April 5, 2024 • 41 mins
Shohei Ohtani hit his first homerun as a Los Angeles Dodger and it has only sparked more controversy for their newest star player, so Dan talks to Dodgers insider Sam Blum and gets all the details. And Dan and the Danettes experience an earthquake in the studio.
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Speaker 5 (01:28):
If you could only watch one March Madness of the
Super Bowl m okay.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
PAULI the entirety of March Madness, okay, all sixty four,
whatever it would be, or the one Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Game now, if I may, you may, the entirety of
March Madness. I believe for the first time this year
includes the women's tournament. I think this is the first
year that they ever used the branding March Madness for
the women, I believe, so I'm including that. Then in
the entirety of March Madness.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I would take March Madness.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Hell yeah, hell yeah all day yeah yeah, of course.
I think this is the first year they've let them
use that, Yeah, I think, which is so stupid.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
By the way, WrestleMania, it's Cody Rhodes hopes to finish
his story. He takes on Roman Rains in the Rock
wrestle Mania forty Saturday and Sunday at sevent eastern. Why
is Cody Rhoades the headliner here and not the Rock
curious about that.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Wait, deep he is it's a tag team match.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, but it says Cody Rhodes hopes to finish his stories.
He takes on Roman Rains in the Rock.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Yeah, they've had a big back and forth the past
couple of months.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But once again, Cody Rhoads is the headliner here, not
the Rock. They're talking about Cody Rhodes finishing his story.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
But that's the story, though.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Is it kind of like Paige Becker's continues her return
to battle Caitlyn Clark in Iowa Fair.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
So it's Saturday and Sunday WrestleMania.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
If I could put it into sports terms for the
rest of us to you know, I go out to
dinner sometimes with people and they try to take a
topic and put it into sort of a sports comparison
so I can understand it. And my wife laughs because
these people are trying to dumb it down as if
I don't have any other interest other than sports. You'd
(03:19):
get like a, you know, it'd be akin to this
is how it was phrased to me last night. You know,
this would be akin to.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And I went, oh no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
No, Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady and I go, okay, okay,
now I understand.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Oh now, my wife, Oh now I get it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
My wife hits me under the table, like, don't do it,
don't do it, you know, be akin to It's like see,
like there's an AFC and an NFC. That's kind of
how the political parties work here, and then at the
end there's a thing called an election where they kind
of face up. Oh that's how we get that's how Oh,
thank you, that's how we all. Look who's back? Look
(04:02):
who is back? It's Andrew in Santa Monica. He set
it on fire yesterday. He was talking about Magic Johnson.
Wasn't Michael Jordan who knocked the Jazz out of the finals?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Hi, Andrew, how you guys doing?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Good morning? Listen. I really think you and Marvin agree
with me. You're just so caught up in the Nike
Air Jordan matrix.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
You just don't know it yet.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
I mean, yeah, Jordan had to score sixty one to
beat the Celtics because they were what, as you put it,
one of the greatest teams in NBA history the NBA
in the eighties, in the eighties was fantastic. Yeah, more
than you're right, that Sixers team was fantastic. The NBA
in the eighties was fantastic, and Van, You're absolutely right.
(04:49):
In the nineties the league was, as you said yesterday,
quote unquote, terrible.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Right, No, I said, the Knicks and Calves may watching
basketball in the nineties terrible.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
So NBA was a fourth songer league in the nineteen eighties,
and it was in the nineteen nineties. And Jordan was
in the league in eighties. He came into the league
in eighty four. He got his wingman in eighty six.
So this whole thing about how the Bolt roster was
no good, okay.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Okay, wait, man, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Nobody knew about Scotty Pippen, so don't act like, oh
my god, they drafted Scotty, he got traded on Draft night,
Andrew he got traded for Olden Polonies. Nobody knew who
Scotty Pippen was. Nobody knew that Phil Jackson was going
to be the zen master he coached in the CBA.
This is this is you know, after the fact that
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we're going, oh, of course, look at all the people
he had. Magic went to a Laker team where Kareem
was the league MVP, and last I looked as one
of the top five players in the history of the sport.
And oh, by the way, playing for pat Riley. So
it's not apples to apples when you're gonna compare.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
And yet, the Lakers weren't a good team before Magic
got there. They were an okay team. They averaged forty
six wins a season in the two seasons before Magic
got it as a lower tier, lower seed playoff team.
They weren't a good team.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Okay, the Bulls, we know weren't good. They weren't a
playoff team. We know that.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
I agree with that.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
But the baddest man to ever step out on the
basketball court does not wait until the league comes down
in order to win a championship. The baddest man ever
step on on the basketball court gets there, scores forty
two points, fifteen rebounds, seven assists, and calls his shot
on the airplane on the way to Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
No, it's a great It's one of the greatest performances
to win a championship.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Nobody's arguing that.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
And by the way, Jordan had sixty three, not sixty
one against the Celtics. And yes, look at that front line.
Is there a greater front line than those three in Boston.
And the answer is no. It's a Hall of Fame,
one of the greatest teams of all time, and they
had no answer for Mike. Magic's a great player. I
don't want to detegrate him. You're saying he's greatest player
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of all time. I the guy who is MVP, the
guy who is an All First team defense and offense,
scoring champ, winning titles.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
Nobody's done that. No one agree completely agreed. Jordan was
one of the best defenders of all time. He was
one of the best scorers of all time. But we're
not talking about the best scorer or the best defender.
We're talking about the best basketball player of all time.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Guy who plays offense and defense. That to me is
a basketball player.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Right, you never saw Magic, You know there's a lot
more to basketball than that.
Speaker 11 (07:42):
I did see Magic. I wish I had seen him play. Yeah,
I did see him. He was never on TV.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Right, he was the engine that made the team go.
He made everybody else better. People just stood around and
watched Jordan's score and yeah, Jordan scored sixty against the Celtics,
he scored sixty against the Caids and got bounced out
of the playoffs by Craig Elo and Ron Harber.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
No, it's the jumper over Craig e Loo that sent
them into the next round of the playoffs.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Yeah, he and and and and he was getting bounced
by the team, the fantastic teams that Magic had to
deal with. And in that environment, five rings, winning a
championship every other year, basically your entire career is far
more impressive than waiting seven years and then winning six
titles against teams that we barely remember when when when
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the NBA.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Was so the Utah Jazz that have two of the
what top twenty players of all time? Uh bounce bounce
them right?
Speaker 8 (08:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Not in their prime because in their prime they were
getting bounced by Magic in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
No, that's when they were first. That's they weren't their prime,
their prime the final.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Okay, Andrew, you have Magic. Good for you. Congratulations. He's
a wonderful player. But if you think that, you know,
my uh love affair with Michael Jordan admiration has to
do with Nike and Air Jordan. I don't even own
(09:23):
a pair of them. I don't care about his shoe.
My job is to be objective not to sit here
and go, oh, my gosh, I'm gonna fonnel over. I'm
the one who is saying you have to put Lebron
in that conversation as greatest player of all time. Does
that sound like I'm a you know, an apologist as
sick a fan for Michael Jordan. No, my job's to
(09:44):
be objective. It's the people who say, oh, Mike's the
greatest player of all time. No, I say, you got
to be careful with that, because what Lebron has done
his resume is far greater than Mike's, plain and simple
Lebron's numbers when it's all set in done playing at
a higher level like that for twenty years. So I
(10:06):
am questioning Jordan. I've talked about Kareem being maybe the
most underrated player in the history of the sport. So
it's not like I sit here and go, no, Mike's
the greatest player of all time. My job is to
evolve and learn and listen and watch. And I was able.
I'm there when Magic hits the skyhook in the Boston Garden, Andrew,
(10:28):
I did see Magic play?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
You saw him? Players?
Speaker 11 (10:31):
Yes, I did see him on TV?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah, he did see him.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
That was a funny one though.
Speaker 11 (10:36):
If you ever saw magic ever, I saw him Magic play. Yeah,
like he's talking about George.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Baken Oh, Andrew, thank you. I love so much that
he called back in though.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
And I hope Monday, when we're back from vacation he
calls back in again.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
They call in every day if you hell yeah, Andrew,
I have no problems. You want to podcast?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah? Sign him up.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Cody in Texas, Good morning, Cody, Thanks for holding what's
on your.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
Hey, Dan, I know you're gonna talk about it here
probably in a bit. But the the Tony Dodgers thing,
especially with him coming out and saying he spoke to
the person who caught the ball, and now they are
saying they've never spoken to Otani. It's just, you know,
it's putting o'tonnyget in a light. You know, is he
(11:21):
say he is he trustworthy? Or you know, is there
a misinterpretation with the interpreter. Are we going to blame
the interpreter again? You know what's going on with Oton?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Well, I'm going to talk to a reporter who spoke
to the woman who had the ball h and he'll
join us. Coming up. Sam Blum is going to join us,
he writes for The Athletic. I want to be fair
to the story here because it doesn't paint Otani or
the Dodgers in a positive light here and not in
that order. But I figured i'd have the writer on
(11:52):
who spoke to her, so we could find out. You know,
she got the ball, but it felt like she was
being pressured to give the ball. It's Otani, his first
home run is a Dodger. We talked to Darren Revel
and his job is to look at how much memorabilia
would be worth, and he thinks that ball would be
worth at least one hundred thousand dollars. There is a ball,
(12:12):
a foul ball that was signed by Otawni that I
think is it's going for fifteen thousand dollars in the
memorabilia store at Dodger Stadium. This is his first home run,
is a Dodger, and Darren Revel said at least one
hundred thousand dollars. So we'll talk to the reporter about this.
And I said at the time that if you're going
(12:34):
to give the ball to Otawni, which fine, she's a
diehard Dodger fan, you give him the ball. What are
you going to get in return? She got a couple
of hats and a couple of baseballs, and I'd believe
a bat and then I think the value was one
thousand dollars. I would have asked for the bat that
he hit the home run with. He's not going to
give that up, but or I'd ask for his jersey
(12:58):
something like that. And I know you're you know, she's
a diehard Dodger fence, so she probably wanted to do
the right thing. Well, I don't think it it turned
out that way for her. But we'll talk to the
reporter who spoke to her from the athletic and he'll
join us in about ten minutes from now. Dave and Cincinnati,
Good morning, Dave. What's on your mind today.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
Morning?
Speaker 9 (13:20):
DP five ten. I'm curious if you think college athletics
will get to a point where colleges may look at
a player who isn't thrilled with what team. Say Caleb Williams,
who's not may may not be thrilled about going to
the Bears and says, you know what, we're going to
(13:41):
fight the system. We're going to try to get our
player extra years and maybe get rid of this whole
four year of eligibility or five year with this exemption
of that exemption and basically make college sports rival pro sports.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Well, they're going to make it pro sports, but I
don't see where you'll have to have a cap here.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
We had the COVID year and you got guys.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Who were twenty six years of age playing against eighteen
nineteen year olds.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
That's just not fair.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I think you got a cap at at four years
of eligibility unless there's an injury, and then maybe you
get a red shirt year an extra year there. Do
you know that this is part of the proposal here.
I was talking to somebody who is affiliated with this
new proposal of getting maybe eighty schools together basically you
have a farm system for the NFL, and he said
(14:31):
that he sees the possibility of players being traded in
college football.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Let that one sink in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Imagine you come in and you're throw out a name
and you're told by your head coach you've been traded.
You're JJ McCarthy, and you go in and Jim Harball
has to tell you you've been traded to Indiana. But hey,
we got a couple of really good offensive linemen in return,
like it's crazy everything that they're talking about right now, relegation,
(15:05):
which is I've been in favor of that for years now,
and they picked up on that they're going to have relegation.
Everything's on the table from what I was told last night, everything,
how much you're going to make, you know, the whole thing.
Are you going to school? Do you have to be eligible?
Like I was asking, just like common sense things, and
(15:27):
the guy goes, you know, I don't know. You're a
professional in college. Do you have to go to class?
Do you have to maintain a two point zero grade point?
Speaker 12 (15:37):
Like?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Yeah, Paul, there's a lot of people on the academic
side of this that don't think you deserve or are
in need of a scholarship anymore. If you're making hundreds
of thousand dollars nil.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I agree.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
If you're a paid employee, if you're a paid employee
of university, you don't get free classes your first or
second year, so it'd be circumventing university rules.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Josh in La, Hey, Josh, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Hey?
Speaker 13 (16:01):
How are you doing that? Thanks for taking my call?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Sure, turn down your radio, Josh turned down your radio.
Speaker 13 (16:07):
Okay, just a minute, Okay, all right. So so I'm
just calling because basically just to pick off what one
of the other callers said, Lebron does not, does not
deserve to be compared.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
With Jordan at all.
Speaker 13 (16:29):
For the fact, the only one that does, the one
that come close to being with Jordan, is obviously Kobe.
Lebron needed what Wade and Bosh to be the old
Celtics Big three that Kobe beat with Pagasol and a
bunch of role players.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Okay, I mean the reason why you're going to pick
Kobe is that Kobe played a game that was similar
to Mike's Lebron doesn't. And yes did, Lebron made teams
a super when he went there. There is nobody who
could have dragged that Cavaliers roster the first time he
went to the NBA Finals and they got roughed up
(17:09):
by San Antonio. There's no other player who could have
done that. I don't think Mike could have done that.
That was a one of the worst teams to play
for a championship. And yes, he did join Dwayne Wade.
He tried to get players to go to Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Josh.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Nobody wanted to go to Cleveland, Chris Bosh. I don't
even think he wanted to fly over Cleveland. So Lebron
knew if you're going to be the chosen one, and
you know all the pressure he put on himself, he
had to win titles, and that's why he went to Miami.
Then he goes to the Lakers. People want to hold
it against him that he wanted in the bubble. Well
took away home court advantage from him, and he did
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win the championship. Like it or not, But yes, to me,
Lebron deserves to be mentioned in the conversation Nick, who
else played at this kind of level for twenty years now?
There's things that I don't like about Lebron, passive aggress
I mean, there's a lot of things that happen here.
But I still marvel at what he does, and I
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think that's really what's important here. We fall in love
with Mike and it's easy to do it. He wasn't polarizing. Now,
he might have been off the court, but he wasn't polarizing.
I mean, he just played great. We love that, and
he won championships, didn't lose all of those things. Did
it with the Bulls but Mike needed help to win
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those championships, and Jerry Krause, the person who Mike didn't like,
went out and got players to help Mike win those championships.
So Mike didn't do it all on his own. He
needed help as well. He didn't leave and I think
because of that, we look at Lebron differently, just like
we do KD.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
We'll take a break.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
We'll get more on this story of shohey O Tani's
first home run ball and the woman who got it.
We'll talk to the reporter who spoke to her. That'll
be coming up next year on The Dan Patrick Show.
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Speaker 2 (19:40):
I think we just experienced an earthquake here. The building
was rattling a little bit here. I thought it was
just high winds. And then we went outside and we're
getting reports from New York City as well that that
was an earthquake, camp Paul.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
As soon as we went to break, we were all
sitting here and the whole floor started shaking, and the
lighting grip grid above our head was shaking and creaking,
and you know, for about six seven seconds, people are
saying it's all over the East Coast to New York
and Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I don't know the last time we've had an earthquake.
I've been in Los Angeles during the NBA Finals years
years years ago and there was an earthquake. It was
like three point five, but one that one got our
attention there. Yeah, Paul, do you want to play the
earthquake game later?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
The size of it?
Speaker 11 (20:27):
Yeah, the Richter scale works. Okay, we'll play it after
our guests.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
All right, all right, all right, this is a story
that gaining some momentum. The fan that caught shoe Heo
Tani's first home run as a Dodger has some hard feelings.
Sam Blum is a writer for The Athletic. He got
a chance to speak to this fan and the transaction
that took place afterwards. Sam, where do we pick up
this story here? First of all, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 12 (20:52):
No, yeah, thank you so much for having me. You know,
I mean, it's just kind of a wild story, and
I think that there's like some interesting elements to this. Obviously,
you know, this is show Otani's first home run ball,
and we talked to I believe, like an appriser at
at Heritage Auctions who said this ball would likely be
worth at least one hundred thousand dollars, if not more.
(21:12):
And obviously value can kind of go up or down
over time. But what they traded it for is basically
worthless because it doesn't have an authentication.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
With it.
Speaker 12 (21:22):
You know, she got two bats or something, two caps,
a bat and a baseball, so it.
Speaker 15 (21:27):
Wasn't a great trade.
Speaker 12 (21:28):
And I think moreover, the more important part of the
story is that the fans felt like they were pressured
into this. You know, they were told that they wouldn't
get the ball authenticated if they left with it.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Well, walk me through this, though, Sam, she gets the ball.
Then what happens, I.
Speaker 12 (21:42):
Think about a dozen security guards come to the section.
Within a couple of minutes, they get taken back to
this I think, just kind of an empty restaurant, you know,
in one of the club areas, and the husband who
was with his wife, the wife caught the ball. They
were separated, and at that point, you know, this negotiation
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was kind of started with we're going to offer you
two signed hats, and I think she felt quite pressured
and in a situation where she never husband and she
didn't really necessarily feel comfortable negotiating as much, uh, and
basically said, well, was there anything else you can get me?
Speaker 15 (22:17):
And then got a hat and a bat or then
got a ball on a bat.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
So purposely separated from her husband.
Speaker 15 (22:23):
Yes, that was what they said. That was what the
couple said.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yes, Dodgers say anything have they responded?
Speaker 15 (22:30):
They declined to comment on that.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
The authentic the authenticity of this baseball though. Was there
any talk of if you leave with this baseball, we
won't authenticate it?
Speaker 12 (22:42):
That was what that was what Amber Roman, the woman
who caught the ball, told me, Yeah, that they would
not have authenticated it, and that basically, if you leave
with a baseball, you know that's not been authenticated.
Speaker 15 (22:53):
There's that it's almost valueless.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
At that point, did she meet Otani?
Speaker 15 (22:57):
She did not meet Otani.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Did Oh Tawny say he met with her?
Speaker 12 (23:02):
It's a complicated kind of scenario or situation here because
his interpreter interpreted his words.
Speaker 15 (23:08):
As saying, I talked with the fan.
Speaker 12 (23:12):
Now, I think that there is some ambiguity in how
you know, what he said in Japanese could possibly be
translated to English, and it was more of a colloquialism
I think what he said, and so I think that
there are some gray area as to it could potentially
have been he was referring to mbe staff or a
different person connecting with this fan.
Speaker 15 (23:30):
So it's a little unclear, but it.
Speaker 12 (23:32):
Was translated from his interpreter to say, I talk to
the fan. And you know, we reached out to the
Dodgers and gave them time to kind of clarify this,
and again they declined to kind of respond to any
of it.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Now, she loves the Dodgers. I think she said that
that she's a diehard fan and was hoping to be
treated better. Yeah, everything has litigation it seems like attached
to it here, Sam, it's are they considering doing anything
with the Dodgers? You know?
Speaker 12 (24:00):
I think right now the Dodgers have basically said that
they would like to invite the fan back, that they
would like to reconnect with the fan, possibly to discuss
the transaction. I don't know if that would mean updating
the offer to some extent or doing something nice for them.
I think that would be the right thing to do
in this situation. That being said, I don't necessarily know
if if the fans are gonna would pursue any sort
of legal action after that. I think right now the
(24:20):
next step will be hopefully reconciling these fans who should
have been treated better. And you know, hopefully one thing
I hope people get from the story is that, you know,
from what I understand, this type of stuff isn't incredibly rare,
So hopefully, you know, when when these milestone home runs
are hit in ballparks across America, there's you know, there
are the fans are treated like the diehards.
Speaker 15 (24:38):
That they are.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
What would you have asked for?
Speaker 12 (24:41):
I think it's so tough in that situation, because if
you're surrounded by a bunch of security guards who have
probably been practicing for this moment, and you're just a fan,
it's probably really tough. I mean that being said, that
thing is quite valuable. You know, I think it does
belong to Atani. It's it's his milestone and he should
have it. But you know this is you gotta have
a fair trade. And you know that's like lifetime season
tickets if you're a big fan, I think that'd be.
(25:02):
It has monetary value and it also has you know,
sentimental team value to it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
So that might be something at least season tickets just
for this year and World Series tickets.
Speaker 12 (25:12):
Yeah, exactly, as long as maybe a season tickets, as
long as a Tani is in the Dodgers' uniform.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Thanks for updating us on this, Sam, We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Thanks.
Speaker 15 (25:20):
Dan, appreciate it that.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Sam Blum, the baseball writer for the Athletic. How's this
first month been for the Dodgers here? There's been a
lot going on here. Now, you open up the season
in South Korea, then you come back and then you
have the interpreter, the gambling, then No Tani finally hits
(25:41):
his first home run.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Mookie Bets has been great. By the way, yes, paulm
you know the.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Story is a little bothersome if some staffer from the
Dodgers didn't give this woman a chance to realize the
value of what she had and threaten in some way
that if you don't give us a ball, now you
walk out with it. We want authenticate it. That's where
you know, like you said, lawsuits can be done. I mean,
one hundred thousand dollars, don't. We don't know anyth about
our financial situation. That's a chunk.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah, but you separate her from her husband.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
That bothers me because you know that felt like that
that was intentional, and.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Yeah, that that's not.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
A good look if that's if that's what happened, that
that's a terrible look here. I don't know if you're
asking for something, you know, what can you ask for?
What is fair in a situation like that? You love
your team, that's your guy hit a home run. But
let's say you do take that baseball home. There's video
(26:38):
of you holding that baseball up in the scrum and
you're right there and nobody else has the baseball unless
you're going to say no, no, no, we have the baseball.
But you know, in your heart of hearts, you don't
have the baseball.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
She does.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I mean, if I said to her, knowing what you
know now, would you have taken the risk and just
taken the baseball home?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I would and.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Be like, all right, let me know when you find
that baseball. Because everybody knows that I got that baseball
and I'm holding it right here and it's on video.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I would.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I would just say, hey, let me have season tickets here.
How's that? Is that too much to ask?
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Yeah, Paul, the story, the reporter Sam Blum was pretty
clear that it's not clear that Otani said he met
the fan. The translation could have been messed up there.
But the average person on social media who's seen this
story says, oh, Otani's lying again.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
That's what's the reaction. I'm just telling you.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
They're not my reaction, but the reaction like, oh, everyone's
putting it out there. A lot of other sites are
putting out there that Otani is telling the troop about
meeting the fan with the baseball.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
They never met or talked to Otani, though in Otani's
postgame comments on the subject, according to the translation of
the interpreter, he seemed to suggest either they had spoken
or they had communicated in some fashion. It was not
immediately clear if that was a misunderst standing or if
Otani was intending to communicate that he had gotten a
(28:04):
message to the fan who caught the ball Otani threw.
His interpreter said, I was able to talk to the
fan and was able to get it back. Obviously, it's
a very special ball, a lot of feelings towards it.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I'm very grateful that it's back.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
The woman's boyfriend, I believe, said that they took advantage
of her. There were a bunch of security guys around her.
They wouldn't let her talk to me or give I
couldn't give her any advice. There was no way for
us to leave. They had pretty much cornered us in
the back.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
They said that he was kept at a distance from
his wife by stadium security guards and told they couldn't
talk to one another, Like that's crazy over a home
run ball that should be a celebration. He said that
they want him to influence the decision, at least that's
(29:04):
how his girlfriend took it. A lot of pressure there, right. Well,
you know, the reporter did reach out the Dodgers, and
they declined to answer any questions here. Maybe there's a
follow up here soon.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
One thing that I think people should chill on with
this one is the show hey quote of I was
able to speak to the fan and get the ball
back right, he's speaking through an interpreter. True, and that's
very possibly lost in translation. Yeah, I was able to
speak to the fan, or they were able to speak
to the fan. Those kinds of things get mixed up
all the time, so that's a pretty unfair part of
(29:42):
the story.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yeah, but that's what people are jumping on that Otani's
lying again, And I would give him the benefit of
the doubt that maybe he did say something that was
going to be relayed to the fan. You know, it's
not a face to face I think, is what he's saying.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Yes, I don't think this is gonna be enough to
get the old translator's job back.
Speaker 11 (30:02):
I'm just saying that. No, no, no, I think he's
gone for no.
Speaker 9 (30:04):
No.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, I think so too soon, too soon. Yes, if
that's even remotely true.
Speaker 16 (30:09):
Separating someone from their partner or their spouse, that's like,
how is there not a legal part to that? Like,
how do you pull two people away from each other
in corner like they're an interrogation.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Wasn't put in jail? No, but okay she was. She
was in a room and then her her boyfriend was
in another room. They would they were tortured until they
got the ball back. Yeah, but he I know, I know.
I mean it sounds like she was you aware what
she wasn't given food or water.
Speaker 11 (30:36):
No, she wasn't given food or water.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
But they did separate the two. Yeah, okay, that is of.
Speaker 16 (30:41):
How is that a thing? Separating with someone?
Speaker 6 (30:43):
You don't give us a ball back right now, You've
got to be an Angels fan for the rest of No, no, no, no,
you got to give you the ball. That's what they said.
Speaker 11 (30:48):
That's what they said.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
All right, we're playing the earthquake game.
Speaker 11 (30:51):
I have the numbers after the break.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Oh, I gotta wait until after the break. Yes, to
update just how big of an earthquake. We need a
second source and we find out the last time we've
had had an earthquake around here. Get some of our
best people on that. More of your phone calls coming
up back after this. Fox Sports Radio has the best
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(31:16):
app search FSR to listen live. All right, we're playing
the earthquake quake game. We had an earthquake about twenty
minutes ago, and I got to see some of the
video from you guys getting out of your chairs to
run outside after the earthquake happened. Nobody was checking on
me to see if I was okay. You guys all
(31:37):
ran outside like fair. Did anybody say, hey, where's Dan.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Most You spend almost every break backing that garage. Yeah,
and Paul and I both went immediately to towards the
garage area.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
You can call us heroes, but I wasn't out there.
How would I was about to catch usually where you are?
I was right here, right here, you're normally tinkering boxes.
Everybody jumped up and ran out.
Speaker 11 (32:05):
I'll be half a seat and you're welcome.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 11 (32:08):
Check my car.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
You're watching right now. We're showing the video on being gone.
I'm you guys scampering out of the room, and our
director's racing to your no, no, okay.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
And our director is shaking his phone while showing the
video to make it look like more earthquake.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah, look at that. You guys running. Oh, although Todd's
not running.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
I did not know.
Speaker 11 (32:30):
That's actually full speed.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
You're strolling. You're strolling.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Now you come back, Now you come back, and then
you look to see where I am.
Speaker 16 (32:38):
I did, and I was also like, should I take
my laptop in my note?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Oh you were checking on me.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
It was my laptop.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Okay, two part earthquake game. The size of the earthquake.
I've only been in one other earthquake and it was
three point five.
Speaker 11 (32:54):
Oh that's a nice that's a nice number.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Todd.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
What's your number for the earthquake that we experienced? My magnitude?
Speaker 16 (32:59):
Okay, I number because it's the final four in Today's
April fifth. Four point five.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Wow, Seaton three point seven? All right, Marvin four point two?
All right, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go four to three,
four to three, something I never had in school. I'm
gonna go four point.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Oh wait, you know the answer. I know, but I
wrote down my answer in the break just you know
my answer is wrong. So if I'm cheating, I would cheat.
Speaker 11 (33:28):
To be right.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
No, I don't know about that. I think we busted you.
Speaker 9 (33:33):
Now.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
You said that you had four point.
Speaker 11 (33:34):
Oh, I wrote down my answer and it's wrong.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (33:37):
Four point eight? Earthquake rocks the New York state tri
state area in eight looks a lot like an Oh. Yeah,
I'm a much better cheater though.
Speaker 12 (33:47):
Oh uh.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
The epicenter is in northern New Jersey, seat O'Connor. Whoa
where Probably.
Speaker 11 (33:54):
Alpine in one of those towns or something.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
But it was felt and they can't catch a break
all the way up to Albany Springfield, Massachusetts and down
to Maryland.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Okay, yeah, that's a that's a big one, all right.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
The second part of the earthquake game, if you have
five seconds to grab one thing out of the man
cave and run outside. Paulie, I'm gonna start with you.
You're gonna grab one thing. You got five seconds.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
I got an autographed picture of me and Will Ferrell
at my desk, and it's the only copy because it's
not on a phone anywhere.
Speaker 11 (34:32):
I would have grabbed that.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Okay, Marvin, you can grab one thing.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
On my Yukon gear. Well, I have a Yukon Jersey. Okay,
you'r Yukon Jersey. Okay, uh, Todd, what about you?
Speaker 16 (34:45):
I would grab my laptop but if it's a souvenir
thing from the man cave, this little Broncos punching guy,
I think because it's nearby, and I think I got
a fund with that in the parking lot.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
You're gonna take your laptop.
Speaker 16 (34:54):
Yeah, that's the first thing that would come to mind,
is my laptop and notebook. If I could do okay things,
but one thing, i'd grab.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
My lap seating. What are you grabbing?
Speaker 5 (35:00):
There's a Landon Donovan shirt down that hallway over there. Yeah,
I don't have this map that I would grab that.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yes, I would.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I if my dog Winnie was here, i'd grab Winnie.
And if Winnie wasn't here and Penny was here, I'd
grab Penny. And if I was going to grab something,
I would try to grab you guys to take you
to safety.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
That's a lovelier That's what we were trying to do
because we thought you were back there, but it turns out.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
You yeah, I'm sorry, Yeah, yes, Paul.
Speaker 11 (35:35):
Why did it have to happen during a commercial break.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
If it was two minutes earlier, two later, there would
have been an earthquake on air, you could you could
sports Emmy surviving the quake.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yeah, Now are there going to be shows who were
going to be able to use that to their advantage?
By the way, next Tuesday we find out if we're
nominated for a sports Emmy. Oh yes, I think it's
next Tuesday. We're going to be on vacation. So therefore
you can't see me cry if we don't get nominated. Yes, Tod, can.
Speaker 16 (36:04):
We trust any post video of this earthquake where people
behind the camera throwing mugs and stuff around and knocking
pictures down as if that's the earthquake?
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Cause it when they are doing.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
It, we could reenact here they could. Yeah, I mean,
oh my god, what was that? Hey, where are you
guys going? Well, I'm over here, I'm gonna die, Thank you,
(36:33):
thank you. That's how it should have there, you go
shuffling through the kitchen where stand.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
He's back here.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
But I like how Todd was looking back, and then
I thought he was looking back for me. He's actually
looking back for his laptop. The quote was actually, was
that some type of massive gust of wind?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
It was? That was mine? Really? Yeah, well we don't
have earthquakes. Gust of wind was shaking.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
To be fair, there's sometimes big dump trucks that come
past our studio. That's true, and the place has a
little shake, but you hear the truck. It was the
big shake and nothing else.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
That's what Dylan and the big German thought that sometimes
these trucks go by and it rattles the man cave here.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Hashtag warrior heroes.
Speaker 11 (37:21):
That's what we are.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Yeah, yeah, we did it all right. Now, let's resume
our regularly scheduled program. Already in progress. Armando in Atlantic City, Armando,
did you feel the earthquake? No?
Speaker 17 (37:36):
I didn't, but I was in one in Los Angeles
at the airport and it sucks. Oh, everything was fine.
The whole place was swaying until tu Lee starts screaming
and everybody got up for running around.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Oh okay, what's what's your question for me?
Speaker 17 (37:49):
We don't have a nerve pick year, don't think anyway?
Speaker 8 (37:52):
Who do you think?
Speaker 10 (37:52):
Is it?
Speaker 17 (37:53):
Forget about who's the best basketball player? Who's the MVP
to their team of all time? I have a question
for Mormon too that I'll hang up on me. Well,
ask your question your who's your m VP of all
time basketball? To your team? The labrowns on four different teams,
so it was just on one and the other players.
You know, will cham win?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Whoever? Okay, what's what's your what's your question?
Speaker 17 (38:18):
It's for everybody, Ruben, take your all time all white
team basketball?
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Thank Yourmando.
Speaker 11 (38:27):
We've done that like ten times on this Yeah, m VP.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Of your team. I don't have a team, so.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
I'm not sure Seaton has a basketball team or Todd
has a basketball team.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Do you want to pick your all white starting five?
Is that all right or all? I think it's all white.
I think it's all white. Thank you.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
Armando's kind of an all right team.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Uh, it'd be the Cream team.
Speaker 11 (38:58):
I like.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
I like that he was your f I don't know. Yeah,
do you have a favorite all white team if you
were gonna build.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
A roster here? Martin?
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Not off the top of my head.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
I don't good. Adam in Indiana High Adam, what's on
your mind today?
Speaker 7 (39:15):
Hey?
Speaker 18 (39:16):
Dan, I hope you guys are doing well. Kind of
got on the topic yesterday about how long it took
Michael to win his first ring. I'm curious what you
guys would think about how long it would have taken
Lebron to win his first ring had he not jumped
ship and went to Miami because when he left for Miami,
they kind of obviously went downhill, which then led to
high draft picks Wiggins then which led to a Kevin
(39:40):
Love trade. If he doesn't leave for Miami, they don't
get those draft picks. And I don't think he wins
a ring in Cleveland as soon as Michael one one
in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Okay, but you're missing the point. Lebron was what two
years in the league, and he took the Cavs to
the NBA finals. Okay, nobody does that. Look at the roster.
He went to the NBA Finals. Yes, did he need
help to win? Yes, he knew that and that's why
(40:09):
he left.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
Yes, Mark, let's not disrespect Booby Gibson, Yeah, Booby.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Oh my gosh. Who else was on that team?
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Big Z, Danielle Marshall, uh Vera, Jan Eric Snow, Eric Snow,
the point Guard.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
Sasha Pavlo, Pablo, Danielle Marshall, Damon Jones.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Damon Jones is going to win a title.
Speaker 6 (40:36):
But who's won a title without help? You know, like Lebron,
Like you said, it's it's so impressive. He's twenty two,
He had like a hundred games in Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
No, I That's why I'm saying you have to have
somebody to help you win a title. Iverson he took
that team to the NBA Finals. That wasn't a great team.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
With Eric Snow.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Eric Snow again. By the way, if you're watching on Peacock,
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Who has it better than we do?
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No body?
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Poll question for Hour two is going to be once
seed no. Connor Paully threw this one out earlier.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
If you could only watch one March Madness of the
Super Bowl m okay.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
PAULI the entirety of March Madness, okay, all sixty four,
whatever it would be, or the one Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Game now, if I may, you may, the entirety of
March Madness. I believe for the first time this year
includes the women's tournament. I think this is the first
year that they ever used the branding March Madness for
the women, I believe, so I'm including that. Then in
the entirety of March Madness.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I would take March Madness.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Hell yeah, hell yeah all day yeah yeah, of course.
I think this is the first year they've let them
use that, Yeah, I think, which is so stupid.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
By the way, WrestleMania, it's Cody Rhodes hopes to finish
his story. He takes on Roman Rains in the Rock
wrestle Mania forty Saturday and Sunday at sevent eastern. Why
is Cody Rhoades the headliner here and not the Rock
curious about that.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Wait, deep he is it's a tag team match.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, but it says Cody Rhodes hopes to finish his stories.
He takes on Roman Rains in the Rock.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Yeah, they've had a big back and forth the past
couple of months.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But once again, Cody Rhoads is the headliner here, not
the Rock. They're talking about Cody Rhodes finishing his story.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
But that's the story, though.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Is it kind of like Paige Becker's continues her return
to battle Caitlyn Clark in Iowa Fair.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
So it's Saturday and Sunday WrestleMania.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
If I could put it into sports terms for the
rest of us to you know, I go out to
dinner sometimes with people and they try to take a
topic and put it into sort of a sports comparison
so I can understand it. And my wife laughs because
these people are trying to dumb it down as if
I don't have any other interest other than sports. You'd
(03:19):
get like a, you know, it'd be akin to this
is how it was phrased to me last night. You know,
this would be akin to.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And I went, oh no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
No, Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady and I go, okay, okay,
now I understand.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Oh now, my wife, Oh now I get it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
My wife hits me under the table, like, don't do it,
don't do it, you know, be akin to It's like see,
like there's an AFC and an NFC. That's kind of
how the political parties work here, and then at the
end there's a thing called an election where they kind
of face up. Oh that's how we get that's how Oh,
thank you, that's how we all. Look who's back? Look
(04:02):
who is back? It's Andrew in Santa Monica. He set
it on fire yesterday. He was talking about Magic Johnson.
Wasn't Michael Jordan who knocked the Jazz out of the finals?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Hi, Andrew, how you guys doing?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Good morning? Listen. I really think you and Marvin agree
with me. You're just so caught up in the Nike
Air Jordan matrix.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
You just don't know it yet.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
I mean, yeah, Jordan had to score sixty one to
beat the Celtics because they were what, as you put it,
one of the greatest teams in NBA history the NBA
in the eighties, in the eighties was fantastic. Yeah, more
than you're right, that Sixers team was fantastic. The NBA
in the eighties was fantastic, and Van, You're absolutely right.
(04:49):
In the nineties the league was, as you said yesterday,
quote unquote, terrible.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Right, No, I said, the Knicks and Calves may watching
basketball in the nineties terrible.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
So NBA was a fourth songer league in the nineteen eighties,
and it was in the nineteen nineties. And Jordan was
in the league in eighties. He came into the league
in eighty four. He got his wingman in eighty six.
So this whole thing about how the Bolt roster was
no good, okay.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Okay, wait, man, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Nobody knew about Scotty Pippen, so don't act like, oh
my god, they drafted Scotty, he got traded on Draft night,
Andrew he got traded for Olden Polonies. Nobody knew who
Scotty Pippen was. Nobody knew that Phil Jackson was going
to be the zen master he coached in the CBA.
This is this is you know, after the fact that
(05:40):
we're going, oh, of course, look at all the people
he had. Magic went to a Laker team where Kareem
was the league MVP, and last I looked as one
of the top five players in the history of the sport.
And oh, by the way, playing for pat Riley. So
it's not apples to apples when you're gonna compare.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
And yet, the Lakers weren't a good team before Magic
got there. They were an okay team. They averaged forty
six wins a season in the two seasons before Magic
got it as a lower tier, lower seed playoff team.
They weren't a good team.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Okay, the Bulls, we know weren't good. They weren't a
playoff team. We know that.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
I agree with that.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
But the baddest man to ever step out on the
basketball court does not wait until the league comes down
in order to win a championship. The baddest man ever
step on on the basketball court gets there, scores forty
two points, fifteen rebounds, seven assists, and calls his shot
on the airplane on the way to Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
No, it's a great It's one of the greatest performances
to win a championship.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Nobody's arguing that.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
And by the way, Jordan had sixty three, not sixty
one against the Celtics. And yes, look at that front line.
Is there a greater front line than those three in Boston.
And the answer is no. It's a Hall of Fame,
one of the greatest teams of all time, and they
had no answer for Mike. Magic's a great player. I
don't want to detegrate him. You're saying he's greatest player
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of all time. I the guy who is MVP, the
guy who is an All First team defense and offense,
scoring champ, winning titles.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
Nobody's done that. No one agree completely agreed. Jordan was
one of the best defenders of all time. He was
one of the best scorers of all time. But we're
not talking about the best scorer or the best defender.
We're talking about the best basketball player of all time.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Guy who plays offense and defense. That to me is
a basketball player.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Right, you never saw Magic, You know there's a lot
more to basketball than that.
Speaker 11 (07:42):
I did see Magic. I wish I had seen him play. Yeah,
I did see him. He was never on TV.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Right, he was the engine that made the team go.
He made everybody else better. People just stood around and
watched Jordan's score and yeah, Jordan scored sixty against the Celtics,
he scored sixty against the Caids and got bounced out
of the playoffs by Craig Elo and Ron Harber.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
No, it's the jumper over Craig e Loo that sent
them into the next round of the playoffs.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Yeah, he and and and and he was getting bounced
by the team, the fantastic teams that Magic had to
deal with. And in that environment, five rings, winning a
championship every other year, basically your entire career is far
more impressive than waiting seven years and then winning six
titles against teams that we barely remember when when when
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the NBA.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Was so the Utah Jazz that have two of the
what top twenty players of all time? Uh bounce bounce
them right?
Speaker 8 (08:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Not in their prime because in their prime they were
getting bounced by Magic in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
No, that's when they were first. That's they weren't their prime,
their prime the final.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Okay, Andrew, you have Magic. Good for you. Congratulations. He's
a wonderful player. But if you think that, you know,
my uh love affair with Michael Jordan admiration has to
do with Nike and Air Jordan. I don't even own
(09:23):
a pair of them. I don't care about his shoe.
My job is to be objective not to sit here
and go, oh, my gosh, I'm gonna fonnel over. I'm
the one who is saying you have to put Lebron
in that conversation as greatest player of all time. Does
that sound like I'm a you know, an apologist as
sick a fan for Michael Jordan. No, my job's to
(09:44):
be objective. It's the people who say, oh, Mike's the
greatest player of all time. No, I say, you got
to be careful with that, because what Lebron has done
his resume is far greater than Mike's, plain and simple
Lebron's numbers when it's all set in done playing at
a higher level like that for twenty years. So I
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am questioning Jordan. I've talked about Kareem being maybe the
most underrated player in the history of the sport. So
it's not like I sit here and go, no, Mike's
the greatest player of all time. My job is to
evolve and learn and listen and watch. And I was able.
I'm there when Magic hits the skyhook in the Boston Garden, Andrew,
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I did see Magic play?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
You saw him? Players?
Speaker 11 (10:31):
Yes, I did see him on TV?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah, he did see him.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
That was a funny one though.
Speaker 11 (10:36):
If you ever saw magic ever, I saw him Magic play. Yeah,
like he's talking about George.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Baken Oh, Andrew, thank you. I love so much that
he called back in though.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
And I hope Monday, when we're back from vacation he
calls back in again.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
They call in every day if you hell yeah, Andrew,
I have no problems. You want to podcast?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah? Sign him up.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Cody in Texas, Good morning, Cody, Thanks for holding what's
on your.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
Hey, Dan, I know you're gonna talk about it here
probably in a bit. But the the Tony Dodgers thing,
especially with him coming out and saying he spoke to
the person who caught the ball, and now they are
saying they've never spoken to Otani. It's just, you know,
it's putting o'tonnyget in a light. You know, is he
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say he is he trustworthy? Or you know, is there
a misinterpretation with the interpreter. Are we going to blame
the interpreter again? You know what's going on with Oton?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Well, I'm going to talk to a reporter who spoke
to the woman who had the ball h and he'll
join us. Coming up. Sam Blum is going to join us,
he writes for The Athletic. I want to be fair
to the story here because it doesn't paint Otani or
the Dodgers in a positive light here and not in
that order. But I figured i'd have the writer on
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who spoke to her, so we could find out. You know,
she got the ball, but it felt like she was
being pressured to give the ball. It's Otani, his first
home run is a Dodger. We talked to Darren Revel
and his job is to look at how much memorabilia
would be worth, and he thinks that ball would be
worth at least one hundred thousand dollars. There is a ball,
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a foul ball that was signed by Otawni that I
think is it's going for fifteen thousand dollars in the
memorabilia store at Dodger Stadium. This is his first home run,
is a Dodger, and Darren Revel said at least one
hundred thousand dollars. So we'll talk to the reporter about this.
And I said at the time that if you're going
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to give the ball to Otawni, which fine, she's a
diehard Dodger fan, you give him the ball. What are
you going to get in return? She got a couple
of hats and a couple of baseballs, and I'd believe
a bat and then I think the value was one
thousand dollars. I would have asked for the bat that
he hit the home run with. He's not going to
give that up, but or I'd ask for his jersey
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something like that. And I know you're you know, she's
a diehard Dodger fence, so she probably wanted to do
the right thing. Well, I don't think it it turned
out that way for her. But we'll talk to the
reporter who spoke to her from the athletic and he'll
join us in about ten minutes from now. Dave and Cincinnati,
Good morning, Dave. What's on your mind today.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
Morning?
Speaker 9 (13:20):
DP five ten. I'm curious if you think college athletics
will get to a point where colleges may look at
a player who isn't thrilled with what team. Say Caleb Williams,
who's not may may not be thrilled about going to
the Bears and says, you know what, we're going to
(13:41):
fight the system. We're going to try to get our
player extra years and maybe get rid of this whole
four year of eligibility or five year with this exemption
of that exemption and basically make college sports rival pro sports.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Well, they're going to make it pro sports, but I
don't see where you'll have to have a cap here.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
We had the COVID year and you got guys.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Who were twenty six years of age playing against eighteen
nineteen year olds.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
That's just not fair.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I think you got a cap at at four years
of eligibility unless there's an injury, and then maybe you
get a red shirt year an extra year there. Do
you know that this is part of the proposal here.
I was talking to somebody who is affiliated with this
new proposal of getting maybe eighty schools together basically you
have a farm system for the NFL, and he said
(14:31):
that he sees the possibility of players being traded in
college football.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Let that one sink in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Imagine you come in and you're throw out a name
and you're told by your head coach you've been traded.
You're JJ McCarthy, and you go in and Jim Harball
has to tell you you've been traded to Indiana. But hey,
we got a couple of really good offensive linemen in return,
like it's crazy everything that they're talking about right now, relegation,
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which is I've been in favor of that for years now,
and they picked up on that they're going to have relegation.
Everything's on the table from what I was told last night, everything,
how much you're going to make, you know, the whole thing.
Are you going to school? Do you have to be eligible?
Like I was asking, just like common sense things, and
(15:27):
the guy goes, you know, I don't know. You're a
professional in college. Do you have to go to class?
Do you have to maintain a two point zero grade point?
Speaker 12 (15:37):
Like?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Yeah, Paul, there's a lot of people on the academic
side of this that don't think you deserve or are
in need of a scholarship anymore. If you're making hundreds
of thousand dollars nil.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I agree.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
If you're a paid employee, if you're a paid employee
of university, you don't get free classes your first or
second year, so it'd be circumventing university rules.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Josh in La, Hey, Josh, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Hey?
Speaker 13 (16:01):
How are you doing that? Thanks for taking my call?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Sure, turn down your radio, Josh turned down your radio.
Speaker 13 (16:07):
Okay, just a minute, Okay, all right. So so I'm
just calling because basically just to pick off what one
of the other callers said, Lebron does not, does not
deserve to be compared.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
With Jordan at all.
Speaker 13 (16:29):
For the fact, the only one that does, the one
that come close to being with Jordan, is obviously Kobe.
Lebron needed what Wade and Bosh to be the old
Celtics Big three that Kobe beat with Pagasol and a
bunch of role players.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Okay, I mean the reason why you're going to pick
Kobe is that Kobe played a game that was similar
to Mike's Lebron doesn't. And yes did, Lebron made teams
a super when he went there. There is nobody who
could have dragged that Cavaliers roster the first time he
went to the NBA Finals and they got roughed up
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by San Antonio. There's no other player who could have
done that. I don't think Mike could have done that.
That was a one of the worst teams to play
for a championship. And yes, he did join Dwayne Wade.
He tried to get players to go to Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Josh.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Nobody wanted to go to Cleveland, Chris Bosh. I don't
even think he wanted to fly over Cleveland. So Lebron
knew if you're going to be the chosen one, and
you know all the pressure he put on himself, he
had to win titles, and that's why he went to Miami.
Then he goes to the Lakers. People want to hold
it against him that he wanted in the bubble. Well
took away home court advantage from him, and he did
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win the championship. Like it or not, But yes, to me,
Lebron deserves to be mentioned in the conversation Nick, who
else played at this kind of level for twenty years now?
There's things that I don't like about Lebron, passive aggress
I mean, there's a lot of things that happen here.
But I still marvel at what he does, and I
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think that's really what's important here. We fall in love
with Mike and it's easy to do it. He wasn't polarizing. Now,
he might have been off the court, but he wasn't polarizing.
I mean, he just played great. We love that, and
he won championships, didn't lose all of those things. Did
it with the Bulls but Mike needed help to win
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those championships, and Jerry Krause, the person who Mike didn't like,
went out and got players to help Mike win those championships.
So Mike didn't do it all on his own. He
needed help as well. He didn't leave and I think
because of that, we look at Lebron differently, just like
we do KD.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
We'll take a break.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
We'll get more on this story of shohey O Tani's
first home run ball and the woman who got it.
We'll talk to the reporter who spoke to her. That'll
be coming up next year on The Dan Patrick Show.
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Speaker 2 (19:40):
I think we just experienced an earthquake here. The building
was rattling a little bit here. I thought it was
just high winds. And then we went outside and we're
getting reports from New York City as well that that
was an earthquake, camp Paul.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
As soon as we went to break, we were all
sitting here and the whole floor started shaking, and the
lighting grip grid above our head was shaking and creaking,
and you know, for about six seven seconds, people are
saying it's all over the East Coast to New York
and Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I don't know the last time we've had an earthquake.
I've been in Los Angeles during the NBA Finals years
years years ago and there was an earthquake. It was
like three point five, but one that one got our
attention there. Yeah, Paul, do you want to play the
earthquake game later?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
The size of it?
Speaker 11 (20:27):
Yeah, the Richter scale works. Okay, we'll play it after
our guests.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
All right, all right, all right, this is a story
that gaining some momentum. The fan that caught shoe Heo
Tani's first home run as a Dodger has some hard feelings.
Sam Blum is a writer for The Athletic. He got
a chance to speak to this fan and the transaction
that took place afterwards. Sam, where do we pick up
this story here? First of all, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 12 (20:52):
No, yeah, thank you so much for having me. You know,
I mean, it's just kind of a wild story, and
I think that there's like some interesting elements to this. Obviously,
you know, this is show Otani's first home run ball,
and we talked to I believe, like an appriser at
at Heritage Auctions who said this ball would likely be
worth at least one hundred thousand dollars, if not more.
(21:12):
And obviously value can kind of go up or down
over time. But what they traded it for is basically
worthless because it doesn't have an authentication.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
With it.
Speaker 12 (21:22):
You know, she got two bats or something, two caps,
a bat and a baseball, so it.
Speaker 15 (21:27):
Wasn't a great trade.
Speaker 12 (21:28):
And I think moreover, the more important part of the
story is that the fans felt like they were pressured
into this. You know, they were told that they wouldn't
get the ball authenticated if they left with it.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Well, walk me through this, though, Sam, she gets the ball.
Then what happens, I.
Speaker 12 (21:42):
Think about a dozen security guards come to the section.
Within a couple of minutes, they get taken back to
this I think, just kind of an empty restaurant, you know,
in one of the club areas, and the husband who
was with his wife, the wife caught the ball. They
were separated, and at that point, you know, this negotiation
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was kind of started with we're going to offer you
two signed hats, and I think she felt quite pressured
and in a situation where she never husband and she
didn't really necessarily feel comfortable negotiating as much, uh, and
basically said, well, was there anything else you can get me?
Speaker 15 (22:17):
And then got a hat and a bat or then
got a ball on a bat.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
So purposely separated from her husband.
Speaker 15 (22:23):
Yes, that was what they said. That was what the
couple said.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yes, Dodgers say anything have they responded?
Speaker 15 (22:30):
They declined to comment on that.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
The authentic the authenticity of this baseball though. Was there
any talk of if you leave with this baseball, we
won't authenticate it?
Speaker 12 (22:42):
That was what that was what Amber Roman, the woman
who caught the ball, told me, Yeah, that they would
not have authenticated it, and that basically, if you leave
with a baseball, you know that's not been authenticated.
Speaker 15 (22:53):
There's that it's almost valueless.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
At that point, did she meet Otani?
Speaker 15 (22:57):
She did not meet Otani.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Did Oh Tawny say he met with her?
Speaker 12 (23:02):
It's a complicated kind of scenario or situation here because
his interpreter interpreted his words.
Speaker 15 (23:08):
As saying, I talked with the fan.
Speaker 12 (23:12):
Now, I think that there is some ambiguity in how
you know, what he said in Japanese could possibly be
translated to English, and it was more of a colloquialism
I think what he said, and so I think that
there are some gray area as to it could potentially
have been he was referring to mbe staff or a
different person connecting with this fan.
Speaker 15 (23:30):
So it's a little unclear, but it.
Speaker 12 (23:32):
Was translated from his interpreter to say, I talk to
the fan. And you know, we reached out to the
Dodgers and gave them time to kind of clarify this,
and again they declined to kind of respond to any
of it.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Now, she loves the Dodgers. I think she said that
that she's a diehard fan and was hoping to be
treated better. Yeah, everything has litigation it seems like attached
to it here, Sam, it's are they considering doing anything
with the Dodgers? You know?
Speaker 12 (24:00):
I think right now the Dodgers have basically said that
they would like to invite the fan back, that they
would like to reconnect with the fan, possibly to discuss
the transaction. I don't know if that would mean updating
the offer to some extent or doing something nice for them.
I think that would be the right thing to do
in this situation. That being said, I don't necessarily know
if if the fans are gonna would pursue any sort
of legal action after that. I think right now the
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next step will be hopefully reconciling these fans who should
have been treated better. And you know, hopefully one thing
I hope people get from the story is that, you know,
from what I understand, this type of stuff isn't incredibly rare,
So hopefully, you know, when when these milestone home runs
are hit in ballparks across America, there's you know, there
are the fans are treated like the diehards.
Speaker 15 (24:38):
That they are.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
What would you have asked for?
Speaker 12 (24:41):
I think it's so tough in that situation, because if
you're surrounded by a bunch of security guards who have
probably been practicing for this moment, and you're just a fan,
it's probably really tough. I mean that being said, that
thing is quite valuable. You know, I think it does
belong to Atani. It's it's his milestone and he should
have it. But you know this is you gotta have
a fair trade. And you know that's like lifetime season
tickets if you're a big fan, I think that'd be.
(25:02):
It has monetary value and it also has you know,
sentimental team value to it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
So that might be something at least season tickets just
for this year and World Series tickets.
Speaker 12 (25:12):
Yeah, exactly, as long as maybe a season tickets, as
long as a Tani is in the Dodgers' uniform.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Thanks for updating us on this, Sam, We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Thanks.
Speaker 15 (25:20):
Dan, appreciate it that.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Sam Blum, the baseball writer for the Athletic. How's this
first month been for the Dodgers here? There's been a
lot going on here. Now, you open up the season
in South Korea, then you come back and then you
have the interpreter, the gambling, then No Tani finally hits
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his first home run.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Mookie Bets has been great. By the way, yes, paulm
you know the.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Story is a little bothersome if some staffer from the
Dodgers didn't give this woman a chance to realize the
value of what she had and threaten in some way
that if you don't give us a ball, now you
walk out with it. We want authenticate it. That's where
you know, like you said, lawsuits can be done. I mean,
one hundred thousand dollars, don't. We don't know anyth about
our financial situation. That's a chunk.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah, but you separate her from her husband.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
That bothers me because you know that felt like that
that was intentional, and.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Yeah, that that's not.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
A good look if that's if that's what happened, that
that's a terrible look here. I don't know if you're
asking for something, you know, what can you ask for?
What is fair in a situation like that? You love
your team, that's your guy hit a home run. But
let's say you do take that baseball home. There's video
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of you holding that baseball up in the scrum and
you're right there and nobody else has the baseball unless
you're going to say no, no, no, we have the baseball.
But you know, in your heart of hearts, you don't
have the baseball.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
She does.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I mean, if I said to her, knowing what you
know now, would you have taken the risk and just
taken the baseball home?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I would and.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Be like, all right, let me know when you find
that baseball. Because everybody knows that I got that baseball
and I'm holding it right here and it's on video.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I would.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I would just say, hey, let me have season tickets here.
How's that? Is that too much to ask?
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Yeah, Paul, the story, the reporter Sam Blum was pretty
clear that it's not clear that Otani said he met
the fan. The translation could have been messed up there.
But the average person on social media who's seen this
story says, oh, Otani's lying again.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
That's what's the reaction. I'm just telling you.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
They're not my reaction, but the reaction like, oh, everyone's
putting it out there. A lot of other sites are
putting out there that Otani is telling the troop about
meeting the fan with the baseball.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
They never met or talked to Otani, though in Otani's
postgame comments on the subject, according to the translation of
the interpreter, he seemed to suggest either they had spoken
or they had communicated in some fashion. It was not
immediately clear if that was a misunderst standing or if
Otani was intending to communicate that he had gotten a
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message to the fan who caught the ball Otani threw.
His interpreter said, I was able to talk to the
fan and was able to get it back. Obviously, it's
a very special ball, a lot of feelings towards it.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I'm very grateful that it's back.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
The woman's boyfriend, I believe, said that they took advantage
of her. There were a bunch of security guys around her.
They wouldn't let her talk to me or give I
couldn't give her any advice. There was no way for
us to leave. They had pretty much cornered us in
the back.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
They said that he was kept at a distance from
his wife by stadium security guards and told they couldn't
talk to one another, Like that's crazy over a home
run ball that should be a celebration. He said that
they want him to influence the decision, at least that's
(29:04):
how his girlfriend took it. A lot of pressure there, right. Well,
you know, the reporter did reach out the Dodgers, and
they declined to answer any questions here. Maybe there's a
follow up here soon.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
One thing that I think people should chill on with
this one is the show hey quote of I was
able to speak to the fan and get the ball
back right, he's speaking through an interpreter. True, and that's
very possibly lost in translation. Yeah, I was able to
speak to the fan, or they were able to speak
to the fan. Those kinds of things get mixed up
all the time, so that's a pretty unfair part of
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the story.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yeah, but that's what people are jumping on that Otani's
lying again, And I would give him the benefit of
the doubt that maybe he did say something that was
going to be relayed to the fan. You know, it's
not a face to face I think, is what he's saying.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Yes, I don't think this is gonna be enough to
get the old translator's job back.
Speaker 11 (30:02):
I'm just saying that. No, no, no, I think he's
gone for no.
Speaker 9 (30:04):
No.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, I think so too soon, too soon. Yes, if
that's even remotely true.
Speaker 16 (30:09):
Separating someone from their partner or their spouse, that's like,
how is there not a legal part to that? Like,
how do you pull two people away from each other
in corner like they're an interrogation.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Wasn't put in jail? No, but okay she was. She
was in a room and then her her boyfriend was
in another room. They would they were tortured until they
got the ball back. Yeah, but he I know, I know.
I mean it sounds like she was you aware what
she wasn't given food or water.
Speaker 11 (30:36):
No, she wasn't given food or water.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
But they did separate the two. Yeah, okay, that is of.
Speaker 16 (30:41):
How is that a thing? Separating with someone?
Speaker 6 (30:43):
You don't give us a ball back right now, You've
got to be an Angels fan for the rest of No, no, no, no,
you got to give you the ball. That's what they said.
Speaker 11 (30:48):
That's what they said.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
All right, we're playing the earthquake game.
Speaker 11 (30:51):
I have the numbers after the break.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Oh, I gotta wait until after the break. Yes, to
update just how big of an earthquake. We need a
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app search FSR to listen live. All right, we're playing
the earthquake quake game. We had an earthquake about twenty
minutes ago, and I got to see some of the
video from you guys getting out of your chairs to
run outside after the earthquake happened. Nobody was checking on
me to see if I was okay. You guys all
(31:37):
ran outside like fair. Did anybody say, hey, where's Dan.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Most You spend almost every break backing that garage. Yeah,
and Paul and I both went immediately to towards the
garage area.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
You can call us heroes, but I wasn't out there.
How would I was about to catch usually where you are?
I was right here, right here, you're normally tinkering boxes.
Everybody jumped up and ran out.
Speaker 11 (32:05):
I'll be half a seat and you're welcome.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 11 (32:08):
Check my car.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
You're watching right now. We're showing the video on being gone.
I'm you guys scampering out of the room, and our
director's racing to your no, no, okay.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
And our director is shaking his phone while showing the
video to make it look like more earthquake.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah, look at that. You guys running. Oh, although Todd's
not running.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
I did not know.
Speaker 11 (32:30):
That's actually full speed.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
You're strolling. You're strolling.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Now you come back, Now you come back, and then
you look to see where I am.
Speaker 16 (32:38):
I did, and I was also like, should I take
my laptop in my note?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Oh you were checking on me.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
It was my laptop.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Okay, two part earthquake game. The size of the earthquake.
I've only been in one other earthquake and it was
three point five.
Speaker 11 (32:54):
Oh that's a nice that's a nice number.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Todd.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
What's your number for the earthquake that we experienced? My magnitude?
Speaker 16 (32:59):
Okay, I number because it's the final four in Today's
April fifth. Four point five.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Wow, Seaton three point seven? All right, Marvin four point two?
All right, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go four to three,
four to three, something I never had in school. I'm
gonna go four point.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Oh wait, you know the answer. I know, but I
wrote down my answer in the break just you know
my answer is wrong. So if I'm cheating, I would cheat.
Speaker 11 (33:28):
To be right.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
No, I don't know about that. I think we busted you.
Speaker 9 (33:33):
Now.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
You said that you had four point.
Speaker 11 (33:34):
Oh, I wrote down my answer and it's wrong.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (33:37):
Four point eight? Earthquake rocks the New York state tri
state area in eight looks a lot like an Oh. Yeah,
I'm a much better cheater though.
Speaker 12 (33:47):
Oh uh.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
The epicenter is in northern New Jersey, seat O'Connor. Whoa
where Probably.
Speaker 11 (33:54):
Alpine in one of those towns or something.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
But it was felt and they can't catch a break
all the way up to Albany Springfield, Massachusetts and down
to Maryland.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Okay, yeah, that's a that's a big one, all right.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
The second part of the earthquake game, if you have
five seconds to grab one thing out of the man
cave and run outside. Paulie, I'm gonna start with you.
You're gonna grab one thing. You got five seconds.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
I got an autographed picture of me and Will Ferrell
at my desk, and it's the only copy because it's
not on a phone anywhere.
Speaker 11 (34:32):
I would have grabbed that.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Okay, Marvin, you can grab one thing.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
On my Yukon gear. Well, I have a Yukon Jersey. Okay,
you'r Yukon Jersey. Okay, uh, Todd, what about you?
Speaker 16 (34:45):
I would grab my laptop but if it's a souvenir
thing from the man cave, this little Broncos punching guy,
I think because it's nearby, and I think I got
a fund with that in the parking lot.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
You're gonna take your laptop.
Speaker 16 (34:54):
Yeah, that's the first thing that would come to mind,
is my laptop and notebook. If I could do okay things,
but one thing, i'd grab.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
My lap seating. What are you grabbing?
Speaker 5 (35:00):
There's a Landon Donovan shirt down that hallway over there. Yeah,
I don't have this map that I would grab that.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yes, I would.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I if my dog Winnie was here, i'd grab Winnie.
And if Winnie wasn't here and Penny was here, I'd
grab Penny. And if I was going to grab something,
I would try to grab you guys to take you
to safety.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
That's a lovelier That's what we were trying to do
because we thought you were back there, but it turns out.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
You yeah, I'm sorry, Yeah, yes, Paul.
Speaker 11 (35:35):
Why did it have to happen during a commercial break.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
If it was two minutes earlier, two later, there would
have been an earthquake on air, you could you could
sports Emmy surviving the quake.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yeah, Now are there going to be shows who were
going to be able to use that to their advantage?
By the way, next Tuesday we find out if we're
nominated for a sports Emmy. Oh yes, I think it's
next Tuesday. We're going to be on vacation. So therefore
you can't see me cry if we don't get nominated. Yes, Tod, can.
Speaker 16 (36:04):
We trust any post video of this earthquake where people
behind the camera throwing mugs and stuff around and knocking
pictures down as if that's the earthquake?
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Cause it when they are doing.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
It, we could reenact here they could. Yeah, I mean,
oh my god, what was that? Hey, where are you
guys going? Well, I'm over here, I'm gonna die, Thank you,
(36:33):
thank you. That's how it should have there, you go
shuffling through the kitchen where stand.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
He's back here.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
But I like how Todd was looking back, and then
I thought he was looking back for me. He's actually
looking back for his laptop. The quote was actually, was
that some type of massive gust of wind?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
It was? That was mine? Really? Yeah, well we don't
have earthquakes. Gust of wind was shaking.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
To be fair, there's sometimes big dump trucks that come
past our studio. That's true, and the place has a
little shake, but you hear the truck. It was the
big shake and nothing else.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
That's what Dylan and the big German thought that sometimes
these trucks go by and it rattles the man cave here.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Hashtag warrior heroes.
Speaker 11 (37:21):
That's what we are.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Yeah, yeah, we did it all right. Now, let's resume
our regularly scheduled program. Already in progress. Armando in Atlantic City, Armando,
did you feel the earthquake? No?
Speaker 17 (37:36):
I didn't, but I was in one in Los Angeles
at the airport and it sucks. Oh, everything was fine.
The whole place was swaying until tu Lee starts screaming
and everybody got up for running around.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Oh okay, what's what's your question for me?
Speaker 17 (37:49):
We don't have a nerve pick year, don't think anyway?
Speaker 8 (37:52):
Who do you think?
Speaker 10 (37:52):
Is it?
Speaker 17 (37:53):
Forget about who's the best basketball player? Who's the MVP
to their team of all time? I have a question
for Mormon too that I'll hang up on me. Well,
ask your question your who's your m VP of all
time basketball? To your team? The labrowns on four different teams,
so it was just on one and the other players.
You know, will cham win?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Whoever? Okay, what's what's your what's your question?
Speaker 17 (38:18):
It's for everybody, Ruben, take your all time all white
team basketball?
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Thank Yourmando.
Speaker 11 (38:27):
We've done that like ten times on this Yeah, m VP.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Of your team. I don't have a team, so.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
I'm not sure Seaton has a basketball team or Todd
has a basketball team.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Do you want to pick your all white starting five?
Is that all right or all? I think it's all white.
I think it's all white. Thank you.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
Armando's kind of an all right team.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Uh, it'd be the Cream team.
Speaker 11 (38:58):
I like.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
I like that he was your f I don't know. Yeah,
do you have a favorite all white team if you
were gonna build.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
A roster here? Martin?
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Not off the top of my head.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
I don't good. Adam in Indiana High Adam, what's on
your mind today?
Speaker 7 (39:15):
Hey?
Speaker 18 (39:16):
Dan, I hope you guys are doing well. Kind of
got on the topic yesterday about how long it took
Michael to win his first ring. I'm curious what you
guys would think about how long it would have taken
Lebron to win his first ring had he not jumped
ship and went to Miami because when he left for Miami,
they kind of obviously went downhill, which then led to
high draft picks Wiggins then which led to a Kevin
(39:40):
Love trade. If he doesn't leave for Miami, they don't
get those draft picks. And I don't think he wins
a ring in Cleveland as soon as Michael one one
in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Okay, but you're missing the point. Lebron was what two
years in the league, and he took the Cavs to
the NBA finals. Okay, nobody does that. Look at the roster.
He went to the NBA Finals. Yes, did he need
help to win? Yes, he knew that and that's why
(40:09):
he left.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
Yes, Mark, let's not disrespect Booby Gibson, Yeah, Booby.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Oh my gosh. Who else was on that team?
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Big Z, Danielle Marshall, uh Vera, Jan Eric Snow, Eric Snow,
the point Guard.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
Sasha Pavlo, Pablo, Danielle Marshall, Damon Jones.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Damon Jones is going to win a title.
Speaker 6 (40:36):
But who's won a title without help? You know, like Lebron,
Like you said, it's it's so impressive. He's twenty two,
He had like a hundred games in Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
No, I That's why I'm saying you have to have
somebody to help you win a title. Iverson he took
that team to the NBA Finals. That wasn't a great team.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
With Eric Snow.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Eric Snow again. By the way, if you're watching on Peacock,
we have a real treat one dining moment. Todd Fritz
will sing one dining moment that'll be coming up in
minutes from now.
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