WEBVTT - 07/09/21 DPS Hour 2 Ryan Hollins 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.560 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.640 Sports Radio. Greetings, Welcome inside hour to the DP Show 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:12.240 here on Fox. Jason Smith Rob Parker in for Dan today. 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:14.840 Now that summer's in full swing, take advantage of it 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:17.800 with a tragger Wood pellet grill offering real wood fired 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.159 flavor and set it and forget it convenience. Just like 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:23.360 fantasy football, Tragger offers a perfect way to cook all summer. 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:26.560 Grab one at your local dealer, or visit Trager Grills 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.400 dot com slash DP show. That's Trager Grills dot com 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:34.640 slash DP show to learn more. Got some grilling coming 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:36.839 up this weekend. Rob very excited about that. We got 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.440 friends coming over. Got Black Widow right after the show 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.880 is over today with my daughter, she is so excited. 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.600 I can't even tell you. I can't. It's like the count. 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.240 It's like she's counting down to Christmas with Black Widow. 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.279 We're going like we're getting done with the show at 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:52.720 like nine, you know, at like nine o'clock here, and 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:54.760 then we're gonna go at like nine thirty because you 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.240 know they're starting, you know, they show like every five minutes. 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.120 Now that we're back in the movies, and here's this 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.480 big Marvel movie. So so you're gonna go see it 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:03.680 this morning at nine thirty early like that. Well it's 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.000 actually ten o'clock, right, well know the show Like it's 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:07.840 a ten We gotta get popcorn and stuff, you know, 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:09.679 for ten o'clock in the morning. Got nothing like it, 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.679 Nothing like a fifteen dollar tub of popcorn. I mean, 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:16.320 are you kidding me? You know? It kills me. Man, 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.720 I can't do it, you know it. I know, but 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.640 the popcorn in the butter at the movie theater just 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.039 taste different. But why has it got to be a 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:28.880 fifteen dollar tub? Is there? Could there be a happy medium? Well, well, listen, 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:30.679 you gotta want it, man. You know, you can't just 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:32.640 walk in anywhere and get some kind of you know, 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.160 crazy slapdash popcorn. You gotta want it if you want 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:38.480 to get good popcorn. I know, but I just I always, 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:40.800 you know, don't tell anybody, but I usually go to 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:44.839 the dollar store and buy some candy and raising nets 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.560 and stuff and put them in my pocket and walk in. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:49.960 You know what I'm saying, Like, how many times did 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.080 I do that when I was a kid. You're waddling 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.160 into the movie. I got it with stuff. You gotta 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:58.640 soda pop in your back pocket everything. You know. What 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.680 I like is that is there's people that because you 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:03.960 can get black when you can go see The Black 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:05.880 Widow in the theater, which you know, listen, that's why 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:08.880 movies are always gonna live, because there's nothing that's gonna 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.520 replace going. I agree to screen is bigger to sound. 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.320 I mean, you know you could watch movies at home. 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:18.560 It's not the same. It's just this. But I like 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.560 when people who say, because you can get it for 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.280 like thirty bucks on Disney Plus right, like, you could 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.040 get it right now if you want to spend thirty 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.040 dollars on it. And I know people who said, yeah, no, 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:28.880 it's too much money to get it. I go, So 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.680 it's too for thirty dollars for a movie is too much, 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.359 But to go to a movie, to pay for parking, 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.160 to buy two tickets, which are at least twelve bucks apiece, 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.160 then you get food. You're spending fifty dollars to go 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.400 to the movies when you can spend thirty dollars to 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:44.000 just sit on your couch and watch it. You can 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.240 pause it, you can watch every many times you want to, 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.720 and I'm going, But thirty dollars is too much. It's like, 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:50.639 oh no, no, that that that that that price tag 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.600 for the movies is way too much. You're gonna spend 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.600 more actually going to the movies. That's what my dad 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.160 is like, that that's too much for a movie. Dad, 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.840 You realize you're gonna spend more going to the movie, right, Yeah, no, no, 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.040 I'm not gonna spend that much. I mean, I really 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.640 look at that and I go that just doesn't make sense. Yeah, 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.359 it's one of those things. It's expensive to eat out. 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:11.040 That's the way you gotta look at it, you know what, 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.280 I mean, to have a have a night out. You 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.760 just can't stay in your house or apartment and never 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.400 venture out. And what are you saving the money for, 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.200 Jason so that others people can spend it when you're 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.120 not around? Is that what it is? Is that why 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:25.920 you're not married and don't have any kids? I know 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:30.480 what I'm taking it with me? You gotta spend it. 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.480 I'm always trying to save money. You know, I'm gonna 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.520 have to send you a little video of me trying 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:39.200 to save money. Yes, any chance I get to save, 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:43.200 But I do like to live a little bit. All right, now, hey, 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:44.640 speaking to live it a little bit. You're going to 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.640 the All Star Game next week, You're being you'll be 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.480 in Colorado. Don't you have sit downs with Jose Altuv 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.840 and Carlos corea scheduled get canceled. Yeah, those things you 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:58.760 got canceled and they're not going. And and Jason just 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.600 let me you know, you know I love baseball. I 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.200 know you do too. I think this is a total 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:09.920 disservice to the fans and it's wrong and not Korea. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.080 I get his wife is having a baby, and he 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.320 really explained, like what's going on, and I'm gonna give 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:20.839 him a pass. Altuve, no pass the whole notion he 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.400 wants some time off. You know, I don't. I think 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.840 it's wrong. I think the game, uh, and the All 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:31.760 Star Game is big and from the standpoint, that's where 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.719 the league is selling the game and all the stars, 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:36.880 and it should be an honor to be on the 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.960 All Star team and you shouldn't cheat the fans of 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.800 that moment to be able to watch. I remember as 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:46.000 a kid growing up in New York and being a 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.640 Mets fan, and they were terrible and back then, Jason, 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.680 everybody didn't have an All Star representative. Do you remember 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.719 that everybody didn't automatically get if you didn't have a 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.559 player good enough, there was no representation from your team 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:03.000 on the All Star team. And I would sit there 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:04.960 all and be like, Wow, wouldn't it be great if 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.360 a met was at the All Star Game? But I'd 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.880 have to watch all these other great players. And I 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:15.160 think when people uh, whether they're voted in by fans 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:18.640 and it's the fans game, or you're selected by the 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.800 managers and are a reserve player or a pitcher or whatever, 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.200 I think it's your responsibility. It's a part of your 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.719 job description to be a part to sell the game 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.880 and not take it for granted that you've been elected 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.560 to the All Star Team and you should take part 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:40.440 in it. And this whole notion that he's tired and 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.680 he needs some rest of what everybody's tired. Everybody needs 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:47.080 a break. Wouldn't everybody love four days off in a 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:51.520 grinding baseball season. But you go out there, you respect 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.240 the honor being an All Star. You go out with 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.680 the other great players, and you push the game and 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.520 you and you smile and take pictures and people look 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.600 at some of the greatest. I always go back to 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.600 the nineteen ninety nine All Star Game Jason I went 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:10.840 to in Boston when Pedro Martinez struck out five of 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.320 the six batters his first four and five of the 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.880 six batters he faced in the two innings he pitched, 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.680 And I thought to myself, what a moment. He's up 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.120 there against some of the best in the game and 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.240 he mowed them down like they were nothing. It told 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.600 me about his greatness. And you know, the Baseball All 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.040 Star Game, more than any of the other ones, is 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.000 still played at a high level. They're not lobbing the 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.000 ball in and saying, hey, there you go. There's not 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.800 a hockey game that scored where the scores fifteen to eleven, 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.320 you know, which you never see in the NHL, but 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.560 you see in the All Star Game or the Pro 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.120 Bowl where they're not tackling anybody and people are just 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:51.760 running and they're scoring sixty points, or the NBA All 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.080 Star Game where we've almost had two hundred scores in 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:59.120 the All Star Game because nobody's playing defense. The All 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.640 Star Game in baseball, it's still true to form, and 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.560 I love it. I think it's a disservice to the 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:09.120 fans in the game, and shame on Altuve or any 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.920 player who doesn't think that they belong there and should 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.040 show up out of respect to the game and out 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.080 of respect to the fans. Well, look, I'm not gonna 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.000 give Karea a pass either. Okay, Yes, he's having a 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.760 baby in November. Okay, I mean it's it's not like 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.200 a baby's coming any day and he and listen, we're 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.040 gonna play his SoundBite in a couple of minutes and 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.800 you're gonna hear him give his his reasoning. Listen, none 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.800 of this is happening because I would just like them 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:38.960 to own it. Okay, Altuve and Korea are not going, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.640 and it's very simple. They don't want to spend three 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:45.320 days getting questions about the cheating scandal, which is all 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.120 they're gonna get. They don't want to spend their introduction 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.240 at the All Star Game getting booed profusely because it's 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.760 what's going to happen. They just don't want that. They 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.400 don't want a craptastic experience. So I wish they would 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.720 just own it and say, listen, that's all that's gonna happen. 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:00.280 You and I. So I'm not I'm not gonna go 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.160 for it. It's like if you have a vacation scheduled 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.880 and it sounds great. If I've planning to go back 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:07.600 and see my family and oh I had a vakate, 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.640 that's great, and then over the course of a year, 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.680 you know, I wind up not just getting in disagreements 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.160 with my uncles and my aunts and they're fighting with 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.280 each other, going, I don't want I want a different vacation. 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:18.720 I don't want to go to this thing. It's gonna 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:20.440 be awful. I'm gonna walk into my aunt's house and 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.400 she's gonna get mad at me and we're gonna fight. 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.920 I'm not gonna do that. I would rather them just 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:26.800 own it and say we don't want to have a 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.640 craptastic time because we know what the All Star Game 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.199 is going to be about. It's the first time all 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.520 of us are on the same stage since the pandemic. 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.559 People are going to ask their questions because it's gonna 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.040 be media from all over the place and we have 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.960 to be available and lurking around every corner is going 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.200 to be a guy with a trash can banging it going. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.199 Can you understand my question, Jose can you understand my question. 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.000 Now it's gonna be Hey, will the acoustics in Colorado 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.719 allow you to know what pitch is coming? I mean, 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:55.800 this is what the experience is going to be for them, 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:57.880 And you know what, I'd rather you don't have to go, 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.000 But I'd rather you own it and just said listen 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.560 instead of giving the reasons of ah, you know, I'm tired, 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:07.000 I'm this. Look, here's first jose L Twove and then 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.160 Carlos Korea talking about why they're skipping the All Star Game. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.400 I really need this for days. I'm putting my team 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.320 first because I really think we have a chance to 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.920 win this year. I want to stay home, As you 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.600 guys know, baseball it's really important to me, but family 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.480 will always come first. So we decided that I'm gonna 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.080 stay here with her spend this time. Obviously, we don't 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.520 get a lot of time together with baseball season, so 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.040 I'm pretty excited about that. Obviously, I'm grateful for everybody 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.200 I voted for me to win the All Star Game. 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.560 Baseball means, you know, the world to me. But I 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:42.640 want to be with my family this time, especially when 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.000 when with my wife. Spending this time with her, it's 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:49.480 her first child, So I need I need that timesion. 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:51.920 It's a tough decision, man, Like I said, you know, 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.319 people voted for me to me and it. People want 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.040 to see me play in it. Um. But you know 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:58.880 we've been trying now for a lot of time to 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.160 have our first show, and that's finally there. Ain't her beatty. 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.120 I want to I want to video spend still stay 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.199 with her and uh, you know, get too old to 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.400 the whole experience, go to the doctor's appointment and see 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.600 the baby and a sonograms and everything. So you know, 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:15.480 I really want to enjoy that part. You know, when 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.720 you people say family rob it always it gets me 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:22.600 a bit because when sometimes people know that if I 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.560 use this as an excuse, it's hard to be criticized, right, 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.760 like and and and sometimes a family is a big thing, right. 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:31.920 It's it's like it's like it's like when a coach says, 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.480 like a coach says, I need some time off. I'm 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:36.400 stepping away from my job as a head coach. I 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.400 want to spend more time with my family, and four 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.360 months later they have a new head coaching job, right, 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.960 I mean, so whatever, Michael Jordan said the same thing 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.320 when we retire from basketball, and then he's gonna go 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.559 on a bus and do minor league baseball. Do you 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.800 remember that, right? Yeah? I just spent right, I'll spend 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.760 time with my family, you know, I need time off 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:55.000 and what And then you're on a bus in Birmingham, Alabama, 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:59.120 a bus uh in the minor league. Yeah, and that's 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.320 what the Astros are. Well, if I say family, I 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.320 can't get credit. Says no. We all know it's the 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.720 cheating scandal, right, we all know. Look, Michael Brantley is going. 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.120 He is not nearly as identifiable because he didn't win 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.320 the World Series. You know, he was there for twenty 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:16.200 nineteen when they lost. But he's not nearly as identifiable 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.720 with the cheating scandal as Korea and Altuve as al 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.480 Tuve especially, and then you have Korea with all these 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.839 different I'd rather you just own it, you know, I'd 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:25.800 rather just say, listen, this is why we're not going. 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.000 They're the only position players that have said we're not going. Right, 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.000 de Gram's not going, and I look, I get it. 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:32.679 As a met fan, I'm saying, oh, the actuals, I 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.840 can't believe de Gram's not going because it's Colorado and 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:37.880 he got injured in Colorado the last time he was there. 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:39.480 Doesn't want any part of the thin air and have 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.319 stuff stuff happened to him. Okay, I think he can 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.200 go and not play. You know, hey, I can go up. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.800 But all right, I get that part of it. But 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:49.840 here's your position players, and you're the only two that 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:51.800 aren't going. Are part of the guys are gonna have 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:53.960 the bull's eye on them the entire time. You would 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.480 you would be you would be on the wall like 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.600 Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible, like like flying down to 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.559 get that exclusive with Altuve and Cray and ask them questions. 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:04.640 I mean, that's what their experience is gonna be like. 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:06.360 And they're like, yeah, we're just not up for it. 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.839 The best part is that al Tuove already has a 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.120 transmitted recorder attached to him, so it's easy to get 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.560 an interview. Oh did I say that. I'm sorry? No, 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.880 this rubs me the wrong way. And and as you said, 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.440 if I'm a fan, I would never vote for those 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:26.360 guys again, I wouldn't. I think it's disrespectful to the fans. 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:30.920 It just is. It's it's their game, you know, Unlike 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.040 some of the other sports I've taken it away from 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:36.280 the fans. The Baseball All Star Game is something I've 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:40.080 been going to since nineteen ninety two. Uh, you know 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.400 in Toronto, I've been going. This is almost thirty years 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.720 of going to All Star Games. It never gets old 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:49.960 for me. And it's it's moments, it's it's uh, it's 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.120 the excitement. And you're right, those guys don't want to 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.440 stand up there and get booed to hell by all 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.959 these fans from all over Baseball America. They were lucky 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:05.800 because of COVID and they got off almost scott free. Yes, 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.680 they got some boots in some places, but not that 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.440 what they would have gotten had we had a regular 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.440 season with you know, fans all over the country. It 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.840 would have been a boot concert from coast to coast. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.800 And yet they still don't want to deal with it. 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.040 And I think it's wrong. I really do. And if 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.960 I'm the commissioner, I condemn it or I find it. 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.360 Find those guys, because it's it's something that is a 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.320 selling point for the sport, and you take away from 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.320 all the other guys. And if I'm a teammate or them, 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.760 I don't. I don't feel the same way because I 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.560 think it's an obligation. Everybody wants to go to Hawaii 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.240 for four days or get away from from it all, 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.439 but everybody else shows up. You know. I know way 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.160 and Rob Manford could solve this really easy, right, is 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.640 you're not an All Star if you don't go to 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.800 the game. Right because these guys, they get the denotation 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:58.880 of being an All Star, they get it on their 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:00.800 on their on their buy and hey, you're you're a 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.200 seven time All Star, eight time All Star. Maybe some 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.360 guys get bonuses in their contracts or going to the 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.360 All Star Game, but I think that's what you do 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.360 and say, Okay, if you're selected and you say you 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.200 don't want to go to the game, then you're not 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.679 an All Star. It doesn't it doesn't go on your bio, 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:16.839 doesn't go on your record. You're not an All Star, 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.880 so you don't get paid. But whatever bonus you have 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:20.920 in your contract. I think that would solve a lot 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:22.920 of it because all these guys want to be Hey, 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:24.920 I don't want to throw away an All Star appearance. 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:26.680 I mean that's a big thing for me. And you'd 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.000 be able to go on Baseball Reference dot Com or 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.080 be referred to and see say hey you're a seven 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:32.840 time No, you're only a four time All Star. You 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:34.880 skip three games. I think that would solve a lot 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.320 of it. Listen, if you don't want to go, great, 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.760 because what really what the players want is I just 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:41.800 want to be selected. You know I'm good now. I 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:43.440 don't want to actually go. Oh, I don't want to 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.440 actually have to go and live up to the responsibilities 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:47.520 of being selected for the All Star Game. Or if 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:49.960 you don't want to, then then then you say I 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:51.960 don't want to be considered for the All Star Game. 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.760 If you're going, every player who wants to be considered 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:58.000 should have to sign something saying yes, if I'm selected 0:14:58.000 --> 0:14:59.880 for the All Star Game, I am going to go now, sir, 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:04.160 times there's going to be some kind of of extenuating circumstances. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.200 And if you have a picture that pitches on Sunday, 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.040 he's not going to pitch on Tuesday. You could potentially 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.440 waive something like that. But just to say you sign 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.800 and say if you select me, I'm going to go. 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.800 Either of those things, which would solve this situation and 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:19.120 you would have the right guys going to the All 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.560 Star Game all the time. No, I hear you. They 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.400 got to figure something out. But also, you owe it 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.240 to your organization. Don't you owe it to the Astros? 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.680 You owe them something, you owe your fans that that's 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:34.120 the other part to just totally act as if none 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.840 of that matters and it's only about you. It's not. 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.040 You know what it says across the front of day uniform. 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:45.040 It says Houston, it says the Astros. It doesn't say 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:49.680 Carrea or Altuve across the front. And that's the other 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.440 part that they that they lose sight of that they 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:56.400 represent a city and an organization and it ain't fair 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.920 to those people who pay their salaries, who support them. 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.320 But they want if they have some sort of card 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.440 signing or something where you know, they want people to 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:08.880 show up for that. I just think it's selfish and 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:14.160 it's wrong, and those guys should be ridiculed and reprimanded 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:17.920 for not taking part in something that's special. And years later, 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:19.960 go look at some of the greats. I think Hank 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.600 Aaron went to twenty four All Star Games. Do you 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.680 know what I mean? You don't think he wanted a 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:29.560 four day week, four days off. Willie Mays and those guys, 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:33.480 go look at them to like twenty four All Star Games. 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.520 Really and at one time, Jason, remember they played two 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.680 All Star Games in baseball they have one time there 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.080 were two of them. That would have been a lot. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.240 He would have had like two eight day vacations. You 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:46.840 had to take all the time off from work to 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:52.640 go cover them. And god knows, I would have Twitter 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.720 And how about a Fresca Rob at Rob Parker FS one. 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.880 I've lost Rob for the next five minutes. He's just thinking, now, oh, 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:00.960 two All Star Games. I could have gone to both. 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.280 It would have been great. I would have been unbelievable. 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.280 I was born at the wrong time. I could have 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.160 done this. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.120 Be sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.880 to noon Eastern or six to nine Pacific on Fox 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.760 Sports Radio. Find your local station for The Dan Patrick 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.720 Show at Fox Sports Radio dot com, or stream us 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.240 live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching f 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.000 s R, or stream us live on the Peacock Act 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:31.040 Fox Sports Radio. The Dan Patrick Show Jason Smith Rob 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.560 Parker in for Dan and the Danets today as we 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.359 look back at the Big Sun's win in Game two 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.119 of the NBA Finals. They beat the Bucks by ten? 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.360 Is there a path forward for the Bucks? Is there 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:47.399 a big superstar? Our next guest is really concerned about 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.680 joining us now on the hot line ten years in 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:54.639 the NBA. A guy who has become Johnny Juzang's personal 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:56.960 hype man. A guy who I've been joined at the 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:00.000 hip with for the past thirty six hours. We started yesterday, 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.240 win the show together, Rob. He was on my show 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.560 last night. He's on with you and I this morning. 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:09.399 It's Ryan Hollins. What's happening, big dog? What's up? A Jason? 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.800 Did you sleep in the studio last night? Now? Dude, 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.320 if I get five hours in between shifts, I'm good. 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:17.320 I need I mean, I'll need a nap right after. 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.600 But you know, if I get five hours, I'm okay, okay, okay. 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.840 We just check it, brother, just check it. Hey, what 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:25.880 about you? You had the same kind of day I did. Man, 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.840 you're up early, you're up late, you're up early again. Yeah, 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.320 but when you get up early, an hour earlier than 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.359 you're used to waken up, that's a big That's like 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.359 a thing. It's a thing. You know. I'm usually up 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.800 around six thirty every day. But when you're getting up 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:44.240 at five thirty, it becomes a thing. I can't sleep. 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.960 I'm officially an old person like I can't sleep. I 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:51.480 just I don't know what's happened to me. I was 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:55.359 never a big sleeper, but I could sleep. Didn't know 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:58.560 him wake up at seven or whatever. But now I'm 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:02.800 a five five teen, five thirty. No matter what time 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:06.040 I go to bed, his hand in hand would being 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:13.119 grumpy robbing his hand in hand, man joined at the head. Well, Hey, 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.040 as grumpy as I normally am. I'm not ready to 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:20.800