WEBVTT - 12/23/20 HOUR 3 - Frank Isola 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.200 Sports Radio. We're limping towards the finish line on this 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:11.760 Wednesday Dan and The Dane's Dan Patrick Show. It's chaos here. 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.960 We got we got four trigger girls fired up. I 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:19.919 got Marvin reading emails on the air. I got Mario 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:22.400 came back. Then he wants to be on the air 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:25.720 telling about all the things we got mailed in. It's 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:29.680 just it's a mess here. 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He goes that goes, you look like 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:14.240 a pink night man. Great, so we'll get to phone 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.280 calls coming up. Last night, it was the Lakers getting 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.560 their rings and then they got beat by the Clippers. 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:24.720 There all of a sudden, Paul George playoff. Paul came 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.720 back and looked impressive last night. I watched a lot 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.119 of the Nets against the Warriors. Well, I watched first half, 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.600 and then I was just curious about postgame comments and 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.760 Kyrie Irving didn't disappoint. He had this to say after 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.400 the Nets blew out the Warriors. As a young player, 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:41.760 you think that scoring a bunch of points and doing 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.240 a bunch of things, getting individual accolades are are great. 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.760 I definitely was going after those things. Now, I really 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:51.280 don't care for any of those individual accolades, accolades or goals. 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.160 You know, it really doesn't bother me. I know I'm 0:01:53.200 --> 0:02:01.360 validated culturally, validated culturally he is. I think he's validated 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.560 culturally because he thinks the Earth is flat and there 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.400 were never dinosaurs roaming the earth. I think that's just 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:13.119 cultural irrelevancy. Maybe Frank Eisola knows, you know, he can 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.360 understand this better than I can. Frank has been covering 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.160 the NBA for a long time, and he's of course 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.600 espns around the horn and pardon the interruption, contributor Sirius 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.640 XM NBA Radio. The show is the starting lineup and 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:26.360 he is your host. Where do you stand with the 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:30.360 Brooklyn Nets this year? Frank, By the way, you remember 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.520 the player World Be Free. It was from Canarci Brooklyn. 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.120 They say now that Kyrie's nickname is world be Flat. 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:40.000 I think that's a that's that's a terrific Victa perhad. 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.120 The nets look really good. And you know, if you 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.440 go back to the bubble last year, everybody says, well, 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.360 you know, the Nets all right, so they made the playoffs, 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.040 we're gonna get knocked out in the first round, which 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.560 they did. But what last year meant for the development 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:54.240 of guys like Harris Lavert obviously, Jared Allen, Joe Harris, 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.600 and now you add Kyrie Irving healthy, but more importantly 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.440 Kevin Durant. You know how this works? Stand you haven't. 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.079 We haven't seen Urant what was it, five hundred and 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.840 sixty days? And it's not that you forgot that he's 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.040 a great player, but when you see him out there 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.760 and you're thinking, man, when this guy is right, it's 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.799 really Lebron and then Kevin Durant. Maybe some people think 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.280 that Kevin Durant is a better player, certainly a terrific 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.200 offensive player. If he's gonna play like this and he's 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.720 gonna stay healthy, the Nets will be a tough team 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.440 to beat four to seven times in the playoffs. I 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.480 feel a little bit. I'm a little bit more encouraged 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.480 because you have Kevin Durant there, Because when Kyrie went 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.880 to Boston, we said the same thing about the Celtics. Boy, 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:30.720 they grew up in the playoffs, and now you put 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.360 Kyrie in there. Well, Kyrie didn't help them get any better, 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:36.760 and you know they were happy to see him leave. 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.720 I think having Durant there almost as a sounding board, 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.400 or he can whisper in his ear, hey, let's get back. 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.360 You know, it's you and me here together. We gotta 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.560 because they can make something great happen here. I just 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:54.040 think it's a really delicate mix of either really good 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.560 or really bad here. Frank, Yeah, I think you're right, 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.400 And that's why after one game, it doesn't really matter 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.440 what guys, and you know, we're all just like the 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.880 first weekend of the NFL season. We always overreacted in 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:05.560 the first game. We're going to do that with the 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.680 nets against a Warrior's team. But still trying to figure 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:09.800 things out. But you know, when Kyrie was in Cleveland, 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.360 he had Labron, so you're playing with you know, Arge 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.080 will be the greatest player of all time, so you're 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:14.840 the number two guy there. That was perfect for him. 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.120 In Boston, they needed him to be the number one guy, 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.960 and I think he struggled with that. Now with Kevin Durant. 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.360 You know Durant when he was on Golden State, he's 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:26.240 surrounded by Clay Thompson, Steph Curry, Draymond Green. They were 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.440 okay with him being the guy. As long as Kyrie 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.400 Irving is okay being that so called Robin to batman, 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.640 it'll work out. Because we know this from Kevin Durant. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.440 He's good with an ensemble cast. He had ensomble cast 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.200 in Oklahoma City, where he was the number one guy. 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.839 They go to the finals. Obviously, what they did in 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.880 Golden State was tremas. Think about this. Kevin Durant played 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:47.520 ten finals games with the Golden State Warriors. They were 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.000 nine and one in those games. That's how good. Kevin 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.200 Durant is so and what I love about Durant you 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.720 listen to him now, except for when Charles Barkley asked 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.520 him a question last night. He wanted no part of that, 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.360 which was pretty funny. But for the most part, Rant 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.800 has been very upbeat. His mood seems to change. I 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.279 think now that he's playing basketball again, I think he 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.560 wants to get back to that level. Not only is 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.320 a great player, but as a champion. I think he's 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:11.960 shooting for what Lebron did last season. I just love 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.120 his attitude. He seems like he has the joy back 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.520 and playing basketball convinced me the Clippers could be better 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.359 this year by what they did in the off season. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:25.080 I mean, you know, Luke Canardo got crazy money. He's 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.680 a good playmaker. Sergei Bacca, who disappeared for a couple 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:30.400 of years and then the last two or three years 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.919 with Toronto, has been nothing short of outstanding. So I 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.039 think he'll help. And you could have said, Frank, you 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.160 could have said, no, I can't convince you that I was. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.880 I would give you that out. Well, it's funny, right, 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.720 So Charles Barkley Interviews. He had a great question for 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:46.760 Paul George last night when he asked him about getting 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.119 preferential treatment. Let's face it, in every line of work, 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.960 the stars get preferential treatment. Your crew talked about it 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.280 all the time. You get treated definitely than everybody because 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.400 you're the big star. We know how it works absolutely. 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.520 But you know, when he brought up the fact because 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.240 Paul Jim, he said, well, you know, I know what 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.760 it takes, so yeah, sure that's how it works. But 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:05.719 the guys who had an issue with that, that's no 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.000 longer a problem to me. He was clearly referring to 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.080 Montrez Harold, who's no longer on the team. There were 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.119 chemistry issues. They didn't want to be in the bubble 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.120 last year, and I think Lou Williams proved that when 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.280 he went to Magic City just to get the wings. 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.120 As you know, that's all he was there for was 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.320 the wings. So they were chemistry issues. They need Kawai 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.040 to play at a different level. If Lebron had lost 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.640 a three one series lead to Denver the way that 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.400 Kawai did, we'd be killing Lebron. Kawhi kind of got 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.560 a bit of a pass last year, which he didn't deserve. 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.520 He needed to play better. Yeah, but nobody cares about 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.040 Kawhi Leonard the way they care about Lebron. I mean, 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.960 Lebron is polarizing because for a variety of reasons. But 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.640 I think the bottom line is is people don't want 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:47.280 him infringing on Michael Jordan's territory. Like, no matter what 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.360 he does, no, he's not going to get there. There's 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.920 always going to be the Yeah. But with Lebron James Kawai, 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.760 we just sort of go, you know, hey, Kawahi, he's 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:01.080 a great two way player. He shows up in the playoffs. Okay, Okay, 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:06.000 there's nothing else about him. He's not musty TV. Yeah, 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.960 and you're right. So everybody loves player empowerment. We've talked 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.560 about this before. Yeah. Player empowerment is great for the 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.840 player because when things go wrong, they're never blamed. Doc 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.360 Rivers got blamed in LA. Look what James Harden is 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.560 pulling right now at the Houston Rockets. So Kawhi leaves Toronto, 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.360 goes to the Clippers. You know, they move heaven and Earth, 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.640 bringing his buddy Paul George. So now Kawhi Leonard is 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.400 making demands they trade all those assets to get Paul George. 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.360 Look at the way that Paul George played in the babble. 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.000 Not to his credit, he got two hundred twenty five 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.840 million dollars extension. He was actually failing up in this case. 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.200 But nobody said to Kailer, hang on a second, you're 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.320 the one that made us go out and get Paul George. 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.760 He didn't show up on those last three games against Denver. 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:42.960 You weren't very good in a game seven. You know 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.720 who will blame. Let's blame Doc Rivers will ship him out. 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.840 Talking to Frank Gisul, the serious x M NBA radio 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.840 shows called this starting lineup. He's the host, he's obviously 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.280 a contributor to Around the Horn And pardon the interruption. 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:58.600 You know, I watched the Lakers last night and I 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.240 just I wasn't going to eat anything into it. I 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.880 just wanted to see substitutions. I wanted to see, you know, 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.400 certain guys were, you know, play with certain players. I 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.200 didn't take anything away from it. And am I being 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.400 naive by not taking anything away from that loss against 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.160 the Clippers. Well we you know, I know I put 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.400 a lot into last year's opening night when the Clippers 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:20.000 beat them, and I thought the Clippers would give them 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.320 a great run, and they won the Staples Center Championship. 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.160 The problem is the Lakers won the World Championship, and 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.559 I think, you know, for the Lakers not having Rondo, 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.560 he was huge, especially during the playoffs, and even Dwight Howard. 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:32.839 You know, a pivotal moment in the NBA Finals was 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.000 that hard foul that Dwight had a Bam out of Byo, 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:36.720 which noted Bam out for a game and injured him 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.199 for the rest of the years. I don't really ever 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.320 remember Dwight really being that physical, but he knocked dam 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.079 out of Bya for a loop and we really never 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.720 saw him again. The key will be Lebron James, and 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.800 we know that Lebron will be ready by the end 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:51.200 of the season, but Kenny stay healthy. So last night 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.160 Lebron rolling his ankle. We know that on December thirtieth, 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.240 he's going to turn thirty six years old, so all 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:57.920 that stuff starts to add up. But I still have 0:08:57.960 --> 0:08:59.480 a lot of faith in him. You know, he's when 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.480 he's at his best, he looks like he's about twenty 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.079 eight years old, not necessarily thirty six. So I'm not 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.400 going to jump to conclusions on the Lakers after one game. 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.880 ESPN NBA reporter Tim McMahon is reporting a source says 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.640 the Rockets are working with NBA office officials to review 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.440 video of James Harden at a strip club. If the 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.920 video's circulating on social media is verified to be recent, 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.760 it's a violation of the league's COVID protocols, which would 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:31.400 put Harden's availability for tonight's opener in jeopardy. It's disgraceful, 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:33.920 it really is. And here's the issue that you have 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.720 with Harden. He's another guy I don't want Chris Paul 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.120 and the team bringing Russell Westbrook. Then that falls apart. 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.920 Now that the team looks like it's moving trending toward 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:44.719 not being a playoff team, he says, well, now I 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:46.760 want to be traded. We'll hang on a second. You 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.360 were the one that was making all the calls. Now 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.000 when you don't like things, now you say that you 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:51.679 want to be out of here. You don't show up 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.960 for practice. So Stephen Silas finally gets a head coaching 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.520 job after about twenty years as an assistant. And look 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:58.960 what James Harden does with this guy. If I were 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:00.880 Steven Salas, I'd call up Mark Cubans say can I 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.840 have my old job back in Dallas. It's a lot. 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:04.959 It's a lot less stressful being an assistant coach in 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.680 Dallas than running the Houston Rockets. At some point, the 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.320 league needs to step in James Harden if this turns 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.040 out to be true, I think he should be suspended 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:17.600 because Dan, he's holding the organization hostage number one, number two. 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:19.760 With all this stuff that he's been pulling, He's hurting 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:23.000 his trade value, which is also hurting the Houston Rockets. 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.600 It'll eventually work out for James Harden. I'm not so 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.320 sure it's going to work out for the Houston Rockets. 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.720 One final thing, and I've been on this topic on 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.120 and off for the last couple of years. We love lists. 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.320 List drive me crazy, but when we put out the 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.920 top ten basketball players of all time, it feels like 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:42.960 there should be a line of demarcation that starts nineteen 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:48.240 seventy on. Yeah, because Will to me should be Babe Ruth, 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.560 but he's not allowed to be Babe Ruth. We discredit 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:54.600 those stats for some reason. Bill Russell the greatest winner 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.880 in team sports history, but not one of the top 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.719 ten players it's as far as you know, stats and 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.400 everything that he did, love love what he did, but 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.800 he's not in there. Do I leave Oscar Robertson in there? 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.040 Do I leave Jerry West in there? At some point 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.920 we're gonna have a top ten list where Carl Malone 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.559 is not in there. Larry Bird might not be in there. Yeah, 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:20.160 you know there's Will. It's not going to be in there. 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:24.080 Like I don't know how you rank players because Steph 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.400 Curry is he going to be a top ten player 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.800 of all times? Is Kevin Durant going to be a 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:34.920 top ten player of all time? Yeah? I think yeah, 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:36.880 we're becoming that guy where now we're we have to 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.280 defend Lowry Bird in terms of being a top ten player. 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.800 You should get Sunny Hill, mister Philadelphia Basketball, to tell 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.120 you some stories about Will Chamber. I mean, come on, 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.959 at a time when everyone was allowed to do this, Dan, 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.920 the guy averaged fifty points in twenty five rebounds. If 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.960 an NBA player did that for a week, people would 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:55.719 say you should probably build a statute for the guy. 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.520 So that was fifty and twenty five for one season. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:00.320 Then when you go look at Michael Jordan, what I 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.360 love about Jordan go look at the games played like 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.080 to the players even of the eighties and the nineties, 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.760 it was a badge of honor to be playing eighty 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.280 two games a season. Now, if you play eighty two games, 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.160 you look at as you're some kind of weirdough. Well, 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.040 clearly you have no cache in the league. Is why 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:16.880 would you be playing all the time. The idea isn't 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:18.560 to play all the time. But I think you're right. 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.320 As time goes on, we're gonna forget some of these 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.640 great players. And the game was different. It's now a 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.679 three point shooting game. You know, touch fouls get called 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.720 all the time. You know, in the eighties and nineties 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:29.600 it was all out warfare. I looked up something the 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:31.839 other day where, you know, there was a fight between 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:33.840 Rick Mahorn and Charles Oakley. I think it was back 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.160 in like eighty five or eighty six. They both got 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.840 fined about twenty five hundred bucks. Mahorne did get one 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.200 game for the fight, So you were almost you weren't 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.200 even penalized for fighting back in the day like you 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.160 are today. To the league's credit, they basically legislated fighting 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:48.720 out of the league. But it's just so different the 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.440 games on. It's physical, so everyone's scoring averages are up. 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.040 Great to talk to you, Mary christmas Chia, thanks you, 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.080 thanks for contributing to the program this entire year. We 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.680 appreciate it. Frank, thanks Daniel, look great great sweater. Thank you, buddy. 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:05.280 Frank I sold of Frank Knows Fashion series X. I'm 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.560 NBA Radio. The show is the starting lineup. He's the host. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.959 Also contributes to Around the Horn and Pardon the interruption. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.640 A couple of phone calls in here Chris and Arizona. 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:19.000 Hi Chris, what's on your mind today? Hey Dan that 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.200 I just wanted to give my best to the year. 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:26.559 I thought the Kevin Harland versus Fritzy voice impersonation and 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.680 then where you had to ask him who was who? 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:32.560 Which we already knew that Kevin Hart, who was Kevin Harland? 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.480 Who was Fritzy? And then if I had one more, 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.400 my wife wanted to ask me to ask you a 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:42.839 question about what's the biggest transition. We're having a baby 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.160 number two, we have a twenty month old. What's the 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:50.880 biggest transition from child? Who wanted the child too? Good luck? 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.840 Congratulations Chris. You know when I got to when we 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.040 got to three, then it was chaos. Two it was 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:03.240 just these the moments where you help your wife, even 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.040 if she doesn't ask for it, just just say, look, 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.439 i'll take I'll take the baby, or let me do that. 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.560 I found that you know, your wife wants to do 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:17.680 everything when they have the baby or babies, and we 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.080 tend to stand back because there's only there's certain things 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:25.000 that we can't do physically taking care of babies. But volunteer, 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:30.840 don't say what can I do? Or no, don't say 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.120 can I do something? Just say what do you want? 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.800 What do you need me to do? What can I do? 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:41.000 That's that's really really important. And patience, patience and sense 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:45.760 of humor with each other go a long long way. Uh, 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.200 let me see what else Doc in Ohio? Hi, Doc, 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:51.600 would you have for me today? Hey guys? Um? Three 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:55.880 quick great memorable moments. One was make sure Sure the 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.000 best it's not always the guess, it's the sound bites. 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:00.600 One was when you were talking about Ben and winning 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.640 the Olympics, being on the horse steroids and when Polly 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.480 launched into the horse gallop. I literally went out of 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:12.520 my chair at work. The best Another it was too 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:18.440 good and also Want died yesterday I in honor of 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:22.000 the holidays. My mother, seventy seven year old Ethel is 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.680 a big fan, and yesterday I went back and watched 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.960 the interview of Billy bob Thorn with her talking about 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:32.160 Bad Santa being drunk on the escalator during filming, which 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.480 was great. And lastly, I think my number one highlight 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.560 of the year was an eighty one year old Brent 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:45.400 Musburger explaining to the boys what shoe shopping is too good. 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:49.600 You guys are the best. Thank you, and our best 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.640 to your mom as well. Thank you. That was funny 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.680 because the danis when Brett Musburger is talking about shoe 0:15:55.720 --> 0:16:00.520 shopping and they're looking like shoe Brent Musburger talking about 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:05.240 shoe shopping and I know because your level, as Dwayne 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.440 Haskins has told me, when you go to the strip club, 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:12.360 is usually shoe level. And that's how you came up 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.920 with the expression going shoe shopping, because you start with 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.360 the shoes right there in front of you. I thought 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:24.400 that Kevin Harlan moment was really sneaky good because Kevin 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.880 was a great sport and he's got a distinct announcing 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:32.760 style and the fact that Todd that you actually thought 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.440 that maybe the audience wouldn't know the difference between you 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:40.560 and Kevin Harlan because I do such a great impersonation 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.360 they could be confused it. Oh we've had we had 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:50.000 a new addition to the impersonation. U repertoire Todd. Todd's 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:55.440 Mike Tyson laugh is so it's It's just it makes 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.240 me laugh every single time. Dana White, he wanted me 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.680 to fight shock. I'm fighting human. He wants me to 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:07.400 fight truck with friends like that? Who needs enemies? Right? Oh, 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.840 that's spectacular. You should have come hang out with me 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:12.560 on the ranch. We get smoke wheat together and be 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:23.640 silly and hang out with my pigeons. It crushes me 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:28.520 how you should do nothing else but this. Ye, why 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.920 don't you do your sports, your Christmas sports as Tyson 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.520 and then laugh after every one of them? Then you 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.360 would have me. Man, can you smell that steak that's 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:42.200 out there on the trigger? Wow, we're kind of having 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:46.720 a eight socially distanced Christmas party with the back room 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:50.680 guys that I wanted to have Alan have some steaks. 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.200 And he did a great job. He's done a great 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:57.200 job all year. Long, every every Meat Friday. Alan gives 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.360 so much thought to it while also helping to run 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:04.120 the sound part of the show here, and he's done 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:08.120 a great job. But those steaks, they smell really really good. 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.560 All right, more phone calls coming up if you want 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.000 to weigh in with a sports related name. Christmas sports 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.760 related name to rival Todds is not too good. Yeah, 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.440 I got to go into the holiday. Well the look 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.760 on your face, your soul left your body when mclovin 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:27.600 topped you at Thanksgiving. Yeah, like I saw, I saw 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.600 you like you were crushed. And then he sends an 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.480 email with the Haskins story with strip sacot. I didn't 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.440 need that. I didn't need that. I know. It's just 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.240 people are kind of infringing on other people's territories here, 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.560 and you know that quite well. I've stolen many of 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.840 Pauli's up things with the history and all that saw 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:50.440 National Days. Twenty after the hour, let's synchronize our watches 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.600 for everybody in case they have other things to do. 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:54.760 We want to remind them that todd will have is 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:57.520 Christmas sports related Name's getting a lot of tweets. I'm 0:18:57.520 --> 0:18:59.600 blowing up on the social media, so what the kids say. 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:01.240 You blow up, Selle. I don't know what you do 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.520 on the social media. Twenty about twenty minutes, twenty minutes 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.280 or so, we will bring that magic to your ears. 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.160 Mixed reviews. 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