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Speaker 2: get to those phone calls coming up tonight later on
Speaker 2: today and football coming up tonight. Basketball tonight, we got
Speaker 2: a full slate of NBA openers. Watched a lot of
Speaker 2: basketball last night, not necessarily good basketball. I was watching
Speaker 2: a little bit of the Nets game, and I even
Speaker 2: watched the pregame for the Nets because I wanted to
Speaker 2: see what they did with Ben Simmons. And there was
Speaker 2: an interview, not necessarily a sit down interview, but this
Speaker 2: was probably a shoot around earlier in the day, and
Speaker 2: he just talked about, you know, he's blessed to be
Speaker 2: able to play. It's a blessing to be able to
Speaker 2: put on an NBA uniform. You still watch and I've
Speaker 2: said two things about him that I think are absolutely true.
Speaker 2: When I first saw him play at LSU, I said,
Speaker 2: I think he's a right handed shooter, but he's shooting
Speaker 2: left handed. And then the other part is I think
Speaker 2: he's just a really good basketball player. But I don't
Speaker 2: know if he loves playing basketball. I think you're six ' nine,
Speaker 2: got a handle here, Well, you should play basketball. I
Speaker 2: don't know if he cares about playing basketball. I think
Speaker 2: he cares about the lifestyle that brings to him. But
Speaker 2: I watch him play and you could actually see him
Speaker 2: thinking in real time when he's going up for a shot,
Speaker 2: and then he doesn't want to get found because he
Speaker 2: doesn't want to.
Speaker 3: Be embarrassed at the free throw line.
Speaker 2: He'll make a couple of really nice passes, or he'll
Speaker 2: have a couple of nice plays, and then you'll see
Speaker 2: him kind of revert back.
Speaker 3: To I don't want to shoot, I don't want to
Speaker 3: get found. I don't want to go to the line.
Speaker 2: I do like making thirty million dollars a year, though,
Speaker 2: And you watch that NETS franchise that is nondescript, and
Speaker 2: even with the Hawks with Trey Young. It's kind of nondescript,
Speaker 2: and there's a few of those teams where you okay,
Speaker 2: all right, but then you know, you got Minnesota came
Speaker 2: out of nowhere, and you're like, okay, they're interesting now.
Speaker 2: Like you're gonna get Houston, I think, is a team
Speaker 2: that can come out of nowhere and you go, well,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of fun there. There's a couple of teams.
Speaker 2: It happens every year. It happens every year in sports
Speaker 2: where somebody all of a sudden, it's their year, it's
Speaker 2: their time they make that big jump.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 2: We're still waiting for the Pelicans to make that jump,
Speaker 2: like is it going to happen?
Speaker 3: Is Zion going to be a thing? Is he going
Speaker 3: to be bigger?
Speaker 2: John Morant's back watching John Morant and they're like, okay,
Speaker 2: I watched Golden State. They blew out Portland. Golden State's
Speaker 2: going to be a really good team. I still think
Speaker 2: that they're going to make a trade at some point.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if Golden State is more interesting
Speaker 2: without Klay Thompson or Dallas is more interesting with Klay Thompson.
Speaker 2: I would say Dallas with Clay and they have this stat.
Speaker 2: There's so many stats out there. I didn't even know
Speaker 2: they kept these stats. Corner threes. Teams that took corner
Speaker 2: threes and what were their percentages?
Speaker 3: Last year?
Speaker 2: Dallas had a really really low corner three percentage. Well,
Speaker 2: who's really good from the corner shooting threes? Klay Thompson?
Speaker 2: You have Luca, you got Kyrie. This is kind of that. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's go. Let's and I know they made the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: I realized that Luca is one. I want to see
Speaker 2: Luca be the MVP, not just have incredible stats, to
Speaker 2: truly be the MVP. I still think it's Jason Tatum's
Speaker 2: to lose because they're defending champs. They're the best team
Speaker 2: in basketball, and he's the best player on the best
Speaker 2: team in basketball. And I would think if you start
Speaker 2: there and we start to see the evolution of Jason Tatum,
Speaker 2: he's still young, relatively young. He should be the mvpick.
Speaker 2: But Luca, I think is the leader right now. Yes, Mark, I.
Speaker 4: Think for Jason Tatum because the Celtics are so stacked.
Speaker 4: I think the Celtics have to win sixty eight, sixty nine,
Speaker 4: seventy games in order for him to win MVP, because
Speaker 4: everyone came back and they won sixty four games, and
Speaker 4: so I think people were saying, well, of course they're
Speaker 4: a really good team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we didn't do that to Larry Bird. We
Speaker 2: didn't go, hey, you got Michale and Perish. Everybody's back,
Speaker 2: So why are we doing that to Jason Tatum.
Speaker 4: We've been disrespecting Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown all summer long.
Speaker 4: I didn't know all of us, Steve Kerr did. We're
Speaker 4: all complicit and I didn't do it. Jason Tatum the
Speaker 4: over underwing DraftKings. I just saw it. It's forty eight
Speaker 4: and a half for Jason Tatum against the Warriors. Oh no,
Speaker 4: he's going to go all against.
Speaker 5: The war under.
Speaker 3: The Celtics and Golden State plays.
Speaker 4: I don't know Christmas Day whenever he finds them, I would.
Speaker 2: Be curious what the over under it wall be. It'll
Speaker 2: probably be twenty eight and a.
Speaker 4: Half in the first half.
Speaker 3: Yes, you're right, all right.
Speaker 2: All right, fair enough, if that's what you think. Celtics
Speaker 2: are playing the Wizards tonight, let's go. Can you watch
Speaker 2: half of a team, like half the game like I
Speaker 2: watched just the Celtics tonight and not the Wizards. We
Speaker 2: need to come up with a TV that says, let me,
Speaker 2: let me get rid of the Wizards and just watch
Speaker 2: the Celtics. Spurs are getting eight against Luca and Company. Okay,
Speaker 2: see Clay in Company. As Todd brought up starting the show,
Speaker 2: you know it's went By against Klay Thompson.
Speaker 3: I go, maybe not.
Speaker 2: That's the way to sell Oklahoma City against the Nuggets
Speaker 2: and Timberwolves versus the Kings.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: See, not to go back to Ben Simmons.
Speaker 6: But I was kind of part of me was really
Speaker 6: looking forward to and like hopeful that part of the
Speaker 6: storyline this year for the NBA season would be the
Speaker 6: Ben Simmons revenge tour. Like that would be so sick
Speaker 6: if all of a sudden he he went away for
Speaker 6: a while and he came back as just like a
Speaker 6: legit dude proving himself.
Speaker 3: God, that would have been so much fun. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: he still can't shoot. You don't go away.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I watched all those off season videos of
Speaker 6: him working out in New York, and he found a shot.
Speaker 2: See I could I could videotape myself with an off
Speaker 2: season workout and you go all right, yeah, and I
Speaker 2: could see a spot for him. I know he's a
Speaker 2: John Paxson kind of guy.
Speaker 6: I like a redemption story better than a yeah.
Speaker 3: I guess he really does think story.
Speaker 2: He can't shoot, and he doesn't have confidence, So I
Speaker 2: don't know what came first. Hey, I don't have confidence.
Speaker 2: I can't shoot, or I can't shoot. I don't have confidence.
Speaker 2: Here turns out he can't really pass either. At least
Speaker 2: Lonzo Ball worked on his shot, came back from a
Speaker 2: severe knee injury, and at least he got back. He
Speaker 2: worked to get back. I just don't think Ben Simmons cares. Yeah, Pauline,
Speaker 2: you're right.
Speaker 7: It's not that he maybe can't shoot. He's just reluctant
Speaker 7: or paralyzed.
Speaker 3: No, No, he can't shoot.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he You know, he has five three pointers in
Speaker 7: seven years.
Speaker 3: So he's gone five more than I do.
Speaker 7: Right, he hasn't He hasn't attempted one.
Speaker 2: I would, I would, I would sign up for a
Speaker 2: shooting contest against Ben Simmons.
Speaker 7: He hasn't attempted one in three seasons. It's not even
Speaker 7: part of your they're centers who take them. If you
Speaker 7: watch him last night, he had a pass first minute
Speaker 7: of the game and all that pass then a real
Speaker 7: nice layup. Then the rest of the game. He just
Speaker 7: like this, mantled himself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked a little bit about the Clippers home
Speaker 2: court advantage. Didn't necessarily work last night, but went into
Speaker 2: overtime and Kevin Durant talked about the Intuit dome.
Speaker 5: A the ms that liked to play in this building. Incredible.
Speaker 5: I loved it at last I absolutely loved the water.
Speaker 8: They guys, Yeah, it's insane, I know in the playoffs,
Speaker 8: and you know, once people get more more comfortable with
Speaker 8: the arena, it's gonna be insane here. So I always
Speaker 8: love when new venues go up in our league. Is
Speaker 8: always cool. Always sets the standard for what they come
Speaker 8: down the line.
Speaker 5: You know. So Steve is doing great job.
Speaker 2: As franchise all right, All right, kind of laying it
Speaker 2: on a little thick there in case you're forty one
Speaker 2: years of age and you leave the Suns and then
Speaker 2: you get signed by Steve Balmer there go to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: You know, remember those things I said nice things about
Speaker 2: the Clippers. All right, we'll sign you. How much do
Speaker 2: you want to make?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Marv, sorry to go back to Boston. Yeah, Golden
Speaker 4: State at the Celtics when November six, let's go.
Speaker 2: Right after the NFL trade deadline over under Jason Tatum.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to go into the thirties here.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go thirty one and a half. Thirty one
Speaker 2: and a half for Jason Tatum against Steve Kerr in
Speaker 2: the Golden State War.
Speaker 4: I'm going to stick with fifty six and a half.
Speaker 4: He's going to be locked and loaded for Steve Kerr,
Speaker 4: our first team all NBA. I can't Derek White played
Speaker 4: more than me.
Speaker 3: Let's not do this again. Come get up, no getting up,
Speaker 3: Let's get up. Talk about this. Oh I can't hear you.
Speaker 3: Come on, let's go. Come on everyone, pit up. You
Speaker 3: can be louder that I.
Speaker 2: Can't even do both hands because I have to only
Speaker 2: do one since I'd have to do like that.
Speaker 3: Come on, get up.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Bradloha, give it up for your starting center, THEO ratlings.
Speaker 4: Stroma Swift, You're starting guard.
Speaker 3: Alvin william comes Pearl.
Speaker 2: What's ladies and gentlemen, Baron Davis Davids, I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: the the public address announcer. I'd like to do that
Speaker 2: you never done that. No, no, no, no, I never
Speaker 2: got that opportunity. The only time I did it is
Speaker 2: when we kind of said to the San Francisco Giants
Speaker 2: in spring training, hey, could I just introduce Barry Bonds
Speaker 2: when he comes to the plate, And they're like, I
Speaker 2: was doing the radio show at the same time, and
Speaker 2: then they gave me a microphone. I added the microphone
Speaker 2: for the radio show, so I was doing it was
Speaker 2: a simulcast of sorts, and that's when I said, now,
Speaker 2: batting number twenty five, the left fielder, Barry Bonds. I
Speaker 2: don't know if that's the way you're supposed to sound
Speaker 2: when you do that, Boh Buns. And then he homered
Speaker 2: and I said, now batting number twenty five, a man
Speaker 2: who homered for me, and it is lasted bad. And
Speaker 2: then everybody turns around. Bonds looks up, like, what's going on?
Speaker 2: Barry Bonds? And then we asked for him and he
Speaker 2: said no, Bob Paully, it was a quick note, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Polly Goes, I said, go ask Bonds to come on
Speaker 2: the show. I mean, I just said, I predicted you
Speaker 2: hit a home run. Paully Goes down. The Giants dugout
Speaker 2: and so we go to commercial breaking, I said, and
Speaker 2: he goes, oh no, it was.
Speaker 3: A quick no.
Speaker 7: You want to talk about a tough gig in sports,
Speaker 7: Walk up to Barry Bonds when he's trying to pack
Speaker 7: up in spring training and ask him to do an interview,
Speaker 7: you get a bit off, a bit off fast.
Speaker 2: I remember flying cross country because he said he would
Speaker 2: do an interview through his management, and I went cross
Speaker 2: country from the East Coast out there and I'm their pregame.
Speaker 3: I remember Jeff Kent going, what are you doing here?
Speaker 3: I go, I'm doing an interview with Barry. He goes,
Speaker 3: does he know that?
Speaker 2: He said yeah, yeah, I set it up through his agent.
Speaker 2: And then Bonds comes out and I said, hey, Dan Patrick.
Speaker 2: He goes, yeah, I said, yeah, I'm here do an interview.
Speaker 2: He goes, who said, I said, no, you and gave
Speaker 2: him the name and he picks up his phone. He's like, hey,
Speaker 2: what the blah blah buh blah blah blah buh bah.
Speaker 3: You did all right? Hangs up phone.
Speaker 2: My producer has the microphone and he gives the microphone
Speaker 2: to Barry and Barry goes, Slavery's over.
Speaker 3: I ain't holding that microphone. I'm like, oh my god, I.
Speaker 2: Haven't even started the interview. And it was Darren Smith,
Speaker 2: who was my producer. He says, here's your microphone. He's
Speaker 2: not gonna hold it during the interview. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: got the interview. I don't know if it was any good.
Speaker 2: Do you have the play by play there?
Speaker 3: Mark? This is two thousand and four spring training.
Speaker 2: The left fielder and rating National Leake MVP, Barry Buns. Bond,
Speaker 2: the left fielder batting fourth number twenty five, a man
Speaker 2: who homeward in his lasted bat for me. Let's all
Speaker 2: rise and welcome Barry Bonds.
Speaker 3: Let's all rise, and it's spring training.
Speaker 2: Let's all rise and welcome Verry Bah Oh what an idiot?
Speaker 2: Me Andrew and Washington. Then we'll take a break. The
Speaker 2: big unit Randy Johnson will join us.
Speaker 3: Hey Andrew, Good morning.
Speaker 10: Dan, Dennis, thanks for taking my call. It is great
Speaker 10: to see the NBA in mid season form with embid
Speaker 10: and PG thirteen out y on the bench and hard
Speaker 10: and fumbling it no t with you know, missing a
Speaker 10: free throw and not getting the inbounds pass in. So
Speaker 10: that's wonderful to see all them in their mid season form.
Speaker 10: I did have a stat of the day NFL style
Speaker 10: to go into Week eight. Baltimore Ravens have done something
Speaker 10: twice in five years that have only been done twice
Speaker 10: previously since nineteen eighty. They have now rushed for more
Speaker 10: than fourteen hundred yards through seven weeks in the NFL.
Speaker 10: The only other team to do that since nineteen eighty
Speaker 10: the two thousand and six Falcons and then nineteen eighty
Speaker 10: four Caps.
Speaker 2: Bears Stat of your Day, Stat of the Day, Pop Bob,
Speaker 2: stat of the Day.
Speaker 3: Stat of the day. Here come, here comes that? What
Speaker 3: stat of the day.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll take a break. We'll talk a little
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Speaker 3: Where are your cy Young's?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 11: One's a door stop here in my office, and the
Speaker 11: others are throughout the house. One's a paper way to
Speaker 11: hear on my desk, and one is a door stop,
Speaker 11: and then the other two or three or somewhere.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Let me let me see the one on your desk there.
Speaker 11: Uh well, it's not it's not viewable right now because
Speaker 11: I'm talking with with my desktop computer.
Speaker 3: Oh you can't lift that up and just hold it
Speaker 3: and show it to us?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Can I have one of them?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 11: Yes, thank you, Yes, as soon as you as soon
Speaker 11: as you personally get off the disabled list.
Speaker 5: I understand you had shoulder surgery.
Speaker 3: Yep. Yeah. When's the last time you had shoulder surgery?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 11: Well, I I tore my rotator cuffed my last year
Speaker 11: in San Francisco, and I just let it scar over.
Speaker 11: I never went and had surgery, and that's the way
Speaker 11: my career ended. And so but I have had knee
Speaker 11: replacement surgery last year in November, a lot of wear
Speaker 11: and tear on my landing leg, and I liked it
Speaker 11: so much that surgery part of it that I'm going
Speaker 11: back next week and having them clean up scar tissue
Speaker 11: I had because just because I liked the meds that
Speaker 11: they give me.
Speaker 2: I had the knee done a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: and it's one of those where you go, why didn't
Speaker 2: I do this sooner? Because they they got hips and
Speaker 2: knees down shoulders, they don't have down to an exact science.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Well, you know, I've been retired for about fourteen years, Dan,
Speaker 11: and when you're playing, you got youth, and you got
Speaker 11: trainers and doctors and things like that that you know,
Speaker 11: the aches and pains don't seem to show up as much.
Speaker 11: But when you get away from the game, you're removed
Speaker 11: from it fourteen years, the aches and pains and the
Speaker 11: injuries seem to circle back and they let you know
Speaker 11: that they're still here. So I hope you get up
Speaker 11: the disabled US soon because someone will be come calling
Speaker 11: for you for your free agent year this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: If I was only a left handed pitcher, you know,
Speaker 2: I got a couple of random questions here, Why is
Speaker 2: it still a big deal when a left handed batter
Speaker 2: has to face a left handed pitcher, Like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: what an advantage?
Speaker 11: Like why don't they talk about right handed pictures face
Speaker 11: your right handed hitter?
Speaker 5: I don't know. That's a good question.
Speaker 11: I'm going to have my staff work on that question
Speaker 11: and hopefully we can.
Speaker 5: Get the answer before we're done here.
Speaker 2: But haven't we evolved where it's not a novelty Where
Speaker 2: you go, we don't see left handers very often, I
Speaker 2: would think.
Speaker 11: With I think it's just a novel idea to talk
Speaker 11: about it, because there's not that many left handed pitchers
Speaker 11: and base there's not that many left handed people generally
Speaker 11: in the world, let alone in sports, and so I
Speaker 11: guess it's just kind of a novel idea.
Speaker 3: How would you pitch to Otani carefully?
Speaker 11: I still watch seriously, I mean, you know, and Soto
Speaker 11: and Judge, I mean these people that you know. And
Speaker 11: I faced a lot of big home run hitters. You know,
Speaker 11: for twenty two years, I gave up a lot of
Speaker 11: home runs. I don't know where, you know, I.
Speaker 5: Gave up four hundred and something home runs.
Speaker 2: And we walk me through this Otani's at the plate.
Speaker 2: Let's say first and bat against you well, and.
Speaker 11: I've seen I've seen he pulls off the ball a lot,
Speaker 11: and so I would probably be very careful pitching any
Speaker 11: left hander down and in. The swing plane for a
Speaker 11: left handed hitter is usually down and up, where as
Speaker 11: a right handed hitter usually has a more level swing plane.
Speaker 11: If you throw a ball, if you look at a
Speaker 11: lot of home runs hit by a left handed hitter,
Speaker 11: the ball is usually down and in because that's the
Speaker 11: swing plane for a left handed hitter, whereas a right
Speaker 11: handed hitter out over the middle of the plate. The
Speaker 11: swing plane is more straight across, sweeping across home plate.
Speaker 11: But I would be very careful with them. I would
Speaker 11: start off, whether it was a ball or strike, letting
Speaker 11: him know that I'm pitching in, get him off the plate,
Speaker 11: and then I would try to elevate pitches.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't pitch down and in.
Speaker 11: I would elevate, but I know he can hit a
Speaker 11: ball up too as well, and then I would work
Speaker 11: them down and a way. What about judge, Judge, I
Speaker 11: would pitch like a Frank Thomas someone like that. I've
Speaker 11: made mistakes to Frank and heat, the ball still orbiting somewhere,
Speaker 11: but I would get ahead, hopefully hopefully, and then throw
Speaker 11: my breaking ball down and in and hopefully I wouldn't
Speaker 11: hang it, because if I did, he's going to hit
Speaker 11: at six hundred feet.
Speaker 2: If I would have told you your rookie year that
Speaker 2: you would win five cy Youngs, what would you have said?
Speaker 11: I would have had you administer to some kind of
Speaker 11: pee test or drug test.
Speaker 5: I don't think that would have.
Speaker 11: Uh, you know, a lot a lot happened, and it's
Speaker 11: well documented.
Speaker 5: After i'd you know, got together.
Speaker 11: And and uh talked to Tom House and Nolan Ryan.
Speaker 11: You know, that was really a pivotal and turning point
Speaker 11: of my career. I had had a lot of pitching
Speaker 11: coaches in the minor leagues up to that point. Uh,
Speaker 11: and I'm very thankful for all of them, but none
Speaker 11: of them really had that one little thing where it
Speaker 11: got me over the hill and really.
Speaker 5: Got my you know, consistency with my mechanics. Uh.
Speaker 11: Having a conversation with them was, you know, a fifteen
Speaker 11: minute conversation down in the in the bullpen, Tom House
Speaker 11: talking to me, watching Nolan Ryan do what Tom House
Speaker 11: is talking and then and then it was really up
Speaker 11: to me to you know, go out there and do
Speaker 11: that and work on it. It was the middle of the
Speaker 11: season when we had that conversation. Uh, and then it was,
Speaker 11: you know, a matter of me working on this. And
Speaker 11: when you've been doing something wrong or you know your way,
Speaker 11: and now all of a.
Speaker 5: Sudden you're trying to change something, it's not easy.
Speaker 11: It's just like, you know, I had hitters tell me
Speaker 11: that I was tipping my pitches, and uh, you know,
Speaker 11: I would fan my glove on a breaking ball and
Speaker 11: I would squeeze my glove on a fastball, and hitters, wow,
Speaker 11: when you're looking at me getting ready to deliver, it's
Speaker 11: just that fraction of a second that they need to
Speaker 11: determine whether what's coming. And evidently I was doing that.
Speaker 11: I would see it after they would tell me. But
Speaker 11: you know what, I talked to lots of Hall of
Speaker 11: Fame pitchers and they said that they were doing it.
Speaker 11: It's not the easiest thing to change, even though you
Speaker 11: want to, because you don't want to go out you
Speaker 11: might as well just say, hey, fast falls coming, kind
Speaker 11: of like you're throwing batting practice. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 11: I just think changing things, whether it's mechanics.
Speaker 5: You know, it's just difficult. But you know I was
Speaker 5: able to.
Speaker 11: Do that, and then it was early enough of my
Speaker 11: career and then and then really reap the benefits of
Speaker 11: having those conversations with Nolan and Tom.
Speaker 3: But what kind of picture would you be today?
Speaker 2: Let's say you know you're ready to be in the
Speaker 2: major leagues, But how would baseball use Randy Johnson?
Speaker 5: I don't think. I don't think.
Speaker 11: I think the only pitcher that would probably be still
Speaker 11: really special as he was when he played, because he
Speaker 11: was so good, he would be that same kind of
Speaker 11: picture in today's game. I don't think is Greg Maddox
Speaker 11: people like that. I don't think a power pitcher like
Speaker 11: myself or Pedro or Roger in today's game would be
Speaker 11: looked at in the same regards as we were in
Speaker 11: our era. I think because velocity is more prevalent in
Speaker 11: today's game. I think hitters can hit more velocity, high
Speaker 11: velocity pitches. It's coming out of your starting pitcher, is
Speaker 11: coming out of your bullpen all the time, and I
Speaker 11: just think they're adjusted to do it more now than
Speaker 11: they were back in the nineties. Win maybe a handful
Speaker 11: of people through the upper nineties, you know, ninety five
Speaker 11: to one hundred whatever.
Speaker 2: It was talking to Randy Johnson, Hall of Famer and
Speaker 2: joining us on behalf of direct TV the bird Ballpark campaign.
Speaker 3: We got one of those that you sent to me.
Speaker 3: That thing still.
Speaker 2: I mean, I was going to say it lives on,
Speaker 2: the bird doesn't live on, but just you blasting a
Speaker 2: bird in spring training.
Speaker 11: Twenty three years ago, Dan, And and that seems to
Speaker 11: be running into anybody you know here there. That seems
Speaker 11: to be the highlight of my career or what they
Speaker 11: may remember. And so it was a great Uh, it's
Speaker 11: been a great partnership with direct TV. They used their
Speaker 11: direct TV satellite dishes in mimicking these these bird ballparks,
Speaker 11: and so it was a lot of fun to be
Speaker 11: a part of that. And uh and they're gonna bring
Speaker 11: one now to the Hall of Fame, and so I
Speaker 11: think more there'll be more exposure. And it's just been
Speaker 11: a great campaign, a lot of fun. And uh, you know, Dan,
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Speaker 2: At you being a salesman, you're a you're a regular
Speaker 2: Peyton Manning, did you Oh yeah, sure did you go
Speaker 2: to USC for baseball and basketball. I see you got
Speaker 2: your Trojan Henna baseball and basketball.
Speaker 11: Well, let's be honest, Dan, I couldn't really jump, and
Speaker 11: I didn't start playing basketball until my freshman year in
Speaker 11: high school. Uh.
Speaker 5: But the story is the.
Speaker 11: When I got to high school, being a freshman, I
Speaker 11: was probably around you know, six eight, six nine then
Speaker 11: maybe about one hundred and sixties hundred and seventy pounds.
Speaker 5: If you can.
Speaker 3: Imagine intimidating, very intimidating.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, sure. Uh.
Speaker 11: My pe teacher was also the basketball coach and asked,
Speaker 11: because there wasn't a lot of you know, tall people
Speaker 11: at my high school, he asked if I had any
Speaker 11: interest in playing basketball, and I said, well, I've never
Speaker 11: really played organized basketball before. You know, I've played Pop
Speaker 11: Warner football, was a quarterback in a tennis and obviously baseball.
Speaker 11: I would try, but I don't know much about, you know,
Speaker 11: my footwork and playing basketball. So we worked at it
Speaker 11: in pe classes and then I went out and played
Speaker 11: three years of high school and I actually got offered
Speaker 11: scholarships to play basketball.
Speaker 5: And that's not to say that I was.
Speaker 11: Going to be any good, but you know, it just
Speaker 11: goes to show for anybody.
Speaker 5: That's listening right now.
Speaker 11: You know, if you, you know, put your time and
Speaker 11: effort into something, you never know what will come from it.
Speaker 11: And so, but the USC thing was strictly baseball. Okay,
Speaker 11: I think, but you know how you know, scholarships work.
Speaker 11: There's a limited amount of scholarships in sports, and there
Speaker 11: probably was even less or more a little bit more
Speaker 11: back in the eighties. So I think they just kind
Speaker 11: of it was baseball slash basketball.
Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety two, Randy Johnson led the league in
Speaker 2: strike ounce, walks, batters hit by pitch, and wild pitches. Congratulations,
Speaker 2: thank you you were new to us.
Speaker 5: That's a record.
Speaker 2: They were surely broken. Nobody wants to break that. Did
Speaker 2: you ever feel bad when you hit somebody?
Speaker 5: Not always no, but.
Speaker 11: You know what, a lot of times it was my
Speaker 11: breaking ball, my slider that and I would hit their
Speaker 11: back foot.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, but how many guys do you think you
Speaker 2: hit on purpose in your career?
Speaker 5: What's that?
Speaker 3: How many guys do you think you hit on purpose?
Speaker 11: I don't know, Dan, Where do I rank as your
Speaker 11: staff right now? My staff is out on the front
Speaker 11: sidewalk right now, because I overworked them and underpay them.
Speaker 5: So as your staff.
Speaker 3: Okay, where you rank on hit by pitches?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 5: So where do I rank?
Speaker 3: PAULI?
Speaker 5: Do you know how many? Is that?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 7: I'm checking. It's easier to find batters hit by pitch?
Speaker 7: But Randy Johnson, I have n't hitting one hundred and
Speaker 7: ninety people in his career, which is up there?
Speaker 11: Where does that rank? Is there any pitcher there's thrown
Speaker 11: hit batter more than that?
Speaker 7: We're checking right now.
Speaker 2: I gotta believe Nolan Ryan hit more guys than you,
Speaker 2: I would think, and probably on purpose.
Speaker 5: Too, probably half of them.
Speaker 2: He might have been the meanest guy. Him and Bob
Speaker 2: Gibson might have been the meanest guys I ever saw
Speaker 2: in the mound.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I obviously I got to see Nolan pitch. I
Speaker 11: actually even pitched against him.
Speaker 2: Wait, you have more? Does he have more hit by
Speaker 2: pitches than Nolan Ryan?
Speaker 7: Randy Johnson one ninety Nolan Ryan one fifty eight?
Speaker 3: What is wrong with Nolan? Damn?
Speaker 2: I think I could get Nolan Ryan throwing ninety miles
Speaker 2: an hour if I gave him six weeks.
Speaker 11: Randy, I don't doubt it. I don't doubt it. You know,
Speaker 11: he's just he's one of those uh truly athletes that
Speaker 11: come along once in a lifetime, not once in a
Speaker 11: decade or whatever, you know, just once in a lifetime.
Speaker 11: You won't you know that movie that facing Nolan, Uh
Speaker 11: you watch the end of it. And when when you're
Speaker 11: usually rolling the credits for a movie, you know the
Speaker 11: names and all that stuff. Those are all of his accomplishments.
Speaker 11: It's just like, come on, why do.
Speaker 7: You have an update, PAULI, Yeah, this is big news
Speaker 7: unit your second all time only two. I got Walter
Speaker 7: Johnson no relation.
Speaker 5: And yes, absolutely look that up too, Walter John's family.
Speaker 2: No, that was different. Walter Johnson pitched when you pitched
Speaker 2: like sixty games.
Speaker 7: A year than Randy Johnson.
Speaker 2: If you look at in the modern day, Randy Johnson
Speaker 2: hit more guys than any other pitch.
Speaker 7: Yes, and hit batsman by start, you're the all time champ.
Speaker 3: Congratulate about a round of applause.
Speaker 5: For yeah, yeah right, But.
Speaker 11: You're not sure that I didn't know before this conversation today.
Speaker 3: But you don't know how many you hit on purpose?
Speaker 5: No, I wouldn't say very many.
Speaker 2: Well, who pissed you off for you go, you know what,
Speaker 2: somebody's got to take somebody getting drilled here.
Speaker 5: Well, you know it was Uh.
Speaker 11: I usually only retaliated if and I would always ask
Speaker 11: my hitter if he felt like he got hit on purpose,
Speaker 11: and if he did, then I obviously would hit retaliate.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 11: But what I come to realize, uh, and what would
Speaker 11: be kind of like the inside joke on the bench
Speaker 11: during the game was the days that I was pitching
Speaker 11: most of our hitters, my hitters.
Speaker 5: Didn't have to worry about getting.
Speaker 11: Hit because if they did, then there was going to
Speaker 11: be you know, hell to pay, you know. And so
Speaker 11: I'm sure those hitters on the other team told the pitcher,
Speaker 11: make sure you don't.
Speaker 5: Pitch inside too much today.
Speaker 11: But I did protect my hitters, and I didn't have
Speaker 11: a problem with that at all. I'm not out there
Speaker 11: to you know, hit anybody or not not out there
Speaker 11: to hurt anybody.
Speaker 5: But I'm out there to protect my players. And that
Speaker 5: was just a way the game has always been played.
Speaker 3: Who's your pick on the World Series?
Speaker 11: Well, I saw today that it's Coal and Flaherty. I
Speaker 11: was kind of hoping I wanted to see Cole and Yakamoto.
Speaker 5: Is that is that was his name. I'm pronounce Yamamota.
Speaker 5: Excuse me, excuse me.
Speaker 11: I was kind of hoping to see that matchup because
Speaker 11: I think that will be the tail tale of how
Speaker 11: this whole thing is going to pan out. But uh,
Speaker 11: I think anything can happen. I don't think it's going
Speaker 11: to be a short series. I think, you know, I
Speaker 11: watched the National League much more than the American League,
Speaker 11: so I've been watching the Dodgers a lot, and obviously
Speaker 11: when they come through Arizona, I see them.
Speaker 5: I watched the series against San Diego.
Speaker 11: I think I think, excuse me, I think the Doggers
Speaker 11: will inevitably win, but I think it's going to be
Speaker 11: a close series. I'm just kind of curious to see
Speaker 11: how Roberts uses the bullpen like he's been doing. You know,
Speaker 11: if they can hold up and keep doing what they've
Speaker 11: been doing for the most part successfully, you know, then
Speaker 11: I then I think, uh, the pitching is really what's
Speaker 11: going to you know, have to you know, rise to
Speaker 11: the top. That's what that's what's gonna shut down both
Speaker 11: mega offenses.
Speaker 3: Great to talk to you again, my pleasure next.
Speaker 5: Year at some point the State of the Union Address.
Speaker 3: Again Okay, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: And uh if you you know once you find that
Speaker 2: Cy Young, that I mean, you got five of them, Like,
Speaker 2: what's what's losing one really matter to you?
Speaker 11: How About how about like some kind of baseball or
Speaker 11: patch or I can babblehead for your desk right here, Cy.
Speaker 3: Young, look a whole lot better.
Speaker 11: All right, Well, you know what, next time we have
Speaker 11: a conversation, I'll have all five of them right behind me.
Speaker 2: Okay, there'd be a nice little backdrop. Okay, be nice.
Speaker 2: Great to talk to you.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Randy, and good luck to your shoulder. Thank you.
Speaker 2: That's Randy Johnson joining us on behalf of Direct TV.
Speaker 2: Good luck to my shoulder. Get my stitches out, sutures
Speaker 2: out today, I go in and get them.
Speaker 3: Clip there.
Speaker 2: Yes, Tom, that's the same guy that was so scary
Speaker 2: on the man that we used to watch pitch.
Speaker 4: That's amazing to me.
Speaker 2: Only on game day. That's when you didn't approach him.
Speaker 2: I made the mistake of approaching him on game day
Speaker 2: at Wrigley Field. It didn't go well. We'll take a
Speaker 2: break back after this.
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Speaker 2: I can't believe that here we are at the end
Speaker 2: of the show on Thursday. It. I can't believe tomorrow's
Speaker 2: Friday already. Wow, alrighty, last call for phone calls. What
Speaker 2: we learn, what's in store tomorrow. Brady Quinn will join us,
Speaker 2: Jason Garrett will stop buying as well. I saw where
Speaker 2: Jerry Jones basically through Mike McCarthy and the offense under
Speaker 2: the bus, talking about how bad the play calling has been.
Speaker 2: You imagine you're Mike McCarthy, like you're just You're trying
Speaker 2: to keep your head above water, and every time you
Speaker 2: put your head up, Jerry puts his foot on top
Speaker 2: of your head. So you now have to go to
Speaker 2: a press conference where they go Jerry said, the play
Speaker 2: calling isn't any good.
Speaker 3: Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, I get it.
Speaker 2: He's content, but he is it's conduct content detrimental to
Speaker 2: the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: Vikings Rams PAULI is volunteered to go first right the
Speaker 2: headline today that will be apropos for tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Rams get van Ginkled Vikings linebacker steals the show. I
Speaker 7: just want to say the name Bang Ginkle.
Speaker 2: I wish his name was Rip, Yeah, Rip Van Ginkle
Speaker 2: on Andrew Van Ginkle of the.
Speaker 3: Van Ginkles, the Newport ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: It's like the Von Trapp family and Sound of Music
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Speaker 3: All right, Todd. Today's headline for tomorrow, Purple people cheaters,
Speaker 3: Minnesota wins.
Speaker 6: On controversial call.
Speaker 3: Cheating Purple people cheaters.
Speaker 4: Wow, they pull it out on a weird call at
Speaker 4: the end there.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 7: But if it's a weird call that's on the rest.
Speaker 3: Well maybe there's a rule violation. That thing's gonna happen
Speaker 3: in those minute something like that. All right, Seaton Uh
Speaker 3: two QB's no cup h Wow, Marvin.
Speaker 4: Good times. JJ leads the Vikings to a wing.
Speaker 5: Oh there you go, Okay, thank you times. Yeah.
Speaker 7: I thought about J. J. McCarthy was like, I don't.
Speaker 3: Hurt JJ Walker. I love that dude.
Speaker 6: Man, he's become one of my favorite guys in sports,
Speaker 6: sing Justin Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 3: I love that, dude.
Speaker 2: Man, oh, I thought you were talking about JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 5: Should j J.
Speaker 7: McCarthy have to give up the JJ because he was
Speaker 7: second on the team.
Speaker 2: If Justin Jefferson wants it right, he's going to get
Speaker 2: it absolutely.
Speaker 3: Jets is a great nickname though, Jets. Yeah, JJ, I
Speaker 3: think I think Justin Jefferson his nickname is Jets. Oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's like.
Speaker 12: I like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael and Fort Wayne. Hi, Mike, thanks for holding
Speaker 2: what's on your mind?
Speaker 13: Heygo mornin Dan, thanks for taking my call. Prayers for
Speaker 13: your shoulder and also prayers for my jaw, which just
Speaker 13: hit the floor after Seaton's most recent comment, wow wow. Yeah.
Speaker 13: You talked earlier this week quite a bit about Tua
Speaker 13: and his guardian helmet, and I'd like to share one
Speaker 13: perspective that's not been discussed yet.
Speaker 12: I propose that the.
Speaker 13: NFL does not want him anywhere near a guardian helmet,
Speaker 13: and I'll tell you why. According to the NFL, the
Speaker 13: helmet reduces concussions by about fifty percent, and that is
Speaker 13: not enough to help Tua. Sua has had ugly concussions,
Speaker 13: not just getting his bell rung and running off the field,
Speaker 13: but neurological symptoms while he's collapsed on the field and
Speaker 13: dramatically stopping play. And the NFL does not want him
Speaker 13: wearing a guardian helmet if it happens again.
Speaker 3: All right, well, thank you, Michael.
Speaker 2: I don't think the NFL once amount they're playing uh
Speaker 2: Sean in Cincinnati, Hi Sean.
Speaker 12: Hey Dan, thanks so much for taking my call.
Speaker 1: YEP.
Speaker 12: Just wanted to make a quick complaint. Not that I
Speaker 12: would ever complain about the show, but one of the
Speaker 12: dan EPs has has really affected my Thursday night football viewing.
Speaker 12: Not only have the games not been great, but all
Speaker 12: I can hear now when I watch Thursday night football
Speaker 12: is Seatan in the back of my head going in.
Speaker 2: Beer Saton Satan doing is al Michael's impersonation.
Speaker 3: He goes in there, regal when you did it? To
Speaker 3: al Michaels he goes, I sound like that, I think,
Speaker 3: he said. I hope I don't sound in their regal.
Speaker 3: It was unfortunate, Todd. Would you learn today? How would
Speaker 3: Hall of Famer Randy Johnson pitch the show? Hey TONI
Speaker 3: care Setan, what did you learn Christopher mad Dog Russo
Speaker 3: doesn't have time for hair?
Speaker 4: How about that uh Marvin mad Dog's wife out of town?
Speaker 3: Yeah, his hair looked like a mess, Polly.
Speaker 7: Would you learn Randy Jason is high on life?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: Todd? What did I I love? By the way that
Speaker 3: uh mad Dog? They're like, hey, man, did you even
Speaker 3: look at your hary?
Speaker 13: Like?
Speaker 3: My wife's out of town? Like somehow like he can't
Speaker 3: Comba's hair.
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