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Speaker 1: our two on this Wednesday. If you missed the interview
Speaker 1: with Bubba Wallace, you can go to Dan Patrick dot com.
Speaker 1: We've spent about twelve to fifteen minutes with him. I
Speaker 1: still have some questions. It feels like NASCAR in the FBI.
Speaker 1: I've wrapped up their investigation and now the sport moves
Speaker 1: on to Pocono. I'll move on when I feel like
Speaker 1: we've got some answers. We reached out to the President
Speaker 1: of NASCAR, Steve Phelps. He's unavailable. Is he unavailable forever? Ton?
Speaker 1: How does that work? Hopefull not forever? Okay, today we
Speaker 1: will not hear from him, but maybe tomorrow or as
Speaker 1: soon as you see he's willing to come on. Okay.
Speaker 1: You know, we found out that Bubba Wallace had not
Speaker 1: been in his garage the entire week. They said, due
Speaker 1: to COVID nineteen. He stayed in his motor home. He
Speaker 1: did not go in there his crew guys. Crew members
Speaker 1: didn't want to tell him, but they wanted to tell
Speaker 1: NASCAR officials. NASCAR officials then contacted Bubba Wallace when he
Speaker 1: was at OR Sunday night. He thought he was in trouble,
Speaker 1: and Steve Phelps says, I want to talk to you
Speaker 1: in person. Then he finds out that they found a
Speaker 1: noose that was used as a garage door pull or
Speaker 1: a pull rope that was tied unintentionally in a slip
Speaker 1: knot it has to be one of two here. But
Speaker 1: you know, Bubba's now being accused of perpetrating a hoax.
Speaker 1: And he looked exhausted. And that's why I said, are
Speaker 1: you able to handle this? Because and he doesn't even
Speaker 1: know how this is going to affect him. He's just
Speaker 1: he looked tired. He was giving the same answers he's
Speaker 1: been giving, you know, probably the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: And then, you know, I wanted to kind of shake
Speaker 1: it up a little bit just so I could get
Speaker 1: details here and find out exactly what he knew when
Speaker 1: he found out and the reaction to that, and does
Speaker 1: he think the investigations over. It feels like there's some
Speaker 1: else that's there, and maybe maybe maybe there's not, but
Speaker 1: and maybe I'm guilty. I didn't ask enough questions because
Speaker 1: NASCAR said it's a noose. I didn't know if it
Speaker 1: was attached to anything. I don't know how your team
Speaker 1: goes in and out and nobody notices it, and then
Speaker 1: somebody notices it on Sunday. I'm curious about that. Other doors,
Speaker 1: other garage doors have this. I was told, yeah, there
Speaker 1: are a few, and then Bubba said, no, we looked
Speaker 1: and there aren't other doors that have this kind of rope.
Speaker 1: This noose slipknot attached to it. So just asking questions,
Speaker 1: trying to apply some logic here and get some facts.
Speaker 1: But Bubba Wallace, you know, he didn't bring this up.
Speaker 1: NASCAR brought it up and then mention it to him
Speaker 1: what had happened. And I think it's unfair to say
Speaker 1: that he is perpetrating a hoax. He can, he can
Speaker 1: tell you what he sees when he sees this. There
Speaker 1: is the possibility, I mean, you know, he's being called
Speaker 1: an opportunist. I guess there's the possibility. I mean, I
Speaker 1: have to be objective with this and look at this.
Speaker 1: But when NASCAR and the FBI say it's a news,
Speaker 1: I take them at their word. It's a news. And
Speaker 1: that's all that I brought up. I had questions. I
Speaker 1: don't have sources in NASCAR, because I've been accused of well,
Speaker 1: why don't you have your sources? I don't. I never
Speaker 1: said I had sources in Nascar. I know Tony Stewart
Speaker 1: and Dale Jr. I don't think they had any inside
Speaker 1: info there. All right, Age seven seven three d P
Speaker 1: show email address DP at dan Patrick dot com. We'll
Speaker 1: talk some baseball coming up. I think we're having baseball.
Speaker 1: You know, you had this time frame where you probably thought, gosh,
Speaker 1: baseball is going to take advantage of this and get
Speaker 1: a three week had started on the NBA. Right now,
Speaker 1: they're going to get about a four or five day
Speaker 1: head start on the NBA. Speaking of the NBA, Avery
Speaker 1: Bradley is not going to report to the bubble. He
Speaker 1: has a child, a young child who I believe is six,
Speaker 1: who has respiratory issues, and he's a good role player
Speaker 1: for the Lakers. I don't think that they run the
Speaker 1: risk of they're up five games on the Clippers. Now
Speaker 1: you don't have home court advantage. But you know, you're
Speaker 1: just looking at the seating here, so you have no
Speaker 1: home court advantage. And he lost, Avery Bradley, and you
Speaker 1: start to look at the matchups here, so let's say
Speaker 1: the Lakers would play Memphis. You've got a lot of
Speaker 1: these teams that are kind of bunched up in there
Speaker 1: with the Jazz, although the Jazz are underman. Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: is going to be dangerous, the Rockets dangerous, Dallas is dangerous.
Speaker 1: They all have forty wins. So it's not the first
Speaker 1: round matchup, maybe as much as that second round matchup
Speaker 1: when you're not going to have Avery Adling, who you know,
Speaker 1: he's gonna give you twenty five minutes a night, and
Speaker 1: a lot of this is going to be about depth.
Speaker 1: Guys getting in shape. How in shape are they? You know,
Speaker 1: maybe the team that's in the best shape is going
Speaker 1: to be, you know, the team to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: You know, who's been working out. The Lakers have been
Speaker 1: working out privately, But you know, are the Blazers going
Speaker 1: to sneak in there? Um, you know the Pelicans going
Speaker 1: to get in there. You know, then you might have
Speaker 1: an interesting first round matchup for the Lakers, but the
Speaker 1: second round matchup would probably be where it really gets interesting. Yes,
Speaker 1: Bglevin feels like there's a lot of luck, Like who's
Speaker 1: gonna have coronavirus? You? Who's you mentioned the injuries. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be a big thing too. So some teams are
Speaker 1: going to get super easy draws by accident and some
Speaker 1: will get harder with Well, we mentioned this yesterday that
Speaker 1: you know, Djokovic had this tennis event, and you know,
Speaker 1: everybody at the tennis event tested positive. And then the
Speaker 1: joker shows up and he tests positive for the coronavirus.
Speaker 1: So now he's quarantined for fourteen days. So we're just
Speaker 1: getting started here, and then I see where the Lakers
Speaker 1: might look at. According to WOJE, free agent guard JR.
Speaker 1: Smith out of the NBA for two years, he's emerged
Speaker 1: as the leading candidate to replace Avery Bradley. Sources tell
Speaker 1: ESPN oh no, oh, yeah, no, no, yes, that's interesting. Jr.
Speaker 1: The gift that keeps on giving. He's thirty four years
Speaker 1: of age, and he's been working out with the Lakers. Yes, eaton.
Speaker 1: So they've been playing, you know how, like every channel
Speaker 1: is playing old games, and they're going back through all
Speaker 1: of these old games with JR. Smith playing in the
Speaker 1: finals and I think or just going through playoff games
Speaker 1: that were great. I think we grossly underappreciated how humorous
Speaker 1: that dude was. While he was going through it because
Speaker 1: if you watch just that, he hits a three and
Speaker 1: all of the sudden he's like blowing them off the
Speaker 1: guns and like doing all this stuff. He's hilarious. But
Speaker 1: some of it is intentional and some of it's unintentional,
Speaker 1: but it's all funny. He doesn't matter. It wasn't funny
Speaker 1: when he had the clock malfunction. Nobody was, hey, Jay,
Speaker 1: are you're funny? But for some people, some people weren't laughing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: other people, Yeah, Lebron was not. Yeah, Paul, It's like
Speaker 1: that old line fooled me once. Lebron bringing back Jared Smith.
Speaker 1: Does he know what's going on? He said, someone told
Speaker 1: Lebron and he's about to bring Jared Smith back. It's
Speaker 1: like the Red Sox didn't bring Buckner back to play
Speaker 1: first in ninety two. It seems like a crazy thought.
Speaker 1: Paul George was on the Knuckleheads podcast and I don't know,
Speaker 1: I guess he was asked why he wanted out of Indiana,
Speaker 1: and uh, he actually gave a little bit more information here.
Speaker 1: This is courtesy of Knuckleheads Podcast. I ain't gonna say
Speaker 1: the names because I'm gonna keep day business private. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna just say it, like is I had at the
Speaker 1: time the best power forward saying he wanted to come
Speaker 1: to Indian team up with me. They like, we don't
Speaker 1: we made it. We're a small market. Like we can't
Speaker 1: do it. We're a small market. We can't afford that.
Speaker 1: I'm like, the best power forward wants to come play here,
Speaker 1: Like y'all can't make that work. They didn't want to
Speaker 1: do it. So I'm like, now I'm pissed because it's like,
Speaker 1: what am I doing here? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like they don't want to win. I got the best
Speaker 1: power forward that want to come play here, Like not
Speaker 1: everybody choose any to come play at this This dude
Speaker 1: wanted to come play here. They didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, they don't get it. I called my agent, like, man,
Speaker 1: get me up out of here. They don't want to win. Well,
Speaker 1: was he coming there for a cheaper price? Paul? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm just curious how much money was Anthony Davis maybe
Speaker 1: gonna cost you there? Yeah, mclove. The people are reporting
Speaker 1: candidates include Anthony Davis, LaMarcus Aldridge, Lake Griffin, and Kevin Love.
Speaker 1: All right, well, Kevin Love wasn't the best power forward.
Speaker 1: You could say Blake Griffin, LaMarcus Aldridge is not the
Speaker 1: best power forward, so you made to set him back.
Speaker 1: I mean, he has his big numbers, not he says
Speaker 1: he's the best power forward. That doesn't mean the guy
Speaker 1: actually was. Yeah, it certainly helps your argument there of
Speaker 1: why you wanted to get out of Indie. I feel like,
Speaker 1: forget that Paul George has a lot of pressure on
Speaker 1: him right now. Now. Why did he want to get
Speaker 1: out of Oklahoma City? Yeah, did they not want to
Speaker 1: build a winner or they were small market or whatever
Speaker 1: his logic is. There is a little bit of pressure
Speaker 1: on Paul George because we know Kauai can deliver he
Speaker 1: has we don't know how Paul George is going to
Speaker 1: do on the big stage, and it feels like Paul George,
Speaker 1: the importance of Paul George to the Clippers success in
Speaker 1: the postseason I don't think can be well. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can overreact or overexpector but I think
Speaker 1: the expectations they're I don't know if they're high or not,
Speaker 1: but they are for me because I think Paul George
Speaker 1: has to be great if the Clippers are going to win.
Speaker 1: We know Kawhi is great. It feels like Kawhai is
Speaker 1: going to get the blame if the Clippers don't win.
Speaker 1: Not Paul George, but Paul George is a max guy.
Speaker 1: Paul George makes you know, he makes serious money there,
Speaker 1: And I don't know if we look at him the
Speaker 1: same way as we do some of these other players.
Speaker 1: He's like, sort of he's the Pippin, but he doesn't
Speaker 1: have any results that Pippin had. Yeah, mccleven doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like Lou Williams is the two on that team in
Speaker 1: a way like if there's a big shot in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. I mean you'd think Lou Williams would have
Speaker 1: the ball in his hand. I would I mean, just
Speaker 1: the way they play, I would like for Lou to
Speaker 1: have well, I'd like for Kawai to habit, but Lou
Speaker 1: Williams is He's instant offense. But yeah, Paul George's role
Speaker 1: is going to be pretty interesting here for the clips.
Speaker 1: Pretty interesting. It looks like we're gonna have a baseball
Speaker 1: season starting July twenty fourth, and a lot of people
Speaker 1: probably looked at the negotiations like I did and said,
Speaker 1: this is ridiculous, it's nonsense. Sixty games less than ideal.
Speaker 1: But I'm going to try to have a positive spin today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: someone's got to have a positive spin. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I have ever heard anybody saying, gosh, there's only
Speaker 1: one hundred sixty two regular season games. I wish there
Speaker 1: were more. Now, you probably wanted a little less than that.
Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't want sixty. But here we are with
Speaker 1: a regular season that will have as much excitement and
Speaker 1: strategy as we have seen in recent memory. So you
Speaker 1: got managers who are going to have strategy challenges. You're
Speaker 1: going to probably have closers who are starting games like
Speaker 1: Tampa has used. How deep is your rotation? Now? I
Speaker 1: know the World Series champ will have an asterisk, we
Speaker 1: can all agree on that. But if health conditions allow it,
Speaker 1: and there is a season, this is going to be
Speaker 1: a wild regular season and postseason, and just being able
Speaker 1: to assemble your staff health concerns with all of this,
Speaker 1: the fact that you know it's America League Nation League
Speaker 1: teams facing one another. You know, it's more about region
Speaker 1: the DH in both leagues. So I'm being optimistic about
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball just today, just for this hour and
Speaker 1: then I'll go back to being pessimistic after that. Yes,
Speaker 1: how about a post question, are you more likely to
Speaker 1: watch a regular season game or less likely this season? Well,
Speaker 1: I will say this. If Tampa was playing the Marlins
Speaker 1: and this was just a regular season game at the
Speaker 1: end of July, I'd go, I'm gonna wait for the highlights.
Speaker 1: But now you're thinking Tampa's gonna be one of the
Speaker 1: favorites because they have such a deep pitching staff. And
Speaker 1: now I might be a little more curious with only
Speaker 1: sixty games. Now I'm interested in a three games set
Speaker 1: between you know, the Angels and the Dodgers, Cardinals, Cubs,
Speaker 1: Red Sox, Yankees. Oh, Red Socks, Yankees. Yeah, we have
Speaker 1: a thirty way tie for first in late July. This
Speaker 1: is fantastic. Thirty teams tied for and last. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's it's so unfair the way these divisions are. The
Speaker 1: Phillies have to play like the Yankees, Red Sox, Rays, Nationals, Braves,
Speaker 1: like all the good teams are in the East. Not
Speaker 1: to complain, prevactively complaining while saying that not to complain, yes,
Speaker 1: but it does. It's completely imbalanced, like these central divisions
Speaker 1: or whatever. Are you're gonna have You're gonna have great
Speaker 1: teams beating off each other and these like the Rays
Speaker 1: should be a playoff team and they won't. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they've added more playoff teams. Oh yeah, yes, for team.
Speaker 1: But beyond the game itself, I'm curious about the peripheral
Speaker 1: stuff though. How close are they sitting together in the dugout?
Speaker 1: Who's accidentally spitting or has sunflower seeds? And these new
Speaker 1: rules and extra innings with a guy on second basis,
Speaker 1: so many other things beyond the importance of a game.
Speaker 1: Because there's only a sixty game season, that's what I
Speaker 1: want to see. Well, I don't care if they can
Speaker 1: spit or scratch or adjust or any of that. I
Speaker 1: just want them to play like I'm not gonna go
Speaker 1: Those poor guys, they don't get this spit god. But
Speaker 1: if it's a Raised Marlins game, I know, for me,
Speaker 1: I'm more interested to watch the peripheral stuff and the
Speaker 1: fans and no fans and all these new rules put
Speaker 1: in place as opposed to who's gonna win the Ravens,
Speaker 1: Who's gonna win the Raised Marlins game? For the standard, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about the individual game. But I do
Speaker 1: think it's exciting. I think that with sixty games, it's
Speaker 1: really interesting with the strategy. I mean, after a while,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go, oh, there's a National League DH all right,
Speaker 1: Oh we're gonna start the tenth inning with a runner
Speaker 1: at second base. Okay, I'm fine if they just get
Speaker 1: on the damn field. I don't care if they're playing softball.
Speaker 1: I don't care if they have a extra outfielder, I
Speaker 1: don't care. Just by yes, boy, how many games into
Speaker 1: the season does play by play man go, that's a
Speaker 1: third straight walk by Johnson. He's social distancing the strike zone. Tommy, Well,
Speaker 1: that that'd be Bob Uker. Yes, yeah, that's a uk Yeah, yes, mcclvin.
Speaker 1: People are obsessing over the first base holding on a guy.
Speaker 1: I've been bringing that up forever, saying, okay, how is
Speaker 1: it I got a six six feet apart from my teammate,
Speaker 1: but I get on first base. Now what happens? Yes,
Speaker 1: does an umpire step in like a boxing ref pushers
Speaker 1: two hugging boxers away from each other. What do you do?
Speaker 1: What do you say if you're seeing something that's against
Speaker 1: the rules and the protocol that they put in plays.
Speaker 1: How about when the manager comes out to argue, but
Speaker 1: he can't get in your face. He's got to back away,
Speaker 1: he's got to be six feet away. He brings out
Speaker 1: a protective screen, great plexicic glass and I think they're
Speaker 1: the plexi glass pointing. I'm okay with all of this.
Speaker 1: Just just get them on the field. Just play. That's it.
Speaker 1: You know, no home court advantage for the Bucks and
Speaker 1: the Lakers. All right, there's no home court advantage. There's
Speaker 1: nothing we can do about it. Let's just play because
Speaker 1: we've gotten to the point for the last three months.
Speaker 1: Oh we're gonna start. Oh they're gonna play. Oh they're
Speaker 1: not going to start. Oh they're not gonna play. Just play.
Speaker 1: I'm exhausted, Like I just want something where I can
Speaker 1: watch and not go plug. I got to think about
Speaker 1: how I'm going to approach this tomorrow. I'm going to
Speaker 1: measure my words here. Oh what kind of hate tweets
Speaker 1: and emails will I get? Let's go back to normal
Speaker 1: here for a little bit. That would be nice. Not
Speaker 1: that these aren't interesting times, and but emotions run high,
Speaker 1: and sports is about emotion. But I'd love to have
Speaker 1: the passion of just watching a team play. Yes, McLevin,
Speaker 1: I say you might not want to open up the
Speaker 1: internet and all the stories about whether teams are actually
Speaker 1: going to play. Oh, I know, I'm trying to be positive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm trying because I've been accused of being Danny Downer.
Speaker 1: Here what's poll question we went with? I will actually
Speaker 1: put up are you going to be more excited to
Speaker 1: watch a regular season game because of the short schedule?
Speaker 1: All right? I am? I could also put up are
Speaker 1: you okay with the new rules starting a guy on
Speaker 1: second base? Because we all disagree on that one on
Speaker 1: this side of class? Well, I don't like it. But
Speaker 1: then if this was the regular season with one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty two games, I'd be like, why are we
Speaker 1: doing this? It's gimmicky. They want the games to end
Speaker 1: sooner if it goes into extra innings. They just don't
Speaker 1: want an eighteen inning marathon. Then you have to turn
Speaker 1: around because what are they going to do? Is it
Speaker 1: sixty games in seventy days? McLevin? Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's really compact, and they just don't want to have
Speaker 1: these longer games. The extra inning sample, how about the
Speaker 1: games that end at ten PM? No matter what happens.
Speaker 1: At ten pm, when the clock's right like that, that's
Speaker 1: the score. So you know the team's got up to bat,
Speaker 1: they're down to they're trying to keep it moving, the
Speaker 1: pitcher's stalling. The game ends at ten, but we have
Speaker 1: one at bases loaded. What do you mean games? Sorry,
Speaker 1: that's it, ten o'clock. Dan Patrick's got to go to bed.
Speaker 1: Drive home carefully. Do we ever complain about the length
Speaker 1: of like the last time you ever complained about the
Speaker 1: length of a football game? College or prope? He's college
Speaker 1: either one? Yes, College. Everybody complains every weekend they go
Speaker 1: nine hours. They're insane. Maybe I don't read the comments,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't feel No one's ever complained about an
Speaker 1: NFL game being too long. Nobody can complain about baseball
Speaker 1: taking forever with the sixty game schedule. You can't do
Speaker 1: that this year. No, you can't. Mclovin. Everybody, baseball exists,
Speaker 1: so we could complain about it. That's where, yes, but
Speaker 1: then it would be more popular because we have so
Speaker 1: many people who want to criticize it. Yes, college football
Speaker 1: games are a bit longer than NFL because there half
Speaker 1: times are longer. At the clock runs and more situations.
Speaker 1: But because of that, you have a lot more great
Speaker 1: comebacks in college football because they don't try to get
Speaker 1: the game over with, they actually have a chance for
Speaker 1: fourth quarter comeback. All right, phone calls are welcome. H
Speaker 1: seven seven three DP show, email on dress d dan
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Speaker 1: missed the Bubba Wallace interview from an hour ago, you
Speaker 1: can go to Dan Patrick dot com and listen to it.
Speaker 1: And unless I have new information, unless I get some
Speaker 1: other principles, including the president and mask are on, I
Speaker 1: don't know how we advance it. We discussed it. I
Speaker 1: have questions. I had questions for Bubba. We got some
Speaker 1: details from him on this. I don't think this investigation
Speaker 1: is over. I mean I would be surprised if it's over.
Speaker 1: Just feels like there's a little bit more attached to
Speaker 1: this somewhere somehow, and those details will eventually come out.
Speaker 1: At least I think there will be more details that
Speaker 1: come out. Twenty one after the hour, Jeff pa and
Speaker 1: from the Mothership, we'll join us. We'll get his thoughts
Speaker 1: on this upcoming baseball season and some of the favorites
Speaker 1: because of the scheduling and pitching staffs. Who's going to
Speaker 1: be ready to go? Is anybody going to opt out
Speaker 1: of this? Boy? But I can't imagine what it's going
Speaker 1: to be like. So for eighteen months these two sides
Speaker 1: hate each other, are going to have to try to
Speaker 1: play nice. I don't know how they're going to do it.
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Speaker 1: Let's bring in Jeff Passing ESPN Baseball Insider. I'm going
Speaker 1: to be positive today, Jeff. I'm going to say only
Speaker 1: nice things about baseball. Can you make the same guarantee.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be positive right now because after three
Speaker 1: months of reporting on something that absolutely did not need
Speaker 1: to happen, there's a schedule that's set their players saying
Speaker 1: that they're going to go to spring training on July first,
Speaker 1: and everything is rainbows and sprinkles. So I would love
Speaker 1: to believe that, but there's this whole COVID thing too,
Speaker 1: and it scares me that we've gotten to this point
Speaker 1: now and that all of it can be blown up
Speaker 1: like that. We call you the debunker here. Whenever there's news,
Speaker 1: myself and the Dennets, we call you the debunker because
Speaker 1: it's usually like, hey, this news came out. What did
Speaker 1: Passing say? Oh, he debunked it, So congratulations, you're the debunker.
Speaker 1: I have a you know, there's a mic sock and
Speaker 1: brock you are or a great radio host up at
Speaker 1: Seattle and have a theme song for me every time
Speaker 1: I come on. It's a little jingle and it goes
Speaker 1: Jeff passon the wet blanket playing and operator cars and
Speaker 1: buzzes all day and so yeah, you listen. You're not
Speaker 1: the first to say that. Okay, I am fascinated by
Speaker 1: first base when the players come back. If I get
Speaker 1: to first base and there's a first baseman there, it's
Speaker 1: like me with a date in high school. I got
Speaker 1: to first base. So I got to first base. Now
Speaker 1: what is the social distancing going? How do they enforce
Speaker 1: that if I want to, if I don't want to
Speaker 1: take it too far of a lead on, they don't.
Speaker 1: And that is the you know, there's that, there is
Speaker 1: the catcher and the batter. Like there are places on
Speaker 1: the baseball field where people are just going to be
Speaker 1: close to one another, and that is a reality with
Speaker 1: which the sport has to deal. Baseball, in terms of
Speaker 1: team sports, is probably the friendliest in terms of just
Speaker 1: natural social distancing, but they are absolutely elements tag plays.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, I's going and stealing second. Somebody is
Speaker 1: going to be running over there and is going to
Speaker 1: be kicking up dirt and is going to take his
Speaker 1: glove of it and it's going to swipe it wherever
Speaker 1: that player is. It may be a glove into which
Speaker 1: he coughed hitting someone's face. That's just the reality of
Speaker 1: the situation, Dan, And if you're going to bring back baseball,
Speaker 1: you have to live with these. I would term them
Speaker 1: small risks. I don't think that being outside in most stadiums,
Speaker 1: in standing within a couple of feet of a player
Speaker 1: is going to necessarily pass an infection back and forth.
Speaker 1: And you know, you could have a first base situation
Speaker 1: where you just have a guy playing off a little
Speaker 1: bit more, you know, playing behind the back, or playing
Speaker 1: in in fun situations, or you know, trying to have
Speaker 1: the in field. And like, there are scenarios where the
Speaker 1: guys are not going to be close to each other,
Speaker 1: there are also scenarios where the guys are going to
Speaker 1: be close to one all Right, it's been so long
Speaker 1: since we've actually talked baseball because it's been you know,
Speaker 1: back and forth volleying these financial terms here. But now
Speaker 1: that that's sort of settled for a little while, here,
Speaker 1: explain what the divisions or are going to look at,
Speaker 1: and then let's actually start handicapping. I'm positive here, I'm
Speaker 1: being positive let's start handicapping the teams to beat. You know,
Speaker 1: once we start to play, I was going to say,
Speaker 1: did you see your old partner on the Big Show?
Speaker 1: Giving the percentage chance of the World Series happening this
Speaker 1: year at a big fat zero, Oberman says, there's no
Speaker 1: World Series this year. Not you can out wet blanket you.
Speaker 1: Any Oberman is on the Mount rushmore of wet blankets.
Speaker 1: So okay, let's assume by bye division. Let's just through
Speaker 1: the schedule. Okay, sixty games, forty of them are going
Speaker 1: to be against divisional opponents. While the schedule is not
Speaker 1: at yet, I believe it's going to be a one
Speaker 1: four game series and a pair of three game series.
Speaker 1: Could also be two five game series, just to cut
Speaker 1: down on travel. I don't think that's the case, though.
Speaker 1: There are also twenty interleague games against teams in your
Speaker 1: geographical area, meaning the NL East is playing the AL
Speaker 1: East Central play in the Central West playing the West.
Speaker 1: At the end of that, whoever is in first place
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, you have two wildcard teams because there
Speaker 1: are no expanded playoffs. It's the same format as last year,
Speaker 1: and at that point I have no idea if they're
Speaker 1: going to go to a bubble for the playoffs, if
Speaker 1: they're going to be potentially traveling across country, like there
Speaker 1: are a lot of those elements of that I think
Speaker 1: still are to be determined. You know, I thought all
Speaker 1: along we were going to have expanded playoffs here, and
Speaker 1: then that would have been even better with you know,
Speaker 1: this frenetic finish that we're going to have with sixty
Speaker 1: games and then the number of teams and you get
Speaker 1: into the playoffs and all right, so the team's given
Speaker 1: you the divisions in the matchups here, Jeff, give me
Speaker 1: one or two favorites and one team that you think
Speaker 1: will be maybe a little bit of a surprise or spoiler.
Speaker 1: Dodgers are definitely the favorite I think in all of
Speaker 1: baseball this year. I'm glad we're going to get to
Speaker 1: see Mookie Bett's play in a Dodgers uniform, because that
Speaker 1: would have been truly the most catastrophic trade in recent
Speaker 1: memory if they had given up Alex Rodigo and Jeter
Speaker 1: Downs and not gotten a single game out of movie bets.
Speaker 1: In the American League, the New York Yankees are favorites,
Speaker 1: and the fact that James Paxon is back and healthy.
Speaker 1: The fact that Aaron Judge is seemingly healthy, Aaron Hicks,
Speaker 1: they're going to be getting back as well, like they
Speaker 1: look like they are going to be full death star operating.
Speaker 1: And who would be the surprise? You know, I love
Speaker 1: the San Diego Padres individual talent dan. I think Fernando
Speaker 1: Tatis Junior is an absolute superstar. I think Chris Paddock
Speaker 1: is going to take the leap this year. And the
Speaker 1: thing that the Padres have is the ability to go
Speaker 1: down into their farm system and maybe bring up guys
Speaker 1: who they wouldn't have in a normal year. When you
Speaker 1: have a short schedule like this, anything can happen, and
Speaker 1: a bad losing streak is the sort of thing that
Speaker 1: can wipe you off the map in terms of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: whereas an eight, nine, ten game winning streak is sometimes
Speaker 1: maybe all unique. Yeah, push you toward that. So a
Speaker 1: guy like Mackenzie Gore, who's probably the best pitching prospect
Speaker 1: in baseball and who may not have come up this year,
Speaker 1: is going to get a chance. And if he's up
Speaker 1: there in a rotation with Paddock, with Dneldson Lamett, you know,
Speaker 1: Garrett Richards is back, like they have some arms there,
Speaker 1: and they have the talent I think, not to be
Speaker 1: a threat to the Dodgers necessarily, but to certainly play
Speaker 1: in that wild card field. The Dans have a question.
Speaker 1: Who wants to do the honors? Here? Poet Jeff Passons
Speaker 1: on Zoom and Jeff has this lovely office behind him.
Speaker 1: Like most people on Zoom that we do interviews with,
Speaker 1: they have office with their awards and their memorabili and
Speaker 1: so forth. In a bookshelf. Are those fake books behind
Speaker 1: Jeff Passon? Wouldn't you like to know? I think top
Speaker 1: shelf is phony. Can I show you guys something? Here
Speaker 1: we go passion? Yeah, fake fake backs drop. Hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on, let me say this fake, but not so
Speaker 1: fake that you didn't recognize it immediately you thought maybe
Speaker 1: it's kind of fake. No, it's awesome and the people
Speaker 1: at ESPN have done a phenomenal job with it. However,
Speaker 1: I will say this, there will be a real backdrop
Speaker 1: coming in in the near future. Right it's it's actually
Speaker 1: on the oppost breaking news, right on the opposite side
Speaker 1: of the office. Right now. What are you waiting for?
Speaker 1: You've been in quarantine for three months. You got a
Speaker 1: performance enhancing backdrop here. I'm I'm waiting for the records
Speaker 1: that I have ordered to come in because I don't
Speaker 1: lose the rage against the machine and the boutangue plan
Speaker 1: and we's are in Pink Floyd. I don't want to
Speaker 1: lose that in the backgroup. So I have actual vinyl
Speaker 1: albums being shipped to me right now. We got to
Speaker 1: stay on this story. This is this is explosive. Bob
Speaker 1: Nightingale just called you a fraud. I don't know how
Speaker 1: to respond to that. Peter Gammons is laughing at you.
Speaker 1: Not I'm okay with that, Okay with that. Okay Nightingale,
Speaker 1: you got a problem with I will say, the hair
Speaker 1: looks great and that's real. That is real. So we
Speaker 1: assume you're so we think that might be performance enhances
Speaker 1: as well. Well, I'm guilty of that as well. Once again,
Speaker 1: stay positive, Jeff, don't be don't be a debunker here.
Speaker 1: I listen. I debunk when I need to debunk, and
Speaker 1: I'm positive when I need to be positive. A positive.
Speaker 1: This is a positive thing right now. You Yeah, I
Speaker 1: give him the Danet's credit. You guys scoped out the
Speaker 1: fake backdrop, called me out on it, and as always
Speaker 1: I'm telling you what's real and what's not. Thank you, Jeff.
Speaker 1: That's Jeff the Debunker Passing. Yeah, Seton's really proud of
Speaker 1: himself over there. I like, that's a major investigation. I know,
Speaker 1: I see, you know, I got Passing in front of
Speaker 1: me on the screen. I look over and I see
Speaker 1: Seaton going, I know, I can I can read your
Speaker 1: lips when you're going, you're back and forth with Paulie.
Speaker 1: I'm going, what could be so important that you guys
Speaker 1: are going back and forth? Well, because I'm looking and
Speaker 1: I'm like, and I've noticed this before that the records
Speaker 1: behind him are awesome, and I'm like, oh, see, like
Speaker 1: Jeff Passing, he gets music. Like we could totally hang
Speaker 1: and like have a beer and listen to music, and
Speaker 1: I would. I would be all in. And then I
Speaker 1: started looking a little close and I could tell the
Speaker 1: way the light was reflecting off of the bookcase where
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be dark, but there was light there,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, wait a minute, that's fake. What? Wow? Yeah, Wow,
Speaker 1: really got to the bottom of that one. Passing always
Speaker 1: reminds me of Woody from Toy Story, but he's not
Speaker 1: always in a good mood like wood. He was from
Speaker 1: toy story because passing is he's a debunker. He is
Speaker 1: the wet blanket. Yes, Todd, I'm just glad he wasn't
Speaker 1: passing aggressive about Okay. I saw the wind up and
Speaker 1: there's the pitch. That was awesome. That he noticed that
Speaker 1: with the light, that's great, and that Jeff was willing
Speaker 1: to show us how fake it was. That he actually
Speaker 1: got up and shook it to show that it was
Speaker 1: just a piece of paper. But the mothership is just
Speaker 1: getting around to giving him a backdrop. There do they
Speaker 1: have like cut and paste eight by eight backdrops? We
Speaker 1: should get a few, We should ask him. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: guess that John Clayton probably had one Johnny good times.
Speaker 1: Remember when we well, I know you guys, remember we
Speaker 1: kept saying that John Clayton had a ponytail, and it
Speaker 1: was it was just a running gag and it was
Speaker 1: so random where I you know, because John was thin
Speaker 1: on top. And then we said, yeah, but he's got
Speaker 1: a ponytail. And then we would have people who would
Speaker 1: try to take pictures of Clayton just to keep it going.
Speaker 1: And then I know that he and his wife weren't
Speaker 1: happy they'd be like, will you stop telling people that
Speaker 1: he has a ponytail? And people were taking pictures of him,
Speaker 1: and then they do the ESPN commercial about him where
Speaker 1: you know, he's listening to Metallica and he lets his
Speaker 1: hair down. He's got a damn pony tail. I never
Speaker 1: heard back from Clayton saying, hey, by the way, thanks
Speaker 1: for coming up with that idea for one of the
Speaker 1: great commercials promos that ESPN ever did. Yeah, we saw
Speaker 1: John Clayton at the draft and maybe like twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: and so Andrew and I are walking around stalking him
Speaker 1: and taking pictures of him, but would always put like
Speaker 1: an arm in the way or something in the way
Speaker 1: so you couldn't see whether or as you know, hazy.
Speaker 1: I remember his wife confronted me at a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: will you stop telling people that John has a ponytail?
Speaker 1: And I said, when I stopped seeing it? She goes no,
Speaker 1: So we got rid of it. So he does doesn't
Speaker 1: have a ponytail. He got rid of it. Yeah. See,
Speaker 1: the like sister conspiracy theory off of the John Clayton's
Speaker 1: ponytail was that Rachel Nichols has tattoo sleeves. She always
Speaker 1: she always keeps them covered up. Rachel Nichols is on
Speaker 1: the show tomorrow. She's got sleeves. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: how we started that either. Yeah, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: she always has her arms covered up because she got sleeves.
Speaker 1: She's totally sleeved out. Not true. And then we'd have
Speaker 1: people taking pictures of her when she'd be on camera
Speaker 1: when she didn't have long sleeves on. She doesn't have tats,
Speaker 1: and you know we've said, oh, yeah, she put the
Speaker 1: sleeves that look like just regular skin. It's like coverings. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe those are henna tattoos that she's kint on. Rachel
Speaker 1: Nichols is on the program tomorrow. I believe all right,
Speaker 1: we'll take a break here. More phone calls coming up
Speaker 1: each seven seven three d P show email address DPA
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick, dont come. Oh, by the way, last season,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll take a break here. I'll take a break.
Speaker 1: I got it. I got a stat I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not really teasworthy. Like if you need to get out
Speaker 1: of your car to go do something, you can, because
Speaker 1: I don't want you to be mad where you go.
Speaker 1: I stayed in my car for that. But if you
Speaker 1: actually have nothing to do, then stick around. We're back
Speaker 1: after this. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast.
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Speaker 1: com slash The Dan Patrick Show. All right, I mean
Speaker 1: it wasn't teasworthy, but it did sound like a tease.
Speaker 1: Last season, a total of fifty nine baseball games went
Speaker 1: twelve innings or more. So that's two point four percent
Speaker 1: of all games. Only one and a half percent of
Speaker 1: all games went thirteen innings or more. But major League
Speaker 1: Baseball did we did pass and say that they were
Speaker 1: going to do that. You start with a runner on
Speaker 1: second base in the tenth inning? Odd, because I know
Speaker 1: we have the DH I think that's a rule. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: but there's not expanded playoffs. That's I google that as
Speaker 1: he said, it seems like that's the case. I got
Speaker 1: lost in all the rhetoric. After a while, I just said,
Speaker 1: you know what, wake me up when it's over and
Speaker 1: then I'll get ready for the season. Yes time, I
Speaker 1: know you're excited that the season's back. But that doesn't
Speaker 1: bother you. This tent thinning rule. I know it may
Speaker 1: not last forever. Maybe it's just a gimmick for this year.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It does bother me. But if you
Speaker 1: said they don't play, or they do play, and they
Speaker 1: have a runner on second base in the tenth inning,
Speaker 1: I'll take the runner on second base and the tenth inning,
Speaker 1: you know, right now, I just go out and play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm the club. Is this the same as college football
Speaker 1: versus the NFL? Like it's kind of it's in similar
Speaker 1: to the college football rule of overtime where they start
Speaker 1: at the twenty five Yeah, a little yeah, yeah, But
Speaker 1: I like Keith Oberman says zero percent the World Series
Speaker 1: is played, they're never gonna happen. DP, never gonna happen,
Speaker 1: you know, DP zero percent? Wow, what's less than zero? D?
Speaker 1: If there was less, I take it. I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to be optimistic here, at least for a part of today.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be optimistic because I you know, I've
Speaker 1: been poking holes through all these other stories and coming
Speaker 1: back and what's going to happen and when it comes
Speaker 1: back and all these things, And I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: be optimistic with the NBA and baseball. You've got golfers
Speaker 1: testing posit and another golfer tested positive. I don't, man,
Speaker 1: these are unchartered, unchartered waters here, yes, Todd. Another thing
Speaker 1: about that tenth inning thing with a runner on second,
Speaker 1: If they think that's going to somehow make it more
Speaker 1: exciting or to speed up the game, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: looking at a lot of bunts to bring the guy
Speaker 1: over to third and then hope to get the sacrifice fly.
Speaker 1: Is that what we want to see? Bunting someone over
Speaker 1: to third and then a sec flying you in that way? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you want that, yes, absolutely, yes, yes see well yeah,
Speaker 1: because what we sit here and complain about how everybody
Speaker 1: just wants to hit home runs all the time and
Speaker 1: how boring that is. So yeah, I think what we
Speaker 1: want is that somebody to you know, move runners, right.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that there's movement. That baseball doesn't
Speaker 1: have any movement. It's I throw it really hard and
Speaker 1: you swing really hard. That's it. You know, the way
Speaker 1: baseball used to be played where there was movement, and
Speaker 1: that's why when you watch a game, you know it's
Speaker 1: either you strike out or you hit a home run.
Speaker 1: I mean, those are the goals, it feels like, but
Speaker 1: nobody puts, hey, I gotta put the ball in play.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit it to the right side to get
Speaker 1: you over the third base. Nobody wants to do that.
Speaker 1: They'd rather just strike out than actually move a runner
Speaker 1: over to third base. And then these guys are all
Speaker 1: bringing cheese at ninety seven miles an hour, and you
Speaker 1: know somebody's arm is actually going to end up at
Speaker 1: home plate one day, like I think somebody's gonna throw
Speaker 1: about one oh seven, and then one day they just
Speaker 1: wind up and then the arm comes sliding crossed home plate. Yes,
Speaker 1: it does feel like the bunt is gone as well.
Speaker 1: It feels like it's maybe once a month you see
Speaker 1: someone bunt didn't run. Never happens, rarely happens. Yes, gloving. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a poly topic. I have google. Unchartered has
Speaker 1: recently become an acceptable use. Does mean the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's uncharted because there were early uses were wrong, and
Speaker 1: it's in some dictionaries they considered a perfectly appropriate way
Speaker 1: to say the word uncharted. It's stay unchartered because you
Speaker 1: kind of were obviously slowed down at that word a
Speaker 1: minute ago. Unchartered, Yeah, it's uncharted is the right way.
Speaker 1: But a lot of people say unchartered. I think it
Speaker 1: is supposed to be uncharted, like there's no chart for
Speaker 1: what we're getting into. There's no map, and unchartered means
Speaker 1: they're not having a tour of this area. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's charted. No, I it's charted. It's definitely charted.
Speaker 1: Can I have unchartered, Yes, you can, because it's been
Speaker 1: misused for so long. They have unchartered territory. There's no
Speaker 1: chart tours. They said that in slang. They of Corey
Speaker 1: didn't Maryan. It can be used as a substitute for unchartered.
Speaker 1: It's acceptable, thank you, thank you. Yes, I appreciate you
Speaker 1: interrupting me. Yes, well, is that like, um, that's unchartered territory.
Speaker 1: Like when people they're chomping at the bit. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's actually champing at the bit, but everybody says chomping
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, the real saying is champing at the bit,
Speaker 1: but everybody just says chomping. So it's like, oh, well
Speaker 1: we'll take that one too. I thought it was for
Speaker 1: whom the bell tolls, and it's for whom the bell
Speaker 1: toils toils? What really is that? The book called for
Speaker 1: whom the bell tolls. I've said for whom the bell tolls,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know if a bell toils. But it
Speaker 1: really changes the Metallica song too. By the way, for
Speaker 1: whom the bell toiled. That wouldn't sound right at all. Yes,
Speaker 1: you also got the could of people versus that could have.
Speaker 1: We want to talk about glamour. A lot of people
Speaker 1: say could have, but it's good to have. This is
Speaker 1: one of those situations where I'm jumping in and it's
Speaker 1: not really matching what we're talking about. I need more
Speaker 1: clarification on this. Tolls is it's spelled t oll but
Speaker 1: pronounced toil. Is that what you're saying? I heard I
Speaker 1: would say for whom the bell tolls? Right, and then
Speaker 1: I have people say notes for whom the bell toyl.
Speaker 1: I think you might be right on this one. I'm right, Well,
Speaker 1: definitely the book is tolls. You and Hemingway I think
Speaker 1: are right, Ernie, Ernie, because a bell doesn't toil, it tolls. Yes,
Speaker 1: you don't go through a toil booth. Final hour coming up,
Speaker 1: we're gonna leave this hour behind. Is that a bella
Speaker 1: here toiling? What