September 25, 2025 • 42 mins
Dan is going to be watching Cardinals WR Marvin Harrison Jr. very closely during tonight’s Thursday Night Football game. And Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred joins the show to talk about the plan to implement the Automated Ball/Strike system next season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
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Seatan will have the Pole Question Honors today and we'll
have a play of the day as well. We have
football coming up tonight. The Seahawks are favored by one
and a half at Arizona over under forty three and
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a half. For entertainment purposes only, there's one player I'm
watching tonight, one player I'm really curious about tonight. Now
there's other ones. There's probably two other players that I'm
interested in, but not as much as this one player,
Marvin Harrison Junior, the third When he was going into
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the draft, I remember when he was a sophomore and
the analysts were saying, hey, if he had come out,
he would be a first round pick, he'd be a
top pick, he might be the number one pick. Nobody
can find any negatives. Everybody gushed about him, and then
I'm thinking, Okay, he's a bigger version of his dad.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
His dad's a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
He had sixty two catches eight touchdowns in his rookie year.
Now that's not bad, and his receptions per game are
down this year so far. But there are receivers in
that twenty twenty four draft who have outplayed him, Rock Bowers,
Malik Neighbors, Lad mcconkee, Brian Thomas, Roam Adonsay is closed
(02:01):
and they were all drafted after MORVN.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Harrison.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I expected him to be one hundred catches, one thousand yards, and.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Ten touchdowns at least.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And I don't know if this how much this is
on Kyler Murray because you're playing with a quarterback, a
mobile quarterback. But there are times when I've watched Marvin
Harrison Junior the third and he is just dropping balls.
It's not one of those Hey, this is a fifty
to fifty ball. This is ninety five percent ball. It's yours.
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So I'm watching him. Kyler Murray I always find fascinating
for a variety of reasons. And Sam Darnold because people
probably didn't realize that Sam Darnold's in Seattle. We know
what he did with Minnesota, but Minnesota didn't value him.
They took JJ McCarthy and they let Sam go. But
I'm anxious to see interested to see how Sam Darnold
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is tonight in primetime. And also Kyler Murray because these
standalone games. Everybody's going to have an opinion on Kyler Murray,
Sam Darnold, and Marvin Harrison Junior the third Tomorrow everybody
will because that standalone game and then all of a sudden,
you're going to have your opinion.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You may have had an opinion, maybe you didn't have.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
An opinion prior to tonight, but you will tomorrow because it'll
be formulated when you watch this game. All right, uh
Seaton poll question for the first hour of the program.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Well, I hesitate to go here. Oh, I think you
usually know what that means. The t O dub has
to Hey, by the way, how was your drive in today?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Todd?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
My drive was good. I spent the majority in the
middle lane. Next summ in the right lane. You know,
I just all of a sudden, I have, like this,
aversion to the left land. How is your guys brainwashed?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
How was your drive home yesterday?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
My drive home was very similar.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
I did some left lane driving, but then I moved,
you know, realizing that it's a passing lane. As soon
as I was able to pass the car, I went
into the middle lane. I generally like the middle lane
most just because I think that's the safest lane. You
get to see what's in front of you on to
your left and right. So I'm not a big left
lane driver.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Okay, so we made some progress yesterday. It took about
forty minutes to beat you down to let you know
the left lane is the passing lane, and if somebody's
you know, wanting to pass you, you move over to
the right side.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
I do think a lot of people will drive fast
and the left lane because they're impatient, they want to
get somewhere faster that it's not necessarily being used as
a passing lane, which maybe I wasn't clear. I should
have added that to my argument yesterday that I don't
think everyone sees it's passing, like, oh, I go on
the left lane, I can pretty much goes fast as
I want to get somewhere quicker.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, that's on them. You're not you can't be the
speed police.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
If they want to go ninety miles an hour, move over,
let them go ninety miles an hour. I don't like
it when somebody's right on my bumper, but I'm figuring
do I let them stay on my bumper or do
I move over and let them go? That was the
point I was trying to make yesterday. I wanted to
take myself out of the equation. If there could be
a problem on the highway, how about I just move
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over and let that go going.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I'll never see you.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
I'll just say it's a battle of the jerks in
that situation.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
That's presents being a jerk for riding on my ass
and I'm being a jerk for not getting out of
his way.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I think it's a bush right. That's yes, it did
dawn on me. I'm glad that Todd said what he said.
Just a little earlier, because I was thinking today on
my way in about Todd. And I've probably been in
the car with him a dozen times, two dozen times
on our way to and from work, so I have
a good sort of grouping of car rides to think
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about when with Todd. And He's never in the left
hand lane ever, never, nor is he ever usually speeding
like that. But he it did dawn on me driving
in the Todd's never even in the left hand lane.
So I wonder why it's such a strong stance upon
that on.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
The rare occasion that I'm in the left lane. I
don't appreciate someone. Again, I should have addressed.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yesterday he never drives in that lane ever, never.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Much safer in the middle lane.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
But you were a left lanist yesterday and I did
not understand why.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Yeah, I came across as someone that just loves the
left lane and inconvencing people and being a jerk to
someone trying to.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Get past me.
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Speaker 4 (06:30):
All right, Seaton, Well, you know I'm trying to figure
out the poll question for Marvin Harrison Junior. Oh, because
I there's no way to possibly predict that this is
going to happen.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Well, if you look at his draft profile or the
draft profiles, it was pretty spotless.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
But you can't. You can't predict that, you know. I
think once he gets to the next level, he's going
to forget how to use his hands.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I don't think that that. I don't think you can
necessarily see that.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
No, That's why I'm fascinated to watch and see what
he does in an entire game. I haven't watched the
Cardinals in an entire game. And that's where you get
a true sense of how good somebody is, how consistent
somebody is. Are they just a highlight guy or they
somebody who moves the chains throughout a football game?
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Yeah, Pauling, I have his draft profile by Lance Zerline
of NFL dot com.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And it's glowing.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
It's physical, strong enough, speed, everything you want to say positive.
He was the college receiver of the year his last
two years of college. There's one negative. Weaknesses had uncaristic
drops in twenty twenty three his last year of college.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's the only negative.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Well, he still has those in the NFL because there
are times when you go, how do you not catch
that one? That one's not tough. But there are other
receivers who have outperformed him so far. Eight seven to
seven to three DP show email address Dpatdanpatrick dot com,
twitter handle at dp show the Giants situation Jackson Dart
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will get the start against the Chargers. We asked the
question yesterday, if you're Russell Wilson, do you ask the
Giants to release you? Or can you be traded to
the Cincinnati Bengals. Now, Russ is going to say all
the right things he is. Have you ever gone to
home Goods and you see those signs, those things you
(08:24):
can put up in your house, like faith and family
and fun, live, laugh, love, eat, pray, love like Russ
is sort of a bumper sticker.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
One day at a time.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah, whenever he says something, it's kind of like he
took it off a bumper sticker, And he did that
yesterday when he talked about if he would seek a trade.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Here's Russ.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
Now, I'm focused on helping the scene.
Speaker 9 (08:50):
When you know I'm focused on helping Jackson. I'm focused
on me getting ready to be the best version of
me today on Wednesday, and so you know, I want
to be here. You know, I love this organization. I
love the process of it all. It's a glove of
the guys in the locker room. I'm not giving up
on us in this season.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I think he talked about two things gratitude attitude, and
he's going to be a good backup at which he
will be. But if you're Russ, the Bengals need help,
you still want to play. You're playing your way out
of the Hall of Fame in some people's eyes. Now
I think he's a Hall of famer. It's weird. This
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became a big story yesterday on The Mothership about Eli
and Russ, and I'm thinking, Okay, how much do you
value what you do in the postseason? How much do
you value what you do in the regular season? Because
if Russ completes the pass or hands the ball off
to Marshawn Lynch, then he's a no brainer, absolute no brainer.
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But it's weird that Russ is playing his way out
of the Hall of Fame. Matthew Stafford played his way
into the Hall of Fame. Hthugh Stafford as one Super
Bowl win, and so does Russ. Russ went to another one.
Russ was a ten time Pro Bowl quarterback when it
meant something to be a Pro Bowl quarterback. Matthew Stafford
was a Pro Bowl quarterback once. But it's what have
(10:14):
you done for me lately? And Russ is not played
well the last couple of years. But I know, we
get you know, Eli's going into the Hall of Fame.
Eli's going into the Hall of Fame. He was very durable,
he played over two hundred consecutive games. But he's getting
in because of two postseason runs. You beat the Patriots
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and Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, you're going in. You
win the MVP in both of those. Now, I would
argue the defensive line should have been the MVP. They
don't give it to a group. It's like I argued
for the Denver Broncos when they beat the Green Bay Packers,
and with Terrell Davis, that offensive line won that Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
But you have to give it to an individual.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Eli has two MVPs and he won two super Bowls
and he beat Brady and Belichick. I understand that. Is
Eli a better quarterback than Russ?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
No? Not, in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I think the problem was and having been on the
field when Russ was leading the Seahawks down to beat
the Patriots, the Patriots had no answer for him. I
thought Russ was unbelievable that night. Did it come down
to an offensive coordinator and a head coach who wanted
Russ to be the MVP in the Super Bowl and
not Marshaun Lynch If you believe that with the play
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call with Daryl Bevell, and you know, with Pete calling
that play or agreeing to that play, and then all
of a sudden he throws the interception.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
But if he.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Completes the pass, he's in the Hall of Fame. There's
no argument. There wouldn't be. He would have been the
MVP and they would have won two super Bowls with him.
But it's that postseason. What have you done for me?
What do you do in the biggest games. Well, I
can look at it. It's just like when we get
into Jordan versus Lebron, Well, Mike won six all six,
(12:15):
Well what happened all the other years? Well, you know,
but he didn't lose a Super Bowl. Okay, but Lebron
went to a lot more NBA finals than Mike. Like,
I have to value that. There is value of getting there.
It's like we dismiss Jared Goff going to a Super Bowl. Yeah,
but okay, but he still got there. Like we pick
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and choose and Eli Eli was not the best player
on the field in either of those Super Bowls, but
he did come up big in a couple of moments
and throughout he only had two postseason runs, so durable average,
you know, as far as statistics regular season, but if
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you know you want to put in both good, I
have no problem with that. But you can't dismiss what
somebody does during the regular season because you need something
happening during the regular season to get you into the postseason.
And Russ was a Pro Bowl quarterback ten times.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yeah, that's why I don't think it's fair the way
that that Super Bowl interception is categorized. He didn't make
Russell Wilson didn't make a mistake. He didn't throw the
ball poorly, he didn't overthrow it and it went to
Malcolm Butler. Malcolm Butler made a better play. Russell Wilson
threw that ball perfectly. Malcolm Butler just made a better play.
And that happens. That shouldn't be a negative on Russell
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Wilson's career. Necessarily. I understand it's an interception, but it
wasn't his fault. He made the right play, He made
a good throw. Somebody just made a better play.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Yeah, Paul Eli Manning took the New York Giants to
the playoffs six times in his career. He never won
another playoff game except for those two runs. Russell Wilson
took the Seahawks to the playoffs nine times.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Well, Russ was over shadowed by a Hall of Fame
coach and an incredible defense, incredible secondary. But you know, Russ,
Russ has been a great story. You're not a high
You're not a first round or second round pick. Eli
was number one overall, like Russ, beat the odds. So
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if I'm Russ, I want to show that I can
still play. I want to show that I can win
and you can be an attitude and gratitude guy with
the Giants, but your attitude gratitude should be I want
to play for the Bengals.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yes, yeah, Russe, he's not a bad guy. Might be
a little awkward, you know, but he's not a he's
not a bad person. He doesn't he's that mean. It's
kind of an awkward dude sometimes. Yeah yeah, okay, yeah,
I know, yeah, right. I appreciate we're all just trying
to be the best version of ourselves that we can today.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Sure, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
How about some attitude and gratitude from you, Todd, Sure
that'd be nice.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
I wanted to add to Steven's point with the like,
I know he's not our Rogers Russell Wilson, but anyone
who debates whether Russ should get into the Hall of
Fame with one super Bowl or two super bowls, now
how close he was to getting that two super bowls.
That would be very foolish to say, well, you'd definitely
be in if we had the second super Bowl because
of that one play and with one I don't know,
maybe at Lench was not letting him there.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Okay, I had a former quarterback tell me this yesterday
because I'm saying, help me understand. You know Jackson Dart
And he said, you got to fill up the stands.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
This is a home game. That's why they're starting him.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
They want they want the stadium packed, because that's the
bottom line for an owner. You want Jackson Dart in there.
Everybody's going to be excited. Let's not waste his debut
on the road in New Orleans. We want to put
him in there in a home game. And I said, okay,
explain to me what Russ was doing on final possession
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where he's throwing the ball where it can't be caught,
no chance where And he said, the older you get,
you start thinking about your legacy and the numbers, and
you don't want to throw an interception. Russ has one
of the best touchdown to interception ratios in the history
of the game. And he said, it's weird that you
start thinking about your stats a little bit more, whether
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that's true or not. With Russ throwing it away and
he didn't even give his receivers. He didn't give neighbors
a chance to get this. But the Bengals need help.
Russ isn't going to cost you anything. And if you're
a Russ, you know you got Jamis Winston backing up
Jackson Dart. Now you can move on and maybe it'll
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come to that. But Russ can't say that publicly. He
has to say that privately through his agent. Hey, can
we work something out? All right, we'll take a break.
The Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred's going to
join us. We'll talk about Robo Umps. I got to
get him to change that name. We're back after this
on The Dan Patrick Show.
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Speaker 3 (18:08):
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Major League Baseball since twenty fifteen. Rob Manfred back on
the program. We spent a lot of time yesterday talking
about ABS, But I want to know how did we
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land on robo umps.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I don't like the phrase.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
It conjures up something that I think needs to be explained.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Yeah, you know, Dan, it's interesting.
Speaker 12 (18:41):
I was with a couple of my guys traveling yesterday
and I said exactly the same thing, and I've said
it repeatedly. I mean the fact that the matter is
the system was designed in order to preserve kind of
the management role of the homeplate umpire. It's completely invisible
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to the fan, right, I mean in terms of there's
no device or anything on the field that they can see,
and all of the calls, including correcting an erroneous ball
strike call made by human being from.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
The fans perspective.
Speaker 12 (19:17):
So you know, we do prefer the term ABS to
robot lumps.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Okay, this is an entertainment business. Are you going to
show anything on the jumbo tron? You know, like tennis
will show you if the ball was in or out?
What is baseball going to do?
Speaker 12 (19:32):
We are going to have a rendering on the scoreboard
so the fans can see it. I mean, you know,
at the end of the day, it is about the
fan experience in the ballpark and our experience in the
minor leagues, as well as the testing we did in
the spring and at the All Star Game, suggests that
fans are really interested in seeing that rendering.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
How do the umpires feel about big Brother over their shoulder?
Speaker 12 (19:56):
I would say the umpires have been generally cooperative on
the issue.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
You know, you know, it's.
Speaker 12 (20:03):
Always tough when you get corrected publicly, and you know,
I understand that, and you know it is important to
say although we've taken this step, you know, our umpires
do a phenomenal job on the vast, vast majority of calls,
and you know, I think over time this may reduce
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the amount of complaint we have about ball strike calls.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Okay, whenever I see something that we kind of dip
our toes in and then all of a sudden we're
in over our head, then this is going to be
the future of Major League Baseball. How long will it
take before this is the future?
Speaker 8 (20:42):
You know, that's an interesting question.
Speaker 12 (20:44):
I think that if you had talked just to the
owners about this topic a couple of years ago, they
would have been in favor of, you know, calling every pitch,
and we're certainly capable of doing that, calling every pitch
with ABS. I think what made us take the intermediate
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step is we got a lot of input from players,
particularly players who had used it in the minor leagues,
that they preferred the challenge system, that you know, it
preserved a human element in the.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Game at the major league level.
Speaker 12 (21:19):
We also got a lot of input about the significance
of framing catchers and you know, individual players who had
a skill set that could be really impacted by this. So,
you know, we took that input to heart and landed
where we did. I think that we will see after
the twenty sixth season whether there's a push to.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Go the whole way.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Why did we allow is if it was part of
the charm of baseball that an umpire could have his
own strike zone.
Speaker 12 (21:50):
Yeah, you know, going back to you know, when I
first came to the Commissioner's office in nineteen ninety eight,
Actually Sandy Alderson and I started the first the same day,
and you know, one of the first things Sandy embarked
on was an effort to get away from that notion
that individual umpires could have their own strike zone. And
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we have dramatically increased the uniformity of the zone that's
called by our umpires by having a computer based system
like ABS that we've been using to evaluate umpires for
more than a decade.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
You know, after each game when they miss a call.
Speaker 12 (22:33):
They get that pitch, they have to log in and
look at it, and it has produced greater uniformity.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Okay, but it was a charm you know, like that's
Joe West strike zone or that's Eric Gregg's strike zone
or Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
The problem.
Speaker 12 (22:46):
The problem is sometimes you know, you talk about people
who are just too charming. You know, I think there
were games where that term became excessive. I mean, I
think Eric Greg's game in the World Series probably an
example of that.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
He's the commissioner Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred. Okay, give
me the data to help me understand starting the tenth
inning with the runner at second base, which I do
to test.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
But where are we with that? Is that here to stay? Commissioner?
Speaker 8 (23:16):
Well, look, the.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
Most important thing I can say to you is starting
next week, you're going to have postseason baseball where you
play it out no matter what.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
So you your month is talking.
Speaker 12 (23:27):
It's gonna be a great postseason and we're going to
play the games out the.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
Yeah again, you know, look, I think that that was interesting.
Speaker 12 (23:37):
I'm not sure that was at the top of my
priority list in terms of rule changes, but it came
with the COVID changes that we, you know, felt we
needed to do to get through the season.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
The players really liked.
Speaker 12 (23:54):
It, and I think the push to keep it was
based on, you know, player preference and avoidance of putting,
you know, really valuable players in positions of asking them
to do something in extra innings that they didn't ordinarily
do you know the outfield are pitching, and you know,
I do think it is consistent kind of with the
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notion that the game has to be quicker to be
responsive to the audience that we're serving in today's world.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
But these leagues are becoming highlight leagues. Adam Silver, the
NBA commissioner, said, we're kind of a highlight league. How
do you guard against that of just being a highlight
and not going the experience of going to a game
or watching a game.
Speaker 12 (24:42):
I think we have a huge advantage in that effort,
and it is an effort for all sports. I mean,
you know, how younger people consume things. We don't need
to revisit that. But I think that our in ballpark
experience largely do to the work of the individual teams
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and what they do in the stadiums, the entertainment they provide,
the food and beverage options, what they do in between
innings is so good that it does creating people the
desire to see the whole game, the whole product, and
the fact that we play every day also important in
that regard. So we have some assets there and it's
(25:23):
something that we're really focused on.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
When all the owners get together, how often does the
topic of a salary cap come up?
Speaker 12 (25:33):
You know, it's interesting, It really is episodic. You know,
it's more frequent when you get closer to a labor
year like we are now. I think it's natural for
people to discuss, you know, options that are available. I
think what's really important for me to say is, you know,
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we haven't decided what exactly our approach is going to be.
We have a whole other season to get through, and
you know, while obviously there's conversation, you know, it remains
to be seen what substance position the owners.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
Are going to take.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Where do you stand on it?
Speaker 8 (26:14):
I think that it has.
Speaker 12 (26:16):
Been my view for a really long time that you
sell competition to your fans, and that we need to
always be looking for things that enhance the perception of
the competition. And I think one way to do that
is reduce and regulate the disparity and payrolls.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Again, I also want to make sure that you know
the minimum spend because some of these owners they may
not be spending as much as they need to.
Speaker 8 (26:47):
How do I think that's I think that's one thing.
Speaker 12 (26:50):
Well, I think that's one thing that is widely misunderstood.
You know what, people the name of the mechanism that
people use in the other three sports is a salary cap.
But a necessary element of that system is a minimum
as well as a cap, And I agree with you
that the minimum in some ways may be more important
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than the cap.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
The Cal Rawley story is a fun story, But how
does Baseball's like your marketing arm. How do you approach
a story like that to let people know he's playing
in Seattle, He's hit sixty home runs, great nickname there.
How are you guys doing enough to promote some of
these other stories?
Speaker 12 (27:37):
Yeah, look, I think that it's really important with a
story like Cal for Major League Baseball, in addition to
the club, what the club is doing locally to promote
that player build his brand. You know, we have a
massive social media program now that is all player directed.
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Almost everything we do on social ism is player or acted.
Speaker 8 (28:01):
You're going to see a.
Speaker 12 (28:02):
Set of postseason advertisements that will start airing Cal is
prominently featured in that. You know, honestly, selecting him for
the home run derby is another example. You know, you
want a player like that in a home run derby
where he's going to get a national audience. I think
going forward, one of the things that we are really
focused on is more presence on national platforms for regular
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season games, so that people across the country see more
of players like Cal.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
How important is gambling to Major League Baseball?
Speaker 12 (28:37):
You know, I think it's it's something that is really misunderstood.
We have a you know, nice little business where we
sell data and we sell some sponsorships, but the overall
revenue impact of gambling for us is really not significant. Actually,
the biggest expenditure of time on the top topic is
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working with our partners, the sports books to make sure
that gambling doesn't present an integrity an integrity issue.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
For us over the long home.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Are you allowed to have a man cave at home.
Speaker 12 (29:16):
You know, I do have a room that my wife
has is a bedroom that she has reluctantly seated to me.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
There is a lot of you know, a lot.
Speaker 12 (29:28):
Of baseball stuff, a lot of golf stuff, and some
exercise equipment.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
So I guess that qualifies.
Speaker 12 (29:33):
You know, you can't quite have a cave in an
apartment in New York, you know, if there's something, you know,
it's sort of an oxymoron, right.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
So you're not the commissioner in your own house.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Yeah, well that's certainly true. That's certainly true.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Great to talk to you again.
Speaker 12 (29:51):
Great to talk to you, tant Really, you know, I know,
I hope because we'll be playing the games out you'll
be paying attention to what's going to be a great
postseason for It's been a really exciting week this week
trying to figure out who exactly is going to be there,
and we're looking forward to some great series next week.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Thank you, commissioner.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
All right, thank you, Dan.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
It's Rob Manfred.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
He's been in that position since twenty fifteen, and I
believe his term ends January of twenty nine. He didn't
want to compete with me with my retirement, and I
respect him for that because he's not going to get
a lot of publicity.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
H Nick in Virginia, Hi, Nick, what's on your mind?
Speaker 13 (30:30):
Hey, what's going on? Dan A long time, first time,
I'll say five to eleven and a half and at
Harry won fifty six. Wanted to touch based on the
robot umpires. I got a unique nickname for him called
Rumps because I thought they may be ass but you know,
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listen to the commissioner, there's some science behind it. I
get it. Being a golf bro with track Man and
everything that's out there, it is, you know, numbers never lie.
Speaker 14 (31:02):
I get it.
Speaker 13 (31:02):
But man, part of that game and part of just
beam that fan experience is yelling at the up. You know,
Hey that's a strike, Hey that's a ball. Love baseball,
Love the show, Love you guys. I got one other,
just quick shout out for a maybe a retirement project
for you is I love meat Fridays, man. I'd love
to see some sort of recipes or something maybe put
(31:25):
together like a Meat Friday with Dan Patrick cookbook and
maybe stats in the day and your desks and just something,
you know, something to have on the shelf that we
can always have you even when you're when you're not
on the air.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
So we've talked about that Nick Dylan, who does our cooking,
of maybe coming up with a cookbook here, maybe in
conjunction with Treger, but putting some of our favorite recipes
on there.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Jeff in San Antonio, Good morning, Jeff. What's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (31:53):
You?
Speaker 15 (31:53):
Thanks for calling me, Breck Yeah, just a I don't
call in too much. Just want to hit on a
few things. First of all, because are a great show, Amy,
no Amy, you guys are the best. And then, first
and foremost, Lebron's not the goat for many reasons. If
Eli's the Hall of Famer, Russ is the Hall of Famer.
The lastly, I just want to get Marve some love.
You know, Fritzie kind of sucks up the air in
(32:14):
the room so much, rightly so any other danan'ce get
lots of attention. But you know, Marvin stepped in you guys,
didn't skip a beat. He just gets better and better
every day. So I just want to give you some love. Marvin.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
You guys have a good day. Thank you, Jeff, very nice, Jeff,
thank you very much.
Speaker 13 (32:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Round of applause for Marvin.
Speaker 16 (32:31):
The small round of them. We're having a moment, you were,
but you know how it works on this show. It
doesn't last long and it usually turns out bad.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Uh. Andreas in Austin? Is that? Did I get the
name right? Okay? Andreas in Austin?
Speaker 17 (32:56):
Yeah, second time, long time five eight and an opposite
of Fritz one sixty.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
That's not nice.
Speaker 17 (33:02):
I love you, big guy. I appreciate you all writing
me into the scripts today. I have a comment and
ask for the Dan and Sister Dan and the day
Nets and then it suckets through out there. The comment
is one of appreciation as we've been listening all to
so listening to y'all since about two and nine and
twenty ten when I was actually in high school and
now I'm thirty two about to get married tomorrow, so
(33:23):
really appreciate all the entertainment, the insight and perspective you've shared.
And that kind of leads me to my ask to
the point I just made getting married tomorrow, so I'd
love to have some advice from you Dan and the
dan Netes on how to make a successful marriage or
some things not to do to make an unsuccessful marriage.
And before I hang up and listen, I got to
say suck it to Nick Wright. I know it's been
a few years since he had that audacious take on
(33:45):
Texas barbecue, but we don't forget things down here in Texas.
So appreciate it, gentlemen, and looking forward to hearing that advice.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
All right, andres good luck with that. I'll pass that
on to Nick Wright always.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
You know I brought this up before you. You fall
in love, but you'll stay married because you like each other.
That's so important. Can you can you sit at a
table just you two and have enough things to talk
about always think of her, have respect. Certainly, when you
have kids, you're you're you move down the totem pole.
(34:19):
But I think it just comes back to always thinking,
always thinking of the other person always, and hopefully you
know they reciprocate. But you you have to like each other.
And it sounds crazy, but we all do the same thing.
You look at somebody go oh my gosh, she's beautiful. Okay,
(34:40):
now you've got to get to know her, and then
all of a sudden, beauty starts to fade away, and
then all of a sudden, it's do we like each other?
And you'd be surprised how many people. Hey, I love
my wife, but you got to you got to like
them and it just have a friend and treat them
as a friend with respect. Good luck with that, Andreas.
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We'll take a break. We got our Play of the
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Swinging a drive, keep the right field there. It is
not verse sixty. The modern day Bambido has just tied
Babe Bruces record of sixty home runs for third all
time in American League history fifty nine and the.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
First number sixty.
Speaker 18 (35:47):
The magical Tour of cal Raleigh just continues here at
twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Five, courtesy of the Mariners Radio Network. I said, if
cal Rawley got to sixty runs and they won the division,
he was going to win the MVP.
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And I still feel that way. That's your play of
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multi home run games this season. That ties in with
Aaron Judge, Sammy Sosa, and Hank Greenberg for the most
in a single season in baseball history. The other baseball story,
the Guardians were fifteen and a half games out of
first place in early July. They beat the Tigers to
take over sole possession of first place in the Central
(36:51):
This is the biggest deficit to a team has had
to overcome to win a division. Prior to that was
fourteen games and that was the Yankees in nineteen seventy eight.
Stat of the Day brought to you by Penan America.
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You know, the Guardians are doing this with pitching. Their
starting pitchers have given up two runs or less in
nineteen consecutive starts. And speaking of pitching, Paul's schemes ended
the season ten and ten in his thirty two starts.
In his ten wins, his ra was zero point twenty nine.
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In his losses, his ERA was four point twenty nine.
In his non decisions, he had twelve no decisions. His
ZRA was one point five nine. An incredible season, and
he allowed four hits, struck out seven and six innings,
the youngest player to have a sub two point zero
(37:57):
zero ERA for a full season since goodn't back in
nineteen eighty five. Stat of the day, stat of the day,
But stat of the day, stat of the.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
Day here comes that?
Speaker 2 (38:11):
What stat of the day?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
So his ER in the season is one point ninety
seven good and' zra in nineteen eighty five was one
point five to three and he basically had two pitches.
He had an unbelievable breaking ball and an unbelievable fastball.
A shout out to Paul Skeins in that season. Let's
see uh Dave in Arkansas? Hi, Dave, what's on your mind?
Speaker 14 (38:40):
They call me Pittsburgh Dave, and I've got to stand up.
Speaker 17 (38:46):
I'm going to stand up and take it.
Speaker 14 (38:47):
I know it's not going to be popular, but I
couldn't get through yesterday. But if anybody needed a supporter
for Fritz yesterday, it was me. Oh over there in
the left lane. You can go around. You can go
that way now if I see it coming and I
know you're coming.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
And you got a long way to go. Fine, But yeah,
pretty dramatic.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Sounds like Dave also a left lane camper.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Yeah, yeah, do you want that support?
Speaker 5 (39:24):
Ton, I'll take any support I can get. After's some
of the things I saw on social media. Anything that
remotely sounds like someone in my corner, I will embrace that.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Yeah, you got roughed up on social media yesterday.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
I don't think I made my point clear enough about
they think I was camping and trying to intensially block
people from getting where they have to go.
Speaker 6 (39:41):
I just don't like someone getting a no. But that
was the point, was someone.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
I think there are people that don't use it as
the passing lane, as I said earlier, and they're just
speeding because that's the way where I'm least likely to
get a ticket for going very fast to get to
my destination quickly.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Yes, that is very much changing the nature of the discussion. Yeah, man,
you do you move the gold post?
Speaker 6 (40:02):
Am I really moving the gold post?
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (40:04):
You kept changing the topic. You would be like, oh,
there's Grandma's going thirty miles an hour. There was something
about driving through a CBS.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
We discussed the left lane being a passing lane for
seventy five percent of that conversation yesterday.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
I think the point being this is is a lot
of people that don't use it as a pass and
it's a convenient argument.
Speaker 6 (40:25):
But a lot of people are.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Left plane to go fast. It is called the passing
and stay.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
But they didn't stay in the l and continue going.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
I can't do this until they run into you. Who
will get out of the left lane.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
A lot of people using the left lane reasons other
than passing.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
From going fast. It's known as the passage and whatever
they want, that's not what a lot of people need.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Okay, we need the audience to help us. We're gonna
come up with a T shirt today. It's going to
be available today. We're we're gonna print it up today.
It should be available today. It will be available for
about forty eight hours. You know, we're going to take
it down.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
But we got five options that are about to go
up on dan Patrick dot com for a poll quest
and the sort of you could choose.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Okay, you want to run down the candidates there's life
in the past lane.
Speaker 4 (41:08):
Life in the pass lane is one. If I passed
you on the right, you must be Todd Fritz is another.
If I'm going too slow, Todd Fritz said, go around me.
We have left lane, Camper, and we have move Fritz,
get out the way.
Speaker 6 (41:26):
There's some strong choices right there.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Yeah, but we're going to take the one that gets
the most boats.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
And then we're gonna make a t shirt today and
it'll be available at Danpatrick dot com.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Yeah, Todd kept trying to.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
You were still explaining yourself today and I just came
in and I'm like, Nope, we're not doing it.
Speaker 8 (41:48):
I do.
Speaker 6 (41:49):
You do make a good point. I don't know where
I was going with some of the other stuff about elderly.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
You lose this argument, so then you try to win
another argument, or you try to deflect something.
Speaker 6 (42:00):
Took a shot at motorcycle. What was that?
Speaker 4 (42:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Brando Shambly will join us from ryder Cup. More of
your phone calls as well. One hour in the books,
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You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
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Seatan will have the Pole Question Honors today and we'll
have a play of the day as well. We have
football coming up tonight. The Seahawks are favored by one
and a half at Arizona over under forty three and
(00:55):
a half. For entertainment purposes only, there's one player I'm
watching tonight, one player I'm really curious about tonight. Now
there's other ones. There's probably two other players that I'm
interested in, but not as much as this one player,
Marvin Harrison Junior, the third When he was going into
(01:17):
the draft, I remember when he was a sophomore and
the analysts were saying, hey, if he had come out,
he would be a first round pick, he'd be a
top pick, he might be the number one pick. Nobody
can find any negatives. Everybody gushed about him, and then
I'm thinking, Okay, he's a bigger version of his dad.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
His dad's a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
He had sixty two catches eight touchdowns in his rookie year.
Now that's not bad, and his receptions per game are
down this year so far. But there are receivers in
that twenty twenty four draft who have outplayed him, Rock Bowers,
Malik Neighbors, Lad mcconkee, Brian Thomas, Roam Adonsay is closed
(02:01):
and they were all drafted after MORVN.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Harrison.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I expected him to be one hundred catches, one thousand yards, and.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Ten touchdowns at least.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And I don't know if this how much this is
on Kyler Murray because you're playing with a quarterback, a
mobile quarterback. But there are times when I've watched Marvin
Harrison Junior the third and he is just dropping balls.
It's not one of those Hey, this is a fifty
to fifty ball. This is ninety five percent ball. It's yours.
(02:34):
So I'm watching him. Kyler Murray I always find fascinating
for a variety of reasons. And Sam Darnold because people
probably didn't realize that Sam Darnold's in Seattle. We know
what he did with Minnesota, but Minnesota didn't value him.
They took JJ McCarthy and they let Sam go. But
I'm anxious to see interested to see how Sam Darnold
(02:57):
is tonight in primetime. And also Kyler Murray because these
standalone games. Everybody's going to have an opinion on Kyler Murray,
Sam Darnold, and Marvin Harrison Junior the third Tomorrow everybody
will because that standalone game and then all of a sudden,
you're going to have your opinion.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You may have had an opinion, maybe you didn't have.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
An opinion prior to tonight, but you will tomorrow because it'll
be formulated when you watch this game. All right, uh
Seaton poll question for the first hour of the program.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Well, I hesitate to go here. Oh, I think you
usually know what that means. The t O dub has
to Hey, by the way, how was your drive in today?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Todd?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
My drive was good. I spent the majority in the
middle lane. Next summ in the right lane. You know,
I just all of a sudden, I have, like this,
aversion to the left land. How is your guys brainwashed?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
How was your drive home yesterday?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
My drive home was very similar.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
I did some left lane driving, but then I moved,
you know, realizing that it's a passing lane. As soon
as I was able to pass the car, I went
into the middle lane. I generally like the middle lane
most just because I think that's the safest lane. You
get to see what's in front of you on to
your left and right. So I'm not a big left
lane driver.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Okay, so we made some progress yesterday. It took about
forty minutes to beat you down to let you know
the left lane is the passing lane, and if somebody's
you know, wanting to pass you, you move over to
the right side.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
I do think a lot of people will drive fast
and the left lane because they're impatient, they want to
get somewhere faster that it's not necessarily being used as
a passing lane, which maybe I wasn't clear. I should
have added that to my argument yesterday that I don't
think everyone sees it's passing, like, oh, I go on
the left lane, I can pretty much goes fast as
I want to get somewhere quicker.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, that's on them. You're not you can't be the
speed police.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
If they want to go ninety miles an hour, move over,
let them go ninety miles an hour. I don't like
it when somebody's right on my bumper, but I'm figuring
do I let them stay on my bumper or do
I move over and let them go? That was the
point I was trying to make yesterday. I wanted to
take myself out of the equation. If there could be
a problem on the highway, how about I just move
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over and let that go going.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I'll never see you.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
I'll just say it's a battle of the jerks in
that situation.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
That's presents being a jerk for riding on my ass
and I'm being a jerk for not getting out of
his way.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I think it's a bush right. That's yes, it did
dawn on me. I'm glad that Todd said what he said.
Just a little earlier, because I was thinking today on
my way in about Todd. And I've probably been in
the car with him a dozen times, two dozen times
on our way to and from work, so I have
a good sort of grouping of car rides to think
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about when with Todd. And He's never in the left
hand lane ever, never, nor is he ever usually speeding
like that. But he it did dawn on me driving
in the Todd's never even in the left hand lane.
So I wonder why it's such a strong stance upon
that on.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
The rare occasion that I'm in the left lane. I
don't appreciate someone. Again, I should have addressed.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yesterday he never drives in that lane ever, never.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Much safer in the middle lane.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
But you were a left lanist yesterday and I did
not understand why.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Yeah, I came across as someone that just loves the
left lane and inconvencing people and being a jerk to
someone trying to.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Get past me.
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Speaker 4 (06:30):
All right, Seaton, Well, you know I'm trying to figure
out the poll question for Marvin Harrison Junior. Oh, because
I there's no way to possibly predict that this is
going to happen.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Well, if you look at his draft profile or the
draft profiles, it was pretty spotless.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
But you can't. You can't predict that, you know. I
think once he gets to the next level, he's going
to forget how to use his hands.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I don't think that that. I don't think you can
necessarily see that.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
No, That's why I'm fascinated to watch and see what
he does in an entire game. I haven't watched the
Cardinals in an entire game. And that's where you get
a true sense of how good somebody is, how consistent
somebody is. Are they just a highlight guy or they
somebody who moves the chains throughout a football game?
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Yeah, Pauling, I have his draft profile by Lance Zerline
of NFL dot com.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And it's glowing.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
It's physical, strong enough, speed, everything you want to say positive.
He was the college receiver of the year his last
two years of college. There's one negative. Weaknesses had uncaristic
drops in twenty twenty three his last year of college.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's the only negative.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Well, he still has those in the NFL because there
are times when you go, how do you not catch
that one? That one's not tough. But there are other
receivers who have outperformed him so far. Eight seven to
seven to three DP show email address Dpatdanpatrick dot com,
twitter handle at dp show the Giants situation Jackson Dart
(08:01):
will get the start against the Chargers. We asked the
question yesterday, if you're Russell Wilson, do you ask the
Giants to release you? Or can you be traded to
the Cincinnati Bengals. Now, Russ is going to say all
the right things he is. Have you ever gone to
home Goods and you see those signs, those things you
(08:24):
can put up in your house, like faith and family
and fun, live, laugh, love, eat, pray, love like Russ
is sort of a bumper sticker.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
One day at a time.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah, whenever he says something, it's kind of like he
took it off a bumper sticker, And he did that
yesterday when he talked about if he would seek a trade.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Here's Russ.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
Now, I'm focused on helping the scene.
Speaker 9 (08:50):
When you know I'm focused on helping Jackson. I'm focused
on me getting ready to be the best version of
me today on Wednesday, and so you know, I want
to be here. You know, I love this organization. I
love the process of it all. It's a glove of
the guys in the locker room. I'm not giving up
on us in this season.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I think he talked about two things gratitude attitude, and
he's going to be a good backup at which he
will be. But if you're Russ, the Bengals need help,
you still want to play. You're playing your way out
of the Hall of Fame in some people's eyes. Now
I think he's a Hall of famer. It's weird. This
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became a big story yesterday on The Mothership about Eli
and Russ, and I'm thinking, Okay, how much do you
value what you do in the postseason? How much do
you value what you do in the regular season? Because
if Russ completes the pass or hands the ball off
to Marshawn Lynch, then he's a no brainer, absolute no brainer.
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But it's weird that Russ is playing his way out
of the Hall of Fame. Matthew Stafford played his way
into the Hall of Fame. Hthugh Stafford as one Super
Bowl win, and so does Russ. Russ went to another one.
Russ was a ten time Pro Bowl quarterback when it
meant something to be a Pro Bowl quarterback. Matthew Stafford
was a Pro Bowl quarterback once. But it's what have
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you done for me lately? And Russ is not played
well the last couple of years. But I know, we
get you know, Eli's going into the Hall of Fame.
Eli's going into the Hall of Fame. He was very durable,
he played over two hundred consecutive games. But he's getting
in because of two postseason runs. You beat the Patriots
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and Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, you're going in. You
win the MVP in both of those. Now, I would
argue the defensive line should have been the MVP. They
don't give it to a group. It's like I argued
for the Denver Broncos when they beat the Green Bay Packers,
and with Terrell Davis, that offensive line won that Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
But you have to give it to an individual.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Eli has two MVPs and he won two super Bowls
and he beat Brady and Belichick. I understand that. Is
Eli a better quarterback than Russ?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
No? Not, in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I think the problem was and having been on the
field when Russ was leading the Seahawks down to beat
the Patriots, the Patriots had no answer for him. I
thought Russ was unbelievable that night. Did it come down
to an offensive coordinator and a head coach who wanted
Russ to be the MVP in the Super Bowl and
not Marshaun Lynch If you believe that with the play
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call with Daryl Bevell, and you know, with Pete calling
that play or agreeing to that play, and then all
of a sudden he throws the interception.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
But if he.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Completes the pass, he's in the Hall of Fame. There's
no argument. There wouldn't be. He would have been the
MVP and they would have won two super Bowls with him.
But it's that postseason. What have you done for me?
What do you do in the biggest games. Well, I
can look at it. It's just like when we get
into Jordan versus Lebron, Well, Mike won six all six,
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Well what happened all the other years? Well, you know,
but he didn't lose a Super Bowl. Okay, but Lebron
went to a lot more NBA finals than Mike. Like,
I have to value that. There is value of getting there.
It's like we dismiss Jared Goff going to a Super Bowl. Yeah,
but okay, but he still got there. Like we pick
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and choose and Eli Eli was not the best player
on the field in either of those Super Bowls, but
he did come up big in a couple of moments
and throughout he only had two postseason runs, so durable average,
you know, as far as statistics regular season, but if
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you know you want to put in both good, I
have no problem with that. But you can't dismiss what
somebody does during the regular season because you need something
happening during the regular season to get you into the postseason.
And Russ was a Pro Bowl quarterback ten times.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yeah, that's why I don't think it's fair the way
that that Super Bowl interception is categorized. He didn't make
Russell Wilson didn't make a mistake. He didn't throw the
ball poorly, he didn't overthrow it and it went to
Malcolm Butler. Malcolm Butler made a better play. Russell Wilson
threw that ball perfectly. Malcolm Butler just made a better play.
And that happens. That shouldn't be a negative on Russell
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Wilson's career. Necessarily. I understand it's an interception, but it
wasn't his fault. He made the right play, He made
a good throw. Somebody just made a better play.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Yeah, Paul Eli Manning took the New York Giants to
the playoffs six times in his career. He never won
another playoff game except for those two runs. Russell Wilson
took the Seahawks to the playoffs nine times.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Well, Russ was over shadowed by a Hall of Fame
coach and an incredible defense, incredible secondary. But you know, Russ,
Russ has been a great story. You're not a high
You're not a first round or second round pick. Eli
was number one overall, like Russ, beat the odds. So
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if I'm Russ, I want to show that I can
still play. I want to show that I can win
and you can be an attitude and gratitude guy with
the Giants, but your attitude gratitude should be I want
to play for the Bengals.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yes, yeah, Russe, he's not a bad guy. Might be
a little awkward, you know, but he's not a he's
not a bad person. He doesn't he's that mean. It's
kind of an awkward dude sometimes. Yeah yeah, okay, yeah,
I know, yeah, right. I appreciate we're all just trying
to be the best version of ourselves that we can today.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Sure, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
How about some attitude and gratitude from you, Todd, Sure
that'd be nice.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
I wanted to add to Steven's point with the like,
I know he's not our Rogers Russell Wilson, but anyone
who debates whether Russ should get into the Hall of
Fame with one super Bowl or two super bowls, now
how close he was to getting that two super bowls.
That would be very foolish to say, well, you'd definitely
be in if we had the second super Bowl because
of that one play and with one I don't know,
maybe at Lench was not letting him there.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Okay, I had a former quarterback tell me this yesterday
because I'm saying, help me understand. You know Jackson Dart
And he said, you got to fill up the stands.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
This is a home game. That's why they're starting him.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
They want they want the stadium packed, because that's the
bottom line for an owner. You want Jackson Dart in there.
Everybody's going to be excited. Let's not waste his debut
on the road in New Orleans. We want to put
him in there in a home game. And I said, okay,
explain to me what Russ was doing on final possession
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where he's throwing the ball where it can't be caught,
no chance where And he said, the older you get,
you start thinking about your legacy and the numbers, and
you don't want to throw an interception. Russ has one
of the best touchdown to interception ratios in the history
of the game. And he said, it's weird that you
start thinking about your stats a little bit more, whether
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that's true or not. With Russ throwing it away and
he didn't even give his receivers. He didn't give neighbors
a chance to get this. But the Bengals need help.
Russ isn't going to cost you anything. And if you're
a Russ, you know you got Jamis Winston backing up
Jackson Dart. Now you can move on and maybe it'll
(16:38):
come to that. But Russ can't say that publicly. He
has to say that privately through his agent. Hey, can
we work something out? All right, we'll take a break.
The Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred's going to
join us. We'll talk about Robo Umps. I got to
get him to change that name. We're back after this
on The Dan Patrick Show.
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Major League Baseball since twenty fifteen. Rob Manfred back on
the program. We spent a lot of time yesterday talking
about ABS, But I want to know how did we
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land on robo umps.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I don't like the phrase.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
It conjures up something that I think needs to be explained.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Yeah, you know, Dan, it's interesting.
Speaker 12 (18:41):
I was with a couple of my guys traveling yesterday
and I said exactly the same thing, and I've said
it repeatedly. I mean the fact that the matter is
the system was designed in order to preserve kind of
the management role of the homeplate umpire. It's completely invisible
(19:03):
to the fan, right, I mean in terms of there's
no device or anything on the field that they can see,
and all of the calls, including correcting an erroneous ball
strike call made by human being from.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
The fans perspective.
Speaker 12 (19:17):
So you know, we do prefer the term ABS to
robot lumps.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Okay, this is an entertainment business. Are you going to
show anything on the jumbo tron? You know, like tennis
will show you if the ball was in or out?
What is baseball going to do?
Speaker 12 (19:32):
We are going to have a rendering on the scoreboard
so the fans can see it. I mean, you know,
at the end of the day, it is about the
fan experience in the ballpark and our experience in the
minor leagues, as well as the testing we did in
the spring and at the All Star Game, suggests that
fans are really interested in seeing that rendering.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
How do the umpires feel about big Brother over their shoulder?
Speaker 12 (19:56):
I would say the umpires have been generally cooperative on
the issue.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
You know, you know, it's.
Speaker 12 (20:03):
Always tough when you get corrected publicly, and you know,
I understand that, and you know it is important to
say although we've taken this step, you know, our umpires
do a phenomenal job on the vast, vast majority of calls,
and you know, I think over time this may reduce
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the amount of complaint we have about ball strike calls.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Okay, whenever I see something that we kind of dip
our toes in and then all of a sudden we're
in over our head, then this is going to be
the future of Major League Baseball. How long will it
take before this is the future?
Speaker 8 (20:42):
You know, that's an interesting question.
Speaker 12 (20:44):
I think that if you had talked just to the
owners about this topic a couple of years ago, they
would have been in favor of, you know, calling every pitch,
and we're certainly capable of doing that, calling every pitch
with ABS. I think what made us take the intermediate
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step is we got a lot of input from players,
particularly players who had used it in the minor leagues,
that they preferred the challenge system, that you know, it
preserved a human element in the.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Game at the major league level.
Speaker 12 (21:19):
We also got a lot of input about the significance
of framing catchers and you know, individual players who had
a skill set that could be really impacted by this. So,
you know, we took that input to heart and landed
where we did. I think that we will see after
the twenty sixth season whether there's a push to.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Go the whole way.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Why did we allow is if it was part of
the charm of baseball that an umpire could have his
own strike zone.
Speaker 12 (21:50):
Yeah, you know, going back to you know, when I
first came to the Commissioner's office in nineteen ninety eight,
Actually Sandy Alderson and I started the first the same day,
and you know, one of the first things Sandy embarked
on was an effort to get away from that notion
that individual umpires could have their own strike zone. And
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we have dramatically increased the uniformity of the zone that's
called by our umpires by having a computer based system
like ABS that we've been using to evaluate umpires for
more than a decade.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
You know, after each game when they miss a call.
Speaker 12 (22:33):
They get that pitch, they have to log in and
look at it, and it has produced greater uniformity.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Okay, but it was a charm you know, like that's
Joe West strike zone or that's Eric Gregg's strike zone
or Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
The problem.
Speaker 12 (22:46):
The problem is sometimes you know, you talk about people
who are just too charming. You know, I think there
were games where that term became excessive. I mean, I
think Eric Greg's game in the World Series probably an
example of that.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
He's the commissioner Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred. Okay, give
me the data to help me understand starting the tenth
inning with the runner at second base, which I do
to test.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
But where are we with that? Is that here to stay? Commissioner?
Speaker 8 (23:16):
Well, look, the.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
Most important thing I can say to you is starting
next week, you're going to have postseason baseball where you
play it out no matter what.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
So you your month is talking.
Speaker 12 (23:27):
It's gonna be a great postseason and we're going to
play the games out the.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
Yeah again, you know, look, I think that that was interesting.
Speaker 12 (23:37):
I'm not sure that was at the top of my
priority list in terms of rule changes, but it came
with the COVID changes that we, you know, felt we
needed to do to get through the season.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
The players really liked.
Speaker 12 (23:54):
It, and I think the push to keep it was
based on, you know, player preference and avoidance of putting,
you know, really valuable players in positions of asking them
to do something in extra innings that they didn't ordinarily
do you know the outfield are pitching, and you know,
I do think it is consistent kind of with the
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notion that the game has to be quicker to be
responsive to the audience that we're serving in today's world.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
But these leagues are becoming highlight leagues. Adam Silver, the
NBA commissioner, said, we're kind of a highlight league. How
do you guard against that of just being a highlight
and not going the experience of going to a game
or watching a game.
Speaker 12 (24:42):
I think we have a huge advantage in that effort,
and it is an effort for all sports. I mean,
you know, how younger people consume things. We don't need
to revisit that. But I think that our in ballpark
experience largely do to the work of the individual teams
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and what they do in the stadiums, the entertainment they provide,
the food and beverage options, what they do in between
innings is so good that it does creating people the
desire to see the whole game, the whole product, and
the fact that we play every day also important in
that regard. So we have some assets there and it's
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something that we're really focused on.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
When all the owners get together, how often does the
topic of a salary cap come up?
Speaker 12 (25:33):
You know, it's interesting, It really is episodic. You know,
it's more frequent when you get closer to a labor
year like we are now. I think it's natural for
people to discuss, you know, options that are available. I
think what's really important for me to say is, you know,
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we haven't decided what exactly our approach is going to be.
We have a whole other season to get through, and
you know, while obviously there's conversation, you know, it remains
to be seen what substance position the owners.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
Are going to take.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Where do you stand on it?
Speaker 8 (26:14):
I think that it has.
Speaker 12 (26:16):
Been my view for a really long time that you
sell competition to your fans, and that we need to
always be looking for things that enhance the perception of
the competition. And I think one way to do that
is reduce and regulate the disparity and payrolls.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Again, I also want to make sure that you know
the minimum spend because some of these owners they may
not be spending as much as they need to.
Speaker 8 (26:47):
How do I think that's I think that's one thing.
Speaker 12 (26:50):
Well, I think that's one thing that is widely misunderstood.
You know what, people the name of the mechanism that
people use in the other three sports is a salary cap.
But a necessary element of that system is a minimum
as well as a cap, And I agree with you
that the minimum in some ways may be more important
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than the cap.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
The Cal Rawley story is a fun story, But how
does Baseball's like your marketing arm. How do you approach
a story like that to let people know he's playing
in Seattle, He's hit sixty home runs, great nickname there.
How are you guys doing enough to promote some of
these other stories?
Speaker 12 (27:37):
Yeah, look, I think that it's really important with a
story like Cal for Major League Baseball, in addition to
the club, what the club is doing locally to promote
that player build his brand. You know, we have a
massive social media program now that is all player directed.
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Almost everything we do on social ism is player or acted.
Speaker 8 (28:01):
You're going to see a.
Speaker 12 (28:02):
Set of postseason advertisements that will start airing Cal is
prominently featured in that. You know, honestly, selecting him for
the home run derby is another example. You know, you
want a player like that in a home run derby
where he's going to get a national audience. I think
going forward, one of the things that we are really
focused on is more presence on national platforms for regular
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season games, so that people across the country see more
of players like Cal.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
How important is gambling to Major League Baseball?
Speaker 12 (28:37):
You know, I think it's it's something that is really misunderstood.
We have a you know, nice little business where we
sell data and we sell some sponsorships, but the overall
revenue impact of gambling for us is really not significant. Actually,
the biggest expenditure of time on the top topic is
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working with our partners, the sports books to make sure
that gambling doesn't present an integrity an integrity issue.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
For us over the long home.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Are you allowed to have a man cave at home.
Speaker 12 (29:16):
You know, I do have a room that my wife
has is a bedroom that she has reluctantly seated to me.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
There is a lot of you know, a lot.
Speaker 12 (29:28):
Of baseball stuff, a lot of golf stuff, and some
exercise equipment.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
So I guess that qualifies.
Speaker 12 (29:33):
You know, you can't quite have a cave in an
apartment in New York, you know, if there's something, you know,
it's sort of an oxymoron, right.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
So you're not the commissioner in your own house.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Yeah, well that's certainly true. That's certainly true.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Great to talk to you again.
Speaker 12 (29:51):
Great to talk to you, tant Really, you know, I know,
I hope because we'll be playing the games out you'll
be paying attention to what's going to be a great
postseason for It's been a really exciting week this week
trying to figure out who exactly is going to be there,
and we're looking forward to some great series next week.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Thank you, commissioner.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
All right, thank you, Dan.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
It's Rob Manfred.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
He's been in that position since twenty fifteen, and I
believe his term ends January of twenty nine. He didn't
want to compete with me with my retirement, and I
respect him for that because he's not going to get
a lot of publicity.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
H Nick in Virginia, Hi, Nick, what's on your mind?
Speaker 13 (30:30):
Hey, what's going on? Dan A long time, first time,
I'll say five to eleven and a half and at
Harry won fifty six. Wanted to touch based on the
robot umpires. I got a unique nickname for him called
Rumps because I thought they may be ass but you know,
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listen to the commissioner, there's some science behind it. I
get it. Being a golf bro with track Man and
everything that's out there, it is, you know, numbers never lie.
Speaker 14 (31:02):
I get it.
Speaker 13 (31:02):
But man, part of that game and part of just
beam that fan experience is yelling at the up. You know,
Hey that's a strike, Hey that's a ball. Love baseball,
Love the show, Love you guys. I got one other,
just quick shout out for a maybe a retirement project
for you is I love meat Fridays, man. I'd love
to see some sort of recipes or something maybe put
(31:25):
together like a Meat Friday with Dan Patrick cookbook and
maybe stats in the day and your desks and just something,
you know, something to have on the shelf that we
can always have you even when you're when you're not
on the air.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
So we've talked about that Nick Dylan, who does our cooking,
of maybe coming up with a cookbook here, maybe in
conjunction with Treger, but putting some of our favorite recipes
on there.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Jeff in San Antonio, Good morning, Jeff. What's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (31:53):
You?
Speaker 15 (31:53):
Thanks for calling me, Breck Yeah, just a I don't
call in too much. Just want to hit on a
few things. First of all, because are a great show, Amy,
no Amy, you guys are the best. And then, first
and foremost, Lebron's not the goat for many reasons. If
Eli's the Hall of Famer, Russ is the Hall of Famer.
The lastly, I just want to get Marve some love.
You know, Fritzie kind of sucks up the air in
(32:14):
the room so much, rightly so any other danan'ce get
lots of attention. But you know, Marvin stepped in you guys,
didn't skip a beat. He just gets better and better
every day. So I just want to give you some love. Marvin.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
You guys have a good day. Thank you, Jeff, very nice, Jeff,
thank you very much.
Speaker 13 (32:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Round of applause for Marvin.
Speaker 16 (32:31):
The small round of them. We're having a moment, you were,
but you know how it works on this show. It
doesn't last long and it usually turns out bad.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Uh. Andreas in Austin? Is that? Did I get the
name right? Okay? Andreas in Austin?
Speaker 17 (32:56):
Yeah, second time, long time five eight and an opposite
of Fritz one sixty.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
That's not nice.
Speaker 17 (33:02):
I love you, big guy. I appreciate you all writing
me into the scripts today. I have a comment and
ask for the Dan and Sister Dan and the day
Nets and then it suckets through out there. The comment
is one of appreciation as we've been listening all to
so listening to y'all since about two and nine and
twenty ten when I was actually in high school and
now I'm thirty two about to get married tomorrow, so
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really appreciate all the entertainment, the insight and perspective you've shared.
And that kind of leads me to my ask to
the point I just made getting married tomorrow, so I'd
love to have some advice from you Dan and the
dan Netes on how to make a successful marriage or
some things not to do to make an unsuccessful marriage.
And before I hang up and listen, I got to
say suck it to Nick Wright. I know it's been
a few years since he had that audacious take on
(33:45):
Texas barbecue, but we don't forget things down here in Texas.
So appreciate it, gentlemen, and looking forward to hearing that advice.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
All right, andres good luck with that. I'll pass that
on to Nick Wright always.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
You know I brought this up before you. You fall
in love, but you'll stay married because you like each other.
That's so important. Can you can you sit at a
table just you two and have enough things to talk
about always think of her, have respect. Certainly, when you
have kids, you're you're you move down the totem pole.
(34:19):
But I think it just comes back to always thinking,
always thinking of the other person always, and hopefully you
know they reciprocate. But you you have to like each other.
And it sounds crazy, but we all do the same thing.
You look at somebody go oh my gosh, she's beautiful. Okay,
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now you've got to get to know her, and then
all of a sudden, beauty starts to fade away, and
then all of a sudden, it's do we like each other?
And you'd be surprised how many people. Hey, I love
my wife, but you got to you got to like
them and it just have a friend and treat them
as a friend with respect. Good luck with that, Andreas.
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First number sixty.
Speaker 18 (35:47):
The magical Tour of cal Raleigh just continues here at
twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Five, courtesy of the Mariners Radio Network. I said, if
cal Rawley got to sixty runs and they won the division,
he was going to win the MVP.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
And I still feel that way. That's your play of
the day.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
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for the first time since one and He's had eleven
(36:29):
multi home run games this season. That ties in with
Aaron Judge, Sammy Sosa, and Hank Greenberg for the most
in a single season in baseball history. The other baseball story,
the Guardians were fifteen and a half games out of
first place in early July. They beat the Tigers to
take over sole possession of first place in the Central
(36:51):
This is the biggest deficit to a team has had
to overcome to win a division. Prior to that was
fourteen games and that was the Yankees in nineteen seventy eight.
Stat of the Day brought to you by Penan America.
(37:13):
You know, the Guardians are doing this with pitching. Their
starting pitchers have given up two runs or less in
nineteen consecutive starts. And speaking of pitching, Paul's schemes ended
the season ten and ten in his thirty two starts.
In his ten wins, his ra was zero point twenty nine.
(37:35):
In his losses, his ERA was four point twenty nine.
In his non decisions, he had twelve no decisions. His
ZRA was one point five nine. An incredible season, and
he allowed four hits, struck out seven and six innings,
the youngest player to have a sub two point zero
(37:57):
zero ERA for a full season since goodn't back in
nineteen eighty five. Stat of the day, stat of the day,
But stat of the day, stat of the.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
Day here comes that?
Speaker 2 (38:11):
What stat of the day?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
So his ER in the season is one point ninety
seven good and' zra in nineteen eighty five was one
point five to three and he basically had two pitches.
He had an unbelievable breaking ball and an unbelievable fastball.
A shout out to Paul Skeins in that season. Let's
see uh Dave in Arkansas? Hi, Dave, what's on your mind?
Speaker 14 (38:40):
They call me Pittsburgh Dave, and I've got to stand up.
Speaker 17 (38:46):
I'm going to stand up and take it.
Speaker 14 (38:47):
I know it's not going to be popular, but I
couldn't get through yesterday. But if anybody needed a supporter
for Fritz yesterday, it was me. Oh over there in
the left lane. You can go around. You can go
that way now if I see it coming and I
know you're coming.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
And you got a long way to go. Fine, But yeah,
pretty dramatic.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Sounds like Dave also a left lane camper.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Yeah, yeah, do you want that support?
Speaker 5 (39:24):
Ton, I'll take any support I can get. After's some
of the things I saw on social media. Anything that
remotely sounds like someone in my corner, I will embrace that.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Yeah, you got roughed up on social media yesterday.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
I don't think I made my point clear enough about
they think I was camping and trying to intensially block
people from getting where they have to go.
Speaker 6 (39:41):
I just don't like someone getting a no. But that
was the point, was someone.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
I think there are people that don't use it as
the passing lane, as I said earlier, and they're just
speeding because that's the way where I'm least likely to
get a ticket for going very fast to get to
my destination quickly.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Yes, that is very much changing the nature of the discussion. Yeah, man,
you do you move the gold post?
Speaker 6 (40:02):
Am I really moving the gold post?
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (40:04):
You kept changing the topic. You would be like, oh,
there's Grandma's going thirty miles an hour. There was something
about driving through a CBS.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
We discussed the left lane being a passing lane for
seventy five percent of that conversation yesterday.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
I think the point being this is is a lot
of people that don't use it as a pass and
it's a convenient argument.
Speaker 6 (40:25):
But a lot of people are.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Left plane to go fast. It is called the passing
and stay.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
But they didn't stay in the l and continue going.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
I can't do this until they run into you. Who
will get out of the left lane.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
A lot of people using the left lane reasons other
than passing.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
From going fast. It's known as the passage and whatever
they want, that's not what a lot of people need.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Okay, we need the audience to help us. We're gonna
come up with a T shirt today. It's going to
be available today. We're we're gonna print it up today.
It should be available today. It will be available for
about forty eight hours. You know, we're going to take
it down.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
But we got five options that are about to go
up on dan Patrick dot com for a poll quest
and the sort of you could choose.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Okay, you want to run down the candidates there's life
in the past lane.
Speaker 4 (41:08):
Life in the pass lane is one. If I passed
you on the right, you must be Todd Fritz is another.
If I'm going too slow, Todd Fritz said, go around me.
We have left lane, Camper, and we have move Fritz,
get out the way.
Speaker 6 (41:26):
There's some strong choices right there.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Yeah, but we're going to take the one that gets
the most boats.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
And then we're gonna make a t shirt today and
it'll be available at Danpatrick dot com.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Yeah, Todd kept trying to.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
You were still explaining yourself today and I just came
in and I'm like, Nope, we're not doing it.
Speaker 8 (41:48):
I do.
Speaker 6 (41:49):
You do make a good point. I don't know where
I was going with some of the other stuff about elderly.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
You lose this argument, so then you try to win
another argument, or you try to deflect something.
Speaker 6 (42:00):
Took a shot at motorcycle. What was that?
Speaker 4 (42:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Brando Shambly will join us from ryder Cup. More of
your phone calls as well. One hour in the books,
two more to go on this Thursday.
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Dan Patrick
Patrick "Seton" O'Connor
Paul Pabst
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