WEBVTT - Hour 2 - John Smoltz (06-05-20) 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.520 Sports Radio. Welcome to the program. It's our two on 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:10.800 this Friday. Got the trigger fired up. I don't know 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.760 what we're having, but I just know we got the 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:18.000 trigger fired up. Meet Friday. NFL is allowing coaches to 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:21.440 return to team facilities today. You'd have to imagine players 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:23.840 won't be too far behind, and it's good news if 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:25.880 you're a fan who wants to see the season start 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.440 on time. I guess the talk around the NFL has 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.680 been different than other sports. It's basically been full steam ahead. 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:34.839 If you're going to have the draft, okay it's a 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:38.120 virtual draft. If you're gonna have the schedule release party. 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:40.920 They're doing all of these things in real time and 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:45.680 trying to adhere to a schedule. And Roger Goodell, even 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:47.479 though he was in his basement for the draft, it 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:50.480 still went off. It was a huge rating success. Same 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.239 with the schedule release show. And a lot of this 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.640 is timing. The NHL and NBA had their seasons cut off. 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:01.480 Baseball was in spring training. The NFL basically has had 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.279 six months to figure all of this out. They have time, 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:09.800 and it's different than college football because college football, you're 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.920 dealing with students, the student athlete being on campus. The 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.880 NFL doesn't have to worry about that. So far, it 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.640 seems like the NFL has a handle on this situation. 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.080 And we'll see if that continues when the game start. 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:26.399 But you hope the momentum continues they figure out how 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:30.000 to provide a safe and entertaining product this fall, and 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.640 you're starting to see some of these colleges opening up, 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.480 or at least the possibility of opening up. I know 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:40.280 that the NCAA president Mark Emritt came out yesterday and 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:44.000 said he doesn't think all colleges will be playing football 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:49.400 in the fall. I don't know. It's always difficult, troubling, 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.480 dangerous when you have that blanket statement here. Because of 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.800 all the blanket statements we've had, if you go back 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.320 to March or April or May, it feels like we 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.400 walk back just about every statement that is put out there. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:06.360 I understand being overly cautious. I don't know if baseball 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.560 is going to play this year. If you said today, 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.920 are they going to have a baseball season? I would 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:17.240 say no, because of business, not the coronavirus, the NBA. 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.839 We're going to have a season. You know, you try 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.000 to figure out some of these other sports. Hockeys coming 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.560 back as well, Golf is coming back as well. But 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:26.919 when it comes to can college football do it well? 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.280 Number of teams? If you have a couple of hundred teams, 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.440 and then all of a sudden you start to add 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.560 the numbers of the players who are going to be 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.880 their student student athletes on campus? Can you go to games? 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:44.720 College football has the really toughest road here because there 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:48.120 are monetary aspects to this. Because of all the different 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:52.040 programs under that umbrella of the football program, the trickle 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.280 down with the money, and there are going to be 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:59.520 programs that are abolished. They will fold up those different programs, 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:03.919 different sports on universities. Can you get everybody back? What's 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:05.880 it going to look like in the stands? Can you 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.880 have student athletes? Can you have them on campus? How 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.480 many can you have on campus? They're going to be 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:16.119 schools that will probably not play football this fall. That's 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:20.200 according to the president of the NCAA eight seven seven 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.000 three D P show email address DP Atdanpatrick dot com. 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.760 Speaking of the baseball season, John Smoltz, the Hall of 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.560 Famer will join us. Of course, the great analyst for 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.920 MLB and Fox. I'm just looking at the numbers, the financials. 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.680 It doesn't seem like baseball is as concerned with the coronavirus. 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.760 Remember Blake Snell of the Rays. He was the first 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.960 to come out and say, hey, this isn't worth my 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.280 health to come back. Now, I don't think it's worth 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.040 a pitcher's health to come back for a fifty game 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.960 schedule because so much of what you do as a ballplayer, 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.640 certainly as a pitcher, is based off routine. Now, all 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.240 of a sudden, these are different times. How am I 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:02.360 going to be used? And if it's fifty games, are 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.080 you going to use me more? Are you going to 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.040 have more pitchers? What's our rotation going to look like? 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.440 Now I'm a little bit more cautious if I'm a 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:13.280 pitcher coming back for a fifty game regular season. But 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.280 this is about money. All of these sports are about money. 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.279 The bottom line is about money. How much can you 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.480 make or how much are we not making? How much 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:26.279 are we losing? That's what baseball is looking at, and 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.040 the players have to take them at their word that 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.360 this is the amount we lose each game. Because we 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.640 don't have fans there's no concessions. The players don't have 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:38.200 the numbers, The owners don't have to give them those numbers. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.279 We know what the players make. Players don't know what 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.200 the owners make. They have to take. There's so much 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.800 bad blood and distrust here. Now, maybe you can bring 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.080 them back without having an agreement. There was talk of 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:54.200 doing something like that, But can you have an arbitrator 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.880 who will come in and actually look at this for 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.800 the betterment of the game, because you might have to 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:03.400 help baseball helped themselves, because it's a terrible look now 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.400 that all of these other sports are going to find 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.679 a way to come back and baseball is not coming back. 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:12.040 And it doesn't have anything to do with health. It 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.479 has to do with money. So we'll talk to John 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.000 Smoltz about that. Mclovin, what kind of poll question do 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.400 you have for me today? I put up which second 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:24.000 tier team, as a non top three NBA team has 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.599 the best chance of winning the title or would you 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.839 bet on and the Rockets were first, then the Celtics, 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.280 and then the Sixers. I took the Clippers, Box and 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:36.800 Lakers off the board. Yeah, I understand where there's a 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.799 fascination I have with the Rockets. But there are times 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:41.880 I watch and I'm like, oh my god in a 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.160 good way, and there are times I watch and I go, 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.520 oh my god in a bad way. I don't have 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.479 that strong opinion about Dallas. Dallas is the best offensive 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:55.640 team in the league. Houston. Houston can be the best 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.680 team in the league and look like the worst team 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.280 in the league. I've never seen somebody have the pendulum 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.239 of being really good and really bad. Man. It moves 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:09.040 in far greater reaches with the Rockets than any other team. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.240 It feels like I think the Celtics and the Sixers, 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:17.200 they're legitimate, you know, titled contenders, certainly in the Eastern Conference. 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.280 Absolutely see that, Yeah, McLevin. A couple other teams on 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:24.360 this poll are the Raptors, the Nuggets, the Heat, any 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.120 of those like stand out. I mean, they're all they 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.160 had pretty good records. They're all around forty forty one, 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:32.719 forty two wins. You know, you always have Denver and 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.560 playing in Denver, but now you don't have that advantage 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:40.440 of playing in Denver. Toronto is not surprising anybody. Now, 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.320 that's a good team, good coach, good team, But you're 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:49.680 not surprising anybody sixers are unique Miami heat. Are you 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.200 you would getting into them a little bit this year? 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:54.960 I've noticed that. I think I just like the uniforms. 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.360 I think that's what it was. Yeah, it's pall. Can 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.640 anyone in this room name anyone on the marriage too? 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:06.240 Besides Luca don Chick and Christops Porzingis, there's Michael Finley Night. 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:11.200 Oh don't forget JJ Brea or Brea he played. He 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.320 played a little bit this year, JJ b He's like 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.880 ninth man. Wait, I was kidding. He's still on the Mavericks. 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.560 I class on the Mavericks for twenty seven years at Turns. 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.120 Let me del check that was a joke. Yeah, I 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:27.520 got him on this Vinny Mary miss Universe really yeah, 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:31.880 I think JJ Brea that was his best accomplishment. Good 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.280 for him. Yeah, would you take her last name? So 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.520 you're JJ Universe? Well that's on her last name, Oh, 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:44.240 miss Universe, that's your last name? Her name was Jane Universe. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:47.400 oh you're Miss Universe. Is Steph Curry's brother on that team, 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.440 though Seth Curry's in the playoffs. Steph Curry is not. Yeah, 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.080 Tim Hardaway Junior, Dwight Powell, I guess he plays in 0:07:54.080 --> 0:08:01.800 the NBA. Dorian Finney Smith. Yeah, MAXI he offense, cleverer, 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.440 he's a good shooter, all right. Jalen Brunson or Rick Brunson, 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.080 what are the Brunton Brunson's son. Ye, Len Brunson's coming 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.080 off the bench doing some good work. Yeah. Do you 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.320 remember Rick Brunts at a temple? Love that guy? Yeah? Yeah, 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.679 he was good. You know, he was a solid, solid player. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:19.920 I had to play defense back then with John Cheney. 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.480 Best Philly college player ever Mark Makon. Remember he was 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.640 going to be a star. He couldn't shoot, He couldn't 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:28.320 shoot at all. No, and his name was makin I 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:33.080 go he should have Mark Missing. He wasn't the best 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.559 Philadelphia player of all time, but you know he I 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:37.360 think he went top ten. He was a big big 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.240 remember the Big five. Yeah, he was a really good player. 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.400 Lionel Simmons was was great, l Train was great. And 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.680 of course you had Hank Gathers as well. Yes, mclum, 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.520 I have a side pole question, Okay, a Friday pole question. 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.240 M that is involved. There's an NBA hook. What are 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.440 the precautions is apparently they might not send maids into 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.880 the rooms to make the beds in this Orlando hotel. Right, 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.720 so here's a question for everybody. Do you make your 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.480 bed in the morning? Yes? Or no? I mean, we 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.840 also have partners, so I guess it's a tricky one. 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.679 But when you were a single man, did you make 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:17.400 your bed every morning? No? Yah? See I when I 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.600 was singled, definitely not. But now if I'm the last 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.560 one to get up, I try to. I really do. Yeah, 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:28.200 depending on the way the morning's already going, it's already 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.000 a bad morning before I'm even getting out of bed, 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.120 I might not, but I usually ninety percent of the 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.599 time I do. But then if you just have the 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:41.480 duvet and then you just yeah, thirty seven pillows? Why 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:46.520 do women have fifteen pillows on the bed? I never 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.360 understood that, Like it's not a photo op. Oh yeah, 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.000 this No, I just want to go to sleeves for 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:54.640 that one day a year where you have some type 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:56.760 of house party and everyone walks around and look at 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.640 your house. Why don't let them in my bedroom? Does 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.200 it as making your bed if you just flip the 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.840 top cover. Yes, technically you're talking over the pillows. Yeah, oh, 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.400 you got no room to talk back row that's the 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.199 most I would I would do that. It's just kind 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.600 of putting the covers over and throwing a couple of pillows. 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:14.760 I can do that, because let's getting more involved than 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.120 my attitude is. We're just going to be back in 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.320 the bed later anyway, Like what's the purpose of making 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:21.840 it all nice and neat for who? No one's in 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:23.439 the room and then we're just going to be back 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.400 in they're messing up the cover anyway. I choose not 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.440 to think of that image right now, just saying I 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.679 don't need that image in my head. It's a meat Friday, 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.320 It's not the meat I need to be thinking about. Here. 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.400 Teams that score the highest percentage of their points on 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:43.840 three pointers this season, Mavericks are number one, thirty nine 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.120 and a half percent, Rockets at thirty nine point one, 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.040 the Raptors at thirty six and a half, and the 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:54.960 Pelicans at thirty six point one. Some interesting numbers. You know, 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.319 to get your shot back, it is going to take 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.200 a little bit of time. And you know, do we 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.800 see where some of these teams that are relying on 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.520 the three point shot are going to struggle a little 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:10.880 bit because of this long layoff defense travels. That's what 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.800 my coach would always say, like, man, don't travel with me. 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.840 It's not it's not in my suitcase. Yes, mcle Now, 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:19.680 what do you know about the shooting lines, like the 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.559 visuals here, because that's your shooters always talk about that. Yep. 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.880 That to me is the great home court advantage is 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:30.760 the backdrop, like like the comfort level you have when 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.319 you go on your floor and you you know the lighting, 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.480 you know the background there, and it's going to be 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.719 different in Orlando. Not that they won't get accustomed to it, 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.880 but I do think there there are guys that when 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.160 they get on the floor, they don't even have to 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.200 look at the hoop to know where they are on 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.400 the floor. They just there's a feel that you have. 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.920 You know, you're you're just comfortable in that space there. 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:59.320 But the backdrop when you shoot is very underrated. I 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.720 remember when we started playing NCAA tournament games in the 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:06.319 domes and players would always talk about the depth perception 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.319 when you're shooting. I don't know if that's going to 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.880 be an issue at all, but shooters notice these kind 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.160 of things. I had some phone calls in here Doug 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:16.959 in North Carolina, Hey, Doug, what do you have for 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.520 him any day? Well, first off, I got to tell 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.600 you when you were interviewing Rex Chapman yesterday, I could 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.240 not take my eyes off a YouTube that you've had 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.360 a lot of funny interviews. That was probably the best 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.320 interview of the week. And when he said no one 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.400 ever called me a thag, it was an eye opening 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:36.400 moment for me. So just if your listeners haven't seen it, 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.800 go to whatever platform you would they could find that on. 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.480 It was just wow and a great job. But I 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.800 wanted to put you in a position of being a 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.960 general manager. I'm assuming that the lottery teams are basically 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.120 all set, so you guys have been talking about the playoffs. 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.600 I want to go the other way and say Dan 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.840 Patrick is the GM of the Detroit Pistons. They're my 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:57.920 team and they're going to be a lottery team, and 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.160 I think they need a general manager taking Edwards or 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.400 Ball if he'd get the first overall pick, I'd have 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.280 to look at the roster a little bit more. Doug, 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.680 you know you're asking me on short notice, But thank 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.640 you again for the compliment on Rex Chapman. The number 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:13.920 of people I heard from yesterday to say if you 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:19.120 ever wanted to give the format. I'm trying to think 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.960 the word that was used, but just you're listening to 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.880 two people talk, but they're actually talking on a national 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.720 radio and TV show. That's what we did with Rex Chapman. 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:33.840 But that's because Rex allowed that to happen. Yesterday. He 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.920 allowed me to go certain places with him, and then 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.040 he offered up things as well as if we would 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.479 have a normal conversation, and that would be a normal conversation. 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:45.960 I talked to him yesterday after the show and I 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.760 just said, are you okay? And he said, yeah, I 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.680 hope that was good for you guys, and I said 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.320 it was and then he started, you know, telling me 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:57.760 other stories about things that he had gone through, and 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.320 you know, it's clearly emotional for what he was talking 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.280 about the op ed piece that he wrote for the 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:10.120 Lexington Herald. But he just he's a very, very interesting 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.400 guy and he's got one of the best social platforms 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:17.319 with you know, you know, he's always got these videos, 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.200 a lot of comedy in there. He's very he's got 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.800 a great sense of humor, but he can laugh at himself. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.120 And when he brought up the shoplifting and he was 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:30.240 addicted to pills. Even when he said that Cali Perry 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.360 he had heard was going to the Lakers, he said 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.479 he was high. He was he was high on opiates 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.440 when he said it. But uh no, if you get 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.480 a chance and listen to that, go back any interview 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.920 from the Mercedes amg Man. OK, you can go back 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.120 and listen to that on our app Let's see Jesse 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:50.960 and Los Angeles joins us Hi, jess, what do you 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:56.200 have for me? But got five ten and one seventy 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:01.480 three two comments on the NBA, if that's okay. One 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.360 is regarding the idea that if the Lakers will win 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.720 the championship, he was kept saying, you know, would I 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.680 have an asterisk because of Lebron James. It probably will 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.840 to some people, but he definitely should not. And I'm 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.280 gonna let you know why no one puts on and 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.520 no one puts an asterisk next to the twenty eleven 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.800 twenty and twelve season when he won his first title 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.640 with ab and they only played sixty six regular games 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.720 that season because the lockout all this year with a 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:25.760 seventy one game or with the extra eight, they're going 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.680 to be playing seventy one, So That's why I don't 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:31.120 think there should be an act. Well, there shouldn't be Jesse, absolutely. 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:36.400 I just know how this my world works. This is 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.360 where you're going to have people who are going to 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.680 do it because when you talk about Lebron, you get clicks, 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:45.840 you get eyeballs. If Lebron wins, he wins, it's a 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.600 title because everybody else. In fact, we've taken out the 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:52.400 home court advantage, so I've taken away something from Lebron. 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.960 If you want to have an asterisk by this, that 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:01.720 would be the asterisk is somebody going to win because 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:06.040 we created a different kind of playoff format. Here. Is 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:10.080 there an asterisk if the Celtics win, well, hey, you 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.880 only played this number of games. Hey, everybody played in 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:16.040 the same spot. If the Lakers win this year, you 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.520 can put an asterisk, but it should be a positive 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.360 one for Lebron James. We took away the home court 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.720 advantage that they work so hard during the regular season 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.480 to get, and now everybody starts out on the same 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:33.120 floor or floors in Orlando. But I'm under no impression 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:37.880 that logical people will attach an asterisk if the Lakers win. 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:43.120 It'll just be people who want to troll you and say, yeah, Michael, 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:49.360 Michael never won a strike shortened or a pandemic shortened season. Oh, 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.400 that should only account as half a championship for Lebron. 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:58.080 Whatever it is to shoehorn Lebron into everyday conversation on 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:01.320 these shows, that's what's going to happen. I'm just telling you, 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.719 looking in the crystal ball, if the Lakers went now, 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:08.520 it's a It's a good problem to have if you're Lebron. Hey, 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:12.600 I won the title. Yeah, but it's a yeah. Sorry, sorry, Bro. 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:16.240 I want a title here. You can't take it away 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:20.199 from me. But I don't want to say I told you. 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.199 But if we get there, I told you that some 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:27.600 will look at this and still say yeah. But nineteen 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.080 after the hour, more phone calls coming up. Always great 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.280 to check in with John Smoltz. How optimistic is John 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:37.280 that we will have a baseball season? Because I'm not 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.760 optimistic at all. Nineteen after the hour, This is The 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.600 Dan Patrick Show. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.440 Show podcast. 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Haven't can really confide with a long time 0:18:53.600 --> 0:19:00.280 I haven't. But I'm thinking maybe a camping trip. You 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.720 and your wife are going on a camping No, you guys, huh. 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:06.520 We could go and I'd stay in the RV and 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.359 I'd get Cabello's to get us a really nice tent 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:14.320 and week one tent, a big one, be a big one. 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.360 It's not individual tents. Well, no, nice about front row 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:22.360 back row tents. I could I could do that. Okay, yes, 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:24.800 time now they didn't they have restrooms inside tents. Now 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:29.159 they do. Not that the campgrounds are really good and 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:32.960 maybe you could just be one with nature. I could 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:38.040 have you gone camping before I have. But there was 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.440 a fourth grade trip and then there was a torrential 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.280 downpour of rain and our grill fell over and it 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.280 caused like a mini fire. Was kind of a jasta. 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:47.720 We had to go into some kind of community college 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:49.440 gym to like sleep, and that wasn't much of a 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:51.080 camping trip. I feel like we could have written that 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:53.640 story for Tata. It would have been exactly this. They're like, hey, 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:56.320 can you imagine what would happen during Todd's camping trip, Like, oh, 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:58.400 the girl would fall over and start a mini fire. 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:00.760 Then they had to be evacuated to actually weren't working 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:05.119 as darkness and damp and inside a gym of some school. 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:07.159 I don't know what happened. We make the smooth segue 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:10.440 to John Smolts, the Hall of Famer MLB Network analyst. 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:13.600 MLB Network will launch a new series on Monday at seven, 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:18.359 The Sounds of Baseball. Vin Scully's featured as the first 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:21.600 voice the Greatest calls in moments from his play by 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.639 play broadcast John Howard, Are you at the golf course? 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:28.800 I am, But I got a camping story to tell you. Okay, 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:32.840 So it's not you know woodsman camper type scenario. We 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:36.120 had a twenty seven foot condos condor as a kid 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:40.240 motor home and we would go camping in the Upper 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.960 Peninsula and we'd go, you know, all over the place 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.000 in it. And then we just detected that there was 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.479 a short in the electrical system. And we all knew it, 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:52.640 but we were out on our trip and the rule 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:54.560 was you had to have shoes on because the metal 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:58.480 stairs and the metal handle, if you touch it without shoes, 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:01.719 you're gonna get, you know, shot, So we all knew it. 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:05.960 I'm on the inside of the motor home, campfires right outside. 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:10.240 I decided I'm going to jump from inside with no 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:14.680 shoes out missed the step, but I grabbed the handle 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:19.600 and I'm getting fried, like stuck to the handle, and 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:24.119 my mom was behind me and kicked me off the 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:27.720 handle out on the ground. And to this day, my 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:30.040 mom thinks that's why my arm was the way it was. 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:33.560 Wait built proof of it in a good way or 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:35.680 a bad way. A good way, Yeah, in a good way. 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:39.280 She thinks, you know that I developed a super arm 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:41.440 or something when I was twelve years old. But yeah, 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:44.479 that was, that was a that was we'd no longer 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.679 had the motor home after that. We had to get it, 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:49.439 get rid of it. But it was my fault for 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:52.520 jumping out there without any shoes. And but in the 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:56.040