Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 1: the Great Bob Costas will join us. Coming up. How
Speaker 1: optimistic is he? We're going to have a baseball season?
Speaker 1: Our poll question in the first two hours the over
Speaker 1: under number of games for the regular season seventy four
Speaker 1: and a half. According to Paulie's bookie friend in Vegas mclovin,
Speaker 1: seventy three percent say under, Okay, I'm gonna go over.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be optimistic. We're gonna play seventy five games
Speaker 1: eight seven seven three D P show email address DP
Speaker 1: at dan Patrick dot com. We also brought up this
Speaker 1: topic of either your favorite or your worst autograph story,
Speaker 1: And mine was probably back in nineteen seventy one, and
Speaker 1: I think I was fifteen at the time. Lakers came
Speaker 1: to town and that Cincinnati Royals were going to move
Speaker 1: and they were going to move to Kansas City. And
Speaker 1: I got to see the Lanta Hawks with Merivich. You
Speaker 1: got to see the Knicks when they came in, and
Speaker 1: the Lakers came to town, and I realized that and
Speaker 1: here I am fifteen. I don't even know if I'll
Speaker 1: get a job doing sports. But this is what I
Speaker 1: wanted to do for a living. But in my mind,
Speaker 1: I'll never see Wilt Chamberlain again. I had Jerry West's
Speaker 1: autograph and Happy Harris to I had all Jim McMillan,
Speaker 1: Gail Goodrich, Bill Sharman, all these autographs from the Lakers.
Speaker 1: I didn't get Will chamberlains outside Cincinnati Gardens buses there
Speaker 1: the Lakers, Wilt came by. They lost to the Royals,
Speaker 1: and he boarded the bus and sat in the first seat,
Speaker 1: and I thought, I'm going to walk on the bus.
Speaker 1: My friends encouraged me. I walked on the bus. Here
Speaker 1: I am, I think fifteen years of age, fourteen, and
Speaker 1: he stood up and told me to get the f
Speaker 1: off the bus, and then I walked down the steps,
Speaker 1: walked outside, and then my friends go, what did he say?
Speaker 1: And I told him the Lad's awesome. And that was
Speaker 1: one of my worst autograph stories. Obviously had some good ones.
Speaker 1: There was the one when Merevich came out, and at
Speaker 1: the time you have to understand how big Merevich was
Speaker 1: coming out of college, went to the Atlanta Hawks. He
Speaker 1: had a commercial, He had a couple of commercials he
Speaker 1: did one for I think of his hair spray, and
Speaker 1: then he did one for pro Kad's and he where
Speaker 1: he spinning the ball in his finger through his legs,
Speaker 1: and he was a sight to see Merevich. He comes
Speaker 1: out of the side door Cincinnati Gardens. We're all out
Speaker 1: there waiting for Merevich. And I remember Walt Bellamy was
Speaker 1: the center and he had a Cadillac Eldorado and I
Speaker 1: just remember a white one. And you know, you had
Speaker 1: these guys that came out, and then Merevitch came out
Speaker 1: and it was Pandemona. It's like boy band Pandemonium. And
Speaker 1: my friend grabbed Pete Merevich's hair for some reason. To
Speaker 1: this day, I don't know why Zeke Campbell grabbed Pete
Speaker 1: Merevitch's hair. I got Merevich to just sign pistol on
Speaker 1: my program and we got some Meribach gets in the
Speaker 1: car and then he leaves and then we're all we
Speaker 1: kind of take inventory and it's like, hey, who did
Speaker 1: you get his autograph? And I go, I got it,
Speaker 1: and then my friend goes, I got some of his
Speaker 1: hair in my hand. I showed us, like you I
Speaker 1: had locks of Pete Marimage. Game used hair by Pete Merevich.
Speaker 1: H I told that story to Merevich when he went
Speaker 1: into the Basketball Hall of Fame. When I went up
Speaker 1: to interview him, he didn't remember it, but he did
Speaker 1: remember Walt Bellamy picking him up in a car, but
Speaker 1: my friend grabbed his hair. Didn't get his autograph. I did.
Speaker 1: But I had a lot of, you know, great memories.
Speaker 1: But if you got a bad one, let me know
Speaker 1: here eight seven, seventh, three DP show And as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: Bob Costas will join us coming up. Yeap hoo. This
Speaker 1: one was ended up being a pretty good one. But
Speaker 1: you remember I'm a crazy Bears fan. I think it
Speaker 1: was his nineteen eighty six. I'm a teenager and as
Speaker 1: in a restaurant in the Southside, Chicago, and as we're
Speaker 1: walking out, we were walking out, person walking in a
Speaker 1: group was Kevin Butler, the Bears kicker. Now most people
Speaker 1: don't get too jacked up about a kicker, but he
Speaker 1: was a pretty well known player on Chicago Bears. Butler
Speaker 1: you remember him, Yeah, very popular. And seeing any Chicago
Speaker 1: Bear in public, you know, I was going berserk and
Speaker 1: I go oh, and I grabbed a menu from the restaurant,
Speaker 1: like a to go menu, and I ran you know,
Speaker 1: he was just standing there. He's about to go in.
Speaker 1: I go, shoot me, mister Butler, can I get your
Speaker 1: auditorial quick, real quick? But I was so you know,
Speaker 1: flustered that I forgot to grab a pen. And he goes,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, sure great, and he goes, oh, hold on,
Speaker 1: and he just he goes and he walks in the restaurant,
Speaker 1: and he walks in the restaurant, not like in the
Speaker 1: area the vestibule where you're going in. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm getting blown off. I was like, ah, darn it,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, and I didn't see him there.
Speaker 1: I looked for a second. I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: but my family. I walked to the car. I walked
Speaker 1: about twenty steps of the car. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you here he ran outside of the parking lot with
Speaker 1: a pen and tip tapping in the should. He goes
Speaker 1: here you go, and he signed an autograph. I can't
Speaker 1: tell you how far that went though. When you're fifteen
Speaker 1: years old. Oh yeah, but if you're a kicker and
Speaker 1: somebody wants your autograph, he's pretty fared up. I bet yeah, yes, Todd.
Speaker 1: But then he ordered a Turkey club from Paul, which
Speaker 1: is kind of strange. That's fifteen year old kid, he's
Speaker 1: not working there. It's because he signed the GOMN years.
Speaker 1: I try to bring it all right, tied into the
Speaker 1: fact that he signed it. Tucker and Idaho joins this
Speaker 1: high Tucker Dan five eight one eighty and today also
Speaker 1: happens to be my twenty fifth birthday. Well, happy birthday, Tucker.
Speaker 1: Thanks Dan. So I'm a die hard Cubs fan and
Speaker 1: I happened to be at spring training. So this is
Speaker 1: probably right around two thousand and four, and we're outside
Speaker 1: of the facility there, and Dusty Baker's the manager, and
Speaker 1: so I have a jersey and he's I have his signature,
Speaker 1: Derek Lees, and I also had Corey Patterson's and we're
Speaker 1: standing out there and I can see this car pull
Speaker 1: in and I can tell it's Sammy Sosa, who was
Speaker 1: my favorite player of course at that time, and it
Speaker 1: cups in and so I run down his car and
Speaker 1: go to his door and he gets out and I say, Sammy, Sammy,
Speaker 1: can you please sign my jersey? And he looks at
Speaker 1: me and just walks off. Yeah, well you're probably not
Speaker 1: alone in stories like that. Thank you, Tucker, and happy birthday.
Speaker 1: Tucker David in Indiana. I thought we were getting a
Speaker 1: little bit more dramatic story there out of talk. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know, hey David, Hey, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1: And so my dad takes us out to Bossy Field
Speaker 1: where in Evansville where they filled in the League of
Speaker 1: your Own later. But uh so we're out there and
Speaker 1: about the same time probably is as your story with Wilt,
Speaker 1: but we're watching Pedro borbone and throw a little bullpen
Speaker 1: before the game, and you had to kind of lean
Speaker 1: over this brick wall to watch. And my sister and
Speaker 1: I were like nine or ten years old, and she
Speaker 1: yellows down at Pedro, she said, would you give us
Speaker 1: a ball? And Pedro looks up and he says, if
Speaker 1: you come out tomorrow night and watch me pitch, I'll
Speaker 1: give you a ball. So the next night, of course,
Speaker 1: my dad brings us out there again, and Pedro and
Speaker 1: another player come up the steps where we've been waiting
Speaker 1: for fifteen twenty minutes, watching, you know, watching waiting for him.
Speaker 1: He comes out, it starts for running. He gets about
Speaker 1: fifteen or twenty steps and sees my sister runs back
Speaker 1: in the dugout, gets a ball, autographs it and comes
Speaker 1: out and gives it to her favorite player, her favorite
Speaker 1: player of all time. You know, obviously another story just
Speaker 1: real quickly, No, no, I that one that was too nice, David,
Speaker 1: you're you're telling nice autograph stories and h thank you.
Speaker 1: Though I remember Pedro Barbone. He had a rubber arm.
Speaker 1: That guy could pitch every day. Wait, I tell you one,
Speaker 1: a negative one about Will Chamberlain. And I got everybody
Speaker 1: telling me these hallmarks stories. Caleb, you got a crappy
Speaker 1: autograph story. Sorry, Dan, Unfortunately this is another good one.
Speaker 1: But we're looking for content on this show. Well it's
Speaker 1: bad and good. Oat with that. So that I think
Speaker 1: it was twenty twelve RG thirties rookie season. Me and
Speaker 1: a friend went up to Richmond for training camp, snuck
Speaker 1: into the players parking lot, got kicked out looking for
Speaker 1: RG three. So then we cut a little hole in
Speaker 1: the fence to try to see which bus he gets in.
Speaker 1: We see which bus he gets in, jump in our car.
Speaker 1: We hottail it after him all through downtown Richmond. We're
Speaker 1: on forward lights. Then see him at the hotel, run
Speaker 1: into the hotel. Security guards stop us. Then we're yelling
Speaker 1: at him. Then finally comes over, gives us an autograph,
Speaker 1: says damn yell are crazy, and then says about to us,
Speaker 1: all right, well once again these are all nice autograph stories.
Speaker 1: We didn't get RG three to sign our Robert Griffith Jr.
Speaker 1: The third Jersey, did we, but he did send I
Speaker 1: have his shoes that I think he used at the combine.
Speaker 1: I think I have the gold spikes up here that
Speaker 1: he provided. Yes, come on, As far as the autograph experience,
Speaker 1: does it really count if you go to like to
Speaker 1: a mall or someplace where someone is already signing things
Speaker 1: their card or their book or whatever, as opposed to
Speaker 1: trying to track someone down and go all the way
Speaker 1: down to the field or sneak into something. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think any any place that you can get an autograph
Speaker 1: is that it's like I got ed cranepool former Metsford
Speaker 1: basement autograph on my little pink spaillding ball that you
Speaker 1: play stickball with, but that that was a pre planned
Speaker 1: signing that you just stand in line for. Or Randy
Speaker 1: Rassmuss and an old offensive linement of the Jets at
Speaker 1: some Sam Goody record store. That's isn't that kind of weak? Though?
Speaker 1: If everyone's just online for you know, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: there and he has to sign. Nobody needs to know
Speaker 1: how you got the autograph, just that you have the honor.
Speaker 1: There's no good story with that. You just you just
Speaker 1: showed up in some place in Jersey and a parking lot.
Speaker 1: Then there is signing. Everybody's yes. I kind of agree
Speaker 1: with Todd. A prepaid mall event signature is not as
Speaker 1: cool as a random like it's not. But you don't
Speaker 1: have to say that you got it, that you prepaid
Speaker 1: for this. But isn't part of the autograph of the story.
Speaker 1: It is for me. But if you just want to
Speaker 1: get an autograph, like my stories were just when I
Speaker 1: was really young and trying to get these autographs and
Speaker 1: how important they were, the fact that I saved these
Speaker 1: programs or that my mom did and I still have
Speaker 1: these programs of all these guys who signed it back
Speaker 1: in the early seventies. Let's see who has a bad
Speaker 1: autograph story. Luke and Alabama, Hey Luke, Hey Dan, thanks
Speaker 1: for telling my calling. I'm I'm thirty four now and
Speaker 1: I've never gotten over this. A matter of fact, I've
Speaker 1: never asked for another autograph since. But I was fifteen
Speaker 1: is the time? Fourteen fifteen at the state basketball tournament
Speaker 1: in Alabama in Birmingham at the Civic Center. I'm a
Speaker 1: junior high basketball player. I'm videoing the game for the
Speaker 1: varsity team. And in the upstairs press walks walks Charles Barkley.
Speaker 1: It's just me and him. I grabbed my little booklet
Speaker 1: there and I turned around, mister Barkley, will you signed?
Speaker 1: This doesn't even acknowledge me. Steps out of the press
Speaker 1: box onto the stands, starts yelling, and runs down the
Speaker 1: bleachers waving his hands. Everybody's clapping. It's Barkley, It's Barkley.
Speaker 1: He sits down and starts signing an autograph at the
Speaker 1: court side. But he wouldn't. It was just me and him,
Speaker 1: and he didn't have time for me. I've never asked
Speaker 1: for another autograph Scarred for Life. Well, well, thank you, Luke.
Speaker 1: That's not like Charles, Jeff and Saint Louis. Hi, Jeff,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me today? Good morning? Dan?
Speaker 1: Okay mine is I was at much stadium watching big
Speaker 1: Man Martin Mauire doing bad in practice, and he had
Speaker 1: a bad session and I'm right at the dugout whenever
Speaker 1: he's going back in and they said, hey, being mat
Speaker 1: can I have your autograph? And eagle eyed me and
Speaker 1: spit on the ground and walks in a dugout right
Speaker 1: in front of me and my girlfriend. I think, see,
Speaker 1: that's that's better than an autograph. Sometimes the story is
Speaker 1: better than the actual autograph. And I ran into Wilt
Speaker 1: Chamberlain years later at Madison Square Garden and I told
Speaker 1: him the story about him telling me to get off
Speaker 1: the Lakers bus, and he thought it was so funny.
Speaker 1: And then he said, you want my autograph now, and
Speaker 1: I said no, it just was a better story that
Speaker 1: he told me to get off the bus. I saw
Speaker 1: this story here. There was a couple of football items.
Speaker 1: By the way, we'll talk to Bob Costas about baseball's
Speaker 1: new proposal. Now they're talking eighty nine games. It feels
Speaker 1: like they're going to settle maybe around seventy five. I
Speaker 1: love Fight Island in Abu Dhabi. I love it UFC
Speaker 1: two fifty one. I'm sure, why not live boxing last
Speaker 1: night on the Mothership. Soccer's coming back. But we'll talk
Speaker 1: to Bob about Major League Baseball and its plans there.
Speaker 1: Dirk Cutter is the offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons,
Speaker 1: and he was talking about Todd Gurling and he said that,
Speaker 1: you know, the main question that no one seems to
Speaker 1: know is what his health status is, what's his workload?
Speaker 1: But he does go on to say that when he's healthy,
Speaker 1: he's the best running back, arguably the best running back
Speaker 1: in football. Isn't that part of the problem with Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley that he's not healthy, Therefore he's not one of
Speaker 1: the best running backs in football. Yes, mcgle wouldn't he
Speaker 1: be a Los Angeles Ram if he was healthy? And
Speaker 1: this would be a mood conversation. Well, that was what
Speaker 1: my thought was of, Hey, he's when he's healthy, he's
Speaker 1: arguably the Rams if if if he was healthy for
Speaker 1: the Rams, they might have won the Super Bowl there.
Speaker 1: But I thought that that was kind of interesting. He
Speaker 1: can still do it. It's just a matter of how
Speaker 1: often he can do it. Man, he's great for two
Speaker 1: carries a game. You know, he's only twenty five, right,
Speaker 1: and he had he had two seasons where he was
Speaker 1: pretty special. But you know, you have that acl tear
Speaker 1: and I don't know, it's I always like to see
Speaker 1: how a running back does in the second half of
Speaker 1: the season, Like Dalvin Cook to me, has no leverage,
Speaker 1: no bargaining power, and he's going to try to hold
Speaker 1: out and it's it's not gonna work. This is not
Speaker 1: gonna work out well for Dalvin Cook and Minnesota not
Speaker 1: going to But you know, Todd Gurley, if you limit him,
Speaker 1: if you use him just enough, then maybe you can
Speaker 1: get some home runs out of him. And maybe that's
Speaker 1: what he's going to be, just going to be a
Speaker 1: home run hitter for the Atlanta Falcons. There I saw
Speaker 1: where Reggie Bush is welcome back. The NCAA barred him
Speaker 1: and USC from I guess getting together associating, And now
Speaker 1: that ten year ban is up, and what do you
Speaker 1: do to welcome back Reggie Bush? Considering everything that happened
Speaker 1: after that with Reggie Bush and USC hasn't been the same.
Speaker 1: Do you have a welcome back Reggie Bush party? Yeah, Polly,
Speaker 1: it looks like they are. USC. Trojan's Athletics official Twitter
Speaker 1: put down welcome back Reggie Bush. He also posted one
Speaker 1: just a few minutes ago from USC men's basketball welcome
Speaker 1: back oj Mayo, the highest drafted player in program history,
Speaker 1: has victually been reinstated. I didn't know he was. What
Speaker 1: did he do? I don't know. They're bringing back everybody,
Speaker 1: all right, well Reggie Bush is welcome back. Yes, Todd,
Speaker 1: maybe you have a Reggie Bush Day and the opposite happens.
Speaker 1: He gives everyone an attendance, all kinds of cash and prizes.
Speaker 1: That's kind of funny. I think it's a nice thing
Speaker 1: to do. Like Ellen's always giving out things on her show.
Speaker 1: This would be perfect. All these things that I took
Speaker 1: and I caused all this problem. Now you get a call,
Speaker 1: you got a ten thousand. No. Whatever he gives out,
Speaker 1: he's got to give back to the community that day,
Speaker 1: back to you and thank you. Todd. You gotta laugh
Speaker 1: out of Paulie and that's hard. Yeah, I'm kind of surprised.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Felt like a courtesy laught. Does Reggie
Speaker 1: Bush get his heisman back? You know? All he had
Speaker 1: to do is if you had this disagreement, somebody loans
Speaker 1: you money and you buy your parents a house, you know,
Speaker 1: a marketing company, and then if you feel like, hey,
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not gonna pay you back, or I
Speaker 1: found somebody else, or whatever that stance was at the time,
Speaker 1: and then they go public and then it's over bull
Speaker 1: if he takes care of this privately, you know, probably
Speaker 1: like hundreds of athletes who have done this. Yeah. Point
Speaker 1: the irony is the exact almost the exact same thinking
Speaker 1: thing is happening right now with Zion Williams, and he
Speaker 1: is going to be sued for agreeing to partner with
Speaker 1: a marketing company and agency and by going back on
Speaker 1: the deal and going with someone else, they're going to
Speaker 1: call him out of the things he did. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what happened to Reggie Bush. Yep, more phone calls. But
Speaker 1: Reggie Bush, it's a ten year is it. I don't
Speaker 1: a band that was placed on him in USC. But
Speaker 1: now he gets to come back and he's part of
Speaker 1: that Fox pregame show. I don't know if Reggie was
Speaker 1: even allowed to go to USC on the field when
Speaker 1: they did games. It feels like Liner was there, but
Speaker 1: maybe I was a day when Leiner was being honored.
Speaker 1: But Reggie Bush is welcome back to the USC family
Speaker 1: there eighteen after the hour. Well, we'll get some more
Speaker 1: phone calls. Bob Costas will join us coming up next
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Speaker 1: Bob Costas here in a moment. Now. See, here's an
Speaker 1: autograph story from Cody Brooks. When I was twelve years old,
Speaker 1: I saw Kobe Bryant at the Nike employees store here
Speaker 1: in Portland, Oregon. When I went up to him to
Speaker 1: ask him for an autograph, he said no because I
Speaker 1: was wearing all Air Jordan's stuff. I like that. I
Speaker 1: like the autograph stories that don't have a happy ending,
Speaker 1: just like my Will Chamberlain Storyete Paully just sent sent
Speaker 1: me this stat He's all giddy about this. When Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll coach, they won eleven or more games seven times.
Speaker 1: In the ten years since Pete Carroll left USC, USC
Speaker 1: has won eleven or more games just once. And since
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll left, USC has had four head coaches. Is
Speaker 1: Bob Costas set to Jonas there? Well? Fritzie's trying to
Speaker 1: get him on the phone here in two seasons, two
Speaker 1: great seasons. I was talking about Todd Gurley being the
Speaker 1: best running back in football. In those two seasons, he
Speaker 1: scored a total of forty touchdowns. No other player in
Speaker 1: the NFL scored more than thirty two touchdowns over that
Speaker 1: same time period. He's only twenty five. I just don't
Speaker 1: know can he have a Frank Gore like career Because
Speaker 1: Frank Gore blew out both of his knees in college,
Speaker 1: I believe, And here he is with what fifteen thousand
Speaker 1: career yards. I don't know if Todd Gurley can be
Speaker 1: that kind of running back. And the Falcon's taken a
Speaker 1: chance and seeing if they can get some home runs
Speaker 1: out of him, because that's really what I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to use Todd Gurley for. Do I give him fifteen
Speaker 1: touches a game? But Matt Ryan was gushing about Todd Gurley.
Speaker 1: Dirk Cutter, the offensive coordinator, gushing about him. Yeah, Polly,
Speaker 1: frank Or is the perfect running back. He's never been paid.
Speaker 1: He always makes about two or three million dollars a year.
Speaker 1: Last year made one point two million. He's never gotten
Speaker 1: the big money, frank Or, He's never gotten a big contract,
Speaker 1: so he's been the perfect running back. Bob Costas, a
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame broadcaster and MLB Network, has launched a
Speaker 1: new series. It's called Sounds of Baseball, co hosted by
Speaker 1: Bob and Tom Berducci, and you look back on some
Speaker 1: of the greatest calls moments from great broadcasters. Vin Scully
Speaker 1: was featured first, Jack Buck, Bob Huker and others will
Speaker 1: follow Bob joining us on the program. Good morning, Bob,
Speaker 1: how's your morale? Not too bad? Not too bad all
Speaker 1: things considered. We're kind of getting used to it, you know,
Speaker 1: just waiting it out and seeing what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: But you're waiting for baseball to come back. What do
Speaker 1: you do all day? Well, I've been able to read
Speaker 1: more outside sports and outside preparation than I used to
Speaker 1: because there isn't that much to prepare for. You know,
Speaker 1: we spend so much time, I'm sure we're very much
Speaker 1: alike in this respect, reading newspapers, reading magazines, not enough
Speaker 1: time to delve into books. And over the last many weeks,
Speaker 1: I've been able to do that. Doing that a lot
Speaker 1: of people are doing, catching up on stuff a ton
Speaker 1: Netflix or old movies or whatever it may be. And
Speaker 1: you know, that's pretty much it much in some of
Speaker 1: the archival games that show up on the all sports networks,
Speaker 1: and what you just mentioned is one of the great
Speaker 1: labors of love. Ever, I don't know if you're able
Speaker 1: to catch it. I'm sure they'll repeat it two hours
Speaker 1: with Din Scully drew such a response, you know, during
Speaker 1: the Last Dance or whatever, I'd hear from a lot
Speaker 1: of people because that was being watched by millions of people.
Speaker 1: But the response to this among whatever size audience happened
Speaker 1: to catch it on a Monday night on MLB Network
Speaker 1: really shows that that Vin is in a category all
Speaker 1: his own. And the way people respond to this kind
Speaker 1: of programming, it's nostalgic, but it's also new. It's just
Speaker 1: a different way in it's just a series of clips
Speaker 1: and highlights. We try to get to kind of the
Speaker 1: mosaic of what made him different and what made him tremendous.
Speaker 1: And there's so much baseball history going back to nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty and so much broadcasting history, really, and I hope
Speaker 1: we provided some insight into that beyond just here's a
Speaker 1: great player, here's a great game, and here's a great call.
Speaker 1: Of it. We talked about this. I think the last
Speaker 1: time we talked that social media would probably be very
Speaker 1: critical of Vince Scully. I mean, they're critical of everybody here,
Speaker 1: but to have that kind of voice, and would we
Speaker 1: allow a voice like that now in baseball or in sports.
Speaker 1: I don't know that he could flourish on network TV
Speaker 1: if that's where he landed first. In fact, one of
Speaker 1: the points we made, and maybe I told you this
Speaker 1: story on one of our others at some point along
Speaker 1: the way, Dan, one of the points we made was
Speaker 1: that Dodger telecasts in the last twenty years or show
Speaker 1: when he was just doing games, mostly home games, because
Speaker 1: he wasn't traveling that much anymore. Those telecasts were directed
Speaker 1: and produced from the inside out. He didn't have to
Speaker 1: follow graphics and production elements. They followed him with rare exceptions.
Speaker 1: And I mentioned on this special one occasion where he
Speaker 1: was telling a story about Don Zimmer, who had only
Speaker 1: passed away a few days before, and in the middle
Speaker 1: of it, Scott Van's like of the Dodgers, gets hit
Speaker 1: by a pitch. Big deal. The benchers didn't empty, wasn't
Speaker 1: being they didn't charge the mount. He goes down to
Speaker 1: first base. No matter how good the producer or director,
Speaker 1: that happens today in any baseball game they show it
Speaker 1: from three or four different angles. But that would have
Speaker 1: trunk had been story. He just noted that Van's like
Speaker 1: had been hit. He goes down to first base. He
Speaker 1: continues with this four or five minute remembrance of Don
Speaker 1: Zimmer And even the network games, and there are plenty
Speaker 1: of them on this special that the Tom and I
Speaker 1: did about then, even the network games are less cluttered
Speaker 1: than they are now. Some of the games that the
Speaker 1: archival games that I did in the nineteen nineties that
Speaker 1: have been played on the Major League Baseball Network, you
Speaker 1: can't help but notice, if you have any interest in broadcasting,
Speaker 1: how relatively uncluttered they are. Are there replays when necessary? Yeah,
Speaker 1: are there graphics, Yeah, But you don't need a pitch
Speaker 1: box or a strike zone box on every single play.
Speaker 1: You don't need to perform an autopsy on every groundball
Speaker 1: to shortstop. And that allows a broadcast to breathe and
Speaker 1: allows a broadcaster to do whatever he is most able
Speaker 1: to do. You look at Bob Ucker's career, and he
Speaker 1: was a novelty when he was on with Carson and
Speaker 1: he was so self deprecating light beer commercials. Thankfully. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's one of those where you go, how did this happen?
Speaker 1: But it happened like Dick Vite now happened if you said, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna this guy's going to be a star, Like
Speaker 1: why did Bob Yucker resonate with people not only locally
Speaker 1: but nationally. Well, first of all, he's just so damn funny.
Speaker 1: When you think of the Major League movies, major League three,
Speaker 1: even Yuker says you should forget about. But major League
Speaker 1: one was fantastic, major League two was good. And Yuker
Speaker 1: is a huge reason why. He's the guy who stitches
Speaker 1: the whole thing together, and he had lived at least
Speaker 1: half of it. They give him just the general script,
Speaker 1: and he'd think of funny things to say. Carson was
Speaker 1: only a socio baseball fan, but he loved Yucker. Many
Speaker 1: people who played with him on the Braves or the
Speaker 1: Cardinals of the Phillies say to this day that he's
Speaker 1: the funniest person they've ever been around. And he's just
Speaker 1: that funny in person, even funnier in some respects that
Speaker 1: he is on the air. But here's what a lot
Speaker 1: of people miss if they only know him from Johnny
Speaker 1: Carson of the Major League movies or the commercials. He's
Speaker 1: just straight up a really good baseball ouncer. You listen
Speaker 1: to his calls of big plays with the Brewers. He's
Speaker 1: on top of the game. It's different than Scully, you know,
Speaker 1: Vin and others. I tried to prepare as hard as
Speaker 1: I could al Michael's you know, if you prepares by
Speaker 1: going to the clubhouse, hanging around the batting cage, goes upstairs,
Speaker 1: takes a look at the game notes that they hand
Speaker 1: out in the press box, fills out a lineup card
Speaker 1: and just wings it. But his broadcast, even if he
Speaker 1: wasn't as funny as he is, his broadcast at first
Speaker 1: rate and still and he's eighty six years old. Talking
Speaker 1: to Bob Kofstis, I know we keep talking about baseball,
Speaker 1: I said, it's it's kind of a verbal game of
Speaker 1: ping pong. Back and forth we go, and I don't
Speaker 1: know where we end up, but it feels like seventy
Speaker 1: five something in that area feels like common ground here.
Speaker 1: But the back and forth being made public, it feels
Speaker 1: like baseball has everything's leaked out, Like where the NBA
Speaker 1: kept everything quiet for about three weeks, and now they're
Speaker 1: on the verge of coming back. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the strategy is a Major League Baseball or the players Association,
Speaker 1: but if you were going to be an arbitrator here, mediator,
Speaker 1: how would you bring both sides together. Well, one of
Speaker 1: the things you'd have to point out is they're moving
Speaker 1: toward if it makes that much difference to the players
Speaker 1: to be able to say that they won some sort
Speaker 1: of nominal victory by saying we're getting pro rated one
Speaker 1: hundred percent pro rated or some portion close to one
Speaker 1: hundred percent of what would have been pro rated, if
Speaker 1: it's that important to them, figure out what the actual
Speaker 1: pool of money would be under any of these other proposals,
Speaker 1: and if you need it to save face to say
Speaker 1: that you got the pro rated portion, we're just going
Speaker 1: to keep calibrating it until we get to the number
Speaker 1: where you can claim that victory and walk away. You know,
Speaker 1: these two sides seem determined to drive off a cliff,
Speaker 1: and they seem yet again determined that I thought it
Speaker 1: might have been better because they hadn't had a work
Speaker 1: stoppage in a long time. I thought there was a
Speaker 1: better relationship. But there's so much lasting mistrust between the sides.
Speaker 1: It's been passed down through the generations, and I think
Speaker 1: it's particularly true of the players at this point, more
Speaker 1: so than the owners and the commissioner. Historically, the players
Speaker 1: were right. I don't think either side can claim any
Speaker 1: moral high ground in this situation. The players talking about
Speaker 1: we were promised, pro rated, but it specifically says in
Speaker 1: the agreement that they struck in spring training when COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen first hit, that if they had to play without
Speaker 1: fans they would revisit it. Then they claim, oh, this
Speaker 1: will establish some sort of revenue sharing or back door
Speaker 1: salary cap of the future. What kind of claim is
Speaker 1: that the owners intend to play without fans in the future.
Speaker 1: Do they intend to play with teams competing only in
Speaker 1: their own time zones? These are all one offs. These
Speaker 1: are all just for now, And what you're pointing out
Speaker 1: is correct. Not only is the bickering making them look bad,
Speaker 1: but if in fact that bickering keeps them from playing
Speaker 1: at all, or if it reduces them to a number
Speaker 1: of games, that would be a mockery. Because we know
Speaker 1: that baseball is different from basketball or hockey or even
Speaker 1: football in that respect, you need some representative number of
Speaker 1: games to say that, Okay, we've determined even in this
Speaker 1: one offseason, we've determined that that's enough to launch a
Speaker 1: postseason from there. The Gnats were nineteen and thirty one
Speaker 1: after fifty games last year, and they wound up winning
Speaker 1: the World Series. You know, you've got to play a
Speaker 1: representative number of games before there's any authenticity at all,
Speaker 1: even in a unique season like this, and the big picture,
Speaker 1: you know, a year from now they're going to have
Speaker 1: to sit down and hammer out another CBA. And no
Speaker 1: matter who walks away from the table now and says, well,
Speaker 1: I guess we got the better of this negotiation. If
Speaker 1: the business itself is damaged, then everybody is damaged. And
Speaker 1: if a business thrives, then everybody does better. The owners
Speaker 1: won some concession in the last couple of negotiations, not
Speaker 1: made to ones, but some can we say that the
Speaker 1: players didn't thrive. Of course, they continue to thrive. And
Speaker 1: what they've got to see now in a forest for
Speaker 1: the tree situation is this, no matter what, even if
Speaker 1: they've done everything perfectly, if they were able to play
Speaker 1: eighty two games and everyone everyone was on the same page,
Speaker 1: and they're all making the best of it. They're still
Speaker 1: going to take an economic hit next season and maybe
Speaker 1: beyond because people are going to have less discretionary income.
Speaker 1: Some will be less willing to come to games, just
Speaker 1: as they'll be less willing to go to concerts and
Speaker 1: other gatherings. There's going to be an economic hit, and
Speaker 1: instead here they are squabbling over small things and not
Speaker 1: seeing the importance of the big things. Are over under.
Speaker 1: Our poll question is over under seventy five games for
Speaker 1: baseball this season. Where do you stand? That seems about right?
Speaker 1: That seems yeah, if you're talking about an over under,
Speaker 1: could it land under that? Yeah? I take the under. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it won't be seven five, but it'd
Speaker 1: be very optimistic to land higher than seventy five. I
Speaker 1: think percentage that we don't have a season this year
Speaker 1: would be what, in your opinion, small but not impossible. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, the clock is ticking, and it
Speaker 1: feels like we set these arbitrary dates and go, Okay,
Speaker 1: if you don't start by now, and then you don't
Speaker 1: start by now, I don't know if you don't start
Speaker 1: by now that it truly means if you don't start
Speaker 1: by now, that you won't get a season in because
Speaker 1: you're going to get dwarfed by you know, hockey coming back,
Speaker 1: golf is coming back, Soccer is back, You're going to
Speaker 1: have the NBA coming back in the postseason. Then you
Speaker 1: got college in the NFL, and baseball gets lost usually
Speaker 1: in those months. Anyways, they have their sweet spot usually
Speaker 1: in you know, July or June and July or July
Speaker 1: in August here, and that that's dangerous too, if you
Speaker 1: come back and you're not relevant after everything that you've
Speaker 1: gone through. Yeah, they could have had it if if
Speaker 1: they did it in a way that seemed as if
Speaker 1: they were on the same page as we said, they
Speaker 1: could have had the stage to themselves among team sports
Speaker 1: for a while and that would have been a boost.
Speaker 1: And the owners are very keen on finishing before going
Speaker 1: deep into November. They proposed a regular season that ends
Speaker 1: towards the end of September, expanded playoffs, maybe with as
Speaker 1: many as sixteen teams, So it'll take a little while
Speaker 1: to get through that, but they really don't want to
Speaker 1: be playing, you know, into Thanksgiving or heaven forbid, into December,
Speaker 1: not just because they'd be up against other sports, but
Speaker 1: because they fear no one knows for sure, but they
Speaker 1: fear a surge in the coronavirus and traps being derailed,
Speaker 1: which could happen to any sport at any time. So
Speaker 1: you know, they're looking at a window of getting in
Speaker 1: enough games for it to be credible, then finished with
Speaker 1: an expanded postseason, then get out of the way, hopefully
Speaker 1: before something else knocks them off. Course. Have you ever
Speaker 1: called a game in the snow? Oh? Yeah, yeah, a
Speaker 1: baseball game? You mean, yeah, yeah? In fact, in fact,
Speaker 1: during the nineteen ninety seven World Series, there were snow
Speaker 1: flurries and temperatures in the thirties in Cleveland it was
Speaker 1: the Marlins against the Indians, and every game in Cleveland
Speaker 1: our teeth were chattering up in the booth, and every
Speaker 1: game in Florida and it's like eighty five degrees. Complete contrast.
Speaker 1: I remember at one point, and this is the rare
Speaker 1: situation where I may have said something sawn to hear
Speaker 1: them what Uker was thinking about at that exact moment.
Speaker 1: He was commenting on how cold it was, and I said,
Speaker 1: I glanced down on the stands and a half dozen
Speaker 1: of the concession people are Saint Bernard's and Yuka said,
Speaker 1: this is a really nice game night for a game
Speaker 1: if you're a penguin. And then the next night, kind
Speaker 1: of Storm and Keith Open were hosted the pregame and
Speaker 1: they came on the air with an actual penguin on
Speaker 1: the set with them and it wasn't Burgess Meritus at Danny. Hey,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us, Bob. Hopefully we got some movement
Speaker 1: here sometime soon. With baseball. It's been great to talk
Speaker 1: to you. Thank you, Bud. That's Bob cost Us Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer, and of course he spent forty years at NBC.
Speaker 1: MLB Network has the series The Sounds of Baseball, Take
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Speaker 1: Coming up? Swan in Arkansas joins us, Hey, Swan, what
Speaker 1: do you have for me today? Hey? Five ten, two
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty pounds. I wanted to share a few
Speaker 1: about the experience I had with the immortal Cliff Branch
Speaker 1: within the Raiders team store behind New Jersey. He was
Speaker 1: in the back signing autographs. I went and bought a couple,
Speaker 1: and to my surprise, he takes off the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: eighteen ring and puts it on, and I learned real
Speaker 1: quick how strong his hands were. The grip that he
Speaker 1: put on my neck was intense. But got pictures with them,
Speaker 1: and you know he passed away last year, so it
Speaker 1: just makes that experience all the more great for me.
Speaker 1: Mar Thank you Swann. And Cliff got into the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame, didn't he? Or I've been arguing that Cliff
Speaker 1: Brand should be in the Hall of Fame. Now they're
Speaker 1: gonna have the Hall of Fame game in the ceremony
Speaker 1: coming up this summer in August. At least it's still
Speaker 1: on schedule. Yeah, I mccleman. I think he missed it again,
Speaker 1: and maybe I was trying to remember if it was
Speaker 1: he was very close. Yeah, yeah, yeah, point Dan. In
Speaker 1: the past couple of days on social media, I forgot
Speaker 1: to ask you this the other day. There's been a
Speaker 1: little bit of a push for Dave Parker, the seventies
Speaker 1: eighties slugger for Cincinnati and Pittsburgh and Oakland, to be
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. Top of your head, what
Speaker 1: do you think the Cobra and he was now when
Speaker 1: he got to the plate. I don't know how intimidating
Speaker 1: that must have looked and felt like a former running
Speaker 1: back in high school at quarter Tech was the name
Speaker 1: of the high school, and everybody knew about Dave Parker
Speaker 1: the athlete. But Cobra going to Pittsburgh eventually played for
Speaker 1: the Reds. He has health concerns now, and people have
Speaker 1: sent me some stuff with Dave Parker and hoping that
Speaker 1: there's a push for Dave Parker go into the whole fame.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he has any magical numbers in
Speaker 1: baseball's all about magical numbers. I just know that when
Speaker 1: he got to the plate, that was an intimidating guy,
Speaker 1: and he was a great outfielder, one of the great arms.
Speaker 1: Musy you would put your best on him in right
Speaker 1: field and Cobra had a great arm. Yeah, Paul, he
Speaker 1: was an MVP once, Top five MVP five times. Didn't
Speaker 1: he feel like a big time baseball star? When I
Speaker 1: was a kid, he felt like a baseball star. Well,
Speaker 1: he was a big literally big baseball star. And in
Speaker 1: those Pittsburgh uniforms he filled them out. He just looked
Speaker 1: like the most intimidating guy in the sport. I just
Speaker 1: don't know if he has the numbers there in what
Speaker 1: baseball looks for. And that's one of those I you know,
Speaker 1: you always go if I say his name, is he
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer? And with Dave Parker, I sort
Speaker 1: of viewed him the way I did Jim Rice. They
Speaker 1: were just intimidating when they got to the plate. But
Speaker 1: the one thing that Parker had he was a really
Speaker 1: good fielder as well. Yeah, Fritzie. George Foster was another
Speaker 1: name where I just thought growing up that this guy,
Speaker 1: when I heard the name George Foster, this was a
Speaker 1: big deal. This guy, because that was back in the
Speaker 1: day we're hitting thirty home runs was considered a huge Well,
Speaker 1: he wasn't consistent enough, but I remember Foster hit fifty
Speaker 1: home runs one year. John in Missouri, Hey, John, what
Speaker 1: do you have for me? Yeah? I got a story
Speaker 1: for you. Bad autograph, Okay. I was up in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1: Before I went to the game, I had bought a
Speaker 1: new jersey from Sporting good Store. Cost me about one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty bucks. It was an Emmett Smith jersey
Speaker 1: for when he played for Arizona and we were like
Speaker 1: the only ones in the Metrodome walked down. He's on
Speaker 1: the field stretching out, shook his head, waved his hand. Now,
Speaker 1: so I took the jersey back and got my money back.
Speaker 1: Emmett wouldn't sign it. No, okay, he wasn't proud of that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that and thanks for the phone called there. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: had one of those. You know, we talked about these
Speaker 1: quarterbacks who end up with a team in the last
Speaker 1: year of their career. There's some running backs, you know.
Speaker 1: Tony Dorset certainly was there with Emmett oj with the
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers. Franco Seahawkey, Yeah, Ladanian, Tomlinson
Speaker 1: jet Yeah, wall oh, he was okay with that. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was going to Minneapoli. He was going to Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Wasn't he I think? Did he promise us? Yea? They
Speaker 1: made him a jersey. They thought he was going there. Paulie,
Speaker 1: what's this day in sports history? Shocking Ley, They're almost
Speaker 1: all Babe Ruth related. Nineteen twenty one, Babe Ruth became
Speaker 1: baseball's all time homeworn later with one twenty nineteen forty four,
Speaker 1: youngest baseball player in history, Joe Nuxall fifteen years and
Speaker 1: ten months old, and he made a pitching debut with
Speaker 1: the Reds. Nineteen seventy five, Big One Pale signed a
Speaker 1: three year deal with the US based New York Cosmos. Yeah,
Speaker 1: said play or Pile. I think it's Pale al. I
Speaker 1: always thought it was Plee, but I've been around soccer
Speaker 1: snobs where they go, it's Plea Cosmos. Yeah. Ninth and
Speaker 1: another Babe Ruth two thousand and five. Babe Ruth's nineteen
Speaker 1: nineteen contract and moved in from Boston to the Yankees
Speaker 1: sold at auction four closest to the Hall. How much
Speaker 1: the Bay Rust contract sell for? What's a piece of it?
Speaker 1: Sixty three thousand? Absolutely not a million dollars. You're off
Speaker 1: by four thousand dollars. Nine hundred ninety six grand day.
Speaker 1: We're gonna give that to you. Okay, I went over though,
Speaker 1: but it's okay, closest to the hall. All right, fair enough,
Speaker 1: thank you. I'll find a results of the pull question. Mccleb.
Speaker 1: Are we going over or under? Seventy four point five games?
Speaker 1: Almost eighty percent say under. I remained optimistic. Jacob in
Speaker 1: Virginia joins us, Hey, Jake, what do you have? Hey?
Speaker 1: What's going on? DC? So got a few quick stories
Speaker 1: for you. I was Jim Tone was on the on
Speaker 1: deck circle during spring training. I tossed him a ball sharpie.
Speaker 1: He threw it back to me. When to go catch it,
Speaker 1: that Sharpie smudged. Passing to sign again, He's like, nope,
Speaker 1: you only got one chance, So that that kind of sucked.
Speaker 1: And then my uncle wanted a picture over Burto Alamar
Speaker 1: and Sandy Alamar together signed Sandy Alimar did it? Got
Speaker 1: to to Aldamar and he goes, no, I don't do pictures.
Speaker 1: I don't care if my brother signed it or not.
Speaker 1: He got a ball, I'll do it, so it kind
Speaker 1: of broke his heart. And then another quick one. I
Speaker 1: was bad boy for the Cincinnati Reds in Sarasota went
Speaker 1: to the locker room. Me and my buddy want to
Speaker 1: take a ball from the bucket, grabbed one and being
Speaker 1: signed by King Rifre Jr. So all right, well, thank you, Jacob.
Speaker 1: You don't get somebody to sign your ball with a sharpie.
Speaker 1: What are you think in there? Um Setan O'Connor, What
Speaker 1: did you learn on today's program? I learned the Toddler's struggling.
Speaker 1: You just learned the todds struggling. He's right now in
Speaker 1: the middle, in the midst of one of the great
Speaker 1: slumps and Dan Patrick's show. I had one more joke offer.
Speaker 1: Not only did Roberto Alamar not sign it, he's spit on.
Speaker 1: That's not bad, that's horrible. It's okay, obvious because Alamar.
Speaker 1: But that's a nice call back. But it's like hitting
Speaker 1: a jumper down twenty five want spit on an umpire?
Speaker 1: Remember I remember that it's one of the great slumps
Speaker 1: in the twelve years that we've been doing this that
Speaker 1: I can't remember. I don't know if you'll get out
Speaker 1: of this. I don't know if you'll get out of
Speaker 1: this slump just with afterwiff, I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: I don't know. It feels like you just you're trying
Speaker 1: to hit a nine run home run. I'm way under
Speaker 1: the Mendoza. Yeah you are. It's it's the Fritzie. It's
Speaker 1: not the Mendoza line, the Fritzie lions. It's even lower
Speaker 1: than the Mendoza point Todd, would you learned today? You
Speaker 1: think there'll be a seventy four and a half baseball
Speaker 1: over You're taking the overrun the seventy four and a
Speaker 1: half baseball games. Bobcast is taking the under. You're rattled, man,
Speaker 1: you are rattled. McK lovin. Howard Beck talked about effective
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