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April 12, 2024 • 42 mins

Doug, Dan and Jason Stewart discuss the latest with Shohei Ohtani's interpreter and what they now think of the situation. Dan and Doug welcome NBA Insider Marc Stein onto the show to how things look going into the final week of the NBA regular season and to preview the NBA playoffs. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug and the guys through a game involving Augusta National holes and greens.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
What up? Good on to you Dan Patrick Show, Fox
Sports Radio. We're getting you ready for the weekend Dan
Patrick Show, broadcasting live from sunny southern California. Welcome in. Yeah.
I kind of got into this last hour buyer that
the downside to hosting the Dan Patrick Show is that

(00:25):
on the West Coast is that you got to get
up super early in the morning.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Right.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
The upside to it is your weekend starts at you know,
nine o'clock. Okay, And the problem is if you do
this show like every day, well then Monday at your
weekend ends earlier. No, no, No, our show is you know,
three eastern noon Pacific. So we get the regular traditional
end to our weekend, but we start our weekend earlier.

(00:49):
So when Scott Shapiro said do you want to host
the Dan Patrick Show on Friday March twelfth, I said,
hell yeah, because we want to start our weekend at
nine o'clock.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
I also thought that there would be masters going on
that we wouldn't be privy to see outside of what
we can get from the site and there streaming. But
because of the delays yesterday he actually got broadcast coverage
of the Masters this morning. So it's gone away now
for a while because the first round is over. But
that was an added bonus to today coming into work.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
More rain and storms in the in the southeastern part
of the United States. We'll see what what today's round
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Speaker 5 (01:23):
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Speaker 5 (01:48):
No yawning.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Hey hey noyney, no time out timeout What.

Speaker 6 (01:54):
You have been known to yawn on the air? I
know that's the problem though you yawned. What happens when
you see somebody on it makes you yawn. It's contagious, like, dude,
don't do that now.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Dirty pool, man, it's dirty. I was just gonna say,
dirty pool. That's all right.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Yeah, seriously, I don't know if it's the thing with Holiday.
I mean, he totally ads your back, so you know
he's a good friend. But now he is how he rolls.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
He's just like, dude, no pretension, like come over here,
no ego whatever, Like I.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Don't think you're pretentious if you ask someone to take
their feet off the coffee table.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
No, no, I just I think that that's a common.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
I'm just saying, like I've been to his house and
it is he's right like that. There's four dogs. It's
it's incredibly clean, but it's he does not want anybody
to feel like, you know, you need to worry about anything.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Poor Covino and Rich. I always feel bad because if
they they come in right after Dog every day at
two o'clock Pacific, and that that table just must reek.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Why there's nothing like I am. I'm a clean person.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
I don't know Dog not only a feed up guy,
but you're a bare feed up guy. That's that's it
takes it to another another.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Don't like my getting sweaty is the thing, Like I
just don't line getting sweaty. And I'm here and the
studio is super cold, so everything is like dry and
crisp in the studio, stout, dirty pool is selling up
my my feet. Like all I said was you yawn.
I didn't want you yawn because when you yawned like that,
one makes me y.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
I listen.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
I had a second Jason Stewart felt that it was
it was dirty pool.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, well I just need more coffee, That's really what
it is. I don't want to don't I don't want
to yawn. Okay, So let's let's state where we were
on show, Heyotani when the story came out, I am
the and again professed like I believe in like the

(03:44):
goodness of everybody, like I've been. I'm I'm a lot
more gullible than I really should be, but I generally
tend to believe stories. And one of the reasons I
do is not out of just goodwill towards man and
goodness of my heart. That's part of it. But I
will also tell you that one of the reasons that

(04:06):
I bought show Hayo tanis story when he said, hey,
I never I never bet on baseball and I've never
bet is because boy, when you say never ever, that
seems really easy to prove. And all it takes is
you know, one story, one person to say those claims

(04:31):
are false. And here's how I know. For everything to
become a house of cards, and like, why would show
heo Tani say that unless it was absolutely true, whereas
other people are a lot more artful, Like take Billy Donovan.
Billy Donovan, whether or not he was or wasn't a
candidate for Kentucky. If you listen to what he said,
it was like artful. He was like, no, no, people

(04:54):
thought I didn't love recruiting. I love recruiting. Were you content, well,
I have not been contacted by I'm solely focused on
the Chicago Bulls season, right Like he didn't say anything
about the future, he didn't say anything about He didn't
say anything about anything, only like he loved his time there.
He's focused on the Bulls and he likes what they're

(05:15):
building there. He said nothing, whereas show Hay was like, ironically,
through a different translator, said hey, i'n't done any of
this stuff, okay, And that was at the at the
impetus of it. At first, I thought, all right, the
translator is a fall guy. Then I heard show Hey
say never didn't do it. I'm like, man, he wouldn't

(05:36):
say that. We're not walking down this path again. I
believe him, Okay. Jason Stewart does believes nobody anybody.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
He think everything. He's not like.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Super conspiracy theorists, but he's he's not like Aaron Rodgers,
but he's closer to Aaron Rodgers than he is to
mister Rogers.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
And you know what I mean, just content was, you know,
audio content wise, the conspiracy theory is always the most
interesting part. I just believing show Hey isn't very interesting.
But I will say this, you know, a lot came
out yesterday and it looks like show Hayes off the hook,
and I'm glad as a Dodger fan, I'm glad that's
not going to be hanging over us. But there was one, one,

(06:20):
one part of the affidavit that that raised my interest,
and it was the text exchange between the bookie and
the interpreter. And the bookie at some point I think,
I think the interpreter on the day that he knew
all the all the stuff was coming out, It's like,
did you see the reports and the book He said
something along the lines of yeah, I know it's a
cover up, you know, but but you know, we understand

(06:43):
or whatever, And that kind of alarmed me a little bit,
and then he went on to make a threat. At
some point in the text messages I can't you know,
I can't find you. Maybe we need to go up
to show Hey o Tani when he's walking his dog.
And I think MLB would be scared out of their
gord at that text, because it isn't about show Hey

(07:04):
or the interpreter betting on baseball, or if they made
baseball bets. It's if they get into a deep enough hole.
Could you approach Otawny and compromise him if he's leveraged
from millions of dollars? And what could he do to
a baseball game? Sure to make that happen. That's their
biggest fear, of course. And I think that.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
And this is like forty million dollars in losses, by
the way, incredible, which you know, previous to the signing
the seven hundred million dollar deal, that's it's a crap.
That's a crap down a money, even if it's seve
hundred million dollars and Buyer, where were you originally on this?

Speaker 5 (07:39):
I thought that it was a cover up.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Okay, so you guys both thought cover up. I was.
I thought there was a fall guy thing, and then
I totally bought it. Okay. Then I'm like, you know what,
I actually because I there are guys that are snake
oil salesman. I liken this too. Do I think people

(08:01):
knew about the Sandusky thing, Sure, but I also think
there was enough people that didn't. Even in state college.
Remember like he they literally said he was leaving college
football coaching to run his program with young boys, like
nobody thought. Nobody said anything about it at all. And

(08:21):
when you're a con man, like you have to con
the people closest to you or it never works. So anyway,
all right, Dan, so what give us such just a
snippet of some of the stuff that came out yesterday?

Speaker 5 (08:35):
Well, I in just in terms of I don't I'm.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
There's some tech sorry, there's some text messages everything, some
text message being him and this bookie, right, and the
text messages say like and that that you know, the
bookie is threatening to out him, to show Hey, right
out him, to show Hay and says I'm really bad
at this sports gambling stuff.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
You think, see, I don't you know? The details is
sixteen million dollars whatever. All of that is fine, it's
not fine. But to what like Jason's talking about, like
one angle of this, I look at it from kind
of like the side angle of of where you guys

(09:21):
are of. I'm not saying that show Hey is guilty.
There's obviously enough evidence here, but we look at this
as like that show Hey is just this awful victim
when his whether it's naive, is the crime that we're
going to be committing him. I don't know how you
let someone have this much control over all.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
Everything that you have.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
And I'm not starting to say he's guilty and like
he should be, Like that's a fault for how we
look at this whole situation. I think Gotani's coming out clean,
but it's like, dude, you're an idiot then and so
naive to let someone have this much control over what
you know it was your financial in other parts of

(10:08):
your personal life. That to me is I just don't
see any other athlete like willingly and openly doing that.
I get athletes getting bad business deals, real estate deals,
they fall apart somebody like and all that. But this
is like literally like from his account and all I
feel bad for him. I don't feel bad for him
because it's like, how do you let somebody have this
much control over what was so important and so personal

(10:31):
to you?

Speaker 2 (10:32):
It's a great question. That's really the question at hand here.
It's not the gambling. It's not did you know a
guy who's losing gambling or even losing with your money,
it's these amounts and access to access to that amount
of money, like how did you not how did you
not know? How did you not know? And yeah, I

(10:55):
don't know?

Speaker 4 (10:57):
And I think that's the part that makes people still skeptical.
And I don't think people are rooting for shohe Otani
to be guilty in all of this. I do think
people just can't put two and two together to be like,
how did it get to this point? And nobody's gonna
have enough evidence to combat with the FBI put out yesterday,
so it's gonna quiet it down a bit, but they're

(11:18):
quite a bit. But I still think that I don't
think that two and two add up to four until
we hear Shoyotani actually answer questions instead of just taking
out statements and releasing statements. From that part, there's a
lot that we don't know about.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Misuhara texted this bookie, I'm terrible at the sports betting thing. Huh,
any chance you can bump me again? As you know,
you don't have to worry about me not paying. That
was November of twenty two. I have a problem, he
allegedly said on June twenty fourth of twenty three, and

(11:53):
then in November of last year. I'm gonna be honest,
I end up losing a lot of money on Crypto
the last couple of years, and I took a huge
hit obviously with the sports too. Just want to ask
any way we can settle this amount. I've lost too
much on the site already. Of course, I know it's
my fault. By the way, he got out of crypto
before Crypto spiked back up. This guy's the worst, truly,

(12:17):
I think I got out of Crypto.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Sounds like the New Age, perfect excuse to a bookie.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Actually a name of a really cool progressive rock band
as well. Get out of Crypto.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
And these requests for bumps and his limits were one
day after another. There's one that was like June twenty
second and June twenty third, And trust me, it's the
last time.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
It's the last time. I know this will be the
last time. Yes, I hate to ask again, this is
the last time.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Words uttered by every gambler or it's or or the
the every drunk. Who's who's got their head on the toilet?

Speaker 6 (12:51):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (12:51):
No, never, I'm never drinking again. My my late college coach,
and he set in and we played the last two
years of my school. Both years we played against UNLV
in Vegas, and both years we got the plane. He
would say, Man, if your twenty one, you know you

(13:13):
can't game one sports, but you can throw some money down.
But they don't keep building these buildings because the house
is losing money, right, That was his speech. They don't
keep building buildings because the house is losing money. Man,
did this guy find out the hard way? Can you
imagine being down? Like? Can you imagine being down? I can't.

(13:34):
The reason I don't gamble is because it physically hurts
me to go to my account and to give money.
And then if it's sports, like I'm supposed to know
something about sports, you know, so you go and you
bet on sports, you feel I don't know what feels worse.
I will tell you that Jason Stewart trying to teach
me how to play craps and us collectively losing what

(13:57):
was it about eight hundred dollar in thirty minutes?

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (14:03):
That what debt did? Feel like a kick in the nuts.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Money could go quick and crops if you get cold.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Now, well he listen, he's got a He had a
whole plan, a whole system, Dan, whole plan, whole system
we were going to take down.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
I'm not one guy at Craps with the system. I'm
the one guy with them weird NBA con last summer.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
And he had a system and he was going to
teach your boy because I played a little crabs, but
I don't really know what I'm doing. I was like
one of those guys like hey hey, oh hey hey,
and then they pushed money away, like hey hey, I
didn't really didn't know. So he's like, oh listen, here's
the bet on this line, this dollar yo.

Speaker 5 (14:36):
Dah yo.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
It seems like so much fun, Like who whoa, hey, Jason,
what happened? They're taking my money away? They're not bringing
in more money. Don't worry. We got this. It'll it'll turn.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
Jason's wanted every pool that I've gotten him into. So
I am I would not be yeah you what a
big part.

Speaker 5 (14:52):
I will tend.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
But here's where he's a solid dude. Okay, true story,
solid dude. So we both His plan was like let's
take out five hundred bucks. We'll pool our money off
a thousand bucks. Whatever we walk away with will split. Well,
we walked away with like one hundred and seventy five
dollars total. He's like, here, I feel so bad, you

(15:12):
just take it. So I went to the blackjack table
and won most of it back, all right, and then
I tried to give it back to the adjacent and
he was like, I'm not taking it back. I lost
all that money that.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
I mean that last part to some bellish, and that.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Makes bellis I had. I was update like eight hundred
and fifty bucks and I'm like, dude, I won money back. No,
you won that money back. I lost this the money
previously and I was like, that's insane. But okay. Then
I went to had the most amazing steak dinner by myself.
That was really incredible. The last part I might have
been bellished anyway, but that's a solid guy.

Speaker 5 (15:48):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
So now do we with these text messages? Dan, You're
still like something doesn't make sense.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
I don't know the Yeah, I don't know the energy
to care as much anymore. There's nothing that I'm gonna
do that's gonna top anything. That the FBI has done.
I just find it absurd.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
But they did. They did, like seal this right, it's
it's a plea agreement was reached and we got some
text messages and like that's it. That's all. Nothing more
for to see here. Jason Stewart, always the cynic, does
this exonerate show?

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Hey, in your mind, I'm always going to be skeptical
of everything, that's it. Yeah, I always skeptical.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
I'm I actually Danny make really good points, really good points,
and like, is this the most naive guy ever, the
greatest friend ever, or just bad businessman? He's just like
I just hit baseball's I don't care. That part seems

(16:47):
it seems unbelievable, really doesn't. Yes, for whatever reason, I
actually believe it to be true. It's like one of
those it seems so far fetched. They're like, you know what,
this is their story and I haven't heard anybody take
a shot at it. It doesn't make sense, but okay, okay.

(17:11):
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Speaker 2 (18:36):
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we creeping up on the last weekend of the regular
season before we get to the play in tournament? And
Mark Stein joins us longtime friend friend of the Dan
Patrick Show as well, NBA Insider publishes a substack called
the Steinline. You also co hosts This League Uncut with

(18:58):
fellow Insider Chris Haynes. You can find it where you
find any of your podcasts on the iHeart Podcast network. Mark,
Let's let's start with the West right where you have
there's four teams right now in the play in but
these are some prominent names like right as of now,

(19:20):
Kevin Durant and the Big Three in Phoenix, Lebron and
Anthony Davis and Steph and Clay and Draymond. They're all
in the play in so that means only two and
there's no guarantee that even both them, But with the
Kings being depleted, only two can advance and don't feel

(19:41):
like the all time backfire if we don't have one
of those groups of superstars in the playoffs.

Speaker 9 (19:50):
Well, you can also look at it the other way.
The Lakers and the Warriors have lived in the nine
and ten spots for weeks. So if it wasn't for
this play in turn that Lebron once wanted people fired for,
they'd already be out. I mean, this West is I
feel like we've been talking about it now for weeks,

(20:12):
but it really comes into focus when we're at the
end of the season and the standings are what they are.
I mean, last season the West was way down, way
worse than its normal standard, the standard that we've really
come to expect in the West since Michael Jordan's second
retirement in Chicago and it's been a quarter century of

(20:33):
the West is a minefield and last season was just bizarre.
I mean, the Sacramento Kings are not really that far
off last season's pace. They're only going to fall a
win or two shy where they were last season forty
eight wins got you a third and last season's East,
last season's West, it just was a much weaker conference

(20:55):
than we're used to seeing. There were only two fifty
win teams. Denver was No. Number One and ended up
winning at all, but you know, fifty one win Memphis
went out in the first round. And now the West
is back to what we've come to expect really for
twenty five years since.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
Since we're talking about the West as it is, can
we give more credence to a Minnesota or Oklahoma city
because of how strong it is, or is it a
case that, hey, the playoffs are still the playoffs and
you're gonna have to get it done on the playoffs.

Speaker 9 (21:25):
We can do that, but I don't think people will.
I think you're absolutely right. I think people are going
to doubt them until we see it in the playoffs.
But I would also say Minnesota has really won my
respect here in the last month because they lost Karl
Anthony Towns and while they've still been able to maintain
the league's number one defense without him, and Karl Anthony

(21:48):
Towns was not a central figure in the defensive success,
but they are much less diverse offensively without him, and
that will be the question how he looks when he
comes back. I think he's scheduled to come back tonight actually,
so with just a game or two. So first of all,
he's coming back really fast from a meniscus injury. So

(22:12):
how is he going to look when the playoffs starts?
Can he you know, he's going to play a game
or two, have a week of practice. Can he looked?
Can he get back to the offensive level that he
was at? Because I think Minnesota does need him. But
as I said, the Wolves not dropping and winning a

(22:33):
game on Denver's court without and they lost this week obviously,
but the Wolves had a two to one lead in
the season series before Denver won the other night. Minnesota
has really impressed me with how steely they've been without him.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
And then you know there's the other parts of Minnesota thing, right,
which is like Rudy Gilbert has been useless in the
playoffs when he was in Utah, but they found a
way to use him in different ways and be really
effective so far in Minnesota.

Speaker 5 (23:02):
But what does that look like in them?

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Like that's another part of the Minnesota thing which we
haven't really dug into because A worried about Carlin and think.

Speaker 9 (23:07):
Town's health hundred percent. And I think Rudy Gobert when
he got there and he basically acknowledged and yeah, utah,
I got played off the court. That can't happen. And
Chris Finch has found teams and you know, you know
it's they don't just live and drop. I mean, they're

(23:28):
more you know, they have more variety defensively, and they
I mean, they have been the best defense in the
league all season. And Rudy Gobert's bounced back season. I
think last season, his first season in Minnesota, he was ailing.
The back was much more of an issue than we realize.
And you know, I think he will win Defensive Player

(23:48):
of the Year because he's been so good for them,
and again that they've maintained this top level defense all
season long.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
Mark, I know we're talking, I know we're looking at everything.
But there has been a video circulating on social media
with the Lakers not even caring about what Darvin Hann
was saying. Darvin ham was saying in a huddle, is
there is there any saving his job? Is there going
to be a change in the offseason, the Lakers wise
with Darvin Ham, what are we looking at after these

(24:20):
playoffs take place?

Speaker 9 (24:22):
Well, I mean if if you know how the playoffs
turn out, that helps us answer the question. I mean,
there are only you know, three real coaching vacancies in
the league right now. Charlotte surt has begun. Brooklyn and
Washington both have interim coaches, so we know they're going
to be looking But the playoffs always creates more chaos

(24:45):
when teams disappoint and teams lose early. So if the
Lakers can't make their way out of the play and again,
the Lakers have done the playing thing twice before. They're
two to zero in their brief play in history, but
they did it both times as a seventh seed. So
this time they're most likely going to need two games

(25:06):
to get out of the play in. They need the
play in. But you know, again, I think because they
still you know, Lebron James and Anthony Davis, they showed
us last season that you know, they can go this
route and do something. But you know, if if the

(25:28):
Lakers have to play Denver in the first round, that
is not the way you want to start the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
No, you know.

Speaker 9 (25:36):
Is you know, if the Lakers lose a round one
series to Denver, you know, is Darvin Ham the one
who's going to take all the heat for that? I mean,
I don't see the Lakers beating Denver really under any circumstances,
you know, if it's Minnesota or Okac. You know, because
of the Lakers experience, their star power, the expectations, the

(25:59):
way we look at a franchise, there will be tremendous
expectation no matter what the seedings are. So but it's
not just with the Lakers. I mean you could say
the same thing about Cleveland, doctor what happens to them
in the playoffs. You know, Phoenix is another team that
even if they get out of the plane, they're gonna
have you know, they're not going to have home court
advantage in any series. So there will be I do

(26:22):
suspect that playoff results are going to have an impact
on coaching situations, but we don't know yet what that
looks like.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Okay, then we go over to the East and you
have Milwaukee, assuming the honest is back right, but man,
they have not looked like the sharpest knife in the drawer.
They just have not been anywhere near like look, when
the trade was made, I think a lot of us said, boy,

(26:51):
they really took a hit defensively, this could be interesting
no matter what you thought. I would guess Mark, they
have been worse or less cohesive late in the year
than anyone would have thought possible, even the Cynics in
the Strait.

Speaker 9 (27:07):
Yeah, I think they have to go down as the
most disappointing team in the league because you know, they
they did not they did when they conceived the Damian
Lillard trade, you know, through holiday winding up in Boston
was a worst case scenario product of that move, and

(27:27):
so you know, but look, they knew that that was
a risk, and that was a possibility, and they wanted
to swing for the fences and they made this trade
for game and yeah, expectations there are championship or bus
and so you know, it's went in the in the
MVP talk. If you just look at Giannis's statistical production
on its own, you know, a lot of there's been

(27:51):
a lot of chatter this week why is the Luka
Doncic getting more consideration for MVP? Which is conversation and
a you know, and a an opinion that I strongly endorsed.
I think the race should be much closer. But you know,
you could just look at Giannis's numbers individually and say,
wait a minute, this guy shooting better than sixty percent
from the field score and thirty a game. Why are

(28:11):
we not talking about him? And the reason Giannis we're
not talking about is because the Bucks have been the
Bucks have fallen so far short of expectations and just
not even close to the level. And we thought that
looked for a little bit after the All Star Game,
like they had figured it out and Doc Rivers had
really reached these guys and there was defensive improvement. But

(28:34):
what happened last week before the Yannis injury to lose
consecutive games the Washington Memphis Toronto was absolutely there's just
no excuse, alibi?

Speaker 2 (28:46):
So what so what like, listen you and Chris, and
by the way, if you haven't downloaded the podcast, you
need to just call this league uncut. Chris Haynes, Mark Stein.
These two guys, it's not just that they have tons
of sources. They're from such different backgrounds, They have different sources,
so they really encompass. So what's really going on? How
can they be this bad considering how good that the

(29:08):
franchise has been and the talent that they clearly have.

Speaker 9 (29:12):
I mean, I don't know that anyone has an explanation
for what we saw last week beyond the fact that
this clean this team is just clearly not together, because
there's just no way they could lose three games like
that in a row like they did. I mean Washington,
you know, Memphis plays Memphis is you know, as depleted

(29:34):
as anyone. Memphis is. Injury numbers this season are ridiculous. Obviously,
we know John Morant only played nine games all season,
but Memphis is a runaway leader in man games myths
this season. But the Grizzlies play insanely hard. Okay, maybe
I could see that one. But you lose to Washington,
which plays no defense, and then you don't bou You know,

(29:58):
the Memphis loss was that you would have thought we
would have seen a response from the Bucks intensity wise.
I mean, the number one seed is gone and it's
been gone for ages because Boston so far out in
front is that part of it, and the Bucks have
kind of been locked into number two. So I mean,
I guess you could point to that and say that

(30:19):
mustering intensity was an issue because you know, their seed
has essentially been decided. But they they played so poorly
in losing those three games. I mean, you lose at Washington,
you lose at home in Memphis, and now it's two
terrible performances in a row. And then you go to
a Toronto team that has a fifteen game losing stream
and you lose the third in a row, and now

(30:40):
the Bucks have actually endangered the number two seed. I
mean it's you know, I'm sure Doc Rivers is stunned.
And look, all of that as bad as it was,
now Jannis is the main problem because I mean that
a cap string is no joke. I mean, what is
Yiannis began last season's playoffs and he's going to begin

(31:01):
this season's playoffs hurt And that's you know, it's just
that is a said, It's an awful injury, awful timing.
And you know the you know, plus, who are the
Bucks going to see in round one? I mean they
might get you know, they might get Philly or Miami again.
Philly still could move up to six, but Miami is
in the playing So are the Bucks destined to face

(31:24):
Miami again, which of course they don't want to see.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
Yeah, I don't think they want to see Indiana. Either
Pacers and them had their you know, beef earlier this season.
Last one Mark and it's the team that is right
below Milwaukee. How much do we take from the Knicks
win last night in Boston? I mean, I know the
Celtics are you know, leaves and bounds above everyone else.
But on the next side of things, do we take
anything away from that win last night?

Speaker 9 (31:48):
I wouldn't pay too much attention to last night, but
just the Knicks in general, again, even without Randall and
losing him is a massive blow. I mean, they're going
to be asking Jalen Brunton to do just a ton
even more than he does during the regular season in
terms of shot creation and carrying that offense in the playoffs.

(32:08):
And look, I've seen Brunton do it. I've seen Brunston
score forty points against Utah with no Luka Doncic, and
that was before he was this Jalen Brunston. So I
think Brunson can ride to the moment. But obviously their
feelings is not going to be quite what it could
have been with Randall, and you know, Randall's had an

(32:31):
up and down playoff history. To put it, politely, So
I know he wanted to come back and really make
a playoff statement. But they are you know, they're a
team nobody likes to play. You know, with Tom Thibodau,
they're going to be prepared. And you have to say
when og Ananoby's out there, I mean when they eighteen
and three, when Ananobe plays. So, look, the East is

(32:51):
Boston to lose. It would be a catastrophe from the
Celtics perspective to have a regular season like this and
not win the East. But if you're asking me right now,
who is the closest thing to a threat to them,
to the Celtics in the East, I would have to
say the Nicks.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Mark Stein, NBA insider publishes a subsetack called the Steinline.
Of course, he co hosts the podcast This League Uncut
with fellow NBA insider Chris Haynes. You can find it
where you find podcasts. Study enjoyed this last weekend of
the regular season. Let's talk with the playoffs to get
ready to kick off. Appreciate you joining us, all right,
j be good, All right? Jack. Coming up on the
Dan Patrick Show, game Master Dan Bayer has a treat

(33:33):
for you to get you ready for the weekend. What
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On my show, we spend a portion of every show

(34:12):
playing a game. Our game master is Dan Byer. Let's
get to it.

Speaker 5 (34:19):
All right, Doug.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
Here's the name of the game, and I think Joel
is going to have some music playing underneath us that
we're gonna kind of move the game along. And it's
a game that I developed last night, not only because
of my love for the masters which is going on,
but my absolute non interest in marijuana. It's a game

(34:41):
called Read the Greens. This is how it's going to work. Doug,
Jason Stewart, and Joel Elliott, our technical producer, will compete
when I will give you a name you have to
tell me is this a strain of marijuana or an
actual name of a hole at Augusta National Golf Club
where the Masters are being held.

Speaker 5 (34:59):
Are you you guys ready to play? Read the greens
love it? Yes?

Speaker 4 (35:03):
Yeah, all right, let's get it going. Here's the deal.
Oh geez gosh, we got some Masters music here.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
You have to speak in hush town. We are not contestants,
we are patrons.

Speaker 5 (35:16):
The goal is to get nine.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
We're gonna try to get through nine of these quick nine.

Speaker 5 (35:22):
I'm gonna give you a name.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
Each of you are just gonna have to tell me
if you believe it's a whole at Augusta National or
a marijuana strain. Big thanks to the site leafly com.
By the way, you got eight days prepare for that's true.
This is gonna put you ready to go, you know,
for twenty on a Saturday this year. Great stuff for you.

(35:45):
But leafly uh, at the tip of the cap to
them for helping me through this. All right, let's start
it out. What about purple moss, Doug, do you think
that's a whole at Augusta National?

Speaker 5 (35:56):
And we're gonna go around.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
Everyone's gonna get their opportunity to chime in saying that
a strain of Jason Stewart.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
Yeah, that sounds like gone.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
Joel Elliott, do you think that that is I would
have said it's a strain. You guys are correct. Apparently
it's grown in the state of Washington. According to the
Leaflely site, one point purple moss is off the board.
What about Rainbow Rainbow? Jason Stewrett will start with you
on this one. That's a that's a whole or a

(36:30):
hole at Augusta National all right, Joel Elliott.

Speaker 5 (36:33):
It sounds too obvious to be a strain, So I'm
gonna say it's a hole, all right.

Speaker 4 (36:37):
Doug Gottlie, I'm saying that's weed. Doug knowses weed. Rainbow
is an I played a hole on Rainbow. We had funions.
Doug is us and lots of water to one to one, two,
one to one. A little more difficult telling or with

(37:00):
three people. What about Red Bud? Joel Elliott, your first up.
I'm gonna say that's a string, all right, Doug.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Red Bud is the state tree I believe in Oklahoma.
I'm going that's a hole.

Speaker 5 (37:16):
Jason Stewart, it.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
Sounds like a reference from Citizen Kane or is that
Rosebud Red I'm gonna rum.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Is from What's the movie?

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Well, Doug thinks I'll go with a strain a week.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
It is in Augusta National Hole number sixteen. Doug Gottlieb
is out to a three to one to one lead. Gosh, Doug,
you're three for three fifty, wowie, a flowering peach, flowering peach.
Doug will start again. That's trying to decide for years.

Speaker 5 (37:56):
This is the name.

Speaker 4 (37:58):
I'm gonna go a hole Augusta or Orgia A strain
of marijuana. Jason Stewart, Yeah, that sounds like a hole,
Joel Elliott, that sounds like a hole. It is a
whole flowering peach. Is the par fourth third shortest hole
at Augusta National still could provide problems.

Speaker 5 (38:16):
And if you bogey that hole I saw one on TV,
you will not leave with that.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Ultimately refer to it as a long part three.

Speaker 5 (38:24):
It is not.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
It is not four to two to two. Doug Gottlieb
is pitching the perfect game. What about love Affair? Jason
Stewart Love Affair? Is that a marijuana strain or is
that a hole at augusta national love affair.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
I would describe a certain relative of mind of having
a love affair with weed.

Speaker 4 (38:48):
My neighbors as well, no matter who lives in that
house next to us.

Speaker 5 (38:53):
I'm gonna say weed, Doug Gottlieb.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
That sounds like weed string.

Speaker 4 (38:59):
That that is a weed strain. Clean sweep with that one.
Doug's got five, Jason has three, Jolas three four more
to go. How about Holly. I'm gonna say, it's a hole,
all right, a hole, Holly. You want to spark up
some Holly, Doug or you would you rather tee it

(39:20):
up on Holly?

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Holly? Oh, that's a hard one. I'm gonna go it's
the hole.

Speaker 5 (39:26):
It's a hole. Joel.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
You said it's a whole, Jason Stewart, I'm thinking about
Holly Hunter. Broadcast News Fame. I'm gonna say it's a hole.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
Masters, Yes it is, Yes, it is number eighteen. It's
the hole where you walk up. Get your applause for
you're a Master's champ.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Broadcast News for the most famous movie, wasn't she in
that one that they went to outer space and it's
like a time warp thing.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
Maybe choosing the firm She's been a lot firm.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
Back around to Doug Gottlieb in our final round here
of read the Greens, deciphering whether it's a hole at
augusta national name of a hole, or a strain of marijuana. Doug,
what about fire thorn?

Speaker 2 (40:11):
That's a hole at.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
I guess Jason Stewart, you say fire corn thorn? Ohay,
fire thorn? Okay fire Oh that it feels fire corn.
I would definitely say it was weird. So with the
hole Augusta, all right, Joel.

Speaker 5 (40:27):
I'm gonna say it's a hole just because Doug said
it's a whole.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
Doug is pretty confident, and Doug had a reason to be,
because it is a hole. Fire Thorn is the par
five fifteenth Jordan's.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Green green. I can talk like the golf guy, Like
you know, when you tee off, you have the the
redwood or the cypress that leans on the left, slight
dogwood to left and goes uphill. You get the undulated green.
You gotta landed.

Speaker 4 (40:48):
Just what about gold skunk hayes? Jason Stewart, gold skunk Hayes.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
So Jimmy Hendrick's song and it's a strain of.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Weeds all right, smoke it left handed.

Speaker 4 (40:59):
Yes, skunk, I'm going let's say that's a strain, Doug.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Yeah, I'm I'm sparking at sparking man.

Speaker 5 (41:06):
It is, it is, it is.

Speaker 4 (41:08):
It is also how I had to passively aggressively tell
my neighbor that I can smell their marijuana. Do you
guys smell the skunk here the other night? Like it
was really really bad?

Speaker 5 (41:17):
All right?

Speaker 4 (41:18):
Finally the last one, Carolina Cherry Joel, is that a
hole in Augusta National? I'm gonna say it's a hole,
all right, Doug Gottlieb, She's my cherry pie. One of
my favorite music videos growing up as a kid. Right, warrant, Yes, yeah,
it was warrant. I'm gonna go hold Augusta.

Speaker 5 (41:37):
All right.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
Jason Stewart, yep, hold Augusta.

Speaker 5 (41:39):
Jason and Joel finished with seven.

Speaker 4 (41:41):
Doug Gottlieb's pitched a perfect game, Ladies and Gentlemen, nine
for nine.

Speaker 5 (41:44):
He knows his golf, and apparently he knows his weed
a well.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Listen. If you're in Anaheim, check out House of Blues,
Epiphany playing tonight, And if you're in Santa Clara, stop
smoking weed around Dan Byer's family. It's Today and Patrick's Show.
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