WEBVTT - Hour 3 - Bob Costas (06-10-20) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.320 Sports Radio. Welcome to the program. Final hour on this Wednesday, 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:10.440 the Great Bob Costas will join us. Coming up. How 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.800 optimistic is he? We're going to have a baseball season? 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:16.600 Our poll question in the first two hours the over 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.759 under number of games for the regular season seventy four 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.520 and a half. According to Paulie's bookie friend in Vegas mclovin, 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:27.400 seventy three percent say under, Okay, I'm gonna go over. 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.760 I'm gonna be optimistic. We're gonna play seventy five games 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:33.159 eight seven seven three D P show email address DP 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.640 at dan Patrick dot com. We also brought up this 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.840 topic of either your favorite or your worst autograph story, 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:45.199 And mine was probably back in nineteen seventy one, and 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.720 I think I was fifteen at the time. Lakers came 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:52.360 to town and that Cincinnati Royals were going to move 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:54.800 and they were going to move to Kansas City. And 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.800 I got to see the Lanta Hawks with Merivich. You 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.480 got to see the Knicks when they came in, and 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.520 the Lakers came to town, and I realized that and 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:05.319 here I am fifteen. I don't even know if I'll 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:07.280 get a job doing sports. But this is what I 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.280 wanted to do for a living. But in my mind, 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:13.360 I'll never see Wilt Chamberlain again. I had Jerry West's 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:17.240 autograph and Happy Harris to I had all Jim McMillan, 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:22.919 Gail Goodrich, Bill Sharman, all these autographs from the Lakers. 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:28.399 I didn't get Will chamberlains outside Cincinnati Gardens buses there 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:32.560 the Lakers, Wilt came by. They lost to the Royals, 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:36.880 and he boarded the bus and sat in the first seat, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:41.360 and I thought, I'm going to walk on the bus. 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.520 My friends encouraged me. I walked on the bus. Here 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:48.120 I am, I think fifteen years of age, fourteen, and 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:49.640 he stood up and told me to get the f 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:51.840 off the bus, and then I walked down the steps, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.480 walked outside, and then my friends go, what did he say? 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:58.560 And I told him the Lad's awesome. And that was 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.600 one of my worst autograph stories. Obviously had some good ones. 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.280 There was the one when Merevich came out, and at 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.480 the time you have to understand how big Merevich was 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.200 coming out of college, went to the Atlanta Hawks. He 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.400 had a commercial, He had a couple of commercials he 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.120 did one for I think of his hair spray, and 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.679 then he did one for pro Kad's and he where 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:22.800 he spinning the ball in his finger through his legs, 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:26.720 and he was a sight to see Merevich. He comes 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.280 out of the side door Cincinnati Gardens. We're all out 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.680 there waiting for Merevich. And I remember Walt Bellamy was 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.520 the center and he had a Cadillac Eldorado and I 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.640 just remember a white one. And you know, you had 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:42.880 these guys that came out, and then Merevitch came out 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.000 and it was Pandemona. It's like boy band Pandemonium. And 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:50.400 my friend grabbed Pete Merevich's hair for some reason. To 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:54.040 this day, I don't know why Zeke Campbell grabbed Pete 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:58.079 Merevitch's hair. I got Merevich to just sign pistol on 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:02.120 my program and we got some Meribach gets in the 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.640 car and then he leaves and then we're all we 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.080 kind of take inventory and it's like, hey, who did 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:08.480 you get his autograph? And I go, I got it, 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.160 and then my friend goes, I got some of his 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:16.320 hair in my hand. I showed us, like you I 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:20.760 had locks of Pete Marimage. Game used hair by Pete Merevich. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.960 H I told that story to Merevich when he went 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:26.640 into the Basketball Hall of Fame. When I went up 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.960 to interview him, he didn't remember it, but he did 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:33.320 remember Walt Bellamy picking him up in a car, but 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.600 my friend grabbed his hair. Didn't get his autograph. I did. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.000 But I had a lot of, you know, great memories. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.640 But if you got a bad one, let me know 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.480 here eight seven, seventh, three DP show And as I mentioned, 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:47.880 Bob Costas will join us coming up. Yeap hoo. This 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:49.520 one was ended up being a pretty good one. But 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.800 you remember I'm a crazy Bears fan. I think it 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.520 was his nineteen eighty six. I'm a teenager and as 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.280 in a restaurant in the Southside, Chicago, and as we're 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:01.040 walking out, we were walking out, person walking in a 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.840 group was Kevin Butler, the Bears kicker. Now most people 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.640 don't get too jacked up about a kicker, but he 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.800 was a pretty well known player on Chicago Bears. Butler 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.080 you remember him, Yeah, very popular. And seeing any Chicago 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.880 Bear in public, you know, I was going berserk and 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.720 I go oh, and I grabbed a menu from the restaurant, 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.279 like a to go menu, and I ran you know, 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:21.800 he was just standing there. He's about to go in. 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:23.680 I go, shoot me, mister Butler, can I get your 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:25.800 auditorial quick, real quick? But I was so you know, 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.640 flustered that I forgot to grab a pen. And he goes, 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.880 oh yeah, yeah, sure great, and he goes, oh, hold on, 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.200 and he just he goes and he walks in the restaurant, 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.440 and he walks in the restaurant, not like in the 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.240 area the vestibule where you're going in. I was like, 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.599 I'm getting blown off. I was like, ah, darn it, 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.480 and uh, you know, and I didn't see him there. 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:46.680 I looked for a second. I was like, all right, 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:48.479 but my family. I walked to the car. I walked 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.600 about twenty steps of the car. All of a sudden, 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.520 you here he ran outside of the parking lot with 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.160 a pen and tip tapping in the should. He goes 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.120 here you go, and he signed an autograph. I can't 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.200 tell you how far that went though. When you're fifteen 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.599 years old. Oh yeah, but if you're a kicker and 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.280 somebody wants your autograph, he's pretty fared up. I bet yeah, yes, Todd. 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.320 But then he ordered a Turkey club from Paul, which 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.040 is kind of strange. That's fifteen year old kid, he's 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:12.200 not working there. It's because he signed the GOMN years. 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.680 I try to bring it all right, tied into the 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.800 fact that he signed it. Tucker and Idaho joins this 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:25.960 high Tucker Dan five eight one eighty and today also 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.560 happens to be my twenty fifth birthday. Well, happy birthday, Tucker. 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:34.479 Thanks Dan. So I'm a die hard Cubs fan and 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:36.919 I happened to be at spring training. So this is 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.800 probably right around two thousand and four, and we're outside 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:44.039 of the facility there, and Dusty Baker's the manager, and 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.880 so I have a jersey and he's I have his signature, 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:52.400 Derek Lees, and I also had Corey Patterson's and we're 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.640 standing out there and I can see this car pull 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:58.080 in and I can tell it's Sammy Sosa, who was 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.160 my favorite player of course at that time, and it 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.760 cups in and so I run down his car and 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:07.720 go to his door and he gets out and I say, Sammy, Sammy, 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.600 can you please sign my jersey? And he looks at 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:14.599 me and just walks off. Yeah, well you're probably not 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.680 alone in stories like that. Thank you, Tucker, and happy birthday. 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.600 Tucker David in Indiana. I thought we were getting a 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.480 little bit more dramatic story there out of talk. But uh, 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:27.920 you know, hey David, Hey, thanks for taking my call. 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.520 And so my dad takes us out to Bossy Field 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.800 where in Evansville where they filled in the League of 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.240 your Own later. But uh so we're out there and 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:43.040 about the same time probably is as your story with Wilt, 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.320 but we're watching Pedro borbone and throw a little bullpen 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:48.720 before the game, and you had to kind of lean 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:50.720 over this brick wall to watch. And my sister and 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:52.479 I were like nine or ten years old, and she 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.000 yellows down at Pedro, she said, would you give us 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.400 a ball? And Pedro looks up and he says, if 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.000 you come out tomorrow night and watch me pitch, I'll 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.360 give you a ball. So the next night, of course, 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.040 my dad brings us out there again, and Pedro and 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.160 another player come up the steps where we've been waiting 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.920 for fifteen twenty minutes, watching, you know, watching waiting for him. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.119 He comes out, it starts for running. He gets about 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.480 fifteen or twenty steps and sees my sister runs back 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.320 in the dugout, gets a ball, autographs it and comes 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.320 out and gives it to her favorite player, her favorite 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:26.080 player of all time. You know, obviously another story just 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.560 real quickly, No, no, I that one that was too nice, David, 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.800 you're you're telling nice autograph stories and h thank you. 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.200 Though I remember Pedro Barbone. He had a rubber arm. 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.640 That guy could pitch every day. Wait, I tell you one, 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.000 a negative one about Will Chamberlain. And I got everybody 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:45.520 telling me these hallmarks stories. Caleb, you got a crappy 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:50.320 autograph story. Sorry, Dan, Unfortunately this is another good one. 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:56.120 But we're looking for content on this show. Well it's 0:07:56.160 --> 0:08:00.400 bad and good. Oat with that. So that I think 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:04.000 it was twenty twelve RG thirties rookie season. Me and 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.520 a friend went up to Richmond for training camp, snuck 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:11.200 into the players parking lot, got kicked out looking for 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.400 RG three. So then we cut a little hole in 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.440 the fence to try to see which bus he gets in. 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.440 We see which bus he gets in, jump in our car. 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.720 We hottail it after him all through downtown Richmond. We're 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:30.000 on forward lights. Then see him at the hotel, run 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.959 into the hotel. Security guards stop us. Then we're yelling 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.720 at him. Then finally comes over, gives us an autograph, 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.040 says damn yell are crazy, and then says about to us, 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.320 all right, well once again these are all nice autograph stories. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.079 We didn't get RG three to sign our Robert Griffith Jr. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:52.240 The third Jersey, did we, but he did send I 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.199 have his shoes that I think he used at the combine. 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.320 I think I have the gold spikes up here that 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:02.080 he provided. Yes, come on, As far as the autograph experience, 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:03.439 does it really count if you go to like to 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.800 a mall or someplace where someone is already signing things 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.079 their card or their book or whatever, as opposed to 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.040 trying to track someone down and go all the way 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.959 down to the field or sneak into something. Yeah, I 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.000 think any any place that you can get an autograph 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.600 is that it's like I got ed cranepool former Metsford 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.520 basement autograph on my little pink spaillding ball that you 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.000 play stickball with, but that that was a pre planned 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.800 signing that you just stand in line for. Or Randy 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.400 Rassmuss and an old offensive linement of the Jets at 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.840 some Sam Goody record store. That's isn't that kind of weak? Though? 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:35.839 If everyone's just online for you know, he's gonna be 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:37.719 there and he has to sign. Nobody needs to know 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.920 how you got the autograph, just that you have the honor. 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:42.720 There's no good story with that. You just you just 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.680 showed up in some place in Jersey and a parking lot. 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.600 Then there is signing. Everybody's yes. I kind of agree 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:52.079 with Todd. A prepaid mall event signature is not as 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.040 cool as a random like it's not. But you don't 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.479 have to say that you got it, that you prepaid 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.360 for this. But isn't part of the autograph of the story. 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.840 It is for me. But if you just want to 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.960 get an autograph, like my stories were just when I 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.760 was really young and trying to get these autographs and 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.160 how important they were, the fact that I saved these 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.920 programs or that my mom did and I still have 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.160 these programs of all these guys who signed it back 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:22.280 in the early seventies. Let's see who has a bad 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:26.600 autograph story. Luke and Alabama, Hey Luke, Hey Dan, thanks 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.920 for telling my calling. I'm I'm thirty four now and 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:31.960 I've never gotten over this. A matter of fact, I've 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.480 never asked for another autograph since. But I was fifteen 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.520 is the time? Fourteen fifteen at the state basketball tournament 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.760 in Alabama in Birmingham at the Civic Center. I'm a 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.920 junior high basketball player. I'm videoing the game for the 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:49.760 varsity team. And in the upstairs press walks walks Charles Barkley. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:54.360 It's just me and him. I grabbed my little booklet 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.360 there and I turned around, mister Barkley, will you signed? 0:10:56.400 --> 0:11:00.400 This doesn't even acknowledge me. Steps out of the press 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:04.679 box onto the stands, starts yelling, and runs down the 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:09.000 bleachers waving his hands. Everybody's clapping. It's Barkley, It's Barkley. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:14.320 He sits down and starts signing an autograph at the 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.839 court side. But he wouldn't. It was just me and him, 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.000 and he didn't have time for me. I've never asked 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.280 for another autograph Scarred for Life. Well, well, thank you, Luke. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.240 That's not like Charles, Jeff and Saint Louis. Hi, Jeff, 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.760 what do you have for me today? Good morning? Dan? 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:34.880 Okay mine is I was at much stadium watching big 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.080 Man Martin Mauire doing bad in practice, and he had 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.040 a bad session and I'm right at the dugout whenever 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.200 he's going back in and they said, hey, being mat 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.120 can I have your autograph? And eagle eyed me and 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.400 spit on the ground and walks in a dugout right 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.560 in front of me and my girlfriend. I think, see, 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.640 that's that's better than an autograph. Sometimes the story is 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:01.200 better than the actual autograph. And I ran into Wilt 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:05.440 Chamberlain years later at Madison Square Garden and I told 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.320 him the story about him telling me to get off 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:11.400 the Lakers bus, and he thought it was so funny. 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.120 And then he said, you want my autograph now, and 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.720 I said no, it just was a better story that 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:21.040 he told me to get off the bus. I saw 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:23.240 this story here. There was a couple of football items. 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.440 By the way, we'll talk to Bob Costas about baseball's 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.840 new proposal. Now they're talking eighty nine games. It feels 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.680 like they're going to settle maybe around seventy five. I 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.800 love Fight Island in Abu Dhabi. I love it UFC 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:39.760 two fifty one. I'm sure, why not live boxing last 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.480 night on the Mothership. Soccer's coming back. But we'll talk 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.760 to Bob about Major League Baseball and its plans there. 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:51.120 Dirk Cutter is the offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons, 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.559 and he was talking about Todd Gurling and he said that, 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.480 you know, the main question that no one seems to 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:03.119 know is what his health status is, what's his workload? 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.560 But he does go on to say that when he's healthy, 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.120 he's the best running back, arguably the best running back 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.800 in football. Isn't that part of the problem with Todd 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:16.599 Gurley that he's not healthy, Therefore he's not one of 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.920 the best running backs in football. Yes, mcgle wouldn't he 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.199 be a Los Angeles Ram if he was healthy? And 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.640 this would be a mood conversation. Well, that was what 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.440 my thought was of, Hey, he's when he's healthy, he's 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:33.199 arguably the Rams if if if he was healthy for 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.200 the Rams, they might have won the Super Bowl there. 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:39.679 But I thought that that was kind of interesting. He 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.600 can still do it. It's just a matter of how 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:46.760 often he can do it. Man, he's great for two 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:52.760 carries a game. You know, he's only twenty five, right, 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.920 and he had he had two seasons where he was 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:03.640 pretty special. But you know, you have that acl tear 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:07.120 and I don't know, it's I always like to see 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.000 how a running back does in the second half of 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.520 the season, Like Dalvin Cook to me, has no leverage, 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.360 no bargaining power, and he's going to try to hold 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:17.320 out and it's it's not gonna work. This is not 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.680 gonna work out well for Dalvin Cook and Minnesota not 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:24.400 going to But you know, Todd Gurley, if you limit him, 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.840 if you use him just enough, then maybe you can 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:28.960 get some home runs out of him. And maybe that's 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:30.240 what he's going to be, just going to be a 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.680 home run hitter for the Atlanta Falcons. There I saw 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:39.040 where Reggie Bush is welcome back. The NCAA barred him 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:45.040 and USC from I guess getting together associating, And now 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.120 that ten year ban is up, and what do you 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:52.680 do to welcome back Reggie Bush? Considering everything that happened 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.600 after that with Reggie Bush and USC hasn't been the same. 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:02.280 Do you have a welcome back Reggie Bush party? Yeah, Polly, 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:06.520 it looks like they are. USC. Trojan's Athletics official Twitter 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.960 put down welcome back Reggie Bush. He also posted one 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.640 just a few minutes ago from USC men's basketball welcome 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.040 back oj Mayo, the highest drafted player in program history, 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.080 has victually been reinstated. I didn't know he was. What 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.880 did he do? I don't know. They're bringing back everybody, 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.960 all right, well Reggie Bush is welcome back. Yes, Todd, 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.640 maybe you have a Reggie Bush Day and the opposite happens. 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.360 He gives everyone an attendance, all kinds of cash and prizes. 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.400 That's kind of funny. I think it's a nice thing 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.280 to do. Like Ellen's always giving out things on her show. 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.320 This would be perfect. All these things that I took 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.520 and I caused all this problem. Now you get a call, 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.520 you got a ten thousand. No. Whatever he gives out, 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.000 he's got to give back to the community that day, 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.920 back to you and thank you. Todd. You gotta laugh 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.280 out of Paulie and that's hard. Yeah, I'm kind of surprised. 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:55.000 I appreciate that. Felt like a courtesy laught. Does Reggie 0:15:55.000 --> 0:16:00.880 Bush get his heisman back? You know? All he had 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.280 to do is if you had this disagreement, somebody loans 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.480 you money and you buy your parents a house, you know, 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.880 a marketing company, and then if you feel like, hey, 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:10.360 I don't I'm not gonna pay you back, or I 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.240 found somebody else, or whatever that stance was at the time, 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.480 and then they go public and then it's over bull 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.200 if he takes care of this privately, you know, probably 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.800 like hundreds of athletes who have done this. Yeah. Point 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.680 the irony is the exact almost the exact same thinking 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.280 thing is happening right now with Zion Williams, and he 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.880 is going to be sued for agreeing to partner with 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.080 a marketing company and agency and by going back on 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:35.920 the deal and going with someone else, they're going to 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:37.720 call him out of the things he did. That's exactly 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.240 what happened to Reggie Bush. Yep, more phone calls. But 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:45.640 Reggie Bush, it's a ten year is it. I don't 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.440 a band that was placed on him in USC. But 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.320 now he gets to come back and he's part of 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.680 that Fox pregame show. I don't know if Reggie was 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.000 even allowed to go to USC on the field when 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.080 they did games. It feels like Liner was there, but 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.240 maybe I was a day when Leiner was being honored. 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:06.159 But Reggie Bush is welcome back to the USC family 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.879 there eighteen after the hour. Well, we'll get some more 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.200 phone calls. Bob Costas will join us coming up next 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.399 year on The Dan Patrick Show. Thanks for listening to 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.800 the Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch us 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.360 live every weekday morning nine to noon Eastern or six 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.280 to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.800 station for The Dan Patrick Show at Fox Sports Radio 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.399 dot com, or stream us live every day on the 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:32.359 iHeartRadio app by searching f s R. We'll talk to 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.919 Bob Costas here in a moment. Now. See, here's an 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:39.120 autograph story from Cody Brooks. When I was twelve years old, 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.720 I saw Kobe Bryant at the Nike employees store here 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.600 in Portland, Oregon. When I went up to him to 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.720 ask him for an autograph, he said no because I 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.320 was wearing all Air Jordan's stuff. I like that. I 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.160 like the autograph stories that don't have a happy ending, 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:56.720 just like my Will Chamberlain Storyete Paully just sent sent 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.280 me this stat He's all giddy about this. When Pete 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.600 Carroll coach, they won eleven or more games seven times. 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:06.480 In the ten years since Pete Carroll left USC, USC 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:10.080 has won eleven or more games just once. And since 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:16.320 Pete Carroll left, USC has had four head coaches. Is 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.560 Bob Costas set to Jonas there? Well? Fritzie's trying to 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:23.600 get him on the phone here in two seasons, two 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:25.600 great seasons. I was talking about Todd Gurley being the 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:27.639 best running back in football. In those two seasons, he 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.480 scored a total of forty touchdowns. No other player in 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.600 the NFL scored more than thirty two touchdowns over that 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:37.800 same time period. He's only twenty five. I just don't 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:42.320 know can he have a Frank Gore like career Because 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:46.320 Frank Gore blew out both of his knees in college, 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.680 I believe, And here he is with what fifteen thousand 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:53.320 career yards. I don't know if Todd Gurley can be 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.399 that kind of running back. And the Falcon's taken a 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:58.560 chance and seeing if they can get some home runs 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:00.280 out of him, because that's really what I'm gonna have 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.520 to use Todd Gurley for. Do I give him fifteen 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:07.719 touches a game? But Matt Ryan was gushing about Todd Gurley. 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.320 Dirk Cutter, the offensive coordinator, gushing about him. Yeah, Polly, 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.080 frank Or is the perfect running back. He's never been paid. 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.000 He always makes about two or three million dollars a year. 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:20.520 Last year made one point two million. He's never gotten 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:22.920 the big money, frank Or, He's never gotten a big contract, 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:26.439 so he's been the perfect running back. Bob Costas, a 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.840 Hall of Fame broadcaster and MLB Network, has launched a 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.880 new series. It's called Sounds of Baseball, co hosted by 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.800 Bob and Tom Berducci, and you look back on some 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.439 of the greatest calls moments from great broadcasters. Vin Scully 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:43.840 was featured first, Jack Buck, Bob Huker and others will 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.359 follow Bob joining us on the program. Good morning, Bob, 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:51.320 how's your morale? Not too bad? Not too bad all 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:53.720 things considered. We're kind of getting used to it, you know, 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:55.760 just waiting it out and seeing what's going to happen. 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.720 But you're waiting for baseball to come back. What do 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:02.400 you do all day? Well, I've been able to read 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:07.359 more outside sports and outside preparation than I used to 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.159 because there isn't that much to prepare for. You know, 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:12.679 we spend so much time, I'm sure we're very much 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:16.760 alike in this respect, reading newspapers, reading magazines, not enough 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.520 time to delve into books. And over the last many weeks, 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:21.760 I've been able to do that. Doing that a lot 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.240 of people are doing, catching up on stuff a ton 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.520 Netflix or old movies or whatever it may be. And 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:30.639 you know, that's pretty much it much in some of 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.360 the archival games that show up on the all sports networks, 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:35.639 and what you just mentioned is one of the great 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.520 labors of love. Ever, I don't know if you're able 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:42.520 to catch it. I'm sure they'll repeat it two hours 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.920 with Din Scully drew such a response, you know, during 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.000 the Last Dance or whatever, I'd hear from a lot 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:51.439 of people because that was being watched by millions of people. 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:55.240 But the response to this among whatever size audience happened 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:57.960 to catch it on a Monday night on MLB Network 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:02.120 really shows that that Vin is in a category all 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:04.800 his own. And the way people respond to this kind 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:08.760 of programming, it's nostalgic, but it's also new. It's just 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:12.120 a different way in it's just a series of clips 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:15.399 and highlights. We try to get to kind of the 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:19.720 mosaic of what made him different and what made him tremendous. 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:22.880 And there's so much baseball history going back to nineteen 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:26.040