April 22, 2022 • 38 mins
FOX Sports Radio hosts Jason Smith and Rob Parker are in for Dan Patrick, and the guys explain why they had no problem with the New York Yankees depriving Miguel Cabrera of a chance at getting his 3000th hit… even if it’s unlikely we’ll see another player hit that milestone again in our lifetime, debate whether or not the last few years of disappointment in Brooklyn have proven that Kevin Durant isn’t a great leader, and share their thoughts on a viral video coming out of the world of minor league baseball.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio. Hello, Welcome inside hour too the Dan Patrick
Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Jason Smith, Rob Parker
in for Dan and the Dan Nets today. It's been
a big first hour of the show so far. Look, Rob,
we got in our conversation a few minutes ago about
(00:21):
Mike Tyson, the new information coming out today, the potentially
the guy who was on his case that you know
sparked him punching him repeatedly, was the guy through a
water bottle at Tyson. And this is why Tyson turnaround
and started punching the guy. You were making your point
a few minutes ago. Finish what you talked about, because look,
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I get the fact that you know, Tyson's gotta know better,
obviously he does, and the fact that there was nobody
there with him. Usually celebrities have people around them, whether
your bodyguards or travel companions, to make sure people stay away.
This was completely avoidable, This whole thing was avoidable. Instead,
now it's this viral sensation. Exactly, you just gotta know better.
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You're you're a marked man because you're a public figure.
There's always some guy Joe Schmo who wants to take
on the former champ and I'm tough and and try
to bait you, and Mike Tyson's too old to fall
for that, and uh, just call security, call a flight attendants,
this guy is pastor and me, can you please move
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his seat? That's all you have to do. And that's
the end of the story. I don't even know that.
I wouldn't engage any conversation anything. If Mike Tyson called
over to the flight attendant and said, can you move
this guy's seat? What would they do, Jason? They move them?
Of course they would be easy. They would get him
a plane. And if the guy didn't comply, you would
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take the guy off the plane, call the police and
to take him off the plane. And tell this guy,
if you keep it up, you'll never you won't fly
jet Blue, or you won't fly anybody. You know, you're
your your privileges will be revoked to fly his country.
I mean, it's so simple. And instead violence is the way,
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the violence is not the way. I'm sorry, I'm not
I'm not going to sign on for me, you know.
And the thing is is that part of this new
information that's coming out the water bottle, there's a woman
who went on record saying that this guy was making
a nuisance of himself and in the airport, and he
was saying and she and she said these are her words, saying, oh,
grant to help. This drunk guy's not on our plane.
And so somehow, you know, that guy was known to
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the passengers about being someone who was was off and
was and was out and was being a nuisance. And
somehow he gets on the plane and he stays on
the plane. I mean really, I mean when he's standing
over Mike Tyson, he's yelling there's gotta be somebody there.
There's got a flight attendant there that Kaylee Colco has
to walk over and say, hey, come on man, I
worked for the FBI, now you know it's we gotta
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do something here, pointed out and said there's a male
caring there and sitting behind Mike Tyson. You know, I
always I think about this story because a couple of
years ago I was flying out of Lax, this just
before the pandemic, and you know, it's a big you know,
Lax is a big airport, and my wife and I
and daughter are sitting at you know, in seats just
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right outside our gate. Right you're like just right outside
the gate, and I sit down, and you know, I'm talking.
Everybody sitting on my left and I looked to my
right and sitting in this seat right next to me,
I mean directly next to me, like like like six
inches away. I look. I go, oh, my god. I
look at my wife, and I go, that's Jodie Foster.
Jodie Foster is just sitting next to me, waiting for
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her plane wherever wherever she was going. I think she's
going to Utah or somewhere, and she's just sitting there.
I'm going, I'm just blown away, going, how is Jodie
Foster sitting next to me? How? I mean like, there's
a place for celebrities in airports. There's always some kind
of place they go where I'm waiting for a plane,
so I don't wind up getting mobbed in public and
people walk over and could start talking to me or
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cause conversations or cause any kind of controversy. And she
just sat next to me waiting for a plane the
whole time, and I'm like, this is unbelievable. And I'm
here in my shiny met jacket and I'm going, oh,
I just want to get a picture with me and
my mets jackets next to Jodie Foster. It's kind of cool.
But for like a half hour she sat there and
I'm going, I can't believe people aren't coming up to
her and saying something to her and trying and going, hey,
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that's Jodie Foster. It's Jodie Foster. And you know, from
that moment, I just thinking she's got to be someplace else.
There's gotta be people with her that that are like, hey,
you know, please, you know, keep your distance here a
little bit, because yeah, look, I get it that that
that that's kind of a part of the life of
celebrities where when they travel and do things, they lose
a lot of privacy, and you want to keep as
much privacy as you can. Well you do in those situations,
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especially when you're rubbing elbows with the public, but I
just think you got to avoid at all costs having
some sort of incident or situation. And you know where
a guy can say I never touched him, or you know,
there's always somebody who can just make the case that yeah,
I was talking to him, but I didn't think I
was a problem. I didn't think I deserved to be punched.
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I never threw a water bottle, whatever it is. And
now you've got a case that's gonna cost you money
when you could have avoided it. So, uh, you know,
I think at some point you just gotta, you know,
remove yourself from a situation that could go viral and
could wind up costing you money over nothing, you know
what I mean. So of course it is that he's
gonna be he's gonna send that That guy's gonna get
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what half a million, a million dollars from Tyson, He's
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we mentioned this a few minutes ago. Today we could
see absolute history in Major League Baseball as mcguel Cabrera
could get hit number three thousand. Now, we potentially could
have saw it yesterday, except Aaron Boot and the Yankees
saw things differently with runners at set in third the
Yankees are trying to stay in the game, down one nothing,
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Miguel Cabrera coming up for what's going to be a
final at bad of the game, and the Yankees decide, Hey,
the baseball strategy we want is what we would do
in this situation. Every single time, We're gonna put him
on first base. That doesn't mean it went over well
in Detroit. Take a listen, they wouldn't dare walking. There'd
be there'd be a riot. They can't. I think by rule,
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somebody's going for their three thousand hit in first base
is open? You are not allowed to walk? That better
they are not. No, they are all. Man, if you're
the manage the Yankees, what are you going to do? Okay? Sure, wow,
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want a decision now? Good luck Yankees getting on your
team bus and getting out of here. Oh man, yeah,
we're showing up at that team bus and we're gonna
give you a piece of our minds. And Jason, that
was Dan Dickerson who does the play by play. Jim
Price is the color man, and that audio courtesy of
ninety seven one the ticket in Detroit. What would you
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your first reaction to its? Look, I get the emotion,
I completely understand. Right, if I bought a ticket to
that game, I want to see Miguel Cabrera's three thousand hit.
If I want to see it against the Yankees, of
course I do. But I completely understand what happened in
the game. I'm surprised as controversial as it is, because
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this is what any team would do. It's a one
nothing game. It's the late innings there, second and third,
you want to set up the force at Homer a
double play. Of course, you walk Mcguel Cabrera. It's not popular,
but it's it's it's how you it's how you do it.
Aaron Boone would have been a boss if he decided
screw it, I'm gonna pitch to him. Why not give
the fans something? But he's trying to win a game.
If it was a six one game or an eight
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to two game, maybe a pitch to him. But that's
what any team would do. Aaron Boone's trying to win
the game, right, That's what he's trying to do at
that point. So I got no issue with him. I
get that people were upset, but that to me, that
didn't even seem to be a question. Okay, he's getting walked.
He's got three games at America this weekend to get
hit number three thousand in front of the hometown. But
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here it is, and we want to hear from you
guys eight seven to seven ninety nine on Fox, because
fans think differently. I know you're a fan, Jason, and
you love the mats and whatnot, but fans look at
it differently. They feel like they got cheated, and we
want to know if you feel that way, if you're
a fan. But Aaron Boone is trying to win games.
It's a one nothing game. The best hitter in their
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lineup is coming up with runners on second and third
and two outs. You don't pitch to Miguel Cabrera in
that situation, and for all the fans will say, oh,
it ain't fair. And Yankee didn't give him a chance.
He was over for three coming up to that at bat.
So he had three chances, Jason earlier in the game
to get hit number three thousand. It's not like they
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walked him all four times. Now maybe I would say, okay,
like that stinks. And here's the other part you just
said it. They're not going on the road. Now he's
got a chance to do it at Comerica Park, people
could pack out the stadium and be able to view it.
Last year, when he was going forwards five hundred home run,
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he couldn't do it in America and then wound up
doing it in Toronto, And you talked about these numbers.
Three thousand hits, five hundred home runs are major milestones.
And I get why somebody would want to be in attendance,
you know, to see their favorite player or hometown player
do it. But let's not lose sight. And it's funny
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because the night before when he didn't get it, and
he had three hits in the game the night before,
he even was quoted as saying, you know, blanket, no
big deal. I don't care about personal individual stats. We
lost the game and that's what I care about, you know,
Like he was pooh poohing the whole idea of him,
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you know, getting it, even though I know it's a
big deal for him. But I'm saying he was talking
about he was upset because the Tigers lost a game.
And in this case, if you're the Yankees, you're not
trying to pacify Detroit Tigers fans. What are you trying
to do Jason win a game and one nothing is
where you want to try to keep the game going
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into because that was the eighth thinn and going into
the ninth. Yeah, look, the whole answer of of I
don't care, I mean, look, he's done a lot of losing,
all right. The Tigers have lost a lot of games
the last day. There's been a long time since the
heyday of the of the h two, ten, eleven, and twelve.
So I feel like he's given the answer that he
should give, oh, I care, when his real answer would be, oh, man,
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I wanted to get it. Man, I'm sure, of course
it's okay to say you want to get to three thousand,
rob You and I, I mean the two things we
may never see again in our lifetime. A guy with
three thousand hits and a guy get to three hundred wins.
We may we may not see that again in our
lifetimes when usually three wins. I think there are players
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who will get three thousand hits. Really, rob we maybe
twenty years away from that, right Like Robinson Canoe needs
another three hundred hits and he can't even get in
the lineup with the Mets right now. His career might
be over he's thirty nine. You know, there's there's a
couple of other guys that that are that you think, Oh,
what about Mike Trout. Mike Trout's over thirty, He's got
fourteen hundred hits, right, like, like we we may not
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see that again. Like maybe a guy like Fernando Tatis
if he winds up staying healthy. I mean, that's like
twenty years away. But I agree with you on three
hundred wins. I mean that may be something we just
never see again, you know because outside of like look,
Verlanders got like two twenty seven, but he's thirty nine.
He's not getting Yeah, no, he's not getting there. And
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Scherzer and Kershawn need like six more years of eighteen
wins each. And then it's I mean, nobody, nobody's pitching
long enough. We're never going back to guys starting and
and and you know, a four man rotation or guy's
pitch into the eighth inning. It's never happening again. That
that that's something that's never going to come back to baseball,
That that's gone, the era of specialization for pitchers and bullpen.
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I mean, like we may not see those things. I
want to hope that we can get to and I
would think that if there's one we could see over
the other, three thousand hits is clearly more attainable. But
I don't know, man. I mean, the next guy for
three thousand hits may have not even started as a
major League baseball career. Yet you and I are going
to be retired by the next time a guy gets
a three thousand hits. Yeah, I mean it is one
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of those moments, and only thirty three when when Miggie
does it, it'll he'll only be the thirty third and
only seven guys have the five hundred home runs and
three thousand hits, which is incredible. Uh, you know, milestone
for for Miguel Cabra. We remember the kid coming up
with the Marlins. You remember helping him win a World
Series in two thousand and three, and here we are.
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But I think fans sometimes get caught up in a
moment though the goal is still about winning. I mean,
you just can't throw caution to the win and pitch
to their best hitter in that situation and say, oh,
we don't care. Yeah, let's see, let's see if Miggie
can get his three dollars. Wouldn't that be great for
us to give up his three thousand hits. I don't
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think that other teams look at it that way. No,
they didn't. And look, you are walking Miguel Cabrera to
get to Austin Meadows, who, oh, by the way, is
a pretty good player. I mean, this is a guy
that's pretty good. Last year he was twenty seven and
one and one oh six. The guy can hit. So
you you it's so you know that it was a
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strategy of all right, this is the right baseball strategy.
We're gonna walk Cabrera because we gotta get to you know,
and look, Meadows is a great hitter and he was
a big pickup for them in the off season. But
we're kind of going frying pan to fire. But but
that's how it works in baseball. You know. I don't
know if it would be that big a deal if
it wasn't the Yankees, right like, because it's the Yankees,
and everybody is generated to hate the Yankees already. Anytime
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the Yankees do something, it's, oh, I can't stand the
Like anytime you see a political headline, people are just
ready to go crazy about it, right like if a
Republican says something. People ready to go crazy if Democrat
says something, half people ready to go crazy when the Yankees. Oh,
I read the Yankees. It's all the Yankees fault. I
can't stand the Yankees. Everyone's to jump up and down
them because it's the Yankees. If it was the Rockies,
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who is you know are coming into town this weekend, Yeah,
fans to be upset, but it wouldn't be a thing.
But it's the Yankees. No, we won't way out of proportion, no,
no doubt. And Aaron Boone said, I know it wouldn't
be popular. And Tiger fans that give him credit. I mean,
if you want to say Yankee chant, Yankees suck as
the game is over and all that, I get that.
I think that that's great theater. That's what fans. You know,
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the word fan is derived from the word fanatic, so
that's the way fans should act. But anybody who really
believes like Aaron Boone did a disservice to the game
of baseball or like this was like, how dare them
cheat the fans? I think then you're misguided as to
what's going on here. And that's the difference between organizations
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that try to win and organizations that try to play
Kate fans or do stuff for show. I mean, I
don't know one manager who would have thought that was
good to pitch to Miguel Cabrera in that spot. I
think it was common sense. Eight seven, seven ninety nine.
Fox is the number. So for Cabrera, now you talked
about everything he's done. Is he the best power hitter
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you've ever seen. He's one of the best right handed
hitters I've ever seen. And I, as you know, worked
in Detroit for twenty years and saw most of his
career there, and he's tremendous. And the thing is not
just the power, but look at his batting average a
career three hundred hitter shortness. His swing goes the other
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way for singles, not just trying to clear the yard.
I mean, he hits for doubles. I mean he's been
a tremendous player. Obviously been injured the last few years
and not close to where he was in his heyday.
And you talked about those years when the Tigers were
perennial playoff bound team and have a chance. I mean
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they should have won a World Series. They once had
a team with three Cy Young Award winners who have
won all the three previous cy Youngs and Justin Verlander,
David Price and Max Scherzer. Can you imagine that all
three of them had won the previous three cy Youngs
and they were all on the same staff and guess
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what happened? They got swept by the Baltimore Orioles in
the playoffs in three games. We'll go back even further.
Didn't you cover Al Kaylin's three thousand hit the tiers
that I was not at that one because there's only
two Tigers who have three thousand hits, Ty Cobbin Al
kay Lin. So this is a big deal. I understand it.
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I know people are happy that it's going to be
in Detroit and he's not going on a road trip.
He just needs a hit and it's all over. But
it is a milestone, and I get why fans are
excited about it. But to boo the Yankees and be
met at Aaron Boone, I think is misguided eight seven
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Se Jason Smith, Rob Parker in for Dan and the
Dan Nets. Hey got your thoughts on Miguel Cabrera coming up.
But also we dive back into the night that was
in the NBA playoffs. Can we stick a fork in
the nets? Oh? Rob Parker says, maybe not. I say yes,
maybe not. That's next right here, Fox Sports Radio. Be
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sure to catch the live edition of The Dan Patrick
Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio wapp. The nets are
just and they've been a mess. The nets have never
figured it out. And I feel like I keep falling
for the banana in the tailpipe of the nets, the
nets and nets, and then something always happens since the
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nets can't get going, and and and it's look a red.
Whether it's more focused needed on basketball, whether it's here's
a look because you can't just count on the two
guys every single night, right, you need a little bit
seventeen and the second half. Do you expect to ever
see that again in a basketball game? Come? I didn't
expect to see it after the first game. After the
first game, I see Kevin, Kevin Durant's not gonna have
another game like that. I said the first game, I said,
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Katie's not gonna have another game like that, the Nets
can backdoor sweep this series. And what happened. Kevin Durant
had another game like that. It was but four out
of seventeen was just just as bad. You know had
so you know, yeah, he can continue to have these games.
Something just happens with the Nets. Rob, Now that you
know Steve Nash's coaching has been in question, when when
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we've seen Katie and Kyrie save the Nets just a mess.
Are they ever gonna really put it together enough to
be a big threat? They can do it and win
a series here and there, Boy, look at the Nets
sideball and you know, after game one it was Kyrie
and his middle finger, and something else comes up and
Kyrie has a bad game as well in game two.
It just happens. I can't trust the Nets. It's too unreliable.
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It's like betting on it. I disagree. I think you
have two guys who have proven that they are big
time players in big moments, greatest shots to close a
remarkable three to one comeback in the NBA Finals which
had never been done, to back MVPs on Steph Curry's team,
as people want to say, but he was the best
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player on the court, there was no doubt about it.
And the Nets. I'll give you this. All the injuries
and all the other things that have really Durrand. Kevin
Durant can't stay healthy. We saw with Kyrie Harden got
hurt last year. Last year, Kevin Durant almost beat the
Milwaukee Bucks by himself. If his foot wasn't on the line,
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the Bucks wouldn't even got out of that series against
the Nets. And Kyrie was hurt and a hobbled hardened,
so to act as if that didn't have up in
a year ago. And I'll give you he's having a
bad series so far. But to say you can't trust
those guys, don't. I don't believe that. I think they're
two of the most skilled offensive players we've ever seen.
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I do believe that they can come back and win
this series if they win Game three. Obviously they can't
get down three zo because your margin of error would
become too small. But I do believe it's doable, And
until they lose in Brooklyn, I'll be ready to I'm
not gonna be ready to write them off because I've
seen people prematurely. I remember last year in the finals,
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everybody was crowning Chris Paul. Do you remember that, that
dialogue and that narrative when they were up to all, Oh,
Chris Paul is the third best point guard in the
history of the NBA. And then that went out and
Devin Booker's the next Kobe Bryant. Remember that when they
were up to all and everybody thought the Sons were
gonna win, and yet you trust, you know, people trust
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the Sons even though they choked that and NBA Finals
a year ago. So I just think there's a dialogue
about kywe and about KD that's unjust when these guys
have won championships in the past and have made big
plays and had big moments. And it is this the
best start of a playoff series? Absolutely not. Is it
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a tough road for the Nets, Absolutely because they're the
eighth seed or seventh seed playing a very good Boston
team that won two games at home. That's what Boston did.
So I'm not in that camp yet. Rob Kevin Durant
is not a leader. Okay, as great as he is,
he's not a leader. And you're seeing how much he
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has struggled when he's been the face of the franchise.
Now with the nets, right, so he struggles there. Still
on the court, Kevin Durant is terrific. Now he's had
two really bad games, and you wonder is he hitting
the wall for this season? He's thirty three, you know.
The injury comeback now has been a year and a half.
Kyrie Irving is a guy that's skipped a game once
because he wanted to be on a zoom for somebody
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running for mayor for New York City. Right. He missed
half the games this year because of the vaccination issue,
and no matter what happened, they couldn't it couldn't be
resolved until the Mets and the Yankees seasons were at stake,
because so we have to change. We have to change
it so everybody can play. And then Kyrie comes to play.
I don't know what motivates Kyrie Irving every single day, right,
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his whole thing with the middle fingers, right, And everybody
wanted to go crazy about that. Look at Kyrie Irving
and and and all, what a bad guy Kyrie is
and what's he doing? And this is it didn't affect
him on the court at all. He had a phenomenal
game one, right, that's just a day for him. That's
what we think about is something huge for Kyrie Irving
is how he's feeling in that moment and how he
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feels for for how I'm going to act right now.
He wasn't doing it in Game two. He wasn't sprinkling
sage on the court. He was back and he had
a bad game. He's so unpredictable with motivates him. Trying
to figure him out is a lost cause. But that's
the thing, trying to figure out what motivates a guy.
I can't bank on that guy in the playoffs. I
can't bank on him for he's gonna show up every
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night and be motivated. I mean to say that Kevin Durant,
everybody leads differently. Kevin Durant is a guy who leads
by example, and the Warriors wouldn't have those two championships
without Kevin Durant. No Kevin Durant to act like go
to discount Kevin k D as if oh he's not
a leader because he hasn't led the nets. I mean,
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you're totally disregarding what's happened with the nets and injuries.
Nobody can lead a mass unit where where Kywee k
D and Harden played like a total of seventeen games
because of injury. So you make it like he can't lead,
He can't lead, can't lead a mass unit. Yes, they
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never so far since they've been in Brooklyn, they've never
been whole. And then they go out and get Ben
Simmons and he has a back issue and hasn't been
able to play. So I think it's un fair to
paint him as he can't lead when when he's never
had a whole team, he's never been complete. It's it's
easier to win when when you have all the pieces.
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It's tough when when pieces are in and out. And
I think that's where the nets are. When you look
at what's happened there. It's not about leadership, it's about manpower.
It's about having the right pieces in place. That's why
the net, this whole nets thing has been Durand his
first year in Brooklyn, he was still coming off his injury,
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didn't even play. Kyrie got hurt. Uh and that team
still somehow made the playoffs that year. And and all
I'm gonna say, I'm not making excuses. These are facts.
The facts remain is that they have never been whole
and I think it's unfair to say Kevin Durant can't lead,
can't lead? What you mean to tell me? Yet a
great roster put together and they failed. Show me that situation,
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and then maybe I'll buy into it. But then Nets
have been bits and pieces and have never been wholed
the whole time he's been in Brooklyn. Yeah, got him,
Matthew Stafford not leaders? Oh sorry, Uh, look, he didn't
have to do any leading in Golden State and he
left after three years because he couldn't take it anymore.
And now here's Golden State or getting back and and
and they're a better team than they were, and they're
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better than the Nets. He shows up better than when
they had Kevin. He got the Big three. But no,
but they're better. They're better than the Nets than when
they had Vin. But they're better than Are they better
than the nets? Are they better than nets? Right now? Yes? Oh?
I mean if the Warriors aren't better than the Nets,
are you a completely healthy Okay, that's a completely healthy No,
(26:40):
Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant shows up in New Jersey, in Brooklyn,
and what happens? They can't keep the Big three together? Why?
Because he couldn't get along with James Harden, right, what happened?
What happened? What happened? He asked, Listen, Okay, I know
you're tough, but they couldn't get along with them. Can
you acknowledge that they had injuries? Kyrie Irving? Kyrie Irving
miss games, not I'm asking you abust the end, didn't
(27:01):
want to get vaccinated. That's not it. We're talking about
this season and where he's at talking about right now.
James Harden was healthy and kywe you're telling me they
wouldn't have gone to the finals last year. You had
to chieve that. Wait, you can't just say Kevin duran
you wait wait, wait, wait, wait God, you can't just
tell me, ay, if Kevin Durant puts his foot back
on the line, they wind up winning. But now it's
(27:21):
not his because what I'm saying, I mean, at least
be honest that they they did. You watch the first
two games of the series against the Bucks last year.
They played. Look, they were play, they were up, they
were they were up two oh, just like Boston's up
two oh on them. They blew the Bucks out of
the water and won by thirty five points. In Game two,
(27:43):
in Brooklyn, and they didn't win the series because they
had injuries. Kyrie got hurt in Game three, Harden got
hurt in the first fifty seconds of Game one. These
are facts. Okay you're talking. You're talking about last year
and we're talking about the series now against the Celtics
and not being able to trust the nets. That's where
(28:03):
that happened last year. Yeah, if another guy doesn't get
injured yet, maybe they win. But as you just said,
if Kad steps back, you know, another six inches, they
win that series. So how much did they really need
the guys to win the series? If Katie takes one
step back and they win the series. So it can't
be that big a deal. And when it comes to
this year, they had the big three and they couldn't
(28:26):
stay together, right, They couldn't stated because Harden and Katie
couldn't get along. We saw all the all the talk
after Katie didn't like Harden didn't come in in shape.
They never meshed. So now the big move they make
doesn't work right now that they done, so they bring
in Ben Simmons, and now Ben Simmons is a guy
that hasn't played and so now it's Katie and Kyrie
have to make it work. And Kyrie doesn't want to
play because of the vac's mandate, so now it's up
(28:47):
to Kevin Durrett and now here they are. It's always something.
It's it's not like there's any time or I could say, boy,
it was smooth. It gets smooth for two games at
a time, where boy, the Nets win two games by
thirty five and you go, man, the Nets are great.
Oh they're gonna be great, and then then they lose
three in a row and something happens and Kyrie sits
out or kad is. It's always something. It's not like
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there is any smooth sailing. It's never worked for Kevin
Durant and Kyrie irving here with the Nets. I look,
I bought in after game one. I thought it's not
gonna happen. Now you gotta see. You see the Nets
for who they are, and there they just for all
different reasons, have not put it together. And Kadie's the
one constant through all of it. Couldn't disagree with you more,
(29:29):
but hey, it is what it is. I just think
it's an unfair representation of k D and the ability
that he has and the type of player he's been
in his entire career. And I think that you'll you'll
eat these words. Eventually. It might not be this season,
but when they finally get become whole, they will win
(29:49):
a championship in Brooklyn, and you'll be wrong about this.
And we'll hold this tape and we'll play this on
your show, the Jason Smith Show, and all your listeners
will say, hand, Jason was so wrong on the damn Patrick.
When is this magical, mystical day of the Nets winning
the title gonna happen? When it? When it tell me
when that's gonna happen. I want to write that this
(30:09):
season or next season. I want to write this season
on next season? And how and how do I get
no reaction on the Matt Stafford from you? How? How
do I get no reaction on doesn't matter I made.
He threw a pitch to the forty nine ers that
they dropped. He was right on que and and it
could have been something totally different, and he got I
don't know magic juice worked or whatever, the Malcolm powder
(30:33):
or whatever he spread on himself before the game. And
somehow a guy gets thrown a game changing interception and
he dropped it Twitter and help Out of FRESK and
Rob Parker and Ron Parker FS one. You know, I
think you could do this. You could sell takes for
a living to people about Okay, I want to say
(30:53):
something really bad about a dynasty or a team that wins. Jack,
I got it for you. I got it, I got it,
I got it, I got it. He did it for
the Warriors earlier in the show. You got Brady, you
got Stafford to you could make so much money at that,
so much cash. Hey, whatever works. I'm always going to
call it the way I see it. And Rob Parker,
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it really takes something for a junior college baseball game
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to gain the headlines at it has a last couple
of days. But this video of the pitcher who tackled
the guy who hit a home run as he was
rounding third base as a story that just won't quit.
The pitcher who tackled the hitter, Owen Woodward, was the
team following a four game suspension he got for starting
a brawl. He gave up a home run in the
(32:22):
sixth inning of a game, and as the hitter was
rounding third he throws his glove down run out and
gives him a big flying tackle, starts a big brawl.
A lot of players got kicked out. There are a
lot of suspensions for this game. And you know, Rob,
you know, Jason Stark always has a great thing. He says,
you know, longtime baseball writer, and he says, you know,
baseball has been played for one hundred and fifty years,
(32:44):
and there's still so many times every year you say, boy,
I've never seen that before. And this is one of
those moments where I've seen brawls I've seen guys getting
upset and starting fights different reasons. I've never seen a
pitcher run and tackle a guy as he's rounding third
base heading home after hitting a home run. Yeah, the
most ridiculous video. I was glad he was thrown off
(33:05):
the team. He should never be able to play organized
baseball again on any team. That is totally uncalled for.
I mean, Jason, you just said it. You never saw
anything like that to do that, get the guy out
rather than being mad and to tackle a guy like that,
and the umpires did the right thing. The game was
called and and I was glad to hear that the
(33:28):
JUCO kicked him off the team because you can't. You
can't have behavior like that. That is just not even
close to being part of baseball. To open field tackle
the guys he rounds third after hitting a game basically
a game winning home run. Uh. Terrible, just a terrible example.
(33:49):
And that guy deserves to be dragged through the mud
by everybody because there's no place for that. He should
play football because that was a pretty good tackle. I
mean he won a football team. Play baseball again. I'll
tell you that. Yeah, no, no, no, you can't. There's
certain things like, you can't do that, you can't just
run and I can't believe nobody warned the guy, like,
and there was no hey wire. One of the umpires
(34:12):
did kind of see him heading towards third and he
threw his glove down. If you watched the video, so
it wasn't like you there was no play to back
up on third for a relay throw or something. So
where's where's the pitcher going? And if you watched the video, wait,
those his glove down, It was just I guess he snapped.
I haven't heard from that. We heard from the kid. No,
(34:35):
that everything we've gotten so far has been all privacy,
privacy laws and and we can't say and it could,
but that that to me tells me, all right, something
even worse happened that resulted in this, because is this
kid really wound that tight that he just decides as
he's rounding third base, I'm throwing my glove down to
go tackle the guy. Like was it a slow burn?
(34:56):
Look like he gave up the home run? He's walking
back and then a snapped decision. He throws the glove
down and runs. And the reason the batter got suspended
is because supposedly he was taunting. I'm like, I didn't
see taunting, so something had to I mean, he had
a game winning home run, he's running around unless he
said something or whatever, I didn't see it. I saw
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the guy just jogging around the bases. And I don't
think he deserved that. I don't think anybody. Oh no,
nobody deserves it. But there's there's a part of this
story that we're not being told right, Like I could
always tell in stories where oh, we're kind of getting
you know, seventy five percent of the story because to
see the the the secrecy behind what was said, what
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the motivations were, why the pitcher tackled the guy and
the batter getting a suspension because of taunting when I
didn't see any taunting. You know, he hit a home run,
he's rounding the basses and suddenly the guy goes and
tackles him. Uh, there's something we're not being told about this.
It doesn't doesn't mean that you can act that way.
And yes, I agree the guy shouldn't be allowed to play,
but you can't. You can't have that he could have
really injured the guy. I mean, it's a flying tackle
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to a to an indefensable to an indefense player, and
he's not expecting that. On a football field, you might
be expecting to get hit to for something of that ilk.
I mean, the only thing worse would it would have
been if he grabbed a bat and hit him over
the head. I mean, don't give anybody ideas, rob, I mean,
we've we've seen that in the major leagues. I mean, yeah,
(36:22):
that was a long long time ago. But yeah, but
you know what I mean, like like like there's nothing
worse than what we saw. That was just for people
to see that and try to figure out what was
that about. The kid obviously had some other issues that
are going on. Because many guys have Hitten have hit
home two run home runs or home runs to win
(36:42):
the game, Jason, and we've never seen that. Well, it
wasn't even a winning home run. It was a home
run in the sixth inning. You know. It was like, Okay,
they took the lead late. It wasn't it wasn't the
game ended and it's walk off or so. It's just
it was a home run where they they took the
lead in the game, you know, So it wasn't like
a game winning walk off. Guys are running out and
they're screaming at the picture and you suck and all
(37:03):
of this stuff. It was just it was okay, yeah,
guy at a home run on the top of the
sixth that there's still, you know, game to be played.
You know, if it was a it was a more
dramatic situation. I can see where things get heightened, but
but this was this is okay, guy hit a home
run and he's rounding the basis. It's I really, it's
it's it's stunning to see. Everybody I know asked it,
(37:26):
asked me about this, right, But more people ask me
about this video than than than about the NBA playoffs. Hey,
did you see that video? Do you see that? Videos base? Like, yeah,
what do you think of Like, what do you think
the guy shouldn't I shouldn't have done it. I want
the next thing, you know, is there will be some
Yahoo football coach who will recruit this kid and he'll
be on the football I guarantee you, I guarantee you,
(37:48):
chicken wings that that'll be the next story about this kid. Oh,
is that the next bet? You want to bet chicken
wings on that? I'll bet chicken wings on that. Way,
you okay, he'll wind up on some football team. All right,
what bye? When? By when? Because I want to be
able to call these chicken wings by next football season.
How's that? Okay? All right? Very good? Well do you
want to bet Jordan's on it? You bet Jordan's now, No,
we're betting wings being okay, Twitter and a lesson on
(38:13):
to Jordan's bet Jason Smith. Rob Parker coming up next,
speaking to Jordan. We got a big story out of
the NBA. This is Fox
You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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in for Dan and the Dan Nets today. It's been
a big first hour of the show so far. Look, Rob,
we got in our conversation a few minutes ago about
(00:21):
Mike Tyson, the new information coming out today, the potentially
the guy who was on his case that you know
sparked him punching him repeatedly, was the guy through a
water bottle at Tyson. And this is why Tyson turnaround
and started punching the guy. You were making your point
a few minutes ago. Finish what you talked about, because look,
(00:42):
I get the fact that you know, Tyson's gotta know better,
obviously he does, and the fact that there was nobody
there with him. Usually celebrities have people around them, whether
your bodyguards or travel companions, to make sure people stay away.
This was completely avoidable, This whole thing was avoidable. Instead,
now it's this viral sensation. Exactly, you just gotta know better.
(01:05):
You're you're a marked man because you're a public figure.
There's always some guy Joe Schmo who wants to take
on the former champ and I'm tough and and try
to bait you, and Mike Tyson's too old to fall
for that, and uh, just call security, call a flight attendants,
this guy is pastor and me, can you please move
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his seat? That's all you have to do. And that's
the end of the story. I don't even know that.
I wouldn't engage any conversation anything. If Mike Tyson called
over to the flight attendant and said, can you move
this guy's seat? What would they do, Jason? They move them?
Of course they would be easy. They would get him
a plane. And if the guy didn't comply, you would
(01:46):
take the guy off the plane, call the police and
to take him off the plane. And tell this guy,
if you keep it up, you'll never you won't fly
jet Blue, or you won't fly anybody. You know, you're
your your privileges will be revoked to fly his country.
I mean, it's so simple. And instead violence is the way,
(02:06):
the violence is not the way. I'm sorry, I'm not
I'm not going to sign on for me, you know.
And the thing is is that part of this new
information that's coming out the water bottle, there's a woman
who went on record saying that this guy was making
a nuisance of himself and in the airport, and he
was saying and she and she said these are her words, saying, oh,
grant to help. This drunk guy's not on our plane.
And so somehow, you know, that guy was known to
(02:27):
the passengers about being someone who was was off and
was and was out and was being a nuisance. And
somehow he gets on the plane and he stays on
the plane. I mean really, I mean when he's standing
over Mike Tyson, he's yelling there's gotta be somebody there.
There's got a flight attendant there that Kaylee Colco has
to walk over and say, hey, come on man, I
worked for the FBI, now you know it's we gotta
(02:48):
do something here, pointed out and said there's a male
caring there and sitting behind Mike Tyson. You know, I
always I think about this story because a couple of
years ago I was flying out of Lax, this just
before the pandemic, and you know, it's a big you know,
Lax is a big airport, and my wife and I
and daughter are sitting at you know, in seats just
(03:09):
right outside our gate. Right you're like just right outside
the gate, and I sit down, and you know, I'm talking.
Everybody sitting on my left and I looked to my
right and sitting in this seat right next to me,
I mean directly next to me, like like like six
inches away. I look. I go, oh, my god. I
look at my wife, and I go, that's Jodie Foster.
Jodie Foster is just sitting next to me, waiting for
(03:29):
her plane wherever wherever she was going. I think she's
going to Utah or somewhere, and she's just sitting there.
I'm going, I'm just blown away, going, how is Jodie
Foster sitting next to me? How? I mean like, there's
a place for celebrities in airports. There's always some kind
of place they go where I'm waiting for a plane,
so I don't wind up getting mobbed in public and
people walk over and could start talking to me or
(03:51):
cause conversations or cause any kind of controversy. And she
just sat next to me waiting for a plane the
whole time, and I'm like, this is unbelievable. And I'm
here in my shiny met jacket and I'm going, oh,
I just want to get a picture with me and
my mets jackets next to Jodie Foster. It's kind of cool.
But for like a half hour she sat there and
I'm going, I can't believe people aren't coming up to
her and saying something to her and trying and going, hey,
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that's Jodie Foster. It's Jodie Foster. And you know, from
that moment, I just thinking she's got to be someplace else.
There's gotta be people with her that that are like, hey,
you know, please, you know, keep your distance here a
little bit, because yeah, look, I get it that that
that that's kind of a part of the life of
celebrities where when they travel and do things, they lose
a lot of privacy, and you want to keep as
much privacy as you can. Well you do in those situations,
(04:37):
especially when you're rubbing elbows with the public, but I
just think you got to avoid at all costs having
some sort of incident or situation. And you know where
a guy can say I never touched him, or you know,
there's always somebody who can just make the case that yeah,
I was talking to him, but I didn't think I
was a problem. I didn't think I deserved to be punched.
(04:58):
I never threw a water bottle, whatever it is. And
now you've got a case that's gonna cost you money
when you could have avoided it. So, uh, you know,
I think at some point you just gotta, you know,
remove yourself from a situation that could go viral and
could wind up costing you money over nothing, you know
what I mean. So of course it is that he's
gonna be he's gonna send that That guy's gonna get
(05:20):
what half a million, a million dollars from Tyson, He's
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(05:44):
we mentioned this a few minutes ago. Today we could
see absolute history in Major League Baseball as mcguel Cabrera
could get hit number three thousand. Now, we potentially could
have saw it yesterday, except Aaron Boot and the Yankees
saw things differently with runners at set in third the
Yankees are trying to stay in the game, down one nothing,
(06:04):
Miguel Cabrera coming up for what's going to be a
final at bad of the game, and the Yankees decide, Hey,
the baseball strategy we want is what we would do
in this situation. Every single time, We're gonna put him
on first base. That doesn't mean it went over well
in Detroit. Take a listen, they wouldn't dare walking. There'd
be there'd be a riot. They can't. I think by rule,
(06:25):
somebody's going for their three thousand hit in first base
is open? You are not allowed to walk? That better
they are not. No, they are all. Man, if you're
the manage the Yankees, what are you going to do? Okay? Sure, wow,
(06:49):
want a decision now? Good luck Yankees getting on your
team bus and getting out of here. Oh man, yeah,
we're showing up at that team bus and we're gonna
give you a piece of our minds. And Jason, that
was Dan Dickerson who does the play by play. Jim
Price is the color man, and that audio courtesy of
ninety seven one the ticket in Detroit. What would you
(07:12):
your first reaction to its? Look, I get the emotion,
I completely understand. Right, if I bought a ticket to
that game, I want to see Miguel Cabrera's three thousand hit.
If I want to see it against the Yankees, of
course I do. But I completely understand what happened in
the game. I'm surprised as controversial as it is, because
(07:33):
this is what any team would do. It's a one
nothing game. It's the late innings there, second and third,
you want to set up the force at Homer a
double play. Of course, you walk Mcguel Cabrera. It's not popular,
but it's it's it's how you it's how you do it.
Aaron Boone would have been a boss if he decided
screw it, I'm gonna pitch to him. Why not give
the fans something? But he's trying to win a game.
If it was a six one game or an eight
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to two game, maybe a pitch to him. But that's
what any team would do. Aaron Boone's trying to win
the game, right, That's what he's trying to do at
that point. So I got no issue with him. I
get that people were upset, but that to me, that
didn't even seem to be a question. Okay, he's getting walked.
He's got three games at America this weekend to get
hit number three thousand in front of the hometown. But
(08:14):
here it is, and we want to hear from you
guys eight seven to seven ninety nine on Fox, because
fans think differently. I know you're a fan, Jason, and
you love the mats and whatnot, but fans look at
it differently. They feel like they got cheated, and we
want to know if you feel that way, if you're
a fan. But Aaron Boone is trying to win games.
It's a one nothing game. The best hitter in their
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lineup is coming up with runners on second and third
and two outs. You don't pitch to Miguel Cabrera in
that situation, and for all the fans will say, oh,
it ain't fair. And Yankee didn't give him a chance.
He was over for three coming up to that at bat.
So he had three chances, Jason earlier in the game
to get hit number three thousand. It's not like they
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walked him all four times. Now maybe I would say, okay,
like that stinks. And here's the other part you just
said it. They're not going on the road. Now he's
got a chance to do it at Comerica Park, people
could pack out the stadium and be able to view it.
Last year, when he was going forwards five hundred home run,
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he couldn't do it in America and then wound up
doing it in Toronto, And you talked about these numbers.
Three thousand hits, five hundred home runs are major milestones.
And I get why somebody would want to be in attendance,
you know, to see their favorite player or hometown player
do it. But let's not lose sight. And it's funny
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because the night before when he didn't get it, and
he had three hits in the game the night before,
he even was quoted as saying, you know, blanket, no
big deal. I don't care about personal individual stats. We
lost the game and that's what I care about, you know,
Like he was pooh poohing the whole idea of him,
(10:01):
you know, getting it, even though I know it's a
big deal for him. But I'm saying he was talking
about he was upset because the Tigers lost a game.
And in this case, if you're the Yankees, you're not
trying to pacify Detroit Tigers fans. What are you trying
to do Jason win a game and one nothing is
where you want to try to keep the game going
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into because that was the eighth thinn and going into
the ninth. Yeah, look, the whole answer of of I
don't care, I mean, look, he's done a lot of losing,
all right. The Tigers have lost a lot of games
the last day. There's been a long time since the
heyday of the of the h two, ten, eleven, and twelve.
So I feel like he's given the answer that he
should give, oh, I care, when his real answer would be, oh, man,
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I wanted to get it. Man, I'm sure, of course
it's okay to say you want to get to three thousand,
rob You and I, I mean the two things we
may never see again in our lifetime. A guy with
three thousand hits and a guy get to three hundred wins.
We may we may not see that again in our
lifetimes when usually three wins. I think there are players
(11:03):
who will get three thousand hits. Really, rob we maybe
twenty years away from that, right Like Robinson Canoe needs
another three hundred hits and he can't even get in
the lineup with the Mets right now. His career might
be over he's thirty nine. You know, there's there's a
couple of other guys that that are that you think, Oh,
what about Mike Trout. Mike Trout's over thirty, He's got
fourteen hundred hits, right, like, like we we may not
(11:25):
see that again. Like maybe a guy like Fernando Tatis
if he winds up staying healthy. I mean, that's like
twenty years away. But I agree with you on three
hundred wins. I mean that may be something we just
never see again, you know because outside of like look,
Verlanders got like two twenty seven, but he's thirty nine.
He's not getting Yeah, no, he's not getting there. And
(11:46):
Scherzer and Kershawn need like six more years of eighteen
wins each. And then it's I mean, nobody, nobody's pitching
long enough. We're never going back to guys starting and
and and you know, a four man rotation or guy's
pitch into the eighth inning. It's never happening again. That
that that's something that's never going to come back to baseball,
That that's gone, the era of specialization for pitchers and bullpen.
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I mean, like we may not see those things. I
want to hope that we can get to and I
would think that if there's one we could see over
the other, three thousand hits is clearly more attainable. But
I don't know, man. I mean, the next guy for
three thousand hits may have not even started as a
major League baseball career. Yet you and I are going
to be retired by the next time a guy gets
a three thousand hits. Yeah, I mean it is one
(12:31):
of those moments, and only thirty three when when Miggie
does it, it'll he'll only be the thirty third and
only seven guys have the five hundred home runs and
three thousand hits, which is incredible. Uh, you know, milestone
for for Miguel Cabra. We remember the kid coming up
with the Marlins. You remember helping him win a World
Series in two thousand and three, and here we are.
(12:53):
But I think fans sometimes get caught up in a
moment though the goal is still about winning. I mean,
you just can't throw caution to the win and pitch
to their best hitter in that situation and say, oh,
we don't care. Yeah, let's see, let's see if Miggie
can get his three dollars. Wouldn't that be great for
us to give up his three thousand hits. I don't
(13:13):
think that other teams look at it that way. No,
they didn't. And look, you are walking Miguel Cabrera to
get to Austin Meadows, who, oh, by the way, is
a pretty good player. I mean, this is a guy
that's pretty good. Last year he was twenty seven and
one and one oh six. The guy can hit. So
you you it's so you know that it was a
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strategy of all right, this is the right baseball strategy.
We're gonna walk Cabrera because we gotta get to you know,
and look, Meadows is a great hitter and he was
a big pickup for them in the off season. But
we're kind of going frying pan to fire. But but
that's how it works in baseball. You know. I don't
know if it would be that big a deal if
it wasn't the Yankees, right like, because it's the Yankees,
and everybody is generated to hate the Yankees already. Anytime
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the Yankees do something, it's, oh, I can't stand the
Like anytime you see a political headline, people are just
ready to go crazy about it, right like if a
Republican says something. People ready to go crazy if Democrat
says something, half people ready to go crazy when the Yankees. Oh,
I read the Yankees. It's all the Yankees fault. I
can't stand the Yankees. Everyone's to jump up and down
them because it's the Yankees. If it was the Rockies,
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who is you know are coming into town this weekend, Yeah,
fans to be upset, but it wouldn't be a thing.
But it's the Yankees. No, we won't way out of proportion, no,
no doubt. And Aaron Boone said, I know it wouldn't
be popular. And Tiger fans that give him credit. I mean,
if you want to say Yankee chant, Yankees suck as
the game is over and all that, I get that.
I think that that's great theater. That's what fans. You know,
(14:41):
the word fan is derived from the word fanatic, so
that's the way fans should act. But anybody who really
believes like Aaron Boone did a disservice to the game
of baseball or like this was like, how dare them
cheat the fans? I think then you're misguided as to
what's going on here. And that's the difference between organizations
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that try to win and organizations that try to play
Kate fans or do stuff for show. I mean, I
don't know one manager who would have thought that was
good to pitch to Miguel Cabrera in that spot. I
think it was common sense. Eight seven, seven ninety nine.
Fox is the number. So for Cabrera, now you talked
about everything he's done. Is he the best power hitter
(15:26):
you've ever seen. He's one of the best right handed
hitters I've ever seen. And I, as you know, worked
in Detroit for twenty years and saw most of his
career there, and he's tremendous. And the thing is not
just the power, but look at his batting average a
career three hundred hitter shortness. His swing goes the other
(15:47):
way for singles, not just trying to clear the yard.
I mean, he hits for doubles. I mean he's been
a tremendous player. Obviously been injured the last few years
and not close to where he was in his heyday.
And you talked about those years when the Tigers were
perennial playoff bound team and have a chance. I mean
(16:09):
they should have won a World Series. They once had
a team with three Cy Young Award winners who have
won all the three previous cy Youngs and Justin Verlander,
David Price and Max Scherzer. Can you imagine that all
three of them had won the previous three cy Youngs
and they were all on the same staff and guess
(16:31):
what happened? They got swept by the Baltimore Orioles in
the playoffs in three games. We'll go back even further.
Didn't you cover Al Kaylin's three thousand hit the tiers
that I was not at that one because there's only
two Tigers who have three thousand hits, Ty Cobbin Al
kay Lin. So this is a big deal. I understand it.
(16:53):
I know people are happy that it's going to be
in Detroit and he's not going on a road trip.
He just needs a hit and it's all over. But
it is a milestone, and I get why fans are
excited about it. But to boo the Yankees and be
met at Aaron Boone, I think is misguided eight seven
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Se Jason Smith, Rob Parker in for Dan and the
Dan Nets. Hey got your thoughts on Miguel Cabrera coming up.
But also we dive back into the night that was
in the NBA playoffs. Can we stick a fork in
the nets? Oh? Rob Parker says, maybe not. I say yes,
maybe not. That's next right here, Fox Sports Radio. Be
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sure to catch the live edition of The Dan Patrick
Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio wapp. The nets are
just and they've been a mess. The nets have never
figured it out. And I feel like I keep falling
for the banana in the tailpipe of the nets, the
nets and nets, and then something always happens since the
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nets can't get going, and and and it's look a red.
Whether it's more focused needed on basketball, whether it's here's
a look because you can't just count on the two
guys every single night, right, you need a little bit
seventeen and the second half. Do you expect to ever
see that again in a basketball game? Come? I didn't
expect to see it after the first game. After the
first game, I see Kevin, Kevin Durant's not gonna have
another game like that. I said the first game, I said,
(19:26):
Katie's not gonna have another game like that, the Nets
can backdoor sweep this series. And what happened. Kevin Durant
had another game like that. It was but four out
of seventeen was just just as bad. You know had
so you know, yeah, he can continue to have these games.
Something just happens with the Nets. Rob, Now that you
know Steve Nash's coaching has been in question, when when
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we've seen Katie and Kyrie save the Nets just a mess.
Are they ever gonna really put it together enough to
be a big threat? They can do it and win
a series here and there, Boy, look at the Nets
sideball and you know, after game one it was Kyrie
and his middle finger, and something else comes up and
Kyrie has a bad game as well in game two.
It just happens. I can't trust the Nets. It's too unreliable.
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It's like betting on it. I disagree. I think you
have two guys who have proven that they are big
time players in big moments, greatest shots to close a
remarkable three to one comeback in the NBA Finals which
had never been done, to back MVPs on Steph Curry's team,
as people want to say, but he was the best
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player on the court, there was no doubt about it.
And the Nets. I'll give you this. All the injuries
and all the other things that have really Durrand. Kevin
Durant can't stay healthy. We saw with Kyrie Harden got
hurt last year. Last year, Kevin Durant almost beat the
Milwaukee Bucks by himself. If his foot wasn't on the line,
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the Bucks wouldn't even got out of that series against
the Nets. And Kyrie was hurt and a hobbled hardened,
so to act as if that didn't have up in
a year ago. And I'll give you he's having a
bad series so far. But to say you can't trust
those guys, don't. I don't believe that. I think they're
two of the most skilled offensive players we've ever seen.
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I do believe that they can come back and win
this series if they win Game three. Obviously they can't
get down three zo because your margin of error would
become too small. But I do believe it's doable, And
until they lose in Brooklyn, I'll be ready to I'm
not gonna be ready to write them off because I've
seen people prematurely. I remember last year in the finals,
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everybody was crowning Chris Paul. Do you remember that, that
dialogue and that narrative when they were up to all, Oh,
Chris Paul is the third best point guard in the
history of the NBA. And then that went out and
Devin Booker's the next Kobe Bryant. Remember that when they
were up to all and everybody thought the Sons were
gonna win, and yet you trust, you know, people trust
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the Sons even though they choked that and NBA Finals
a year ago. So I just think there's a dialogue
about kywe and about KD that's unjust when these guys
have won championships in the past and have made big
plays and had big moments. And it is this the
best start of a playoff series? Absolutely not. Is it
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a tough road for the Nets, Absolutely because they're the
eighth seed or seventh seed playing a very good Boston
team that won two games at home. That's what Boston did.
So I'm not in that camp yet. Rob Kevin Durant
is not a leader. Okay, as great as he is,
he's not a leader. And you're seeing how much he
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has struggled when he's been the face of the franchise.
Now with the nets, right, so he struggles there. Still
on the court, Kevin Durant is terrific. Now he's had
two really bad games, and you wonder is he hitting
the wall for this season? He's thirty three, you know.
The injury comeback now has been a year and a half.
Kyrie Irving is a guy that's skipped a game once
because he wanted to be on a zoom for somebody
(23:03):
running for mayor for New York City. Right. He missed
half the games this year because of the vaccination issue,
and no matter what happened, they couldn't it couldn't be
resolved until the Mets and the Yankees seasons were at stake,
because so we have to change. We have to change
it so everybody can play. And then Kyrie comes to play.
I don't know what motivates Kyrie Irving every single day, right,
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his whole thing with the middle fingers, right, And everybody
wanted to go crazy about that. Look at Kyrie Irving
and and and all, what a bad guy Kyrie is
and what's he doing? And this is it didn't affect
him on the court at all. He had a phenomenal
game one, right, that's just a day for him. That's
what we think about is something huge for Kyrie Irving
is how he's feeling in that moment and how he
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feels for for how I'm going to act right now.
He wasn't doing it in Game two. He wasn't sprinkling
sage on the court. He was back and he had
a bad game. He's so unpredictable with motivates him. Trying
to figure him out is a lost cause. But that's
the thing, trying to figure out what motivates a guy.
I can't bank on that guy in the playoffs. I
can't bank on him for he's gonna show up every
(24:06):
night and be motivated. I mean to say that Kevin Durant,
everybody leads differently. Kevin Durant is a guy who leads
by example, and the Warriors wouldn't have those two championships
without Kevin Durant. No Kevin Durant to act like go
to discount Kevin k D as if oh he's not
a leader because he hasn't led the nets. I mean,
(24:27):
you're totally disregarding what's happened with the nets and injuries.
Nobody can lead a mass unit where where Kywee k
D and Harden played like a total of seventeen games
because of injury. So you make it like he can't lead,
He can't lead, can't lead a mass unit. Yes, they
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never so far since they've been in Brooklyn, they've never
been whole. And then they go out and get Ben
Simmons and he has a back issue and hasn't been
able to play. So I think it's un fair to
paint him as he can't lead when when he's never
had a whole team, he's never been complete. It's it's
easier to win when when you have all the pieces.
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It's tough when when pieces are in and out. And
I think that's where the nets are. When you look
at what's happened there. It's not about leadership, it's about manpower.
It's about having the right pieces in place. That's why
the net, this whole nets thing has been Durand his
first year in Brooklyn, he was still coming off his injury,
(25:32):
didn't even play. Kyrie got hurt. Uh and that team
still somehow made the playoffs that year. And and all
I'm gonna say, I'm not making excuses. These are facts.
The facts remain is that they have never been whole
and I think it's unfair to say Kevin Durant can't lead,
can't lead? What you mean to tell me? Yet a
great roster put together and they failed. Show me that situation,
(25:57):
and then maybe I'll buy into it. But then Nets
have been bits and pieces and have never been wholed
the whole time he's been in Brooklyn. Yeah, got him,
Matthew Stafford not leaders? Oh sorry, Uh, look, he didn't
have to do any leading in Golden State and he
left after three years because he couldn't take it anymore.
And now here's Golden State or getting back and and
and they're a better team than they were, and they're
(26:19):
better than the Nets. He shows up better than when
they had Kevin. He got the Big three. But no,
but they're better. They're better than the Nets than when
they had Vin. But they're better than Are they better
than the nets? Are they better than nets? Right now? Yes? Oh?
I mean if the Warriors aren't better than the Nets,
are you a completely healthy Okay, that's a completely healthy No,
(26:40):
Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant shows up in New Jersey, in Brooklyn,
and what happens? They can't keep the Big three together? Why?
Because he couldn't get along with James Harden, right, what happened?
What happened? What happened? He asked, Listen, Okay, I know
you're tough, but they couldn't get along with them. Can
you acknowledge that they had injuries? Kyrie Irving? Kyrie Irving
miss games, not I'm asking you abust the end, didn't
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want to get vaccinated. That's not it. We're talking about
this season and where he's at talking about right now.
James Harden was healthy and kywe you're telling me they
wouldn't have gone to the finals last year. You had
to chieve that. Wait, you can't just say Kevin duran
you wait wait, wait, wait, wait God, you can't just
tell me, ay, if Kevin Durant puts his foot back
on the line, they wind up winning. But now it's
(27:21):
not his because what I'm saying, I mean, at least
be honest that they they did. You watch the first
two games of the series against the Bucks last year.
They played. Look, they were play, they were up, they
were they were up two oh, just like Boston's up
two oh on them. They blew the Bucks out of
the water and won by thirty five points. In Game two,
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in Brooklyn, and they didn't win the series because they
had injuries. Kyrie got hurt in Game three, Harden got
hurt in the first fifty seconds of Game one. These
are facts. Okay you're talking. You're talking about last year
and we're talking about the series now against the Celtics
and not being able to trust the nets. That's where
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that happened last year. Yeah, if another guy doesn't get
injured yet, maybe they win. But as you just said,
if Kad steps back, you know, another six inches, they
win that series. So how much did they really need
the guys to win the series? If Katie takes one
step back and they win the series. So it can't
be that big a deal. And when it comes to
this year, they had the big three and they couldn't
(28:26):
stay together, right, They couldn't stated because Harden and Katie
couldn't get along. We saw all the all the talk
after Katie didn't like Harden didn't come in in shape.
They never meshed. So now the big move they make
doesn't work right now that they done, so they bring
in Ben Simmons, and now Ben Simmons is a guy
that hasn't played and so now it's Katie and Kyrie
have to make it work. And Kyrie doesn't want to
play because of the vac's mandate, so now it's up
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to Kevin Durrett and now here they are. It's always something.
It's it's not like there's any time or I could say, boy,
it was smooth. It gets smooth for two games at
a time, where boy, the Nets win two games by
thirty five and you go, man, the Nets are great.
Oh they're gonna be great, and then then they lose
three in a row and something happens and Kyrie sits
out or kad is. It's always something. It's not like
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there is any smooth sailing. It's never worked for Kevin
Durant and Kyrie irving here with the Nets. I look,
I bought in after game one. I thought it's not
gonna happen. Now you gotta see. You see the Nets
for who they are, and there they just for all
different reasons, have not put it together. And Kadie's the
one constant through all of it. Couldn't disagree with you more,
(29:29):
but hey, it is what it is. I just think
it's an unfair representation of k D and the ability
that he has and the type of player he's been
in his entire career. And I think that you'll you'll
eat these words. Eventually. It might not be this season,
but when they finally get become whole, they will win
(29:49):
a championship in Brooklyn, and you'll be wrong about this.
And we'll hold this tape and we'll play this on
your show, the Jason Smith Show, and all your listeners
will say, hand, Jason was so wrong on the damn Patrick.
When is this magical, mystical day of the Nets winning
the title gonna happen? When it? When it tell me
when that's gonna happen. I want to write that this
(30:09):
season or next season. I want to write this season
on next season? And how and how do I get
no reaction on the Matt Stafford from you? How? How
do I get no reaction on doesn't matter I made.
He threw a pitch to the forty nine ers that
they dropped. He was right on que and and it
could have been something totally different, and he got I
don't know magic juice worked or whatever, the Malcolm powder
(30:33):
or whatever he spread on himself before the game. And
somehow a guy gets thrown a game changing interception and
he dropped it Twitter and help Out of FRESK and
Rob Parker and Ron Parker FS one. You know, I
think you could do this. You could sell takes for
a living to people about Okay, I want to say
(30:53):
something really bad about a dynasty or a team that wins. Jack,
I got it for you. I got it, I got it,
I got it, I got it. He did it for
the Warriors earlier in the show. You got Brady, you
got Stafford to you could make so much money at that,
so much cash. Hey, whatever works. I'm always going to
call it the way I see it. And Rob Parker,
there you go all day Bring the Register oh eight seven,
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it really takes something for a junior college baseball game
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to gain the headlines at it has a last couple
of days. But this video of the pitcher who tackled
the guy who hit a home run as he was
rounding third base as a story that just won't quit.
The pitcher who tackled the hitter, Owen Woodward, was the
team following a four game suspension he got for starting
a brawl. He gave up a home run in the
(32:22):
sixth inning of a game, and as the hitter was
rounding third he throws his glove down run out and
gives him a big flying tackle, starts a big brawl.
A lot of players got kicked out. There are a
lot of suspensions for this game. And you know, Rob,
you know, Jason Stark always has a great thing. He says,
you know, longtime baseball writer, and he says, you know,
baseball has been played for one hundred and fifty years,
(32:44):
and there's still so many times every year you say, boy,
I've never seen that before. And this is one of
those moments where I've seen brawls I've seen guys getting
upset and starting fights different reasons. I've never seen a
pitcher run and tackle a guy as he's rounding third
base heading home after hitting a home run. Yeah, the
most ridiculous video. I was glad he was thrown off
(33:05):
the team. He should never be able to play organized
baseball again on any team. That is totally uncalled for.
I mean, Jason, you just said it. You never saw
anything like that to do that, get the guy out
rather than being mad and to tackle a guy like that,
and the umpires did the right thing. The game was
called and and I was glad to hear that the
(33:28):
JUCO kicked him off the team because you can't. You
can't have behavior like that. That is just not even
close to being part of baseball. To open field tackle
the guys he rounds third after hitting a game basically
a game winning home run. Uh. Terrible, just a terrible example.
(33:49):
And that guy deserves to be dragged through the mud
by everybody because there's no place for that. He should
play football because that was a pretty good tackle. I
mean he won a football team. Play baseball again. I'll
tell you that. Yeah, no, no, no, you can't. There's
certain things like, you can't do that, you can't just
run and I can't believe nobody warned the guy, like,
and there was no hey wire. One of the umpires
(34:12):
did kind of see him heading towards third and he
threw his glove down. If you watched the video, so
it wasn't like you there was no play to back
up on third for a relay throw or something. So
where's where's the pitcher going? And if you watched the video, wait,
those his glove down, It was just I guess he snapped.
I haven't heard from that. We heard from the kid. No,
(34:35):
that everything we've gotten so far has been all privacy,
privacy laws and and we can't say and it could,
but that that to me tells me, all right, something
even worse happened that resulted in this, because is this
kid really wound that tight that he just decides as
he's rounding third base, I'm throwing my glove down to
go tackle the guy. Like was it a slow burn?
(34:56):
Look like he gave up the home run? He's walking
back and then a snapped decision. He throws the glove
down and runs. And the reason the batter got suspended
is because supposedly he was taunting. I'm like, I didn't
see taunting, so something had to I mean, he had
a game winning home run, he's running around unless he
said something or whatever, I didn't see it. I saw
(35:17):
the guy just jogging around the bases. And I don't
think he deserved that. I don't think anybody. Oh no,
nobody deserves it. But there's there's a part of this
story that we're not being told right, Like I could
always tell in stories where oh, we're kind of getting
you know, seventy five percent of the story because to
see the the the secrecy behind what was said, what
(35:39):
the motivations were, why the pitcher tackled the guy and
the batter getting a suspension because of taunting when I
didn't see any taunting. You know, he hit a home run,
he's rounding the basses and suddenly the guy goes and
tackles him. Uh, there's something we're not being told about this.
It doesn't doesn't mean that you can act that way.
And yes, I agree the guy shouldn't be allowed to play,
but you can't. You can't have that he could have
really injured the guy. I mean, it's a flying tackle
(36:01):
to a to an indefensable to an indefense player, and
he's not expecting that. On a football field, you might
be expecting to get hit to for something of that ilk.
I mean, the only thing worse would it would have
been if he grabbed a bat and hit him over
the head. I mean, don't give anybody ideas, rob, I mean,
we've we've seen that in the major leagues. I mean, yeah,
(36:22):
that was a long long time ago. But yeah, but
you know what I mean, like like like there's nothing
worse than what we saw. That was just for people
to see that and try to figure out what was
that about. The kid obviously had some other issues that
are going on. Because many guys have Hitten have hit
home two run home runs or home runs to win
(36:42):
the game, Jason, and we've never seen that. Well, it
wasn't even a winning home run. It was a home
run in the sixth inning. You know. It was like, Okay,
they took the lead late. It wasn't it wasn't the
game ended and it's walk off or so. It's just
it was a home run where they they took the
lead in the game, you know, So it wasn't like
a game winning walk off. Guys are running out and
they're screaming at the picture and you suck and all
(37:03):
of this stuff. It was just it was okay, yeah,
guy at a home run on the top of the
sixth that there's still, you know, game to be played.
You know, if it was a it was a more
dramatic situation. I can see where things get heightened, but
but this was this is okay, guy hit a home
run and he's rounding the basis. It's I really, it's
it's it's stunning to see. Everybody I know asked it,
(37:26):
asked me about this, right, But more people ask me
about this video than than than about the NBA playoffs. Hey,
did you see that video? Do you see that? Videos base? Like, yeah,
what do you think of Like, what do you think
the guy shouldn't I shouldn't have done it. I want
the next thing, you know, is there will be some
Yahoo football coach who will recruit this kid and he'll
be on the football I guarantee you, I guarantee you,
(37:48):
chicken wings that that'll be the next story about this kid. Oh,
is that the next bet? You want to bet chicken
wings on that? I'll bet chicken wings on that. Way,
you okay, he'll wind up on some football team. All right,
what bye? When? By when? Because I want to be
able to call these chicken wings by next football season.
How's that? Okay? All right? Very good? Well do you
want to bet Jordan's on it? You bet Jordan's now, No,
we're betting wings being okay, Twitter and a lesson on
(38:13):
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