WEBVTT - Hour 2 – Brian Jordan, HR Derby Robbery 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:04.440 Sports Radio. 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:10.760 Yeah, that's all day two of the Dan Patrick Patrick. Yeah, 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:14.080 Covino and Rich. Always a pleasure filling in for Dan Patrick. 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:17.360 And thank you Fox Sports Radio Nation, Dan Patrick fans 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.000 for hanging out with us, putting up with us live 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:22.360 from the MLB All Star Village in Atlanta. 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:24.240 It's the ultimate baseball hot spot. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:25.880 You could be part of the excitement here at Capitol 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.600 one All Star Village through the day. Head to the 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:32.480 Cobb Gallery for baseball fun, live entertainment, interactive games. Buy 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.120 tickets today at All Star game dot Com. And again, 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.480 you never know who's gonna stop by. Coach Ballgame. Who's 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.239 such a big deal stopped by yesterday? That guy is 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:42.880 really blowing up as we speak. And I heard Brian 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.120 Jordan's in the area. He might be stopping by it. 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.919 But again, you never know. So yeah, we hope you 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.120 stop by. If not this year, maybe next year. We'll 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.720 see you Coveno and Rich Monday through Friday two to 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:54.480 four on the West, five to seven on the East. 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.240 Search Covino and Rich wherever you stream your podcast. We'd 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:58.920 love to hang out with you on the daily. But 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.400 let's talk a little baseball, football, basketball, whatever you're into, 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.440 because what would you give up. 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.959 If it meant your team could win it all. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.360 Now we're gonna give away prizes today, we might do 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.560 some trivia, so stick around. But Rock Party was in 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.199 the news at the end of last week. I believe 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.720 we're sitting there in the studio we're watching Rock Party 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.080 being interviewed. We're not listening, we're just watching it, and 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.479 we're saying to each other, Look how young he looks. Man, 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.520 it looks like a schoolboy, his kid. I think he 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.280 had his hat on backwards. He's sitting there. And the 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.920 caption was, I'd do a year in prison if it 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:34.320 meant my team could win it all. 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.080 I'd spend a year in the Big House for a 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:38.839 Super Bowl. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.479 And just the other day we were talking to some 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:50.400 baseball fans, obviously, and Jaron Durant came up of the 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.919 Red Sox, and according to Red Sox reports, Jaron Durant 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:58.120 has pledged that if they won the World Series, which 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.680 isn't gonna happen, I mean, there's streaking, but beat it right, 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:02.480 I mean they've won. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.360 Ten in a row. I mean the Yankees fan, you 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.560 are so of course you're gonna say. 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:11.280 Jaron Duran, the Vato local forever, pledged to donate fifty 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:15.000 percent of his World Series bonus the charity supporting children 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.800 who love baseball but can't afford to play, should the 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:20.079 team win a World Series. 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.000 So he'd give up half of his bonus if they 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:23.560 won it all. 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:25.280 And it just got us thinking, well, what would you 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.840 give up if it meant your team could win it all? 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.400 I think those two examples are so extremely different. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.280 Rock Perty said he'd go to jail for a year. 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.520 I mean he needs it. Duran said he'd give up. 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:42.160 Like bonus, half of his bonus money if Duran wins. 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.160 That's money he wouldn't have got anyway. Brock Perty saying 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:46.519 he'd go to the big house. 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.120 Still meant to be a nice gesture. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.160 Bro He didn't like make that quote in hopes that 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.280 rich would dump on it. It's meant to be like, 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.040 you know, if we win, I'm giving the charity. It 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.640 wasn't meant to be a bad thing. I get what 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.240 you're saying. It was meant to be a good That 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.280 would be like if you told me, hey, covin on ritch, 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.440 you guys win the Award for a coolest Guys to 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.480 fill in for Dan Patrick. And I'm like, well, you 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.160 know what, I'm gonna give half of my little bonus 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.320 I didn't even think was coming to a good car. 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.840 Still yours, Gunberger. Still your money. You don't do anything, 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.120 but you don't have to give it to anybody. Brock 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:18.519 Perty said he'd go to jail. 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.880 I'm you want to go ail the sacrifice. I'm just 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:23.360 giving you the two recent storm. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:24.920 All right, I'll give you. I'll give you something we 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.080 did years ago. We were in New Orleans. 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:28.519 In fact, I remember, by the way, why do you 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.840 got me defending Jaron Durant? I don't care about that. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:34.280 Ask clown anyway. All right, let's go back to twenty thirteen, 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.200 twelve years ago. I remember that because I was in 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.160 New Orleans with you. My forty nine Ers lost the 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:44.800 Super Bowl that year as the Battle of the Harbaja Brothers, 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.440 and I remember you and I were on Bourbon Street 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:53.440 having some hurricanes, probably looking at some booties, doing our 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:54.680 usual comunale rich. 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.160 Thing, and we were asking people on the street. 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:02.200 As a bit how long would you give up six 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.800 if it meant your team won NBA title, World series 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.040 super Bowl, and I'd be shocked. There are some guys 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.360 that I questioned if they even cared about their team, 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.240 because like not a day and I'm like, man, this 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.760 guy must be getting lot of booty. Then other guys 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.520 said things like a year years and some years years. 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:23.320 I mean, you have to question two where they're getting 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:24.440 any to begin with. 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.440 But there's some guy hearing a lot of that. 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.040 I was surprised to hear that people would be willing 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.440 to do that for a year if it meant their 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:31.840 team one. 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:33.719 He's like, man, you're really desperate for a win. 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:34.359 Huh. 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.640 I think Brock even alluded with busting with the boys 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:41.520 that he may give part of his pinky finger, he'd 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:43.680 cut off part of his pinky finger on his non 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:44.480 throwing hand. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.800 Well, it's like a major burden. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.240 It's like a major monkey on your back if you 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:55.040 have to play your career not getting to that promised land, 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.799 not winning so again, to win one and then play 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:00.600 the rest of his career out mean a lot. 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:01.480 To a rock party. 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:03.400 You know, it's one thing to get there, but it's 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.200 another thing to win it all. So I think that 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:06.960 would mean a lot. 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:07.600 Clearly, if. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:10.760 Guy like you, what if I told you you're gonna 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:12.800 put on like ten pounds if the Yankees want, no, 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:13.560 I won't do it. 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.160 I won't do it. You know, I spoiled the Yankees fan. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:18.960 How are you all right? 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.839 Coveno and Rich here at All Star Village. 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:25.400 And it's a pleasure. 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.000 It's so cool because we bring this guy up often 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:29.480 on our show. 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.760 I'm proud to say that, let's welcome Brian Jordan. What's up? 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:39.360 What's it's Atlanta Royalty. We bring you up because I 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.919 feel often your name is not brought up enough enough. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:44.920 When when people talk about, oh, you see what shoe 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.640 Hail Tani's doing pitching and hitting, and then everyone goes 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.920 well Bo Jackson and Dion and I'm like, and Brian. 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.560 Jordan, yeah, man, you feel a little burned by that? 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.920 Or tell everybody I'm the Rodney Danger feel the two 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.760 sport athletes. I get no respect, respect, But you know 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.680 I've always been that way, been humble, just going out 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:04.400 and doing my job and going home. 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:04.680 Man. 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.360 And uh, you know, like I tell everybody, I didn't 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.480 get the exposure that those guys got at college level, you. 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:11.840 Know, go to a smaller. 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.080 College and is that what it was? 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.560 You think, well that, and I broke my leg and 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.440 dislocated my ankle in the Senior Bowl. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:18.680 So here it is. 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.120 I was first round in Major League Baseball by the Cardinals, 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:24.359 and I was supposed to be first round in the 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:29.400 NFL until that injury. Broke my leg dislocated my ankle 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.599 in the Senior Bowl. In the first quarter of the game, 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.080 I started running across the field to make the big 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.960 hit on Cleveland Garrier University of Miami back in the day, 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:40.279 and bam, my own teammate took me out. So it 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.359 was a different route for me, you know, because I was. 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.880 Around a different time too. Yeah, coloading was different, like exact. 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.480 Imagine if social media is the thing for all we know, 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.159 he could have been dancing on TikTok. 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.919 You could have been the most personable of all the guys, you. 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.360 Know, and you asked Lean about my dancing. 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.960 It's awful, But hey, maybe you had been more famous 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:02.000 because of that exactly, But dude, you're still legend. 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.600 The thing is, you're more of a when we talk 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.480 about these things, a zinger when it should be an automatic. 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.520 But we're gonna make it that way because anytime someone 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:14.080 brings up Bo Jackson or Deon Sanders, Brian Jordan should 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:18.200 be in the conversation easily, pro bowler, All star, a 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:19.760 guy that did it all. And you played in the 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.840 big leagues for fifteen years, dude, and so it's not 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.400 like you just uh were there for a couple of 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.480 coffee and left. You were there for a long time. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.680 To eighty two banning average, which, by the way, nowadays 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.880 is that's like, oh my two. 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.000 I mean the league average is like two forty right now. 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:37.280 What do you think when you hear that? 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.840 It's the game has changed tremendously where you know, back 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.920 in now day, strikeouts mint something, right, you didn't want 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.720 to strike out and you wanted to win the ball game, 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.080 so you did whatever you sacrificed for the team. 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.200 You know, we don't see that anymore. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:56.720 It's about you know, launching, launch angles and everything else. 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.200 So analytics has taken over. 0:07:59.240 --> 0:07:59.400 You know. 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.640 I played for one of the greatest managers in Tony L. Rooster, 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.760 who was to me analytics before it was the analytics 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:06.600 because he used to. 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:08.360 Save all those numbers. 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.960 And I remember I was hot as a Tamali man 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.320 as far as I was on fire hits and I 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.920 came in and my name wasn't in the lineup, and 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:18.200 I go into Tony's office. 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.120 It's like, dude, what's going on? I am hot man? 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.880 And he said, while you're hitting so and so off 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.880 of sid and uh, I'm gonna start I'm like what, Yeah, 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.480 but he was analytics before they were and you know, 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.960 now hack all the Harvard boys in town and it's 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:39.520 nothing but analytics. Man, So get the ball in the air. 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:43.440 No more ground balls. And that's so different from when 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:44.280 we played man. 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.520 So yeah, I wonder when you just said that when 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.600 you weren't in the lineup. I always wonder those days. 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.520 Is it a nice break? Or when you're a competitor, 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.000 do you want to play every day? Like if you're 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:56.920 like I'm a Mets fan, you know, you go to 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.240 the ballpark, it's like, oh uh, you know Peter A 0:08:59.240 --> 0:08:59.960 Lonzo is sitting there. 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.320 He doesn't want to shit, does he ever? Or no? 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.560 No, no, I mean our mindset is you want to 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:06.880 play every day, every day. I mean, but reality is 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:08.240 your body's gonna get tired. 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:09.880 You might need a day or two. 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.240 You know, you look at Olsen here, who's played every 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.840 single game in the last two three years. You know, 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.280 that's unheard of, the cal Ripken. I don't think anybody's 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:24.040 ever gonna break that record. That's just amazing. 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.720 Man. To be able to play every day, is that's 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.520 something different anyway? 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.080 I mean, goy questions for you. 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.160 Yeah, A hundred and eighty four home runs right, one 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:36.800 hundred and eighty four pre home runs if you were 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.520 swinging for the fences all the time, if you played 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.160 in today's game, probably. 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:44.000 Four hundred home right at least. Man, But that wasn't 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:44.400 my game. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.360 My game was I'm gonna use all my tools speed, 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.280 you know, depending on the game, the situation, I'm gonna 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.960 get the guy over or drive him in hitting the 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:54.760 ball the other way. 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:56.400 That just doesn't happen anymore. 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.160 Man, If they don't want you to put the ball 0:09:58.200 --> 0:09:59.720 on the ground, which is crazy to me. 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:03.080 So yeah, I will be trying to launch every. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.760 I wouldn't care about strikeouts like these guys, I'm swinging 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:06.320 for the fences. 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.560 When you have all these skills, again, they put you 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.280 in great position in the NFL and MLB. Who were 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.240 you most proud to play alongside and against? 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.920 Wow? Well, Andrew Jones, who's with me? Should be in 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:20.480 the Hall of Fame. 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:23.520 And I even saying that guy was there was a 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.439 point in time where he was like a gazelle outfield 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.760 and he was hitting bombs like and he was so young. 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:29.839 Yeah, I mean, you. 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.679 Look at his numbers though, and he still hit over 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.280 four hundred home runs. He was one of the probably 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.640 arguably King Griffy and Hill are the best center fielders. 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.640 And you know, we can go way back and Willie 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.280 Mays too, So I mean, he was one of the 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:47.640 best center fielders in our time. So defense alone should 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:49.240 put him in the Hall of Fame in my eyes, 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.960 I agree. I hope he gets in. But playing alongside 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:53.400 here was just so much fun. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.440 Man, and against like who do you often bring up 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.160 like Man? I can't believe I competed with that. 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:01.000 No, Barry Bonds, Man awesome. I don't. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:02.920 I don't want to cuss on air, but man, he 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.560 was one of the freaking best hitters ever. 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:05.839 Man. 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.440 Barry Bonds recently said though he thinks the only guy 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.920 in his category, He said he thinks King Griffy Junior, 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.040 if never injured, would have been the best player of 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:14.560 all time. 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:16.120 I agree. 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.679 I agree that swing he had, Man, and you know, 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.800 just his his attitude. I mean every ball you hit, 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.120 he wants to catch. I mean, that's that's the way 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.680 the game is supposed to be playing. Now, guys, let 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.160 those balls drop because they you know where the agents 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:31.800 are saying, stay healthy. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.400 Stay on the field, you know. But we played reckless. 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:34.640 Man. 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.240 It was like laying on the line. We went in 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.000 today and uh a little different. 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.800 Being a You're a guy that played football and baseball 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.679 on the highest level, at the highest high pro Bobler 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:49.280 and All Star. What feels better hitting a bomb or 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.360 picking the ball off? Sacking a quarterback? 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:51.520 Like? 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.040 What is the what is the sports feeling that? That? 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.240 That's tops mine is hitting the damn receiver coming across 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:57.679 the middle. 0:11:58.440 --> 0:11:59.920 I love the hitting part. Man. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.400 You get to interception. If I intercept the ball, pissed 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.040 it back to Dion anyway, man. So no, it was 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.120 about hitting for me. I was one of those safeties. 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.440 I love to hit and Uh. I used to tell Dion, 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.679 I don't care. I'll hit the guy as long as 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.160 you cover intercept the ball in school and that's all 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:15.920 I care about. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.240 Man, I gotta bring this, uh. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.600 Brian Jordan hanging out with Covino and Rich We mentioned 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:23.319 Dion Sanders, We mentioned Ken Griffy Junior, we mentioned Barry Bonds. 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:25.520 As a baseball fan, I think in my bedroom, I 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.839 think of guys like Willie Randolph and Dave Winfield. How 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:32.080 do we get more black players involved in MLB because 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:33.599 it's so much excitement. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:35.640 There were some of my heroes growing up. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.360 Yeah, And that was the great thing about this week 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.320 is being able to manage the HBCU game for me, 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:45.400 you know, to meet those black players who don't get 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.480 the exposure that they deserve. And you know, here at 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.360 truest part, these guys showed that they could play this 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:56.000 game at the highest level, right and they performed very well. 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.880 So hopefully we had some scouts there to see that. 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.280 In some of these as we'll get an opportunity. 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:03.680 But is it the path to the pros that made 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.800 that just NBA NFL? It seems like there's more of 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:10.240 a clear path to the money and the pros where baseball. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:13.440 Baseball is a grind. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.600 And I remember when I first decided to play Major 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:18.600 League baseball, I got drafted by the Cars. I'm at 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.840 Assie Smith with a McGee and those guys and they're 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.360 teasing me. You know, Hey, you know, baseball is where 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.400 it is, and I'm like, man, you guys are whimps 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:32.000 football players, man, we hitting and crushing each other. My 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.320 first full season of baseball, I remember going back to 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.480 Ozzie said, I had a new respect for you guys, man, 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:38.800 because it's a grind. 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.240 Six two games is. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.920 A grind, and it's the hardest game I've ever played, 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:47.080 you know, to be consistent every day. So but I 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.720 still football was my favorite. Loved the game of football. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.439 But but it seems like, as I'm gonna quote the 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.280 Dean Sanders, your boy, baseball's popping right now, so that. 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.480 I'm mad at my parents having me so early. Man, 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.240 I playing this day and age Colley. You know, it's 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:07.120 having one hundred million dollars for player. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:07.800 I was looking. 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:09.920 I was looking at some of your sweet signing bonuses 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.040 and like, unfortunately, the money now is a lot different. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.599 You know it is, man, and you know, kudos and 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.880 those guys. I mean, man, that's where the finances have gone. 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.240 I mean, to me, major League Baseball is doing really, 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.640 really good when you look at these big contracts going 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.480 out and the whole nil and everything has changed the 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.480 whole landscape of sports. Man so man, I have an 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.920 eight year old, a thirteen year old. Now you know, 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.000 I can't help but think about, man. 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:38.800 They got the skills to get there. Because we just 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.720 saw that the draft this year. Famous teams. 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.640 They're like, you know, every everyone we grew up with 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.560 their kids or nephews are now, you know, getting drafted. 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:47.840 You know. 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.800 And I had two older boys, and I never pushed them, 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.680 you know, because I knew the grind and I knew 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:54.320 I didn't want my. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:55.520 Kids to have to go through that. 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.640 But now it's like, you know, my next three boys 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.720 coming up, I'm like, man, you better grind, you know, 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.800 because the opportunities are there. You know, we didn't have 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:09.000 those opportunities. Kids today have those opportunities. So you're you 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:10.680 gotta grind your kids, man. 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:15.280 Brian Jordan, Hang, you know, rich, Baseball, football, both games 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.040 have have evolved and changed. 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.040 What's uh? Which one do you think more so? 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.080 Becus you said you love hitting the receiver going to 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.600 the middle, which you can't really do anymore. You were 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.160 playing small ball when you had to not really the 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:26.720 game anymore. 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.080 Which have you seen change more? 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:29.520 Both of them? 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.520 Yeah, you know, especially and not understand NFL. You have 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:37.120 to try to make the game safer. Uh, it's tough 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:38.480 for me to watch some. 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.040 Of those What a great hit in the flag comes out. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:45.760 Right, And I know the it's all instinctive in football, 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.600 you know, So it's hard to sit here and try 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:48.320 to tease somebody. 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:49.960 Oh, you gotta put your head to the side. 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:52.240 But when you're going one hundred miles an hour with 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.320 that reality wise, you're gonna make hits. 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.080 Helmet the helmet, it's gonna happen. 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.480 So I don't think those guys should be suspended and 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:01.120 all that stuff. 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:02.360 Man, it's gonna happen. 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.640 Yeah, throw the flag in fifteen yards, but don't penalize 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:07.440 the kid and take him out of the game in 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.040 a big college game when you need him the most. 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:15.680 I hate that rule. But you know, technology is taken over, 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.920 so all this different equipment and everything else are getting 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.760 examined in baseball and football. So the world is changing, 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:25.640 so you know sports is gonna change too. 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:29.600 All Pro nineteen ninety one, All Star nineteen ninety nine, 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.360 The game, All Star Game is tonight. Tell us about 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.480 the excitement of playing in an All Star Game, the 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:36.080 feelings you have. 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.000 You know, it's an honor to be able to play 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.520 in an All Star Game represent your organization. But I'm 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.720 gonna be honest, man, that ninety nine All Star Game 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.600 was probably one of the best ever to have Ted 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.240 Williams and a golf cart. Come on, really, that was 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.760 the one the greatest players in the middle of the 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:53.040 field before the game. 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.160 Didn't get any better than that, man. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.640 But I must say, although I enjoyed making an All 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:02.000 Star Game, when you got one hundred and sixty two 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:06.120 games season, you almost what those three four days that's 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.119 just spend with your family, man. But I enjoyed it. 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.480 I bought my family and it was a great experience. 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:14.200 But I was like, man, and you're an All Star 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:15.160 for the rest of your life. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.200 You are for the rest of your life, and all 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.680 I needed was one talent. I don't want to make 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.560