WEBVTT - Hour 3 - John Smoltz 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.600 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:04.480 Sports Radio. 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:07.720 It's the Final Hour in this Thursday Dan and the 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.720 Danet's Dan Patrick Show. The Mets are going to have 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:13.680 a new play caller coming up on Monday night against 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:19.239 Buffalo as one of their assistant coaches. Is this Todd Downing? 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.000 Who is going to be promoted now? Is he offensive 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:25.319 coordinator or is he just going to be elevated to 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:29.200 calling plays which feels like that would be what Nathaniel 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:31.120 Hackett does as offensive coordinator. 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:33.360 All that was said by the Jets is that Todd Downing, 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:35.000 which sounds like a made up name, by the way, 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:37.479 does not sound like a real person, is calling plays 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:41.080 for the next game. No word on status, job titles. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.720 Okay, all right, Final hour here. John Smoltz was on 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.720 the call last night with the Dodgers and the Podres, 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:51.479 the Dodgers using eight pitchers shutting out the Padres. And 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.960 now we have a game five. You have Guardians at 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.880 the Tigers, that's coming up later on today, Yankees at 0:00:57.880 --> 0:00:59.960 the Royals, and then forty nine ers at the Seahawks. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.920 So Johnny Smoltz will join us coming up here in 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.440 a little bit. Good morning, If you're watching on Peacock. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.679 Thank you for downloading the app you can watch the program. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.360 It's Todd Fritz's birthday today and we want to once 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.560 again wish Todd a very very happy birthday. We've had 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:19.560 one woman who in her best Marilyn Monroe voice, was 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.160 singing Happy Birthday to Todd. 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:22.399 Was very well done by. 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:24.679 Her, and we got Todd in an ice cream cake 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:27.560 and so we'll have that for him coming up a 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:29.720 little bit later on very thoughtful. Thank you, Todd eight 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.280 seven seven to three. DP show email address DP at 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.920 Danpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at dpshow. Stat of the 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.040 Day brought to you bot Patine America, the official trading 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.120 cards of the Dan Patrick Show. Derrick Henry will be 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.680 on the program tomorrow. They have a big match up 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:49.680 with the Commander's Little Territorial warb there between Washington and 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.200 Baltimore coming up this weekend, Big ten Saturday Night Ohio 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.640 State Oregon. Todd Blackledge will be on the call for 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.040 that game for NBC in Peacock. He'll join us to 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.880 preview that coming up tomorrow. So it's Big ten Saturday 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:07.120 Night Ohio State and Oregon. You know, I was wondering 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:12.799 about this. When Oregon, USC, UCLA, Washington joined the Big Ten. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.640 I think people joked about the cross country travel. The 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.240 jokes have become a reality six weeks into the college 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.840 football season. As of today, teams who have been forced 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.880 to travel a significant distance across the country have lost 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.359 nine out of ten games so far in the Big Ten. 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.760 To make it more interesting, or where, seventy percent of 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.840 those teams failed to cover the spread in that same game, 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.400 meaning they're not only losing, but the games haven't been 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.560 competitive either. And I know it's a small sample size, 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:47.600 but this is the downside of Hey, everybody, you can 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:51.320 travel to Piscataway, New Jersey. That's not a big deal, 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:57.440 leaving you know, Southern California, Oregon hosting Ohio State. We 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:01.160 knew this was going to happen. Practical, that's why you 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:05.200 have regional conferences, so you cut down on travel, you 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:09.120 cut down on cost. The other sports that fall under 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:13.760 this financial umbrella. But hey, football rules, and it's going 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:17.440 to continue to rule until we have this moment. I 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.440 don't know if I'm going to be alive when it happens, 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.560 but it'll be a oh, you know what we should do. 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.680 Let's get sixty of the top schools and then we'll 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.080 put them in regions and then they'll play one another, 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:33.120 maybe they'll play them twice, and then all of a sudden, 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:38.960 we'll have a large playoff. Yeah, that's what we're going 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:42.440 to do, basically the NFL model. Now, I did talk 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:46.440 to somebody, a college football source, who said there are 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:52.600 plans in play by different people, different groups, not the SEC, 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.880 not the Big Ten, not the NCAA. They're trying to 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:01.880 come up with a formula where we would have at 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:07.960 least twenty four playoffs, twenty four playoff games or twenty 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:12.360 four playoff teams. And they have it, you know, where 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.240 they this is how much money there's going to be 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.039 rev share. There's going to be a collective bargaining agreement. 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:22.040 I mean, they're going to be basically professional football players 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:26.800 in waiting to be really truly professional football players. And 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.440 this is a model that's being worked on as we speak. 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.400 And I was given, you know, I was privy to 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.440 at least a little bit of the information. What they 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.479 what they think is going to happen is you're going 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:41.000 to have twenty four teams qualify for the playoffs. Now 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.039 you have twelve we just start. We haven't even gotten 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.200 into it yet. Now they want to expand because now 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.400 everybody realizes the amount of money. What you're going to 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:53.880 get back to is regional matchups. You're going to have 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.520 teams on the West coast playing teams on the West coast. 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:06.320 That will be that division. They'll be one let's say, Southwest, Southeast, Northeast, Midwest. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.640 This is what's going to happen. So basically what we've 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:14.040 had before where conferences stayed within I don't know, a 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.840 couple hour radius time radius of travel, and that's what 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.600 they're looking at right now. I don't know, you know, 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:24.279 if it comes to fruition, but we haven't even gotten 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.520 into the twelve team playoff and they're already looking at 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:33.680 a twenty fourteen playoff and maybe that's sixty schools and 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.120 they would fall under the umbrella. Now, there's a lot 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.400 of work to be done. I know that they've reached 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:43.280 out to Greg Sanke, the SEC commissioner, and you know, 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.520 does he want to bless this? I think he is 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.080 backed away from that from what I'm told, But once again, 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.320 it's kind of in the embryonic stages. But just to 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:56.080 let you know, this is moving fast. May mean we're 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.120 not even into twelve team playoff and now they're talking 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:04.760 twenty four and that's where we're headed, and that's where 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:08.240 it's going to be a model. That's and I've asked 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:12.520 about relegation because I was told that I was a 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:16.280 big proponent of relegation to add yet another I don't know, 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.680 week of drama there, and I was told that that 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:24.520 was received, not well received, but received that they would, 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:26.680 you know, think about this, and I was like, okay, 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:32.480 that's fine, Like you can't stop it now. Remember I 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.040 was I wanted from two to four. I said, I'll 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.640 be happy with four, and I would have been happy 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:41.000 with four teams. But then all of a sudden, it's well, 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:45.120 wait a minute, it's like having a lottery ticket. And 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.880 I'll go back to when I broke the news they 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:51.200 were going to try to break that contract and move 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.679 it up so they could go to twelve teams instead 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.839 of having four teams. They were going to break the 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.080 Bowl contract and everybody said you can't do it. I said, 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.839 you can have a winning lottery ticket and everybody's going 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.800 to make more money. And that's exactly what they did. 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.280 They moved it up. Now they want to move it 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:13.640 up even quicker because now we're looking at twenty four schools. 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:19.280 So whether it happens two years, three years, four years, 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.800 five years, that's where we're headed. But we are headed 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:27.040 for collective bargaining players getting paid. There is going to 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.080 be a reb share where schools I was told would 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.840 probably football schools would probably get seventy five percent of 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.800 the REB share, and then the trickle down with other programs. 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.440 So these are all things being discussed now. They're being 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:45.800 discussed by people who are outside of the college football world. 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.960 They're business people trying to create a plan. Yes, Pauline, I. 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.760 Do have a little background on this. About a week 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.480 or so ago, this kind of mysterious email went around 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.000 to people who cover college football. It was from a 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.880 group that calls itself College Sports Tomorrow CST. It's a quote. 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:02.760 This is from the press release. A group of respected, 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:08.640 influential progressive leaders in higher education and sports. Sorry, they're 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.040 in the like you said, embryonic stages of things called 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:15.760 the College Student Football League the CSFL, and as part 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:19.640 of their plan, it could be seventy two programs compete 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.680 in a power twelve conferences and then the second tier 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.360 would be sixty four teams. Kind of what you've been 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.480 saying for years. But this has been pitched from quote 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:32.840 unquote outsiders, college football businessmen, some people who work in it. 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.880 Guys like Greg Sank and the SEC are not involved 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.160 in this, but they got the whiff of this about 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:39.000 a week or so ago. 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:39.360 Yep. 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.520 Yeah, this has been going on, so we haven't even 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:46.560 had the twelve team playoffs, but they're going to because 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.320 everybody understands the amount of money that's at stake here, 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.679 and that's why they're going to do it. I don't 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.000 think it's a question of if, but when, all right, 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.400 Thursday night football. This is kind of spicy though, Seattle 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.199 against San Francisco. San Francisco given three and a half here. 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:09.000 Time for Dower Rankings. Yes it is Thursday. Seaton is 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.600 the host of Dower rankings. If you'll explain Dour rankings. 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.880 And do we have any music for Dower rankings? Marvin, 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.560 We do, all right, Seaton. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.600 I think we're going to go around the room here 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:25.440 and go with uh, any sport and really anything pop 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.880 culture even I think something that you're down on, down, 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.560 something that you're down on. Lots of people do power rankings. 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.640 These are like the strongest things. Right now, We're going 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:36.360 to go Dower. These things are kind. 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.280 Of weak right now, Dour. Yeah, yeah, I'm happy to 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:39.760 start out. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:43.080 Okay, give us an example example of right now being 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.320 lost in all of the uh Mets sort of victory 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.920 pree of winning that series. Is just how tough it 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.120 is to be a Philadelphia sports fan the last couple 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.840 of years. I'm going Dower rankings on the city of Philadelphia. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.680 If you go back a couple of years, Phillies blew 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:58.680 a two to one World. 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.880 Series lead to the Astros, that's tough. 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.720 Then you have the Eagles looking great, Jalen Hurts incredible, 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:06.920 team makes it to the Super Bowl. They blew a 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.960 ten point lead in the second half to the Chiefs. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.000 Seventy six ers, can't beat the Celtics, they can't beat 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:13.360 the Nicks. 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.439 Joel Mbat can't stay healthy. Not great. 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:17.960 The Eagles start the season ten and one. Last year 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.240 wash out, and now the Phillies again kick it past. 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.040 The Mets to win a playoff series. That is just 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.840 a long stretch for the city of Philadelphia. 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.880 Okay, Todd Dower rankings. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.240 The Cleveland Guardians and scoring two runs in the sixth 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:34.120 inning in Game one. 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:35.000 The Guardians have been. 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.600 Shut up for twenty consecutive innings. Over that span, the 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.880 Guardians are hitting one forty seven, which is ten for 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.440 sixty eight, twenty strikeouts and only three extra base hit. 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.280 We did take the Cleveland Browns off the board, correctly, 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:52.079 correct two Dour, that's just two, yeah, okay, Marvin Dower. 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:59.400 Rankings, Josh Allen's MVP chances. What up? The Bills got 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:03.439 Molly watt by the Ravens and then they went and 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.520 he went nine for thirty against the Texans and a loss. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.720 You don't think he can recover to win the MVP. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.920 I didn't say that, but I'm dowur on him right now. 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:17.280 Okay, didn't expect that one early in the season. Media 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.640 Darling Josh Allen MVP, Paul Dower rankings. 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.680 I'm also going to look for the origins of Molly 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.680 wopped because I've heard that phrase before. Kudos to Marvin 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.160 for dropping it. We'll get to that later. I'm going 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:33.360 to go lightly dour, medium dour. Michigan football. They got 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.760 their four and two. Now, remember they won the national 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.199 title last year and lost their coach so it was 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:38.920 great season. 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.239 Then there they lost their quarterback, yes. 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.560 And they didn't find a quarterback they have. They're four 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.560 and two there at Illinois, which I think is going 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:51.760 to be really tough, Michigan State, Oregon, Indiana. They finished 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.679 with Ohio State and then the Big Ten championship game, 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.480 which they will be watching probably, but that's they could 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.920 be out of the college football playoff that's been expanded. 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:09.000 Wow, lightly dour, lightly down? Damn, I just had my dour. Dang, 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.559 it's it's dour three of the program. 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.960 Eh I Did it have to do with Todd and 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:17.600 his birthday? 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:22.520 No? No, I'm not good. No, No, I'm gonna celebrate it. 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:28.040 What was my What was I bummed down about? 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:31.679 A kind of put a screech in hate again? 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.560 Maybe your thought was not that dour? So you know, 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:39.040 Oh my god? 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:40.479 Was it the Jets? 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.839 No, the Todd Dower? You doing a play calling now? 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:44.719 No? 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.600 Was it the w NBA Finals? 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:53.240 No? No, I can't, I can't remember. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:54.480 It should be Aaron Judge. 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.520 Uh well, one for eleven with five strikeouts, something, the 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:03.520 postseason over rated? I don't remember what it was. 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:09.079 Yes, would you rather be for your career? Lights out? 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:13.080 In the regular season and average in the postseason, which 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.400 can get you to the Hall of Fame probably, or 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:20.360 a mediocre regular season player and a lights out guy 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.000 in the regular postseason that probably doesn't go to the 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:28.440 Hall of Fame. Any sport, you may be in that 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.000 local team's Hall of Fame, like a Julian Edelman's in 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:35.040 the Patriots Ring of Honor, situation, ring of Honor and rings. 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.800 So would you rather be Julian Edelman or Larry Fitzgerald? 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:41.400 Oh, that'll question? 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:42.240 How about that? 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:43.440 How many times have we done this? 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:45.199 We do that every year. 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.880 God, you can be Julian Edelman or Larry Fitzgerald. 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:50.400 Selfishly, I think I want to be in the Hall 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:51.839 of Fame even if I don't come through a couple 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:52.640 of times during. 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.080 The post shocker that you're being selfish. 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:56.040 I'll be honest. 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.079 He did come through in the Super Bowl. He played well. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.719 He probably would have been MVP, just not quite that 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:06.160 good if he had gotten the tackle on James Harrison seton. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.960 Would you rather be Julian Edelman or Larry Fitzgerald? 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.000 Edelman all day, I want to win, and I want 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.480 to contribute in those wins. He had some massive games 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.240 big catches, all of that. I'll take that all day. 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:22.240 You can't tell the story of the NFL without Julian Marvin. 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:29.720 Edelman, Paul Fitzgerald nine Pro Bowls. I'm still passing Julian 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:34.080 Edman none Pro Bowls, but first ballot never pays for 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:35.200 a drink in New England again. 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:45.520 How about Tony Gonzalez, Julian Edelman Todd. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.320 I'm gonna go Tony Gonzales, seatan. 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:55.520 What are the abtions? 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.680 Tony Gonzales, Julian Edelman. 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.120 I'm still taking Julian Edeman. 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.800 Adamman more memorable moment, okay, Pauline Adaman, no die. 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.840 I love his career, Okay, maybe fair enough, even just 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.760 having that moment against the Falcons. I think where he's like, no, 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:14.240 I got it, I caught it. I caught it, and 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:15.640 they're like, no way, dude, they hit the ground. He's like, 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.640 I'm telling you I caught it. Watch and he did. 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:19.120 Oh man. 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:26.160 Yeah. And you know, now, it says a lot about 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.440 who we picked because most of us are team players, 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.520 and we picked Julian Edelman Todd. 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.680 On my birthday. I'm gonna be suppers today tomorrow, maybe 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:34.960 I have a. 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:35.880 Different answer today. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:37.640 Oh okay, I'm going with those. 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.520 I'm going with life at jail then tuning them out right. 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.120 Let me take a break. John Smoltz will join us. 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.320 He was on the call last night with the Dodgers 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.760 and the podres. We'll get to more phone calls as well. 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.560 And uh, by the way, the gambling podcast that'll be 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.400 later on today, that'll be up at Danpatrick dot com. 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:00.480 And that'll be Shane Irving Dylan, the graphics guy. Dylan 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.880 and Mario went to the game last night, the Mets 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.480 and Phillies game, and I thought we'd see them on 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.840 kiss cam, but apparently they were seated in different sections there, 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.760 throwing us off a little bit. They actually brought women 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:18.000 with them. Wow. Yeah, yeah, their girlfriends got them tickets, 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.520 which I said, man, that might be Marrion type of people. 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.800 You know, if your girlfriend's getting your tickets to the playoffs, 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:29.600 that won't happen when you get married. But right now, and. 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.760 The way that game played at that's a good karma 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:32.160 right there. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:32.680 Yeah, it is. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:33.760 I was exciting to be at. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:35.440 We'll take a break. We're back after this. 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.080 Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.480 the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:46.720 dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:47.480 listen live. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.000 We'll talk to John Smoltz. He was on the call 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:55.000 last night, Padres and the Dodgers Game five tomorrow night 0:16:55.040 --> 0:17:00.720 in LA, game time eight Eastern on Fox Steven Portland, Steve, 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:02.880 what's on your mind today? 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:11.720 Born in DP, third time, long time, Portland, Oregon. So 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.760 my wife's asking me to call in every time Seen 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:18.120 O'Connor has a birthday, because like him, same month, same day, 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.920 same year, seven twenty four to seventy eight. But every 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.000 time I either forget or I just can't get in. 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.040 So say, in honor of Fritty Fritzie birthday, same month, 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:28.840 same day, some beer, we're giving a shout out to 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:29.240 seeing them. 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.280 My wife don now. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.800 Onto the business in honor of Chris Bermant coming on 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.760 and all the years in ESPN. Dan, you've talked at 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.879 length over the years about your time at ESPN and 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.520 going the transition from ESPN to going out on your own, 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:47.960 the attic days, having a beer at the pizza shop 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.320 there in La that day and regretting, wondering if you're 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:52.119 going to regret. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:52.320 What you did. 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:56.040 But as I was explaining to Tyler and with Bill 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.080 Belichick and Tom Brady and these guys like what do 0:17:58.119 --> 0:17:58.960 you do when you leave? 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:01.480 And these people lot, You have never really. 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.080 Went into any kind of detail about how you were 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:08.359 feeling emotionally mentally from you were the star, the faith 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.600 of the of the network at that point, the peak, 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:15.000 you were at your peak and with at ESPN, in 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.280 my opinion, can you talk to us about how you 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:21.239 felt emotionally going just what you were going dealing with 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:21.800 at that time. 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:26.320 Let me get to John Smoltz and then I'll try 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:31.919 to bring back those emotions or memories there kind of 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:35.920 a blur, painful, don't want to get emotional here in 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.920 the final hour. It's Todd's day. It's Todd's birthday, John Smoltz, 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.439 who shares a birthday with me on the call for 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:46.360 the Padres Dodgers. Now we got game five in LA 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:51.600 coming up tomorrow. Explain the Dodgers pitching strategy last night, John, 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:56.359 because I likened it to a jigsaw puzzle or Rubik's cube, 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:58.600 where you Dave Roberts had to make all of that 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:00.720 work and somehow did last night. 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.960 Yeah, they're limited, right, They put a roster together. They're 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.840 supposed to have a great pitching staff and that's been 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.880 beat up. So they got to the postseason best record, 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:14.720 all the pressure in the world on them, and then 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:18.400 they really don't have a game for starters. So I've 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:20.800 always said in a vacuum, you could do it one time. 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.080 It's hard to do it all the time. You just 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.800 need one guy to mess up. But give him credit. 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:29.160 Every single guy came in. The score was lopsided. He's 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:32.919 stick with. He stood with those guys even though he 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.400 could have gone a different direction. And I think part 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.240 of it is he didn't want the Padres to get 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:41.879 any momentum, any rally, anything going, so that Game five 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:46.160 is a totally different atmosphere now, even though everyone knows 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:49.160 the Padres offense can explode. So he did a great 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:50.840 job last night and sold the bullpen. 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:54.040 Normally it used to come down to starting pitching. It 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:58.320 does it anymore? What do you think Game five comes 0:19:58.359 --> 0:19:58.679 down to? 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.680 Well, Game five and elimination, winner take all always comes 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.480 down to the shortest leash for starters. So whatever starter 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:09.680 goes longer, you think puts that team in a better 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:12.680 chance to be successful. Look, the Mets have had great 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:16.520 starting pitching. They've moved on. You've got teams that are 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.360 trying to Like the Tigers, they're at the I mean 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:24.800 every game is a miracle game. They've been playing momentum baseball. 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:27.600 We've seen this new playoff format put a lot of 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:30.640 stress on the teams that have had rest. Their offense 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:33.520 doesn't get going. There's a lot of things in the mix. 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:37.240 And for the Dodgers, really Game five comes down to 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:41.040 can they do the things and the top of their lineup, 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:45.479 whether Freddie's in there or not, to match what the 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:47.879 Padres have done in the first three innings. It's been 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:52.240 a simple formula. Padres explode early, they win, and last 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:52.879 night they didn't. 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:57.960 Yeah, you know that atmosphere I thought in San Diego, 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:02.159 I mean that that was Can you maybe compare another 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:06.040 atmosphere that you had in San Diego these last two games, 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:10.240 you know, Philadelphia, Philly, You're right, they were. 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:14.000 This is a stand all the time. It doesn't matter 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:16.800 what the score is. Something's a rally. Two zero counts 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:20.000 a rally. And I've said in the postseason, the teams 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:23.840 that handle the cleanest innings and don't allow some hiccup, 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:26.560 you know what rallies were starting with two out walks. 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:29.360 They were starting with a walk. So I love it. 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:33.160 I think San Diego's atmosphere la will be raucous. I mean, 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:35.840 these two teams don't like each other, it's well known, 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:40.120 and they're now kind of sparking this rivalry because they're 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:44.120 both good. I can make the argument that the San 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:47.480 Diego Padres have the deepest roster and maybe the best 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:49.760 roster in the postseason. But now they're going to have 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:52.400