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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes didn't suffer a concussion. Therefore you can exhale.
Speaker 1: If it's nerve damage in his neck, this might be
Speaker 1: something that stays with him for a while. This isn't
Speaker 1: you just go through concussion protocol, then you're cleared. He
Speaker 1: might be more vulnerable here. And we don't know the
Speaker 1: extent of this, but I think they quickly realized he
Speaker 1: didn't have a concussion, but he certainly looked like he
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Speaker 1: the way, going through all the tests. But as it
Speaker 1: stands right now Tuesday at eleven o'clock Eastern, we're expecting
Speaker 1: Patrick mahomes to be playing in this game this weekend
Speaker 1: against the Buffalo Bills. Did we check on the weather.
Speaker 1: It feels like Lambo is getting snow I know, Bruce
Speaker 1: Arians said, we're going to prepare for the cold weather.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you prepare for the cold weather
Speaker 1: in Tampa. Do you turn up the air conditioning? Yes,
Speaker 1: it's point. I got a twenty eight degrees at kickoff
Speaker 1: in Lambeau Green Bay and a forty percent actually only
Speaker 1: a twenty fifty percent chance of particip precipitation. That's the
Speaker 1: local brick broadcast because they have yet right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what about Kansas City? MCLUBN. I think Kansas City is
Speaker 1: thirty one and not snowing, But that's off memory. I
Speaker 1: have to check. All right. Here's Bruce Arians, the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: head coach, on prepping for cold weather at LAMBA. It's
Speaker 1: just a matter of staying one on the sidelines because
Speaker 1: when you're out there on the field. I don't know
Speaker 1: if anybody every time I played in Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buffalo,
Speaker 1: nobody was cold out on the field. It's more mental
Speaker 1: than staying warm on the sideline. Got all that technology
Speaker 1: now with heaters and everything else. So it's it's really nice.
Speaker 1: It's different, but it's it's not that big difference. Well. Also,
Speaker 1: you know, players will tell you that, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: we play well in the cold weather. They don't like
Speaker 1: playing in cold weather. But you have to convince yourself
Speaker 1: that you play better, like that's our home field advantage.
Speaker 1: I go back to the coldest game in NFL history
Speaker 1: that I went to, when the Chargers came to Cincinnati
Speaker 1: to face the Bengals and the windshow factor was about
Speaker 1: fifty fifty degrees below zero. And if you could have
Speaker 1: said to the Chargers, guys, you're gonna lose in a
Speaker 1: respectable manner, but you can turn around and get on
Speaker 1: the bus, get on the plane and fly home. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there are a few Chargers who would have taken up,
Speaker 1: you know, the officials on that, because the Bengals ended
Speaker 1: up winning that game, the coldest game in NFL history,
Speaker 1: and the lineman came out with short sleeves on. When
Speaker 1: I saw that, I go, man, the Bengals are bad bleeps. Man,
Speaker 1: they're they got their short sleeves on. And I asked
Speaker 1: Anthony Munio's about that? He goes, no, it was cold
Speaker 1: you know, like we were stupid, but we wanted to
Speaker 1: let the Chargers know a warm weather team. Hey, welcome
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati. This feels pretty ballmy here, I saw this story.
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring in Jeff Passing. The New York
Speaker 1: Mets general manager Jared Porter acknowledges sending explicit images to
Speaker 1: a female reporter when he worked for the Chicago Cubs.
Speaker 1: I believe this is back in the twenty sixteen he
Speaker 1: was hired by the Mets to be their general manager.
Speaker 1: He is no longer the Mets general manager because he
Speaker 1: has been fired, and Jeff Passon from the Mothership who
Speaker 1: covers baseball joining us on the program. When did you
Speaker 1: get first word about this something that was done in
Speaker 1: back in twenty sixteen with the Cubs. Me personally, Dan
Speaker 1: was very recently. But my colleague Mina Kimes first was
Speaker 1: given the text back in two seventeen December of twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen and went and met with a woman and talked
Speaker 1: with her about possibly doing a story on this. At
Speaker 1: the time, she was not ready for that. She was
Speaker 1: still working in the journalism industry and she was afraid
Speaker 1: that the blowback from a story being published was going
Speaker 1: to significantly harm her career. She's no longer in journalism,
Speaker 1: and as she saw Jared Porter's ascent to general manager
Speaker 1: of the Mets, you know, it hit her. There's a
Speaker 1: person who did something to me, and his career is
Speaker 1: on an upward trajectory. I'm the victim in this situation,
Speaker 1: and I now don't have my dream job anymore. Why
Speaker 1: is this fair? Why is this okay? Jeff? From all
Speaker 1: I can gather, Dan, the Mets found out when we
Speaker 1: told them that we were going to be publishing this
Speaker 1: story yesterday, that they did not know about this beforehand,
Speaker 1: that it caught them off guard, you know, inside of baseball.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to twenty sixteen with the Cubs. There
Speaker 1: was one other person in the Cubs organization at the
Speaker 1: time who found out about it afterward, because the woman
Speaker 1: had gone to her employer, and someone at her employer
Speaker 1: had called up somebody with the Cubs who that person knew,
Speaker 1: and that person with whom we spoke yesterday said that
Speaker 1: he was trying to essentially be a go between to
Speaker 1: bring the woman and Porter together to have some kind
Speaker 1: of a resolution for this that never happened. She was
Speaker 1: considering legal action at the time, she says that he
Speaker 1: was pushing her not to pursue legal action. Did he
Speaker 1: send this woman in total, it was one hundred fifty
Speaker 1: year so the majority of those were at the beginning.
Speaker 1: They had met at Yankee Stadium and she thought, Hey,
Speaker 1: you know, we're going to talk baseball. He's going to
Speaker 1: be a source. That's what reporters do, trying to cultivate sources.
Speaker 1: But very quickly the messages from Porter went beyond the
Speaker 1: normal source relationship to a point where he was asking
Speaker 1: her out, trying to get her to come and visit
Speaker 1: him in different places across the country. And after he
Speaker 1: sent one particular picture, which he says wasn't him, but
Speaker 1: was of a man laying on a bed with a
Speaker 1: bulge in his pants, she stopped responding. After she stopped responding,
Speaker 1: there were more than sixty texts from Jared Porter that
Speaker 1: culminated with a picture of a naked penis. And that
Speaker 1: is where we are, and that is ultimately I think
Speaker 1: what got him fired, not just the lewd image itself,
Speaker 1: but the fact that it came after she had not
Speaker 1: responded to sixty plus text from it. What's the reaction
Speaker 1: from the new owner, Steve Cohen. I mean you saw
Speaker 1: it this morning. Hey, he got fired before eight am Eastern,
Speaker 1: and this was a story that was published about eleven
Speaker 1: o'clock last night, so it didn't even take half a day.
Speaker 1: And Steve Cohen, if you remember, in his initial press conference,
Speaker 1: said we want this to be an organization of integrity,
Speaker 1: and he referenced that again this morning in the tweet
Speaker 1: in which he announced the firing publicly, he said, I
Speaker 1: want to run this organization with integrity, and we could
Speaker 1: not do that with him in charge. And this had
Speaker 1: been a pretty good offseason with the trade getting Lindorf
Speaker 1: from Cleveland. They helped their pitching staff here. And I
Speaker 1: go back to last year with Carlos Beltron. Does Beltron
Speaker 1: get another chance here? Jeff well A J. Hinch has
Speaker 1: gotten another chan. I know that's why Alex Alex core
Speaker 1: has got another chance. It stands to reason that Carlos
Speaker 1: Beltron would get another chance considering the other two who
Speaker 1: have Yeah, just trying to figure that out because that
Speaker 1: was with the Mets as well. Are they a cursed organization?
Speaker 1: Do we look at them sort of the way we
Speaker 1: do the Knicks? Dan, I'm from Cleveland, So if anyone's
Speaker 1: gonna believe in. If anyone's gonna believe in curses, it's me,
Speaker 1: And I still do not believe in the idea of
Speaker 1: a cursed organization. What I do believe in is the
Speaker 1: idea of culture, and that culture can perpetuate itself through
Speaker 1: a place and metastasize, and that getting rid of that
Speaker 1: cancer inside of an organization can take a really long time,
Speaker 1: but it's possible. Like, let's not look past the idea
Speaker 1: that the New York Mets can one day become a
Speaker 1: functional organization if things are done correctly and something like this.
Speaker 1: You know, when you make a mistake, you can either
Speaker 1: double down on it or you can acknowledge quickly that
Speaker 1: it was a mistake. And I think the Mets did
Speaker 1: so in this case, and that's a good first step
Speaker 1: in writing the air of your ways. Good to visit
Speaker 1: with you. You and Mina did a great job at
Speaker 1: deep dive on this at ESPN dot com. Thank you, Jeff,
Speaker 1: My pleasure to Jeff Pason, ESPN baseball insider. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: wonder if beltrn's going to get a chance. By all accounts,
Speaker 1: brilliant baseball guy and probably a borderline Hall of famer,
Speaker 1: But what happened with the Astros when he was still
Speaker 1: a player with a cheating scandal and once the Mets
Speaker 1: found out about it, they had already hired him, and
Speaker 1: then they fired him. Now you bring in a GM,
Speaker 1: and I don't know who is doing background checks here,
Speaker 1: but if you're going to bring in a GM, how
Speaker 1: deep a dive is your background check on something like this?
Speaker 1: But you're sending over one hundred and fifty text messages
Speaker 1: and she didn't respond, which was amazing. And then the
Speaker 1: story comes out last night eleven o'clock and he's fired
Speaker 1: before eight am this morning. Yeah, you know, if you
Speaker 1: think about it from the Mets ownership standpoint, that's always
Speaker 1: the how a story stays alive is when the owners
Speaker 1: back their guy or don't fire him. Here, we were
Speaker 1: going to look into this and see what we can
Speaker 1: glean from the investigation. Then the story lasts for weeks,
Speaker 1: especially in New York City with the back page, you
Speaker 1: can imagine what they would do. Yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: the reason why it was swift because they had so
Speaker 1: much information here, and if you look at the ESPN report,
Speaker 1: they've done a great job in bringing all that information light.
Speaker 1: But the fact that this was going on and then
Speaker 1: you hire this guy and all of a sudden it
Speaker 1: comes to light, and you know, and mena times credit
Speaker 1: to her because you know, she reached out to this
Speaker 1: reporter who's no longer reporter, and then probably reached out
Speaker 1: again when this woman decided to go back to whatever
Speaker 1: country she's from she is not from the United States,
Speaker 1: and then probably said, do you still want to tell
Speaker 1: this story? And she eventually came forward. But they have
Speaker 1: done a good job in the offseason, you know, strengthen
Speaker 1: their starting rotation. They get Lindor, who's an elite player,
Speaker 1: top ten player. Right now, it's weird to talk baseball,
Speaker 1: even though we would normally be getting ready to gear up.
Speaker 1: When you get to February, you start thinking about spring training.
Speaker 1: And I probably went to spring training thirty plus years.
Speaker 1: Maybe I go to Arizona. I went to Florida a
Speaker 1: couple of times. But I always tell people, you know,
Speaker 1: if you get that chance, go to Scottsdale, stay in
Speaker 1: Scottsdale and you can go within an hour, you can
Speaker 1: see you know, seven eight teams, and then all the
Speaker 1: games that are played, and it's just it's a wonderful
Speaker 1: atmosphere in Scottsdale's wonderful. A lot of hotels their restaurants
Speaker 1: there when things get back to normal, but baseball has
Speaker 1: sort of been there's no buzz, Like, can you think
Speaker 1: of any other aside from this that the trade with
Speaker 1: Lynn Door was pretty big and the fact that Cleveland
Speaker 1: is pretty much gonna go bargain basement here, it feels
Speaker 1: like with what they're doing, but you haven't heard too much.
Speaker 1: Even with like the Yankees, you normally would hear something
Speaker 1: in the off season. Yeah, mcleve. Yeah, they did. They
Speaker 1: trade for a signed Corey Kluber and it was fairly
Speaker 1: even a headline. Yeah. Yeah, and he's a two time
Speaker 1: Cy Young Winner. But you know, I thought Lemayheu was
Speaker 1: like a big signing for them, that they you know,
Speaker 1: one of the great hitters in the game. Yeah. Point
Speaker 1: the Cubs have been able to erase every remnant of
Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen team just about. Yeah. I think it's
Speaker 1: Rizzo and nobody, Yeah, including the person who was working
Speaker 1: for them who got fired by the Mets. Yes, McLevin.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's possibly COVID related, like in the
Speaker 1: sense that, like, you know, the NBA came back and
Speaker 1: nobody even noticed. They were just happy the bubble worked.
Speaker 1: That people aren't even I think it's hard to get
Speaker 1: excited about a season that you don't know what the
Speaker 1: shape or form is going to be their fans, if
Speaker 1: they're gonna be able to play continuously. Like, yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: say COVID has put a damper on all of these sports.
Speaker 1: When you think about college basketball, should we be trying
Speaker 1: to play March Madness because it does live up to
Speaker 1: the name this year. I mean, this is madness. There's
Speaker 1: so much money involved here, so much money. But even
Speaker 1: like Kansas against Baylor, like I didn't know it was
Speaker 1: going to be played, Like I just assume that these
Speaker 1: games there's a chance they'll be canceled. And you know,
Speaker 1: Baylor ended up winning last night. But you start to
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised when a college game is canceled, not
Speaker 1: at all. And now NBA games are being canceled because
Speaker 1: you don't even have enough players on the roster. We
Speaker 1: went from Rudy Gobert testing positive and shutting down the
Speaker 1: hire sport too. Yeah, we'll just put it off for
Speaker 1: another day. Hey, you only have seven players, now you
Speaker 1: need one more? Like it we come a long way
Speaker 1: since last March. I don't know if we've come a
Speaker 1: long way in a good way with everything that's involved
Speaker 1: in this yeahmic club. A few prominent analysts have said
Speaker 1: that athletes should get COVID vaccines before everybody. Well, Charles Barkley,
Speaker 1: Barkley and I get that for the public service of
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's a weird public service, but
Speaker 1: there's an argument to be made. Not that many people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but Charles said, because they pay so much in taxes. Oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Yes, that's that's the caveat where
Speaker 1: you go, Charles. No, you don't want to be you
Speaker 1: don't want to be on this hill. What about there
Speaker 1: are a lot of jobs depending on them. I mean,
Speaker 1: you could make I get it. It's just when you
Speaker 1: start to pick and choose and you say, will you
Speaker 1: pay more taxes? I the front line workers, those are
Speaker 1: the people who need to get their f older people
Speaker 1: need to get their first compromise. People need to get
Speaker 1: there first. The NBA has some of the safe, safest
Speaker 1: protocols they've had this like, they're they're so far ahead
Speaker 1: of everybody else to begin with. And the NFL players
Speaker 1: they're tested every day, they're tested all the time, they're
Speaker 1: they're you know, they're they're quarantine. There's you know, safety
Speaker 1: bubbles that they have. They're doing their best. We don't
Speaker 1: have that, so they're they're already getting preferential treatment that
Speaker 1: I can't go. You pay a lot of taxes. Now,
Speaker 1: if you say Lebron's going to get vast vaccinated and
Speaker 1: that way we show communities you should get vaccinated. Lebron
Speaker 1: is doing it, Steph Curry is doing it, the Greek
Speaker 1: freak is doing it. Okay, I understand that, but I
Speaker 1: don't think I don't follow Charles logic to say, you
Speaker 1: guys pay so much in taxes, therefore you guys should
Speaker 1: be getting vaccinated before somebody else. I think that's careless
Speaker 1: to say that. Yeah, Paul, it is an interesting topic because,
Speaker 1: like you said, the NBA players, you want to make
Speaker 1: a statement and get it out to the community, but
Speaker 1: they have more opportunities to be safe than the average worker,
Speaker 1: the average family person. Yes, and that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I just the right people need to get vaccinated first,
Speaker 1: and those are the people who actually put their lives
Speaker 1: on the line, no question, those people first, and the
Speaker 1: people who are compromise those people who are older in
Speaker 1: nursing homes, those people as well, but the people who
Speaker 1: are taking care of the people need to be first
Speaker 1: in line. We'll take a break. See Webb will join us.
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Speaker 1: look at you, mister Milwaukee Buck with your Milwaukee Bucks
Speaker 1: T shirt on? Did you pay for that? No? Hey,
Speaker 1: I got so many. I can wear all the teams
Speaker 1: I was. I guess I was. I used to say
Speaker 1: I wasn't superstitious, but I would never wear other teams.
Speaker 1: Now I take all the swag they give me. I
Speaker 1: work out in it. So were the Pistons your favorite
Speaker 1: team growing up? Yeah, by far, it was the Pistons,
Speaker 1: and then it was the Pistons and the Lakers magic
Speaker 1: being from Michigan. And then I hated Chicago and the
Speaker 1: Celtics so much that I really loved secretly. So it
Speaker 1: was the tangle web back there. Well why did you
Speaker 1: hate Boston? Well, remember, you know, back then you had
Speaker 1: to go through certain teams, So back then, the Pistons
Speaker 1: had to go through Boston. So you know, I grew
Speaker 1: up Peyton Dick stocked and because his voice came on,
Speaker 1: it reminded me of the Celtics games. You know, you
Speaker 1: think the commentators have something to do with the game,
Speaker 1: and so Risdad turning it over. That's a crazy story.
Speaker 1: Well we got whoopings that night because we went crazy
Speaker 1: running through the house and Isaiah turned it over and
Speaker 1: then we beat the Celtics, got through them. You know,
Speaker 1: that's when you see Kevin McHale giving Isaiah the pound,
Speaker 1: tell them you better go win it, you better go
Speaker 1: win it. Isaiah hurts itself and I guess forty four
Speaker 1: In the finals, we lose to the Lakers. Good job magic,
Speaker 1: and then we beat them the next two. So I
Speaker 1: hated the Celtics because we had to go through them,
Speaker 1: and of course just the Bulls just because okay, but
Speaker 1: what was that like when you're watching Isaiah throw the
Speaker 1: ball in, Just get the ball in and you're gonna
Speaker 1: beat the Celtics and Larry Bird, slowest guy on the floor,
Speaker 1: comes out of nowhere and steals the ball, hits DJ
Speaker 1: for the lab. It was crazy when I went. When
Speaker 1: I played the Celtics the first time, I remember having
Speaker 1: like spreeing. Those guys picked me up and seriously, like,
Speaker 1: I know, Kyrie takes the stage and does that around,
Speaker 1: but I really thought it had to be like a
Speaker 1: leper count on top of those rims. I really thought
Speaker 1: back then it was something with the parquet floor, that
Speaker 1: it was magic. And so I just felt like, wow,
Speaker 1: come on out of out of all you know, the
Speaker 1: times that this could happen. So that was one of
Speaker 1: the worst moments for me as a basketball fan. Were
Speaker 1: you a Lions fan two growing up? Yeah? Wow. I
Speaker 1: remember going to a friend's wedding and uh, all these
Speaker 1: uh Lions, Uh you know we were there, and so yeah,
Speaker 1: it was I was. I was a big Lions fan still,
Speaker 1: you know, Billy SAMs and you know other players that
Speaker 1: we've had during that time. Even though we're most famously
Speaker 1: known for being the only team where two Hall of
Speaker 1: famers genera generational talents retired early. Rather than Calvin Johnson
Speaker 1: and Barry Sanders, they decided, you know what, I'd rather
Speaker 1: not play instead of playing with the Lions, I'd rather
Speaker 1: not play at all. But you know what, I'm I'll
Speaker 1: be quick, but I'm a Cleveland I'm so I'm a
Speaker 1: Lions fan still to this day. But in ninety nine.
Speaker 1: I think it was the year Cleveland got their team back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was just mad at the Lions. I don't know
Speaker 1: if we're gone on sixteen then or whatever, but I'm
Speaker 1: just the frustrated fan. I think they take our love
Speaker 1: for granted. But anyway, I became a Cleveland Browns fan
Speaker 1: that day as my second team because I couldn't just
Speaker 1: jump on the bandwagon. So it's fun watching them do it.
Speaker 1: You know what they did this year? He see Webb
Speaker 1: and he was on the call with the Bucks and
Speaker 1: Nets last night. What are the Nets doing so far?
Speaker 1: With Alt Kyrie, with with James and Katie? That surprised you?
Speaker 1: It doesn't nothing surprise to me with this team, ya.
Speaker 1: You know, I think fifty things can be true at
Speaker 1: one time. You know, hard And left unceremoniously. He got
Speaker 1: a game weight, he did all those things. But he's
Speaker 1: still one of the best players, and I still leave.
Speaker 1: D'Antoni is responsible for how hard And played there. D'Antoni
Speaker 1: told me personally that he believed that remember how you
Speaker 1: would throw the ball in the shack, shack would wait
Speaker 1: and throw it back out and maybe that play took
Speaker 1: fifteen seconds. He believed that Harden was doing that from
Speaker 1: the top of the key as a post up player,
Speaker 1: and that okay, Dan, if you're ready to shoot, Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll throw it back. Now I'm gonna dribble and find
Speaker 1: one of you. That's what he believed was his post play.
Speaker 1: I don't believe Harden. I believe he liked playing like that,
Speaker 1: but he can play so much more efficiently. And by
Speaker 1: those guys being friends, I put a lot of it
Speaker 1: on mentality, but by those guys being friends, I expect
Speaker 1: him to share the ball. And I believe Harden knows
Speaker 1: that Durant is the best player in the NBA, and
Speaker 1: you know he defers at times. So do you think
Speaker 1: it's the best player in the NBA. I think he's
Speaker 1: the best. He'd have to be top two, you know.
Speaker 1: I know that offensively, that it's it's no one in
Speaker 1: the game like him that we've maybe that we've ever seen,
Speaker 1: and I think his teammates know that. I think that
Speaker 1: Durant learned how to play a different style playing for
Speaker 1: coach Kerve and with those players. I think he learned
Speaker 1: to trust players playing at Golden State, meaning like if
Speaker 1: you're in the right place, just make the right play
Speaker 1: because he just played so much more calm and effortlessly,
Speaker 1: and so he lets the game come to him. So
Speaker 1: and Nash is their coach. You know, I said this
Speaker 1: last night. You know, Dan, you may remember this, So
Speaker 1: I don't want to put words in him off. But
Speaker 1: in my opinion, and I believe this with all my heart,
Speaker 1: Nash dribbled the ball more than harder. It was just
Speaker 1: the way that he did it. It was just he
Speaker 1: dribbled in the circle all the way around up under
Speaker 1: the basket. But he would just make great plays. But yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah he did. I mean, I'm not talking I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about shooting. I'm talking about ball handling. And so
Speaker 1: I think that having a guy like Nash, because we
Speaker 1: used to want Nash to shoot more so that other
Speaker 1: guys I didn't get involved. So Nash is brilliant. I'm
Speaker 1: not criticizing it. I'm just saying that the game has
Speaker 1: changed and Nash is part of the reason why Harten
Speaker 1: is successful. And by the way, D'Antoni is on that
Speaker 1: bench that coach Nash that way and then vice versemen,
Speaker 1: So I believe that, you know, if this is their
Speaker 1: style of play, I believe Nash is a great guy
Speaker 1: to talk to Harten about how to brew it. Well.
Speaker 1: I think with Harden we look at it as he
Speaker 1: just pounds the ball and then he's going to take
Speaker 1: his shot. Nash would dribble, and you're right, he was
Speaker 1: almost like Wayne Gretzky. Gretzky used to go behind the
Speaker 1: net and then he would try to set up his teammates.
Speaker 1: Nash was a past first and James is a shoot first,
Speaker 1: shoot second, past third, and I think people look at
Speaker 1: it and they don't like, sort of he's a ball hag.
Speaker 1: I don't think people looked at Nash is a ballhog
Speaker 1: as much as they do James. But I still say,
Speaker 1: why is it that Harden can get eleven assists but
Speaker 1: Kyrie can't. Kyrie's not a great passer, Chris. You know,
Speaker 1: when I played with Alan Irison, a lot of people
Speaker 1: used to say that he was selfish, and he definitely
Speaker 1: is looking for this shot. That's the way Alan was
Speaker 1: made and programmed to be. Kyrie is so skilled as
Speaker 1: scoring and getting to where he wants and his size.
Speaker 1: I think when you trap for him, it's not should
Speaker 1: he be a better pastor should he get more assists? Yes,
Speaker 1: I agree with you, and I go back to Nash.
Speaker 1: It's not about I don't want it any way, want
Speaker 1: to make Nash him selfish. He's one of the most
Speaker 1: selfless players ever. But when you have two guys on
Speaker 1: the side of you, you have to trust them. And
Speaker 1: I've seen Harden do that when he led their team
Speaker 1: and assists when he was the third guy coming off
Speaker 1: with hem in Westbrook. So I trust their relationship. And
Speaker 1: when you play with greats, you feel like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: can get mine. Is what is the question? I do
Speaker 1: think it is Kyrie and Kenny fit. Can he get
Speaker 1: others involved? But if you have heartened at the point guard,
Speaker 1: why can't Kyrie be the two offensively? Meaning because I
Speaker 1: agree he should get more six So I agree with you.
Speaker 1: But if he's not going to, why wouldn't you let
Speaker 1: them get that same amount and just do it from
Speaker 1: a two position and score and then keep the ball
Speaker 1: in Harden's hands. Yeah, he's he's this enigma. He's a
Speaker 1: fascinating guy. And you were on the set with Uncle Drew,
Speaker 1: so you spend time with him, Like, do you even
Speaker 1: though you spend time with him, do you understand you?
Speaker 1: Do you know Kyrie Irving or feel like you do. No,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know Kyrie. No, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know him at all. Um. I
Speaker 1: know his father a little bit through friends of mine
Speaker 1: like Rod Strickland and others. I know his father was
Speaker 1: a heck of a hooper and a great great man.
Speaker 1: But I don't. And I think because I'm in the movie,
Speaker 1: people think that I can give insight, you know, I
Speaker 1: I don't. This is a different generation, this is a
Speaker 1: different day. And so my thing is, you know, as
Speaker 1: a commentator, to hold him accountable and then to balance
Speaker 1: it with the things I don't know. And so that's
Speaker 1: why I like so in my day, I can you
Speaker 1: say this than in my day, if I would have
Speaker 1: played on Washington, I wanted to play with Spreewell. I
Speaker 1: wanted them to trade him for Calbert Chaining straight up,
Speaker 1: what's up, Cayward? I love it? But I played and
Speaker 1: at that time I knew the spreetent on being Jordan defensively.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy was incredible. He was a prim
Speaker 1: but he was incredible, and I remember going, I want
Speaker 1: to play with him, and I know that if I
Speaker 1: were to play with him, I would have played better
Speaker 1: whether I had more shots to the less shots. I
Speaker 1: know that, you know, whatever the situation, and no disrespect
Speaker 1: to Calbert. I just meant because of our relationship. I
Speaker 1: think friends hold each other to a higher standard depending
Speaker 1: on what type of friends you have. I think Durant does.
Speaker 1: That is the alpha mail in the situation, and I
Speaker 1: believe that they had to talk to each other about it.
Speaker 1: And so if you as friends get in the room
Speaker 1: and you talk about it, make a commitment, say we're
Speaker 1: gonna win, you know, make a toast, had a drunk talk,
Speaker 1: all Brody, We're gonna do it. You gotta stick to it,
Speaker 1: and no coaching can make you sacrifice. No is no family.
Speaker 1: It's the commitment you made to each other. And that's
Speaker 1: the only thing that I rely on. That's that's why
Speaker 1: I think KG worked when he got to Boston. That's
Speaker 1: why I think Rashid worked when he got to Detroit.
Speaker 1: And many people didn't think it would but they didn't
Speaker 1: know the personal relationships. And so then that's all I
Speaker 1: can put it on because I don't know Kyrie. Would
Speaker 1: you want to play with Kyrie? What I want to play?
Speaker 1: If I could play today, and be healthy and go
Speaker 1: back in time and play today with who I was.
Speaker 1: I would, yes, I would want to play with him
Speaker 1: because I was a pick and role player and as
Speaker 1: long as you give me the ball off to pick
Speaker 1: a role, I could do, you know, whatever I need
Speaker 1: to do. Well, you know, we would have to find
Speaker 1: but so very very honest. If I could play to day,
Speaker 1: you know, or if I could play at my lifetime,
Speaker 1: the three guys I would have won played with the
Speaker 1: probably Magic Mash and Lebron, uh, because I was a
Speaker 1: big guy and those guys, those guys sponging. No, Jordan,
Speaker 1: I would have loved. Of course, I would love to
Speaker 1: play with Jordan. I just meant, you know, you're gonna
Speaker 1: touch the ball a lot. With Jordan. I'ld have just
Speaker 1: been you would have been You would have been Horace Grant, Yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. But hey, Hoors got some rings, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind him. Yeah, you might have been Will Purdue.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but uh, you know, I was watching
Speaker 1: the Lakers last night. They're up fourteen in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Now I know it's a game in January here, Chris,
Speaker 1: how do you blow a fourteen point lead against Golden
Speaker 1: State at home because Golden State, Uh, Golden State as
Speaker 1: a chip on the shoulder, I think from Kurr and
Speaker 1: joint coaching, probably more than ever to Curry coming back coming.
Speaker 1: You see the shots at Curry once. You know guys,
Speaker 1: but I really love the guys will really humble off
Speaker 1: the court. But the alter egos are on the court.
Speaker 1: And Curry is a little jerk on the court. He's
Speaker 1: like six seventh grade and used to play tag and
Speaker 1: all the games the little fellas always won because you
Speaker 1: couldn't catch him and you were just mad. And that's Curry.
Speaker 1: He's shooting threes, He's getting other guys going Draymond. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a time for them to really show who they
Speaker 1: are in the midst of this. And so it didn't
Speaker 1: surprise me. It really didn't surprise me that Golden State
Speaker 1: did that. It would surprise me of other teams. But
Speaker 1: when you have Curry and those boys, man, you just
Speaker 1: you better bring your heart hat every night. But could
Speaker 1: Curry act this way back when you played No No,
Speaker 1: I just remember you know Carmen Long I think twenty
Speaker 1: two stitches tides. I just remember you know Oakley, other guys,
Speaker 1: it was just it was just a different day. I mean, um,
Speaker 1: you know I had to change the way I acted
Speaker 1: after you know, two or three seasons because it's just
Speaker 1: not worth it, you know what I mean. You know,
Speaker 1: Cummings has nothing to lose. It's two years left in
Speaker 1: his career and he's on the bench. Why why I
Speaker 1: try to three? Well? I mean why Waite? Who do
Speaker 1: you still owe something too? As far as they they
Speaker 1: did something to you, but you didn't want to lose
Speaker 1: game checks and get back at them. Do you have
Speaker 1: a grudge towards anybody? No? I would say though that
Speaker 1: that Terry Commies is the one is the one loss
Speaker 1: that I took. You know, I wanted to fight Xavier McDaniel.
Speaker 1: I wanted to you know, back then it was w
Speaker 1: w have to come in to the league and so no,
Speaker 1: but Terry Commies, I would say, is the one guy.
Speaker 1: But he's a minister, Chris exactly. So how about this,
Speaker 1: you know your grandfather. You ever see your grandfather get
Speaker 1: mad and give you that look and he doesn't say anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you get more that he's a minister, and it's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, he made a commitment to God whatever.
Speaker 1: So that was my rookie year. He pulled me out
Speaker 1: the air gently, but he grabbed me and he wouldn't
Speaker 1: let me go, and he said, no, don't don't do
Speaker 1: that anymore. And Billy and those guys they didn't come
Speaker 1: up and like you know, talk, They looked at him like, no,
Speaker 1: he's the crazy one. That's what I learned. Never fight
Speaker 1: a guy that cries before the fight. And then guys
Speaker 1: that are real colm like him just just leave him alone.
Speaker 1: The guys who cry before the fight, oh oh you never,
Speaker 1: oh damn. Never fight a guy that starts crying before
Speaker 1: a fight. Wait, who started crying before a fight? I've
Speaker 1: seen it before. I've bet some people out there, I've
Speaker 1: seen him before calling let Dan know, like, didn't um,
Speaker 1: didn't Lennox Lewis lose to a guy? Was that McCall
Speaker 1: crying before a fight? It was Oliver McCall. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: started crying. But yeah, I've seen I've seen bullies getting
Speaker 1: knocked out, maybe two in my lifetime. When the guy
Speaker 1: getting bullies just started crying, that's when you just know
Speaker 1: he has nothing to lose. You don't want to find
Speaker 1: a guy with nothing the food. But but you know,
Speaker 1: like Charles Oakley wouldn't start crying before he would pummel somebody.
Speaker 1: He might just start smacking him. Well, Terry Cummings is
Speaker 1: a minister. That that's what I find amazing that he's
Speaker 1: supposed to be a god fearing, peaceful man. Chris, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would, I would. I would tell his congregation, you
Speaker 1: better behaved, you better donate money, put it in the
Speaker 1: collection plate there or Hey, great to catch up. As always,
Speaker 1: we appreciate you your stories is and Chris will be
Speaker 1: on the Bucks Lakers Call Thursday night, seven thirty eastern
Speaker 1: on TNT see Webb. Always great to catch up. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much, thanks for having Alli, Bro. We'll take
Speaker 1: a break. Last call for phone calls. He's a great guest.
Speaker 1: I enjoy talking to him. I got the kind of
Speaker 1: guy I'd love to go to dinner with and just
Speaker 1: let him talk. I don't know if he drinks, but
Speaker 1: hopefully he does, and then I get more stories out
Speaker 1: of him. But I go back to when it was
Speaker 1: Patrick Ewing who sat down with Mark Jackson and John
Speaker 1: Ry and I just let him talk. And all you
Speaker 1: want to do is listen. And a lot of the
Speaker 1: stuff is stuff that cannot be repeated in opinions or
Speaker 1: what happened in certain situations. But these guys, Chris has
Speaker 1: more stories than he knows, because anytime I bring something
Speaker 1: up and I it always feels like he'll go, oh, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wanted Calbert Cheney traded for Latrelle's Freewell, What up
Speaker 1: going up? Calvin? Yes, it's always a good sign when
Speaker 1: that gut says, can I tell you something? Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. Something good it's about to have. I know,
Speaker 1: my favorite moment in an interview is when somebody said,
Speaker 1: you know, I probably shouldn't say this, or you know
Speaker 1: that reminds me of a story that I haven't told before.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, please take a break. We'll close up
Speaker 1: shop after this. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick
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Speaker 1: Peacock app. Oh just you thought deflate Gate was over with,
Speaker 1: Not so fast. We'll have that conversation coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 1: If I here's the headline. Bob Kravitz worked for the
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Star and he's the one that broke deflate gate story.
Speaker 1: This is after Patriots roughed up the Colds forty five
Speaker 1: to seven on January nineteenth, two fifteen, and not long
Speaker 1: after that, deflate Gate came to light at around twelve
Speaker 1: fifty five am. And Bob Kravitz has written a column
Speaker 1: that says, was I wrong about deflate gate? Question mark?
Speaker 1: Six years later, it's still complicated. Seaton about his head
Speaker 1: about exploded when he saw this is right before the show.
Speaker 1: Please and I said this, and Seton goes, I can't
Speaker 1: read this during the show. I said, no, you don't
Speaker 1: want to read this during the show. But Bob Kravitz,
Speaker 1: six years later, maybe an epiphany that maybe he didn't
Speaker 1: get the story right with the fleet gate. Are you
Speaker 1: gonna be okay with this guest tomorrow, Bob Kravitz, So
Speaker 1: he's coming on? Yes, Oh god, what he could be like? Look, No,
Speaker 1: I still think they cheated. I still think I got
Speaker 1: everything right, just the one thing. May maybe Colonel of
Speaker 1: a dough Well. I also think what didn't help the
Speaker 1: situation was Chris Mortenson. I think he came out and
Speaker 1: said a source. A league source said to him that
Speaker 1: eleven of the twelve footballs were deflated, and it turns
Speaker 1: out that that wasn't the case. That mord had bad information.
Speaker 1: I do like that. Bob Kravitz in the article says
Speaker 1: that somebody with the NFL was acting inappropriately and leaking
Speaker 1: well baits. He's implying that somebody with the league was
Speaker 1: leaking bad information. That's tasty. Yeah, that's what I want
Speaker 1: to know. Like, I wonder if Brady could ever sue
Speaker 1: the commissioner the NFL, because if you have somebody in
Speaker 1: there who was spreading this information and knew it was wrong,
Speaker 1: be interesting if you got the commissioner up there on
Speaker 1: the witness stand, not on his witness stand at the
Speaker 1: NFL home office, but an actual witness stand. Yeah, McLevin,
Speaker 1: then you get the deflator under oath flat. You haven't
Speaker 1: heard anything from that dude. Yeah, he really was trying
Speaker 1: to guess lose weight. Chris Morton's had tweeted the next
Speaker 1: day eleven of the twelve Patriots footballs came in at
Speaker 1: two pounds per square inch, lighter than the rules allow.
Speaker 1: Bob Kravitz says, I had no reason to doubt more
Speaker 1: or a source it was the one time he got
Speaker 1: it wrong because he was provided with bad information. Somebody
Speaker 1: at the NFL was acting in bad faith. How about
Speaker 1: that one? This was one out of a thousand. So
Speaker 1: Bob Kravitz is saying there's somebody in the home office
Speaker 1: who was leaking some bad information here. That's oh boy, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, So what Bob Kravitz on yeah point, We
Speaker 1: can attest that Tom Brady has a strong legal team.
Speaker 1: Yes he does. Yes, we does. We got a cease
Speaker 1: and desist. It's never just a cease, it's never just desist.
Speaker 1: But we got a cease and desist from his law
Speaker 1: firm with our Tampa Bay t shirt. Um, why it
Speaker 1: sounds like cease and desists or the same thing, mcclevin, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it sure does. Cease means stop, and desist means really
Speaker 1: better stop. There might be some something here. I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: you're the guy who was going to be a lawyer.
Speaker 1: Oh I know, my days is a paralegal. Paralegal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't get into that cease and desist. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: desist part is about going forward. You agree not to
Speaker 1: re enact the bad behavior or started up again. The
Speaker 1: cease is the stopping. The desist is the agree to
Speaker 1: not restart? Well, and I just looked it up. I
Speaker 1: just looked up cease and the definition for that was
Speaker 1: bring or come to an end. And then I looked
Speaker 1: up to cist and the definition for that was cease cease.
Speaker 1: I thought you were saying there was a picture of us. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I looked up cease and then I got desist and
Speaker 1: then picture of the Dan Patrick Show came in. This
Speaker 1: day in sports history poem, it's an audio version trying
Speaker 1: to keep up with Fritzie seven years ago today, Seattle
Speaker 1: twenty three, San Francisco seventeen, the playoffs. You remember Michael
Speaker 1: Crabtree was a high end receiver for San Francisco. Here's
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman being interviewed after the game. Let's send you
Speaker 1: down to the field, so thank you so much, richer
Speaker 1: Let me ask you the final play, take me through
Speaker 1: it well on the best corner again? Will you try me?
Speaker 1: What a sorry receiver back, Crabtree, that's the result of
Speaker 1: all gad, don't you that we're talking about me? Who
Speaker 1: was talking about you? Crabtree? Don't you hold me your
Speaker 1: mouth about the best? Are you on the stip real quick,
Speaker 1: all right before and Joe back over to you. He
Speaker 1: was gone for the interview. Yes, Todd, who was talking
Speaker 1: about you? Crabtree. She asked about the play. He's like
Speaker 1: walking through the play. Yeah, play. He became a household
Speaker 1: name that day. He was, well, he did with that.
Speaker 1: And then Brady, uh, you know what's uh? What did
Speaker 1: he say something? Bro Bro? That one. That one went viral,
Speaker 1: as the kids like to say, as well, that's where
Speaker 1: I I watched this after the Patriots beat Seattle in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, after the Malcolm Butler interception. I watched
Speaker 1: as Brady is on the ground and Richard Sherman walks
Speaker 1: over and Brady sits there, and Richard Sherman, I believe,
Speaker 1: is holding out his hand to help him up, and
Speaker 1: Brady aid and wait and wait and and and Richard
Speaker 1: wasn't taunting, but it felt like Brady was going to
Speaker 1: take his time here, just for a moment here as
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman came over to help Brady up at the
Speaker 1: end of that game. And I'm probably the only person
Speaker 1: who's noticing this because I just thought, where's Sherman, Where
Speaker 1: there's Brady? Are they gonna, you know, say, hey, great
Speaker 1: game or whatever it is. And then I see Brady
Speaker 1: and Richard Sherman. Good stuff. All right, Uh go around
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