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Speaker 1: to stop this nonsense about the Packers somehow disrespecting Aaron Rodgers. Hey,
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Speaker 1: got the Traggers fired up there, Italian beef for those
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Speaker 1: how it tastes. Fritzie mclovin Seaton, Italian beef sandwiches. M
Speaker 1: smells good, right, Hollie, sounds really good. I don't want
Speaker 1: to rub it in. I do. I do, yes, Seaton.
Speaker 1: I got a New York strip going on the grill
Speaker 1: later on tonight for dinner. Yeah, okay, doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not missing that Italian which you're working
Speaker 1: on today, but Italian beef. Bob Costas. As we make
Speaker 1: the segue, Bob Costas will join us, coming up in
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes or so. We'll talk to him about
Speaker 1: baseball's plans here. Also, Bob was on the call for
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's last game as a Chicago Bowl in Utah
Speaker 1: that nighty at the Jumper to win the NBA Championship.
Speaker 1: So Bobo join is coming up in a little bit.
Speaker 1: Still don't have a winner for Fritzie's scoreboard challenge. Today's
Speaker 1: number seven and twenty four. The clue is express yourself
Speaker 1: be a thief? Correct, all right? Seven and twenty four? Well,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen this day in sports history. So I
Speaker 1: don't even know. I'm gonna say, is it La Express
Speaker 1: or the Pony Express? Or express yourself and be a thief?
Speaker 1: Feels like Rickey Henderson. Now I can't guess because we
Speaker 1: don't have a winner yet. Yeah, Paul, I know the
Speaker 1: seven based off express to yourself. I know you can't
Speaker 1: say I got it because I know the twenty four.
Speaker 1: But I can't say I can help you with the hint.
Speaker 1: I could ascerbate the hint Express is a nickname for
Speaker 1: the hint for them seven. Okay, Well, we don't want
Speaker 1: to make it too easy. I think we just made
Speaker 1: it too easy. But yeah, that actually give me I
Speaker 1: can give him one more. No, no no, no, no, can
Speaker 1: give it away. It doesn't give it away, give it away,
Speaker 1: give it away, give it away now away? Now okay,
Speaker 1: both involved the same year? Is that? That's that is helpful?
Speaker 1: But not giving it away? Oh I know who this is? Okay,
Speaker 1: what shirt do you have on today? Todd? This is
Speaker 1: a von Miller shirt. He is no longer the coronavirus
Speaker 1: and uh he actually may be coming on the show
Speaker 1: in the coming days. And I thought it'll be nice
Speaker 1: on a Friday to give some love to uh my
Speaker 1: man von Miller as he's relaxing at home and no
Speaker 1: longer has the coronavirus into system. So good for number fight. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: thank you, happy about that? All right, final hour coming up.
Speaker 1: We're gonna stay with the pole question. Mcclemman. I actually
Speaker 1: just switched it over to on the win total question,
Speaker 1: who wins the most games? Your question from earlier giving
Speaker 1: the top five vegaside to Ravens, Chiefs, Niners, Saints, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put the Bucks in there their fifth just
Speaker 1: for clicks. I am surprised the Buccaneers are at a
Speaker 1: ten win total just feat No, it's not you put
Speaker 1: it out there. You got everyone in the country excited
Speaker 1: for the Bucks. You did serious, like you sall. I
Speaker 1: single handedly did this. So I came up with the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay T shirt and I get credit and blame
Speaker 1: for that, And now I'm going to get credit and
Speaker 1: blame for the Buccaneers win total being ten. You're excited
Speaker 1: about them before they sign Brady, Oh, I know. I was, well,
Speaker 1: I thought they were a playoff team, you know, if
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater went there. I said they were a playoff team.
Speaker 1: So you get Tampa Bay and you're good to go.
Speaker 1: We spent a little bit of the last hour talking
Speaker 1: about Danny Canal, former NFL quarterback, went on The Herd
Speaker 1: and he said that Aaron Rodgers is Jay Cutler with
Speaker 1: a ring. Um. I think he means that he's his demeanor,
Speaker 1: his personality, Maybe that he's not the leader that Jay
Speaker 1: Cutler is. I don't know why you say he's Jay
Speaker 1: Cutler with a ring. He's so much better than Jay Cutler.
Speaker 1: I mean he does have a ring. Let's view that
Speaker 1: as an accomplishment for Aaron Rodgers. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks who don't have rings, and there are a
Speaker 1: few quarterbacks great quarterbacks who have one ring. Here career
Speaker 1: winning percentage, Jay Cutler won forty eight percent of his games.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers won sixty five percent of his games. That's
Speaker 1: the eleventh best winning percentage of all time. He's not
Speaker 1: Jay Cutler with a ring. You might say a similar
Speaker 1: personality aloof okay, but talent wise, results wise, that's silly.
Speaker 1: NCAA's top governing body announced that they will support athletes'
Speaker 1: ability to profit off their own image. We're still trying
Speaker 1: to get all the information with this and so is
Speaker 1: the NCAA. It's no surprise that the NCAA recommendations would
Speaker 1: probably work well for the NCAA. They don't want to
Speaker 1: take on the burden of paying players. That's what I
Speaker 1: feel like this is about. Now they say that there's
Speaker 1: going to be safeguards against boosters taking advantage of the
Speaker 1: new system, I don't know how they can ensure that, because,
Speaker 1: let's be honest with the NCAA, the NCAA doesn't investigate
Speaker 1: somebody unless Yahoo Sports or ESPN or Bleacher Report puts
Speaker 1: something on their lap, on their table, on their desk
Speaker 1: and says, hey, there's something going on here. That's when
Speaker 1: they usually investigate somebody. Now, I'm going to have the
Speaker 1: NCAA have to have more investigators to keep an eye
Speaker 1: on all of these schools and somebody might be doing
Speaker 1: something nefarious. Where a booster is going to be a
Speaker 1: sugar daddy to a lot of players, That is not
Speaker 1: going to happen. The NCAA didn't have much of a choice,
Speaker 1: though public sentiment in the legal community made the move inevitable.
Speaker 1: College players were going to, you know, somehow earn money,
Speaker 1: and the NCIA faces the task of enforcing a new
Speaker 1: set of rules that could be murkier than the current ones.
Speaker 1: I don't think this helps because this is what I'm
Speaker 1: getting from the apologist. Well, there's only a couple of players,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe the quarterback, star quarterback, you know LSU's quarterback,
Speaker 1: or you know, maybe the quarterback at Clamsy. No, that's
Speaker 1: not what this is all about. I think is if
Speaker 1: I had somebody who was going to if I knew
Speaker 1: Georgia paid more than Almabama, I wanted to play in
Speaker 1: the SEC, play for a quality program, quality coach, would
Speaker 1: I go to Georgia? Right? I mean this is this
Speaker 1: is all about recruiting in the SEC. You'll get them in.
Speaker 1: And if I have a booster, who's going to go, Hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, you can make X number of dollars.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm asking you to do. Come on
Speaker 1: down to my car dealership every Sunday after Saturday's game
Speaker 1: and sign autographs or bring down your offensive line and everybody.
Speaker 1: Are there limitations on how much you can earn? Is
Speaker 1: the i R going to be monitoring this? Like there's
Speaker 1: so much involved in this, and I know that the
Speaker 1: NCAA wants to say, hey, we can't pay you but
Speaker 1: we can give you the opportunity to profit off your likeness,
Speaker 1: off your image. They got to be more buttoned up,
Speaker 1: because if they are, they starting it this year, and
Speaker 1: if they are, well, I'd love to know what those
Speaker 1: guidelines are now, you know. I mean, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: this at twenty twenty one, which which is great, but
Speaker 1: even then I have my doubts. You can't profit off
Speaker 1: your likeness or your image before, but now you can.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? What can I get? Do I
Speaker 1: go into a restaurant and I don't pay? Do I
Speaker 1: get a car and I don't pay? Like? What this
Speaker 1: is my image? You're gonna sell me a car, You're
Speaker 1: gonna lease me a car. I just want to know
Speaker 1: what the limitations are, and maybe this helps a smaller
Speaker 1: school maybe where you go, Hey, they give you a
Speaker 1: little bit more money than one of the like a
Speaker 1: mid major would give you more money than maybe a
Speaker 1: smaller major college. So let's say throw out of school.
Speaker 1: Miami of Ohio is going to give you a little
Speaker 1: bit more because they have a you know, a philanthropic booster,
Speaker 1: more than you'll get it Maryland or Rutgers. Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: you'll get some of those players, But I just want
Speaker 1: to know what these guidelines are. I'm for the players
Speaker 1: getting something, and I do realize there's you know, occasionally
Speaker 1: there's a Johnny Manziel, Trevor Lawrence. Wasn't Trevor Lawrence just
Speaker 1: trying to start a charity with his girlfriend and the
Speaker 1: NCAA wouldn't let him do that? And now they're gonna go, hey,
Speaker 1: come on in, do whatever you want here. Who's reporting
Speaker 1: the income here? Who's monitoring all of this stuff? In
Speaker 1: the nc DOUBLEA. They got a big building in Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: I don't think they take up all the rooms in
Speaker 1: that big building in Indianapolis. Yeah, Paul, I think he
Speaker 1: made a good point that mid level programs will identify
Speaker 1: this and capitalize if you could find a single, big
Speaker 1: money booster and say, let's organize something here. Let's start
Speaker 1: recruiting and letting our players know at Miami of Ohio
Speaker 1: that we're gonna if you join the football team and
Speaker 1: you pass on Ohio State, Let's say you're really close
Speaker 1: to going to Ohio State, but you can be the
Speaker 1: star at Miami of Ohio. I know that's not where
Speaker 1: it usually happens, but here's what we could provide you
Speaker 1: revenue wise if you don't go pro for your four
Speaker 1: years here, I just think they're asking for trouble. And
Speaker 1: I was listening to OutKick the coverage this morning, and
Speaker 1: you know, just the topic of ken somebody who is
Speaker 1: a smaller school benefit from this where Southern Miss could
Speaker 1: offer more money than maybe Old Miss does. And maybe
Speaker 1: you don't get the marquee guy, but you get that
Speaker 1: secondary star guy and then he becomes his star at
Speaker 1: your place. But I think it's interesting what's going to
Speaker 1: unfold here, and we have a little bit of time.
Speaker 1: The other thing to keep an eye on is are
Speaker 1: you going to have rogue conferences? Let's say the SEC says, hey,
Speaker 1: we're going to play football this fall and they just
Speaker 1: play against each other, or if the Big Ten does this.
Speaker 1: Iowa is going to open up its athletic practices, including
Speaker 1: college football June first. The University of Iowa made the
Speaker 1: announcement yesterday, and all of a sudden, the college football
Speaker 1: world went, wait a minute, here, Iowa, the president said,
Speaker 1: athletes planning to resume practice, including football players June. We're
Speaker 1: hopeful that this will be behind us at this point.
Speaker 1: June first is by far the earliest any big school
Speaker 1: was announced athletics will resume. Now you're they will get
Speaker 1: an unfair advent depending on the state that you're in.
Speaker 1: What are the parameters on quarantine? What the governor is
Speaker 1: going to allow you to do? And now you have
Speaker 1: Iowa doing this. What happens when you have Mississippi State
Speaker 1: or Old miss or Florida they decide that they want
Speaker 1: to do it. And then are you giving somebody an
Speaker 1: unfair advantage here? Because I was going to get to practice,
Speaker 1: whereas the other big ten schools will not. This is
Speaker 1: just unchartered territory. And I would love to say by
Speaker 1: June first, we're gonna have the light at the end
Speaker 1: of the tunnel. I just don't see how it's possible.
Speaker 1: I love that we want to be positive, progressive, we
Speaker 1: want to seek solutions here, setting these dates is so dangerous.
Speaker 1: It just is. I said it earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: It just is. Yeah, Polly, But I wonder like Iowa
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like a program that does things haphazardly. They're
Speaker 1: a pretty good program. They've never get in trouble. I
Speaker 1: wonder if they think, hey, we'll take the lead in
Speaker 1: this and let it all fall out and we'll take
Speaker 1: a little bit of a hit. We'll take whatever we
Speaker 1: can get. But they're also a programs says hey, we
Speaker 1: need every advantage we can in the Big Ten, But
Speaker 1: shouldn't the Big ten commissioners say we all go in
Speaker 1: at the same time? And he do that? Are they
Speaker 1: independent programs? Well, I would think the commissioner would have
Speaker 1: jurisdiction over all of the schools to say, is it
Speaker 1: Bob Delaney? Is he still the commissioner in the Big Ten?
Speaker 1: But that's where you say, look, we're glad that you
Speaker 1: might be able to come back, but we have to
Speaker 1: make it so everybody can come back at the same time. Yes,
Speaker 1: he I mean it has to be a state by
Speaker 1: state done on a state by state basis, because each
Speaker 1: state is handling these things differently. In Iowa doesn't have
Speaker 1: a stay at home order, their businesses are reopening their
Speaker 1: way ahead of a state like you know, California or
Speaker 1: New York or any of these other places that are
Speaker 1: getting hit harder. I just wonder if you're going to
Speaker 1: have a conference that just says, hey, we're going to
Speaker 1: play football, and you know, we may not have students
Speaker 1: on campus, but we're going to play football, and the
Speaker 1: SEC sort of said that yes day, we're planning on
Speaker 1: playing on Labor Day weekend. Okay, and maybe they do,
Speaker 1: but I can't see fans in the stands. But you're
Speaker 1: gonna have these players come back. Yeah, mclovin, Paul, he
Speaker 1: said this earlier in the week. But does college football
Speaker 1: need fans more than the NFL? It feels like a
Speaker 1: fan event in some way. It feels really weird to
Speaker 1: think of college football with out of pack stadium. It
Speaker 1: would be weird to have college game day go to
Speaker 1: a college campus and then there's no people holding up
Speaker 1: silly signs behind them. So yeah, the atmosphere with college
Speaker 1: football certainly separates it from most sports. You need that
Speaker 1: at that college football brings more atmosphere than any other sport,
Speaker 1: any other fan base. Yample. I saw a story in
Speaker 1: Sports Business Journal about a week ago that said this,
Speaker 1: mcloven Mid level and lower level college football teams rely
Speaker 1: on the gate a lot more because their TV deals
Speaker 1: are not massive. If you're like University of Illinois football,
Speaker 1: you want sixty five thousand if you can get them
Speaker 1: in there, because that's that's where your money is. You
Speaker 1: don't get as much of that Big Ten pie and
Speaker 1: you're not going to the Big Ten title game and
Speaker 1: that money and the BCS games where you make all
Speaker 1: your money. Alabama can afford people not coming to games. Alice,
Speaker 1: you can afford people not coming to games because of
Speaker 1: their TV deals and BCS money. So, you know, trying
Speaker 1: to figure this out. If you're running a university and
Speaker 1: you're going to say we won our football team to
Speaker 1: come back, when can you come back? When can you
Speaker 1: provide the safeguards? Let's say you're saying to the parents
Speaker 1: of these players, how do I know they're they're safe?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna have testing for everybody? You know the
Speaker 1: NBA wants to do this and have testing for everybody.
Speaker 1: We don't have testing for everybody, but we're gonna get
Speaker 1: testing for basketball players to play at Walt Disney Resort.
Speaker 1: I'd love to be idealistic. I like to think positive
Speaker 1: with this. I just I can't help but think what
Speaker 1: the reality is right now. And June first is that's
Speaker 1: a month away, and we're talking about that they're going
Speaker 1: to come back and resume practicing. It just seems aggressive
Speaker 1: and it feels like that is a date that is
Speaker 1: just begging to be changed to on further review. June
Speaker 1: fifteenth is when we're going to come back here, all right,
Speaker 1: Bob Costas will join us, coming up. Phone calls are welcome.
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Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Gunn come yes, Paul issue a crush. And
Speaker 1: Kevin Warren is the new Big ten com last June
Speaker 1: he took the job right, Bob stepped down Bob Delaney,
Speaker 1: Jim Delaney, Jim Delany. Here the thing in Bob bullsby
Speaker 1: Bob bullsby no relation to Jim Delaney, right. And Kevin
Speaker 1: Warren is in the seat kind the Big ten. Yes,
Speaker 1: I have a sorry that was a kid situation. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: I don't know if any other remote guys have that.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. What's the situation? So one of the
Speaker 1: kids wants to snack and the problem is when they
Speaker 1: rushed through the pretzels. And if you call on me,
Speaker 1: you can hear that right into my mind. I still
Speaker 1: go back to when I did the show at home
Speaker 1: on a Friday, when I was at ESPN and we
Speaker 1: built a studio up in my attic and it sounded great.
Speaker 1: You couldn't tell that I wasn't on campus, and so
Speaker 1: I'm there when we were on one to four Eastern
Speaker 1: and it was only on Friday. And I hear this
Speaker 1: knock on the door and it's a really polite knock,
Speaker 1: and so I I, you know, somebody knocking, but I'm
Speaker 1: on the air and I can't do anything about it.
Speaker 1: And then I opened the door. Oh no, I get
Speaker 1: ready to get up, and I see a note that
Speaker 1: goes underneath the door and I walk over and it
Speaker 1: says lou eight M and M. Now it was lose
Speaker 1: the dog and eminem was spelled like the rapper eminem.
Speaker 1: I think my dog is ingested a CD. And I'm
Speaker 1: on the air during a commercial break. I opened the
Speaker 1: door and then my daughter Grace's outside and she goes, Dad,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to interrupt to you, but Lou ate
Speaker 1: an M and M. And I said, did he eat
Speaker 1: a CD? And she goes, no, no, he ate an
Speaker 1: M and M. I said, what's spelled like M and M,
Speaker 1: not the rapper And she goes, oh, okay, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he's swallowed an M and M. And I go, is
Speaker 1: he okay? Yeah he is? Now he threw it up
Speaker 1: and I go all right, honey, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: And then you go back on the air and you're going, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great to be home. Yeah, Paul, I've heard that
Speaker 1: a few times. A dogs can't eat chocolate. What's that about?
Speaker 1: Is that true? Dogs are not supposed to eat chocolate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like poisonous for them. Really, I've heard that you
Speaker 1: have to eat a lot of it. I think, Oh,
Speaker 1: I've heard that a few times. And people don't give
Speaker 1: a dog chocolate. Yeah, I never heard that. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll probably want to stop feeding your dogs chocolate. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a break here, Bob Coast to school.
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Speaker 1: Terry from York, Pennsylvania one Fritzie's Scoreboard Challenge. The numbers
Speaker 1: were seven and twenty four. My guests was twenty four
Speaker 1: was Ricky Henderson and then the seven would have been
Speaker 1: Nolan Ryan seventh no hitter. He struck out Ricky Henderson
Speaker 1: with the final at bat beats Toronto three nothing at
Speaker 1: age forty four, old is to throw a no hitter.
Speaker 1: That's right. Number seven is Nolan Ryan seventh no hitter
Speaker 1: and Ricky Worth number twenty four days when he broke
Speaker 1: the stolen base record. Do you still want to do
Speaker 1: this day in sports history later? Poel? Yeah, I can
Speaker 1: take the day off, alrighty, fair enough. With most sports,
Speaker 1: the topic of realignment comes up every now and again.
Speaker 1: The Western Conference of the NBA has been better than
Speaker 1: the East for a while. Certain divisions in football perpetually unbounds,
Speaker 1: just not consistently competitive, and now Baseball's divisions are really
Speaker 1: hard to keep balanced. You have the national health crisis,
Speaker 1: and baseball might be experimenting with something completely new. USA
Speaker 1: Today reported Baseball's considering three ten division team divisions who
Speaker 1: limit travel. That proposal includes the East, Central, and West.
Speaker 1: Teams would only play within the division. Of course, all
Speaker 1: of this is exploratory at this stage. It'd be interesting
Speaker 1: to see new rivalries popping up. You know, the Nationals
Speaker 1: would face the Yankees and Red Sox, Dodgers get the
Speaker 1: Astros on a regular basis. The Crosstown Angels as well, Cubs,
Speaker 1: White Sox would see a lot of each other. And
Speaker 1: I know it sounds unorthodox, but it's maybe the safest
Speaker 1: way to proceed, and baseball fans will have to embrace
Speaker 1: it when we do. Speaking which Bob cost Us, the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame broadcaster, joining us on the program. Good morning, Bob,
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm okay, Dan, how are you? I'm
Speaker 1: doing okay. Trying to figure out how we get baseball back.
Speaker 1: Now I'm hearing maybe there's a World Cup type scenario
Speaker 1: if we get something up later in the summer. What
Speaker 1: are you hearing as what would actually be a distinct possibility. Well,
Speaker 1: they have to get in some regular season games to
Speaker 1: make it representative, even if they go to a tournament
Speaker 1: type thing for the postseason. And I think that baseball
Speaker 1: fans would accept anything. I've said this before, anything showed
Speaker 1: up running the bases clockwise, they'd accept because of the
Speaker 1: unique circumstances. They'd accept a World Series in a dome
Speaker 1: or a warm weather neutral site. They'd accept all experimentation.
Speaker 1: Now's the time electronic played umpire pitch clock with nobody
Speaker 1: on base Everything fiddle with different postseason concepts, but you've
Speaker 1: got to play at least a representative number of regular
Speaker 1: season games before you can see even an expanded playoff field.
Speaker 1: The latest thing, which you were just detailing, is not
Speaker 1: something but they would go to on a permanent basis.
Speaker 1: But it might be under lyne might There's lots of
Speaker 1: proposals out there, but it might be the best solution
Speaker 1: because players do not want to be quarantined for several months.
Speaker 1: These are young people with young families. In many cases,
Speaker 1: that's not going to work. Even if the stands are empty,
Speaker 1: which is certainly going to be the case at the outset,
Speaker 1: if not throughout in twenty twenty, if they're able to
Speaker 1: play at all, even with no fans in the stands,
Speaker 1: playing in your home ballpark is going to be so
Speaker 1: much easier. You've got all the facilities and everything else
Speaker 1: in place, and then players would be able to go
Speaker 1: home and on the road you quarantine them in a
Speaker 1: single hotel. That seems doable. But as you look at
Speaker 1: it from a medical standpoint, we're not experts, but we
Speaker 1: can see that there are a lot of hurdles to
Speaker 1: clear before they can say with some sort of assurance
Speaker 1: they can responsibly say, yes, this is safe to do,
Speaker 1: not just practical to do, but safe to do. Do
Speaker 1: you work backwards? If you're baseball I know that Scott Morris, Hey,
Speaker 1: we could have baseball right after Christmas and you could
Speaker 1: have a World Series. Then it I don't know if
Speaker 1: you say this is the last date that we would
Speaker 1: have baseball, Now we work back and say, can we
Speaker 1: get in one hundred games or whatever is going to
Speaker 1: be constitutes a fair and representative of a season. I
Speaker 1: think eighty is okay. Remember nineteen eighty one they played
Speaker 1: a split season because of a strike, so you had
Speaker 1: separate division champions from the first half and the second half.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers wound up winning the World Series, and nobody
Speaker 1: considers that illegitimate. But your point is well taken. You
Speaker 1: got to work backwards because assuming if you're able to
Speaker 1: play in some way at all in twenty twenty, you're
Speaker 1: then assuming there's going to be a full season in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Fingers crossed. If that's the case, you
Speaker 1: can't play into January and then turn around and have
Speaker 1: spring training. Yeah, it's just you hear all these scenarios,
Speaker 1: and I applaud these leagues for thinking out of the box.
Speaker 1: I just get nervous when I hear these ar trary
Speaker 1: dates where you know we're gonna start now, we're gonna
Speaker 1: we plan on playing this many games. We don't know.
Speaker 1: This changes every day. It changes. It feels like a
Speaker 1: couple of times a day. I just don't know. And
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts to the Dodgers manager and said, hey, whoever
Speaker 1: wins this year, there's no asterisk attached to this. I
Speaker 1: don't even want to worry about an asterisk. I want
Speaker 1: to worry about can we actually play, then we can
Speaker 1: worry about the damn asterisk after this. When do you
Speaker 1: think there's a start date that you would say? That?
Speaker 1: To me sounds plausible. I wouldn't even venture a guess.
Speaker 1: Everything keeps changing, even with the experts from a medical standpoint.
Speaker 1: It's just an educated guess. So the league's all of them,
Speaker 1: not just Baseball. They're all right to have various contingency plans,
Speaker 1: best case scenarios, worst case scenarios, everything in between. And
Speaker 1: I think this is a good opportunity for baseball to
Speaker 1: send up all the trial balloons. You know. I heard
Speaker 1: one that's floating around. I wish I had thought of
Speaker 1: it myself. And this would be for when they're able
Speaker 1: to play a full season and things have returned to normal.
Speaker 1: We talked about this before. Dan. Baseball has an interest
Speaker 1: in creating more postseason revenue and more inventory, and therefore
Speaker 1: revenue and one suggestion we talked about a couple of
Speaker 1: months ago was only the one division winner, the number
Speaker 1: one gets by and the other two division winners had
Speaker 1: to be thrown in with the wild cards. And I
Speaker 1: didn't like that because it minimizes the importance of the
Speaker 1: regular season and puts those division winners in a crapshoot.
Speaker 1: Here's a new idea. I wish I could claim it,
Speaker 1: but i've heard it. Three division winners as ever, four
Speaker 1: wild cards. So you've expanded the postseason by four teams,
Speaker 1: two additional teams in each league. But here's the way
Speaker 1: it goes. All three division winners get a by which
Speaker 1: they've earned. Now you've got a knockout series where the
Speaker 1: one wildcard that will emerge into the division series has
Speaker 1: to win two games. One plays four, one game on
Speaker 1: the home field of the number one wildcard, two plays
Speaker 1: three on the home field of the number two. The
Speaker 1: two survivors meet on the home field of the highest
Speaker 1: remaining seed, and the winner moves into the division series.
Speaker 1: Now you've expanded the playoffs. Yes, you've provided television with
Speaker 1: additional single elimination games, which they love, but you've actually
Speaker 1: put more emphasis on the long regular season because the
Speaker 1: division winners stand completely apart from the wildcard round, and
Speaker 1: now the wildcard survivor has to win two games instead
Speaker 1: of one. Use pitchers, there at a disadvantage going into
Speaker 1: the postseason. You've accomplished two things. You've modernized by expanding
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but you've also put additional emphasis old school
Speaker 1: style on the regular season. I wish I'd thought of
Speaker 1: it myself. Is this a one off or would you
Speaker 1: like this proposed as baseball moves forward when we actually
Speaker 1: have a regular one hundred and sixty two games schedule. Now,
Speaker 1: I think this makes sense going forward with a full
Speaker 1: season under normal circumstances, what they do this year, I'd
Speaker 1: be open to anything this year because the circumstances are
Speaker 1: so different this time around. I think baseball fans would
Speaker 1: accept anybody. Have you called a game with no fans, nah,
Speaker 1: with no fans, with no fans? Well, you know, I
Speaker 1: was the voice of the Spirits of Saint Louis from
Speaker 1: the mid seventies, and there were some games. But you
Speaker 1: know there were some games then. And you're a basketball guy,
Speaker 1: I swear the Spirits against the San Antonio Spurs. And
Speaker 1: here's Marvin Barnes right in front of me as I'm
Speaker 1: sitting courtside about the inbound, guarded by George Gervin, and
Speaker 1: there's a crowd of eight hundred and twelve in a
Speaker 1: nineteen thousand seat arena. Have you got time for a story? Yes? Okay.
Speaker 1: Rudy Martzky, who we all know as the first and
Speaker 1: long running sports TV critic for the USA today now
Speaker 1: happily retired in Florida. Rudy was the director of operations
Speaker 1: for the Spirits of Saint Louis. And now there's a
Speaker 1: time out and they've announced the crowd as something like
Speaker 1: three thousand or something. And I look around and this
Speaker 1: clusters of fans and it doesn't add up. So I
Speaker 1: go to Rudy and I say, Rudy, it's bad enough
Speaker 1: that we have this tiny crowd, but now we're going
Speaker 1: to lie about it, like three or four times over.
Speaker 1: And this is what he says. Did it ever occur
Speaker 1: to you, you little wise ass, that maybe maybe there
Speaker 1: are some people at the concession stands or at the restrooms.
Speaker 1: And I say, Rudy, let's test your premise. Let's suppose
Speaker 1: there was a sellout. Let's suppose there were nineteen thousand
Speaker 1: fans here wants the chance that at any given time
Speaker 1: other than halftime, ninety five hundred of them are buying
Speaker 1: a hot dog or relieving themselves against all flustered, He goes,
Speaker 1: just set your app back on a fall damn game.
Speaker 1: I used to go, we're talking to Bob Costas. I
Speaker 1: used to go to the Cincinnati Royals games and we
Speaker 1: would sneak in and I could eventually end up in
Speaker 1: the front row. I sat in the front row when
Speaker 1: the Bulls came to town with Howard Porter. They had Jerry.
Speaker 1: I actually saw Jerry Sloan play in person. Bob Wise,
Speaker 1: like all of these you know these Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: the Royals against the Bulls, and nobody cared, and they
Speaker 1: would announce the crowd at like two thousand and We
Speaker 1: actually counted one night and it was five hundred and
Speaker 1: nineteen because the game wasn't interesting. But you know, the
Speaker 1: whole we're gonna lie about the size of a crowd.
Speaker 1: I witnessed that firsthand, you know, with the Cincinnati Cincinnati Roys.
Speaker 1: But I don't know how that would affect you. If
Speaker 1: you called the game and there's no crowd there, how
Speaker 1: much do you play off of that crowd when you're
Speaker 1: calling a game. Oh, you have to not just when
Speaker 1: the crowd surges on a big play. You'd be missing
Speaker 1: that excitement. But let's say it's just baseball. There's a
Speaker 1: murmur of the crowd at all times. I heard Joe
Speaker 1: Buck the other night on Real Sports on HBO with
Speaker 1: Bryan Gumbel. Joe thought there was some merit to the
Speaker 1: idea of pumping in crowdsound. Yeah, I'm okay, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm fine everything you can try, every out of the
Speaker 1: box fair under these circumstances. I'm fine with that. The
Speaker 1: Bulls documentary you watching, oh yeah, haven't missed a second
Speaker 1: of it. I think it's great. What are you because
Speaker 1: you're involved in this because NBC carried the NBA for
Speaker 1: such a long period of time. You were there for
Speaker 1: Michael's final game with the Bulls. Did you know at
Speaker 1: the time that was going to be his final game
Speaker 1: of the Bulls. I think we all strongly suspected it,
Speaker 1: and that's why even as exciting and significant as that
Speaker 1: game was, simply as an NBA Finals series, it was
Speaker 1: one of the best. But my comments at the end,
Speaker 1: I tried to frame it. I didn't know for sure
Speaker 1: that it was the end, but I assumed it was
Speaker 1: a very strong possibility. So in addition to just calling
Speaker 1: what was a very exciting game, I tried to frame
Speaker 1: it in that context that this was the end of
Speaker 1: one of the most memorable runs by a team in
Speaker 1: American sports history, and certainly one of the most transcendent
Speaker 1: players in any sport. I don't know if Babe Ruth
Speaker 1: was his beloved when he played, when he went around
Speaker 1: these other parks, because Michael is was beloved, you know,
Speaker 1: fans couldn't wait to see him even if he was
Speaker 1: going to get forty on their team. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Do you recall if Babe Ruth was I know he
Speaker 1: was a phenomenon, but was he beloved the way Michael
Speaker 1: was beloved each town? Do I recall it firsthand? Then?
Speaker 1: When I put on my Dara and wrote a streetcard
Speaker 1: of the ball game and took my date on Ladies
Speaker 1: Day for a variety of Babe faced, Walter Johnson and
Speaker 1: the Senator smartass to sit down. Now, do you think
Speaker 1: that Babe was admired that way of anything you've ever
Speaker 1: heard or read? Yeah, he was a gigantic force, and
Speaker 1: even though it seems like well, it doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: it is a hundred years ago. In the nineteen twenties,
Speaker 1: baseball in the country or moving into a different area,
Speaker 1: you at the beginning of some kind of mass communication.
Speaker 1: You got radio and whatnot. But still there's enough distance
Speaker 1: so that everything that someone like Ruth did, or for
Speaker 1: that matter, a Jesse Owens or a Red Grange or
Speaker 1: a Jack Dempsey, any of the big heroes of that
Speaker 1: era at Joe Lewis a little bit later, there's an
Speaker 1: element of myth and legend surrounding it, and maybe some
Speaker 1: of the stories are apocryphal. You don't have that. Now
Speaker 1: we get to see everything, and then we get to
Speaker 1: replay it and dissect it and analyze it. Would Babe
Speaker 1: Ruth's called shot be a controversy at all or something
Speaker 1: that well, I saw it this way, you saw it
Speaker 1: that way? Today, Nah, in ten seconds, we'd know whether
Speaker 1: he did or not. I wonder how the Bulls would
Speaker 1: do now we grew tired of Golden State Warriors. It
Speaker 1: felt like people grew tired of the Patriots, people grew
Speaker 1: tired of the San Antonio Spurs. If the Bulls were
Speaker 1: playing now and had this dynasty, would we treat them
Speaker 1: the same way? Would they be as beloved because we
Speaker 1: tend to chop up everything nowadays and everything is available there?
Speaker 1: Would they wear out there? Welcome? Well, Michael Jordan was
Speaker 1: a singular figure, taking nothing away from other great players,
Speaker 1: including the great players Steph Curry and war On the
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors. There was something about Jordans. If you
Speaker 1: imagined from Central casting a leading man for that whole
Speaker 1: decade or more, that person is Michael Jordan. So I
Speaker 1: think he would still be just as compelling. But you're
Speaker 1: a larger point, is true than nothing is fully appreciated anymore?
Speaker 1: Nothing is in our business. And you'll understand the context
Speaker 1: in which I say this. Has there ever been someone
Speaker 1: better at what he did and our business than Vince
Speaker 1: Scully or Jim McKay hosting the Olympics? I guarantee you
Speaker 1: if they were each forty years old and applying their
Speaker 1: trade on national television today, there'd be all kinds of
Speaker 1: social media sniping at them, you know, and people calling
Speaker 1: them an idiot while misspelling idiot in their moronic posts. Nothing, nothing,
Speaker 1: even the best, gets full appreciation anymore. So you know,
Speaker 1: would would it be different, Sure it would. It's only
Speaker 1: a little more than twenty years ago, but it seems
Speaker 1: like eons ago. You're right. I wonder how they would
Speaker 1: critique Vince Scully's style now, Oh, you think you're so
Speaker 1: good you don't have to have an analyst there, like right,
Speaker 1: you're selling. Hey, cut, cut, cut the poetry, Robert Frost
Speaker 1: and give me the balls and stripes. Oh, you're right. Uh,
Speaker 1: thanks for making me laugh. Hey, great to talk to you.
Speaker 1: Hope everything's well and we appreciate your time. Is always Bob.
Speaker 1: That's Bob cost Us, Hall of Famer, uh MLB network host,
Speaker 1: spent forty years at NBC. Yeah, when NBC had the NBA,
Speaker 1: NBA on NBC and you know, Bob was hosting, and
Speaker 1: then of course got into then you had Marvin there
Speaker 1: that John Tesh I think came up with that music
Speaker 1: for FRENBC. I think did John Tesh do entertainment tonight?
Speaker 1: Did he do that theme music? And the NBA on
Speaker 1: NBC as well? I think John Tesh might have done
Speaker 1: none both of those. All right, we'll take a break.
Speaker 1: Last call for phone calls. We uh, oh, that's right.
Speaker 1: The Danetts just Pauli's here to have the Italian beef.
Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't look that great. It doesn't it.
Speaker 1: I mean it tastes, it's gonna taste great. It just
Speaker 1: doesn't look as good as the Italian beef we had
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. We'll be thinking of you though.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll brack close up shop here on The
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Speaker 1: Patrick Show. Alrighty, we'll close up shop here. Also a
Speaker 1: friend of the show, Danny Reese and his fiancee Kelly.
Speaker 1: They were scheduled to get married tomorrow. They're big fans,
Speaker 1: they listen every day. They're gonna have to reschedule later
Speaker 1: on this summer and they're in Los Angeles, I believe,
Speaker 1: so who knows what's going to happen, But pretty tough
Speaker 1: weekend for them and the mother in laws. Were you
Speaker 1: trying to plan a wedding? So our best to h
Speaker 1: Danny and his fiance. Hopefully you get that wedding, you know,
Speaker 1: because you you got to schedule these weddings so far
Speaker 1: in advance to be able to make sure you get
Speaker 1: the church, you know, the reception area, reception hall. You know,
Speaker 1: my sister's daughter, she's had to postpone her wedding already once,
Speaker 1: and now it's supposed to be I think in July,
Speaker 1: and who knows, all bets might be off then as well.
Speaker 1: But there's a few I see. There's some of these
Speaker 1: wedding ceremonies where just the bride and groom show up
Speaker 1: and they have mask on, gloves on, and they had placards,
Speaker 1: they had pictures of people who would have been sitting
Speaker 1: in the church, which I thought was brilliant. You know,
Speaker 1: you have your your wedding, but it's not quite what
Speaker 1: you thought it was going to be, but you make
Speaker 1: the best of it. What if you could take pictures
Speaker 1: that way and have everyone dress up as if they're
Speaker 1: for the wedding at home and just have some computer
Speaker 1: guys photoshop all the pictures together in a nice setting,
Speaker 1: like photoshop your pictures together. But that's what they did
Speaker 1: with the church. So when you turn around, you just
Speaker 1: saw this, all these different pictures that they had put
Speaker 1: on the seats in the pews there at the church. Mike,
Speaker 1: and Florida joins us, Mike, what's on your mind? Yeah?
Speaker 1: As it going, I just want to say what I'm
Speaker 1: learning today is the word apocryphal that Bob cost is
Speaker 1: just used. And whenever Haim or Al Michael's come on,
Speaker 1: it's definitely a learning experience for me. Thank you, guys,
Speaker 1: have a great weekend. Well, thank you, Mike. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: that's what Bob has been doing for forty years now,
Speaker 1: and we take it for granted. But knowing the effort
Speaker 1: that it takes to do what Bob does, like to
Speaker 1: make it look easy is the hard part. And I
Speaker 1: always say that, you know, Bob has made more people
Speaker 1: think they can do this than probably any other sportscaster
Speaker 1: because he makes it look easy and it's not this
Speaker 1: day and sports history. Did we have any leftovers from
Speaker 1: Pauli's or a Fritzie? Scoreboards? Got a few? Dan nineteen
Speaker 1: twenty Babe Ruth his first home run is a New
Speaker 1: York Yeah. Satchel Page nineteen twenty six, made his pitching
Speaker 1: debut in the New ro Southern League. Nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 1: Mickey Mantle hit his first home run. Nineteen sixty two,
Speaker 1: Bo Bolinsky pitched a no hitter in his fourth career start.
Speaker 1: Here's a good one. Nineteen sixty nine, Leonard Toes bought
Speaker 1: the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles for sixteen million dollars. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he had a gambling problem. Ended up losing the team there.
Speaker 1: So Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth hit their first home
Speaker 1: run on the same day. Correct now, Babe Ruth was
Speaker 1: his first Yankee home run, his first career home All right,
Speaker 1: oh boy. Final results of the poll question mcluve and
Speaker 1: what DoD he have? Who's gonna win the most games
Speaker 1: this NFL regular season? Chiefs won, Ravens two bucks not
Speaker 1: high up on there, which is okay. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: want him to be high up there. I would like
Speaker 1: for them to be at eight and a half wins,
Speaker 1: but ten just I don't know. And my Cowboys, I'm
Speaker 1: all in on my Cowboys this year. Defense be damned,
Speaker 1: full speed ahead. We're gonna be the NFC. We're going
Speaker 1: to be the NFC. When did I fall in love
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys? I hated the Cowboys growing up because
Speaker 1: they are always so good. I think you like the
Speaker 1: entertainment value of the Cowboys, the whole franchise. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by it, and I do like Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: and Jerry is a very entertaining owner. But one of
Speaker 1: these years the Cowboys get it right again. Finally, Fritzie,
Speaker 1: what did you learn on today's program? I learned that
Speaker 1: Bob Costas major League Baseball needs to play at least
Speaker 1: eighty games to have a legitimate season. By the way,
Speaker 1: that Italian beef we have on the tragger, it's not
Speaker 1: that good. Yeah right, Mike PAULI, now it's yeah, think good.
Speaker 1: Yeah you're not. Don't we pretend today's National Honesty Day
Speaker 1: and tell us what's really going on? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it is so damn good it is. It is criminal.
Speaker 1: How good this Italian seeks is? It's criminal. I'll go,
Speaker 1: I'll serve you know ten years. It's that criminal. McLevin,
Speaker 1: what did you learn today? We had an idea for
Speaker 1: a movie about a middle aged Napoleon dynamite. Well we
Speaker 1: sort of did a sequel. Yeah, a sequel. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't like sequels. I'm good without a sequel. There's
Speaker 1: certain you know, I get it with Rocky and some
Speaker 1: of the Star Wars things. But I don't need a sequel.
Speaker 1: A lot of movies are great they stand alone. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: this is what I learned. I put it out there,
Speaker 1: what sequel you'd like to see, a lot of people
Speaker 1: want to see he got Game sequel. A lot of
Speaker 1: people want to see a Bullderham sequel. Sports fans who responded, well,
Speaker 1: I did you know. We talked to Kevin Costner about that.
Speaker 1: I said, what if you're the manager, or you own
Speaker 1: a team in the Southern League and you're still married
Speaker 1: to Susan Sarandon. Okay, Tim Robbins is retired, he comes
Speaker 1: back as the pitching coach. But I don't need it.
Speaker 1: I don't need it. I don't need a sequel to
Speaker 1: Bullderham Sequelconnor Junior the third People with red hair look younger. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's scientific or not. I don't
Speaker 1: know that. Ronald McDonald, Pollie, I'm sticking with seing red
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