WEBVTT - Hour 1 - Tom Verducci (07-23-20) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:07.400 Sports Radio. Made it to a Thursday. It's our one 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:09.600 Dan in the Dan at Stan Patrick's Show. Glad to 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:12.440 have you on board. Tom Berducci will join us. Coming 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:14.160 up a little bit. We'll see we can find a 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:17.480 home for the Toronto Blue Jays. I have some ideas. 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:21.279 Apparently it doesn't sound like Pittsburgh is going to be 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.480 a destination. And those T shirts that we made up 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:30.160 yesterday are collector's items already, not even twenty four hours old. 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:34.640 We have collector's items the Pittsburgh Blue Jays. Yes, set 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.160 update for you on that a little later in the show. 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:42.760 Oh yeah, okay, all right. 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Twitter, hand to a DPS show, say good morning, 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.120 due chat row those watching on YouTube dot com, slash 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.600 the Dan Patrick Show, and our great radio affiliates around 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:18.040 the country numbering three hundred and sixty two. McLevin will 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.480 have a poll question of course, Ethan will have a 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.200 couple of stats of the day and a play of 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.000 the day, all of that coming up. It didn't take 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.160 very long for Mookie Batts. He didn't even suit up 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.679 for the regular season game for the Dodgers, yet he's 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.200 got that tonight against the Giants and they signed him 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.800 to a twelve year extension for three hundred and sixty 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:40.160 five million dollars. So he's twenty seven years of age. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.960 This is a lifetime deal and LA certainly sent a 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.840 notice to the rest of the National League we mean 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.400 business here. We're going to be competitive for a long time. 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.360 On the flip side, if you're a Red Sox fan, 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:54.800 because it feels like this was the year the Red 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.200 Sox said hey, you know what, or last year, Hey, 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.520 We're going to regroup and try to come back with 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.160 the vengeance here in a couple of years, and there 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.840 was thoughts that maybe Mookie Bets would end up back 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.480 with the Red Sox at some point he started his 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:12.040 career there be loved there, but the front office didn't 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.440 want to commit to him financially. And now the deal 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.200 is going to be a referendum on both of these 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:20.520 franchises as we move forward. If Vets delivers, the Dodgers win, 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.560 they're gonna look great and the Red Sox are going 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.520 to be reminded of the one that got away for 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.360 at least the next decade. But you never know about 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.040 these big deals. I would never want to sign a 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.720 player for more than five years. I would just be 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:38.120 nervous about that, just playing the odds of you staying healthy, 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:42.240 you staying competitive, the cost that goes along with that 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:46.280 athlete there. But we see this with a lot of 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.520 these baseball players, where you sign him up. If it's 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.120 Mike Trout, if it's Bryce Harper, if it's Garrett Cole, 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.600 you want to lock him in. And also there's going 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.200 to be a question of Mookie Bets no longer in 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.560 that hitter friendly Fenway Park. Fans in both cities are 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.160 going to keep close eye on Mookie and his performance 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.120 in LA should be one of the more intriguing subplots 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.639 in this unusual season, and if you look at the 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:11.440 numbers with Mookie Bets. You know my feelings about Mookie Bets. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:13.720 He was must see TV when he was playing for 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.160 the Red Sox and that will be the same, you 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.560 know with him playing for the Dodgers. I just don't 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.480 know if he'll be the same style of player that 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.400 he was at Fenway, then he's going to be that 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.799 at Dodgers Stadium. If you start to look at the 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:31.640 numbers since twenty sixteen, where Mookie Bets ranks, and I 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.920 know that we think Mike Trout, you know, the coronation 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.160 of best player in Baseball in the future Hall of Famer, 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:41.320 Absolutely no problem with that. Mookie Bets I thought was 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.600 the East Coast version of Mike Trout from the standpoint 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:48.680 of he could do everything and he's getting paid to 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:54.200 do everything now. Runs Nobody scored more runs since twenty sixteen. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:59.320 Hits third, doubles, first, even home runs. He's not a 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.520 home run hitting guy. He's five nine one eighty and 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:09.760 five nine one eighty bye, thank you, thank you nineteenth 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:14.080 in home runs. You look at RBIs, he's up there, 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.560 he's you know, he's in the top ten. And stolen 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:22.120 bases in batting average. He puts up numbers all around, 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:26.160 goodfielder as well, by all accounts, good clubhouse guy. So 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.320 the Dodgers are investing in somebody who will be the 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.400 face of the franchise for years to come. But we'll 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.640 talk to Verducci about this deal, because there are people 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:38.200 inside baseball who thought the Dodgers may have committed to 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:43.479 Mookie Bets for this deal, maybe back in February or March, 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.919 and then of course the pandemic happened and everything was 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:50.200 shut down, that maybe this was already negotiated, and the 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.800 fact that we're playing baseball starting today, starting tonight, the 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:57.120 Dodgers rolled this out, so Verducci will join us coming up. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.200 As for my Toronto Blue Jays, we thought maybe there's 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.040 a chance they play some games in Buffalo, maybe they 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:07.560 play in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh seemed likely yesterday, and then all 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:11.000 of a sudden, somebody put up the stop side and said, nope, 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.040 not allowing you to come in. It's like the third 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.960 base coach, he says, stop, stop, not going to go 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.560 any further. You're not going home, and you're not going 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.279 to play in our home ballpark either. Here, but I 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.279 get the feeling if you start to look at what 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.800 the options are, you might have to go back to Buffalo. 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.480 That's their minor league affiliate. Dun Eden is their spring 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:34.640 training site. I know Baltimore has been mentioned as well 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:39.479 as a possibility, given the proximity of playing the teams 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.640 in the East where you could be traveling by train 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:47.200 or bus or less travel there, and Baltimore might be 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.880 a possibility. Now, the other possibility is the Blue Jays 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:54.159 are just going to be homeless and when they have 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.680 a home game on the road, then they're going to 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.560 be able to bat last. That would be the advantage 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.080 that they have. Let's say they have to play if 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:05.919 they don't have a home by next week when they 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.680 have their opener against the Nationals, they might be playing 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.760 in Washington and then they would be batting second, they'd 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.800 bat last, and that would be the home field advantage 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.160 of sorts for the Blue Jays. Yes, Paul, and going 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.560 back to the options, if they played in Baltimore, they're 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:25.240 sharing this with the Orioles. Yeah, and they just flip flop. Yeah, 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.599 but they were going to do that in Pittsburgh. Yeah. 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:32.160 It just it seems complex based off the schedule well, 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.240 they're going to have to adjust, but they were gonna 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.760 have to adjust with the Pirates, with the National League 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:40.240 team as well. But the proximity makes sense in Baltimore 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.560 just because you're gonna be playing the East Coast teams. 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.240 That's what they're trying to do. They're trying to cut 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.320 down on the travel and if you're able to place 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.720 them in Baltimore, I think the intriguing part is they 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:52.760 might be a team that just plays on the road, 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.359 and when they're on the road, and what is a 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.400 so called home game, they would just be batting last, 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:04.320 which is still strange. The season starts today. We don't 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:08.479 know how many playoff teams there are in baseball. We 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.360 don't know where the Blue Jays are gonna be playing. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.800 I don't know if a first baseman has to wear 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.880 a mask during the entire game when somebody comes there 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:22.160 to first base. It's gonna be it's gonna be interesting. 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.480 Is it gonna rain tonight in DC? Oh? Yankees at 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.440 the Nationals? Oh, come on, there's a fifty percent chance 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.160 of rain, but there's a fifty percent chance of no rain. Okay, 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.400 And it's ninety two degrees, which is lovely propening day. 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:41.560 Oh that's Garrett Cole against Scherzer. That's good, that's tasty. 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.760 And then I think it's Clayton Kershaw against Johnny Quitto. 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.080 Nice little pitching matchup there as well. This program brought 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.000 to you by Raycon Wireless earbuds The Way to go 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.840 get fifteen percent off your Raycon order at by Raycon 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:59.480 dot com slash Patrick. That's by Raycon dot com slash Patrick. 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.760 So I'm mentioned the guest list here. Baseball debuts tonight 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:07.400 and um Nick lovet you got a pull question for me? Yes? 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.760 So who are Boston fans rooting against more this year? 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.720 Mookie Bets or Tom Brady or to reword it whose 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:19.480 success would bother them more? Oh? Brady, but Mookie is 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:21.760 a big bother. The last night on Twitter, the Boston 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.760 fan said this is bad. Well, Brady had one more 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.240 year he left in New England. Mookie was the franchise 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.040 for the next decade, but they didn't want to pay Mookie. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.320 Same with New England. I mean, I feel like Mookie 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.760 would had more our future in Boston than Brady did, 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.480 and they It feels like Patriots fans are going down 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:44.840 and buying Bucks jerseys too. Um, if I'm if I'm 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:48.320 a Boston fan, I'm mad at management. I'm not mad 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:52.880 at Brady or Mookie. So do you root for them? Yes, 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.720 I mean if you truly liked them or did you 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:00.960 dislike them in your uniform. There's a difference, I think. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.240 I think the fact that the Buccaneers being in the NFC. 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:09.240 If Brady went to Miami or he went to the 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.760 Jets or Buffalo played in the East, then you could 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.720 root against him. He's going to Tampa, he's in the NFC. 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:20.080 It's fine. You can root from Afar and you know, 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:21.960 he doesn't come back to haunt you unless you go 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.880 to the Super Bowl. Mookie Bets, he's in the National 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.280 League with the Dodgers. The only way comes back and 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.240 haunt you is if you go to the World Series 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.920 and you meet him there. But I mean, how could 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.840 you not root for Mookie Bets. Couldn't they have signed 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.040 him for a three hundred million dollars deal? Was that 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.240 the That might have been the deal on the table, 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.480 and you know Mookie of course did a little better 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.800 than that. But I wouldn't be rooting against either one 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.840 of them. If I'm a Boston fan. New England fan. Yeah, McLevin. 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:54.640 I think if you're a Red Sox fan, you want 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.280 that deal to be a failure though, because that's a 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.280 deal you passed on it, like you watch your team 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.120 to say, hey, you know what, we got rid of 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.560 this guy and look at you know, like Saint Louis 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:08.160 with Albert Pooles, he failed in his new home so 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.280 to some extent. So I think you want the team 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.120 to look smart, don't you. Well, I don't think you 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:18.640 root against Mookie, but you also want to have confidence 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.199 in your management and your ownership that they did the 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.280 right thing by not giving him a long term deal. 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.800 I understand that, but I don't think you root. It's 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:29.120 weird you want to root against the deal, but I 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.959 don't know if you want to root against Mookie. At 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:35.720 least I wouldn't. Mookie didn't do anything wrong, just once 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.800 playball Yample. But if you're a Red Sax fan, you 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.480 don't warm him to become a better player where he's like, 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.920 all of a sudden, he's actually because he's fantastic, but 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.680 suddenly becomes in the next two years the best player 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:47.480 in the league. Against him and Trout are the two 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.199 best players, Then you're like, oh no, if he cools 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:51.839 off a hair and it's still an All Star, you're 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.880 okay with it. Yeah, well, he was already up there 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.640 in the rarefied air. It reminds me when the Yankees 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.240 let Robinson Cano Goo, why are you letting this guy 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.559 go a lot of power. He's young and he had 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.200 a nice career out in Seattle, but he didn't improve, 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:10.199 he didn't get better. Well, the ballparks in both situations, 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.920 that's true. It we don't have that right field ports 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:14.560 and Yankee see it him. You don't have Fenway and 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.640 left I know it's gonna be. That's why does Mookie 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.880 become a different ball player? That's what I'm curious about 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:24.560 in he hits a lot of doubles and are you 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.440 gonna use his speed? You know, we don't really value 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.400 stolen bases here. It's a it's a home run driven game. 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.960 But Mookie's a good outfielder as well. Yes, Seaton O'Connor. 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.520 And if you there were the originally the reports that 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.719 Mookie Bets was asking for twelve years, four hundred and 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.360 twenty million, you know, which he didn't even come close 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.280 to that, so you would guess that he just didn't 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.200 want to stay in Boston as part of the reason 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.199 that he just didn't want to play there. Well, plus, 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.440 they're not a contender, are they didn't the Red Sox 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.079 kind of decide that they were going to regroup here. 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.440 They hired like the raised guy and they're starting for scratch. Yeah. 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.320 So if you're Mookie Bets, if you said I had 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.600 a chance to stay in Boston for a team that's 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.840 going to kind of reassemble rebuild, aren't go to the Dodgers, 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.160 then that's the no brainer here. But I think the 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.560 Red Sox didn't really want I don't think they were 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:17.040 as into Bets as I'm bloom. I'm reading the quotes 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.360 on him, like they want to start from ground zero. 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.120 They think they always find sluggers, right, I mean, they 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:25.079 always find these good players. Yeah. Then look, that's their 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.480 philosophy to rebuild. And I think it's surprised people because 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.120 you know, that's a franchise that makes a lot of money. 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.360 But if they didn't feel like they were ready to compete, 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.760 you know, Tampa is considered more of a contender, a 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.560 bigger contender than the Red Sox, and so are the Yankees. 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.720 So just in proximity. They're they're not ready to compete 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.920 right now, and the Dodgers are. The Dodgers got to 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.200 get over that hump and win the World Series. And 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.320 they're certain. They tried to get Garrett Cole. I mean, 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:56.839 they've tried to make these big purchases times running out 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.160 with Clayton Kershaw. The number of years that you can 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.880 get quality starts, you continue to get those quality starts. 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.600 They do have some younger players who are ready to go. 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.559 But you know, this is a big year, big year 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:14.000 for the Dodgers because they come close and now you 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.080 get Mookie in there. Do you have enough? And I 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.280 think by all accounts, we look at the Dodgers and 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:23.440 almost Rubbers stamp them into the World Series, whereas the 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:27.720 Astros raise Yankees feel like there's a lot of competition, 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.640 even the Oakland A's in the American League. Yeah, McLevin, 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.200 we had another debate. There could be a poll on 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:34.920 the side of the glass. Which contract do you feel 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.880 better about Mookie bats twelve years, three sixty five extension 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.400 or Patrick Mahomes ten years, four hundred and fifty million 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.960 dollars extension. I'm gonna say Patrick Mahomes I'm gonna say 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:52.880 Patrick Mahomes, I have less games like I always look 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:57.640 at the longevity, can you stay healthy? And Mahomes as 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.280 long as they continue to have those weapons. He's got 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:05.280 Andy Reid and you know he plays smart, and he's 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.920 also going to be restructuring that deal every couple of 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:11.720 years there and we might look at these deals in 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.920 five years and go, boy, they got him for bargains there. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:19.600 And maybe that's the case, but I would feel more 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.680 confident with Mahomes at that position in a sport that 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:33.040 protects quarterbacks. Anything else that we needs to be mentioned here, yes, mclemen, Okay, now, 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.400 but I don't know if you've watched events with fake 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.120 fan noise. That's a big debate. I was curious if 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.080 we get to that later because I'm having a I'm 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:47.200 having a bit of a hard transition. Why it's I 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.600 don't know. I don't like it totally silent, but I 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.520 don't like cheesy fan noise. I'm caught in between. It 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:56.280 depends on the sport and the noise that they put 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:00.400 in there. Because I've I've watched and listened to soccer, 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.640 listened on radio, and watched on TV, and it's a 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:07.560 little uneven there, But baseball has so many laws and 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.640 the lulls in the action, and then to try to 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.520 match that and go, okay, we can ramp this up. 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.880 That's gonna be a little tricky. Basketball. I'm okay with 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:21.840 just hearing the shoes squeaking and hearing the dialogue and 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.120 the whistle. And I don't need too much with the 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.680 basketball game, because that's like a summer league game. And 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.960 I never heard somebody go, man, we need some crowd 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:34.360 noise at the summer league game. We don't the crowd. 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.400 You know, maybe the players are gonna go. It'd be 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.040 nice to have some ambiance. Uh, you know, talking to 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:42.080 a caddy on the PGA tour who said, you know, 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.360 your player makes a great shot and you're so used 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.600 to hearing somebody roar, and then you like, you want 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:51.600 to build off that momentum and you can't. It's weird. 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.560 It's it's you're driven sometimes by the crowd and how 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.880 they react to something, and you can't. You can't spring 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.360 off of that. So it is we're in a whole 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.560 new territory here. But I'm okay, I'm okay with it. 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:09.040 Let's just play some baseball. Tonight, let's get ready for 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:13.240 the NBA, and I'm fine. The only people I'm going 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.120 to complain about will be the officials, the umpires, and 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.080 the referees. That is not a hands off. I think 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.720 we're still allowed to complain about them when they screw 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.360 up a call. But the other stuff. Give me the 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.520 Blue Jays, give me a home. I'm fine with that. 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.400 Tell me how many playoff teams do we have in 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:35.000 Major League Baseball? They don't know. Jeremy and Texas joints 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.640 us and we'll take a break. Hey, Jeremy, Hey, I 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.960 got a question. If they're Toronto Blue Jays, don't have 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.320 a home and they have to play somebody else's field, 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.040 and let's say it's a night game, who plays the 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:47.040 electric bill? I mean, where's that revenue coming from? You know? 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.640 I know if you have a home field, you got 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.280 and you're playing a night game, you get lights and 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.680 everything else, you still have expenses and costs. How do 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.920 they do that? Revenue trade is a hey, you can 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.720 play our field if you pay the light bill deal? 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.520 Or how that work? I think that's the least of 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.600 their words. Imagine the owner of the Oriole sending the 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:09.879 UI bill the electric bill over to the owner of 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:11.480 the Blue Dey. Hey, you're gonna have to pro rate this. 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:16.439 You had easy kicking in things. Path two. Fritzie just 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.560 sent me an article that Hall of Famer Jim Rice 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:23.280 says Mookie Bets didn't want to leave the Red Sox anyways, 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.680 shown it. Well, the Red Sox don't have to pay 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.679 him that deal they could they could have had him. 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:31.920 I like how they said between three hundred and four 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.720 hundred million dollars. That's a big difference there unless you 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.239 give me almost half a billion dollars and that's how 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.400 much I want to stay. He was looking for four 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:43.200 twenty for him. But you know they got rid of 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:48.200 David Price that contract they want to get under the 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:50.879 luxury tax. I understand what the Red Sox are doing. 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.879 It's just it's tough to let a player like Mookie 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:57.000 Bets go, who was the face of the franchise. You know, 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:58.920 maybe he wanted to stay, but he wanted to stay 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.920 at a price that you know, the Red Sox said. 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.640 That just doesn't make sense for us with what they're 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.200 trying to do. But if the Red Sox were competitive 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:11.040 and ready to go, would they have signed Mookie Bets 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:16.399 to that deal. I don't know, but they thought they 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.399 were going to get Mookie for one more year and 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.320 then he'll go for the highest bidder. Well, he went 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.200 to the highest bidder. We'll talk to Tom Berducci. We 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.359 got to locate a home for the Blue Jays and 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.320 we'll ask about the Mookie Bets contract as well, a 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.919 couple of things. Talk to Tom about Join us on 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.120 loan from the MLB Network. It's coming up on twenty 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:36.800 after the hour. Your phone calls are welcome. Eight seven 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:40.680 seven three DP three DP show. Take a break back 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.800 after this. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.800 Be sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.600 to noon Eastern or six to nine Pacific on Fox 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:52.480 Sports Radio. Find your local station for The Dan Patrick 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.440 Show at Fox Sports Radio dot com, or stream us 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.960 live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching F 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:03.679 s R. Phone calls coming up. Mclovin will settle on 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:08.680 a poll question. We got more important things. We got 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.320 to find the Blue Jays at home. They may be 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.840 homeless this year, and then when they're on the road 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.800 as the home team they bat last. That might be 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:21.439 their big advantage. But Buffalo still possibility. I think Baltimore 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.760 is probably the likely destination, and then you share the 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.600 ballpark with the Orioles. But Tom Berducci will know more 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:31.760 than I do. Baseball Network analyst on loan from MLB, Tom, 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.919 good Morning, where are the Blue Jays going to end up? 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:38.560 In your opinion, Well, my backyard is available as a 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:42.080 short porch and right feel. But I actually think it's 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:45.400 a combination of finding some major league park. Perhaps it's 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:48.320 Baltimore to share for a short term, but they could 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.960 upgrade their facility in Buffalo. That's where I think it 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.920 might go because right now that's their Triple A ballpark, 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:57.240 and the lighting there is not up to major League 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.760 standards and most of the games are at night. Neither 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:03.000 is clubhouse, so they need to get somebody in there 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:05.479 to upgrade the facility. Image that's going to take a 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:08.160 couple of weeks. In the meantime, you know, you play 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:10.880 the games, perhaps in Baltimore, or you're on the road. 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:14.080 I Dad, I just can't see this team playing sixty 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:17.520 games in sixty six days entirely on the road. So 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:21.520 I think probably Buffalo with an upgraded facility. But how 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:24.639 do we get to this point to Toronto doesn't have 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:28.359 a home. Yeah, I mean they were allowed to do 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:31.240 their summer camp there because no teams were coming in 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:34.920 and out from coronavirus hotspots. That was the concern of 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:37.359 the Canadian government, and then was the concern of the 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.520 Alleghany County commissioners when they went to or tried to 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:42.720 go to PNC Park to share that with the pirates. 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.440 So there's no guarantee they can get to Camden Yards 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:48.040 in Baltimore. They would need local officials to sign off 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.719 on that as well. And let's not forget too if 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.359 you're sharing a major league ballpark, the park's already are 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.680 kind of stretched thin for social distancing. You're not using 0:20:56.720 --> 0:21:00.480 one clubhouse now, you're using multiple clubhouses and kind of 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:03.639 ad hoc rooms that are turned into mini clubhouses. So 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:08.200 you'd have to house two teams with sixty players. So 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:10.720 they maybe have to, I don't know, invent some kind 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:15.479 of an auxiliary clubhouses to accommodate the Jay's. It is 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:18.439 crazy that here we are today's opening day and we 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:20.840 don't know where the Blue Jay's home schedule will take place. 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:23.240 We don't know how many playoff teams there are this 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:26.280