WEBVTT - Hour 1 - Chris Simms (06-25-20) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.000 Sports Radio. Welcome to the program. Made it to a Thursday, 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.479 Our one, Dan and The Dane's Dan Patrick Show. Morale 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:13.440 is high. Glad to have you on board. Chris Simms 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:15.400 is going to join us, coming up. I'm going to 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:17.880 talk some football with him. The Hall of Fame game 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:23.120 has been canceled. No surprise on this end. Rachel Nichols 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.160 from the mothership ESPN's The Jump will join us as well. 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.440 We'll look at the scenario here with the Lakers practicing, 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:35.400 are they violating NBA rules? Will the commissioners say something here? 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.920 Bigger issue is the number of positive tests in the 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:43.519 Orlando area. So Rachel Nichols will join us, coming up 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.080 here eight seven seven three d P Show email address 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.640 DP at dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle a DP show. 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:53.159 I said morale is high. I was lying sports morale 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.360 is not high. And pre show meeting had to do 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:00.840 with the coronavirus and what's happening with golf, what's happening 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:04.319 with the NBA baseball rules? Football with the Hall of 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:09.080 Fame game is canceled, and here we are. I keep 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:13.400 thinking we've made progress, and then every time you get ready. 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.680 It feels like it's two steps forward, two steps back. 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.640 But here we are getting closer to these dates, these 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:23.160 mandated dates, and then we're waiting to see these games 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:27.640 to actually happen, and these players showing up at training 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.560 camp working out, and we're getting closer and closer and closer. 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.080 And I don't know if you were surprised about the 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.360 Hall of Fame game being canceled. I was not. I've 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.800 been saying the last two weeks. I just don't see 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:42.880 them playing that game. But what happens a week later 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:47.480 when you have ten preseason games? Are they going to 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:55.480 be canceled? What's happening with baseball, college football, the NFL, NBA, 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.000 It's all still fluid. In a state of flux. Eight 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.840 seven seven three p Show email address tdpat dan Patrick 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.800 dot com, Twitter handle at DPS show. The boys you're here, 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.120 say good morning to YouTube dot com, slanks, to Dan 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.440 Patrick Show and our great radio affiliates around the country. 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.040 We have been reminded a couple of times this week 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.200 about the return of sports and how it will not 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:19.840 be easy. And yesterday the PGA Tour got hit. Five 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:24.320 golfers dropped out of the Travelers Championship because they tested 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.119 positive for the virus or somebody close to them did, 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:31.919 including Brooks Keepka, who's caddie tested positive. And you might say, 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.800 if an outdoor sport like golf with built in social 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:41.040 distancing can't stay safe, what sport can. But once again, 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.200 it's not time to get ahead of ourselves, either in 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.160 a positive direction or a negative one. This is not 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.639 about what happens when you get on a football field 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.720 or a baseball field or a golf course. It feels 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.000 like what happens when you're off the field, off the court, 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:03.160 off the course, testing and isolating. PGA's doing the right thing, 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.000 they're going to get even stricter. But no sport is 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.760 immune to this. And it really feels like it's day 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:14.080 to day and it seems like today what we have 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.679 is true will be false tomorrow or vice versa. And 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.360 as a golf fan, I've enjoyed the last couple of 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.520 weeks and I recognize we can't be too sure what's 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.960 going to happen the rest of the season. All we 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.239 can do is hope that what we see in front 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.440 of us is going to continue, that they're able to 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:33.440 play and keeping safety at a top priority. And this 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.720 takes me back to baseball. Once you get to the 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:41.120 baseball stadium, then I think you'll be okay. It's everything 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.720 that happens prior to that. You know, are you going 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:48.200 out social distancing. All it takes is one person, and 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.160 that's what we're seeing with some of these sports, the 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:55.400 number of players who are testing positive already with the NBA, 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.800 Baseball came out with some new guidelines. By the way, 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.880 I saw this with Bob Nightingale of USA today, when 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.480 the game starts, now everyone can sit in the dugout. 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:06.840 Players are going to be in the stands. You're seeing 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.960 this in soccer where some of the players you can't 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.920 social distance. There's not room to social distance, so they 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.960 actually sit in the stands. When players walk onto the field, 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.720 you have to stay six feet apart from everyone. That 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:23.000 means your teammates and coaches and the opposition. You can't 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:27.560 socialize with the opposition. When the game starts. Not everyone 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:32.080 can sit in the dugout. No more spitting. Tobacco's forbidden. 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:36.960 You can chew, but no sunflower seeds. Gum is permitted, 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:42.400 but you can't spit it out. Hitters don't look for 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.600 a bat boy or back girl to pick up your bat. 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.800 You're on your own. No, I gotta pick up my bat. 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:56.080 That's too far. I know. Can't start a brawl here either, 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.719 you see, you can't, can't, so I brawl happens? What happens? 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.040 I don't know. I think they're all kicked out of 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.839 the spoort forever. I don't know. I'm reading Bob Nightingale. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.080 He says, if you don't like the Houston Astros still 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.520 carry a grudge against the Red Sox, don't even think 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:15.479 about starting a brawl a brawl unless you want to 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:20.760 sit out nearly one third of the season. If you 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.039 hit a home run, you win a game with a 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.960 walk off, or even pitch a no hitter, you've got 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:30.000 to act like you did nothing more than successfully washing 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.679 your hands. The days of mobbing players at home plate, 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.919 dumping coolers of gatorade, and shoving pies in their face 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.400 are over. Are you allowed to have a collision at 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:48.000 home plate? How's it you have a polite collision at 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.520 home plate? Did they actually ban that a few years ago? Anyway, 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.560 I seem to recall if I slide into home and 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:58.200 you're there, and I'm gonna have to tag you. We're 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.719 coming in contact with each other. Remember we had a 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.320 whole month after Buster Posey got hurt where they try 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.960 to outlaw that. Well, no, this isn't a collision as 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.960 much as a bang bang play right, like a home 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.800 you know, at home plate where you have a you know, 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.720 guy sliding in or something. I had a suggestion to 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.800 band stealing bases. That way you don't have guys could 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:20.320 just stay six feet off the base so they don't 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.120 have to stand next to the first basement and you 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.279 can ignore that part. There's no stolen bases. What do 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:29.799 you think of that? I don't know anymore. I don't know. Yeah, 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:31.880 you look at that old school footage of the earl 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.400 weavers and just just so, what are you name them 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.000 getting in the face of umpires. It's such a big 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.640 part of baseball, and like will that ever come back? 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.040 A manager losing their mind and getting right and umpires, Well, 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.680 it doesn't happen that much anymore because these grown men 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:49.240 finally realize they look really stupid out there. I'm gonna 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.719 turn my hat backwards, I'm gonna kick dirt on you, 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.479 and then whatever happens after that. Oh, are you firing 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.280 your team up, like Earl Weaver. You'd see him go 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:02.200 out there and you don't do it. You know when 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:06.560 Lou Pinella did that, Lou threw a base. We had 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.120 him on the next day and I go, you know 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.440 what goes through your mind? He goes, how embarrassed my 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.560 kids must have been that I was out there. You 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.280 are a grown You're like a fifty or sixty year 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:20.080 old man, and you're acting like you're you know nine. 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.480 We don't accept it in t ball or literally, and 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.720 we got grown men out there. That's the least of 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.440 our worries. I just worry about these guys not being 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.600 able to spit, Like, oh my gosh, do you think 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.200 that there's rehab right now, Like guys are going into 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.280 spitting rehab where oh I want to spit and no 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.840 you can't. So you can take a dip. You can 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:48.160 have gum, but you can't spit. You could have sunflower seeds, 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:49.840 you just have to keep them in said mouth. I 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:55.040 think I don't think so. Wait, I don't think you 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:59.040 could have dip. I can't, I was. I always get confused. 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.440 Dip is chewing to I don't think I can take it. 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.760 I can have a little dip. I don't think so 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.200 okay with then I'm not going to play. Yeah, seed, 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.760 I like that the idea that not being able to 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.360 have sunflower seeds while you play baseball is somehow an issue. 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.160 Come on, no sunflower. I can't spit sunflower seeds all 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.400 over the place. Come on, okay, So tobacco is forbidden, 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:26.160 according to Bob Nightingale, no more spitting. You can chew? Okay? 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.600 What can I chew? What you mean? Chew is like 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.560 chew that's tobacco that you also call it chewoo. You 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.480 have to spit into a cup or onto the ground. 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.000 You don't swallow it. Some people do it. That's if 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:40.880 you're a hardcore. Unless he means chew gum, well, I 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.160 don't know. These are some of the guidelines that baseball 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:48.040 players will have to adhere to come up with the 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:49.959 poll question, play of the day, stat of the day. 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.760 That's why I said morale is not really that high today. 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.840 This program brought to you by legal Zoom. If you 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.880 want to start online, they have a network of independent attorneys. 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:04.120 They provide advice when you needed. Legal Zoom not a 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.040 law firm. You don't have to leave your home. This 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.000 is a legal zoom dot com for more information. Mclovin, 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.000 what kind of poll question do you have for me today? 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.960 If you'll give me permission, I'll just ignore all this. 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.040 And can I actually ask you about favorites if they 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.080 do play? Because I have a question for our LA audience. 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.400 I saw odds came out for the World Series and 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.120 the NBA, the Lakers and the Dodgers are both the 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:27.880 favorites in their respective leagues. Right, who are you more 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.880 confident we'll win a title this year? The Lakers are 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:35.680 the Dodgers. I mean, maybe it's obvious, but I think 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:40.000 baseball is really up for grabs now. Avery Bradley not 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:45.120 playing for the Lakers. It's a loss. I don't know 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.880 how big a loss, but it's a loss. It's an 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.200 important and I'll talk to Rachel Nichols about that. Avery 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.079 Bradley is not a marquee name, but he's one of 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.280 those guys that seems to what do you want me 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.600 to do this game? And it changes from game to 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.200 game and it gives you twenty five and it's He's 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:05.920 a quality veteran. I think it's going to be harder 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.079 for a team to win the World Series. If this 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.680 was one hundred and sixty two games, then I would 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.480 look at the Dodgers and Yankees and say, over the 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.200 course of six months, the best team will win. I 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:19.679 don't know if the best team is going to win 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:23.560 this year in baseball, because everybody is going to go 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.720 into this season and here where we are in late July, 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.040 and everybody is going to be tied for first to start. 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.400 And you might get some teams that all of a 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.840 sudden they strike gold with a couple of players, new players, 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.080 they get on a hot streak, and that can be 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.360 the difference here. But I think it's harder to win 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.960 a title this year than it will be in any 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:51.120 other year because I don't know, if you know, the 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:55.120 course of two months, will the Yankees and Dodgers, or 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.839 the Nationals or whoever else you want to throw in there, 0:10:58.080 --> 0:10:59.959 will they be able to prove that they're that much 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.960 better than everybody else? And I'm not sure about that. 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.000 I think this will be about conditioning, It'll be about 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.440 pitching to start, and the depth of your pitching staff 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:11.880 could be the difference. That's why you have a lot 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.160 of these sharp guys who think the Tampa Bay Rays 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:19.560 are the team to be because they have a very 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.960 deep pitching staff. I mean, that's a good team. But 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.120 you know you're playing in the East, and the East 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:26.800 you know that's going to be difficult as well. So 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.080 trying to handicap that will be I think a lot 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.280 tougher than you think, you know, because it takes a 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:35.200 little while before those great teams prove that they're great. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:39.680 And that's usually with the depth the leadership, ownership going 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:41.480 out and getting a bat or an arm if they 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.959 need to. You got fifty games and it's a sprint. 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:49.000 That's why when somebody said to me, hey, what if 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:53.480 the Indians win the World Series, that's a great Well 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:58.840 do they celebrate like they won the World Series? Sure? Yeah, 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.959 but it's not a true World Series. I go, We'll 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:06.520 ask Indians fans, well, you if I'm a Cleveland Indians 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.839 fan and we win the World Series, I would say, 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.800 let's celebrate. Why not? But you know, this is the 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:18.880 longest drought I think in baseball of all of the 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:22.760 teams to win a championship, will you celebrate it? And 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.640 I said, I would, like, you know, the whole year 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.760 has an asterisk by it, So okay, Hey, they won 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:36.600 the the Corona shortened season with fifteen games. All I 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:40.040 know is everybody it's an even playing field. It's like 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.959 the Lakers and Bucks. Nobody has a home court advantage. 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:48.080 So yeah, it's a championship. It might not be what 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:53.240 we want, but that's what we get and we we'd 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.480 love to pick and choose. Oh, they want it in 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.840 a strike shortened season. Oh they cheated to win it. Okay, 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.880 put an ass to risk by it. But if I'm 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.240 an Indians fan and you win the title, oh yes, 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:08.080 I'm celebrating. We started like everybody else did and we 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.840 won the championship. And if you're the Indians, you can't 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.480 be picky. Yes, McLevin. I don't think it's fair to 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.760 when you have the asterisk conversation to compare MLB and 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.120 NBA and NHL because NBA's gonna at seventy three out 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.520 of eighty two games. Oh, I don't want to. I'm not. 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.480 I kept saying I'm railing against those people want to 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.480 put an asterisk by this, but I want to put 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.839 it by MLB though I think they're two completely different things. 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.120 If you want yeah baseball, Yeah, if you want to 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.760 do that, where we'll just say, yeah, we know, but basketball, no, 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.120 I mean, whoever wins the title wins the title. Yeah, 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.440 I know, will say, well, they didn't have home court advantage. 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:51.240 Everybody got there, everybody was playing on the same floor, level, 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.120 playing field. You won. You know, it'll be tougher to 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.960 do it. I mean, I think we look at this 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:00.160 and say, oh, well, it's not really a season. The 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.560 Lakers win or the Bucks win. You've earned it. You 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.200 had this shutdown. You got to get back, you got 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.240 to go all through all the testing and then go 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:12.280 out there and win a championship. Instead of we get 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.840 to play all of these games at home. We get 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:19.400 to be at home, We got our fans. That's the 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:23.080 true advantage. This is a disadvantage for all of these teams. 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.120 Now you can look at an advantage for some of 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:30.960 these teams that may be in a short window, like 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.600 the Rockets could be really dangerous here. There could be 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.200 a couple of teams like that. But if the Clippers win, 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:42.760 good for them. That's a championship. Bucks win championship, Sixers 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:47.000 win championship. Baseball's different. But if I had a team 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.480 that won the World Series this year, I was listening 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:54.680 to New York Sports radio yesterday, I told you they 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.880 don't have a life, and they were talking about the Yankees. 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:03.280 If would you really celebrate another Yankee World Series? All right? 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.720 I mean, you guys have won more than anybody, and 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:11.160 I guess I would celebrate because it's better than not. 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.080 You imagine if you say, if we win, I don't 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.400 think we're going to celebrate, Well, what happens when you lose? 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.320 Still gonna hurt? Right, Well, you're not celebrating with champagne 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.280 and all that stuff. That's for sure not allowed to 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.000 you're not dumping it all over. Well, you can do 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.040 it yourself. Well, actually, now the way they do it, 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:31.440 they're wearing so much gear that you might as well. Yeah, 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.360 the Yankees winning it's like remember when Notre Dame wouldn't 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:35.920 go to a bowl game because there Notre Dame and 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:37.800 we're not going to a crappy ball game. This is 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.880 the crappy bowl game of Yankees World Series titles because 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.240 they have such history. This is like, hey, they haven't 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.480 won a long time. Mclovin saying, they take a taking 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:51.880 a Belk Bowl right now. I would Belk a bowl. Yeah, 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:56.520 I would if I'm a Yankee fan. Well, I don't 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.120 know what they how they think, because they might say, well, 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.400 we're a Yankee fan, is we win a true championship? 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:07.880 We're true champions I would take it. Yeah, absolutely, the 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.760 World Series. We went through all of this just like 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:16.200 everybody else did. Hell, yes, we're celebrating socially responsible. Yes, Polly, 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:20.000 the Yankees have have been in one World Series in 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:25.040 the past sixteen years. They've appeared in one out of 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.280 the past sixteen that that's horrible for them. That's a 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.920 horrible run. They've won one World Series and they've appeared 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.520 in a total of one in the past sixteen years. Yes, 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:37.320 they one dap ride was on steroids billies. Wait, that's 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.200 that's a whoa? Come on, whoa? Yes, Pa, I was 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.360 watching a basketball show yesterday. They were talking about is 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.280 this an advantage for Lebron James at his age to 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.280 get a whole bunch of rest and get the reset 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.520 and get himself totally ready for this shorter run. But 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.440 I was thinking, if you're a guy like Lebron James, 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:54.600 and you could pick I take that rest I just 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.680 got and that reset and conditioning, or have home court 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.240 advantage because he did lose home court advantage and the 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.840 Lakers lost home court advantage, which is huge in the NBA. Yeah, 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:05.520 if you could have, if you were Lebron, would you 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:08.720 rather have what you have now? Neutral site, complete rest, 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.280 which everybody got, No, he'd rather be at home? Yeah, absolutely, 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.880 because now this is so foreign to everybody and what 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.439 you have to do when you go to Orlando and 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:20.640 what happens if one of you So he's already lost 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:24.720 Avery Bradley, what if another player test positive and asked 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:30.040 to sit down for two weeks? So there's so much 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:35.000 more chance, luck, risk involved in this. If they were 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.280 able to play at home, you know, have the home 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.280 court advantage, then I think it would be a huge 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.359 advantage for Lebron James. It's just who's coming back in 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:46.040 shape and who's coming back healthy and by that I 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:49.480 mean healthy in a variety of ways. It just there's 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.320 a there's a lot going on, a lot of a 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.919 lot of chance, a lot of risk involved in this. 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:58.240 We'll take a break. Chris Simms from NBC Sports, I've 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.840 been keeping an eye on his quarterback rankings. He's had 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.520 this countdown. I think he's down to de Shaun Watson 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.479 at number four. Does that sound about right? McLevin. I 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.600 think he did number three. You guys can correct me 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.560 if I'm wrong, And he definitely had the Shawn at four. 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:13.919 But I think three is just came out or is 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.520 coming out and causing some controversy. Oh, so we'll talk 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.520 about that. Also, the Hall of Fame game has been canceled. 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.960 Now I'll get his thoughts on does he think they're 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:25.680 going to be able to pull this off on time? 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.480 I want to be optimistic, but I've been pessimistic about 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:33.080 the NFL starting on time. I've been pessimistic about go 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.000 back to the NBA. I didn't think they were going 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:39.600 to have a season, and hopefully they will. I've been 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:44.840 pessimistic about college football starting on time. But I'm just 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.199 trying to be realistic with everything they're going to have 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:50.000 to go through, and it's so much to go through 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.600 to try to expect them to do this on time, 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.880 because the remember the NFL had time on their hands. Oh, 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:58.720 they got plenty of time. They don't have time on 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:02.440 their hands. You just had the Hall of Fame game cancel. 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:08.560 I got what six weeks here, six weeks you know 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:12.320 before we get ready for the preseasons. Not a long time. 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.640 We'll get phone calls. We'll settle on a poll question 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:18.760 our Twitter hand to a DP show email address DP 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.160 at Dan Patrick dot com phone of right seven seven 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:22.879 three d P Show. Glad to have you on board 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:27.640 here this Thursday hour one. Will take a break. Paulie says, 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.000 we have a surprise today. Got something in the mail today, huge, 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:35.800 not huge, but cool, super cool, size wise huge. Oh 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.359 it fits under your desk. Yeah, don't put no peeking. 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Chris, how dare you 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:59.800 you picked Aaron Rodgers as the third best quarterback in 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:04.840 the NFL. I know it hurt my heart, as you know. 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:09.120 I mean, I am the leader of the vandwagon fans 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:13.199 for Aaron Rodgers, and you know I I unleashed my 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:15.960 one and two two today on Pro Football Talk just 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:19.040 so you know that Patrick Mahomes one, Russell Wilson two, 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:24.160 Aaron Rodgers three. But Mike, I mean again, just on that. Yeah, sorry, 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:28.000 I'm getting confused with my host here, but just on 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:32.600 that with Aaron Rodgers still awesome. We know that this 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:35.600 is the first time that I would say since about 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:39.280 midway through two ten, at least in my book, where 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:41.560 I go, oh, he's not the best quarterback in the 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.879 NFL anymore. Still really special. We know he's got a 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:48.640 great arm, good decision maker. But I think with where 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:51.320 we're at in his career, and then Russell Wilson and 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:55.520 Patrick Mahomes, yes, I think they've surpassed Aaron Rodgers here 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:57.240 in the past year. For me at least, well, I 0:21:57.280 --> 0:22:00.520 thought the controversy is that you had Rogers that high. 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:04.040 Feels like, hey, slipping here, and you know a lot 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:07.560 of people are bailing on Aaron Rodgers here. Well, you know, 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:10.400 for whatever reason people like to bail on Aaron Rodgers, 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:12.480 I don't know what it is. You know, they expect 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:15.040 him to just make the Super Bowl every year and 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:17.679 carry the team. And you know, to me, hey, the 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:21.520 support system has not been there for Aaron Rodgers. For me, 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:25.280 there is no doubt he's a top five quarterback in football. 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:30.280