Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio Final Hour, and this Thursday, guess who I
Speaker 1: just saw? I went out into the back garage of
Speaker 1: the man cave. We have a huge man cave here,
Speaker 1: about seventeen thousand square feet and we have the basketball court,
Speaker 1: I have, you know, the AstroTurf, the football field out there,
Speaker 1: the weights, we got the golf simulation, we got everything.
Speaker 1: And then there's a storage garage out back and I
Speaker 1: go out there. Do you guys want to guess who
Speaker 1: I just ran into? Been a integral part of the show,
Speaker 1: done some amazing things for the show. Any guess is
Speaker 1: who is back in the very back of the man
Speaker 1: cave there, Paulie, A very short list based on that
Speaker 1: that is true. Is Reggie Miller out there? We're doing
Speaker 1: some bicycle where and Reggie Miller is not. That's a
Speaker 1: good guess, but no, Reggie is not. Yes, seton, I'm
Speaker 1: assuming this is someone not known to the audience. They are.
Speaker 1: That person is known to the audience. They are they
Speaker 1: should be. Let's put it that way, h they should know.
Speaker 1: This person's name. Ritzy Fritzie doesn't leave his death. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, is the French kid back in town. No,
Speaker 1: that guy French kid. Nope, McLevin, Rob Demowsky, the Packers report. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's that's a stupid Dan Bickley, the Arizona Republic. No,
Speaker 1: not what to be doing Inford. But you never know
Speaker 1: any other guesses? Was this person on rollerblades? No? H say,
Speaker 1: maybe it's a former host of the box Score, Casey Armstrong. Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: not Casey. This that's actually not his name. I called
Speaker 1: him Casey arms Didn't Howard Stern have a guy named
Speaker 1: Casey Armstrong? Yeah, his producer Casey Yeah. And then I don't.
Speaker 1: I just called Casey Garrity he worked on the box
Speaker 1: Score and Casey Armstrong. For some reason, this person goes
Speaker 1: by you know them by by just one name. Man,
Speaker 1: I can really use some music here or something. Fill
Speaker 1: in the gaps. Four letters first nick, No, uh, first
Speaker 1: letter A still nothing still nothing, really important. Person with
Speaker 1: the new man cave really important? Oh I know, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe perhaps they were working on a painting. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like how PAULI acted like he knew after a
Speaker 1: Seaton said he knew, You're like, oh, oh so competitive? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I did know, but it's sad that you had to
Speaker 1: give me eighteen hints today. RC, who did all of
Speaker 1: the artwork in the man Cave and all of that
Speaker 1: beautiful artwork out there that he did for it took
Speaker 1: him eleven days to paint everything that you see in
Speaker 1: the field House. But he was there touching up some
Speaker 1: of those paintings that he did at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Dwyane Wade, Don Shula, and Dan Marino. We had to
Speaker 1: bring those back and they got scratched. A couple of
Speaker 1: them got scratched. And RC was kind enough to He
Speaker 1: does a lot of work for Disney, and he doesn't
Speaker 1: live too far from here. And I walked out there
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I smell that paint and
Speaker 1: it brought me back to when we're trying to get
Speaker 1: this man Cave up and running. And I said, you
Speaker 1: got eleven days to do all of this artwork here.
Speaker 1: And he would be here till like two or three
Speaker 1: in the morning. He'd wait till everybody left, he'd get
Speaker 1: here at four, stayed one or two in the morning,
Speaker 1: text me, send me a picture of what he had painted,
Speaker 1: and then he'd come back the next day. And so
Speaker 1: I got a chance to see him. But Aarcy RC
Speaker 1: is the street artist that Seaton found for us. He
Speaker 1: asked Polly, He's fantastic with a spray paint can. Sometimes
Speaker 1: when I'm i and I'll see an overpass with a
Speaker 1: graffiti on it, I wish there was some type of
Speaker 1: like glossary or something underneath it to explain what it is,
Speaker 1: because I don't understand a lot of it. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: touched up these pieces of art. We also had the
Speaker 1: Kobe one that we sent out to Los Angeles Mamba Academy,
Speaker 1: and then we also had Michael Irvin and we sent
Speaker 1: that to Michael Irvin. But Arcy does some great work.
Speaker 1: It was great to see him and the stuff that
Speaker 1: he did out there in the man Cave. It was
Speaker 1: It's breathtaking to see what he did in his span
Speaker 1: of eleven days. It could have been three months and
Speaker 1: it still would have been. He's our Michael Angelo with
Speaker 1: what he was able to accomplish, you know, this being
Speaker 1: the Sistine Chapel of man caves. Here, he's Mike Angelo.
Speaker 1: Mike Oh, McLevin. I didn't even know what our poll
Speaker 1: question was today, by the way, I just it just
Speaker 1: dawned on me that I had no idea. We gave
Speaker 1: the listeners a choice. You could either have the big
Speaker 1: five conferences break off and do a sixty team thing,
Speaker 1: or have a final eight. U seventy eight percent said
Speaker 1: final eight. And Todd came up with something in the
Speaker 1: morning meeting, which is rare but it was interesting, and
Speaker 1: he said, you could come up with how did you
Speaker 1: come up with? You can what would your NFL name
Speaker 1: be if you wanted to because of Shaw Ferguson's thirty
Speaker 1: seventh birthday. Okay, so I figured we'd have some fun
Speaker 1: off of that from the Key and Peel bit and
Speaker 1: come up with your cool first and last name if
Speaker 1: you knew you were going to become an NFL player. Okay,
Speaker 1: Because Peel came in and he's not a sports fan,
Speaker 1: and he says to Key, we got a brother named
Speaker 1: Brickishaw Ferguson, and and then that spawned the football names
Speaker 1: you know during the highlights and the end zone celebration,
Speaker 1: what is it, Mccringleberry, lem don't forget about Tyrol Smoochy Wallace,
Speaker 1: but never forget. That's how that came up is Jordan
Speaker 1: Peele came in after seeing the jets and he's like
Speaker 1: this brother's bricker shaw ferguson the bricker shaw. Yeah. See,
Speaker 1: the audience has suggested that my last name should be
Speaker 1: on the bench, Seaton on the bench, the bench like
Speaker 1: it on the bench, because I came up with if
Speaker 1: I could have a name, mine would be f king fast,
Speaker 1: So my last name would be fast Fast. That would
Speaker 1: be my NFL name at wide Receiver, f king fast Fast. Yes,
Speaker 1: PAULI that that's that's uh, what was it? Didn't Sadler
Speaker 1: have that type of bit or something like that when
Speaker 1: he was first on SNL The Sofa King. Oh I
Speaker 1: don't remember that. Oh yeah, like it was it's a
Speaker 1: furniture store. I think it's Sadler's first ever bit. And
Speaker 1: and uh it's like so Sopa king. But if you
Speaker 1: say it the wrong way, and that was the entire bit,
Speaker 1: it's like sweaty balls. It's basically one thing, all right.
Speaker 1: Age seven seven three D P show email address TP
Speaker 1: of Dan Patrick, Michael bou Blay. We'll join us on
Speaker 1: the program tomorrow. The King of Christmas. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's the King of Christmas. That's fine, but Michael
Speaker 1: bou Blay, Todd reached out after we talked about Michael
Speaker 1: bou Blay a week ago. Now, are we allowed to
Speaker 1: ask him to sing? That hasn't been established? I think
Speaker 1: it's better too. Maybe we put him on the spot
Speaker 1: as supposed to asking him that if they say he'd
Speaker 1: rather not. And from past experience, I think the best
Speaker 1: chance of getting him to sing is just to ask him.
Speaker 1: Unless he's hearing this right now and I've just screwed
Speaker 1: up the whole thing. You know what I'm thinking? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I'd rather beg for forgiveness than ask for permission.
Speaker 1: He seems like the kind of guy who doesn't want
Speaker 1: to let his fans down, including the Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 1: So if you asked him, I think that's our best
Speaker 1: chance of him sing, even if it's just a quick
Speaker 1: line or two from one of the Christmas No, this
Speaker 1: is what I do. I have you. I'll be like Michael, listen,
Speaker 1: listen to Todd and tell me what you think of
Speaker 1: him singing one of your songs. Okay, we could do that, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then he might say, oh, yeah, I wasn't bad.
Speaker 1: Well you say, oh yeah, then let's hear you yeah,
Speaker 1: or oh well, why don't you sing it? How? You
Speaker 1: know it should be sung like that. Maybe we get
Speaker 1: Michael Buble face son afraid the plans that we made walking,
Speaker 1: thank you, thanks for coming out tonight. Is he in
Speaker 1: competition with Mariah Carey because she's the queen of Chris Well.
Speaker 1: That could be the king and Queen together. I don't
Speaker 1: have the pride queen of the prom I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Tonight shot them halls all swinging. Tonight,
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh and the Rams take on Bill Belichick and
Speaker 1: the Patriots, and the Rams are five point favorites. McVeigh
Speaker 1: will become the sixth different head coach who was previously
Speaker 1: coached in the Super Bowl to face the Patriots this season.
Speaker 1: And that's the most that it ties the most, I
Speaker 1: believe with Belichick in his career, he faced six coaches
Speaker 1: who had been head coaches who had coached in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl back in twenty eleven. But kind of interesting
Speaker 1: also he is Belichick has he's I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's had wins, but I know that he's coached in
Speaker 1: fifty different stadiums in his career, and maybe maybe it's wins.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I have this right. Sundays went
Speaker 1: over the Chargers. Gave Belichick wins as a head coach
Speaker 1: in fifty different stadiums regular season and postseason, most by
Speaker 1: any coach in the Super Bowl era. Well, I'm going
Speaker 1: to guess it's most all time because you didn't have
Speaker 1: that many stadiums that would change. You know, you build
Speaker 1: a stadium back then, and chances are it stayed as
Speaker 1: a stadium. Like if we built Wriggley twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: it's Wrigley, do we go back and go, you know,
Speaker 1: I think we need to tear it down and build
Speaker 1: something different. Or if we built Fenway thirty years ago,
Speaker 1: do we say, like, at what point do you say,
Speaker 1: now that's ugly or now that's a historical landmark here.
Speaker 1: But if you start to think about what we do
Speaker 1: with stadiums, it's thirty years. That's about all you get
Speaker 1: and then it's time to build a new one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: MC club. Do you think any of the stadiums he
Speaker 1: coached in in ninety two ninety three are still there
Speaker 1: when he was with the Browns? You know the field
Speaker 1: in Chicago, I told your field. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: how many. Oh, Lambeau obviously, but I don't think he
Speaker 1: was in those places. But okay, thirty years ago, if
Speaker 1: we built Lambeau, would we still have Lambeau? Doesn't it
Speaker 1: feel like we'd be like, oh man, it's so outdated,
Speaker 1: and it is, but there's so much charm to it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a club to me. The one that they ripped
Speaker 1: down the Georgia Dome, which was a kind of a
Speaker 1: new stadium for another Georgia Dome. That that one seemed
Speaker 1: really fast in Atlanta. Yes, boy, Well, your stadium has
Speaker 1: to either have history or be so awesome that it's
Speaker 1: not tear downable, like Camden Yards in Baltimore, I think is.
Speaker 1: I think it is probably almost thirty years old, which
Speaker 1: is old for our culture, but it's so cool still
Speaker 1: that they hit a home run with it, no pun
Speaker 1: they hit a home run with it, so it's in
Speaker 1: no danger. I think Camden kind of reinvented the stadium
Speaker 1: right when when you think about what Camden did and
Speaker 1: it still holds up, I mean it's it's you got
Speaker 1: the short home run fences, you got the warehouse where
Speaker 1: it's located down on the water. They really did a
Speaker 1: wonderful job there. But that was nineteen ninety two when
Speaker 1: Camden opened up, and I wonder, I mean, we're we're
Speaker 1: holding on to Camden and hopefully they do. But you know,
Speaker 1: you start to wonder, what is the life expectancy of
Speaker 1: some of these stadiums now and would we have already
Speaker 1: demolished Lambeau Soldier Field. They refurbish that if you want
Speaker 1: to call it that. Yeah, mcclub I love when you
Speaker 1: tell stories about like Three Rivers and Veteran Stadium. Were
Speaker 1: they as bad as you paint them out to be?
Speaker 1: Sometimes from the eighties, those stadiums sounded terrible. Well, they
Speaker 1: were sterile and they look like if you looked at
Speaker 1: them from above, it looked like an ashtray. And Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Riverfront Stadium they created this, and then of course Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: and Philadelphia, wanting to be like Cincinnati, decided to do
Speaker 1: the same exact stadium. And I went, you gotta be
Speaker 1: kidding me. Like Pittsburgh Stadium now downtown. I love it,
Speaker 1: you know, I love the view. I love going in there.
Speaker 1: That has personality. A lot of these stadiums. You were like,
Speaker 1: what are you thinking, Like, there's no real personality with
Speaker 1: how you built this stadium. Yes, Todd, they field to
Speaker 1: me was one of those. Not that shaf Stadium was
Speaker 1: so amazing, but what they did to it now it
Speaker 1: looks very much like a minor league park. There's billboards
Speaker 1: and signage everywhere, and there's just nothing special about City Field.
Speaker 1: You would think they'd be making an upgrade, which I
Speaker 1: don't think they did. I just don't know why you
Speaker 1: don't take advantage of some of the views and and
Speaker 1: I know a lot of that has to do with
Speaker 1: wins and you know, if you're going to have home
Speaker 1: runs and what's you know, what are the currents going
Speaker 1: through there? But like the Mets should have taken advantage
Speaker 1: of the skyline. That's why I wish they would have
Speaker 1: had a stadium on the West Side Highway in New
Speaker 1: York and just take an advantage of you know, the
Speaker 1: vistas there and be able to walk to a stadium.
Speaker 1: I mean I drove by City Field recently and like,
Speaker 1: I have no interest in going at all, And you know,
Speaker 1: you start to think of stadiums arenas, you know, like
Speaker 1: Cameron Indoor. I could never it's it's so small, But
Speaker 1: I could never imagine that they would go, you know, what,
Speaker 1: we need to upgrade this, but probably come that day
Speaker 1: when you go into Notre Dame and you see that
Speaker 1: basketball arena and you go, oh, this isn't big at all.
Speaker 1: But the charm that you have with some of these
Speaker 1: but the other ones sterile, very sterile environment. The last
Speaker 1: time Jared Goff and the Patriots got together, that was
Speaker 1: a long night for Jared Goff. The Patriots beat them
Speaker 1: in Super Bowl fifty three. It's thirteen three and even
Speaker 1: though the game was in twenty nineteen, that feels like
Speaker 1: a lifetime ago that those two teams meant. And Belichick
Speaker 1: has the ability to torture a young quarterback. He's just
Speaker 1: he's very good at that. But you know, Sean McVay said, look,
Speaker 1: I basically got humbled in there with Belichick, and I
Speaker 1: think he, you know, would be the first to admit,
Speaker 1: you know, you get out coached like you're trying to
Speaker 1: prepare so much. And Belichick is basically he has that
Speaker 1: blueprint that's like, no, this is what I'm gonna do here.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna waiver what we're gonna do. We're gonna
Speaker 1: force him to do. We're gonna take this going away.
Speaker 1: And it sounds like everybody knows what the Patriots game
Speaker 1: plan is, well, they're gonna neutralize Aaron Donald, make Jared
Speaker 1: Goff throw the ball, and take away Cooper Cup. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean sounds simple. Not always that easy, but the Patriots,
Speaker 1: you know, it's six and five right now, kind of dangerous.
Speaker 1: They can't afford another loss. And Sean McVeigh has plenty
Speaker 1: of time to scheme up something against Belichick. And this
Speaker 1: is you know, when others play checkers, Belichick's usually playing chess.
Speaker 1: And this is on Sean McVeigh to not be predictable.
Speaker 1: And I know that, you know, you've had faces, the
Speaker 1: names that have changed, you know, since the last time
Speaker 1: they played in the Super Bowl. But you know, this
Speaker 1: is really a big I think there's a big deal,
Speaker 1: big moment for Sean McVeigh because the NFL caught up
Speaker 1: to him a little bit because he was the quarterback
Speaker 1: whisper and we thought, oh my gosh. You know, Sean
Speaker 1: McVeagh is reinventing the NFL. And you know, Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: reinvents the NFL every year, somehow, some way, Belichick does
Speaker 1: something and he reinvents the NFL. Nobody else does. But
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh has had his moments there this is a
Speaker 1: really good team and a team that leads with their defense.
Speaker 1: What are they going to do? What did they take
Speaker 1: away from the New England Patriots, Because that would be
Speaker 1: the approach that I would have, is We're going to
Speaker 1: take away things from them as well, and then we're
Speaker 1: going to hope that we have home field advantage and
Speaker 1: we have more talent. We're going to win this game. Yes,
Speaker 1: we love him. Can I ask a question about my
Speaker 1: fantasy football team because you love that so much? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have Goff auto roster and I'm terrified that Belichick
Speaker 1: is going to belichick him. Do you I mean, is
Speaker 1: there any chance that Jared Goff's throws three touchdowns? It
Speaker 1: seems like Belichick Scott's number. I would, as I've said
Speaker 1: before many many times on this program, I'd never bet
Speaker 1: against Belichick. I've just learned my lesson. I'd ever bet
Speaker 1: against him. But you know this is on Sean McVay
Speaker 1: to create something. I looked at the numbers here with
Speaker 1: a Jared Goff inside the pocket, his quarterback rating is
Speaker 1: ninety outside the pocket, it's one to fifteen. If I'm
Speaker 1: Sean McVay, can I create some plays like that with
Speaker 1: Jared Goff if he's more comfortable outside the pocket. Let
Speaker 1: me see what else um Oh Seton came up with
Speaker 1: a good idea to I'm wondering, can we get Michael
Speaker 1: Boublay to sing stat of the Day? I think that's
Speaker 1: an awesome idea and would do that. Yes, I think
Speaker 1: that the cod guy that would do it. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is what I'll do. I'll get We'll get the Will
Speaker 1: Ferrell ron Burgundy one, Melissa Everage, Melissa A three Darius Rucker.
Speaker 1: If he sees that others day and he can get
Speaker 1: an idea from them, I think it made me be
Speaker 1: even more likely to participant. That's Michael Boublay on the
Speaker 1: program tomorrow. Yeah, see right. I don't want to outdo
Speaker 1: ron Burgundy because it might be sort of in the
Speaker 1: same theme. But maybe maybe Michael bou Blake could give
Speaker 1: us a Christmas swinging version stat the tremendous idea. I
Speaker 1: totally think he would do it, all right, stat of
Speaker 1: the day, the day, that stat of the day, stat
Speaker 1: of the day. He comes that what stat of the Day?
Speaker 1: O the great ron Burgundy deck then whole yeah, jingle bell?
Speaker 1: Thanks say I am married? You say no, man, you
Speaker 1: can do the job in your town. Bring it home.
Speaker 1: I don't know the song, Yes, pubbly. I noticed that
Speaker 1: Pearlov's the only one who hadn't tried to do a
Speaker 1: Michael Bouf blay line so far this week. He just
Speaker 1: tap it out. I don't think i've ever heard mclovin
Speaker 1: sing you don't want to Dan. It's terrible, and even
Speaker 1: something that it seems easy like that, I will just butcher.
Speaker 1: But all you have to do is do something like that.
Speaker 1: That so it is, Yes, mclemen. I was asked the
Speaker 1: other day about your album. Did you better not cry? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You better not pot I am telling you why. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Santa Claus is coming the town from now on. You
Speaker 1: have to ask me a question in song form the
Speaker 1: rest of the show. Yes, McLeman, I have a real question.
Speaker 1: No, no no, no, I just I can't do one exception.
Speaker 1: Did you guys really release an album in the late No? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. You have to do it in a in
Speaker 1: a song form. What about the rams? What about the
Speaker 1: didn't you guys release an album back in the nineties.
Speaker 1: He's a system QB system QB. You're gonna try at
Speaker 1: mclemon are you gonna go radio sign and indur net out?
Speaker 1: Did you? I haven't. I don't make me sick. It's
Speaker 1: my spear. You don't want to hear. We're ducking MVPs.
Speaker 1: Who do you got in the lead? Right now? Dan
Speaker 1: take it away against the grain, against the grain. It's
Speaker 1: kind of funny how uncomfortable Andrew is right now. He's
Speaker 1: ena throws and he throws a path usually intercepted. It's
Speaker 1: never complete. And we will take a break here. How
Speaker 1: good is our How good a sport is Michael bou bleat?
Speaker 1: Because I know he's getting if he's not hearing this now,
Speaker 1: someone is sending we haven't heard him yet. No, but
Speaker 1: he's supposedly very self deprecating. The fact that he's coming
Speaker 1: on after these little pokes and jebs we're going says
Speaker 1: a lot about his character. I think I'm gonna guess
Speaker 1: he's doing quite well. I think he's doing okay, right.
Speaker 1: He doesn't need the extra publicity, Oh he needs this.
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Speaker 1: just joining us. James Harden has added two more teams
Speaker 1: to his list of where he would be welcoming a
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Speaker 1: guess that beef with the Greek Freak and James Harden
Speaker 1: is over. But according to Sham Sharania of Yahoo's Sports Also,
Speaker 1: I was wondering about this with Belichick, that's fifty stadiums
Speaker 1: regular season, postseason that he's had to win in in
Speaker 1: his career. Here are the NFL stadium still around from
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one. That was Belichick's first year as head
Speaker 1: coach with Cleveland Bill's Stadium, which Ralph Wilson Stadium formerly
Speaker 1: Rich Stadium, Hard Rocks Stadium formerly Joe Robbie and Pro
Speaker 1: Player Stadium, Arrowhead, Lambo Soldier Field, and the Superdome Sunday Night,
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers head to Buffalo to face
Speaker 1: a Bill's team pushing for its first Division title in
Speaker 1: twenty five years. Sunday Night seven Eastern only on NBC.
Speaker 1: He is the voice of Sunday Night Football, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I gotta call him a Hall of
Speaker 1: Famer now. Recipient of the twenty twenty one Ford Frick
Speaker 1: Award for Baseball Broadcasting, Al Michaels, look at you, congratulations.
Speaker 1: Ye are not winning anything. You're a fricking Hall of
Speaker 1: Famer now I can say that, Al. You know, it's
Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing because I haven't done a baseball game
Speaker 1: in twenty five years except Costas and I did a
Speaker 1: one off in San Francisco for MLB Network back in
Speaker 1: I think twenty eleven or twelve. So you know, I
Speaker 1: loved baseball. I built my career around it. I did
Speaker 1: it between nineteen sixty eight, when I started in the
Speaker 1: miners in Hawaii and through nineteen ninety five. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't have any regrets in my career. Me and
Speaker 1: I've had a heck of a run here and been
Speaker 1: in a lot of fantastic places at the right time.
Speaker 1: But if there's one small regret it said. It was
Speaker 1: never at the network that had the rights to baseball
Speaker 1: after nineteen ninety five. I loved doing It's been a
Speaker 1: long time, had a lot of you know, good fortune,
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds when you're you know, you're up there in
Speaker 1: Dayton and listening to me as as a kid doing
Speaker 1: the Reds, the Big Red Machine seventy one through seventy three,
Speaker 1: then the Giants and Monday Night Baseball and all of
Speaker 1: the rest. It was great. I loved it. And then
Speaker 1: to have this happened to me, it was fantastic. And
Speaker 1: the announcement on MLB Network yesterday, and then our great
Speaker 1: and good friend mister Costas came on and we did
Speaker 1: a little two way and had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: He's already playing the itinerary for Cooperstown in July. You know, Bob,
Speaker 1: we won't be eating anything that has gluten in it.
Speaker 1: For apart from that, it should be a hit for
Speaker 1: a weekend. If I said at age twenty two, you
Speaker 1: got to choose one sport to broadcast, what would you
Speaker 1: have chosen? Baseball? No question. You know, when I got
Speaker 1: out of Arizona State and had I had gotten there
Speaker 1: specifically because the radio and TV program was so good.
Speaker 1: I got to announce baseball, football, basketball. But the football
Speaker 1: team had Charlie Taylor, Curly Culp coached by Frank Coash.
Speaker 1: The basketball team I jumped at Joe Caldwell, and the
Speaker 1: baseball team had sal Bando, Rick Monday, and then Reggie
Speaker 1: Jackson came along. So I loved baseball. I got my
Speaker 1: job in Hawaii because I brought a tape to the
Speaker 1: man who was running the team, a man by the
Speaker 1: name of a Jack Quinn. I only wish he was
Speaker 1: still alive to see this. He gave me the first
Speaker 1: break and so I have an audition tape in which
Speaker 1: sal Bando is in the game. Reggie Jackson is a freshman.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about him coming up the next year. Because
Speaker 1: freshman were not Elizrael. You got Rick Monday. And that's
Speaker 1: how I wound up getting the Hawaii job. And that
Speaker 1: was the trampoline and off we win. So I look
Speaker 1: back and I can't believe it's been that long. It's
Speaker 1: a long long time ago. And I had a little
Speaker 1: email exchange with Johnny Bench today, So you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of memories are flowing back right now. And there's
Speaker 1: a certain cadence though, well, you could tell us better
Speaker 1: than I can try to describe it. But you know,
Speaker 1: you've done everything. But if you're looking for that, you
Speaker 1: get into a rhythm. The sport that's the hardest to
Speaker 1: get into a rhythm and the easiest to get into
Speaker 1: a rhythm. I think baseball is the most satisfying, especially
Speaker 1: on radio, because of its rhythm. If you look at
Speaker 1: football especially, you know on television football you've got four
Speaker 1: seconds of action and then if they run the clock out,
Speaker 1: you know, like thirty five seconds of inaction, and normally
Speaker 1: that's where the analyst comes in and does the replays.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of things, as you know in
Speaker 1: a football telecash, a lot of traffic that you have
Speaker 1: to handle. So it's it's difficult in that sense to
Speaker 1: really get into the stories. Basketball and hockey are continuous,
Speaker 1: so that's very difficult as well. Baseball is different. It's
Speaker 1: a stop and a start, and it gives you a
Speaker 1: lot of leeway and a lot of freedom to talk
Speaker 1: about a lot of different things. And you know, these
Speaker 1: days the games are going over three hours, so you
Speaker 1: have plenty of time. It's played every day, so I
Speaker 1: would say for me, baseball is always the easiest because
Speaker 1: of that, Hockey is the hardest, no question about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, the great Mike Emrick retiring this year and
Speaker 1: nobody did better. I mean, he was fantastic to be
Speaker 1: able to do what he did. And you know, Mike
Speaker 1: started on a radio as well. And I think a
Speaker 1: lot of the great announcers, you know, the guys who
Speaker 1: have reached the pinnacle, got their start in radio. You
Speaker 1: learned to paint pictures. And I see a lot of
Speaker 1: the young kids are coming up right now, they're going
Speaker 1: right to television. So I don't know what's going to
Speaker 1: happen in the future, but I do know that those
Speaker 1: of us who you know, Marv Albert and Mike Emrick
Speaker 1: and the guys who have come up through the years,
Speaker 1: we all got our start in radio, and I think
Speaker 1: that was tremendously beneficial. What was your first professional game
Speaker 1: like as a broadcaster, Well, it was I guess minor
Speaker 1: league baseball in Hawaii in nineteen sixty eight. I guess
Speaker 1: that would count as at the beginning. I went over
Speaker 1: there and we're playing the Eugene Emeralds. I think Larry
Speaker 1: Boa was playing in that game, and Greg Muzinski and
Speaker 1: Joel Lists and people like that. I was very nervous,
Speaker 1: but you know, I had grown up in Brooklyn and
Speaker 1: then our family had moved to Los Angeles, ironically the
Speaker 1: same year the Dodgers came to LA. So I never
Speaker 1: missed a beat. And I've been listening to Vince Skulet
Speaker 1: since I was six years old. And by the way,
Speaker 1: one of the great calls I got yesterday on the
Speaker 1: on the Answering Machinity, it's Vinnie congratulating me, you know,
Speaker 1: joining the club. And then we had a conversation last night.
Speaker 1: I mean, when I think of you, you know, you
Speaker 1: need a mentor. And in a way, Vinnie was my
Speaker 1: mentor because from the time I'm six until I go
Speaker 1: to Hawaii and start my career, he's the voice I
Speaker 1: hear in my ear. And I probably tried very hard
Speaker 1: to imitate Vinnie when I started, and then I had
Speaker 1: to kind of find my my own path and my
Speaker 1: own cadence. And I didn't want to sound exactly like Benny,
Speaker 1: but clearly he was. He taught me baseball by listening
Speaker 1: to him all of those years. He taught me, you know,
Speaker 1: pretty much had a broadcast and then you know, through
Speaker 1: the years. I got very lucky. To me, I had
Speaker 1: so many great mentors. Bobby Winkles was the coach at
Speaker 1: Arizona State. He would go on to manage the White
Speaker 1: Sox's and the Angels at different times in Hawaii. Chuck
Speaker 1: Tanner as the manager so and he would go on
Speaker 1: to win the We Are Family World Series with Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: In seventy nine, I go to the Reds. I mean,
Speaker 1: think about this. I've got Sparking Anderson, Pete Rose, Johnny Bench,
Speaker 1: Tony Perez, Joe Morgan. I think I learned a little
Speaker 1: bit about baseball there. And one of the great things
Speaker 1: for me is that in the three years in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: I had to do a Sparking Anderson ten minute radio
Speaker 1: show every day. So I had at least ten minutes
Speaker 1: with Sparks every single the main you remember, the main
Speaker 1: spark brought to you by maybe Strowsviert that time, of
Speaker 1: course you remember. But I would have to, you know,
Speaker 1: Sparky and I would at least have ten minutes alone
Speaker 1: to tape the show, which always which very often turned
Speaker 1: into like a half an hour. So I got a
Speaker 1: PhD from Sparky, And think about this, because we did
Speaker 1: not only every regular season game. We did all thirty
Speaker 1: spring training games and the Reds got to the playoffs
Speaker 1: twice into the World Series once when I was there.
Speaker 1: So I probably did six hundred shows with Slarky Anderson
Speaker 1: and that's how I got my PhD in baseball. And
Speaker 1: you bring up a great point. We're talking to Al
Speaker 1: Michael's Sunday Night football play by play and now Baseball
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, the recipient of the twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: Ford Frick Award for Baseball Broadcasting. Learning on Radio because radio.
Speaker 1: Really I fell in love with doing this by listening
Speaker 1: to radio, whether it was you, Marty Brennaman and Joe Nuxall,
Speaker 1: listening to talk shows, Pete Franklin out of Cleveland. You know,
Speaker 1: I was very I was fortunate, but I'm listening. And
Speaker 1: the power of the of just listening to words and
Speaker 1: then creating your own picture, whatever that might be, is
Speaker 1: really powerful. And I was never able to master a
Speaker 1: play by play, but it did help me in communicating
Speaker 1: in what I do on this show, and that is,
Speaker 1: don't take it for granted. They know what you're talking
Speaker 1: about or what it looks like. You've got to make
Speaker 1: sure you explain it to him, and always think of
Speaker 1: the radio listener more than the TV viewer, no question.
Speaker 1: And especially in my era in Cincinnati, there weren't that
Speaker 1: many games on television, so the vast majority of games
Speaker 1: were radio only on WLW. And I would always picture,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe a guy sitting on a porch in Corbin, Kentucky,
Speaker 1: you know, having a beverage and sitting out there, you know,
Speaker 1: in the twilight in the summertime, and I was kind
Speaker 1: of doing the game for him. It's so much different now,
Speaker 1: of course, on television and with social media and with
Speaker 1: streaming and all of the rests, so it's so much different.
Speaker 1: But if you go back to that point in time,
Speaker 1: you're exactly right. It's radio. I mean, to this day,
Speaker 1: I think about you know, we go back to Vincelly
Speaker 1: for a second, and Vinny did the games until you know,
Speaker 1: four or five years ago. So Vinny was in his
Speaker 1: late eighties when he stepped away, and he was still phenomenal.
Speaker 1: And I can't tell you, you know, I'm listening to
Speaker 1: him from the time I was six till the time
Speaker 1: you know, I'm Benny's eighty eight years old in his
Speaker 1: last season, and I'd be driving, you know, back home
Speaker 1: from someplace, and Benny would start to tell a story
Speaker 1: and I'd have to I'd have to put the car.
Speaker 1: I stop the car in the driveway. He but idly
Speaker 1: and just hear the rest of the story. That's how
Speaker 1: compelling Bennie was. He was just the master of that
Speaker 1: to the day he retired. And it's so true. This
Speaker 1: is where you really, you know, cut your eye teeth,
Speaker 1: earn your chops, or whatever you want to say about it.
Speaker 1: But radio is the way to go. It's so much
Speaker 1: different right now as we know. I also, as strange
Speaker 1: as this may sound, the greatest call you ever had
Speaker 1: with a baseball game had to do with the eighty
Speaker 1: nine earthquake when there was no action on the field,
Speaker 1: but there was so much action around you. Your composure
Speaker 1: like you handled that like you were Peter Jennings. I mean,
Speaker 1: you handled it like a newsman and you knew the area.
Speaker 1: But that might have been your greatest call at a
Speaker 1: baseball stadium out It was certainly the oddest. You don't
Speaker 1: rehearse for an earthquake in the middle of the World Series,
Speaker 1: let's put it that way. So for starters, Tim McCarver
Speaker 1: and Jim Palmer and I are doing any game. We're
Speaker 1: just happy we weren't thrown out of the booth when
Speaker 1: it stopped shaking. So you had that petrifying few seconds.
Speaker 1: And then all I thought to myself, you know, you
Speaker 1: kind of go back almost to the to the tenth
Speaker 1: grade when I'm taking a journalism class, and the tenets
Speaker 1: of journalism are who, what, when, where, and how and why?
Speaker 1: And I remember thinking, okay, this is this is very different.
Speaker 1: Become just keep focused and don't go to a place
Speaker 1: that you don't belong, and only talk about the things
Speaker 1: you know for certain. And it was kind of crazy
Speaker 1: because we're getting information coming from this source and that source.
Speaker 1: And this is in nineteen eighty nine. You know, pre
Speaker 1: everything today, if it was an earthquake, Twitter would have
Speaker 1: it within two seconds at that point in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: One of the ironies of that night is that the
Speaker 1: earthquake took place at five o four, at about five twenty.
Speaker 1: People still don't really know what took place. I knew
Speaker 1: it was an earthquake, but candle six and clothes you
Speaker 1: can't see outside. They don't know what's really going on.
Speaker 1: And the crowd starts to chant playball, playball. They had
Speaker 1: no idea what had taken place. So I had an
Speaker 1: idea obviously, because we had the blimp and I could
Speaker 1: see certain things. And all I talked about that night
Speaker 1: was what I knew for certain, because we're getting all
Speaker 1: kinds of misinformation that's coming in and I'm going, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, we have to get all of this corroborated.
Speaker 1: So it's it's again, it's a case of and it's
Speaker 1: another thing that I always thought about in broadcasting, dan
Speaker 1: less is more sometimes because where you get into trouble
Speaker 1: as you go into places that you don't belong. So
Speaker 1: I told you what I knew for certain. I'd lived
Speaker 1: in that area for a lot of years, so I
Speaker 1: certainly geographically I knew what was going on. I had
Speaker 1: a feeling for what was taking place in the Bay
Speaker 1: Area at that point, and I only went to places
Speaker 1: that I belonged that I knew about. Were you ever
Speaker 1: told to evacuate? Because you guys are a pie. We were.
Speaker 1: So what happened was everybody was kind of milling around,
Speaker 1: and then they postponed the game at about close to
Speaker 1: five thirty. So at that point, the stadium emptied out orderly.
Speaker 1: I mean the earthquake, there was no more shaking, and
Speaker 1: I went down because we did not have communication to
Speaker 1: the extent that we needed it in the booth, so
Speaker 1: they brought me down to the truck and I did
Speaker 1: most of the analysis that night from the production truck
Speaker 1: and they haven't had They had a microphone in there,
Speaker 1: which I looked at the tape a few times, obviously,
Speaker 1: and it looked like something Sinatra would have used, you know,
Speaker 1: if he was in a cabaret. It was all sparkly,
Speaker 1: and you know, it just looked like something a guy
Speaker 1: would would be singing at a nightclub in two So
Speaker 1: I had that and I was there for a number
Speaker 1: of hours right. In fact, they kept me there until
Speaker 1: after four in the morning. He wanted me to go
Speaker 1: on Good Morning America, which started at seven Eastern times.
Speaker 1: So it was quite the night. It was a memorable night.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. And you know, I'm just look. People say,
Speaker 1: was that a great thrill for me? No, it wasn't
Speaker 1: a great thing. It's a tragedy. That was a tragedy.
Speaker 1: People are dying, billions of dollars of damage and all that.
Speaker 1: I wish it had never happened. But you know, when
Speaker 1: something like that happens, you just have to be the
Speaker 1: hope that you're equal to the task. And at least
Speaker 1: I was able to hold the fort down until they
Speaker 1: were able to get the newspeople out there. Proud to
Speaker 1: know you, proud to consider your friend, and very happy
Speaker 1: for you. Al, Thanks for joining us. We appreciate it
Speaker 1: as anytime you know that. Thank you so give you
Speaker 1: a little bit of a rating spite. I was going
Speaker 1: to have cost us on to talk about you. I
Speaker 1: thought I might get a rating spite with that, but no,
Speaker 1: thank you. Thank you all all right, that's Al Michael's
Speaker 1: If you run a broadcasting class or you're a student,
Speaker 1: you should listen to that, or let other students listen to.
Speaker 1: What Al just had to say has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with my questions. It has to do with how you
Speaker 1: paint a picture, talk about what you know. We always
Speaker 1: get in trouble when we call her outside the lines.
Speaker 1: Less is more. What Al just said there in the
Speaker 1: last ten minutes should be required listening for those who
Speaker 1: want to be in this business or are in this business.
Speaker 1: We'll close up shop after this. Thanks for listening to
Speaker 1: the Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch us
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Speaker 1: us on the iHeartRadio app at FSR, or stream us
Speaker 1: live on the Peacock app. I don't know if this
Speaker 1: matters to Drew Breese or not. He's four touchdown passes
Speaker 1: behind Tom Brady for the old time lead. Assuming he's
Speaker 1: behind Brady after the season ends, is that reason enough
Speaker 1: for him to come back and try to overtake him?
Speaker 1: And I would say no. But if you're going to
Speaker 1: say he's playing well, the team is good, hard to
Speaker 1: walk away, okay? I mean it feels like we get
Speaker 1: an athlete gets to a certain age and then we
Speaker 1: want to push them out the door. Hey, you think
Speaker 1: about retiring? Are you going to retire? I hope they
Speaker 1: stay as long as they feel like they're playing well,
Speaker 1: because I've seen so many athletes who stay an extra year.
Speaker 1: And if Drew Brees feels like he can still play
Speaker 1: at a high level, who am I to say you
Speaker 1: should go into broadcasting? Now? I have had athletes, now
Speaker 1: former athletes, who say, when should I take that broadcasting job?
Speaker 1: Should I take it? A year early or should I
Speaker 1: go as long as I can? And I always say,
Speaker 1: if you're thinking about retiring, then retire. That's it. And
Speaker 1: if you have a job, how important is that job
Speaker 1: to you? And how long do you want to do
Speaker 1: that job? Because I can go back to Jason Witten
Speaker 1: and Jason Witten wasn't ready for that job. On Monday Night,
Speaker 1: I mean I put that on ESPN. They try to,
Speaker 1: you know, shove in a former Dallas cowboy, and of
Speaker 1: course you know Moose Johnston to Troy Aikman, Tony Romo
Speaker 1: put him in there, Michael Irvan, they're all going to work. Well,
Speaker 1: they don't all work. And it felt like Jason was
Speaker 1: going to do it because he couldn't pass it up.
Speaker 1: But he still had a little football in his mind
Speaker 1: left and therefore, don't go into broadcasting. Greg Olsen wasn't ready.
Speaker 1: But when you are, if you start talking about retiring,
Speaker 1: then retire, yes. Man. The flip side of that is,
Speaker 1: say like Tikey Barber who walked into an awesome TV situation,
Speaker 1: but dang, I Betty wish he stayed in one more year.
Speaker 1: But he was playing ring. He was playing at such
Speaker 1: a high level. And if he had played maybe one
Speaker 1: more year and won that Super Bowl with the Giant,
Speaker 1: he'd be a Hall of Famer. I think, I think
Speaker 1: he's that close. But it's your mind, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: nobody else's. It's up to you. Now, a team may
Speaker 1: say we don't want you back, and that can change things.
Speaker 1: But if you if you start thinking about retiring, then
Speaker 1: you should retire. Yeah, PAULI, it's about time we got
Speaker 1: back on that Tiki Barber topic. It's been almost four months. Oh,
Speaker 1: you won't let that one go, will you? You won't
Speaker 1: let that one go? Odd? Very odd? No, But you
Speaker 1: know what, he had a great job. He just wasn't
Speaker 1: great at that job when he got it. He has
Speaker 1: the talent, But those are real hard jobs to walk into.
Speaker 1: My first job. I'm making all these stakes in a
Speaker 1: small market. He's going into the Today Show, Football Night
Speaker 1: in America, and that's your first job. That's really hard.
Speaker 1: And that's why. And I always tell you, know, these
Speaker 1: guys who want to get into broadcasting, find a place
Speaker 1: where you can make some mistakes, like feel this out
Speaker 1: of how tough this is. And Jason Witten went right
Speaker 1: in and he wasn't ready for it in a variety
Speaker 1: of ways, including the criticism that you're going to get
Speaker 1: final results of the poll question. McLevin seventy eight percent
Speaker 1: won an eighteen playoff over a Big five conference breakoff? Todd,
Speaker 1: what did you learn on today's program? Pat forty says, Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: Coastal Carolina, Louisiana, BYU and and Danna have all been jobbed.
Speaker 1: Where the college football player Mick Lovin. I learned the
Speaker 1: same thing that Houston fans learned. Tony Dungey's not picking
Speaker 1: the next Genna Seaton O'Connor. We might have a new
Speaker 1: stat of the day jingle tomorrow. Yeah, with the Michael Boublet.
Speaker 1: Let's go, Paulie, Tony Dungey not on any committees. What
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Speaker 1: do appreciate you taking time out for the program. We'll
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