WEBVTT - Hour 3 - Bob Nightengale (07-03-20) 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.640 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:07.280 Sports Radio. Greetings, Welcome inside our three of the program. 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:11.000 Jason Smith, Rob Parker in for Dan and the Danets. Today, 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:16.279 Happy fourth of July Eve. As today is a huge day. Yes, 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:20.120 Hamilton showed up today, which is very exciting, but today 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.520 as a huge day in Major League Baseball as finally robbed. 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:28.040 We're gonna get some pageantry. Some celebration players started reporting 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.560 to camps on Wednesday, took their coronavirus tests. Today, you 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:35.959 have many different sports entities planning long coverage and we're 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:38.040 gonna get interviews with players, are going to see them 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.800 working out, and to actually see the players on the 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.319 field and hear them talk about things like how they 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.000 expect so and so to work out at shortstop this 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.159 year or their bullpen is going to be so much fun. Yes, 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.040 there will be a lot of COVID nineteen talk, and 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.120 clearly that's going to be the talk. But to get 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.120 a little bit of sense of normalcy now, I feel 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.120 like we're at like phase two of sports now, where 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.080 at least we've gotten a team sport back in. They're 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.000 gonna be on the field getting ready to try to 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.520 play I'm with you. I agree, and uh, it just 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:11.520 you know, we're closer, like three weeks away from opening day, 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:15.039 and the whole idea of trying to get some normalcy 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.520 back in our lives. Baseball has always been a part 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:23.120 Jason of trying times and and and we can remember 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.399 nine to eleven and George Bush coming out on the 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.160 mount at Yankee Stadium. Do you remember throwing that pitch 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:33.360 in Game three? And and and people being able to 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:37.480 settle back. Baseball has done that. Uh, even in wartimes. 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:41.240 That's where the national anthem started getting played at baseball 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:45.440 games as as like uh to rally the troops, and 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.680 and and bring up the morale of the country. So 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.520 baseball being the sport coming back in this fashion, that's 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:52.960 the way I look at it. It will be a 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.360 return of some sort of normalcy. I know it'll be 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.640 different because there won't be fans in the stands, but 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.040 but people will be able to sit down in their 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.720 living rooms, have dinner or something, and turn on the 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.800 set and be able to go like, Okay, I'm watching 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.519 my team. There's a ball game tonight. You know, I 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:13.399 got something to do for the next two or three 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:18.840 hours and feel like life is somewhat returning back to 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:23.760 some semblance of normalcy. So I'm excited. I agree all 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.760 the stuff coming out, all the conversations we're starting to 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.800 talk about the season. You got two really really good teams, 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.000 and the Dodgers and Yankees who I picked before this 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:39.079 whole thing can happen, and who knows, you know how 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.480 it shakes out the some surprise team comes in. The 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.160 Houston Astros get off the hook because they won't have 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.600 to face fans all over Baseball America this year. What 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:52.160 if they win? What if the Houston Astros are win? Jason, 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:56.080 have you thought about that? Joining us now all the 0:02:56.120 --> 0:03:00.360 hotline for more on these stories, USA Today, Baseball Inside, 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.480 or you can follow him on Twitter at b Nightingale. 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:07.119 It's Bob Nightingale. Bob Good morning man. What's happening? Yeah? Good, 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.239 he isn't here? Ruh? What's up? The best baseball writer 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:14.720 in the country, Bob Nightingale, point blank. Wow, he's gonna 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.959 borrow money from you now, Bob, Just just so you know, 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:22.239 Jack setting round, Bob, what kind of set of normalcy 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.120 are we going to? How much normalcy are we going 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.640 to get with this? With this train summer training camp 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.640 now is where we're going. We'll see. I mean, this afternoon, 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.760 we'll announced how many pods of tests that were among 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:37.680 players and staff or you're talking about about sixteen hundred players, 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:41.320 about four hundred staff members. So I mean, I'm going 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.320 to assume that we'd over to have over one hundred 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.440 pods of tests very easily. So I think baseball is 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.360 bracing themselves for that. Uh, you know, we'll see. I 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.000 mean the uh, the COVID cases. Now we're you know, 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:58.560 spiking everywhere. We're having record highs now particularly you know, 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.040 you know where you are calling forty areas one up 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.240 forward of Texas, right, so keeping their fingers crossed and 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.120 see we get it, sehm, we get the season. But 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.160 at least they're gonna try. Yeah, I think that it's 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:13.480 important for these sports to try. I guess, in a 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:17.279 perfect world, if there weren't all this TV money and 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.040 millions to be lost, Bob right, you could just call 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.839 it a day and come back next year. But I 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:24.880 don't think the networks want that. I don't think that 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.360 the owners want that all the players not to try 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.720 and if it doesn't work out or it becomes a thing, 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.440 you just shut it down. But I think that at 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.560 this point, am I right, that they just have to 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.960 try to see if they could put this together. Yeah, 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.000 see what happens. You know, they said the big test 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.320 will be the first week or ten days at spring 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.880 training camp, and then the big test of courses when 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.840 they get that far and when the season opens up 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:54.200 on July twenty third. As far as when guys are 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:58.240 traveling and I'm playing at different hotels, Uh, then that's 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.720 that's a big test too. That though those first week 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.920 the games, Bob, is that's a big deal. If if 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.560 we wind up getting that magic number of one hundred 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.679 positive COVID nineteen tests, is this is this a concerning number? 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.080 Is this an expected number? Like, like, like, what's the 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.760 reaction going to be if it gets out? A certainly 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.320 there's more players in baseball than other sports, about one hundreds, 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.280 A lot of a lot of players. Yeah, I think 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.360 they're expecting at least one hundred. You know, if you 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:27.920 go by uh, you know, the NBA, I think was 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.000 twenty five positive tests that were about you know, three hundred, 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.159 twenty five hundred fifty players. So just if you go 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.200 by the same percentage, I thought baseballs, you know, certainly 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.839 played themselves for at least one hundred. Now, if you 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.360 get over two hundred, that's that's concerning. And if if 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.320 it's less than one hundred or whatever, then you'd be like, Okay, 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.680 we might be able to make this work. I mean, yeah. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:55.360 The other thing is if we get there opening day. Um. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.240 I brought up earlier in the show, Bob that you know, 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.000 some people say it's not a legitimate Sea season. The 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.200 late great Sparky Anderson, of course, manager with the Cincinnati 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.480 Reds and Detroit Tigers. He used to always talk about 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.680 each team wins sixty, each team loses sixty, and it's 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:14.200 the forty two kind of other games that really determine, 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.520 you know, you know, how good a team is or whatever. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.160 Can we see the best teams after sixty games, or 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.200 is there a chance that some flukey team the Florida 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.600 Marlins just get off to a great start and play 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.000 well and they're in the World Series, Or do you 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.400 expect the Dodgers and Yankees, the teams that have the 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.200 best rosters to be those teams even in a short 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:40.120 season like this. I think we'll definitely see some and 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.080 I think we'll see something good, if not great teams 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:47.360 get left out. Anything can happen sixty games, I really can. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.479 I mean, like Bryan bryn was somelling the day you 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.080 think about this will be the first season baseball history 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:57.480 where no team will be mathematic or eliminate against by September, right, 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.280 except for the Orleans thing, and even in balls, even 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:06.040 in sixty games, I think, dear Rold no, no, yeah, 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.240 but yeah yeah. The thing is too, is that it's 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:15.360 only ten game postseason. So if it is a sixteen team, okay, 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.280 we'll hit doubly have more flukes, but I don't think 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.640 we'd be in dang Jos Amazon great teams left out, 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:25.000 but with ten ten team postseason, that can certainly happened. Bob, 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.600 we talk about the teams there, We're going to see 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.080 crazy things happen. Give me percentage We talked about this 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.360 with NBA players. Percentage of players who were excited for 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.320 the season, ready to go, ready to play, want to 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.840 win a championship. First percentage of players who are here, Okay, 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:44.120 we're gonna try it, and the minute things start looking bad, 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.400 I'm ready to pull out, or I'm just gonna go 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:50.040 through the motions here for a couple of months. I think, 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.280 you know, generally there's you know, uh, you know, well 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.960 over you know, sixty seventy percent of guys are excited, 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.040 But by the same measure, I would think sixty seven 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.120 percent of those guys are after him. So two, uh, 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:02.680 you know, several players, I said, you know, how are 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.600 we going to pull this off? You know, in the 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.320 a miracle we get sixty games in, so I think, 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.440 you know, people see what's going on. It's like a 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:14.200 you know, with the way the cases are surging throughout. Uh, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.440 you know, I'm not sure of all the talking about 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.080 baseball and the Union saying well, you know, we've make 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.000 sure all this time. I'm not sure they could have 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.880 played before this anyway, and uh, you know who knows 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.480 even play now? Yeah, I'm with you. How about some 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.400 of the rule changes universal DH. I grew up as 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:35.040 a National League fan in New York. I like National 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.240 League Baseball, not not that keen on the DH and 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.160 and the idea. I don't know, Bob, was there that 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:45.280 many uh extra ending games that that we have to 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.960 put a runner on second base to to make sure 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.400 the game is over quickly? Is that really what we 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.920 needed to do? I don't remember, uh, people going, oh 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.760 my god, another extra ending game I have to sit through. 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:03.160 Are you cool with the changes? Well, the you know 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.520 the one thing about the you know DH with so 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.760 many games in the league now yet you know twenty 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:10.960 their sixty games. Our Anilgus who has had to do 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.920 with DH, So you know that's coming. Uh, the extra anything, 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.559 I think it's gonna be around, not being the tenth inning, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.400 but I bet later on maybe twelfth or thirteenth in 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:26.400 years to come. Uh. Yeah, I mean baseball purest of 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.439 course hated. But the one thing has been brought to 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.800 my attention. Remember doing a round table year ago with 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.720 Anthony Rizzo Chris Bryant. I think with Rizzo who said, 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.000 I never thought of it. You know, think about the 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:41.160 four major sports we have the most boring overtime, And 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.120 you know, I thought, you know what when when the 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.800 ninth getting is over, fans stream for the exits, you know, Rob, 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:48.800 you know how everything morning and growing in the press 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.720 box anything, they're another inning. So at least this provides 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.559 some excitement. You know. The one role I think is 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.000 going to come to bite baseball is the rule of 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.320 three battered minimum rule. Yeah, I don't like that either. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.520 What if a guy stinks so doesn't have it? I know, 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.000 and particularly in a short season, and guys, let's be 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.080 on this. Guys are not getting me ready when the 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.880 season starts at US three with the spring training, so 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.719 you can easily see some guy coming in based on 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.000 loaded situation and walking three straight guys are getting them 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.280 a home, you know, the three straight guys to me 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:25.480 too often, something like this is going to cost teams games. Yeah, 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.840 everything you guys have mentioned the last forty five seconds, 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.600 none of that is good news for the Mets. Nothing, none, 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:32.560 none of that is going to be playing is not 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.920 good news for the Mets. What are you talking about? Well, 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:37.880 Mary says that's what it should be healthy, So that 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:39.640 should be fine. He was not going to be healthy, 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.120 so we'll see and he could be at DH. You 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.000 know one thing we could see, Bob, are we going 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.960 to see potentially with all the changes, because the batters 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.760 that the three batter minimum, everybody wants to save their bullpens. 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.840 Could we see and expand a full time expansion of 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.400 rosters for that, Hey, you can carry more pitchers because look, 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.720 the game is evolved. Nobody goes seven innings. Anymore, so 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.719 we kind of need to maybe have more of an 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.280 active roster as well. Yeah, we're gonna start off with 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.439 thirty guys and then after two weeks twenty eight and 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.560 after a month back to twenty six for the rest 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.120 of the year. So yeah, at the beginning here, you know, 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.640 we'll see about you know, fifteen pitchers on the staff 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.480 for sure. Uh, you know, just because gadging the going 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.680 four or five innings that happened to get go. But 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:24.920 you know tell you well, with the sixty game schedule though, 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.680 I think we'll see managers people much more aggressive to managing, 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.720 almost like the postseason or yank you started. You don't 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.640 think you guys it, you know, bring a start to 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:37.120 really leave things like that. But Bob, they're also there's 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:41.199 a trading deadline and everything. I don't know, if everybody's 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.720 in the mix and not going to be eliminated, does 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.199 that mean that there are more trades or no trades, 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.240 because why would you be helping or why would you 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:52.960 be giving up anybody? Could we have no trades because 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.680 everybody's in the mix. Do you see what I'm saying? 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.520 Nobody would be dumping out of this? Yeah? No, I 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.439 go on the no trade side. I mean, like you 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.920 said no, but everybody able to get a mix. And 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.400 remember everybody says, well, why would I trade for a 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:09.840 guy for just two months and give up prospects? Right? 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:11.800 I know you're traded for a guy for twenty seven 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.599 days and that's you know, that's if there's a postseason. 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.360 Who knows that that will even happen. So I mean 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.480 the doctors would have made the Mookie Bett David Price 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.520 deal if he knew there's only sixty games in the season. 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.360 So yeah, I think we'll have very very few trades. 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.160 I really do. Remember now, all these trades to involve prospects. 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.199 What there's no minor leagues going on, so nobody's seen 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.520 any prospects for a year. So yeah, I see very few. 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.120 He's on Twitter at b Nightingale, that is at B 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:45.079 Nightingale USA today MLB Insider extraordinary. Bob has always appreciate 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.839 your time with us. Have a great weekend it, Budger, 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.880 All right, they're great stuff with Bob as always. I mean, 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.920 and you know, listen, if you wonder about the optic 0:12:56.000 --> 0:13:00.000 rob of seeing a hundred positive COVID nineteen tests, Now, 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.120 once you get past that and you get pass the 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.800 headline it's okay, there's a lot more players, and it's understandable, 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.040 and all right, we're gonna move on past this. But 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.920 this is going to be the fascinating part of baseball 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.319 and basketball, which is you are seeing the two sports 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.960 trying to come back with two completely different philosophies of 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:20.960 how it's going to be done. Right, you have Major 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.880 League Baseball that's saying teams are gonna train in their 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:25.920 cities and they're gonna train with each other, and then 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.000 we're gonna play games, and we're gonna teams are gonna fly, 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.760 and they're gonna travel and we're gonna play. And then 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.160 you have the NBA, which is saying everybody's in a bubble, 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.480 no one's traveling, no one's flying anywhere. We're gonna play 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.240 games in front of no fans. This is how it's 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.840 gonna work. And whichever one winds up working better, which 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.080 everyone keeps the COVID nineteen test down, I guarantee you 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.520 when the winter sports come back, whether it's the NFL 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:52.200 or college football or college basketball, you're gonna go with 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:55.439 whatever one works. If the NBA bubble idea works and 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.400 the and the COVID nineteen tests are down, those sports 0:13:58.440 --> 0:13:59.640 are gonna have to find a way to play in 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.480 a bubble. Conversely, if baseball works this way, hey we 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.600 got it under control. Everything is outdoors, It's all right. 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.880 Everybody's gonna go with that one. This this is gonna 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:09.840 be to me, one of the most fascinating things to follow. 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.199 It's like a big science experiment over the next couple 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.080 of weeks. Which way is better? Which way is our 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.520 way forward? So basically you're saying the MLB and NBA 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.600 guinea pigs, because they are, and they really they don't 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.320 they we don't know, we don't know, and we don't know. 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:27.080 And I think Bob's taking a guest, and he's right. 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.120 If a certain amount of NBA players, you just do 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.880 the percentages, so so nobody should be a gasp. If 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:34.880 it's a hundred players, you know what I mean, that 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.280 would be on par. The question would be if it 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.880 was two or three hundred players, then you would have 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:41.760 to go, wait a minute, is this going to work 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.240 or if this gonna happen? So if that number is 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.160 one hundred, we are expecting it today, right, you know, 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.160 and you know what, And that's one thing that I 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:54.880 think everybody needs to give players and to understand them. 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.000 Coming back a little bit more. Now, you you have 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.440 MLB and NBA players who are going to play now, 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.880 and there's going to be big time positive COVID nineteen tests. Right, 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.320 they are now going into an atmosphere where they are 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.440 susceptible to get in COVID nineteen. Now step back for 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.480 a second and think about our lives. You know, we're lucky, 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.960 you know, and and many people across the country are 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.200 lucky in that what we do for a living. Managers 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.480 and bosses are able to say, okay, let's figure out 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.400 how you can work remotely and not have to come 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.600 into the office, and you can social distance and we 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.720 can still keep our jobs going. And you know, here 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.600 at Fox, they gave us all machines to do stuff 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.400 out of our homes in and our home offices, which 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.720 has been great. And many businesses across the country are 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:38.920 doing the same thing. People are working from home and 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:42.640 they're they're you know, they're they're staying safe and that's awesome. Now, 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.920 think about players. Yes, they get paid a lot of money, 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.560 they do all these things. They have no choice but 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.360 to go into an atmosphere that they could get COVID 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.800 nineteen where they are put into a circumstance where they 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.360 could wind up getting it because people they are working with, 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:00.640 they're going to have to work in those quarters with 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.240 there's no way around it, and they are going to 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:08.160 make themselves susceptible to getting COVID nineteen. Not think how 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.800 fortunate that you are if you don't have to do that. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.600 Athletes NBA and MLB players don't have that choice. Rob 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:16.600 They have to go if they want to play. This 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.760 is what they have to do. So you are going 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.400 and putting your health at risk to play because this 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.280 is the only way forward for them. So I think 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.720 in the end when we talk about these oh yeah, 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.240 the players will be okay, they'll be No. That's very 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.320 big mentally to weigh on you because they're going in 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.320 to play these games. That's on everybody's mind. Look, it's 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.120 like it's like you and I go into a store. 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:36.920 Right if you and I go to a store with 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.200 masks on, are we going in and browsing in Target 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.680 or going to the grocery store like we used to 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.560 a We're here for a few minutes having fun with 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:46.960 reb but don't nut off the you know, out of 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:48.560 the out of the bakery rack and eat it on 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.880 the way. Maybe I pay for it, Maybe I don't, 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:52.480 you know, I mean all those guys might eat it 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.480 during my trip in the supermarket and I just forgot 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.960 that I had it. Oh sorry, yeah, I'm sorry. I 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.480 didn't mean. Yeah, as you trumple the piece of plastic 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.639 up exactly all the chocolate icing on my mustache. Right, 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.639 but you have a donut? No, not me, sir. Can 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.040 you look in the mirror, sir? You know? But that 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.640 but we don't do that anymore. That but that's what 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.960 players are doing, going to work every day, going into 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.159 that atmosphere with how do you feel when you go 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:20.639 to a store Now, It's like I gotta get my 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.120 stuff and get out. I don't want to be next 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.440 to somebody. I want to get home and I'm gonna 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.000 feel better. And you're talking about players having to play 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:30.880 sports under those same circumstances. Yeah, I mean it will 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:35.640 be different, um, but but this is all uncharted waters. 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:39.080 So I think people will just just the way Jason 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.240 that you talked about it, that we've had to adjust 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:44.680 our lives, right Like for me during the during the 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:49.320 heart of this pandemic. Me going getting in my car 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.280 driving to go get a diet coke from McDonald's was 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.439 my day. That was the only thing I had to 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:56.560 look forward to to get some fresh air, do you 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:58.439 know what I mean? And you would go back for 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.400 free refills? Yeah, no, you would. They would you say, 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.680 they would say, oh, you cannot do that. You need 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.600 to buy another drink. You can't use the same cup. 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.720 And that's so so that that that that really hurt 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.520 me because I couldn't get my free refills. I think 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:14.720 that's but but we did change our lives, do you 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.680 know what I mean? And that's what the players will 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.280 have to do if they want to be professional athletes 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.919 and earn a living, they'll have to work around it. 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:25.679 You know it, just real quick. I think that's my favorite. 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:27.959 So someone says, what's your favorite Rob Parker story from knowing? 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.320 I'm say, oh, it's easily this one. When you know, 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.080 right up the street from us is all Poio Loco, right, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.560 It's it's big place where everybody goes there gets something eat. 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.520 And we could walk out of the studio, walk up 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:39.960 to All Poio Loco, get some food and come back. 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:42.879 So one day Rob goes up before the beginning of 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.840 the of the Odd Couple show and he gets you know, 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.040 dinner and you know and comes back. And then at 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:49.480 the end of the show when when I'm coming in 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:51.679 to do to do to do my show, You're leaving 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:53.640 and I go, why are you going that? When you go, oh, 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.159 I still up my Loco cup. I'm gonna go and 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:58.520 get a refill before I got on the road. And 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.200 I'm like, there was three hours ago you went there. 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:06.639 There's no time limit. When I see when I see 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:09.679 free refills, I couldn't say you have to get it 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.840 within the first fifteen minutes or of your meal. I 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.480 ate my meal there, I have my cup, I have 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.520 my receipt. It's not like I did it a day ago. No, No, 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:25.080 I'm entitled to a refill. Twitter, how about a Fresca 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.680 Rob at Rob Parker fs Fund. We're in for Dan 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.800 and the Dan that's today. Uh. That that's clearly that 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:34.840 is my favorite Rob Parker story of all time. Coming 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:38.600 up next, Oh boy, do we have a burgeoning controversy 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:42.240 in the National football that I think we can see 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:44.399 how it's gonna end, Rob, And I'll tell you about it. 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.840 Coming up next right here. Fox be sure to catch 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.480 the live edition of The Dan Patrick Show week days 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:54.080 at nine am Eastern six am Pacific on Fox Sports 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.720 Radio in the iHeart Radio app Fox Sports Radio. The 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.480 Dan Patrick Show. Today's show brought to you by Mercedes 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:05.040 AMG Driving Performance, Jason Smith, Rob Parker in for Dan 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:09.760 and the Danets today, and a couple of late breaking 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:12.280 stories that we have here coming for you here Happy 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:16.520 fourth of July Eve number one. 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