WEBVTT - Hour 1 - Adam Caplan (07-03-20) 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.600 You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.800 Sports Radio. Greetings, Welcome inside. It is the Dan Patrick 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:10.560 Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Happy fourth of July Eve, 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.840 staying with the holiday theme. Jason and Rob in for 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.279 Dan and the Dan Nets today as well. As I 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:20.120 was waiting, I thought we'd have a Hamilton's open, Rob, 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.079 because finally Hamilton's here. You know, we counted down this 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.360 week to Bobby Bennie a day. We celebrated that, and 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:27.960 now Hamilton's here today, and you know, maybe you could 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:29.720 do the show by yourself, because my daughter is gonna 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:31.520 want to fire up Hamilton as soon as she wakes up. 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:34.800 Everybody has so worked up about in an excited uh, 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.000 the hottest Broadway show for a long time, trying to 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.680 even get tickets. I never got to see it. I'm 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:45.599 a Broadway show guy. I've been to a lot. Probably 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:50.040 one of my greatest things I saw, Oh my goodness, 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:53.080 I just forgot. It was so good. Phantom of the 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:57.400 ot No, Phantom of the Opera in Sydney, Australia from 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.600 center fourth row. I'm I mean, you want to talk 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:04.560 about an unbelievable seat and moment I saw the Lion 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:10.640 King on Broadway Fourth Row Center. Unbelievable. I had goose 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:15.000 bumps with that. So many different shows, but Hamilton, it's 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.640 the rage. I know, everybody's crazy. Oh it's I mean, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.720 there's really I look at like, there's my life before 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.640 I saw Hamilton and then the life after you see Hamilton. 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:26.959 Because all you do is listen to the music over 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.040 and over and over and over again. It's it's it's crazy. 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.720 I I wasn't ready for the type of phenomenon that 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:34.000 it was, and then I saw it and I said, 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:35.960 we got to see it again. And then I took 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:37.759 my daughter to go see it, and all would listen 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:39.000 to that's when we go in, what do you want 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:40.880 to listen to? Put in Hamilton's and we listen to 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.240 Hamilton's songs all the time. It's like three years now, 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:45.280 it's like there's been no new music, Like the world 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.600 has stopped because we listen to Hamilton's three years ago. 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.200 We're still listening to Hamilton today and today now that 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.360 movie is gonna come out and people who never got 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:53.760 a chance to see it are gonna can see it 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.800 over and over again because and it makes sense. It 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.600 makes sense. You got a captive audience. You know, now, 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.160 if you ever gonna do it, I think this is 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.040 the time. It's perfect. That's happened. Well, look, this is 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.880 a big week overall in sports because we talk about 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.359 counting down and obviously, yes, Hamilton's a very big deal. 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.560 And and and uh, you know Rob will do some 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.679 of the songs later on, He'll learn something. Yeah, I'll 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.480 be singing. Uh uh if I were a rich man. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.440 I mean I'm still on Fiddler on the Roof. I 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:26.079 know about those songs. That's how dated I am. Fiddler 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.920 on the Roof? Is that a play like in the 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:37.000 nineteen sixties? Seriously? And h Taffka, I be long in 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:42.639 Ana Taffka. Oh yeah, no, no, no, you were right 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:46.680 to become a writer. I mean that's and I was 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.160 barely a writer. So you know your parents would say 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.600 to you, no, no, follow that dream. That's the dream. 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.480 You follow, follow that dream. But like, today is a 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.680 huge day because Major League Baseball. It's like today, the 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.080 last couple of days have been the pre celebration days 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.359 because today, finally we're going to get to hear from players. 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.440 There's going to be a lot of interviews, there's wall 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.280 to wall coverage planned on many different networks. As baseball 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.640 players started to report on Wednesday took their coronavirus test, 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.640 and now as they get cleared, we're gonna see workouts. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.120 There's gonna be We're gonna actually see video of baseball 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.919 players throwing balls to each other and hitting and everything else. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.639 That's going to feel as close to normal a time 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:30.959 as it is in sports, because now, okay, baseball is 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.640 going to start. Now it is early July instead of 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.280 the early part of April. But I feel like this 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.880 last couple of days are especially today now is like 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:42.320 phase two of sports is now happening. Like for so 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:46.080 long we had these conversations about how sports is going 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.560 to come back and when it comes back, and how 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:50.160 it's going to be and how are we going to 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.760 do it, And let's face it, I was not ready 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:57.960 that the overwhelming, compelling storyline every day of when sports 0:03:58.040 --> 0:03:59.640 is going to come back? How much that was going 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:01.560 to feel us the past three months. I thought, okay, 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:03.880 after a while, when in sports coming back is going 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:05.640 to fade and we're going to do different things. But 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.320 every day there was something different with sports, whether it 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.600 was football or baseball or basketball, that hey, oh here's 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.240 all right, here's a new thing to come back. Here's 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.080 another wrinkle, here, here's a big thing that could stop it, 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.279 here's a great thing that could advance it. And this 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.039 was every single day, but at some point we got 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:23.880 to get to the next phase. And since we're in 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.640 phases in the country of reopening or stopping or reopening, 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.960 this is like the next phase of sports because now 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.200 we've gotten team sports to the point where here our players, 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.560 they are gonna be here and they're actually on the field. 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:38.960 And while we are going through still how do you 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.760 navigate COVID nineteen, we're actually here and doing it rather 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.640 than talking about it. And that's why today's should be 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.880 a great big these last couple days, but especially today 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:49.880 should be a great big day of Okay, we're gonna 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.400 try it. We're gonna try sports. Baseball's gonna try it. 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.200 We're here, and you know, hopefully we can we can 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.240 gather some of this, you know, positivity and happiness and okay, 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.839 baseball's here. Now let's see how it goes. Especially Jason, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.000 when you consider, you know, what's going on in the 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:08.080 country and some of the states that rush to reopen 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.800 and you know, let their hair down now they got 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:14.600 the pushback from the virus, and you know, people are like, 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.800 oh my goodness, what's going on. And you know some 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.599 people are like us, it's sport's really gonna come back 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.359 now with the second wave. But I'm with you. I 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.560 think that once you start to see the players in 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.320 their uniforms and they're on the field and they're trying 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.039 to make it happen, these leagues are going to try 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.839 and I don't know, I mean, we don't know what's 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.800 going to be the outcome and how many players test positive. 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.480 And it's the same thing with the NBA and the bubble. 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:44.480 You know both sports. Baseball will be a week before 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:49.480 and get it going, hopefully what July twenty third or fourth, Jason, 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.000 and then the NBA the following week. So we're on 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.880 the cusp. I don't know. Football is still there. They've 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.800 already gotten rid of two of the preseason games. They're 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.800 not going to the Hall of Fame, so they're making 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.880 steps so that you can kind of like get straight 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.279 to trying to play the regular season. So I agree 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:11.200 with you. I'm excited. I did write a column for 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.000 deadspin dot com. I've weekly column there, and it was 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:19.320 an open letter to MLB America Jason, which was basically 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.360 that don't listen to the naysayers and all the people 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:28.400 who are trying to delegitimize um major League Baseball for 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:32.960 its sixty game season. Hello, is this a microphone on? 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:37.760 It's a pandemic. I'll take sixty games, Jason, given where 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:39.960 we are, do you know what I mean? Like, like, 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:44.359 what are we expecting? I'm serious. If we can get 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:51.240 sixty games in and a full postseason, I'm good. The 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.320 late great Sparky Anderson, who I got to cover when 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:59.200 I was a columnist in Detroit, I thought you yeah, 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.560 And now now you're made to call a writer. No, okay, wait, 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:04.640 I was barely a writer. And then in the last minute, 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.240 I'm gonna name drop my column on dead Spin that 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.080 I'm writing. Name dropped Sparky Anderson, who I cut. So 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.920 you're a writer or barely a writer? Okay. I was 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:17.040 a writer for a long time. And Sparky used to 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:22.320 always talk about, Jason, how baseball is really decided by 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.560 forty two games When you really think about He used 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:31.560 to say, most teams win at least sixty and most teams, 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.760 even the good ones, lose at least sixty. Right, So 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:39.400 there's your one twenty and the difference between most teams 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:44.920 is what happens with those forty two games. And he's 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.440 right on the money on that. And that's where sixty 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:52.080 games deciding what's going to happen and who's gonna be. 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.240 I'm cool with that in a pandemic. There's some other 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.160 things I'm not that crazy about. I don't I'm not 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.280 a DH guy, and and I guess you know it'll 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.320 be okay, I guess, but once they added to me, 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.000 I believe they're gonna keep it. The other thing is 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:11.000 putting a man on second base to start extra innings. 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.160 I'm I'm not cool with that. I want to see 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.440 how that looks. We don't have that many extra inning games. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:19.520 I don't know what the need is for that. But 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.920 I'm gonna embrace baseball, Jason, no matter what it comes in, 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.040 and I'm happy about it. I'm excited and I'm and 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.520 I'm going to watch the fast and Furious season. You 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.040 know why, because there's only gonna be sixty. It'll be 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:37.240 over like that. Jason Smith Rob Parker in for Dan 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.719 and the Danists today here on Fox. Well, first of all, 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:41.439 the you know, just real quick on the on the 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.440 runner leading off a second base. I'm I'm happy with 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:46.880 that because the Mets can lose games faster that way. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.000 I mean, they're bullpen stinks. Anyway you put a guy 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.040 on second base, they'll lose really fast. I won't have 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.920 to worry about long and drawn out losses. I can 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:55.839 just get it over with, right, wing over with as 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.120 quickly as possible. Like when you go to the dentist, 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.240 they got just pull the tooth right away. Just just 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.320 pull it right away. Let's not get into anything. Don't 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:03.959 worry about a cleaning it. Just pull the tooth and 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.760 I can do it. But you know the thing about sports, 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.839 and and you brought in everything as we're trying to 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.600 get back and fans, I get it, they're still a 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.280 little upset. All of us are upset because of what's 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.559 happened in our lives the past few months. It's been 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.559 upheaval and we you know, we thought we were opening 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:22.880 getting past it, and it turns out because you know, 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.600 we wound up not opening smartly enough. You know that's 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:27.839 had to hit a pause. And now who knows the 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.240 land we're in right now, we're you know living it 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:35.079 day to day. But right now I get it. Fans 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.440 are upset. Okay, here's this, what's what's the season going 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.840 to be like? But to have a little bit more 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.000 vision on it and just think about, all right, people 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:44.640 are not going to come back to baseball when the 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.360 games start. I'm not gonna watch. I'm not gonna come back. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.520 It's gonna be a sixty game sprint, unlike anything we've 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.200 seen before. It cuts through the clutter. You know, we're 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.800 gonna remember this pandemic season more than we remember most 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.000 any other season. Can you get if you you know, 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:00.880 years from now, some is gonna say, you remember what 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:05.280 happened in baseball in twenty seventeen, Oh, twenty seventeen, what 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.600 was that? Ask people right now what happened in two 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.160 thousand and nine in Major League base What happened in 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.720 two thousand and two, in the World Series in two 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:14.880 thousand and nine? Yeah, you can, you can guess that 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:16.600 a lot and be right. But you know, I mean, 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.240 you know about the season I remember was this but 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.360 twenty twenty ah, the pandemic season. That's when AB and 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.520 C happened. And we're still gonna have by the time 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:30.520 the season ends up normal playoff in the cold weather, 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.960 just like we normally get, and it's gonna seem like, Okay, 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.080 the pandemic as long as we get to play, the 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.640 pandemic is behind us. We're gonna get no matter what 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.520 it is, even for the NBA, for Major League Baseball. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.320 By the time it gets to it in the playoffs 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.720 and the deeper rounds, everybody's going to be into it 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.720 as much as they were before. I get the skepticism 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.200 and getting some of the anger out now before the 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.800 game started, but once they start, everybody's coming back to it. 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.160 We've been waiting for this for so long that once that, 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.920 once all that does begin, we're ready. And you'll see 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.439 baseball be embraced even when it's just workout video and 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:08.000 what I think I can see for us in radio 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.800 and in TV and you know, while all the different 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.120 shows that are on is we're going to talk about 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:17.280 baseball and basketball every day. Like we talked about the 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.800 NFL leading up to the draft in you know, in 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.040 the pandemic, what were we talking about in a pandemic? 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.040 It was really just football because are the other sports 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.040 were done, They weren't coming back for a while, and 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.720 we pushed forward with football like we normally would. There 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:32.920 was free agency going on. Then it was a lead 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.160 up to the draft, and every day we would talk 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:37.559 football and the draft, and that took up a lot 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.840 of programming. And I think that's you're going to see 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.200 for the majority of July is every day it's going 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.839 to be Okay, who are your new favorites here, who 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.160 can do well? Let's rank who are the top five 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:48.840 teams coming back? Who are going to be the top 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.680 five teams that could surprise in Major League Baseball and 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.160 the NBA. And that's kind of what the next month 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:55.960 is going to be on the radios. Okay, these sports 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:57.800 are coming back now, and now we're going to get 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.480 into more on the field preview stuff, which I think 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.040 is going to be welcome for everybody involved, No doubt 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.079 it will be, and I think people as soon as 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.640 because because it's it'll be a sense of normalcy, even 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.760 though the stands will be empty, and I get that 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.319 as it'll be a different look. But I'll be able 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.120 to put on a ball game at night, you know, 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.680 in the house, and have my dinner and watch and 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.960 and uh, you know, and there'll be some fantastic finishes 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.600 and big home runs and you'll go, Okay, this is 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.280 what this is what we're used to. You know, life 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.240 is kind of coming back a little bit. I got 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.600 a ball game to watch at night. I mean, this 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:38.280 has been unbelievable when you really think about how intertwined 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.560 sports is into the American culture and what we've had 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.720 to deal with the last four months or so. So 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:49.960 I'm welcome in baseball. I'm thrilled, I'm excited. Yeah, it's 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.520 it's a it's a big day. It's a celebratory day, 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.720 and even for the NBA too, because they're figuring things 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.280 out and now it looks like the bubble looks it 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.320 looks like it's going to be the best idea for them. 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.400 But you know, we're gonna get to see both of 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.880 these ideas unfold. And you know that's the other fascinating 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.199 part of the return of baseball today is that, all right, 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.000 we have two sports coming back, and there's two philosophies 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.240 of how we're going to play. There's putting everybody in 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.480 a bubble and there's letting everybody do their normal thing, 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.800 train with their team open air and see how it goes. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.480 And we're gonna see help both these things, but which 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.200 is the better idea? Because if the bubble works, I 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.080 guarantee you sports in the fall are going to come 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:27.880 back and says okay, we need a bubble, and if 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.280 baseball works better, it's going to be okay, Nope, we 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.000 don't need a bubble. We can do it. We can 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.640 do it that way. So this is also going to 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.080 be a fascinating thing to watch, is as every day 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.480 goes on, Here's how baseball is doing it, what's going 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.480 on with positive COVID nineteen tests. Here's how the NBA 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.520 is doing it. You know who's on the snitch line 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:45.800 telling everybody that, oh, I saw a car come in 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:50.440 to uh, you know Lebron's where where he's staying, and 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.000 I don't know that that was an approved car. And 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.400 you know that that daily drama is going to be 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.880 so much fun too to follow us as which one's better, 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.400 because like, whichever one works out better, other sports are 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.400 gonna say, I write me down for it. They're gonna 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:03.440 copycat it, and they probably should because if that's the 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:07.880 way forward, that's the way forward. Yeah, the old snitch line, 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.200 you got that in there. They pick up the phone 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:14.760 and dime out. Uh, you know one of your fellow players. Hey, 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.920 you just brought in two I just saw him come 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.280 in with two chicks. Hey, you know, I don't know 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:24.280 he's going to blow the bubble. You know that we 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.000 got the whole idea of this really yeah, chicks, A 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:32.120 couple of chicks. Unbelievable. I told you, I'm still living 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.760 in the sixties. I know, Ken, who are you are? 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.200 I think I think for dead Spin you should do 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.880 a story. You should be on the snitch line one 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.760 night and that's that's your story. You're the guy running 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.080 the snitch line and then and you write about it. 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.000 I think I think that's a story that wouldn't be 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:51.120 a fun story. Twitter At how about a Frescott rob 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.600 At Rob Parker FS one. We're in for Dan and 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.040 the Dan. That's today. We got more on baseball coming 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.720 up throughout the show. But maybe you either woke up 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:02.880 this morning or went to bed last night going a 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:07.120 b to the Texans? Is Antonio Brown gonna be on 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.160 the Texans? What does this mean for Deshaun Watson everybody else? 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.880 Is this a real thing? We get into that big 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.000 story coming up next. Keep it right here. This is 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.200 Fox Sports Radio. Be sure to catch the live edition 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.160 of The Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:25.280 six am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.960 wapp Fox Sports Radio. Welcome inside the Dan Patrick Show, 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.960 Dan the Dan Nets with the day off Jason Smith, 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:36.920 Rob Parker in for them today And maybe last night 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.800 you were going to bad check Twitter real fast or 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:41.960 woke up this morning and you see why is a 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.560 B to the Texans trending at the top of Twitter, 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:47.880 and I'm like, oh my god, what really did the 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.440 Texans sign Antonio Brown? And I'm thinking, did Bill O'Brien 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.520 really do this? I mean, that's the first thing Rob 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:55.680 Parker that came to me was, Okay, Bill O'Brien has 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.880 made so many horrendous traits, did he really sign off 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.360 on getting Antonio Brown? And it turns out Chad Johnson 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.040 put out a tweet saying a B to the Texans 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.560 with praying hands, and it kind of went from there. 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:11.000 As Brown has been sending out videos, making sure to 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.800 post videos every five minutes. Look, I'm working out. I'm 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:15.880 at Russell Wilson's field. I'm here, I'm working out with 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.640 this quarterback all trying to get his way back into 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.040 the National Football League, as if by putting stuff on 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.600 social media it's going to force people to sign him. 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.760 It was really crazy last night. Yeah, those things are out. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:30.680 I mean, you know, as Chad Johnson as he is, 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.320 he a reporter. Now, you know how athletes love to 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.560 like throw stuff out. They got a little information, you know, 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.800 sometime where the smoked this fire. They know something, they've 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:44.400 had a conversation with somebody, and with social media, they 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:48.560 throw those things out. So my only thing is when 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.960 it comes to a b like like how long is 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:55.000 this investigation by the NFL? This should be some sort 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.480 of a you know, training camp is not that far away. 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.560 Is he disqualified as he on the exemple list where 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.840 he can't play? What is it enough already? You know 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:09.639 there were allegations. Did they investigate it at some point? 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.159 This guy's still young enough and can still play. We 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.560 saw he had a cup of coffee in the sweet 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:18.960 role with the Patriots and that was a good look 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.719 for a couple of games. We saw him, right, We 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.080 know he can play, we know he's a playmaker. So 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.840 I'm ready to have a ruling from the commissioner and 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:33.160 let's let's do that. We're still waiting for Robert Kraft 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:39.480 investigation wrapping up, right, I don't remember that story going away. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.960 Has that been has that been concluded? I'm just asking Jason, now, 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:44.480 that's one of those things that kind of was there, 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:46.640 and then hey, if it goes away, we can we can, 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.119 we can just forget about it. I didn't forget about it, 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.800 Roger Goodell, and I'm gonna keep talking about it until 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.800 you address it. Okay, you always talking about protecting the shield. 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:57.960 I want to know what happened down in Florida. I 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.720 want details, but I do want to know if AB 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.760 is going to be available. If he's available, and I'm 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.919 a team that needs a wide receiver, we come on, Jason, 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:11.320 this guy patch six of the greatest seasons ever by 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.080 a wide receiver. Would you admit that? Of course he did. 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:15.680 He's also been out of the game for a while 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.040 and can't last more than five minutes without finding his 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.760 way out of town. You know that's the other side 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:24.359 of the coin with AB two. So let's figure things out. 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:26.800 Let's head to the hot line. Bring in Fox Sports 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:31.000 Radio Serious X and NFL insider Adam Kaplan. Adam, what's happening. 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.040 Good morning, my friend, Good morning. I'm good to talk 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.040 to you. Yeah, I've known you guys for a long time, 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:36.920 so it's great to three of us could be on 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.879 the air. So yeah, I've been listening in Look with 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.880 Antonio Brown. Someday he'll play in the National Football League, 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.359 And I felt that way, you know, in my hits 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.760 on the network for the last year, said it's simply 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.480 it's an off the field issue. Is the comfortability of 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.480 it with NFL teams and whether he'll get cleared or not. Now, 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:01.320 my understanding is the expectation would be, you know, if 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.880 the team wants to sign him, he'll wind up being 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:07.359 suspended first and then they'll we have no idea how 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:08.800 long it will be. And then the other thing is, 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:12.040 you guys were talking about this because of COVID. It's 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.400 hard to get these investigations done because he really it's 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.000 hard for you to get people to get cleared to 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.320 be interviewed with Antonio Brown. There's so many off the 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.960 field issues over the last three years. You gotta get 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.480 through it. You gotta get you have to interview people 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.960 and see what's real and what's not. It's very, very difficult, 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:30.320 but one thing I've learned and cover the NFL for 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.760 twenty one years, guys teams when they want to win. 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:36.320 We saw the Patriots do it last year and then 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:38.840 obviously they cut him after that one game. They will 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:40.720 do whatever they have to do to win, and that's 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.920 why he will get a job again. I totally agree 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.800 as long as he can play. Once he can't play, 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:50.680 then it's not worth the headache. But I'm with you. 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.240 I think a guy of that talent, he's not forty 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:57.480 years old trying to play a wide receiver in the NFL. 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.280