WEBVTT - 01/19/21 DPS Hour 3 Jeff Passan and Chris Webber 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.120 Sports Radio Final Hour. On this Tuesday, Dan and Stan 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.080 Patrick Show will check in with Chris Webber get his 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:15.159 thoughts on venuon improved Brooklyn nets. Last night picked up 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.880 the win against Milwaukee. Still waiting for very much anticipated 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:22.480 return of Kyrie Irving, expected to be Wednesday night against 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:26.200 the pesky Cleveland Cavaliers eight seven seven three d P 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.200 show Email addresstp at Dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.120 a DP show. I think we're under the impression because 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:36.159 Patrick Mahomes didn't suffer a concussion. Therefore you can exhale. 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.760 If it's nerve damage in his neck, this might be 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.120 something that stays with him for a while. This isn't 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.600 you just go through concussion protocol, then you're cleared. He 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.760 might be more vulnerable here. And we don't know the 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.519 extent of this, but I think they quickly realized he 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.400 didn't have a concussion, but he certainly looked like he 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:59.160 had suffered a concussion. He's still in concussion protocol by 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.880 the way, going through all the tests. But as it 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:06.360 stands right now Tuesday at eleven o'clock Eastern, we're expecting 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.039 Patrick mahomes to be playing in this game this weekend 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.400 against the Buffalo Bills. Did we check on the weather. 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.960 It feels like Lambo is getting snow I know, Bruce 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.200 Arians said, we're going to prepare for the cold weather. 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:20.840 I don't know how you prepare for the cold weather 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.040 in Tampa. Do you turn up the air conditioning? Yes, 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.120 it's point. I got a twenty eight degrees at kickoff 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:31.480 in Lambeau Green Bay and a forty percent actually only 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:35.240 a twenty fifty percent chance of particip precipitation. That's the 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:41.280 local brick broadcast because they have yet right now. Yeah, 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:46.360 what about Kansas City? MCLUBN. I think Kansas City is 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.480 thirty one and not snowing, But that's off memory. I 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.320 have to check. All right. Here's Bruce Arians, the Buccaneers 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.440 head coach, on prepping for cold weather at LAMBA. It's 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:57.680 just a matter of staying one on the sidelines because 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.160 when you're out there on the field. I don't know 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.480 if anybody every time I played in Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buffalo, 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.200 nobody was cold out on the field. It's more mental 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.840 than staying warm on the sideline. Got all that technology 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.800 now with heaters and everything else. So it's it's really nice. 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.560 It's different, but it's it's not that big difference. Well. Also, 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.399 you know, players will tell you that, you know, hey, 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.800 we play well in the cold weather. They don't like 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.119 playing in cold weather. But you have to convince yourself 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.040 that you play better, like that's our home field advantage. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.560 I go back to the coldest game in NFL history 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.480 that I went to, when the Chargers came to Cincinnati 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:37.519 to face the Bengals and the windshow factor was about 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:41.480 fifty fifty degrees below zero. And if you could have 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.480 said to the Chargers, guys, you're gonna lose in a 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.000 respectable manner, but you can turn around and get on 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.919 the bus, get on the plane and fly home. I'm 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:51.960 sure there are a few Chargers who would have taken up, 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.520 you know, the officials on that, because the Bengals ended 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.280 up winning that game, the coldest game in NFL history, 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.919 and the lineman came out with short sleeves on. When 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:05.120 I saw that, I go, man, the Bengals are bad bleeps. Man, 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.840 they're they got their short sleeves on. And I asked 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:09.960 Anthony Munio's about that? He goes, no, it was cold 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.639 you know, like we were stupid, but we wanted to 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.200 let the Chargers know a warm weather team. Hey, welcome 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:20.200 to Cincinnati. This feels pretty ballmy here, I saw this story. 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.919 I wanted to bring in Jeff Passing. The New York 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:27.200 Mets general manager Jared Porter acknowledges sending explicit images to 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.919 a female reporter when he worked for the Chicago Cubs. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.080 I believe this is back in the twenty sixteen he 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.840 was hired by the Mets to be their general manager. 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.720 He is no longer the Mets general manager because he 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.720 has been fired, and Jeff Passon from the Mothership who 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.440 covers baseball joining us on the program. When did you 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.320 get first word about this something that was done in 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:53.560 back in twenty sixteen with the Cubs. Me personally, Dan 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:59.680 was very recently. But my colleague Mina Kimes first was 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.520 given the text back in two seventeen December of twenty 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:08.200 seventeen and went and met with a woman and talked 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.520 with her about possibly doing a story on this. At 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.800 the time, she was not ready for that. She was 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.120 still working in the journalism industry and she was afraid 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:21.000 that the blowback from a story being published was going 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:25.120 to significantly harm her career. She's no longer in journalism, 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:29.400 and as she saw Jared Porter's ascent to general manager 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:33.560 of the Mets, you know, it hit her. There's a 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:37.159 person who did something to me, and his career is 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:41.000 on an upward trajectory. I'm the victim in this situation, 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:46.400 and I now don't have my dream job anymore. Why 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:54.279 is this fair? Why is this okay? Jeff? From all 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.800 I can gather, Dan, the Mets found out when we 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:59.800 told them that we were going to be publishing this 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:04.040 story yesterday, that they did not know about this beforehand, 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:08.160 that it caught them off guard, you know, inside of baseball. 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.159 Let's go back to twenty sixteen with the Cubs. There 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.520 was one other person in the Cubs organization at the 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.520 time who found out about it afterward, because the woman 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.400 had gone to her employer, and someone at her employer 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:27.559 had called up somebody with the Cubs who that person knew, 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:32.360 and that person with whom we spoke yesterday said that 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:36.480 he was trying to essentially be a go between to 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.320 bring the woman and Porter together to have some kind 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.960 of a resolution for this that never happened. She was 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:47.840 considering legal action at the time, she says that he 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:53.560 was pushing her not to pursue legal action. Did he 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:59.680 send this woman in total, it was one hundred fifty 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:04.200 year so the majority of those were at the beginning. 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.760 They had met at Yankee Stadium and she thought, Hey, 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:09.960 you know, we're going to talk baseball. He's going to 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.320 be a source. That's what reporters do, trying to cultivate sources. 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:19.240 But very quickly the messages from Porter went beyond the 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:23.400 normal source relationship to a point where he was asking 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.400 her out, trying to get her to come and visit 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.440 him in different places across the country. And after he 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:33.440 sent one particular picture, which he says wasn't him, but 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.880 was of a man laying on a bed with a 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:41.240 bulge in his pants, she stopped responding. After she stopped responding, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:45.640 there were more than sixty texts from Jared Porter that 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:52.440 culminated with a picture of a naked penis. And that 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.600 is where we are, and that is ultimately I think 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.640 what got him fired, not just the lewd image itself, 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.080 but the fact that it came after she had not 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:06.280 responded to sixty plus text from it. What's the reaction 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:10.520 from the new owner, Steve Cohen. I mean you saw 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.560 it this morning. Hey, he got fired before eight am Eastern, 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.080 and this was a story that was published about eleven 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.560 o'clock last night, so it didn't even take half a day. 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.800 And Steve Cohen, if you remember, in his initial press conference, 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:27.040 said we want this to be an organization of integrity, 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.800 and he referenced that again this morning in the tweet 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:32.960 in which he announced the firing publicly, he said, I 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.440 want to run this organization with integrity, and we could 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:40.400 not do that with him in charge. And this had 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:44.120 been a pretty good offseason with the trade getting Lindorf 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:49.240 from Cleveland. They helped their pitching staff here. And I 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.200 go back to last year with Carlos Beltron. Does Beltron 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:56.520 get another chance here? Jeff well A J. Hinch has 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.640 gotten another chan. I know that's why Alex Alex core 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:04.000 has got another chance. It stands to reason that Carlos 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.720 Beltron would get another chance considering the other two who 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.920 have Yeah, just trying to figure that out because that 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:15.480 was with the Mets as well. Are they a cursed organization? 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.080 Do we look at them sort of the way we 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:23.920 do the Knicks? Dan, I'm from Cleveland, So if anyone's 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:28.000 gonna believe in. If anyone's gonna believe in curses, it's me, 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.760 And I still do not believe in the idea of 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:35.120 a cursed organization. What I do believe in is the 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:40.840 idea of culture, and that culture can perpetuate itself through 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:46.320 a place and metastasize, and that getting rid of that 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:51.040 cancer inside of an organization can take a really long time, 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:55.000 but it's possible. Like, let's not look past the idea 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.679 that the New York Mets can one day become a 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:03.960 functional organization if things are done correctly and something like this. 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.360 You know, when you make a mistake, you can either 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:11.000 double down on it or you can acknowledge quickly that 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.520 it was a mistake. And I think the Mets did 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.240 so in this case, and that's a good first step 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.920 in writing the air of your ways. Good to visit 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:21.880 with you. You and Mina did a great job at 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.720 deep dive on this at ESPN dot com. Thank you, Jeff, 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:30.160 My pleasure to Jeff Pason, ESPN baseball insider. Yeah, I 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.840 wonder if beltrn's going to get a chance. By all accounts, 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.840 brilliant baseball guy and probably a borderline Hall of famer, 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.600 But what happened with the Astros when he was still 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:44.080 a player with a cheating scandal and once the Mets 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:45.839 found out about it, they had already hired him, and 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.199 then they fired him. Now you bring in a GM, 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.880 and I don't know who is doing background checks here, 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:54.880 but if you're going to bring in a GM, how 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.040 deep a dive is your background check on something like this? 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.840 But you're sending over one hundred and fifty text messages 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:10.839 and she didn't respond, which was amazing. And then the 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.040 story comes out last night eleven o'clock and he's fired 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.120 before eight am this morning. Yeah, you know, if you 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:19.040 think about it from the Mets ownership standpoint, that's always 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.240 the how a story stays alive is when the owners 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.680 back their guy or don't fire him. Here, we were 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:25.680 going to look into this and see what we can 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.760 glean from the investigation. Then the story lasts for weeks, 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:30.960 especially in New York City with the back page, you 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:32.840 can imagine what they would do. Yeah, I think that 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:34.920 the reason why it was swift because they had so 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.520 much information here, and if you look at the ESPN report, 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.320 they've done a great job in bringing all that information light. 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.920 But the fact that this was going on and then 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.160 you hire this guy and all of a sudden it 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.880 comes to light, and you know, and mena times credit 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.640 to her because you know, she reached out to this 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.959 reporter who's no longer reporter, and then probably reached out 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:00.400 again when this woman decided to go back to whatever 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.520 country she's from she is not from the United States, 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.439 and then probably said, do you still want to tell 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:11.080 this story? And she eventually came forward. But they have 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:14.840 done a good job in the offseason, you know, strengthen 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:19.160 their starting rotation. They get Lindor, who's an elite player, 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.800 top ten player. Right now, it's weird to talk baseball, 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.000 even though we would normally be getting ready to gear up. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.880 When you get to February, you start thinking about spring training. 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:35.080 And I probably went to spring training thirty plus years. 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.320 Maybe I go to Arizona. I went to Florida a 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:42.560 couple of times. But I always tell people, you know, 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.280 if you get that chance, go to Scottsdale, stay in 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:49.559 Scottsdale and you can go within an hour, you can 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.640 see you know, seven eight teams, and then all the 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.280 games that are played, and it's just it's a wonderful 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.760 atmosphere in Scottsdale's wonderful. A lot of hotels their restaurants 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:03.199 there when things get back to normal, but baseball has 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:08.800 sort of been there's no buzz, Like, can you think 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.600 of any other aside from this that the trade with 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.760 Lynn Door was pretty big and the fact that Cleveland 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:18.000 is pretty much gonna go bargain basement here, it feels 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.280 like with what they're doing, but you haven't heard too much. 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.280 Even with like the Yankees, you normally would hear something 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.840 in the off season. Yeah, mcleve. Yeah, they did. They 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.160 trade for a signed Corey Kluber and it was fairly 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.560 even a headline. Yeah. Yeah, and he's a two time 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:36.920 Cy Young Winner. But you know, I thought Lemayheu was 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.960 like a big signing for them, that they you know, 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.600 one of the great hitters in the game. Yeah. Point 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.959 the Cubs have been able to erase every remnant of 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.719 the twenty sixteen team just about. Yeah. I think it's 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.520 Rizzo and nobody, Yeah, including the person who was working 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.120 for them who got fired by the Mets. Yes, McLevin. 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.840 Do you think it's possibly COVID related, like in the 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:58.840 sense that, like, you know, the NBA came back and 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.200 nobody even noticed. They were just happy the bubble worked. 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.880 That people aren't even I think it's hard to get 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:05.400 excited about a season that you don't know what the 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.280 shape or form is going to be their fans, if 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:12.440 they're gonna be able to play continuously. Like, yeah, I'd 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.679 say COVID has put a damper on all of these sports. 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:19.600 When you think about college basketball, should we be trying 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:23.719 to play March Madness because it does live up to 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.600 the name this year. I mean, this is madness. There's 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:32.360 so much money involved here, so much money. But even 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.800 like Kansas against Baylor, like I didn't know it was 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.160 going to be played, Like I just assume that these 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.880 games there's a chance they'll be canceled. And you know, 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.320 Baylor ended up winning last night. But you start to 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.800 I'm not surprised when a college game is canceled, not 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.640 at all. And now NBA games are being canceled because 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.800 you don't even have enough players on the roster. We 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.760 went from Rudy Gobert testing positive and shutting down the 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.439 hire sport too. Yeah, we'll just put it off for 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:07.720 another day. Hey, you only have seven players, now you 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:11.520 need one more? Like it we come a long way 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.840 since last March. I don't know if we've come a 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.120 long way in a good way with everything that's involved 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.000 in this yeahmic club. A few prominent analysts have said 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.160 that athletes should get COVID vaccines before everybody. Well, Charles Barkley, 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.800 Barkley and I get that for the public service of 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.560 I mean, I know it's a weird public service, but 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.720 there's an argument to be made. Not that many people. Yeah, 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:36.160 but Charles said, because they pay so much in taxes. Oh, 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:40.840 I didn't know that. Yes, that's that's the caveat where 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.880 you go, Charles. No, you don't want to be you 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:45.920 don't want to be on this hill. What about there 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:47.720 are a lot of jobs depending on them. I mean, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.840 you could make I get it. It's just when you 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.040 start to pick and choose and you say, will you 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:57.880 pay more taxes? I the front line workers, those are 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.920 the people who need to get their f older people 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.480 need to get their first compromise. People need to get 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:10.600 there first. The NBA has some of the safe, safest 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:14.360 protocols they've had this like, they're they're so far ahead 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:18.040 of everybody else to begin with. And the NFL players 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:22.360 they're tested every day, they're tested all the time, they're 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:26.480 they're you know, they're they're quarantine. There's you know, safety 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.480 bubbles that they have. They're doing their best. We don't 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:33.920 have that, so they're they're already getting preferential treatment that 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.080 I can't go. You pay a lot of taxes. Now, 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:41.000 if you say Lebron's going to get vast vaccinated and 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:46.680 that way we show communities you should get vaccinated. Lebron 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.120 is doing it, Steph Curry is doing it, the Greek 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:53.240 freak is doing it. Okay, I understand that, but I 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.680 don't think I don't follow Charles logic to say, you 0:15:56.680 --> 0:16:00.320 guys pay so much in taxes, therefore you guys should 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.680 be getting vaccinated before somebody else. I think that's careless 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:09.840 to say that. Yeah, Paul, it is an interesting topic because, 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:11.960 like you said, the NBA players, you want to make 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:13.840 a statement and get it out to the community, but 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:18.200 they have more opportunities to be safe than the average worker, 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.200 the average family person. Yes, and that's all I'm saying. 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.960 I just the right people need to get vaccinated first, 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.040 and those are the people who actually put their lives 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:33.560 on the line, no question, those people first, and the 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.880 people who are compromise those people who are older in 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.840 nursing homes, those people as well, but the people who 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:44.720 are taking care of the people need to be first 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:49.120 in line. We'll take a break. See Webb will join us. 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.400 Coming up. Get his thoughts, his impressions, his early impression, 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:56.280 first impression of well, the second impression because they play 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.960 two games with the Brooklyn Nets, And how the heck 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.480 did the Lakers blow a fourteen point fourth quarter lead 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.680 to the Golden State Wars eighteen after the hour back, 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:11.200 after this and the Dan Patrick show. You know, you 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.560 come in and you've got a lot of energy, and 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.520 probably the biggest reason is quality sleep. Whence the last 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.320 time you got a great night's sleep, Because you're going 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.400 to get energy, You're going to be able to recover. 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.960 It's a natural immunity booster. 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Oh, 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:12.000 look at you, mister Milwaukee Buck with your Milwaukee Bucks 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.160 T shirt on? Did you pay for that? No? Hey, 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:18.040 I got so many. I can wear all the teams 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.440 I was. I guess I was. I used to say 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:22.800 I wasn't superstitious, but I would never wear other teams. 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.520 Now I take all the swag they give me. I 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:28.720 work out in it. So were the Pistons your favorite 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:32.880 team growing up? Yeah, by far, it was the Pistons, 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.399 and then it was the Pistons and the Lakers magic 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:41.119 being from Michigan. And then I hated Chicago and the 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:45.920 Celtics so much that I really loved secretly. So it 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:49.280 was the tangle web back there. Well why did you 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:53.479 hate Boston? Well, remember, you know, back then you had 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:56.359 to go through certain teams, So back then, the Pistons 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.840 had to go through Boston. So you know, I grew 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:05.040 up Peyton Dick stocked and because his voice came on, 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:07.760 it reminded me of the Celtics games. You know, you 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:09.960 think the commentators have something to do with the game, 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.280 and so Risdad turning it over. That's a crazy story. 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:15.679 Well we got whoopings that night because we went crazy 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:18.159 running through the house and Isaiah turned it over and 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.720 then we beat the Celtics, got through them. You know, 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.600 that's when you see Kevin McHale giving Isaiah the pound, 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:25.239 tell them you better go win it, you better go 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:28.280 win it. Isaiah hurts itself and I guess forty four 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:31.399 In the finals, we lose to the Lakers. Good job magic, 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:33.879 and then we beat them the next two. So I 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:35.679 hated the Celtics because we had to go through them, 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:38.760 and of course just the Bulls just because okay, but 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:41.280 what was that like when you're watching Isaiah throw the 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:43.160 ball in, Just get the ball in and you're gonna 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:46.400 beat the Celtics and Larry Bird, slowest guy on the floor, 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:48.560 comes out of nowhere and steals the ball, hits DJ 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:52.120 for the lab. It was crazy when I went. When 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:54.680 I played the Celtics the first time, I remember having 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:58.159 like spreeing. Those guys picked me up and seriously, like, 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:02.919 I know, Kyrie takes the stage and does that around, 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:05.760 but I really thought it had to be like a 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.280 leper count on top of those rims. I really thought 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:10.639 back then it was something with the parquet floor, that 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.280 it was magic. And so I just felt like, wow, 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:15.359 come on out of out of all you know, the 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:17.720 times that this could happen. So that was one of 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.119 the worst moments for me as a basketball fan. Were 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:26.600 you a Lions fan two growing up? Yeah? Wow. I 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:30.000 remember going to a friend's wedding and uh, all these 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:33.520 uh Lions, Uh you know we were there, and so yeah, 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:36.320 it was I was. I was a big Lions fan still, 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:39.680 you know, Billy SAMs and you know other players that 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:42.320 we've had during that time. Even though we're most famously 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:46.080 known for being the only team where two Hall of 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:56.080 famers genera generational talents retired early. Rather than Calvin Johnson 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:58.680 and Barry Sanders, they decided, you know what, I'd rather 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:01.440 not play instead of playing with the Lions, I'd rather 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:04.640 not play at all. But you know what, I'm I'll 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:06.399 be quick, but I'm a Cleveland I'm so I'm a 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:09.119 Lions fan still to this day. But in ninety nine. 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:11.520 I think it was the year Cleveland got their team back. Yeah, 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:13.639 I was just mad at the Lions. I don't know 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:16.720 if we're gone on sixteen then or whatever, but I'm 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:19.080 just the frustrated fan. I think they take our love 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:22.880 for granted. But anyway, I became a Cleveland Browns fan 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:24.840 that day as my second team because I couldn't just 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:28.159 jump on the bandwagon. So it's fun watching them do it. 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:30.439 You know what they did this year? He see Webb 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:32.200 and he was on the call with the Bucks and 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:35.600 Nets last night. What are the Nets doing so far? 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:40.200 With Alt Kyrie, with with James and Katie? That surprised you? 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:46.879 It doesn't nothing surprise to me with this team, ya. 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:50.280 You know, I think fifty things can be true at 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:54.119 one time. You know, hard And left unceremoniously. He got 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:57.040 a game weight, he did all those things. But he's 0:22:57.080 --> 0:23:00.240