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The Great Bob Costas 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:10.680 will join us coming up a little bit later on 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.880 recapping all the baseball If anyone leaves a sporting event 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.600 and miss is a great comeback, then that's on them, 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.959 especially in the playoffs. But we do know some fans 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.800 have made mistakes before, and maybe some fans in Los 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.680 Angeles yesterday might have left. Dodgers were down five two 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.160 in the eighth inning. They'd never come back when they 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.120 were trailing by three or more after seven innings in 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:37.600 their long COO season history, so what's la do? They 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.720 turned to Cody Bellinger, the former MVP who hit just 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:44.280 one sixty five on the season, but Bellinger, putting that 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.560 behind him, a three run homer tied the game. Mookie 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.120 Betts delivered the game winner and they win six to five. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.120 They now trail Atlanta two one in the series. Doesn't 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.800 feel like that that they're down to one, but after 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:01.040 those wins, those kind of wins, those sometimes feel like 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.920 more than just one victory. A few more outs in 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.440 this series could have been basically over, But now Los 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:10.720 Angeles has momentum and they head into Game four. Each 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.840 game has been decided late by just one run for 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.440 the Dodgers and Braves fans. It's exhausting for the rest 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.520 of us. It's fun baseball, and I started to wonder 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:24.880 about Cody Bellinger. Cody Bellinger, you know, when you're getting 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.160 late into a game, has been great in the postseason 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.720 so far, and you know that's what you want. He 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.720 struggled but found a way to somehow be able to 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.080 come up with a big hit. And you know, it 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.000 was a rough regular season for him. But the Dodgers, 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.120 they're ten to o against the Braves in their last 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.800 ten meetings at Dodger Stadium, twenty three and four against 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.560 the Braves and Dodger Stadium. That goes back to the 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:54.760 twenty thirteen National League Division Series. The Astros, meanwhile, they 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.880 tied their game at two two in the eighth inning, 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.440 then blew it open seven runs in the night a thinning, 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:04.520 beating the Red Sox and evening the American League Championship 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.519 Series at two games apiece. And once again the Astros 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.280 do it. They scored all their runs in the ninth 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.960 inning with two outs, matching the most runs in an 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:17.200 inning with two outs in postseason history. They're great with 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:21.160 two outs. They've scored thirty six two out runs this postseason. 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.040 That's the most by any American League team. Prior to 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:28.280 the World Series in baseball history. That clutched gene that 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.720 they still had. And you know, you can start to 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.960 look at some of the calls because in the postseason 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.760 we care about this, a strike here, a ball here, 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.360 a miss call here. And it just felt like it 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:45.080 was bad for both teams last night in Fenway, and 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.400 I know there's going to be this cry for all 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.920 we need to have, you know, robotic umpires or do 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.720 what Tennis does where you have a strike zone and 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:54.760 you have a beep when it's in and you know 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.080 there's no beep when it's not. We're not there yet. 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.000 I would just love for these umpires to have to 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.200 answer after a game, just to say, give us an 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.760 idea of what you're looking at, because if you're missing 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:13.080 fifteen to twenty pitches in a game, including a big 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.880 one in the ninth inning, then you know, that can 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:21.040 change a series. That can change the fate for players, managers, gms, 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.680 certainly the fans. And I don't think we're there yet 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.840 with the robotic umpire or you're gonna have a strike zone, 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.440 an automated strike zone, but I do think we'll get 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:35.200 to it, because if you have the technology why not 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.640 use the technology. And I know you're going to get 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.760 the old school, which I'm supposed to be part of. 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:41.960 They're gonna go, oh, you gotta that's part of the 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:46.800 flavor of the game where the umpire misses a call. Okay, 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.720 but then is it the flavor when he misses a 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.919 call at first base or at home plate or second base. No, 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.200 it's not the flavor. Oh, that's part of the folklore. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.120 That's what makes the game so great. The interpretation of 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:03.920 a strike zone really not for me. If I'm a pitcher, 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:05.840 do I go ah? It's part of the game. It's 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.000 part of the personality of it. He just missed that 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:12.000 call there, Nathan Vivaldi is probably not going. Man, that's 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.840 part of the game. You know, I'm all right with that. 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:20.160 I never understood why umpires would give great pitchers more 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.679 latitude or longitude when it came to a strike zone. 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:28.160 You know, when you're going to Greg Maddox, it's Greg Maddock, 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.080 you gotta give him that, or Tom Glavin Like, no, 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.320 it's like a phantom foul that Michael Jordan would go 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.240 to the hoop and you knew somebody was gonna get 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.120 whistled for a foul, whether he found him or not. 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.960 It's like, it's Michael Jordan. Don't you give that to 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.720 the guys who aren't as good to help him out 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.160 a little bit. But this is always going to be 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.479 that curiosity of I don't I just don't know why 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.960 baseball doesn't go this is how we call a strike, 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.159 and this is how we call a ball, not you know, 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.920 I always give the high strike. You know, I never 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:02.800 give that eye strike. You know I'll give you on 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:06.320 the black, And I never understood that it shouldn't it 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.479 be Do we do that in any other sport where 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.120 you got an official, maybe a back judge in the 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.960 NFL goes you know, i'd like to I like to 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.560 let you put your hands on the wide receiver, or 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.160 I don't let you put your hand on the wide receiver. No, 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.640 this is how you call a game. But for some reason, 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.240 we've allowed Joe West and some of these other umpires 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.240 for decades to be able to have their own personality. 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.720 And I don't know if baseball's headed in that direction. 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.920 But there were some pitches in the Red Sox Astros 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.000 game where I went, man, oh man, this guy's and 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:45.080 I don't mention names. He was consistently bad, you know, 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.960 and he was consistent for both teams, just bad, And 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.239 you go, how does baseball not and this is supposed 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.760 to be your elite umpires, this is a postseason, this 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.960 is a reward here, and you're going, I'm missing something here. 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.520 And I know sometimes the anger that camera, that center 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.560 field camera is not really right, you know, behind second 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.120 base looking in it's off to the side a little bit, 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:12.200 so it is deceiving. But they do have stats, analytics 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:16.360 of course, that will tell you what is a missed call, 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.720 and miss call usually means it has to be six 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.440 inches outside of the strike zone. If you miss a call, 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.200 it's got to be kind of a blatant missed call, 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.440 not just something that's on the edge. But watching last 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:32.800 night yesterday, they see a different game than I do. 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.600 And I don't think it's great for baseball, not when 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.960 you're at this stage of the season and you had 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.720 that on display last night. Yes, Paulie, it was interesting though. 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.080 Red Sox fans are very upset because you have all 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.800 these curveball they thought was a strike and the ending 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.640 would have been over to been tied to too. But 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.280 it's the ninth inning if that umpire was having a 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.800 tight strike zone side to side nine innings in, shouldn't 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.280 the pitchers know this. Shouldn't they be discussing the dugout 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.080 and realize you may not get that pitch that you 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.080 you by the ninth inning, you would know what that 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.440 ump is doing. You're tracking every pitch. That's all the 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.200 pitching coaches do. They should know what they can get. Yeah, 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:08.960 but that wasn't one of those where you go, yeah, 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.320 he's not going to give that to me. That was 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.520 one of those where that's strike. That's it, that's strike, 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.600 and then they show it from up above and then 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.280 you see it where it goes over the plate, because 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.000 sometimes you can throw a breaking ball and it sort 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.360 of comes around the plate and then where the catcher 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.680 catches it. That was where's it going to go over 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.160 the plate? Oh yeah, that's inside corn. Yeah, that's definitely 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.800 a strike. Actually that was an outside part of the plate, 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.400 but that was strike. Absolutely. Yeah. You gotta do like 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:39.000 Kelley Jansen the Dodgers, just strike everybod take the umpire 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:40.880 out of it. Yeah, that was great. There was a 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.840 lot of drama there, and I was busy. I was busy. 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.960 I was La Centric, although I flipped around a little bit. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.680 I was watching the Lakers. I watched the Bucks get 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.959 their championship rings, and uh, we'll talk about that in 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.800 a little bit. I thought it was wonderful. That was great, 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.800 great night there in Milwaukee. And you know, you got 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.199 the nets in town and they rough them up. You 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.920 honest look great. But flipping them back and forth. I'm 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.520 watching the Dodgers game and I'm thinking, man five two, Yeah, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.720 they're not doing anything offensively, and Bellinger hits a ball 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.040 and this is how it sounded on KLAC, the Dodgers 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.480 Radio network, with Charlie Steiner with the call, how don't 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:26.800 find all the right center field? It's well, hit is Callinger. 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:32.040 We've got a new game. It's time to fun. You know, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.120 it's little things. Sometimes he got on bass in the 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.520 Giant Series with a walk, and then Taylor hits the 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.960 home run. And then this one that pitches up and 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.440 went after it. I didn't think it was out and 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.439 it just kept carrying into the night. And Charlie Steiner 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.280 with the call, McLevin, you got a pull question for me? 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.439 Do you want to put up? Should they computerize the 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.200 strike zone to see what the fans are. It's kind 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.560 of like a negative question. But I still don't totally 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.840 get why they're not doing it to something. I don't 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.320 know how you know the rhythm of the game, That's 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.400 what I want to know. The games are so long now, ye, 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:12.160 I mean sometimes thirty forty five an hour longer than 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:16.719 they used to be. The Dodgers using nine pitchers. I mean, 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.040 the games are just long. I don't want them to 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.120 go longer. I want them to get the call right. 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.320 But I just don't know. If we remember, replay was 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.760 instant replay and then it's now just called replay because 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.720 it takes forever. And I think the game. You can 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.240 have a four hour game, but I like a four 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:39.080 hour game when it actually moves along, not let's start stop, 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.280 start stop, start stop. And that would be my biggest 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:47.280 apprehension here. How do you then signal a strike? Is 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.520 there a sound effect? Is there a red light or 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.920 a blue light that comes on? Like, I don't know 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.320 how they would do that, but I'd be curious about it, 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.480 and I'm open to it. It's just because I watched 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:02.360 baseball for you know, better part of fifty years, and 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.679 you sometimes will watch and you know, that umpire doesn't 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.080 like that hitter or doesn't like that pitcher, plain and simple, 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.560 I'm going to give you that pitch. I'm not giving 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.600 you that pitch. I remember talking to somebody in baseball. 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.280 I don't I don't want to even hint at who 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:22.520 it was, but they talked about a hitter and said, 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.600 he's always going to get if he takes a pitch, 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.400 he's going to get that call always. And I want 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:34.880 why because and I was told because he's bleeping Wade Boggs. 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:39.440 And I went, so, Wade Boggs takes a pitch, the 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:43.560 umpire knows Wade bogs is going to be correct more 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.520 than the umpire will be. And this is coming from 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:53.560 somebody who is a person of authority who would say, yeah, 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.440 that you have umpire, Because when when this is brought up, 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.760 when they have these meetings and you know, somebody say, hey, 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.840 you know these pitches or the you know these are 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.520 outside in their minds, they're like, who's at the plate? 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.959 Did they take a pitch? And if they if Bonds 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.120 took a pitch, if Tony Gwynn took a pitch, if 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:18.599 Wade Boggs took a pitch, that umpire knows, man, I 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.080 I don't want to be I don't want to show up. 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.360 Wade Boggs, Tony Glenn Bert, You're like, these guys don't 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:28.760 make mistakes. There. That's Wade ff and Bonds. Yes, Paul 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.840 Tony Gwynn, the great guy from the Padres. He only 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:33.240 got kicked out of one game in his career. And 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.720 the story goes that he was arguing with the umpire, 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.720 which was Joe West by the way, and he goes, 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:40.719 you know how I know that pitch was a ball 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:42.400 because I didn't swing at it. And that was the 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:46.640 opening line of the argument. By the way, Cody Bellinger 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.560 in the seventh inning or later this postseason is batting 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.920 five seventy one. That's the highest average by any player 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.280 with more than five plate appearances. All Right, we'll take 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.000 a break. There's a lot to get to and we'll 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:04.079 certainly talked to Bob Costas about the baseball. This situation 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:08.880 in Philadelphia is not getting better anytime soon. Ben Simmons 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:13.520 basically said, hey, I don't want to practice, and now 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:18.439 he's been suspended. Crazy day yesterday, I thought, okay, this 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.520 is when Ben grows up and he shows he's tough 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:25.120 like I still don't know why. Who is Ben mad At? 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.240 That's why I want to know. Thanks for listening to 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.640 The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch us 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:33.200 live every weekday morning nine to noon Eastern or six 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.120 to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.600 station for The Dan Patrick Show at Fox Sports Radio 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.240 dot com, or stream us live every day on the 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:46.120 iHeartRadio app by searching f s R, or stream us 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.160 live on the Peacock Act. Before we check in with 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:53.720 Marcus Hayes, the Philadelphia Inquire columnist, here's some comments yesterday, 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:58.080 Doc Rivers on kicking Ben Simmons out of practice. It 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.160 was a distraction today and think he wanted to do 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.720 what everybody else is doing. And it was early, It 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.000 wasn't a big deal. Just tell him he should leave 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.920 them and we went on with practice and then Joe l. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:16.000 Nbad talked to the media about Ben Simmons. At this point, 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.600 I don't care about that man, honestly. If he does 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.160 whatever he wants. Uh, you know, that's not my job. 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.840 You know, that's those guys jobs. You know, I'm only 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:30.480 focused on trying to make the team better, win some games. Uh, 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:34.080 you know, play hard every night, trying to lead in 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.880 love of gods that we have here. And I'm sure 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.960 that fel the same way because you know, our chemistry 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.960 has been excellent despite you know, everything that's been happening 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:47.080 if in the last few months. Uh so yeah, like 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:51.000 I said, I don't I don't really care. Oh but wait, 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.920 there's one more from Joe l Nbad. But at the 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.480 end of the day, our job is not to baby 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.600 see somebody. Uh you know, we we get paid up. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.920 We're just on the Clark. Go out play Hark, win 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.960 some games. That's how we get paid phone. We don't 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.080 get paid to come out here, you know, try to 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:13.080 baby see somebody here. So that's that's on our job. 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.800 And I'm sure my timms fold aw. That is courtesy 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.520 MDC Sports Philadelphia. Let's bring it in Marcus Hayes to 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:25.480 Philadelphia inquire a columnist, what the hell happened yesterday? They've 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.520 had enough. They've just had enough. I mean Ben's been 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:32.640 there for you know, counting his quarantine, more than a week, 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:38.080 and he hasn't engaged with his teammates. He won't acknowledge 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:42.280 people in the building. He talks to the d guess 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.800 the G League coaches now, but he won't talk to 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.240 his own coaches. I mean, he's he's committing careers suicide 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:52.560 because zan I mean, what team is going to take 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.320 a chance that he's not going to do the same 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.800 thing with them once he lands there. Who is he 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:02.080 mad at? He's mad at Doc Rivers for not continuing 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.440 to defend him and not promoting him as a point guard. 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:06.800 At the end of last season, when they lost Game seven, 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.600 one of my colleagues, David Murphy, asked, Doc, do you 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.280 think Ben can be the point guard of a championships team? 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:17.400 And Doc clearly doesn't, as Doc was a point guard 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.800 himself in a very similar point guard too Ben Simmons, 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.200 And he said, I don't know. I can't answer that question. 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.840 He didn't say yes, that's the problem. And then after 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.680 Doc spoke, Joel Embiid was asked, what do you think 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.040 the turning point of the game was, and he said, 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:33.760 you know, when we didn't make the when we didn't 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:35.360 take the dunk with three and a half minutes left. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:41.400 So he's mad at them, he's embarrassed by the reaction 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:46.400 from him not taking that dunk, and he's kind of 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.920 he's in a spot I think personally where he thinks 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:56.200 a fresh start changes everything, where Philadelphia is mean to him, 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.960 and if he gets out of Philadelphia everything will be better. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:04.240 Because you know, we're in nineteen we're in eighteen fifteen, 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.040 and nobody knows what happened in Philadelphia. Wherever he goes next. 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:11.840 I don't know what he's thinking there. What happens today? Nothing, 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:13.800 I mean, he doesn't go he didn't fly with the team. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:18.480 He's not with them for their first game tonight, and 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:23.399 the Sixers are weird, say never practice after the day 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.920 after the game, especially a road game, so they won't 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.560 practice tomorrow. Doc Rivers said, hey, you know, we'll see 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:30.840 what happens Thursday. Well, nothing's gonna happen Thursday. Guys come 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:32.600 in for treatment if they want it, they maybe do 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:34.639 some film stuff. Ben won't be asking to do the 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:36.960 film stuff because he wasn't involved in the game. So 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:40.040 it'll be before the shootaround Friday before we know kind 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.320 of where the next shoe drops, because there won't be 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:47.280 another practice, so I don't expect him to play anytime soon. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.760 I think Doc has had enough. Finally, after a year 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:55.639 of carrying water lying for Ben Simmons, you know, and 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:59.520 insulting anyone who deigned to ask, well, Ben Simmons has 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.600 these agencies, can you fix him this way? This way that? Oh, 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:06.160 you have to treasure him. He's special. I think he's 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.959 embarrassed of how he acted last year, feels betrayed. So 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.320 does Joel Embide, who carried water for him a lot. 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:15.399 So I just don't think he's going to play or 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:20.879 get paid more importantly until he capitulates, and I'm not 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.359 sure that that's going to happen anytime soon either. I 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:29.320 just wonder he's trying to take the James Harden approach. 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.560 He's just not as good as James Harden. Like James 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.520 Harden is still valuable even if he's out of shape 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.680 and doesn't want to play for Houston. Ben Simmons still 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.960 can't shoot. He's still a liability in certain areas here. 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.199 Who's gonna want to trade for him? Like? Do you 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.240 have actual teams that would actually be interested in him? 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:50.320 I mean, I think Cleveland would be interested in him, 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.680 in him as a as a rebuilding centerpiece to sort 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:57.240 of do whatever he wants and market the team, but 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:00.560 certainly no contender. I mean, he's putting himself a position 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:07.800 where no team that is viable can risk his psychology, 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:11.040 can risk his mental state. Not to mention the shooting, 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.720 I mean, I think he'd be a spectacular powerful you know, 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:19.280 Dennis Rodman with a handle, Draymond Green with you know better, 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.040 even better passing ability. Maybe not as good a defender 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.679 as Draymond, but he wants to be a point guard, 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:27.639 and he wants to do things his own way, and 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:29.520 he wants to be a point guard who doesn't have 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:34.800 to shoot and doesn't have to be accountable. So it's 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.080 it's a very very small box. But I think it's 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.840 a place like Cleveland where things are horrible and there 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:42.520 they need they need a centerpiece is a spot they 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:44.480 just don't have anything the Sixers would be interested in 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:48.840 trading for to make them decent. You know, they don't 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:51.920 have pieces in Cleveland that can play, that can break 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:55.280 the starting lineup. Well, I look at Ben. You can't 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.159 put him in a situation where it's a high pressure situation. 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.320 He really has to go to a team that doesn't 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.840 have any chance of winning. Therefore, he doesn't get into 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:05.440 these situations where he doesn't want to shoot a big 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:08.280 free throw or make a big play, a big dunk 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:10.800 and I agree with you. He's not a point guards. 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:14.320 He wants to be Magic Johnson. Well, Magic played at 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.640 a time when he didn't need to have a jumper. 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:20.600 He did get a jumper, or at least a set shot. 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:23.320 Ben doesn't have that. You can be six to nine 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.159 and have a good handle, but in today's NBA, if 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:28.000 you're gonna play the point, got to be able to 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:30.880 make free throws and you got at least be respectable 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:34.480 from you know, fifteen to eighteen feet or like Jannis, 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:36.840 I mean, you have to be willing to fail. That's 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:40.000 the issue with Ben. It's not that he can't make 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.800 free throws. I mean he hasn't lately, but it's not 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:45.560 that he can't make free throws at a clip where 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:47.920 you don't hack a Ben in the middle of the game. 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:50.879 I mean that's kind of over. And he's not a 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:54.280 good shooter. But you can shoot thirty one percent from 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:57.120 fifteen feet and out and still be a threat. I mean, 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:00.479 your head fake works, but he won't do it like 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.280 Jannis has is not a good shooter. Is a you know, 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:06.640 there's a ritual that you know, road teams go through 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:10.000 to embarrass amount of free throw line. But he's so great. Yeah, 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:13.240 he's so courageous. He's such a man that he doesn't 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:14.879 care about that because he wants to win and he 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:16.720 wants to do what's right. He wants to do what's best. 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:19.320 And that's the paradox with Ben. He wants to go 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:22.600 somewhere to win, but he doesn't want to do what 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:26.480 it takes to win. Yeah. Well, when you've been coddled, 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:29.000 and we talked about this the last time, that you 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:31.920 know why I love Yannis because he had to prove himself. 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:34.480 He works hard every mean, he's still working hard, and 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:38.119 he's not afraid of being laughed at embarrassed because he 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.040 just wants to be great. Ben gets laughed at and 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:42.600 then he wants to go into a shell and then 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:45.800 say stop doing that to me. Instead of being a man, 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:48.840 step up and go, hey, I'm gonna be great. I 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:51.440 want to be great. I want to prove everybody wrong. 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:54.439