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The Great Bob Costas 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.360 will join us coming up a little bit later on 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.600 recapping all the baseball If anyone leaves this sporting event 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.600 and miss is a great comeback, then that's on them, 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.640 especially in the playoffs. But we do know some fans 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:24.480 have made mistakes before, and maybe some fans in Los 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.399 Angeles yesterday might have left. Dodgers were down five two 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.840 in the eighth inning. They'd never come back when they 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.800 were trailing by three or more after seven innings in 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:38.600 their long postseason history, so what's la do. They turned 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.679 to Cody Bellinger, the former MVP who hit just one 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:45.679 sixty five on the season, but Bellinger, putting that behind him, 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:49.080 a three run homer tied the game. Mookie Betts delivered 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.000 the game winner and they win six to five. They 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.240 now trail Atlanta two one in the series. Doesn't feel 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:59.200 like that that they're down to one, but after those wins, 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.240 those kind of winds, those sometimes feel like more than 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.120 just one victory. A few more outs in this series 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.920 could have been basically over, but now Los Angeles has 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.840 momentum and they head into Game four. Each game has 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:15.120 been decided late by just one run for the Dodgers 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.520 and Braves fans. It's exhausting for the rest of US. 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:22.440 It's fun baseball, and I started to wonder about Cody Bellinger. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.800 Cody Bellinger, you know, when you're getting late into a game, 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.920 has been great in the postseason so far, and you 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.080 know that's what you want. He struggled but found a 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.000 way to somehow be able to come up with a 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.720 big hit. And you know, it was a rough regular 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.359 season for him. But the Dodgers, they're ten to o 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.519 against the Braves in their last ten meetings at Dodger Stadium, 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.240 twenty three and four against the Braves and Dodger Stadium. 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:53.560 That goes back to the twenty thirteen National League Division Series. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.760 The Astros, meanwhile, they tied their game at two two 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.320 in the eighth inning, then blew it open seven US 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.520 in the ninth inning, beating the Red Sox and evening 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:07.160 the American League Championship Series at two games apiece. And 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.919 once again the Astros do it. They scored all their 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.760 runs in the ninth inning with two outs, matching the 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:16.959 most runs in an inning with two outs in postseason history. 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.520 They're great with two outs. They've scored thirty six two 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.880 outruns this postseason. That's the most by any American League 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:28.079 team prior to the World Series in baseball history. That 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.880 clutched gene that they still had. And you know, you 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:33.880 can start to look at some of the calls because 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.720 in the postseason we care about this, a strike here, 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:40.440 a ball here, a misscall here, And it just felt 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:45.240 like it was bad for both teams last night in Fenway, 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:47.880 and I know there's going to be this cry for 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.520 all we need to have, you know, robotic umpires or 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.320 do what Tennis does where you have a strike zone 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.280 and you have a beep when it's in and you 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.640 know there's no beep when it's not. We're not there yet. 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.720 I would just love for these umpires to have to 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.840 answer after a game, just to say, give us an 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.440 idea of what you're looking at, because if you're missing 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.760 fifteen to twenty pitches in a game, including a big 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.600 one in the ninth inning, then you know, that can 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:21.720 change a series, That can change the fate for players, managers, gms, 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:25.360 certainly the fans. And I don't think we're there yet 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.880 with the robotic umpire or you're going to have a 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.760 strike zone, an automated strike zone, but I do think 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:35.360 we'll get to it, because if you have the technology, 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.000 why not use the technology, and I know you're going 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.000 to get the old school, which I'm supposed to be 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.400 part of the gonna go oh, you gotta that's part 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.720 of the flavor of the game where the umpire misses 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.920 a call. Okay, but then is it the flavor when 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.479 he misses a call at first base or at home 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:55.560 plate or second base. No, it's not the flavor. Oh, 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:57.960 that's part of the folklore. That's what makes the game 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:02.719 so great. The interpretation of a strike zone really not 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.479 for me. If I'm a pitcher, do I go ah? 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.760 It's part of the game. It's part of the personality 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.719 of it. He just missed that call there, Nathan Vivaldi 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.520 is probably not going. Man, that's part of the game. 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.320 You know, I'm all right with that. I never understood 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:22.880 why umpires would give great pitchers more latitude or longitude 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:26.120 when it came to a strength zone. You know, when 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.400 you're going to Greg Maddox, it's Greg Maddox, you gotta 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:33.440 give him that. Or Tom Glavin like, no, it's like 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.160 a phantom foul that Michael Jordan would go to the 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.440 hoop and you knew somebody was going to get whistled 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:40.200 for a foul, whether he found him or not. It's like, 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.040 it's Michael Jordan. Don't you give that to the guys 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.000 who aren't as good to help him out a little bit. 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:51.719 But this is always going to be that curiosity of 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.000 I don't I just don't know why baseball doesn't go 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:56.960 this is how we call a strike, and this is 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.360 how we call a ball, not you know, I always 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.919 give the high strike. You know, I never give that 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.120 eye strike. You know I'll give you on the black, 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.400 And I never understood that it shouldn't it be Do 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.800 we do that in any other sport where you got 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.520 an official, maybe a back judge in the NFL goes 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.080 you know, I'd like to I'd like to let you 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.920 put your hands on the wide receiver, or I don't 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:21.880 let you put your hand on the wide receiver. No, 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:25.320 this is how you call a game. But for some reason, 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.920 we've allowed Joe West and some of these other umpires 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.960 for decades to be able to have their own personality. 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.400 And I don't know if baseball's headed in that direction. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.640 But there were some pitches in the Red Sox Astros 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.720 game where I went, man, oh man, this guy's and 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.480 I don't want to mention names. He was consistently bad, 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.440 you know, and he was consistent for both teams, just bad. 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.480 And you go, how does baseball not and this is 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.320 supposed to be your elite umpires, this is a postseason, 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.960 this is a reward here, and you're going, I'm missing 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.800 something here. And I know sometime as the angle that camera, 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.719 that centerfield camera, it's not really right, you know, behind 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.359 second base looking in it's off to the side a 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.440 little bit, so it is deceiving. But they do have 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.840 stats analytics of course, that will tell you what is 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:19.280 a missed call, and miss call usually means it has 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.320 to be six inches outside of the strike zone. If 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.240 you miss a call, it's got to be kind of 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.920 a blatant missed call, not just something that's on the edge. 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:32.920 But watching last night yesterday, they see a different game 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.640 than I do. And I don't think it's great for baseball, 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:39.040 not when you're at this stage of the season and 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.720 you had that on display last night. Yes, PAULI, it 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.119 was interesting though. Red Sox fans are very upset because 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.120 you have all these curveball they thought was a strike 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:48.520 and the ending would have been over to been tied 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.280 to two, but it's the ninth inning. If that umpire 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.360 was having a tight strike zone side to side nine 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.000 innings in, shouldn't the pitchers know this. Shouldn't they be 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.600 discussing the dugout and realize you may not get that 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.720 pitch that you and you by the ninth inning, you 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.680 would know what that ump is doing. You're tracking every pitch. 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.120 That's all the pitching coaches do. They should know what 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:08.720 they can get in. Yeah, but that wasn't one of 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.320 those where you go, yeah, he's not going to give 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.520 that to me. That was one of those where that's strike. 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.880 That's it, that's strike, and then they show it from 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.240 up above and then you see it where it goes 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.400 over the plate, because sometimes you can throw a breaking 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.000 ball and it sort of comes around the plate and 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.840 then where the catcher catches it. That was where's it 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.680 going to go over the plate? Oh yeah, that's inside corn. Yeah, 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.040 that's definitely a strike. Actually that was an outside part 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.640 of the plate. But that was strike. Absolutely. Yeah. You 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.040 gotta do like Kelley Jansen the Dodgers, just strike everybod 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.040 take the umpire out of it. Yeah, that was great. 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.760 There was a lot of drama there and I was busy. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.920 I was busy. I was La centric, although I flipped 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.200 around a little bit. I was watching the Lakers. I 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:53.040 watched the Bucks get their championship rings, and uh, we'll 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:54.600 talk about that in a little bit. I thought it 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.040 was wonderful. That was great, great night there in Milwaukee, 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.400 and uh, you know, you got the Nats in town 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.600 and they rough them up. You honest look great, but 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.840 flipping them back and forth. I'm watching the Dodgers game 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.080 and I'm thinking man five two or they're not doing 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:13.880 anything offensively, and Bellinger hits a ball and this is 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:17.839 how it sounded on KLAC, the Dodgers Radio Network, with 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.719 Charlie Steiner with the call, how don't fun all the 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:27.480 right center field? It's well, hit is a pre run, Hollinger. 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:32.760 We've put a new game. It's time of fun. You know, 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.800 it's little things. Sometimes he got on bass in the 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.200 Giant Series with a walk, and then Taylor hits the 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.640 home run. And then this one that pitches up and 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.120 went after it. I didn't think it was out and 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.120 it just kept carrying into the night. And Charlie Steiner 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.960 with the call, mcleviny got a pull question for me, 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.160 do you want to put up. Should they computerize the 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.880 strike zone just see what the fans are It's kind 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:59.280 of like a negative question, but I still don't totally 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.280 get why they're not doing it to some extent, I 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.480 don't know how you know the rhythm of the game, 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.120 That's what I want to know. The games are so 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:11.800 long now, ye, I mean sometimes thirty forty five an 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:16.160 hour longer than they used to be. The Dodgers using 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.960 nine pitchers. I mean, the games are just long. I 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:20.920 don't want them to go longer. I want them to 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.160 get the call right. But I just don't know. If 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.960 we remember, replay was instant replay and then it's now 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.960 just called replay because it takes forever. And I think 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.160 the game. You can have a four hour game, but 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.160 I like a four hour game when it actually moves along, 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:42.040 not let's start stop, start stop, start stop. And that 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.400 would be my biggest apprehension here. How do you then 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:50.360 signal a strike? Is there a sound effect? Is there 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.840 a red light or a blue light that comes on? Like, 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.040 I don't know how they would do that, but I'd 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.240 be curious about it, and I'm open to it. It's 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.440 just because I watched baseball or you know, a better 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.560 part of fifty years. And you sometimes will watch and 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.800 you know that umpire doesn't like that hitter or doesn't 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.800 like that pitcher, plain and simple, I'm going to give 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.680 you that pitch. I'm not giving you that pitch. I 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.120 remember talking to somebody in baseball. I don't I don't 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.120 want to even hint at who it was, but they 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:25.360 talked about a hitter and said, he's always going to 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.160 get if he takes a pitch, he's going to get 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:32.080 that call always. And I want why because and I 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:37.600 was told because he's bleeping Wade Bogs. And I went, so, 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:42.160 Wade Boggs takes a pitch, the umpire knows Wade Bogs 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.760 is going to be correct more than the umpire will be. 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:51.160 And this is coming from somebody who is a person 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:55.320 of authority who would say, yeah, that you have umpire. 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.960 Because when when this is brought up, when they have 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.800 these meetings and you know, somebody say, hey, you know 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.960 these pitches or the you know these are outside in 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.920 their minds, they're like, who's at the plate? Did they 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.440 take a pitch? And if they if Bonds took a pitch, 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.720 if Tony Gwynn took a pitch. If Wade Boggs took 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:20.199 a pitch, that umpire knows, man, I I don't want 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.360 to be I don't want to show up Wade Bogs, 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.960 Tony Glenn Bert, you like these guys don't make mistakes. There, 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:30.600 that's Wade ff and Bons. Yes, Paul Tony Gwynn, the 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.040 great guy from the Padres. He only got kicked out 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:34.840 of one game in his career. And the story goes 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:36.960 that he was arguing with the umpire, which was Joe 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.040 West by the way, and he goes, you know how 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.000 I know that pitch was a ball because I didn't 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:43.839 swing at it. And that was the opening line of 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:48.319 the argument. By the way, Cody Bellinger in the seventh 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:52.520 inning or later this postseason is batting five seventy one. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.120 That's the highest average by any player with more than 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.520 five plate appearances. All right, we'll take a break. There's 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.560 a lot to yet too, and we'll certainly talk to 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:06.720 Bob Costas about the baseball. This situation in Philadelphia is 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:12.160 not getting better anytime soon. Ben Simmons basically said, hey, 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.280 I don't want to practice, and now he's been suspended. 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.839 Crazy day yesterday, I thought, okay, this is. This is 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.600 when Ben grows up and he shows he's tough, like 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.800 I still don't know why. Who is Ben mad At? 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:31.679 That's why I want to know. Marcus Hayes, who covers 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.320 this seventy six ers for the Philly Inquirer. He was 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.439 great last time he was on. Don't I don't know 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.280 what is going to change here, but it feels like 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.760 Ben Simmons is trying to act like James Harden, except 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.400 for he's not as good as James Harden. Harden wanted 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.720 out of Houston, got out of Houston. Ben Simmons is 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.160 not as good. And we'll recap what happened with the 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.160 opening night in the NBA as well. Fifteen after the hour, 0:13:56.240 --> 0:14:00.920 Just getting started here on the Dan Patrick Show. Penny America, Man, 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.120 you love trading cards, This is the place to go. 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:09.040 Panini America dot net, the exclusive trading card partner of 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.959 the NFL. 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Today, 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:43.000 before we check in with Marcus Hayes, the Philadelphia Inquire columnist, 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:47.520 here's some comments yesterday, Doc Rivers on kicking Ben Simmons 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:51.440 out of practice. It was a distraction today. I didn't 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.440 think he wanted to do what everybody else was doing, 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.080 and it was early. It wasn't a big deal. Just 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.800 tell him he should leave. Then we went on with practice, 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.520 and then joe Llnbad talked to the media about Ben 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.280 Simmons at this fine. I don't care about that man. Honestly, 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.600 he does whatever he wants. Uh. You know that's not 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:16.680 my job. You know, that's those guys jobs. You know. 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:20.120 I'm only focused on trying to make the team better. Uh, 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.360 win some games. Uh, you know, play hard every night, 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.760 trying to lead the guys that we have here. And 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.480 I'm sure that feel the same way, because you know, 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:34.720 our chemistry has been excellent despite you know, everything that's 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.200 been happening in the last few months. Uh So, yeah, 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.800 like I said, I don't I don't really care. Oh 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.840 but wait, there's one more from joe Ll nbad. But 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:46.880 at the end of the day, our job is not 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.440 to babysite somebody. Uh. You know we got we get 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:54.520 paid up. We're just on the car, go on, play hard, 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.760 win some games. Uh, that's how we get paid for. 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.000 We don't get paid to come out here and you know, 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:04.400 trying to baby see somebody. So I saw our job 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:09.760 and I'm sure that is courtesy MDC Sports Philadelphia. Let's 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.399 bring it in. Mark his Hayes to Philadelphia Inquire a columnist, 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:17.960 what the hell happened yesterday? They've had enough. They've just 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.879 had enough. I mean Ben's been there for, you know, 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:26.479 counting his quarantine, more than a week, and he hasn't 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:30.800 engaged with his teammates. He won't acknowledge people in the building. 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:35.000 He talks to the d guess the G League coaches now, 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.600 but he won't talk to his own coaches. I mean, 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:41.680 he's he's committing careers suicide because zan I mean, what 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.840 team is going to take a chance that he's not 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.480 going to do the same thing with them once he 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:51.879 lands there. Who is he mad at? He's mad at 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.439 Doc Rivers for not continuing to defend him and not 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.199 promoting him as a point guard. At the end of 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.359 last season when they lost Game seven, one of my colleagues, 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.600 David Murphy, he asked, Doc, do you think Ben can 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.000 be the point guard of a championships team? And Doc 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:09.119 clearly doesn't as Doc was a point guard himself in 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.840 a very similar point guard too Ben Simmons, And he said, 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:13.880 I don't know. I can't answer that question. He didn't 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:18.280 say yes, that's the problem. And then after Doc spoke, 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.439 Joel Embiid was asked, what do you think the turning 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.600 point of the game was, and he said, you know, 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:25.240 when we didn't make the when we didn't take the 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.840 dunk with three and a half minutes left. So he's 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:33.680 mad at down, he's embarrassed by the reaction from him 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:39.639 not taking that dunk, and he's kind of he's in 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:43.760 a spot, I think personally where he thinks a fresh 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:48.280 start changes everything, where Philadelphia is mean to him, and 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.440 if he gets out of Philadelphia everything will be better, 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:55.560 because you know, we're in nineteen we're in eighteen fifteen, 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:58.320 and nobody knows what happened in Philadelphia. Wherever he goes next. 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.119 I don't know what he's thinking there, what happens today. 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:04.679 Nothing I mean he doesn't go. He didn't fly with 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:08.639 the team. He's not with them for their first game tonight. 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:14.040 And the Sixers are weird because they never practice after 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:16.760 the day after the game, especially a road game, so 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:19.000 they won't practice tomorrow. Doc Rivers said, Hey, you know, 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:21.760 we'll see what happens Thursday. Well, nothing's gonna happen Thursday. 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:23.359 Guys come in for treatment if they want it. They 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:25.760 maybe do some film stuff. Ben won't be asking to 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.640 do the film stuff because he wasn't involved in the game, 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.879 So it'll be before the shoot around Friday before we 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:34.320 know kind of where the next shoe drops, because there 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.480 won't be another practice, so I don't expect him to 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:41.080 play anytime soon. I think Doc has had enough finally, 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:45.360 after a year of carrying water, lying for Ben Simmons, 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:50.000 you know, and insulting anyone who deigned to ask, well, 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.240 Ben Simmons has these deficiencies? Can you fix them? This way? 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.080 This way? That? Oh, you have to treasure him, he's special. 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.680 I think he's embarrassed of how he acted last year. 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:03.000 Feels betrayed. So does Joel Embiide, who carried water for 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:06.159 him a lot. So I just don't think he's going 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:11.359 to play or get paid more importantly until he capitulates, 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:13.600 and I'm not sure that that's going to happen anytime 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:17.879 soon either. I just wonder he's trying to take the 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:22.119 James Harden approach. He's just not as good as James Harden. 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.240 Like James Harden is still valuable even if he's out 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:28.320 of shape and doesn't want to play for Houston. Ben 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:31.480 Simmons still can't shoot. He's still a liability in certain 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:35.280 areas here. Who's gonna want to trade for him? Like, 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:38.119 do you have actual teams that would actually be interested 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:41.280 in him? I mean, I think Cleveland would be interested 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:44.200 in him, in him as a as a rebuilding centerpiece 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.680 to sort of do whatever he wants and market the team, 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:51.280 but certainly no contender. I mean, he's putting himself in 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:56.840 a position where no team that is viable can risk 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:01.840 his psychology, can risk his mental state. Not to mention 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:04.680 the shooting, I mean, I think he'd be a spectacular 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:09.240 powerful you know, Dennis Rodman with a handle, Draymond Green 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:12.560 with you know, better, even better passing ability. Maybe not 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:16.159 as good a defender as Draymond, but he wants to 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:18.080 be a point guard, and he wants to do things 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:19.960 his own way, and he wants to be a point 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:23.040 guard who doesn't have to shoot and doesn't have to 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:27.760 be accountable. So it's it's a very very small box. 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:30.160 But I think it's a place like Cleveland where things 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:33.080 are horrible and they need they need a centerpiece is 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:35.240 a spot they just don't have anything the Sixers would 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:39.560 be interested in trading for to make them decent. You know, 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:42.800 they don't have pieces in Cleveland that can play, that 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:45.920 can break the starting lineup. Well, I look at Ben. 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:48.159 You can't put him in a situation where it's a 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:50.840 high pressure situation. He really has to go to a 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:53.560 team that doesn't have any chance of winning. Therefore, he 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:56.280 doesn't get into these situations where he doesn't want to 0:21:56.280 --> 0:21:58.960 shoot a big free throw or make a big play 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:00.879 a big dunk. And I agree with you, he's not 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:04.440 a point guard's he wants to be Magic Johnson. Well, 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:06.879 Magic played at a time when he didn't need to 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:10.959 have a jumper. He did get a jumper, or at 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:13.920 least a said shot. Ben doesn't have that. You can 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:16.119