WEBVTT - Hour 3 - Gary Bettman (05-27-20) 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.200 Sports Radio Final Hour. On this Wednesday, Dan and The 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.160 Dans Dan Patrick Show will check in with the NHL Commissioner, 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.120 Gary Bettman. You'll join us in about fifteen minutes from now. 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:14.560 While the NBA is still trying to iron out details 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:16.960 of how they're going to finish this season, the NHL's 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.759 going straight to the playoffs. NHL announcing they plan to 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:24.560 hold a twenty fourteen tournament in two hub cities. While 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.760 their details are still to be decided. Here it appears 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:30.360 eight teams will get buys, everyone else will have a 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.040 play in round. Now, critics are going to argue that 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.479 it's not the same if you don't complete the regular season. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.360 I don't know if whoever wins the Stanley Cup Final 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:42.360 is going to have an asterisk by it. I don't 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:45.559 know why that we want to just arbitrarily throw an 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:50.800 asterisk by certain teams here, because everybody is under the 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.000 like the same umbrella here, certainly with the NBA. Now 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.040 you can make an argument, well, eight teams are getting 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.800 buys here and then everybody else has a play in round. Okay, 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.440 HL is just like the NBA. The season's too long. 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.800 I don't think we're gonna miss fifteen games, but it's 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:09.560 not ideal, the commissioner said. Hockey fans overwhelmingly want to 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.080 finish this season, and it's a good bad NBA fans 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.479 feel the same way. But these leagues have to get 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.840 creative here, and if everybody is under the same rules, 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.520 there's no asterisk by this. And I still go back 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:25.720 to the San Antonio Spurs one an NBA title and 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.720 the strike shortened season of nineteen ninety nine, and I've 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:33.440 never heard one person say, yeah, but we're going to 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.199 do that to Lebron James. We shouldn't, but we will 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.440 if the Lakers, if we come back and we have 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.200 basketball and Lebron wins a title. I can guarantee you now, 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.040 if you're a Laker fan, you're gonna go, hey, I'll 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.040 tell you what to do with your asterisk, shove it 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:52.400 up your asterisk. But I think that if Lebron wins 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.880 the title, people are going to try to say, well, 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.320 this one doesn't count as a full title here. Hey, 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:02.640 yes it does, absolutely. But with the NHL, I don't 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:04.920 know if anybody's going to go, well, do they really 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.480 deserve it? Yeah? I think you'll be fine with that. 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.400 And Major League Baseball is going to go through this 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.880 as well. They shouldn't, but they will if they come back, 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.280 if they get their act together. Here, do you know 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.640 how many days it is until the opening night of 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:24.360 the NFL regular season? We have one hundred and six 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:28.840 days until the opening night of the regular season with 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:33.720 the NFL. Does anybody want to bet? Do we start 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:37.400 on time? It's either yes we do or no we don't. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:43.240 How many are in the yes we start on time? Oh? 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:48.200 So I got mclovin, Paulli, and Fritzie Seetan O'Connor. You 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:52.600 don't think we start on time? No, all right, Paully, 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:54.440 I will double down and say we start on time 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:59.240 with fans and stands. Wow, anybody when I were betting? 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.080 I know I'm not trying to trivialize it. So not 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:05.240 trying to trivialize it. You asked my opinion the double dog? 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.120 Dare you? I think it makes a lot of sense 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.320 that they would start I think that there's probably for 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.560 any sport, the NFL probably has the most pressure on 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.120 them to start on time with fans in the stand. Yep, 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.200 that's so. I think. I think that makes a lot 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:22.840 of sense. I think the last time where we didn't 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.680 start on time, you have to go back to following 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.560 nine to eleven, and that's when that was the first 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:33.440 time the Super Bowl was played in February, I believe 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:39.200 because the super Bowl date was changed in two thousand 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.200 and one. Game scheduled for September sixteenth, that weekend, we're 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.040 moved to the end of the season, and then you 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.800 had the Patriots Rams super Bowl pushed back a week. Therefore, 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.080 that game was played February third of two thousand and one. 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.760 The first Super Bowl that was played in February. Now 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:58.560 we're talking about middle of February, even late February, if 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.480 we have to. Yes, yeah, they got in one game 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.280 before nine to eleven, so the start was on time. 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.520 They played September ninth. I just look at it. And 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:11.680 then they came back. Remember, okay, start on time, But 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:13.920 then they had one week, they had one game and 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:15.800 that was it and then they shut down. Then they 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.360 were the first to come back, right. But people liked 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:22.160 tag Leeboo for coming back, as I recall, well, I 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:27.200 think we wanted to show what it represented. But we 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.040 were coming back, and I remember when the President was 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.799 their Yankee Stadium. I think he had a bulletproof vest 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:34.880 on when he threw out the first pitch, and like 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.919 we we wanted to say to terrorism, hey, you know what, 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.040 We're still going to be who we are. That's different 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.840 than this, like we're you can't say to the coronavirus, Hey, 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.120 we're gonna show you. You want to, but you can't. 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.920 That was one of those Hey we're gonna come together 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.680 and we're gonna play because we want to show that 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.799 we're still unified. We don't want to take this away. 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.880 We don't want this taken away from us. And those 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:05.400 were emotional moments. Those were powerful moments. They won't be 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:09.760 the same because of what's at stake here. You know 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.719 what happened at nine to eleven in New York City 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.320 and Washington, d C. But it's still going to have. 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:19.599 In fact, I don't know what that feeling is going 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.600 to be, Like I can only imagine. And I've said before, 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:26.760 when we play highlights of you know, an event that's 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.080 years ago, I hear the crowd now more than I've 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:34.600 ever heard it before because we took it for granted. 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.520 But when you don't hear a crowd noise, and then 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.800 I hear a clip from you know, somebody doing something incredible. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.239 The crowd noise is what comes through loud and clear, 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.760 all right. Eight seven seven three d P show email 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:51.080 address DP at dan Patrick dot com. Major League Baseball 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.880 the owners a sliding pay scale could put higher paid 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.920 players in a tough spot, and now is not the 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.559 time to make labor noise. But it seems like there's 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.279 a lot of noise being made, and Major League Baseball 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:09.400 keeps leaking information to the media. Three people with knowledge 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:14.800 of the proposal told USA Today Sports the proposal to 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.760 pay players a pro rated percentage of their salaries, with 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.760 the players who make the most taking the biggest salary cuts. 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.080 And the three people spoke on the condition of anonymity 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:28.000 because the negotiations are ongoing. That hasn't stopped anybody from 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.880 leaking all this information. But this is the bottom line 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:35.160 with this. The owners are concerned about the postseason. That's 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:39.800 when they stand to make generate the most revenue on 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:44.039 TV rights, and that could be wiped out if the 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.760 second wave of the coronavirus comes back in October or November. 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:51.600 This is what's being discussed, and I don't know how 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.560 many owners are going to say, yeah, let's try to 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.839 get this season. How many players, these guys who are 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.800 making you know, over twenty million dollars, are they going 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.000 to want to come back if you're going to reduce 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.719 it to five million dollars? Mike Trout, you know, what 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.400 is it? Thirty six million? Now seven million? You got 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.600 a baby on the way. I don't know. We haven't 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:14.360 heard about the health portion of this. Only with Blake Snell. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:19.120 It feels like now we're talking about just money. Blake 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.239 Snell was talking about his health. He was talking about money. 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.120 He said it's not worth it with the health risk. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.040 Now it just feels like this is about money and 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:32.160 hopefully Baseball can keep their business inside and unless their 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.760 goal is to disrupt the Baseball Players Association, because they've 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:39.200 done it. If that's their goal, mission accomplished here. If 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.440 you want the ranks a little bit in disarray here, 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.680 they've certainly done it. Because you're gonna have a lot 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:49.119 of guys who are making the minimum and percentage wise, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.760 it won't look it's not going to feel like that 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:53.960 big a hit like Mike Trout's going to take. But 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.360 if you're making two hundred now all of a sudden, 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.800 you're making eighty still pretty big hit. The guys who 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:03.559 make minimum have to come back and play. The guys 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.920 who make all the money don't have to come back 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:07.800 and play. I don't know if you're going to have 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.239 a stance by some of these, you know, the halbs 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.600 and the havens. I don't know that that's where we're headed, 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.680 but it certainly feels that way. I had some phone 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:19.160 calls here Dustin in Texas leads us off. Hi, Dustin, 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:23.440 what's on your mind? Hey there, Dan Gentleman six flat 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:30.440 two and a coda, Proud Red Raider alumni and no 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:35.800 intervention required. Back in three h four, we had a 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.920 nose tackle on the football team named Fred the Wheat, 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:45.360 and he had the most beautiful calves you've ever seen, 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.040 And we ran around with some guys on the team 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:53.160 and across campus they were known as baby heads. All right, 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.920 thank you, Dustin. Wasn't there? Are seen in Entourage where 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.560 Johnny Drama was looking at lamar Odom's calves and he 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:04.439 wanted to of calf h Yeah. He Actually he's at 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.000 a party and he sees some guy and he starts 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.240 asking about his calves and the guy gets all upset, 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.320 Tim and Ohio joints us Hi, Tim, what do you 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:15.880 have for me? Greatest Mafia movie? But five to ten 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:22.120 of Cold one ninety greatest Makia movie of all time? 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:26.079 Thanks to your back when I won't know this, thanks 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.360 to do in Denver when you're dad. Okay, all right? 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.480 And yeah, yeah I remember that with Andy Garcia. But 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.040 I don't think that's the best gangster movie of all time. 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:40.640 I'm not an expert on gangster movie. But it's funny. 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.800 There's a dark comedy angle to that. Yeah. Christopher Walkins 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.880 really good in it. He's a he's like the mob guy. Yeah, 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:52.200 organized crime boss. That's all right, It's it's niche. It's good. Yeah. Well, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.480 we got on this topic because the great writer Stephen 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:58.280 King tweeted out something about good Fellas and where it 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.559 ranked on the all time list of great mobster movies. 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:05.760 And I haven't seen many of them. I've sampled some 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.520 of them, but I haven't seen them all the way through, 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:12.360 including The Godfather, like just a little bit. Yeah, mclemen. 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.160 It's one thing to you have not seen all the Godfather. 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.440 It's another thing to tell Sonny Corleone that you didn't 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:19.120 see all of the Godfather. I can't believe you said 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:23.160 told him that. Well, I just I wanted to say 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:25.880 I was trying to joke with James Kahn. I talked 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.320 to him last week and I said, you know, and 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.160 I was going to say, hey, after you got shot, 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:31.760 then I didn't want to watch the rest of the 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:36.079 movie as But it was true. I had to research 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.400 the interview and I went back and I watched it, 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.719 and that I realized, you know, he didn't get to 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:47.000 be in Godfather too, as great as he was. And 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:51.239 the story is al Pacino wanted to play Sonny Corleone 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.280 because he thought it was a more interesting role. And 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.080 I don't think James Kahn made more than fifty thousand 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:02.000 dollars off Godfather one. I mean, they you can check. 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.600 I don't think he made more than fifty. He probably 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.040 didn't make fifty thousand dollars off that movie. Yeah, mclub. 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.640 It's probably a generation who knows him as the dad 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.000 in Elf, which is like Christmas movie you see all 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.280 the time. Yeah. Yeah. He was also in Brian's Song. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.080 He played the role Brian Piccolo, the former Chicago Bear 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:24.520 fullback who died where Billy d Williams was Gail Sairs 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.880 and James Kahn. He dies in the end, as you know, 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.200 it's a true story. Brian Piccolo. But yeah, they probably 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:35.040 remember James Khn for that. Wasn't he in Honeymoon in 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:42.800 Las Vegas movie? Sarah Jessica Park, Yes, very good movie. Yeah, yes, 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.760 MC club. He was over se Bottle Rocket Wes Anderson's 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.480 first movie with Luke Wilson. Yeah, he was the bad 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.640 guy in that. Oh, I don't remember. Yeah, it's a 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:56.040 long time ago, but little role. Yeah, I remember. Didn't 0:11:56.160 --> 0:12:00.880 Luke Wilson not Luke Owen had a flat top? Yes, 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:04.439 that's a one. James Con was the okay, the boss. Yeah, 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.040 you got a salary poll. Yeah. For the movie The Godfather. 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:11.880 The actors Robert Juval got thirty six thousand. Alpaccino, James 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:16.520 Con and Diane Keaton each got thirty five thousand. Marlon 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.400 Brando got fifty thousand dollars for six weeks of work. 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.679 He's paid one thousand dollars per week for expenses, and 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:26.199 then he got five percent of the film's take. He's 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.960 the only actor got that, which was capped at one 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:32.719 point five million dollars. So James conn made thirty five 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:41.040 thousand dollars and worked for twelve weeks. I think still though, Yeah, Well, 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.319 would you rather if you didn't make a lot of money? 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.280 At least you were one you were part of a 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:51.559 one of the great movies in history? Would you rather 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.160 make more money for a bad movie or less money 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.080 for one of the great movies of all time? In 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.560 the sequel, Alpaccino because he was in both, Who Callari 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.240 was five hundred thousand dollars, it jumped to five hunder 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:04.880 thousand dollars for a sequel. That's a big more you 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:08.560 needed him, Yeah, Jason and Nebraska. Hey Jason, what do 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:12.720 you have for me? Hey Danny danets Lobb, you guys 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:17.480 are the best um staying with the mafia saying, um, 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.360 I'm not beating him as well, Dan, But I'll tell 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:24.319 you there's one out there that's great, Corky Romano. There's 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.800 a scene in there that will bring you the absolute cheers. Uh. 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.559 But also want to ask you do you watch uh, 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.440 I know you watch Netflix. Have you have you looked 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:38.760 at Narcos Mexico. There's uh, you know, it's a great series, 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:42.320 but there's also a woman in there. Isabella. Wow, whoa 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:47.200 thank you, thank you Jason. I started watching Narcos and 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:51.920 then I just said, now I can't. I couldn't. What 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.719 what's the one Cicario that's a movie? I watched that one? 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:59.480 That's uh. John Krasinski's wife is in Eli Blot. Yes, yeah, 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.440 I watch that. Did you fail? Oh? That is rough 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.240 at the end? Yes it is. Yeah. Did you write 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:10.480 these movies never end well? No? No, and I end 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:15.040 up rooting for the bad guy. I watched I just 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.760 finished Unorthodox, and I was surprised to realize there's only 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.520 four episodes of Unorthodox, and I seton goes, hey, how 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.080 many episodes? I go, I don't know, probably eight, maybe ten. 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.560 I finished yesterday and I go wait, Usually it says 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.080 hey five seconds before it goes to the next episode. 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.680 It was like, nope, this is it. It's done. They 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.440 wrapped it up in four and I went he left 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:41.000 me hanging there a little bit. But Unorthodox is uh. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:46.080 It's certainly interesting. It's about the acidic Jews and a 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.440 woman who wants to get out of her arranged marriage, 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.360 and she goes to Berlin where her mom is living, 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:56.400 and her husband follows her. Just that world of the 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:03.280 Hasidic Jews. I'd never I didn't know anything about that world. Yeah, mclovin, 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.360 it's way different with the Jewishness that I grew up with. 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.760 But that's like two blocks from my house that in Brooklyn. 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:14.000 You see that particular sect. Yeah, I've read what they're called, 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.640 but they're all over Williamsburg, right right around where we 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:22.920 hang out. Yah set. The worst Mafia ending might be 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.960 Donnie Brascoe because he not only do you spend the 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:31.440 whole movie watching the cop, he goes undercover and his 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.320 whole life is turned upside down. I mean it's like 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.120 completely destroyed. He's kind of losing his identity for a 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.120 little while where he can't tell if he's an FBI 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.880 agent or if he's a mobster Johnny Depp, right, Yeah, 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.280 he does all of this stuff his whole life. His 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.920 family hates him, his kids hate him, his wife hates him, 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.480 like everybody hates him. Then he has to turn on 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:53.160 the buddies that he's made within the mafia. And then 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.200 at the very end of it all, when you watch this, 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.200 just guy just absolutely go through hell and back. At 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.400 the end of it all, he gets a hand shake 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.640 and a little plaque that says thanks for your work 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.520 in like a ten second ceremony of like, hey, all right, 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.560 thanks a lot, to see you later. And that's it, 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.680 and it's like, all right, now go pick up the pieces. Holymoally, 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.280 is that brutal? Why is watching Serpico the other night 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.640 with Al Pacino? And you know the very end he 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:22.160 basically fearing for his life from his fellow police officers 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.440 and then he went into hiding. I think he lives 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:28.280 in upstate New York, but watching that and you're thinking 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:32.240 Al was in trouble. He was great in Serpoco. All right, 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.880 eighteen after the hour, We'll check in with the commissioner 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.400 of the National Hockey League, Gary Betman. Morphone calls as well. 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.120 Eighteen after the hour. This is The Dan Patrick Show. 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.760 Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.680 sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine to 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:49.040 noon Eastern or six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.680 Find your local station for The Dan Patrick Show at 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.680 Fox Sports Radio dot com, or stream us live every 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:58.600 day on the iHeartRadio app by searching f s R. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.680 Head to Dan Patrick dot com. Check out all the 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.880 latest DP show gear. We have something special coming just 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.359 in time for Father's Jay. Check out the new store 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.240 at dan patrick dot com. He's the commissioner of the 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:15.280 National Hockey League. Season stopped on March twelfth. The NHL 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.879 will now move to a twenty four teen conference based 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:22.040 postseason format that was approved by the National Hockey League 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:26.440 Players Association last Friday, and the commissioner joins us now, commissioner, 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.760 thank you for joining us. Why did you think going 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.800 into the playoffs and that playoff format was the right move? Well, 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.359 first of all, I want to know where I can 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:40.320 buy that bubble ahead of you playing hockey, And thank you. Secondly, 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.280 and more importantly, thanks for having me. And I hope 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.680 you and all your viewers and listeners and all your 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:50.760 colleagues are well and staying safe. You know, we have 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:55.320 extraordinary competitive balance. Our regular season races to the playoffs 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:59.200 go down to the wires with lots of teams in contention. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:04.159 And if you look at the standings as of March twelfth, 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.560 and we took the pause, there were a lot of 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.080 clubs on the bubble and we thought it was only 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.160 fair since we couldn't complete the regular season. We were 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.760 one hundred and eighty nine games away from completing the 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.679 regular season, that we had to give those teams a 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.760 chance that might very well have made the playoffs if 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.639 we had been able to conclude the regular season, and 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:27.399 instead of concluding the regular season when we came back, 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.680 we were also mindful of the fact that the players 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:32.879 are going to have to be away from home, and 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:36.640 we didn't want to have that experience to be prolonged 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:40.440 any longer than really necessary. I saw where about seventeen 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:44.440 percent of the NHL our players from outside of North America. 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:48.399 What's the biggest concern with getting them into the States 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:53.080 tested and just the safety precautions. Well, actually it's seven 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.800 we have more of it's probably closer to twenty five 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.160 percent of our players or from outside of North America. 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:02.119 But seventeen percent of our players right now are in 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.440 locations outside of North America and we have to bring 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:11.159 them back. Obviously, there are immigration issues, although since they 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:14.119 all have valid visas, that shouldn't be an issue. The 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.800 bigger issue is the fact that they were going to 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:20.200 have to quarantine for a couple of weeks, and we're 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:22.720 going to when we open our training facilities, which we 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.800 hope to do the first week of June, they're going 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:30.240 to be subject to some testing. As we move to 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:33.720 the training camp phase, there'll be more testing, and then 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:36.679 when we get to the actual playing tests playing stage. 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.720 We're being told by our medical people who are giving 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:42.520 us all the advice on this and whose advice we're 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:46.240 following players if they're not being tested every day, they're 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.520 going to be tested at least every other day. But 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:51.040 is this the NHL doing the testing or will it 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:54.479 be individual teams doing the testing? Well, actually, it'll be 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:59.200 individual teams in the training camp and training facilities phase, 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.720 although we have backup for clubs that can't arrange to 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:05.760 do it locally. And any of the tests we're doing, 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:08.439 whether it's the clubs the backup, or what we're going 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.480 to do when we're actually playing the competition, we're not 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.920 going to do anything that would interfere with the medical 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:18.560 needs that may be required for testing. And we're being 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:22.159 told by the experts that by the summer, by the 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:25.760 summer there will be such an abundance of testing, our 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:30.160 needs will really be infantessable relative to what will be available. 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:33.160 Could the format of twenty four teams in the playoffs 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:37.439 stay after this season? No? What we like, what we 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:42.119 have our regular season puts teams in the playoffs virtually 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:47.560 all season. We love the way the regular season plays out. 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:52.760 It's every game is meaningful our regular playoffs, so sixteen 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:58.040 teams hits just the right note. The competition is the 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:03.280 entertainment value, the sitement, the passion couldn't be better. And 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:08.560 so we're doing something extraordinary in response to an extraordinary time. 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:13.879 Fans in the stands any possibility with them, you know, 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:16.560 that's something we're not going to have any control over. 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:20.760 Everything we're doing is going to be subject to the 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:24.160 guidance and requirements of what the medical people tell us 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:27.800 and what the governmental leaders are telling us at all levels, 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:32.360 whether it's federal, state or a local And if they 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:35.280 tell us, we can have fans, and obviously nothing would 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:38.680 make us happier. But I think everybody should assume that 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:41.280 as we play this out over the summer and into 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:45.840 the fall, it's probably most unlikely that they'll be fans 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:48.400 in the buildings, not because we wouldn't want them, but 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:51.359 it's safety. It's a health issue, and we're listening to 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:54.159 the experts. I know, you have to look at the 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:56.600 worst case scenario. What if what if a player test 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:00.480 positive in the middle of the playoffs, then one, Well, 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:03.800 that's a question. I've been getting a lot for obvious reasons. 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:08.040 The medical people are telling us one test would require 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:10.840 that player to be isolated, and you don't need an 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:14.960 overreaction if you have an outbreak. That's a completely different story. 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:19.000 What constitutes an outbreak, what procedures we need to follow. 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:21.800 That is something that the medical people are going to 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:25.159 tell us. That's not a judgment that I'm going to 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:28.680 make saying, well, just keep playing. We'll be doing what 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:32.760 with the medical people tell us is appropriate under the circumstances. 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:36.480 How often do you consult with government officials. We're in 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:41.520 regular dialogue, whether it's it's the Prime Minister of Canada 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:44.480 or some of his ministers, or the President of the 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:49.040 United States, or governors or premiers or mayors. We're hearing 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:51.320 from lots of them, in part because we want to 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:55.000 get squared away on the ability of getting players in 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:57.520 and out of the countries. And then we have a 0:22:57.520 --> 0:23:00.919 lot of communities that are lobbying to be one of 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:04.800 the two hubs where we're going to play this out. Now, we, 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:08.360