Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 1: Dan ed Stan Patrick Stowe. Still waiting word on any
Speaker 1: update on Clay Thompson. From what I'm told Steve Kerr
Speaker 1: and I do believe the general manager of the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors, Bob Meyers, they're flying or phone have flown
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles to visit Clay Thompson in the hospital.
Speaker 1: We don't know if it's an achilles, but it certainly
Speaker 1: felt like that last night, and it's ninety minutes before
Speaker 1: you're going to make your pick, the second pick overall.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it was going to change
Speaker 1: what they were going to do, but we had Mark
Speaker 1: Stein on, who covers the NBA for the New York
Speaker 1: Times last hour, and he said that they gave pause
Speaker 1: for just a moment there, but then they stayed with
Speaker 1: the player that they wanted, and they had James Wiseman
Speaker 1: as the best player on the board. Number one overall.
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards goes number one. That's eleven consecutive straight number
Speaker 1: one overall picks who were one and done college basketball players.
Speaker 1: The last top pick to play more than one college
Speaker 1: basketball season. Anybody want to guess two thousand and nine mclovin.
Speaker 1: That is a real dry spell. I have not the
Speaker 1: slightest thing. He's still in the game, not a major
Speaker 1: factor in the game anymore health issues. Um, his legacy
Speaker 1: is attached to a car. But oh, Blake Griffin, Yes,
Speaker 1: Blake Griffin. Oh and he played two years, right, well,
Speaker 1: I know what he played two He could have come
Speaker 1: out after one? Is dunk in the last four year
Speaker 1: guy to go number one overall? Yeah? Probably, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna guess so age seven seven three D show email
Speaker 1: address DP at dan Patrick dot com. I don't know
Speaker 1: how we got we stumbled onto this topic, but we
Speaker 1: haven't left the topic when we're you know, in commercial
Speaker 1: breaks here Cardinals, Seahawks and the Kyler Murray topic of
Speaker 1: if you're Kyler Murray, would you try to play baseball? Now?
Speaker 1: He was asked about this yesterday and he was on
Speaker 1: CBS Sports with t Key and Turney and he just
Speaker 1: ask if he missed baseball, and you know, Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: had this to say, I missed baseball for sure, you know,
Speaker 1: just being in the box, being out there with the
Speaker 1: guys competing. You know, I know, I'm more supposed to
Speaker 1: be at I don't think you know, if if I
Speaker 1: would have chose baseball, I think I'd have been missing
Speaker 1: the hell out of football. But for me, I wish
Speaker 1: I could do both. Um, you know I could never. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely feel like I could. You know, I'd never
Speaker 1: say never. But as of right now, man, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: having fun to you know, do it. I love that's
Speaker 1: the right decision that, yeah, it could happen. But you know,
Speaker 1: he's got other things to worry about right now. This
Speaker 1: is his second year in the NFL, and he's having
Speaker 1: a wonderful season, and you know, you don't want to
Speaker 1: have somebody go. You know, I still love baseball. I
Speaker 1: still miss it, still want to play. Remember, Anthony Edwards,
Speaker 1: the number one pick overall, in an interview with the ESPN,
Speaker 1: said man, I'd love to be drafted by the NFL.
Speaker 1: I mean that's I really love football. And then people
Speaker 1: weren't sure, Oh does he really love basketball? Well in
Speaker 1: Minnesota still took him number one overall. But Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: can he play? I don't think he can play regular
Speaker 1: season baseball, But you go to spring training just like
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson did, and maybe you'd spend a week there,
Speaker 1: maybe you get ten fifteen at bats there, have a
Speaker 1: little bit of fun out there. But it always helps
Speaker 1: when you've accomplished something. When you want to try to
Speaker 1: accomplish something else, you can't go, hey, man, I've had
Speaker 1: a bad year. I'd like to go play some baseball.
Speaker 1: Russ won a Super Bowl and then said, you know,
Speaker 1: I'd like to go to the Rangers training camp and
Speaker 1: maybe play a little second con base. Nobody had a
Speaker 1: problem with that. Yeah, mclub Kyler Murray has been running
Speaker 1: the same offense he was in seventh grade. He does
Speaker 1: a knee training camp. He's fine, and he's just gonna
Speaker 1: He's just a rare. No one's ever been drafted that
Speaker 1: high in two supports. He's a freak in every way.
Speaker 1: Like it's even Bo wasn't like a top ten pick
Speaker 1: in baseball. Yeah, but people don't. It's the perception of
Speaker 1: are you giving everything to play the position a quarterback?
Speaker 1: It you know, how much time are you devote? Oh,
Speaker 1: you gotta make up your mind do you want to
Speaker 1: be an NFL quarterback? I'm just saying this is how
Speaker 1: the media will approach this and then he has to
Speaker 1: answer these questions. So if he said to me, which
Speaker 1: he probably wouldn't since we didn't have much to talk
Speaker 1: about last time we across pants, but I would say, understand,
Speaker 1: the media is going to be questioning your commitment to
Speaker 1: the NFL, and if you have a good response to
Speaker 1: that or you don't care about that, then fine. But
Speaker 1: if you start to slip up, you have a slow
Speaker 1: start next season, then they're going to be saying, what
Speaker 1: were you doing in the off season? Why you playing
Speaker 1: baseball in the off season. Not that it would impact
Speaker 1: his play, in my opinion, I just think when you've
Speaker 1: accomplished something and then you say I want to do
Speaker 1: something else, then I think you're gonna face far less criticism. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think what mclovin is saying is he could do it.
Speaker 1: He has the ability. Does obviously play ball. I mean,
Speaker 1: he would get a monster contract if he dropped football.
Speaker 1: But from a actual standpoint, he's the quarterback. He's not
Speaker 1: a backup linebacker. And can you imagine if he went
Speaker 1: and played for the Diamondbacks, you know, for a season. Actually,
Speaker 1: let's say he was twenty seven, Well, the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: wouldn't allow that because he played well and they made
Speaker 1: it deep into the playoffs, he wouldn't be showing up
Speaker 1: to their facility till November fifth or sixth, and they'd
Speaker 1: be paying him forty five million dollars a year. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but didn't Bow leave the Royals. He just did hot
Speaker 1: part of a season. He was even an All Star. Actually,
Speaker 1: but he's a running back. I mean the quarterback is different.
Speaker 1: The quarterback can't go, Hey, I'll be back in week seven, right.
Speaker 1: But no, I'm saying Bow just ditched the Royals mid season.
Speaker 1: I'm saying like Hyler could Paul. He's saying the baseball
Speaker 1: team wouldn't let it go. I think the baseball team
Speaker 1: just like exhibition. I don't think that's correct. I think
Speaker 1: if the Royals went into the playoffs with Bo Jackson,
Speaker 1: he would have stayed because I know he joined the
Speaker 1: Raiders mid season. I don't think he would have been
Speaker 1: allowed to leave, like September twenty second. I don't think
Speaker 1: this is happening anytime soon. I don't think it. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm not surprised he says he misses baseball. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was going to be a baseball player, and then
Speaker 1: I think he surprised everybody, including himself with that season
Speaker 1: at Oklahoma, and then realized their NFL teams looking at
Speaker 1: what's happened with some of these other quarterbacks, including Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson and then Cliff Kingsbury. If Cliff Kingsbury doesn't go
Speaker 1: to Arizona, I don't know. If Kyler Murray goes, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the number one overall pick. I don't
Speaker 1: know where he would have been selected, but Cliff Kingsbury said,
Speaker 1: that's the guy I want, even though we just spent
Speaker 1: a first round pick on Josh Rosen, and therefore the
Speaker 1: decision was easier. He was walking in and going to start.
Speaker 1: If he played baseball, he wouldn't be up in the
Speaker 1: major leagues for a couple of years. It's really rare
Speaker 1: for a draft picked all of a sudden walk in
Speaker 1: and then go to a major league team. He'd be
Speaker 1: in the minor leagues. Might be double A, might be
Speaker 1: triple A. Football played right away. By the way, speaking
Speaker 1: of baseball, Robinson Cano has been suspended for the entire
Speaker 1: season for performance enhancing drugs. This this second time that's
Speaker 1: happened in the last three years. When somebody says, boy,
Speaker 1: is it? Is it worth the risk of cheating? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How about career salary for Robinson Cano. Don't you know
Speaker 1: PAULI and a calculator? Yeah yeah I do. I dock
Speaker 1: him the twenty four million for this season. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: he won't make that? Oh please, Yeah, time to play
Speaker 1: career salary those who cheat. Robinson Cano team shouted the
Speaker 1: good button man. Two thousand and six, he made three
Speaker 1: eighty one grand for the Yankees. He uh found the
Speaker 1: right guy to come up, and a couple of years
Speaker 1: later he's making twenty four million dollars at age thirty
Speaker 1: one with the Seattle Marina career salary he's got. He's
Speaker 1: got out of fifty coming from the Mets, even missing
Speaker 1: this year. Okay, um, current not future salary. So what
Speaker 1: he's made so far, he's got in the bank two
Speaker 1: hundred twenty three million. I'm gonna give that to you,
Speaker 1: a two hundred fourteen million. Okay, that's nice, all right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So when somebody says, boy, is it worth the risk
Speaker 1: of getting caught? Yeah? So when Robinson Canoe goes back
Speaker 1: home to wherever the Dominican Republic, do you think anybody's going, Hey,
Speaker 1: you cheated. He's probably gone, look at what I got here,
Speaker 1: Look at what I got. I cheated and got this.
Speaker 1: So you don't want to go on my yacht with
Speaker 1: where you're not forty? Yeah? Oh, you're not coming over
Speaker 1: to the Christmas marty. Okay? I was given out ferri
Speaker 1: reas to everybody. Oh yeah, the Christmas party. Yes, Barry
Speaker 1: Bonds made more in the last five seasons of his
Speaker 1: career than he did in the first fifteen. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: was it worth it? Hey, you're not going to the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, Barry? Yeah, it's okay. Robinson Cano, it
Speaker 1: wasn't exactly a secret that Robinson Cano. Don't you know?
Speaker 1: Remember when he went to Seattle and I go, we'll
Speaker 1: never hear from him again. Well we have, and it's
Speaker 1: because he cheated and he sits down for an entire season.
Speaker 1: I can't let you back in, all right, And Robinson
Speaker 1: Cano probably has a borderline Hall of Fame career. Does
Speaker 1: that sound about right? Mcclevin. I don't know. Didn't he
Speaker 1: take a big break? I have no idea. Has it
Speaker 1: been good in Seattle? I think he took a break
Speaker 1: to count his money. Wasn't he suspended for a year,
Speaker 1: and I don't know. Yes, Polly Robinson Cano has got
Speaker 1: about eight All Star appearances. He had a run from
Speaker 1: age twenty six to thirty one where he was a
Speaker 1: top five MVP VOCA or five times. He had a
Speaker 1: nice six year run, real nice, not Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: or Okay. I didn't know if he'd accumulated any kind
Speaker 1: of numbers when he disappeared in Seattle. I didn't know
Speaker 1: if he put up decent numbers. But when he was
Speaker 1: with the Yankees, he put up some pretty good numbers
Speaker 1: and they were winning. You have a point, though, if
Speaker 1: he would have stayed with the Yankees and continued, you'd
Speaker 1: have more of a chance because you get more notoriety.
Speaker 1: Wasn't he with jay Z? Wasn't that with the Rock Nation?
Speaker 1: And then he went to the Mariners And I knew
Speaker 1: he was getting paid, but I said at the time,
Speaker 1: you're getting paid and you're going to disappear from baseball
Speaker 1: for five years. Yeah, it's three hundred and thirty four
Speaker 1: career home runs. That's a pretty good for a second baseman.
Speaker 1: How many hits does he does? He have? Over two thousand?
Speaker 1: Do you get Let's see, I thought he had twenty four. Yes,
Speaker 1: so three more seasons, he's a Hall of Famer as
Speaker 1: if hitting all those home runs as a second baseman
Speaker 1: isn't a red flag. Wait, you have how many home
Speaker 1: runs as a second baseman? Um? Three hundred career scream steroids? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Ryan Samberg wasn't hitting that many home runs? Oh no,
Speaker 1: and he was great? No, no drinking milk. That that's
Speaker 1: where you don't say it too loudly. That Yeah, how
Speaker 1: many home runs? How many home runs do you have? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't keep it feels like a
Speaker 1: round one hundred and fifty something like kind of knoblocks it.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many home runs a guy twenty
Speaker 1: six hundred hits, if he played this season, in two
Speaker 1: more seasons, he's probably knocking on the door with maybe
Speaker 1: three thousand hits. Yes, don't make me say it, though,
Speaker 1: we don't count hits anymore in the Saber metric era
Speaker 1: and the Hall of Fame voting. No, they're a lottics.
Speaker 1: How many how many guys with three thousand hits are
Speaker 1: not in the Hall of Fame aside from Pete Rose
Speaker 1: and shoeless Joe Jackson, Ethan If you're listening probably not
Speaker 1: that many. But I don't think there's anybody with three
Speaker 1: thousand hits who's not the Hall of Fame. Now you
Speaker 1: have guys who have five hundred home runs who might
Speaker 1: not be in the Hall of Fame. Uh. And you
Speaker 1: know the drug that he took stand as zolo, that
Speaker 1: that's heavy duty. Right, Well, he's not gonna get the cheaps,
Speaker 1: but don't you haven't they gotten it down to a science.
Speaker 1: Apparently he did get the cheap stuff. He keeps getting caught.
Speaker 1: Albert pool Hall says thirty two hundred hits. Adrian Beltrey
Speaker 1: has almost thirty two hundred hits. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame, is he? Or did he
Speaker 1: get in? Well, he's not eligible, no, but I think
Speaker 1: he's supposed to be on Okay, Yeah, he's got a
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. He was a great third basement A
Speaker 1: Rod's got thirty one hundred hits. He's probably not getting in.
Speaker 1: He shouldn't get in. It's funny that he's not getting in,
Speaker 1: But yes, done systemic stand of zolo as he used
Speaker 1: in horses as an antibolic and or androgenic steroid and
Speaker 1: open did trying to think did you use steroids in
Speaker 1: high school time? I did not, Okay, I just curious.
Speaker 1: Were you offered them? No? But I saw them, like,
Speaker 1: you know, in the bathroom, like at a gym in
Speaker 1: Brooklyn that I was at, And you know, you hear
Speaker 1: people talking about that, and it's always flattering if someone
Speaker 1: accuses you of being on something. I was too timid
Speaker 1: to like even consider like taking a pill or injecting
Speaker 1: something I don't touch anywhere. Yeah. See, I totally would
Speaker 1: have really if I could have gotten steroids in high school.
Speaker 1: Heck yeah, heck yeah. To play on sports are to
Speaker 1: be just in great shape, probably both. Well, what happens
Speaker 1: is you have these kids in the minor leagues and
Speaker 1: they see somebody who's doing well or they know somebody
Speaker 1: who's using. Therefore, you you have that crossroads where you go,
Speaker 1: do I do it naturally or do I do what
Speaker 1: they were doing? But I thought they had it down
Speaker 1: to a science. Did Raphael Paul Merrow get busted for
Speaker 1: this same steroid? Did Ben Johnson at the Olympics with
Speaker 1: Carl Lewis in Soul, South Korea get busted for this drug?
Speaker 1: Because that's been around for a long long time. Yeah, McLevin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Raphael Pomio with Stan as All as well? Did did
Speaker 1: stanazol all? Sorry? Stan, Yeah, I'll check on that. It
Speaker 1: was Johnson said Ben Johnson. Was he using that when
Speaker 1: he lost the one hundred meter gold medal to uh
Speaker 1: Carl Lewis? Yes, McLevin, Yeah, another stanzolala dn. But they
Speaker 1: did they invent new things? Yes, yes, like when your
Speaker 1: guy comes to you and he's just like, I got
Speaker 1: this stana zolall or whatever, and you're like, wow, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Everybody keeps getting caught on that. Yeah, got
Speaker 1: anything else? But they created Okay, So a friend of mine,
Speaker 1: his daughter was going out with somebody in the Indians
Speaker 1: organization and he was in the minors, and uh I
Speaker 1: saw him and we started talking and then I just
Speaker 1: sort of said, how are guys getting around the drug
Speaker 1: testing because it's far more strict stringent in the in
Speaker 1: the minor leagues. And he said, we got a shake.
Speaker 1: I said, what do you mean you gotta shake? He said, well,
Speaker 1: we can take you know, HDH or we take steroids
Speaker 1: and there's a shake that we take prior to testing
Speaker 1: and we don't test positive. So that's somebody in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues who doesn't have anywhere near the money of
Speaker 1: Robinson Cano and you haven't found found a masking agent
Speaker 1: for them. It's a drug you give horses. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: crazy when you're like, run down the Wikipedia page for
Speaker 1: stanazol all drug bus Yeah, and that it starts with
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson nineteen eighty eight. It kind of jumps around
Speaker 1: all over the place. But then you just have to
Speaker 1: keep scrolling down and all of the names that are
Speaker 1: in here of people who got caught using it, and
Speaker 1: then you finally get down to twenty twenty Robinson Canoe
Speaker 1: a New York Mets second basement. It's like, dude, it's
Speaker 1: been how many years now, it's been thirty years, thirty
Speaker 1: two years of people getting caught using this. And I
Speaker 1: remember Benson and those who were there at the Olympics
Speaker 1: said that Ben's eyes were yellow, so that his no
Speaker 1: he had his kidneys were backing up jaundice, I guess
Speaker 1: is what it would be. But his eyes were yellow.
Speaker 1: And plus you can tell these guys may improve their
Speaker 1: time by a just a fraction, just a fraction. If
Speaker 1: you go back and watch Ben Johnson, he blew away.
Speaker 1: Carl Lewis that doesn't happen in that that sport where
Speaker 1: you go, oh my god, wait, what just happened here?
Speaker 1: And that's when the sprinters know. I talked to Carl
Speaker 1: Lewis about this a few years ago when I did
Speaker 1: an interview with him, and I said, how do you know?
Speaker 1: And he said, you can only improve by a certain
Speaker 1: amount over a certain amount of time, but when you
Speaker 1: and prove, like, hey, have you seen Ben run? No,
Speaker 1: he's really fast. Now how did he get really fast? Oh?
Speaker 1: He must have been improved his starts. Yes, Also the
Speaker 1: sound when he was running was this, Oh he sounded
Speaker 1: like a horse. You heard something? Yes, Going back to
Speaker 1: is what was it step dancing in college days? Right there? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I never understood that you were a step dancer. I
Speaker 1: wasn't a step dancer like for a living, No, but
Speaker 1: in college you were a step extra cash you had
Speaker 1: to pick up some scratch. When I was at Southern
Speaker 1: Illinois University, the African American fraternitys and sororities would have
Speaker 1: step contest and we got invited to go and it
Speaker 1: was fantastic. It's one of the most entertaining things I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. And a couple of guys I knew. One
Speaker 1: of the fraternity said, hey, we'll come over and show
Speaker 1: you guys how to do it. And they came over
Speaker 1: to thid, We're got to come over a couple more
Speaker 1: nights because you guys are gonna need some work. And
Speaker 1: they taught us a very basic step and they we
Speaker 1: went to the step contest and nobody knew that a
Speaker 1: white fraternity was going to come walking out, and we
Speaker 1: came walking out and it was it was a pretty
Speaker 1: wild reaction, but they gave us a hall pass. If
Speaker 1: you know what I mean with the applause. Isn't that
Speaker 1: like the cheerleading movie Bring it On? Yeah? Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: already been brott. We brought it on to something. Do
Speaker 1: you think that they're gonna make a movie of the
Speaker 1: white step dancing class at Southern Illinois. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: an intense moment to walk. I'll tell you, when you're
Speaker 1: sitting in that back room watching a group of people
Speaker 1: who are drastically more talented than you and at something
Speaker 1: and I've done this a lot in my life. Uh,
Speaker 1: it was We're like, what are we doing here? We're
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna not like us at all? What if
Speaker 1: I told you thirty for thirty on the white step
Speaker 1: dancing team at Southern Illinois Hollipaps see students untalented. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: Channing Tatum already attached to the project. I love attached
Speaker 1: to the project. Well you will. You can't get Jason Statham,
Speaker 1: who has been told that he looks like Yeah, it'd
Speaker 1: be hard to have him come into a college and
Speaker 1: you know, be a step dancer. Step dancer pulls out
Speaker 1: an automatic rifle. It starts gutting down bad guys. Wouldn't work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pull on our way out. This is the true best
Speaker 1: part of the story. As we're leaving, the crowd's giving
Speaker 1: us like a standing ovation. I'm telling you, well, they
Speaker 1: were being very nice. Were they standing at the time?
Speaker 1: I think they had. We had this guy named John
Speaker 1: Hagenson and he jumped and did the splits as he
Speaker 1: was leaving in a pair of shorts and uh play
Speaker 1: the pretty wild. Yeah, there's videos somewhere. I'm one of
Speaker 1: my friends has a video of it. I'll try to hating. Well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna need that for the thirty for thirty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: five minutes. That's great, though, What if I told you
Speaker 1: we'll take a break We'll check in with the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors. It is not been good news over the
Speaker 1: last twenty four hours. Hopefully there's some good news for
Speaker 1: Golden State. That's maybe it's not an Achilles tear with
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson, but it certainly feels that way. And did
Speaker 1: they consider altering their draft strategy when they found out
Speaker 1: the Klay Thompson could be done for the year twenty one?
Speaker 1: After the owner, we're back after this. I finally brought
Speaker 1: the built bars out and I put him in the
Speaker 1: mail room area because the dan As were saying, oh,
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Speaker 1: had assualted caramel one. Oh I noticed, and it was good. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: but I wanted you to try it just so you
Speaker 1: know you know this is but see it sounds like
Speaker 1: you're upset though, I'm like, oh, I tried one. You go, yeah,
Speaker 1: I noticed, Like you want us to try them, but
Speaker 1: you don't really want us to try them? You're yeah,
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Speaker 1: now that I've sampled. But I brought him out and
Speaker 1: then I could hear the Dana's going, yeah about time, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the Peacock app. The big news that overshadowed the draft
Speaker 1: last night was Clay Thompson getting an injury in a
Speaker 1: workout with other NBA players. He'll undergo an MRI today
Speaker 1: and Bob Myers is the general manager of the Warriors.
Speaker 1: Steve Ker, of course, the head coach. They're headed to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. They may already be there. They want to
Speaker 1: be there for Thompson when he gets his MRI. Nick
Speaker 1: Friedel covers the Warriors for ESPN dot com and he
Speaker 1: joins us, now, what are the early reports, Nick, Dan?
Speaker 1: The Warriors don't feel great about everything. The fear is
Speaker 1: that it's an achilles injury. But I can tell you
Speaker 1: even a few hours ago they were still holding out
Speaker 1: hopes that it wasn't as severe initially as it appeared
Speaker 1: to be. So while they're bracing for the worst, certainly
Speaker 1: there is still some optimism. And Myers hinted at that
Speaker 1: during his conference call. He said, Look, it doesn't look great,
Speaker 1: but we're just hoping for the best and we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens when the tests come. How was he progressing
Speaker 1: from his knee surgery from a year ago. He looked
Speaker 1: great by all accounts. Steve KERR, Bob Myers, they've all
Speaker 1: said the same thing in recent weeks. They said that
Speaker 1: this guy is looking like the player that we had
Speaker 1: seen before. Now it's horrid. Noted Dan that when the
Speaker 1: Warriors had their team bubble back in late September, Thompson
Speaker 1: still wasn't cleared for scrimmages. The Warriors were being very
Speaker 1: cautious because remember at that point, it was still the
Speaker 1: NBA season could start in January February. Nobody really knew
Speaker 1: for sure, but he had started to ramp it up
Speaker 1: the last few weeks they had seen him. They said
Speaker 1: he looked like the old Clay and it was just
Speaker 1: a gut punch for everybody within that organization. Did their
Speaker 1: draft strategy change at all or come close to changing
Speaker 1: it all last night because of this injury, not one bit.
Speaker 1: Wiseman was the guy that they targeted all along. He
Speaker 1: was the number one pick on their board. They knew
Speaker 1: that he would fill an immediate hole in the middle,
Speaker 1: being able to defend, pairing him with Draymond, being able
Speaker 1: to learn from Draymond every day. They liked him all along,
Speaker 1: and Myers said flatly, it didn't change one thing because
Speaker 1: if Wiseman was there, we were going to take him.
Speaker 1: It's obviously a big loss to lose Klay Thompson, and
Speaker 1: I don't know who fills that voice. Can anybody feel
Speaker 1: that void? Do they change different now? They played differently
Speaker 1: the style this year with Golden Stick, I think it's
Speaker 1: too in grain. I don't think anything can change from
Speaker 1: a system standpoint, and Dan certainly nobody's filling Clay's role.
Speaker 1: He did so many things for them, and we know
Speaker 1: about the jumpers, but defensively, be Kerr loved the fact
Speaker 1: that you could just throw him out there on the
Speaker 1: floor and he would take care of whoever the best
Speaker 1: wing defender was on the other team, So he trusted
Speaker 1: him immensely. But I'd say on top of who fills
Speaker 1: the wing roles, and that's where the Warriors were short already.
Speaker 1: It was kind of only Clay and Andrew Wiggins. The
Speaker 1: part that is really hurting internally right now is the
Speaker 1: emotional side, because this is a guy. Even with Steph
Speaker 1: and Draymond and JD when he was there, Clay was
Speaker 1: the most beloved. Clay was the guy that really set
Speaker 1: the tone behind the scenes and has talked about it
Speaker 1: a lot over the years. Clay is an ego with player.
Speaker 1: He can just kind of fit in and do whatever
Speaker 1: they needed, and to see that he may be down
Speaker 1: again for a while is really hurting everybody on that
Speaker 1: team right now. Yeah, I remember Steve Kirch telling me
Speaker 1: years ago. He just said, Clay is there's no maintenance
Speaker 1: to him, like I don't have to worry about anything.
Speaker 1: It's not touches or being a star or points or anything.
Speaker 1: He said. He just he is maintenance free and that's rare.
Speaker 1: It's very rare, and he doesn't want any part of
Speaker 1: the spotlight. And then in all the years I've covered
Speaker 1: the league, I certainly has never seen anybody like Clay
Speaker 1: because he goes and it's all these shots and it's
Speaker 1: a really solid defender when he wants to be, and
Speaker 1: then he just kind of goes home and he's consent
Speaker 1: just kind of hanging out with his dog and doing
Speaker 1: his own thing. He doesn't like talking to the media,
Speaker 1: although he's one of the best quotes on the team,
Speaker 1: and that resonates for a lot of people. And it's
Speaker 1: not to say that they don't love Steff and Draymond
Speaker 1: in their own way, because they absolutely do. It's just
Speaker 1: the Clay marches to his own beat, and it's so
Speaker 1: different than most stars in the league, and that's what
Speaker 1: made him unique. On top of the fact that consistently
Speaker 1: he was out there game after game putting in the
Speaker 1: work and putting up the numbers. It was the tone
Speaker 1: he set with all the other star power on that
Speaker 1: roster that kerr at Myers love so much. You have
Speaker 1: an owner who seems like he's pretty aggressive to get
Speaker 1: fans in the stands this upcoming season. What is the
Speaker 1: game plan He's gonna trytill lake Of is as much
Speaker 1: as he can to get people in there. Being that,
Speaker 1: the reality though, is it's going to be tough because
Speaker 1: San Francisco is starting to shut more again after a
Speaker 1: recent surgeon in COVID cases. So lake Of is still
Speaker 1: gonna push the envelope. The Warriors are behind him, He's
Speaker 1: going to put his own money in to do it.
Speaker 1: It's just going to be so difficult. And I can
Speaker 1: just tell you personally, I was living ten minutes away
Speaker 1: from the arena. To see that thing empty day after
Speaker 1: day is a crusher for that team and for ownership
Speaker 1: because that was supposed to be the cash cow of
Speaker 1: cast House. And it's not to say it still can't
Speaker 1: be over time, but it's empty. It was supposed to
Speaker 1: be filled every day with concerts and other events all
Speaker 1: the time on top of all the games, and now
Speaker 1: to see that the way it is. That's why you're
Speaker 1: seeing from Lake up and from the Warriors just pushed
Speaker 1: so hard to get some people back in there and
Speaker 1: start to get the revenue streams going again. Is there
Speaker 1: a time frame for this? Mr Today with Clay Thompson.
Speaker 1: I would expect the news in the next couple hours.
Speaker 1: I think everybody was expecting it to be in the morning,
Speaker 1: and he mentioned Kur and some of the trainers are
Speaker 1: headed down there and maybe there in the moment, but
Speaker 1: I would expect something here very soon. Nick, thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us. We appreciate your time. Dan, I've listened to
Speaker 1: my whole life. I really appreciate you guys having me.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Nick. That's Nick Friedell. He covers the Warriors
Speaker 1: for ESPN dot com. Well, they stayed with their big board,
Speaker 1: and they wanted James Wiseman, and you got a talented
Speaker 1: big man out of Memphis. We don't know much about him.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if they would alter their plans and
Speaker 1: draft LaMelo Ball just because you could have Steph play
Speaker 1: the two guard. But you know, I respect them from
Speaker 1: what they're doing and the system that they have. And
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr probably said, you know, Clay will eventually come back.
Speaker 1: I don't know that, you know, when you have an
Speaker 1: I never had. Of all my injuries, I never had
Speaker 1: an achilles injury. Knock on wood. But I don't know
Speaker 1: the varying degrees of an achilles injury are their degrees,
Speaker 1: because it always felt like somebody popped their achilles. It
Speaker 1: wasn't this is a strain or they partial tear. It
Speaker 1: always felt like the achilles when it goes, it goes,
Speaker 1: and you know when it goes, that's what was, you know,
Speaker 1: very curious for me. And maybe Clay Thompson knows this.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're just making sure they go through all the
Speaker 1: procedures and maybe get a second opinion on this. But
Speaker 1: if you're achilles has popped, you know it. You know
Speaker 1: Kobe knew it when it happened to him. I was
Speaker 1: on a basketball floor at the NBA or a college
Speaker 1: basketball final four, playing a pickup game in Denver, many
Speaker 1: many many years ago, and there was a guy who
Speaker 1: had both achilles pop on the same play, and he
Speaker 1: of course was trying to cover me. Yeah, I break ankles,
Speaker 1: I pop achilles, But you know he went down as
Speaker 1: if he was shot. Yeah, Polly, if you were the
Speaker 1: Warriors and you found out the worst news at Clay
Speaker 1: Thompson is out for the season. Would you scrap this
Speaker 1: season and just develop James Wiseman or would you trade
Speaker 1: James Wiseman the rookie for a yard that could help
Speaker 1: you compete this season? For instance, let's say hypothetical you
Speaker 1: called up the Washington Wizard said Bradley Beale who wants
Speaker 1: out or have heard wants out and Wizards aren't going
Speaker 1: anywhere as is a total hypothetical. But and also if
Speaker 1: you're another team, would you try to go after the
Speaker 1: Warriors and say, hey, you need to compete. Here's what
Speaker 1: you got. There are very few players that I mean,
Speaker 1: Bradley Beale I think would be great for Golden State.
Speaker 1: I just don't It feels like the Wizards aren't going
Speaker 1: to give up on Bradley Beale. They want to give
Speaker 1: up on John Wall, but they don't want to give
Speaker 1: up on Bradley Beale. But if I'm Golden State, I
Speaker 1: could get Bradley Beale. What's he costing me? But I
Speaker 1: would certainly entertain that idea because I thought Golden State
Speaker 1: was going to compete for a championship. Having the second
Speaker 1: pick depending on who they were getting, and you had
Speaker 1: Steph and Clay had Draymond Wiggins. It felt like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you've got a pretty good nucleus here. You can compete
Speaker 1: with anybody in the West, but not the case. I mean,
Speaker 1: it stayed with me all last night, like I'm sort
Speaker 1: of watching the draft, but I'm not because I just
Speaker 1: can't help. But think of Clay Thompson. When you come
Speaker 1: back from an injury and you can't wait to get back,
Speaker 1: and you're testing your knee, and then you go out
Speaker 1: and end you play pickup games and then you're ready,
Speaker 1: and then a training camp and then I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: back and I'm gonna start playing, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden that happens. I mean, it's not fair, but
Speaker 1: here's Golden State again, and I think Steph, well Clay
Speaker 1: is thirty thirty or thirty one, and that's where if
Speaker 1: I'm Golden State, then you have to go, Okay, we
Speaker 1: might not be a great team this year. We can
Speaker 1: be a competitive team this year, but we just have
Speaker 1: to get ready for to Clay to come back. And
Speaker 1: if it's a true Achilles, you know it's more. It
Speaker 1: can be more than a year and now I can't
Speaker 1: rush him back at all after having the knee surgery.
Speaker 1: And then if you have achilles surgery, I gotta be
Speaker 1: extra extra cautious with him, and then what kind of
Speaker 1: player is he? You know? The mental game that you
Speaker 1: play to get back is often overlooked with these athletes.
Speaker 1: Physically you go through everything, it's mentally when you make
Speaker 1: a cut, when you go up, when you take a jumper,
Speaker 1: is somebody trying to slide their foot underneath you? When
Speaker 1: you're going to the hoop? Are you worried about somebody?
Speaker 1: Those are the things that play mind games with you,
Speaker 1: and that'll be something that's another extra hurdle for him
Speaker 1: to overcome. Ben in Pennsylvania high Ben, I can when
Speaker 1: that doesn't sound good, Ben, Um, Jimmy and Chicago Clay
Speaker 1: will be thirty one in February. Thank you, Todd Day, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: good morning. Then. Uh yeah, I was actually pretty surprised that,
Speaker 1: um that Charlotte took Lamello last night. Um, just because
Speaker 1: of the LaVar ball Jordan situation. Um just kind of
Speaker 1: just kind of picture and like Jordan in a sky
Speaker 1: box during a game and Mike LaVar is trying to
Speaker 1: get in there, trying to start a conversation, the yelling
Speaker 1: at him at the bench, maybe from the stands, but
Speaker 1: but also I wanted to do a comment. Um, I
Speaker 1: got my calendar a couple of days ago. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much for that. I won't give anything away, but
Speaker 1: I will say Penny is the MVP, and as far
Speaker 1: as most squeamish, it's a tie between Fritzie and the Glovin.
Speaker 1: I think I think you know what's too I'm talking
Speaker 1: about oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. Yes. I won't
Speaker 1: say I won't give them way anything, but i'll say
Speaker 1: one word skin. So thank you Jenny. There is some
Speaker 1: skin with mclovin and Fritzie with one of their months
Speaker 1: on the calendar. I didn't want to give anything away.
Speaker 1: I hope you trust us that you know the calendar
Speaker 1: is really entertaining. I'll say this again. Due to COVID,
Speaker 1: my staff is not going to be as large during
Speaker 1: the holiday season. Don't send calendars back to be signed
Speaker 1: in the immortal immortal words the ringo star, peace and love,
Speaker 1: Peace and love. I can't do it, okay, we won't
Speaker 1: have the people here. I don't want you to miss
Speaker 1: out on the calendars, and they will not be signed
Speaker 1: if you send them back because I won't have the
Speaker 1: people here. Okay, we did have some that we made available,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty of the calendars that we charged
Speaker 1: extra four that we signed and then we've sent out.
Speaker 1: But that was all we were going to sign this year. Now,
Speaker 1: if we have to do more next year, I promise
Speaker 1: we'll do it. I just want to give you heads up.
Speaker 1: I don't want somebody to be disappointed with this, Okay.
Speaker 1: So Jonathan in Pennsylvania, Hey Jonathan, what's on your mind?
Speaker 1: Hey DPT. I got two questions. One, I've been listening
Speaker 1: to your show for I guess for years and on
Speaker 1: Monday you do the best of the worst of the weekend,
Speaker 1: and Todd and Paully and see and does and mclovin
Speaker 1: does the best of the worst, but I never hear
Speaker 1: you do your best of the worst of the weekend.
Speaker 1: And true question is is how hard it's for you
Speaker 1: guys not to bring out curse word, like like the
Speaker 1: one time PAULI asked Kevin Costner about the peak and
Speaker 1: then he cursed. And then you say you can't say that.
Speaker 1: You can't say that. So I wonder. The question is
Speaker 1: how hard are you guys to not curse on the air,
Speaker 1: Like does ever slip out or no? And the reason
Speaker 1: why I don't get best worse to the weekend when
Speaker 1: the dants do is I basically have three hours to
Speaker 1: give you my best and worst that I saw. I
Speaker 1: comment on their best and worst to the weekend. And
Speaker 1: as far as language, colorful language, we've had some, but
Speaker 1: you sort of police yourself. You know what you can
Speaker 1: say not say. And usually when you do curse, you're
Speaker 1: in a free moment there or the environment that sort
Speaker 1: of calls for it that you can be saying those
Speaker 1: kind of things. You know, we know what we're doing,
Speaker 1: what we're supposed to do, how we're supposed to act.
Speaker 1: We've been caught. I mean Kevin Costner, he just coming
Speaker 1: on the show. He has no idea, he doesn't know
Speaker 1: if this is network, TV, cable, whatever it is. He
Speaker 1: just blasting away. Yeah, Paul, I also think that all
Speaker 1: of us worked in radio as young people right out
Speaker 1: of college, and you are the fear of God has
Speaker 1: put into you about swearing on the air when you're
Speaker 1: twenty two, twenty three, twenty four. Nobody wants to lose
Speaker 1: their job, and I think that fear hits you early,
Speaker 1: by your program director or your boss, and it just
Speaker 1: stays with you. Yeah, the Constaner moment, that's just Constaner
Speaker 1: getting out of his element and you know he's coming
Speaker 1: in to promote something. Yellowstone I think, by the way,
Speaker 1: Yellowstone season three coming up November twenty second on Peacock.
Speaker 1: Here's the audio of the now, let me come back,
Speaker 1: let me come back, take a break and then we'll
Speaker 1: come back. And the great Kevin Constaner where he let
Speaker 1: one slip. This might be of all the swear words
Speaker 1: in the history of this show, which is what going
Speaker 1: on thirteen fourteen years. This one's right up there. We'll
Speaker 1: have that for you coming up. Thanks for listening to
Speaker 1: The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch us
Speaker 1: live every eight day morning nine until noon eastern six
Speaker 1: to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and you can
Speaker 1: find us on the iHeartRadio app at FSR or stream
Speaker 1: us live on the Peacock app. Las Vegas Raiders put
Speaker 1: seven more players on the COVID nineteen list ahead of
Speaker 1: the game against the Kansas City Chiefs. That brings the
Speaker 1: total to eleven. Four days before the Raiders are scheduled
Speaker 1: to host the Kansas City Chiefs. Of course, you got
Speaker 1: a little bit of sensitivity. These are rivals, bitter rivals
Speaker 1: for many, many, many decades. And then the report came
Speaker 1: out that when the Raiders beat Kansas City in Kansas City,
Speaker 1: the bus driver took a victory lap around the stadium
Speaker 1: and some of the Chiefs got wint to this, Now
Speaker 1: they really want to beat the Raiders. They didn't want
Speaker 1: to really beat the Raiders before, but now you did
Speaker 1: a victory lap, Now we really want to beat you.
Speaker 1: The Maryland head coach Mike Locksley test positive as Michigan
Speaker 1: State in Maryland canceled over at nineteen it will be
Speaker 1: declared no contest. Yeah, yes, How sad is it that
Speaker 1: Maryland's upset that they're not going to chance to beat
Speaker 1: Michigan State usually be Michigan State. It's like we're missing
Speaker 1: out an easy win on against Maryland. Yeah, but Maryland
Speaker 1: had to cancel last week against Ohio State. Eight players
Speaker 1: tested positive during the previous seven days. These teams are
Speaker 1: just limping towards Thanksgiving, hoping to get to Thanksgiving, and
Speaker 1: then the students are gone from campus. That's you know,
Speaker 1: especially in the Big ten and PAC twelve. You're just
Speaker 1: hoping that's the case, certainly with the acc SEC in
Speaker 1: Big twelve. But those schools can't afford to miss any
Speaker 1: of these games because there's games aren't postponed, they're canceled.
Speaker 1: All right. Let me go back to Kevin Costner, the
Speaker 1: great actor, was on the program the second time he
Speaker 1: joined us in studio, and there was a little back
Speaker 1: and forth with Paulie, and I think Kevin Costner may
Speaker 1: have overreacted just a little bit. I watched Field of
Speaker 1: Dreams just again the other day. Everyone loves that movie.
Speaker 1: It's got a lot of legs that could be around forever.
Speaker 1: But I was wondering, when you're getting pitched Field of Dreams,
Speaker 1: when they're pitching you you were at your peak of stardom,
Speaker 1: do you ever think this could be really still? No? No,
Speaker 1: But like you were, no, we can't do that. Yeah, kids,
Speaker 1: I mean just you okay, paul you can't say that,
Speaker 1: and you can't say that. You see what he said.
Speaker 1: You said you peek, Yeah, you misquoted me. You were okay,
Speaker 1: Like what did you say? You were so push me down?
Speaker 1: But when you would you ever think when you got
Speaker 1: pitched the idea for Field of Dreams. This could be
Speaker 1: really silly. It turned out fantastic. I can tell you
Speaker 1: exactly where I was when I read that movie. Dan
Speaker 1: and I were talking about it before we started the role.
Speaker 1: And I apologize for humiliating you. He just got the
Speaker 1: same treatment as that fan suck the the I apologize
Speaker 1: to the audience too. The you can use that word
Speaker 1: if you just use it sparely, and it's just like
Speaker 1: a sword. I'm aware, all right. So he said it,
Speaker 1: Kevin F. Costner forever known as Kevin F. And Costner.
Speaker 1: But I think he heard something and he didn't hear
Speaker 1: exactly what you said, and then he reacted according to
Speaker 1: understandable by the way, this Thanksgiving the Duttons are Back
Speaker 1: Yellowstone season three, starring Kevin Costner, comes to Peacock exclusively
Speaker 1: November twenty second. You better start streaming seasons one and
Speaker 1: two now to get up to speed on season three.
Speaker 1: There's f bombs in that too, But yes, there are, yes,
Speaker 1: there are. What do you have, Seaton, Oh, I haven't
Speaker 1: I have something that we're very proud of? Actually? Oh
Speaker 1: that's rare um you know how out for the last
Speaker 1: fifteen years or so, Todd has done holiday names and
Speaker 1: it's been largely uh well, we've gotten some good content
Speaker 1: out of it. Yeah, largely considered useless by many of us. Yes,
Speaker 1: because next Wednesday Thanksgiving names. Oh, Satan is giving Fritzie
Speaker 1: a T shirt. Let's see what the T shirt says.
Speaker 1: We put the Thanksgiving names on a T shirt. So
Speaker 1: it's Larry Bird jack him. There's a shadow of a
Speaker 1: turkey behind it. There's a shadow of a turkey behind it.
Speaker 1: On the back of the shirt a little bit. It
Speaker 1: says the dam Patrick show that says Happy Thanksgiving. Don't
Speaker 1: encourage him. Oh my god, that's fabulous. Tim McCarver, Matt
Speaker 1: Holiday add it's an excel which I can squeeze into
Speaker 1: my thick. There you go, buddy, that one's yours. Not
Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving. No, I'm borderline xcel. Now I don't know
Speaker 1: what's gonnapen after. Have to put him at least one
Speaker 1: more X on it. Next Wednesday, Thanksgiving, Next Wednesday, November,
Speaker 1: next Wednesday Thanksgiving. Related sports names. Yes, you've been warned.
Speaker 1: You have been warned. You see Larry Birds. But that's
Speaker 1: my favorite part is that you have to read the
Speaker 1: shirt in the way Todd says the names Kevin Gravy
Speaker 1: Bullets No, Kevin Greevy check and Elvin Hays and West. No.
Speaker 1: Here is the requirement. It has to be a real name.
Speaker 1: You can't say that player has to be the athlete
Speaker 1: house it's from two thousand and one. That makes it
Speaker 1: very difficulty. You have to do that because you're stuck
Speaker 1: in the eighties. I'm stuck in life is stuck in
Speaker 1: the eight I understand that. But in the history of sports,
Speaker 1: if there's a cool Thanksgiving related name, that person should
Speaker 1: not be blown off just because they're not in the
Speaker 1: two thousand. Darryl Cranberry, that's gonna be good. It's fun, good,
Speaker 1: clean fun. I need some enthusiasm out of you, out
Speaker 1: of all of you. God, you drained me, you too,
Speaker 1: You drained me. Billie green Beans Soud. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just throwing that. Darryl green Bean Soud. You go,
Speaker 1: you're back serviceable. Oh say, it's great. Stop