Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 1: certainly an interesting weekend, A lot to talk about today.
Speaker 1: There's an expression that's become all too familiar in recent years.
Speaker 1: It's stick to sports. I hear it often when I
Speaker 1: start to stray. It's the standard response when athletes or
Speaker 1: journalists or talk show host stray from the game and
Speaker 1: we dip our toes into the real world events. And
Speaker 1: this weekend, sticking to sports became almost impossible to do.
Speaker 1: Yet prominent athletes, former players, coaches, even leagues publicly addressing
Speaker 1: these systemic racism the killing of George Floyd. Some drove
Speaker 1: halfway across the country to stand with protesters. Others took
Speaker 1: to social media to express their anger, their dismay, their concern.
Speaker 1: And you can question some people's motives or doubt their sincerity,
Speaker 1: but the message was really clear. We have to do better,
Speaker 1: do better when it comes to racism, and it's a
Speaker 1: challenge for everyone. Athletes not only plan to be involved,
Speaker 1: but they plan to be leaders. The games are on
Speaker 1: a brief hiatus, but the men and women who compete
Speaker 1: at the highest level sent a loud message this weekend.
Speaker 1: This is a battle that they have no plans to
Speaker 1: set out. And I'm not here to lecture. I'm not
Speaker 1: here to shout. I'm here to just talk. I've always
Speaker 1: felt this show is for everyone. It's for people who
Speaker 1: support law enforcement, for people who think George Floyd was murdered.
Speaker 1: It's for people who are outraged with the protesting, people
Speaker 1: who are outraged and are protesting, people think looting and
Speaker 1: burning buildings is wrong. We're the home for all of
Speaker 1: these people. It's complicated, and it's okay if two people
Speaker 1: regarding multiple subjects have different opinions. People can support you know,
Speaker 1: you can support the police, but you can think what
Speaker 1: happened was wrong. You can support protesters, but you can
Speaker 1: say looting is wrong. And we can't ignore the fact
Speaker 1: that we're just five white guys discussing extremely sensitive issues
Speaker 1: regarding race. But we're here to listen, to learn and
Speaker 1: respect the struggles and feelings of everyone who's been affected
Speaker 1: by this. And there were so many great things that
Speaker 1: were said, so many poignant things that were written. Kareem
Speaker 1: Abdul Jabbar had an op ed piece in the La Times,
Speaker 1: and I have such profound respect for Kareem, He says, yes,
Speaker 1: protests oftener used as an excuse for someone to take advantage,
Speaker 1: just as when fans celebrating a hometown sports team championship
Speaker 1: burn cars and destroy storefronts. I don't want to see
Speaker 1: stores looted or buildings burn. But African Americans have been
Speaker 1: living in a burning building for many years, choking on
Speaker 1: the smoke as the flames burn closer and closer. Racism
Speaker 1: in America is like dust in the air. It seems
Speaker 1: invisible even if you're choking on it, until you let
Speaker 1: the sun in. Then you see it's everywhere. As long
Speaker 1: as we keep shining that light, we have a chance
Speaker 1: of cleaning it wherever it lands. But we have to
Speaker 1: stay vigilant because it's always still in the air. Kareem
Speaker 1: goes on to finish his column in the La Times.
Speaker 1: What I want is not a rush to judgment, but
Speaker 1: a rush to justice. I also thought that the Mayor
Speaker 1: of Atlanta had a powerful, powerful message with her press conference,
Speaker 1: Keisha Lance Bottoms. I just want to take a portion
Speaker 1: of this, but she spoke to the heart of what
Speaker 1: this is all about, as the mayor of a great
Speaker 1: city of Atlanta. But also as the mother of children. Floyd,
Speaker 1: I hurt like a mother would hurt. And on yesterday
Speaker 1: when I heard there were rumors about violent protests in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: I did what a mother would do. I called my
Speaker 1: son and I said, where are you? I said, I
Speaker 1: cannot protect you, and black boys shouldn't be out today,
Speaker 1: So you're not gonna out concern me and out care
Speaker 1: about where we are in America. I wear this each
Speaker 1: and every day, and I pray over my children each
Speaker 1: and every day. So what I see happening on the
Speaker 1: streets of Atlanta is not Atlanta. This is not a protest.
Speaker 1: This is not in the spirit of Martin Luther King Junior.
Speaker 1: This is chaos. A protest has purpose. When doctor Keane
Speaker 1: was assassinated, we didn't do this to our city. So
Speaker 1: if you love this city, this city that has had
Speaker 1: a legacy of black mayors and black police chiefs and
Speaker 1: people who care about this city where more than fifty
Speaker 1: percent of the business owners and Metro Atlanta are minority
Speaker 1: business owners, if you care about this city, then go
Speaker 1: home and pray that somebody like Reverend Beasley will come
Speaker 1: and talk to you and give you some instructions on
Speaker 1: what a protest should look like and how you affectuate
Speaker 1: change in America. That's the mayor of Atlanta, Kesha Lands bottoms,
Speaker 1: very very powerful. It's illustrated. Michael Rosenberg had a column
Speaker 1: that he wrote on si dot com and just at
Speaker 1: the very end, he says, many white people pick apart
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Speaker 1: have for me? Okay, there was This is obviously a
Speaker 1: topic that's becoming up a live LA. Deshaun Jackson said
Speaker 1: that instead of fake crowd noise, players should be miked
Speaker 1: up in the NFL? Which would you rather hear? And
Speaker 1: other people have said this too, which would you rather hear?
Speaker 1: If there was an NFL game with no fans, fake
Speaker 1: crowd noise or players mic up? Oh, I'd want mike up?
Speaker 1: Is it even a debate? Well, I think we're going
Speaker 1: to hear the players anyway, because these microphones on the
Speaker 1: field are so powerful that they're going to pick up
Speaker 1: a lot of this. I don't need you miked up.
Speaker 1: If you want to have the quarterbacks, I got to
Speaker 1: be fair to these players when they play, because you
Speaker 1: forget the microphone is on or you know how cumbersome
Speaker 1: is it going to be? Can everybody get miked up?
Speaker 1: Are we being fair to the quarterbacks if they're the
Speaker 1: only ones miked up? Are the coach is going to
Speaker 1: be miked up? What if somebody doesn't hit the mute button?
Speaker 1: You know, it's got to be figured out there. But
Speaker 1: if there's no fans, you don't have to mic up
Speaker 1: we hear the quarterbacks. Right now, let me go to
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. You can hear this center calling
Speaker 1: out you know, blocking schemes. I don't need them miked up,
Speaker 1: They're already miked up. Yeah, Pa, I think it kind
Speaker 1: of goes sport by sport because not to listen to
Speaker 1: Buddhist league, are watching Budhis league a soccer and soccer.
Speaker 1: There's not a ton of conversation going on on the
Speaker 1: pitch during the you know, while it's going on, there's
Speaker 1: not and so the crowd noise is nice filler. The
Speaker 1: NFL is full of talk. There's there's short plays where
Speaker 1: there's a lot of talk going on between the play,
Speaker 1: on the sidelines, on the huddle, and at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmagers even more talk in baseball. I might not
Speaker 1: want to hear it, but in football I want to
Speaker 1: hear it football specifically, I want to hear this is
Speaker 1: a one time shot. This is never going to happen
Speaker 1: again where they're going to have no fans in the
Speaker 1: stands likely, so let's embrace it. Yeah. I think what
Speaker 1: you're going to have is about fifteen to twenty seconds
Speaker 1: where you're hearing what's going on in the football field.
Speaker 1: Then the play starts. Then we're gonna have the analysts
Speaker 1: do the replay and show you what we just saw,
Speaker 1: and then we'll go back again. I don't think there'll
Speaker 1: be large long portions of just you know, no noise whatsoever.
Speaker 1: You can listen to a baseball game and or at least,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty years ago, when we weren't trying to
Speaker 1: fill all the time, if you're listening on radio and
Speaker 1: you could hear some ambiance, but you weren't hearing the
Speaker 1: players as much. Now, if you have those microphones, those
Speaker 1: directional microphones, you're going to be able to hear a
Speaker 1: little bit more of that conversation there. If it's at
Speaker 1: first base, if it's between the pitcher or you know,
Speaker 1: in the catcher, if it's the catcher and the batter,
Speaker 1: the umpire, I think you'll have a little bit more
Speaker 1: than Well, baseball has got to get back on the field.
Speaker 1: Let's not even include baseball in this yet, because it
Speaker 1: feels like every other sport is coming back and baseball
Speaker 1: is tripping over to themselves here. Yes, mc lovin. You
Speaker 1: bick up a great point though, about strategy and stuff
Speaker 1: like extra mics, they already mike the quarterbacks, but you're
Speaker 1: going to hear a lot of stuff that you shouldn't
Speaker 1: be hearing, right because the team you met, the coaches
Speaker 1: hold up things for lip readers, like is that a
Speaker 1: problem football was? I think it's going to be. They're
Speaker 1: not going to be able to make up the coaches.
Speaker 1: But if the quarterback is on the side, if the
Speaker 1: quarterback comes over to talk to the coach, you then
Speaker 1: turn off his microphone. I think you have to have
Speaker 1: professional courtesy there. And what will happen normally is with
Speaker 1: the networks, they'll gather the sound and then they'll disseminate it.
Speaker 1: You know, they'll go over and make sure that okay,
Speaker 1: what's in here? Okay, yeah, we can have that. There's
Speaker 1: an exchange there, the fun exchange. Remember when on Harball
Speaker 1: said to Lamar Jackson basically, you're going to be great.
Speaker 1: He had he was lauding him with praise on the sidelines,
Speaker 1: and we didn't see it in the moment. We saw
Speaker 1: it like three or four days later, and it was
Speaker 1: such a cool moment. But you've got to be fair
Speaker 1: to the players and the coaches to have that real
Speaker 1: moment now where they feel like Big Brothers always listening. Yeah, play.
Speaker 1: How about this idea. Let's say NBC Sports has Football
Speaker 1: Night America Son and a football and they have the
Speaker 1: Steelers versus the Ravens, and that game with pumped in
Speaker 1: crowd noises on NBC NBC Sports, NBCSN has a game
Speaker 1: with no crowd noise, and you have the option. Fox
Speaker 1: Sports has Fox Sports one, CBS Sports has CBSSN. Everyone
Speaker 1: has an alternative channel. ESPN has eighteen alternative channels, one
Speaker 1: with pumped in crowd noise, one with the option of listening,
Speaker 1: and then you can expand your ratings and be creative. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It really just depends on what you're going to allow
Speaker 1: your audience to hear. I think you have to be
Speaker 1: fair to these coaches. Like the NBA, You're gonna hear
Speaker 1: everything in the NBA, But I don't I don't think
Speaker 1: players have to be miked up. These directional microphones are
Speaker 1: so good, so sensitive, You're going to hear a lot
Speaker 1: more than you thought. I can already hear a lot
Speaker 1: of these things. That's going to continue. What other poll questions? McLevin. Okay,
Speaker 1: I read a column this weekend saying an eighty two
Speaker 1: game MLB season won't be legit anyway because MLBS so
Speaker 1: centered on awards, stats, records, that what is the point
Speaker 1: of doing at two game season. Their example was, if
Speaker 1: Jacob deGrom wins a cy Young, does that mean that
Speaker 1: he is in the Sandy Kofax territory or is it
Speaker 1: just like, oh, nice job, he won half of ci Young.
Speaker 1: I think that's up to you and how you're I mean,
Speaker 1: what records do we care about in Major League Baseball?
Speaker 1: Individual records not much. Twenty five years ago we did,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, but the game has changed considerably, and you know,
Speaker 1: the Players Association didn't stand in the way of guys
Speaker 1: who were cheating. Therefore, these records don't mean anything. Now
Speaker 1: you can say, Jacob deGrom winning another cy Young, okay,
Speaker 1: if you choose to recognize him as a hey he
Speaker 1: won three cy youngs okay. I like we we deal
Speaker 1: with so much minutia. I just want games to come back.
Speaker 1: If you said, hey, there's an asterisk by whoever wins
Speaker 1: the NBA title, that's on you. That's not the way
Speaker 1: I'm going to view it. We have an entire sports
Speaker 1: year that has an asterisk attached to it. It's just
Speaker 1: just for argument's sake, it's there. Deal with it however
Speaker 1: you want to. But if you're saying, oh, these how
Speaker 1: you know these great records that we treasure here, I
Speaker 1: don't know what records we treasure anymore. But it's different.
Speaker 1: The NBA had seventy games already, like they already did
Speaker 1: a fully formed season, Like it's much more legitimate than baseball.
Speaker 1: If they can't get to a certain threshold, well no,
Speaker 1: but they still want to attach an asterisk by whoever
Speaker 1: wins the BA title. I don't understand that. Oh, this
Speaker 1: is different with the playoff format and everybody's going to
Speaker 1: be in Orlando. Okay, everybody is in Orlando. Oh well,
Speaker 1: you know that's not going to be a if Lebron.
Speaker 1: All this is is that's for Lebron the NBA. The
Speaker 1: asterisk is because of Lebron James. If he wins, God forbid,
Speaker 1: people are going to be upset that he's got four
Speaker 1: titles and somehow he's encroaching on Michael Jordan or whatever.
Speaker 1: The problem is there, But it feels like the asterisk
Speaker 1: is only attached to Lebron James. Baseball, there's an asterisk
Speaker 1: for everybody. The records you consume them the way you
Speaker 1: want to. Yes, mc it feels like baseball has had
Speaker 1: an asterisk on it ever since McGuire, So sa anyway,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, and the hand bonds and the aster
Speaker 1: well is the astra is a little different though they
Speaker 1: were gonna we put an asterix there right, Yes, I
Speaker 1: mean people will. I don't know do they put a
Speaker 1: partial one with the red sox? Do you put like
Speaker 1: a third of an asterisk? Like, I mean, it's silly
Speaker 1: after what I just want you to play. If we
Speaker 1: look at this as a lost season from the you know,
Speaker 1: the bandage point of fans, then okay, it's an asterisk
Speaker 1: for everybody's season here this year. Okay, so we move on.
Speaker 1: Not that big a deal of all the things to
Speaker 1: worry about. If Jacob Degram wins his cy Young Like,
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about that. I would love to have
Speaker 1: that debate, that discussion. Yes, point ja, I forgot of
Speaker 1: forgot that Jacob Degram won back to back cy Young
Speaker 1: the Mets, and I knew he didn't get a lot
Speaker 1: of run support and his win loss record wasn't that good.
Speaker 1: He won Cy Young's being ten and nine and eleven
Speaker 1: and eight, that means this year, based if you pro
Speaker 1: rate his stats, he could win the Cion being six
Speaker 1: and four and a half. Okay, we're not going into
Speaker 1: an era of pro raded stats. We're not doing that.
Speaker 1: We're not doing that. You're anti rated. I'm pro rated.
Speaker 1: He want to see ten wins. So what's worse here,
Speaker 1: the sign stealing astros or somebody's crown champion after an
Speaker 1: eighty two game regular season. I'm okay with the eighty
Speaker 1: two game regular season. I am all right. A couple
Speaker 1: of phone calls eight seven seven three d p shoo.
Speaker 1: By the way, good buddy, Jeff Passon from the mother
Speaker 1: Ship says, there's a new proposal here with a Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball. Yeah. I know the clock is ticking, but
Speaker 1: baseball has to understand, which I'm sure it does. These
Speaker 1: other sports are all coming back and Baseball is sitting
Speaker 1: there going Nope, we're not pro rated. Hey, we'll cancel
Speaker 1: the season. We want one hundred and fourteen games, we
Speaker 1: want eighty two. You're going back and forth. You're playing
Speaker 1: tennis with your entire sport volleying back and forth, and
Speaker 1: somebody is going to mishit it at some point. But
Speaker 1: I'll have passenge details here coming up. Lenny and Indiana
Speaker 1: joins us. Hey Len, Welcome to the program, Hey Dan,
Speaker 1: Good morning, five undred sixty five. He found out Friday
Speaker 1: lost a real good friend of mine whose battled numerous
Speaker 1: health issues over the last five six years. He beat
Speaker 1: brain cancer, then had some hard issues recently came out
Speaker 1: of a medically induced coma back in late twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: and it was doing good then at home taking care
Speaker 1: of himself. We talked every day, and the bulk of
Speaker 1: our conversation was about what happened on your show. He
Speaker 1: watched it every day and would asked me, Hey, did
Speaker 1: you hear what Dan said? Or did you see what
Speaker 1: happened on Dan Show today? And I'd always get a
Speaker 1: chance to watch or listen, but he'd let me know,
Speaker 1: and he made a comment that it's one of the
Speaker 1: best parts of his day was having a three hours
Speaker 1: listening to you and or watching you. His name is
Speaker 1: Brian Hersey. He was my friend for almost thirty years,
Speaker 1: and I'm still in show, and I just don't. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to people to know what a great friend
Speaker 1: he was, and also to let you know that I
Speaker 1: appreciate you and your show and what it did for
Speaker 1: him getting through each of his days. And that's all
Speaker 1: I have and I appreciate the time. Lenny, thank you
Speaker 1: for sharing those memories. We appreciate that. Frank and Ohio
Speaker 1: joints us. Good morning, Frank, what's on your mind? Good
Speaker 1: morning Dan? How are you doing? Good? God, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to make amends from my last phone call because I
Speaker 1: kind of fritzied it. So I'm gonna I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: it a go again. Okay, all right, So I almost
Speaker 1: hate to say this after what happened this weekend, but
Speaker 1: I ended up watching the Lance Documentary Part two, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is gonna be a popular
Speaker 1: thing now because sports is slowly coming back when we
Speaker 1: still have a lot of vacuum. But you got the
Speaker 1: Last Dance and the Lance Documentary. We have two athletes
Speaker 1: on top of their profession and there's not there's some
Speaker 1: unlikable qualities. Do you think that the trend continue for
Speaker 1: maybe that someone like Roger Clemens or Berry bonds and
Speaker 1: hopes that will maybe it helped him elevate to get
Speaker 1: them in the Hall of Fame. Well, this doesn't help
Speaker 1: Lance Armstrong at all. By the way, Frank, thank you.
Speaker 1: It was the second part of the documentary last night.
Speaker 1: Lance Armstrong is not going to apologize. You. If you
Speaker 1: were watching that documentary or going into the documentary thinking
Speaker 1: Lance is going to come clean and apologize, you are wrong,
Speaker 1: he did the opposite. Lance's philosophy is, hey, everybody's cheating.
Speaker 1: I'm better at that than they are. And he says
Speaker 1: that he told us that, he said, if you're not cheating,
Speaker 1: go home. Did it, did it better than everybody else,
Speaker 1: and is not going to apologize. But this did not
Speaker 1: help the public image of Lance arm And I don't
Speaker 1: know if he went into it going you know what,
Speaker 1: maybe I can soften the edges here. He made him sharper. Yeah. See.
Speaker 1: You know what's interesting too about that is that not
Speaker 1: only was Lance like, hey, if you're not cheating, go home,
Speaker 1: but everybody was like if you know, the coaches from
Speaker 1: other countries and teams and stuff like that, where like,
Speaker 1: if you're not on this stuff, then don't even bother
Speaker 1: showing up because you have no chance at winning. It
Speaker 1: was that pervasive in the sport culture. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem if he's cheating. It's like baseball players
Speaker 1: cheating as well. I do have a problem that says, hey,
Speaker 1: if you want to be a competitive cyclist, then you
Speaker 1: have to do it. But the sport is riddled with this.
Speaker 1: It has been for decades now, and Lance said, I
Speaker 1: gotta cheat. The sad part of this is how Lance
Speaker 1: treated people. He was trying to ruin lives. It's one
Speaker 1: thing to cheat, you know, Mark McGuire cheated. He didn't
Speaker 1: ruin somebody's life other than his own. Sammy's soci cheated.
Speaker 1: He wasn't trying to ruin anybody else's life. Lance cheated
Speaker 1: and was trying to ruin lives. Yeah, see that, he
Speaker 1: looked at everything. He had said something in the documentary
Speaker 1: last night about how you know, on the bike it
Speaker 1: worked really well, that attitude off the bike, it was
Speaker 1: a disaster, and that he had the same mentality of
Speaker 1: like just win at all costs and like kill everybody
Speaker 1: kind of thing. You know what I mean, you have
Speaker 1: to do whatever you can to win and crush everybody else.
Speaker 1: And on the bike it was great, it worked perfectly,
Speaker 1: but off the bike it just was the worst thing.
Speaker 1: But this is the sport. It's not just riding bicycles here.
Speaker 1: These are guys who were making a lot of money,
Speaker 1: and Lance was making a lot of money. Lance was
Speaker 1: the biggest celebrity. He was the biggest athlete in the
Speaker 1: world there for a little while because of what he
Speaker 1: was doing, you know, the Live Strong. Everything was positive
Speaker 1: with Lance. He was raising all this money, saving lives.
Speaker 1: He's going over there and winning, he's hosting the SPS,
Speaker 1: he's dating starlets here. And then it all came crashing down.
Speaker 1: But he knew it was coming. The walls were getting
Speaker 1: tighter and tighter. They were closing in on him. It
Speaker 1: was just a question of was somebody going to crack
Speaker 1: and tell the story. And Floyd landis a former cyclist
Speaker 1: teammate of Lance, came forward and Lance tried to destroy him.
Speaker 1: But this did not help the public image of Lance Armstrong.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he was trying to do that,
Speaker 1: but if he if he was trying to do it,
Speaker 1: he failed miserably. There is nope, there is no sense
Speaker 1: of awareness with him of how this is going to look.
Speaker 1: When you start out the documentary the first thirty seconds
Speaker 1: and you're given the double bird okay game on Lances
Speaker 1: on his bike. That's what I felt like when he
Speaker 1: was doing the interview. Lance was on his bike and
Speaker 1: he didn't care. He was going to take you down.
Speaker 1: Now you got the Bruce Lee one is coming out,
Speaker 1: which I'm curious about. I think it's like water, it's
Speaker 1: the name of it. I'm interested to see the Bruce
Speaker 1: Lee documentary. But now I don't think Barry Bonds is
Speaker 1: going to do a documentary. Roger Clemens may, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if they will. And it'll help them get
Speaker 1: into the Hall of Fame. The only way they get
Speaker 1: into the Hall of Fame is the new wave of
Speaker 1: younger voter who doesn't look at performance enhancing drugs the
Speaker 1: way the old guard does or did. That's why you'll
Speaker 1: get an uptick for those guys. And I've said all along,
Speaker 1: you want to put him in, Put him in. It's
Speaker 1: a museum. You want to put Pete Rose in there?
Speaker 1: Just tell this story worry of Pete Rose and Roger
Speaker 1: Clemens and Barry Bonds. If you do that, great, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Pete Rose has made more money not being in the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. If Pete got in the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: nobody would talk about Pete Rose anymore except for to say,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Pete was a really good player. Boy Pete
Speaker 1: had two hundred hits. Boy Pete won more games than anybody.
Speaker 1: He'd be a curiosity, but we wouldn't talk about Pete Rose. Yes.
Speaker 1: He All of those people though they don't have the
Speaker 1: one thing that Lance Armstrong story has. And there's this
Speaker 1: sort of duality, you know, where you have the guy
Speaker 1: who dominated the Tour de France and was on drugs
Speaker 1: and the guy who also did so much for cancer
Speaker 1: research and all of that. You know. One of the
Speaker 1: things that was in that documentary last night was a
Speaker 1: woman speaking, and she's a cancer survivor, and she said
Speaker 1: that there is absolutely no question that lives strong and
Speaker 1: Lance Armstrong has made the lives of cancer patients better. Yea.
Speaker 1: So she's basically like, I don't really care about steroids.
Speaker 1: I don't really care about him cheating. He made everybody's
Speaker 1: life better. Everybody that's suffering right now from cancer, their
Speaker 1: life is better because of them. So Barry Bonds had
Speaker 1: started something like this and raised one hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: and saved lives, would we be more accepting of Barry Bonds.
Speaker 1: It'd be a more interesting documentary. So it would, But
Speaker 1: there's nothing off the field that I find interesting about
Speaker 1: Bonds and Clemmons. Lance Armstrong when he got off that
Speaker 1: bike was more interesting when he got on the bike,
Speaker 1: and is still more interesting. I find him fascinating. I
Speaker 1: really do. And Seton and I were talking about this
Speaker 1: prior to the show. I don't want to like him,
Speaker 1: but there's part of me that does like him. When
Speaker 1: he's been on the show, I feel sorry for him.
Speaker 1: I watched the documentary and I felt sorry for him
Speaker 1: because he can't get out of this. It's the same
Speaker 1: thing I've up with Jordan, obviously to a different degree.
Speaker 1: Jordan can't get out of being Jordan. This is who
Speaker 1: he is twenty four to seven. We see it and
Speaker 1: then we go, oh, yeah, guy, Jordan, man, I must
Speaker 1: he was here. He wanted to win and took no prisoners.
Speaker 1: That's who Jordan is now when you go about your
Speaker 1: daily life, Michael Jordan is that person. He can't get
Speaker 1: out of that. And while you say, yeah, but he's
Speaker 1: still a billionaire, he can't get out of that. Lance
Speaker 1: Armstone can't get out of this. Pete Rose can't get
Speaker 1: out of this. This is who he is. Can't turn
Speaker 1: it off? Powerful all right? A couple of our phone calls,
Speaker 1: best and worst of the weekend, Rick and Colorado. Hey, Rick,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me today? Hey guys, long
Speaker 1: time viewers and the attic is. I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about the documentary Laurel Canyon. It was on Epics Channel
Speaker 1: last night. Great documentary about California Rock, the Turtles, Buffalo, Springfield,
Speaker 1: the Birds, Crosby Skills, Nash, the group Love which I've
Speaker 1: never ever heard of until last night, Little Richard, Mamas
Speaker 1: and Pappas. Anyway, was a great documentary about where they
Speaker 1: all lived in the Hollywood Hills above la Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've seen some. I've seen a couple of different specials
Speaker 1: documentary documentaries on that that area there. But thanks for
Speaker 1: the phone call, Rick, Jeff and Saint Louis. Hi Jeff,
Speaker 1: good morning, Dan. You had a great weekend. I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you just my best good no worse, because
Speaker 1: I know and has nothing to do with sports, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to go with there's a successful launch of
Speaker 1: SpaceX and docking and I made history for the first
Speaker 1: time ever a commercial flight made it to the space station. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was pretty cool to watch. Thank you, Jeff. You
Speaker 1: know I up at a time when you know, space exploration,
Speaker 1: the space race with Russia was so important. I don't
Speaker 1: know what we were gonna do when we got there,
Speaker 1: but we were gonna get there first, and then we're
Speaker 1: gonna walk on the moon. We're gonna get some rocks
Speaker 1: and come back. And then you go, how much money
Speaker 1: did we spend up there? And what did we get
Speaker 1: out of that? But we would gather around the TV
Speaker 1: and it was a big deal. Elon Musk, you know,
Speaker 1: he's a fascinating guy. But I'm watching it now. Didn't
Speaker 1: they the day before or a couple of days before,
Speaker 1: they had sort of a trial run pump ake. They
Speaker 1: describe it to the weather. Well, no, they had one
Speaker 1: that exploded a couple of days prior. I thought not
Speaker 1: people weren't in it, but I think that they were.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing something where I was, and I didn't
Speaker 1: see it happen as much as I was reading about it,
Speaker 1: but I thought that there was something there where there
Speaker 1: were issues, and then there was weather issues as well.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna be sending people up. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: why you got time? I got I'm afraid of heights.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid of heights. That's why I never really got
Speaker 1: to the level of the greats in this business, because
Speaker 1: I just didn't want to get up too high because
Speaker 1: I'm afraid of heights. That's why mclovin. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: There was an explosion on a just a test ship earlier,
Speaker 1: I think Friday. Um, but I thought we were talking
Speaker 1: about a weather scrub the first one of this ya Thursday, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I didn't even know about that explosion. Did
Speaker 1: you watch them guys, by the way, it was funny
Speaker 1: they I don't know why I noticed this. The guy
Speaker 1: came into the space station, he docked it came in.
Speaker 1: He gave a big hug to one guy. Then he
Speaker 1: gave a handshake hug to the other guy. It was
Speaker 1: a great moment in awkward handshake, that's right, Like what
Speaker 1: do you do when you dock on a space station?
Speaker 1: Did you see a fellow? I didn't know if they
Speaker 1: to have social distancing though I thought the thing, I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: are they allowed to hug? It looked like they didn't
Speaker 1: know either. You got to rehearse that every step is down,
Speaker 1: and you don't rehearse the handshake. Come on, they watch
Speaker 1: the NBA where everybody's got their own. Lebron has his
Speaker 1: own handshade for all of his teammates. Greg in Illinois, Hi, Greg,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me today? Hey? Dan, just
Speaker 1: wanted to thank you and the guys for not always
Speaker 1: sticking the sports. I'm a teacher, so over the past
Speaker 1: few months, during this pandemic, I really appreciate the fun
Speaker 1: conversations about movies and music and I guess hot guys
Speaker 1: on occasion. But my best to the weekend is seeing
Speaker 1: the fun variety of ways that folks have celebrated the
Speaker 1: class of twenty twenty. It was the first class that
Speaker 1: I got to teach, so it's fun to send them
Speaker 1: off into this very scary world. But it's fun to
Speaker 1: see the way that they celebrate in any ways that
Speaker 1: they can. So thanks again for all you guys do.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Greg, And I said it from the outset.
Speaker 1: I'm not here to preach or lecture or it's just
Speaker 1: more of a you know, addressing what happened over the
Speaker 1: weekend and trying to shed light on it, trying to
Speaker 1: look at it from all different angles, and you have
Speaker 1: different voices out there. I thought Jalen Rose had a
Speaker 1: really strong It was just a one sentence. I wish
Speaker 1: white America would embrace black people like they do black culture.
Speaker 1: And I thought it was just a very smart comment there.
Speaker 1: But you can't get that image, and nor should I
Speaker 1: get that image out of my head of this man
Speaker 1: being murdered when he yells out for his mother, Like
Speaker 1: you're just saying that this doesn't happen in our country,
Speaker 1: and to watch the news and to see what was happening,
Speaker 1: it happens. It shouldn't happen in our country. And I
Speaker 1: do try to stick to sports because I know we're
Speaker 1: a diversion. If coronavirus and how it impacts sports, then
Speaker 1: I'll bring that up. But as I've said before, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't try to politicize any of this. I
Speaker 1: truly don't because I want you to hear the message.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to get caught up, get tangled
Speaker 1: up in Oh, he's politicizing this. I told you I
Speaker 1: don't politicize corona. I personalized it because of my immune
Speaker 1: system being compromised. That's it. I hope we're open for business.
Speaker 1: I pray we're open for business. I want sports to
Speaker 1: come back. We need sports to come back. We'll take
Speaker 1: a break. We'll give you our Play of the day
Speaker 1: coming up, and more phone calls as well, best and
Speaker 1: best of the weekend. Thanks for listening to The Dan
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Speaker 1: legal zoom dot com more on Major League Baseball? When
Speaker 1: are they coming back? Are they coming back? Two hundred
Speaker 1: and fourteen consecutive days without a base ball game being played,
Speaker 1: regular season or postseason, the third longest such streak of
Speaker 1: all time. Go back to nineteen ninety four ninety five,
Speaker 1: that was two hundred and fifty six days. That was
Speaker 1: a work stoppage, and back in nineteen eighteen nineteen nineteen
Speaker 1: that was a regular season shortened ended on Labor Day
Speaker 1: due to World War One. Now we're at two hundred
Speaker 1: and fourteen days and counting eight seven seven three DP
Speaker 1: show mclovin, what pull question we're gonna go with? Well,
Speaker 1: I already put up which would you rather have players
Speaker 1: miked up or fake crowd noise? And I think it's
Speaker 1: pretty obvious eighty four percent? Why did the players miked up? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not going to get all the players miked up,
Speaker 1: but you will get a lot of sound. There is
Speaker 1: a lot of sound when you're on the sidelines. Even
Speaker 1: when you're in a pack stadium, you'll still hear a
Speaker 1: lot of things that TV doesn't necessarily pick up. Now
Speaker 1: that you don't have any crowd noise, you're going to
Speaker 1: pick up all of this, and I do find it interesting.
Speaker 1: You know, we're fascinated with the quarterback when he goes
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage. Thanks to Peyton Manning, the
Speaker 1: center has as much dialogue as the quarterback does because
Speaker 1: he's he's calling out blocking schemes. Here, Ross Tucker, friend
Speaker 1: of the show on social media, was using his two
Speaker 1: daughters as a defensive lineman to give you an idea
Speaker 1: of what the center is calling out while the quarterback
Speaker 1: is calling out his play an audible you know, at
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. Yeah, McLeman, Yeah, I love those
Speaker 1: shows sound effects and I love turning point like sound
Speaker 1: from the players. But you saw how that worked, Like
Speaker 1: so they get a ton of stuff in and they
Speaker 1: pass through it all. Is that how the networks use
Speaker 1: that sound because you see the best stuff three days later. Well,
Speaker 1: you have to clear it. You have to be fair
Speaker 1: to the coach because you might hear something that a
Speaker 1: lot of times when you're watching the recap of the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and they have all of that sideline microphone
Speaker 1: content there, but we never hear it in the moment.
Speaker 1: You always hear it after the fact with NFL films,
Speaker 1: But you would love to be able to hear it
Speaker 1: at the moment, you just don't know what's going to
Speaker 1: be said and if you're gonna have colorful language there.
Speaker 1: But if the NFL is able to do what Pauli
Speaker 1: was suggesting, CBS is going to have one where you
Speaker 1: put in fake crowd noise and the other one will
Speaker 1: be just the natural sound, and that's on you know,
Speaker 1: CBS Sports, or if it's a Fox Sports, Fox Sports One,
Speaker 1: NBCNBCSN you know, maybe you know you're able to have
Speaker 1: a whole different audience watching. Yeah, see, the natural sound
Speaker 1: of just the players communicating is awesome for about five
Speaker 1: minutes and then you're like, oh, that's what it sounds
Speaker 1: like when they're all yelling at each other. Okay, let
Speaker 1: me go back to the crowd noise. It sounds like
Speaker 1: a game. Wow, it is. I've because I've been watching them,
Speaker 1: and you're kind of like, at first, there's a novelty
Speaker 1: to it, and you're like, oh, wow, this is kind
Speaker 1: of cool, and then you know what happens, Like somebody
Speaker 1: scores a goal and you hear nothing, Well, that's soccer,
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, okay, uh okay, so what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen when somebody, you know, there's a you know, an
Speaker 1: eighty yard touchdown and you hear nothing. You hear you're
Speaker 1: gonna have guys yelling on the sideline. Yeah, it's it's yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, yeah we did. Yeah it doesn't sound the same. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but this is soccer that you're talking now, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about football, and it's gonna be the exact same. But
Speaker 1: you haven't heard football like this. You've heard soccer like this.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be it's gonna sounds exactly the same. I
Speaker 1: think that you're gonna walk that back. I will eat
Speaker 1: those well. Actually there's gonna be seventy thousand people in
Speaker 1: the stands for football anyways, Well that could be. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Yeah, apparently apparely business is usual. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be business is so. Yes, I'm gonna steal Melvin Gordon
Speaker 1: the running backs joke. Chargers know all about playing with
Speaker 1: no fans. He said it, not me. Oh, I know,
Speaker 1: I know. I heard it like a week ago. I know.
Speaker 1: But it's just like I was having, like with the charges,
Speaker 1: that's what that's what it sounds like. It's nothing, but yes,
Speaker 1: todd Well would be distracting it all the constant popping
Speaker 1: sounds of the pauses in audio. Every time there's a
Speaker 1: as you said, colorful language which would have happened throughout
Speaker 1: the broadcast, we hear if they try to cut it up.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're going to have a seven
Speaker 1: second delay, I don't know how much how many players
Speaker 1: are going to be Mike, they're gonna have microphones there.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be the real challenge here of
Speaker 1: what is said in real time. Yeah, just have the
Speaker 1: channel with no crowd noise. Also, have no rules for swearing.
Speaker 1: ESPN Basic ESPN had swearing for the Michael Jordan documentary.
Speaker 1: We all were able to survive it somehow, a couple
Speaker 1: of swear words. I think people will survive it if
Speaker 1: it's their choice to watch the non crowd noise feed
Speaker 1: of a game. Yeah. I did find it interesting that
Speaker 1: regular ESPN had no problem airing Jordan's language. But if
Speaker 1: you didn't want to hear that language and you had
Speaker 1: to find another ESPN channel, Yeah, McLevin, what about trashawk
Speaker 1: and NBA. You're a trash hawk. Well, I'm love. I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna hear sounds on the floor. But doesn't
Speaker 1: that get into dangerous profanity territories. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: how they're going to be able to edit this in
Speaker 1: real time. You know, most radio stations radio shows have
Speaker 1: a seven second delay in case somebody says something, a
Speaker 1: caller calls in, or the host says something, or a
Speaker 1: guest says something, it chooses seven second delay. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you could do that with the NFL. So
Speaker 1: it might be there is sound, but there's nobody there
Speaker 1: to edit that sound while we listen to it. Because
Speaker 1: there is sound with crowd noise, but that crowd noise
Speaker 1: drowns out a lot of that. The crowd almost edits
Speaker 1: that because you're not able to hear it's the quarterback
Speaker 1: basically is all you hear one hour in the books
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Speaker 1: to have all the boys back here in the man Cave,
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