1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Is it starting to look like nineteen eighty eight? 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: If you're Los Angeles, you hope so remember the beat 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: La chance that we would always hear, certainly when it 5 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 1: came to basketball in the Boston Garden or some of 6 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 1: the other arenas. It's starting to feel like nineteen eighty 7 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: eight when the Lakers won the NBA title, the Dodgers 8 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: won the World Series, and Los Angeles became the envy 9 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: of the sports world as the first and only city 10 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:34,239 Speaker 1: to have NBA champions and World Series champions in the 11 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: same year. Game one coming up tonight with Clayton Kershaw 12 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,239 Speaker 1: on the mound for the Dodgers eight seven seven three 13 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 1: D P show. Email address DP at dan Patrick dot com. 14 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: We'll get to phone calls here. The great Doc Emrick, 15 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: he just announced his retirement. He'll join us coming up 16 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: in about twenty minutes. When Dak Prescott got hurt, there 17 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: was reason to think the Cowboys offense wouldn't miss a 18 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: lot with Andy Dalton in there. And Dalton he went 19 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl three times. He's taken teams to 20 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 1: the playoffs in Cincinnati. But it's not that simple. For 21 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 1: one thing, the Cowboys have had so many injuries, certainly 22 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: to that offensive line, and it's in shambles right now. 23 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: And then you have to factor in Dak Prescott's his talent, 24 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: and I think we probably underrated his talent there. Sometimes 25 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: we assustive line. I don't know if anybody would look 26 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: comfortable behind that offensive line. But they were blown out 27 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,320 Speaker 1: in the game at home against the Cardinals, and at 28 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 1: two and four, they're still in the lead in the 29 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: NFC East. But last night's loss raises a lot of 30 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: questions here. You get a sense that Dak Prescott was 31 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: probably cleaning up a few of the messier things than 32 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: we knew. Dalton will settle down. Dallas has to improve. 33 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to happen on defense, but 34 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 1: if that offense is able to run the ball, control 35 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: the clock a little bit, not have that Cowboys defense 36 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: out there exposed, then they have a chance to win 37 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: a couple of games that maybe they shouldn't be. You know, 38 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: I got a factor in the Cardinals with what they 39 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: did last night. You know, they were aggressive on defense, 40 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 1: Buddha Baker. Their safety is the highest paid safety in 41 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: the league. They're four and two right now, and Kyler 42 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: hasn't played great the last couple of weeks. He didn't 43 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 1: play great last night, and this was a homecoming because 44 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: he has never lost in that stadium. He's seven and 45 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 1: oh going back to his high school days in college. 46 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: But they got a good running back, got a couple 47 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: of good wide receivers. I mean, you forget about Kristin 48 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: Kirk and you got DeAndre Hopkins, Larry Fitzgerald. They got 49 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,119 Speaker 1: a good team offensively, they got a pretty good team. 50 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: Chandler Jones out for the season, you know, one of 51 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: the great sack guys in the last few years. But 52 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: you know they're four and two. They get sort of 53 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: lost in that NFC West, but they have that potential, 54 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: like you're not going to get four teams from the 55 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: same division making the playoffs, but they have that spoiler alert. 56 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,119 Speaker 1: It feels like every time you're playing ying them. Yeah, McLevin, 57 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: are we ready to say Cliff Kingsbury is a good 58 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: NFL coach? It's pretty early. Um, well, he wasn't a 59 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: pretty good college coach. I think he was an average coach. 60 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,519 Speaker 1: But I think he's got his guy. I think that's 61 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 1: the important thing is you gotta find your quarterback. When 62 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: you find your quarterback, then you worry about everything else. 63 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: It's look at these franchises who don't have a quarterback. 64 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 1: All you do is think about what are we going 65 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: to do at quarterback? And the Bears it was, you know, 66 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: Mitchell Trubisky or Nick Foles, Foles Mitchell trubs like, what 67 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: we're what are we gonna do? Once you settle and 68 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: you have that quarterback, it's a great relief. Washington doesn't 69 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: have a starting quarterback right now, and they have three 70 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: quarterbacks on the roster, but they don't. They don't have 71 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 1: a starting quarterback. And just every the uncertainty of every 72 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: week going into a game and you're not quite sure 73 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: how your quarterback is going to play. And that's why 74 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: everybody is searching to find their guy. And I know 75 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: that the Jets. If the Jets have the number one 76 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:10,119 Speaker 1: pick and they take Trevor Lawrence, that doesn't solve all 77 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: their issues. It's a bad franchise, not a bad team. 78 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: They're a bad franchise. Like they supersede bad team. It's 79 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 1: bad franchise because bad team that's year to year, bad 80 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: franchise that's been hovering around you know that's a scent 81 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: that stays around the garbage can for a long time, 82 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:32,840 Speaker 1: even when you throw the garbage out. Yeah, point and Dan, 83 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 1: when you're saying with quarterbacks, you could be a bad 84 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: team but feel like a decent team because of the 85 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 1: quarterback situation, Like the Bengals feel like they're going in 86 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 1: the right direction. They're one and four, but they feel 87 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: with Joe Burrow that they're going And the Chargers are 88 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: one and four again, but they feel like, hey, they 89 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: got the right draft pick. But it's how you build 90 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 1: out that team. If you get Trevor Lawrence who's running 91 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: the team, and do you trust them. It goes back 92 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 1: to what I've said about the Cleveland Browns. We'd go 93 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 1: into a draft and people and say, Wow, the Browns 94 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,279 Speaker 1: are loaded. They got a couple of first round draft picks. 95 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 1: And I would always say, it's one thing to have 96 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: first round draft picks, it's another thing to do something 97 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:12,280 Speaker 1: with those first round draft picks. If you're taking Brandon Whedon, 98 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 1: then you're not going to get any better, Johnny Manziel, 99 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: You're not gonna get any better. It's going back to 100 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: what the Ravens have done for the last decade or longer. 101 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: They drafted well, and they didn't have high draft picks. 102 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: When they did, they cashed in. When you take Ray 103 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 1: Lewis and Jonathan Ogden in a draft, you know what 104 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: the hell you're doing. And those are guys that went 105 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 1: to the Hall of Fame. Those are guys that you 106 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,840 Speaker 1: build around my left tackle and my linebacker, and that's 107 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 1: where Ozzie Knewsome should be in the Hall of Fame? 108 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: Is Ozzie Knewsom in the Hall of Fame? Mcclevin, I 109 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: think it's a player, but I'll double check that. I 110 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 1: don't know if he's in as a player, but as 111 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: a front office exact he should be. By the way, 112 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: guess what Joe Douglas was in Baltimore two fourteen the 113 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: Jets to Well, I hope something rubbed off there. Yeah, 114 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: because he's got to find his coach and he's got 115 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,280 Speaker 1: to find if I don't think Sam Darnold is the 116 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: quarterback for them, Ozzie is in the Hall of Fame 117 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 1: point both college and pros tight end? Oh good, then 118 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: maybe he'll go in there as an executive. Yeah. Last 119 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: pick I think was Lamar Jackson, right, I mean his 120 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 1: last first round pick. I think he was there, and 121 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 1: that's a pretty good sign off for a guy at 122 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: the end of his career. We were wondering about who's 123 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: going to win the NFC East. There are four teams 124 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 1: to win an NFL division with a record under five hundred, 125 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 1: five hundred or worse. The OA Chargers went eight and eight. 126 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:53,919 Speaker 1: The Seahawks in twenty ten were seven and nine. Wasn't 127 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,839 Speaker 1: that the Marshawn Lynch game against the Saints in Seattle's 128 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: that sound right, McLevin? The earthquake game I'm double checking 129 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 1: was that it was definitely against they won, they hosted 130 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: a playoff game. I thought it was against the Saints 131 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: in Seattle. Beast quake. Yes, the Broncos went eight and 132 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: eight in twenty eleven and the Panthers went seven eight 133 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: and one in twenty fourteen. And you know what those 134 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:23,559 Speaker 1: four teams have in common. They all won their first 135 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: playoff game. The bunks are new rule change, I know. 136 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: I just I thought, as we move forward, you have 137 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: if you if you win your division and you have 138 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: a sub five hundred record, then you don't get you 139 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: You can get in as a wild card, but you 140 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: don't get to host a playoff. What about this? How 141 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: about the entire division loses the playoff bid? So like 142 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: the NFC East this year, if the Cowboys are seven 143 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: and nine and win the division, that playoff bid floats 144 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: as the next wild card and now the Arizona Cardinals 145 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: get in or the Rams getting I want to make 146 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: it too. Come on, it's very It's like every decade. 147 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 1: I mean, why should be rewarded for sucking? I just 148 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: think if you have a sub five hundred record and 149 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: you win your division, that you can't host a playoff game. 150 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: I think that's only fair. Start the Chiefs over the 151 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: Bills last night, and they did it with their ground attack, 152 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: and the Cardinals rolled the Cowboys thirty eight to ten. 153 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:25,119 Speaker 1: World Series coming up tonight. I'm looking at Clayton Kershaw's 154 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: postseason stats. I think this is a situation that you 155 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 1: may not like the Dodgers, but I don't know how 156 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 1: you cannot root for Clayton Kershaw to pitch, well, except 157 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: for a Tampa fan, And I'm gonna watch and probably 158 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 1: be holding my breath throughout the throughout the whole game. 159 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:50,200 Speaker 1: There with Clayton Kershaw, Angels fans probably aren't rooting for 160 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: him either Astros fans probably not either. Postseason career, he's 161 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:59,199 Speaker 1: eleven and twelve and twenty eight starts, RAS four point 162 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: three one. He's three and six in the National League 163 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:04,559 Speaker 1: Championship Series. He's one and two in the World Series. 164 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: If I said this picture is also in the regular season, 165 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 1: he wins seventy percent of the time, one seventy five 166 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: and seventy six. So he's one hundred games over five 167 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 1: hundred and two point four three ERA by far the 168 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: best r of his generation. That's the same picture who 169 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 1: has those numbers in the postseason. I mean, if you 170 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 1: go with an A plus and a C minus, and 171 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: that's what you have with Clayton Kershaw. And it's not 172 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: all on him, you know, but this is the guy 173 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 1: that's getting paid over thirty five million dollars. And we 174 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: wondered about his velocity. He started to lose velocity, and 175 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 1: you know, he's the guy who tops out maybe at 176 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: ninety two eighty three. But a lot of it is 177 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 1: that location with that velocity, because that velocity can get 178 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: you in trouble. If they sit on something, then you're 179 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: gonna get in trouble. And I wondered if he was 180 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:14,679 Speaker 1: tipping his pitches. When you go back to the series 181 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: against the Cardinals a couple of years ago, because they 182 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 1: teed off on him, and you'll hear the ball. You 183 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 1: go back to the sound of the Astros when the 184 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: Astros were banging the garbage cans. If you listen to 185 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: how hard those balls are hit, that's a team that 186 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,959 Speaker 1: knows what's coming. It's not one of those a little 187 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:37,439 Speaker 1: flare here or you know, a sharp single that is 188 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: hitting the ball square. You know you start to that's 189 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 1: when you wonder, and you know they teed off on 190 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:51,680 Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw. But this game now is you know you 191 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 1: either they swing and miss or they hit home runs. 192 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: That's what they're trying to do. That's it. Analytics to 193 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 1: me is ruined baseball because everybody subscribes to this. Now 194 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: you know, my third baseman is over by second base, 195 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: go ahead bunt. We don't care. John Smoltz was telling 196 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:14,839 Speaker 1: that to us yesterday. You would think I can get 197 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: on base, but your analytics will tell you we don't. 198 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: We don't care about that, like we want you to swing. 199 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 1: You if you swing and miss, okay, And I kept thinking, 200 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: how crazy is that I can get on I can 201 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:38,959 Speaker 1: bunt right down the third base line. Nobody practices it. Remember, 202 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 1: we would always like you got into batting practice and 203 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: then before you got out you had to do a 204 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: little bunt, or you would do bunting before you started 205 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: to swing, and then your last one would be maybe 206 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: a bunt. Yeah, and you only have to do it 207 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: two or three times before they stop playing the shift 208 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: on you. Right. That's why when these hitters go, oh, 209 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: that the shift is unfair, I'm guessing if I bunt 210 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 1: it down the third base line, they may not play 211 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: the shift every time I'm up. Yes, mclub, you wanted 212 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: to defend analytics, Well, I just say I'd rather just 213 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: lose by ten runs than bunt. I got say shift. Wow, 214 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 1: I mean, come on, you might as well just you 215 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: might as well just relegate them the miners. If you're 216 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 1: gonna buon acts a ship? What kind of I want hit? 217 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,559 Speaker 1: What happened to getting on base? Remember? Walks as good 218 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: as a hit? What happened to that pride? Like? What 219 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 1: did they say now in Little League? No do they 220 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: say walks as good as hit? Hey, don't be afraid 221 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: to whin. It's okay. Analytics said it's okay to strike 222 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:40,839 Speaker 1: out come on hip walks as good as a hitt 223 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 1: lived by that I did, Like I tried to get 224 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: a hit one time and I leaned into the pitch 225 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 1: and oh, got me right on the elbow. That's last 226 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: time I took one for the team. Hey it wait, 227 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: take one for the team there, Tony. I may have 228 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: a count on rubtion dirt on it dirt remember the 229 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,199 Speaker 1: end of a league? Remember Tom Barringer points as if 230 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 1: he's gonna call in his shot and he lays that 231 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: a little Donk bunt makes it the first base. Yeah, McLeman, 232 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: I watched Moneyball these Netflix pushed it to me about 233 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:11,960 Speaker 1: a thousand times this weekend. Man. I don't know if 234 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,439 Speaker 1: you guys did too, but it's insane that for a 235 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:17,680 Speaker 1: hundred years of baseball, walks don't count in your batting average. 236 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:21,680 Speaker 1: It's totally It's like not counting foul shots as points. 237 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 1: It should have been the same as a single. What 238 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: is the difference. There is an art, There is an art. 239 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: I mean, we talk about having a great eye, but 240 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: they don't reward you with anything. It's a non and bat. 241 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 1: But Brad Pitt, my baseball guru, kept saying, like, listen, 242 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: you're wearing down the picture. You're gonna get into their bullpen, 243 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: which is less pictures. Yeah, they're gonna have to throw 244 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: fastballs over in the middle of the plate. I mean, 245 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 1: clearly taking pitches is the key. I wonder if they 246 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: started promoting Moneyball. I know because of the postseason, but 247 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: I was thinking of the Houston Rockets because weren't they 248 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: sort of they were bad bsketball's version of Moneyball. Yeah, 249 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: Daryl Morey, Yeah, the analytics, the analytics. He was trying 250 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: to do something. Do you see where he said He 251 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 1: took out a full page ad in the Houston Chronicle, 252 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,679 Speaker 1: I think, and said my thanks to the city Houston 253 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 1: and James Harden, who changed my life. He said, James 254 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: Harden transformed basketball more than any player in recent history, 255 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: and even more so than Steph Curry, which I find interesting. 256 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: Steph did it, I think in a positive way. I 257 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: don't know if James Harden did well. I gotta tell you, 258 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: Luca Dontic, because does a lot of James Harden stuff. 259 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: I don't know who came first. Well, Steph Curry won titles. Yeah, 260 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: I do know that, But guys like pushing their body 261 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 1: into get a foul and taking long shot. I don't know. 262 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 1: There is a lot of James Harden and the young scores. 263 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: The Warriors passed the ball right right, right. No, I 264 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: don't got to say it's all good. But I think 265 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: you'd argue I don't think what Daryl did and Dan 266 00:14:55,120 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: Tony did in Houston was good for basketball. I agree, 267 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: I think it helped. It's like, you know, help ruin 268 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: basketball in my opinion. But why I don't know is 269 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 1: small ball baseball that entertaining to the young crowds what 270 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: they like? Home runs? You know what? You know what 271 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 1: is not entertaining when you throw and then you swing, 272 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: and then you miss and you strike out two hundred times. 273 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: Therefore the ball doesn't get in play. Well, how about 274 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: analytics has helped kill baseball? Willie McGee playing hit a run? 275 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: Do you want to see movement? You want to see 276 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 1: some guy up there adjusting sixty eight times? A guy 277 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: comes in, Oh, he throws ninety eight, all big shocker, 278 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: and he's gonna swing for a home run or he's 279 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 1: gonna strike out. And that's entertaining, and our home runs 280 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: that entertaining, the beauty of baseball is when it moves, when, 281 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: when when things happen Like basketball, that whole two man 282 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: game boring, isolation, boring. You go back and watch old basketball, 283 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 1: I promise if you watch the Portland Trailblazers when they 284 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 1: beat the seventy six ers with Doctor Jay Jack Ramsey 285 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 1: was the coach that is as pure of the purest 286 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: form of basketball I've seen in a long, long, long 287 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: time movement. You had guys who weren't stars. They understood 288 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: how to play the game, and it was great to watch. 289 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,560 Speaker 1: Baseball is hard to watch because everybody throws ninety eight 290 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 1: and everybody is working on exit velocity and their launch angle. Ah. Yes, 291 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: but you were right there with me. We were all 292 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 1: there for McGuire. So so like we were. You know, 293 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: home runs have a certain thrill, and we're gonna remember 294 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 1: a Cody Belger's home run. No, I'm gonna remember Mookie 295 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 1: Betts and his defensive plays and the base running errors 296 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:09,439 Speaker 1: of the Atlanta Braves. Yes, Paul Andrew, if you were 297 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:11,440 Speaker 1: at GM, would you rather have a player that led 298 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: the majors and on base percentage or home runs home runs? 299 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 1: Because on base percentage is good, but I want ops. 300 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 1: I can't remember what that means at the moment, but 301 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 1: I definitely wanted You don't want to go down this 302 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 1: road within Polly, he remember when he told me that 303 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 1: Adam Dunn was a valuable baseball player. Juan Soto of 304 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 1: the Nationals led the league in OPS and on base percentage. 305 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 1: He also had about thirteen home runs. I mean he's 306 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: a super s Yeah, he's a great player. No one 307 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: goes to the game to all of the kids bring 308 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:42,640 Speaker 1: their mit to the game and say, man, I can't 309 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 1: wait for some nice on base percentage dad, which is ops. 310 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: I could catch them on base percentage in my mit. Yeah, 311 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 1: it's just baseball has slowed down. But when I was 312 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 1: a kid, I like Dave Kingman, I like Greg Luzinski. 313 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,119 Speaker 1: I was all but I collected their cards. I wanted 314 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: the big sluggers, you know, not the effective players. Really, 315 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 1: I just I don't know. I'm amazed that I can 316 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 1: bunt and get on, but nobody wants to bunt. It's 317 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 1: the underhanded free throw of baseball. Yeah, because you don't 318 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:16,119 Speaker 1: want to be embarrassed shooting unheaded free throws. Even you 319 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: know you could shoot eighty percent, you don't want to bunt. 320 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:20,640 Speaker 1: Because you look like you don't have any stick, any 321 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: you know, any power. Yes, but when's the last time 322 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 1: that you saw in a baseball game that a guy 323 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 1: lays down a bunt? Because part of what's exciting about 324 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 1: it is the element of surprise, right, you're not expecting it. 325 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:31,239 Speaker 1: When's the last time you saw a guy laid down 326 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 1: a bunt and you want, oh, what the hell's he doing? 327 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 1: You're like, whoa we bunted? You know, it's always there's 328 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: always a certain element of excitement rather than like, I'm 329 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: gonna turn this off. The guy just laid down upunt. 330 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:43,120 Speaker 1: What is the thing that never happens when you're watching baseball? 331 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 1: What's the most exciting playing baseball? Mclub? A home run? No, 332 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 1: the triple, not the home run. Who led the league 333 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,919 Speaker 1: in triples? No one ever knows? Yeah, but who led 334 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: the leagu last year in home runs? Nobody knows that 335 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 1: either anymore? Void? Yeah, who led the league in bunch 336 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:07,159 Speaker 1: last year? Paul? Yeah? Yeah, sign them up. Yeah, you 337 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: know that these sluggers are gonna get up there and 338 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 1: bunton it out of balance every time. It's not easy 339 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 1: to do that, but it was for us. Just make 340 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 1: sure you hide the finger. Don't have that finger out 341 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: there because you could. You know you you got to 342 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 1: take it, and then you'd just deaden it a little bit. There. 343 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:24,679 Speaker 1: I was a great I love to sacrifice bunt, just 344 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,960 Speaker 1: get six three. You gotta swag, it didn't matter. I 345 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: was a team player. I gotta get that runner over. 346 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:33,399 Speaker 1: I'd move the runner. I'd hit it to the second 347 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: base side. I gotta get that runner over to third. 348 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,120 Speaker 1: GMS would have not given you the contract. It well, 349 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:40,640 Speaker 1: but if they saw how I could throw, they would say, 350 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: a right, he not not gonna hit anything, but he 351 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 1: can bring some cheese. Yes time coaches appreciate it. But 352 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: we're your fellow teammates. High five and you when you 353 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 1: got back to the dug out after him advancing the 354 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: runner over from first. Yes, they were there, Yeah, of 355 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 1: course they were. At least I think they were. All Right, 356 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,400 Speaker 1: we'll get to phone phone calls here. I almost said 357 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 1: phony calls. I think I'm back to mclebn's analytics. Here, 358 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 1: analytics ruin is ruining sports. I love that. I'm the 359 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: faith of the analytics. Like the guys who are actually 360 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 1: a show smart and successful, like they all went to 361 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: Harvard they're like nuclear fiss more successful you or the 362 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:22,120 Speaker 1: GM of the Irockets, Daryl Darryl Moore? Who's more successful? Oh, 363 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: I mean Darryl Moore's basie. Sure, I mean I think 364 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: remember he used to pull your stats. By the way 365 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 1: he basically started out, you have been part of a 366 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 1: show that's been nominated three times for their best best 367 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: studio show. Daryl Morey said a five word tweet that 368 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 1: changed the entire world. That's true, and then he didn't 369 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 1: say anything for the next eight months. A job Yeah. 370 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 1: Basically in the NBA said, uh, I think you need 371 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,120 Speaker 1: to get rid of Morey here so we can get 372 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,399 Speaker 1: back into China. We got billions here. You guys can 373 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 1: lose Morey, right, we gotta we gotta get back into 374 00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: China here. You loved Darryl Morey, by the way, I 375 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: knew loved dar. But I don't think the rocket style 376 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: of basketball has been good for basketball, That's all. And 377 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 1: I'm not get off my lawn guy. I'm open to 378 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 1: all of this. I'm just saying baseball Seaton doesn't. He 379 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: gave me the look like, um, I just all right, 380 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a break here. I'm just I'm gonna 381 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 1: take it. Gave you this suburbanswife judgmental look. Yeah, maybe 382 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get off my lawn. Guy. I just loved 383 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:40,160 Speaker 1: baseball because there's movement. I love basketball. There's movement. Twenty 384 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 1: two after the r donc Emeric while Jonas coming up 385 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 1: next year on the Dan Patrick Show, I told this 386 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,359 Speaker 1: to Todd. You want a twelve ounce rib I, you 387 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 1: don't buy the entire cow. No, you don't know, you 388 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:54,639 Speaker 1: don't need to. Friends. 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Mercedes AMG Driving Performance, 418 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 1: We'll get to your phone calls. Everybody's all fired up 419 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,920 Speaker 1: because I mentioned analytics here. Don't tell me baseball is 420 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 1: exciting now. I don't want to hear it, and the 421 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 1: rocket style of basketball, I don't want to hear it. 422 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 1: Golden State, all right, I'm all yours. That's a great 423 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 1: style of basketball. Fun style of basketball, exciting style of basketball. 424 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: I got j Billis texting me, Josh Dumel texting me. 425 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:59,160 Speaker 1: Everybody's all over, you know. Let me get to Doc Emeric. 426 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: He's a professional. He's not going to yell at me today, 427 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 1: or maybe he is. What do you want to talk about, Doc, 428 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 1: Never would I yell at you. You remember this era? 429 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 1: Y oh yeah, you're buckos. Yeah yeah. Clementi was pretty exciting, 430 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 1: wasn't he. And he was a great all around player. 431 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: You know. He was a wonderful fielder, had one of 432 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 1: the great arms in baseball history. But baseball has no 433 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 1: movement anymore, Doc. When I went to my parents took 434 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,640 Speaker 1: me to Comiskey Park in nineteen fifty six to see 435 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 1: the Red Sox play the White Sox. When Ted Williams 436 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: came to the plate, Nellie Fox, the second baseman, went 437 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 1: into short right field. Louis Appricho, the shortstop, went to 438 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 1: the right of second base. Sammy Esposito, the third baseman, 439 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: took a position closer to second base but halfway through, 440 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 1: and that was odd that there was a shift for Ted. Yeah, 441 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: but he was the one guy that that happened to. 442 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: But he was a rarity, and of course he tried 443 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: to blast it through the right side of the infield 444 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 1: all the time. But now it's so calm and because 445 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: of what you were talking about. But why would no 446 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 1: one today want to lay down the bunt that you 447 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 1: were talking about, with no one on that side of 448 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,440 Speaker 1: the infield to try to do anything about it. I 449 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,120 Speaker 1: don't know, but I guess I just have too much 450 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 1: gray hair. I do love baseball. I like watching it 451 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 1: even today, but I don't have a very successful team 452 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:27,479 Speaker 1: to watch, but I still watch it. But how did 453 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:32,920 Speaker 1: analytics change the NHL? Well, I don't know that it 454 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,919 Speaker 1: has very much, even though we have teams that are 455 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 1: heavily into it now. If it has, it hasn't for 456 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,639 Speaker 1: me because it's still in my mind it's still a 457 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: game that's played with so much heart and commitment and soul, 458 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: and it has to be. It's so much emotion and 459 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,440 Speaker 1: it's so spontaneous. As Amael Francis said, it's a slippery game. 460 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: They play it on ice. There's only so much that 461 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,680 Speaker 1: you can structure about it. And there still are some 462 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,159 Speaker 1: coaches in our league that do look at it and 463 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,639 Speaker 1: shrug and then go to the bench and coach on 464 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,239 Speaker 1: by the seat of their pants, and they've been very 465 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,920 Speaker 1: successful at it. Doc's got a new book off Mike 466 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 1: how a kid from Basketball Crazy Indiana became America's NHL voice. 467 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:24,359 Speaker 1: But you're retiring, why now? Well, it seemed like the 468 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: right time, and a lot of people that had retired 469 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: said I would know, and for me, I knew. I 470 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 1: think between the second and third rounds of the playoffs 471 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,159 Speaker 1: this year, NBC had been so wonderful to me Dan 472 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: to allow me to continue to work at my house. 473 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 1: I have a few more boxes and the average guy 474 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 1: to check off. When it comes to this type of 475 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: world that we're in right now. My birth certificate is one, 476 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 1: my cancer history is another. And they said, we won't 477 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,399 Speaker 1: have you do anything you're not comfortable doing. And at 478 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:00,400 Speaker 1: this time, going out and doing that was not portable 479 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 1: for me. So they set up this wonderful studio that 480 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 1: I'm sitting in right now, and then they allowed me 481 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 1: to continue on. Even though the truck and all of 482 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,879 Speaker 1: the crew went to Edmonton, I did not, And it 483 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 1: was at that time that it crossed my mind that 484 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,920 Speaker 1: fifty years ago, Ken Dryden was a rookie and I 485 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 1: was a newspaper reporter while teaching college in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. 486 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,879 Speaker 1: Joe Namath had just left there a few years ago 487 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 1: to be a part of a Super Bowl champion. And 488 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 1: here I was covering hockey and Ken Dryden was a rookie, 489 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 1: and Bobby Hall was still playing for the Blackhawks, and 490 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: Bobby or for the Bruins, and that's a long time past, 491 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,680 Speaker 1: and here I am still healthy and safe, and my 492 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 1: wife is too, and I've been very fortunate. And the 493 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: round number of fifty and the round number of forty 494 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,160 Speaker 1: doing games made me think that this is a good time, 495 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,159 Speaker 1: and this was the right time for that. So for 496 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,480 Speaker 1: the last two rounds, the one thing I wanted to 497 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: do Dan was to work really hard, hard and make 498 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,200 Speaker 1: sure that I did not coast, even though in my 499 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 1: mind the decision had been made at that point. Do 500 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 1: you have a tape of your first game that you 501 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: did play by play? I don't have a tape of that. 502 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: When I have some from that season, they're not really 503 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: too good, but I still have them, yes, And I 504 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,920 Speaker 1: always encourage people who are getting into this line of work. 505 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: Whenever you do your first game, make sure you save 506 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 1: the tape. And I didn't. It was a game in Toledo, Ohio. 507 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 1: I didn't save that one. But save your first one 508 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,919 Speaker 1: because you'll look back on it and you'll realize how 509 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,479 Speaker 1: far you've come when you listen to what you were 510 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: like a long time ago. When did you understand the 511 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: importance of vocabulary? Grade five? I had a teacher in 512 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 1: our little school in Indiana who said, any word that 513 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: you use five times belongs to you for life. That 514 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: was a rule then. And then when I was in 515 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 1: grad school at Miami University, we were probably losing to 516 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 1: your school and basketball and a regular basis. But when 517 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: I was going back and forth to Dayton, Ohio to 518 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,960 Speaker 1: watch International Hockey League games, I would talk to everybody 519 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 1: in the press box and they're broadcaster. Lyle Steve, who 520 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: later did one year of the Washington Capitals, said, if 521 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: you can come up with a different way of saying 522 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 1: all the repeating things that happened in a game of hockey, 523 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 1: that will help you. Because if you say dumped in 524 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: from Centiriz every time you'll drive people nuts. So I 525 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 1: tried to do that. And it's not a conspiratorial thing 526 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 1: with my vocabulary. It's it's just the way I talk. 527 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 1: So the dogs don't understand me, but hopefully enough people 528 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 1: do that. I that I kept working all these years. 529 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: The Dayton Gems. That was the first hockey game I 530 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: ever went to. You're kidding, first hockey game. How long 531 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 1: ago is that? It's got to be I'm gonna guess 532 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 1: a good fifty years ago, So you probably saw a 533 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: few scraps. Yes. I was fascinated with that, you know, 534 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: because my soul was I My dad said we're gonna 535 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 1: go to a hockey game, and we're like okay, because 536 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,360 Speaker 1: we grew up in a baseball, football, basketball household. And 537 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 1: we went to Dayton and watched the Dayton Gems. I 538 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 1: couldn't remember anything other than there were a hell of 539 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 1: a lot of fights there. They were it felt like, 540 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 1: you know, they would interrupt a fight to have a 541 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 1: hockey game, but it was all of I was like, Wow, 542 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 1: they get to punch each other. And I never wanted 543 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:33,000 Speaker 1: to play hockey after that. No, And that was the 544 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: fascinating part to me. Sixty years ago when I saw 545 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 1: my first game too. I didn't know offsides and icing 546 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 1: after I saw my first game live, but I remember, 547 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 1: and I try to keep it in mind each time 548 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 1: that I do a game that for somebody in the 549 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,880 Speaker 1: arena that night, and maybe somebody watching at home, it's 550 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: their very first game, and there's nothing that's more exciting 551 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 1: than a game live, and especially that first game. It 552 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 1: never leaves your mind. Sometimes, when I got to talk 553 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: to journalism classes, if it's small enough, I asked each 554 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 1: of them to stand up and talk about the first 555 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: major event they ever saw. And it's amazing the clarity 556 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: in detail they remember, and invariably when they're telling the story, 557 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 1: there's a smile on their face because they do remember 558 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: a lot about it. And then I say, imagine doing 559 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: that for forty years and being paid to do it. 560 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 1: You were talking earlier about the longevity of a coach, 561 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 1: and you were talking about whether whether McLevin had a 562 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 1: better job than a coach. The Danettes have had great 563 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 1: job stability for a long time, a lot better in 564 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 1: coaches have. Yeah, I told him, I think he's McLevin 565 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,880 Speaker 1: has had a pretty good run here. I don't know 566 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 1: if he appreciates it doc, but people, I think he 567 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 1: does have the one request that I make, and you 568 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 1: hinted at it earlier, and I thought maybe Fritzie had 569 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:56,480 Speaker 1: had tipped you off, because I can't get there for 570 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: the long awaited four free throws that you had promised 571 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: me that at some time of your choosing that each 572 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 1: of the Danettes would get a free throw. You would 573 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:14,760 Speaker 1: get four, and that McLevin would be the anchorman. But 574 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 1: your four would have to be shot because you're so good. 575 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,520 Speaker 1: Your four would have to be shot like Ali and 576 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 1: Hoosiers underhand, and like I was taught in grade school 577 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 1: when I was on the seventh grade team underhand. How 578 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:35,600 Speaker 1: good were you in seventh graded basketball? It's a story 579 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 1: that I only tell family. There were two seconds to 580 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 1: go in our game against the Rohan Indians and I 581 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 1: was brought to the line with two foul shots and 582 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 1: I sank them both, and because of that, we went 583 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 1: to overtime and we won. But the punchline to the 584 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 1: story is we were seventh graders and Roan brought their 585 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 1: sixth grade team. You can leave that out of the story. 586 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: But I shot underhand, and there was there was a 587 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:08,880 Speaker 1: poster on the wall next to the dressing room that 588 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 1: taught you how to shoot underhand, and we were expected 589 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 1: to shoot that way. But it was a long time ago. 590 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 1: A player today would rather miss a free throw than 591 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 1: make a free throw shooting it underhand. Yeah, that's right. 592 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,280 Speaker 1: It's all style points now. If you if you could 593 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 1: call one more game in any sport, I don't know 594 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 1: if I don't know what it would be or when 595 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 1: I think, what I would have liked to have done, 596 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 1: if I could have gone back into the past, would 597 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,480 Speaker 1: have been to have called to see I got to 598 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 1: do Wayne Gretzky's last game on Fox that was at 599 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,200 Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden against Pittsburgh in nineteen ninety nine. I 600 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,520 Speaker 1: would have loved because the three players that I always 601 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 1: admired a lot, and I only got to call one 602 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:59,160 Speaker 1: of their games was Gretzky, but either Bobby or or 603 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 1: Gordie Howe. I would have liked to have done their 604 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,800 Speaker 1: last game because the memory of doing Gretzky's last game 605 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:08,279 Speaker 1: still resonates with me because it was so cherished by 606 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,600 Speaker 1: the Garden fans. Even though the Rangers lost the game, 607 00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,239 Speaker 1: everybody left with a smile on their face, and I 608 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,799 Speaker 1: would have liked to have either done Bobby Or's Last 609 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:19,759 Speaker 1: Game or Gordy House, but I wasn't broadcasting in the 610 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 1: NHL at that time, so no chance off. Mike, a 611 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 1: kid from Basketball Crazy Indiana, became America's NHL voice. It's 612 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,680 Speaker 1: being released today. You can purchase purchase Hit online or 613 00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,040 Speaker 1: wherever books are sold. Thank you for your friendship. I 614 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,120 Speaker 1: don't want to get emotional, but okay, but thank you. 615 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,520 Speaker 1: It's it's a lot of fun too. And have Fritzie 616 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 1: tell me the outcome of whenever you guys decide to 617 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,960 Speaker 1: shoot the free throws, and I will mention one other thing. 618 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 1: Any money I get from the sale of the book, 619 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,480 Speaker 1: people should feel good about buying it because it all 620 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:53,520 Speaker 1: goes to the hands on care of animals. It's a 621 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,440 Speaker 1: very important cause to my wife and me. Thank you, 622 00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,399 Speaker 1: Thank you, buddy. Okay, thank you, stay in much. We'll 623 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:04,440 Speaker 1: bother you. Okay, all right, that's the great Doc Emeric. 624 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 1: We'll take a break here. Last call for phone calls 625 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,360 Speaker 1: coming up here on The Dan Patrick Show. Thanks for 626 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,840 Speaker 1: listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to 627 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:15,840 Speaker 1: catch us live every weekday morning nine until noon eastern 628 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,680 Speaker 1: six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. And you 629 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:22,520 Speaker 1: can find us on the iHeartRadio app at FSR or 630 00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 1: stream us live on the Peacock app. Always great to 631 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,879 Speaker 1: talk to, Doc Emeric good Man, truly a good man. 632 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:35,279 Speaker 1: If I told you a starting quarterback coming off a 633 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:39,919 Speaker 1: good performance just got benched, who would come to mind, 634 00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:45,360 Speaker 1: coming off a winning performance and the team has a 635 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:52,040 Speaker 1: winning record just got benched. Would you have guessed Ryan 636 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:55,719 Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick because too a tongue of ioloa is going to 637 00:35:55,800 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 1: get the start coming up this weekend. I guess they've 638 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,239 Speaker 1: seen all they need to see in those what three 639 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,239 Speaker 1: or four snaps that he had and the mop up 640 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:11,680 Speaker 1: duty against the Jets. They're three and three, and Ryan 641 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:16,200 Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick couldn't have been happier when two went into the game. 642 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,520 Speaker 1: I don't know how he feels now. He knew it 643 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:22,399 Speaker 1: was inevitable, but two is going to get the start? Yeah, Bolling, 644 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,040 Speaker 1: what's the mentality there with the Dolphins? The Patriots just 645 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:28,239 Speaker 1: lost two, Bills just lost two, The Dolphins just one 646 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,840 Speaker 1: two in a row. They're the best team in the 647 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,759 Speaker 1: division right now. Point the French or wise, why he 648 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:39,440 Speaker 1: can starting quarterback out now? I'm surprised because Ryan Fitzpatrick 649 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,359 Speaker 1: has not hurt the Dolphins, He's helped the Dolphins. He's 650 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:47,200 Speaker 1: played well. And is this a home game for TWA? 651 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:54,279 Speaker 1: Who do they play next? Do they play the Jets? Well, 652 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,640 Speaker 1: they just played the Jets, and I see the Rams 653 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,320 Speaker 1: at Miami next. Okay, I thought I think they have 654 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,120 Speaker 1: I ended up bye week by I thought that they 655 00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:05,759 Speaker 1: had a bye week and then didn't they play the 656 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 1: Jets again? Or is that a COVID change. I'm not sure. 657 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,160 Speaker 1: If I'm looking at updated schedule, I think they got 658 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,839 Speaker 1: moved around because of the schedule change. About double check, Okay, 659 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,440 Speaker 1: that now becomes musty TV. I was looking at some 660 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:21,320 Speaker 1: of these games Steelers, Tighten, Seahawks, Cardinals, nine Ers, Patriots, Bucks, Raiders, 661 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:26,920 Speaker 1: Sunday Night, Bears Rams Monday night. Yeah, that's yeah, So 662 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,000 Speaker 1: they don't play the Rams, Nick Levin, at least the 663 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,800 Speaker 1: schedule that Fritzie sent me. Yeah, Bears Rams should be 664 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:39,520 Speaker 1: there Monday night. Yeah, Panthers Saints, so I don't yeah, 665 00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,120 Speaker 1: the bye week, yeah, and then do they play the 666 00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,839 Speaker 1: Jets again? I still seeing the Rams, and then maybe 667 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 1: that's the case. I thought they played the Jets like 668 00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:51,759 Speaker 1: within a three week or four week span. Yeahpo, I 669 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:53,840 Speaker 1: think I get a half point for half calling this. 670 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,600 Speaker 1: I said they should start him against New York in 671 00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,640 Speaker 1: October eighteenth Miami Dolphins. Ta, because then you got Jets 672 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:02,959 Speaker 1: Bye week Jets. Now they had to change it around 673 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,080 Speaker 1: because of the different moves of games. I'll give you 674 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,440 Speaker 1: a win. Yeah, have a point. Yeah, Rams Bears is 675 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,920 Speaker 1: this week, but the Dolphins are a buy so they 676 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,239 Speaker 1: did the change with the ten days off. Yeah. Yes, 677 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,040 Speaker 1: it'd be funny though, if the Dolphins got their schedule 678 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,080 Speaker 1: confused and thought they were playing a way, They're like, oh, 679 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,439 Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, Oh uh, why don't you say it again? 680 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,040 Speaker 1: Second thought, Um, it's a little more time, Ryan, come 681 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:30,000 Speaker 1: on in, you're our starter. All right, I'm I'm all eyes. 682 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:34,240 Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by this. Yes, mclovin. One thing about the Rams, 683 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,919 Speaker 1: Aaron Donald's amazing. The rest of that defense I would 684 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,640 Speaker 1: describe as a finesse defense. He got a pretty good 685 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:44,279 Speaker 1: defensive back there, don't you uh with the with the Rams? Yeah, 686 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,440 Speaker 1: Jalen Rams, Yeah, yeah I know. But Watson R. Did 687 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,680 Speaker 1: you see Deebo Samuel running? They were they were like 688 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,880 Speaker 1: little kids trying to tackle on adult. They do not 689 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,880 Speaker 1: tackle that's what I'm saying. They're they're completely unscary. Uh, Jason, 690 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,040 Speaker 1: and Indiana joins us Hi, Jason, would he have for 691 00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:02,959 Speaker 1: me today? I'm doing well today and I just wanted 692 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,719 Speaker 1: to let you guys know that, Um, you just talked 693 00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,080 Speaker 1: to Duck Emeric and uh, you might not know, or 694 00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:14,879 Speaker 1: what people may not know is that Doc actually when 695 00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:19,120 Speaker 1: he started into play by playing, the first thing he 696 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,120 Speaker 1: actually did was he took a little recorder up to 697 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:26,440 Speaker 1: the corner of the arena where the Comets played their 698 00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:31,680 Speaker 1: games in Fort Wayne. And the guy that was broadcasting 699 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,920 Speaker 1: for the Comets then, his name is Bob Chase, and 700 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:40,200 Speaker 1: he actually helped give dog Duck Emeric head start way 701 00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:45,080 Speaker 1: back in the in the sixties. And it was it 702 00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:48,520 Speaker 1: was just great to see because Bob would go on 703 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,920 Speaker 1: to broadcast for sixty three years, all told, all for 704 00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:56,560 Speaker 1: the Comets here in my town, my city, and Doc 705 00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,200 Speaker 1: would do his work and they would actually meet in 706 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:03,239 Speaker 1: twenties in their twenty sixteen for Bob's ninetieth birthday. He's 707 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,640 Speaker 1: he passed away that year on Thanksgiving. But that's a 708 00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:11,640 Speaker 1: great yeah, that's uh. Those hockey announcers, they stayed doing 709 00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,560 Speaker 1: it for a long time and Doc certainly did. Uh 710 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:21,600 Speaker 1: Patricia and Florida, Hi Dan, Hi Patricia. I'm a long 711 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:25,080 Speaker 1: time fan of yours. I've been following you since you 712 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:30,160 Speaker 1: used to have muh gosh, what's his name now, Rob 713 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:36,200 Speaker 1: dibble nou Ke. I like, I like when you interview Keishan, 714 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,680 Speaker 1: I think on Mondays, and now you have Reggie Miller. Yeah. Um, 715 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,440 Speaker 1: I'm a long time sports fan. I had seven brothers. 716 00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,799 Speaker 1: I grew up in South ben so I fled Blue 717 00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:48,439 Speaker 1: and Gold. I remember my first quarterback was probably Terry 718 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:50,560 Speaker 1: hann Ready. I think he was number five, number five. 719 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,360 Speaker 1: So I followed Mitre Dame and then I went to 720 00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:59,440 Speaker 1: I moved to Gardena, California and became a huge Laker fan. 721 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,640 Speaker 1: I still have a VCR tape of the eighty six 722 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:10,080 Speaker 1: eighty seven Lakers back to back championship. And then I 723 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,000 Speaker 1: also was a huge Dodger fan, and we happened to 724 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,560 Speaker 1: be camping. I was going to miss the World Series 725 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:19,279 Speaker 1: because we were going camping up in the Sequoias, So 726 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:23,200 Speaker 1: I missed the championship game when but I listened to 727 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,719 Speaker 1: we listened to it on the radio. When Bob kirk 728 00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,680 Speaker 1: Gibson hit the home run. So I just wanted to 729 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,880 Speaker 1: call and say, I really enjoy listening to you. I 730 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,680 Speaker 1: love sports. I'm a basketball I'm still a Laker fan. 731 00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:41,399 Speaker 1: I appreciate how you always stand behind m Lebron James 732 00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,960 Speaker 1: when everybody else is bashing him. He seems like a 733 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:48,000 Speaker 1: great a great man, Patricia, Thank you, Thank you for 734 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:53,920 Speaker 1: being a fan. Final final results of the poll. Question there, McLeman. 735 00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,640 Speaker 1: Who's going to win the NFC? Least Eagles run away 736 00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,760 Speaker 1: with it? Almost sixty percent? Jaffa bay Had Bruce Arians 737 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,000 Speaker 1: will join us on the program tomorrow. Sorry I didn't 738 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,360 Speaker 1: get to the other phone calls there. This day in 739 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,799 Speaker 1: Sports History, Polly fall of nineteen eighty six, Patricia bought 740 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:13,799 Speaker 1: a VCR. This Day in Sports History eighty six at six, 741 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:18,120 Speaker 1: Patricia VCR. All right, thank you. Polly. Shelson went to 742 00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:22,759 Speaker 1: the sequoias, all the sequoias. Who wouldn't yeah, beautiful? Uh? Todd? 743 00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:24,759 Speaker 1: Would you learn today if you win your division with 744 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:26,600 Speaker 1: a losing record, Paul, he's starting a movement to keep 745 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,880 Speaker 1: that team out of the playoffs completely. Nick Lovin, The 746 00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,640 Speaker 1: Packers almost drafted David Pollock instead of Aaron Rodgers, set O'Connor, 747 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:37,040 Speaker 1: Doc Emeric, not so emotional. No, I was gonna get emotional. 748 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,960 Speaker 1: He's like, all right, I don't want to get emotional, 749 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,040 Speaker 1: all right, Yes, Polly Patricia's life story. That's why I 750 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:46,279 Speaker 1: learned what we learned. Brought to you by Breeders Cup. 751 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,560 Speaker 1: November sixth and seventh. World's best thoroughbreds compete in fourteen 752 00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:53,439 Speaker 1: exhilarating races at the Breeders' Cup World Championships. Learn more 753 00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,200 Speaker 1: Breeders Cup dot Com signs twenty twenty Catch all the 754 00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,359 Speaker 1: action live on NBC Sports. Thanks for joining us. We'll 755 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:01,280 Speaker 1: talk to you to our own joy the World Series 756 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:01,600 Speaker 1: tonight