WEBVTT - Hour 2 - Steve Phillips (05-28-20) 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.320 Sports Radio. It's our two on this Thursday, Dan and 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:10.280 the Dana d. Stan Patrick Show. I'm wondering that when 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:12.319 the National Hockey League gets back on the ice, they 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:14.680 have the Stanley Cup Final and then you have the 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.960 commissioner taking out the Stanley Cup trophy? Do you pump 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:21.200 in booze just to make him feel at home there? 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.400 All right, welcome to the program. Boys are here, ready 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:28.080 to go. We'll talk to Steve Phillips, former Mets general manager. 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.600 Now he works for the MLB Network on Serious X 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:34.400 and get his thoughts on the players and the owners 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.000 and this is the Hatfields and the McCoys and they've 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.440 made it public and it doesn't feel like there's a resolution. Now, 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.600 what happens a lot of times when you have a lockout, 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.720 you know, you have a strike. It doesn't take much 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.000 to get everybody back together. It's usual one or two items. 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.159 Now it feels like there's a lot more. But it 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.040 feels like there's one or two items. This is just 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.040 the monetary aspect of this. You still have to get 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.040 all the safeguards in play said where you're playing and 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.600 the testing and is their fans, and who gets to 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:05.840 go to the game? What about the media? How many 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.399 members of the media get to go? You know, what 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.560 is the process just to get into the game, to 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:12.840 cover the game, to play in the game, all of 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.479 these items that are there. But money is the issue 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.800 here and it has been the issue, and the players, 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.320 it feels like, are taking a stand saying no more 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.920 pay cuts here. But we'll talk to Steve Phillips. He's 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:29.720 got he's a calming voice on this. He's you know, 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.440 seen both sides. He's a former player and of course 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.360 worked in the front office with the Mets, so he'll 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.880 join us. Coming up. I gotta ask Steve, did Steve? 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:43.160 Was Steve there offering Bobby Benia his contract that the 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:48.160 Mets are still paying for Could you check that, mclovin. 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.000 I don't want to put this on Steve, but they 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:54.160 did sign Bobby Beniah to that what twenty five year 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.320 deal where I think he's still getting paid by the 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.559 way he was playing for other teams and still getting 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.920 paid the Mets. But I think it is going to 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.720 go on for a few more years. Yeah, Paul. That 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.560 contract started in two thousand and eleven and ends in 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.800 two thousand and thirty five. The total payout is thirty million. 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.400 But I think a lot of those contracts are the 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.560 gym does a good job in deferring money allowing you 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.760 to sign another player for that upcoming season. So from 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:22.640 a baseball standpoint, that may have not have been a 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:26.600 bad move that I think. I mean, always feels like 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.920 it's it's it was a bad move. I don't know, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:31.880 but I don't want to put that on Steve that 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.160 he's the one who he did pull off the trade 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.320 for Piazza, so I gotta be fair to him on 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.200 that too. Yeah, Paul, every time you look up on 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.880 the internet Bobby Bania and contract, there's always lots of 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:42.840 stories of him. And they used this picture of Bobby 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.880 Bania where he's smiling like he just won the lottery, 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:50.560 Like it's the biggest smile it did have in the lottery. Yeah, yeah, 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.280 I don't know if we want to bring up Bania 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:54.680 and the next day it seems like Steve was involved 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:59.399 ed move on, Oh all right, scrap that then there's 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.959 no reason to bring that up, no reason to bring 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.799 up any history there. But he'll join us, Jerry West 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.079 will join us coming up in an hour from now 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.280 eighty two years of age. Love having Jerry on, so 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.960 we'll have the Hall of Famer. Mister Klutch, I had 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:15.720 a stat here, and I'll bring it up this hour 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.280 because there's no way I'm going to bring it up 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:21.119 next hour when Jerry joins us. Jerry west is one 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.399 of eight players to win the NCAA Final Four Most 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:28.160 Outstanding Player and win the MVP in the NBA Finals. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.079 But Jerry West is the only one to do both 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.960 in losing efforts. Stat of good day, stat of the day, 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.920 that best stat of the day, stat of good day. 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:46.920 Here comes that one stat of the day. Why am 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.480 I going negative here? I got Steve phillips On and 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.960 I appreciate that. No need to bring up Bobby Bennie 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.840 or move on Jerry west On. But how good do 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.080 you have to be that you're the most Valuable Player 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.840 in the NBA Finals and you lose, and you were 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.080 in the NCAA Final Four, you're the most Outstanding player 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.080 and you lose as well. So Jerry will join us 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.920 coming up next. Our phone calls are welcome. We settle 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.840 on a poll question or something different. This slur mclovin. Okay, 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.240 we have a couple of different options we did. We 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.599 did the first hour to NBA players or would you 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:22.080 watch your family there? People said no for whatever reason. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:26.440 All right, PAULI threw out this question. With the Lance 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:31.200 Armstrong documentary out there and Barry Bonds, we talked about 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:35.320 last hour, who will history treat the harshest over time? 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:40.880 Barry Bonds, Lance Armstrong, Houston Astros. I'm not suree all 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.520 the astros aren't in there. Yeah, okay, now well it's like, hey, 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.440 they cheated, all right, we move on. Lance Armstrong is 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.559 still Lance Armstrong. I have no idea why he agreed 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:52.920 to do this documentary be a part of it, because 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.920 he has no self awareness. It is amazing to watch him. 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.320 But then I wonder if he ever had self awareness 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:07.320 because he's not helping his cause his case, if he's 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.840 trying to ingratiate himself, he's not doing a good job 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.760 at all. And Bonds was like this. We understood that 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.039 this is who Bonds was. Bonds wasn't trying to be 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:19.360 your friend. He didn't care Lance. It feels like I 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:23.960 can't understand why you don't admire him, or you don't 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.240 want him to be your friend or whatever. Approach you 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.800 may have or thoughts about that doesn't have self awareness 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:36.479 during this documentary doesn't come off well. I think Bonds 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:43.280 probably will be treated harshest because it was baseball. I mean, 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.760 we sort of care. The reason why Lance Armstrong hurts 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:48.919 a little bit more to people is we feel we 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:53.000 reduped by live Strong. We feel we reduped by his story. 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:55.719 You know, him winning the Tour de France. We didn't 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:57.920 care about the Tour de France, but then Lance won, 0:05:58.000 --> 0:05:59.960 and all of a sudden, we when's the last time 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.839 time you locked in and went can't wait to watch 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:06.520 the Americans in the Tour de France. Chances are it 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.040 was probably when Lance was racing. Because I don't think 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.200 you'd care if we have a chance to win, we care. 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:17.599 I mentioned the America's Cup yachting. We don't what do 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:21.159 we know or care about yachting, But we lost the 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:26.040 America's Cup then we wanted it back. It meant war, Yeah, probably. 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.719 But don't you think that the Astros will be go 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:33.360 down in history as the one proven, proven cheating team 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.000 to win a title in American sports history. I don't 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.240 know of another, that's if there is one. I don't 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:39.920 know of it. We don't know of it, but they're 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.080 gonna go down as a team. There's no question, There's 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.920 very little question. I think there's no question they cheated 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.120 to win a World Series. We don't know how many 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.039 times they cheated. We know they cheated, okay, but we 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:54.479 don't know how many games they cheated. But the problem 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.640 with them is they won. I'm sure there's other teams 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.560 that cheated and got in trouble and things like that. 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.120 But the season they are accused cheating, they won the 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.160 World Series. So wouldn't they go through the list. It's like, 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:07.080 remember those guys, Well, what about teams that use steroids? 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.760 Like football teams? The Nebraska Cornhuskers won national titles and 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.800 you know there was evidence that their players were using 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:19.120 steroids their offensive line. Did they cheat? Did the Pittsburgh 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:23.160 Steelers with those players on their offensive line? Did they cheat? 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.360 Or was it everybody else's cheating? So it's not cheating 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:30.640 like Lances, I guess his philosophy is everybody else was cheating. 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:34.200 I was just better at them at cheating. He's not 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.000 denying that he cheated. I think what he's saying is, 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:42.000 what's the big deal everybody was cheating, so what Yes, mcclubn. 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.280 I mean I think the Red Sox won an eighteen. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.080 I can't remember what year they got officially busted for, 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.280 but they were doing the same thing as the Astros, right, yeah, 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.080 but we don't know there was I mean, what were 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.720 the penalties. The Red Sox fired their manager, but their 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.320 baseball didn't come down hard on the Red Sox for cheating. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.560 I think they did something to them, right, did they exactly? 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.600 We don't even know what they did, right, Yeah. So 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:07.000 now did the Astros cheat? Absolutely? I just I don't 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.760 know if we're going to vilify the Astros. You know, 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.360 in twenty five years from now. My point was had 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.000 a lot of teams to probably do what the Astros 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.320 were doing. That'll help them in the long term. That 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:21.080 is true. I think doctoring baseballs. That's why when I 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:24.080 think there was that moment between Jim Leland and Tony 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.040 LaRussa in the World Series and it's like, you're gonna call, uh, 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.840 you know his picture on that Like Nope, because you 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:34.200 knew that your picture was doing the same thing. Nope, 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.920 I'm good, yep, that nothing to see year and just 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.079 keep going. Let me see a couple of things. I 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.840 saw where Baker Mayfield Junior the third had a not 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.480 a press conference but a teleconference, and I guess that 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:48.400 was just meeting with members of the media and the 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.920 Browns writers since he can't be there in person. And 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.760 Baker Mayfield had this to say about his new philosophy 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.160 moving into this season. I have a different approach to 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.000 this year. Everybody that has been interviewed in our team 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:01.880 is kind of hit the nail on the head over 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.720 and over about you know, it's just time to work. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:06.680 It's time to do our thing instead of talking about it. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.480 So this is the first media thing I've done just 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.839 because there's no need to be talking about it. It's 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:13.520 just time to go do it. And right now it's 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.440 you know, kind of moving in silence, which is fun 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.920 for me. That's how I used to do it before 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.640 getting on a bigger stage. So I'm happy to get 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:22.679 back to those roots. Like I said earlier, get back 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:24.640 to the fundamentals to where I can accomplish the goals 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:30.640 when the season comes around. Yeah, he finally listened to me. 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.880 No commercials, no nothing, don't challenge anybody in the media, 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:40.000 just shut up and play football. And you want to 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.240 you want to put people, you want to put them 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.760 in there, their corner there. You can do that by 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.439 playing great football. You can shut everybody else up by 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.080 just playing great football. You don't have to talk a 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.079 good game. You must play a good game. This is 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:56.240 the most important year of Baker's career because this is 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.120 going to decide if the Cleveland Browns are going to go, hey, 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:01.520 this is a guy we're going to sign to a 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:05.440 second contract. Here. You got offensive line help, you got 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.119 a tight end, new tight end, you got your wide receivers, 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:12.640 you got two running backs here, no excuses here, no 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.560 more excuses. He should have a If he doesn't haven't 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.440 thirty touchdown passes, he had a bad year this year. 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.240 They are a playoff team and he should have thirty 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:26.480 touchdown passes. And if they take him back to what 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.760 he did his first year or when he how he 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.240 played in college, that will be very important for Baker Mayfield, 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:39.400 very important. But be quiet. You know you didn't earn anything. 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.319 Now you can prove it and then you could get 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.320 that second contract. But the more he talked, the worse 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.679 had god. The more he challenged people, the worst had gone. 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:55.240 Just let your play. Tell everybody what it needs to because, 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.160 believe me, it will. Yeah, Paul, I completely disagree with this. 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:03.360 Baker Mayfield got to where he is, a Heisman Oklahoma football, 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.800 eleven wins, first round pick, his Rookie of the Year, 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.200 all by being brash and in your face. I had 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:11.840 the feeling of a year from now, we're gonna hear 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.720 Baker Mayfield take you know what. I gotta get back 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:15.720 to being me. I gotta get back to challenging people 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.400 are getting people's faces. Last year, I try to go 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.719 into a shell and let the media control me. That's 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:24.360 what we're gonna hear a year from now. Okay, well, 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.160 it didn't go well last year when he was Baker Mayfield, 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.360 and it certainly helps when you're at Oklahoma and you're 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:36.160 playing those defenses. Yeah yeah, all of a sudden, you 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:40.199 look a whole lot better. There. NFL humbles you, man, 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:45.800 they humble you. That's what happened. Good story, underdog story, 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:47.920 and all of a sudden, you go, oh, look at 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:51.560 Baker Mayfield. He's been great the second year. Hey we 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.160 got Odell Beckham, and hey we're gonna go to the 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.960 super Bowl. And then all of a sudden, you go, Nope, 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:02.280 you're not even leaving Cleveland, dude, You're not going anywhere. Yeah. Boy, 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.600 This is kind of how Cam Newton's career started out. 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:06.840 His first year is in the Pro Bowl, twenty one touchdown, 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.640 seventeen picks. The next year he cooled off. His percentage 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.600 was down, his touchdowns were down, his productivity was down. 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.120 And then following year he's twelve and four. His third 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.400 year in the league, Cam Newton was twelve and four. Yeah, 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:23.240 and look, I like Baker, I like that personality, but 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.120 there's a time and a place for it, and it 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.480 felt like he would be playing bad and those progressive 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:33.560 commercials would come on and you go, no, no, that's 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:37.920 not good. Now, those are funny. If you're twelve and four, 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.240 you know when Peyton did all his commercials and Peyton 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:45.680 was winning, that's the difference. If Peyton's going five and eleven, 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:50.160 you're going, okay, yeah, that's really funny. Yeah, it's okay, Yeah, 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.679 all right, Peyton with drawl, Southern drawl, Nation one or 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:59.880 got Brad Paigeley here, Babe Bran not as funny. Clive 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.600 certainly was clever when he was winning. Man at Peyton. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:09.760 He's funny because he's winning. Baker, Nope, I also saw 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:15.160 this foregone conclusion to a tongue of violoa will start 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:22.120 in week one question mark. The Dolphins have indicated that 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.280 to a tongua violo. So if you're going to do clickbait, 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.320 you do not put a question mark there. Question mark 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:32.520 means it's not a story foregone conclusion to a tongue 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.360 will start week one, it's not a foregone conclusion. If 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:42.400 I got a question mark there foregone conclusion to a 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:48.760 tongue of violoh will start week one question mark? Okay. 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.120 The Dolphins have indicated that tongue of violoha might start 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.200 the season on the bench until he's ready to start 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.600 in the twenty twenty season. But Bleacher reports Mike Freeman, 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:01.320 find NFL writer says that tongue of violoa starting week 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.800 one is a foregone conclude. Wait, if your writer is 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.560 saying it's a foregone conclusion, then don't put a question 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.720 mark by it. Is he saying or is he reporting? 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.680 Because those are two different things. Right Seton could say 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.800 that two is going to start, Well, let me see 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.320 if he's got sources here. Well, my sources right now 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.000 are telling me he's either going to start week one 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:26.360 or be on the bench a bank up. Let me 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:31.560 see what this says. Uh, my dolphins a week one 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:35.640 is a foregone conclusion. Let me see if there's anything 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:40.800 else in here. Oh, let's go with it. Yeah, they probably, 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.360 Let's just publish it. I clicked on the story. I 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.360 think Todd added the question mark because I don't see 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.680 the question mark in the story. Todd, did you ask 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.320 the question? Did you put the question mark there? Did 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.840 you edit this? You got to turn on your mic. 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.640 That's how it works. I put a question mark in 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:01.240 the headline, but in my headline for the subject of 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.480 the Why are you doing that? Who the hell are 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.640 you to put a question mark in the headline because 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.240 that was my that was my website. But this is 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.760 a surprising piece of news. Patrick, Who's the number one 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.600 where he's supposed to be ahead of two and all 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.320 of a sudden, But you're not the editorial staff here 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.640 for Bleacher Report. I'm not I took I took a 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.800 little liberty there, I guess I apologize to Mike Freemant. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.200 I didn't know that Todd was all of a sudden 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.280 going to be editing this. That was my question as too. Really, 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:35.800 this is interesting to it could be starting. Okay, I 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.640 need to wait a minute, hold on a second. Is 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.600 because there's two question marks. Right, there's the subject of 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.640 Todd's email that says to us starting week one question 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:48.560 mark and then the next part is foregone conclusion to 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.560 a we'll start week one question mark? Todd? Did you 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.000 put both of those question marks in anything in the 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.040 actual copy? I did not put a question mark. But 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.320 my only question mark was in the year subject I 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.640 clicked on the story. There's no question mark. Okay, well, 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.520 I'm glad that you brought that to our attention. Do 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:05.800 you want to apologize on behalf of this? I have 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:10.120 to show the journalistic faux pause, but it says foregone conclusion. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.240 It says foregone conclusion, Todd. That's what he's that's what's 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:17.200 being reported. I know, but you don't. If you want 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:21.440 to put after week will start week one period, then 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:25.280 you put boy, I have a question mark about this, 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.720 but the Dolphins have the Dolphins announced that he's the 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:34.040 starting quarterback. Don't try it, Todd. Don't try it because 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.800 some some sources are saying, but it's a foregone conclusion 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.680 until the Dolphins come out and say our starting quarterback 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.680 Week one is two. Then that's a question mark to me. 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:45.960 When does the reporter get to tell the team who's 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.880 too for him? He's not putting a question mark after 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.520 this report. Yeah, the line report. It's still a report. 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.600 It's not back. It's a report. I know, but you 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.480 I understand what you're saying, and I as it's a 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:06.080 foregone conclusion. That's his report, his opinions, a foregone conclusion. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:07.480 That's great. I think the reason why I put the 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:11.240 question mark in and not to confuse you, and I apologize, 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.679 it's because the Dolphins have not said that he's the story. No, 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.680 that's not the way this works. That's not the way 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.720 this works. So I caused a journalistic piece of confusion there, 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.600 Yes she did, So I will apologize for that. Well, 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:24.560 it doesn't sound like you want to. I'll be more 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.320 kept with my punctuation in my air. No, you can say, boy, 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.879 I got questions about this, but you've added a question 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.200 mark in the title that he proba. You have put 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.800 really question mark there. That would have been good, that 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:40.240 would leave it for interpretation after that. So, Mike Freeman, 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:43.679 we apologize, cleared that up, just move on. Nothing to 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:45.600 see here, So it looks like two is definitely the 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.240 week one quarterback, regardless of what the Dolphins front officers. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.320 Here we go. There's the Toddler. There he is passive. 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.359 Here he is Ladies, that's great that Mike Freeman is 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.240 a sistant GM of the Dolphins. That's all. Every story 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.560 you see where somebody makes a declaration, do you put 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:02.919 a question mark for now on my subject? We are 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.440 gonna be no. Do you do this at all of them? 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.880 Because this is the first time somebody, Oh, you have, 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.159 but but but it has of course this kind of 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.720 rucus in here. You just can't say, you know what, 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.240 my bad. I should probably just say check out this 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.919 story or just ny after the hour, we'll talk to 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.720 Steve Phillips, the former Mets general manager, will join us 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:25.879 or will we question mark or wait a second? Just 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:27.280 like I'm getting an up getting a note on the 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.960 wise here, Mike Freeman, new vice president of a player Plason. 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.639 I like, somehow, all of a sudden, because Todd screwed up, 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.840 he's attacking Mike Freeman, like somehow it's his fault that 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:41.000 on that particulars Mike Freeman did his job, he did 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:45.360 something he got some information there and in what dot? 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.680 What response was gotten from the Dolphins for the foregone conclusion. 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:50.399 You would think he or somebody would have went to 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.720 do and say he foregone conclusion. What response has been 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:55.399 given by the foregone conclusion from him? I want to 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:57.399 know what the Dolphins response to the report. That's a 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.359 foregone todd This is where you always tried it. Hawk 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.919 yourself out as something you do. I'm the only one 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:10.040 of a stafflet does that. And twenty after the hour, 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:14.280 this is the Dan Patrick Show, question mark two. I 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:16.120 can't wait to see him start week ones. Shut up, 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:19.480 it's fantastic. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:22.440 Be sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.240 to noon Eastern or six to nine Pacific on Fox 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.119 Sports Radio. Find your local station for The Dan Patrick 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.080 Show at Fox Sports Radio dot com, or stream us 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.600 live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching f 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.520 s R. Coming up a little bit, we'll talk about 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:39.919 tailgating at college football games. I brought this up a 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:43.199 couple of weeks ago article in New York Magazine by 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:46.480 Will Leach, who lives in Athens, Georgia, and he proposed 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:48.440 the question that we ask a couple of weeks ago, 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:51.199 what if no fans are allowed in the stands, but 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:55.360 you still have people show up to tailgate at the stadium. 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:57.520 We'll talk about that coming up. One of the right 0:19:57.640 --> 0:19:59.919 baseball minds that I worked with that the Mothership. He's 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.600 Steve Phillips, host of Leadoff Spot on MLB Network and 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:07.400 Sirius XM, former Mets GM. He joins us on the program. 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.320 Steve full disclosure. I heard you on Mad Dog Radio 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.119 this morning coming in and I said, you know what, 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:17.360 Steve is making some nice, you know, concrete, bite sized 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.320 answers here, given opinions on both sides of this, and 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:22.440 I thought, you know what, let me have him come 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.240 on and summarize exactly what is going on with Major 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.520 League Baseball right now. So thanks for joining us on 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.240 short notice, and it's great to see you here. To 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:32.119 see you too, and be glad to be here. And 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:37.320 obviously these negotiations going on, Baseball made their proposal and 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:40.960 it was effectively a non starter for the union, the 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:43.600 idea of the sliding scale, and I think the way 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:45.920 to look at it is owners have proclaimed that they're 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:49.159 going to lose forty percent of the revenues without fans 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:52.960 in the stands. That includes ticket sales, concessions, parking, all 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:55.960 of that that it's forty percent. The proposal they made 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:58.480 to the players on taking a pay cut off of 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:01.840 the pro rated salary is a sliding scale that impacts 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:05.240 guys differently depending upon how much winny they make, but effectively, 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:08.199 on average, they're asking the players to take a thirty 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:12.040 three percent pay cut now, so effectively the forty percent loss, 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:14.760 they're actually putting thirty three percent of that on the 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:18.320 players and only holding seven percent of that themselves. From 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:21.199 the owner's perspective, so it's a non starter for the players. 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:23.000 They don't like the sliding scale and the way it's 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:25.720 sort of spread out, and so the union now looking 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:28.359 to put together a counter proposal that we're hearing is 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:31.199