WEBVTT - Hour 2 - Brian Windhorst (06-23-20) 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:07.400 Sports Radio. Welcome to the program. It's hour two. We'll 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:10.760 check in with Brian Wynhorst covers the NBA for the Mothership. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.360 Any big name is going to sit out the rest 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:15.440 of the NBA season, So we'll talk to Brian in 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.880 a little bit. Darius Rucker he'll join us in the 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:22.759 final hour of the show. NASCAR drivers showing support for 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:27.320 Bubba Wallace at Tavadega yesterday. Bubba didn't win, but he won. 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.680 Baseball has to deal right now with the aftershocks of 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:36.120 a sixty game season. It's supposed to start July twenty fourth. 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.720 I was told it could be a week later. Here's 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:41.720 another thing, and it's another thing to keep an eye on. 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.760 And I mentioned this. I keep mentioning it because I 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.440 do think it is more of a reality than just 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:51.240 a maybe or what if. And that is the NFL 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:54.600 season being pushed back. That might just be one week. 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.280 And Albert Breer, the Monday Morning quarterback, had this yesterday. 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:01.960 You know, there is growing concern from a couple of 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.640 owners right now of starting the season a week later. 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.280 I keep hearing my source has said, Hey, you know what, 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:14.240 You're right, they're looking at removing the first four games 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.280 and putting them at the back end of the regular 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:19.160 season schedule. But that's just something that's going on right 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.679 now with the NFL. We always feel like, well, the 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:25.120 NFL just plows through everything. The NFL, they don't let 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.560 anything stand in its way. Well, this is standing in 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:33.040 its way. And I think that there is and I'm 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:37.120 careful to use the word apprehension, there is concern here, 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.560 but you know, apprehension of can we just push this 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.560 forward and we start this season on time. I don't 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.559 know how they're going to have preseason games. I don't 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.840 know how it's possible they're going to have a preseason 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.920 game in the first week in August. But you know, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.480 it feels like it's full speed ahead for the NFL. 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.640 You know, college football. I think you're going to hear 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.520 more and more stories about these presidents, these chancellors, athletic 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:05.000 directors having a little bit more of a cautionary tone 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.720 here of trying to get this season cram it in. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.400 You know, the NBA, with what's happening, it feels like 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.919 they've got a really good head start here with the bubble, 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.080 but there are players that aren't going to go, and 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.880 we'll talk to Brian Winhorst about them. We'll take your 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.200 phone calls eight seven seven three d P show Email 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:26.600 Adrastpadanpatrick dot com Twitter, hand to a DP show, Say 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.200 good morning to our radio and TV partners. The general 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.360 rule of work stoppages in sports is they seem like 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.960 a big deal when they're happening, but that significance fades 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.520 over the years. No one really remembers which Super Bowls, 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:43.000 the World Series, or NBA Championships happened in strike shortened seasons. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:48.280 We don't maybe we won't remember how ridiculous these negotiations 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.399 were with Major League Baseball, if you want to call 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:54.760 them negotiations. Yesterday, the union shot down the owner's latest proposal, 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.880 and that opened the way for the commissioner to say 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:02.480 we're having a sixty game schedule based on a March agreement. 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.160 Keep this in mind, the commissioner could have said we're 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:11.200 having a seventy game schedule. He could have said eighty games. 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:15.840 He said sixty, and he said sixty because he knows 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.120 what the bottom line is going to be, provided that 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:23.480 there's no second wave of this coronavirus coming up. In October. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:26.880 This is going to cost the owner. Here, they've done 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.960 the math. That's why I kept saying, this is all scripted. 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:35.040 He goes sixty games and says to his owners, this 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.320 is how much you're going to lose, and then you 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.119 get to the postseason, this is how much you can make, 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:43.800 and this is what you're going to pay the players 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.360 if you're losing somewhere close to a half million dollars 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:51.120 per regular season game. This is what the owners are estimating, 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.800 whether it's true or not. They're looking at the math. 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.120 That's all they did. They didn't look at this and go, 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.080 you know what, for the betterment of the country and 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.840 the betterment of the game aim and that's all be us. 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.840 This is about the bottom line. How much am I 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.440 going to lose? And how much am I going to 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.240 make in the postseason. That's all this came down to. 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.640 We talk about all this rhetoric and back and forth 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.760 and we want this and we wanted and pro rated 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:24.280 and it's all nonsense. It was all nonsense. We're gonna 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.679 stall that was the word that was used by source 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:33.560 said they're stalling on purpose. And what they did is 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:38.159 the commissioner he took the slings and arrows to save 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.880 millions and millions of dollars for his owners. That's it. 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.960 That's it. They probably get him a new contract. We 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:47.839 might look at him and say, what is the commissioner 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.520 doing to the sport? The owners might say, hey, you 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:54.960 did a great job, man Fred. It's it's a clunky 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:58.599 process for baseball. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.919 feels like a missed opportunity, another missed opportunity for baseball. 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.600 I had a chance to start up earlier. You could 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:08.000 have owned. Imagine if baseball was playing right now. Imagine 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:12.760 if baseball was starting next week, two weeks July fourth weekend. 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.360 Hopefully this abbreviated season will work out. It'll be entertaining. 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.160 A lot of teams will be in the playoff mix. 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:22.640 I don't know if that makes it easier to forget 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:26.799 how frustrating the last month has been for loyal baseball fans. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.360 But I certainly feel you. I do, because I think 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.920 we all got played in this situation, all right. Prior 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.120 to the end of last hour, PAULI had a hot 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.800 pole question there, all right, So if you could change 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:45.800 ownership of any team for the betterment of their fan base, Yeah, 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.640 that this franchise has struggled on the field, on the court, 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.760 or public perception or getting free agents or all of 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.040 the above. What fan base in American sports needs new 0:05:55.040 --> 0:06:02.520 ownership the most. Okay, so Nicks, Redskins. You're saying Cowboys, 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.160 it's been a while since they've gone deep into playoffs. Yeah, 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.000 and their ownership though he runs the NFL as he 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:16.160 running a good team, he's a good businessman, is a 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.520 good football owner. I mean, they've got a really nice 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:23.800 TV in the building, But did they that's a jumboldrum. Yes. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.080 Don't you wonder like with all those eight and ete 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.600 seasons that maybe if there was a different owner, if 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.040 there wasn't the owner trying to be the owner and 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.120 the GM, that maybe a couple of those eight mates 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.080 could have been ten and sixes, and you know, they 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.599 should have been going a lot further in a couple 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.120 of those years. In recent Yeah, I don't think anybody's 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.240 going to argue that they're never awful. Jerry the owner 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:49.880 and Jerry the GM are two different people. So Cowboys, Knicks, Redskins, 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:54.760 who else is on that list? The Knicks have nine 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:58.640 postseason victories since two thousand that's by far the worst 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.000 in the league. Not a peer's victory. Yeah, that means 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:06.040 games that they won, Yeah, but not nine playoff appearances. 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:08.760 Nine games in the playoffs and that one year they 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.280 had most of them with Carmelo Anthony. Yes, mclovin. If 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.560 you're looking at futility, like the Browns haven't won a 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:18.200 playoff game. The Lions haven't won a playoff game. O Bills, 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.600 Jeff and Detroit's gonna call in on that. Um Bills 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:25.080 are kind of newer, you know, they don't teams. NFL 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.400 teams have not had a postseason win since two thousand 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.600 of the Bills, Bengals, Browns, and Lions. Yeah, but I 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:32.960 don't look at the Bills as an eptitude. They made 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.000 They made four Super Bowls, and I know that might 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.960 seem like it's ancient history here, but that's a great 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.760 fan base. The new family owns at the Yeah. Yeah, 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.000 and they've done okay, you know, they've made the playoffs, 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.600 all right, So that's Browns to me, Like, I like 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.360 see something about the Browns. It's one thing, like what 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.320 Paula say, It's one thing not to win, but it's 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.200 another to sort of do things. The wrong way, like 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:59.680 the Knicks and the Browns. Yeah, the Knicks. It's how 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:01.920 many of these franchises do you look at the top 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.840 and say that's where the problem starts? You know? The 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:08.120 Ford Family. I don't. I don't know if we ever 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.880 look at the Ford Family and go, boy, they're dysfunctional. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.720 The Cowboys just Jerry wants to be too involved. The 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:19.400 Knicks that starts at the top, The red Skins with 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:23.280 Daniel Snyder starts at the top. The Browns Jimmy Haslem 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.280 feels like it starts at the top. All right, that's 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.400 the poll question. How's that? We'll go with that. A 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.840 couple of phone calls in here, Nick and Iowa, Hey, Nick, 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.600 what do you have for me today? Heydp, thanks for 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.360 taking my call first time, long time, six seven three bills? 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:45.000 All righty, hey, real quick. I was just curious. I 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.240 just saw a report on Yahoo that forty MLB players 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:52.079 and staff tested positive for coronavirus last week. With all 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.240 of that going on and this back and forth, do 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:56.640 you think they even get I don't even think they 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.560 get a season off this year if they don't with 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:04.520 potential what you're talking about, labor, labor situation, next year 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.160 as a kind of curtains for the MLB. No, it's 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:11.520 not curtains, but you know it's really it's damaging. And 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:16.079 thanks for the phone call, Nick. Yeah. I once again, 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.599 I just feel like I'm, you know, speaking into the 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.520 wind here when I bring these things up about all 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.880 these safety precautions that I don't know if Baseball is 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:29.040 able to pull this off. I really don't because nobody's 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.520 talked about this. We make it seem like, hey, if 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.840 they get the finances worked out, everything else is going 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:35.720 to take care of itself. And I'm like, I don't 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:40.640 think so. Some information that I learn, it looks like 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.360 baseball teams will have thirty active players on the roster 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:47.280 just in case players test positive, and then they'll they'll 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:52.040 reduce that number like twenty eight, twenty six and probably 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:55.880 settle on twenty six. But with no minor league season, 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:01.040 the teams will have about sixty players is available. Total 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:05.920 sixty players available. When players test positive, they're gonna need 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.800 at least three days of testing. You gotta get players 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.640 from Latin America here three days of testing. Then they're 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.600 gonna work out for three weeks. They're gonna have training 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:18.160 camp for three weeks and then they're gonna try to 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:22.360 play here at the end of July. The players are 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.120 going to play the sixty games, and they get paid 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.720 whatever they get paid. They don't get paid anything over 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:36.320 meal money during the playoffs and the World Series. Oh boy, 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.400 they're gonna be happy campers. You know. We like to 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.160 have the player miked up during the playoffs and Joe 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.559 buckets to talk to them and man, this is good. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:49.240 What do the managers do? Do the managers side with 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:53.520 the players on this and say I'm not going to 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.120 cooperate because You're not going to get a lot of 0:10:56.120 --> 0:11:03.400 cooperation here from these players. They're not. Uh, Kurt and Oregon, Hi, Kurt, 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.840 what do you have for me today? Hey? Dan? Um, 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:12.200 I wanted to offer up a documentary, Uh, for fans 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:16.920 out there. The NASCAR race was incredible yesterday. Um, there's 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:20.240 a there's a Netflix doc called Uppity about Willie t 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:24.640 Ribbs and it's produced by The Dan Patrick Show host 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:29.280 Adam Corolla and um, yeah, and it's it's an incredible 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.560 story about this guy. And it didn't matter what vehicle 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:34.240 he was in. He just wanted to race and he 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.040 was the fastest at every single thing he touched, and 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.520 people didn't want me to give him sponsorships, people messed 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.160 with his motors, and uh yeah, but you know, through 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.720 it all, he he just went kind of uh sport 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.960 to sport, different different tracks and and he he did 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.240 it and he was really good and uh but you know, 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.880 never really got to love that he deserves. It's really good. 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.800 Thank you, thank you. And Adam Corolla loves loves him 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.120 some cars and he can tell the story. Was Willie 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:08.160 t Ribs the first African American to win a NASCAR race? Dad, 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.520 I'm not sure, but he raced all over in the 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.920 eighties and nineties, two thousands. He's sixty five years old. 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.040 He was an IndyCar, Champ car all over get like 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.040 he said, he went a different bounce round from different series, 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:21.200 but he was pretty well known. Mike and Michigan joins 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:26.040 us him. Mike, what do you have for me today? 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:30.720 This is Mike five six one sixty and I would 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.559 like to make the argument for the Fords. I know 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.160 you mentioned it's hard to dislike the Fords because there 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:41.959 they are nice people. However, they're also pretty indifferent people. 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.240 They like because we have a loyal fan base they're 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.360 content with fans in the stands and that's it. I mean, 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:49.920 look at Matt Millen. We had him for eight years. 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:53.199 His best record as a GM seven and nine. So 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.000 the Lions love my Lions. But man, it is hard 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.720 because I just feel like our owners do not care. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.880 So thanks all right, Well thank you Mike. Yeah. I 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:07.200 don't know if if you know that you're making a profit, 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:11.880 how much profit you're making, what is you know? And 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.400 it's do you have ego or you are you competitive? 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.720 Or you just say, look, we can kind of just 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:19.600 put a team out there and we know we're going 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.720 to make money in the NFL. And it sometimes feels 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.080 that way, but then you get other owners who get 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:29.000 too involved, and that's usually to the detriment, Like your 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:34.120 genius is not making football moves. Your genius was another 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.520 business that allowed you to buy a football team, and 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.800 that is what is lost on these owners, some of 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.600 these owners who get so involved. I always look at 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:48.400 you know, there's owners who just stay out of the 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:53.400 business decisions. Now they may have the final word, but 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:57.319 when the owner goes and this happened with the Cleveland Browns, 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:02.080 when he is saying I want to take Johnny Manziel 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:08.600 and they could have taken Derek Carr. Now you can say, well, 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.720 Derek Carr is not great. Derek Carr is a huge 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:15.839 upgrade over Johnny Manziel. And somebody who worked in the 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:21.080 organization said, at the time they were taking I was 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.400 I was told, we're taking Derek Carr if he's if 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.800 Derek Carr's there, were taking him. They passed on him 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:31.360 twice and Cleveland would have been better off with Derek Carr. 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.920 Then they'd be better off with Derek Carr than Baker 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:40.000 Mayfield probably right now. But that ownership, I mean they 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.880 may luck into something here and it would be lucking 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:48.960 into something. But yeah, it starts at the top. It's 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:50.840 hard to look. You know, when you look at a 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.640 team and you go that that own you start with 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:55.880 the owner. It's hard to go, you know, we're really 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.440 successful and we have a terrible owner. Like how many 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.760 teams do you look at and you go, they're great, 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.800 but their owner is not good. It's it starts there. 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:09.880 Look at this success, look at the Rooney's even back 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.600 when you know the Cowboys were good, you know, under 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:17.440 a different regime. You know, Jerry, I think when Jerry 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.720 first started, he let Jimmy do it, and then I 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:25.200 think Jerry wanted more credit and therefore he got rid 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.800 of Jimmy Johnson. And they haven't been the same because 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:32.040 Jimmy is a football guy. He came up with the whole, 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.720 you know, draft strategy of trading draft picks. He came 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:40.720 up with that table adding value to each draft pick. 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.120 You know the forty nine Ers with Eddie de Bartelow, 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:48.160 you know the Steelers with a Rooney family. If you look, 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:50.880 we don't even know who the owner of the Spurs is, 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:58.640 right that RC Buford will come up. He's the GM ownership. 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.680 Lets people do their job. And I've I've been very 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.240 fortunate because you know, when I had bosses before I 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.720 went out on my own recently, those bosses knew. They 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.760 can't tell me how to do radio or TV. They 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.040 can't tell me what to ask in a question. They 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.240 can't tell me they run the business side of this. 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.280 I run this side of it. I'm the talent involved 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.160 in this, for the lack of a better description, and 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.040 I always appreciated that let me do my job, you 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:32.040 do your job, and then I'll meet you later and 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:37.400 we can celebrate but you know, ownership that's tricky because 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:41.000 they all think you can't tell a billionaire no, or 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.920 you don't know what you're doing. Yeah. Point, I think 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:45.640 we found something that the Knicks are going to win. 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.600 I think that run with this question. I'll bet they 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.400 gotta be at sixty percent. Yeah, ask me clean. You know, 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.840 but the guys who move the teams, that's a different 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.040 level of hate. Like they hate for Art Modell, the 0:16:57.200 --> 0:17:01.640 Ursay's Stan Crocky. I've heard seen things like people hate 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:05.639 them when they the old town. Well, I understand that, 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.360 and if I'm a Rams fan, a Saint Louis fan, 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:12.440 I would despise Stan Cronky. You know when you when 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.760 you build something for somebody and then they go, you 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:18.560 know what, I need something better now. Business wise, he 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:22.680 made an incredible business decision to be able to relocate 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:27.159 in Los Angeles and to have that multi billion dollars stadium. 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:31.080 It's just there's collateral damage, and the fans are always 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.040 collateral damage. You're finding that out in baseball right now. 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.600 Fans are collateral damage. We're gonna take a break. Brian 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:39.880 Windhorse kind enough to join us, We'll talk to him 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:44.080 or as PAULI likes to say brain windhorse is all. 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:48.240 That's how you spelled it. You put brain Windhorst art correct, Yeah, 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.200 or I'm compiment him. He seems like a very bright 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:54.000 fellow brain. He might like that brain Windhorst. He'll join 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.000 us coming up next nineteen after the hour here on 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.159 The Dan Patrick Show. Thanks for listening to The Dan 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.920 Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to cat just live every 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:04.240 weekday morning nine to noon Eastern or six to nine 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.320 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.119 The Dan Patrick Show at Fox Sports Radio dot com, 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.120 or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:19.720 by searching f s R. Wendell Scott the first African 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:23.040 American driver in NASCAR history to win a race that 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.680 was a Grand National Series, NASCAR's highest level. We didn't 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.639 know if it was Willie t Ribbs, but Wendell Scott. 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.960 And we'll have Bubba Wallace, I believe on the program tomorrow. 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.600 I think his schedule was pretty full today, but Fritzie's 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.000 been in contact with his people and Bubba's set to 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.760 join us tomorrow. Darius Rocker will join us coming up 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:45.240 next down our Brian Winhorse ESPN Senior NBA rider kind 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.520 enough to join us. He'll be part of the Jump 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:52.960 and ESPN news information platforms covering the NBA in the 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:56.000 return here closely, and Brian joins us, are you going 0:18:56.000 --> 0:19:00.399 to the bubble? Brian, I don't think so. But the 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.320 reason I have to say don't think is because they 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:07.040 haven't announced the media rules yet. Not that that's a 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.760 big priority, but UM, we don't know. We don't know 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:12.320 what the what the law of the land is going 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:14.520 to be. We have to hear about it. What are 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.639 your what's Do you have a like a singular biggest 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.760 concern here going into this and what they're trying to 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:26.520 pull off? Yeah, I have two. One is that and 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.600 and my guess it would be a star player, but 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.600 it could be anybody. Is that somebody comes down with 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.760 the virus and the players just lose confidence in the 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:38.240 entire thing, and whether there's an outbreak or not, they 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.960 say I don't want to do this anymore and they defect. Um. 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:44.840 The other concern I have is of a genuine outbreak 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:48.280 where you know, there's a lag time. As much as 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:50.920 the NBA is doing here and they are doing everything, 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:55.040 just about everything that we know to do. Um, is 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.960 that there there, they miss it, somebody gets sick and 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:01.400 infects five or six other people, and it's an outbreak 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:03.080 to the point where not only do you have to 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:06.760 shut it down, but it becomes unclear whether you're gonna 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:08.800 be able to restart it again anytime in the the near future. 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:11.920 That I think would be a whisk. It's name. How 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.800 many name players have you heard from off the record 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:19.879 that might not go? I guess it depends on your 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:25.000 definition the word name players. From my read on, folks, 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:28.800 everyone is ready to go. Whether they're going to be 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:32.280 ready to go in in a month when this actually 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:35.200 starts a different question. You know, yesterday the Toronto Raptors 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.080 left to go to Florida to begin this because of 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:41.639 you know, issues with Canada the US border crossings. They 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:43.920 had to leave early. And if they make it back 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:45.639 to the finals, that's a long shot. But if they 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:48.199 make it back to the finals, Dan, they wouldn't be 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:53.880 back home until October. October, that means they left yesterday, 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.320 it's a possibility they would not be back until the fall. 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:03.760 Explain what the deadline means tomorrow, So the players have 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.760 until tomorrow to raise their hands and say I'm not going. 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:09.840 But that I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna be clue. 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:12.760 I'm gonna be honest. The NBA is changing the rules 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:16.000 all the time. It's not like we have a fifteen 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:20.840 year history of this playbook working. If somebody says they 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:22.600 decide they don't want to play in three weeks, do 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:24.760 I think the NBA is going to like put them 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:27.800 in shackles and twurce them into into an airplane. No, 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:31.959 I do not. But the reason that they have to 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:35.080 tell the teams now is that for the next week, 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:38.679 starting in noon today, a transaction window opens that you 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:41.439 can sign replacement players. And if you want to be 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:46.840 able to replace a player who's either injured or who's uh, 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:49.360 you know, doesn't want to go, or have something open 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:51.840 to other concerns, you have to do it within the 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:55.880 next seven days. So that's why this window opens by 0:21:55.960 --> 0:22:00.120 today's deadline. Yeah, I'm just I'm curious about the raws 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:03.120 size here too, Brian. We're seeing with Major League Baseball 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:06.159 that they're going to have to expand the rosters, you know, 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:09.360 just in case or when it happens at somebody test positive. 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:12.879 How much of a talent pool will these NBA teams 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:17.960 have to draw from not much. You know, most NBA 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:24.359 teams have two minor league players. It's kind of like 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:27.679 having options on a baseball contract. You can call the 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:30.480 guys up a certain amount of times, so they kind 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:32.840 of have those two guys. There's a there's a few 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:35.640 guys kicking around out there who are free agents who 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:41.119 may be decent additions, but you know, you lose a 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:43.880 starting line player, you're not going to replace them with 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:46.520 the starting line player. You're going to replace them with 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:50.000 a warm body. And I think one of the concerns 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:53.200 here is, remember they're going to place three weeks of 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:57.640 these regular season games before the playoffs start. If you're 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:00.720 in ninth or tenth place and you lose is the 0:23:00.800 --> 0:23:02.840 first two or three games and you're out of it 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:05.879 and you're still faced with being in that bubble for 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:09.320 another two weeks, are you just gonna say forget this, 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:13.120 I'm going home. And because the NBA is not stopping 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:16.120