Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 1: Danas Dan Patrick Show, morale is high. I let the
Speaker 1: Dane's have a dish off the trigger grill. The buffalo
Speaker 1: chicken sliders that Alan are a great it guy slash
Speaker 1: chef cook was he was drawing up for us here
Speaker 1: on this Meat Friday. Cajun shrimp, the green chili mac
Speaker 1: and cheese will have to wait. The baked taco skillet dip,
Speaker 1: and the rots that has to wait for about an
Speaker 1: hour here, all right, guys, Todd, I'm talking to you, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I said you could have one slider, and I
Speaker 1: took two sliders and some chick and and you almost
Speaker 1: went into the mac and chefe. I came very close.
Speaker 1: The only reason I didn't I didn't see any utensils
Speaker 1: inside something. Why is it? Why do I have rules here? Tom?
Speaker 1: You have rules to be followed. And I should have
Speaker 1: just had one slider. And then I didn't even get
Speaker 1: the bread on the bottom of the slider right scooped
Speaker 1: it poorly and I missed the bottom bun of the
Speaker 1: slider that there was the latest thing to be making fun.
Speaker 1: I took the tops of the sandwiches and left the
Speaker 1: bottoms for others. Yeah, carbs, yea, though not the pile on,
Speaker 1: but that is kind of a I thought when I
Speaker 1: was scooping it that there was a role on the bottom.
Speaker 1: But he doesn't know how to scoop. That's why I
Speaker 1: don't think he. I don't think he. Ever, you've never
Speaker 1: served yourself. But I thought each one was intact. Just
Speaker 1: from the top, it looked like each one was an individual,
Speaker 1: full thing. But there was no button on the bottom,
Speaker 1: all right, So no other food until the end of
Speaker 1: the show. Can you guys do that? Can you? Can
Speaker 1: you somehow hold out for fifty eight minutes? Well, eleven
Speaker 1: forty five we could Eagles over the Giants. Epic battle
Speaker 1: last night. I actually was entertained by because there were
Speaker 1: some storylines here. I was curious about Daniel Jones and
Speaker 1: you know, trying to hold onto the football, and then
Speaker 1: we had the Daniel Jones gift where he fell down.
Speaker 1: Even though he fell down, they did score on that drive.
Speaker 1: Imagine if they only kicked a field goal there and
Speaker 1: they lost because he missed out on a sure touchdown there. Now,
Speaker 1: to me, the bigger mistake, but it's not going to
Speaker 1: be as amplified because it's not embarrassing Evan Ingram dropping
Speaker 1: that football in the third down that wins the game
Speaker 1: for the Giants. If Carson Wentz doesn't win that game,
Speaker 1: then they're calling for Jalen Hurts, or at least the
Speaker 1: call is even louder for Jalen Hurts. Jalen Hurts is
Speaker 1: not the answer. I just want to let people know
Speaker 1: he might be. Why would I put a rookie in
Speaker 1: who's had no training camp and I'm going to have
Speaker 1: him behind that bad offensive line unless you're saying to him, hey,
Speaker 1: you got to basically do this with your arm, don't
Speaker 1: throw the football. Carson Wentz used to be and it
Speaker 1: wasn't that long ago. He was a high end quarterback.
Speaker 1: I think he can still be a high end quarterback,
Speaker 1: but we may not know that this year. The injuries,
Speaker 1: that offensive line. He does hold under the ball too long.
Speaker 1: But we love the backup quarterback, and certainly in Philadelphia
Speaker 1: they love the backup quarterback. You got a guy who
Speaker 1: can still play at an elite level in Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: You may not lie how it looks and how inconsistent
Speaker 1: he is, but there's a lot of teams that would
Speaker 1: love to have Carson Wentz on there too. Yeah, Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz His career reminds me a little bit. Stay with
Speaker 1: me of remember Tim Couch out of Kentucky. He went
Speaker 1: to the Browns and he had a lot of promise.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he was ever as good as
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz's first two years, but and then it just
Speaker 1: kind of faded away with injuries and regression. He played
Speaker 1: on a bad team. I don't think I think Tim
Speaker 1: was a good pocket passer, but quarterbacks out of Kentucky
Speaker 1: not exactly a football factory for quarterbacks, and the Browns
Speaker 1: took him number one overall. You know, Carson went to
Speaker 1: a good team, or at least a team that had
Speaker 1: some talent. They had offensive and defensive line talent, but
Speaker 1: they had the talent because they don't now. Yeah, McLevin,
Speaker 1: I feel like that analogy is a stretch because Carson
Speaker 1: would have been MVP that year he got hurt. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was high, high, high level. Yeah, it's not it's
Speaker 1: not apples. It's definitely apples in origins, but it just
Speaker 1: feels like it's he's healthy, he's playing he's just When
Speaker 1: was the last time you saw him play really really well?
Speaker 1: I can't remember it well. I don't know. Last year.
Speaker 1: At the end of last year he was on fire
Speaker 1: for four games Jim Couch if you look at his numbers.
Speaker 1: But but I think he was sacked probably fifteen times
Speaker 1: that you know, each of the first two seasons there
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. It was a bad team there. Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: went to a better team. They traded up to get him.
Speaker 1: They were a better team than Tim Couch went to Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz can be a great quarterback. I think we
Speaker 1: forget that. And you know, sometimes it takes that moment
Speaker 1: where unfortunately you have to go, oh my gosh, that's right.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't try to run and take on defensive players
Speaker 1: like he did against the Rams. But he would have
Speaker 1: been the MVP that season. Yeah, mcleven. But bottom line,
Speaker 1: and I'm putting on my Eagles. Okay, for the Eagles
Speaker 1: to win, Carson has to run around and make plays
Speaker 1: and he's gonna get hurt if he does. He will
Speaker 1: it's a catch twenty two. If he stays in the pocket,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna win because the lion stinks, right, now, yes,
Speaker 1: he's gonna This is gonna be the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Because Lane Johnson goes out for two plays and then
Speaker 1: comes out. You know, they're decimated by injuries, and you know,
Speaker 1: you look at some of their skill position players, we say, wow,
Speaker 1: they look pretty good. If I said those are the
Speaker 1: skill position players to start the season, you would have went,
Speaker 1: oh my god, who are these guys? But they did perform.
Speaker 1: They have performed. They lose to Sean Jackson, which is
Speaker 1: a big injury. He looked great too. Yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 1: it looks like he's gonna miss quite a bit of time. Yeah, mclo.
Speaker 1: If they had lost last night, they would have gone
Speaker 1: to one, five and one. Would it be full cell
Speaker 1: at the trade deadline the November third trade laser, Well,
Speaker 1: who are your selling? Well, Ashon Jeffreys on the block
Speaker 1: they tried to trade zach Ertz already reportedly, No, they're
Speaker 1: already in a Cell mode. Yeah, it would you still
Speaker 1: sell some of those guys. Sure, but you can win
Speaker 1: the division, I know, but that doesn't mean it's like
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Cowboys could win the division. The Cowboys got problems.
Speaker 1: Even if you win the division, you still have some issues.
Speaker 1: There and if the Eagles win, it kind of covers
Speaker 1: up what your problems are. And some of these teams
Speaker 1: don't know that they're in a rebuild, like we try
Speaker 1: to reload. Minnesota tried to reload, but they might be
Speaker 1: in a rebuild now, believe it or not. Even though
Speaker 1: you have a really good wide receiver in Jefferson Young
Speaker 1: feeling it can still be elite. Do you get rid
Speaker 1: of Kyle Rudolph here? Do you ship him someplace? You
Speaker 1: got Kirk d Cousins as your quarterback at least for
Speaker 1: this year and probably next year. Dalvin Cook, you got
Speaker 1: him under contract. They have a young nucleus here, you
Speaker 1: would think, and it feels like they're in a rebuild,
Speaker 1: not reload mode, and it doesn't take long before these
Speaker 1: teams decide to do so. Here we are, what's seven
Speaker 1: weeks in trade deadline is going to be coming up,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if anybody gets shipped here. I don't.
Speaker 1: Usually we get to the trade deadline and we go, oh,
Speaker 1: this guy might get traded or this team could trade
Speaker 1: for that guy, and it usually doesn't happen. I thought
Speaker 1: it was extremely sneaky and well done that Baltimore swoops
Speaker 1: in and takes Yannick and Goquay, who's already under contract.
Speaker 1: He's twenty five. How is Seattle not in the market
Speaker 1: for Yannick and Goquay. Seattle's defense is one of the
Speaker 1: worst defenses in the last fifty years. Yannick and Goatway
Speaker 1: comes in and he's their best defender along with Bobby Wagner. Instead,
Speaker 1: Seattle wants to bring in Antonio Brown. I guess the
Speaker 1: logic is, we're just going to try to be like
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs of the NFC. We're just going
Speaker 1: to score as much as we can. But keep in
Speaker 1: mind with the Chiefs, their defense won them a Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and that's really the key to always remember it. You
Speaker 1: can score, eventually, you're gonna stop somebody, and that may
Speaker 1: come back and haunt Seattle. You brought in Jomal Adams
Speaker 1: and that was a good pick up here, but Yannick
Speaker 1: and Goquay was out there for what a third round
Speaker 1: pick and a conditional fifth round pick. Yeah, mclu And
Speaker 1: by the way, if he leaves a free agency, the
Speaker 1: Ravens get a third round pick, or if Judon leaves,
Speaker 1: so they don't cost anything. Do you have a game
Speaker 1: for me, McLevin. Okay, yes, it's been in the news
Speaker 1: a lot o Clyde, Edwards, Hilaire and Travis etn. How
Speaker 1: do you pronounce his name? There was a shocking news
Speaker 1: flash yesterday there's a player in the NFL who told
Speaker 1: the media he's they've been doing his name wrong. He
Speaker 1: is a I'll give you a hint, tight end David
Speaker 1: and Joeku ooh. I don't think anyone thought they had
Speaker 1: his name right. No, that's not him, okay, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if anyone even knows this player, by the way,
Speaker 1: but he had a huge game a few weeks ago, right,
Speaker 1: you can tell me. Packers tight end Robert Tonyan Yeah okay,
Speaker 1: came out and said that his name ryans with Funyan
Speaker 1: and that the Green Bay media has been doing it
Speaker 1: wrong all along. So it's Tunyan, Robert Tunyan the Packers. Yes, okay, Wow,
Speaker 1: now you know it's Tanyan, right, I mean it's spelled
Speaker 1: t O n y A n. This is this is
Speaker 1: breaking news. Yeah. Does Adam Schefter know this? Uh? Jay
Speaker 1: Glazer Packers pr issued a release just with this back.
Speaker 1: That was the whole release. Now was it out there
Speaker 1: before or that it wasn't out there before and the
Speaker 1: Packers PR department didn't put it out there to let
Speaker 1: people know how to pronounce his name. No, Robert Tonyan
Speaker 1: said that he did not want to correct anybody over
Speaker 1: the last two years because he thought it impolite. So
Speaker 1: he told the PR, I think it's time to go
Speaker 1: with my right name. So so now he thinks it's impolite,
Speaker 1: I guess, so, I guess. So can you see a
Speaker 1: young player doing that where everyone says your name wrong
Speaker 1: and just like, yeah, I think Clyde Edwards, Hilaire, you know,
Speaker 1: we're Travis et t n. Yeah, but you have to
Speaker 1: wait till you have a big game, like it's Tannin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had a three touchdown game the other day. So
Speaker 1: now he's that's exactly right. He's established. Now he can
Speaker 1: he can wag the dog a little bit. He's Tonyan
Speaker 1: Tonyan Tonyan rhymes with Funyan. Thank you, Paul Bunyan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of oversaw that, Yeah you did. I thought
Speaker 1: it was Yannick and goquay. Well, I don't even know
Speaker 1: how to do that is a ya Yannick, But I
Speaker 1: will say you were out in front of this story nationally.
Speaker 1: You were out in front of this story and thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you. McLevin I at eight seven seven three D
Speaker 1: P show email address dp A dan Patrick dot com
Speaker 1: Twitter handle at dp show. The best NFL game this
Speaker 1: weekend is Jimmy Garoppolo in New England. Do the Raiders
Speaker 1: have their game with Tampa Bay this weekend with COVID
Speaker 1: or is it moved to like Wednesday morning? We're gonna
Speaker 1: get to a point where we go, Uh, can we
Speaker 1: play Wednesday morning? Yeah? About I don't know ten o'clock. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm glove the NFL South is some tech company for
Speaker 1: like a billion dollars to where Wednesday morning on your app?
Speaker 1: Steelers Titans to me is that's got some sauce to it.
Speaker 1: And here's another thing not to pile on. Well, no,
Speaker 1: I am piling on Adam Gays. When he was in
Speaker 1: Miami with Ryan Tannehill. We looked at Tannehill as the problem,
Speaker 1: not Ryan Gays. Now, all of a sudden, Ryan Tannehill
Speaker 1: has a full season as a starter with the Titans
Speaker 1: and these are all quality numbers that he's putting up. Now,
Speaker 1: does he have a good formula there where you have
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. Yes, but Ryan Tannehill has put up some
Speaker 1: quality numbers and has played the position very well. I
Speaker 1: know that we don't lump him in as you know,
Speaker 1: a top ten quarterback, top fifteen quarterback, but we should
Speaker 1: probably reassess that with what his abilities are in what
Speaker 1: he does for that Titans team. Now, let's see what
Speaker 1: he does against that Steelers defense coming up this weekend,
Speaker 1: because they'll be they'll be coming his way. Now, the
Speaker 1: NBA Draft is going to be November eighteenth, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna have the draft and the Masters within a week's time.
Speaker 1: How about that Dodgers Rays coming up tonight. Charlie Morton
Speaker 1: for the raise against Walker Bueller Junior the third. There
Speaker 1: was a piece of an interview that mclovin found Eric
Speaker 1: b Enemy's the offense coordinated with the Kansas City Chiefs,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was really insightful what he was
Speaker 1: saying about all of those stars on Kansas City and
Speaker 1: how do you get your players to not worry about
Speaker 1: how many touches do I get, how many opportunities do
Speaker 1: I get? It's about me? And here is Eric b Enemy,
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator the Kansas City Chiefs. Sometimes professional sports
Speaker 1: have a tendency to think that it's all about the
Speaker 1: numbers and the egos, and sometimes I think people forget
Speaker 1: that we play a team game. This is what has
Speaker 1: made us special. Our guys are going to do whatever
Speaker 1: is needed to go out and win because when it's
Speaker 1: all saying done, what we talk about this each and
Speaker 1: every week, it's not about the numbers. Okay, it's about
Speaker 1: the alphabets, and the only two alphabets that matter in
Speaker 1: this industry is a W and the L. Whatever we
Speaker 1: have to do to get that W, that's all what matters. Yes,
Speaker 1: ideally we want all of our players to have all
Speaker 1: the success that they can, but we do know this,
Speaker 1: if we can do this together and do it for
Speaker 1: one another and do it the right way, it to
Speaker 1: give us a chance to have a chance to go
Speaker 1: out and pursue the goals that we want to pursue.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess he's going to use that speech his
Speaker 1: next coaching stop when he becomes a head coach here
Speaker 1: in January or probably February after the playoffs. Feels like
Speaker 1: whatever team he's going to, they're going to hear that speech.
Speaker 1: And that's a great speech. If everybody buys him. Yummick clemon,
Speaker 1: it is going to be a bidding war for that, dude.
Speaker 1: It seems like the Jets and the Texans are making waves.
Speaker 1: But do you want, like you want to go where
Speaker 1: you can succeed now you normally don't have an opening
Speaker 1: where the team is decent. Yeah, I don't like the
Speaker 1: Texans future. No draft picks and salary cap issues, and
Speaker 1: they got some players that I don't want to build around.
Speaker 1: I like to Shaun Watson the Jets, it's still the
Speaker 1: Jets organization. The Falcons might be this situation depending on
Speaker 1: what they do. If they go into a rebuild, if
Speaker 1: they start to trade players or certain players aren't coming back,
Speaker 1: then that might be a place to go. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: a club. I like that. I'm surprised that the Sean
Speaker 1: Watson factor. Like a lot of people say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know, at least you have that quarterback to work with,
Speaker 1: and he's like an offensive guy. You're you're paying him
Speaker 1: a lot of money. If I'm a coach, a rookie coach,
Speaker 1: or I'm starting my first year, I want to go
Speaker 1: into a situation where my quarterback is on a rookie contract.
Speaker 1: And because now I know that I have some time
Speaker 1: to build this. We're going to build it together. But
Speaker 1: you got to know that you got your quarterback there.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if Eric Bienemy, if he goes,
Speaker 1: I don't know who the Jets are. You know who
Speaker 1: their Quarterback's going to be. Deshaun Watson's going to be
Speaker 1: my quarterback. Do I have enough around him where I
Speaker 1: can be successful? How are we with the salary cap?
Speaker 1: How are we with draft picks? Like there's a lot
Speaker 1: that goes into this. Instead of him just having to
Speaker 1: take a job because he's going to get an offer,
Speaker 1: now he has the opportunity to kind of survey the
Speaker 1: situation and say this one is a place where I
Speaker 1: am going to be successful because I have trust in
Speaker 1: the front office. And that's really the key. All Right,
Speaker 1: we'll take a break. I got a lot of phone
Speaker 1: calls to get. I want to get to the Commissioner
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred. It can take a victory
Speaker 1: lap because you had some notable pundits who thought the
Speaker 1: percent percentages of Baseball getting all the weight of the
Speaker 1: World Series where five percent, zero point zero percent that
Speaker 1: they would have a World Series, And here we are
Speaker 1: with maybe five more games in baseball's postseason, So we'll
Speaker 1: talk to the commissioner. Coming up Dodgers raised tonight. Pauli's
Speaker 1: at eight eight eight O nine ten. Checking with my people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because Pauli always tells me exactly when it's going to
Speaker 1: start for pitch. It helps you if you have something
Speaker 1: to do. You know, you don't have to be in
Speaker 1: front of your TV right on the screws, you know.
Speaker 1: And I like to wait right till run eight O
Speaker 1: seven thirty and then I go to the TV. I
Speaker 1: have eight o eight pm Eastern as the first pitch. Okay,
Speaker 1: who decides on eight O eight as opposed to eight
Speaker 1: O seven or eight oh nine, which I think have
Speaker 1: been the other two started time. Well, Pauli gave me
Speaker 1: an eight eleven I think it was. There wasn't eight
Speaker 1: eleven now and it totally screwed me up. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: usually about the commune. I mean, you know this commercial inventory.
Speaker 1: They try to have a setup commercial and then they
Speaker 1: start the game, so they want to they can't start
Speaker 1: a day. Maybe I can ask the commissioner about this. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think there's a thirty out of sixty second to
Speaker 1: Ritos Locos tacos commercial. That's what throws it off. Between
Speaker 1: eight I went to the well too much. We here,
Speaker 1: we are back on that. Here's John small time, Joe Buck,
Speaker 1: Someone's getting tacos tonight. I got forty more minutes with you,
Speaker 1: and that is it. Yeah, see forever, No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: just for a couple of minutes. I don't know if
Speaker 1: if I come back Monday, but there's a chance I
Speaker 1: don't thank you too well. I would you just say
Speaker 1: something like that and just I'd like to leave you
Speaker 1: with a parting gift on a Friday so you can
Speaker 1: take it into the weekend. That'll be the last thing
Speaker 1: that Dan did with you was rip you for going
Speaker 1: to the well too much on your tacos joke. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be saying that all weekend long. Will I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make my wife crazy, double double steel, double the tacos.
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Speaker 1: T then the season opens tonight. You have Wisconsin and
Speaker 1: Illinois and then Ohio State and in action against Nebraska
Speaker 1: coming up on Saturday. He's the commissioner Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: He's Rob Manfred back on the program. Commissioner, thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us. If this commissioner at this time could give
Speaker 1: advice to the commissioner back in March, what would you
Speaker 1: have said to that commissioner yourself back in March. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, look, hindsight is twenty twenty. Dan, there were
Speaker 1: parts of what we went through in March that I
Speaker 1: would like to replay. Obviously, I hate any situation where
Speaker 1: we have a disagreement with the players Association that gets public,
Speaker 1: so you know, I would like that one over. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, we stuck to our guns on a
Speaker 1: couple of issues that were really really important. A lot
Speaker 1: of people wanted us to lengthen the season. You knows
Speaker 1: about playing large numbers of games and pushing out into November.
Speaker 1: I think if you look at what's going on with
Speaker 1: respect of the virus right now, it was really a
Speaker 1: good decision to finish the season on time and maintain
Speaker 1: that that was important. I think. Secondly, you know, there
Speaker 1: was also a push to schedule a lot of doubleheaders
Speaker 1: and we can play more games. I mean, the fact
Speaker 1: of the matter is we wouldn't have finished the sixty
Speaker 1: had we had not had the scheduling flexibility to add
Speaker 1: doubleheaders to reschedule for games that we lost. So look,
Speaker 1: it wasn't perfect, and you know, I do regret the
Speaker 1: publicity part of it, but we got to sixty games
Speaker 1: and that's a good outcome for us. How close were
Speaker 1: you too not playing or shutting down this season? We
Speaker 1: had a serious problem. I mean I've said it publicly,
Speaker 1: you know, after the Saint Louis situation or during the
Speaker 1: same Lewis situations, our second outbreak, I was really nervous
Speaker 1: about our ability to continue to go forward. You know,
Speaker 1: we had really good conversations with Tony Clark and the MLBPA.
Speaker 1: We strengthened the protocols. He helped us educate the players
Speaker 1: on the importance of certain aspects of those protocols and
Speaker 1: fortunately we were able to to play through. And I
Speaker 1: think we're in day fifty five without a positive test.
Speaker 1: Where do we stand on the DH for next season?
Speaker 1: I think in all likelihood we will return. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think all of the COVID related rule changes, right,
Speaker 1: and in that bucket, it's the extra inning rule, the
Speaker 1: seven inning doubleheaders, the DH in the National League. Those
Speaker 1: rules we will return to the status follow apps in
Speaker 1: an agreement with the players Association. What would you like
Speaker 1: to keep? Well, you know, I've tried to be careful
Speaker 1: about this, and despite being careful about how I said,
Speaker 1: it keeps getting reported. You know, Rob Manfords wants this.
Speaker 1: Rob Manfords wants that. The only thing that I can
Speaker 1: say that I've made my mind up about, and I
Speaker 1: actually made my mind up about a pre COVID, was
Speaker 1: I would like to expand the playoffs. I don't think
Speaker 1: sixteen teams is the right number, but something bigger than
Speaker 1: ten is right, and we will pursue that either next
Speaker 1: year or the following year. With respect to the rest
Speaker 1: of the rules, I haven't really made my mind up
Speaker 1: as to which ones we might consider keeping. What I
Speaker 1: have said is I think the extra inning rule within
Speaker 1: the game. You know, players owners, a lot of people
Speaker 1: like that rule. It got some positive press in the media.
Speaker 1: I think people appreciate the strategy associated with the rule
Speaker 1: and kind of the finality in terms of increased finality
Speaker 1: in terms of when the game's going to end. But
Speaker 1: you know, I have made my mind up as to
Speaker 1: whether I want to push for that. I wondered about
Speaker 1: the shift as well, and I wonder, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: okay with the shift, but I wonder if can you
Speaker 1: make it where the shortstop can't go on the other
Speaker 1: side of second base or vice versa, Like how much
Speaker 1: of a shift are you going to allow? Other sports
Speaker 1: have You know, you can take it to a certain
Speaker 1: point and a certain extreme, but this has become an
Speaker 1: extreme with Major League Baseball. Is it good for the
Speaker 1: game to have these shifts? I think the Competition Committee
Speaker 1: is having conversations about a variety of rule changes, and
Speaker 1: I know one that has received an extensive amount of
Speaker 1: attention is the shift. A lot of people feel that
Speaker 1: the extreme shifting that you're talking about, let me use
Speaker 1: your word, okay, it has changed the game in ways
Speaker 1: that are not positive, and it remains a really topic
Speaker 1: in terms of conversations within that committee, and I expect
Speaker 1: more to follow on that one. And I've been to
Speaker 1: get off my lone guy this week because I'm looking
Speaker 1: at baseball and there's no movement. When we were growing up,
Speaker 1: you had movement in the game. You would hit to
Speaker 1: the other side of the enfield, you would bunt, you
Speaker 1: take the extra base. Like this, the simple things of
Speaker 1: what you learn when you're playing baseball. Baseball has become
Speaker 1: I throw it hard and you swing really hard and
Speaker 1: nothing in between. How concern are you about you know,
Speaker 1: you always talk about growing the game, like you like
Speaker 1: where the game is right now? When you're watching this game?
Speaker 1: Is this a good? Is this entertainment? I think there
Speaker 1: is a widespread consensus in the game that we've become
Speaker 1: too dependent on walks, strikeouts, and home runs as what
Speaker 1: goes on in our game. I think people within the game,
Speaker 1: within the ownership ranks, want to see more traditional action
Speaker 1: in the game, and there's a lot of conversation going
Speaker 1: on about how you motivate players to play the game
Speaker 1: in that way. It's very hard to legislate action with
Speaker 1: the rule. What you're really doing is you're you're changing
Speaker 1: the rules in a way that creates incentives for some
Speaker 1: of the greatest athletes in the world to change the
Speaker 1: way they're playing. And that's a very complicated task. I
Speaker 1: get that. I just worry about the game. If I'm
Speaker 1: eleven or twelve or thirteen, I would have no interest
Speaker 1: in this. I don't think I would watch highlights. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't watch games. And I don't know you're finding that
Speaker 1: out that you know this is a entertain me now,
Speaker 1: I'm not in it for the long haul, and and
Speaker 1: so you're losing a I think another generation fan base. Well,
Speaker 1: I hope you're wrong about that. Then you know, we've
Speaker 1: we've really focused on the next generation in a variety
Speaker 1: of ways. Our participation numbers, which actually are the is
Speaker 1: the biggest determinant of whether young people become fans, are great.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have been the fastest growing participation sport
Speaker 1: over the last five years. We've invested heavily in that area.
Speaker 1: And you know, our demographics, particularly on some of our
Speaker 1: digital products things new products like film Room, are really
Speaker 1: very good in terms of engaging that younger audience. And
Speaker 1: I think we will continue to focus on action in
Speaker 1: the game in order to make sure we hold those
Speaker 1: younger people that were attracting that we're attracting. And I
Speaker 1: want to be wrong, Commissioner. I think afternoon baseball was great.
Speaker 1: Afternoon postseason baseball is great because we all I mean
Speaker 1: I was watching Fisk when he's waving the ball affair.
Speaker 1: You know, Gibson hits the home run against Dec. I
Speaker 1: was able. You know you're staying up to watch those games.
Speaker 1: I just feel like, you know, kids today start time
Speaker 1: might not be able to stay up. Games take a
Speaker 1: lot longer. But think about our new round, Dan, I mean,
Speaker 1: I know it's important to focus on the World Series,
Speaker 1: and you know, like all entertainment products, we have to
Speaker 1: deliver an audience for our broadcast partners. But focused on
Speaker 1: the additional round. I mean, you had baseball on, postseason
Speaker 1: baseball on Oh. I love the one day long I
Speaker 1: love yes and even all the way. Can we keep
Speaker 1: it going though, Commissioner, Yeah, look I think that, but
Speaker 1: think about it. So the LCS or the additional round.
Speaker 1: We talked about the Division Series. We had games that
Speaker 1: were four on a day, so we had plenty of
Speaker 1: daytime baseball. Even the LCS. The early game, you know,
Speaker 1: was a late afternoon start most of the time, and
Speaker 1: you know we do need to have those earlier starts.
Speaker 1: But the reality is with your premier product, the World Series,
Speaker 1: we have to work with Fox, who has been a
Speaker 1: great partner to us, to deliver the biggest audience we can.
Speaker 1: You know, the demographics on audience are interesting too, Dan.
Speaker 1: We don't get that much younger in our audience by
Speaker 1: playing earlier. It's shocking to people, but you know we
Speaker 1: actually hold our young people with later games. People apparently
Speaker 1: let their kids stay up. I know it's a popular theory. It, yeah,
Speaker 1: is not supported by the numbers. No, hey, I'm I'm learning.
Speaker 1: I sit humbly here listening to some of the way.
Speaker 1: I don't need to be pedantic, Dan, I really know.
Speaker 1: No way. Now, who did you just wink to mister
Speaker 1: Courtney sitting on me? Okay? So Pat Courtney there, okay,
Speaker 1: I say like, all right, hey, I got him with
Speaker 1: that one way, Wayne, I saw it. I saw it there.
Speaker 1: Well done, the gatekeeper, Pat Courtney, you are very observing,
Speaker 1: I will give you that. The other thing is I
Speaker 1: always wondered about this growing up. We got if you
Speaker 1: got straight A seats in Cincinnati or tickets you get
Speaker 1: straight as you could turn it in and get a
Speaker 1: couple of games to go to and they put you
Speaker 1: out in center field. They weren't great seats, but you're
Speaker 1: in the ballpark. I would love to see more teams
Speaker 1: just get five thousand in there or ten thousand in there,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't cost anything but the experience of coming
Speaker 1: there the first time, concessions, parking, all of that stuff.
Speaker 1: Why are we missing out? Am I missing something here?
Speaker 1: Because that just feels like I want you to get
Speaker 1: that first experience because chances are then you'll come back.
Speaker 1: I want repeat business. Can I you know? I actually
Speaker 1: spent some of Baseball's money to confirm the intuition that
Speaker 1: you just expressed after playing the game. The most important
Speaker 1: thing in building a fan as an adult is getting
Speaker 1: a kid in the ballpark younger, and like, the difference
Speaker 1: between that young person going when he's eight and going
Speaker 1: when he's twelve is actually significant in terms of how
Speaker 1: many games they consume as an adult. So we have
Speaker 1: a league wide initiative with the clubs to get young
Speaker 1: people in the ballpark, particularly in groups like you suggest
Speaker 1: one that I saw last year when we still were
Speaker 1: head fans in the Ballpark and I went to Miami
Speaker 1: for a game. Is one of their best attendance games
Speaker 1: of the year, and it was basically filled with little leaguers,
Speaker 1: which is awesome and it's really good for growing the game.
Speaker 1: The Red Sox have another You know, a team that
Speaker 1: does draw right has less tickets to work with. They
Speaker 1: have a great program, They have a separate entrance for
Speaker 1: young people. Everything in the experience is family oriented, kid oriented.
Speaker 1: To make sure that that first trip to the ballpark
Speaker 1: is as positive as possible. But your intuition is right
Speaker 1: on the money. It's something baseball really needs to focus on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I didn't get straight a's, but somebody that I
Speaker 1: knew got straight a's. And then we got tickets. I
Speaker 1: got to see the padres with those god awful uniforms
Speaker 1: back in the nineteen seventies. You know, there should be
Speaker 1: a C section. Oh I just came up with a
Speaker 1: double one. Tore the C section where if you get
Speaker 1: c's you get to sit in that section. Right. I
Speaker 1: got a lot of fount of Pat Courtney there, goodn't I. However,
Speaker 1: however you reward the however you decide who gets to go.
Speaker 1: We need to make sure they're going to the ballpark,
Speaker 1: and are you rooting for the Dodgers or the Rays? Commissioner,
Speaker 1: I am strictly neutral. I always root for the team
Speaker 1: that is behind in the series. You want seven games?
Speaker 1: I think the best thing for our fans is more baseball.
Speaker 1: Um So I wrote to the owner of the race
Speaker 1: yesterday morning. I like nothing better than a gritty team
Speaker 1: who wins the second game to tie the series at
Speaker 1: won one. Take a victory lap. You did a great job. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you hung in there. You limp towards the finish line
Speaker 1: and the regular season, you fouled off a lot of pitches,
Speaker 1: but you know you're gonna pull this off. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know what. I think it's a good thing for
Speaker 1: the game. The owners and the players worked really hard
Speaker 1: together to make this happen. I can't say enough about
Speaker 1: the effort involved. I mean, you ask a player not
Speaker 1: only to change the way he performs on the field,
Speaker 1: his habits, even when he gets to the ballpark. That's
Speaker 1: a lot of change. But it didn't stop there. We
Speaker 1: ask them to change their private lives too, and they
Speaker 1: need to be commended for the contribution they made to
Speaker 1: getting us across the finish line here. Well, hopefully we
Speaker 1: get five more games. You'd be happy with that, right
Speaker 1: I would, Dan, I would thank you, commissioner, and of course,
Speaker 1: more importantly, thank you to Pat Courtney there for helping
Speaker 1: than this happen. Maybe we'll put him on stream next time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: might as well, might as well it makes this happen.
Speaker 1: Thank you, commissioner. All right, Great, that's the commissioner major
Speaker 1: League Baseball. All right, So we learned some things there.
Speaker 1: I'm all about learning because I didn't learn in high
Speaker 1: school in college, so I'm trying to catch up for
Speaker 1: lost times. Janson Pauling, I think he slashed a competition.
Speaker 1: Committee was open to avoiding extreme shifts. Yes, and that
Speaker 1: you're simple, you know, you know, Yeah, shortstop has to
Speaker 1: stay on this side and then can't go to the
Speaker 1: other side, and second baseman can't go on the other
Speaker 1: side of second bag. You could institute that in an
Speaker 1: hour and a half. And he's right. They can't change baseball.
Speaker 1: It's basically, I throw real hard and you swing real hard,
Speaker 1: and that's Major League baseball. He can't do anything about that.
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Speaker 1: It didn't go well for the cadets. Jeff and Detroit. Hi, Jeff,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today? What up though? Dan? Hard
Speaker 1: hitting stuff today with mclov's Tanion versus Tayon. The only
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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, Jeff, I have a good weekend.
Speaker 1: Stephen Florida joining US high Steve, what's on your mind? Hey, Dan?
Speaker 1: Danett's um Dan? Could you see the home run hitters
Speaker 1: of the fifties and sixties with today's baseball hitting like
Speaker 1: eighty to ninety home runs a year? And also, I
Speaker 1: have whose career would you rather have? Okay, would you
Speaker 1: rather have Bobby signed on the dotted line? Benia or
Speaker 1: Jannis sets this for the rest of this guys, have
Speaker 1: a good week dinner, right, thank you? Uh? Do I
Speaker 1: want Yuna? Cesspitas or Bobby Bonilla is neither an option
Speaker 1: here financially, I'd take Cesspitas. I mean, Bannia is gonna
Speaker 1: make He's gonna make money, you know, a million dollars
Speaker 1: every year for the next, whatever. But cesspitis has stolen
Speaker 1: money for a long time. Here, he's made. He's got
Speaker 1: some big contracts here, different money. Yeah. Absolutely, What else
Speaker 1: did Steve bring up there? Anybody I forgot? I thought
Speaker 1: even had to. Oh, it's a question about home run hitters.
Speaker 1: I'd like to know what Barry Bonds would do today,
Speaker 1: because I don't know. Are you gonna walk him? I
Speaker 1: guess you'd have to. But you know, are you throwing strikes?
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you bringing one hundred miles an hour?
Speaker 1: I remember that was a big matchup when it was
Speaker 1: Troy Percival against Barry Bonds. Like Percival man, he throws
Speaker 1: really hard and then all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: Bonds deposits one in the upper deck there, and like
Speaker 1: hitters are going to hit a fastball, if your fastball
Speaker 1: has movement, all right, now, that's different. But if you
Speaker 1: throw hard and you throw straight, they're gonna hit it
Speaker 1: hard and they're gonna put it someplace where you you're
Speaker 1: not gonna get it back. Let me see what else
Speaker 1: do we have here? Georgian Ohio, Hi, George, good morning morning.
Speaker 1: He's mentioned the Big ten starts tomorrow at a couple
Speaker 1: of games of interest. Naturally, I want Ohio State over Nebraska.
Speaker 1: But Michigan is playing Minnesota. Minnesota is a pretty good team.
Speaker 1: I was wondering what your take is on that game. Well,
Speaker 1: they got their wide receiver back who decided to come back,
Speaker 1: and he's the first round talent. And you know, Flack
Speaker 1: has done a really good job there at Minnesota. Yeah,
Speaker 1: poling Minnesota. Minnesota only a three point dog in that game.
Speaker 1: Michigan's only favored by three? Is it Minnesota at home? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Minnesota at home. I don't know if there's a crowd
Speaker 1: there or not. Al in Atlanta, Hi, Al, Hey, Danny,
Speaker 1: thanks me get me in here at the end. I
Speaker 1: gotta think. I was watching Thursday Night Football last night
Speaker 1: and then it dawned on me the NFC East could
Speaker 1: have a seven eight and one Eagles team under five
Speaker 1: hundred making it into the playoffs, and that's just not right.
Speaker 1: What I think the NFL should do is have a
Speaker 1: lottery of all the teams above five hundred and som
Speaker 1: in a hopper call it. They weren't good enough. Lottery,
Speaker 1: put it on the Monday after the last game of
Speaker 1: the season, and you know, have it sponsored by home,
Speaker 1: deepot or something and just you know, have a night
Speaker 1: of it, make it actually interesting. So like these teams
Speaker 1: that are below five hundred that aren't supposed to be
Speaker 1: there don't even have a chance. All right, well, thank
Speaker 1: you all, but we can't all of a sudden decide
Speaker 1: seven weeks into the season. Hey, this isn't going to
Speaker 1: be fair. A sub five hundred team is going to
Speaker 1: win the division. Where was the outcry or the continuing
Speaker 1: outcry when Seattle was sub five hundred and Atlanta won
Speaker 1: like eleven games and Seattle got to host that game
Speaker 1: and beat New Orleans? Why didn't we continue the outcry?
Speaker 1: Then it's going to happen this year and then we
Speaker 1: move on. Stephen Colorado, Hey, Steve, Hey, Dan Agoing today, Hey,
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Speaker 1: guys have a good weekend? Steve, thank you. I'm glad
Speaker 1: we can play whatever role in your life. Hopefully bring
Speaker 1: a little sunshine there. Final results of the poll question McLevin,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me today? What's a play
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Speaker 1: Mark Sanchez butt fumble over or lobskin? Daniel Jones and
Speaker 1: I feel bad because Mark Sanchez listens to the show. Mark, Sorry, no,
Speaker 1: it was just for context reference point there. Let's go
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Speaker 1: We are trying to determine which college football morniture has
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Speaker 1: I mean, let me give Fox the edge you are
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Speaker 1: He didn't want to do Zoom. He just wanted to
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