WEBVTT - Hour 2 – Ric Bucher (07-06-20) 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:03.600 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.680 Sports Radio. It is our two of the Dan Patrick 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:09.440 Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Jason Smith and Doug 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:13.720 Gottlieb in for Dan and the dan Ets today. Doug 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:16.360 and I having a big bubble conversation a few minutes ago. 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:18.720 We'll continue that with Rick Buker, who's coming up in 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.120 about twenty minutes. Fox Sports One Bleacher Report NBA Insider 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:24.880 is the NBA getting down to it when we see 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:29.840 teams report in the coming days. However, this story has 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:32.520 kind of blown up in the past forty five minutes 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:34.279 or so, so we're gonna get to this now for 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:38.280 a bit. As on Twitter about forty five minutes ago, 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:42.720 President Donald Trump called out NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace on Monday, 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:45.480 saying that a noose found in his garage at Talladega 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:49.040 last month was a hoax, and he also is questioning 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.560 NASCAR's decision to ban the Confederate flag. Here's the quote 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.720 from President Trump has at Bubba Wallace, apologized to all 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.560 of those great NASCAR drivers and officials who came to 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.480 his aid, stood by his side, and we're willing to 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.600 sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:09.160 whole thing was just another hoax. That and flag decision 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.920 has caused lowest ratings ever. This is a tweet from 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.560 President Donald Trump just a few minutes ago. I'm a 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.120 Bubba Wallace story. As you know. Look, Doug, this story 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.720 honestly was was was done being a front burner story. 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:24.680 It happened, We dealt with it. We talked about at 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.800 NASCAR United, which was a great moment. And you know, 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.080 President Trump is bringing this up again and and throws 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.280 this out here on a Monday morning. Yeah, I mean 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.800 it goes in the on the back of his speech 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:40.640 in South Dakota Mount Rushmore, you know, which in a 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:44.240 moment where you think a leader unites, a leader, the 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:49.560 leader of the free world divides. I look, do I 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.480 think that Bubba could have you know, when he immediately 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:56.080 found out or when when he was told several times 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:02.720 that it had been hanging previously? Could could he have? 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:04.880 You know? Was there a different way to handle it? 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.400 Of course there was, of course there was. But I 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.440 would also tell you that, you know, I'm not a 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.239 black person, but you know, if I find if somebody 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:16.000 says there's a noose hanging near your garage, you know, whatever, 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.359 however long it had been there or whatever the intent 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.520 of a garage pull or whatever that somebody that that 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.400 it's alleged to have been, Like, I probably would have 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.959 freaked out too, you know. I mean like, look, I'm Jewish. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.919 If somebody put a swastika in my garage or something 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.000 that looked like a swastika, I would have been like, what, 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.520 what what is going on? Well, the swastika has been 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.200 there for a couple of years, Like that doesn't change 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:42.040 it to me, So I I I actually, look, I 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.840 understand his freak out, and I do believe that there 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.679 was a moment where he could have really really won 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:51.280 the day and said, look, obviously it was a misunderstanding 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.600 in terms of was it directed at me? But I 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.560 cannot think my fellow drivers enough, you know, like we're 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:03.840 making these correlations about ratings waiting to popularity, I guess. 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.320 But part of it is fewer and fewer people are 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:10.720 are watching sports on TV because right now everyone's watching 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.040 news on TV or they're just done with everything on 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.560 TV and they're not watching any of it until sports 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:20.440 comes back. So there's a there's it's a lot, it's loaded. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:27.320 But I don't understand the need to apologize at this point, 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.680 other than saying it was a misunderstanding, right, like that's 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.680 really what it was. Yeah, for the beginning for everything, 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.880 how it unfolded, I don't see how NASCAR could have 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.040 done anything differently. Here's the garage. Hey, this is a news. Wow, 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.680 this is a news. NASCAR went and told Bubba Wallace, Hey, 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.560 there's a news in your garage. Okay. At this point, 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:46.360 the story was going to go how it was going 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.880 to go, because what does it look like if NASCAR 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.600 says we're looking into we're looking into this and it 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.040 could be a noose, we're not sure, and then what's 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.040 the blowback? They can't even admit that it's a noose 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.360 and a sport that has made big strides forward with 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.120 the Confederate flag controversy saying listen, it's no longer welcome 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.640 at our track suddenly is playing defense and okay, well 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:09.560 wait wait wait. Conversely, if you say, well, with what's 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.080 gone on with with driver Bubba Wallace, we're looking into 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.200 this and we'll have a statement in a couple of days. 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:15.840 We don't want to we don't want to go crazy 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:17.760 on this, then it's wait a minute, a noose was 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:19.800 found in his garage. How can you say we're investing it. 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.360 How can you say there was no way NASCAR could 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.240 come out with anything other than how they did it, 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:25.839 how they went we were going to get to the 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.799 point where, boy, there's a little bit of embarrassment because 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:30.520 it was there for a while. We don't know how 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.840 or why it got there. But I don't know how 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:34.680 there was going to be anything that was going to 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.559 change how it went from when the story was first 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.839 reported to the finding out that Okay, this wasn't put 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.800 there specifically for Bubba Wallace, it was somehow they're fashioned 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:45.360 as a rope. I don't know how they would have 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.960 gotten past any of that point to get to that 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.359 point of it. Um, there are ways, but but like 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.960 look here this is and again, Jason, feel like one 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.320 of the things that I think you and I have 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.720 done a really good job of here is we're having 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.400 a conversation like this is actually the way it's supposed 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.599 to go, right, It's it's in any of these, In 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:09.200 any of these, like all people should be like, all right, 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:10.479 here's what I think. Well, here's what I think. It 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.799 doesn't happen. We shouldn't necessarily operate in this there's only 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.920 one thought, right, Like, there's a bunch it's even even 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:20.919 if you go to the NBA and what they're allowing 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.000 players to put on the back of their jerseys. If 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.200 you want to open up free speech to make political 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:30.920 or you know, social justice thoughts, then you can't limit 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.400 it to ten different things you can say, right like it, 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.039 I wouldn't put it on my jersey, but it's and 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.359 I don't think anybody would. But the idea that you 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.480 can't put Trump twenty twenty on the back of your 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.680 jersey when you can make other political statements, I think 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.880 as a mistake. I think that's actually limiting free speech. 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:49.560 It's doing the opposite of what you're saying you're doing. 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:58.200 But I think here, here's what this particular incident to me, 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.800 that's the micro to the mac grow, which is we 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:07.000 have to take context. Everything is about context. The Redskins 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.159 nickname is about context, and we've lost all context. The 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.440 statues that are put up for Christopher Columbus or Thomas 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:17.800 Jefferson or whatever, it's about context. And the but happen 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.159 with Bubba Wallace and the reaction to it is all 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:26.480 about context. Like let's not forget that the week before 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.640 they said, hey, no Confederate flags, which I don't know 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.560 why it took so long, but congratulates to NASCAR. Welcome 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:34.599 to the twenty first century, right, Okay, So they do 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.560 that first. Then they're getting ready to race on Sunday 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:41.760 before it was canceled or postponed, and somebody pays for 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:43.960 a plane or somebody puts in the back of their plane, 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.280 you know, the Confederate flag, and they fly it over that. 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:50.760 So now you create this tension after a decision was made, 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.680 which there was already it was already tense. Then you're 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.080 Bubba Wallace and you hear there's a noose in your 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.880 garage and you don't see. It becomes a game of 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.800 telephone and it gets and you're like, wait, it's it's 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.400 only in my it's in my garage, hanging over my car. 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:12.040 Like So, I think that it's really important that while 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.720 Bubba Wallace's reaction when he was on with like Don 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.120 Lemon and a couple other people was over the top, 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.720 and I do think it missed the mark and it 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:25.760 was unwilling, and the term hoax is I think a 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:29.160 little strong. I just think it was a misunderstanding, is 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:34.320 really what happened. I give Bubba Wallace more of a 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.640 pass than I give other people a pass because of 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:42.320 the context, because it because of the It was the 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.560 first race where there are people there and they weren't 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.400 supposed to be Confederate flags, and somebody did fly a 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:51.920 Confederate flag over the Sunday race before the Monday And look, 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.600 my net takeaway is my net takeaway from a lot 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:59.880 of these things, which is the net net is all 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.360 these NASCAR drivers like they don't want to be considered racist. 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:03.920 They want to lock arm in arm without like like 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:05.080 we just want to raise and we want to have 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:06.320 a great time and we want to make a lot 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.280 of money and we don't care what the color of 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.240 your skin is. Which is my net net from a 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:15.920 lot of these things. Of humanity is against racism. They 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.360 really are. And we we have a tendency to hyper 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:23.960 focus on the smallest, infantest mol percentage, which it's like, 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.600 it's like white supremacist March. They've they've they've been in 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:31.240 this country forever. They're smaller really than ever. They feel 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.400 louder than ever because we amplify it with social media, 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:38.199 with right and traditional media, and I think that we 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:42.840 always have to take context into a remark, into a nickname, 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:47.120 into a reaction, that that paints a much clearer picture 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.920 for what really happened for Bubba Wallace, Jason Smith, Doug 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.000 Gottlieb In, for Dan and the Dan Nets. It turned 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:58.520 out to be a moment of incredible of forwardness for 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.880 NASCAR with whatever, even though the news wasn't put there 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.760 for him. The powerful photo of him on the track 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:06.920 with all the drivers with their masks on behind him, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.320 showing you know that we are we are for stamping 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:14.040 out racism. We drive together, we stand behind Bubba Wallace. 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.160 It's not just about that. You're also talking about the 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.400 Confederate flag controversy that was not even in the background 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.280 of this. I mean, this is forefront, here's the Confederate 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.920 flag controversy, and here is the news and Bubba Wallace's garage. 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.880 The two were kind of melded together because this is Hey, 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:32.920 we want to stamp out racism. So okay, So this 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.920 is why Bubba Wallace is is talking to people, and 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:37.880 this is why I think you talk about his interview 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.240 with Don Lemon and in other aspects of other interviews 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.280 he did. I think this is why there's been that 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.560 bit of backlash, because Bubba Wallace went on and did 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.640 these interviews and didn't really recognize the fact that, Okay, 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.640 this wasn't meant there for you. This was something where 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:53.959 Bubba Wallace wanted to stand up and say, this is 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:55.880 my chance. When am I ever going to get a 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.959 chance to talk about equality and and stamping out races 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.760 and being and us being inclusionary. This is my moment 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.360 to do it. And the Confederate flag is really what 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.560 we're talking about, as well as the news in my garage. 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:13.040 So I think that's why he went forward with the 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.000 strategy ad doing the interviews, and I could see where 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:17.959 that turned some people off and going, oh, well, he's 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:19.679 got to just at least admit the news wasn't that. 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:21.720 I can't but I can't believe you. But what he 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.560 was doing was really just saying, hey, we're all in 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.600 it to end racism. Look at look at me and 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.240 all of our drivers who are here together doing this. 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.360 And I think that's what got lost in the messages, 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.560 just that oh, he's got to apologize for it. He's 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.120 got to say this, he's got to says now he's 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.680 just putting out a message of being inclusionary for race 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.400 and I don't see anything wrong with that. And if 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.280 that's what comes out of this, that suddenly NASCAR, as 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.520 you said, joined the twenty first stretcher, And I think 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:48.439 that's great. I think if this is where we're at, 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.319 and I'm actually looking at the selfie he took right 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.320 now that keeps playing on the story in the background 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.800 of the of the Donald Trump tweet story, I think 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.760 that's overwhelmingly positive for NASCAR and for sports in general 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.560 going forward. I do I mean, like, look, did it 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.520 was it? Was it uncut? He? You know, was it 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.160 a little uncomfortable? And how over the top and defiant 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.640 he was about what how sure he was and how 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:15.480 he felt? Yes, right, but this but again, you know 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.200 though I I don't necessarily know like there's there's a 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:23.280 difference there between like an outright apology and hey man, 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.240 I freaked out a little bit. But again, like my 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:29.920 net takeaway is, you know, all these all these people 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.600 had my back, and that's really what's important, right, Really 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.520 what's important is and and it's also I think it's 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:40.960 also important to realize recognize that I would hope the 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.880 largest percentage of NASCAR fans are not in fact racist. 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:46.680 They're they're they're not that That is one thing that 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:51.240 I think, you know, Trump is capitalizing on, is there 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:55.120 there is a a pushback from some to which you're like, look, 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:01.040 it's okay, it's it's very very Oh, it's it's okay 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:06.400 to not agree with everything everything of the progressive left 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.800 and not be a racist. You know, there's a there's 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:14.360 an in between between you know, everything is bad and 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:18.560 America is bad and or you're a racist. Right, there's 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:22.960 a whole huge span in between. And I think that's 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.439 one of the things that Bubba Wallace could have sort 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.960 of capitalized on, which if you actually take it as 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.560 you and I do, as what happened, that's I think 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:33.920 what happened, which is like, I'm sure there's guys that 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.200 don't align with Bubba Wallace politically or with you know, 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:41.880 the super far left politically, but are good, gentleman humans 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.680 who just want to race or just want to as fans, 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.280 just want to support NASCAR or whatever. Like, look, they're 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.280 they're parts of the story. And you know, Ryan Music 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:53.240 is producing this version of The Dan Patrick Show here 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.400 on Fox Sport tradit with Jason Smith. I'm Doug Gottlieb. 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.240 There are parts of the story that at the moment 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.880 that it happened, I was sitting here and going like, 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.120 this doesn't seem right. Right, just there was nobody in 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.200 the garages, because there's only five thousand people in one 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:10.559 hundred thousand seat stadium, and there's cameras everywhere. There's just 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.400 why would why would it would be the dumbest crime 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.720 of the century in terms of you if you don't 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.520 want to get caught. So that part just didn't seem 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:23.280 right to me. And I do think kind of to 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:25.120 go back, and I would counter you to what was 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.080 NASCAR to do. NASCAR could have taken a breath and said, 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:33.080 hold on, like, let's who was Let's check the cameras, 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.480 let's see who is here. This is one of the 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.280 things that we're doing now with political marches, which is 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:45.200 we can want justice, but justice isn't vigilante justice. Justice 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.240 is And I think I know what happened because I 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.120 saw it on a cell phone camera or even saw 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.600 it on a body camera, and I determined that's exactly 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:56.480 what happened. Justice is investigation. Justice in many cases is Okay, 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.000 Now it goes to court, and then there's twelve jurors 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.520 and there's a try, and then when it comes out, 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.280 then there's the ruling, and maybe there's the appeal. Like 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:08.560 that's what justice looks like. It isn't jumping to conclusions 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:13.600 and determining everybody's a racist or everybody's not a racist whatever. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:17.640 I do think though, the net takeaway is NASCAR's united 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:21.960 in trying to be viewed differently than the traditional view 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.360 of NASCAR is. And you can try and deny this 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:28.280 all you want, but NASCAR is widely considered a southern sport. 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.760 There it was the home of Confederate flags. Not all 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:38.120 people were we were racist, but there was. There's it's 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.720 like the it's the whitest sport in America, right, And 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.640 so you sit there and you could make you could 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:47.120 have a predetermined bias if you're someone of color. That's 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.760 that while it may not be reasonable in facts, it 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.120 could be reasonable in feelings. And NASCAR's trying to eliminate 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.560 eliminate some of that. And I just I wouldn't take 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.960 the bait if I was Bubba Wallace and I would 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.320 just go like, hey, look all my brothers supported me, 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.480 and we're just going to keep racing and we want 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.520 we want the support of all fans, especially ones. They 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.960 just want to see great racing, you know. And now 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.760 that's gonna be The big question is what happens with 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.280 NASCAR now coming off of this, Well, how do they 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.000 deal with this with this tweet? And I would hope 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.280 that NASCAR, as you said, Bubba, look, we want a race, 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.440 we want to be together. I would hope that NASCAR 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.760 would learn of the missteps of the NFL. When President 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.360 Trump first started tweeting about kneeling, the national anthem was, 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.800 oh my god, the President is tweeting about us. Oh 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.280 my god, what are we gonna do? And it was 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.160 they were scattered and they had no game plan. It 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:37.680 was wait a minute, wait a minute. And then you 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.240 hear you know, many many people online, I'm never going 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.240 to watch the NFL again, And this may be why 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.320 ratings are going down and all of this crazy stuff, 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.320 and the NFL didn't nowhere to go. Why is the 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.680 President attacking us on this when this was a topic 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.440 that had really been settled right, It wasn't a front 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.240 burner story when the President brought it back up with 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.400 the NFL know how to deal with it. Now we're 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.800 years later, and obviously the aftermath of the killing of 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:02.360 George Floyd has us different. But the NFL has decided, 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.920 I'm we're going to stand behind our players, and we 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.920 understand that not everybody's gonna agree with this, but we're 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:10.880 behind our players. That's how we're going to go forward. 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.600 And also, you know, three years later, you realize that 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.520 President Trump tweets about everything, you know, I mean, he's 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.280 he's probably he is on from there now. Obviously he's 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.360 doing this. He wants to fire up his base. Yes, 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.320 you know that this is what he's trying to do. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.760 But in the end, if NASCAR ignores it, it's not 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:29.760 like we're suddenly now we're going to be in a 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:31.960 big back and forth and this is the front burner story. 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.440 Something else is going to happen that's going to take 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.360 President Trump's attention away, and maybe he circles back and 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.840 tweets about it at some point. However it is, but 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:41.800 I think the NFL would say, boy, if we had 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.440 just ignored it, everything would have been fine. And I 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.480 think NASCAR would say, if if we take that tack 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:48.960 of it and just he said what he said, We're 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:50.440 going to ignore it and move on and race, and 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.080 we're about racing, and and we said what we've said, 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.280 and we're going on. I think that's the right thing 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:56.720 to do. This is this is what we're doing. We're 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.600 going on. I would agree. I would agree, but to 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.800 this point, just about everybody else has taken the bait. 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:08.879 And I do think like that. I do think the 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.920 flag thing there is a there's there's enough people who 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:17.280 are bothered by people kneeling before the flag. They they 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.360 just are. I think it's a different but all these 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.320 things are the same, which is our brethren in the 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:27.920 media always take debait, and I'm wondering if NASCAR does 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:31.520 as well. Twitter at how about a Fresca Doug at 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:35.320 Gottlieb show again. This story just coming in now President 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.320 Trump calling out Bubba Wallace, a NASCAR and a tweet 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.679 asking for Bubba Wallace to apologize to the NASCAR drivers 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.280 who came to his aid, only to find out the 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.000 new situation was a hoax. And he says that and 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.080 the flag decision has caused lowest ratings ever. We'll have 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.720 more on this story throughout the show today, but coming 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.560 up next we got Rick Buker stopping buy Is the 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.440 NBA is getting set to report to the bubble in Orlando? 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:00.639 Is everybody still all in on it? We got a 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.960 couple of teams closing their facilities this week because of 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:06.080 COVID nineteen concerns. Keep it right here for all this 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.240 and more. This is Fox Sports Radio. Be sure to 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.240 catch the live edition of The Dan Patrick Show weekdays 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.760 at nine am Eastern six am Pacific on Fox Sports 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:20.320 Radio in the iHeart Radio WAPP And a big day 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:24.000 in the NBA as now things are starting to get 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.960 tight as teams are getting set to report to the 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.080 Orlando bubble. We have a couple of teams who have 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.480 shut down their own practice facilities, the Bucks and the Kings, 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:37.159 the latest two teams due to coronavirus concerns. You have 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:42.040 players talking about the nervous anxiousness surrounding the NBA bubble 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.800 that there is and joining us now on the hotline 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.400 to help us break it all down. Bleacher Report, Fox 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:52.719 Sports One. NBA insider Rick Buker, Rick, what's happening? Man? 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.720 Not a whole lot. I'm not in the bubble, but 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:04.560 I am, but I am positive that I am negative Okay, 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:08.840 So I guess, Look, there's like a dry run here 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:12.359 with the TBT, the Basketball Tournament, and they've had they've 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:15.040 had some issues. They had four teams that couldn't even participate. 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.840 Now a fifth team, Everline Drive, is not even going 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.200 to get to play because they had one guy test positive. 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.159 What about some of these NBA teams that have had 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:29.960 some players test positive. Will they then rejoin their teams 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:35.959 in Orlando. My understanding is they're going to attempt to 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.640 do that, but it's I mean, this is a it's 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:40.960 a very fluid situation. And now that we've been talking 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:44.600 about this for weeks and there's been a certain degree 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:46.760 of optimism that they are going to get this done. 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:49.919 I know that the NBA is still committed to finding 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.240 a way to get this done. But now that we're 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:55.000 actually having to make it happen, now that it's the 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:58.720 reality of guys have to show up, they have to 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:03.760 stay they have to stay virus free, and they have 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:07.240 to have this collection of people stay virus free. They're 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:12.640 finding the challenge in doing that. So I still believe 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:14.639 that they're going to find a way to get this done, 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:17.399 but it is and I can tell you that people 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:24.800 in the league are more concerned that they're not going 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:27.760 to be able to as much as they want to 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.920 simply because of the protocol that they've put in place 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.720 in terms of the standards that if you test positive, 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.880 then you got to be quarantine for two weeks. And 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:44.000 all we need at this point are some you know, 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:48.720 some significant players testing positive or having to be quarantined 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:51.960 for a couple of weeks, and this whole thing could 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:55.960 go sideways, so we'll see. But it is not a 0:20:56.080 --> 0:21:00.200 good sign that teams are having to shut down their 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:05.200 facilities because it makes it in infinitely harder for these 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.440 guys to get back into the shape that they need 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.400 to be in. It's still not getting back to any 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:14.600 sort of five on five yet, but guys need to 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:18.240