WEBVTT - Hour 2 - Pat Forde (07-31-20) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.440 Sports Radio. Somehow we're going to try to make it 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:10.760 through this show minus mclovin, who started his weekend early. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.720 He's on the shores of Cape Cod. It's shark week 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:19.000 for mclovin. He once again now he saw a great 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.680 white shark a while ago, and he says that that's 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:26.800 now his m o or' that's on brand for him. 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:31.040 He's our shark guy. So mclovin is on vacation with 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.479 his family, but he will be back on Monday. Coming up, 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.720 we'll talk to Matt Ryan in the Atlanta Falcons a 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.560 couple of things talk to him about. And Pat Forty 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:44.680 covers college sports for Sports Illustrated. You've had some news 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.479 here with the ACC and the SEC. We're waiting for 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:51.360 Pac twelve, Big twelve, Big ten to decide what they're 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.480 going to do. And I'll go back to I guess 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:56.480 it was in April when I was telling you the 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:00.720 audience that these conferences are going to do just Prince games. 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.440 There's not going to be out of conference games from 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:05.959 what I was told, and I think you're seeing most 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.960 of these conferences following suit with that. But we'll talk 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.280 to Pat Forty about that, and maybe the SEC is 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:15.479 holding out was holding out of having a non conference game. 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:19.360 I'm curious if you're still going to have Georgia, Georgia Tech, Florida, 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.560 Florida State. Those are the games that I'm curious about, Clemson, 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.680 South Carolina. So we'll talk to Pat Forty, he'll join us. 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.160 Coming up a little bit. NBA debut last night, Jazz 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:33.520 beat the Pelicans, Lakers beating the Clippers tonight. Six NBA games, 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:37.320 thirteen baseball games, ten NHL games coming up this weekend. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.360 It's been a long time since we've said the following. 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:42.720 I don't know how I'm going to fit in all 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.960 of these games, because that's what's happening this weekend. Over 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:51.480 sixty games, baseball, basketball in the NHL, and usually late 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.559 July is really quiet. You usually just have baseball because 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.320 hockey's over, the NBA is over. Preseason football is a 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.280 week later. But we got a lot of action coming 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.960 up this weekend. Watching the Lakers and the Clippers last night, 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:11.280 it wasn't great basketball. I'm not expecting great basketball, Utah 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.919 against the Pelicans was not great basketball. You had great 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:19.000 endings and you had the Zion Williamson curiosity of he 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.520 wanted to play more minutes, but the Pelicans didn't want 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:24.880 him to play more minutes. Have more on that coming up. 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.760 But Lebron James didn't start out well, but it ended 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:33.280 well for Lebron and the Lakers in He scored thirteen 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.920 of the lakers twenty seven fourth quarter points, played great 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.799 defense on Paul George in the waning seconds, actually guarded 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:42.399 Kauhi then Paul George and Paul George had the ball 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.000 in the air to win the game. But the Lakers 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:49.120 pick up the victory, and there there was a certain 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.639 feel to that game. It wasn't just a hey, let's 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:56.640 kind of get readjusted to real gamelike situations or that 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.560 feeling that you have there that had playoff basketball an 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:04.440 atmosphere to it. As for Zion Williamson, it was a 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:08.880 game time decision. He played the first five minutes of 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.720 the fourth quarter but didn't come back. He was subbed 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.160 out with seven nineteen to go in regulation, and then 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:19.880 the Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry told the reporters that Zion 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:26.280 was on a minute's restriction. Okay, why is he on 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:30.880 a minute's restriction because Williamson said he wanted to play. 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.920 But if you know that Zion can't play more than 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.520 fifteen minutes, which he did last night, how about you 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:42.440 use those minutes later in the game if you happen 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.400 to need him. I don't need him in the first quarter. 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.920 I could have used him in the fourth quarter, because 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.800 every one of these games matters for the Pelicans, if 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:58.840 they truly matter to the Pelicans, I would have you 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.640 know if you have a minute's restriction, don't I want 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.680 my best player at the end of the game. He's 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.400 riding the bike. When he's not in he's riding the bike. 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:14.560 But what is Zion Williamson's status now. Zion said he 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:19.120 hasn't suffered any recent medical setbacks, and he denied he 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:24.919 had to sit because of conditioning issues. They got to 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:30.279 get their story right here. Zion said, this is the NBA, 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.200 these are the best players. You want to feel comfortable. 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.160 I don't want to hurt my team more than I 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:40.720 helped them in a sense. But if there's any risk 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.920 of him getting hurt seriously, then why is he playing. 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.960 If the Pelicans decided not to play, I'm fine with that, 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:54.400 But if you're going to have him go out and 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.800 play three or four minutes each quarter. I'm more concerned 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.920 about that than I am if he play twenty five minutes, 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:06.000 because I can tell this. I tell you this from experience. 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:07.960 When you get into a game and you know you're 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.320 not going to stay in the game that long, you 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.400 try to go crazy. You try to do everything possible. 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.800 You're playing great defense, you want the ball, you're going 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:20.840 to the hoop, you'll take a charge. You're playing in 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.320 short burst and that is really dangerous in my opinion. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.839 But are you going to play him or not? Now 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.320 what happens the next game? Is he on a minute's restriction? 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.039 You have to win these games? Do you want to 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.640 win those games? That would be my question because you 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:43.560 got the Clippers coming up next. And at what point 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:48.600 do the Pelicans shut down Zion Williamson. Let's say they 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:52.000 lose their first three, do you shut down Zion Williamson? 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:56.719 I like the experience. They're they're in kind of a 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:00.720 playoff basketball situation, and it's a young team, and I 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.240 love the future of the team. All in on the 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:07.159 Pells absolutely, you know they need a little bit more depth. 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.680 You're not gonna have Reddick around much longer by the 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.080 way he's He's made the playoffs every single year of 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:18.800 his career. And is Reddick in better shape than Zion Williamson. 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.400 So so JJ Reddick at thirty six is in better 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:28.039 shape than Zion Williamson. And I know Zion. You know 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.880 he took off the time off with the medical emergency 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:34.039 with his family. He was quarantined for four days. But 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.960 why am I having him out there to do these 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:41.800 little cameos. If you if you don't want to, if 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.159 you worry about the risk of injury, then don't play him. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.360 But they lost last night to the Utah Jazz and 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.120 there was a moment where I thought Utah was in 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:56.080 serious trouble in that game. But man, do I love 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.360 when I'm seeing with Lonzo Ball and Brandon Ingram talk 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:03.279 about why watching them, a great weight was lifted off 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.039 your shoulders. Players want to go to Los Angeles and 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.120 play for the Lakers. And I go back to what 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.760 Reggie Miller said, Brandon Ingram and Lonzo Ball will do 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:16.960 better outside of Los Angeles. And Brandon Ingram has grown 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:23.160 into a great basketball player, but he's also he's made himself. 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.640 He's improved a lot of guys get to the league 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:29.360 and then they don't improve, and it's small things that 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:33.280 you improve upon. He's added a little bit more weight, 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:37.080 he's added more range. He's only twenty two, and if 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:41.200 he can model his game after Kevin Durant, you know 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:46.160 that size, that length, he's a smooth player. I don't 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.440 know if you know he's got a killer instinct to him. 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.640 But he's improved his free throw shooting. He's become a 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:55.520 legitimate three point shooter. Lonzo Ball looks like he got 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.960 away from his dad, got away from you know, the Lakers. 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.920 You know that heavy cloud that hangs over you when 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.480 you're young, and it was not a great environment for 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.760 those younger players. And you know, for him to get 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.760 out of that, get away from Lebron, let Lebron try 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.360 to win his title, and then they can kind of exhale. 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.920 It feels like they're playing fun basketball. And then you 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:23.200 add Zion to the equation here. They're not far off 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.480 with that nucleus there. You know, there's a couple other 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:31.400 things they need to add. But you know, JJ Reddick, Yeah, 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:35.199 he's uh, he's playing. He was playing great. So it 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.440 was fun and fun to watch that last night. Here 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.080 is Lebron James. He had the game winning shot and 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:43.280 the game winning stopped. Uh and he talked about that 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.679 last night. I love the ball as you know, the 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.200 game tie, game being down, being up. You know, we 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.720 had a better three point game, like forty seconds ago. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.440 We got a you know, a great look for Danny. 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.440 He missed it. Paul George came back and hit it, 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.360 hit it three to tie the game for me. Shot up, 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.079 you'll be aggressive. You know, I feel like I got 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:05.040 some contact at the elbow, you know, by by Marcus Morris. 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.320 I didn't call it, but you know, like you know, 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:09.720 like you was sold. He was a kid a start 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.240 playing basketball. There's no whistle you keep playing on. So 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.640 I was able to follow him up the shot and uh, 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:16.440 you know, put us up and put us up for good. 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.880 Here is Frank Vogel, the Lakers head coach, talking about 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.280 Lebron's final sequence that possession right there. We didn't want 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.200 to call time out and you give them the ability 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.800 to sub. So you know, he's been great in that situation, 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.240 targeting the defender that he wants to go at. H 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.040 got to the paint, got a good look and uh, 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.319 you know, like you said, just followed a shot, the 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.960 great competitive spirit play and you know it's the defense 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:45.160 on the last possession obviously helped secure the game. But 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.319 all throughout he's been he was. He was trivid on 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.600 the ball and as always just a quarterback of our 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.600 defense with his voice calling out of coverages. Yeah, it 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.280 was a great defensive segment for him because you got 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.240 Kawhi and then you switch off to Paul George, the 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.840 presence of mind to notice how much time was left 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.800 on the clock, forcing Paul George into help, forcing him 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.080 to his left, and then the contested jumper. Here's Doc 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.360 Rivers talking about the mistakes that were made by the Clippers. 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:16.680 We were shorthanded and we made too many mistakes. Like 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.080 it's a good lesson for your team. You can't make 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.040 us many mistakes if we've made in one game and 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.480 be shorthanded, Like, well, when you don't have guys, you 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:30.959 have to execute. We didn't execute many plays tonight. Offensively, 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:35.400 we had twenty turnovers, we gave up offensive rebounds, we 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:39.600 lost guys in coverage, defensiveility. So in that way it 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:43.880 was disappointing. The positives are that we had every opportunity 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.640 to still win the game, and that would have been 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.400 a sweet win for us. What our guys have gone through. 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.679 And I started to wonder about this last night. You know, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.520 the Lakers, I think pride ego they want to be 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.480 the number one seed, but there's really no home court advantage. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.080 My question and would be, do you want to be 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.079 the number two seed instead of the number one seed? 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:09.280 Because everybody, it feels like, is fearful of the Portland Trailblazers. 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.319 If the Blazers are that eighth seed that gets in, 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.319 do you want to face them in the first round? 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:24.920 What the Lakers rather face Dallas, Utah than the Portland Trailblazers. Yeah. 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.040 I get the feeling that Lebron's gonna keep the pedal 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.760 to the medal there and hey, let's just keep winning 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:36.960 because they were playing great basketball before everything shut down. 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:39.800 They had beaten the Clippers, they had beaten the Bucks. 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.720 I think back to back games. They were playing great 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.960 and you've got to get that restarted here. And it's 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:47.360 not one of those where you can go, we just 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.400 flip a switch. They're still getting to know one another 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.840 on that team. Now you have different rotations with Avery 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:56.000 Bradley and Ron Jon Rondo not playing now, it's different 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.880 there and the Clippers will be formidable. We know that 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:03.120 when they get everybody back and healthy. That's his deeper 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.600 rosters you'll find in the NBA playoffs. Alex in North 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:08.840 Dakota joins us. Hi, Alex, what do you have for 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:15.040 me today? Hey? Six two two twenty five. Um, I 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.120 just wanted to say you're talking about JJ Reddick. I 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.840 just think he's a super underappreciated player in the league. 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.160 I mean he's been he's been super consistent, he's been 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.840 very healthy, and I mean if you see are watched 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:26.400 in the last couple of games, he comes off the 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.920 ball extremely well. That three's that he's shooting, he's fading 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.440 away and everything I see. Will still think he's super 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.679 valuable asset, and especially a big veteran that's been in 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:35.600 the playoffs every single year. Yeah, I don't I just 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.199 don't know how long he's going to play. But thank you, Alex. No, 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.840 Reddick is a He's a great player. He's a player 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.760 that every team would love to have because he's an 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:49.800 unbelievable shooter and you know free throw shooting as well. 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.720 He's one of the greats in bold time, and he's 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.640 got that ability. He understands the game and I played 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.880 on the big stage at Duke Pro. Career started out slow, 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:03.280 but he's a great knockdown three point shooter. You know, 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.839 he's a forty five percent three point shooter. And to 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.520 have that where you can space the floor and then 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:10.840 kick it out to JJ Reddick, you know, that's the 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:14.520 value that you have with him. Yeah. Point Reddick's thirty six. 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.559 He had his best year of his career last year 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.240 at age thirty five vers eighteen points a game. He 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.720 has never made an All Star team. He's not going 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.280 to either. He kind of reminds me of Jamal Crawford's career. 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.200 Remember out of Michigan, Yeah, where he started kind of slow, 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.040 but he's always been a very good score and a 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:30.960 very tough player. But he bounces around a little bit. 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.760 Jamal Crawford, I think was sixth Man of the Year 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:38.319 a couple of times. Just got this word. Brewers Cardinals 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:45.480 game postponed tonight due to positive test at least one Phillies, 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:49.280 Blue Jay's, Marlins, Nationals Cardinals Brewers are not playing today 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:55.960 because of COVID nineteen. So that means twenty percent of 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.160 the league is not going to be playing due to 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:08.040 COVID nineteen. All right, well, baseball finally came out, and 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.120 remember I told you I go, you know, I'm hearing 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.120 that there that this was brought up. I don't know 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.920 if it was a text or a conference call. What 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:23.000 about seven inning games for a double header? I didn't 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:24.880 know it was going to happen. Next thing I know 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:29.960 yesterday it's baseballs agreed to have double headers and their 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:34.200 seven innings each And I went, why aren't we thinking 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.720 about this prior to all of this? Hey, what happens 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.200 if a team has somebody test positive? What happens if 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.320 they You know, we have to postpone or cancel some games. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.920 We got to make those games up. And how are 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.520 we going to do that? We've already started our extra 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.200 inning games in the tenth inning with a runner at 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.840 second base. You already have pitching staffs that are getting 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:01.320 depleted with injuries. Here, how about we just throw out 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.920 some more ideas. Quirk bats. Well, I like home run 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:09.440 derby to settle extra innings. You get one player, it 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.120 gets ten pitches and most home runs and then you win. 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:16.280 It's like peaks. Yeah, penalty kicks here. I feel like 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.600 the commissioners listening to the show, and I'm worried if 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.720 I throw out something that's a little too goofy, they 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:25.760 might pick it up. How about free beer to everybody 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:31.240 next season? Yes, Todd. If these things keep popping up 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.440 and it sounds like it is, can they shorten the 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.160 season any further of They'll never get on the same 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:38.760 page the players, the Players Association, and the NMLB about 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.160 like we gotta like move this along. We can't keep 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.640 we can't reschedule these games. We're running out of time. 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:45.960 Do we play a forty game season? Fifty game season? 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.880 What do you do? I don't know. I don't know 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:50.480 what the hell is going on, and I don't think 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.080 Baseball knows what the hell is going on, because this 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.040 is now going to come down to winning percentage. The 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:01.960 Marlins aren't going to play sixty games. I'm guessing most teams, 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.040 you know, maybe a handful of teams get to sixty games. 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:10.320 But all Baseball wants this is all a charade, it's 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.440 all show. It's sixteen games. Let's get to the playoffs. 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:19.960 Let's have sixteen teams in the playoffs. Let's make some money. 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.680 Can we limp to October. That's what we want. Those 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:28.720 are the T shirts like the promos October baseball players 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.400 looking like the Fife and drum Bugle Corps. What with 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:39.160 mask on limping to October? Just get us to October, 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.600 Just get us to the money. That's what we want. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:52.080 Hold on for dear life, limping to October. Oh, man, 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:54.880 you agin when you'd love to have a live camera 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:58.600 Rob Manfred commissioner Manfred this week. Every day there's like 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:03.000 the email inboxing you that no, no no, no, no, shut 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:07.919 it down, no calls? Are the Marlins gonna? When did 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:11.640 the Marlins play again? I think it's I think next 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:18.760 Tuesday is the earliest that they can play. And I 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:22.240 guess half the team is now tested positive. Over half 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.080 of the team is tested. Post shows the lack of 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.439 team unity. Yeah yeah, what about those other guys? You 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:31.440 call yourself Marlin's locker room split question not a true 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:35.639 Marlin clubhouse. Phone calls are welcome eight seven seven three 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.480 D P show email address DP at Dan Patrick dot com, 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:43.080 Twitter handle the DP show. What's the poll question? Mclovin 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.640 is not here today, so Seaton has to do those honors. Yeah? Yeah, 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:48.800 this uh, this poll question. By the way, it's been 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.760 a real doozy all day, Dan, Yeah, yeah, yeah, as 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.840 you're searching for it. If you were twenty two, which 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.719 team would you rather play for? It's been split right 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.679 down the middle fifty fifty all morning. So would you 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.960 rather play for the Lakers or the Pelicans? Yeah? Who 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:06.760 would go? Lakers? Here? Todd sentative as I am about 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.679 getting yelled at by Lebron because learning from him and 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.440 being able to have the experience of playing with Lebron James, 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:14.679 and the experience of dealing with the media in a 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:16.480 big market and all that at a young age, you 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:18.840 would think it can only be easier as opposed to 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.840 more fun right away, I understand that the argument with 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:25.480 the Pelicans, but I want to say, real reasons. You 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:27.120 get moved back to Plia del Rey and be next 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:30.920 door to Sechuan Palace. Nice to boot barn, San Bernardino. Yeah, 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:32.840 get some boots, got a nice chicken and broccoli and 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:34.600 low main thing right down the hill area by the 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:39.040 You could not you could not take the heat. I 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.719 probably couldn't the media. You couldn't do it. But on 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.760 paper it sounds like the bell. But if it wasn't me. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.119 If I'm someone else had a tougher shell LA and 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:50.639 experience playing with Lebron, that seems like the thing to 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.440 sign up for and a chance to win a ring 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:56.080 Seaton Man. But there's something about aside from playing with 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.479 to say, like Zion and a bunch of younger dudes, right, 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.760 that'll play a pretty exciteing branded basketball. You don't have 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.880 all of these ghosts around you all the time reminding 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:08.040 you to make sure that you're great. You know, hang 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:11.199 that that pressure is just Kobe Bryant got criticized on 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.119 a daily basis. He's one of the greatest basketball players ever, 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.480 and he got too criticim Lebron. Like, for me, it's easy. 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.280 I don't like traffic and I love Cajun food. This 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:22.080 I don't even care if they play me. I would 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.719 play for the Pelican. We'll take a break here. Pat Forty, 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:29.480 who covers college sports for Sports Illustrated. The SEC set 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:33.720 an all conference game schedule starting September twenty sixth. I'm 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:37.720 wondering if it's smarter to start the season sooner and 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.760 then build in a couple of bye weeks there, just 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.480 in case that's what Oklahoma was trying to do. But 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.240 we'll talk to Pat forty about this, you know, with 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:50.200 the other leagues and kind of hit the reset button 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:54.199 on college football here. What exactly is happening and what 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:57.480 does he expect to happen here in over the next month. 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.479 So we'll talk to Pat and Matt Ryan join us. 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:02.439 Coming up in the final hour of the show twenty 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:04.880 one after the hour, This is the Dan Patrick Show. 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:09.800 Simply Safe Home Security. They've been a partner of ours 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:12.600 for over a decade. And what I love about Simply 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:15.959 Safe is it's all in the name. 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It was Getty 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:33.520 Lee's birthday a couple of days ago, badass bass player 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:38.240 for Rush, we sent out our birthday greetings to Getty 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:42.080 Lee and one Getty Lee responded to Pauli papst a 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:47.000 huge Rush fan. Pretty exciting for PAULI yesterday. Yeah, I 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:50.720 mean I put a nice picture that there's a picture 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:53.000 Getty Lee at I posted something you pithy little joke, 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:56.439 and the entire Rush the band Twitter feed retweeted it 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:58.480 and sent me a note. I was like, oh my goodness, 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:01.200 yeah it was. And then Eddie Lee reached out as well, 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:02.720 I gotta tell you. Then I don't get choked up 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:05.879 that much if you were to saw me the other day. 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:08.760 I'm not kidding. This is very very cool. I know 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:10.840 PAULI didn't cry at his wedding or when his two 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:13.480 daughters were born, but he's on the verge of tears. 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:17.560 As Getty Lee retweets something that PAULI sent with his 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:19.480 birthday greeting. If the guys from Rush walked in here, 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:23.440 I think I would probably m I wouldn't make it M. Yeah. See, 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:26.400 I like to imagine sort of being on the other 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:28.320 side of that. I say, you're Getty Lee and it's 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:30.920 your birthday, and then you're just scrolling through the Rush 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:32.720 Twitter feed and you see, like, Wow, look what this 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:35.160 guy said about me. How awesome is that? Like, Yeah, 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:38.439 it's a second that I took from kicking ass uh 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:41.240 Tiffany and Los Angeles. Then we'll talk to Pat Forty 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:48.520 from Sports Illustrated. Good morning Tiffany, Good morning Color, long 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:52.400 time listener, And I heard you guys just say that 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:55.000 Paul used to go to Safalon Palace all the time. 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:57.080 I've lived in La my whole life and grew up 0:22:57.080 --> 0:23:01.080 going there. It just closed due to coronavirus, and we 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:03.480 were very sad to see it go. So if he 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:06.760