Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Made it to a Thursday. It's our one
Speaker 1: Dan in the Dan at Stan Patrick's Show. Glad to
Speaker 1: have you on board. Tom Berducci will join us. Coming
Speaker 1: up a little bit. We'll see we can find a
Speaker 1: home for the Toronto Blue Jays. I have some ideas.
Speaker 1: Apparently it doesn't sound like Pittsburgh is going to be
Speaker 1: a destination. And those T shirts that we made up
Speaker 1: yesterday are collector's items already, not even twenty four hours old.
Speaker 1: We have collector's items the Pittsburgh Blue Jays. Yes, set
Speaker 1: update for you on that a little later in the show.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, all right. Aaron Gordon, the Orlando Magic forward,
Speaker 1: So he lives in Orlando, but he can't live in
Speaker 1: his house. He's got to live in the bubble. He'll
Speaker 1: join us coming up. Rick Sutcliffe works for the Mother's
Speaker 1: Ship former Cy Young Winner. A little bit later on,
Speaker 1: Verducci will join us. Coming up, we'll check in with
Speaker 1: the NFL Players Association President jac Tretter. The Browns are
Speaker 1: we full speed head for the NFL season eight seven
Speaker 1: seven three DP show email address DP at Dan Patrick
Speaker 1: dot com. Twitter, hand to a DPS show, say good morning,
Speaker 1: due chat row those watching on YouTube dot com, slash
Speaker 1: the Dan Patrick Show, and our great radio affiliates around
Speaker 1: the country numbering three hundred and sixty two. McLevin will
Speaker 1: have a poll question of course, Ethan will have a
Speaker 1: couple of stats of the day and a play of
Speaker 1: the day, all of that coming up. It didn't take
Speaker 1: very long for Mookie Batts. He didn't even suit up
Speaker 1: for the regular season game for the Dodgers, yet he's
Speaker 1: got that tonight against the Giants and they signed him
Speaker 1: to a twelve year extension for three hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: five million dollars. So he's twenty seven years of age.
Speaker 1: This is a lifetime deal and LA certainly sent a
Speaker 1: notice to the rest of the National League we mean
Speaker 1: business here. We're going to be competitive for a long time.
Speaker 1: On the flip side, if you're a Red Sox fan,
Speaker 1: because it feels like this was the year the Red
Speaker 1: Sox said hey, you know what, or last year, Hey,
Speaker 1: We're going to regroup and try to come back with
Speaker 1: the vengeance here in a couple of years, and there
Speaker 1: was thoughts that maybe Mookie Bets would end up back
Speaker 1: with the Red Sox at some point he started his
Speaker 1: career there be loved there, but the front office didn't
Speaker 1: want to commit to him financially. And now the deal
Speaker 1: is going to be a referendum on both of these
Speaker 1: franchises as we move forward. If Vets delivers, the Dodgers win,
Speaker 1: they're gonna look great and the Red Sox are going
Speaker 1: to be reminded of the one that got away for
Speaker 1: at least the next decade. But you never know about
Speaker 1: these big deals. I would never want to sign a
Speaker 1: player for more than five years. I would just be
Speaker 1: nervous about that, just playing the odds of you staying healthy,
Speaker 1: you staying competitive, the cost that goes along with that
Speaker 1: athlete there. But we see this with a lot of
Speaker 1: these baseball players, where you sign him up. If it's
Speaker 1: Mike Trout, if it's Bryce Harper, if it's Garrett Cole,
Speaker 1: you want to lock him in. And also there's going
Speaker 1: to be a question of Mookie Bets no longer in
Speaker 1: that hitter friendly Fenway Park. Fans in both cities are
Speaker 1: going to keep close eye on Mookie and his performance
Speaker 1: in LA should be one of the more intriguing subplots
Speaker 1: in this unusual season, and if you look at the
Speaker 1: numbers with Mookie Bets. You know my feelings about Mookie Bets.
Speaker 1: He was must see TV when he was playing for
Speaker 1: the Red Sox and that will be the same, you
Speaker 1: know with him playing for the Dodgers. I just don't
Speaker 1: know if he'll be the same style of player that
Speaker 1: he was at Fenway, then he's going to be that
Speaker 1: at Dodgers Stadium. If you start to look at the
Speaker 1: numbers since twenty sixteen, where Mookie Bets ranks, and I
Speaker 1: know that we think Mike Trout, you know, the coronation
Speaker 1: of best player in Baseball in the future Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: Absolutely no problem with that. Mookie Bets I thought was
Speaker 1: the East Coast version of Mike Trout from the standpoint
Speaker 1: of he could do everything and he's getting paid to
Speaker 1: do everything now. Runs Nobody scored more runs since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: Hits third, doubles, first, even home runs. He's not a
Speaker 1: home run hitting guy. He's five nine one eighty and
Speaker 1: five nine one eighty bye, thank you, thank you nineteenth
Speaker 1: in home runs. You look at RBIs, he's up there,
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's in the top ten. And stolen
Speaker 1: bases in batting average. He puts up numbers all around,
Speaker 1: goodfielder as well, by all accounts, good clubhouse guy. So
Speaker 1: the Dodgers are investing in somebody who will be the
Speaker 1: face of the franchise for years to come. But we'll
Speaker 1: talk to Verducci about this deal, because there are people
Speaker 1: inside baseball who thought the Dodgers may have committed to
Speaker 1: Mookie Bets for this deal, maybe back in February or March,
Speaker 1: and then of course the pandemic happened and everything was
Speaker 1: shut down, that maybe this was already negotiated, and the
Speaker 1: fact that we're playing baseball starting today, starting tonight, the
Speaker 1: Dodgers rolled this out, so Verducci will join us coming up.
Speaker 1: As for my Toronto Blue Jays, we thought maybe there's
Speaker 1: a chance they play some games in Buffalo, maybe they
Speaker 1: play in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh seemed likely yesterday, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, somebody put up the stop side and said, nope,
Speaker 1: not allowing you to come in. It's like the third
Speaker 1: base coach, he says, stop, stop, not going to go
Speaker 1: any further. You're not going home, and you're not going
Speaker 1: to play in our home ballpark either. Here, but I
Speaker 1: get the feeling if you start to look at what
Speaker 1: the options are, you might have to go back to Buffalo.
Speaker 1: That's their minor league affiliate. Dun Eden is their spring
Speaker 1: training site. I know Baltimore has been mentioned as well
Speaker 1: as a possibility, given the proximity of playing the teams
Speaker 1: in the East where you could be traveling by train
Speaker 1: or bus or less travel there, and Baltimore might be
Speaker 1: a possibility. Now, the other possibility is the Blue Jays
Speaker 1: are just going to be homeless and when they have
Speaker 1: a home game on the road, then they're going to
Speaker 1: be able to bat last. That would be the advantage
Speaker 1: that they have. Let's say they have to play if
Speaker 1: they don't have a home by next week when they
Speaker 1: have their opener against the Nationals, they might be playing
Speaker 1: in Washington and then they would be batting second, they'd
Speaker 1: bat last, and that would be the home field advantage
Speaker 1: of sorts for the Blue Jays. Yes, Paul, and going
Speaker 1: back to the options, if they played in Baltimore, they're
Speaker 1: sharing this with the Orioles. Yeah, and they just flip flop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they were going to do that in Pittsburgh. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It just it seems complex based off the schedule well,
Speaker 1: they're going to have to adjust, but they were gonna
Speaker 1: have to adjust with the Pirates, with the National League
Speaker 1: team as well. But the proximity makes sense in Baltimore
Speaker 1: just because you're gonna be playing the East Coast teams.
Speaker 1: That's what they're trying to do. They're trying to cut
Speaker 1: down on the travel and if you're able to place
Speaker 1: them in Baltimore, I think the intriguing part is they
Speaker 1: might be a team that just plays on the road,
Speaker 1: and when they're on the road, and what is a
Speaker 1: so called home game, they would just be batting last,
Speaker 1: which is still strange. The season starts today. We don't
Speaker 1: know how many playoff teams there are in baseball. We
Speaker 1: don't know where the Blue Jays are gonna be playing.
Speaker 1: I don't know if a first baseman has to wear
Speaker 1: a mask during the entire game when somebody comes there
Speaker 1: to first base. It's gonna be it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 1: Is it gonna rain tonight in DC? Oh? Yankees at
Speaker 1: the Nationals? Oh, come on, there's a fifty percent chance
Speaker 1: of rain, but there's a fifty percent chance of no rain. Okay,
Speaker 1: And it's ninety two degrees, which is lovely propening day.
Speaker 1: Oh that's Garrett Cole against Scherzer. That's good, that's tasty.
Speaker 1: And then I think it's Clayton Kershaw against Johnny Quitto.
Speaker 1: Nice little pitching matchup there as well. This program brought
Speaker 1: to you by Raycon Wireless earbuds The Way to go
Speaker 1: get fifteen percent off your Raycon order at by Raycon
Speaker 1: dot com slash Patrick. That's by Raycon dot com slash Patrick.
Speaker 1: So I'm mentioned the guest list here. Baseball debuts tonight
Speaker 1: and um Nick lovet you got a pull question for me? Yes?
Speaker 1: So who are Boston fans rooting against more this year?
Speaker 1: Mookie Bets or Tom Brady or to reword it whose
Speaker 1: success would bother them more? Oh? Brady, but Mookie is
Speaker 1: a big bother. The last night on Twitter, the Boston
Speaker 1: fan said this is bad. Well, Brady had one more
Speaker 1: year he left in New England. Mookie was the franchise
Speaker 1: for the next decade, but they didn't want to pay Mookie.
Speaker 1: Same with New England. I mean, I feel like Mookie
Speaker 1: would had more our future in Boston than Brady did,
Speaker 1: and they It feels like Patriots fans are going down
Speaker 1: and buying Bucks jerseys too. Um, if I'm if I'm
Speaker 1: a Boston fan, I'm mad at management. I'm not mad
Speaker 1: at Brady or Mookie. So do you root for them? Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean if you truly liked them or did you
Speaker 1: dislike them in your uniform. There's a difference, I think.
Speaker 1: I think the fact that the Buccaneers being in the NFC.
Speaker 1: If Brady went to Miami or he went to the
Speaker 1: Jets or Buffalo played in the East, then you could
Speaker 1: root against him. He's going to Tampa, he's in the NFC.
Speaker 1: It's fine. You can root from Afar and you know,
Speaker 1: he doesn't come back to haunt you unless you go
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. Mookie Bets, he's in the National
Speaker 1: League with the Dodgers. The only way comes back and
Speaker 1: haunt you is if you go to the World Series
Speaker 1: and you meet him there. But I mean, how could
Speaker 1: you not root for Mookie Bets. Couldn't they have signed
Speaker 1: him for a three hundred million dollars deal? Was that
Speaker 1: the That might have been the deal on the table,
Speaker 1: and you know Mookie of course did a little better
Speaker 1: than that. But I wouldn't be rooting against either one
Speaker 1: of them. If I'm a Boston fan. New England fan. Yeah, McLevin.
Speaker 1: I think if you're a Red Sox fan, you want
Speaker 1: that deal to be a failure though, because that's a
Speaker 1: deal you passed on it, like you watch your team
Speaker 1: to say, hey, you know what, we got rid of
Speaker 1: this guy and look at you know, like Saint Louis
Speaker 1: with Albert Pooles, he failed in his new home so
Speaker 1: to some extent. So I think you want the team
Speaker 1: to look smart, don't you. Well, I don't think you
Speaker 1: root against Mookie, but you also want to have confidence
Speaker 1: in your management and your ownership that they did the
Speaker 1: right thing by not giving him a long term deal.
Speaker 1: I understand that, but I don't think you root. It's
Speaker 1: weird you want to root against the deal, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if you want to root against Mookie. At
Speaker 1: least I wouldn't. Mookie didn't do anything wrong, just once
Speaker 1: playball Yample. But if you're a Red Sax fan, you
Speaker 1: don't warm him to become a better player where he's like,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's actually because he's fantastic, but
Speaker 1: suddenly becomes in the next two years the best player
Speaker 1: in the league. Against him and Trout are the two
Speaker 1: best players, Then you're like, oh no, if he cools
Speaker 1: off a hair and it's still an All Star, you're
Speaker 1: okay with it. Yeah, well, he was already up there
Speaker 1: in the rarefied air. It reminds me when the Yankees
Speaker 1: let Robinson Cano Goo, why are you letting this guy
Speaker 1: go a lot of power. He's young and he had
Speaker 1: a nice career out in Seattle, but he didn't improve,
Speaker 1: he didn't get better. Well, the ballparks in both situations,
Speaker 1: that's true. It we don't have that right field ports
Speaker 1: and Yankee see it him. You don't have Fenway and
Speaker 1: left I know it's gonna be. That's why does Mookie
Speaker 1: become a different ball player? That's what I'm curious about
Speaker 1: in he hits a lot of doubles and are you
Speaker 1: gonna use his speed? You know, we don't really value
Speaker 1: stolen bases here. It's a it's a home run driven game.
Speaker 1: But Mookie's a good outfielder as well. Yes, Seaton O'Connor.
Speaker 1: And if you there were the originally the reports that
Speaker 1: Mookie Bets was asking for twelve years, four hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty million, you know, which he didn't even come close
Speaker 1: to that, so you would guess that he just didn't
Speaker 1: want to stay in Boston as part of the reason
Speaker 1: that he just didn't want to play there. Well, plus,
Speaker 1: they're not a contender, are they didn't the Red Sox
Speaker 1: kind of decide that they were going to regroup here.
Speaker 1: They hired like the raised guy and they're starting for scratch. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So if you're Mookie Bets, if you said I had
Speaker 1: a chance to stay in Boston for a team that's
Speaker 1: going to kind of reassemble rebuild, aren't go to the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: then that's the no brainer here. But I think the
Speaker 1: Red Sox didn't really want I don't think they were
Speaker 1: as into Bets as I'm bloom. I'm reading the quotes
Speaker 1: on him, like they want to start from ground zero.
Speaker 1: They think they always find sluggers, right, I mean, they
Speaker 1: always find these good players. Yeah. Then look, that's their
Speaker 1: philosophy to rebuild. And I think it's surprised people because
Speaker 1: you know, that's a franchise that makes a lot of money.
Speaker 1: But if they didn't feel like they were ready to compete,
Speaker 1: you know, Tampa is considered more of a contender, a
Speaker 1: bigger contender than the Red Sox, and so are the Yankees.
Speaker 1: So just in proximity. They're they're not ready to compete
Speaker 1: right now, and the Dodgers are. The Dodgers got to
Speaker 1: get over that hump and win the World Series. And
Speaker 1: they're certain. They tried to get Garrett Cole. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've tried to make these big purchases times running out
Speaker 1: with Clayton Kershaw. The number of years that you can
Speaker 1: get quality starts, you continue to get those quality starts.
Speaker 1: They do have some younger players who are ready to go.
Speaker 1: But you know, this is a big year, big year
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers because they come close and now you
Speaker 1: get Mookie in there. Do you have enough? And I
Speaker 1: think by all accounts, we look at the Dodgers and
Speaker 1: almost Rubbers stamp them into the World Series, whereas the
Speaker 1: Astros raise Yankees feel like there's a lot of competition,
Speaker 1: even the Oakland A's in the American League. Yeah, McLevin,
Speaker 1: we had another debate. There could be a poll on
Speaker 1: the side of the glass. Which contract do you feel
Speaker 1: better about Mookie bats twelve years, three sixty five extension
Speaker 1: or Patrick Mahomes ten years, four hundred and fifty million
Speaker 1: dollars extension. I'm gonna say Patrick Mahomes I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, I have less games like I always look
Speaker 1: at the longevity, can you stay healthy? And Mahomes as
Speaker 1: long as they continue to have those weapons. He's got
Speaker 1: Andy Reid and you know he plays smart, and he's
Speaker 1: also going to be restructuring that deal every couple of
Speaker 1: years there and we might look at these deals in
Speaker 1: five years and go, boy, they got him for bargains there.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's the case, but I would feel more
Speaker 1: confident with Mahomes at that position in a sport that
Speaker 1: protects quarterbacks. Anything else that we needs to be mentioned here, yes, mclemen, Okay, now,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if you've watched events with fake
Speaker 1: fan noise. That's a big debate. I was curious if
Speaker 1: we get to that later because I'm having a I'm
Speaker 1: having a bit of a hard transition. Why it's I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't like it totally silent, but I
Speaker 1: don't like cheesy fan noise. I'm caught in between. It
Speaker 1: depends on the sport and the noise that they put
Speaker 1: in there. Because I've I've watched and listened to soccer,
Speaker 1: listened on radio, and watched on TV, and it's a
Speaker 1: little uneven there, But baseball has so many laws and
Speaker 1: the lulls in the action, and then to try to
Speaker 1: match that and go, okay, we can ramp this up.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a little tricky. Basketball. I'm okay with
Speaker 1: just hearing the shoes squeaking and hearing the dialogue and
Speaker 1: the whistle. And I don't need too much with the
Speaker 1: basketball game, because that's like a summer league game. And
Speaker 1: I never heard somebody go, man, we need some crowd
Speaker 1: noise at the summer league game. We don't the crowd.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe the players are gonna go. It'd be
Speaker 1: nice to have some ambiance. Uh, you know, talking to
Speaker 1: a caddy on the PGA tour who said, you know,
Speaker 1: your player makes a great shot and you're so used
Speaker 1: to hearing somebody roar, and then you like, you want
Speaker 1: to build off that momentum and you can't. It's weird.
Speaker 1: It's it's you're driven sometimes by the crowd and how
Speaker 1: they react to something, and you can't. You can't spring
Speaker 1: off of that. So it is we're in a whole
Speaker 1: new territory here. But I'm okay, I'm okay with it.
Speaker 1: Let's just play some baseball. Tonight, let's get ready for
Speaker 1: the NBA, and I'm fine. The only people I'm going
Speaker 1: to complain about will be the officials, the umpires, and
Speaker 1: the referees. That is not a hands off. I think
Speaker 1: we're still allowed to complain about them when they screw
Speaker 1: up a call. But the other stuff. Give me the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays, give me a home. I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1: Tell me how many playoff teams do we have in
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball? They don't know. Jeremy and Texas joints
Speaker 1: us and we'll take a break. Hey, Jeremy, Hey, I
Speaker 1: got a question. If they're Toronto Blue Jays, don't have
Speaker 1: a home and they have to play somebody else's field,
Speaker 1: and let's say it's a night game, who plays the
Speaker 1: electric bill? I mean, where's that revenue coming from? You know?
Speaker 1: I know if you have a home field, you got
Speaker 1: and you're playing a night game, you get lights and
Speaker 1: everything else, you still have expenses and costs. How do
Speaker 1: they do that? Revenue trade is a hey, you can
Speaker 1: play our field if you pay the light bill deal?
Speaker 1: Or how that work? I think that's the least of
Speaker 1: their words. Imagine the owner of the Oriole sending the
Speaker 1: UI bill the electric bill over to the owner of
Speaker 1: the Blue Dey. Hey, you're gonna have to pro rate this.
Speaker 1: You had easy kicking in things. Path two. Fritzie just
Speaker 1: sent me an article that Hall of Famer Jim Rice
Speaker 1: says Mookie Bets didn't want to leave the Red Sox anyways,
Speaker 1: shown it. Well, the Red Sox don't have to pay
Speaker 1: him that deal they could they could have had him.
Speaker 1: I like how they said between three hundred and four
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars. That's a big difference there unless you
Speaker 1: give me almost half a billion dollars and that's how
Speaker 1: much I want to stay. He was looking for four
Speaker 1: twenty for him. But you know they got rid of
Speaker 1: David Price that contract they want to get under the
Speaker 1: luxury tax. I understand what the Red Sox are doing.
Speaker 1: It's just it's tough to let a player like Mookie
Speaker 1: Bets go, who was the face of the franchise. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe he wanted to stay, but he wanted to stay
Speaker 1: at a price that you know, the Red Sox said.
Speaker 1: That just doesn't make sense for us with what they're
Speaker 1: trying to do. But if the Red Sox were competitive
Speaker 1: and ready to go, would they have signed Mookie Bets
Speaker 1: to that deal. I don't know, but they thought they
Speaker 1: were going to get Mookie for one more year and
Speaker 1: then he'll go for the highest bidder. Well, he went
Speaker 1: to the highest bidder. We'll talk to Tom Berducci. We
Speaker 1: got to locate a home for the Blue Jays and
Speaker 1: we'll ask about the Mookie Bets contract as well, a
Speaker 1: couple of things. Talk to Tom about Join us on
Speaker 1: loan from the MLB Network. It's coming up on twenty
Speaker 1: after the hour. Your phone calls are welcome. Eight seven
Speaker 1: seven three DP three DP show. Take a break back
Speaker 1: after this. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine
Speaker 1: to noon Eastern or six to nine Pacific on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Find your local station for The Dan Patrick
Speaker 1: Show at Fox Sports Radio dot com, or stream us
Speaker 1: live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching F
Speaker 1: s R. Phone calls coming up. Mclovin will settle on
Speaker 1: a poll question. We got more important things. We got
Speaker 1: to find the Blue Jays at home. They may be
Speaker 1: homeless this year, and then when they're on the road
Speaker 1: as the home team they bat last. That might be
Speaker 1: their big advantage. But Buffalo still possibility. I think Baltimore
Speaker 1: is probably the likely destination, and then you share the
Speaker 1: ballpark with the Orioles. But Tom Berducci will know more
Speaker 1: than I do. Baseball Network analyst on loan from MLB, Tom,
Speaker 1: good Morning, where are the Blue Jays going to end up?
Speaker 1: In your opinion, Well, my backyard is available as a
Speaker 1: short porch and right feel. But I actually think it's
Speaker 1: a combination of finding some major league park. Perhaps it's
Speaker 1: Baltimore to share for a short term, but they could
Speaker 1: upgrade their facility in Buffalo. That's where I think it
Speaker 1: might go because right now that's their Triple A ballpark,
Speaker 1: and the lighting there is not up to major League
Speaker 1: standards and most of the games are at night. Neither
Speaker 1: is clubhouse, so they need to get somebody in there
Speaker 1: to upgrade the facility. Image that's going to take a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. In the meantime, you know, you play
Speaker 1: the games, perhaps in Baltimore, or you're on the road.
Speaker 1: I Dad, I just can't see this team playing sixty
Speaker 1: games in sixty six days entirely on the road. So
Speaker 1: I think probably Buffalo with an upgraded facility. But how
Speaker 1: do we get to this point to Toronto doesn't have
Speaker 1: a home. Yeah, I mean they were allowed to do
Speaker 1: their summer camp there because no teams were coming in
Speaker 1: and out from coronavirus hotspots. That was the concern of
Speaker 1: the Canadian government, and then was the concern of the
Speaker 1: Alleghany County commissioners when they went to or tried to
Speaker 1: go to PNC Park to share that with the pirates.
Speaker 1: So there's no guarantee they can get to Camden Yards
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. They would need local officials to sign off
Speaker 1: on that as well. And let's not forget too if
Speaker 1: you're sharing a major league ballpark, the park's already are
Speaker 1: kind of stretched thin for social distancing. You're not using
Speaker 1: one clubhouse now, you're using multiple clubhouses and kind of
Speaker 1: ad hoc rooms that are turned into mini clubhouses. So
Speaker 1: you'd have to house two teams with sixty players. So
Speaker 1: they maybe have to, I don't know, invent some kind
Speaker 1: of an auxiliary clubhouses to accommodate the Jay's. It is
Speaker 1: crazy that here we are today's opening day and we
Speaker 1: don't know where the Blue Jay's home schedule will take place.
Speaker 1: We don't know how many playoff teams there are this
Speaker 1: year time. You have to wait long though, we'll know
Speaker 1: that by the seed name before a first pitch. But
Speaker 1: I think it's a good thing that there's more discussion
Speaker 1: going on here. Listen, I think the players will sign
Speaker 1: off on this. Think about it. Then the expanded postseason
Speaker 1: from ten to sixteen. That means one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: six more players will get to the postseason. It also
Speaker 1: means they're three hundred million dollars more in TV money
Speaker 1: just this year alone and guaranteed money going forward. And
Speaker 1: when owners get guaranteed money from TV contracts, guess what
Speaker 1: they pass it on to the players. So I actually
Speaker 1: think it's a good thing. I thought I could understand
Speaker 1: why the players didn't agree to it a month ago.
Speaker 1: But there's time, very little time to get it done
Speaker 1: in time of the season. MLB Networks Opening night coverage
Speaker 1: starts at ten am Eastern tom joining the broadcast at
Speaker 1: four pm. Also on the call for Saturday's Pirates Cardinals
Speaker 1: game on MLB Network, and doing studio stuff. I believe
Speaker 1: is that the schedule here for your time. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: the schedule. Mookie Betch's deal kind of surprising, well more
Speaker 1: surprising the timing of it, or the length and the
Speaker 1: amount of money. Yeah, I guess the timing, dam because
Speaker 1: in the middle of a pandemic, who's got three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty five million dollars sitting around? Well, I guess
Speaker 1: the answers the Dodgers. But listen, when they made the
Speaker 1: deal with the Red Sox, they didn't want to extend him.
Speaker 1: They gave up some good young prospects. They didn't want
Speaker 1: just to rent him for a year, and this year's
Speaker 1: only sixty games. But I was told that once they
Speaker 1: had him in camp in March, and especially the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks here in summer camp, they were blown
Speaker 1: away by how good this guy is. Now, it's not
Speaker 1: exactly breaking news that Mookie Betts is a really good player,
Speaker 1: but I think it's different when you have the player
Speaker 1: in your clubhouse every day, and they were blown away
Speaker 1: by how good this guy is, how good he is
Speaker 1: around teammates, the positive attitude every day. So the fact
Speaker 1: that they gave up a lot to get him, but
Speaker 1: really fell in love with having him on hand, this
Speaker 1: was a no brainer. Don't forget they tried to give
Speaker 1: three hundred million dollars plus to Garrett call. He had
Speaker 1: his heart kind of set on the Yankees, so I
Speaker 1: know the Dodgers to this point under Andrew Friedman had
Speaker 1: not given out one hundred million dollars deal. It was
Speaker 1: a matter of which guy was best. First it was called,
Speaker 1: but once it was not call, then it was mooky.
Speaker 1: And listen, I think it's a great buy. I forget
Speaker 1: about the back end of the deal. You judge a
Speaker 1: deal to me on are you buying the prime years
Speaker 1: of a player? And how good is he right now?
Speaker 1: And as I said, he's one of the top five
Speaker 1: players and that team is loaded Dan for now and
Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future. But if you're a Red Sox fan,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about this? Oh? It hurts man. Listen,
Speaker 1: this guy was a fifth round draft. He wasn't exactly
Speaker 1: like this. You know, can't miss superstar, come into high school,
Speaker 1: homegrown star, who's just a likable player. He's one of
Speaker 1: my favorite players to watch play the game of baseball.
Speaker 1: He should have played his entire career in a Red
Speaker 1: Sox uniform because of how good he is and what
Speaker 1: a good person he is. But listen, they made a
Speaker 1: bit of a run to try to extend him. They
Speaker 1: didn't get the vibes that it was going to happen.
Speaker 1: I think he made it clear he wanted to go
Speaker 1: to free agency, and then he can't disregard the issue
Speaker 1: the competitive balance tax that the Red Sox had an
Speaker 1: opportunity to reset that tax rate. They've done that this
Speaker 1: year at the trade of price and bets. But as
Speaker 1: a Red Sox fan, it's gonna hurt, and it's going
Speaker 1: to hurt more because this this Dodger team, They'll be
Speaker 1: watching Moki in the playoffs for years to come. We're
Speaker 1: talking to Tom Vernucci, MLB Network analyst. You were the
Speaker 1: first on the bandwagon. I believe of watch out for
Speaker 1: Tampa as maybe the team to beat in the American League.
Speaker 1: It feels like there's more competitors in the American League
Speaker 1: than the National League. I feel like gets Dodgers, Nationals,
Speaker 1: and then you can throw in Oakland, the Yankees. Who
Speaker 1: else am I missing out on? Houston? Is there? Twins?
Speaker 1: Twins are still a really good team. I think you're right,
Speaker 1: there's probably the group of elite teams in the American
Speaker 1: League is probably bigger than in the National League. I
Speaker 1: think to me, the Dodgers are clearly the best team
Speaker 1: in the National League. No disrespect to the Nationals, who
Speaker 1: I think would be a handful if they get in again,
Speaker 1: because remember last year they were ten and oh when
Speaker 1: Scherzer and Strasburg started, so they could do the same
Speaker 1: m in the postseason environment. Don't sleep on the Braves.
Speaker 1: They're still a really good team. But I do think
Speaker 1: the American League is deeper. I think the race between
Speaker 1: the Yankees and Rays comes down to the ten games
Speaker 1: head to head between those two teams. And I do
Speaker 1: think the A's are You know, they don't give a
Speaker 1: lot of attention Dan, but if you ask Billy Bean
Speaker 1: two or three years ago, he would tell you that
Speaker 1: twenty twenty is the year that they were appointing to
Speaker 1: the Chapman Olson group, and they'd be already with major
Speaker 1: league service time and proven players. At this point, young
Speaker 1: pitchers look really good the team. I'm curious about a
Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox because I know everybody's saying in a
Speaker 1: short season, anything can happen. It's not entirely true. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Orioles are not going to the playoffs. The Marlins
Speaker 1: are not going to the playoffs, even in a fifteen
Speaker 1: game season. But in a sixty game season. The White Sox,
Speaker 1: I think have a very high ceiling. They're one of
Speaker 1: these teams that have a basement and a ceiling, and
Speaker 1: it'd be very fascinating to see how it plays out.
Speaker 1: To me, White Sox, Reds, Diamondbacks, they're kind of in
Speaker 1: that group where they could be a lot better than
Speaker 1: people think. Yeah, I've heard about the Reds and the
Speaker 1: White Sox, and watching the White Sox against the Cubs
Speaker 1: the other night, and you start to look at the
Speaker 1: lineup and the pitching and then hey, a short season,
Speaker 1: sixty games sprint and you're right, you get hot at
Speaker 1: the right time, and we're gonna have at least one
Speaker 1: surprise team that gets in here. It feels like I'm
Speaker 1: also curious if you win the cy Young this year,
Speaker 1: If Jacob took Gram wins the cy Young, does that
Speaker 1: cy Young count just the way the previous two did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it does, and you do get the trophy, but you
Speaker 1: have to keep it in your desk. You can't hang
Speaker 1: out the wall. But he could go six and two
Speaker 1: and win the cy Young. Yeah, I mean, listen, these
Speaker 1: guys are only going to get eleven or twelve starts,
Speaker 1: so six or seven wins and you know, ERA and
Speaker 1: one something. Yeah, I mean, somebody's gonna win the v PA,
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna win the SY. I actually think there's a
Speaker 1: good chance that someone is going to have an EAR
Speaker 1: below one point one two. Of course, that's Bob Gibson's record. Now,
Speaker 1: it won't be a record in a sixty game season,
Speaker 1: but I think you're more likely to see that than
Speaker 1: somebody hitting four hundred. Nobody's gonna hit four hundred the
Speaker 1: games just the way he's played now, nobody hits for
Speaker 1: a high average. Pitching's too good. But I can name
Speaker 1: you five guys I think could have under a one
Speaker 1: one two ERA over ten or eleven starts. I went back.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that each year old over a sixty
Speaker 1: game span hit I think four sixty back in the
Speaker 1: early two thousands. Does that sound right? It is. It's
Speaker 1: crazy that with the year he had two hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty two hits. But if you just go by the
Speaker 1: first sixty games of the season, nobody has hit four
Speaker 1: hundred over the first sixty games, which doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: a whole lot. Since Chipper Jones know it's more than
Speaker 1: a decade ago. You know, I remember talking to Cody
Speaker 1: Bellinger last year. Would he get off to that great start?
Speaker 1: And he was just under four hundred by the two
Speaker 1: month mark, and he said, nobody's sitting four hundred. He said,
Speaker 1: I feel like I hit out of my mind and
Speaker 1: I'd go one for three in my average would go
Speaker 1: down a bree points. Uh, well, we're ready to play baseball. Oh,
Speaker 1: do you have to wear a mask at first base?
Speaker 1: Does the first baseman have to wear a mask? He
Speaker 1: does not, option you could. I mean there will all
Speaker 1: be some players Dde Gregorious will play with one Clint
Speaker 1: Frasier the Yankees, But it's not mandatory. If I go
Speaker 1: to first base and I'm leading off that they're they're
Speaker 1: not invoking any social distancing there, right, No, because that's
Speaker 1: I see to see guidelines not literally considered close contact
Speaker 1: because you are outdoors. The minimum period to be considered
Speaker 1: close contact, I think is fifteen minutes at least in
Speaker 1: terms of if you are positive and when they do
Speaker 1: the contact tracing, did you have contact with someone for
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes? Okay, so in that brief period outdoors, it's
Speaker 1: not considered close contact. Tom good to talk to you
Speaker 1: and It's nice that I'm not peppering you with questions
Speaker 1: about what baseball is doing wrong that we have we
Speaker 1: think the start of a baseball season. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it could be a lot of fun day. I really do.
Speaker 1: If we play through the season September, we'll have more
Speaker 1: meaningful games than ever before. Especially if ten teams or
Speaker 1: eight teams in each league go to the postseason, it
Speaker 1: could be a wild scramble. So let's hope we get
Speaker 1: to the end of October safe and sounds. Thank you, Tom.
Speaker 1: That's Tom Berducci, MLB Network analyst. Opening night coverage starts
Speaker 1: at ten am Eastern, and Tom joining the broadcast at four.
Speaker 1: Also part of the call for Saturday's Pirates Cardinals game
Speaker 1: on MLB Network. Ted and Tampa joins us on the program. Hi, Ted,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind? Hey Dan? A couple points here?
Speaker 1: I think I know the answer, but I've got an
Speaker 1: email here that tells me I've got a Pittsburgh Blue
Speaker 1: Jay T shirt in the mail. Yeah, what do I
Speaker 1: do with that? Number? Two? A couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: I told you to improve your quality of life, please
Speaker 1: read the book No Ordinary Dog, about the Navy seal
Speaker 1: who wrote it and the dog that went in on
Speaker 1: the bin laden erate tremendous book. Then the other one
Speaker 1: is the movie that's on streaming. Last full measure about
Speaker 1: an Air Force medic in Vietnam who was awarded the
Speaker 1: Medal of Honor but was downgraded, and so the men
Speaker 1: in his company fought for thirty years against the Pentagon
Speaker 1: until they all started diing off one by one to
Speaker 1: get him that medal. And then the last thing is,
Speaker 1: please watch. The best show on TV that you all
Speaker 1: talk about is Longmeyer. If you're a Bosch fan, you
Speaker 1: take Bosh, you put him in, I mean, make up
Speaker 1: a share of Longmire. It's the best show on television.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you Ted. A lot to unpack there.
Speaker 1: We appreciate the phone call Trina in Georgia joining us
Speaker 1: on the program. Hi, Trina, Team Dan First time Long
Speaker 1: Time five six A hard one thirty five and my
Speaker 1: fiance and I are actually on our way up to Asheville,
Speaker 1: North Carolina right now. We had to postpone our wedding
Speaker 1: that was supposed to be in May due to COVID,
Speaker 1: So suck at COVID. We both work in college athletics
Speaker 1: and so for the past four months. We've pretty much
Speaker 1: done absolutely nothing but watch your show every single morning
Speaker 1: and we love it. Keep up the great work. Thank you, Trina,
Speaker 1: and good luck and my best to your soon to
Speaker 1: be husband. Thank you. All right, that's Trina in Georgia.
Speaker 1: Nice little call. There so many couples postponing weddings, and
Speaker 1: my niece she had to postpone her wedding twice, almost
Speaker 1: had to postpone at the second time, I should say.
Speaker 1: And it was in Kansas City last weekend. I couldn't go,
Speaker 1: and I wasn't going to take a chance of going
Speaker 1: then then coming back and quarantining. But you know, so
Speaker 1: I had to live vicariously through others who were there.
Speaker 1: But man, it's got to be heartbreaking to try to
Speaker 1: plan this. You know, you spend all your life thinking
Speaker 1: about this this moment, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you have no control over it. And then you go,
Speaker 1: let me move it down the road three months, and
Speaker 1: then three months happens and you go, we're not any closer.
Speaker 1: I witnessed a virtual baptism and a virtual wedding so far.
Speaker 1: I zoomed in for a baptism and a wedding so far,
Speaker 1: and It was fine, it was fun, it was different.
Speaker 1: But I feel bad for these brides trying to plan
Speaker 1: this and then you got to move it. You know,
Speaker 1: people are getting married on Thursdays. You know, you're just
Speaker 1: trying to get a date where you can get married
Speaker 1: because all of these places they fill up, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna have that the rest of this year. Yeah. Point.
Speaker 1: I know a couple that had a fall Foliage wedding
Speaker 1: plan for Vermont and they postponed it to next year
Speaker 1: in October. But the guy wants to get married now,
Speaker 1: like go to the Justice of the Peace or wherever
Speaker 1: you go and do the actual marriage. Now, the woman says,
Speaker 1: I'd rather do it on that day in front of everybody.
Speaker 1: And it's not a really it's not a debate, but there,
Speaker 1: which would you do? Would you get married and get
Speaker 1: married like you're planning to, and then do the big
Speaker 1: next year. I would just get married and then I
Speaker 1: would have a celebration at some point, Like I don't
Speaker 1: want to try to line up the church and everything
Speaker 1: that goes along with that and then the wedding reception.
Speaker 1: I'd rather just worry about one thing than a couple
Speaker 1: of things. So getting married and then you have your
Speaker 1: celebration with everybody. All Right, we'll take a break. Play
Speaker 1: of the Day is up next year on The Dan
Speaker 1: Patrick Show. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine
Speaker 1: noon eastern six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 1: and you can find us on the iHeartRadio app at
Speaker 1: FSR or stream us live every day at YouTube dot com.
Speaker 1: Slash The Dan Patrick Show. Oh my God, the play
Speaker 1: of the day. Play this is the play on the day.
Speaker 1: Check this out. Duncan Robinson pull up three and a
Speaker 1: perfect way restart the NBA season, A pure triple from
Speaker 1: the forty points per game from this year's gainness, Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: nice pitch, Robinson's wide opening, a corner, ohow two and
Speaker 1: a row, Bert Tuck and Robinson three point plan right now.
Speaker 1: He is a great shooter, not good great. Duncan Robinson
Speaker 1: is one of the great shooters in the NBA. Our
Speaker 1: guy five of eight from three point range yesterday played
Speaker 1: only the first half, had a team high eighteen points.
Speaker 1: Courtesy of the Miami Heat and Duncan Robinson of Miami
Speaker 1: Heat fame. We'll join us on the program tomorrow along
Speaker 1: with Joe back from Funk Sports. Play of to Day
Speaker 1: brought to you by by Raycon by raycon dot com
Speaker 1: slash Patrick fifteen percent off wireless earbudgs You're gonna love them.
Speaker 1: You will by Raycon dot Com slash Patrick. Alan and
Speaker 1: San Diego joins us on the program. Alan, good morning.
Speaker 1: What do you have for me? Good morning, Dan. Just
Speaker 1: listening to the game last night. Glad to have baseball on.
Speaker 1: But that sound is bloody awful. It sounds like tech mobile. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of criticism and they've used that
Speaker 1: analogy there, but I don't know. I don't listen to
Speaker 1: a baseball game to hear sound. Thanks for the phone call, Alan.
Speaker 1: Even basketball I'm okay with because a lot of times
Speaker 1: they try to put in artificial noise anyway, you know,
Speaker 1: they're trying to get atmosphere ambient sound. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to complain at all if they have sound, I promise
Speaker 1: I won't come in the next day and go it's horrible.
Speaker 1: If they don't have any sound and it's just natural sound,
Speaker 1: I'll be fine with that as well. I promise. The
Speaker 1: only thing I'll complain about is the officiating. The umpires,
Speaker 1: those kind of thing, the normal things that we complain about. Yeah, see,
Speaker 1: there's it's almost like a sport by sport basis, you know,
Speaker 1: like you're saying, the basketball, I don't really think you
Speaker 1: need court noise or a crowd noise because the court
Speaker 1: itself makes enough noise just the sound of this sneaker
Speaker 1: squeaking and the ball drilling. But you know, baseball, it's
Speaker 1: sort of like soccer, I think, and that there's this
Speaker 1: sort of drone to the crowd noise that I find
Speaker 1: really comforting, Like it sounds like baseball when you're just
Speaker 1: sort of sitting in an afternoon, you know, watching a
Speaker 1: baseball game. There's a certain like hum or drone to
Speaker 1: the crowd noise that I really like. I think soccer
Speaker 1: is similar to that. But you can have it. Here's
Speaker 1: the problem is when somebody does something well, then how
Speaker 1: is the crowd noise going to sound. That's the only
Speaker 1: thing that I'd be concerned about the rest of it,
Speaker 1: where it's just you're gonna hear a little bit more
Speaker 1: on the field and there'll still be noise. It's just
Speaker 1: not going to be what we're used to. But when
Speaker 1: somebody hits a home run that I think is going
Speaker 1: to be the challenge because you're gonna go, okay, home
Speaker 1: run even when you're hearing guys do play by play
Speaker 1: now and somebody hits a home run, you're not excited
Speaker 1: because a lot of times your excitement is based off
Speaker 1: of the crowd reacting. So your voice is above the
Speaker 1: crowd noise. That's why you get that, you know, unbelievable
Speaker 1: sound there, or you rise above the sound of the crowd.
Speaker 1: In golf, a lot of times you're very in here
Speaker 1: he is with three foot put this to win the Masters.
Speaker 1: Very quiet, make the put noise, then you go loud.
Speaker 1: That's what we usually have with Major League baseball. We
Speaker 1: won't have that. You know, with basketball, it's just back
Speaker 1: and forth. There's so much action there. I don't need
Speaker 1: to ride the crowd level that noise. I'm okay with that,
Speaker 1: and then we'll figure out what's happening with ball once
Speaker 1: we get there. Yes, and it's not as simple as
Speaker 1: turning up the sound for like, as far as they
Speaker 1: ambient fake noise if there's a home run, because then
Speaker 1: you got a factor in Wait a second, I was
Speaker 1: the road team. They hit a home run and then
Speaker 1: not gonna cheer like that or the visitings. Why do
Speaker 1: I do with that? Yes? Probably, I wonder if they
Speaker 1: factor in swearing because you know, if you have no fans,
Speaker 1: no sound in the background. In basketball and football, I'll
Speaker 1: imagine a lot of swear words can get past the
Speaker 1: goalie and they can't hit the dump button every four seconds. Now,
Speaker 1: when there's ambient crowd noise, Like Seton said, you're not
Speaker 1: going to catch swearing that much in basketball or football.
Speaker 1: But if it's dead silent, can you imagine a football
Speaker 1: game between plays or at the end of the place,
Speaker 1: you'll hear a ton of swearing. I was watching l
Speaker 1: MLS match the other day and the manager caught swearing
Speaker 1: about a half a dozen times because there is very
Speaker 1: little crowd noise behind them. We'll talk to Joe Buck
Speaker 1: about that tomorrow. Yeah, Seton, I think too though, Like
Speaker 1: if we sort of take a step back and if
Speaker 1: you're watching the game and focusing so much on the
Speaker 1: crowd noise that you're like, wait a minute, they're they're
Speaker 1: cheering at the wrong time, then how boring is the game?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like, then then you must
Speaker 1: you must be watching an extremely or in game that
Speaker 1: you're like not even paying attention to what's happening. You're
Speaker 1: more interested in how the crowd is reacting. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to criticize. I just want sports back. We're rolling
Speaker 1: on this. Yes, mclovin. So I watched some preseason action.
Speaker 1: It did really feel like Summer League, though I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's good or bad, Like it really feels
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like Summer League. It sounds like summer League.
Speaker 1: There's a difference there. I think that they've dressed up
Speaker 1: the visual presentation of an NBA game that it looks nice.
Speaker 1: It's colorful, it looks fuller, whereas if you were at
Speaker 1: an AAU game, then you know it would be pretty stark,
Speaker 1: it would be bland. And I think they've done a
Speaker 1: pretty good job. But let's wait for the regular season
Speaker 1: to see what other elements they add in there, because
Speaker 1: I'm being told that they are going to add some
Speaker 1: more visual elements there. Yes, mclove But like I saw
Speaker 1: the highlights of Duncan Robinson hitting a bunch of threes
Speaker 1: without the fans jumping up after he hits those threes,
Speaker 1: I don't think they jump up after you hit a three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sure they know they don't not in the first half,
Speaker 1: not too often. Yeah, in college you might do that,
Speaker 1: but those are students who are there. But I jumped
Speaker 1: up because he's on the show later this. By the way,
Speaker 1: Baseball will decide before first pitch tonight the Yankees and
Speaker 1: the Nationals if we're going to have sixteen playoff teams.
Speaker 1: The deadline is today, so Baseball is going to I'm
Speaker 1: not criticizing, I'm just I'm just giving you information here
Speaker 1: that there there's no official word if there's going to
Speaker 1: be ten playoff teams or sixteen playoff teams. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: guess sixteen playoff teams because, well, there's more money for
Speaker 1: everybody once you get in, once you feel like you
Speaker 1: got it kind of figured out here, and everybody's going
Speaker 1: to be safe. Why wouldn't you expand the playoffs here?
Speaker 1: Certainly for this year. Absolutely, But their deadline is by
Speaker 1: first pitch, and we're still waiting to find out where
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays are going to play, and the options
Speaker 1: are that they could play in Baltimore, they could play
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, their spring training home in Dunedin, Florida, or
Speaker 1: they could be on the road all season long, and
Speaker 1: those home games on the road they would bat last.
Speaker 1: That's what we know so far here Kevin in la Hey, Kalf,
Speaker 1: good morning. What do you have for me? Hey, good
Speaker 1: morning guys. I was just thinking that maybe there's a
Speaker 1: missed opportunity here because don't we have the technology, they
Speaker 1: have different sound streams where you could actually you know,
Speaker 1: make a choice for the viewer. Well, I don't they
Speaker 1: have an app that you can be, you know, part
Speaker 1: of the local fan base or you're rooting for your
Speaker 1: team and then that's part of the broadcast. I don't
Speaker 1: know enough about it yet because I think the individual
Speaker 1: sports leagues are all trying to figure this out, and
Speaker 1: I think what you know we're listening to and watching
Speaker 1: to start a season will probably be a whole lot
Speaker 1: different halfway through or as we get to the end
Speaker 1: of the regular season. For these respective sports. They're trying
Speaker 1: to figure all of this out. It's all new to them.
Speaker 1: We'll check in with the president of the NFL Players Association,
Speaker 1: the Brown Center, JC Tredder. Everything okay, starting the NFL
Speaker 1: season on time, and we'll talk to Aaron Gordon, the
Speaker 1: Orlando Magic forward who will join us from the bubble