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Also say good morning 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.840 to chat Row. Are very loyal, die hard fans and 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.120 those watching and also those listening on our Fox Sports 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:20.840 radio lineup numbering three hundred and sixty six radio affiliates 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:26.000 around America. Mcleven always has a Halloween unveiling, and if 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.640 you're watching now, I'm not sure if he can top 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:33.400 last year. But McLevin is somewhere in the man cave 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:37.960 getting ready for his big unveiling. Oh I got a 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:43.280 peak of Okay, is mcleven ready give me a second? Okay, 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.560 all right, you know it's never I don't know if 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:49.799 anything could top punt passing kick Andy Reid and from 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.120 last year, because that's world famous. And I caught a 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.280 peak of what he's got this year. Yeah, I thought, 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.639 McLevin and that was trending that picture that he had. 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.400 So McLevin, if you if you remember when Andy Reid, 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.040 the Chiefs coach, was in the punt pass and kick competition. Yeah, 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.560 I think he's twelve or thirteen, but he looks like, 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.359 you know, he's a grown man. He's about six two, 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.400 probably two twenty and he's standing next to these other kids. 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.120 So mclovin re enacted that last year as his Halloween 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.760 costume with the help of his daughter, and I guess 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:26.880 mclovin is ready for the big unveiling, the annual Halloween costume. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:38.120 Are you the the the Georgia Bulldogs kicker Rodrigo blanket ship? 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:45.520 Is that right? Okay, you're gonna gonna take off your helmet, 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.360 I think mclovin. I don't think you can get your 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:52.280 headphones over it, but looks good. Looks good. Thanks. Yeah, 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.080 I've always wanted to do this costume. A kicker who 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:58.760 wears glasses is right up my alley. So Rodrigo Blanketship 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.560 gets the honors this year. I think he's on the 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.080 Colds now. Yeah, he's a rookie on the Cults. He's 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:07.120 really good. Actually okay, but everyone of course knows him 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:12.720 is like, wait, is that kick or wearing glasses? Well done, McLevin. 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.720 I've done this, and I do this every year where 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.640 I always think, maybe this is the year I wear 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:23.039 a costume. What I'm always worried about is something tragic 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:27.000 happens in sports, and you know you have to react 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.120 to that. You're dressed up as a scarecrow from a 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:33.600 Wizard of Oz. Yeah, I'm little Bill Pete whatever. Because 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:35.640 I watched the Today Show and the Today Show every 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.760 year and I keep thinking, I mean, there's something that 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:42.520 could happen certainly this year, that could you know, And 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.560 all of a sudden you're giving a news update and 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:50.440 you're dressed like the Mandalorian or whatever. McLevin, Well done, 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:56.520 the Mandalorian. Very are I'm shocked to hear that reference. No. 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.560 The only reason why I know about the Mandalorian. Is 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.719 I saw Kenny Mayne in one of the commercials or 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.760 promos for it on the Mother's Ship. He's very natural 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.800 and not forced or sponsored. No, no, so pumped though 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.160 you are from Oh my god, absolutely, yeah, yeah, it's 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:16.800 so good. Who or what is the Mandalorian. It's like 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:21.760 the bounty hunter from Star Wars. Okay, okay, and you 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.680 know baby Yoda. Yeah, a big character. But how many 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.919 Mandalorians have there been? Like? Do I have to have 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.280 seen one before to understand this one? Well, it's like 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:36.200 a it was there's a whole first season. Oh, they 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:40.080 had a series, like they had episodes of the Mandalorian. Right, okay, okay, 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.840 Now you have a movie Carl Weathers, Is it it too? 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:49.760 Carl Weathers? Okay, famous for Rocky and Happy Gilmore. He's 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.080 a caddy who loses his arm to an allegy. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:56.080 yeah I remember that. Yeah, that's true. All right, welcome 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.800 to the program. Um, it's a Friday, and that means 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.719 Fritzie's gonna have his hollow names coming up as well. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.440 Yest Hunt. Now I'm excited about that. He added some 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.240 you know, in previous years there was a lot of 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.400 the same ones, but we definitely have some new ones. 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.960 We're all looking forward to that. I'm excited about it. 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.320 But you know what, you know, maybe at the end 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.800 of the hour about that, whenever you want, I'd like 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.960 to work that in. We can do that, Yeah, because 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.880 I'm sure you've freshened up the list and you did 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.040 a great job with the guest list today and you 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:24.800 might be able to kick back a little bit and 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.320 just do your Halloween sports name. That would be nice. Yes. 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:31.120 This program brought to you by Breeders Cup. On November 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.919 sixth and seventh, the world's best thoroughbreds compete in fourteen 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.800 great races at the Breeders Cup World Championships. Learn more 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.680 at breeders Cup dot com. Size twenty twenty catch all 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:43.360 the action live on NBC Sports so your headlines. The 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:48.160 Falcons beat the Panthers. Trevor Lawrence has tested positive mild 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:52.839 symptoms of the coronavirus. More on that coming up in 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:56.960 a moment. The White Sox hire Tony LaRussa and the 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:01.360 Tigers grabbed the former Houston manager A J. Hinch. This weekend, 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.760 It's BC and Clemson. That line has fluctuated. I think 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.760 it's gone down about a touchdown. I think Clemson was 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.000 favored by a little over thirty maybe thirty and a half. 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.720 Now it's down around twenty three and a half. Because 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:18.240 of the Trevor Lawrence situation. Texas, Oklahoma State, Ohio State, 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:22.560 and Penn State. Some of the juicier matchups back to 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.800 Trevor Lawrence because the key is that he could be 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:30.520 in quarantine for ten days. That's what it's supposed to be. 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:34.119 Ten days. But when did the ten days start? That's 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:39.640 the key because the Clemson athletic department, their information is 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.480 that he tested positive on Wednesday. You're tested three times 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.080 during the week. He tested positive on Wednesday. And if 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.440 you do the math with the Notre Dame game on 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:53.960 Saturday night a week from tomorrow, and I was talking 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.720 to somebody who is a source close to the Notre 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.960 Dame football program who said, we're expecte Trevor Lawrence to 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:02.840 play in this game. So it's not going to be 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.119 one of those I don't know, who do we prepare for. They're, 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.960 from what I'm told, preparing for Trevor Lawrence. Yes, hunt 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:11.800 and the rules you got to count ten days from 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.560 the time you start experiencing some type of symptoms from 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.160 what's being reported, So then do you fudge that when 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.920 exactly was that day? We will ten days expire right 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.560 before the Notre Dame game. As I was told by 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.640 a source, Clemson's math will be a little bit different 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.000 than everybody else's math when it comes to this. So 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.680 I'm guessing Trevor probably had some symptoms and then it 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.880 became official on Wednesday. So Tuesday probably had some symptoms mild, 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.959 and then all of a sudden he tested positive. Yeapo, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.280 if Clemson were in the SEC, he'd be cleared by 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.560 lunchtime today. Let me tell you something. That's how they roll. 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.319 I don't think he would adjusted positive. I think it 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.240 can happen in that No. Eight seven seven three D 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.559 P show email address DP at dan Patrick dot com, 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.600 Twitter handle a DP show. When you watch the Falcons, 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.840 you can't help but wonder what could have been not 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.960 just the blown Super Bowl lead against the Patriots, but 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:03.800 one day, Julio Jones is going to be in the 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.320 Hall of Fame, Matt Ryan might be in the Hall 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.640 of Fame as well, and there's a good chance they're 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:11.560 not going to have any Super Bowls to show for it. 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.840 But you know, you start to look at this team 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.280 and you go, there's a lot of talent, and there 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.640 is on the offense side of the ball. In fact, 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.720 the former Falcon Tony Gunzalez, who works for Fox, called 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.120 them the best one in six team he'd ever seen. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.040 Last night, they improved a two and six would win 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.440 against Carolina, and once again they showed they have way 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:35.040 too much talent to have a losing record. Julio Jones 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.640 looked unstoppable in the first part of the first half 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.680 of the game. Todd Gurley had another touchdown. He's got 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:45.800 eight rushing touchdowns, and you know, it feels like Matt 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.400 Ryan is playing some of his best football here. It'll 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.520 be interesting to see what they do at the trade deadline. 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:55.080 There's been all this talk of do you trade Matt Ryan? 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.560 Can you trade Matt Ryan? Do you trade Julio Jones? 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.160 Can you What if you win three or four in 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.800 a row, then what do you do? I think this 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:05.760 is going to be one of those situations. And we've 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.720 seen this before with teams where they start out slow 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.040 and then all of a sudden they win just enough 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.160 that takes them out of getting any of these big 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:19.680 ticket items because if you win a couple more games, 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.839 if you beat Detroit and you beat Dallas, those are 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.800 two games that are almost impossible to lose, and you did, 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.520 then we might be looking at a different team here, 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.240 and then maybe their approach to the trade deadline is different. 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.600 But do you rebuild do your reload in Atlanta? And 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.400 that's a big decision coming up because I do think 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.839 and I thought that they were one of those on 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.760 the periphery playoff teams. I thought that they were on 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.480 that edge off they could make the playoffs. I thought 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.280 they had that much talent, certainly offensively. But we'll talk 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.920 to Matt Ryan Hill join us coming up in a 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.600 little bit. What kind of poll question do you have 0:10:56.679 --> 0:11:00.360 for us? Okay, we were discussing pre show, who would 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:02.440 rather have as a manager if you're a random team 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:12.000 right now, Tony LaRussa or A J. Hinch? Wow, So 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.600 I got Tony LaRussa. And now you can't mention his 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.480 name without saying how old he is. He is? So 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.839 he's seventy six. He's a Hall of Famer. I think 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.800 he's got the third most wins in baseball history. He's 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:27.120 got three World Series championships. AJ Hinch coming off what 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.560 happened with the Astros. He got suspended, paid the price, 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:35.280 obviously a young much younger guy going to Detroit. You 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.080 know what kind of surprised me is it felt like 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:42.360 baseball fans were more upset that Tony LaRussa was back 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:46.000 in baseball than aj Hinch was getting a second chance, 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.640 which I didn't understand because aj Hinch was part of 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:53.560 a cheating scandal with the Astros. Now I paid his price, 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:57.680 got suspended, and he'll wear that scarlet letter the rest 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:02.280 of his coaching managerial career. It felt like, hey, Tony, 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.600 why don't you let a younger guy manage? I don't 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.200 understand the higher by the White Sox. I thought the 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:11.520 White Sox were a really talented young team. But you know, 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.040 you got Jerry Reinsdorf, the owner of the White Sox, 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.320 who let Tony go back in the eighties, and I 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.120 think he always regretted that. And Tony went to the A's, 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.679 he went to the Cardinals, and here he is going 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:24.760 to you know, he's a Hall of Famer and now 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:29.239 you bring him back, which and people are like, oh, 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:32.000 he's old school, he's not going to embrace analytics. And 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.319 I go wait, wait, wait, are these the same people 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.920 who crushed Kevin Cash of Tampa Bay because he embraced 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:42.000 analytics and wasn't old school, didn't have that gut feeling 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.080 when he went to the mound to take out Blake SNeW. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.920 Tony LaRussa is all gut feeling, but he said, I'd 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.840 be crazy not to embrace the analytics. I mean, you 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.920 have the information. It's what you do with the information. 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.599 It happens here every morning, where there's so much information 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.079 I have. It's how do I incorporate that in the show? 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.080 How much do I incorporate? How much do I not? 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.240 How much do I rely on just stats here? Or 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.160 how much is it on opinions? And Tony LaRussa is 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:16.080 a smart guy. Obviously he'll embrace the analytics. But I 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.720 think when he goes onto the baseball field, he also 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.719 understands I gotta have a feeling for the game when 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.600 I'm watching it. But people were it just felt like 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:28.200 this reaction was like he's he's old and old school, 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:34.040 and I go okay, And meanwhile, aj Hinch going to 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.800 the Tigers, Oh okay, yeah, good for him. But back 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:41.040 to Tony LaRussa, I'm going wait, aj Hinge like, okay, 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:45.680 everybody's okay now. And plus, you know, a J. Hinch 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.800 going to the Tigers not a lot of coverage. They're 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:52.199 kind of a you know, average team, below average team. 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.280 The White Sox were a playoff team and they got 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:59.040 they have a great nucleus there. But I just didn't 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:03.240 understand the Tony LaRussa. And I'm not an agist. I'm 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:04.880 not going to go, oh, you can't give him the 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.120 job because he's seventy six. If they want to give 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.760 him the job, great, I just didn't understand it. I thought, 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:12.680 you know, are you going to go with a younger 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.360 manager there? You got a young team, you know, the 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.440 way baseball is being played managed, you know, do you 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:22.640 need somebody who was bought into today's style? And that's 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.680 what I thought they were going to do. In fact, 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.280 I thought a J. Hinch might be a guy that 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:30.120 the White Sox were going to hire. But Tony Larissa's back. 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.760 And then I heard a couple of people on talk 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.000 radio say, well, what if he doesn't do well, you know, 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:40.600 does that hurt his Hall of Fame resume? And I'm going, no, 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:43.840 you can't take him out of the Hall of fame 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:49.280 he's in and maybe he adds to his resume. I 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.360 don't know, but I was just surprised of all the 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.680 people to hire, and you go, you know, we got 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:59.400 our guy, Tony Larusa. And I remember when you know 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.960 we started, did you just see the name reappear? And 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.400 I go, oh, probably in the front office, because I 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.640 think he worked for the Diamondbacks in the front office. 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:10.479 And I thought, okay, I get that back with Jerry Reinsdorf, 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.200 White Sox full circle. And then all of a sudden, no, 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:15.920 he's going to be the manager. Yeah, time, And maybe 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.120 that's just what baseball needs, a different look at things, 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:19.760 someone that's going to go with their gut and mix 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:21.240 things up a little bit and not just go by 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:25.160 what's printed out of some computer. I'm okay with it. 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:29.040 I like, it didn't offend me, it didn't ruin my day. 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:33.400 I was just surprised that you have, you know, all this, 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.400 you know, youth in the game and approach to the game, 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.240 and are you know, are you going to stay with that? 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.720 And then you bring in somebody who is in their 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.960 mid seventies, Like how long does he want to manage? 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.240 That was the first thing I thought was, what's the 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:52.080 what's the big picture here? One year, two years, three years? 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:56.560 Now do you bring him into groom somebody else to 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.720 take over for him? So I'm not sure. Yeah, I'm 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.480 a club. I'm still confused. Isn't he the godfather of 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:06.720 all this? Using the bullpen like crazy, batting a pitcher eighth? 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.520 He used computers early. I thought that Tony helped ruin 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.560 the game because he would always bring in a lefty 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.880 and a versus a lefty and then the right versus. 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.800 He would make all kinds of pitching changes, So I 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:22.080 didn't I thought he was new school before anybody else was. 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.600 I really thought that. But the reaction is, oh, he's 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:30.080 not going to embrace analytics Tony. Tony was always called 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.880 a genius. I don't think that was just based off 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.640 of gut, you know, moves that he had on the 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:39.840 field that he actually knew. He studied all of this stuff. 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.120 But aj Hinge going to the I'm glad that he 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.960 got another opportunity. He did pay a pretty steep price 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:50.080 there because you know the players, you know, they cooperated. 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.880 Major League Baseball couldn't do anything with the Astros, so 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.040 they had to do something with the manager in the 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:59.080 GM and AJ paid a price here and now he 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.160 gets a chance to take over the Tigers. Good for him, 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.439 and it's not over for him because he's gonna hear 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:08.280 about it. You know. If they do well, people are 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.920 gonna go, oh, is he cheating again? If they don't 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.159 do well, then they're gonna, you know, make fun of 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.639 the fact that they need to cheat to win. And 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.280 it's a completely different team with the Tigers. Yes, Paul, 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:22.080 just to give you an idea, how long it's been 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.000 since he was the manager of the White Sox in 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.160 eighty six, his last year there. The All Star team, 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.520 guys like Dale Murphy, Tony Gwinn, Ozzie Smith, Mike Schmidt, 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.800 Keith nand Is, Gary Carter, Ricky Anderson, Dave Winfield. That's 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:38.040 that's more than a generation ago. Yeah, I'm okay with it. 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:42.440 It's like, yeah, it's amazing how it ruined people. It 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:46.200 felt like it ruined their day. And the thing is, 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.800 I just going to tell me Tony's just managing. He's 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.800 not playing. You know, he's gonna be in the in 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.440 the in the dugout there, you know, So I'm gonna 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.480 guess that he doesn't exert too much energy and he'll 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:03.560 just be ending there being a manager. All right, we'll 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.919 come up with a poll question here. Matt Ryan will 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:10.120 join us. Coming up here shortly and got our meat 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.159 Friday stat of the day, Got to play the day. 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.000 All of that coming up, we'll take a break. It's 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.600 eighteen after the hour. This is the Dan Patrick Show. 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:20.640 Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:24.359 Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.000 on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeart Radio app. This 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.920 program brought to you by Mercedes AMG. 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I think, you know, 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:09.960 for our defense, stepping up, getting a stop at the 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.240 end of the game, you know, correcting some of what 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.919 has gone on early in the year. For us to 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.840 get that right was was good. So hopefully can spring 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:20.240 board us and we can play a really good second 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.120 half of the season. Is your voice horse from last night? 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.119 It's a little bit horse, a little bit of yelling, 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.359 a little bit of just being on the field. I 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.520 usually I typically lose my voice typically the day after 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:35.359 a game. Have you ever lost it before a game? No? 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:39.000 Thank god, you know that would be a problem if 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.320 we did. But also you don't have to yell as 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:44.880 loud because there's no fans. It is. It is kind 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:48.240 of nice. Going on the road typically be a lot 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.199 worse than this, but going on the road with minimum 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.639 fans now makes it a little bit easier for the communication, 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:56.520 the cadence, that kind of stuff. That part of it 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:59.640 has actually been good. How would you describe your touchdown 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:04.879 run last night? I liked it. I think that was 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:07.400 the longest touchdown run I've had in my career, so 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.520 for sure the best touchdown I've had. Yeah, and I 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:14.000 was wondering if you're a thousand yard rusher, and you 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:16.200 blew past that a long time ago. You got thirteen 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:18.800 hundred yards. I was gonna say, I'm closing in on 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:23.000 two thousand, two thousand yard rusher here. Do you remember 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:26.680 when Brady celebrated when he said, I'm a thousand yard 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:30.560 rusher in my career. Luck, Yeah, he took a little 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.160 longer to get there than I feel. I feel pretty 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.480 good about my accomplishment. How would you recap the first 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:41.400 eight weeks? It's been wild? Really asked? You know, I've been, 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:44.720 you know, trying to scratch my head because I don't 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:47.320 feel like we're two and six, you know, and I 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:49.200 feel like we've been in every game that we've played. 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:53.560 We just we've had some crazy losses, and you know, 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:55.960 that's kind of the silver lining in it too. What 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:58.800 I tell the guys is that you know, we're right there. 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:00.760 We've been in every game we've played. There's no reason 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:02.200 we can't be in every game We're gonna play the 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.520 rest of the year and see what happens. I thought 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:07.720 you guys were a borderline playoff team plus the extra 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:10.520 playoff spot. I thought you guys just had way too 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.960 much talent, and then you guys have found creative ways 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:17.480 to lose games. Like how much do you take upon yourself? 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:20.680 You know, with these fourth quarter leads that you guys 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:23.040 have blown. I think Bears and Lions and of course 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:30.240 the Cowboys. Yeah, it's uh, you know, it's it's you. 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:33.480 I think any competitor takes it on themselves. You look 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:35.439 at you know what, you know what you could have 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:40.159 done differently to to ensure the outcome. And you know, 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:41.959 it's tough because I feel like there's been a lot 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:44.240 of positives. I really do. I feel like we've done 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:46.440 a lot of really good things and just had some 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:50.000 some some really strange ways to to lose games. And 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:52.879 it's disappointing because we could very easily have three or 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:56.600 four more wins, and you know we don't. So we've 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:58.000 we've just got to find a way to get really 0:21:58.040 --> 0:21:59.679 hot here in the second half. Yeah, and if you 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:02.520 have three more wins than all of a sudden, it's different. 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:05.040 At the trade deadline, you know, people have talked about 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:08.199 do they move you, do they move Julio Jones? You know, 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:11.640 is everybody available at the trade deadline? And I don't 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:13.199 know if that's still the case, Like, how do you 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:16.359 process that when you hear it or read it. Yeah, 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:18.879