July 5, 2025 • 61 mins
Dan and the Danettes debate the benefits of working on holidays and they run down the packed schedule of sports as this long holiday weekend approaches. Covino & Rich step up and fill in for The Dan Patrick Show on Thursday and they react to a perfect night at Chavez Ravine as Clayton Kershaw notched his 3,000th strikeout and Freddie Freeman provided a walk-off win to mark the occasion. Jonas Knox and LaVar Arrington finish out the week and react to Former NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith taking shots at Aaron Rodgers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Oh, it's the final hour in this Wednesday. It's a
meat Wednesday because we're not here on Thursday and Friday.
Dan ants whined and moaned, and I said, okay, you
can have Thursday and Friday off. I'm going to show
up for work tomorrow, but these guys won't be here,
and apparently there won't be a show because nobody else
will be here. But I hope you guys you're happy.
(00:25):
You just let down America. Todd, are you proud of
yourself that you wanted to have Thursday and Friday off?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I don't know if proud is the word. I think
earned is the word.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I think we all can get.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Some days off throughout the year. I think we do
a lot of shows compared to like almost anyone else
in sports sportsho.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Okay, yeah, see.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Dan, we've been letting America down for fifteen years. This weekend.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
That is different. That is true, all right? Yes, Marvin, I.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
Don't feel bad because I worked eighth street years of
every single holiday, so I earned it.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You got to work eight eight consecutive years of holidays.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
You got to do that.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
That's spoken like the owner of a company right there.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah, yeah, get too. How great is it that you
get to do that?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, my managers at the mother ship weren't there.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Oh yeah, I know that you get a big opportunity.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Yeah, the big opportunity to we want to get you
in the chair see what you can do again, Because
that's just four Christmases in a row that you wanted
to see what I could do on Christmas? What about
all the other days of the year that you've tied
me in the chair that you wanted to see what
I could do?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
My wife would say, why are you working the holidays?
Aren't you supposed to be a big deal there? And
I go, I'm working the holidays? Is the big deal?
That's what they keep convincing me. It's a big deal.
Hey man, you're lucky. Get to work on Christmas. Okay,
I'll do it. Stat of the Day brought to you
(01:52):
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Patrick Show. So it's a meat Wednesday, beef Wellington, cream spinach,
garlic and sage whip mashed potatoes.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Who has it better than we do? No body.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I'm not a cream spinach guy. I like just the
regular spinach, just hardcore. Give me spinach, Give me some vinegar,
straight up, little salt and pepper, cream spinach. Kind of
you're cheating. It's like when you put bacon on Brussels Sprounce,
Like you're just kind of cheating.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You either have it or you don't. Yes, Paul, I.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Thought, back in the day at Steak's steakhouses, you were
big on the cream spinach.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I like regular spinach. Sautee is what they like. Sautage
spinach is what they call that. By the way, Clayton
Kershaw slated to pitch at home tonight against the White
Sox so going for three thousand strikeouts. He's got twenty
nine hundred and ninety seven, and he would be the
twentieth Major leaguer to reach three thousand.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
He's been pitching great.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
By the way, Shohetani homered in the six to one
win over the White Sox. He's hit at least thirty
home runs in five consecutive seasons, tied with Aaron Judge
for the.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Longest active streak in baseball. Stat of the Day, stat
of the days, stead of the day, stat of the day,
Here comes, Here comes that what stat.
Speaker 8 (03:17):
Of the.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Stat of the day.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
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Dog eating Contest Joey Chestnut is back.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Over under.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
The record is seventy six hot dogs and will it
be broken?
Speaker 5 (03:52):
And how long?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I don't know what's he got fifteen minutes?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
It's it seventy six hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, he is an overwhelming favorite to win minus two thousand.
The second favorite, Patrick Bertoletti, is plus twelve hundred. But
the record of seventy six hot dogs, that's the over under, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Joey Chestnut taking the year off with the hot dog
contest was akin to Jordan playing baseball Houston Rockets stepping
in for Okay, someone's making that cop all right.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So Joey Chestnut is back.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Wembledon. You know a lot of the top seeds on
the women's side lost early at Wembledon.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, I'm not thrilled about that. By the way, ten
minutes you have to eat.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
All the ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I walked in today and we were talking about something,
but you know, road trip to Tahoe and the guest
list will have at Tahoe for the next week, and
Todd blurts out, did you realize a lot of the
top seeds have lost at Wembledon? And I go, what
is that have to do with going to Tamahoe. Oh,
I just didn't know, I said, Yeah, I've watched Wembledon.
(05:05):
Now I realize you're going to London. You're going to Wimbledon.
You realize that now, Well, I didn't know you're going
to Wimbledon. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
We're gonna do two days at Wimbledon on Sunday and Monday,
the sixth and seventh.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Oh so now you care about Wimbledon?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Now I care about well, okay, I always cared about wildon.
I really care about.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Wild cocoa golf. Are you gonna wear all white?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah, I'm gonna get souvenirs. I'll probably get a nice
Wimbledon hat and T shirt and whatever I wear, and
then I can always go change into the Wimbledon gear.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
The Mets Yankees Subway series. That's always entertaining, and both
teams are forty eight and thirty seven, although it feels
like the Yankees are a better forty eight and thirty
seven than the Mets.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Saturday the Foeba World Cup.
Speaker 10 (05:48):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Paris Saints your Main against Byron Munich, Real Madrid against
dortmun Yeah, the records. When those guys get together, those
are heavyweights right there.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That's right, okay.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
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a few things. Talk to him about you know that
buyer beware. We hear that a lot. And the Bucks
went all in in twenty twenty three. They traded a
first round draft pick, multiple swops and they gave up
(06:25):
Drew Holliday to bring in Dame Lillard. So this was
a blockbuster deal by NBA standards, blockbuster deal. It just
didn't work out the Achilles injury. The Bucks have waived
him nine time All Star be thirty six by the
time he plays again. The win now and then you
deal with the fallout when you don't win, now, everybody
(06:47):
hoped for more there. This was Dame Lillard's chance to
he got out of Portland. Now you're going to play
in big games, You're going to be on national TV
a lot more. And just didn't work out. But you know,
he was away from his family and I don't know
if he and Jannis ever really clicked.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Maybe they didn't play long enough together to click. But
he will. He will be a factor.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I think in the playoffs next year, Dame Lillard, somebody
are going to pick him up if he's healthy and
he just he's going to provide an impact. I really
believe that the Pistons Malik Beasley had quote financial issues
prior to the gambling investigation. So there's allegations of gambling
on NBA games, and he was on the verge of
(07:33):
signing a three or forty two million dollar deal. So
they brought in Duncan Robinson basically for around the same money.
He's an outside shooter as well, but he owes a
lot of money. Former marketing agency they say that he
owes him two and a half million dollars. I couldn't
pay back a six hundred and fifty thousand dollars loan
(07:56):
and maybe turned to gambling on NBA games to get
some of that money back. So there's a lot of
things going on here. And when the FEDS are investigating,
this is in the NBA. This is the FEDS. NBA
is going to try to distance themselves as best they can.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Sounds like one of those stories when somebody wins the lottery. Yeah,
and then you know, five years later they're like, dang,
how'd they get so broke?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
A couple of phone calls in here?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Eight seven to seven three DP show email address Dpadanpatrick
dot com, Twitter handle DP show. Not to lecture you
while I lecture you, but you know, you have the
major sports books, we have DraftKings, there's fan Duel, BET MGM,
and because of them, a lot of these violations get
detected or the potential for a scandal. You know, real
(08:48):
time monitoring. You have to do this because gambling is
not going away. It's more accessible than ever. But you
have to have an oversight. You have to have somebody
who is going to be watching all of this. And
the league's credibility depends on this. I don't know if
this gets larger with Malik Beasley. I don't know if
(09:09):
other teammates are involved in this. I don't know if, uh,
you know, anybody on other teams is involved in this.
But there's a there's a that's the potentially a huge
problem here because you must know what you're watching is real.
We get more phone calls about sports being fixed. It
(09:30):
feels like when there's a controversial call, it'll be like, well,
they want them to win, they don't like them.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
It's not fixed.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But I do understand where you could you could jump
to that conclusion if you read about this, Now, how
did this affect games?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Let's say Malik Beasley was throwing games.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You go back and you got to watch, and you
know they're they're now they're watching stretches when he's on
the floor, and the urgency that he played at and
the betting line, like just small things, man. And if
a betting line is seven and a half and all
of a sudden, you're racing to score a basket so
(10:15):
you can go up by eight, these are the things
that the feds are looking at. They're gonna look at
this almost frame by frame to see what he's doing,
how often he did it, and then you're gonna get
a paper trail as well. At some point it'll go
a whole lot deeper. David in Ohio, David, what's on
(10:35):
your mind?
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Hey?
Speaker 11 (10:39):
Damn, Happy meet Wednesday? Nobody what July forth coming up?
Didn't know who you thought at the show? Is your
Jason Pierre Paul with having maybe a fireworks accent or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Okay, all right, I don't know if any of these
guys are fireworkers. Todd would definitely not be handling fireworks.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I'm enough trouble tying my shoe.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I'm not playing that. I could see Paul maybe maybe
being a fireworker.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
When I was young, I was big into it, like
with the kids in the neighborhood. But man, I've seen
some stuff in the past few years where it goes
the wrong way. Someone gets a little loose.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I stay away.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I don't even like sparklers, like, I don't want. I
don't I'm not entertained by any of it. But then
you get people who are all in, hey, you gotta
go over this guy's house. He's got fireworks, and I go, eh,
you know how about I watched from a couple of
blocks away.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Yeah, we used to.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
I haven't gone in a few years, but we used
to always go to Cape Cod with my in laws
and my two brother in laws. We would all throw
in money and get just a gigantic box of fireworks.
You smoke a couple of cigars, you light the fireworks.
But we would go to this one beach and there's
a dozen families on the beach that all do the
same thing at the same time. So you have just
(11:56):
a massive fireworks display by all random people. It's awesome
them that's done.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Oh needs you know it's a rogue, you know whatever
they are.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Isn't that life though, Dan, a rogue, whatever it is
all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, yeah, But I don't want to I don't want
to go where there could be a rogue firework, an
M eighty or whatever they're you know, yeah, a rogue.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
How about I just don't go there.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Then I I did decrease the possibilities of getting hit
by a rogue M eighty.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yes, you can drive on the highway or kind of
run across the highway, you know that, just to get
the highway experience. Leave it to the professionals and watch
the beauty from a distance.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Thank you, Tom.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
You don't get that anywhere else. Yeah, we're gonna bottle that.
Nobody's getting that logan in Indiana High logan. What's on
your mind today?
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Well, I am one of the Pacer fans that's not
a fan of Miles Turner, and I feel like the
media and the fans are all like, Ah, the Pacer
screwed this, And I'm like, how can a guy say
he's loyal when he's offered twenty million dollars a year
to not be the top center in that I won't
even say he's one of the top centers in the NBA.
I mean, the guy barely could rebound. He was a
(13:10):
liability in the playoffs, and I just feel like all
the Pacer fans are absolutely like, oh, how can we
lose this guy? And it's like it's a business and he's.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Not holding up his end of the deal.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
So I just wanted to vent my frustrations on that
and think I'm really mad that he screwed the Pacers
because we got no drafts capital, we got nets out
of a trade and he went to our rival.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah I know, I know, but if he's not a loss,
then don't fret. Like if you don't care about him,
then it's not a big deal. Now do you want
something in return, like a sign in trade?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I mean Miles Turner is he's a good player, potential
to be a good player. He's not your typical big man.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Yes, he's kind of perpetually frustrating for me. I watch
a guy. He's got to be six eleven, two sixty
very He's never averaged more than seven and a half
rebounds a game. Ever, Russell Westbrook is a better rebound.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Uh, Zach and Knoxville, Hi, Zach, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9 (14:15):
He thanks you, thanks to shake my call.
Speaker 11 (14:18):
I just wanted to give Marv a little more love
on that Matilda line. That was hilarious. And Dylan. Dylan
always looks like that picture of El Chappa when they're
pulling him out.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Of that hole.
Speaker 11 (14:30):
Yeah yeah, And I just wanted to ask Fritzi is
he going over there to Wimbledon to watch or is
he going to play?
Speaker 9 (14:38):
I mean he was second though.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah, you are our resident tennis experts.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
They have that t Fritz, that tailor Fritz.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Yeah, no relation, no relation.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I think he went five steps the other day. They
had to go into the next day. Because they got
late and they over two days. He won in the
fifth step. I'm hoping he'll still be around by the
time I get over there to watch him play. But
no relation.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Okay, yeah Todd going over to Wimbledon, going over to London.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I was a little surprised at that.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I was on the tennis team barely in high school.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
So I have a where are you on the tennis team?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I had a tennis jacket, okay, and I won like
the Courage.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Award or whatever kind a community spirit award. There was
some kind of spirit award.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
At the dinner, everyone got their trophies, and the coach
called me over because I was cheering every very good
while everyone was actually playing.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Well, that's nice.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I was there. I went to all the practices. I'm like,
nice shot, forty.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Love, let's go, Yeah, one more, you'll win the game.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
One of my children won like a spirit award. We
went to you know, the awards banquet, and they're handing
out all of these, uh, the math honors goes to
my kids didn't win any of those things. And then
I remember one of my daughters won the Spirit award,
and I went all right, you know, a friend of ours.
Their daughter won like five of these and uh for
(15:57):
the best science, the best math and English. And then
you know, let's saying kid ends up going to Dartmouth
or Yale. You know, it's like, all right, show off, Hey,
my kid has spirit. We got spirit? Yes we do,
we got spirit? How about you?
Speaker 10 (16:13):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (16:13):
I want to hear something more sad. I once won
Greade School Football Most Improved Player. I didn't play the
previous season. It was my first year. I had nothing
to improve upon.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Will you improved from the beginning of the year to
the end of the year.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
I didn't trust me. If you watch, I got most
improved player who didn't play before. By the way, Wimbledon etiquette,
I'm looking at the London Evening standard. Technically no dress
code for Wimbledon, but there really is. They say smart, casual,
light colors, wear nothing dirty todd do not wear jeans.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I will not wear jeans. I'm going to try to
wear it at least at the very least very nice
shorts like you know, not like sweatpants, shorts like Jesse shorts.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
The collared shirt would be nice. Collared shirt would be nice.
No Bronco gear, No Bronco gear.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Okay, I think I'm gonna wear a damn Patrick Show
hat with everybody who's permission there. That's what I packed anywhere.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Let's be nice, you know, maybe a cutaway and then they, yeah,
maybe ESPN will go, oh, there's a Tod Fritz Chris
Fowler's doing, you know, play by play.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Maybe I want to get a shout out for the
Why don't.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
You tell Chris Fowler you're gonna be there and just
say hey, I'm gonna be there, you know, just in
case you see me.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I may even go hat and the damn Patrish OFW shirt.
I may just go double and then my wife will
teach me all you're trying to get noticed or recognize something,
but I'm trying.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
To know that's streams that screams ugly America, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, I would do the hat maybe maybe, but collared
shirt and uh, those those chihuahua hairless legs that you have?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Can I yell when they're about to survey the usually
don't like that. There's a whole quiet Please can't.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeh, don't yellow get in a hole? Okay, just don't
do that.
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Speaker 4 (18:48):
And let's say good morning to Danny G.
Speaker 14 (18:50):
What up?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Danny G? Happy Dodger?
Speaker 13 (18:54):
Hell yeah, dude, Danny G keme floating into the studio
because he's so pumped about Kershaw. We're gonna be talking
about that pet on the ones and twos. Good morning,
Good to see you, buddy Ay. But we got a
list rich about the All Star Game. Pretty pumped to
be the only show voted into the All Stars, you know,
thanks Fox Sports donation for votes by our coworkers. Number nine, yeah,
(19:15):
number nine from our colleagues, but number one from the fans,
and we appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
But I'm excited to be in Atlanta.
Speaker 13 (19:21):
But there's a whole list of superstars that are going
to be there, and we're hoping to get some great interviews,
so definitely check that out on the was it fourteenth, fifteenth,
and sixteenth of this month. Happy today, ste Julio, everybody.
We're getting there. It's gonna be a fun weekend and
it starts right now before we get into Clayton Kershaw
(19:43):
and such a tense moment last night. We're gonna talk
some NFL today. There's an underrated quarterback that needs his props. Plus,
it is fourth of July weekend and we're gonna talk
about some of those great blockbuster movies over the years
that you love. This is like a big movie weekend.
It's also a big weekend for drinking and eating Sparklers. Man,
you got your sparkler's ready. You know bad if you
(20:05):
don't have your sparklers on standby.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You failed, bro?
Speaker 13 (20:08):
Do you always has to bust out the sparklers and
the bank snaps? Do you know you just added something
to my list have to work today? Sparklers? I mean
that's the bare minimum.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
But did you know.
Speaker 13 (20:19):
That every year fifteen thousand visits to the emergency room
firework injuries. So don't be the ass clown that drinks
one too many surveyss. A bunch of guys named Terry
and wheelchairs.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Back it up, Terry, Back it up, Terry reverse.
Speaker 13 (20:36):
Yeah, keep your fingers intact and we'll talk more about
it as the day goes. I love back it up, Terry,
but I wanted to start the show just a quick
hypothetical that I just witnessed at the coffee shop on
the way, and then we're gonna get to Kershaw. But
I gotta gotta finesse my way into the show today.
Let's wake it up. So go to pick up our
(20:56):
coffee and there's an old bity in front O thank
you by the way, Oh no problem, man, appreciate it.
There's an old biddy in front of me. Her name
was probably like Agnes or something. She's up at five
am at West Coast time. Who's up at five unless
you're working early. Old people love to get a start
of the day.
Speaker 14 (21:15):
Huh.
Speaker 13 (21:15):
No offense to our buddy spot who's on the videos
Fox Sports Radios YouTube page streaming Live as we stay,
streaming live, good morning, and of course everything at Fox
Sports Radio and at Covino and Rich.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
But his mom had a classic old lady named like Phyllis.
Out there, the woman in front of me phil Phyllis.
My mom's name is Ortensia, So you can go with
that if.
Speaker 13 (21:36):
You want vanilla latte for Phyllis. And she's like, oh, sweetheart,
is that sugar free for my diabetes? And they're like,
oh sorry, ma'am. And they went to take the coffee
and she goes, what are you gonna do with that?
And they were gonna dump it, yeah, and she goes,
(21:56):
I'll give it to my husband. He don't care about diabetes.
So the woman gave a look like, okay, what was
her name, Agnes Brimley, any relation to Wilford or so,
missus Brimley.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I gotta ask when a.
Speaker 13 (22:14):
Bartender gets your cocktail wrong, or a barista get your
coffee wrong and it's their fault.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Should they just tell you like, yeah, here, take the
other one too.
Speaker 13 (22:23):
Not only that, they should make the offer right if
you're gonna tip them for doing nothing half the time.
And that's nothing against the barista, because I do believe.
I believe baristas and bartenders deserve tips, not everybody. But
if people are gonna have the nerve to charge you
for every little thing, they could offer the extra as well.
The extra meaning they're a mistake that they made. Or
(22:47):
sometimes if you're buying a smoothie, they'll make extras like hey,
give me that extra. Sometimes they'll be extra milkshake blendor
and dump it out.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Diner's got it right.
Speaker 13 (22:57):
You ever go to a diner get a milkshake and
they give you like the that old cup too, because
there's extra.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
That's that's just customer service. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (23:04):
So I just want to throw it out there because
my my first instinct was let the old lady get
the extra coffee.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
That's just proper.
Speaker 13 (23:12):
So your instinct is to throw it out instead of saying,
hey you can have this one too. Well, corporate too,
I don't care corporate or not waste, wasteful waste.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
It is wasteful. It's just out of their hands. Have
you ever tried to not be fat?
Speaker 6 (23:27):
And when they give you the option of fries or
a salad, you go salad, and they still accidentally drop
off fries.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
And then you're like, no, no, I got the salad.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
And then when you see them taking the fries away
from exactly what are you gonna do with these fries.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
That are now I'll save them for when I feel
like being fat.
Speaker 15 (23:45):
When I go through Taco Bell and they accidentally give
me someone else's order or like double up the tacos inside.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I'm not telling them about that. I'm just taking that.
Speaker 13 (23:52):
You take it, You take it, but you gotta Yeah,
I think in that case you expect them to give
you the extra dump it out now, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
If it's your bonehead mistake, that might be a little different.
Speaker 13 (24:04):
But Covino, Let's say you water your typical Steve Covino
Tito's and soda and they give you a Tito's.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
In sprite and you're like, don't think he's the sprite? Sweet?
What are they gonna dump it? You could say, I
leave it here, someone.
Speaker 13 (24:18):
Will drink someone in my party here, I'll give it
to somebody else.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Yeah, I'll take it to go if I can't.
Speaker 13 (24:25):
I'm a little kiddy cut I just want to throw
it out there because I saw old old Phyllis like
with a little dilemma, like you're gonna dump it, Especially
in a world where wastefuls frowned upon, especially in today's world.
That's just so careless in my opinion. So make the
best of it and let someone enjoy it. Absolutely, I
think I think Phyllis here. What's her name, Barbara, what's
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her name? I think the old lady in this story
was absolutely right. Take it, bring it home, don't charge
the old lady, give it to her old husband. Let
him have diabetes. Could I tell you the funniest part
of all the names we just mentioned, if if you're
a young mom or dad, those names are all coming back,
and the names from our childhood, like Jennifer and Nicole, Stephanie,
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those are gonna be the old lady names at some point,
because all those old lady names are the top little
girl baby names speak for your name, because the name
speak for yourself, I should say, because the name is
Steve's coming back LoVa, thanks thanks to Minecraft, Steve's hot
lava chicken. Whatever it is, your old guy named Steve
having a moment in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Steve's on a comeback. All right, now, what about the
name Clayton? Oh I'm sorry. As the announcer said last
night in dramatic fashion.
Speaker 13 (25:35):
Clayton Edward Kershaw, I was like, all right, a bit dramatic,
but hey, a very stressful, awesome moment last night in
Major League Baseball.
Speaker 10 (25:48):
The Ravine Risers ready to erupt, got a let a breathe, beautiful.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
You know how many foc thot tiers were shed last night?
Oh my god, yeah, you know how many hard ass
fuck thos were there. Like, I'm feeling aleado emotional right now.
That's my guy, that's my gay. It's Fernando in cleaning
ard So last night, beautiful moment. I see his family
in as.
Speaker 13 (26:27):
So cool, Danny, I gotta give you my first observation
as a Mets fan living on the West Coast.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Watching that Dodgers moment.
Speaker 13 (26:36):
Props to not only the Dodgers, but major League Baseball
and COMMUNI already alluded to it.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Letting the moment.
Speaker 13 (26:43):
Breathe because so many times, these awesome milestones are rushed along.
And I remember when the clock was first put in
baseball a couple of years ago, the pitch clock. Remember
there were some players that were reunions in their hometown
and they're like pitch violation because they were so rigid
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about it, so anal about it.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I loved it last night. There was no rushing.
Speaker 13 (27:08):
There was Hey, this is a guy that played for
one team three thousand strikeouts forth to ever do that,
And the reality is that it may never happen again.
Because I'm thinking of the young cats like a Schens
or school, but I'm like, do you think they're gonna
be on one team their whole career?
Speaker 4 (27:25):
That would be unlikely. Speaking of schemes and some of
the big dogs today.
Speaker 13 (27:32):
It's gonna take a lot, It's gonna take it the
three thought to get there, and that might be the
last time, one of the last times that we ever
see that in our lifetime, making it extra special. And
there's so many layers to what we saw last night,
and so many things that probably ran through your brain
that we're going to touch on them all throughout the day.
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But the first thing that I think of aside from
man one team eighteen plus years and do the math
based on how guys go what five or six Usually
Now you'd have to I know this is simple math,
but for fifteen years, you'd have to average two hundred strikeouts,
and two hundred strikeouts not what it was in the
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eighties or nineties when we were growing up, because you know,
guys are throwing three, three fifty strikeouts back in the day,
the Nolan Ryans of the world. But now the league
leader every year is in the two hundred. So you'd
have to average two hundred strikeouts for fifteen seasons, So
three thousand strikeouts is becoming increasingly difficult. My first question,
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based on history being made in that moment, was did
he have to do it there? Which made it even
more intensified, more amazing, more exciting, because Dave Roberts had
said that he was going to manage differently, unconventionally, because
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fans were there just for that moment, just for that moment,
and it was a big moment, and it was a.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Game at home.
Speaker 13 (29:01):
Situations were perfect, it was all lined up, but man
Kershaw was pushing him to the limit, approaching one hundred pitches.
You don't want to extend the guy. He hadn't done
it in years. Was he going at again? I think
absolutely not? So did he have to do it in
that moment? And does everybody know the name of the
guy he struck out? And no, because we're all wrapped
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up in the man. You see what happened to Uncie,
but man Kershaw and Freeman whoa Kershaw? Dude?
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Kershaw struck out Finny cap bro.
Speaker 16 (29:35):
Vinny CAPPROTI looking, yeah, which was beautiful for his three
thousandth career strikeout in the sixth inning yesterday, the twentieth
pitcher in MLB history to reach three thousand strikeouts, and
again the fourth to do it all on one team.
Speaker 13 (29:53):
But question one, did he have to do it there?
Do you think he would have went out one more time?
Being that the whole crowd was there, he needed just
one more He got it the last out in the
inning to prove how rare it is. By the way, Yeah,
over the last ten years in Major League Baseball, Chris
Sale did it twice and your boy Argert Cale did
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it one time, meaning hit three hundred strikeouts. So it
is like what he's done is you know, more remarkable
when you think of it that way. To answer your question,
Ember One, I almost felt bad because the last thing
I said on our show yesterday here on Fox Sports Radio,
I said, Yo, Danny, would it be funny if he
was stuck at two strikeouts?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
And I told you, don't you dare put that out
there in the universe.
Speaker 13 (30:38):
And Danny hits maybe goes turn on the Dodgers game,
You idiot, He's stuck at two strikeouts. And all I
kept thinking was Dave Roberts, who is a World Series
champion as a player and a manager.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
World Series hero at the red size.
Speaker 13 (30:55):
And here's a guy who gets criticized a lot for
being such a big winner. He is put in such
a scenario here where I'm thinking he can't pull him
no matter what I think. Sixty thousand people there, you
send him? How much could you possibly extend him?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
In that moment? I think you had to keep going,
you really, Then it feels the.
Speaker 13 (31:14):
Longer you do that, it starts feeling forced. But the
fans were there. I mean, I'm not a Dodgers fan,
but I'm a baseball fan. I'm a fan of greatness,
and everybody wants to see this happen. I had the
nervous farts watching. I'm like, dude, he's gotta get it
now or it's not happening tonight. It does ruins the moment.
It doesn't matter now. I don't think he was going
out again. It doesn't matter now because it happened. But
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I was actually talking to my wife and my mother
in law's in town for the holiday, is watching the kids.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
I was saying. I was extribed describing this scenario to them.
Speaker 13 (31:45):
I'm like, all right, so he's at home fifty thousand
people while it's happening, And I said, what if he
doesn't do My wife's like, well, would they sit him
until they were back at Dodger Stadium? And I go,
I wonder if they would have, like, I don't think
she'll hold on thinking about that. You have skipped to
start to get him back at the stadium.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Man, I don't think so.
Speaker 14 (32:03):
Do.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
You wouldn't contrived. They wouldn't have done that.
Speaker 13 (32:06):
I've never really seen it that forced before. It's very special,
I agreed. But imagine you're a fan and you're there
on a weeknight to watch this and you're so close,
like because you want to be part of it too.
I know that's a selfish way to think it's Kershaw's moment,
But you want to be able to be that Dodger
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fan to say I was there for that, but.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
You're one strike got away and you weren't. So you're like,
as a fan, you want it for him, you want
it for you, you want it for the bragging right
to be part of history is all these things.
Speaker 13 (32:38):
He had to do it there, which made it even
more incredible and more amazing, like that he actually pulled
it off, no offense to our friends and affiliate up
in Milliawaukee. But do you think his next start, which
is likely I'm looking at the schedule in Milwaukee against
the Brewers, is that where he wanted to do it.
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I mean, I love that's a great ballpark, great fan base,
but he had to do it last night.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
I don't care if he hit one hundred pitches.
Speaker 13 (33:06):
Dave Roberts had a call like the all time, like
old school audible, like, yo, kid, you want to go
out there, keep going, You're not gonna pull Clayton Kershaw
stuck on two strikeouts, and I think he was already
pushing it at that point.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
He already dude, already over extended. Dude.
Speaker 13 (33:22):
His kid was had a Dad three thousand strikeout shirt
on Stanboy. It had to be done then, and he
did it. And again something I'll touch on later on.
Also makes you show how difficult a strike out is
when you need one, right, because I was like, dude,
come on, because it could be a pop up, could
be a grab out, it could be anything, right, or
he just keeps getting hit because you could see they
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started making contact too against him.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
It was the first time I heard the Dodger crowd
ever boom when somebody was put out from a grounder.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Yeah, that's not the way we want to know.
Speaker 13 (33:55):
I know that wild man to state the obvious, and
I'm mean that because I really want you to think
about it. Think about the difference between doing it in
front of fifty thousand of your hometown fans, where it
means so much not only to you in the city
but to every fan there, versus doing it in Milwaukee
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where no one really cares.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
They don't deserve that many.
Speaker 13 (34:19):
Thousand people wanted to be able to from now on,
say I was there when Kershaw hit three thousand. He
gave a gift to fifty thousand fans. I mean the electricity,
the curtain call waving and blown kisses at his kids
and family. Like you said, Vatto tears or shed Boxo
tears a great moment. Atos in La only have ninety
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six tear drops. I heard, and they wasted a bunch
of them last night.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Yo.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Is it safe to say? Is it that's my guy?
Is it safe to say that baseball really handled it perfectly?
Speaker 13 (34:55):
Let me go back to that, because I am okay
with Hey, guy hits fifty thousand yards in the NFL,
they stop the game.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 13 (35:03):
Peyton Manny gets a hold up the ball, and I'm
okay with those moments. I'm okay with the Ricky rest
in peace steals his base. They take a moment so
he can hold up the bag. I don't think any
player is objecting to that, right Do you think there's
anyone you think does anyone that's like the wall? That's
what the game's about. These are special moments, these are milestones.
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These aren't things you see every day. So yeah, they
did the right thing by letting it breathe, let the
fans enjoy it. That's why they go to the games.
And you've watched this guy's whole career pan out when
he was a young man to an older man as
a single guy, to a married guy with kids, you know,
as a young, spry, handsome looking dude, to like a
guy who's sort of hobbling out there, trying year old,
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a feared young cy young award winner to a like
you're right, a hobbling crafty veteran who is now you know,
kept kept the zero in the l column thanks to
Freddy Saved, who made that a perfect night for the
Dodgers fans. Perfect night. It's kind of gross that the
Dodgers had such a perfect which is why it's gonna
be perfect when the Mets beat him in seven in
the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
We'll see about that.
Speaker 13 (36:10):
So we'll take your observations at eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox and again, there's several layers to the story.
We're going to touch on it throughout the show throughout
the day, Covino and Richard for Dan Patrick, but Danny
g Any other final observations you want to touch on,
like what were you doing in that moment?
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Did you shed about though Tier? Maybe these are all
questions that need to be answered.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
I mean, Clay Kershaw has been Clayton has been one
of the favorite players of Dodger fans for years now,
so and of course to see him come back from
a couple of big time injuries and still be with
the team. And I think it's Rich who every time
the Dodgers give him a one year contractor Rich is like,
or maybe you, Cove, that's the best deal in baseball.
Speaker 13 (36:52):
Because he wanted, he got the hometown discount, he stayed,
and I thought it was always the best move.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Honestly, it was beautiful.
Speaker 6 (36:58):
You mentioned what a moment for everybody in attendance, how
about all the families and Dodger fans across the country.
And I'm sorry if you're a Dodger hater, I get
that too. But because Cove, I'm about to bring up
a bad memory for you, the World Series against your Yankees.
That was the last time my family was all gathered
together in the living room watching a Dodgers game so closely.
Last night, the whole family just glued to every moment
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of that game on the TV and it was emotional.
As you know, lifelong Dodger fans, you don't get moments
like that too often.
Speaker 13 (37:29):
You've got to step out of the seat right, like
you got your standing up. I would imagine at some
point I stood up just here in the replay just now,
so amazing. I thought the inning before when he struck
out the last batter also was pretty you know, like
you said, care he was walking up the.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Mouth and everyone's and then we haven't even really touched
on I know it was against the White Sox, I know,
but we haven't touched on the fact that Freddie Freeman
waits to rope one there for the walk off.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
So what a night.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
And it has just been a beautiful season so far
for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
How do you think the Capra family feels today, el Vinny,
you had to be the guy? Oh wait, did disrespect
the family name?
Speaker 13 (38:12):
You know, I've always you and I have joked about
this that listen again, Vinnie Capra is the guy that's
struck down. There's dumb misconceptions in sports, like we're saying
how he wanted to do it at home? You know,
we say sometimes does a team want to lose on
the road so they could clinch at home? No one
wants to lose, And I get it in sports you
want to get the win when you can. But we've
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seen it in sports all the time. When you win
a championship on the road, it's just not the same.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
And if he would have done that on the road, right,
it would have been a waste.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
I think what made me emotional was watching his kids
react to it, because now that I'm a new dad
for the first time, I have a little one on
my own, and I hope that someday he gets to watch,
you know, me helping your show blow up and do
big things. Seeing yeah, Senior Day accomplished something like that,
that is so cool.
Speaker 13 (39:02):
Any g did you pick up your overly sized little
boy and pointed to TV and they called him and they.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
See he was too busy running around with not one,
but two whiffleball bats and was hitting all of us
in our knee caps with the baseball bats.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
I thought he was doing fan bam running around his diaper.
Speaker 13 (39:21):
I did notice one thing that I was like, Oh,
that's what you went with, uh kid. One of his
kids was wearing that weak ass city connectors that you
guys have, really yeah, And I remember being.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Like, Okay, I thought that was cool and kids will
wear whatever.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
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Speaker 9 (39:46):
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fourth of July. So I hope everybody is safe out there.
People aren't even waiting till Fourth of July these days
to light off fireworks. I mean they were all over
the place in our neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (40:22):
Oh yeah, I was sleep brouh. I'm assuming they were fireworks,
but our neighbors maybe not.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Maybe it was a house maybe, Just like every year
we'rely are people not going to get it? You're not
a pyro expert, okay.
Speaker 9 (40:39):
And when you light a fuse and it starts to
creep up towards the firework that's about to explode, it's
a roll the dice and you just got to hope
that it doesn't tilt over or wind doesn't knock it over,
and then it's pointed right at you. But it just
feels like a less an ideal proposition to to want
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to partake in.
Speaker 14 (41:01):
So I'm had a chest thumper on things. But I
have never ever touched the firework, ever lit one and
set one off, Never done it, not my entire life.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
Not proud of it.
Speaker 14 (41:15):
But yeah I have I've never smoked a cigarette and
I've never and I have never. I have never set
off a firework. No cigarette for me.
Speaker 9 (41:26):
But they used to do these, uh like you light
them and they would spin around on the ground like
these little fireworks spinners.
Speaker 14 (41:34):
Remember we had a dog that used to go and
try and eat them. Yeah, while they were on I
used a little you know, the little dips that that
you they were wrapped in the little white paper and
you throw me. Oh yeah, yes, and I've done that.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
It's about it.
Speaker 9 (41:49):
Those are fun to throw at people, right, But yeah,
like the dog would see a firework spitting on the
ground and go try and eat it, and then everyone's like, god,
dogs are so smart. Yeah, that's smart. Dogs of moron,
No wonder he didn't make it past eight.
Speaker 14 (42:06):
Technically, the dog is trying to save you, as you
know the people he loves, so he's trying to get
it and get it out of the way. It's you
that the dog is sitting there like these dumb mother efforts.
I gotta go get this joint before it blows up everybody,
So let me be the one that takes it for
the team. To me, that's that's kind of the line
(42:27):
of thinking.
Speaker 9 (42:28):
I get sure when I throw my dog a rib bone,
it's not lit on fire and spinning around in the circle.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
Dog's a moron. Was not going to eat it. Did
he eat it? He tried to.
Speaker 14 (42:39):
No, yes, he bite it, walk it off away from
the people, let it down, and then be done with
it with a burnt mouth. Cute you you because you
were not a considerate dog owner and your dog knew
that he was doing his duty or her duty, and
you set her.
Speaker 9 (42:57):
You set it up. You set the dog up. That
dog's an idiot. So and I hope help everybody, I
don't put that out. I'm gonna put that out. Don't
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Speaker 4 (43:36):
We here we go. I don't want to go back.
Speaker 9 (43:42):
You hear me, I'm never going back your guy, Levara
Demorris Smith, the former NFL p A executive director. He's
got a book coming out called Turf Wars. Alright, so
the first that was Lamar, that was John Grutin. I'm
(44:06):
only quoting what John Rutin said. No, only quote do
but uh, Demores Smith has a new book out called
Turf Wars, and of course he does. Well, there's a
couple of interesting little tidbits from this book that have
(44:26):
already been released because this book is set to come
out in August.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
I believe.
Speaker 14 (44:30):
I mean you got to release the interesting tidbits to
sell the book, right, okay?
Speaker 9 (44:34):
And who would you who would you say you sell
a book? It would be the first name you'd want
to first name if I'm the more Smith and I
want to sell a book, would be Roger Goodell. I'm
talking about a player, if he was a player in
the NFL that you knew would get some headlines.
Speaker 4 (44:54):
If it was a.
Speaker 14 (44:54):
Player, I'm either I'm going with a quarterback and and
I mean the most I could say the easy decision
would be Tom Brady because that was during Tom Brady's time.
You could throw Peyton Manning out there, but the media
lightning rod has been Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
That is correct. That is correct. That is correct.
Speaker 9 (45:16):
Aaron Rodgers featured first in one of these little uh
from Demorre Smith's book quote, the God of cheesehead Nation
was isolated and dismissive. Smith writes regarding rogers demeanor during
a player meeting, he sat in the back row of
the meeting room, issuing loud size before standing for a
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dramatic exit. An incredible quarterback, to be sure, but an
even more impressive antagonist. Smith also says this about Rogers quote.
In August twenty twenty one, my phone shirfed with a
text from Aaron Rodgers. Can you call me at red?
Could I not run into traffic instead? That from Demorris
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Smith talking about Aaron Rodgers. And I see that, So
he doesn't he doesn't have any love for Aaron Rodgers.
Well I see that, and I go, so this is
the NFLPA executive director for one of and one of
one of your star players. And then you've got JC
Tretdor who reportedly threw Russell Wilson under the bus in
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discussing Russell Wilson's contract negotiations, as that came out as
part of the collusion evidence and testimony that was discovered
a couple of weeks ago. And they wonder why they
lose every negotiation to the owners because the NFLPA can't
even get it together amongst themselves. You got the executive
director getting a call from one of the stars of
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the league saying, can I walk into traffic instead?
Speaker 14 (46:46):
That's crazy? And as you're leading the players, yes, yes,
it's crazy man. J. C.
Speaker 9 (46:52):
Tredder, part of the NFLPA and calls Russell Wilson the
rhymes with woosey awartedly when the discussions of the negotiations
about Russell Wilson's attempt to get a guaranteed contract done
from Denver cam like, this is why you lose every
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time to the owners because they're not on the same page.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Nobody's on the same page.
Speaker 14 (47:20):
It's a lot of moving parts when you have you know,
associations and unions and stuff like that. I mean, no
one is going to get what they want. I find
it more interesting that he chose to singularly pinpoint one
person in particular and chose to use that as as
(47:43):
a leaked line or a promoted line to go read
his book. That doesn't make me want to read his
book anymore. That doesn't make sa Morris Smith a more
interesting figure to want to learn or read about. I
don't I mean again, you're you're you're saying what the
can inclusion already is. So you're basically putting a book
out there that talks about how you failed the players.
Speaker 4 (48:06):
Is that what it's about?
Speaker 14 (48:07):
Maybe that should be the title if you put out
a title, I failed the players when I let the NFLPA.
If you want to put that narrative out there, people
will probably read it because they gonna want to know why.
Speaker 9 (48:19):
I can remember Mark Schlaire. This was back in I
think it was twenty seventeen. Demorris Smith was sort of
like making the rounds, telling everybody that there was going
to be some changes, things are going to be different
in the new CBA, and blah blah blah blah blah,
And I remember Mark Schlare just basically saying something along
the lines of yeah, okay, what are you going to
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get for the players? Less padded practices, like what do
you what are you going to get for the players?
Because they've been hearing this song and dance for years.
And the reason why Rogers was pissed is because he
was one of the guys that was standing up and
pounding the table saying, dude, this deal doesn't work for us.
We're getting the shaft in this deal. And you've got
the guy who's supposed to be the executive director of
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the NFLPA, who was making the rounds years in advance,
telling everybody how they were going to do the right
thing for the players, and a guy's calling you about
things and wanting to have conversations, and your eye rolling
him like what like this are you supposed to be
on the same side? And that that was part he
and then he talked about the collusion as well too.
(49:26):
This from Demor Smith's book turf Wars, which which Savar
would like to have edited, I Failed the Players. There
you go, turf Wars, the story about the story of
how I failed the player.
Speaker 4 (49:37):
Yes, that's so generic. Turf Wars story about I failed
you players.
Speaker 14 (49:42):
Talk about driving an unnecessary narrative home the hell.
Speaker 11 (49:50):
You do know?
Speaker 14 (49:50):
You are a black man, right, ab You can't just
be throwing stuff loosely out there like that. You gotta
be a little bit more strategic, won't you recommend people
love misdiagnosing things that that are put out there.
Speaker 9 (50:05):
No, he's not a gang banger that I know of.
He's not talking about Southeast So he's doing a signing
in Compton. Yeah, one Tuesday. He ain't throwing up the
Rolling Sixties side.
Speaker 14 (50:19):
I don't have the Turf Wars if you talking about problem,
but he got a problem. I'm from Chris Shaw Mafia
b the Turf Wars. I seen you in no battles by.
(50:40):
All I've said is like, bro, make it make sense
if you want people to read your book, make it
make sense that I've had one. I had one exchange
with with the Moors. I thought he was he was
a fine dude to talk to it, you know, good
hearted guy, super smart, super intelligent dude.
Speaker 4 (50:58):
Uh, but I thought he was in over his head.
Speaker 9 (51:01):
The official title here, Yeah, yeah, Turf Wars The Fight
for the Soul of America's Game.
Speaker 14 (51:10):
Yeah, that's a little dramatic. Man, Yeah, that's a tabbit dramatic.
Tabit dramatic.
Speaker 9 (51:17):
Now on the collusion case, this quote came out from
Demores Smith in his book. There were people inside our
building again, the former NFLPA executive director, there were people
inside our building who thought it was a waste of time.
But internally our office had evidence of collusion, including hearing
from multiple sources that the league and teams were discussing
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their avoidance of fully guaranteed contracts. Sweet, it's nice to
know that people inside the NFLPA building thought it was
a waste of time.
Speaker 4 (51:49):
It's just am I crazy? This just makes it look
even worse now, just you know, you know what I'm
gonna say.
Speaker 14 (51:55):
I'm gonna say this because I think that this is
a widely spread corporate type of it could be prevalent
amongst amongst businesses. You build a company, the company has employees.
Employee culture is employee culture. Company culture is company culture.
(52:19):
When you get those employees and they make the amount
of money that they make. Generally speaking, very few people
make a tremendously amount of a lot of money and
what it is that they do, and some do make
really good livings regardless. If you're one that doesn't make
(52:40):
that much money, you're probably working and hoping that your consistency,
your availability, and your cooperation.
Speaker 4 (52:49):
Is going to lead to you making more. You elevate.
Speaker 14 (52:53):
If you're already elevated, you don't want to lose that space.
So more often than not, Like one thing I experienced,
and I understand it as an older person that does
business from the business side of things, not from the
talent side or the employee side of it, is that
in some cultures, and this existed in the NFLPA may
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still exist in the NFLPA. When you hear somebody say
it's a waste of time, the reason why it's a
waste of time is not because you can't push to
get the things done that you want to get done,
get the things accomplished that you want to get accomplished.
It's that no one is willing to stick their neck
out to do it. Who's going to be the one
if it doesn't go through or it doesn't work, it's
something there's fallout from it, who's going to be the
(53:35):
one that pays the price for it? So when they
see it. When I hear somebody say this is a
waste of time to be here. It's because the people
that need to step up and be the catalyst for
it probably won't. The people who delegate it that should
have been the catalyst of stepping up to do it,
that delegate it to somebody else to do it. They're like,
why the hell are I gonna do it? Why would
I do it? Why would you want me to put
(53:56):
myself into the situation and try to push this forward
where that's not in my pay grade? And if I
do it and something goes wrong, I'm gonna lose my job.
More often than not, you'll find people some people just
don't even address that at all, like, ah, I'll get
to that next week. Then you get to next week,
something else comes up. I get to that next week.
(54:17):
The corporate culture that I saw at the nfl PA
is just a lot of like lip service.
Speaker 4 (54:22):
Man. There are very few dudes like Nolan Harrison. Good dude.
If he says he's gonna do something, he's gonna do that.
My man. Carl Carl, Uh, what's Carl's dang? I'm blanking
on Carl's last name. Carl Lewis, No, not Carl Lewis, Carl,
Carl Carl, Carl, Come on, Carl.
Speaker 14 (54:43):
Francis, Carl Carl Francis a long time dude at the NFLPA.
If he says he's gonna do it, he's going to
do it. If you don't talk to competent people about
the things that matter to you as a player. Chance
this is are you are getting the salesperson's pitch, which
(55:04):
is manage expectation, under promise with the chances the possibility,
although slight, the possibility that you will deliver, you will
over deliver. Manage expectations. And that's what the NFLPA has
always to me, that's what it's always represented. Manage the
expectation of the players. Make sure that you cause here's
(55:27):
the thing. Yes, while you have to have it by law,
they represent the player, they're going to have a job,
but it's not necessary for you to be here to
have the job. You are replaceable, you are expendable. And
so knowing that the job security that you have is
based upon trying to make everybody around you happy with
(55:51):
doing the least of what you can do, because that's
not going to ruffle any feathers or shake any boats anything.
Speaker 4 (55:58):
Like that, it is a very very very hard line to.
Speaker 14 (56:02):
Walk, especially if you are a top of the people
that are the decision makers for that union.
Speaker 4 (56:08):
So to me, it's it's like all lip service to me.
To begin with.
Speaker 14 (56:12):
If I were to read his book, I'd be like, Bro,
he's just sugarcoating everything. It's a sugarcoating of it. Because
if you were to really get into the deep down,
guts in the bows of what this stuff has really
been and truly has been exchanged conversation wise, you'd end
up like Gruden.
Speaker 4 (56:30):
You would end up like Gruden.
Speaker 9 (56:32):
Now, The New York Post did identify a couple of
other quotes from Demorris Smith's book on Roger Goodell. Damorris
Smith called Roger Goodell a cold, dark void. I mean
that sounds like my axe, to be honest with you.
But again, that's that's deamor Smith's book. I'm not here
to write his book, and I'm not here to edit
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his book, but that is Deamorris Smith calling.
Speaker 4 (56:56):
Roger, of course, dark void.
Speaker 14 (56:58):
I gotta make sure I call out Andre Collins too,
by the way, a long time NFLPA representative.
Speaker 4 (57:05):
Within there are some really, really really fine guys that
are in there.
Speaker 14 (57:11):
There are some really really fine people that are smart,
that are able or willing, and I've never seen any
one of them elevated to being the one.
Speaker 4 (57:25):
That calls the shots. It's kind of weird.
Speaker 14 (57:29):
Like all the great names that I can think of
that are part of the NFLPA have been a part
of the NFLPA, none of them have ever. Troy Vinson
was a part of NFLPA before he transitioned over to
the NFL. I've never seen one of our most competent
players that really really believe in the you know, helping
and assisting our players, progressing them and pushing them forward.
(57:53):
I've never really seen Gene Upshaw. Gene Upshaw, and he
did a fairly good job. I won't. I don't have
two much bad to say. He made some mistakes, he
did some things that left the you know, people to
be desired, But Geneupshaw got an opportunity. I don't see
that happen very often. You don't see like, where did
the Morris Smith even come from? I don't even know
(58:16):
what I mean if you look it up. I mean,
I'm sure tell you the whole process, you know, all
that stuff, But where did they even come from?
Speaker 9 (58:22):
Man, let's guess I'll say Salt Lake City.
Speaker 4 (58:25):
You know he was a lawyer. I mean he lived
in d C.
Speaker 14 (58:28):
I mean, I'm gonna assume he's a lawyer, a powerful
lawyer from some type of you know, law firm.
Speaker 4 (58:35):
Boom boom boom.
Speaker 14 (58:36):
He understands labor laws really well and all that stuff.
My whole thing is, get get experts that understand labor laws.
Get get Why not follow the lead of other other sports.
The NBA, their union be kicking ass why not find
those people, find those experts, figure out how to take
(58:57):
the same type of approach and let layers run the unions. Uh,
qualified players run these unions.
Speaker 4 (59:04):
Leah Demorris Smith.
Speaker 9 (59:06):
Uh is he a parts unknown guy like the old
professional wrestling origin?
Speaker 15 (59:11):
Well, a little bit on his background, born and raised
in Washington, d C. He used to be uh a
litigation lawyer, a lawyer, litigation partner for the US attorney's a.
Speaker 14 (59:22):
Probably not a great win loss record there, Just just
I would have thought he would have been like a
you know, a labor a labor lawyer.
Speaker 9 (59:31):
But now Demorris Smith said this about Jerry Jones. This
is actually pretty funny. I said, Uh, if Jerry Jones
saw a dollar bill on the ground, I truly believe
he'd stop and pick it up, which is actually pretty funny.
Why well, because I can relate to that.
Speaker 14 (59:50):
I was about to say, if you saw a dollar
on the ground, you want to pick it up. You know,
it's great if I see a quarter on the ground,
if I see a pinion on the ground. My dad
mama taught me the value of a dollar and one
thing that might I used to tell my mom and dad, like,
I'm gonna be a millionaire one day. I'm gonna be
a millionaire one day. My dad be like, make a dollar.
Make a dollar, hey, buddy, make a dollar. Great to
(01:00:12):
have big dreams, make a dollar. I took that to
the bare minimum. If I see a penny on the ground,
you know how many pennies, Like there has to be
a penny, and every million dollars you make twenty million dollars,
Jerry Jones is worth a billion dollars, you gotta start
with a penny before you get to that billion.
Speaker 9 (01:00:30):
You know, my wife gave me a hard time because
we were getting We were at the car wash and
they have one of those fountains where you throw a
penny into the fountain and I put a snorkel on
my son and fed him into the fountain to go
sco get a change.
Speaker 4 (01:00:43):
And she's like, what are you doing? I was like,
what do you mean? These are easter eggs?
Speaker 9 (01:00:47):
I'm coming out of pocket for that.
Speaker 14 (01:00:48):
I mean, I don't know about it. I think that's
a little extreme. I'm not going to co sign you
on that. It's a little extreme.
Speaker 9 (01:00:54):
It's an idea for people who are looking to make
a few.
Speaker 4 (01:00:56):
Feel bad for Drew Man me too. How did he do?
That's great? He got like a dollar eighteen? That's great?
How long was he underwater?
Speaker 9 (01:01:09):
Was he?
Speaker 4 (01:01:11):
Was he splashing?
Speaker 15 (01:01:12):
Was he?
Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Like?
Speaker 14 (01:01:13):
How did he do?
Speaker 9 (01:01:14):
He's four and he doesn't know how to swim, so
that was a little trying to, you know, how to
hold his water, to hold his breath. I just kept
I kept reassuring him, like, hey, if you get at
least a dollar, the Lochness monster is not coming. So hopefully,
you cold bloody bro, everything works out all right. Well, listen,
it is the Dan Patrick Show here on Fox Sports Radio.
(01:01:35):
LeVar Arrington, Jonas Knox in for DP and the guys
on this edition of Black and Dragged
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Oh, it's the final hour in this Wednesday. It's a
meat Wednesday because we're not here on Thursday and Friday.
Dan ants whined and moaned, and I said, okay, you
can have Thursday and Friday off. I'm going to show
up for work tomorrow, but these guys won't be here,
and apparently there won't be a show because nobody else
will be here. But I hope you guys you're happy.
(00:25):
You just let down America. Todd, are you proud of
yourself that you wanted to have Thursday and Friday off?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I don't know if proud is the word. I think
earned is the word.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I think we all can get.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Some days off throughout the year. I think we do
a lot of shows compared to like almost anyone else
in sports sportsho.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Okay, yeah, see.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Dan, we've been letting America down for fifteen years. This weekend.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
That is different. That is true, all right? Yes, Marvin, I.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
Don't feel bad because I worked eighth street years of
every single holiday, so I earned it.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You got to work eight eight consecutive years of holidays.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
You got to do that.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
That's spoken like the owner of a company right there.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah, yeah, get too. How great is it that you
get to do that?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, my managers at the mother ship weren't there.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Oh yeah, I know that you get a big opportunity.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Yeah, the big opportunity to we want to get you
in the chair see what you can do again, Because
that's just four Christmases in a row that you wanted
to see what I could do on Christmas? What about
all the other days of the year that you've tied
me in the chair that you wanted to see what
I could do?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
My wife would say, why are you working the holidays?
Aren't you supposed to be a big deal there? And
I go, I'm working the holidays? Is the big deal?
That's what they keep convincing me. It's a big deal.
Hey man, you're lucky. Get to work on Christmas. Okay,
I'll do it. Stat of the Day brought to you
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Patrick Show. So it's a meat Wednesday, beef Wellington, cream spinach,
garlic and sage whip mashed potatoes.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Who has it better than we do? No body.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I'm not a cream spinach guy. I like just the
regular spinach, just hardcore. Give me spinach, Give me some vinegar,
straight up, little salt and pepper, cream spinach. Kind of
you're cheating. It's like when you put bacon on Brussels Sprounce,
Like you're just kind of cheating.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You either have it or you don't. Yes, Paul, I.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Thought, back in the day at Steak's steakhouses, you were
big on the cream spinach.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I like regular spinach. Sautee is what they like. Sautage
spinach is what they call that. By the way, Clayton
Kershaw slated to pitch at home tonight against the White
Sox so going for three thousand strikeouts. He's got twenty
nine hundred and ninety seven, and he would be the
twentieth Major leaguer to reach three thousand.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
He's been pitching great.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
By the way, Shohetani homered in the six to one
win over the White Sox. He's hit at least thirty
home runs in five consecutive seasons, tied with Aaron Judge
for the.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Longest active streak in baseball. Stat of the Day, stat
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Here comes, Here comes that what stat.
Speaker 8 (03:17):
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Stat of the day.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
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Speaker 4 (03:45):
Over under.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
The record is seventy six hot dogs and will it
be broken?
Speaker 5 (03:52):
And how long?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I don't know what's he got fifteen minutes?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
It's it seventy six hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, he is an overwhelming favorite to win minus two thousand.
The second favorite, Patrick Bertoletti, is plus twelve hundred. But
the record of seventy six hot dogs, that's the over under, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Joey Chestnut taking the year off with the hot dog
contest was akin to Jordan playing baseball Houston Rockets stepping
in for Okay, someone's making that cop all right.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So Joey Chestnut is back.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Wembledon. You know a lot of the top seeds on
the women's side lost early at Wembledon.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, I'm not thrilled about that. By the way, ten
minutes you have to eat.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
All the ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I walked in today and we were talking about something,
but you know, road trip to Tahoe and the guest
list will have at Tahoe for the next week, and
Todd blurts out, did you realize a lot of the
top seeds have lost at Wembledon? And I go, what
is that have to do with going to Tamahoe. Oh,
I just didn't know, I said, Yeah, I've watched Wembledon.
(05:05):
Now I realize you're going to London. You're going to Wimbledon.
You realize that now, Well, I didn't know you're going
to Wimbledon. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
We're gonna do two days at Wimbledon on Sunday and Monday,
the sixth and seventh.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Oh so now you care about Wimbledon?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Now I care about well, okay, I always cared about wildon.
I really care about.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Wild cocoa golf. Are you gonna wear all white?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah, I'm gonna get souvenirs. I'll probably get a nice
Wimbledon hat and T shirt and whatever I wear, and
then I can always go change into the Wimbledon gear.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
The Mets Yankees Subway series. That's always entertaining, and both
teams are forty eight and thirty seven, although it feels
like the Yankees are a better forty eight and thirty
seven than the Mets.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Saturday the Foeba World Cup.
Speaker 10 (05:48):
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Speaker 2 (05:48):
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are heavyweights right there.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That's right, okay.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
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a few things. Talk to him about you know that
buyer beware. We hear that a lot. And the Bucks
went all in in twenty twenty three. They traded a
first round draft pick, multiple swops and they gave up
(06:25):
Drew Holliday to bring in Dame Lillard. So this was
a blockbuster deal by NBA standards, blockbuster deal. It just
didn't work out the Achilles injury. The Bucks have waived
him nine time All Star be thirty six by the
time he plays again. The win now and then you
deal with the fallout when you don't win, now, everybody
(06:47):
hoped for more there. This was Dame Lillard's chance to
he got out of Portland. Now you're going to play
in big games, You're going to be on national TV
a lot more. And just didn't work out. But you know,
he was away from his family and I don't know
if he and Jannis ever really clicked.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Maybe they didn't play long enough together to click. But
he will. He will be a factor.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I think in the playoffs next year, Dame Lillard, somebody
are going to pick him up if he's healthy and
he just he's going to provide an impact. I really
believe that the Pistons Malik Beasley had quote financial issues
prior to the gambling investigation. So there's allegations of gambling
on NBA games, and he was on the verge of
(07:33):
signing a three or forty two million dollar deal. So
they brought in Duncan Robinson basically for around the same money.
He's an outside shooter as well, but he owes a
lot of money. Former marketing agency they say that he
owes him two and a half million dollars. I couldn't
pay back a six hundred and fifty thousand dollars loan
(07:56):
and maybe turned to gambling on NBA games to get
some of that money back. So there's a lot of
things going on here. And when the FEDS are investigating,
this is in the NBA. This is the FEDS. NBA
is going to try to distance themselves as best they can.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Sounds like one of those stories when somebody wins the lottery. Yeah,
and then you know, five years later they're like, dang,
how'd they get so broke?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
A couple of phone calls in here?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Eight seven to seven three DP show email address Dpadanpatrick
dot com, Twitter handle DP show. Not to lecture you
while I lecture you, but you know, you have the
major sports books, we have DraftKings, there's fan Duel, BET MGM,
and because of them, a lot of these violations get
detected or the potential for a scandal. You know, real
(08:48):
time monitoring. You have to do this because gambling is
not going away. It's more accessible than ever. But you
have to have an oversight. You have to have somebody
who is going to be watching all of this. And
the league's credibility depends on this. I don't know if
this gets larger with Malik Beasley. I don't know if
(09:09):
other teammates are involved in this. I don't know if, uh,
you know, anybody on other teams is involved in this.
But there's a there's a that's the potentially a huge
problem here because you must know what you're watching is real.
We get more phone calls about sports being fixed. It
(09:30):
feels like when there's a controversial call, it'll be like, well,
they want them to win, they don't like them.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
It's not fixed.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But I do understand where you could you could jump
to that conclusion if you read about this, Now, how
did this affect games?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Let's say Malik Beasley was throwing games.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You go back and you got to watch, and you
know they're they're now they're watching stretches when he's on
the floor, and the urgency that he played at and
the betting line, like just small things, man. And if
a betting line is seven and a half and all
of a sudden, you're racing to score a basket so
(10:15):
you can go up by eight, these are the things
that the feds are looking at. They're gonna look at
this almost frame by frame to see what he's doing,
how often he did it, and then you're gonna get
a paper trail as well. At some point it'll go
a whole lot deeper. David in Ohio, David, what's on
(10:35):
your mind?
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Hey?
Speaker 11 (10:39):
Damn, Happy meet Wednesday? Nobody what July forth coming up?
Didn't know who you thought at the show? Is your
Jason Pierre Paul with having maybe a fireworks accent or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Okay, all right, I don't know if any of these
guys are fireworkers. Todd would definitely not be handling fireworks.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I'm enough trouble tying my shoe.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I'm not playing that. I could see Paul maybe maybe
being a fireworker.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
When I was young, I was big into it, like
with the kids in the neighborhood. But man, I've seen
some stuff in the past few years where it goes
the wrong way. Someone gets a little loose.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I stay away.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I don't even like sparklers, like, I don't want. I
don't I'm not entertained by any of it. But then
you get people who are all in, hey, you gotta
go over this guy's house. He's got fireworks, and I go, eh,
you know how about I watched from a couple of
blocks away.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Yeah, we used to.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
I haven't gone in a few years, but we used
to always go to Cape Cod with my in laws
and my two brother in laws. We would all throw
in money and get just a gigantic box of fireworks.
You smoke a couple of cigars, you light the fireworks.
But we would go to this one beach and there's
a dozen families on the beach that all do the
same thing at the same time. So you have just
(11:56):
a massive fireworks display by all random people. It's awesome
them that's done.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Oh needs you know it's a rogue, you know whatever
they are.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Isn't that life though, Dan, a rogue, whatever it is
all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, yeah, But I don't want to I don't want
to go where there could be a rogue firework, an
M eighty or whatever they're you know, yeah, a rogue.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
How about I just don't go there.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Then I I did decrease the possibilities of getting hit
by a rogue M eighty.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yes, you can drive on the highway or kind of
run across the highway, you know that, just to get
the highway experience. Leave it to the professionals and watch
the beauty from a distance.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Thank you, Tom.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
You don't get that anywhere else. Yeah, we're gonna bottle that.
Nobody's getting that logan in Indiana High logan. What's on
your mind today?
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Well, I am one of the Pacer fans that's not
a fan of Miles Turner, and I feel like the
media and the fans are all like, Ah, the Pacer
screwed this, And I'm like, how can a guy say
he's loyal when he's offered twenty million dollars a year
to not be the top center in that I won't
even say he's one of the top centers in the NBA.
I mean, the guy barely could rebound. He was a
(13:10):
liability in the playoffs, and I just feel like all
the Pacer fans are absolutely like, oh, how can we
lose this guy? And it's like it's a business and he's.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Not holding up his end of the deal.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
So I just wanted to vent my frustrations on that
and think I'm really mad that he screwed the Pacers
because we got no drafts capital, we got nets out
of a trade and he went to our rival.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah I know, I know, but if he's not a loss,
then don't fret. Like if you don't care about him,
then it's not a big deal. Now do you want
something in return, like a sign in trade?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I mean Miles Turner is he's a good player, potential
to be a good player. He's not your typical big man.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Yes, he's kind of perpetually frustrating for me. I watch
a guy. He's got to be six eleven, two sixty
very He's never averaged more than seven and a half
rebounds a game. Ever, Russell Westbrook is a better rebound.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Uh, Zach and Knoxville, Hi, Zach, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9 (14:15):
He thanks you, thanks to shake my call.
Speaker 11 (14:18):
I just wanted to give Marv a little more love
on that Matilda line. That was hilarious. And Dylan. Dylan
always looks like that picture of El Chappa when they're
pulling him out.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Of that hole.
Speaker 11 (14:30):
Yeah yeah, And I just wanted to ask Fritzi is
he going over there to Wimbledon to watch or is
he going to play?
Speaker 9 (14:38):
I mean he was second though.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah, you are our resident tennis experts.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
They have that t Fritz, that tailor Fritz.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Yeah, no relation, no relation.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I think he went five steps the other day. They
had to go into the next day. Because they got
late and they over two days. He won in the
fifth step. I'm hoping he'll still be around by the
time I get over there to watch him play. But
no relation.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Okay, yeah Todd going over to Wimbledon, going over to London.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I was a little surprised at that.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I was on the tennis team barely in high school.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
So I have a where are you on the tennis team?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I had a tennis jacket, okay, and I won like
the Courage.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Award or whatever kind a community spirit award. There was
some kind of spirit award.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
At the dinner, everyone got their trophies, and the coach
called me over because I was cheering every very good
while everyone was actually playing.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Well, that's nice.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I was there. I went to all the practices. I'm like,
nice shot, forty.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Love, let's go, Yeah, one more, you'll win the game.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
One of my children won like a spirit award. We
went to you know, the awards banquet, and they're handing
out all of these, uh, the math honors goes to
my kids didn't win any of those things. And then
I remember one of my daughters won the Spirit award,
and I went all right, you know, a friend of ours.
Their daughter won like five of these and uh for
(15:57):
the best science, the best math and English. And then
you know, let's saying kid ends up going to Dartmouth
or Yale. You know, it's like, all right, show off, Hey,
my kid has spirit. We got spirit? Yes we do,
we got spirit? How about you?
Speaker 10 (16:13):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (16:13):
I want to hear something more sad. I once won
Greade School Football Most Improved Player. I didn't play the
previous season. It was my first year. I had nothing
to improve upon.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Will you improved from the beginning of the year to
the end of the year.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
I didn't trust me. If you watch, I got most
improved player who didn't play before. By the way, Wimbledon etiquette,
I'm looking at the London Evening standard. Technically no dress
code for Wimbledon, but there really is. They say smart, casual,
light colors, wear nothing dirty todd do not wear jeans.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I will not wear jeans. I'm going to try to
wear it at least at the very least very nice
shorts like you know, not like sweatpants, shorts like Jesse shorts.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
The collared shirt would be nice. Collared shirt would be nice.
No Bronco gear, No Bronco gear.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Okay, I think I'm gonna wear a damn Patrick Show
hat with everybody who's permission there. That's what I packed anywhere.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Let's be nice, you know, maybe a cutaway and then they, yeah,
maybe ESPN will go, oh, there's a Tod Fritz Chris
Fowler's doing, you know, play by play.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Maybe I want to get a shout out for the
Why don't.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
You tell Chris Fowler you're gonna be there and just
say hey, I'm gonna be there, you know, just in
case you see me.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I may even go hat and the damn Patrish OFW shirt.
I may just go double and then my wife will
teach me all you're trying to get noticed or recognize something,
but I'm trying.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
To know that's streams that screams ugly America, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, I would do the hat maybe maybe, but collared
shirt and uh, those those chihuahua hairless legs that you have?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Can I yell when they're about to survey the usually
don't like that. There's a whole quiet Please can't.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeh, don't yellow get in a hole? Okay, just don't
do that.
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Speaker 4 (18:48):
And let's say good morning to Danny G.
Speaker 14 (18:50):
What up?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Danny G? Happy Dodger?
Speaker 13 (18:54):
Hell yeah, dude, Danny G keme floating into the studio
because he's so pumped about Kershaw. We're gonna be talking
about that pet on the ones and twos. Good morning,
Good to see you, buddy Ay. But we got a
list rich about the All Star Game. Pretty pumped to
be the only show voted into the All Stars, you know,
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(19:15):
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and we appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
But I'm excited to be in Atlanta.
Speaker 13 (19:21):
But there's a whole list of superstars that are going
to be there, and we're hoping to get some great interviews,
so definitely check that out on the was it fourteenth, fifteenth,
and sixteenth of this month. Happy today, ste Julio, everybody.
We're getting there. It's gonna be a fun weekend and
it starts right now before we get into Clayton Kershaw
(19:43):
and such a tense moment last night. We're gonna talk
some NFL today. There's an underrated quarterback that needs his props. Plus,
it is fourth of July weekend and we're gonna talk
about some of those great blockbuster movies over the years
that you love. This is like a big movie weekend.
It's also a big weekend for drinking and eating Sparklers. Man,
you got your sparkler's ready. You know bad if you
(20:05):
don't have your sparklers on standby.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You failed, bro?
Speaker 13 (20:08):
Do you always has to bust out the sparklers and
the bank snaps? Do you know you just added something
to my list have to work today? Sparklers? I mean
that's the bare minimum.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
But did you know.
Speaker 13 (20:19):
That every year fifteen thousand visits to the emergency room
firework injuries. So don't be the ass clown that drinks
one too many surveyss. A bunch of guys named Terry
and wheelchairs.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Back it up, Terry, Back it up, Terry reverse.
Speaker 13 (20:36):
Yeah, keep your fingers intact and we'll talk more about
it as the day goes. I love back it up, Terry,
but I wanted to start the show just a quick
hypothetical that I just witnessed at the coffee shop on
the way, and then we're gonna get to Kershaw. But
I gotta gotta finesse my way into the show today.
Let's wake it up. So go to pick up our
(20:56):
coffee and there's an old bity in front O thank
you by the way, Oh no problem, man, appreciate it.
There's an old biddy in front of me. Her name
was probably like Agnes or something. She's up at five
am at West Coast time. Who's up at five unless
you're working early. Old people love to get a start
of the day.
Speaker 14 (21:15):
Huh.
Speaker 13 (21:15):
No offense to our buddy spot who's on the videos
Fox Sports Radios YouTube page streaming Live as we stay,
streaming live, good morning, and of course everything at Fox
Sports Radio and at Covino and Rich.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
But his mom had a classic old lady named like Phyllis.
Out there, the woman in front of me phil Phyllis.
My mom's name is Ortensia, So you can go with
that if.
Speaker 13 (21:36):
You want vanilla latte for Phyllis. And she's like, oh, sweetheart,
is that sugar free for my diabetes? And they're like,
oh sorry, ma'am. And they went to take the coffee
and she goes, what are you gonna do with that?
And they were gonna dump it, yeah, and she goes,
(21:56):
I'll give it to my husband. He don't care about diabetes.
So the woman gave a look like, okay, what was
her name, Agnes Brimley, any relation to Wilford or so,
missus Brimley.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I gotta ask when a.
Speaker 13 (22:14):
Bartender gets your cocktail wrong, or a barista get your
coffee wrong and it's their fault.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Should they just tell you like, yeah, here, take the
other one too.
Speaker 13 (22:23):
Not only that, they should make the offer right if
you're gonna tip them for doing nothing half the time.
And that's nothing against the barista, because I do believe.
I believe baristas and bartenders deserve tips, not everybody. But
if people are gonna have the nerve to charge you
for every little thing, they could offer the extra as well.
The extra meaning they're a mistake that they made. Or
(22:47):
sometimes if you're buying a smoothie, they'll make extras like hey,
give me that extra. Sometimes they'll be extra milkshake blendor
and dump it out.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Diner's got it right.
Speaker 13 (22:57):
You ever go to a diner get a milkshake and
they give you like the that old cup too, because
there's extra.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
That's that's just customer service. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (23:04):
So I just want to throw it out there because
my my first instinct was let the old lady get
the extra coffee.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
That's just proper.
Speaker 13 (23:12):
So your instinct is to throw it out instead of saying,
hey you can have this one too. Well, corporate too,
I don't care corporate or not waste, wasteful waste.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
It is wasteful. It's just out of their hands. Have
you ever tried to not be fat?
Speaker 6 (23:27):
And when they give you the option of fries or
a salad, you go salad, and they still accidentally drop
off fries.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
And then you're like, no, no, I got the salad.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
And then when you see them taking the fries away
from exactly what are you gonna do with these fries.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
That are now I'll save them for when I feel
like being fat.
Speaker 15 (23:45):
When I go through Taco Bell and they accidentally give
me someone else's order or like double up the tacos inside.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I'm not telling them about that. I'm just taking that.
Speaker 13 (23:52):
You take it, You take it, but you gotta Yeah,
I think in that case you expect them to give
you the extra dump it out now, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
If it's your bonehead mistake, that might be a little different.
Speaker 13 (24:04):
But Covino, Let's say you water your typical Steve Covino
Tito's and soda and they give you a Tito's.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
In sprite and you're like, don't think he's the sprite? Sweet?
What are they gonna dump it? You could say, I
leave it here, someone.
Speaker 13 (24:18):
Will drink someone in my party here, I'll give it
to somebody else.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Yeah, I'll take it to go if I can't.
Speaker 13 (24:25):
I'm a little kiddy cut I just want to throw
it out there because I saw old old Phyllis like
with a little dilemma, like you're gonna dump it, Especially
in a world where wastefuls frowned upon, especially in today's world.
That's just so careless in my opinion. So make the
best of it and let someone enjoy it. Absolutely, I
think I think Phyllis here. What's her name, Barbara, what's
(24:46):
her name? I think the old lady in this story
was absolutely right. Take it, bring it home, don't charge
the old lady, give it to her old husband. Let
him have diabetes. Could I tell you the funniest part
of all the names we just mentioned, if if you're
a young mom or dad, those names are all coming back,
and the names from our childhood, like Jennifer and Nicole, Stephanie,
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those are gonna be the old lady names at some point,
because all those old lady names are the top little
girl baby names speak for your name, because the name
speak for yourself, I should say, because the name is
Steve's coming back LoVa, thanks thanks to Minecraft, Steve's hot
lava chicken. Whatever it is, your old guy named Steve
having a moment in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Steve's on a comeback. All right, now, what about the
name Clayton? Oh I'm sorry. As the announcer said last
night in dramatic fashion.
Speaker 13 (25:35):
Clayton Edward Kershaw, I was like, all right, a bit dramatic,
but hey, a very stressful, awesome moment last night in
Major League Baseball.
Speaker 10 (25:48):
The Ravine Risers ready to erupt, got a let a breathe, beautiful.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
You know how many foc thot tiers were shed last night?
Oh my god, yeah, you know how many hard ass
fuck thos were there. Like, I'm feeling aleado emotional right now.
That's my guy, that's my gay. It's Fernando in cleaning
ard So last night, beautiful moment. I see his family
in as.
Speaker 13 (26:27):
So cool, Danny, I gotta give you my first observation
as a Mets fan living on the West Coast.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Watching that Dodgers moment.
Speaker 13 (26:36):
Props to not only the Dodgers, but major League Baseball
and COMMUNI already alluded to it.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Letting the moment.
Speaker 13 (26:43):
Breathe because so many times, these awesome milestones are rushed along.
And I remember when the clock was first put in
baseball a couple of years ago, the pitch clock. Remember
there were some players that were reunions in their hometown
and they're like pitch violation because they were so rigid
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about it, so anal about it.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I loved it last night. There was no rushing.
Speaker 13 (27:08):
There was Hey, this is a guy that played for
one team three thousand strikeouts forth to ever do that,
And the reality is that it may never happen again.
Because I'm thinking of the young cats like a Schens
or school, but I'm like, do you think they're gonna
be on one team their whole career?
Speaker 4 (27:25):
That would be unlikely. Speaking of schemes and some of
the big dogs today.
Speaker 13 (27:32):
It's gonna take a lot, It's gonna take it the
three thought to get there, and that might be the
last time, one of the last times that we ever
see that in our lifetime, making it extra special. And
there's so many layers to what we saw last night,
and so many things that probably ran through your brain
that we're going to touch on them all throughout the day.
(27:52):
But the first thing that I think of aside from
man one team eighteen plus years and do the math
based on how guys go what five or six Usually
Now you'd have to I know this is simple math,
but for fifteen years, you'd have to average two hundred strikeouts,
and two hundred strikeouts not what it was in the
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eighties or nineties when we were growing up, because you know,
guys are throwing three, three fifty strikeouts back in the day,
the Nolan Ryans of the world. But now the league
leader every year is in the two hundred. So you'd
have to average two hundred strikeouts for fifteen seasons, So
three thousand strikeouts is becoming increasingly difficult. My first question,
(28:34):
based on history being made in that moment, was did
he have to do it there? Which made it even
more intensified, more amazing, more exciting, because Dave Roberts had
said that he was going to manage differently, unconventionally, because
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fans were there just for that moment, just for that moment,
and it was a big moment, and it was a.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Game at home.
Speaker 13 (29:01):
Situations were perfect, it was all lined up, but man
Kershaw was pushing him to the limit, approaching one hundred pitches.
You don't want to extend the guy. He hadn't done
it in years. Was he going at again? I think
absolutely not? So did he have to do it in
that moment? And does everybody know the name of the
guy he struck out? And no, because we're all wrapped
(29:23):
up in the man. You see what happened to Uncie,
but man Kershaw and Freeman whoa Kershaw? Dude?
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Kershaw struck out Finny cap bro.
Speaker 16 (29:35):
Vinny CAPPROTI looking, yeah, which was beautiful for his three
thousandth career strikeout in the sixth inning yesterday, the twentieth
pitcher in MLB history to reach three thousand strikeouts, and
again the fourth to do it all on one team.
Speaker 13 (29:53):
But question one, did he have to do it there?
Do you think he would have went out one more time?
Being that the whole crowd was there, he needed just
one more He got it the last out in the
inning to prove how rare it is. By the way, Yeah,
over the last ten years in Major League Baseball, Chris
Sale did it twice and your boy Argert Cale did
(30:15):
it one time, meaning hit three hundred strikeouts. So it
is like what he's done is you know, more remarkable
when you think of it that way. To answer your question,
Ember One, I almost felt bad because the last thing
I said on our show yesterday here on Fox Sports Radio,
I said, Yo, Danny, would it be funny if he
was stuck at two strikeouts?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
And I told you, don't you dare put that out
there in the universe.
Speaker 13 (30:38):
And Danny hits maybe goes turn on the Dodgers game,
You idiot, He's stuck at two strikeouts. And all I
kept thinking was Dave Roberts, who is a World Series
champion as a player and a manager.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
World Series hero at the red size.
Speaker 13 (30:55):
And here's a guy who gets criticized a lot for
being such a big winner. He is put in such
a scenario here where I'm thinking he can't pull him
no matter what I think. Sixty thousand people there, you
send him? How much could you possibly extend him?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
In that moment? I think you had to keep going,
you really, Then it feels the.
Speaker 13 (31:14):
Longer you do that, it starts feeling forced. But the
fans were there. I mean, I'm not a Dodgers fan,
but I'm a baseball fan. I'm a fan of greatness,
and everybody wants to see this happen. I had the
nervous farts watching. I'm like, dude, he's gotta get it
now or it's not happening tonight. It does ruins the moment.
It doesn't matter now. I don't think he was going
out again. It doesn't matter now because it happened. But
(31:37):
I was actually talking to my wife and my mother
in law's in town for the holiday, is watching the kids.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
I was saying. I was extribed describing this scenario to them.
Speaker 13 (31:45):
I'm like, all right, so he's at home fifty thousand
people while it's happening, And I said, what if he
doesn't do My wife's like, well, would they sit him
until they were back at Dodger Stadium? And I go,
I wonder if they would have, like, I don't think
she'll hold on thinking about that. You have skipped to
start to get him back at the stadium.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Man, I don't think so.
Speaker 14 (32:03):
Do.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
You wouldn't contrived. They wouldn't have done that.
Speaker 13 (32:06):
I've never really seen it that forced before. It's very special,
I agreed. But imagine you're a fan and you're there
on a weeknight to watch this and you're so close,
like because you want to be part of it too.
I know that's a selfish way to think it's Kershaw's moment,
But you want to be able to be that Dodger
(32:26):
fan to say I was there for that, but.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
You're one strike got away and you weren't. So you're like,
as a fan, you want it for him, you want
it for you, you want it for the bragging right
to be part of history is all these things.
Speaker 13 (32:38):
He had to do it there, which made it even
more incredible and more amazing, like that he actually pulled
it off, no offense to our friends and affiliate up
in Milliawaukee. But do you think his next start, which
is likely I'm looking at the schedule in Milwaukee against
the Brewers, is that where he wanted to do it.
(32:59):
I mean, I love that's a great ballpark, great fan base,
but he had to do it last night.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
I don't care if he hit one hundred pitches.
Speaker 13 (33:06):
Dave Roberts had a call like the all time, like
old school audible, like, yo, kid, you want to go
out there, keep going, You're not gonna pull Clayton Kershaw
stuck on two strikeouts, and I think he was already
pushing it at that point.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
He already dude, already over extended. Dude.
Speaker 13 (33:22):
His kid was had a Dad three thousand strikeout shirt
on Stanboy. It had to be done then, and he
did it. And again something I'll touch on later on.
Also makes you show how difficult a strike out is
when you need one, right, because I was like, dude,
come on, because it could be a pop up, could
be a grab out, it could be anything, right, or
he just keeps getting hit because you could see they
(33:44):
started making contact too against him.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
It was the first time I heard the Dodger crowd
ever boom when somebody was put out from a grounder.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Yeah, that's not the way we want to know.
Speaker 13 (33:55):
I know that wild man to state the obvious, and
I'm mean that because I really want you to think
about it. Think about the difference between doing it in
front of fifty thousand of your hometown fans, where it
means so much not only to you in the city
but to every fan there, versus doing it in Milwaukee
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where no one really cares.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
They don't deserve that many.
Speaker 13 (34:19):
Thousand people wanted to be able to from now on,
say I was there when Kershaw hit three thousand. He
gave a gift to fifty thousand fans. I mean the electricity,
the curtain call waving and blown kisses at his kids
and family. Like you said, Vatto tears or shed Boxo
tears a great moment. Atos in La only have ninety
(34:43):
six tear drops. I heard, and they wasted a bunch
of them last night.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Yo.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Is it safe to say? Is it that's my guy?
Is it safe to say that baseball really handled it perfectly?
Speaker 13 (34:55):
Let me go back to that, because I am okay
with Hey, guy hits fifty thousand yards in the NFL,
they stop the game.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 13 (35:03):
Peyton Manny gets a hold up the ball, and I'm
okay with those moments. I'm okay with the Ricky rest
in peace steals his base. They take a moment so
he can hold up the bag. I don't think any
player is objecting to that, right Do you think there's
anyone you think does anyone that's like the wall? That's
what the game's about. These are special moments, these are milestones.
(35:25):
These aren't things you see every day. So yeah, they
did the right thing by letting it breathe, let the
fans enjoy it. That's why they go to the games.
And you've watched this guy's whole career pan out when
he was a young man to an older man as
a single guy, to a married guy with kids, you know,
as a young, spry, handsome looking dude, to like a
guy who's sort of hobbling out there, trying year old,
(35:48):
a feared young cy young award winner to a like
you're right, a hobbling crafty veteran who is now you know,
kept kept the zero in the l column thanks to
Freddy Saved, who made that a perfect night for the
Dodgers fans. Perfect night. It's kind of gross that the
Dodgers had such a perfect which is why it's gonna
be perfect when the Mets beat him in seven in
the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
We'll see about that.
Speaker 13 (36:10):
So we'll take your observations at eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox and again, there's several layers to the story.
We're going to touch on it throughout the show throughout
the day, Covino and Richard for Dan Patrick, but Danny
g Any other final observations you want to touch on,
like what were you doing in that moment?
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Did you shed about though Tier? Maybe these are all
questions that need to be answered.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
I mean, Clay Kershaw has been Clayton has been one
of the favorite players of Dodger fans for years now,
so and of course to see him come back from
a couple of big time injuries and still be with
the team. And I think it's Rich who every time
the Dodgers give him a one year contractor Rich is like,
or maybe you, Cove, that's the best deal in baseball.
Speaker 13 (36:52):
Because he wanted, he got the hometown discount, he stayed,
and I thought it was always the best move.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Honestly, it was beautiful.
Speaker 6 (36:58):
You mentioned what a moment for everybody in attendance, how
about all the families and Dodger fans across the country.
And I'm sorry if you're a Dodger hater, I get
that too. But because Cove, I'm about to bring up
a bad memory for you, the World Series against your Yankees.
That was the last time my family was all gathered
together in the living room watching a Dodgers game so closely.
Last night, the whole family just glued to every moment
(37:22):
of that game on the TV and it was emotional.
As you know, lifelong Dodger fans, you don't get moments
like that too often.
Speaker 13 (37:29):
You've got to step out of the seat right, like
you got your standing up. I would imagine at some
point I stood up just here in the replay just now,
so amazing. I thought the inning before when he struck
out the last batter also was pretty you know, like
you said, care he was walking up the.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Mouth and everyone's and then we haven't even really touched
on I know it was against the White Sox, I know,
but we haven't touched on the fact that Freddie Freeman
waits to rope one there for the walk off.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
So what a night.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
And it has just been a beautiful season so far
for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
How do you think the Capra family feels today, el Vinny,
you had to be the guy? Oh wait, did disrespect
the family name?
Speaker 13 (38:12):
You know, I've always you and I have joked about
this that listen again, Vinnie Capra is the guy that's
struck down. There's dumb misconceptions in sports, like we're saying
how he wanted to do it at home? You know,
we say sometimes does a team want to lose on
the road so they could clinch at home? No one
wants to lose, And I get it in sports you
want to get the win when you can. But we've
(38:34):
seen it in sports all the time. When you win
a championship on the road, it's just not the same.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
And if he would have done that on the road, right,
it would have been a waste.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
I think what made me emotional was watching his kids
react to it, because now that I'm a new dad
for the first time, I have a little one on
my own, and I hope that someday he gets to watch,
you know, me helping your show blow up and do
big things. Seeing yeah, Senior Day accomplished something like that,
that is so cool.
Speaker 13 (39:02):
Any g did you pick up your overly sized little
boy and pointed to TV and they called him and they.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
See he was too busy running around with not one,
but two whiffleball bats and was hitting all of us
in our knee caps with the baseball bats.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
I thought he was doing fan bam running around his diaper.
Speaker 13 (39:21):
I did notice one thing that I was like, Oh,
that's what you went with, uh kid. One of his
kids was wearing that weak ass city connectors that you
guys have, really yeah, And I remember being.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Like, Okay, I thought that was cool and kids will
wear whatever.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
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fourth of July. So I hope everybody is safe out there.
People aren't even waiting till Fourth of July these days
to light off fireworks. I mean they were all over
the place in our neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (40:22):
Oh yeah, I was sleep brouh. I'm assuming they were fireworks,
but our neighbors maybe not.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Maybe it was a house maybe, Just like every year
we'rely are people not going to get it? You're not
a pyro expert, okay.
Speaker 9 (40:39):
And when you light a fuse and it starts to
creep up towards the firework that's about to explode, it's
a roll the dice and you just got to hope
that it doesn't tilt over or wind doesn't knock it over,
and then it's pointed right at you. But it just
feels like a less an ideal proposition to to want
(41:00):
to partake in.
Speaker 14 (41:01):
So I'm had a chest thumper on things. But I
have never ever touched the firework, ever lit one and
set one off, Never done it, not my entire life.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
Not proud of it.
Speaker 14 (41:15):
But yeah I have I've never smoked a cigarette and
I've never and I have never. I have never set
off a firework. No cigarette for me.
Speaker 9 (41:26):
But they used to do these, uh like you light
them and they would spin around on the ground like
these little fireworks spinners.
Speaker 14 (41:34):
Remember we had a dog that used to go and
try and eat them. Yeah, while they were on I
used a little you know, the little dips that that
you they were wrapped in the little white paper and
you throw me. Oh yeah, yes, and I've done that.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
It's about it.
Speaker 9 (41:49):
Those are fun to throw at people, right, But yeah,
like the dog would see a firework spitting on the
ground and go try and eat it, and then everyone's like, god,
dogs are so smart. Yeah, that's smart. Dogs of moron,
No wonder he didn't make it past eight.
Speaker 14 (42:06):
Technically, the dog is trying to save you, as you
know the people he loves, so he's trying to get
it and get it out of the way. It's you
that the dog is sitting there like these dumb mother efforts.
I gotta go get this joint before it blows up everybody,
So let me be the one that takes it for
the team. To me, that's that's kind of the line
(42:27):
of thinking.
Speaker 9 (42:28):
I get sure when I throw my dog a rib bone,
it's not lit on fire and spinning around in the circle.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
Dog's a moron. Was not going to eat it. Did
he eat it? He tried to.
Speaker 14 (42:39):
No, yes, he bite it, walk it off away from
the people, let it down, and then be done with
it with a burnt mouth. Cute you you because you
were not a considerate dog owner and your dog knew
that he was doing his duty or her duty, and
you set her.
Speaker 9 (42:57):
You set it up. You set the dog up. That
dog's an idiot. So and I hope help everybody, I
don't put that out. I'm gonna put that out. Don't
put that out, all right? So, uh, we are brought
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Speaker 4 (43:36):
We here we go. I don't want to go back.
Speaker 9 (43:42):
You hear me, I'm never going back your guy, Levara
Demorris Smith, the former NFL p A executive director. He's
got a book coming out called Turf Wars. Alright, so
the first that was Lamar, that was John Grutin. I'm
(44:06):
only quoting what John Rutin said. No, only quote do
but uh, Demores Smith has a new book out called
Turf Wars, and of course he does. Well, there's a
couple of interesting little tidbits from this book that have
(44:26):
already been released because this book is set to come
out in August.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
I believe.
Speaker 14 (44:30):
I mean you got to release the interesting tidbits to
sell the book, right, okay?
Speaker 9 (44:34):
And who would you who would you say you sell
a book? It would be the first name you'd want
to first name if I'm the more Smith and I
want to sell a book, would be Roger Goodell. I'm
talking about a player, if he was a player in
the NFL that you knew would get some headlines.
Speaker 4 (44:54):
If it was a.
Speaker 14 (44:54):
Player, I'm either I'm going with a quarterback and and
I mean the most I could say the easy decision
would be Tom Brady because that was during Tom Brady's time.
You could throw Peyton Manning out there, but the media
lightning rod has been Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
That is correct. That is correct. That is correct.
Speaker 9 (45:16):
Aaron Rodgers featured first in one of these little uh
from Demorre Smith's book quote, the God of cheesehead Nation
was isolated and dismissive. Smith writes regarding rogers demeanor during
a player meeting, he sat in the back row of
the meeting room, issuing loud size before standing for a
(45:37):
dramatic exit. An incredible quarterback, to be sure, but an
even more impressive antagonist. Smith also says this about Rogers quote.
In August twenty twenty one, my phone shirfed with a
text from Aaron Rodgers. Can you call me at red?
Could I not run into traffic instead? That from Demorris
(45:58):
Smith talking about Aaron Rodgers. And I see that, So
he doesn't he doesn't have any love for Aaron Rodgers.
Well I see that, and I go, so this is
the NFLPA executive director for one of and one of
one of your star players. And then you've got JC
Tretdor who reportedly threw Russell Wilson under the bus in
(46:21):
discussing Russell Wilson's contract negotiations, as that came out as
part of the collusion evidence and testimony that was discovered
a couple of weeks ago. And they wonder why they
lose every negotiation to the owners because the NFLPA can't
even get it together amongst themselves. You got the executive
director getting a call from one of the stars of
(46:44):
the league saying, can I walk into traffic instead?
Speaker 14 (46:46):
That's crazy? And as you're leading the players, yes, yes,
it's crazy man. J. C.
Speaker 9 (46:52):
Tredder, part of the NFLPA and calls Russell Wilson the
rhymes with woosey awartedly when the discussions of the negotiations
about Russell Wilson's attempt to get a guaranteed contract done
from Denver cam like, this is why you lose every
(47:13):
time to the owners because they're not on the same page.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Nobody's on the same page.
Speaker 14 (47:20):
It's a lot of moving parts when you have you know,
associations and unions and stuff like that. I mean, no
one is going to get what they want. I find
it more interesting that he chose to singularly pinpoint one
person in particular and chose to use that as as
(47:43):
a leaked line or a promoted line to go read
his book. That doesn't make me want to read his
book anymore. That doesn't make sa Morris Smith a more
interesting figure to want to learn or read about. I
don't I mean again, you're you're you're saying what the
can inclusion already is. So you're basically putting a book
out there that talks about how you failed the players.
Speaker 4 (48:06):
Is that what it's about?
Speaker 14 (48:07):
Maybe that should be the title if you put out
a title, I failed the players when I let the NFLPA.
If you want to put that narrative out there, people
will probably read it because they gonna want to know why.
Speaker 9 (48:19):
I can remember Mark Schlaire. This was back in I
think it was twenty seventeen. Demorris Smith was sort of
like making the rounds, telling everybody that there was going
to be some changes, things are going to be different
in the new CBA, and blah blah blah blah blah,
And I remember Mark Schlare just basically saying something along
the lines of yeah, okay, what are you going to
(48:41):
get for the players? Less padded practices, like what do
you what are you going to get for the players?
Because they've been hearing this song and dance for years.
And the reason why Rogers was pissed is because he
was one of the guys that was standing up and
pounding the table saying, dude, this deal doesn't work for us.
We're getting the shaft in this deal. And you've got
the guy who's supposed to be the executive director of
(49:04):
the NFLPA, who was making the rounds years in advance,
telling everybody how they were going to do the right
thing for the players, and a guy's calling you about
things and wanting to have conversations, and your eye rolling
him like what like this are you supposed to be
on the same side? And that that was part he
and then he talked about the collusion as well too.
(49:26):
This from Demor Smith's book turf Wars, which which Savar
would like to have edited, I Failed the Players. There
you go, turf Wars, the story about the story of
how I failed the player.
Speaker 4 (49:37):
Yes, that's so generic. Turf Wars story about I failed
you players.
Speaker 14 (49:42):
Talk about driving an unnecessary narrative home the hell.
Speaker 11 (49:50):
You do know?
Speaker 14 (49:50):
You are a black man, right, ab You can't just
be throwing stuff loosely out there like that. You gotta
be a little bit more strategic, won't you recommend people
love misdiagnosing things that that are put out there.
Speaker 9 (50:05):
No, he's not a gang banger that I know of.
He's not talking about Southeast So he's doing a signing
in Compton. Yeah, one Tuesday. He ain't throwing up the
Rolling Sixties side.
Speaker 14 (50:19):
I don't have the Turf Wars if you talking about problem,
but he got a problem. I'm from Chris Shaw Mafia
b the Turf Wars. I seen you in no battles by.
(50:40):
All I've said is like, bro, make it make sense
if you want people to read your book, make it
make sense that I've had one. I had one exchange
with with the Moors. I thought he was he was
a fine dude to talk to it, you know, good
hearted guy, super smart, super intelligent dude.
Speaker 4 (50:58):
Uh, but I thought he was in over his head.
Speaker 9 (51:01):
The official title here, Yeah, yeah, Turf Wars The Fight
for the Soul of America's Game.
Speaker 14 (51:10):
Yeah, that's a little dramatic. Man, Yeah, that's a tabbit dramatic.
Tabit dramatic.
Speaker 9 (51:17):
Now on the collusion case, this quote came out from
Demores Smith in his book. There were people inside our
building again, the former NFLPA executive director, there were people
inside our building who thought it was a waste of time.
But internally our office had evidence of collusion, including hearing
from multiple sources that the league and teams were discussing
(51:39):
their avoidance of fully guaranteed contracts. Sweet, it's nice to
know that people inside the NFLPA building thought it was
a waste of time.
Speaker 4 (51:49):
It's just am I crazy? This just makes it look
even worse now, just you know, you know what I'm
gonna say.
Speaker 14 (51:55):
I'm gonna say this because I think that this is
a widely spread corporate type of it could be prevalent
amongst amongst businesses. You build a company, the company has employees.
Employee culture is employee culture. Company culture is company culture.
(52:19):
When you get those employees and they make the amount
of money that they make. Generally speaking, very few people
make a tremendously amount of a lot of money and
what it is that they do, and some do make
really good livings regardless. If you're one that doesn't make
(52:40):
that much money, you're probably working and hoping that your consistency,
your availability, and your cooperation.
Speaker 4 (52:49):
Is going to lead to you making more. You elevate.
Speaker 14 (52:53):
If you're already elevated, you don't want to lose that space.
So more often than not, Like one thing I experienced,
and I understand it as an older person that does
business from the business side of things, not from the
talent side or the employee side of it, is that
in some cultures, and this existed in the NFLPA may
(53:13):
still exist in the NFLPA. When you hear somebody say
it's a waste of time, the reason why it's a
waste of time is not because you can't push to
get the things done that you want to get done,
get the things accomplished that you want to get accomplished.
It's that no one is willing to stick their neck
out to do it. Who's going to be the one
if it doesn't go through or it doesn't work, it's
something there's fallout from it, who's going to be the
(53:35):
one that pays the price for it? So when they
see it. When I hear somebody say this is a
waste of time to be here. It's because the people
that need to step up and be the catalyst for
it probably won't. The people who delegate it that should
have been the catalyst of stepping up to do it,
that delegate it to somebody else to do it. They're like,
why the hell are I gonna do it? Why would
I do it? Why would you want me to put
(53:56):
myself into the situation and try to push this forward
where that's not in my pay grade? And if I
do it and something goes wrong, I'm gonna lose my job.
More often than not, you'll find people some people just
don't even address that at all, like, ah, I'll get
to that next week. Then you get to next week,
something else comes up. I get to that next week.
(54:17):
The corporate culture that I saw at the nfl PA
is just a lot of like lip service.
Speaker 4 (54:22):
Man. There are very few dudes like Nolan Harrison. Good dude.
If he says he's gonna do something, he's gonna do that.
My man. Carl Carl, Uh, what's Carl's dang? I'm blanking
on Carl's last name. Carl Lewis, No, not Carl Lewis, Carl,
Carl Carl, Carl, Come on, Carl.
Speaker 14 (54:43):
Francis, Carl Carl Francis a long time dude at the NFLPA.
If he says he's gonna do it, he's going to
do it. If you don't talk to competent people about
the things that matter to you as a player. Chance
this is are you are getting the salesperson's pitch, which
(55:04):
is manage expectation, under promise with the chances the possibility,
although slight, the possibility that you will deliver, you will
over deliver. Manage expectations. And that's what the NFLPA has
always to me, that's what it's always represented. Manage the
expectation of the players. Make sure that you cause here's
(55:27):
the thing. Yes, while you have to have it by law,
they represent the player, they're going to have a job,
but it's not necessary for you to be here to
have the job. You are replaceable, you are expendable. And
so knowing that the job security that you have is
based upon trying to make everybody around you happy with
(55:51):
doing the least of what you can do, because that's
not going to ruffle any feathers or shake any boats anything.
Speaker 4 (55:58):
Like that, it is a very very very hard line to.
Speaker 14 (56:02):
Walk, especially if you are a top of the people
that are the decision makers for that union.
Speaker 4 (56:08):
So to me, it's it's like all lip service to me.
To begin with.
Speaker 14 (56:12):
If I were to read his book, I'd be like, Bro,
he's just sugarcoating everything. It's a sugarcoating of it. Because
if you were to really get into the deep down,
guts in the bows of what this stuff has really
been and truly has been exchanged conversation wise, you'd end
up like Gruden.
Speaker 4 (56:30):
You would end up like Gruden.
Speaker 9 (56:32):
Now, The New York Post did identify a couple of
other quotes from Demorris Smith's book on Roger Goodell. Damorris
Smith called Roger Goodell a cold, dark void. I mean
that sounds like my axe, to be honest with you.
But again, that's that's deamor Smith's book. I'm not here
to write his book, and I'm not here to edit
(56:54):
his book, but that is Deamorris Smith calling.
Speaker 4 (56:56):
Roger, of course, dark void.
Speaker 14 (56:58):
I gotta make sure I call out Andre Collins too,
by the way, a long time NFLPA representative.
Speaker 4 (57:05):
Within there are some really, really really fine guys that
are in there.
Speaker 14 (57:11):
There are some really really fine people that are smart,
that are able or willing, and I've never seen any
one of them elevated to being the one.
Speaker 4 (57:25):
That calls the shots. It's kind of weird.
Speaker 14 (57:29):
Like all the great names that I can think of
that are part of the NFLPA have been a part
of the NFLPA, none of them have ever. Troy Vinson
was a part of NFLPA before he transitioned over to
the NFL. I've never seen one of our most competent
players that really really believe in the you know, helping
and assisting our players, progressing them and pushing them forward.
(57:53):
I've never really seen Gene Upshaw. Gene Upshaw, and he
did a fairly good job. I won't. I don't have
two much bad to say. He made some mistakes, he
did some things that left the you know, people to
be desired, But Geneupshaw got an opportunity. I don't see
that happen very often. You don't see like, where did
the Morris Smith even come from? I don't even know
(58:16):
what I mean if you look it up. I mean,
I'm sure tell you the whole process, you know, all
that stuff, But where did they even come from?
Speaker 9 (58:22):
Man, let's guess I'll say Salt Lake City.
Speaker 4 (58:25):
You know he was a lawyer. I mean he lived
in d C.
Speaker 14 (58:28):
I mean, I'm gonna assume he's a lawyer, a powerful
lawyer from some type of you know, law firm.
Speaker 4 (58:35):
Boom boom boom.
Speaker 14 (58:36):
He understands labor laws really well and all that stuff.
My whole thing is, get get experts that understand labor laws.
Get get Why not follow the lead of other other sports.
The NBA, their union be kicking ass why not find
those people, find those experts, figure out how to take
(58:57):
the same type of approach and let layers run the unions. Uh,
qualified players run these unions.
Speaker 4 (59:04):
Leah Demorris Smith.
Speaker 9 (59:06):
Uh is he a parts unknown guy like the old
professional wrestling origin?
Speaker 15 (59:11):
Well, a little bit on his background, born and raised
in Washington, d C. He used to be uh a
litigation lawyer, a lawyer, litigation partner for the US attorney's a.
Speaker 14 (59:22):
Probably not a great win loss record there, Just just
I would have thought he would have been like a
you know, a labor a labor lawyer.
Speaker 9 (59:31):
But now Demorris Smith said this about Jerry Jones. This
is actually pretty funny. I said, Uh, if Jerry Jones
saw a dollar bill on the ground, I truly believe
he'd stop and pick it up, which is actually pretty funny.
Why well, because I can relate to that.
Speaker 14 (59:50):
I was about to say, if you saw a dollar
on the ground, you want to pick it up. You know,
it's great if I see a quarter on the ground,
if I see a pinion on the ground. My dad
mama taught me the value of a dollar and one
thing that might I used to tell my mom and dad, like,
I'm gonna be a millionaire one day. I'm gonna be
a millionaire one day. My dad be like, make a dollar.
Make a dollar, hey, buddy, make a dollar. Great to
(01:00:12):
have big dreams, make a dollar. I took that to
the bare minimum. If I see a penny on the ground,
you know how many pennies, Like there has to be
a penny, and every million dollars you make twenty million dollars,
Jerry Jones is worth a billion dollars, you gotta start
with a penny before you get to that billion.
Speaker 9 (01:00:30):
You know, my wife gave me a hard time because
we were getting We were at the car wash and
they have one of those fountains where you throw a
penny into the fountain and I put a snorkel on
my son and fed him into the fountain to go
sco get a change.
Speaker 4 (01:00:43):
And she's like, what are you doing? I was like,
what do you mean? These are easter eggs?
Speaker 9 (01:00:47):
I'm coming out of pocket for that.
Speaker 14 (01:00:48):
I mean, I don't know about it. I think that's
a little extreme. I'm not going to co sign you
on that. It's a little extreme.
Speaker 9 (01:00:54):
It's an idea for people who are looking to make
a few.
Speaker 4 (01:00:56):
Feel bad for Drew Man me too. How did he do?
That's great? He got like a dollar eighteen? That's great?
How long was he underwater?
Speaker 9 (01:01:09):
Was he?
Speaker 4 (01:01:11):
Was he splashing?
Speaker 15 (01:01:12):
Was he?
Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Like?
Speaker 14 (01:01:13):
How did he do?
Speaker 9 (01:01:14):
He's four and he doesn't know how to swim, so
that was a little trying to, you know, how to
hold his water, to hold his breath. I just kept
I kept reassuring him, like, hey, if you get at
least a dollar, the Lochness monster is not coming. So hopefully,
you cold bloody bro, everything works out all right. Well, listen,
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