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Speaker 2: I guess Tyler was trying to be funny. He said, Hey,
Speaker 2: we'll have funeral potatoes as the Oakland A's say goodbye
Speaker 2: to Oakland. They're a cheesy potato casserole. We'll talk to
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Speaker 2: Some of the headlines here the Giants they lost by
Speaker 2: five points, the over under. The point spread was five
Speaker 2: and a half. Dallas Beach, New York Melik Neighbors out
Speaker 2: with a concussion. The White Sox hold off history again.
Speaker 2: Final weekend of the regular season Big college football weekend,
Speaker 2: including Georgia at Alabama. The A's are done in Oakland
Speaker 2: and after a two year stop in Sacramento, will end
Speaker 2: up in Las Vegas, which is where we bring in
Speaker 2: Bob Nightingale, USA Today Baseball columnist. How did we get
Speaker 2: to this point, Bob, where Oakland is losing their A's
Speaker 2: to Las Vegas?
Speaker 3: What's been going on.
Speaker 2: About twenty years?
Speaker 4: Dan?
Speaker 3: I mean they've been running a new ballpark since two
Speaker 3: thousand and five. Resident John Fisher bought the team with
Speaker 3: Lou Wolf and they wanted to go to San Jose.
Speaker 3: The Giants blocked them, tried five different places, nothing, nothing worked.
Speaker 3: Follow these surrendered and say, you know what we're done.
Speaker 3: We're going to Las Vegas. So it's too bad. I
Speaker 3: meant the crowd they got yesterday, the crowd they got
Speaker 3: this past homestand and that if that was going on
Speaker 3: all along, they never left.
Speaker 2: What kind of stadium are they going to move into
Speaker 2: in Vegas? In a couple of years, you'll be read.
Speaker 3: Talked about one you know, uh, you know glass let's
Speaker 3: you know, let's let's see clamorous everything you want. But
Speaker 3: you know, next three years, I mean Sacramento in the
Speaker 3: Marrior League Ballpark, so it'd be a little tough to
Speaker 3: attract some pre agents in that place. But Vegas, we'll
Speaker 3: see how it works. I still have my doubts. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, in Phoenix where I live, it's a fifth
Speaker 3: largest in the country, and they have they struggle to
Speaker 3: make it work. I don't know Vega's going to fly
Speaker 3: in the Vegas in the summertime and want to go
Speaker 3: to a baseball game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I was wondering about. I think if
Speaker 2: you made it a more of an intimate stadium like
Speaker 2: thirty five thousand had a retractable roof there. But I
Speaker 2: don't know what the baseball climate is going to be. Well,
Speaker 2: I should say the baseball fan climate is going to
Speaker 2: be for a team that Oakland, you know, didn't really support,
Speaker 2: and now Vegas is going to be diehard Oakland A's fans.
Speaker 3: I don't see either. I mean the Raiders it works
Speaker 3: of course because playing you know, nine home games, but
Speaker 3: to play eighty one. I don't know, I don't see it.
Speaker 3: I mean the diehard A's fans, some will follow them
Speaker 3: up to Sacramento, know about hour and a half, two
Speaker 3: hour drive, but they're not going to fall into Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: And you know, even guys like Bryce Harper or Las
Speaker 3: Vegas native said, I don't think it's going to work.
Speaker 3: Expansion team will work, but not somebody else's rejects.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm just wondering about that that you have.
Speaker 2: This is it two years in Sacramento or three years?
Speaker 2: A minimum of three, so three for sure, and the
Speaker 2: dam's not ready. It could be four, but yeah, minimum
Speaker 2: three years. What role did the commissioner play in this happening?
Speaker 3: It really kind of started under buds ceiling. Remember when
Speaker 3: they gave the team to John Fish and Lou Wolf.
Speaker 3: Lou Wolf was Bud's arattorney brother at University of Wisconsin,
Speaker 3: and so he's supposed to get some kind of favor Nemverer.
Speaker 3: Now that area San Jose and all that used to
Speaker 3: belong to the A's they gave it to the Giants, saying,
Speaker 3: you know what, we don't want you to move to
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay. Here we'll help you out here, and giants
Speaker 3: never give it back. So they foll along, Okay, we'll
Speaker 3: be allowed to move to Fremont, San Jose something like that.
Speaker 3: So the giants have been very complicit this whole thing.
Speaker 3: Now they got the entire northern California to themselves. Nothing's
Speaker 3: gonna be a gold mine.
Speaker 2: But could the commissioner see, I know he wants new
Speaker 2: business and everybody wants to be in Vegas, but I
Speaker 2: just I think the relocation fee didn't he waive that?
Speaker 2: So that to me, you know, he was ready to
Speaker 2: put them in the hov lane and send him to Vegas.
Speaker 3: He was, you're right. I mean what he did was saying,
Speaker 3: you know what, I'm tired of it. We've given Oakland
Speaker 3: twenty years to figure this out. They haven't figured out.
Speaker 3: I'm done with it. Wherever you guys want to go,
Speaker 3: go ahead, and uh, you know, Vegas stepped up. They're
Speaker 3: gonna give them about three hundred and fifty million dollars
Speaker 3: in public funding, and uh yeah, I mean everybody blames
Speaker 3: John Fisher, but you know, like Dave Stewart said, Ricky
Speaker 3: Henderson said, blames to go all around. Like the age
Speaker 3: is the first team to leave that place, just the
Speaker 3: last team, last team to leave, you know, with the
Speaker 3: Warriors and Raiders volting before them.
Speaker 2: Have you run out of ways to describe Sho Tani?
Speaker 5: I have.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's unbelievable, you know. I think I do
Speaker 3: think some people will get carried away. The fifty to
Speaker 3: fifties very cool, but with the new rules that was
Speaker 3: you know, chilling bases and you know the pickoff throws
Speaker 3: me Ricky Henderson probately stole two hundred bases, but unbelievable year.
Speaker 3: But I do think Dan, after what we've seen, how
Speaker 3: long is this guy going to pitch? He'll pitch next year,
Speaker 3: how much longer? I think he loves hitting. I think
Speaker 3: he only pitches because he knows he can do it.
Speaker 3: I don't see him pitching, you know, much longer than
Speaker 3: a couple of years. I think hitting is just you know,
Speaker 3: too valuable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's not going to put up these numbers
Speaker 2: if he was pitching.
Speaker 3: And no, he's sort of not going to run the
Speaker 3: bases like this, even if Dave Roberts said, you're not
Speaker 3: going to sacrifice your body and do all that, but
Speaker 3: you still have to pitch every five days, so yeah,
Speaker 3: we may never see this offen some season again by
Speaker 3: him until he stops pitching.
Speaker 2: Good to talk to you, Bob, Thanks for joining us, pleasant,
Speaker 2: Thank you. That's Bob Nightingale USA Today Baseball columnists. There.
Speaker 2: We get some phone calls in here coming up. We'll
Speaker 2: talk some college football as well. And H Kelly in Kansas,
Speaker 2: Hi Kel, what's on your mind?
Speaker 6: IDP and Dannett one and Dannette two. How are you
Speaker 6: guys just morning?
Speaker 2: Everything's great? Yes it is, Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 6: I have a question for the Giants fans. I noticed
Speaker 6: the stadium was pretty full last night, and I just
Speaker 6: wondered if they thought this was one of the few
Speaker 6: games that they would win this season.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was a I'd like to
Speaker 2: know the percentage of Cowboy fans to Giants fans last night,
Speaker 2: because Cowboy fans they travel, and I'm gonna I don't
Speaker 2: think it was fifty to fifty, but I'd say the
Speaker 2: Cowboys were well represented. They were five and a half
Speaker 2: point underdogs at home. I think they're still trying to
Speaker 2: figure out who they are. I love Malik Neighbors, but
Speaker 2: like Daniel Jones, is the over underpassing yards was two
Speaker 2: hundred and one, so it's not like there was going
Speaker 2: to be this offensive explosion. I think they thought it
Speaker 2: was going to be low scoring and Dallas needed to
Speaker 2: have a clean game, which they did. They end up
Speaker 2: winning by five points.
Speaker 7: Yes, Mark the Cowboys fans or the Cowboys, they're one
Speaker 7: of the few teams where, no matter where they play,
Speaker 7: it's never a true road game because you're always here
Speaker 7: cheers for them. It's maybe them, the forty nine Ers, Raiders, Steelers.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to think of maybe a couple other like
Speaker 7: National Packers, a couple of national teams like and I
Speaker 7: think the Chiefs are becoming that now because they've been
Speaker 7: good for so long, where in twenty years they'll be
Speaker 7: the Cowboys, they'll be the forty nine Ers.
Speaker 8: As far as the fan base.
Speaker 5: I don't you know.
Speaker 2: It's weird because if you talk to Cowboy fans, it's
Speaker 2: because their dad, maybe their dad's dad, they were Cowboy
Speaker 2: fans and it's handed down, and so you become a
Speaker 2: Cowboy fan whether you wanted to or not. It's like
Speaker 2: your dad rooted for the Cowboys and you're maybe his
Speaker 2: dad rooted for the Cowboys. If you go back to
Speaker 2: even the sixties with the Cowboys and then you have
Speaker 2: the seventies. Once you start winning, that's when you develop
Speaker 2: that fan base. Like the Steelers, how much of their
Speaker 2: fan base around the country is based off of what
Speaker 2: happened with the Steele Curtain, what happened with Chuck Mean,
Speaker 2: Joe Green, Terry Bradshaw, franco Lynn Swan, John Stall were
Speaker 2: the Niners with Now I go back to John Brody,
Speaker 2: but they weren't you winning a super Bowl back then?
Speaker 2: But then you get Montana, you have Steve Young, you
Speaker 2: win super Bowls. Now you have that fan base the Packers.
Speaker 2: The Packers go back to you know, Vince with the
Speaker 2: first couple of Super Bowls that they won and Bart
Speaker 2: Starr and you could name all of those players, name
Speaker 2: the offensive lineman there. I mean, they became household names.
Speaker 2: Therefore you take that with you. So if that's back
Speaker 2: in the sixties late sixties, they became the first dynasty
Speaker 2: in modern football because they won the first two Super Bowls. Now,
Speaker 2: prior to that, the Cleveland Browns were the dominating team.
Speaker 2: But you start to win super Bowls now it became different.
Speaker 2: And the Green Bay Packers winning those first two Super Bowls,
Speaker 2: beating the Chiefs and the Raiders.
Speaker 7: Yes, Marv, and all of those teams had maybe two
Speaker 7: or three different errors where they were great. Like the
Speaker 7: Cowboys in the nineties. I have a bunch of friends
Speaker 7: same age as me, forty. They love the Cowboys because
Speaker 7: of what they did in the nineties and so on
Speaker 7: and so forth.
Speaker 2: Well, that's sometimes all you need is a little bit
Speaker 2: of a refresher course of hey, we won. Now, you know,
Speaker 2: we can move on from what happened in the seventies. Now,
Speaker 2: you know, Doomsday Defense or Roger Stambacher. Now we won,
Speaker 2: and they lived off They've lived off the fumes of
Speaker 2: those Super Bowls for thirty years. And so you're you
Speaker 2: have an entire generation that hasn't won anything with Dallas.
Speaker 2: But Dad will tell them, hey, you know what, back
Speaker 2: in our day, we won three super Bowls. Now the
Speaker 2: Steelers win a Super Bowl occasionally, which they've done. Packers
Speaker 2: win a Super Bowl occasionally, which they've done. You know,
Speaker 2: the Niners getting to a Super Bowl.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 2: So that's all those are those fan bases that they
Speaker 2: stay engaged because they have a long history. Let's see
Speaker 2: Riley in Nebraska. Hi, Riley, what's on your mind?
Speaker 10: Hey man?
Speaker 11: How're we going?
Speaker 5: Great?
Speaker 10: Riley Good was wondering what your favorite Adam Stanley movie was?
Speaker 11: And also, uh, with today's.
Speaker 10: Football world, do you think it's easier for teams like
Speaker 10: Dallas to sign a receiver or a running back? And
Speaker 10: if they did, do you think CD Lamb would become
Speaker 10: like Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 2: I don't think with his build they're going to put
Speaker 2: him back there you're gonna I'm not gonna spend that
Speaker 2: kind of money on a guy who's going to get
Speaker 2: tackled a lot. I want CD to be in space
Speaker 2: where he can kind of control when he gets hit,
Speaker 2: how he gets hit. I don't And he wouldn't be
Speaker 2: a Christian McCaffrey. He'd be a debo type of hybrid player.
Speaker 2: I don't know who they're going to get for running back.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're gonna pick pick up somebody. Who are
Speaker 2: you going to pick up?
Speaker 8: Who's going to be this year's Joe Flacco?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But I don't know if you can just go out
Speaker 2: there and go, we're going to pick up that running
Speaker 2: back you got Zeke, you brought him in for a year.
Speaker 2: I thought it was a mistake. I thought it was
Speaker 2: a mistake to even re sign him. But Jerry is
Speaker 2: weirdly loyal, sometimes to a fault. But yeah, are you
Speaker 2: going to get another receiver? I get, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know who's out there not combing the waiver
Speaker 2: wires here, but I will. I'll do that for this audience.
Speaker 2: Justin in Virginia, Hi, Justin, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 11: Well, good morning.
Speaker 9: I just wanted to answer scenes poll of Cowboys playoffs
Speaker 9: chance winning Super Bowl chances. I'm loll no, and Marvin's
Speaker 9: absolutely right. I'm forty years old. I jumped on the
Speaker 9: bandwagon when I was eight during the ninety two season. Yeah,
Speaker 9: and unfortunately have stayed on ever since. I know Jerry's
Speaker 9: not totally to blame, but under his stewardship as both
Speaker 9: owner and unfortunately GM, they haven't proved anything to me
Speaker 9: that they're gonna reach even the NFC championship anytime soon.
Speaker 9: And honestly, I don't think still get there until after
Speaker 9: he's gone, and maybe his oldest son will do better.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you? Justin Justin sounded break down.
Speaker 8: Should we do a wellness check on him?
Speaker 2: I mean I guess by comparison, we have Shae and
Speaker 2: Irving and we haven't even heard from Shaye today. Maybe
Speaker 2: that's good that we don't hear from Shaye today considering
Speaker 2: the way he sounded on Monday.
Speaker 8: That was.
Speaker 12: One of my favorite things though, is that even after
Speaker 12: a win, he sounds terrible.
Speaker 2: What do you mean, it's terrible as if.
Speaker 12: She still won.
Speaker 2: But he can't change like that. He's stuck with this.
Speaker 2: He grew up a Cowboy fan because we always say, oh,
Speaker 2: it just change, you know, go ahead, pick a new team.
Speaker 2: And then he's he's imprisoned by this. He can't yeh can't.
Speaker 2: And imagine watching those games. Every he knows his season
Speaker 2: is going to end poorly. He does, he doesn't know how,
Speaker 2: but he knows it's going to end in a bad way.
Speaker 2: You make the playoffs. If you make the playoffs, you
Speaker 2: lose a home game in the playoffs. Just imagine that
Speaker 2: impending doom. It's you're watching a movie and you know
Speaker 2: it's not going to end well for somebody, but you
Speaker 2: got to watch the movie. That's what it's been like
Speaker 2: for Cowboy fans. You're reading a book, you know that
Speaker 2: it doesn't end well. Because you've read this book before.
Speaker 8: It's like watching Titanic. Oh, what what's gonna happen? Yeah,
Speaker 8: we know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's exactly the Titanic, but it
Speaker 2: doesn't end well, it's just it'll it'll end differently, but
Speaker 2: still it'll be a bad, bad day for and Irvin
Speaker 2: Alex in Utah. Hi, Alex, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9: As it going?
Speaker 10: Dan?
Speaker 11: Good to talk to you guys.
Speaker 13: So I guess yeah, maybe just quickly weigh in on
Speaker 13: the funeral potatoes. Now, I don't know if this story
Speaker 13: is true, maybe it's just apocryphal, but my dad's fifth
Speaker 13: generation Utah, and according to him, originally they were called
Speaker 13: party potatoes, but over years of them being constantly served
Speaker 13: at funerals, they became funeral potatoes. So I again, I
Speaker 13: don't know if that's true, but.
Speaker 11: That's what I've heard.
Speaker 13: And then just to kind of touch on the Thursday
Speaker 13: night football, you kind of mentioned it, what kind of
Speaker 13: a bummer the Thursday night games have been. And I
Speaker 13: was looking at the schedule for the rest of the season,
Speaker 13: and it looks like we've got a lot of division
Speaker 13: rivalry games, and so I'm trying to get excited about it,
Speaker 13: but I just I've been burned too many times by
Speaker 13: Thursday Night games, and so I'm just wondering maybe Thursday's
Speaker 13: just a curse day for football.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, Amazon spent a lot of money, and if
Speaker 2: you spend a lot of money, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the NFL goes, all right, we're going to give you
Speaker 2: some good games. ESPN spend even more money to get
Speaker 2: a better schedule for Monday Night Football, and then they
Speaker 2: went out and improved the booth by bringing in Joe
Speaker 2: and Troy. That's what the NFL wants. I mean, the
Speaker 2: NFL gave Sunday Night Football the best schedule because you
Speaker 2: had Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth. That's it. They knew
Speaker 2: that that was going to be the best presentation of
Speaker 2: all the football games, Sunday Night Football, and it has
Speaker 2: been for decades now. Thursday Night Amazon, you're spending big money.
Speaker 2: You want to keep them happy, you give them a
Speaker 2: better schedule. My point is, it doesn't matter who's playing.
Speaker 2: I still think it's difficult to play a game on
Speaker 2: Sunday and play a game on Thursday, and ask somebody
Speaker 2: to play a game a divisional game and you're on
Speaker 2: the road. It's just the odds of having a good game,
Speaker 2: clean game. How many flags were there? They were like
Speaker 2: twelve in the first got to the point where I
Speaker 2: laughed when there wasn't a flag. I'm like, what no
Speaker 2: flag on the plane? Even Al Michaels is exasperated, and
Speaker 2: I get it. It's tough watching that, but it's like
Speaker 2: varying degrees of penalties where you go, I gotta call
Speaker 2: that one, or can we just let that go? It's
Speaker 2: in in the NBA, they'd let that go. That'd be like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're gonna let you play a little bit here. Watching
Speaker 2: last night, it was just it was slowing down. A
Speaker 2: guy was boring. It really was. It was boring. We'll
Speaker 2: take a break here. Got some football coming up tonight,
Speaker 2: by the way, Virginia Tech and Miami Washington and Rutgers
Speaker 2: cam Wartime, Yeah, cam Ward coming out party, little Heisman
Speaker 2: action there. Let me take a break back after this.
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Speaker 2: listen live a meat Friday part of my responsibilities aside
Speaker 2: from preparing meat Friday quality control, I went out and
Speaker 2: tried the Chimmy Tourist Stakes. Oh boy, and awesome. Awesome.
Speaker 2: I didn't try the funeral potatoes yet, they weren't done,
Speaker 2: but those Chimmy Tourist Stakes awesome. Sunday night match up
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Speaker 2: phone calls coming up. Andy Staples, our good buddy, covers
Speaker 2: college football for on three Sports. He has recently attended
Speaker 2: the Miami Florida game Texas Michigan, Alabama Wisconsin. Andy joins
Speaker 2: iss on the program for some reason. Now I'm excited
Speaker 2: about Fresno State and UNLV. What do you think there? Andy?
Speaker 5: I wonder how many people knew this game was happening,
Speaker 5: knew what time it was happening to what channel it
Speaker 5: was going to be on before you and these quarterback
Speaker 5: decided to dip out in the middle of the week.
Speaker 5: This week, as his three and oh team prepares for
Speaker 5: its conference opener, Dan, It's one of the strangest things
Speaker 5: I've ever seen. We kind of knew something like this
Speaker 5: was going to happen eventually. Still when it came, is like, whoa,
Speaker 5: what he's done? That's it?
Speaker 2: Okay, But how did we get here? With a player
Speaker 2: Leaves holy Cross, he says he's promised one hundred thousand
Speaker 2: dollars by an assistant coach. There's no paper trail. You're
Speaker 2: not supposed to entice a recruit with money if you're
Speaker 2: on the coaching staff the collection. No you can now,
Speaker 2: oh you can, okay. So he said that he didn't
Speaker 2: entice him with money, So I like, how do you
Speaker 2: prove any of this? You don't just press.
Speaker 5: That's the craziest part. And so one of the things
Speaker 5: when when all these nil deals blow up, When when
Speaker 5: there's a bad NIL deal that blows up, you can
Speaker 5: usually find blame on every side. You can usually find
Speaker 5: a lot of stupidity everywhere. And in this particular case,
Speaker 5: so if you have an assistant coach promising X dollars,
Speaker 5: the family needs to understand. But more importantly, the agent
Speaker 5: representing the family, who works for a big agency by
Speaker 5: the way, needs to understand, well, the coach is not
Speaker 5: exactly authorized to do that, because he's not the one
Speaker 5: who'd be paying it. The collective is who's paying it.
Speaker 5: So if that dollar figure is thrown out there, the
Speaker 5: first call you should make is to the collective to say, hey,
Speaker 5: is this money here? Is this accurate? Because because if
Speaker 5: it is, we have a lot to talk about. But
Speaker 5: they didn't do that. And like you heard the agent's
Speaker 5: boss say, well, he wasn't allowed to sign a contract
Speaker 5: with the collective before he enrolled. Okay, apparently the entire
Speaker 5: agency missed the giant federal case earlier this year that
Speaker 5: got the NIL rules scrapped, where yeah, you can sign
Speaker 5: a contract with a collective before you enroll. So they
Speaker 5: absolutely could have signed a contract. They didn't start negotiating
Speaker 5: until August though. And what's interesting about this, though, is
Speaker 5: given you and LV situation where they're three and zero,
Speaker 5: they've beaten two Big twelve teams, they have Syracuse next week,
Speaker 5: they could easily win the Mountain West and be a
Speaker 5: playoff team if they do it. Did all this well,
Speaker 5: if it's that important to you, you can come up
Speaker 5: with the money. And in fact, I think there was
Speaker 5: a casino owner who did pledge the money if they
Speaker 5: needed to do it, and they decided not to, which
Speaker 5: leads me to believe that they didn't necessarily think Matthew
Speaker 5: Sluka was that critical to this run. They have a
Speaker 5: guy named Hodjablique Williams who transferred in from the fighting
Speaker 5: Campbell University Camels in North Carolina. He was with the
Speaker 5: starters for all the spring, all the summer, and I
Speaker 5: think they feel pretty comfortable with him. We'll find out
Speaker 5: during the game against Presno State on Saturday whether they're
Speaker 5: just blowing smoke here or if that's the truth.
Speaker 2: All right, let's recamp here. So if I'm going to
Speaker 2: a university, the assistant coach says, hey, one hundred thousand dollars,
Speaker 2: if you want to come here, I then say, put
Speaker 2: me in touch with a collective. Let's put it in writing. Yep,
Speaker 2: so you can do that. That's all you do that.
Speaker 5: Now, you couldn't do that, and so when they were
Speaker 5: engaged in January, you probably couldn't do that. But by
Speaker 5: March you could. And this guy was still at holy
Speaker 5: Cross in March. He could have done this at any
Speaker 5: point before he ended up going to UNLV.
Speaker 2: Andy Staples covers college football for on three Sports. You
Speaker 2: got the big showdown with Alabama and Georgia and this
Speaker 2: is a perception game for me with Alabama, Kaitlin de Boor,
Speaker 2: because now if you beat Kirby Smart, you beat Georgia
Speaker 2: Jalen Milroe if he would happen. You know this, the
Speaker 2: perception is Alabama. Okay, we now know why they got
Speaker 2: that guy, Jalen Milroe. We now know that he's a
Speaker 2: legitimate Heisman Trophy candidate. How do you think this game
Speaker 2: plays out?
Speaker 5: Though I have said all week on my show that
Speaker 5: I think Alabama's gonna win this game, that I think
Speaker 5: this is going to be the one where we se
Speaker 5: Jalen Molrose Heisman moment. I got a phone call yesterday
Speaker 5: from somebody who talked to some coaches who played some
Speaker 5: of these teams, and They're like, you know you're wrong
Speaker 5: about this. George is gonna come in there and smash them.
Speaker 5: I'm like, no, No, I have faith here. I do
Speaker 5: think Alabama is insanely talented. I think Alabama probably the
Speaker 5: second most talented roster in America behind Ohio State right now.
Speaker 5: And Georgia has a very talented roster too, Like if
Speaker 5: if Alabama's two, George is probably three. But I think
Speaker 5: Alabama's built really well. This season. We've seen them struggle
Speaker 5: for three quarters exactly against USF and that was when
Speaker 5: both their starting offensive tackles were out. Both of their
Speaker 5: starting offensive tackles played against Wisconsin. They looked amazing. They're
Speaker 5: going to be playing in this game. George is still
Speaker 5: recovering from losing its best offensive lineman to injury. I
Speaker 5: think Alabama wins.
Speaker 6: This game.
Speaker 2: Comfortably.
Speaker 5: No, there are no comfortable games against Kirby Smart's Georgia
Speaker 5: dan I had a trivia question to get asked in
Speaker 5: my mailbag the other.
Speaker 11: Day, but it is in.
Speaker 5: George is favored in this game, right, Yes, a road
Speaker 5: favorite at Alabama, which is unheard of.
Speaker 2: When's the last time that happened.
Speaker 5: It was a long time trying to remember. There was
Speaker 5: a Georgia Alabama game during the Mark rickt era where
Speaker 5: I think Georgia might have been favored and Alabama just
Speaker 5: absolutely smashed him. Now, I don't think anybody's getting smashed
Speaker 5: in this game one way or the other. I think
Speaker 5: this is going to be a very close game. I'm
Speaker 5: really excited to see it. My fear for Georgia Dan
Speaker 5: is we have not really seen who scares you down
Speaker 5: the field for them, Last year was Lad McConaughey and
Speaker 5: brock Bowers. This year there's not really been that person.
Speaker 5: And like Alabama, I can tell you exactly who it is.
Speaker 5: It's Ryan Williams, who you're gonna hear on the broadcast
Speaker 5: fifty times. That he's seventeen years old, makes it no
Speaker 5: less amazing every time.
Speaker 2: Other game that we should can't. How about upset alert,
Speaker 2: how about little against Notre Dame.
Speaker 5: It's crazy that we're even talking about it like it
Speaker 5: would be an upset. Now it's a pretty close point spread.
Speaker 5: I think it's four and a half. Notre Dame favored.
Speaker 5: Louisville crushed Notre Dame last year, crushed him. Now this
Speaker 5: is at Notre Dame instead of at Louisville, and obviously
Speaker 5: the teams are a little different because of what happened
Speaker 5: out of the transfer portal. But Jeff Brahm has done
Speaker 5: a really good job at Louisville and that was a
Speaker 5: program that really retooled its roster through the portal this year,
Speaker 5: and in fact, you haven't even seen it at full
Speaker 5: strength yet because they have a receiver named Colin Lacey
Speaker 5: from South Alabama who's been hurt and we don't even
Speaker 5: know if he's gonna play in this game either. But
Speaker 5: you got Tyler Shook at quarterback, who was one of
Speaker 5: those five star guys, was at Oregon, it never worked,
Speaker 5: he goes to Texas Tech. He was never healthy. Well
Speaker 5: he's healthy now and it maybe he fulfills all that promise.
Speaker 5: I think Louisville probably has the better.
Speaker 8: QB in this matchup.
Speaker 2: Really, Okay, I've got Louisville getting seven against Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: This according to it early in the week, it was
Speaker 2: four and a half.
Speaker 5: So yeah, the disagrees with me, but I appreciate that
Speaker 5: because I got in on a Louisville at four and
Speaker 5: a half, because I've.
Speaker 2: Picked Louisville cover. How do you think morale is at USC?
Speaker 5: Well, the Bar Alexander leaving situation, I think is one
Speaker 5: of the deals. So Bar Alexander, for those who don't know,
Speaker 5: defensive tackle who transferred from Georgia, was considered a huge
Speaker 5: get at the time, but he's been kind of an issue,
Speaker 5: threatened to leave in the spring, isn't playing as much
Speaker 5: as he wanted to, and now he's leaving. I don't
Speaker 5: think that's gonna be a big problem for USC. I
Speaker 5: think the bigger thing is just figure out, Okay, how
Speaker 5: did we get beat by Michigan when we knew they
Speaker 5: couldn't throw the ball. I still think that USC is
Speaker 5: in a better place than they were the last couple
Speaker 5: of years because I think Lincoln Riley it feels to
Speaker 5: me like he has decided defense actually matters. They are
Speaker 5: practicing in a way that defense matters. You see them
Speaker 5: making open field tackles. Did they get beat in the
Speaker 5: Michigan game?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 5: Are they going to play an offensive line as good
Speaker 5: as Michigan are back as good as Coloe Mullings the
Speaker 5: rest of their schedule? Probably not? So I do think
Speaker 5: that they're going to be okay. Are they going to
Speaker 5: beat Penn State? Are they going to win the Big
Speaker 5: Big Ten?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 5: I don't think they're going to do that, but they're
Speaker 5: going to get better, and I think if you build
Speaker 5: on that, you got something.
Speaker 2: Before I let you go. We brought this up yesterday.
Speaker 2: Could you see a scenario where team qualifies for the playoffs?
Speaker 2: Star player says, I'd like to get more money.
Speaker 5: M hm oh yeah, Oh that's the whole thing. Oh
Speaker 5: I thought they were leaving or yo, yeah, I mean
Speaker 5: that happens now, Dan, That happened all year last year
Speaker 5: at various teams. So yeah, you're a free agent every
Speaker 5: day in this system and the time. The only way
Speaker 5: they can make that stop is find a way to
Speaker 5: make the players employees, get them unionized, and bargain a
Speaker 5: CBA with them. But here's the thing, this is the
Speaker 5: part that people don't understand. It's never going to get
Speaker 5: better than it is now for players. If I'm a player,
Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't want to be in a union,
Speaker 5: I don't want a CBA. Let's just keep this money
Speaker 5: coming because right now, there's nothing the schools can do
Speaker 5: that won't get them sued and that they won't lose
Speaker 5: in court. They can't make rules that won't get knocked
Speaker 5: down by the courts. So if I'm a player, I'm like,
Speaker 5: let's go. However, just bring it on now. I do
Speaker 5: think there are negative consequences for that sort of thing
Speaker 5: what you just said, Like, if I'm an NFLGM and
Speaker 5: I see that I don't want that player on my team,
Speaker 5: I don't want that player anywhere near my team, And
Speaker 5: I think that that hopefully is one of the negative
Speaker 5: incentives that that stops people from doing something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we had Christian McCaffery and Leonard Fornatt Fournette
Speaker 2: not playing in a bowl game. When they're like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, what's that going to do to their draft stock?
Speaker 2: It did nothing to their drafts that that was a
Speaker 2: bowl game.
Speaker 5: That was there was no championship on the line. So
Speaker 5: that's the difference. And I think, and I may be wrong,
Speaker 5: may be being too idealistic about this. It may be
Speaker 5: that they are like, hey, you're you're a businessman, we
Speaker 5: run a business. Let's go. But I just I think
Speaker 5: that would be problematic for me because at that point
Speaker 5: you've gotten most of the way you've got to. We're
Speaker 5: talking about playoff teams, so we're probably talking about big
Speaker 5: time schools where they're getting pretty big money deals. Like
Speaker 5: it would take a lot of cojones for somebody to
Speaker 5: try to pull that.
Speaker 2: Have a good weekend, Andy, thanks for joining us. As always,
Speaker 2: Thank you, Dan. It's Andy Staples cover's college football for
Speaker 2: on three Sports. We get some more phone calls coming up.
Speaker 2: This is the Joker, was at media day, and you
Speaker 2: know he's excited about something like that. Here is Nicola Jokic.
Speaker 2: Nicolo welcome back, first and foremost, is now your tenth
Speaker 2: media day? What do you remember about maybe your first
Speaker 2: or second media day coming around here? Just has anything changed?
Speaker 5: All?
Speaker 4: No, every year is the same thing, and I don't
Speaker 4: know why we're doing it every year. Everything is the same,
Speaker 4: completely the same thing. So Nicolo, one thing that has
Speaker 4: changed on media day? You have a very strong beard
Speaker 4: or goateee. I was wondering if you're planning on keeping
Speaker 4: that and do you like the menacing look? I need
Speaker 4: more compliments, morel and more compliments.
Speaker 2: He's in mid season form already.
Speaker 12: Because he's just like being himself and it's funny. Yeah,
Speaker 12: he's just speaking honestly and for some reason it's funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like we're not really listening to him, it's just
Speaker 2: we're kind of that's his character of he's funny. He
Speaker 2: doesn't want to be there at Media Day. He doesn't
Speaker 2: want to show up for a victory parade. He just
Speaker 2: wants to go home to his home country and play
Speaker 2: with his horses.
Speaker 12: Yes, like if Steph or like Jalen Brown or somebody
Speaker 12: does this is like, WHOA, what's his problem?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: He got an attitude. Yeah, he's just more of a No,
Speaker 2: I do not know why we do this every year.
Speaker 2: Nothing changes. Hey, so what about that beard you got?
Speaker 2: Looking menacing? More compliments, more compliments, thank you? Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: Marvin So.
Speaker 7: People made a big deal about him being way too
Speaker 7: excited about the Serbia bronze medal and not the Nuggets championship,
Speaker 7: but he just said, these are guys that I've played
Speaker 7: with since I was thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen, and he's
Speaker 7: one of those guys where it's like, look, the NBA
Speaker 7: is a big deal to us, but for us, it
Speaker 7: seems like for him it seems like, you know what,
Speaker 7: I got to go overseas. I got to go back
Speaker 7: to America. Like you know how people look at playing overseas,
Speaker 7: That's how he looks at it, Like why I'm playing
Speaker 7: in the NBA after I play overseas?
Speaker 2: He this is a job made it truly is a job.
Speaker 2: He tells you it's a job. He approaches it like
Speaker 2: it's a job. He's not one of those guys that
Speaker 2: it feels like, God, I'm gonna miss the game so
Speaker 2: much when it's over. He'll be like he's just gonna
Speaker 2: leave one one day and never come back.
Speaker 1: That'll be it.
Speaker 2: He'll just like after this contract, I truly could see
Speaker 2: him just go don't want to play no more? Going home?
Speaker 2: Guessed right.
Speaker 12: You get paid a hell of a lot of money,
Speaker 12: and it's an awesome job for sure. But it is
Speaker 12: a job, you know what, Like what he's doing for
Speaker 12: a living, it is.
Speaker 8: It is a job.
Speaker 12: It's a great one, it is, and you make an
Speaker 12: insane amount of money, but it is it is work
Speaker 12: for him.
Speaker 2: Well, just the fact that when he was told about
Speaker 2: the victory parade, you won the title parade.
Speaker 8: Yes, Mark, look in about ten years, win this hall
Speaker 8: of fame. No, oh, no big rees.
Speaker 2: Yes, take a break. If you're watching on Peacock, we'll
Speaker 2: go out to the uh grilling area and uh we'll
Speaker 2: we'll treat you to that, at least visually. We'll are
Speaker 2: back with your phone calls, everything that we learned, what's
Speaker 2: in store for Monday.
Speaker 1: After this, be sure to catch the live edition of
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Speaker 2: Right Last Golf for phone calls, what we learn, what's
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Speaker 2: I'm calling them the party potatoes. It's just a cheesy
Speaker 2: casserole and it tastes really good. The reverse seared steaks
Speaker 2: with a Chimmychura sauce well done. Well, not well done,
Speaker 2: but nicely done by Tyler, because well done means the
Speaker 2: meat that wouldn't be no we wanted. Really it was medium,
Speaker 2: it was kind of medium. It was nice, Yeah, very nice.
Speaker 2: Tyler did a wonderful job. Stat of the Day was
Speaker 2: brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards
Speaker 2: of the Dan Patrick Show. The Big Game Sunday Night
Speaker 2: on NBC. It's Josh Allen and the Bills, Lamar Jackson
Speaker 2: and the Ravens Sunday seven Eastern on NBC and Peacock
Speaker 2: Dodgers clinched the West. They came back to beat the
Speaker 2: Padres Yang's clinched the East as they roughed up the Orioles.
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge home run number fifty eight. That's a pretty
Speaker 2: good Encore performance from last year to come back and
Speaker 2: hit fifty eight. The Twins lost in thirteen innings, so
Speaker 2: Minnesota running out of time. Now three games out of
Speaker 2: the final al wild card spot with three games to play,
Speaker 2: Big J in Delaware, I Big Jay.
Speaker 10: Pty DP, Happy Meet Friday, few times long time six
Speaker 10: to one in a soft two seventy five, softy.
Speaker 5: I was curious.
Speaker 10: And next time you have saying irving on, you should
Speaker 10: have ask Jay when he was in the Clint how
Speaker 10: much apple sauce and cigarette tax he lost because of
Speaker 10: the Cowboys betting on the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I'll bring that up on the next gambling
Speaker 2: podcast there, but thank you, Big J. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't think Chase smokes heaters, does he?
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean he used to. He smokes a
Speaker 2: lot of things, but m or he did.
Speaker 8: He used to smoke eaters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, But I don't think he I don't think
Speaker 2: he's drinking. I don't think he's doing anything, not having
Speaker 2: any fun according to him. Gary and Grand Rapids. Hi, Gary,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
Speaker 14: Good morning Dan, dan X, thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 14: First time caller five eleven and a Stanley to twelve.
Speaker 14: I wanted to talk you're talking about to the guy
Speaker 14: from the Cowboys about how their you know, their drought
Speaker 14: heads then, and I'm a Lions fan, so I understand
Speaker 14: how too well what that's like. Last time we got
Speaker 14: a playoff win before this year or last year was
Speaker 14: ninety one, and that was oddly against the Cowboys. But
Speaker 14: at least they do have some Super Bowls in their
Speaker 14: history and we do not. But I'm just having the
Speaker 14: Lions are doing great and also comes to fans traveling.
Speaker 14: Take a look at the Honolulu Blue and.
Speaker 11: Those the Lions awaking lately.
Speaker 3: They have a lot of.
Speaker 5: People driving good. Good.
Speaker 2: I mean, you got a reason to travel and chance
Speaker 2: a better chance to win when you have those games.
Speaker 2: All right, this day in sports history, since Paulie's not here,
Speaker 2: The White Sox in nineteen thirty nine host of the
Speaker 2: first day night double header, and they promptly lost both
Speaker 2: games to Cleveland. I remember when you could go to
Speaker 2: a double header and you could actually pay the price
Speaker 2: to go to that one game. It was a double header,
Speaker 2: but you got to stay for both games. Now it's
Speaker 2: say come in during the day and then you gotta leave,
Speaker 2: and then you got to buy another ticket to come back.
Speaker 2: Ah don't you love capitalism? Rock Range in nineteen eighty three,
Speaker 2: first player since the RBI became an official stat in
Speaker 2: nineteen twenty to steal seventy bases and drive in seventy
Speaker 2: runs in the same season. Okay, Eric Davis did it,
Speaker 2: Ronald Accounya Junior the third, Ricky Henderson a couple of times.
Speaker 2: They've joined rock rains in the seventy seventy Club. Nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty eight Sunday Night Football Bengals Ravens ESPN debuts the
Speaker 2: first and ten line The yellow Line. That one of
Speaker 2: the great inventions. Wow, now, great inventions in TV history
Speaker 2: or great inventions in modern history?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it might be both.
Speaker 8: Yeah, definitely both.
Speaker 2: And it like where would we be when it's one
Speaker 2: of those where it was like, what did we do
Speaker 2: before this? Well you just kind of guessed where things were? Yeah,
Speaker 2: like how did somebody have to think of that?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 11: Why was it?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 12: Just so obviously because it's so great.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Final results of the poll question Seaton.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we're still with Are the Cowboys Super Bowl contenders
Speaker 12: right now?
Speaker 2: Lol?
Speaker 12: No, it's gotten up to at one point eighty two,
Speaker 12: settled in at around seventy eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I I never liked the Cowboys growing up,
Speaker 2: even though I loved Roger Stabach and but I think
Speaker 2: it was just the whole America's team that they just said, hey,
Speaker 2: we're America's team, and like, did anybody argue, did anybody say, no,
Speaker 2: you're not, we are? They just made the declaration. It's bold, Yeah, bold.
Speaker 8: Proclamation America, you speaking for all of us?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that's aggressive.
Speaker 12: Patriots are like, I don't know, I mean I feel
Speaker 12: like Patriots sort of suggests. I mean, the whole the
Speaker 12: whole thing started.
Speaker 2: Lightly right over.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this whole thing we call America, yeah, started here,
Speaker 7: started right New England, this area, not in Irving, Texas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was just that they were America's team,
Speaker 2: and I was like, but they're not my team. Made that.
Speaker 2: That's a pretty good that's a pretty good business decision.
Speaker 2: Who ever made that mark getting decision. Let me see
Speaker 2: Bob and Montana try to squeeze in here, Bob before
Speaker 2: we exit stage left?
Speaker 11: Oh hey, DP, So, given today's only two Danetes, say,
Speaker 11: hypothetically there was a blizzard and the only Dannette who
Speaker 11: could make it would be Fritzy, would it just be you?
Speaker 11: Would Fritzi have on this show? And just so, how
Speaker 11: do you think that would go?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: We would do well? Yeah, Todd. Todd and I do
Speaker 2: well together, not always on the show, but you know,
Speaker 2: we we know what each other's thinking. It's just sometimes
Speaker 2: Todd colors outside the lines, even though I try to
Speaker 2: take his crayons away from him, and it's it's just
Speaker 2: difficult the number of times when I say Todd no,
Speaker 2: and then he goes right through the stop sign. Yep
Speaker 2: yep uh seton. What did you learn today?
Speaker 12: That's pretty well said Mark Sanchez. Is rocking a man
Speaker 12: on these days.
Speaker 8: I know, good for him, mister Bunns, Marvin Unier, potatoes
Speaker 8: huge in Utah.
Speaker 2: They were great, They were great. What did I learn today? Marvin?
Speaker 8: You covered the nineteen eighty five Yankees I.
Speaker 2: Did when Ricky Henderson went a wall for like a week.
Speaker 5: How about that?
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