Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 1: league sports, conservative unifying force. I'm tuning in to watch
Speaker 1: a game. There is no game change. Is uncomfortable. Uncomfortable
Speaker 1: maybe to yourself into a lot of other people. You know,
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter has kind of been lost to your
Speaker 1: players want more done on voting issues. Players want more
Speaker 1: done on police reforms. I don't know if we're reacting
Speaker 1: the way that the players had hoped we would react.
Speaker 1: If you're going to be the beacon of light, you've
Speaker 1: got to go all in. Welcome to the Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 1: How much pressure do you think is on Lebron right now?
Speaker 1: So it's a lot of pressure. Everyone is expecting you
Speaker 1: to lead the way certain people are built to handle it.
Speaker 1: Broadcasting from the Mercedes Man, this is Dan Patrick. How
Speaker 1: we're two on this Friday, Dan and Madane Stan Patrick Show.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to have you on board. We're going to
Speaker 1: talk to Chris Haynes from Yahoo Sports. He'll join us
Speaker 1: from inside the Bubble. He has been reporting at all
Speaker 1: hours of the night the last two days, and he'll
Speaker 1: join us. He's done a wonderful job and covering what's
Speaker 1: going on in the bubbles, these bubble and these meetings
Speaker 1: that are going on, private meetings, and he'll join us
Speaker 1: because it's been a long forty eight hours here. And
Speaker 1: just to recap a little bit from what my source
Speaker 1: told me, and this is the source who was represents
Speaker 1: some players in the bubble, said to me the previous
Speaker 1: night that this is a hot burner. That this is
Speaker 1: bleep and hot. Right now, front burner. This is bleep
Speaker 1: and hot was his quote to me. Because I wondered
Speaker 1: what was going on. It felt like there was something
Speaker 1: that was going to explode. And that's what he said
Speaker 1: when we first started talking. And then I talked to
Speaker 1: him yesterday afternoon and I said, so what is the
Speaker 1: end result? He goes, well, the endgame is what you
Speaker 1: need to mention to your audience. The players just want
Speaker 1: to know, Okay, we did this, Now what's it mean?
Speaker 1: And we'll talk to Chris Hayes about it. And from
Speaker 1: what I was told also in that conversation, this is
Speaker 1: not about now. This is about five years, fifteen, twenty years.
Speaker 1: This is about the next generation coming into the NBA.
Speaker 1: That's how important it is. The players feel like we
Speaker 1: have this opportunity seize the moment here, and they really debated,
Speaker 1: if you do walk out of the bubble, then what
Speaker 1: do you accomplish? If you stay in the bubble, what
Speaker 1: do you accomplish? You took three days off with no
Speaker 1: basketball and you boycott, what did you accomplish? These are
Speaker 1: the questions that some of these players are still trying
Speaker 1: to find answers too. I just saw this from Jim
Speaker 1: Trotter covers the NFL NFL owners should be careful of
Speaker 1: a few prominent black players are telling me they want
Speaker 1: to sit out a game to make their feelings felt.
Speaker 1: Enforced change slash action. They're tired, frustrated, and emotional. It's
Speaker 1: only a few at this point, but become flames, and
Speaker 1: flames become infernos. That's Jim Trotter also saw this. Roughly
Speaker 1: one hundred NBA employees, according to Melika Andrews from the Mothership.
Speaker 1: These employees based in New York are on strike today
Speaker 1: and solidarity with the NBA and w NBA players pushing
Speaker 1: for social justice. They will be spending the day calling
Speaker 1: elected officials. It's fluid. It's right in front of us
Speaker 1: here and we're not gonna have basketball today. It looks
Speaker 1: like we'll have basketball coming up tomorrow. We are less
Speaker 1: than two weeks away from the start of the NFL season,
Speaker 1: and now these NFL players, as Jim Trotter is pointing out,
Speaker 1: it's almost like you're handing a baton to somebody. Okay,
Speaker 1: you did it, then you hand the baton off to
Speaker 1: somebody else. Maybe it's another sport. Maybe it's the NHL,
Speaker 1: maybe it's MLS, maybe it's baseball. You're handing the baton off,
Speaker 1: and the baton is going to get handed off to
Speaker 1: the NFL soon. If we had a season already started,
Speaker 1: I'm going to guess you would have players who are
Speaker 1: going to boycott or sit out a game. We're two
Speaker 1: weeks away, less than two weeks away, and I think
Speaker 1: this is where coaches, it is really important in the
Speaker 1: message that you discuss. You talk about what do you
Speaker 1: want to do, how do you want to do it,
Speaker 1: what do you want to say? And Bruce Arians basically
Speaker 1: said to his team the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, don't just protest,
Speaker 1: get out there and do things. Let's do things. It's
Speaker 1: not just you're gonna protest something or say something. Go
Speaker 1: out there and do things. That's the really important part here.
Speaker 1: But that's Bruce's take on his directive with his team.
Speaker 1: I saw were Sequon Barkley is at least discussing or
Speaker 1: thought about sitting out a game. These are things that
Speaker 1: are going to happen over the next two weeks and
Speaker 1: then once the season starts as well. So Jim Trotter
Speaker 1: with that piece of information that some prominent black players
Speaker 1: are telling him that they want to sit out again,
Speaker 1: aim to make their feelings felt eight seven seven three
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Speaker 1: Full question, mcklevin, what do you have for me today?
Speaker 1: So I actually which QB storyline are you most excited
Speaker 1: about for the NFL? Because all the ones we were
Speaker 1: talking about were basically quarterbacks Tom Brady and Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: is running away with it? But guess what second? The
Speaker 1: other choices are Cam Newton, Aaron Rodgers, Dak Prescott or
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. I'm going to guess the Cowboys. No, it's
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. Okay, I have not wait. Why are people
Speaker 1: excited for three and thirteen to see if Burrow is
Speaker 1: good enough to hold off Trevor Lawrence? Is that? I
Speaker 1: just think I'm curious to see if Joe Burrow is good?
Speaker 1: How are you going to tell in Cincinnati their whole
Speaker 1: O line will be injured by week four and aj
Speaker 1: Green is going to be out by the end of
Speaker 1: this this segment. Sorry, I have some feelings about the bangings. No,
Speaker 1: I know, but it's because they turn their back on
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, so you have to stomp that. But also
Speaker 1: do they they Surtiusly do have injury problems and they're
Speaker 1: already having injury problems. Yeah, it's hard to That's what
Speaker 1: I say. It's hard to evaluate Burrow because a team
Speaker 1: is young and rebuilding. I go back to what I said,
Speaker 1: I don't know how good too is because if you're
Speaker 1: the quarterback in Alabama, I got two wide receivers he
Speaker 1: went in the first round, and two more wide receivers
Speaker 1: going into the first round next year's draft. I got
Speaker 1: all these offensive linemen. I mean, I have everything that
Speaker 1: I need there to be great. Now when I extract
Speaker 1: you from Alabama and put you in with Miami or
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, that alis shoot team, skilled position, wide receivers
Speaker 1: as good as I've ever seen in college football. And
Speaker 1: you've got a great offensive coordinator who's now with Carolina.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how good Joe Burrow is because
Speaker 1: the previous year he was okay, and then he became
Speaker 1: the number one pick in the draft. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: curious about that. So yeah, that's a big storyline I think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: going back to the poll. I think everyone jumps on
Speaker 1: watching Rickie quarterbacks in September because you're not going to
Speaker 1: see them play in January. You're not gonna see them playing,
Speaker 1: you know, deep in the playoffs. I remember a bunch
Speaker 1: of years ago, I think there was the debut is
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota versus James Winston and they played each other
Speaker 1: on the first game. I was watching that way over
Speaker 1: big time teams. Yeah, and I was really interested in
Speaker 1: that because you want to see, Okay, Heisman Trophy winners,
Speaker 1: let me see how they play. And you're normally going
Speaker 1: to usually going to a bad team, and that's where
Speaker 1: you just want to see sort of signs that you're
Speaker 1: a leader. Hey, you're going to get knocked knocked down
Speaker 1: and get back up. I mean, Joe Burrow had the
Speaker 1: greatest college football season a quarterback has ever had, and
Speaker 1: he was going against great competition, high level competition, and
Speaker 1: he produced in the clutch. Now you go to the
Speaker 1: Bengals and you're going to a team and the reason
Speaker 1: why you're going there is because they're not good. And
Speaker 1: now it starts. Let's see what you can do and
Speaker 1: how long it takes for that turnaround. If you're able
Speaker 1: to do that. It's just like Baker Mayfield. They were
Speaker 1: on the cusp of doing something pretty spectacular, I thought,
Speaker 1: and he played really well that first year, and then
Speaker 1: he had the dip. Now I look at it basically
Speaker 1: like this, he's having a rookie's another rookie season. Because
Speaker 1: I don't know what to expect out of Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 1: I expect them to make the playoffs. Yeah, McLevin. I
Speaker 1: think you could say that for a lot of quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I mean, Justin Fields had historically one of the greatest.
Speaker 1: He was forty one in three last year. All these
Speaker 1: guys have these great, big numbers. Is I find it
Speaker 1: really hard to figure out what does that mean anymore? Well,
Speaker 1: until we allow defenses to catch up, we're going to
Speaker 1: continue to have this. But that's why you have this
Speaker 1: proliferation of offense. You know, where all sports are trying
Speaker 1: to get more offense. Now the NBA can't put my
Speaker 1: hand on you. Everybody's shooting threes. Everybody, you know, the
Speaker 1: Stars get to the free throw line. The NFL. You know,
Speaker 1: I can't do anything as a defensive back. I'm really
Speaker 1: really really limited there. And if you're going to have
Speaker 1: these offense and on offense is usually ahead of the defense.
Speaker 1: It's rare when you have a defense, you know, Seattle's
Speaker 1: Legion of Boom or the Ravens with Ray Lewis. You know,
Speaker 1: you get one of those great defenses. I mean even
Speaker 1: the Niners last year, that was a great defense. And
Speaker 1: you can only hold down Patrick Mahomes for so long.
Speaker 1: And they did their best and then they gave up
Speaker 1: the big play to Tyreek Hill and then they ended
Speaker 1: up losing the Super Bowl because of that, among other things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, this is for the room week one worst
Speaker 1: game that if you the game, you least want to watch. Jets, Bills,
Speaker 1: Oh Man, Bills are fun, all right, Bears, Lions, that's true.
Speaker 1: On that, Raiders Panthers. Is that Saucy Colts, Jaguars, Phil River.
Speaker 1: That's tough too, I'm trying to sell that's tough. I
Speaker 1: can't watch the Bears and the Lions like I can't.
Speaker 1: I have to, but I can't. I can't. Titans, Brocos
Speaker 1: Titans are good. Oh yeah, oh yeah, sure, yeah. I
Speaker 1: gotta see if Ryan Tannehill Derrick Henry can make magic,
Speaker 1: if Drew Locke is going to be great. No, Todd
Speaker 1: just because it's Thebroncos, you don't get to talk. What
Speaker 1: else point? Those are the best ones. I also saw
Speaker 1: this story Nebraska players are suing the Big Ten. They
Speaker 1: want to play, and there's a key item in here
Speaker 1: that people should hear about what is going on. The
Speaker 1: players argue that the Big Ten council presidents and chancellors
Speaker 1: failed to actually vote on cancelation of the fall twenty
Speaker 1: twenty season, in violation of bylaws that require at least
Speaker 1: sixty percent of the council to approve that decision. They
Speaker 1: had an informal vote, and that's why I came in
Speaker 1: and told you what that vote was. It was twelve two,
Speaker 1: with Nebraska and Iowa their presidents saying they wanted to
Speaker 1: play now. The players also claimed the Big Ten relied
Speaker 1: on a study of potential COVID nineteen health effects on
Speaker 1: patients who are quote much older than college football players
Speaker 1: and not in similar physical condition to them. The players
Speaker 1: likewise tout the notion that a college football environment is
Speaker 1: quote safer for the athletes than an environment where college
Speaker 1: football isn't being played. And I think you can make
Speaker 1: that case there, and I've made that case, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if you can get an injunction here. But
Speaker 1: this does come down to I don't know if the
Speaker 1: Big Ten explored everything they needed to explore. I know
Speaker 1: the Pac twelve was going to be the first conference
Speaker 1: to shut down and they were relying on the Big
Speaker 1: Ten to join them, and that's what happened. But I
Speaker 1: thought the Big Ten if I have football in Ohio,
Speaker 1: so I have high school football in Ohio and the
Speaker 1: Bengals and the Browns are playing. I have the University
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati playing football, but I don't have Ohio State playing.
Speaker 1: I just have questions, and I don't know if there
Speaker 1: are people in the Big Ten who have answers. And
Speaker 1: I understand the frustration because these players are looking around
Speaker 1: and saying, wait a minute, they're playing, and they're playing.
Speaker 1: Can I even trans to another school? I like how
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin came out and said, hey, I think these
Speaker 1: players should be able to transfer. Right Lane, If Lane
Speaker 1: was at USC and these players didn't get to play
Speaker 1: and they were like, oh, we're leaving, he'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: you can't leave. That scholarship is binding. Surprise. Lane Kiffin
Speaker 1: didn't name players that he wanted to transfer, justin Field
Speaker 1: shouldn't be able to transfer to Mississippi State, just saying
Speaker 1: I thought that was funny. Thank you, Lane. A couple
Speaker 1: of phone calls here, and then we'll talk to Chris
Speaker 1: Haynes from Young who sports. We have the Tragger fired up.
Speaker 1: We're having a clam bake today. We've never done this
Speaker 1: on the Tragger, but Alan, who was our it guy
Speaker 1: and chef, he said, we're gonna have a clam bake,
Speaker 1: and I said, all right. So I went out and
Speaker 1: I of course inspected as I always do every Friday,
Speaker 1: and wanted to make sure that it was going to
Speaker 1: be cooked on a trigger, because I said, that's the key.
Speaker 1: We can't say, hey, we had clam bake and we
Speaker 1: didn't cook it on the trigger. He goes, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be cooked on the trigger, so we'll keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that for the dawnets for this meat frighting. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what's in a clam bake other than
Speaker 1: there's clams that are baking, sausage, corn potatoes, sometimes onions.
Speaker 1: Lobster um, yeah, more like a shellfish. Yeah, some there
Speaker 1: might be some lobster. I think we have shrimp muscles,
Speaker 1: m so a lot of Old Bay seasoning old Bay?
Speaker 1: That those the leaves? No old Bay is I think
Speaker 1: it's out of Baltimore, Auto Maryland. It's a seasoning. It's fantastic.
Speaker 1: But there are bay leaves, yes, okay? Is that the
Speaker 1: one that can kill you? Like? Is there technical just
Speaker 1: to be safe for old people who love old Bay?
Speaker 1: Old Bay cannot kill you? No, the leaf? Oh have
Speaker 1: you ever had a dish where somebody said, oh, don't oh,
Speaker 1: you might find this in there, but don't eat it.
Speaker 1: It could kill you. Like no, I don't know mountain dew.
Speaker 1: Maybe somebody was trying to poison me. I don't know.
Speaker 1: They don't eat that, it'll kill you. But I thought
Speaker 1: there was like a bay leave or something that you
Speaker 1: can't eat it or you shouldn't eat it or it
Speaker 1: could harm you. Yes, are we gonna pull out a
Speaker 1: guitar go full clambake? Are we doing this the right way? Like?
Speaker 1: Is this going to be like on the Beach of Bonfire? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like Beach Boys? Maybe we get the Beach Boys, jam Seaton,
Speaker 1: do you have this? Is uh? Not true? Bailey's maybe
Speaker 1: eaten without toxic effect. However, they remain unpleasantly stiff even
Speaker 1: after a thorough cooking, and if swallowed whole or in
Speaker 1: large pieces, they may pose a risk of harming the
Speaker 1: digestive track or cause choking. Unpleasantly stiff. Is the Todd
Speaker 1: Fritz documentary? I thought, I think I've seen that wasn't
Speaker 1: supposed to be announced, that a press release for at
Speaker 1: least a few weeks. Unpleasantly stiff, the digestive track, the whole. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not a long documentary, oh dear? Or is it
Speaker 1: Pink Floyd album? Unpleasantly stiff, unpleasantly stiff. I can't doesn't
Speaker 1: that sound like a band? Ladies and gentlemen? Unpleasantly stiff.
Speaker 1: A couple of phone calls here, Eric, Eric and Loose.
Speaker 1: It's Friday, Eric in California. Hi Eric, what do you
Speaker 1: have for me in your day? BP? Good? Good, good good? UM.
Speaker 1: Just a couple of things about this NBA situation. UM.
Speaker 1: I I'm all for change. I'm all for um, you know,
Speaker 1: the fight against racism. I think that's a noble cause
Speaker 1: and I think it's definitely needed. But where where I
Speaker 1: struggle with it, dan is I feel like there's a
Speaker 1: shared responsibility in a lot of these police brutality cases. Um.
Speaker 1: The victims are typically you know, resisting arrest, and you
Speaker 1: know they're convicted felons sometimes. And does that mean that
Speaker 1: they deserve to be shot? Absolutely not, um. But I
Speaker 1: just I I hate hearing and I don't like hearing um.
Speaker 1: You know the US these pictures of these you know, angels,
Speaker 1: and they're complete innocence and they're being victimized. It's there's
Speaker 1: a it's a two way street. You know, when when
Speaker 1: you get pulled over by a cop, you listen and
Speaker 1: you do what they're saying, right, And a lot of
Speaker 1: times these guys are under the influence, and there's other factors.
Speaker 1: I don't want to break down these individual cases, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to have a blanket statement here Eric
Speaker 1: that everybody's under the influence. Here. I would just hope
Speaker 1: that you could subdue somebody without shooting them seven times
Speaker 1: in the back, any person. And I thought of my
Speaker 1: late great friend John Saunders. I loved him dearly because John,
Speaker 1: he was no nonsense, former hockey player, worked with him
Speaker 1: at the Mother's Ship, and I remember we were sitting
Speaker 1: around one night and having a couple of beers and
Speaker 1: John said, you know, I better get on the road
Speaker 1: here because he drove a red Porsche and uh, he said,
Speaker 1: because I you know, I get pulled over occasionally. And
Speaker 1: I said, you've only had two beers. He goes, oh, no,
Speaker 1: that's not it. It's it's a DWB, and I said
Speaker 1: d driving. He goes driving Wall Black and I had
Speaker 1: it's probably twenty five years ago. That's first time I
Speaker 1: heard it. And he goes, yeah, I have a nice
Speaker 1: car and I get pulled over. And then we had
Speaker 1: a director and he drove a BMW and he was
Speaker 1: African American and he said, yeah DWB and he lived
Speaker 1: in the same neighborhood I did. And you know, so
Speaker 1: we'd driving, we would be driving the same you know,
Speaker 1: both driving nice cars DWB. But I'm not here to
Speaker 1: break down these things. I told you that I would
Speaker 1: talk about when sports intersected with what was going on
Speaker 1: in society or something that was real and affected what
Speaker 1: was going on in sports. But I'm not here looking
Speaker 1: at every individual case, and just I promised you I
Speaker 1: would not do that. But I just give you my
Speaker 1: thoughts on this, my experiences with this. Talking to people
Speaker 1: about this, you make up your mind or if you've
Speaker 1: already made up your mind. But I would just hope
Speaker 1: if somebody even is resisting arrest, that I could somehow
Speaker 1: subdue them without shooting them seven times. That's okay. Chris
Speaker 1: Haines will join us coming up next year. It's twenty
Speaker 1: after the hour. This is The Dan Patrick Show. Thanks
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Speaker 1: bring in Chris Haynes, who's done a great job the
Speaker 1: last forty eight hours. He's been the MVP of the bubble.
Speaker 1: He's like the TJ. Warren of reporters down there. Chris Haynes,
Speaker 1: the host of Post Up with Chris Haynes, a podcast,
Speaker 1: and TNT courtside reporter Young who Sports NBA insider, back
Speaker 1: on the program. Where do things stand today as we
Speaker 1: speak right now ten twenty five Eastern Chris, Well, there
Speaker 1: there are practices today, so you know, that's that's that's
Speaker 1: the first time since what since Tuesday or Wednesday mornings,
Speaker 1: the guy IF teams haven't early practices. So it's a
Speaker 1: full slate of practice today. So we'll get a chance
Speaker 1: to hear some from some of the players and kind
Speaker 1: of get their perspective, you know, personally on you know,
Speaker 1: what it's been like for them over the last forty
Speaker 1: eight seventy two hours. Well, as the headline of your
Speaker 1: latest column said, inside the emotional forty eight hours that
Speaker 1: saved the DA's bubble, how close were we to shutting
Speaker 1: this down? Look, I think Lebron James was very pivotal
Speaker 1: and how this all happened. You know, I have to
Speaker 1: I have to command Chris Paul, the President of the
Speaker 1: Player Association UM, the VP andre Iguadalla UM C J
Speaker 1: McCallum owners Zectis Committee like those guys did a tremendous
Speaker 1: job and working all hours of the day, um not
Speaker 1: getting much sleep over the last few days, and just
Speaker 1: trying to talk with everybody. There was multiple meetings had
Speaker 1: There were small meetings, there were big meetings, just trying
Speaker 1: to figure out a way how everybody can find some
Speaker 1: common ground. There was a lot of emotions. Man, DP,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this, and so I know a lot
Speaker 1: of time the the player, the player contingent side gets
Speaker 1: gets a bad rap. It's specifically when they're going up
Speaker 1: against the ownership group. But you know, you want to
Speaker 1: got to remind folks that you know, the ownership group
Speaker 1: is only thirty of them opposed to four hundred fifty players.
Speaker 1: The ownership group are a bunch of established, successful people
Speaker 1: in the business field, mature individuals, where where the players
Speaker 1: mostly are young, just came into money, learning on the
Speaker 1: fly what it is to be a man, what it
Speaker 1: is to be a professional. So whenever you get a
Speaker 1: large group of guys in the one room or one call,
Speaker 1: there's going to be differences of opinions. There's going to
Speaker 1: be egos, class and Chris Paul does a great job
Speaker 1: just trying to manage all that. And so you know,
Speaker 1: these last couple of days, you know, let's let's start
Speaker 1: with Lebron James. No Wednesday. You know, initially, you know,
Speaker 1: sources told me and he let it be known the
Speaker 1: Lakers are out, and he walked out. The walked out
Speaker 1: the meeting. Dannis has him or the heat kind of
Speaker 1: pressed him. I was like, what are you going to do?
Speaker 1: What's going on? He walked out. The Lakers followed, the
Speaker 1: Clippers followed. Soon after they voted as well to boycotted
Speaker 1: and being Shanes Bron James position chains over the next day.
Speaker 1: And I please urgest people to gonna read it, you know,
Speaker 1: get more in depth on on y'ahoo sports. Read the
Speaker 1: report and trying to get I wish I could tell
Speaker 1: you everything about no time is condensed, but a lot happened,
Speaker 1: and it was last forty eight seventy two hours to
Speaker 1: get us to this point. But this is what I
Speaker 1: was told yesterday, and that is what is the end game.
Speaker 1: And source said that that was a concern with the players.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna boycott and we're gonna boycott for
Speaker 1: three days, So what do we want what is going
Speaker 1: to happen that is going to bring us back? So
Speaker 1: how would you answer that, Well, this is what I
Speaker 1: would say. So and I'm not trying to take anything
Speaker 1: away from the player's narrative. But you know, we talk
Speaker 1: about a boycott. Well, let's say, let's start with this.
Speaker 1: The Bucks, they just intended to forfeit. You know, the latest,
Speaker 1: the latest shooting that happened in their backyard, right, this
Speaker 1: was personal for them. They just intended to forfeit. You know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't this whole boycott. This wasn't an organized stag
Speaker 1: by the players. Everyone was caught off guard if you
Speaker 1: weren't a member of the Milwaukee Bucks. So once the
Speaker 1: Bucks did this, it made it kind of impossible for
Speaker 1: you know, the rest of the teams to play the game.
Speaker 1: You know, it just wouldn't have looked right. And so
Speaker 1: that was the That was the problem for Lebron and
Speaker 1: many others is that the Bucks did this. But now
Speaker 1: everybody is in this situation where we're sitting out, So
Speaker 1: now what's the end game? That was Lebron's frustration. That
Speaker 1: was part of the reason why he walked out for
Speaker 1: the beating as well. It was like, we're doing this.
Speaker 1: You you forced us to sit right. This wasn't organized
Speaker 1: by everybody. Everybody wasn't on one of the court. We
Speaker 1: wasn't informed about this, and so now we're in this place. Now,
Speaker 1: what what is the end game? What are we asking for?
Speaker 1: What are we demanding? So that was his issue. That
Speaker 1: was some of the issues that you know, everybody else
Speaker 1: and then you have to be Donna's haslem. You know,
Speaker 1: he kind of questioned, you know, George Hill and you
Speaker 1: know other players who felt like them, saying like, because
Speaker 1: George Hill the Bucks, you know, he was kind of
Speaker 1: wanting orchest rated for the Bucks to set that game out,
Speaker 1: And he was like, who are we as veterans to
Speaker 1: tell everybody that it's in our best interests to leave Orlando,
Speaker 1: all the all the youngsters that's in this league and
Speaker 1: playing they're not financially secure to go through with a
Speaker 1: drastic move and leave this bubble and leave money on
Speaker 1: the table. So that is very selfish of us to
Speaker 1: to try to make everybody go out there and do this.
Speaker 1: So there was different ways, different berries of opinions and
Speaker 1: feelings and emotions and emotions were high because you know,
Speaker 1: this had just happened. You know, all these boycotts, well boycotts,
Speaker 1: these not playing the games had just happened, and there
Speaker 1: was a meeting just hours later. So it's just raw motions, attention,
Speaker 1: you know, to add on with players frustrated and feeling
Speaker 1: guilt for playing, um, considering what's going on, you know
Speaker 1: within the black community, and so you know, it was
Speaker 1: just a lot of things to unpack. Chris Sans from
Speaker 1: YEA Who's Sports joining us. Michael Jordan's role in getting
Speaker 1: basketball all back in the bubble was what he basically
Speaker 1: was just being the voice of the players. And I'm
Speaker 1: trying to convey to the owners you know how serious
Speaker 1: this is, what this means to the players. And you know,
Speaker 1: Lebron James was very vocal on that call with the
Speaker 1: owners and telling them like more needs to be done.
Speaker 1: We need you, we need resources, um see minute within
Speaker 1: the black community. We need you to use your influence
Speaker 1: in your power to affect change and legs, you know,
Speaker 1: the legislator legislator system manum, you know, with laws and
Speaker 1: so you know, he he left. This is what I
Speaker 1: was told. I was told that Lebron left the call
Speaker 1: with the owners feeling like progress was made and after
Speaker 1: that that's when he started really to feel comfortable about
Speaker 1: return to play, because that was all Lebron wanted was
Speaker 1: that if we're doing this, if we're all forced to
Speaker 1: sit now, which this is what we have to do,
Speaker 1: what is the endgame? What do we demand in change off?
Speaker 1: And he felt like progress was made. But you know,
Speaker 1: in fairness to the owners, they have been I think
Speaker 1: accommodating with a lot of the request with Black Lives
Speaker 1: Matter on the court, with the names whatever you wanted
Speaker 1: to put on the jerseys. How much money that they
Speaker 1: have put up. I think three hundred million dollars, which
Speaker 1: is a start here. That's what I didn't understand. What
Speaker 1: the I don't know if there's mixed messages with why
Speaker 1: they boycotted, and that's what I was told yesterday. Are
Speaker 1: they trying to bring more attention back into the bubble
Speaker 1: because it felt like, and I said this yesterday, we
Speaker 1: I don't see Black Lives Matter on the floor like
Speaker 1: I did when we first started. It's almost like advertising
Speaker 1: in a baseball game, like City Bank is in the back,
Speaker 1: or even what's on your jersey? And I was told,
Speaker 1: you know, these players feel like we can't get out
Speaker 1: of the bubble. So while we're in the bubble, we
Speaker 1: want to make sure that we get it's refocused on
Speaker 1: what we're trying to do and what we're trying to accomplish.
Speaker 1: Here do you follow that sentiment here? Well, I'll say
Speaker 1: this is DP. So when you're talking about players boycott
Speaker 1: and I think we need to kind of change that narrative.
Speaker 1: You know, a boycott is an organized position. Then they
Speaker 1: were forced into this, So I don't even want to
Speaker 1: I have a problem really calling the boycott. This was
Speaker 1: something they were forced into. So now that they're in
Speaker 1: this position, Um, they felt like they had to ask
Speaker 1: for something, they had to demand something, So you know
Speaker 1: that that's that's that's kind of that's kind of the
Speaker 1: real view of how it shied up. And then I
Speaker 1: would say this DP. Now, you know, not every owner
Speaker 1: wanted to have Black lives matter, you know on the court,
Speaker 1: not every owner wanted the whole bubble of people to
Speaker 1: be um, you know, wearing T shirts to say black
Speaker 1: lives matter. You know what I mean. It's like it's
Speaker 1: to the point, DP, where you know, the Black Lives
Speaker 1: matter is a it's become a fashion statement because you know,
Speaker 1: I'm walking around here and I remember three months ago
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter wasn't viewed as a as a positive gesture,
Speaker 1: and now everybody is wearing it like so um, you know,
Speaker 1: and I think players see that and they understand that, Okay,
Speaker 1: you may be putting money to something, but owners have
Speaker 1: your views changed, have your thoughts changed about what we're
Speaker 1: dealing with in society? And and I just felt they
Speaker 1: felt the players, you know, took this time. It felt
Speaker 1: like it was the time to ask for something, asked
Speaker 1: for something, to get something to return because if they
Speaker 1: went back and played DP. You know, is it really
Speaker 1: a boycott? What is that doing? You're you're sitting out
Speaker 1: a game, And like I said, I don't I'm not
Speaker 1: even comfortable calling it the boycott considering how the way
Speaker 1: you know, everything happened. Initially, players have upset with George
Speaker 1: Hill for starting the you know, convincing his teammates to
Speaker 1: basically forfeit the game against Orlando. Well, yeah, they you know,
Speaker 1: they there's a there's a bunch of players who felt
Speaker 1: like he wasn't speaking for everybody, or it wasn't thinking
Speaker 1: for all. Um. You know, that's the point. You Donna's
Speaker 1: house are made. Is that you know, when you're when
Speaker 1: you're here trying to tell everybody to leave, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody's not financially secure to do that. And that's one
Speaker 1: of the emphasis that Michelle Robbers, executive of Players Union,
Speaker 1: and azri Ilodalla, you know, that's one thing they harped
Speaker 1: on is that you know, you know informing them are
Speaker 1: the ramifications of believing what that can do. CBA would
Speaker 1: likely to be torn up by the by the owners,
Speaker 1: and then they put them in a worse situation financially
Speaker 1: down the road in the next CBA. So all those
Speaker 1: things had to be weighed and a lot of and
Speaker 1: a lot of this is a sentiment from a lot
Speaker 1: of players for not leaving the bubble because they felt like,
Speaker 1: if we leave the bubble, were losing money. Now, if
Speaker 1: we want to get back to our communities, you know,
Speaker 1: invest back into moneys, put money back into the communities.
Speaker 1: How does that boat? How does leaving the bubble and
Speaker 1: losing money boat? Well, for that right, we have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to stay here, raise awareness, continue to get paid,
Speaker 1: and to be able to enact change financially and to
Speaker 1: get back. So that that was that was a sentiment
Speaker 1: from a lot of players were playing basketball Saturday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe we're playing basketball Saturday. I see it. We
Speaker 1: should have a firm, firm statement from the league today
Speaker 1: on that good stuff. Chris, thanks for joining us. We
Speaker 1: appreciate it as always, have a good weekend. Take care
Speaker 1: of DP. That's Chris Haynes. That's a tired reporter right there.
Speaker 1: You can hear it. TNT courtside reporter of course. Ya
Speaker 1: who's sports NBA Insider host of posted up with Chris
Speaker 1: Haynes his podcast here. Yep. So they come back on Saturday.
Speaker 1: It looks like and I don't know if they come
Speaker 1: back unified, but I think the Bucks catching everybody off guard,
Speaker 1: boy that was a that was a bonus contention because
Speaker 1: now you basically say to everybody else, you got a
Speaker 1: boycott a show of solidarity. You can't goin the bubble
Speaker 1: and have a show of solidarity in the bubble and
Speaker 1: then this happens, and then just the Bucks are the
Speaker 1: ones who want to forfeit. And I was the one
Speaker 1: that was informed that the players wanted to call it
Speaker 1: a boycott, and Chris was saying, you can't call it
Speaker 1: a boycott because the other teams didn't want a boycott. Right,
Speaker 1: Damon in Ohio joins us, Hey, Damon, what do you
Speaker 1: have for me today? Are you doing DP good? Sir? Hey?
Speaker 1: I just I love what y'all do and I'll listen
Speaker 1: to y'all every day. And the thing is with this
Speaker 1: boycott protest, whatever it is in regards to that, it
Speaker 1: brings light to everything that's going on and some of
Speaker 1: the some of the things, some of the things that
Speaker 1: is transparent or not transparent, is bringing it to light,
Speaker 1: is giving it a beacon of light? Well hopefully that's
Speaker 1: what you know we're trying to do. But this is
Speaker 1: this is a learning process for all of us. And
Speaker 1: I think you're seeing that even with these players. These
Speaker 1: are young players now, not everybody's thirty five, thirty six
Speaker 1: like Lebron got young players and having them see the
Speaker 1: big picture and what is the big picture for them
Speaker 1: now in the bubble and when they get out of
Speaker 1: the bubble. Roughly one NBA employers employees based in New
Speaker 1: York are on strike today in solidarity with the NBA
Speaker 1: WNBA the players pushing for social justice. They, according to
Speaker 1: Melika Andrews of ESPN, they will spend the day calling
Speaker 1: elected officials. And I throw this back out there for
Speaker 1: you just to be aware of Jim Trotter, great reporter
Speaker 1: covering the NFL. NFL owners should be careful. A few
Speaker 1: prominent black players are telling me that they want to
Speaker 1: sit out a game to make their feelings felt and
Speaker 1: forced change slash action. They are tired, frustrated, and emotional.
Speaker 1: It's only a few at this point, but sparks become flames,
Speaker 1: Flames become infernos. And I'll go back to what I
Speaker 1: said about this situation. What happens with this boycott, protest,
Speaker 1: show of solidarity is the w NBA has really been
Speaker 1: at the forefront of all of this. And then you're
Speaker 1: going to pass the baton to the NBA. Then it
Speaker 1: could be MLS, then it could be baseball, then it
Speaker 1: could would be the NHL. Well, next on the relay
Speaker 1: team is going to be the NFL. In less than
Speaker 1: two weeks, we're going to be playing football and these
Speaker 1: players are going to have pressure to do something, and
Speaker 1: you have to understand that. And it shouldn't just be
Speaker 1: pressure on the black players, but it will be as
Speaker 1: Jim Trotter's pointing out a few prominent black players that
Speaker 1: they want to sit out a game, not they're thinking
Speaker 1: about they want to. I don't know what kind of
Speaker 1: ground swell you're going to have, but I do think
Speaker 1: in two weeks from now this could be the conversation
Speaker 1: as we start the NFL season. Yeah. PO, And if
Speaker 1: you're Roger Goodell, you've done everything in the past five
Speaker 1: months to not alter your schedule. The draft, even though
Speaker 1: it was different, it was on time, on schedule. The
Speaker 1: NFL season as of this morning is on schedule. There's
Speaker 1: not been one change except for a removing preseason. He's
Speaker 1: in a dicey position to negotiate this. Well, you still
Speaker 1: have owners who haven't decided what they're going to allow
Speaker 1: their players to do. You know, Jerry Jones, some of
Speaker 1: these owners are going to be okay with some kind
Speaker 1: of show of solidarity or protest prior to the start
Speaker 1: of the game the anthem. Others players don't even know
Speaker 1: if they're able to. And this is a commissioner who's
Speaker 1: kind of flip flopped on this whole issue the last
Speaker 1: four years with Kaepernick with the anthem. You know, he's
Speaker 1: trying to have be a revisionist historian here going back
Speaker 1: and hey, we should have listened or you're still not
Speaker 1: listening at least in my opinion. But I think we're
Speaker 1: headed towards something here in the NFL the next two weeks,
Speaker 1: just something to file away, but I think that there's
Speaker 1: going to be an inordinate amount of pressure on these
Speaker 1: players to do something. We'll take a break. More phone
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Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show. I was watching some baseball yesterday. Clayton Kershaw,
Speaker 1: My guy, I had a stat on Clayton Kershaw. Here
Speaker 1: you go. Clayton Kershaw is now four and one on
Speaker 1: the season. ERA A is one point eight oh for
Speaker 1: his career. He's now one seventy three and seventy five,
Speaker 1: the winningest left handed pitcher in the history of baseball,
Speaker 1: with a winning percentage of almost seven hundred. This is
Speaker 1: a minimum one thousand innings pitched. Thank you. Also, I
Speaker 1: didn't know this. The Dodgers and the White Sox are
Speaker 1: off to an all time record of most home runs
Speaker 1: per game aim in a single season. Now, granted, this
Speaker 1: is not going to count the record books for sixty games.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers at one point nine one almost two home
Speaker 1: runs a game. The White Sox are one point nine.
Speaker 1: The twenty nineteen Twins and Yankees are second on the list.
Speaker 1: The twenty twenty Padres are in there. So these are
Speaker 1: the all time records and they've all taken place in
Speaker 1: the last two years. The Padres at one point eight
Speaker 1: five Kershaw might win the cy Young Yeah, Dan, He's
Speaker 1: four and one one point eight ERA. There's a couple
Speaker 1: of guys you, Darvish, Sonny Gray, a few other people
Speaker 1: that are like five wins. No one's got six wins
Speaker 1: yet in the National League. Jeff and Detroit back on
Speaker 1: the show. Good morning, Jeff. What do you have for me? Hey? Dan?
Speaker 1: What's going on? What's out for chat? Row? Listen, Man,
Speaker 1: I wanted to tell you thank you very much for
Speaker 1: having a discussion yesterday. You know that some might not know.
Speaker 1: I used to be a police officer. I've been in
Speaker 1: that situation before. I loved the NBA for doing what
Speaker 1: they did. They took a stand, and they brought attention
Speaker 1: to it. They have people talking about it. And see
Speaker 1: what happens is if you're not black, if you haven't
Speaker 1: had this set happened to you before, if you haven't
Speaker 1: been in a situation where you have been marginalized because
Speaker 1: of your skin or your color or your race, then
Speaker 1: you really can't say nothing to them. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. There's nothing that you can say. And I
Speaker 1: was a police officer. Well, Jeff, explain that to me though.
Speaker 1: And I know this is just one incident, but when
Speaker 1: what are you talking? I got an incident for you,
Speaker 1: Dan that the exact same thing happened to me. Me
Speaker 1: and my partner rolled up on the scene. MSP Michigan
Speaker 1: State Police was handling it. It was a crazy guy
Speaker 1: and he had the knife actually in his hand and
Speaker 1: they were getting ready to shoot him. The only reason
Speaker 1: why they didn't shoot him because they were scared across fire,
Speaker 1: so they were getting in a position where they could
Speaker 1: take proper aim at him. I told my partner, I said,
Speaker 1: we gotta get out here before they killed this guy.
Speaker 1: My partner distracted the crazy guy. I ran full speed
Speaker 1: tackled him. Should fight before you do anything. You escalate
Speaker 1: the situation, you try to figure out what's going on,
Speaker 1: and that the last resort should a deadly forced to
Speaker 1: be used. And that's the last resort. You're grabbing a
Speaker 1: guy by his shirt tail, going in his car and
Speaker 1: shooting him in the back seven times. It's ridiculous. And
Speaker 1: you're gonna tell me he had a nice in the car.
Speaker 1: So wait a minute, he has three kids in the car.
Speaker 1: He's got to go around the car, go in the car,
Speaker 1: get a knife. Who have against two officers that have
Speaker 1: weapons trained on him? No, come on, man, that's if
Speaker 1: you believe that I got some Super Bowl tickets for
Speaker 1: the Detroit Wines to sell you straight up, straight up there.
Speaker 1: And it's a sad situation because we need people to
Speaker 1: come together. We need help from everywhere. We need help
Speaker 1: from the white community, the Hispanic community, because this is
Speaker 1: an epidemic. If you can sit up and watch people
Speaker 1: just get killed for being a certain color, dude, come now, now,
Speaker 1: what are we human? Are we all not human? We
Speaker 1: all are part of the human race. My scain might
Speaker 1: be different from yours, but we all got here the
Speaker 1: same way. And we all leave me here the same way.
Speaker 1: We should get together and try to figure this thing out.
Speaker 1: Because police training in US in the country, it's horrible.
Speaker 1: It's horrible. You have to learn how to de escalate
Speaker 1: the situation. You got to Jeff, stay on hold. Marvin
Speaker 1: Allen wanted to talk to you for a second, but
Speaker 1: thank you for calling in and have a great weekend.
Speaker 1: Thank you, budd. By the way, I saw lud Olsen,
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame coach, former Arizona coach. He passed
Speaker 1: away at the age of eighty five. What a gentleman.
Speaker 1: First time I met him probably back in the mid eighties,
Speaker 1: and it was just a gentleman he was. But he
Speaker 1: was known as Midnight Loot because if you thought you
Speaker 1: had a player, Loot still thought he had a chance
Speaker 1: to recruit Damon Stodhomier. I think was going to go
Speaker 1: to Louisville, and lud Olsen got ahold of him and
Speaker 1: spent three hours on the phone, and Damon Stodhomier went
Speaker 1: to the University of Arizona, but got a national title
Speaker 1: at Bibbie Miles Simon, but he started at Iowa and
Speaker 1: he always would have those teams that you'd go boy,
Speaker 1: they're well coached. I would always pull off a couple
Speaker 1: of surprises each season, and then he went to Arizona,
Speaker 1: but passing away at the age of eighty five. I
Speaker 1: just my description was always he was just. He was
Speaker 1: a gentleman, handled himself with class. Mcleven, are we gonna
Speaker 1: stay with the poll question? We could try something else
Speaker 1: for hour through the question? Wise, what's the QB storyline
Speaker 1: you're most looking forward to? Tom Brady was running away
Speaker 1: with it? Second place still Joe Burrow. Nobody cares about
Speaker 1: dak Prescott though when you clicks let's talk some Cowboys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm surprised at that, because I do I
Speaker 1: care about this is as Mike McCarthy said, it's basically
Speaker 1: Super Bowl or bust this year. Now. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the bust is because McCarthy's not losing his job
Speaker 1: after one year, but the expectation level should be super
Speaker 1: Bowl for the Dallas Cowboys. Absolutely imagine scheduling one game
Speaker 1: because you have one player who might be a top
Speaker 1: ten draft pick. North Dakota State's going to do that
Speaker 1: for their star quarterback. We'll talk to their head coach
Speaker 1: coming up