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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox

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Speaker 2: It's the final hour on this Meet Friday, Dan and

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Speaker 2: the Dan It's Dan Patrick Show. Come on in, stay

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Speaker 2: awhile we'll talk to our good buddy Joey Vado, former

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Speaker 2: league MVP, certainly has Hall of Fame credentials and he

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Speaker 2: just announced his retirement. By the way, it's a Meat Friday,

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Speaker 2: in case you're wondering, and it is Cuban Sandwich Day,

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Speaker 2: National Cuban Sandwich Day and as a result, Cubano sandwiches

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Speaker 2: on the trigger and waffle fries once again, Who has

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Speaker 2: it better than we do?

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Speaker 3: No Body? What is going on here? I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Are you guys all in on this Meet Friday with

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Speaker 3: the Cuban sandwiches?

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Speaker 4: See, I think you're mistaken. We are in perfect unison

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Speaker 4: and harmony there. That was lovely actually yeah.

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Speaker 2: But I like when you're in harmony in unison right

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Speaker 2: after I say it, like when I say who has

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Speaker 2: it better than we do?

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Speaker 5: Nobody?

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Speaker 6: Okay, a little better yes, seed, Yeah, it's gonna say.

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Speaker 6: I mean Paul sort of took the low end there.

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Speaker 6: I went up high with sort of Marvin and Fritzy

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Speaker 6: filled out the middle there it was fo Yeah, we

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Speaker 6: had a four part harmony going, and that's not good

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Speaker 6: enough for you somehow, Okay.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know. The Beach Boys came in. Yeah, you

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Speaker 2: guys were going to sing.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Todd's essentially Brian Wilson since you've been gone.

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Speaker 3: No big deal there.

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Speaker 6: We got tenors and altos and sopranos.

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Speaker 3: We thought we did all right, there are really good

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Speaker 3: you dying your impersonation. I can't compare to that. That's true,

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Speaker 3: Yeah you can't. You know what.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's defensive, that's passive aggressive.

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Speaker 3: What just happened a little bit, Frank.

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Speaker 6: It's a little too complimentary of other people's impressions, and

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Speaker 6: not just Todd's. So you like that.

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Speaker 2: Tod, Tod, I gave you the opportunity. In fact, Frank

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Speaker 2: even said you do. Kevin Harlan, we gave you that.

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Speaker 6: It's never enough, they said that I need that much.

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Speaker 2: It's like the second song with Darius Rucker. You only

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Speaker 2: had to do one. Well, you should have been one

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Speaker 2: and done, but you went to and then here you

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Speaker 2: go kind of passive aggressive after Frank. Everybody talking about

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Speaker 2: Frank and we're laughing at his impressions, and then you

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Speaker 2: got to bring Marge Simpson back.

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Speaker 3: All the time working.

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Speaker 7: Kick an ask right now, listen to it.

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Speaker 8: Don't build the natter gance, touch secrets away, right.

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Speaker 6: People paid money to go Sarious Rucker, and this happened

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Speaker 6: in the middle of what was a concert they paid for.

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Speaker 5: So unfair.

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Speaker 3: Have put their money back, or at least half back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but Todd, if you can do impressions, why couldn't

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Speaker 2: you do an impression of Daryl Hall sending this song

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Speaker 2: that's about me like it would have would have sounded

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Speaker 2: a whole.

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Speaker 3: Sounds just like him.

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Speaker 6: I don't know what happened there.

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Speaker 3: Don't I'm gonna take your word for it, all right.

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Speaker 2: By the way, coming up on Sunday night, it'll be

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Speaker 2: Drake May going against Jad and Daniels Patriots command Patriots

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Speaker 2: Commanders the NFL preseason Sunday at eight Eastern and NBC

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Speaker 2: and Peacock. All right, so Joey Vada will join his

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Speaker 2: phone calls. We'll get to those. Good morning. If you're

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Speaker 2: watching on Peacock. Thank you for downloading the app, spending

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Speaker 2: some time with us, or allowing us to spend some

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Speaker 2: time with you, Just to let you know, we have

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Speaker 2: schools that are going into new conferences, so old conference,

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Speaker 2: new conference, just so you don't get surprised coming up

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Speaker 2: this weekend, like Arizona State Big twelve, cal ACC Colorado

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Speaker 2: Big twelve, Oklahoma SEC, Oregon Big ten. See Oregon's the

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Speaker 2: one that still kind of stands out. I know UCLA

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Speaker 2: and USC, yes, but but there'd been so much fanfare

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Speaker 2: up a couple of years ago. SMU is in the

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Speaker 2: ACC Utah Big twelve, Washington Big ten. Yeah, PAULI, I

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Speaker 2: still find USLA and USC and the Big ten weirder

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Speaker 2: because when we were children, when we were younger, as

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Speaker 2: the Rose Bowl or USC in the Rose Bowl. Like

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Speaker 2: USLA is the most West Coast feeling school, maybe other

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Speaker 2: than Pepperdine. The look the field, the vibe of it,

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Speaker 2: and for them to be in the Big Ten, it'll

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Speaker 2: never compute. It's like the Chargers. The Chargers are the

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Speaker 2: San Diego Chargers, and I fight to.

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Speaker 3: Call them the LA Chargers.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the Guardians are, They're the Indians and I have

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Chargers always get me. It's always like, oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, Harball of the San Diego, the Los Angeles Chargers,

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Speaker 2: even Cleveland too. With the Guardians eight seven to seven

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Speaker 2: to three, DP show email Addressdpadanpatrick dot com, Twitter handled

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Speaker 3: Aaron Judge did it again.

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Speaker 2: He's got forty eight homer and that's a quiet forty

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Speaker 2: eight home runs and on pace to hit sixty one.

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Speaker 2: It's a week zero, it's Florida State, Georgia Tech. What

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Speaker 2: is Florida State by ten and a half? Does that

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 2: Ten and a half? And Colts and the Bears win

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Speaker 2: their preseason games. The Bears go undefeated in the preseason.

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Speaker 2: Full slate of games coming up tonight, tomorrow and on

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Speaker 2: Sunday Final Hour.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. See yeah.

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Speaker 6: I think the thing with Aaron Judge is that he's

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Speaker 6: this moment, anytime you heard his name or the Yankees,

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Speaker 6: you kind of just rolled your eyes, you know, not

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Speaker 6: you I'm saying like people, you know, like it's just

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Speaker 6: it's like, I know, Aaron Judge, Oh dang, he actually

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Speaker 6: is killing it. You know, you're like you it's sort

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Speaker 6: of like people expect him. He's supposed to do that,

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Speaker 6: so then it's not really a thing until it became impressive.

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Speaker 2: But do you think it's because what I said that

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Speaker 2: you certain players graduate to where we take you, for granted,

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Speaker 2: definitely where we just assume, like Patrick Mahomes will will

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Speaker 3: He might be too good?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, or whatever he does, we're going to go is

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Speaker 2: that is like thirty five touchdowns, you know, eleven interceptions,

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Speaker 2: You know, Mahomes is in a kind of a stratosphere

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. He's competing against his own history. He had

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think last year they were more of

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Speaker 2: Never seemed to get on the same page until when

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Speaker 2: they needed to, and that's to win a super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Adam in West Virginia starts us off final hour of

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Speaker 2: the program.

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Speaker 7: Hey Adam, Hey Dan, I was watching a wrestling documentary

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Speaker 7: last night because well I don't know why, but Stone

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Speaker 7: go into it? And what was your favorite Sports Center

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Speaker 2: I had too many, so I don't know if I

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Speaker 2: that one with Steve stone Cold, Steve Austin was great

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Speaker 2: because the premise was he was studying and he was

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Speaker 3: And then he's like, oh, thank you, Dan, let me

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Speaker 2: And then we did it a couple of times, and

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Speaker 2: I did the last one. You can see the papers

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Speaker 2: that are on the bulletin board there, they're like flying

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Speaker 2: and I take a good rip. I take a Albert

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Speaker 2: Poohol's rip right to his back and he had a

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Speaker 3: Brother, just make make sure you hit that pad.

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Speaker 2: And so now I'm thinking, okay, I got to make

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Speaker 2: And I still have the folding chair. He did autograph

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Speaker 2: But he was great. He was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: I did one with Lance Armstrong where Lance was the

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Speaker 2: and he was riding his stationary bicycle and I said,

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Speaker 2: you know, like hey Lance, and he goes, hey Dan.

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Speaker 2: I said, you know, we're still working. He was oh,

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Speaker 2: then I closed the door and it says, you know,

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Speaker 2: this is Sports Center. One that I got that was

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it made air, but when Bill

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Speaker 2: Buckner had the ball go through his legs and of

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Speaker 2: course that costs the Red Sox the World Series, well

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Speaker 2: cost them game six. I went up to Boston and

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Speaker 2: I met with him and I said, you know, what

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Speaker 2: would be cool if we did a this is Sports

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Speaker 2: Center and you actually catch the ground ball, well, god

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Speaker 2: love him. Bill Buckner did that commercial. Did that for

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Speaker 2: me and I came back with it and they're like,

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Speaker 2: oh my god. Now I don't know if it ever aired.

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Speaker 2: I just know that Bill Buckner was willing to do

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Speaker 2: that where it was this is Sports Center and he's

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Speaker 2: catching a ground ball. This time it didn't go through

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Speaker 2: his legs. But there were so many times that you

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Speaker 2: be in this commercial.

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Speaker 3: Okay, what are we doing?

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Speaker 2: I think when Keith Oberman and I are in the

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Speaker 2: How's retirement feel, Joey.

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Speaker 10: Why didn't you tell me to quit earlier? We had

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Speaker 10: So I played seventeen years with the Cincinnati Reds, and

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Speaker 10: When you're not on stage, nobody cares. I wasn't able

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Speaker 3: But you had to explore that, not me or anybody else.

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Speaker 10: I'll be healthy, I'll be able to be an All Star.

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Speaker 10: I'll prove to them, you know they should have resigned me.

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Speaker 10: ago and I had a really strong relationship, was he

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Speaker 10: was you know, to this day, when you lose someone

437
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,639
Speaker 10: like that, it's something you can't ever film. And he

438
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,159
Speaker 10: and I played catch together and we love the Toronto

439
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 10: Blue Jays, and our favorite player was Devon White. He

440
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 10: had a specific catching style and he's a fantastic defender

441
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,320
Speaker 10: and a real charming personality. We just loved him. He

442
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,199
Speaker 10: was the guy for the Blue Jays our guy, and

443
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 10: so we'd go out and play catch and he'd try

444
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Speaker 10: to catch like Davon White. I'm nine years old, eleven

445
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:44,200
Speaker 10: years old, and we're playing catch together and I'm sitting

446
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:49,680
Speaker 10: on the bench in Buffalo, passing on a plate appearance

447
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 10: and guess who's sitting beside me, Devon White. And he

448
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,639
Speaker 10: said to me, so, what do you think you're gonna do?

449
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,239
Speaker 10: And he was talking about my hitting style, like what

450
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 10: adjustments do you think you're going to make? And I go,

451
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 10: I think I'm done and he goes, give mean retire

452
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:13,320
Speaker 10: and I go, yeah, I think I'm done, and he.

453
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 5: Goes, okay.

454
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 10: And it was like a full circle moment to be

455
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 10: able to have a childhood getting emotional thinking and talking

456
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 10: about this, but have a childhood icon and something that

457
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,360
Speaker 10: I was able to share with my father sitting next

458
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:38,359
Speaker 10: to me and Poignan poet. You draw sort of connections

459
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 10: even if they aren't real, but that felt like a

460
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 10: genuine connection for me, you know, that felt like that

461
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 10: was almost like poetic. That felt like an end to

462
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 10: the story. And I went into the to the clubhouse,

463
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,239
Speaker 10: thanked my minor league team teammates.

464
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 5: Who require in my opinion.

465
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Speaker 10: Deserve to thank you because I took plate appearances from them,

466
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:00,959
Speaker 10: I took playing time from them. Guy that I replaced

467
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 10: hit at Brand Slam, I think today or yesterday where

468
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 10: I would have been playing, and.

469
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 5: That was enough. That was enough.

470
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 10: Think the manager, think the general manager. And then I

471
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:16,920
Speaker 10: shared with the public that I'm retiring and that's it

472
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 10: in the best of ways.

473
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Speaker 5: So I feel good about it.

474
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:28,359
Speaker 2: Talking to Joey Vado just retired, played seventeen seasons with

475
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Speaker 2: the Reds, won the MVP in the twenty ten six

476
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 2: Time All Star. But you came to that conclusion no

477
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,919
Speaker 2: matter how you came to it, you came to it.

478
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 2: And that's what's difficult. Like, I'm going to have this

479
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 2: in three and a half years, I'm going to retire.

480
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 2: It's going to be December twenty fourth to twenty twenty seven.

481
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 2: So I'm planning on it because I don't want to

482
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 2: hold on and have people laugh at instead of with that,

483
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 2: I want to make sure that I'm sharp doing this,

484
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 2: and it's got You got to be on tart. You've

485
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,879
Speaker 2: got to be on top of everything for three hours

486
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 2: it's live, and I do worry about that. I got

487
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 2: memory issues you're just trying to make sure that you're

488
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 2: still doing it great, because sometimes nobody tells you maybe

489
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 2: you are slipping a little bit. And so I had

490
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 2: to put a, you know, the expiration date on my career.

491
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 2: At least doing this every single day.

492
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Speaker 5: That's a different experience.

493
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Speaker 10: My expiration date happened in the moment, and people like you,

494
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 10: and the game and my former team and the league

495
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 10: were telling me, we're good. You're not an interesting player

496
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 10: for us. You're not the future. We have playing time

497
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 10: that we want to give to other players. Whereas you

498
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,639
Speaker 10: there's you know, I see it. You see it with

499
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,119
Speaker 10: Bob Costas, or you see it with some of the

500
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 10: other icons and media. They're just always going to be

501
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 10: in demand, you know, Charles Barkley, same sort of thing.

502
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 10: There's just always going to be in the demand, and

503
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 10: you'll be the very same. But it's interesting to me

504
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 10: that you're electing to call it, call it, you know,

505
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,959
Speaker 10: and I wasn't able to do that. It's just different.

506
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 10: I'm forty, I feel good, I feel you know, I

507
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 10: feel good. So the idea of stopping something I've been

508
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 10: doing my entire my entire adult adult life.

509
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 5: By my my even my teen years.

510
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 10: You know, I was having a conversation with my mother yesterday,

511
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 10: and after this we can lighten it up a little bit.

512
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 10: But I was having a conversation with my mother yesterday,

513
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 10: and you know, we were sitting down at so when

514
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,679
Speaker 10: I was eighteen years old, my mom's been working at

515
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 10: the very same restaurant. She's a Somalia, one of the

516
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,479
Speaker 10: best samalias in Canada, and you know, she works at

517
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,400
Speaker 10: a prestigious restaurant. And when when I was eighteen years old,

518
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 10: I let her know I'm going and I was about

519
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:52,400
Speaker 10: to hop on a plane. She's crying, crying, crying, and

520
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 10: I go back to the very same restaurant and I

521
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 10: sit with her and we have you know, I don't drink,

522
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 10: but you know, we had a little bit of wine.

523
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 10: Typically I don't drink, and we had like a celebrated,

524
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 10: celebratory glass of wine.

525
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 5: And I said, we made it. We made it.

526
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,400
Speaker 10: And I said to her, you know the thing I'm

527
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 10: most I'm not worried about not playing anymore.

528
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 3: But when my.

529
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 10: Father died, I used baseball as my escape. And it's

530
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 10: almost like yesterday, when or a couple of days ago,

531
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,880
Speaker 10: when I stopped playing it was my way of saying,

532
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 10: you know what, I'm ready to face not like i've

533
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 10: more in my father's passing, but I'm ready to face life.

534
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 10: I'm really ready to say I'm done and I'm taking

535
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 10: it on and and you know, it was intimidating for

536
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 10: me for a while, but I think the last nine months,

537
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 10: how alone I've been in terms of this process has

538
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 10: helped me, has helped me transition into it.

539
00:28:55,240 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 2: So what was it like to have teammate to ask

540
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 2: you to buy beer for him?

541
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 10: The team that the guys were down so good to

542
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 10: me down there? You know, there was It's interesting because

543
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 10: I had some people tell me that they were emotional afterwards,

544
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 10: and I thought, you know, there's some players that looked

545
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 10: up to me. If there's one or two Canadian players

546
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 10: that like, you know me as a player, And I

547
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 10: was like, really, you're just my teammate. You know, you

548
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 10: don't think when you're competing every day, when you're training

549
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 10: towards towards being your very best, that anybody cares about you.

550
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 10: And generally speaking, in life, most people are concerned about

551
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 10: themselves or but you know, I think that when when

552
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 10: Griffy Junior, for example, transitioned out of out of Cincinnati.

553
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 10: I was like, oh man, that was my teammate, you know,

554
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 10: that was my I played his video game. I watched him,

555
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 10: you know, as a boy, and so you don't realize

556
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 10: the sort of impact you have. But it was a

557
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 10: great experience. It was hard, the hardest thing I did

558
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 10: this last nine months, essentially always being told no and

559
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 10: I was the only one saying yes, and the game

560
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 10: telling me no and I'm saying yes. Airbnbs, basically five

561
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 10: months of hotels hurt the whole time, Minor league complex,

562
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 10: but I loved it, and there was no moment that

563
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 10: I was There was no moment. It was the complete

564
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 10: opposite experience of the posh big league life, Major league life,

565
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 10: the charter jets and the people taking your bags, their

566
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 10: first class hotels and great pay and all these things.

567
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 10: Let's get real here, you know, you know, it cost

568
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 10: me money to play baseball this year, and I am

569
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 10: not complaining at all, but that's the reality of it.

570
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,479
Speaker 5: But at no point I had the best time at

571
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 5: the best time this year. But it was hard. It

572
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 5: was terribly, terribly hard. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.

573
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 3: What's the next act here?

574
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 10: Got a trip to Milan next month. I'm going to Uh,

575
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 10: there's a big baseball card signing in Milan.

576
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 5: No, no, the next act.

577
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 10: Uh, it'd be nice to be home for a little

578
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 10: bit and had lunch with my family. My big family

579
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 10: and my family had had a lunch across in Niagara Falls.

580
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 5: And this was on an.

581
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 10: Off day in while I was playing for Buffalo, and

582
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 10: I was like, this is way better than what I'm doing,

583
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 10: Like carrying around my nephew and playing with him and

584
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 10: my niece and seeing my mom and then my great

585
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 10: my grandmother is a great grandmother to my niece and nephew.

586
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 10: It's like we're having lunch and taking our time. This

587
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 10: is the best of life, you know. So there's only

588
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 10: so much in that. I'm gonna have to continue to

589
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 10: drive forward with something. But well maybe i'll I'll replace you.

590
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 10: It'll be The Dan Patrick.

591
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 3: Show featuring Joey Voto. Yeah yeah.

592
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 2: Do you still hate Travis Kelce for moving in on

593
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift before you had the opportunity?

594
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 5: Are they getting married or are they just sinners living together?

595
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 5: What's what is it?

596
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 3: I don't know what.

597
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 5: Are their parents saying about that? Are they just.

598
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 3: Gonna you know, I don't know. I think they have

599
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 3: their own homes.

600
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 5: I think the family unit, what's going on? What's what

601
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 5: about the family unit? What is this?

602
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 2: You know what what could have been? What could have been?

603
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 2: But you you waited. We're in the on deck circle.

604
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 2: You were in the on deck circle for Taylor Swift

605
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 2: and Kelsey came in and went yard.

606
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, well scored a touchdown. It's good.

607
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 2: Well, you know what, I look forward to seeing you

608
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 2: in the media. I think that'll be great play on

609
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 2: that analyst. That'd be nice.

610
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 5: Think how's the travel with that.

611
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 2: You're there for a few days in cities because you'll

612
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 2: you'll be there for a series and uh, so you

613
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 2: have an opportunity to go and you know whatever, how

614
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 2: many four days fives in the city and then.

615
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 5: What how's the spread? How's the spread?

616
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 2: How's the spread? Uh, you'll be you'll be treated on

617
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 2: clubhouse spread. You'll you'll be good your clubbies, you know,

618
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 2: they'll still take care of your maybe, you know, maybe

619
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 2: Jeter buys you dinner.

620
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 10: Can't you imagine though, just traveling around and talking about

621
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 10: other people doing stuff. You know, I will say this,

622
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 10: I've been and I don't it's.

623
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 3: Called it's called being in the media, Joey.

624
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,959
Speaker 2: That's what you do. You talk about other people. You

625
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 2: always want to talk about yourself, Now to talk about others.

626
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 10: This is the thing that I'm most excited about. I

627
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:08,320
Speaker 10: say this sincerely. This career, this baseball thing, this athlete

628
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 10: thing is so selfish. It is I am. You know,

629
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,439
Speaker 10: my body's my business. But it's all about me, me, me,

630
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 10: me me. And the thing that I am most looking

631
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 10: forward to it are using the words we. They per

632
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:27,919
Speaker 10: him like you are on, you were on stay I get.

633
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 10: I'm looking forward to talking about other people.

634
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 5: And whether I do that.

635
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 10: In the media landscape or I do that just in

636
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 10: my community, whether volunteering or a family or my friends

637
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 10: or whatever. You I'm most most looking forward to that

638
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 10: because I feel like it'll rewire my brain. I think

639
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 10: it'll put me in a healthier place, because you are

640
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,879
Speaker 10: constantly concerned about yourself and I'm tired of that.

641
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 5: I'm tired of that.

642
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 10: And so that's what I And what if I do

643
00:34:56,680 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 10: that for TBS or Fox or ESPN or whomever, that'll

644
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 10: be great too, And I think I'll have a great time.

645
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 3: So yeah, Dan, well thanks for we had at too.

646
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 5: Great.

647
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 10: I'm a nobody and when you put the show and

648
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 10: you made me feel welcome.

649
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 5: So thank you so much.

650
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 3: Let's stay in touch.

651
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,720
Speaker 5: I'd love to how about that, Aaron, see.

652
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 3: You in Milan. I'll see you in Milan.

653
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Speaker 5: Yes, bring your shirk.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Joey.

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Speaker 5: Thanks Dan.

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Speaker 2: Joey Vado, former Reds first baseman and future Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 2: We'll come back to meet Friday. The Tragger Girls are

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Speaker 2: opened up and this day and sports history some weekend predictions.

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Speaker 2: We're back after this Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 1: Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan

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Speaker 1: Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific

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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate Joey Vado.

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Speaker 2: I always thought whenever we spoke to him, you got

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Speaker 2: inside him to what it's like to be a professional athlete,

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Speaker 2: kind of the highs and the lows, got emotional, got

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Speaker 2: emotional when he left the Reds still trying to play,

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Speaker 2: and it's probably the hardest conversation that people have with

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Speaker 2: athletes when it is time to go, and rarely do

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Speaker 2: they know when it's time to go. He had to

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Speaker 2: sit there and in the moment when the manager says,

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Speaker 2: do you want to played appearance? And he said no,

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Speaker 2: And that's the last thing that he probably thought that

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Speaker 2: he would ever say at a baseball game that he

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Speaker 2: didn't want to go to the play. All right, this

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Speaker 2: day in sports history, have that for you. The Hall

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Speaker 2: of Fame coach Bill Kauer will join us on the

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Speaker 2: program on Monday. Final results of the pole question, Seaton,

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Speaker 2: would you do the honors? Yeah, we got up there.

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Speaker 6: Let's see how much does the preseason record matter a

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Speaker 6: little or a lot? You want to take a guess

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Speaker 6: on how that one went. How much does a preseason

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Speaker 6: record matter a little or a lot?

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Speaker 3: A little?

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Speaker 6: Ninety six percent have a little right now? Only uh yeah,

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Speaker 6: four percent have a lot. We also have up there

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Speaker 6: better quarterback named Bo Nicks or Jackson Dart. Jackson Dart

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Speaker 6: getting his first dub of the season already at sixty

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Speaker 6: nine percent out of boy Jackson.

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Speaker 2: All right, congratulations this day in sports history.

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Speaker 4: Paulie I got a couple here, Dan not too positive.

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Speaker 4: Nineteen eighty two, Galor Perry, the Mariners tossed out of

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Speaker 4: the game for throwing in the legal spitball.

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Speaker 3: As if there's a legal spitball. Pete Rose used to

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Speaker 3: be legal spitball, Yeah till used to be the thirties.

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Speaker 4: Nineteen eighty nine, Pete Rose, the manager of the Cincinnati Reds,

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Speaker 4: agreed to a lifetime ban from baseball after being accused

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Speaker 4: of gambling on baseball whilst a manager.

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Speaker 3: M hm, that's it. Okay, let me see.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I have any Oh do you

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Speaker 2: remember in two thousand and eight it was Angel Matos

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Speaker 2: of Cuba. He and his coach were banned for life

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Speaker 2: after Matos kicked the referee in the face following a

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Speaker 2: disqualification in the bronze medal taekwondo match at the Beijing Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Got a lifetime van for that. Let me see anything else?

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Speaker 2: Any big predictions for this weekend, yes, Paul, Georgia Tech.

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Speaker 4: Outright, whoa ooh, Okay, they're going to start playing like

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Speaker 4: their uniforms. Look, they've got great uniforms. They're gonna start playing.

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Speaker 4: They've got a good young coach, they're good squad.

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Speaker 2: Florida State is giving ten and a half to the

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Speaker 2: rambling wreck from Georgia Tech. Other games, Montana State minus

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Speaker 2: thirteen and a half against New Mexico SMU minus twenty

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Speaker 2: four and a half against Nevada, I think. And then

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Speaker 2: you've got preseason games tonight Jags, Falcons, Dolphins, Tampa Bay, Niners,

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Speaker 2: and the Raiders. Let me see John in Minnesota. Hey John,

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Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 11: Hey damn, thanks for taking my call. My question is

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Speaker 11: this is kind of a personal question. The short answer

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Speaker 11: is short, is you like the current state of an

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Speaker 11: NFL game? And I guess the longer explanation was it

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Speaker 11: just kind of feels like a family game. Is it's

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Speaker 11: like playing a video game, putting arcade mode on. So

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Speaker 11: it makes average players slightly better than they should be,

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Speaker 11: average teams and games longer.

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Speaker 2: You you, well, it's it's more entertaining. Now, that's what

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Speaker 2: they all these leagues want more entertainment, more scoring, more

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Speaker 2: big plays. It's just, you know, I don't want to

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Speaker 2: be the get off my lawn guy when it comes to,

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Speaker 2: you know, sports or new innovations.

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Speaker 3: I just don't want to do that. It's easy to

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Speaker 3: do that.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to do that because I still want

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Speaker 2: to enjoy sports, watching sports, covering sports, talking about sports,

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Speaker 2: going to games, and what I like to see it

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Speaker 2: a little bit more older school, Yeah, a little bit,

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Speaker 2: but it's exciting, it's fun. It's all about gambling, all

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Speaker 2: about fantasy. Todd, would you learn today?

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Speaker 4: Some betting experts you spoke of yesterday are fading on

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Speaker 4: the Texans and their tough schedule upcoming?

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Speaker 3: Yes Seaton, what did you learn today?

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Speaker 6: I learned Joey Vado handling retirement better than I thought

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Speaker 6: he was gonna.

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Speaker 3: Marvin, would you learn? Delaware State? They made it to Hawaii.

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Speaker 2: Yay, another forty and a half point underdogs. Paulie, what

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Speaker 2: did you look?

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Speaker 4: That may have been Frank Calliyanda's best ever appearance on

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Speaker 4: the show.

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Speaker 2: for helping me with the studio here in Maine. Have

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Speaker 2: a great weekend, everybody,