Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio Final Hour on this Friday. It's a trigger
Speaker 1: meet Friday. I think it's hamburgers out there. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: he's it. It's hammers mixed with cheese, mixed with Theresa.
Speaker 1: Oh oh lovely. We just took our game to another
Speaker 1: level there. Coming up, Bob Yucher, the Hall of Famer
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster, coming back for his i think fiftieth
Speaker 1: season with the Brewers. He's going to do their home
Speaker 1: games coming up. And when you when you think of
Speaker 1: Bob Yucker, Well, he was an average baseball player, and
Speaker 1: I think he actually got traded because he was a
Speaker 1: good personality, not a good baseball player. I think he
Speaker 1: was traded to the Cardinals because he was considered a
Speaker 1: guy who was a good clubhouse guy. And you know,
Speaker 1: he was below the Mendoza It should have been the
Speaker 1: Yuker line. Like I think he was right at the
Speaker 1: Mendoza line and even two hundred for his career, so
Speaker 1: he was Mendoza before Mendoza. But he parlayed this into
Speaker 1: he was on Late Night with Johnny Carson, and he
Speaker 1: was just so funny because he made fun of himself
Speaker 1: self deprecating, and Carson just let him go and loved him.
Speaker 1: Then the Miller Like commercial, he was on that, and
Speaker 1: then he was in the Major League Movies as the announcer.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was a household name, but he was
Speaker 1: also the Brewers broadcaster, and he just he has that
Speaker 1: great ability to tell a story and have fun. So
Speaker 1: I thought it would be great to send you in
Speaker 1: to the weekend at least thinking of some positive things,
Speaker 1: some fun things about Major League Baseball. So Bobb will
Speaker 1: join us coming up in a little bit eight seven
Speaker 1: seven three D P show email address DP at dan
Speaker 1: Patrick dot com. Spent a lot of time on some
Speaker 1: different things, including that his decision, the backstory with Lebron James,
Speaker 1: and the decision we're coming up on ten years ago.
Speaker 1: Imagine that at each twenty five, Lebron had the power
Speaker 1: to be able to say to ESPN, I want an
Speaker 1: hour to make my decision of where I'm going to go. Now,
Speaker 1: that was the first mistake, was you needed an hour
Speaker 1: to do that because Jim Gray had to ask twenty
Speaker 1: three questions before he got the answer of where Lebron
Speaker 1: was going. I mean, it was poorly produced, but the
Speaker 1: power of that, and that kind of opened the door
Speaker 1: I think for some of these athletes to be able
Speaker 1: to go. You know, we can kind of control the story.
Speaker 1: Derek Cheater with the Player's Tribune, you just had a
Speaker 1: lot of these, but Tiger Woods controls, you know, his
Speaker 1: press releases. But you know that that was a fascinating
Speaker 1: story at the time, and Don Van Natta, by all accounts,
Speaker 1: has done a really good job on the decision. That'll
Speaker 1: be Sunday night on ESPN. Then I asked him, what's
Speaker 1: what's the next thing you're working on. He goes, well,
Speaker 1: we're pretty deep into the Manti Tale story. And I went, oh,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm interested in that. Uh So Manti Tale
Speaker 1: played at Notre Dame and he got catfished. I never
Speaker 1: I never knew the term catfished until man Taie Tale
Speaker 1: and he got catfished. Because this great story, heartwarming story.
Speaker 1: It was, you know, right out of a Hollywood movie.
Speaker 1: Got a girlfriend, she's in a car accident, she's got leukemia.
Speaker 1: She has her phone on in her hospital room and
Speaker 1: Mantie Tale has his phone on and he falls asleep.
Speaker 1: You know, they talk to each other and h then
Speaker 1: we find out that he didn't have then his girlfriend died.
Speaker 1: And this is while Notre Dame is playing for a
Speaker 1: national title with Alabama, So that will be an interesting
Speaker 1: one with backstory with Don Van Nadam. But but will
Speaker 1: they get Mantiel to cooperate because the decision Lebron James
Speaker 1: is not in the decision and Jim Gray, who hosted,
Speaker 1: is not in that story as well. Yeah, point, if
Speaker 1: you were Manteo and ESPN said, Nilan will do this,
Speaker 1: We'll do a thirty for thirty round it, would you participate?
Speaker 1: It's kind of in your rearvim mirror now Noe Nope, nope, nope,
Speaker 1: gotta move on, no offside, no nope, nope, nope. Yes, Ton,
Speaker 1: what if Matt Teoh says, I don't believe ESPN. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna get catfished again. You're not really doing a
Speaker 1: documentary on me, so I'm not going to fall that.
Speaker 1: Folks that it might be a little bit of a
Speaker 1: stretch there. Bob Yucker's career average was actually one nine
Speaker 1: nine seven, so we have to round up to get
Speaker 1: to two hundred there, So we'll give him that. A
Speaker 1: couple of phone calls you're filling Indiana Hey, Phil, what
Speaker 1: do you have for me? You're Dan, Dan, It's always
Speaker 1: a pleasure. You're first class guy. Hey. I wanted to
Speaker 1: comment on Man tie Teo. I lived in South ben
Speaker 1: at the time. The hot story there was that he
Speaker 1: found out the night of the Heisman Trophy presentation, which
Speaker 1: he came in second, and then he still when they
Speaker 1: interviewed him during that night, even though he had found
Speaker 1: out he was catfished, he still commented on his deceased girlfriend.
Speaker 1: So I just another another goofy twist. But I just
Speaker 1: thought i'd bring it up. All right, Well, thank you, Phil.
Speaker 1: I did not know that it felt like Man, maybe
Speaker 1: he's acknowledged this, PAULI that Man tie Teo continued the hoax.
Speaker 1: He perpetuated the hook in his interview. I think it
Speaker 1: was Oprah, and he did another interview. He apologized for
Speaker 1: not clearing it up when he knew, which was like
Speaker 1: late November. He knew that this one he's been played,
Speaker 1: and I think that he just kept it going in
Speaker 1: but he tried to downplay it and talk less about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but dead Spin had the expose on this, and I
Speaker 1: remember reading and I had to read it again because
Speaker 1: I thought, wait, what are they say none of this
Speaker 1: is true? Is any of this true? He's true. I
Speaker 1: don't know if anybody else is true. Here. We also
Speaker 1: talked about Vince Carter and his career and his impact
Speaker 1: on the career, and I guess there was discussion in
Speaker 1: the sports world yesterday Vince Carter not a Hold of Famer,
Speaker 1: and I went, unless it's another sport we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Of course, he's basketball Hall of Famer, But we were
Speaker 1: talking about best dunks. Is the dunk over Frederick Weiss
Speaker 1: the best dunk ever? I mean it is in game.
Speaker 1: It's in the Olympics. Yeah, mclen but the Olympics is
Speaker 1: that's not the same as an NBA game. It's still
Speaker 1: in game dunk. It's it's in the top ten. How's
Speaker 1: that he jumped over a seven footer? Oh? I think
Speaker 1: it's number one? Oh you do? I think it's tied
Speaker 1: with the Crater the cradle Cradle dunk by Doctor J
Speaker 1: over Cooper. I felt bad for Coop because that's when
Speaker 1: you you know you have good intentions. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: after this, and then all of a sudden you could
Speaker 1: see Coop just kind of knuck out of the way.
Speaker 1: Because Doc was going to cradle and then he uh,
Speaker 1: that was an awesome dunk. Yeah, Levin, I'd take something
Speaker 1: away from the Tom Chaber's dunk because you know, if
Speaker 1: you ever jumped off a wall to dunk. He was
Speaker 1: using Jackson as I know, I know, I know, but
Speaker 1: he still put his foot in Mark Jackson Sternham and
Speaker 1: then dunked on him. Brenton checks has joints us Hi, Brent,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me today? Best dunk of
Speaker 1: all time nominee ninety two Western Conference Finals Warrior Sonics,
Speaker 1: the one known as the Lister Blister where Shawn Kemp
Speaker 1: gets the ball at the top of the key in Seattle,
Speaker 1: dunks over former Sonic Alton Lister, then as the double
Speaker 1: point at him before heading back down the floor. I
Speaker 1: love you guys, Thank you, Bud. Yeah, that was harsh.
Speaker 1: Sean Kemp, God, Sean Kemp had a lot of town.
Speaker 1: He could have been great, great NBA. NBA Players Association
Speaker 1: announced the COVID nineteen test results. If you've been waiting
Speaker 1: for those in test conducted of three hundred and two
Speaker 1: NBA players on June twenty third, sixteen players have tested positive.
Speaker 1: That's that's all we know, so sixteen have tested positive
Speaker 1: out of three hundred and two, so I'm not good
Speaker 1: at math. Is that five percent? Does that sound bad?
Speaker 1: Or I don't know? Who is testing positive is more
Speaker 1: interesting than how many tests positive? You know, star players
Speaker 1: and who they've been around practicing with Yasmclevin. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: saw the statissistant eight Silver said that the positive test
Speaker 1: rate is usually about seven percent now, so, but so
Speaker 1: five percent is in range of what kind of what's
Speaker 1: going on out there? All right? Jonathan and Florida, Hey Jonathan,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me today? Thank Gentaman Hey,
Speaker 1: happy meat Friday and danans Um got a couple other
Speaker 1: good dunks. I still think the Vince Carter one's the
Speaker 1: best in game one I've seen, just because it was
Speaker 1: on a world stage or just a setting. Um, I
Speaker 1: think that was just crazy. But another good one is
Speaker 1: Scottie Pippin over Patrick Ewing ninety four playoffs. I believe
Speaker 1: that's probably the most disrespect Oh yeah, comes into the
Speaker 1: floor and then tell Spike Lee to sit down. And
Speaker 1: then another another good one, a sneaky one is uh
Speaker 1: Baron Davis over Andre Carolenko in twenty two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1: Playoffs just because the crowds just going crazy after that.
Speaker 1: And Andre carolenko Ak forty seven was supposed to be.
Speaker 1: He was a great defensive player. Thanks for the phone
Speaker 1: called Jonathan. Uh. He was always up there in blocks
Speaker 1: like he was. He was a good defender. Didn't he
Speaker 1: get the hall pass from his wife? Wasn't rememory? He
Speaker 1: liked that. You remember it? It's like nine years ago.
Speaker 1: I know it's didn't you get a one? I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was it one time only or a
Speaker 1: yearly hall pass from his wife? Are they still married?
Speaker 1: T J? And Colorado? TJ? How are you? Hey? Good
Speaker 1: morning dad, Good morning, first time, long time. So I
Speaker 1: have one question or two questions about the COVID nineteen deal.
Speaker 1: One how big that asterisk going to be if Lebron
Speaker 1: test positive the week of the finals? And two would
Speaker 1: it be a bigger deal if Brady tested positive? Assuming
Speaker 1: he made it to the Super Bowl. Oh, I can't
Speaker 1: go that deep. Come on, t J. It's a Friday
Speaker 1: and made it to Friday. We gotta think positive. And
Speaker 1: the deeper you go into the playoffs in the NBA,
Speaker 1: the less likely I think that you're going to test
Speaker 1: Pond anybody who wins a title, given what is going
Speaker 1: on now, you earned it. I don't care who wins Baseball.
Speaker 1: You earn it, college football, you earn it, football, NFL
Speaker 1: you earn it. NBA you earn it. Absolutely Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's coming up. That's gonna be the most
Speaker 1: one of the most surreal videos of the year. Whoever
Speaker 1: wins the NBA title, they're gonna celebrate and go nuts
Speaker 1: like it's one of the biggest days of their life
Speaker 1: in front of forty or fifty people in a half
Speaker 1: sized gym in Orlando, Florida, on Disney's campus. And I
Speaker 1: don't care what sound they put in or what they
Speaker 1: do to doctor it up. It's gonna feel like when
Speaker 1: a team celebrates a summer league in the NBA Times twenty,
Speaker 1: because they're gonna be going crazy. They're gonna I don't
Speaker 1: if they're gonna shoot confetti in the air. But you
Speaker 1: know how people celebrate the NBA Finals in the media,
Speaker 1: Russia's the court and it's going crazy. It'll be the
Speaker 1: exact opposite of that. But you're going to get these
Speaker 1: cities celebrating, right, but not the moment. Although I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, you're not gonna social distancing.
Speaker 1: When it comes to celebrating, it'll be in mass downtown wherever.
Speaker 1: I remember being at Staples when I was at the
Speaker 1: Mothership and the Lakers won the title and we went
Speaker 1: into our broadcast truck and people were pushing the broadcast
Speaker 1: truck and one of the people in there said show
Speaker 1: your face, and like it didn't register, like you know,
Speaker 1: they were burning a police car and you know, so
Speaker 1: you know, one of the people in there, I don't
Speaker 1: want to mention any names, but said just show your face.
Speaker 1: And I stepped out of their our truck, our TV truck,
Speaker 1: and they saw that it was me. They for some reason,
Speaker 1: and then I just said, hey, guys, stop no, and
Speaker 1: they did. But we were worried that this they were
Speaker 1: gonna try to tip over the TV truck. And so
Speaker 1: when when you know, somebody says show your face, I no,
Speaker 1: uh do you want me to go? Don Oh? Okay,
Speaker 1: my bad. Don't worry about it, because you know, we
Speaker 1: leave the building, get in the truck because it's it's
Speaker 1: getting crazy out there. And I was like, oh boy,
Speaker 1: this isn't how I want to go. H josh In Indiana. Hi, Josh,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me today? Hey? Dan, how's
Speaker 1: it going to Happy meet Friday? Do you guys? Well?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Josh. Well, hey, I just wanted to let
Speaker 1: you know, Uh, you're co worker of ours and and
Speaker 1: uh union brother of ours is retiring today and I
Speaker 1: just wanted to give a give a shout out to him. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna check in. I don't know if it's uh
Speaker 1: tend point correct, but I'm gonna say six foot two
Speaker 1: hundred pounds for Terry aff from St. From Saint Minord, Indiana. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's uh, he's retiring today, and I know he helped
Speaker 1: a lot of us out. Um, I've worked with him
Speaker 1: personally for six years, and I believe he's worked with
Speaker 1: us for twenty seven years. And uh it means a
Speaker 1: lot for everything he's helped us out with. And I
Speaker 1: know he's a he's an avid listener to you guys.
Speaker 1: And and uh, I think he wanted to call I
Speaker 1: suggested for him to call him today, but he said
Speaker 1: he didn't think the chat row would let him through.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Josh, you a good coworker, and Terry,
Speaker 1: congratulations and good luck in retirement there. Uh, Jacob Wisconsin
Speaker 1: is back. Whoah you got You got a Bob Euker's
Speaker 1: story for me? Oh dude, I've got a lot of
Speaker 1: those stories for him. But one of my favorite things
Speaker 1: while working at the stadium, he'd always call your kid,
Speaker 1: the kids going over to help him out do whatever
Speaker 1: he needed. But the dude, the dude has so much
Speaker 1: pull in respect at the stadium. He drives his quarterback
Speaker 1: and parks it literally in the side of the stadium.
Speaker 1: He parks it all the way up into the warehouse
Speaker 1: and walks right into the citium like the dude walks
Speaker 1: around like loyalty man. Well he's earned it. Oh absolutely,
Speaker 1: He's got a statue outside the stadium for crying all out.
Speaker 1: But one of the nicest guys. I'm super pumped that
Speaker 1: you got him on and they can't wait to get doing.
Speaker 1: Laugh at your interview with the Vans, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jake. Great to hear from you. I saw
Speaker 1: this with the bubble in Orlando. Local state, and federal
Speaker 1: law enforcement, plus former special ops forces will be employed
Speaker 1: to secure the bubble site and keep NBA personnel safe
Speaker 1: from any intruders. Okay, not gonna let anybody off campus
Speaker 1: and not going to let anybody in. Teams are expected
Speaker 1: to begin arriving to the Florida Complex on or around
Speaker 1: July seventh. We'll go to Anthony in Ohio. Then we'll
Speaker 1: take a break and make way for Bob Yuker. Hey, Anthony, Hey,
Speaker 1: DP tough to tough to open up for Bob Uker.
Speaker 1: But I'll do my first off suck at front row,
Speaker 1: and then I had a dunk. Foio was wom Shack
Speaker 1: was with the Lakers, and he dunked on Chris Dudley
Speaker 1: so bad that Dudley whipped the ball out him. I
Speaker 1: think he knocked Dudley over, right, Yeah, he did, and Dudley,
Speaker 1: I mean Shack lifted his legs up and did the
Speaker 1: hole hang on the rim thing, and Dudley just got
Speaker 1: so embarrassed that he ended up whipping the ball at
Speaker 1: him and getting seat up. Thank you, Anthony. Didn'touldn't Chris
Speaker 1: Dudley a politician? When don't you a politician? Somewhere to Yale? Right, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I thought he held an office. Maybe one of
Speaker 1: the worst free throw shooters in NBA history. What do
Speaker 1: you expect from a Yale Wow? Yeah, that was dartmouth
Speaker 1: trash talk right now? Yeah, man, you're you're crushing him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think Chris Dudley in a tone. He's
Speaker 1: listed as a retired basketball player and politician. Oh all right,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you have to be in office
Speaker 1: to be a politician. Can you call yourself a politician
Speaker 1: if you're between gigs? What if you run for office
Speaker 1: but don't win, are you a politician? Well? This is
Speaker 1: that he ran for governor of Oregon. But did he
Speaker 1: get elected? No, won the primary though it looks like yeah,
Speaker 1: but okay, what constitutes being a politician? If you get
Speaker 1: drafted in the NBA and the team doesn't sign you,
Speaker 1: can you say you're a professional basketball player? That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You gotta get a check, right at one check?
Speaker 1: You gotta get one check. You got to get something
Speaker 1: that says to the like the governor of Oregon sworn in,
Speaker 1: even if you're ousted from office. Not nothing. That would
Speaker 1: be Chris Dudley. But if he was, he would have
Speaker 1: been a governor at something. Chris Dudley, he was like
Speaker 1: a forty one percent free throw show. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's the nicest. I don't know if you ever marry.
Speaker 1: He's the nicest guy in sports. I can't believe he
Speaker 1: was a politician. Yeah, Chris Dudley, he had he had
Speaker 1: a good run. Who would have thought we'd talked about
Speaker 1: Chris Dudley today. Would you rather be a journeyman and
Speaker 1: be a center or governor of Oregon? I'd rather be
Speaker 1: a journeyman center governor of No, I don't want to
Speaker 1: be a governor. You definitely had him on your fantasy teams,
Speaker 1: I could tell, but no, no, no, I did not
Speaker 1: have Chris Dudley on my fantasy team. Like he was
Speaker 1: a rebounding guy I remember. Yeah, but he would kill
Speaker 1: you in every other category. Yeah. Yeah, we're huge in Oregon.
Speaker 1: I think you could run and probably win if you
Speaker 1: chose to. What a great state to be a governor? No,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a thankless job. Oh yeah, see yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't want any part of that. Oh God, in
Speaker 1: the right state, you know, Mona, No, No, I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't. Not good. What about like Senate? No, no,
Speaker 1: I mean some of the jobs sound easy, you know.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you're just cashing checks all the time.
Speaker 1: Some of these gigs. Yeah, I don't want to be
Speaker 1: a politician. It's like somebody asked me if I wanted
Speaker 1: to open a sports bar, and I go, why, wait? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get sued. Right, it doesn't when
Speaker 1: you put your name on a bar, doesn't it scream? Oh?
Speaker 1: Now I know who to sue. Like this, guys, you
Speaker 1: should put up a sports bar and I go, why
Speaker 1: so I can go in and talk sports? He goes
Speaker 1: here on, I go, I do it every day. You
Speaker 1: can host your own trivia night. Yeah, Hi, welcome to
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick's I'm Dan Patrick yet Wednesday trivia for you. God.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to talk sports with drunk guys. Come
Speaker 1: on in, Hencent Wing Night, Come on in, come in,
Speaker 1: I'm one in. All right, let me take a break,
Speaker 1: Bob Uker said to join us. Coming up. I think
Speaker 1: that burgers are ready to come off the Treger grill.
Speaker 1: I think, but we gotta wait twenty minutes after Uker
Speaker 1: then we can have the burgers. All right, We'll take
Speaker 1: a break back after this and the Dan Patrick Show.
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Speaker 1: More phone calls coming up. Bob Yucker has called the
Speaker 1: fourth most games on radio in baseball history. He's a
Speaker 1: trailing the retired Vin Scully Bevin did it sixty seven years.
Speaker 1: Another Dodger icon, Jamie Jarren sixty two years and running,
Speaker 1: or I should say Himie Jarren, Ken City's Denny Matthews
Speaker 1: fifty two years and counting. And Bob is ready for
Speaker 1: his fiftieth year calling Brewers games in Bob Buker, mister Baseball,
Speaker 1: joining us on the program. Hi, Bob, how are you
Speaker 1: an your son? How are you doing? I'm doing okay.
Speaker 1: No pressure on you other than I wanted to have
Speaker 1: some fun with baseball and there hasn't been anything fun
Speaker 1: with baseball as of late. So how are you doing?
Speaker 1: How's your morale? I'm doing okay. I'm glad we're going
Speaker 1: back to work and it'll be my sixty fifty year
Speaker 1: overall in baseball, you know, as a player, if you
Speaker 1: want to say that, And of course calling the games
Speaker 1: here in Milwaukee. I worked a couple of I worked
Speaker 1: a couple of seasons with the Brave, was with Milo
Speaker 1: Hamilton and Ernie Johnson before Bud brought me back to
Speaker 1: Bud Saiey brought me back to Milwaukee. But other than that,
Speaker 1: I'm hanging around and I'm waiting to go back to work.
Speaker 1: I just saw where your official batting average in your
Speaker 1: career was one ninety nine seven. I you know that.
Speaker 1: I couldn't. A lot of my sponsors would be upset
Speaker 1: if they dropped below two hundred, because at that time
Speaker 1: it tied me with another sports grade averaging two hundred
Speaker 1: or better for a ten year period, and that was
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame bowler Don Carter. Blow that off. But
Speaker 1: but were you the Mendoza line before the Mendoza line, Bob, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: but she's got a job in baseball now. I think
Speaker 1: she works for the Mets, doesn't he. That's a that's
Speaker 1: a different Mendoza. Oh okay, and tell me if this
Speaker 1: is right. Did you get traded? Did your baseball career
Speaker 1: get extended because you were a good clubhouse guy? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, laundry has got to be done. There's I
Speaker 1: mean for a couple of extra bucks a month I
Speaker 1: was making. I was making below the minimum, you know that. Um,
Speaker 1: and selling other players equipment got me a couple of
Speaker 1: bucks doing laundry. There's a lot of things that you
Speaker 1: can do without playing. I actually thought it was an
Speaker 1: infringement when they asked me to play a game. But
Speaker 1: I thought you got traded to the Cardinals because you
Speaker 1: were going to back up McCarver and you might have
Speaker 1: had a better arm but they liked your personality well
Speaker 1: and and um, I think arm wise, I had one
Speaker 1: on each side, which wasn't time. Um, but um, yeah,
Speaker 1: to back up Timmy, who's remained a great friend. And Uma.
Speaker 1: Of course, you know we went a World Series that
Speaker 1: year when I get traded to Saint Louis, And I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not gonna saying they didn't win one before.
Speaker 1: When I got there, they were Uh, something had to
Speaker 1: be working right when you were when you were first
Speaker 1: went on Carson, first time you were on there, were
Speaker 1: you still playing baseball? Uh? No, I was. I was done.
Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, the first show I did,
Speaker 1: what Johnny was in New York. They had moved to
Speaker 1: the West Coast, yet I think it was in nineteen seventy,
Speaker 1: maybe sixty nine or seventy. How'd you end up on
Speaker 1: the show? I had been friends with a great trumpeter,
Speaker 1: one of the legendary trumpeters of all time, Alan Hurt,
Speaker 1: and uh I did a couple of jobs with him.
Speaker 1: I was traveling. Alex Carris was a guy that I
Speaker 1: worked with. He was there because he was a great player,
Speaker 1: and I was I was a wind up speaker. But
Speaker 1: I did a couple of jobs with Alan Hurt, and
Speaker 1: he told me it was going to get me on
Speaker 1: the Tonight Show, and I said, oh, yeah, sure. Well
Speaker 1: I got a call from the Tonight Show about two
Speaker 1: weeks later, and I went to New York. I had
Speaker 1: I had an audition with a talent guy and I
Speaker 1: went in his office and he said, what do you do?
Speaker 1: I said nothing, I'm He said, well, let me see
Speaker 1: some of your stuff or let me hear what you're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about. So I did a couple of things.
Speaker 1: He told me, we'll call you back. Two weeks later.
Speaker 1: They called me back to New York and I did
Speaker 1: the show with Johnny and I remember. The one thing
Speaker 1: that was funny about it, Dan was at the end
Speaker 1: of the show, and you know, the same good night
Speaker 1: and everything. I heard Johnny say to Ed after we
Speaker 1: said good night, Did that guy really played baseball? Ed said,
Speaker 1: I think so. But I went back two weeks later
Speaker 1: and did another one, and then then I got to
Speaker 1: be kind of a pretty regular, you know with with Johnny. Um,
Speaker 1: we had a great relationship, and I did I still
Speaker 1: do with Doc Stevenson, and you know a lot of
Speaker 1: the guys in the band. I would go over and
Speaker 1: do it tonight show when we were playing an ana
Speaker 1: i'm when the Brewers were playing an Anai'm, I would
Speaker 1: go over and do it tonight show and then come back.
Speaker 1: I'd get back maybe in the third inning, and some
Speaker 1: of the band guys would come up and sit in
Speaker 1: the booth at the ballpark. So it was I had
Speaker 1: a great time with the night shows all the time.
Speaker 1: How did that change your life? Uh? Well, it raised
Speaker 1: my salary by two hundred and twenty dollars a month.
Speaker 1: That was the big thing. But um, I had a pension,
Speaker 1: you know, the Screen Actors Guild, so I wasn't worried
Speaker 1: about baseball anymore. UM, But I did you know, I
Speaker 1: stuck around baseball at six years. I guess um had
Speaker 1: had a great time doing it, made great you know,
Speaker 1: really great friendships and including yourself and your crew there,
Speaker 1: but um, all of those. You know, if I ever
Speaker 1: had a good year, it had really screwed me up later.
Speaker 1: There a couple of times I got off to good starts,
Speaker 1: I had to go in the tank. Well, yeah, nobody,
Speaker 1: there's nothing funny about getting off to a good start,
Speaker 1: you know, like batting two twenty five is not funny,
Speaker 1: but one ninety seven that's funny, exactly exactly. And you know,
Speaker 1: sending in the other teams that dugout not always all
Speaker 1: that pleasant, but it was. I was still at the game,
Speaker 1: um um, wearing a load uniform at home. But Carson
Speaker 1: introduced you one time. When you think of great baseball players,
Speaker 1: a lot of names come to mind, Bob Eucker is
Speaker 1: not one of them, right, And he called you mister baseball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that kind of stuck around. He here, I have
Speaker 1: a great picture at home hero m Elston Howard and
Speaker 1: Roger Marris in New York and and Mickey um All
Speaker 1: with Johnny and he's got he's got a Yankee uniform
Speaker 1: on um and it looks awful on him the way
Speaker 1: he's wearing it. The socks are you know, down on
Speaker 1: the ground and but he's with them, and he had
Speaker 1: a glove on. I think he tried to throw batting
Speaker 1: practice to those guys at Yankee Stadium. Yeah, oh yeah
Speaker 1: he uh. He was a great guy to work with
Speaker 1: Dan And like I said before, I always had a
Speaker 1: great time with him. He treated me. I never got
Speaker 1: bumped off the show, you know, I always stayed on
Speaker 1: and somebody else got bumped um. But we had a
Speaker 1: we had a good relationship. Matter of fact, I went
Speaker 1: out to UM the University of Nebraska. He built a
Speaker 1: built a studio and a really nice building out there
Speaker 1: for you know, people who want to get involved in movies, television,
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. And I went out there as
Speaker 1: part of the opening with that with our with our
Speaker 1: owner Mark at Conazi as a matter of fact, and
Speaker 1: had a great time. They did a lot of shows,
Speaker 1: you know old tonight shows that h Johnny I could
Speaker 1: I could break his chops, man, I I could make
Speaker 1: him laugh. I just saw one I just subbody just
Speaker 1: sent me one of me and it was a picture
Speaker 1: of me and Bob Gibson holding hand. I love that picture.
Speaker 1: So that's that's the team picture. So Gibson was in
Speaker 1: on the joke the team picture with the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame picture. You're you're holding hands with Bob Gibson, who
Speaker 1: seemed like a very serious guy. He was. He was
Speaker 1: really good. He was a great friend as a guy
Speaker 1: who was getting ready to shoot the shoot the photos.
Speaker 1: I just reached over and grabbed his hand and we
Speaker 1: both started picture. It was really good. I love it.
Speaker 1: We're talking to Bob Ucker his fiftieth year with the Brewers,
Speaker 1: and people should know, like, you did have some legitimate
Speaker 1: moments there. You homered off Sandy Kofax. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's that's real at Dodger Stadium, right. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: you know, every time I see him, I apologize. I
Speaker 1: thought that was going to keep him out of the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. I was really worried about that. Is
Speaker 1: that why Sandy doesn't do interviews is because he gave
Speaker 1: up the home run to you. Um, that's part of it.
Speaker 1: That's part of it. Yeah. I don't know why I
Speaker 1: hit him fairly, well, I really don't. Um, maybe it
Speaker 1: was I don't know, probably five thirty. Well, you didn't
Speaker 1: want those shadows if if Kofax was on the mound
Speaker 1: that'd be troubled. Did you did you have to audition
Speaker 1: for the role of Harry Doyle in Major League No?
Speaker 1: You know. I was doing a game in Chicago against
Speaker 1: the White Sox with the Brewers, and a security guy
Speaker 1: came in and said, there's two guys outside want to
Speaker 1: talk to you. So when I got off from my
Speaker 1: innings off, I went out in the hallway at Olkaniski
Speaker 1: Park and Chris Tester and David Ward were there and
Speaker 1: they had this script or the movie and asked me
Speaker 1: if I would consider doing it. So I said I'll
Speaker 1: look at it, which I was going to do it anyway,
Speaker 1: whether it was good or bad. U But I looked
Speaker 1: at it and read it, and they told me, you know,
Speaker 1: you you do whatever you want. You do the script,
Speaker 1: do your stuff, do whatever you want. And I did
Speaker 1: and I had a good time. You know, I met
Speaker 1: a lot of good people and the movie did good
Speaker 1: and um Major League two, Major Major League three was
Speaker 1: on airplanes the day after we finished. It was terrible. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Did you know at the time when you did the
Speaker 1: first Major League that it was going to be good?
Speaker 1: You know, it had some really funny stuff in it
Speaker 1: and watching I met I met Charlie Seene the first
Speaker 1: night the Brewers came back from a road trip and
Speaker 1: they had already set up County Stadium for the movie,
Speaker 1: and M. David asked me if i'd go in and
Speaker 1: say hello to Charlie seen you wanted to say hello.
Speaker 1: So I went in his trailer and talked to him
Speaker 1: for a while. And then when I watched him throw,
Speaker 1: I mean he threw pretty good, he really did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and watching Tom Brenger worked behind the plate, and Steve
Speaker 1: Eager deserved a lot of credit for that too, because
Speaker 1: he really worked with with Tom. But you know, the
Speaker 1: script was kind of funny. Um. I didn't use any
Speaker 1: big time curse words. I was kind of um shocked
Speaker 1: when I heard the first one. But other than that,
Speaker 1: you know, they kind of let me do what I wanted. Um.
Speaker 1: I did their stuff. Um, and then they made the picks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the great stuff in there, but just just a bit
Speaker 1: outside was a natural man. I mean, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: doing a radio game, you're you're looking at a movie.
Speaker 1: But you know, when you're on radio, Dan, you can
Speaker 1: do anything you want. Nobody can see it. Were you
Speaker 1: ever a beer guy on the air, like Harry Carey
Speaker 1: was Uh no, not really. I was into um Jack Daniel.
Speaker 1: The team was it depended on how bad the team
Speaker 1: was that year, what you were drinking. The team was
Speaker 1: at the airport a lot of times. I was still
Speaker 1: doing the game. But I remember listening to Joe Knuxall
Speaker 1: and Joe Knuxall, you know, God rest his soul. He
Speaker 1: would always say the old left hand, a rounding third,
Speaker 1: heading for home. He spilled his beer on his scorecard
Speaker 1: one night when I was listening to him and Marty Brenman,
Speaker 1: and it was just so funny because we don't We're
Speaker 1: listening on the radio and Joe spills it. He's not
Speaker 1: he's not describing what he just did, and you just
Speaker 1: hear him gone like he's mad, and it's you know,
Speaker 1: Marty Brennman's trying to call the game. And then they
Speaker 1: eventually got around to you know, Joe had spilled his
Speaker 1: beer on his scorecard. There. Oh they were, they were,
Speaker 1: They were a great team. Dan. I you know what
Speaker 1: his name for me was Blats. Remember remember blas beer.
Speaker 1: Oh God, my dad drank Blats. Yeah. I called him black.
Speaker 1: I never called him. I called him black whole wife,
Speaker 1: great friend to man, what a guy, great team. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna miss Marty this year. Yeah. Hall of Famer. Yeah.
Speaker 1: On a serious note, Uh you know this uh this
Speaker 1: virus here, Bob YEP. How concerned? How concerned are you? Well?
Speaker 1: I am, I'm I you know, I feel bad Dan
Speaker 1: for all of people that got furloughed. I don't care
Speaker 1: if it's baseball or anything else. Um, people that I've
Speaker 1: worked around here at the ballpark for for a lot
Speaker 1: of years and and got furloughed. And I you know,
Speaker 1: I got furloughed when I was in the army. Um
Speaker 1: that was that was about it for me. And I
Speaker 1: was on our side too. I want that out. But
Speaker 1: but it's it's it's bad when I when I see
Speaker 1: what's happening. We're going back to work on a very
Speaker 1: limited basis. UM, my partner, Jeff Levering and Lane Grindel
Speaker 1: will be totally separated. We'll all be separated by a
Speaker 1: big piece of Plexi glass in the boot. And you
Speaker 1: know what our booth looks like in Milwaukee. So and
Speaker 1: the engineer will be separated from us. Um, it's I
Speaker 1: have to go in a hole. There's a whole different
Speaker 1: set of rules to do this stuff. You know, you've
Speaker 1: got to be tested every other day. I guess a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, I'm going to get tested tonight. Um
Speaker 1: My wife and I and our trainer Roger Kaplinger is
Speaker 1: going to do that. Um. But you know I get
Speaker 1: I get a second look a lot of times because
Speaker 1: I go into a store once in a while and
Speaker 1: I'm wearing my catcher's mask. I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: approved by the CDC there, Well, it's it saves the
Speaker 1: pain from a punch because there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: still living that saw me place. Do you think you
Speaker 1: would have done steroids if they were around? Um, I maybe,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't think so. Sur positive
Speaker 1: He's maybe no, not sterry. Does your white Do people
Speaker 1: get straight answers out of you sometimes? Okay, that's what
Speaker 1: I figured. You've never been arrested. I really yeah, I
Speaker 1: got two hits in the game. Uh well, it'd be
Speaker 1: great to have you back, and uh thanks for just
Speaker 1: putting a smile on some people's faces today. You kid's
Speaker 1: great to talk to you appreciate it. Hello to all
Speaker 1: your gang there. Thanks, Thank you, buddy. That's Bob Buker,
Speaker 1: mister baseball there. I love that he homered off Sandy
Speaker 1: Kofax and he apologized to me. He's eighty six years
Speaker 1: of age, still got his fastball there. That's good. But
Speaker 1: it was a big deal when he was can you
Speaker 1: can google this Bob Yucker on the Tonight Show and
Speaker 1: it's a U E C K E R in case
Speaker 1: you're having problems spelling that. But just he goes out
Speaker 1: there and Johnny Carson was a you know, you look
Speaker 1: at Letterman and all these other guys, Lano Carson was
Speaker 1: a big deal and to be on on the biggest
Speaker 1: TV show in America, and he went out and killed
Speaker 1: He's slayd. All right, we'll take a break. Last call
Speaker 1: for phone calls, what we learn, what's in store tomorrow
Speaker 1: and if you're watching on YouTube dot com. By the way, Marvin,
Speaker 1: who answers our phones among the other things he does,
Speaker 1: made his h YouTube debut. He gave his stat of
Speaker 1: the day roaring success. Yeah. Yeah, well it's either rooting
Speaker 1: for him or Ario and chat Row of course hates AREO,
Speaker 1: but U Marvin. Marvin made his debut, so he had
Speaker 1: his stat of the day email that he brought to
Speaker 1: your attention. If you're watching on YouTube, wait till you
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Speaker 1: day in sports History, Paulie, I just have one, but
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. Wilbur Snap. He was a organ player
Speaker 1: like the PA and ouncer organ player at a baseball game.
Speaker 1: There's a bad call by an umpire named Keith O'Connor.
Speaker 1: Wilbur Snap played three blind mice in nineteen eighty five,
Speaker 1: and the umpire ejected Wilbur Snap from yes the booth.
Speaker 1: Somehow that's all him? Anything else. Um Abner doubled double
Speaker 1: Day was born in eighteen nineteen over right Oh Muhammad Ali.
Speaker 1: In seventy nine, at thirty seven years old, announced he
Speaker 1: was retiring as world headweight boxing champ. Yes, Ton Mike
Speaker 1: Vick is forty today and Captain Clutch Derek Jeter at
Speaker 1: forty six today, Oh Chets, same month, same day. Are
Speaker 1: you sure? Are you sure? Yes? I checked a few
Speaker 1: remember remember your Monday. How you started Monday? Is Sandler
Speaker 1: thirty years ago? Yeah, Monday, the exact day, and then
Speaker 1: I got the John, I got the jersey thing. Then
Speaker 1: you got Shock's jersey wrong. Yeah. You know what I
Speaker 1: love so much about that Adam Sandler thing is that
Speaker 1: even Adam knew that Todd had it wrong, and he
Speaker 1: still did it anyway. It was just like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna ask him for It's like, hey, buddy, but
Speaker 1: I think you got that info wrong. There was he
Speaker 1: still chose to do the interview and then drop that
Speaker 1: it was nothing in our communication when I when I
Speaker 1: reached out to him saying, I don't think that's exactly
Speaker 1: thirty years that day. Bob in Wisconsin, Hi, Bob, what
Speaker 1: do you have for me? Hey? Dan? Hey? Dan ets
Speaker 1: first behind long time, five to seven, solid, one fifty
Speaker 1: considering I'll be sixty in August. Hey, I'm Dan. I'm
Speaker 1: a Viking fan living in Wisconsin, still hanging on to
Speaker 1: the Bud Grant and Purple People eater days. But more importantly,
Speaker 1: I'm talking calling to talk to you about your show
Speaker 1: last Friday with the NFL doc. I'm a thoracic surgeon.
Speaker 1: We do everything in the thorax or the chest, art, lungs, esophagus,
Speaker 1: but we're most commonly known as heart surgeons. Now, as
Speaker 1: to the discussion who's more important cardiac surgeons or neurosurgeons,
Speaker 1: it's close. But my good friend John, who is our
Speaker 1: chief neurosurgeon, likes to pique his head in my room
Speaker 1: as I'm sewing on the heart and announced, Hey, remember, Bob,
Speaker 1: you're not a brain surgeon. Thank you, doc, I appreciate that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were ranking like if you go into a cocktail
Speaker 1: party and you're like, there's Bob over there, surgeon. Oh,
Speaker 1: Tommy here neurosurgeon. Yeah, see that paint's a pretty funny
Speaker 1: picture though that doctors are talking trash Midsurgeony Yogan poke
Speaker 1: his head in while I'm sewing up the hardhead. Hey,
Speaker 1: remember you're not a brain surgeon, Todd, What did I
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