August 23, 2024 • 49 mins
Comedian Frank Caliendo joined the show to give us some John Madden impersonations in the spirit of the new John Madden themed movie, and former Major League Baseball MVP Joey Votto stops by to shed some light on the emotional ups and downs of being a pro athlete.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Does your preseason record matter if you're a Chicago Bear fan,
A great times. You played four games, your four to zero,
You've scored one hundred and fifteen points the opposition forty seven.
Does it correlate to anything during the regular season. We'll
explore that coming up last call for preseason games. You've
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got a couple tonight, Jags, Falcons, Dolphins, Tampa Bay Niners,
and the Raiders. And then college football this weekend Week
zero Florida State and Georgia Tech in Dublin. Isn't it weird?
We're starting a season with the greatest college coach of
all time and the greatest NFL coach of all time,
and they're members of the media. Nick Saban will be
(00:48):
in Dublin for that game, I believe, with a college
game day. And then you got Bill Belichick, who's on
three or four of these NFL shows now, but they're
on the outside looking in. We know Belichick wants to
get back in. Nick Saban is a member of the
media and probably that's what he's going to be the
rest of his career. But Bill Belichick, Bill Belichick, I
(01:10):
still feel like is breaking down film just in case
somebody goes, hey, we're going to make a change in
Philadelphia or Dallas. Bill, are you ready? And he'll be
ready to go. I wonder if he has language in
his contracts with all of these members of the media
media outlets. Pat McAfee show, Hey, here's my out. If
I happen to get a job offer, then I'm going
(01:33):
to take it. I can get out of these contracts.
I'd be curious about that. All right, we will have
our play of the day poll question stat of the day. Say,
good morning. If you're watching on Peacock, thank you for
downloading the app our radio affiliates around the country as well.
Good buddy of the show. Joey Vado just announced his retirement,
and we'll talk to him about what is next. He
(01:54):
has some interesting numbers and numbers that will probably leave
these Hall of Fame voters with a interesting question. Is
Joey Vattowa Hall of Famer Frank Caliendo will join us?
Been a while since we've talked to him. We didn't
think about him because the Nicholas Cage portrayal of John Madden,
the movie is going to be in I Guess production
(02:17):
coming up, and Frank of course does his John Madden impersonation,
so we thought maybe we could get Frank on does
he do a Nicholas Cage version of John Madden impersonation?
Eight seven seven three DP show email address DP at
Danpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show Colts Bears
win their preseason games and a full slate coming up
(02:40):
this weekend. I do have odds to win the Heisman Trophy,
and this might be a season where you go off
the board because we've seen that it's rare when the
favorite wins the Heisman Trophy. According to DraftKings, the best
odds to win the Heisman Trophy is Dylan Gate, Dylan Gabriel.
(03:02):
How long has Dylan Gabriel been in college football?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Is he? Is?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
He a five year guy? Feels like he's.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Let me ask his kids as his kids? How old
he's twenty three? Hilter twenty four this season? That's not
so bad?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Okay, all right? So Dylan Gabriel, followed by Georgia's Carson Beck,
quinn Ewers at Texas Jackson Dart what a great name. Uh,
he's next, and then Jaln Milroe at Alabama. Those are
the odds on favorite for the Heisman? Not a lot
of fanfare for these names, where you know it was
(03:39):
Caleb Williams a foegone conclusion, you don't have that this year,
and you might have somebody off the board who wins
the Heisman this year? Uh, Seaton, what's poll question? For
at least the first hour of this program.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
It's funny too, because you're talking about I was just
looking at one of those like preseason uh like lists
about college football predictions and stuff like, oh, that could
be like a fun secyon to do or something. So
I started going over and had Heisman odds or whatever,
and then I'm looking at favorite to win Big Ten
Championship and Oregon there.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
What well that that'll Yes, it's still weird to see it,
but it's weird. That'll help your that'll help your Heisman
odds if you happen to win the Big Ten. But yeah,
it's like uh oh yeah Oregon. Yeah, still gonna take
a little while for that one. Yeah. See.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
It was just so strange to see. And me, I'm
always like I second guess everything. I'm like, what this
has to be a typo or let me triple check
This is that right, Oregon Big ten. Anyway, UH I
had for a poll question, Well, you hit it there
a little bit. How much does your preseason record matter?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
A little or a lot?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
There's got to be some kind of data to show
how UH teams performed after doing.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Is holding data? Poly is holding said data? Yeah, so
I've wondered this before.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I think the remember when the Detroit Lions were zero
to sixteen, they were undefeated in that preseason.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
So it does it?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Does it correlate? So of the last twenty nine NFL
teams that went undefeated in the preseason, do you think
it's more likely that they made the playoffs or missed
the playoffs? What do you guys think teams that went undefeated?
You're correct, thirty sixty five percent of the last twenty
nine teams that went undefeated the preseason did not make
(05:28):
the playoffs. Only thirty five percent did. And on the
opposite side of it, there have been twenty eight teams
that went winless in the preseason in the past ten years.
Forty three percent of those went on to make the playoffs,
fifty seven percent missed it. So the worst you do
in the preseason record wise, the better your chance is
to make the playoffs. That's a step.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, But it feels like if I'm a coach and
maybe I'm taking over a bad team, I want them
to know what it feels like to win. Get that
that feeling, no matter even if it's a preseason game,
so you try harder. It's like the worse you are,
the harder you try in preseason. At least, that's always
the feeling I get. I don't know if Kansas City
Chiefs go, man, we're going to be terrible this year,
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or you know, I'm looking at some of these other teams.
So the Bears are undefeated, the Vikings are undefeated as well.
Now this is going into games this weekend. Packers are
won to one, so the teams in the division and
the Lions are one in one. I don't know if
any of that matters. I think it's more of did
we see something we didn't expect? Did everybody stay healthy?
(06:36):
And then you know, because some coaches believe in that
final preseason game you're going to play, You're going to
play your starters. You want them to get a taste
of it. I don't know the philosophy anymore. It feels
like it's you know, team by team, coach by coach,
but you know it used to be that last preseason
game you probably played your starters a long time ago
because you wanted to get ready for that regular season.
(06:58):
And I always go back to the Patriots when Belichick
and Brady were there, they would say the following after
preseason they would struggle, it felt like in September, and
they'd say, September is our preseason. That's how good they
were that they they used the first three or four
games of the regular season as their preseason for their starters.
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And we know how it usually ended up for them.
Any other teams in there, so most recently you have
the undefeated Chicago Bears, and you had the Lions who
went undefeated. But then we're oh to sixteen. Any other
interesting anomalies there? Something stand out?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, a couple of years ago, Well, last year the
Steelers were three and ohero in the preseason. They did
make the playoffs. Okay, last year the Jaguars and Commanders
were both three and oh in the preseason. They missed it.
You go back a few years ago, the twenty twenty
three Rams, they were zero to three in the preseason.
Everyone wrote them off because of the previous year. They
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end up making the playoffs last year, so those are
few anomaly.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
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seating other poll questions aside from does the preseason matter?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Pully just sent one in here. Better quarterback named bo
Nick Jackson, Dart. We could put other in there too.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
We could.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
We have room for two more names, but those right
there current quarterbacks pretty.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Good, isn't there? General Booty.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Is that a good one?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That his name? General, General Booty, General, generally Booty.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Wait, is that his name, General Booty, Yes, it's his Well,
he was born Major Booty and then of course he
went up the food change.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
He's a major Booty. Came I would keep when you
keep Major Booty instead of General Booty.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah, General Booty, that's his Uh, General Axel Booty. He
played at Oklahoma a few years ago and ul Monroe.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah, but wasn't he John David booty's son. Or there
are a few booties who've played played college football. Yeah,
there are, Yeah, how's his booty? It's general, But I
guess what we're saying major with this this question is
if you were doing like one of those WB shows
about a high school quarterback, would you go with a
(09:33):
name like Jackson Darter bow Nicks. I like Jackson Dart,
I like that, or Johnny Utah, But uh, Jackson dartis
that's pretty good. It just feels like you you better
be good with he. Oh, he's Jackson Dart through a
dart that Dylan Gabriel. Okay, yeah, I'm sure there are you.
(10:00):
Oh do you see the story about Alabama's accused of
stealing the kicker from Miami of Ohio. Uh, here's the
head coach of Miami of Ohio, Chuck Martin.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
All right, special teams lost your kicker, Carter He's We
didn't lose him. He's at Alabama.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
We know exactly where he's at. Like again, you media people,
it's all pretend like, no, Alabama stole our kicker illegally.
They illegally recruited Art. They illegally recruit our kicker and
stole them from us and like that's that's a fact.
But that's that's cow. But we act like it's not.
We live in this la la world, like, hey, let's
not talk. I don't know why. I mean, he knows
what's going on. So, yeah, Alabama stall our kicker. A
(10:40):
couple of a couple of other schools try to steal it,
but they think, okay, what's the question.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Okay, So that's Chuck Martin. At Miami of Ohio football
social media, Caylin de Boor, Alabama's new head coach, was
asked about allegedly stealing Miami of Ohio's kicker.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
The Miami of Ohio coach Pracsey Guys.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Of pamp Ram that was said that he responds to the.
Speaker 8 (11:08):
I don't know anything about that.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I guess that comment.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
Yeah. I mean, he entered the portal and we reached
out to him.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
So that's how it goes, right, So we did everything
that you're supposed to.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Okay, wait a minute, was it in that order that
it happened. He entered the transfer portal and then we
reached down to him, or we reached down to him
and then he entered at the transfer PORTA A big
difference coach with that. I mean, I'm not accusing anybody.
Here's the thing. College football has gotten to the point
where I don't know if you can say you stole somebody,
(11:43):
you did something illegally. I just saw this story where
there was somebody on Dion's staff at Colorado. He went
to Saudi Arabia and he connected with the Public Investment
Fund which established Live Golf, and I think they own
the Premier League's Newcastle Club, and he was going over
(12:06):
there trying to solicit funds for Colorado football. At first
when I saw and I go, this can't be real,
but it is real. He said that he was reaching
out to a collective and they're Wall Street people. He said,
they don't know football. Football is a different language. All
(12:29):
of you out there who played college football are been
around it big time fans. You know that the language
and the way that people operate in the commitments and
the time, it's just a different animal. You don't go
home at five o'clock. We work on Saturdays and Sunday.
So the special teams coordinator, Trevor Riley has been dismissed
(12:49):
from the Colorado football program. Would he have been dismissed
if he actually got money from the saudis probably not well.
But if that got out, but he told Sports Illustrated
that that was the case, that he spent his own
money to go to Saudi Arabia and Jordan to be
not Michael Jordan, Jordan to try to get money for
(13:11):
the Colorado Buffalos. So you can't sit here and go, wow,
they stole our kicker. I have no sympathy for any
of these coaches anymore. It's just it's, you know, ready,
fire aim. This is what college football is all about, survival,
whatever it takes. Yeah, now we're bribing. Now it's legal
(13:32):
to bribe these players. Where it used to be you know,
you were doing everything kind of surreptitiously, yes, Pauling.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
College football right now is like a small town with
no stop lights, no speed limits, and the police department
is not never opened. That's a state of college football
right now. It's like open season, no rules.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, yeah, I'm Marvin.
Speaker 9 (13:52):
If you're a coach of a mid major program, the
worst thing ever is for one of your players to
be first team All American, Like no, no, no, don't
be that good. Don't be that good. If I'm at
Eastern Michigan or Bowling Green. Oh, he's first team All American.
It was fun while it lasted because he's these coaches.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, and these recruiters from these major programs, they just
they're just trolling. They're just like waiting, just waiting, just waiting.
Oh how about that guy. Oh he was All MAC
first first team. Uh, he's not gonna be All MAC
the following season because he might be All SEC. That's
what happens. It's like when Alabama was going after Jamiir
(14:29):
Gibbs at Georgia Tech, Like, you know, this is Georgia
Tech and okay, not a great, you know, big time program,
but Alabama's like, man, this Gibs guy's pretty good. And
I had heard from a scout who said, hey, Alabama's
going to get the best running back in football and
they're going to get him from Georgia Tech. And I go,
huh he said, yes, Jamiir Gibbs, who's now with the Lions.
(14:53):
And my source said they're going to get him, and uh,
he's he's one of the better kept secrets. I'm like, well,
and then we saw what happened at Alabama.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Yes, Seaton, is there any pride to be taken though,
if you're Miami, Ohio and you're like, you know what,
our recruiting really is that good?
Speaker 10 (15:11):
Though?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Blabama steeling our guys, we know we're doing something right.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, those programs have to recruit really well because they
can't rely on we'll just outspend anybody. I mean, we're
Miami Ohio.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
That I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Speaks for itself. Well, they do have to fight that
they are you the you No, we're not. But we're
the original Miami University. But we're Miami of Ohio. Yes, Ston, Hey,
here in Ohio, we've got great football. Okay, you come
play for us?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Really?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Ohiot? Well, no, Miami Ohio.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah.
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Speaker 2 (16:30):
I don't know what it says about me, but when
I realized that there was going to be a movie
about John Madden and it's supposed to be about Madden
NFL football, and I guess the making of that, I
thought about Frank Kelliendo, who does John Madden impersonation all
the time. And then I realized that I think Will
Ferrell was up for the job, but Nick Cage got
(16:51):
the job. He's going to be John Madden in the movie.
So I thought Fritzy reached out to Frank Kellendo because
I wondered, does Frank do a Nick Cage impersonation of
John Madden. I mean, let's hop the ante here a
little bit. But by the way, go to Frank on
stage dot com learn more about where you can see Frank.
He'll be Davenport, Iowa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Coming up in September's
(17:13):
We Make Way for the Great Comedian Frank Kelly Yendo, Frank,
good morning, how are you.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
I'm doing well. It has been a while and I'm
really looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Okay, So do you do a Nicholas Cage doing John Madden?
Speaker 8 (17:30):
I heard you talking about it yesterday.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
I tried it a little bit because I did a
like a social media post of all the other actors
I think would be better than me playing John Madden.
So the Nicholas Cage, I believe, would start a little
lower and get in here. Hey, folks, John Madden here,
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and this guy's going over here.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
That guy's going over there. And what's this guy doing, Pat,
He's stealing the Declaration of Independence? Here we are.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Boom, there'd be a lot right boom.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
I'm I'm finding things from old Batman episodes that are
working their way.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Good enough for those who are listening on radio. I
wish you could see right with the face. Facial expressions
are awesome there. I mean, my Nicholas Cage impersonation was
with Pig, and it would be I want my pig
and then that's it. That's as far as I go.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
I go more for finding. It's actually getting better.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Aus I'm doing it with you for some reason, I
think it's upping the stakes, like when you're playing in
a game and guys get players get better as they're
playing in the game, because if the stakes are higher,
you know, I want to play with A tweet I
put out yesterday after Fritzi said who was on the show,
is like, let's play a rhyme time.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
That's what I want to do. Here we go, Wait.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Do you have a Nicholas Cage rhyme time?
Speaker 8 (19:04):
I'm working on it, dude. So okay, here, I'm here's
what we're going to do. Two words. I'll give you
two words and you try to figure out how they run.
Two other words.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Okay, I'm going to over explain it the same way
Fritzie would for two.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And a half minutes.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Let's just try just trying to get the the back
row laughing. That's all I'm trying to do here. By
the way, never been on the show with Marvin. Marvin
doing a tremendous job. But first, okay, so I should
have thought it two rhyming words didn't play? Okay, Nicholas
(19:47):
uh extended, Nicholas extended anyone you want to go.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
We're trying to think what runs with the cage that
would be extended.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
I'll give it to you, just gonna take forever cage range.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
That's that's the typical Fritzy doesn't even.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Really it's supposed to be bad, Frank, So I tried.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
To go one extra layer of amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Could you do an impression of Madden? That would fool Like,
let's say the movie people wanted you to come in
and do some lines, not over the top, but just
do John Madden movie.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
I mean they always start with more of a caricature
that you know, got into that like it gets fun.
It starts out kind of boring. But the Madden thing,
you know, you try to say the things the way
he would say, and those I mean, those are the
kinds of things that it ends up being.
Speaker 8 (21:02):
And then you would get like that.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Once in a while, I actually had to do I
did a commercial where I was supposed to sing as
John Madden. John Madden didn't want to sing, I guess
in the commercial and I'm still.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Doing cage and I'm not even trying.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
So it was a Christmas song and I had to
sing it and they're like, we want you to come
in an audition. I'm like, find somebody else if they're
gonna make me audition for this. I ended up making
them pay me a thousand dollars or something like that.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
This is like twenty years ago, and it was.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Madden singing chess nuts roasting, I'm in open fire, Jack
Frost nipping at your nose, and they're like, that's incredible.
I'm like, he's never gonna let you use it. Don't worry.
That's why I'm making you pay for it.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
And it turned out that they didn't use it in
the commercial.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
It's like chestnuts roasting on an open fire. I was like, see,
so that's why it was one of those Normally wouldn't
be that much of a jerk about it, but I
was like, there's no way they're gonna use it.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
And I finally I probably told you the story.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
I finally met Madden at the super Bowl in Dallas
and made his grandkids laugh and it kind of changed it.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
So that was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Okay, give me the other people that you were doing.
Who could have been found John?
Speaker 8 (22:20):
I found some people.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
John c Riley was probably one of the best I
thought would have been there.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
Did you touch my Traducket?
Speaker 10 (22:29):
Did you touch Ma tra Duckett?
Speaker 8 (22:30):
I know you touched my drumstick because it's a biting
nod of it. That one was a good one.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
I did like a Leonardo DiCaprio Wolf of Wall Street.
You know, five years ago, when I first started using
the telestraet, I had no idea it was going to
take off the way it did.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
I did a trying to think who else was in there?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
There was a Morgan Morgan free way to be a
Pat better Pat Summer all though, right, I was gonna
do some roll.
Speaker 12 (22:59):
So the twenty to the twenty five, there's a flag
on the play if the quarterback if he throws the
ball and the receiver catches it in the end zone.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
Truth of the matter is that's a touchdown. So they
were like, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
There was somebody who sat like a Jeff Goldbloom boy
thought about it.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Go ahead, wait a minute before you get to that.
Have you thought about doing like an alternate broadcast?
Speaker 8 (23:30):
People have brought it up to me.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
I think it would be I think it would be
fun to get a real football.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
Mind and doing that.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
You know, one of the reasons I started listening to
you guys more is you guys were somebody had brought up.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
I wasn't. He was seating, but everybody's kind of doing it.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Seatan was doing the Romo and you guys were having
a Romo discussion, and somebody's like, and don't listen to
this whole thing before you think.
Speaker 12 (23:53):
Of a jerk.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
And so he's like, they're doing your they're doing your
Tony Romo bit. And I'm like, well, it's an observation.
It's very similar. It's just parallel thinking. But it was
that whole bit about how he doesn't know the place
he went from. My joke is he went from Noster
Damas to knows nothing about football anymore. And and my
(24:16):
joke with Romo is basically he's like revving up a
car when he starts.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
That's how I get into It's like, oh.
Speaker 13 (24:22):
Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Going Jim, and he can he could never think of
a reference. He'll start. This happens to me all the time.
So he starts a reference and then he gets off,
like Jim, that's like a car that he'll be like, Jim,
that's that's like going zero to sixty in a car
that goes really really fast, Like he could he doesn't
(24:49):
get the name of the car. Sometimes he's smiling. You
can see Romo smiling.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
Oh, Jim, this is really really great. What's you gonna
do here, though, Jim? And and that's where it.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Kind of crossed over with what you guys were talking about.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
Nance called me.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
I had the greatest voicemail on the world with Nance
calling me, because I guess they do that on the set.
They've done it in games and where they just go
here we go Jim, and then Nance goes Tony. So
but Nance left me a message to just go Frankie.
And I wish that the message was hello Frank, Jim.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
Nantz Like if I'd have gotten a Hello Frank at
the beginning of that.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Oh Jim, that would have been the best.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Okay, just to let the audience know this is we
weren't ripping you off if anything hopeful.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
Actually not, No, you hadn't heard it, No, no, I no,
I thought I no way on earth that you'd have
seen me do it because it wasn't even on TV
or anything like that. No, It's just it was one
of those situations where a total parallel thinking and us.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
The thing.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Here's the fun thing is like you ever meet people
that think kind of like you have a friend in
town in Arizona, John Holmberg. He and I think very similarly,
and it's why I can write with him.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Sometimes.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
Peyton sees a lot of things similar the way I do,
and I'm like, oh my gosh, that's that's how I
hit how I attack that too, And I'm like sometimes
I get mad at him, but it's got nothing to do.
I'm like, oh, he's already done that, so it's like.
Speaker 8 (26:21):
Ah, what a I gonna do?
Speaker 7 (26:23):
So it's actually it's actually it's actually a great compliment
to seat or he thinks I'm an idiot, and.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
It's like, oh no, I'm worrid that it's one of
my to have that bit be so good that people
think I stole it from you as one of my
greatest career accomplishments.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
But to me, that's like the best thing.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
You basically gave me a dozen roses right there. I like,
I want to hug you, thank you.
Speaker 8 (26:45):
Yeah. No, it's it's absolutely Uh. I don't want people
to think.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
That that's completely innoc it because people it happens all
the time. It used to be when you had a bit,
nobody everything wasn't global like this. The Dan Patrick show
goes out everywhere and on social media. Now everybody always
had this stuff. People were always doing the same types
of things all over But now you just have the
ability to see it. And I really enjoy the show.
(27:13):
And I was at the I was at the Man Cave,
the New Man. I wasn't I one of the first
people there at the y And is my star still there?
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Do I still have the star? A star?
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (27:26):
On the walk?
Speaker 8 (27:27):
Okay. I just didn't know. It's been a while since
I've been. I didn't know.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
I don't know if it was a peel and stick
like it. I just it was there one day and like, okay,
because I remember Reggie Miller coming out.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
Reggie Miller came out of the dressing room and I was.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Like, you know, Reggie, I never really liked you as
if I was honest, I was like, I never really
liked you as a player, but meeting you, you were
the greatest guy in the world.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
It's so cool.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
All right, So, Paulie, you play the role of Jim
Nance and then Seaton plays Tony Romeo.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Okay, here we go Cowboys at the forty five of Dallas,
what do they do here, Tony?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (28:04):
Jim, what do you think of this? Did they run
it to they've passed?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
What would you do? Keep an eye on that.
Speaker 8 (28:11):
Your gym looks really exciting. It looks like one of
the best places they've ever put together. What's gonna happen here?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
It's kind of what you're here for.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
But they get they really do get along, right. I
mean people we always think. I think Tony, Tony does
some of those inside jokes where he'll he doesn't always
explain it to the audience. And I don't know Tony.
I was just talking to nance for like an hour.
I met Tony in passing. But I enjoy these guys.
I mean, it's to me, it's always finding the fun
(28:43):
of somebody.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
And that's what makes it great when you.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Go when you try and do an impression of somebody
in your being mean, I don't find it fun. It
can be interesting, but I like to find the silliness.
And I'll give props to.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Two.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
And I've texted I've texted Fritzy about this before his.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Uh, who's the basketball?
Speaker 7 (29:05):
I can't even think of the basketball down, sir, that's
uh uh. Kevin Harlan, Kevin hard that when you did
Kevin Harland for Kevin Harlan. I mean, that's that stuff
is so much fun.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
A look, can you do a little Kevin Ireland three run?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
But Jazz want to talk about it?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
This is the NBA on TNT.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
He always goes in the NBA on TMT.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Which is what you do when you can only say
certain things and you know what's going to tie it
in at the end that this n T n T
mine always goes to Marv Albert, it turns into this
from downtown yesh.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
So I always get lost in there.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
I did a thing where when you when you don't
master one for me personally, these voices meld a lot
of the time.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
So two of them. I did this as a post
before on like Instagram.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
So but Kermit the Frog, Hey, hold rimit de frog here,
that's a voice that uses this nasal kind of thing.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
And then Fazzi bears like Waka walk a walk up
that type of deal. And if you find those in there,
if you take Kermit the Frog and bring it down
a little becomes John c Riley, Did you touch my drum?
Speaker 8 (30:16):
Set? That right there? And if you add some Eric
becomes Mark Rufflow. I see this as an absolute win, and.
Speaker 13 (30:22):
If you bring it way down, it becomes Paul jim
I I believe is that that's rombo bet. It is
probably one of the best bets I've ever heard in
my entire life. And I'm talking about the Seatan version
and with Paulie not Kelly, and.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
No pause insight into the craft right there.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Well, there's always that. And I taught Shack I don't
get political at all. Really, I mean, I talk about
people in politics and I know it. But I taught
Shaq to do Trump one time, and that might have
been the funniest Shack doing Trump, which is kind of
like ca you know, Cage's doing Madden, but just tracking.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
That's very very that's trumendous, very very good. Quite frankly
the number one reason I've ever done.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Shack.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
John like, can I tell you about that?
Speaker 7 (31:13):
He's like, sure, it'll be true.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Let us know when you're on the East coast again,
we'd love to have you stop by.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
I love to come in and fake some fake my
retirement like Barkley.
Speaker 14 (31:27):
Dan, I'm done. I'm done, Dan, I'm never coming back.
You can't talk me into it. Dan, I'm doing a
bunch of stuff with TNT next year. It's so awesome.
It's great to talk to you guys.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio WAP.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
He's one of our favorites. We always entertain with Joey.
Vado even said that he was trying to take a
shot not too long ago with Taylor Swift and then
all of a sudden, Travis Kelcey moved in for the kill,
and then he's done. And then he had nothing left
to live for and decided that he was going to
retire and go live in Toronto and no one would
(32:13):
ever hear from him again. And then he got all
emotional the last time when we were talking about the
final days. Maybe a couple of tears in there. And
now it's over. The Hall of Fame career of Joey Evado,
freshly retired Reds first baseman joining us on the program.
How's retirement feel?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Joey, why didn't you tell me to quit earlier? We
had my last interview and you were kind of nudging me.
But push push, I mean I wish that I had
not wasted the last six months of my life. I
wish you had told me clearly, hey, it's over.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
But what is scarier not playing well or the fact
that you're retired or retirement.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
So I played seventeen years with the Cincinnati Reds and
them all of them great, and the fans were great.
I played well for most of it, and then there
was just no interest, no major league interest in the
offseason and free agency either. And I reached out to
the Toronto Blue Jays, my hometown team, and signed a
(33:25):
minor league contract with them, and I got hurt in
spring training, And truly, it feels like retirement since last fall.
It feels like my last game in Cincinnati was you know,
everything went quiet, there was no interest. When you're not
on stage, nobody cares. I wasn't able to I wasn't
(33:46):
able to perform and compete in front of fans on television,
do interviews. You know, your phone goes cold, your circle
gets really, really small. And it's really felt like retirement
over the past nine months. So I don't think. I
think if you were to ask me after the last
(34:08):
day of the season last year, I would have had
a much different answer than I do now. But now
I'm not quite as afraid because I basically felt like
I've retired over the last nine months.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah, but I've been around athletes for forty years. You
guys don't want to be told when to retire. You
have to realize yourself, even if others see it. I
couldn't have convinced you, hey, just stay with the Reds.
Retire Cincinnati red don't try to do this anymore. You're good,
you know, come back, retire. You have an official retirement
(34:40):
with the Reds. But you had to explore that, not
me or anybody else.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I think in my experience, so, I had a pretty
serious injury in twenty twenty two, and I couldn't stand
the idea of injury essentially crushing my competitive ability and
talking about the internal I'm talking about the physical ability
and the idea of an injury essentially ending my not
(35:09):
my peak, but my ability to compete. You know, when
you enter a season, you're thinking, and almost my entire career,
I thought I'll be at the All Star Game, almost
my entire career. I thought I'll win an MVP Award
this year, virtually my entire career. I thought I'll be
trending towards a playoff, a World series, a great season.
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I'll be able to look back with positive reflection. And
the last couple of years they were just such such
ugly performances that I thought, this year will be the
year I'll be able to prove it. I'll be healthy,
I'll be able to be an All Star. I'll prove
to them, you know, they should have resigned me. I'll
prove to leave you should have signed me. I'll be
at the you know, I'll be able to like have
my moment, and at some point there's an end to it.
(35:52):
And I think the thing that I said whenever I
was asked should you? Should you in your career? I
said no, no, no. I want the game to tell me
I'm done. I don't want a team to tell me
I'm done. I don't want somebody in the media or
a family member or a friend or a fan to
say you're washed. And I was washed. I mean I was.
I was done probably last year at some point. But
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I'm the one that has to be able to make
that decision. And that's where I'm at right now. And
I can say I can say I was down in Buffalo.
I played for the Triple A team in for the
Toronto Blue Jays in Buffalo, and I played in Scranton,
Wikes or Wilkes Bar, and I played in Worcester, if
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I'm saying that correctly, Massachusetts. I rode the bus. I
carried my bags, and I still wanted to make it happen.
You know when I say carry my bags, carrying my
hotel bags, I you know, I was doing the minor
league life, and I still wanted to make it happen.
And it wasn't until the other day when I didn't
(36:57):
want a play appearance, when the coach was like, do
you want.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
This at bat?
Speaker 3 (37:02):
And I was like, I don't. I don't. And I've
never had that. I've always always been on. I've always
had a direction. I've always been like I'm going that way.
And I was like, I'm good, and I'll share a
quick story. So I'm sitting on the bench and the
coach asked me if I wanted to play appearance. And
my late father, who died sixteen years ago and I
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had a really strong relationship. He was he was you know,
to this day, when you lose someone like that, it's
something you can't ever film. And he and I played
catch together and we love the Toronto blue Jays and
our favorite player was Devon White. He had a specific
catching style and he's a fantastic defender and a real
(37:46):
charming personality.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
We just loved him.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
He was the guy for the Blue Jays, our guy,
and so we'd go out and play catch and he'd
try to catch like Davon White. I'm nine years old,
eleven years old, and we're playing catch together and I'm
sitting on the bench in Buffalo passing on a plate
appearance and guess who's sitting beside me to Bonn White,
(38:09):
And he said to me, so, what do you think
you're going to do? And he was talking about my
hitting style, like what adjustments do you think you're going
to make? And I go, I think I'm done and
he goes, you mean to retire? And I go, yeah,
I think I'm done and he goes, okay. And it
(38:31):
was like a full circle moment to be able to
have a childhood I'm getting emotional thinking and talking about this,
but have a childhood icon and something that I was
able to share with my father sitting next to me
and Poignan poet, you draw sort of connections even if
(38:54):
they aren't real. But that felt like a genuine connection
for me, you know, that felt like that was almost
like po That felt like an end to the story.
And I went into the to the clubhouse, thanked my
minor league teammates who require, in my opinion, deserve to
thank you because I took plate appearances from them, I
took playing time from them. The guy that I replaced
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hit at Grand Slam I think today or yesterday where
I would have been playing. And that was enough. That
was enough. Thank the manager, Thanked the general manager, and
then I shared with the public that I'm retiring and
that's it in the best of ways. So I feel
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good about it.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Talking to Joey Vado just retired, played seventeen seasons with
the Reds, won the MVP in the twenty ten six
Time All Star. But you came to that conclusion no
matter how you came to it, you came to it.
And that's what's difficult. Like I'm going to have this
in three and a half years, I'm going to retire.
(40:00):
It's going to be December twenty fourth to twenty twenty seven,
So I'm planning on it because I don't want to
hold on and have people laugh at instead of with that,
I want to make sure that I'm sharp doing this
and it's got You've got to be on targe. You've
got to be on top of everything for three hours
it's live, and I do worry about that. I got
(40:20):
memory issues. You're just trying to make sure that you're
still doing it great because sometimes nobody tells you maybe
you are slipping a little bit. And so I had
to put a you know, the expiration date on my career.
At least doing this every single day, that's a different experience.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
My expiration date happened in the moment, and people like
you and the game and my former team and the
league were telling me, we're good. You're not an interesting
player for us. You're not the future. We have playing
time that we want to give to other players. Whereas
you there's there's you know, I see it, you see
(41:01):
it with Bob Costas, or you see it with some
of the other icons and media. They're just always going
to be in demand, you know, Charles Barkley, same sort
of thing. They're just always going to be in the demand,
and you'll be the very same. But it's interesting to
me that you're electing to call it, call it, you know,
and I wasn't able to do that. It's just different.
I'm forty, I feel good, I feel you know, I
(41:25):
feel good. So the idea of stopping something I've been
doing my entire my entire adult adult life, my even
my teen years. You know, I was having a conversation
with my mother yesterday, and after this we can lighten
it up a little bit. But I was having a
conversation with my mother yesterday and you know, we were
(41:46):
sitting down at so when I was eighteen years old,
my mom's been working at the very same restaurant. She's
a Somalia, one of the best samalias in Canada, and
you know, she works at a prestigious restaurant. And when
when I was eight ten years old, I let her
know I'm going and I was about to hop on
a plane. She's crying, crying, crying, and I go back
(42:09):
to the very same restaurant and I sit with her
and we have you know, I don't drink, but you know,
we had a little bit of wine. Typically I don't drink,
and we had like a celebratory glass of wine and
I said we made it. We made it, and I
said to her, you know the thing I'm most I'm
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not worried about not playing anymore. But when my father died,
I used baseball as my escape. And it's almost like
yesterday when or a couple days ago, when I stopped playing.
It was my way of saying, you know what, I'm
ready to face. Not like i've more in my father's passing,
but I'm ready to face life. I'm really ready to
(42:53):
say I'm done and I'm taking it on. And you know,
it was intimidating for me for a while, but I
think the last nine months, how alone I've been in
terms of this process, has helped me, has helped me
transition into it.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
So what was it like to have teammates ask you
to buy beer for him?
Speaker 3 (43:19):
The team that the guys were down so good to
me down there? You know there was It's interesting because
I had some people tell me that they were emotional afterwards,
and I thought, you know, there's some players that looked
up to me. If there's one or two Canadian players
that like, you know me as a player, and I
was like, really, you're just my teammate, you know, you
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don't think when you're competing every day, when you're training
towards towards being your very best, that anybody cares about you.
And generally speaking, in life, most people are concerned about
themselves or but you know, I think that when when
Griffy Junior, for example, transitioned out of out Cincinnati, I
was like, oh, man, that was my teammate. You know,
(44:03):
that was my I played his video game. I watched him,
you know, as a boy, and so you don't realize
the sort of impact you have. But it was a
great experience. It was hard, the hardest thing I did
this last nine months, essentially always being told no and
I was the only one saying yes, and the game
(44:25):
telling me no and I'm saying yes. Airbnbs, basically five
months of hotels hurt the whole time, Minor League complex,
but I loved it, and there was no moment that
I was There was no moment. It was the complete
opposite experience of the posh big league life, Major league life,
(44:47):
the charter jets and the people taking your bags, their
first class hotels and great pay and all these things.
Let's get real here. You know, you know, it cost
me money to play baseball. This year, and I am
not complaining at all, but that's the reality of it.
But at no point, I had the best time at
the best time this year. But it was hard. It
was terribly, terribly hard. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
What's the next act?
Speaker 4 (45:11):
Here?
Speaker 3 (45:13):
Got a trip to Milan next month, I'm going to Uh,
there's a big baseball card signing in Milan. No the
next act. Uh, it'd be nice to be home for
a little bit. And I had lunch with my family,
(45:38):
my big family and my family had had a lunch
across in Niagara Falls. And this was on an off
day in while I was playing for Buffalo, and I
was like, this is way better than what I'm doing,
Like carrying around my nephew and playing with him and
my niece and seeing my mom and then my great
(46:02):
my grandmother is a great grandmother to my niece and nephew.
It's like we're having lunch and taking our time. This
is the best of life, you know. So there's only
so much in that. I'm gonna have to continue to
drive forward with something. But maybe i'll I'll replace you.
It'll be the Dan.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Patrick Show featuring Joey Yeah, yeah, do you still hate
Travis Kelce for moving in on Taylor Swift before you
had the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
Are they getting married or are they just sinners living together?
What's what is it? I don't know what are their
parents saying about that? Are they just gonna you know?
Speaker 2 (46:42):
Yeah, I don't know. I think they have their own homes.
I think the.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
Family unit, what's going on? What's what about the family union?
What is this?
Speaker 2 (46:51):
You know what? What could have been? What could have been?
But you you waited? Kid in the on deck circle.
You were in the on deck circle for Taylor Swift
and Kelsey came in and went yard.
Speaker 3 (47:06):
Yeah, well scored a touchdown. It's good.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Yeah, well, you know what, I look forward to seeing
you in the media. I think that'll be great. I
play on the analyst. That'd be nice. Think think how's
the travel with that you're there for a few days
in cities because you'll you'll be there for a series,
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and so you have an opportunity to go and you
know whatever, how many four days fives in the city
and then.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
What how's the spread? How's the spread?
Speaker 2 (47:44):
How's the spread? Uh, you'll be you'll be treated on
clubhouse spread. You'll you'll be good your clubbies, you know,
they'll still take care of your maybe, you know, maybe
Jeter buys you dinner.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
Can't you imagine, though, just traveling around and talking about
other people doing stuff. You know, I will say this,
I've been and I don't know it's.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Called It's called being in the media, and Joey, that's
what you do. You talk about other people. You always
want to talk about yourself. Now you have to talk
about others.
Speaker 3 (48:16):
This is the thing that I'm most excited about. I
say this sincerely. This career, this baseball thing, this athlete
thing is so selfish. It is I am. You know,
my body's my business. But it's all about me, me, me,
me me. And the thing that I am most looking
forward to it or using the words we they heer
(48:39):
him like you are on you were on say I get.
I'm looking forward to talking about other people and whether
I do that in the media landscape or I do
that just in my community, whether volunteering or a family
or my friends or what have you. I'm most most
looking forward to that because I feel like it'll real
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why are my brain? I think it'll put me in
a healthier place because you are constantly concerned about yourself
and I'm tired of that. I'm tired of that, and
so that's what I And what if I do that
for TBS or Fox or ESPN or whomever, that'll be
great too, and I think I'll have a great time.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
So yeah, Dan, Well thanks for a time too.
Speaker 3 (49:26):
I'm a nobody and when you put the show and
you made me feel welcome. So thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Let's stay in touch.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
I'd love to. How about that, Aaron, see.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
You in Milan. I'll see you in Milan.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
Yes, bring your shirk.
Speaker 2 (49:44):
Thank you, Joey.
Speaker 3 (49:45):
Thanks Dan,
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Does your preseason record matter if you're a Chicago Bear fan,
A great times. You played four games, your four to zero,
You've scored one hundred and fifteen points the opposition forty seven.
Does it correlate to anything during the regular season. We'll
explore that coming up last call for preseason games. You've
(00:26):
got a couple tonight, Jags, Falcons, Dolphins, Tampa Bay Niners,
and the Raiders. And then college football this weekend Week
zero Florida State and Georgia Tech in Dublin. Isn't it weird?
We're starting a season with the greatest college coach of
all time and the greatest NFL coach of all time,
and they're members of the media. Nick Saban will be
(00:48):
in Dublin for that game, I believe, with a college
game day. And then you got Bill Belichick, who's on
three or four of these NFL shows now, but they're
on the outside looking in. We know Belichick wants to
get back in. Nick Saban is a member of the
media and probably that's what he's going to be the
rest of his career. But Bill Belichick, Bill Belichick, I
(01:10):
still feel like is breaking down film just in case
somebody goes, hey, we're going to make a change in
Philadelphia or Dallas. Bill, are you ready? And he'll be
ready to go. I wonder if he has language in
his contracts with all of these members of the media
media outlets. Pat McAfee show, Hey, here's my out. If
I happen to get a job offer, then I'm going
(01:33):
to take it. I can get out of these contracts.
I'd be curious about that. All right, we will have
our play of the day poll question stat of the day. Say,
good morning. If you're watching on Peacock, thank you for
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Good buddy of the show. Joey Vado just announced his retirement,
and we'll talk to him about what is next. He
(01:54):
has some interesting numbers and numbers that will probably leave
these Hall of Fame voters with a interesting question. Is
Joey Vattowa Hall of Famer Frank Caliendo will join us?
Been a while since we've talked to him. We didn't
think about him because the Nicholas Cage portrayal of John Madden,
the movie is going to be in I Guess production
(02:17):
coming up, and Frank of course does his John Madden impersonation,
so we thought maybe we could get Frank on does
he do a Nicholas Cage version of John Madden impersonation?
Eight seven seven three DP show email address DP at
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win their preseason games and a full slate coming up
(02:40):
this weekend. I do have odds to win the Heisman Trophy,
and this might be a season where you go off
the board because we've seen that it's rare when the
favorite wins the Heisman Trophy. According to DraftKings, the best
odds to win the Heisman Trophy is Dylan Gate, Dylan Gabriel.
(03:02):
How long has Dylan Gabriel been in college football?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Is he? Is?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
He a five year guy? Feels like he's.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Let me ask his kids as his kids? How old
he's twenty three? Hilter twenty four this season? That's not
so bad?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Okay, all right? So Dylan Gabriel, followed by Georgia's Carson Beck,
quinn Ewers at Texas Jackson Dart what a great name. Uh,
he's next, and then Jaln Milroe at Alabama. Those are
the odds on favorite for the Heisman? Not a lot
of fanfare for these names, where you know it was
(03:39):
Caleb Williams a foegone conclusion, you don't have that this year,
and you might have somebody off the board who wins
the Heisman this year? Uh, Seaton, what's poll question? For
at least the first hour of this program.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
It's funny too, because you're talking about I was just
looking at one of those like preseason uh like lists
about college football predictions and stuff like, oh, that could
be like a fun secyon to do or something. So
I started going over and had Heisman odds or whatever,
and then I'm looking at favorite to win Big Ten
Championship and Oregon there.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
What well that that'll Yes, it's still weird to see it,
but it's weird. That'll help your that'll help your Heisman
odds if you happen to win the Big Ten. But yeah,
it's like uh oh yeah Oregon. Yeah, still gonna take
a little while for that one. Yeah. See.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
It was just so strange to see. And me, I'm
always like I second guess everything. I'm like, what this
has to be a typo or let me triple check
This is that right, Oregon Big ten. Anyway, UH I
had for a poll question, Well, you hit it there
a little bit. How much does your preseason record matter?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
A little or a lot?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
There's got to be some kind of data to show
how UH teams performed after doing.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Is holding data? Poly is holding said data? Yeah, so
I've wondered this before.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I think the remember when the Detroit Lions were zero
to sixteen, they were undefeated in that preseason.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
So it does it?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Does it correlate? So of the last twenty nine NFL
teams that went undefeated in the preseason, do you think
it's more likely that they made the playoffs or missed
the playoffs? What do you guys think teams that went undefeated?
You're correct, thirty sixty five percent of the last twenty
nine teams that went undefeated the preseason did not make
(05:28):
the playoffs. Only thirty five percent did. And on the
opposite side of it, there have been twenty eight teams
that went winless in the preseason in the past ten years.
Forty three percent of those went on to make the playoffs,
fifty seven percent missed it. So the worst you do
in the preseason record wise, the better your chance is
to make the playoffs. That's a step.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, But it feels like if I'm a coach and
maybe I'm taking over a bad team, I want them
to know what it feels like to win. Get that
that feeling, no matter even if it's a preseason game,
so you try harder. It's like the worse you are,
the harder you try in preseason. At least, that's always
the feeling I get. I don't know if Kansas City
Chiefs go, man, we're going to be terrible this year,
(06:13):
or you know, I'm looking at some of these other teams.
So the Bears are undefeated, the Vikings are undefeated as well.
Now this is going into games this weekend. Packers are
won to one, so the teams in the division and
the Lions are one in one. I don't know if
any of that matters. I think it's more of did
we see something we didn't expect? Did everybody stay healthy?
(06:36):
And then you know, because some coaches believe in that
final preseason game you're going to play, You're going to
play your starters. You want them to get a taste
of it. I don't know the philosophy anymore. It feels
like it's you know, team by team, coach by coach,
but you know it used to be that last preseason
game you probably played your starters a long time ago
because you wanted to get ready for that regular season.
(06:58):
And I always go back to the Patriots when Belichick
and Brady were there, they would say the following after
preseason they would struggle, it felt like in September, and
they'd say, September is our preseason. That's how good they
were that they they used the first three or four
games of the regular season as their preseason for their starters.
(07:20):
And we know how it usually ended up for them.
Any other teams in there, so most recently you have
the undefeated Chicago Bears, and you had the Lions who
went undefeated. But then we're oh to sixteen. Any other
interesting anomalies there? Something stand out?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, a couple of years ago, Well, last year the
Steelers were three and ohero in the preseason. They did
make the playoffs. Okay, last year the Jaguars and Commanders
were both three and oh in the preseason. They missed it.
You go back a few years ago, the twenty twenty
three Rams, they were zero to three in the preseason.
Everyone wrote them off because of the previous year. They
(07:57):
end up making the playoffs last year, so those are
few anomaly.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
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seating other poll questions aside from does the preseason matter?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Pully just sent one in here. Better quarterback named bo
Nick Jackson, Dart. We could put other in there too.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
We could.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
We have room for two more names, but those right
there current quarterbacks pretty.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Good, isn't there? General Booty.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Is that a good one?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That his name? General, General Booty, General, generally Booty.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Wait, is that his name, General Booty, Yes, it's his Well,
he was born Major Booty and then of course he
went up the food change.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
He's a major Booty. Came I would keep when you
keep Major Booty instead of General Booty.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah, General Booty, that's his Uh, General Axel Booty. He
played at Oklahoma a few years ago and ul Monroe.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah, but wasn't he John David booty's son. Or there
are a few booties who've played played college football. Yeah,
there are, Yeah, how's his booty? It's general, But I
guess what we're saying major with this this question is
if you were doing like one of those WB shows
about a high school quarterback, would you go with a
(09:33):
name like Jackson Darter bow Nicks. I like Jackson Dart,
I like that, or Johnny Utah, But uh, Jackson dartis
that's pretty good. It just feels like you you better
be good with he. Oh, he's Jackson Dart through a
dart that Dylan Gabriel. Okay, yeah, I'm sure there are you.
(10:00):
Oh do you see the story about Alabama's accused of
stealing the kicker from Miami of Ohio. Uh, here's the
head coach of Miami of Ohio, Chuck Martin.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
All right, special teams lost your kicker, Carter He's We
didn't lose him. He's at Alabama.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
We know exactly where he's at. Like again, you media people,
it's all pretend like, no, Alabama stole our kicker illegally.
They illegally recruited Art. They illegally recruit our kicker and
stole them from us and like that's that's a fact.
But that's that's cow. But we act like it's not.
We live in this la la world, like, hey, let's
not talk. I don't know why. I mean, he knows
what's going on. So, yeah, Alabama stall our kicker. A
(10:40):
couple of a couple of other schools try to steal it,
but they think, okay, what's the question.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Okay, So that's Chuck Martin. At Miami of Ohio football
social media, Caylin de Boor, Alabama's new head coach, was
asked about allegedly stealing Miami of Ohio's kicker.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
The Miami of Ohio coach Pracsey Guys.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Of pamp Ram that was said that he responds to the.
Speaker 8 (11:08):
I don't know anything about that.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I guess that comment.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
Yeah. I mean, he entered the portal and we reached
out to him.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
So that's how it goes, right, So we did everything
that you're supposed to.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Okay, wait a minute, was it in that order that
it happened. He entered the transfer portal and then we
reached down to him, or we reached down to him
and then he entered at the transfer PORTA A big
difference coach with that. I mean, I'm not accusing anybody.
Here's the thing. College football has gotten to the point
where I don't know if you can say you stole somebody,
(11:43):
you did something illegally. I just saw this story where
there was somebody on Dion's staff at Colorado. He went
to Saudi Arabia and he connected with the Public Investment
Fund which established Live Golf, and I think they own
the Premier League's Newcastle Club, and he was going over
(12:06):
there trying to solicit funds for Colorado football. At first
when I saw and I go, this can't be real,
but it is real. He said that he was reaching
out to a collective and they're Wall Street people. He said,
they don't know football. Football is a different language. All
(12:29):
of you out there who played college football are been
around it big time fans. You know that the language
and the way that people operate in the commitments and
the time, it's just a different animal. You don't go
home at five o'clock. We work on Saturdays and Sunday.
So the special teams coordinator, Trevor Riley has been dismissed
(12:49):
from the Colorado football program. Would he have been dismissed
if he actually got money from the saudis probably not well.
But if that got out, but he told Sports Illustrated
that that was the case, that he spent his own
money to go to Saudi Arabia and Jordan to be
not Michael Jordan, Jordan to try to get money for
(13:11):
the Colorado Buffalos. So you can't sit here and go, wow,
they stole our kicker. I have no sympathy for any
of these coaches anymore. It's just it's, you know, ready,
fire aim. This is what college football is all about, survival,
whatever it takes. Yeah, now we're bribing. Now it's legal
(13:32):
to bribe these players. Where it used to be you know,
you were doing everything kind of surreptitiously, yes, Pauling.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
College football right now is like a small town with
no stop lights, no speed limits, and the police department
is not never opened. That's a state of college football
right now. It's like open season, no rules.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, yeah, I'm Marvin.
Speaker 9 (13:52):
If you're a coach of a mid major program, the
worst thing ever is for one of your players to
be first team All American, Like no, no, no, don't
be that good. Don't be that good. If I'm at
Eastern Michigan or Bowling Green. Oh, he's first team All American.
It was fun while it lasted because he's these coaches.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, and these recruiters from these major programs, they just
they're just trolling. They're just like waiting, just waiting, just waiting.
Oh how about that guy. Oh he was All MAC
first first team. Uh, he's not gonna be All MAC
the following season because he might be All SEC. That's
what happens. It's like when Alabama was going after Jamiir
(14:29):
Gibbs at Georgia Tech, Like, you know, this is Georgia
Tech and okay, not a great, you know, big time program,
but Alabama's like, man, this Gibs guy's pretty good. And
I had heard from a scout who said, hey, Alabama's
going to get the best running back in football and
they're going to get him from Georgia Tech. And I go,
huh he said, yes, Jamiir Gibbs, who's now with the Lions.
(14:53):
And my source said they're going to get him, and uh,
he's he's one of the better kept secrets. I'm like, well,
and then we saw what happened at Alabama.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Yes, Seaton, is there any pride to be taken though,
if you're Miami, Ohio and you're like, you know what,
our recruiting really is that good?
Speaker 10 (15:11):
Though?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Blabama steeling our guys, we know we're doing something right.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, those programs have to recruit really well because they
can't rely on we'll just outspend anybody. I mean, we're
Miami Ohio.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
That I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Speaks for itself. Well, they do have to fight that
they are you the you No, we're not. But we're
the original Miami University. But we're Miami of Ohio. Yes, Ston, Hey,
here in Ohio, we've got great football. Okay, you come
play for us?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Really?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Ohiot? Well, no, Miami Ohio.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
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Speaker 2 (16:30):
I don't know what it says about me, but when
I realized that there was going to be a movie
about John Madden and it's supposed to be about Madden
NFL football, and I guess the making of that, I
thought about Frank Kelliendo, who does John Madden impersonation all
the time. And then I realized that I think Will
Ferrell was up for the job, but Nick Cage got
(16:51):
the job. He's going to be John Madden in the movie.
So I thought Fritzy reached out to Frank Kellendo because
I wondered, does Frank do a Nick Cage impersonation of
John Madden. I mean, let's hop the ante here a
little bit. But by the way, go to Frank on
stage dot com learn more about where you can see Frank.
He'll be Davenport, Iowa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Coming up in September's
(17:13):
We Make Way for the Great Comedian Frank Kelly Yendo, Frank,
good morning, how are you.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
I'm doing well. It has been a while and I'm
really looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Okay, So do you do a Nicholas Cage doing John Madden?
Speaker 8 (17:30):
I heard you talking about it yesterday.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
I tried it a little bit because I did a
like a social media post of all the other actors
I think would be better than me playing John Madden.
So the Nicholas Cage, I believe, would start a little
lower and get in here. Hey, folks, John Madden here,
(17:52):
and this guy's going over here.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
That guy's going over there. And what's this guy doing, Pat,
He's stealing the Declaration of Independence? Here we are.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Boom, there'd be a lot right boom.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
I'm I'm finding things from old Batman episodes that are
working their way.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Good enough for those who are listening on radio. I
wish you could see right with the face. Facial expressions
are awesome there. I mean, my Nicholas Cage impersonation was
with Pig, and it would be I want my pig
and then that's it. That's as far as I go.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
I go more for finding. It's actually getting better.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Aus I'm doing it with you for some reason, I
think it's upping the stakes, like when you're playing in
a game and guys get players get better as they're
playing in the game, because if the stakes are higher,
you know, I want to play with A tweet I
put out yesterday after Fritzi said who was on the show,
is like, let's play a rhyme time.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
That's what I want to do. Here we go, Wait.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Do you have a Nicholas Cage rhyme time?
Speaker 8 (19:04):
I'm working on it, dude. So okay, here, I'm here's
what we're going to do. Two words. I'll give you
two words and you try to figure out how they run.
Two other words.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Okay, I'm going to over explain it the same way
Fritzie would for two.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And a half minutes.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Let's just try just trying to get the the back
row laughing. That's all I'm trying to do here. By
the way, never been on the show with Marvin. Marvin
doing a tremendous job. But first, okay, so I should
have thought it two rhyming words didn't play? Okay, Nicholas
(19:47):
uh extended, Nicholas extended anyone you want to go.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
We're trying to think what runs with the cage that
would be extended.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
I'll give it to you, just gonna take forever cage range.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
That's that's the typical Fritzy doesn't even.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Really it's supposed to be bad, Frank, So I tried.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
To go one extra layer of amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Could you do an impression of Madden? That would fool Like,
let's say the movie people wanted you to come in
and do some lines, not over the top, but just
do John Madden movie.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
I mean they always start with more of a caricature
that you know, got into that like it gets fun.
It starts out kind of boring. But the Madden thing,
you know, you try to say the things the way
he would say, and those I mean, those are the
kinds of things that it ends up being.
Speaker 8 (21:02):
And then you would get like that.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Once in a while, I actually had to do I
did a commercial where I was supposed to sing as
John Madden. John Madden didn't want to sing, I guess
in the commercial and I'm still.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Doing cage and I'm not even trying.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
So it was a Christmas song and I had to
sing it and they're like, we want you to come
in an audition. I'm like, find somebody else if they're
gonna make me audition for this. I ended up making
them pay me a thousand dollars or something like that.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
This is like twenty years ago, and it was.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Madden singing chess nuts roasting, I'm in open fire, Jack
Frost nipping at your nose, and they're like, that's incredible.
I'm like, he's never gonna let you use it. Don't worry.
That's why I'm making you pay for it.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
And it turned out that they didn't use it in
the commercial.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
It's like chestnuts roasting on an open fire. I was like, see,
so that's why it was one of those Normally wouldn't
be that much of a jerk about it, but I
was like, there's no way they're gonna use it.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
And I finally I probably told you the story.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
I finally met Madden at the super Bowl in Dallas
and made his grandkids laugh and it kind of changed it.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
So that was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Okay, give me the other people that you were doing.
Who could have been found John?
Speaker 8 (22:20):
I found some people.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
John c Riley was probably one of the best I
thought would have been there.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
Did you touch my Traducket?
Speaker 10 (22:29):
Did you touch Ma tra Duckett?
Speaker 8 (22:30):
I know you touched my drumstick because it's a biting
nod of it. That one was a good one.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
I did like a Leonardo DiCaprio Wolf of Wall Street.
You know, five years ago, when I first started using
the telestraet, I had no idea it was going to
take off the way it did.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
I did a trying to think who else was in there?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
There was a Morgan Morgan free way to be a
Pat better Pat Summer all though, right, I was gonna
do some roll.
Speaker 12 (22:59):
So the twenty to the twenty five, there's a flag
on the play if the quarterback if he throws the
ball and the receiver catches it in the end zone.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
Truth of the matter is that's a touchdown. So they
were like, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
There was somebody who sat like a Jeff Goldbloom boy
thought about it.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Go ahead, wait a minute before you get to that.
Have you thought about doing like an alternate broadcast?
Speaker 8 (23:30):
People have brought it up to me.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
I think it would be I think it would be
fun to get a real football.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
Mind and doing that.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
You know, one of the reasons I started listening to
you guys more is you guys were somebody had brought up.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
I wasn't. He was seating, but everybody's kind of doing it.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Seatan was doing the Romo and you guys were having
a Romo discussion, and somebody's like, and don't listen to
this whole thing before you think.
Speaker 12 (23:53):
Of a jerk.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
And so he's like, they're doing your they're doing your
Tony Romo bit. And I'm like, well, it's an observation.
It's very similar. It's just parallel thinking. But it was
that whole bit about how he doesn't know the place
he went from. My joke is he went from Noster
Damas to knows nothing about football anymore. And and my
(24:16):
joke with Romo is basically he's like revving up a
car when he starts.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
That's how I get into It's like, oh.
Speaker 13 (24:22):
Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Going Jim, and he can he could never think of
a reference. He'll start. This happens to me all the time.
So he starts a reference and then he gets off,
like Jim, that's like a car that he'll be like, Jim,
that's that's like going zero to sixty in a car
that goes really really fast, Like he could he doesn't
(24:49):
get the name of the car. Sometimes he's smiling. You
can see Romo smiling.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
Oh, Jim, this is really really great. What's you gonna
do here, though, Jim? And and that's where it.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Kind of crossed over with what you guys were talking about.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
Nance called me.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
I had the greatest voicemail on the world with Nance
calling me, because I guess they do that on the set.
They've done it in games and where they just go
here we go Jim, and then Nance goes Tony. So
but Nance left me a message to just go Frankie.
And I wish that the message was hello Frank, Jim.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
Nantz Like if I'd have gotten a Hello Frank at
the beginning of that.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Oh Jim, that would have been the best.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Okay, just to let the audience know this is we
weren't ripping you off if anything hopeful.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
Actually not, No, you hadn't heard it, No, no, I no,
I thought I no way on earth that you'd have
seen me do it because it wasn't even on TV
or anything like that. No, It's just it was one
of those situations where a total parallel thinking and us.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
The thing.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Here's the fun thing is like you ever meet people
that think kind of like you have a friend in
town in Arizona, John Holmberg. He and I think very similarly,
and it's why I can write with him.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Sometimes.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
Peyton sees a lot of things similar the way I do,
and I'm like, oh my gosh, that's that's how I
hit how I attack that too, And I'm like sometimes
I get mad at him, but it's got nothing to do.
I'm like, oh, he's already done that, so it's like.
Speaker 8 (26:21):
Ah, what a I gonna do?
Speaker 7 (26:23):
So it's actually it's actually it's actually a great compliment
to seat or he thinks I'm an idiot, and.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
It's like, oh no, I'm worrid that it's one of
my to have that bit be so good that people
think I stole it from you as one of my
greatest career accomplishments.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
But to me, that's like the best thing.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
You basically gave me a dozen roses right there. I like,
I want to hug you, thank you.
Speaker 8 (26:45):
Yeah. No, it's it's absolutely Uh. I don't want people
to think.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
That that's completely innoc it because people it happens all
the time. It used to be when you had a bit,
nobody everything wasn't global like this. The Dan Patrick show
goes out everywhere and on social media. Now everybody always
had this stuff. People were always doing the same types
of things all over But now you just have the
ability to see it. And I really enjoy the show.
(27:13):
And I was at the I was at the Man Cave,
the New Man. I wasn't I one of the first
people there at the y And is my star still there?
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Do I still have the star? A star?
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (27:26):
On the walk?
Speaker 8 (27:27):
Okay. I just didn't know. It's been a while since
I've been. I didn't know.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
I don't know if it was a peel and stick
like it. I just it was there one day and like, okay,
because I remember Reggie Miller coming out.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
Reggie Miller came out of the dressing room and I was.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Like, you know, Reggie, I never really liked you as
if I was honest, I was like, I never really
liked you as a player, but meeting you, you were
the greatest guy in the world.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
It's so cool.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
All right, So, Paulie, you play the role of Jim
Nance and then Seaton plays Tony Romeo.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Okay, here we go Cowboys at the forty five of Dallas,
what do they do here, Tony?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (28:04):
Jim, what do you think of this? Did they run
it to they've passed?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
What would you do? Keep an eye on that.
Speaker 8 (28:11):
Your gym looks really exciting. It looks like one of
the best places they've ever put together. What's gonna happen here?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
It's kind of what you're here for.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
But they get they really do get along, right. I
mean people we always think. I think Tony, Tony does
some of those inside jokes where he'll he doesn't always
explain it to the audience. And I don't know Tony.
I was just talking to nance for like an hour.
I met Tony in passing. But I enjoy these guys.
I mean, it's to me, it's always finding the fun
(28:43):
of somebody.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
And that's what makes it great when you.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Go when you try and do an impression of somebody
in your being mean, I don't find it fun. It
can be interesting, but I like to find the silliness.
And I'll give props to.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Two.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
And I've texted I've texted Fritzy about this before his.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Uh, who's the basketball?
Speaker 7 (29:05):
I can't even think of the basketball down, sir, that's
uh uh. Kevin Harlan, Kevin hard that when you did
Kevin Harland for Kevin Harlan. I mean, that's that stuff
is so much fun.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
A look, can you do a little Kevin Ireland three run?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
But Jazz want to talk about it?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
This is the NBA on TNT.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
He always goes in the NBA on TMT.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Which is what you do when you can only say
certain things and you know what's going to tie it
in at the end that this n T n T
mine always goes to Marv Albert, it turns into this
from downtown yesh.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
So I always get lost in there.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
I did a thing where when you when you don't
master one for me personally, these voices meld a lot
of the time.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
So two of them. I did this as a post
before on like Instagram.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
So but Kermit the Frog, Hey, hold rimit de frog here,
that's a voice that uses this nasal kind of thing.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
And then Fazzi bears like Waka walk a walk up
that type of deal. And if you find those in there,
if you take Kermit the Frog and bring it down
a little becomes John c Riley, Did you touch my drum?
Speaker 8 (30:16):
Set? That right there? And if you add some Eric
becomes Mark Rufflow. I see this as an absolute win, and.
Speaker 13 (30:22):
If you bring it way down, it becomes Paul jim
I I believe is that that's rombo bet. It is
probably one of the best bets I've ever heard in
my entire life. And I'm talking about the Seatan version
and with Paulie not Kelly, and.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
No pause insight into the craft right there.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Well, there's always that. And I taught Shack I don't
get political at all. Really, I mean, I talk about
people in politics and I know it. But I taught
Shaq to do Trump one time, and that might have
been the funniest Shack doing Trump, which is kind of
like ca you know, Cage's doing Madden, but just tracking.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
That's very very that's trumendous, very very good. Quite frankly
the number one reason I've ever done.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Shack.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
John like, can I tell you about that?
Speaker 7 (31:13):
He's like, sure, it'll be true.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Let us know when you're on the East coast again,
we'd love to have you stop by.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
I love to come in and fake some fake my
retirement like Barkley.
Speaker 14 (31:27):
Dan, I'm done. I'm done, Dan, I'm never coming back.
You can't talk me into it. Dan, I'm doing a
bunch of stuff with TNT next year. It's so awesome.
It's great to talk to you guys.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio WAP.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
He's one of our favorites. We always entertain with Joey.
Vado even said that he was trying to take a
shot not too long ago with Taylor Swift and then
all of a sudden, Travis Kelcey moved in for the kill,
and then he's done. And then he had nothing left
to live for and decided that he was going to
retire and go live in Toronto and no one would
(32:13):
ever hear from him again. And then he got all
emotional the last time when we were talking about the
final days. Maybe a couple of tears in there. And
now it's over. The Hall of Fame career of Joey Evado,
freshly retired Reds first baseman joining us on the program.
How's retirement feel?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Joey, why didn't you tell me to quit earlier? We
had my last interview and you were kind of nudging me.
But push push, I mean I wish that I had
not wasted the last six months of my life. I
wish you had told me clearly, hey, it's over.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
But what is scarier not playing well or the fact
that you're retired or retirement.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
So I played seventeen years with the Cincinnati Reds and
them all of them great, and the fans were great.
I played well for most of it, and then there
was just no interest, no major league interest in the
offseason and free agency either. And I reached out to
the Toronto Blue Jays, my hometown team, and signed a
(33:25):
minor league contract with them, and I got hurt in
spring training, And truly, it feels like retirement since last fall.
It feels like my last game in Cincinnati was you know,
everything went quiet, there was no interest. When you're not
on stage, nobody cares. I wasn't able to I wasn't
(33:46):
able to perform and compete in front of fans on television,
do interviews. You know, your phone goes cold, your circle
gets really, really small. And it's really felt like retirement
over the past nine months. So I don't think. I
think if you were to ask me after the last
(34:08):
day of the season last year, I would have had
a much different answer than I do now. But now
I'm not quite as afraid because I basically felt like
I've retired over the last nine months.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah, but I've been around athletes for forty years. You
guys don't want to be told when to retire. You
have to realize yourself, even if others see it. I
couldn't have convinced you, hey, just stay with the Reds.
Retire Cincinnati red don't try to do this anymore. You're good,
you know, come back, retire. You have an official retirement
(34:40):
with the Reds. But you had to explore that, not
me or anybody else.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I think in my experience, so, I had a pretty
serious injury in twenty twenty two, and I couldn't stand
the idea of injury essentially crushing my competitive ability and
talking about the internal I'm talking about the physical ability
and the idea of an injury essentially ending my not
(35:09):
my peak, but my ability to compete. You know, when
you enter a season, you're thinking, and almost my entire career,
I thought I'll be at the All Star Game, almost
my entire career. I thought I'll win an MVP Award
this year, virtually my entire career. I thought I'll be
trending towards a playoff, a World series, a great season.
(35:29):
I'll be able to look back with positive reflection. And
the last couple of years they were just such such
ugly performances that I thought, this year will be the
year I'll be able to prove it. I'll be healthy,
I'll be able to be an All Star. I'll prove
to them, you know, they should have resigned me. I'll
prove to leave you should have signed me. I'll be
at the you know, I'll be able to like have
my moment, and at some point there's an end to it.
(35:52):
And I think the thing that I said whenever I
was asked should you? Should you in your career? I
said no, no, no. I want the game to tell me
I'm done. I don't want a team to tell me
I'm done. I don't want somebody in the media or
a family member or a friend or a fan to
say you're washed. And I was washed. I mean I was.
I was done probably last year at some point. But
(36:15):
I'm the one that has to be able to make
that decision. And that's where I'm at right now. And
I can say I can say I was down in Buffalo.
I played for the Triple A team in for the
Toronto Blue Jays in Buffalo, and I played in Scranton,
Wikes or Wilkes Bar, and I played in Worcester, if
(36:35):
I'm saying that correctly, Massachusetts. I rode the bus. I
carried my bags, and I still wanted to make it happen.
You know when I say carry my bags, carrying my
hotel bags, I you know, I was doing the minor
league life, and I still wanted to make it happen.
And it wasn't until the other day when I didn't
(36:57):
want a play appearance, when the coach was like, do
you want.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
This at bat?
Speaker 3 (37:02):
And I was like, I don't. I don't. And I've
never had that. I've always always been on. I've always
had a direction. I've always been like I'm going that way.
And I was like, I'm good, and I'll share a
quick story. So I'm sitting on the bench and the
coach asked me if I wanted to play appearance. And
my late father, who died sixteen years ago and I
(37:25):
had a really strong relationship. He was he was you know,
to this day, when you lose someone like that, it's
something you can't ever film. And he and I played
catch together and we love the Toronto blue Jays and
our favorite player was Devon White. He had a specific
catching style and he's a fantastic defender and a real
(37:46):
charming personality.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
We just loved him.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
He was the guy for the Blue Jays, our guy,
and so we'd go out and play catch and he'd
try to catch like Davon White. I'm nine years old,
eleven years old, and we're playing catch together and I'm
sitting on the bench in Buffalo passing on a plate
appearance and guess who's sitting beside me to Bonn White,
(38:09):
And he said to me, so, what do you think
you're going to do? And he was talking about my
hitting style, like what adjustments do you think you're going
to make? And I go, I think I'm done and
he goes, you mean to retire? And I go, yeah,
I think I'm done and he goes, okay. And it
(38:31):
was like a full circle moment to be able to
have a childhood I'm getting emotional thinking and talking about this,
but have a childhood icon and something that I was
able to share with my father sitting next to me
and Poignan poet, you draw sort of connections even if
(38:54):
they aren't real. But that felt like a genuine connection
for me, you know, that felt like that was almost
like po That felt like an end to the story.
And I went into the to the clubhouse, thanked my
minor league teammates who require, in my opinion, deserve to
thank you because I took plate appearances from them, I
took playing time from them. The guy that I replaced
(39:16):
hit at Grand Slam I think today or yesterday where
I would have been playing. And that was enough. That
was enough. Thank the manager, Thanked the general manager, and
then I shared with the public that I'm retiring and
that's it in the best of ways. So I feel
(39:36):
good about it.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Talking to Joey Vado just retired, played seventeen seasons with
the Reds, won the MVP in the twenty ten six
Time All Star. But you came to that conclusion no
matter how you came to it, you came to it.
And that's what's difficult. Like I'm going to have this
in three and a half years, I'm going to retire.
(40:00):
It's going to be December twenty fourth to twenty twenty seven,
So I'm planning on it because I don't want to
hold on and have people laugh at instead of with that,
I want to make sure that I'm sharp doing this
and it's got You've got to be on targe. You've
got to be on top of everything for three hours
it's live, and I do worry about that. I got
(40:20):
memory issues. You're just trying to make sure that you're
still doing it great because sometimes nobody tells you maybe
you are slipping a little bit. And so I had
to put a you know, the expiration date on my career.
At least doing this every single day, that's a different experience.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
My expiration date happened in the moment, and people like
you and the game and my former team and the
league were telling me, we're good. You're not an interesting
player for us. You're not the future. We have playing
time that we want to give to other players. Whereas
you there's there's you know, I see it, you see
(41:01):
it with Bob Costas, or you see it with some
of the other icons and media. They're just always going
to be in demand, you know, Charles Barkley, same sort
of thing. They're just always going to be in the demand,
and you'll be the very same. But it's interesting to
me that you're electing to call it, call it, you know,
and I wasn't able to do that. It's just different.
I'm forty, I feel good, I feel you know, I
(41:25):
feel good. So the idea of stopping something I've been
doing my entire my entire adult adult life, my even
my teen years. You know, I was having a conversation
with my mother yesterday, and after this we can lighten
it up a little bit. But I was having a
conversation with my mother yesterday and you know, we were
(41:46):
sitting down at so when I was eighteen years old,
my mom's been working at the very same restaurant. She's
a Somalia, one of the best samalias in Canada, and
you know, she works at a prestigious restaurant. And when
when I was eight ten years old, I let her
know I'm going and I was about to hop on
a plane. She's crying, crying, crying, and I go back
(42:09):
to the very same restaurant and I sit with her
and we have you know, I don't drink, but you know,
we had a little bit of wine. Typically I don't drink,
and we had like a celebratory glass of wine and
I said we made it. We made it, and I
said to her, you know the thing I'm most I'm
(42:29):
not worried about not playing anymore. But when my father died,
I used baseball as my escape. And it's almost like
yesterday when or a couple days ago, when I stopped playing.
It was my way of saying, you know what, I'm
ready to face. Not like i've more in my father's passing,
but I'm ready to face life. I'm really ready to
(42:53):
say I'm done and I'm taking it on. And you know,
it was intimidating for me for a while, but I
think the last nine months, how alone I've been in
terms of this process, has helped me, has helped me
transition into it.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
So what was it like to have teammates ask you
to buy beer for him?
Speaker 3 (43:19):
The team that the guys were down so good to
me down there? You know there was It's interesting because
I had some people tell me that they were emotional afterwards,
and I thought, you know, there's some players that looked
up to me. If there's one or two Canadian players
that like, you know me as a player, and I
was like, really, you're just my teammate, you know, you
(43:41):
don't think when you're competing every day, when you're training
towards towards being your very best, that anybody cares about you.
And generally speaking, in life, most people are concerned about
themselves or but you know, I think that when when
Griffy Junior, for example, transitioned out of out Cincinnati, I
was like, oh, man, that was my teammate. You know,
(44:03):
that was my I played his video game. I watched him,
you know, as a boy, and so you don't realize
the sort of impact you have. But it was a
great experience. It was hard, the hardest thing I did
this last nine months, essentially always being told no and
I was the only one saying yes, and the game
(44:25):
telling me no and I'm saying yes. Airbnbs, basically five
months of hotels hurt the whole time, Minor League complex,
but I loved it, and there was no moment that
I was There was no moment. It was the complete
opposite experience of the posh big league life, Major league life,
(44:47):
the charter jets and the people taking your bags, their
first class hotels and great pay and all these things.
Let's get real here. You know, you know, it cost
me money to play baseball. This year, and I am
not complaining at all, but that's the reality of it.
But at no point, I had the best time at
the best time this year. But it was hard. It
was terribly, terribly hard. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
What's the next act?
Speaker 4 (45:11):
Here?
Speaker 3 (45:13):
Got a trip to Milan next month, I'm going to Uh,
there's a big baseball card signing in Milan. No the
next act. Uh, it'd be nice to be home for
a little bit. And I had lunch with my family,
(45:38):
my big family and my family had had a lunch
across in Niagara Falls. And this was on an off
day in while I was playing for Buffalo, and I
was like, this is way better than what I'm doing,
Like carrying around my nephew and playing with him and
my niece and seeing my mom and then my great
(46:02):
my grandmother is a great grandmother to my niece and nephew.
It's like we're having lunch and taking our time. This
is the best of life, you know. So there's only
so much in that. I'm gonna have to continue to
drive forward with something. But maybe i'll I'll replace you.
It'll be the Dan.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Patrick Show featuring Joey Yeah, yeah, do you still hate
Travis Kelce for moving in on Taylor Swift before you
had the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
Are they getting married or are they just sinners living together?
What's what is it? I don't know what are their
parents saying about that? Are they just gonna you know?
Speaker 2 (46:42):
Yeah, I don't know. I think they have their own homes.
I think the.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
Family unit, what's going on? What's what about the family union?
What is this?
Speaker 2 (46:51):
You know what? What could have been? What could have been?
But you you waited? Kid in the on deck circle.
You were in the on deck circle for Taylor Swift
and Kelsey came in and went yard.
Speaker 3 (47:06):
Yeah, well scored a touchdown. It's good.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Yeah, well, you know what, I look forward to seeing
you in the media. I think that'll be great. I
play on the analyst. That'd be nice. Think think how's
the travel with that you're there for a few days
in cities because you'll you'll be there for a series,
(47:33):
and so you have an opportunity to go and you
know whatever, how many four days fives in the city
and then.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
What how's the spread? How's the spread?
Speaker 2 (47:44):
How's the spread? Uh, you'll be you'll be treated on
clubhouse spread. You'll you'll be good your clubbies, you know,
they'll still take care of your maybe, you know, maybe
Jeter buys you dinner.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
Can't you imagine, though, just traveling around and talking about
other people doing stuff. You know, I will say this,
I've been and I don't know it's.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Called It's called being in the media, and Joey, that's
what you do. You talk about other people. You always
want to talk about yourself. Now you have to talk
about others.
Speaker 3 (48:16):
This is the thing that I'm most excited about. I
say this sincerely. This career, this baseball thing, this athlete
thing is so selfish. It is I am. You know,
my body's my business. But it's all about me, me, me,
me me. And the thing that I am most looking
forward to it or using the words we they heer
(48:39):
him like you are on you were on say I get.
I'm looking forward to talking about other people and whether
I do that in the media landscape or I do
that just in my community, whether volunteering or a family
or my friends or what have you. I'm most most
looking forward to that because I feel like it'll real
(49:00):
why are my brain? I think it'll put me in
a healthier place because you are constantly concerned about yourself
and I'm tired of that. I'm tired of that, and
so that's what I And what if I do that
for TBS or Fox or ESPN or whomever, that'll be
great too, and I think I'll have a great time.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
So yeah, Dan, Well thanks for a time too.
Speaker 3 (49:26):
I'm a nobody and when you put the show and
you made me feel welcome. So thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Let's stay in touch.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
I'd love to. How about that, Aaron, see.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
You in Milan. I'll see you in Milan.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
Yes, bring your shirk.
Speaker 2 (49:44):
Thank you, Joey.
Speaker 3 (49:45):
Thanks Dan,
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