April 19, 2021 • 36 mins
Clay Travis talks full capacity stadiums in a can't miss conversation. Clay brings in Danny G. to talk Dodgers/Padres rivalry, and a playoff atmosphere in MLB that has never been seen before in the month of April. Plus, Clay wraps us the day with some intriguing NFL Draft talk, as the Niners continue to move the needle.
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Sports Radio Monday Edition. I hope you're having a fantastic
morning if you are just waking up on the West Coast,
as I know many of you may well be. Since
it is now five am. There Dodgers Padres best actual
sporting event of the weekend. Danny g is going to
join us and break down everything in the next segment.
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I put him on Dodgers Padres Watch. So I do
think that was a phenomenal series going on. We'll see
what we learned, if anything. Also, Jake Paul knocks out
Ben askerin in a wild Is it fair to call
it like a hooting nanny? I feel like that was
kind of a hooting nanny of a boxing uh festivity.
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In fact, I'm going to type in what the official definition.
I bet that's the first time that hooting nanny has
ever been used in morning sports talk radio. Ever. Uh,
and let's see it's refers to things. Uh. I don't
think that's right. I think I think I'm looking at
it in the wrong definition here, Dub. When I say
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hooting nanny, what does that mean to you? I think
of a hooting nanny as like a big party, kind
of crazy, uh, fractious, universe activity, informal gathering with folk
music and sometimes dancing. What's this is a good question.
What's the difference between a howdown and a hooting nanny?
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And that's a great question too. I don't know that
I would have necessarily, but it felt a little bit
like I just think of it as a chaotic sort
of celebratory event with music and events. And does that
make like and I kind of feel like that's what
the Jake Paul boxing match was like, Yeah, you kind
of get those vibes. It's not you know, something that's
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it's not two mainstream, big time, world renowned boxers. It's
kind of like a backyard. Well it's not particularly well organized,
I guess, is what I would say. You know, like,
I went to bed before this thing started because I
was texting with buddies and they were like, oh, there's
you know, there's just drunk people talking, you know, like
Oscar dale Ya looks like he has no idea what's
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going on. Snoop is just smoking blunts like they're cursing
like crazy. Every now and then a musician comes in.
I saw this after Jake Paul knocked the guy out.
I think Snoop Dogg was in the ring with him,
and he like just hands him. I think it was tequila.
Did you see that? And Jake Paul just takes a
big drink of it like he's expecting that it's water.
Uh So, the whole thing was wild, and that was
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a decent aspect associated with with that fight, and honestly,
watching the high lights of it, a part of me thinks,
on some level, hey, you know what, I would be
interested in watching Jake Paul box now because he's knocked
out Nate Robinson and he knocked out Ben Askar. And
you can agree or disagree with how legitimate those guys
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were as boxers, but it's turned into enough of a
story that I'm inclined if he actually fights a decent opponent. Two,
maybe consider buying that now. I spent the weekend coaching
little league baseball, and uh and so that was my
sporting fix. We had games on Saturday, we had games
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on Sunday. I got a day off today, then we
got games again on Tuesday. We got three out of
four days little League baseball. I mean, that's a lot
going on. Uh. So that's what I was watching. I
was also watching, Um, there's a great series between Vanderbilt,
who is right now the number two baseball team in
college and Tennessee, who is right now the number three
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baseball team. Uh. And this is the three series, Vanderbilt
one two out of three. But there was a pretty
good crowd in Knoxville for the Vanderbilt Tennessee series. But
I also watched a little bit of Old Miss Mississippi State,
and I tweeted out a video on Sunday night, and
Mississippi is just like they're done with COVID. I saw
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a funny quote where Tim Corbin, double national championship winning
coach for Vanderbilt, he said COVID doesn't exist in Knoxville
because they had a big crowd and they're just basically
over it. The state of Mississippi is like, hey, we
got a percent capacity. If you have watched the games
at Old Miss or you have watched the games at
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Mississippi State. They're over it and the same thing. It's true, Dub,
you were just down in Texas at San Antonio. State
of Texas is over COVID. Would you agree with that, Yeah,
there's no doubt about it. And the State of Tennessee
to a large extent, maybe with the exception of downtown
Nashville and maybe Memphis, the State of Tennessee's basicly over
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with COVID. We know Florida is done with COVID, but
I do think it's worth thinking about from a sports perspective.
Mississippi and Texas both decided basically simultaneously. We're doing away
with masks. We are doing away with restrictions on businesses.
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If they want to open a hundred percent they can.
And it has now been what is it, April five,
I think was the day that the Texas Rangers effectively
had their home opener and had a sold out stadium.
It's now been basically two weeks, right, Everybody's always like, wait,
two weeks. It's now been two weeks since the Texas
Rangers had roughly forty thousand people in their stadium for
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their home opener, and Texas and Mississippi both continue to
set new lows for overall number of cases hospitalizations, and
they're also setting high numbers of overall vaccinations. And so
what I would say to everybody out there, and look,
I've been at the absolute forefront of this in terms
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of getting sports back to normalcy and battling the Corona
bros like crazy. It's getting awfully hard for the Corona
bros out there to justify any kind of restrictions at
all in the world of sports. Now that effectively every
single person in the country who wants to get a
COVID vaccine can get one and dub do a little.
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I know, live math on this show is always an
exercise and near disaster, But I want you to follow
along with me. If you can look up how many
actual vaccine addition to the fact that any adult that
wants a vaccine can now get one. Look up, I
believe we're over two hundred million now vaccines that we
have actually given. Will you look up the actual number
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of vaccine shots that have been given to adults in
the United States. Yeah, I pulled that up and the
numbers I'm seeing over two hundred million, two million doses
given okay, and then the fully vaccinated number of Americans
is eighty two million roughly, okay, eighty two million fully vaxed,
which is a pretty big, impressive number, all right, So
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let me break this down for you. So, first of all,
I also want you to look up another number for me,
double look up the number of kids eighteen and under,
because a lot of people are focusing on counting those
kids and kids can't be vaccinated right now. So I'm
gonna guess, and this is just me ballparking like throwing
numbers out, I'm gonna guess there's around sixty or seventy
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million kids in the United States right now, meaning eighteen
or under. These are kids that are primarily not eligible
for the vaccine itself. And I've got that number for you, Clay.
It is roughly seventy three million, alright, seventy three million kids.
So just follow me along on math here and again
live math can be a disaster. But three hundred and
thirty million people in the United States minus seventy three
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million kids who aren't eligible, that would mean if my
math is right here, roughly we have around two hundred
and fifty seven million adults who can receive a vaccine
and dub you said eighty two million were fully vaccinated. Okay,
let's just round that up and say that everybody who's
fully vaccinated, even though the Johnson and Johnson vaccine is
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only one shot. But let's just round that up and
say that that is a hundred and sixty five hundred
and sixty million doses. Right, Let's just say that that
would mean that forty six million more people have had
at least one dose, right, in addition to the eighty
two million who have already had their vaccine. So, and
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this is why I'm arguing in favor of full stadiums.
That would mean that a hundred and twenty eight million
people in the United States out of two hundred and
fifty seven million adults, right, that would mean we're right
at almost identically fifty percent of all adults are either
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fully vaccinated or have had at least one vaccine. And
that doesn't even count all of the adults that have
already had COVID. This is just fully vaccinated adults already,
and every day we're adding a new four million doses
and everything else. Look, here's the truth. If you want
to go to a sporting event. You should be able
to go to a sporting event. The numbers are growing rapidly.
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I believe it's safe to do so, just like in
Mississippi and Texas. How do we not have a hundred
percent open stadiums and arenas for sports everywhere in the country.
I'm gonna keep beating this drum every day because I
think everybody else in my industry still terrified because they're like,
oh my god, somebody the blue check marks might say
something mean about me on the on the Internet. Oh
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my god, what if somebody says something mean to me
on Twitter. That's like the sports media and my universe.
Like a lot of people are like, oh, I'm glad
you're saying what you're saying, Clay. I'm like, how come
you don't say it? When they're like, well, I'm afraid
somebody might say it might get upset. Well, we're in
the opinion business. I don't care if somebody gets upset.
I'm gonna tell you exactly what I think. If we're
at eight percent, and I think about how crazy that is.
Eighty percent of adults two hundred and six million have
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at least gotten one shot eighty million. Would you say
dub have gotten both shots now. And I think there's
like a three week uh period where you go from
your first to year second shot, which would mean theoretically
and within three weeks, So what are we now, April
whatever that day it is. That would mean that by
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mid May, by mid May, a hundred like eighty a
hundred percent in theory of those two hundred million would
have gotten both shots. And by that time, you would
think by mid May even more adults who want to
get the COVID vaccine would have gotten And some people
out there by the way, they're like, hey, Claire, you
getting the comp I was. I was scheduled to go
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get the COVID vaccine. I was. I was scheduled on
Tuesday of last week. I was supposed to go eight
days six days ago. I was supposed to go get
the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. I told my wife I
would not there. I had three criteria here to get
a vaccine, all right. Criteria number one, I wanted all
the old and elderly, which is kind of the same thing.
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I wanted the old, and I wanted the infirm, the
people who were unhealthy. I wanted all of them to
be able to go first because they were at the
most risk. And then the second criteria for me was
I'm not waiting right like I I hate lines. I
am not showing up anywhere. I will give fifteen minutes
to get a vaccine. If it's gonna take longer than that,
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I'm not doing it. And my third criteria was I
don't want to have to have two doctors appointments or
two appointments for a clinic because inevitably there's some major
conflict that's gonna arise. I'm kind of busy. I will
go when there's a one shot. And my wife said, okay,
all three of your criteria are met. I look do
you uh. She booked me. I was gonna go to Publix.
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I was gonna walk right in. I was gonna get
my one shot. I was scheduled to go at eleven
thirty am on Tuesday. That was the day they pulled
the one shot. So they called me that morning they said, hey,
you can't get your vaccine. So I still haven't got
my vaccine. If they bring back the one shot, I'll
go do it. Not worry about it. Don't you get
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a vaccine. I haven't yet. I've been kind of on
the same criteria as you. I'm probably gonna get it
here in the next couple of weeks, though I would yeah,
when they bring back the one shot, I'll go do it.
I'm not gonna do the two shot. Uh. In the meantime,
we'll be joined by the way by Danny G. He's
gonna talk about the Padres and the Dodger game here momentarily.
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reading them, and Danny G is our expert. I have
deputized him. I said, Hey, over the weekend, I'm probably
not gonna be able to watch a lot of it
because I'm running around coaching little league baseball. But I
do think the best sporting event going on over the weekend.
By far is this rivalry that has developed in a
pretty significant way between the Dodgers and the Padres. Lots
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of superstars on both sides. I gotta be honest with you,
I think this is fantastic. Padres fight back on Sunday
when one out of three after two hard fought wins
for the Dodgers, Danny G. How would you. I know
it's April, and I know it is early in the season,
and there's lots that's gonna happen between now and October,
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but this feels very much like it could be the
NLCS before all is said and done. How would you
assess the matchup early on in the season. Danny G. Yeah,
you're right about checking the calendar, because we're not used
to playoff atmosphere baseball. It really is, and what it's
turned into is all these a lot of them newly
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found Padre fans chanting beat l A. And half the
stadium that was allowed in over the weekend was chanting
can't beat l A. This has been awesome since last
year when there was those couple of rapping Padre fan
kids where that video that went viral. The Padre fans
celebrating tearing the downtown up like they won the World
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Series when they had just made the playoffs. So San Diego,
they've been super hungry for a winning baseball team and
the Dodgers stand in their way. It has been a
great rivalry and what a fun weekend. I actually was
in San Diego County on Saturday, so I got to
watch Saturday night the magical Nookie game with half Dodger fans,
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half Padre fans. That was an incredible catch in the
second game of the series, and he has strung together
a series of incredible catches. Clayton Kershaw also looked phenomenal
early as he has oftentimes. Uh in this in this series,
how did you assess Fernando Tatis Jr. Who says he
thinks or hopes. I mean, this is probably the thing
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that's hanging over the Padre season the most is how
healthy is he going to remain with his shoulder. Well,
he needs to concentrate on his fielding. He's had seven
errors in seven games, and he hasn't exactly been spectacular
yet at the plate. I know, obviously he's been battling
that injury, but look, they got a lot of slag
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on that team, but they haven't had a lot of
winning to back it up to this point, and obviously
did not farewell last season in the playoffs. The Padres
that I've already gotten on the nerves of most Dodger
fans are pro far must Grove Tatis who were talking
about right now, and obviously Manning Machado, who has a
long history with the Dodgers. Isn't this great for baseball? Though?
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Because I'm sitting back you, you know, we've been doing
the show for five or six years or whatever the
heck it is. I don't know that we have talked
about April baseball on this show ever before. But I
think objectively, if you looked at everything that was going
on over the course of the weekend in sports, there
is no way to argue for anything. I guess you
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could maybe argue that Jake Paul fight, which we've talked
about a little bit. Uh, you could maybe argue that
that was on some level, But the three game series
between the Dodgers and the Podres, to me, is the
best thing on the sporting calendar over the weekend. Yeah. Well,
it's cool to hear you say that. Like I don't
even I don't think i'd be in crazy now. Some
partly this might be because usually the NBA and the
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NHL playoffs are going by now, so I don't think
that we would usually be sitting around, you know, like
paying as much attention to April baseball. Uh. And maybe
it's just that my kids have gotten me back into
baseball a lot more than I ordinarily would be. But
I don't think that I think that's objective true, Like
if you had everybody who's listening to us right now,
I don't know how you could argue for anything else
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that was a bigger storyline than this series between the
Dodgers and the Padres. And I think it's partly because
one of the things that baseball struggles with is big
stars that people care about outside of the local community. Right.
Because I always say, and this is true if you
look at the if you look at the numbers, regionally,
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baseball destroys, for instance, the NBA. Right. And what I
mean by that is a local baseball team is far
more watched than a local basketball team, uh NBA versus
Major League Baseball in a particular local market. And I'll
give you an example, and I'll just throw out a
bunch of them, Like the Washington Nationals are way more
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watched than the Washington Wizards. The Atlanta Braves are way
more watched than the Atlanta Hawks, right, uh, the whoever
it is. The Texas Rangers are more watched than the
Dallas Mavericks. I think all those are true. But nationally
people care more about the NBA because the NBA has
bigger stars, and so the national game gets more attention,
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uh than the regional game. But I feel like baseball,
at least for the Dodgers and the Padres and maybe
some of these other additional teams now as well, starting
to create a little bit more of a national buzz
where guy and girl out there that might not care
about the Padres or the Dodgers understands that these two
teams don't like each other and that's something worth paying
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attention to because it's got some national cash in addition
to the local obviously bonanza that this is for Southern California. Yeah,
you have to feel the energy that was in the
sports bar on Saturday night. It was off the meter.
It reminded me of postseason play. Yeah, and you know
normally and can you remember seeing that in April, though,
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it was what I'm saying in Major League Baseball. I've
never seen that in my life. Differ time of the year,
as the NBA gets closer to the playoffs, we would
be paying attention to Lebron in a d here trying
to repeat with those guys still on the shelf, uh
in the Lakers just kind of holding on over five
during this stretch with them out, there has been even
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more focus on the Dodgers here in Los Angeles. I
hear a M five seventy on everywhere gas stations through
car windows when I'm at stop like, I hear Dodgers
pre and post. I mean, it is a Dodger crazy
city right now. Yeah, it is a lot of fun.
And again I think that Southern California certainly has that vibe.
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But I feel like that was something that was being
talked about among sports fans, partly because there's not necessarily
anything else going on. You're a huge music guy. Did
you watch the Jake Paul fight? No? I did not
get to see that, So was that a conscious choice
by you? Was it money? Like we talked about this
earlier with Aunt Taylor in the first hour we talked
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about the Jake Paul fight, and he was like, yeah,
I was, you know, kind of curious to see how
it was going to go. And so he watched and
he was like a total mess. And I know for
music purposes, like you are a big fan of a
lot of what was going to be done in terms
of the performances. So why did you not watch? Because
one of the conversations we had was if you didn't watch,
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I know there are a lot of casual sort of
YouTube Jake Paul fans who may not really care that
much about boxing at all, but they're interesting in his
interested in his story. You didn't watch, what would it
take for you to watch a fight like that? I
was out of town this past weekend, so that's the
main reason I didn't watch. But I mean, normally I
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think I would have if it was reasonably priced. I
liked the music acts that were involved, but some of
it also kind of seemed to me like they were
trying to draw people in based on that as much
as the fights. It's not more. Maybe some of the
reviews I read afterwards some some pros and cons about
how it went down. I missed it, But if they
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were to do it again, I think I have enough
curiosity and interest in it to where I would purchase it.
All right, So other question, I'm curious about you for
this too. Dub I tweeted out Sunday Ole Miss and
Mississippi State and I just talked about this in the
last segment to open the third hour. Ole Miss and
Mississippi State College baseball in the SEC is a big deal.
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They had a hundred percent attendance for their series between
Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Starkville, Texas Rangers. Massive crowds
as well. The number of COVID cases in Mississippi and
in Texas are at year lows. What do you think
as a sports fan and you're in southern California? Start
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with you, Danny G. When you watch hundred percent full stadiums,
what do you think? Super jealousy? I think it's nice
that those fans get to make their own choice about
whether or not they want to go, and I think
that that's how it should be at this point. Yeah,
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things are slightly opening back up in Southern California. Finally,
Like one thing I've noticed last week when I was
leaving the studios, it was about seven am. West Coast time,
it was bumper to bumper traffic. And for people who
don't know, like our studios in l A are in
Sherman Oaks, and you guys can look outside and see
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and for the last year, like I mean, I mean,
you can speak to it way better than I can.
But you can look outside onto the street and some
days there's been hardly anybody there. It's been like a
ghost town. Right For the first few months it was
a ghost town for sure, and then about halfway through
the pandemic about the traffic on the freeway, which wasn't bad.
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You I could fly home, And then in the last
couple of months it got to about it as of
I want to say, three weeks ago, I've noticed it
is now back to bumper to bumper. My girlfriend commutes
to work from Thousand Oaks to Long Beach. She was
doing that drive in an hour with you know, no
traffic because of COVID. Now it's taking her two hours
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to do the same drive with everything feeling. As far
as that goes back to normal, God man, if we
could go to a Dodger game, that would be amazing.
You know, we just want to go and see our
team again. And I would love for them to just
open up the stadium, take all the precautions you need,
and keep everybody's masks on. But let me go to
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the damn game if I want to. W were in
San Antonio over the weekend for a wedding in Texas.
What did it feel like at the wedding? And what
does it look like to you? Like? It's funny because
in Nashville, Tim Corbin, who is the Vanderbilt men's baseball coach,
he came out and said into the credit of the
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University of Tennessee crowd in Knoxville, COVID doesn't exist in Knoxville.
And that was a great baseball series that was going
on to uh, number two Vanderbilt against number three Tennessee
if you like college baseball. And in Knoxville they're finally
starting to open up as well. Uh, what did it
feel like at the wedding? And and does it when
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you've been back to Texas and you've been back so
many times, does it feel pretty much back to normal there? Yeah,
it's pretty much on normal. The wedding was outside, the
weather was great. I mean I don't think I saw
a single mask. Uh, so I think COVID's probably over
in Texas too, but I mean I go to Texas
and I live in Tennessee. It's pretty much the same
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in both places. So it's like there's a huge difference.
And you know, Nashville has still been I mean, not
compared to l A or New York or any places
like that, but like I think the Vanderbilt men's base
I say men's baseball, but the Vanderbilt Baseball stadium, I
think they're limiting them to like seven hundred fans and
it seats thirty seven hundred, So I mean, they've still
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been super conservative compared to let's say Old miss or
Mississippi State, where I don't know if you guys saw
the videos that I tweeted out, but like the whole
stadium is full and there's not a single mask in it.
Like people in those places are over it. And that's
why I started off the segment by saying, hey, it's
been a month since Joe Biden said it was Neanderthal
thinking for the state of Texas and for Mississippi to
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basically open back up and do away with mask man
mandate requirements and all, uh, you know, a hundred percent
attendance effectively in the Texas Ranger Stadium and everywhere else.
And my position at this point is, if you want
to go to a sporting event, there should be a
hundred percent full stadiums everywhere. If you don't want to go,
that's fine. But every adult can get the COVID vaccine now,
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I mean legitimately every state. If you are sixteen or eighteen,
whenever the age ranges in your area, let's just say
eighteen and up, you can go get the COVID vaccine.
If you want it. It's available to you. It's not
that hard to get now. And to me, once everybody
has the ability to get the COVID vaccine, I don't
understand how every stadium in America isn't up to People
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may not buy the tickets, people may not want to go.
It may take a while for everybody to get comfortable.
But if you look at Texas and you look at Mississippi,
and I'm just using those two places an example right now,
because they effectively ended the mask mand aid at the
same time, the number of cases there have continued to plummet,
and in fact they're at year lows. The sports fan
in California would agree with you, Clay. I was talking
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to a friend over the weekend who's also a Dodgers fan.
They were telling me that their family of five, if
they wanted to get some of those exclusive Dodger tickets
right now, it would cost them seven hundred dollars you
get into Dodgers Stadium, And that is ridiculous. And in
the big reason right now is because obviously it's that
minimum capacity due to COVID restrictions. If that were opened up,
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then we could all go back to the games. And
like you said, to his choice, it's my choice. You
don't know if I've had my vaccine or if the
guy next to me has. It should now be our
choice because of where we're at with this. This was
gonna be a few weeks of our life, and now
it feels like it's gonna be a few years of
our life. So part in us sports fans, if we're
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super frustrated, Yeah, fifteen days to stop the spread has
turned into, like, you know whatever, it is now six
hundred days to stop the spread, and uh, I guess
it's less than that, but uh, you know whatever, it
is four hundred days or something and counting. Frankly, most
sports fans are just fed up with it. And by
the way, if you're listening to me and you are
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still terrified, you don't have to go to games, just
like you didn't have to go to games last year
or the year before that or any other time. Right Like,
at some point we have to allow Americans to make
their own decisions and assess their own risk. And I
just I don't see this is remotely difficult. Now you're
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talking to a guy who took his family two games
in the NFL throughout the entire NFL season, and I
went to UH. I went to college basketball games, and
I went to college football games. So I've been living
my life pretty much as normal for basically since May
of last year. But it's been almost a year. I mean,
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I was on an airplane UH last May, and I've
been not as much as dub who's flown all over
the place, but I've I've probably been to seven or
eight states now, UH in the last year. And I mean,
I just think it's way past time for those of
us who want to be normal to be able to
go to sporting events at a percent capacity. And by
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the way, I don't know that the stadiums are gonna
be at a hundred percent capacity. But when I was
watching the events that were taking place over the weekend,
and I look at Mississippi State and I look at
everything that's going on in Texas, I think they're kind
of sending a message that it's way past time to
get back to normal and be able to have as
many fans as possible in these venues. Uh, Danny G.
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Appreciate it. Um, we will talk to you. I'm sure tomorrow.
When when do you want the five star reviews for
everybody out there? Let's get them in so that I
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So you got today and tomorrow, get your five star
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I We're not gonna do a full Animal Thunderdome, but
just a preview. I'm sure you saw the Bobcat video
(29:26):
that went viral, right, that has been tweeted into US
probably two thousand times. Yes, so what day should we do?
What day should we do the Animal Thunderdome this week?
I think five star reviews Wednesday, Animal Thunderdome on Thursday.
All right, so we will talk Bobcat. If you haven't
seen that video of the Bobcat, I mean it went
(29:46):
viral everywhere. Uh. Guy's wife gets attacked by a bobcat.
I mean he he threw that thing like he was
Roger Clemens. I mean I bobcat went flying through the air.
We'll talk about it. We'll play the audio for you then,
uh and when you return, we will break down close
out the final bit of the show with a little
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should be a lot of fun. Uh, we are going
to have a really good week of shows, just trust
me going forward, and one thing will be breaking down,
which will be a massive part of this story, because
I think it's the biggest story in all of the
NFL Draft is what are the forty niners going to do?
Because the numbers keep bouncing around, we know number one
(32:38):
overall Trevor Lawrence going to the Jags. And by the way,
I feel like in many ways we're underrating the combo
of Urban Meyer and Trevor Lawrence. Let me just say
this too. Trevor Lawrence got criticized because of a Sports
Illustrated article that came out and he sent a tweet
out about it. We're basically he was like, Hey, you know,
I love football, but it's not everything in my can
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we stop this illusion that all you have to be
concerned about is your sport like you should if you
are a healthy, well rounded person. I want you to
care about sports, and I want you to be upset
if you lose, but I also want you to understand
that what you do for a living doesn't define you completely, right, um,
(33:23):
And so I do think that there's, uh, there's this
element of lying that football requires where top draft picks
have to be like, man, if I lose a game,
I'm not able to sleep for like months at a
time and everything else. Ah, Trevor Lawrence. Look, he didn't
lose very many games at Clemson. He's obviously incredibly talented,
but it's kind of ridiculous to assume that all he
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would care about his football. And so I thought that
was a little bit ridiculous the way that whole story
played out. But I do think that it may be
true that all Urban Meyer cares about his football. So
I am and do think that that is one of
the best stories to fall follow as we go forward
and get ready for the one off season. We know
that Zack Wilson, barring some sort of crazy outcome, is
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going to be drafted by b y U, uh sorry
out of b y U to the Jets as a
number two overall pick. And I'm gonna put up a
poll question on this, I think later today maybe, and
we'll talk about it a little bit on Tuesday, because
I'm curious what you guys think. And I'm actually gonna
have later in the week as well. Trent Dilfer come in.
Trent Dilfor is a big OutKick guy and uh he
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also uh is a brilliant when it comes to breaking
down quarterbacks going into the NFL Draft. He had to
uh going into last year's draft. I'm curious what he
thinks of all these playmakers because he works with a
lot of them at the Elite eleven, so I'm sure
that he's going to have a some interesting takes force
He's scheduled to join us later in the week and
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break down all of this. But the story by far
that is hanging over the NFL Draft is it's owned
by Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch, and it is what
are the San Francisco forty Niners going to do at
the number three pick, because as they go, the rest
of the draft goes. I'll tell you if they take
Justin Fields. Then I think it's very likely that Kyle
Pitts is gonna go number four overall, that Pena Swel
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is gonna go number five overall to the Bengals, and
then we're gonna get to the Dolphins, and maybe somebody
will trade up at six because maybe somebody's gonna want
Trey Lance or mac Jones, but maybe not. But I
do think those five picks go that way. If the
forty Niners take mac Jones, then somebody may be interested
in trading up with the Falcons and taking that number
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four pick, uh and going and grabbing Justin Fields. So
that is the full grum point, that is the pivot point,
that is the the element of the first round of
the NFL Draft, or everything can begin to change. And
by the way, we are going to be having a
live out kick show in downtown Nashville to celebrate the
NFL Draft next Thursday. I'll be giving you details more
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Sports Radio Monday Edition. I hope you're having a fantastic
morning if you are just waking up on the West Coast,
as I know many of you may well be. Since
it is now five am. There Dodgers Padres best actual
sporting event of the weekend. Danny g is going to
join us and break down everything in the next segment.
(00:44):
I put him on Dodgers Padres Watch. So I do
think that was a phenomenal series going on. We'll see
what we learned, if anything. Also, Jake Paul knocks out
Ben askerin in a wild Is it fair to call
it like a hooting nanny? I feel like that was
kind of a hooting nanny of a boxing uh festivity.
(01:05):
In fact, I'm going to type in what the official definition.
I bet that's the first time that hooting nanny has
ever been used in morning sports talk radio. Ever. Uh,
and let's see it's refers to things. Uh. I don't
think that's right. I think I think I'm looking at
it in the wrong definition here, Dub. When I say
(01:28):
hooting nanny, what does that mean to you? I think
of a hooting nanny as like a big party, kind
of crazy, uh, fractious, universe activity, informal gathering with folk
music and sometimes dancing. What's this is a good question.
What's the difference between a howdown and a hooting nanny?
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And that's a great question too. I don't know that
I would have necessarily, but it felt a little bit
like I just think of it as a chaotic sort
of celebratory event with music and events. And does that
make like and I kind of feel like that's what
the Jake Paul boxing match was like, Yeah, you kind
of get those vibes. It's not you know, something that's
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it's not two mainstream, big time, world renowned boxers. It's
kind of like a backyard. Well it's not particularly well organized,
I guess, is what I would say. You know, like,
I went to bed before this thing started because I
was texting with buddies and they were like, oh, there's
you know, there's just drunk people talking, you know, like
Oscar dale Ya looks like he has no idea what's
(02:30):
going on. Snoop is just smoking blunts like they're cursing
like crazy. Every now and then a musician comes in.
I saw this after Jake Paul knocked the guy out.
I think Snoop Dogg was in the ring with him,
and he like just hands him. I think it was tequila.
Did you see that? And Jake Paul just takes a
big drink of it like he's expecting that it's water.
Uh So, the whole thing was wild, and that was
(02:54):
a decent aspect associated with with that fight, and honestly,
watching the high lights of it, a part of me thinks,
on some level, hey, you know what, I would be
interested in watching Jake Paul box now because he's knocked
out Nate Robinson and he knocked out Ben Askar. And
you can agree or disagree with how legitimate those guys
(03:15):
were as boxers, but it's turned into enough of a
story that I'm inclined if he actually fights a decent opponent. Two,
maybe consider buying that now. I spent the weekend coaching
little league baseball, and uh and so that was my
sporting fix. We had games on Saturday, we had games
(03:36):
on Sunday. I got a day off today, then we
got games again on Tuesday. We got three out of
four days little League baseball. I mean, that's a lot
going on. Uh. So that's what I was watching. I
was also watching, Um, there's a great series between Vanderbilt,
who is right now the number two baseball team in
college and Tennessee, who is right now the number three
(03:57):
baseball team. Uh. And this is the three series, Vanderbilt
one two out of three. But there was a pretty
good crowd in Knoxville for the Vanderbilt Tennessee series. But
I also watched a little bit of Old Miss Mississippi State,
and I tweeted out a video on Sunday night, and
Mississippi is just like they're done with COVID. I saw
(04:18):
a funny quote where Tim Corbin, double national championship winning
coach for Vanderbilt, he said COVID doesn't exist in Knoxville
because they had a big crowd and they're just basically
over it. The state of Mississippi is like, hey, we
got a percent capacity. If you have watched the games
at Old Miss or you have watched the games at
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Mississippi State. They're over it and the same thing. It's true, Dub,
you were just down in Texas at San Antonio. State
of Texas is over COVID. Would you agree with that, Yeah,
there's no doubt about it. And the State of Tennessee
to a large extent, maybe with the exception of downtown
Nashville and maybe Memphis, the State of Tennessee's basicly over
(05:00):
with COVID. We know Florida is done with COVID, but
I do think it's worth thinking about from a sports perspective.
Mississippi and Texas both decided basically simultaneously. We're doing away
with masks. We are doing away with restrictions on businesses.
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If they want to open a hundred percent they can.
And it has now been what is it, April five,
I think was the day that the Texas Rangers effectively
had their home opener and had a sold out stadium.
It's now been basically two weeks, right, Everybody's always like, wait,
two weeks. It's now been two weeks since the Texas
Rangers had roughly forty thousand people in their stadium for
(05:45):
their home opener, and Texas and Mississippi both continue to
set new lows for overall number of cases hospitalizations, and
they're also setting high numbers of overall vaccinations. And so
what I would say to everybody out there, and look,
I've been at the absolute forefront of this in terms
(06:07):
of getting sports back to normalcy and battling the Corona
bros like crazy. It's getting awfully hard for the Corona
bros out there to justify any kind of restrictions at
all in the world of sports. Now that effectively every
single person in the country who wants to get a
COVID vaccine can get one and dub do a little.
(06:29):
I know, live math on this show is always an
exercise and near disaster, But I want you to follow
along with me. If you can look up how many
actual vaccine addition to the fact that any adult that
wants a vaccine can now get one. Look up, I
believe we're over two hundred million now vaccines that we
have actually given. Will you look up the actual number
(06:50):
of vaccine shots that have been given to adults in
the United States. Yeah, I pulled that up and the
numbers I'm seeing over two hundred million, two million doses
given okay, and then the fully vaccinated number of Americans
is eighty two million roughly, okay, eighty two million fully vaxed,
which is a pretty big, impressive number, all right, So
(07:12):
let me break this down for you. So, first of all,
I also want you to look up another number for me,
double look up the number of kids eighteen and under,
because a lot of people are focusing on counting those
kids and kids can't be vaccinated right now. So I'm
gonna guess, and this is just me ballparking like throwing
numbers out, I'm gonna guess there's around sixty or seventy
(07:35):
million kids in the United States right now, meaning eighteen
or under. These are kids that are primarily not eligible
for the vaccine itself. And I've got that number for you, Clay.
It is roughly seventy three million, alright, seventy three million kids.
So just follow me along on math here and again
live math can be a disaster. But three hundred and
thirty million people in the United States minus seventy three
(07:59):
million kids who aren't eligible, that would mean if my
math is right here, roughly we have around two hundred
and fifty seven million adults who can receive a vaccine
and dub you said eighty two million were fully vaccinated. Okay,
let's just round that up and say that everybody who's
fully vaccinated, even though the Johnson and Johnson vaccine is
(08:22):
only one shot. But let's just round that up and
say that that is a hundred and sixty five hundred
and sixty million doses. Right, Let's just say that that
would mean that forty six million more people have had
at least one dose, right, in addition to the eighty
two million who have already had their vaccine. So, and
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this is why I'm arguing in favor of full stadiums.
That would mean that a hundred and twenty eight million
people in the United States out of two hundred and
fifty seven million adults, right, that would mean we're right
at almost identically fifty percent of all adults are either
(09:08):
fully vaccinated or have had at least one vaccine. And
that doesn't even count all of the adults that have
already had COVID. This is just fully vaccinated adults already,
and every day we're adding a new four million doses
and everything else. Look, here's the truth. If you want
to go to a sporting event. You should be able
to go to a sporting event. The numbers are growing rapidly.
(09:31):
I believe it's safe to do so, just like in
Mississippi and Texas. How do we not have a hundred
percent open stadiums and arenas for sports everywhere in the country.
I'm gonna keep beating this drum every day because I
think everybody else in my industry still terrified because they're like,
oh my god, somebody the blue check marks might say
something mean about me on the on the Internet. Oh
(09:53):
my god, what if somebody says something mean to me
on Twitter. That's like the sports media and my universe.
Like a lot of people are like, oh, I'm glad
you're saying what you're saying, Clay. I'm like, how come
you don't say it? When they're like, well, I'm afraid
somebody might say it might get upset. Well, we're in
the opinion business. I don't care if somebody gets upset.
I'm gonna tell you exactly what I think. If we're
at eight percent, and I think about how crazy that is.
Eighty percent of adults two hundred and six million have
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at least gotten one shot eighty million. Would you say
dub have gotten both shots now. And I think there's
like a three week uh period where you go from
your first to year second shot, which would mean theoretically
and within three weeks, So what are we now, April
whatever that day it is. That would mean that by
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mid May, by mid May, a hundred like eighty a
hundred percent in theory of those two hundred million would
have gotten both shots. And by that time, you would
think by mid May even more adults who want to
get the COVID vaccine would have gotten And some people
out there by the way, they're like, hey, Claire, you
getting the comp I was. I was scheduled to go
(10:57):
get the COVID vaccine. I was. I was scheduled on
Tuesday of last week. I was supposed to go eight
days six days ago. I was supposed to go get
the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. I told my wife I
would not there. I had three criteria here to get
a vaccine, all right. Criteria number one, I wanted all
the old and elderly, which is kind of the same thing.
(11:19):
I wanted the old, and I wanted the infirm, the
people who were unhealthy. I wanted all of them to
be able to go first because they were at the
most risk. And then the second criteria for me was
I'm not waiting right like I I hate lines. I
am not showing up anywhere. I will give fifteen minutes
to get a vaccine. If it's gonna take longer than that,
(11:40):
I'm not doing it. And my third criteria was I
don't want to have to have two doctors appointments or
two appointments for a clinic because inevitably there's some major
conflict that's gonna arise. I'm kind of busy. I will
go when there's a one shot. And my wife said, okay,
all three of your criteria are met. I look do
you uh. She booked me. I was gonna go to Publix.
(12:03):
I was gonna walk right in. I was gonna get
my one shot. I was scheduled to go at eleven
thirty am on Tuesday. That was the day they pulled
the one shot. So they called me that morning they said, hey,
you can't get your vaccine. So I still haven't got
my vaccine. If they bring back the one shot, I'll
go do it. Not worry about it. Don't you get
(12:23):
a vaccine. I haven't yet. I've been kind of on
the same criteria as you. I'm probably gonna get it
here in the next couple of weeks, though I would yeah,
when they bring back the one shot, I'll go do it.
I'm not gonna do the two shot. Uh. In the meantime,
we'll be joined by the way by Danny G. He's
gonna talk about the Padres and the Dodger game here momentarily.
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reading them, and Danny G is our expert. I have
deputized him. I said, Hey, over the weekend, I'm probably
not gonna be able to watch a lot of it
because I'm running around coaching little league baseball. But I
do think the best sporting event going on over the weekend.
By far is this rivalry that has developed in a
pretty significant way between the Dodgers and the Padres. Lots
(13:28):
of superstars on both sides. I gotta be honest with you,
I think this is fantastic. Padres fight back on Sunday
when one out of three after two hard fought wins
for the Dodgers, Danny G. How would you. I know
it's April, and I know it is early in the season,
and there's lots that's gonna happen between now and October,
(13:51):
but this feels very much like it could be the
NLCS before all is said and done. How would you
assess the matchup early on in the season. Danny G. Yeah,
you're right about checking the calendar, because we're not used
to playoff atmosphere baseball. It really is, and what it's
turned into is all these a lot of them newly
(14:14):
found Padre fans chanting beat l A. And half the
stadium that was allowed in over the weekend was chanting
can't beat l A. This has been awesome since last
year when there was those couple of rapping Padre fan
kids where that video that went viral. The Padre fans
celebrating tearing the downtown up like they won the World
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Series when they had just made the playoffs. So San Diego,
they've been super hungry for a winning baseball team and
the Dodgers stand in their way. It has been a
great rivalry and what a fun weekend. I actually was
in San Diego County on Saturday, so I got to
watch Saturday night the magical Nookie game with half Dodger fans,
(14:58):
half Padre fans. That was an incredible catch in the
second game of the series, and he has strung together
a series of incredible catches. Clayton Kershaw also looked phenomenal
early as he has oftentimes. Uh in this in this series,
how did you assess Fernando Tatis Jr. Who says he
thinks or hopes. I mean, this is probably the thing
(15:18):
that's hanging over the Padre season the most is how
healthy is he going to remain with his shoulder. Well,
he needs to concentrate on his fielding. He's had seven
errors in seven games, and he hasn't exactly been spectacular
yet at the plate. I know, obviously he's been battling
that injury, but look, they got a lot of slag
(15:39):
on that team, but they haven't had a lot of
winning to back it up to this point, and obviously
did not farewell last season in the playoffs. The Padres
that I've already gotten on the nerves of most Dodger
fans are pro far must Grove Tatis who were talking
about right now, and obviously Manning Machado, who has a
long history with the Dodgers. Isn't this great for baseball? Though?
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Because I'm sitting back you, you know, we've been doing
the show for five or six years or whatever the
heck it is. I don't know that we have talked
about April baseball on this show ever before. But I
think objectively, if you looked at everything that was going
on over the course of the weekend in sports, there
is no way to argue for anything. I guess you
(16:22):
could maybe argue that Jake Paul fight, which we've talked
about a little bit. Uh, you could maybe argue that
that was on some level, But the three game series
between the Dodgers and the Podres, to me, is the
best thing on the sporting calendar over the weekend. Yeah. Well,
it's cool to hear you say that. Like I don't
even I don't think i'd be in crazy now. Some
partly this might be because usually the NBA and the
(16:44):
NHL playoffs are going by now, so I don't think
that we would usually be sitting around, you know, like
paying as much attention to April baseball. Uh. And maybe
it's just that my kids have gotten me back into
baseball a lot more than I ordinarily would be. But
I don't think that I think that's objective true, Like
if you had everybody who's listening to us right now,
I don't know how you could argue for anything else
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that was a bigger storyline than this series between the
Dodgers and the Padres. And I think it's partly because
one of the things that baseball struggles with is big
stars that people care about outside of the local community. Right.
Because I always say, and this is true if you
look at the if you look at the numbers, regionally,
(17:28):
baseball destroys, for instance, the NBA. Right. And what I
mean by that is a local baseball team is far
more watched than a local basketball team, uh NBA versus
Major League Baseball in a particular local market. And I'll
give you an example, and I'll just throw out a
bunch of them, Like the Washington Nationals are way more
(17:51):
watched than the Washington Wizards. The Atlanta Braves are way
more watched than the Atlanta Hawks, right, uh, the whoever
it is. The Texas Rangers are more watched than the
Dallas Mavericks. I think all those are true. But nationally
people care more about the NBA because the NBA has
bigger stars, and so the national game gets more attention,
(18:16):
uh than the regional game. But I feel like baseball,
at least for the Dodgers and the Padres and maybe
some of these other additional teams now as well, starting
to create a little bit more of a national buzz
where guy and girl out there that might not care
about the Padres or the Dodgers understands that these two
teams don't like each other and that's something worth paying
(18:37):
attention to because it's got some national cash in addition
to the local obviously bonanza that this is for Southern California. Yeah,
you have to feel the energy that was in the
sports bar on Saturday night. It was off the meter.
It reminded me of postseason play. Yeah, and you know
normally and can you remember seeing that in April, though,
(19:00):
it was what I'm saying in Major League Baseball. I've
never seen that in my life. Differ time of the year,
as the NBA gets closer to the playoffs, we would
be paying attention to Lebron in a d here trying
to repeat with those guys still on the shelf, uh
in the Lakers just kind of holding on over five
during this stretch with them out, there has been even
(19:21):
more focus on the Dodgers here in Los Angeles. I
hear a M five seventy on everywhere gas stations through
car windows when I'm at stop like, I hear Dodgers
pre and post. I mean, it is a Dodger crazy
city right now. Yeah, it is a lot of fun.
And again I think that Southern California certainly has that vibe.
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But I feel like that was something that was being
talked about among sports fans, partly because there's not necessarily
anything else going on. You're a huge music guy. Did
you watch the Jake Paul fight? No? I did not
get to see that, So was that a conscious choice
by you? Was it money? Like we talked about this
earlier with Aunt Taylor in the first hour we talked
(20:01):
about the Jake Paul fight, and he was like, yeah,
I was, you know, kind of curious to see how
it was going to go. And so he watched and
he was like a total mess. And I know for
music purposes, like you are a big fan of a
lot of what was going to be done in terms
of the performances. So why did you not watch? Because
one of the conversations we had was if you didn't watch,
(20:23):
I know there are a lot of casual sort of
YouTube Jake Paul fans who may not really care that
much about boxing at all, but they're interesting in his
interested in his story. You didn't watch, what would it
take for you to watch a fight like that? I
was out of town this past weekend, so that's the
main reason I didn't watch. But I mean, normally I
(20:45):
think I would have if it was reasonably priced. I
liked the music acts that were involved, but some of
it also kind of seemed to me like they were
trying to draw people in based on that as much
as the fights. It's not more. Maybe some of the
reviews I read afterwards some some pros and cons about
how it went down. I missed it, But if they
(21:07):
were to do it again, I think I have enough
curiosity and interest in it to where I would purchase it.
All right, So other question, I'm curious about you for
this too. Dub I tweeted out Sunday Ole Miss and
Mississippi State and I just talked about this in the
last segment to open the third hour. Ole Miss and
Mississippi State College baseball in the SEC is a big deal.
(21:28):
They had a hundred percent attendance for their series between
Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Starkville, Texas Rangers. Massive crowds
as well. The number of COVID cases in Mississippi and
in Texas are at year lows. What do you think
as a sports fan and you're in southern California? Start
(21:50):
with you, Danny G. When you watch hundred percent full stadiums,
what do you think? Super jealousy? I think it's nice
that those fans get to make their own choice about
whether or not they want to go, and I think
that that's how it should be at this point. Yeah,
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things are slightly opening back up in Southern California. Finally,
Like one thing I've noticed last week when I was
leaving the studios, it was about seven am. West Coast time,
it was bumper to bumper traffic. And for people who
don't know, like our studios in l A are in
Sherman Oaks, and you guys can look outside and see
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and for the last year, like I mean, I mean,
you can speak to it way better than I can.
But you can look outside onto the street and some
days there's been hardly anybody there. It's been like a
ghost town. Right For the first few months it was
a ghost town for sure, and then about halfway through
the pandemic about the traffic on the freeway, which wasn't bad.
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You I could fly home, And then in the last
couple of months it got to about it as of
I want to say, three weeks ago, I've noticed it
is now back to bumper to bumper. My girlfriend commutes
to work from Thousand Oaks to Long Beach. She was
doing that drive in an hour with you know, no
traffic because of COVID. Now it's taking her two hours
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to do the same drive with everything feeling. As far
as that goes back to normal, God man, if we
could go to a Dodger game, that would be amazing.
You know, we just want to go and see our
team again. And I would love for them to just
open up the stadium, take all the precautions you need,
and keep everybody's masks on. But let me go to
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the damn game if I want to. W were in
San Antonio over the weekend for a wedding in Texas.
What did it feel like at the wedding? And what
does it look like to you? Like? It's funny because
in Nashville, Tim Corbin, who is the Vanderbilt men's baseball coach,
he came out and said into the credit of the
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University of Tennessee crowd in Knoxville, COVID doesn't exist in Knoxville.
And that was a great baseball series that was going
on to uh, number two Vanderbilt against number three Tennessee
if you like college baseball. And in Knoxville they're finally
starting to open up as well. Uh, what did it
feel like at the wedding? And and does it when
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you've been back to Texas and you've been back so
many times, does it feel pretty much back to normal there? Yeah,
it's pretty much on normal. The wedding was outside, the
weather was great. I mean I don't think I saw
a single mask. Uh, so I think COVID's probably over
in Texas too, but I mean I go to Texas
and I live in Tennessee. It's pretty much the same
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in both places. So it's like there's a huge difference.
And you know, Nashville has still been I mean, not
compared to l A or New York or any places
like that, but like I think the Vanderbilt men's base
I say men's baseball, but the Vanderbilt Baseball stadium, I
think they're limiting them to like seven hundred fans and
it seats thirty seven hundred, So I mean, they've still
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been super conservative compared to let's say Old miss or
Mississippi State, where I don't know if you guys saw
the videos that I tweeted out, but like the whole
stadium is full and there's not a single mask in it.
Like people in those places are over it. And that's
why I started off the segment by saying, hey, it's
been a month since Joe Biden said it was Neanderthal
thinking for the state of Texas and for Mississippi to
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basically open back up and do away with mask man
mandate requirements and all, uh, you know, a hundred percent
attendance effectively in the Texas Ranger Stadium and everywhere else.
And my position at this point is, if you want
to go to a sporting event, there should be a
hundred percent full stadiums everywhere. If you don't want to go,
that's fine. But every adult can get the COVID vaccine now,
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I mean legitimately every state. If you are sixteen or eighteen,
whenever the age ranges in your area, let's just say
eighteen and up, you can go get the COVID vaccine.
If you want it. It's available to you. It's not
that hard to get now. And to me, once everybody
has the ability to get the COVID vaccine, I don't
understand how every stadium in America isn't up to People
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may not buy the tickets, people may not want to go.
It may take a while for everybody to get comfortable.
But if you look at Texas and you look at Mississippi,
and I'm just using those two places an example right now,
because they effectively ended the mask mand aid at the
same time, the number of cases there have continued to plummet,
and in fact they're at year lows. The sports fan
in California would agree with you, Clay. I was talking
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to a friend over the weekend who's also a Dodgers fan.
They were telling me that their family of five, if
they wanted to get some of those exclusive Dodger tickets
right now, it would cost them seven hundred dollars you
get into Dodgers Stadium, And that is ridiculous. And in
the big reason right now is because obviously it's that
minimum capacity due to COVID restrictions. If that were opened up,
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then we could all go back to the games. And
like you said, to his choice, it's my choice. You
don't know if I've had my vaccine or if the
guy next to me has. It should now be our
choice because of where we're at with this. This was
gonna be a few weeks of our life, and now
it feels like it's gonna be a few years of
our life. So part in us sports fans, if we're
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super frustrated, Yeah, fifteen days to stop the spread has
turned into, like, you know whatever, it is now six
hundred days to stop the spread, and uh, I guess
it's less than that, but uh, you know whatever, it
is four hundred days or something and counting. Frankly, most
sports fans are just fed up with it. And by
the way, if you're listening to me and you are
(27:41):
still terrified, you don't have to go to games, just
like you didn't have to go to games last year
or the year before that or any other time. Right Like,
at some point we have to allow Americans to make
their own decisions and assess their own risk. And I
just I don't see this is remotely difficult. Now you're
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talking to a guy who took his family two games
in the NFL throughout the entire NFL season, and I
went to UH. I went to college basketball games, and
I went to college football games. So I've been living
my life pretty much as normal for basically since May
of last year. But it's been almost a year. I mean,
(28:22):
I was on an airplane UH last May, and I've
been not as much as dub who's flown all over
the place, but I've I've probably been to seven or
eight states now, UH in the last year. And I mean,
I just think it's way past time for those of
us who want to be normal to be able to
go to sporting events at a percent capacity. And by
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the way, I don't know that the stadiums are gonna
be at a hundred percent capacity. But when I was
watching the events that were taking place over the weekend,
and I look at Mississippi State and I look at
everything that's going on in Texas, I think they're kind
of sending a message that it's way past time to
get back to normal and be able to have as
many fans as possible in these venues. Uh, Danny G.
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Appreciate it. Um, we will talk to you. I'm sure tomorrow.
When when do you want the five star reviews for
everybody out there? Let's get them in so that I
could read them on Wednesday Morning show. All right, Wednesday morning,
So you got today and tomorrow, get your five star
reviews in. Danny G's gonna go by the way early.
I We're not gonna do a full Animal Thunderdome, but
just a preview. I'm sure you saw the Bobcat video
(29:26):
that went viral, right, that has been tweeted into US
probably two thousand times. Yes, so what day should we do?
What day should we do the Animal Thunderdome this week?
I think five star reviews Wednesday, Animal Thunderdome on Thursday.
All right, so we will talk Bobcat. If you haven't
seen that video of the Bobcat, I mean it went
(29:46):
viral everywhere. Uh. Guy's wife gets attacked by a bobcat.
I mean he he threw that thing like he was
Roger Clemens. I mean I bobcat went flying through the air.
We'll talk about it. We'll play the audio for you then,
uh and when you return, we will break down close
out the final bit of the show with a little
bit of NFL Draft drama. This is outkicked the coverage
(30:10):
with Clay Travis. Hey, I'm Doug Gottlieb. The podcast is
called All Ball. We usually talk all basketball all the time,
but it's more about the stories about what made these
people love their sport and all the interesting interactions along
the way. We talked to coaches, we talked to players,
(30:30):
We tell you stories. You download it, you listen to it.
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coming up tomorrow we are scheduled to be joined. I
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should be fun. By Scott Drew, Baylor men's basketball coach,
gave him a little bit of time after he won
the national championship. He's gonna spend some time a lot
of OutKick fans down at Baylor, and I'm excited to
talk to Scott Drew about the Monster Championship that he
won and the trajectory of that program going from taking
over in the middle of probation in two thousand three
(32:15):
to leading to a championship this year. What was that experience? Like,
should be a lot of fun. Uh, we are going
to have a really good week of shows, just trust
me going forward, and one thing will be breaking down,
which will be a massive part of this story, because
I think it's the biggest story in all of the
NFL Draft is what are the forty niners going to do?
Because the numbers keep bouncing around, we know number one
(32:38):
overall Trevor Lawrence going to the Jags. And by the way,
I feel like in many ways we're underrating the combo
of Urban Meyer and Trevor Lawrence. Let me just say
this too. Trevor Lawrence got criticized because of a Sports
Illustrated article that came out and he sent a tweet
out about it. We're basically he was like, Hey, you know,
I love football, but it's not everything in my can
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we stop this illusion that all you have to be
concerned about is your sport like you should if you
are a healthy, well rounded person. I want you to
care about sports, and I want you to be upset
if you lose, but I also want you to understand
that what you do for a living doesn't define you completely, right, um,
(33:23):
And so I do think that there's, uh, there's this
element of lying that football requires where top draft picks
have to be like, man, if I lose a game,
I'm not able to sleep for like months at a
time and everything else. Ah, Trevor Lawrence. Look, he didn't
lose very many games at Clemson. He's obviously incredibly talented,
but it's kind of ridiculous to assume that all he
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would care about his football. And so I thought that
was a little bit ridiculous the way that whole story
played out. But I do think that it may be
true that all Urban Meyer cares about his football. So
I am and do think that that is one of
the best stories to fall follow as we go forward
and get ready for the one off season. We know
that Zack Wilson, barring some sort of crazy outcome, is
(34:07):
going to be drafted by b y U, uh sorry
out of b y U to the Jets as a
number two overall pick. And I'm gonna put up a
poll question on this, I think later today maybe, and
we'll talk about it a little bit on Tuesday, because
I'm curious what you guys think. And I'm actually gonna
have later in the week as well. Trent Dilfer come in.
Trent Dilfor is a big OutKick guy and uh he
(34:29):
also uh is a brilliant when it comes to breaking
down quarterbacks going into the NFL Draft. He had to
uh going into last year's draft. I'm curious what he
thinks of all these playmakers because he works with a
lot of them at the Elite eleven, so I'm sure
that he's going to have a some interesting takes force
He's scheduled to join us later in the week and
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break down all of this. But the story by far
that is hanging over the NFL Draft is it's owned
by Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch, and it is what
are the San Francisco forty Niners going to do at
the number three pick, because as they go, the rest
of the draft goes. I'll tell you if they take
Justin Fields. Then I think it's very likely that Kyle
Pitts is gonna go number four overall, that Pena Swel
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is gonna go number five overall to the Bengals, and
then we're gonna get to the Dolphins, and maybe somebody
will trade up at six because maybe somebody's gonna want
Trey Lance or mac Jones, but maybe not. But I
do think those five picks go that way. If the
forty Niners take mac Jones, then somebody may be interested
in trading up with the Falcons and taking that number
(35:33):
four pick, uh and going and grabbing Justin Fields. So
that is the full grum point, that is the pivot point,
that is the the element of the first round of
the NFL Draft, or everything can begin to change. And
by the way, we are going to be having a
live out kick show in downtown Nashville to celebrate the
NFL Draft next Thursday. I'll be giving you details more
as we go forward. All right, I appreciate all you
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