WEBVTT - Hour 2 - Jeff Passan (06-24-20) 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.760 Sports Radio. Welcome to the program. Already in progress. It's 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.360 our two on this Wednesday. If you missed the interview 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:13.760 with Bubba Wallace, you can go to Dan Patrick dot com. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:17.479 We've spent about twelve to fifteen minutes with him. I 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:20.920 still have some questions. It feels like NASCAR in the FBI. 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:24.240 I've wrapped up their investigation and now the sport moves 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:28.440 on to Pocono. I'll move on when I feel like 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:30.680 we've got some answers. We reached out to the President 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.800 of NASCAR, Steve Phelps. He's unavailable. Is he unavailable forever? Ton? 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.640 How does that work? Hopefull not forever? Okay, today we 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.000 will not hear from him, but maybe tomorrow or as 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:41.720 soon as you see he's willing to come on. Okay. 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:44.640 You know, we found out that Bubba Wallace had not 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.360 been in his garage the entire week. They said, due 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:49.519 to COVID nineteen. He stayed in his motor home. He 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:53.160 did not go in there his crew guys. Crew members 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.560 didn't want to tell him, but they wanted to tell 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:59.600 NASCAR officials. NASCAR officials then contacted Bubba Wallace when he 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.320 was at OR Sunday night. He thought he was in trouble, 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.039 and Steve Phelps says, I want to talk to you 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.959 in person. Then he finds out that they found a 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:13.640 noose that was used as a garage door pull or 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:18.920 a pull rope that was tied unintentionally in a slip 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.880 knot it has to be one of two here. But 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:28.080 you know, Bubba's now being accused of perpetrating a hoax. 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:33.720 And he looked exhausted. And that's why I said, are 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.800 you able to handle this? Because and he doesn't even 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:40.400 know how this is going to affect him. He's just 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.680 he looked tired. He was giving the same answers he's 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.440 been giving, you know, probably the last twenty four hours. 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.880 And then, you know, I wanted to kind of shake 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:50.480 it up a little bit just so I could get 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.840 details here and find out exactly what he knew when 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:57.600 he found out and the reaction to that, and does 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.840 he think the investigations over. It feels like there's some 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:05.200 else that's there, and maybe maybe maybe there's not, but 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.440 and maybe I'm guilty. I didn't ask enough questions because 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.640 NASCAR said it's a noose. I didn't know if it 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:18.280 was attached to anything. I don't know how your team 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.600 goes in and out and nobody notices it, and then 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:25.760 somebody notices it on Sunday. I'm curious about that. Other doors, 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.640 other garage doors have this. I was told, yeah, there 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.000 are a few, and then Bubba said, no, we looked 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:34.400 and there aren't other doors that have this kind of rope. 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:38.680 This noose slipknot attached to it. So just asking questions, 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.840 trying to apply some logic here and get some facts. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:47.239 But Bubba Wallace, you know, he didn't bring this up. 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.440 NASCAR brought it up and then mention it to him 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.960 what had happened. And I think it's unfair to say 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.200 that he is perpetrating a hoax. He can, he can 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:03.000 tell you what he sees when he sees this. There 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:07.160 is the possibility, I mean, you know, he's being called 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.840 an opportunist. I guess there's the possibility. I mean, I 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.640 have to be objective with this and look at this. 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.800 But when NASCAR and the FBI say it's a news, 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.240 I take them at their word. It's a news. And 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:24.240 that's all that I brought up. I had questions. I 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:29.160 don't have sources in NASCAR, because I've been accused of well, 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.680 why don't you have your sources? I don't. I never 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:36.240 said I had sources in Nascar. I know Tony Stewart 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:40.400 and Dale Jr. I don't think they had any inside 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:46.640 info there. All right, Age seven seven three d P 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.720 show email address DP at dan Patrick dot com. We'll 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:53.920 talk some baseball coming up. I think we're having baseball. 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.200 You know, you had this time frame where you probably thought, gosh, 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.400 baseball is going to take advantage of this and get 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.120 a three week had started on the NBA. Right now, 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.280 they're going to get about a four or five day 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.280 head start on the NBA. Speaking of the NBA, Avery 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.680 Bradley is not going to report to the bubble. He 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.440 has a child, a young child who I believe is six, 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.919 who has respiratory issues, and he's a good role player 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.240 for the Lakers. I don't think that they run the 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:26.800 risk of they're up five games on the Clippers. Now 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.599 you don't have home court advantage. But you know, you're 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.719 just looking at the seating here, so you have no 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:35.120 home court advantage. And he lost, Avery Bradley, and you 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.080 start to look at the matchups here, so let's say 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.680 the Lakers would play Memphis. You've got a lot of 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:42.760 these teams that are kind of bunched up in there 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:47.480 with the Jazz, although the Jazz are underman. Oklahoma City 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.920 is going to be dangerous, the Rockets dangerous, Dallas is dangerous. 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.599 They all have forty wins. So it's not the first 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.880 round matchup, maybe as much as that second round matchup 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:01.560 when you're not going to have Avery Adling, who you know, 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.120 he's gonna give you twenty five minutes a night, and 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.120 a lot of this is going to be about depth. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.640 Guys getting in shape. How in shape are they? You know, 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.960 maybe the team that's in the best shape is going 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.920 to be, you know, the team to keep an eye on. 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.040 You know, who's been working out. The Lakers have been 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.760 working out privately, But you know, are the Blazers going 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.320 to sneak in there? Um, you know the Pelicans going 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.760 to get in there. You know, then you might have 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.440 an interesting first round matchup for the Lakers, but the 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:35.280 second round matchup would probably be where it really gets interesting. Yes, 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.359 Bglevin feels like there's a lot of luck, Like who's 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:41.000 gonna have coronavirus? You? Who's you mentioned the injuries. That's 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.400 gonna be a big thing too. So some teams are 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:45.680 going to get super easy draws by accident and some 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.080 will get harder with Well, we mentioned this yesterday that 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:54.520 you know, Djokovic had this tennis event, and you know, 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.320 everybody at the tennis event tested positive. And then the 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:02.640 joker shows up and he tests positive for the coronavirus. 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:07.159 So now he's quarantined for fourteen days. So we're just 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.560 getting started here, and then I see where the Lakers 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.560 might look at. According to WOJE, free agent guard JR. 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.000 Smith out of the NBA for two years, he's emerged 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:21.440 as the leading candidate to replace Avery Bradley. Sources tell 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:27.440 ESPN oh no, oh, yeah, no, no, yes, that's interesting. Jr. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:31.159 The gift that keeps on giving. He's thirty four years 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:37.320 of age, and he's been working out with the Lakers. Yes, eaton. 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.279 So they've been playing, you know how, like every channel 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.440 is playing old games, and they're going back through all 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.479 of these old games with JR. Smith playing in the 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.680 finals and I think or just going through playoff games 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:52.760 that were great. I think we grossly underappreciated how humorous 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.760 that dude was. While he was going through it because 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.080 if you watch just that, he hits a three and 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.480 all of the sudden he's like blowing them off the 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:04.120 guns and like doing all this stuff. He's hilarious. But 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.000 some of it is intentional and some of it's unintentional, 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.120 but it's all funny. He doesn't matter. It wasn't funny 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:15.160 when he had the clock malfunction. Nobody was, hey, Jay, 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.600 are you're funny? But for some people, some people weren't laughing. Yeah, 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.040 other people, Yeah, Lebron was not. Yeah, Paul, It's like 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.520 that old line fooled me once. Lebron bringing back Jared Smith. 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.080 Does he know what's going on? He said, someone told 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:29.960 Lebron and he's about to bring Jared Smith back. It's 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:33.160 like the Red Sox didn't bring Buckner back to play 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.360 first in ninety two. It seems like a crazy thought. 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:42.920 Paul George was on the Knuckleheads podcast and I don't know, 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.560 I guess he was asked why he wanted out of Indiana, 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:51.080 and uh, he actually gave a little bit more information here. 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:55.320 This is courtesy of Knuckleheads Podcast. I ain't gonna say 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:59.120 the names because I'm gonna keep day business private. I'm 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:00.920 gonna just say it, like is I had at the 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:06.080 time the best power forward saying he wanted to come 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.600 to Indian team up with me. They like, we don't 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.720 we made it. We're a small market. Like we can't 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:13.800 do it. We're a small market. We can't afford that. 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:18.400 I'm like, the best power forward wants to come play here, 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.920 Like y'all can't make that work. They didn't want to 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:26.840 do it. So I'm like, now I'm pissed because it's like, 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:28.840 what am I doing here? You know what I mean? 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.360 Like they don't want to win. I got the best 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.720 power forward that want to come play here, Like not 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.959 everybody choose any to come play at this This dude 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.040 wanted to come play here. They didn't want to do it. 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.560 I'm like, they don't get it. I called my agent, like, man, 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:49.360 get me up out of here. They don't want to win. Well, 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.760 was he coming there for a cheaper price? Paul? I mean, 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:58.160 I'm just curious how much money was Anthony Davis maybe 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:02.600 gonna cost you there? Yeah, mclove. The people are reporting 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:07.120 candidates include Anthony Davis, LaMarcus Aldridge, Lake Griffin, and Kevin Love. 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.280 All right, well, Kevin Love wasn't the best power forward. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:14.400 You could say Blake Griffin, LaMarcus Aldridge is not the 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.520 best power forward, so you made to set him back. 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.360 I mean, he has his big numbers, not he says 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.040 he's the best power forward. That doesn't mean the guy 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:24.600 actually was. Yeah, it certainly helps your argument there of 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:28.160 why you wanted to get out of Indie. I feel like, 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.360 forget that Paul George has a lot of pressure on 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:31.760 him right now. Now. Why did he want to get 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.480 out of Oklahoma City? Yeah, did they not want to 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.400 build a winner or they were small market or whatever 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.560 his logic is. There is a little bit of pressure 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:44.640 on Paul George because we know Kauai can deliver he 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.599 has we don't know how Paul George is going to 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:52.000 do on the big stage, and it feels like Paul George, 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.400 the importance of Paul George to the Clippers success in 0:09:55.440 --> 0:10:01.680 the postseason I don't think can be well. I don't 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:05.000 know if you can overreact or overexpector but I think 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.720 the expectations they're I don't know if they're high or not, 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.880 but they are for me because I think Paul George 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.520 has to be great if the Clippers are going to win. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:21.679 We know Kawhi is great. It feels like Kawhai is 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:23.520 going to get the blame if the Clippers don't win. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.480 Not Paul George, but Paul George is a max guy. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.560 Paul George makes you know, he makes serious money there, 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:33.760 And I don't know if we look at him the 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:35.720 same way as we do some of these other players. 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.720 He's like, sort of he's the Pippin, but he doesn't 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:43.520 have any results that Pippin had. Yeah, mccleven doesn't feel 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:45.680 like Lou Williams is the two on that team in 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.520 a way like if there's a big shot in the 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.840 fourth quarter. I mean you'd think Lou Williams would have 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:52.880 the ball in his hand. I would I mean, just 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.280 the way they play, I would like for Lou to 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.319 have well, I'd like for Kawai to habit, but Lou 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:02.839 Williams is He's instant offense. But yeah, Paul George's role 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.000 is going to be pretty interesting here for the clips. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.160 Pretty interesting. It looks like we're gonna have a baseball 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.480 season starting July twenty fourth, and a lot of people 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.440 probably looked at the negotiations like I did and said, 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:18.640 this is ridiculous, it's nonsense. Sixty games less than ideal. 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:22.400 But I'm going to try to have a positive spin today. Yeah, 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.720 someone's got to have a positive spin. I don't know 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.360 if I have ever heard anybody saying, gosh, there's only 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.920 one hundred sixty two regular season games. I wish there 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:37.800 were more. Now, you probably wanted a little less than that. 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.960 Maybe you didn't want sixty. But here we are with 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.240 a regular season that will have as much excitement and 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:48.320 strategy as we have seen in recent memory. So you 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.880 got managers who are going to have strategy challenges. You're 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.800 going to probably have closers who are starting games like 0:11:54.880 --> 0:12:01.040 Tampa has used. How deep is your rotation? Now? I 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.200 know the World Series champ will have an asterisk, we 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:07.040 can all agree on that. But if health conditions allow it, 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.560 and there is a season, this is going to be 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:14.640 a wild regular season and postseason, and just being able 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:19.679 to assemble your staff health concerns with all of this, 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.760 the fact that you know it's America League Nation League 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.120 teams facing one another. You know, it's more about region 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:31.079 the DH in both leagues. So I'm being optimistic about 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:36.040 Major League Baseball just today, just for this hour and 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.480 then I'll go back to being pessimistic after that. Yes, 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:40.960 how about a post question, are you more likely to 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.679 watch a regular season game or less likely this season? Well, 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:48.880 I will say this. If Tampa was playing the Marlins 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.920 and this was just a regular season game at the 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.920 end of July, I'd go, I'm gonna wait for the highlights. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.599 But now you're thinking Tampa's gonna be one of the 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:04.400 favorites because they have such a deep pitching staff. And 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.160 now I might be a little more curious with only 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:11.160 sixty games. Now I'm interested in a three games set 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:16.000 between you know, the Angels and the Dodgers, Cardinals, Cubs, 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:20.960 Red Sox, Yankees. Oh, Red Socks, Yankees. Yeah, we have 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.320 a thirty way tie for first in late July. This 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:27.280 is fantastic. Thirty teams tied for and last. Yeah, but 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.040 it's it's so unfair the way these divisions are. The 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:35.199 Phillies have to play like the Yankees, Red Sox, Rays, Nationals, Braves, 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.040 like all the good teams are in the East. Not 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:42.240 to complain, prevactively complaining while saying that not to complain, yes, 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.520 but it does. It's completely imbalanced, like these central divisions 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.079 or whatever. Are you're gonna have You're gonna have great 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.160 teams beating off each other and these like the Rays 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:52.719 should be a playoff team and they won't. Yeah, but 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:57.520 they've added more playoff teams. Oh yeah, yes, for team. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.959 But beyond the game itself, I'm curious about the peripheral 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.400 stuff though. How close are they sitting together in the dugout? 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:06.040 Who's accidentally spitting or has sunflower seeds? And these new 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.320 rules and extra innings with a guy on second basis, 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.440 so many other things beyond the importance of a game. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.400 Because there's only a sixty game season, that's what I 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.439 want to see. Well, I don't care if they can 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.800 spit or scratch or adjust or any of that. I 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.840 just want them to play like I'm not gonna go 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.200 Those poor guys, they don't get this spit god. But 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.040 if it's a Raised Marlins game, I know, for me, 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.440 I'm more interested to watch the peripheral stuff and the 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.720 fans and no fans and all these new rules put 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.000 in place as opposed to who's gonna win the Ravens, 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.720 Who's gonna win the Raised Marlins game? For the standard, Well, 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:36.800 I'm not worried about the individual game. But I do 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:41.080 think it's exciting. I think that with sixty games, it's 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.400 really interesting with the strategy. I mean, after a while, 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.880 you're gonna go, oh, there's a National League DH all right, 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.640 Oh we're gonna start the tenth inning with a runner 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.520 at second base. Okay, I'm fine if they just get 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.680 on the damn field. I don't care if they're playing softball. 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:01.800 I don't care if they have a extra outfielder, I 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:06.720 don't care. Just by yes, boy, how many games into 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.480 the season does play by play man go, that's a 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:15.240 third straight walk by Johnson. He's social distancing the strike zone. Tommy, Well, 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:21.440 that that'd be Bob Uker. Yes, yeah, that's a uk Yeah, yes, mcclvin. 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:26.000 People are obsessing over the first base holding on a guy. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:30.680 I've been bringing that up forever, saying, okay, how is 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.400 it I got a six six feet apart from my teammate, 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:38.040 but I get on first base. Now what happens? Yes, 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.600 does an umpire step in like a boxing ref pushers 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.520 two hugging boxers away from each other. What do you do? 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.440 What do you say if you're seeing something that's against 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:48.400 the rules and the protocol that they put in plays. 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.240 How about when the manager comes out to argue, but 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.640 he can't get in your face. He's got to back away, 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.760 he's got to be six feet away. He brings out 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:02.000 a protective screen, great plexicic glass and I think they're 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.440 the plexi glass pointing. I'm okay with all of this. 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.480 Just just get them on the field. Just play. That's it. 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.480 You know, no home court advantage for the Bucks and 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.640 the Lakers. All right, there's no home court advantage. There's 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:20.680 nothing we can do about it. Let's just play because 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.480 we've gotten to the point for the last three months. 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:28.040 Oh we're gonna start. Oh they're gonna play. Oh they're 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:32.160 not going to start. Oh they're not gonna play. Just play. 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.800 I'm exhausted, Like I just want something where I can 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.400 watch and not go plug. I got to think about 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.920 how I'm going to approach this tomorrow. I'm going to 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.400 measure my words here. Oh what kind of hate tweets 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:48.000 and emails will I get? Let's go back to normal 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.840 here for a little bit. That would be nice. Not 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.800 that these aren't interesting times, and but emotions run high, 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.640 and sports is about emotion. But I'd love to have 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:02.560 the passion of just watching a team play. Yes, McLevin, 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:04.399 I say you might not want to open up the 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.600 internet and all the stories about whether teams are actually 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:11.879 going to play. Oh, I know, I'm trying to be positive. Yeah, 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.840 I'm trying because I've been accused of being Danny Downer. 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.600 Here what's poll question we went with? I will actually 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.520 put up are you going to be more excited to 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.119 watch a regular season game because of the short schedule? 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.640 All right? I am? I could also put up are 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.720 you okay with the new rules starting a guy on 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:28.760 second base? Because we all disagree on that one on 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.200 this side of class? Well, I don't like it. But 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.240 then if this was the regular season with one hundred 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.480 and sixty two games, I'd be like, why are we 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:40.040 doing this? It's gimmicky. They want the games to end 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.280 sooner if it goes into extra innings. They just don't 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.640 want an eighteen inning marathon. Then you have to turn 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.000 around because what are they going to do? Is it 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:51.240 sixty games in seventy days? McLevin? Yeah, I mean it's 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:55.440 it's really compact, and they just don't want to have 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.520 these longer games. The extra inning sample, how about the 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.199 games that end at ten PM? No matter what happens. 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.160 At ten pm, when the clock's right like that, that's 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.920 the score. So you know the team's got up to bat, 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:07.800 they're down to they're trying to keep it moving, the 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.199 pitcher's stalling. The game ends at ten, but we have 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.000 one at bases loaded. What do you mean games? Sorry, 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.680 that's it, ten o'clock. Dan Patrick's got to go to bed. 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:19.639 Drive home carefully. Do we ever complain about the length 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.639 of like the last time you ever complained about the 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:26.080 length of a football game? College or prope? He's college 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.760 either one? Yes, College. Everybody complains every weekend they go 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:34.240 nine hours. They're insane. Maybe I don't read the comments, 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.840 but it doesn't feel No one's ever complained about an 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:41.160 NFL game being too long. Nobody can complain about baseball 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.639 taking forever with the sixty game schedule. You can't do 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:50.560 that this year. No, you can't. Mclovin. Everybody, baseball exists, 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:54.919 so we could complain about it. That's where, yes, but 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:56.919 then it would be more popular because we have so 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.399 many people who want to criticize it. Yes, college football 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:01.560 games are a bit longer than NFL because there half 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.720 times are longer. At the clock runs and more situations. 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:07.160 But because of that, you have a lot more great 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.000 comebacks in college football because they don't try to get 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:11.600 the game over with, they actually have a chance for 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:14.040 fourth quarter comeback. All right, phone calls are welcome. H 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.000 seven seven three DP show, email on dress d dan 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:18.960 Patrick dot com, Twitter, handed a DP show. If you 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.439 missed the Bubba Wallace interview from an hour ago, you 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:24.040 can go to Dan Patrick dot com and listen to it. 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:28.439 And unless I have new information, unless I get some 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:31.679 other principles, including the president and mask are on, I 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.399 don't know how we advance it. We discussed it. I 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:39.080 have questions. I had questions for Bubba. We got some 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:43.040 details from him on this. I don't think this investigation 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:47.800 is over. I mean I would be surprised if it's over. 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.439 Just feels like there's a little bit more attached to 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:54.480 this somewhere somehow, and those details will eventually come out. 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:57.560 At least I think there will be more details that 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:00.320 come out. Twenty one after the hour, Jeff pa and 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.119 from the Mothership, we'll join us. We'll get his thoughts 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:06.400 on this upcoming baseball season and some of the favorites 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:12.080 because of the scheduling and pitching staffs. Who's going to 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.000 be ready to go? Is anybody going to opt out 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:18.000 of this? Boy? But I can't imagine what it's going 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:22.080 to be like. So for eighteen months these two sides 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.960 hate each other, are going to have to try to 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:28.520 play nice. I don't know how they're going to do it. 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:31.399 We'll take a break here back after this and The 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:35.480 Dan Patrick Show. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:38.280 Show podcast. 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So I would love 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:59.320 to believe that, but there's this whole COVID thing too, 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:03.200 and it scares me that we've gotten to this point 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:06.480 now and that all of it can be blown up 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:13.080 like that. We call you the debunker here. Whenever there's news, 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:16.639 myself and the Dennets, we call you the debunker because 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:19.200 it's usually like, hey, this news came out. What did 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:25.359 Passing say? Oh, he debunked it, So congratulations, you're the debunker. 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:29.560 I have a you know, there's a mic sock and 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:32.320 brock you are or a great radio host up at 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:36.280 Seattle and have a theme song for me every time 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:38.920 I come on. It's a little jingle and it goes 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:42.960 Jeff passon the wet blanket playing and operator cars and 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:46.480