Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. I gave this audience an as simon, and
Speaker 1: you have delivered. Not straight a's, but you have delivered.
Speaker 1: I asked for theme music for mock headlines that we
Speaker 1: can play, and then also theme music for Todd's limericks
Speaker 1: when we play those, and I think we have found
Speaker 1: the leader in the clubhouse for Todd's limericks that we
Speaker 1: would play before Todd to give us a limerick. Todd,
Speaker 1: would you sing that song that we're going to play
Speaker 1: before your limerick? No? No, no, no no no no no
Speaker 1: no no no no no no no no was that it? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of yeah. Clothes yet the lyrics right for sure?
Speaker 1: Maybe we should find the original version. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: thank you, good bye. Fritzie came in to day and
Speaker 1: he goes, I got one word, best way to promote
Speaker 1: Thursday night football. Yes, I feel very good about it.
Speaker 1: I go, well, wait, who was wondering how to promote
Speaker 1: Thursday night football? That's one word, best way to promote
Speaker 1: Thursday night football? Al Michaels and Kirk kirk Street, Todd,
Speaker 1: Al Amazon, Amazon, I love it. You know you do too,
Speaker 1: No offess to Kirk, he's not part of it with
Speaker 1: just contract on the play my play guy. But Amazon
Speaker 1: is a winner in the club. Yes, it should be
Speaker 1: noted that we were in a perfectly good shape to
Speaker 1: get rid of that at about eight thirty this morning.
Speaker 1: But Fritzie goes, oh, I got the I got the
Speaker 1: one word best way to promote Thursday night football, and
Speaker 1: Paul goes save it, see it? And I go, do
Speaker 1: we want to save it? So proud I did, all right?
Speaker 1: So Fritzie also brought this up at eight thirty this morning.
Speaker 1: Joe Bucks first words when he's in the booth Monday
Speaker 1: night Football night, Joe bucks first words might be, so,
Speaker 1: are you ready for some football? Troy he's the Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer or Troy k Man. I'm Joe Buck. That's good, God,
Speaker 1: that's not good. You don't think he's gonna like play
Speaker 1: off of all you're ready for some football? I think
Speaker 1: there's a eighty eight percent chat he's gonna do that.
Speaker 1: If you don't, you're get twelve parts. I'll take a
Speaker 1: ply to the face. He's got to make some kind
Speaker 1: of replaces that they left Fox or ESPN and they're
Speaker 1: doing Monday Night Football. You can't just say he's the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fan like, pretend nothing happened and they just
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, instead of the Sunday afternoon game,
Speaker 1: they're doing Monday night football. So I'm thinking he's gonna
Speaker 1: do something with Are you ready for some ply to
Speaker 1: the face Amazon? Yeah? Or he'll go he's the Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer. No, he's either this is a peek inside
Speaker 1: our world at around eight thirty in the morning when
Speaker 1: we have our morning meeting and Todd has a bunch
Speaker 1: of things that he says, and then there are times
Speaker 1: when we go, no, save it for the show. They're
Speaker 1: just throwaway lines. You know that someone in media relations
Speaker 1: with Amazon right now either hurt it or someone's gonna
Speaker 1: tell them and they're gonna start making the shirts and
Speaker 1: hats al Amazon, And of course let's go, let's get
Speaker 1: that press release going once again. I'll take a pie
Speaker 1: of the face. Are you willing to take a pie
Speaker 1: of the face with Joe Buck? That's very specifical, that's
Speaker 1: a little you can say you have an eighty eight
Speaker 1: percent chance. That might have been a little high. I've
Speaker 1: got a little excited there. Yeah, like sixty four Amazon
Speaker 1: Prime rib I was a steak guy. That's right, you
Speaker 1: can put those two together. Well, I did come up
Speaker 1: with the idea of Steak Night in al America that
Speaker 1: we were going to do a show with Al. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the show was about, but it was
Speaker 1: other than he went to steakhouses around when he traveled,
Speaker 1: and we would just get his recommendations when he was
Speaker 1: having these steak dinners in America, Yampo. So Steak Night
Speaker 1: Almerica is going to be al. Let's say he was
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis and Peyton Manning was still there. He would
Speaker 1: go to a steakhouse with Oh, that's right, Jim Ursey
Speaker 1: or Peyton Manning or Tony Dungee back in the day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and have a sit down conversation in black and white
Speaker 1: at a steakhouse, little Sinatra in the background, and you
Speaker 1: cut it up and make it into a thirty minute show.
Speaker 1: We didn't al signed up for that. Alm was like,
Speaker 1: I love it, Yes, Marvin, you know what, we already
Speaker 1: have a theme song for Almazon. Almazon, No, no, no, no, Almazon, Almazon,
Speaker 1: thank you? What is the name? What is the name
Speaker 1: of that song? How bizarre? How bazarre is is that
Speaker 1: by somebody is it three letters? Is it like? Wow?
Speaker 1: M C O MC is correct? Hell, that was like
Speaker 1: an out of body experience. And how bizarre this is
Speaker 1: like a seventy song you played at the FM. No,
Speaker 1: I never played that song. That's a nineteen nine song.
Speaker 1: We we only played great rock and roll back then. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was actually gonna throw my hat in the ring
Speaker 1: the song for Fritzie and and the mock headlines. Um. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not super familiar with this song, although you definitely
Speaker 1: will be, so I might mess up the UM. I
Speaker 1: don't like cadence of the the rhythm of the song
Speaker 1: a little bit, and I'm also rhythm is gonna get you.
Speaker 1: I wrote some lyrics though, but I'm dealing with this.
Speaker 1: Dude is a great singer, so I apologize in advance
Speaker 1: for for doing this. Um, Marvin, if you want to
Speaker 1: hit the music. He sits alone at his dance go
Speaker 1: trying to find something funny to see. He says, Dan's
Speaker 1: the one I love most, but Seaton's not far be high.
Speaker 1: He always lets Ryan in Todd always takes it on
Speaker 1: the chin, especially when his head time to think. He says,
Speaker 1: I don't care it just runs his hands through what
Speaker 1: used to be his hair, and I wait, afraid of God,
Speaker 1: you gotta help me find a way. Big moment here,
Speaker 1: my head lines the cheers fall down like rain my
Speaker 1: head lines. I need something that he's the pain. My
Speaker 1: head lines never get a laugh out of me. And
Speaker 1: if there's more headlines tomorrow, can't hear me. He can't
Speaker 1: hear me. That's just we did that one freestyle. I
Speaker 1: was very well done. You just whipped that up. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we came up with the lyrics, but it didn't really
Speaker 1: practice the singing, which that world too nipped up a
Speaker 1: batch there. Fritzie still reminiscence about his days at ESPN,
Speaker 1: and he'll occasionally give me a sports center tease. I think.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I want to be a sports center or
Speaker 1: something I never pursued or try. Well, no, it's good
Speaker 1: you didn't, but why because I'm only would Okay, do
Speaker 1: you want to do your sports center? Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1: So explain what this is to the audience so they
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. That you know, when they
Speaker 1: tease what's coming up on Sports Center? They had these
Speaker 1: little clever lines and plays on words. They'll throw in
Speaker 1: a little audio and video it's like the tease. You know,
Speaker 1: I noticed that you only send it to me. You
Speaker 1: didn't send it to Paula because he gets his red
Speaker 1: pen out. He's like, we're not doing that. That's not funny.
Speaker 1: That's he is the executive producer. That's true. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: he should, kind of he should. There's nothing dirty at here.
Speaker 1: It's just made no, but there has been before I did. Okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead here here is your Sports Center tease coming
Speaker 1: up on Sports Center? Are the Chiefs over the Hill?
Speaker 1: Why the deal with the Dopplins? Tyreeks HIREE will take
Speaker 1: your questions on a needle to no basis Haslam Butler Spolstra,
Speaker 1: Oh my things get heated with the heat. Also few
Speaker 1: and far between, will the hog zig while the bulldog zag?
Speaker 1: Cougar of the week? Why Houston can't keep up with
Speaker 1: the Cats blue versus Red? Will Coach K's devils be
Speaker 1: kowed by the Raiders and never say nova? What's rights
Speaker 1: against the Wolverines? Maybe Howard's end? How sweet it is?
Speaker 1: Let the madness resume. Also, the jury is still out
Speaker 1: on Judge. Don't bank on Aaron staying in pinstripes. Plus
Speaker 1: in the doghouse where Mike Mayfield be in may what's
Speaker 1: all the bracket? You ask? Good Sports Center? Right about now? Okay,
Speaker 1: didn't your brother used to write those the tease bump units? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had a group of people writing these things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Fritzie's brother who's still works at the Mother's Ship. I
Speaker 1: think that. You know, if I'm Mike Greenberg, I would
Speaker 1: hire you just to be that guy, the hype guy.
Speaker 1: I didn't do my stand red for it things. Guy heated?
Speaker 1: We're with the heat. Do you think Greeney talks that
Speaker 1: way when he's on vacation with his family? Come on,
Speaker 1: get up yelling at his kids. We're at the four seasons.
Speaker 1: We gotta get to the zip line right about now? Expected, Yes, Marth,
Speaker 1: whenever they go back, they're backing better than ever. Now
Speaker 1: bungee jumping? Why not? Let's go? Uh? Did you have
Speaker 1: something on the Thursday night Football with the pairing of
Speaker 1: Kirk curb Street and now Michael Amazon? No not, you
Speaker 1: shut up, Almazon point. This was certainly a gold rush
Speaker 1: for announcers here. So Kirk curb Street and now Michael's
Speaker 1: are going to be on Thursday night and U interesting
Speaker 1: pairing though, interesting pairing, and I don't buy into this. Well,
Speaker 1: Kirk never played in the n FELL. Can we stop
Speaker 1: with that. Al Michaels didn't either, And there are guys
Speaker 1: who played in the NFL who can't broadcast an NFL game. Plus,
Speaker 1: Herbie is going to see all of these players when
Speaker 1: they're in college. That's a great resource to have, and
Speaker 1: Al has seen them all as professionals. You put those
Speaker 1: two together and I think it's going to work out.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. If you tune into a
Speaker 1: game and you go, well, that guy he doesn't know football,
Speaker 1: or he only played three years, that guy never won
Speaker 1: a playoff game? What's he No? I don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we do that to announcers. There
Speaker 1: are people who didn't know that John Madden coached in
Speaker 1: the NFL. They were like, they got the video game
Speaker 1: guy and he's doing games. I go, he's a Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame coach, he won a Super Bowl. Oh, I
Speaker 1: just know him as the video game guy. Yeah. This
Speaker 1: goes back to like a year and a half ago,
Speaker 1: Fowler and her Street did Monday Night Football kind of
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. Remember they were given it to like
Speaker 1: Greeny and Golic in different groups like that. A couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, the Mothership and follow Herbstreet went in,
Speaker 1: and I remember I'm looking at some articles now like
Speaker 1: why following herb Street their college guys? But then Tuesday morning,
Speaker 1: what a nice job by following herb Street spotless broadcast
Speaker 1: great chemistry and they become, especially Kirk, involved in this
Speaker 1: topic for a while. Now. Yeah, I was surprised Amazon
Speaker 1: went after Kirk kurb Street, and not because he doesn't
Speaker 1: have the experience. I didn't know if he'd be able
Speaker 1: to do that, if the Mothership would allow him. Because
Speaker 1: now you have to do so Let's say you prepare,
Speaker 1: you go in Wednesday. You got to talk to these teams.
Speaker 1: Now you could do that over zoom, I guess, but
Speaker 1: you're going in. Got to hit the ground running all
Speaker 1: day Thursday, Friday. You're going to travel to wherever college
Speaker 1: game day is, get up early Saturday morning. You could
Speaker 1: be in Oxford, Mississippi. And then he's got that game
Speaker 1: Saturday night with Chris Fowler. That could be USC Oregon,
Speaker 1: and that's pretty intense. But he also doubled his salary.
Speaker 1: I'm sure so that that helps. But I you know,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm rooting for Herbie. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: he'll do a great job there, but because he knows
Speaker 1: the college guys and how many guys are in that
Speaker 1: position who do follow college football the way Herbie does,
Speaker 1: and you can sort of take us through. And if
Speaker 1: you're playing college football, you got to be there for
Speaker 1: at least three years before you're eligible for the draft.
Speaker 1: So he does have a good sample size of being
Speaker 1: able to see these players. Yeah. Point, I really like
Speaker 1: Kirk with al Michaels because if you look, remember when
Speaker 1: Kirk for a bunch of years was with Brent Musburger.
Speaker 1: Brent Musburger is a lot older, but they had fun together.
Speaker 1: They kept it fun because Brent is not a doesn't
Speaker 1: have old man like where he's like dry and doesn't
Speaker 1: have humor. I think it's gonna be the same with
Speaker 1: al Michaels're gonna have a good time. By the way,
Speaker 1: the New York City Mayor Eric Adams will lift the
Speaker 1: city's COVID nineteen vaccine mandate on athletes today, paving the
Speaker 1: way for Kyrie or to play home games. So this Sunday,
Speaker 1: Kyrie will be able to play a home game. Also,
Speaker 1: you got the Yankees and Mets have players who are unvaccinated,
Speaker 1: they get to play in their April home openers. This
Speaker 1: according to ESPN, this was announced yesterday, but Kyrie after
Speaker 1: last night's loss against Memphis, was asked about this mandate
Speaker 1: being lifted. Not ask me any questions about hypotheticals. What's
Speaker 1: gonna happen? Please do not so anything is official. Please
Speaker 1: not ask me any questions about there, y'all. Okay, you
Speaker 1: know he doesn't want to fan the flames. Now. I
Speaker 1: thought that when he bought a ticket to go watch
Speaker 1: the Nets play at home, that to me was poking
Speaker 1: the bear. That's like, here's your mask mandate. I got
Speaker 1: a ticket, but I can't play in the game. And
Speaker 1: I said, look, I mean it sounds silly, It looks silly.
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't have sympathy for Kyrie, but
Speaker 1: you admire him that he did stick to his position
Speaker 1: here and it wasn't a popular position, certainly with his
Speaker 1: team with Kevin Durant and for their chances of winning
Speaker 1: a title here. But it might work out. It might
Speaker 1: unintentionally work out. When the Nets played the Sixers and
Speaker 1: I saw Kyrie take it to James Harden, I mean
Speaker 1: he took it to and that who that opened my
Speaker 1: eyes a little bit of oh, you know the new
Speaker 1: shack in Kobe, which people were silly in saying. Kyrie's going,
Speaker 1: oh really, that's the new Kobe. You want some of
Speaker 1: this smoke here? And he took it to James Harden.
Speaker 1: I'd love to see that matchup in the postseason because
Speaker 1: Kyrie not afraid and he is a wonderful player. But
Speaker 1: he put his money where his mouth was and said, look,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to play. I don't believe in this.
Speaker 1: While I don't agree with that, I do admire that
Speaker 1: he did say, look, I'm not going to play. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving's only played seven hundred and thirty minutes this season.
Speaker 1: The top NBA players are like at twenty two hundred.
Speaker 1: To give you, Lebron James is at over two thousand minutes.
Speaker 1: Kyrie's at seven hundred. All right, we'll take a break.
Speaker 1: We will get some more mock headline song suggestions. But
Speaker 1: I got Dave Roberts, the Dodger manager, set to join
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Speaker 1: Show Dave Roberts, Dodgers manager, one a World Series as
Speaker 1: a player of the Red Sox and as the Dodgers
Speaker 1: manager and former National League Manager of the Year, joining
Speaker 1: us from spring training. Dave, Good to have you back
Speaker 1: on how did the sort of abbreviated spring training affect
Speaker 1: your approach on how you're going to get everybody ready?
Speaker 1: You know, DP it was, it was different. It was
Speaker 1: a frenzy. There was a lot of trust that had
Speaker 1: to be kind of accounted for because we couldn't talk
Speaker 1: to the players and we just had to hope that
Speaker 1: they were going to be ready, starting pitchers in particular,
Speaker 1: And so once we get there, it's kind of an
Speaker 1: overall conversation assessment and super guys rat But with our guys,
Speaker 1: to a man, it's been really good. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's Clayton or Walker, you know, guys are putting
Speaker 1: their work built up and it's been good. But obviously
Speaker 1: and we'll get to Freddie later, but I know that,
Speaker 1: you know, Freddie just kind of getting him his feet wet,
Speaker 1: So he's a kind of a late arrival at camp.
Speaker 1: But guys like that. But right now we're kind of
Speaker 1: on track. How are you told that the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: signing Freddie Freeman? So I kind of joke DP that
Speaker 1: it was kind of the worst kept secret in all
Speaker 1: of baseballs that and I say that in a sense
Speaker 1: that it's something that I think everyone wanted and we
Speaker 1: were involved in trying to make it work. And then, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, once that olds and trade went down, I
Speaker 1: was with Andrew and we were going over over our
Speaker 1: roster and some other baseball ops guys upstairs. It's kind
Speaker 1: of about maybe ten o'clock at night, and so we
Speaker 1: finalized the deal that night. So Andrew and I called
Speaker 1: Freddie together and congratulated him, and I know he was thrilled.
Speaker 1: And just to get him in that Dodge uniform, man,
Speaker 1: it's pretty special. Didn't he show up in his suit
Speaker 1: holding his baseball glove? Yes? He did. So the funny
Speaker 1: thing is that he had a suit, he had some
Speaker 1: like Swede boots or some shoes on. So this is
Speaker 1: the Bobby Cox pedigree. Man, it's you know, you're tight,
Speaker 1: classy and all dressed up. So I think he was
Speaker 1: JT and some other guy that game a lot of
Speaker 1: greed and he was laughing. He goes, Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: beit in just fine here in this ball with this organization.
Speaker 1: I was wondering about Clayton Kershaw when I saw the deal.
Speaker 1: It felt like it was a team friendly deal and
Speaker 1: it was a one year deal, and it feels like
Speaker 1: this might be year to year with Clayton, or am
Speaker 1: I reading too much into this? I think that's it's
Speaker 1: fair as far as a year to year situation. I
Speaker 1: think right now he's in a position where he can
Speaker 1: dictate where he wants to play. And obviously he's a
Speaker 1: Dodger for life, Dodger the legend, but Texas his home
Speaker 1: and so that's been kind of made public. But right
Speaker 1: now we're he's a Dodger for for this year. We'll
Speaker 1: see what happens next year. And I think that there's
Speaker 1: some incentives in there. But obviously the player, Clayton liked
Speaker 1: the deal, and there's something he said for being a Dodger,
Speaker 1: so you can see him. It's not out of the
Speaker 1: realm of possibilities. That he could end his career as
Speaker 1: a Texas Ranger. You know what with Clayton, I don't
Speaker 1: want to speak for him DP, but I could see
Speaker 1: that that's a possibility. But that's up to him and
Speaker 1: Ellen so and I don't I don't know that answer.
Speaker 1: Did you go to football games this past year? I did.
Speaker 1: I went to my first Rams game and so I
Speaker 1: saw that NFC Championship game and then I actually had
Speaker 1: a chance to go to the Super Bowl as well.
Speaker 1: So pretty remarkable stadium and crazy vibe. It was awesome. Well,
Speaker 1: I know you're a football guy. You've talked about that before.
Speaker 1: You know, you do? You do? You look out there
Speaker 1: and go, how could I possibly think that I would
Speaker 1: want to play that sport professionally? Oh? Absolutely? That was
Speaker 1: the best decision I made to get off the grid
Speaker 1: Ireland and get on the baseball at time. And I
Speaker 1: had a chance to meet a Dominican sue a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago at Dodger Stadium, and I just see
Speaker 1: this guy knowing that he out he's got me by
Speaker 1: probably one hundred and fifty pounds and he can outrun me.
Speaker 1: So that's what you're dealing with in the NFL. Man,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. Are you up on all the rule changes? No?
Speaker 1: You want to build me in. No. I have a
Speaker 1: cheat sheet that's helping me a little bit. And then
Speaker 1: I know there's a Showhyo Tani rule that's in there,
Speaker 1: and it seems to be a lot going on. How
Speaker 1: do you how do you keep all of this sorted out?
Speaker 1: You know what? I got a bench coach, Bob Garrett,
Speaker 1: He's he's the rules guy. Danny and I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Many seems like kay change all the time, and there's
Speaker 1: gonna be something that's going to be implemented here in
Speaker 1: about a week or maybe April sixth, the day before opening.
Speaker 1: They I don't know. I just I got enough on
Speaker 1: my plate to worry about these until it's a minute.
Speaker 1: I really don't take too much attention. Do you think
Speaker 1: that we're going to see more players try to do
Speaker 1: what Showho Tani's doing. No, because I don't think that
Speaker 1: they can. I think in theory, I think every player
Speaker 1: wishes they can be showing he Otani. But there's a
Speaker 1: reason why he But maybe ten years from now, though,
Speaker 1: Dave that you you you're almost preparing for usually your
Speaker 1: best player as a pitcher, and a shortstop. And so
Speaker 1: I don't know if we would see a twelve year
Speaker 1: old go I plan on pitching and hitting, you know,
Speaker 1: and playing the field in the majors. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess that's fair. I guess that's fair because I
Speaker 1: think that right now you look at a little bit
Speaker 1: of a broader look as far as travel ball and
Speaker 1: where now, when I played, there's no such thing as
Speaker 1: as a po and a po I guess is a
Speaker 1: pitcher only. And so you know, when I came up,
Speaker 1: when you came up, we kind of pitch play. The
Speaker 1: best player is certainly going to pitch at some point.
Speaker 1: So certainly show Hey is a is a mate, is
Speaker 1: a superstar, is a face, one of the faces of
Speaker 1: Major League baseball, So yeah, people might try to emulate.
Speaker 1: So yeah, if you look ten years down the road,
Speaker 1: potentially might give players some more runway to do that,
Speaker 1: which would be great. But man, that Show Hey is
Speaker 1: really special. He's Dave Robert's Dodgers manager joining us Stan Patrick.
Speaker 1: Show you had twenty three home runs? Is that right?
Speaker 1: In your career? Hey? But you forgot the one postseason homers.
Speaker 1: So let's let's uh for the sake of this discussion.
Speaker 1: I had twenty four major league homers. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: so inside the parker you you averaged two point four
Speaker 1: home runs per year. You you had problems with your
Speaker 1: launch angle, didn't you, Dave? I absolutely, it was more
Speaker 1: negative launch angle. So that's just not good. So it
Speaker 1: just certainly affected my war, I'm sure. And you had
Speaker 1: eight home runs in two thousand and five. Were you
Speaker 1: were you juicing back then? There are a lot of
Speaker 1: questions about that. You know what I wasn't I just
Speaker 1: I was ahead of the analytics launch angle, so um, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think my angle was maybe like twenty one
Speaker 1: degrees that year, So yeah, I clipped a few the
Speaker 1: best pitcher. You hit a home run off of Kurt Shilling,
Speaker 1: and I bet you remember the atbat. I'll bet you
Speaker 1: remember the adbat. It was at the old Bob Bank
Speaker 1: One Ballpark and it was a three run homer and
Speaker 1: he threw me a he threw me a three one
Speaker 1: heater and it was it was pretty cool. Yeah, do
Speaker 1: you ever bring up any of these things to you
Speaker 1: know now that you're not playing anymore, But do you
Speaker 1: when you run into somebody which like if you saw Shilling,
Speaker 1: would he know that you knew that you took him deep.
Speaker 1: So Schilling definitely knows. We've talked about it in the past.
Speaker 1: I got another good one for you, DP. So I
Speaker 1: was in Double A in Jacksonville, playing for the Jacksonville Sons.
Speaker 1: And this was nineteen ninety eight. So John Smoltz was
Speaker 1: on rehab with the Braves. He comes down and pitches
Speaker 1: for the Greenville Braves playing we are hosting, and so
Speaker 1: first inning I hit a homer off John Smoltz. So
Speaker 1: that's the biggest one I've ever hit. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: a big league colmert. So the funny thing is that
Speaker 1: after the game, I had John Smolts signed the ball. Oh.
Speaker 1: I still have it to this day and I bring
Speaker 1: it up to maybe every other time I see him,
Speaker 1: and he's not too thrilled about it. Yeah, you normally
Speaker 1: don't get a baseball signed. It'd be like if you
Speaker 1: picked off Tom Brady and you said, Tom, would you
Speaker 1: autograph this? I can't imagine. You imagine if you homered
Speaker 1: off Randy Johnson and you said, hey, Randy, would you
Speaker 1: be willing to sign this? You know, the next time
Speaker 1: you got up to the plate, I hear you but
Speaker 1: I've already said. The thing is that that does happen
Speaker 1: with Brady, and I need you to dig on that
Speaker 1: and the other part of his that I didn't get
Speaker 1: the chance to hit the homer off Randy because he
Speaker 1: drew me in the rib anyway. So yeah, so I
Speaker 1: got the repercussion of getting hit by Rand. I guess
Speaker 1: I could have had him sign that ball. What did
Speaker 1: it feel like? I still feel it. It was. It
Speaker 1: was ninety seven two seamer and it was opening day
Speaker 1: maybe two thousand and three. I tried a bunt and
Speaker 1: then the ball went foul. And one Pierre always told
Speaker 1: me said, hey, man, if you try to bunt off Randy,
Speaker 1: he's like the Nolan Ryan guy, where if you bunt,
Speaker 1: you better make it fair because if you don't, the
Speaker 1: next one's going to be near ribs. And I sweared Danny.
Speaker 1: It was like he's up there with this big black
Speaker 1: glove right under his eyes, and you got that visual
Speaker 1: and I think it was. I swear it was like
Speaker 1: the top gun radar lock right on my ribs and
Speaker 1: I could just sense it. And then it was a
Speaker 1: heat seteen ninety seven two seamer just running right into
Speaker 1: my ribs so it like I said, man it it
Speaker 1: hurt pretty pretty bad, but I stayed in the game.
Speaker 1: Why is that okay in baseball? I think it's okay
Speaker 1: because Randy's Randy, Nolan's Nolan, Roger was Roger, and I
Speaker 1: think Pedro's page. I think part of it is like
Speaker 1: the fear of the baseball for the pitcher is everything,
Speaker 1: and so guys are kind of very bonds up with
Speaker 1: the big old elbow guards and they got the protection
Speaker 1: all over the place. And you know, that's still games
Speaker 1: and the ship. I still believe that you've got to
Speaker 1: be able to control pitching inside commanding it. But I
Speaker 1: think at times, you know, to get hit once in
Speaker 1: a while, it's part of the game. The Dodgers will
Speaker 1: win the World Series if we play a full season
Speaker 1: and there is a postseason. Wait, we are winning the
Speaker 1: World Series in twenty twenty two, So I know where
Speaker 1: you're going with that. No, what do you win the
Speaker 1: World Series this year? Put it on record, you are
Speaker 1: winning the World Series. We are winning the World Series.
Speaker 1: That's our focus, that's our goal. Um. But to your question,
Speaker 1: we are winning the World Series if if um our
Speaker 1: starting staff stays healthy, I know that's vague, but I
Speaker 1: don't want to and then that's my answer. Okay, but
Speaker 1: you're you can dig in a little bit on that.
Speaker 1: But I think it's about our starting kitchen, you know,
Speaker 1: just keeping our guys healthy. Okay, where do you rank
Speaker 1: your rotation in baseball? Our rotation in baseball? I put us.
Speaker 1: I put us somewhere in the I put us somewhere
Speaker 1: in the top ten. Okay, who has the best rotation
Speaker 1: in baseball? I would say, and I would say right now,
Speaker 1: for me, I think the Mets do. What makes the
Speaker 1: Grums so special, Um, the velocity, the command, the glove
Speaker 1: side command of his fastball, his ability to pitch up
Speaker 1: in the zone. Um, there's a there's a breaking ball
Speaker 1: in there, there's a change up in there. Um it's
Speaker 1: a it's a it's a great throw. It's just hard
Speaker 1: to pick up from what I hear. Um. But I
Speaker 1: think that glove side command coming in on left handers
Speaker 1: up and end that quadrant up and a way to
Speaker 1: the right hand or it's just tough to tough to
Speaker 1: barrel up. You see the best picture in the game.
Speaker 1: If you look at sheer kind of numbers, I would
Speaker 1: say it's hard to debate. Um, but the body of
Speaker 1: work that our guy Walker Bueller should be in that conversation.
Speaker 1: So you're guaranteeing that you're going to win the World
Speaker 1: Series this year. I'm putting it on. I'm putting it on,
Speaker 1: putting it in the universe. Well, you should believe in
Speaker 1: your team. I mean if you said, well, you absolutely should, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's nothing like here. You know, we're placing
Speaker 1: a bet and you could lose a limb if you
Speaker 1: don't win the World Series. That's right, that's right. And
Speaker 1: I'm not rooting against you or I you know, I
Speaker 1: would bet you just for content sake on the show.
Speaker 1: But I mean I don't know, Like we could bet wine.
Speaker 1: But you know I love your wine. I don't have
Speaker 1: any wine so you Yeah, I did too. I went
Speaker 1: to dinner with our buddy Ted, so we got to
Speaker 1: get you some more some more wine. So Ted's my guy,
Speaker 1: he's your guy, and we need to do a little
Speaker 1: wine deal. So we got to replenish your wine stash.
Speaker 1: I am the Jacob deGrom of wine drinking. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love that. Just letting you know, just letting you know.
Speaker 1: I could be kershaw on year to year because at
Speaker 1: my age. I am, you know, day to day. But
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I by the way, just so, and Dave
Speaker 1: won't bring this up, but I'm bringing it up his
Speaker 1: his red Stitch pinot ninety three points from Wine Spectator.
Speaker 1: It's it's great. Did you give did you give your
Speaker 1: players your wine? So I've got some. I've got a
Speaker 1: few cases and roots. So once we break here we
Speaker 1: get to Dodger Stadium, I'm going to take care of
Speaker 1: my guys. So we got a lot of wine drinkers,
Speaker 1: which is just interesting because when I came up, there
Speaker 1: was all about the beer, and so we got a
Speaker 1: lot of wine drinkers. So I gotta I gotta share
Speaker 1: some of my red Stitch. Absolutely, And you couldn't do
Speaker 1: that with the old Red Sox because they would drink
Speaker 1: that prior to the game probably, So yeah, yeah, you're right, hey,
Speaker 1: but but Danny, you gotta have something to call them
Speaker 1: the nerves man. So it wasn't wine in two thousand
Speaker 1: and four. But whatever we drank it worked, right. Was
Speaker 1: it whiskey? It was whiskey? Yeah? Do you remember the
Speaker 1: brand of whiskey? I don't, I don't, but I do
Speaker 1: know that you know when it's like thirty seven degrees
Speaker 1: and it's freezing and you're in Sentenway Park, your backs
Speaker 1: against the wall, whatever, everything's on the table. Hey, if
Speaker 1: I was facing Marianna Rivera, I'd probably drink too. Oh. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: Kevin Mlaar had it right. He was. He was a
Speaker 1: man way ahead of his time. Hey. Great to talk
Speaker 1: to us always, and thanks for joining us. Hopefully we'll
Speaker 1: talk soon, all right, dep take care of you the best.
Speaker 1: That's Dave Roberts, Dodgers manager, and a great wine. It's
Speaker 1: called red Stitch. Had it a couple of bottles of
Speaker 1: red Stitch. Red Stitch, the stitches on the baseball. You
Speaker 1: see what I did with that? Well, that's what he
Speaker 1: did with them. All right. I'm gonna take a break.
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Speaker 1: what's on your mind today? Oh? Yeah, we're mocking os
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Speaker 1: they went right into it. Didn't ask me how I
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Speaker 1: Good morning, long time? All right, six ft twenty five
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Speaker 1: I like that. That's the first time Jesse's ever called in,
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, Sweet Mark of Mind, don Don Stunt. Headlines
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Speaker 1: thank you, Matt, so good, so good? Yes, Ton, I
Speaker 1: like that one a lot. Had some great experiences at
Speaker 1: Fenway Park. Listen to that. It's cool stuff. Well, and
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Speaker 1: I got two quick Mark headline songs for you, Wallflowers
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Speaker 1: he can sing man that's got a crush that hurt
Speaker 1: the group that hurt. Ryan can actually sing. You going
Speaker 1: to hold a note there that you can. Tom and
Speaker 1: Florida joins us. Hi, Tom, what's on your mind today? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been listening in a long time, first time falling in.
Speaker 1: But I've got I've got a mock headlines uh song
Speaker 1: for Todd. Okay, all right, don't play those mock heads
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Speaker 1: round to retain the heavy title, which became Rocky Rocky
Speaker 1: that became the movie Rocky. All right, here's the easiest
Speaker 1: sports quiz of all time. You're ready, Dan? Yeah. Nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety two, Mario Lamu the Penguins scored his one thousand
Speaker 1: to the career point in his five hundred and thirteenth game.
Speaker 1: He was the second fastest player in NHL. Hisstory recorded
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Speaker 1: this one. Nineteen ninety Christian Latner overtime buzzer beater sends
Speaker 1: Duke to the Final four a one point win over UKN.
Speaker 1: Remember what didn't he take the ball out of bounds
Speaker 1: and then got the ball back and then hit the jumper?
Speaker 1: I think a deep a deep jumper there? Way did
Speaker 1: it so many times? Sorry? Mark. Cincinnati beat Ohio State
Speaker 1: to win its second straight NCAA championship. But Oscar Robertson
Speaker 1: wasn't there then. I don't. I don't think Oscar. I
Speaker 1: think Oscar was before that. But he didn't. I don't
Speaker 1: think oscar won a national championship. He and Jerry Weston
Speaker 1: every won North Carolina State tops Marquette for the national title.
Speaker 1: That was the It was nineteen seventy four. That was
Speaker 1: David Thompson. God, David Thompson was so spectacular. Sixty four.
Speaker 1: They had Tom Burlson who was seven to three, but
Speaker 1: David Thompson was a you know, could jump higher than
Speaker 1: Tom Burrelson. But David Thompson was one of those like
Speaker 1: you just you couldn't believe it when you watched him,
Speaker 1: and he played so big, and he played in the ABA.
Speaker 1: He got hurt. I think he had some substance abuse issues.
Speaker 1: But David Thompson was a wonderful player. Chris and Texas. Hi, Chris,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind? Hey, I've got a little jingle
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Speaker 1: that's a non sequitur match at all. That's great clever.
Speaker 1: Thank you to Wow. Damn three piece, Damn three piece.
Speaker 1: Todd's got his damn three piece shirt on today. Proud
Speaker 1: to wear it. I love the colors over looks looks great.
Speaker 1: I think those are the colors that you would jazzercize with. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Jane Fonda's workout perfect. Yeah, all right, let's go around
Speaker 1: the room. What we learned on this award nominated program.
Speaker 1: Todd Dave Roberts, who guarantees his Dodgers will win the
Speaker 1: world serious this year attractive bunked on Randy Johnson opening
Speaker 1: Day in two thousand and three. Big un hit him
Speaker 1: in the rib with a ninety seven a mile an
Speaker 1: hour to seem fastball. I never understood that's part of
Speaker 1: the game that you didn't bunt on Nolan Ryan, or
Speaker 1: if you did, you got to make sure that you
Speaker 1: got it into fair territory. I don't know why that's
Speaker 1: so disrespectful to me. It's like, I can't hit you.
Speaker 1: I got a bunt to get on that. Don't charge
Speaker 1: the mount that I will give you all the nokies noggies,
Speaker 1: as Todd would say, the nookieska see O'Connor's. That kind
Speaker 1: of sounds like a good way to get MP's twice
Speaker 1: by the way, against Nolan Ryan, like you should bunt
Speaker 1: every time you know the next time he's gonna hit
Speaker 1: you now. I just got on twice. Yeah, it's gonna hurt.
Speaker 1: Chris Sims didn't trying to fight any Marv Simms Harball
Speaker 1: set it up boxing. Yeah, Simms wants horriball Paulie that
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