, cal oh.
Speaker 10 (34:02):
I you know, I have a pretty decent job. You know,
I don't take too much time around the bases. I
just you know, you gotta show up to the bullpen
because they're rooting on out there, so you give them
a little point and then and then you crossed allme
and you go get the gear on this?
Speaker 5 (34:18):
How it goes?
Speaker 4 (34:20):
What's a home run sound like?
Speaker 10 (34:24):
I mean typically they sound pretty loud that usually when
you get them good, you don't it doesn't feel like.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
You hit anything.
Speaker 10 (34:29):
It just kind of feels like it was just like
a smooth swing, like almost like a dry, dry hack.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
So it feels good.
Speaker 10 (34:35):
And when you get it sweet though you can it's
pretty loud the crack of the bat.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
And what's the stolen bases? What do you got nine
stolen bases?
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Yeah? I got nine this year? I am are.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
You deceptively fast? Say, are you you're sneaky fast?
Speaker 10 (34:52):
Sneaky fast, I think I still I broke the record.
Our manager, here's the catcher for a while with the Mariner,
Stan Wilson, and he had he held the record for
a catcher in the Oregon. I broke it this year
and I thought about doing the whole Rocky.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
After the game.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Today, I'm the greatest, that's right of all.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Did they give you the bag after you set the
organizational record for soling bass?
Speaker 10 (35:19):
No, it was Unfortunately it was only like seven, so
it wasn't number.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Johnny Bench, to me, the greatest catcher I ever saw,
and uh, he's very impressed with you, has some great
things to say about you. That's the highest praise I
think you could get because Bench was a great athlete,
power hitter, and I think the greatest defensive catcher of
all time.
Speaker 10 (35:42):
So yeah, that's I mean, getting getting that kind of
lot from him. And what he said was, you know,
it means the whole world to me. So I got
to meet him this year at the at the Gold
Globe banquet.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Oh cool.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Got to talk with.
Speaker 10 (35:56):
Him for for a couple a couple hours and just
sitting talk ball them and it was just amazing.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Hearing the stories and getting the chat with him was awesome.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Well, great to talk to you. Good luck.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
I think your second in the MVP race according my
odds this morning.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
I've got Aaron Judge and then you.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
So I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I mean, that's not bad not bad company here strike
ing going yeah, all right, Well you can stay anonymous,
maybe just walking around, but not when you come to
the plate. So continue to do that and let's work
on a sponsors ship there.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
Cal, I appreciate you, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
That's Kyle Raleigh calling the big dumper. He's fine with that.
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