Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Welcome to the program. It's our two on
Speaker 1: this Friday. Got the trigger fired up. I don't know
Speaker 1: what we're having, but I just know we got the
Speaker 1: trigger fired up. Meet Friday. NFL is allowing coaches to
Speaker 1: return to team facilities today. You'd have to imagine players
Speaker 1: won't be too far behind, and it's good news if
Speaker 1: you're a fan who wants to see the season start
Speaker 1: on time. I guess the talk around the NFL has
Speaker 1: been different than other sports. It's basically been full steam ahead.
Speaker 1: If you're going to have the draft, okay it's a
Speaker 1: virtual draft. If you're gonna have the schedule release party.
Speaker 1: They're doing all of these things in real time and
Speaker 1: trying to adhere to a schedule. And Roger Goodell, even
Speaker 1: though he was in his basement for the draft, it
Speaker 1: still went off. It was a huge rating success. Same
Speaker 1: with the schedule release show. And a lot of this
Speaker 1: is timing. The NHL and NBA had their seasons cut off.
Speaker 1: Baseball was in spring training. The NFL basically has had
Speaker 1: six months to figure all of this out. They have time,
Speaker 1: and it's different than college football because college football, you're
Speaker 1: dealing with students, the student athlete being on campus. The
Speaker 1: NFL doesn't have to worry about that. So far, it
Speaker 1: seems like the NFL has a handle on this situation.
Speaker 1: And we'll see if that continues when the game start.
Speaker 1: But you hope the momentum continues they figure out how
Speaker 1: to provide a safe and entertaining product this fall, and
Speaker 1: you're starting to see some of these colleges opening up,
Speaker 1: or at least the possibility of opening up. I know
Speaker 1: that the NCAA president Mark Emritt came out yesterday and
Speaker 1: said he doesn't think all colleges will be playing football
Speaker 1: in the fall. I don't know. It's always difficult, troubling,
Speaker 1: dangerous when you have that blanket statement here. Because of
Speaker 1: all the blanket statements we've had, if you go back
Speaker 1: to March or April or May, it feels like we
Speaker 1: walk back just about every statement that is put out there.
Speaker 1: I understand being overly cautious. I don't know if baseball
Speaker 1: is going to play this year. If you said today,
Speaker 1: are they going to have a baseball season? I would
Speaker 1: say no, because of business, not the coronavirus, the NBA.
Speaker 1: We're going to have a season. You know, you try
Speaker 1: to figure out some of these other sports. Hockeys coming
Speaker 1: back as well, Golf is coming back as well. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to can college football do it well?
Speaker 1: Number of teams? If you have a couple of hundred teams,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you start to add
Speaker 1: the numbers of the players who are going to be
Speaker 1: their student student athletes on campus? Can you go to games?
Speaker 1: College football has the really toughest road here because there
Speaker 1: are monetary aspects to this. Because of all the different
Speaker 1: programs under that umbrella of the football program, the trickle
Speaker 1: down with the money, and there are going to be
Speaker 1: programs that are abolished. They will fold up those different programs,
Speaker 1: different sports on universities. Can you get everybody back? What's
Speaker 1: it going to look like in the stands? Can you
Speaker 1: have student athletes? Can you have them on campus? How
Speaker 1: many can you have on campus? They're going to be
Speaker 1: schools that will probably not play football this fall. That's
Speaker 1: according to the president of the NCAA eight seven seven
Speaker 1: three D P show email address DP Atdanpatrick dot com.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the baseball season, John Smoltz, the Hall of
Speaker 1: Famer will join us. Of course, the great analyst for
Speaker 1: MLB and Fox. I'm just looking at the numbers, the financials.
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like baseball is as concerned with the coronavirus.
Speaker 1: Remember Blake Snell of the Rays. He was the first
Speaker 1: to come out and say, hey, this isn't worth my
Speaker 1: health to come back. Now, I don't think it's worth
Speaker 1: a pitcher's health to come back for a fifty game
Speaker 1: schedule because so much of what you do as a ballplayer,
Speaker 1: certainly as a pitcher, is based off routine. Now, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, these are different times. How am I
Speaker 1: going to be used? And if it's fifty games, are
Speaker 1: you going to use me more? Are you going to
Speaker 1: have more pitchers? What's our rotation going to look like?
Speaker 1: Now I'm a little bit more cautious if I'm a
Speaker 1: pitcher coming back for a fifty game regular season. But
Speaker 1: this is about money. All of these sports are about money.
Speaker 1: The bottom line is about money. How much can you
Speaker 1: make or how much are we not making? How much
Speaker 1: are we losing? That's what baseball is looking at, and
Speaker 1: the players have to take them at their word that
Speaker 1: this is the amount we lose each game. Because we
Speaker 1: don't have fans there's no concessions. The players don't have
Speaker 1: the numbers, The owners don't have to give them those numbers.
Speaker 1: We know what the players make. Players don't know what
Speaker 1: the owners make. They have to take. There's so much
Speaker 1: bad blood and distrust here. Now, maybe you can bring
Speaker 1: them back without having an agreement. There was talk of
Speaker 1: doing something like that, But can you have an arbitrator
Speaker 1: who will come in and actually look at this for
Speaker 1: the betterment of the game, because you might have to
Speaker 1: help baseball helped themselves, because it's a terrible look now
Speaker 1: that all of these other sports are going to find
Speaker 1: a way to come back and baseball is not coming back.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't have anything to do with health. It
Speaker 1: has to do with money. So we'll talk to John
Speaker 1: Smoltz about that. Mclovin, what kind of poll question do
Speaker 1: you have for me today? I put up which second
Speaker 1: tier team, as a non top three NBA team has
Speaker 1: the best chance of winning the title or would you
Speaker 1: bet on and the Rockets were first, then the Celtics,
Speaker 1: and then the Sixers. I took the Clippers, Box and
Speaker 1: Lakers off the board. Yeah, I understand where there's a
Speaker 1: fascination I have with the Rockets. But there are times
Speaker 1: I watch and I'm like, oh my god in a
Speaker 1: good way, and there are times I watch and I go,
Speaker 1: oh my god in a bad way. I don't have
Speaker 1: that strong opinion about Dallas. Dallas is the best offensive
Speaker 1: team in the league. Houston. Houston can be the best
Speaker 1: team in the league and look like the worst team
Speaker 1: in the league. I've never seen somebody have the pendulum
Speaker 1: of being really good and really bad. Man. It moves
Speaker 1: in far greater reaches with the Rockets than any other team.
Speaker 1: It feels like I think the Celtics and the Sixers,
Speaker 1: they're legitimate, you know, titled contenders, certainly in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: Absolutely see that, Yeah, McLevin. A couple other teams on
Speaker 1: this poll are the Raptors, the Nuggets, the Heat, any
Speaker 1: of those like stand out. I mean, they're all they
Speaker 1: had pretty good records. They're all around forty forty one,
Speaker 1: forty two wins. You know, you always have Denver and
Speaker 1: playing in Denver, but now you don't have that advantage
Speaker 1: of playing in Denver. Toronto is not surprising anybody. Now,
Speaker 1: that's a good team, good coach, good team, But you're
Speaker 1: not surprising anybody sixers are unique Miami heat. Are you
Speaker 1: you would getting into them a little bit this year?
Speaker 1: I've noticed that. I think I just like the uniforms.
Speaker 1: I think that's what it was. Yeah, it's pall. Can
Speaker 1: anyone in this room name anyone on the marriage too?
Speaker 1: Besides Luca don Chick and Christops Porzingis, there's Michael Finley Night.
Speaker 1: Oh don't forget JJ Brea or Brea he played. He
Speaker 1: played a little bit this year, JJ b He's like
Speaker 1: ninth man. Wait, I was kidding. He's still on the Mavericks.
Speaker 1: I class on the Mavericks for twenty seven years at Turns.
Speaker 1: Let me del check that was a joke. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got him on this Vinny Mary miss Universe really yeah,
Speaker 1: I think JJ Brea that was his best accomplishment. Good
Speaker 1: for him. Yeah, would you take her last name? So
Speaker 1: you're JJ Universe? Well that's on her last name, Oh,
Speaker 1: miss Universe, that's your last name? Her name was Jane Universe. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh you're Miss Universe. Is Steph Curry's brother on that team,
Speaker 1: though Seth Curry's in the playoffs. Steph Curry is not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tim Hardaway Junior, Dwight Powell, I guess he plays in
Speaker 1: the NBA. Dorian Finney Smith. Yeah, MAXI he offense, cleverer,
Speaker 1: he's a good shooter, all right. Jalen Brunson or Rick Brunson,
Speaker 1: what are the Brunton Brunson's son. Ye, Len Brunson's coming
Speaker 1: off the bench doing some good work. Yeah. Do you
Speaker 1: remember Rick Brunts at a temple? Love that guy? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was good. You know, he was a solid, solid player.
Speaker 1: I had to play defense back then with John Cheney.
Speaker 1: Best Philly college player ever Mark Makon. Remember he was
Speaker 1: going to be a star. He couldn't shoot, He couldn't
Speaker 1: shoot at all. No, and his name was makin I
Speaker 1: go he should have Mark Missing. He wasn't the best
Speaker 1: Philadelphia player of all time, but you know he I
Speaker 1: think he went top ten. He was a big big
Speaker 1: remember the Big five. Yeah, he was a really good player.
Speaker 1: Lionel Simmons was was great, l Train was great. And
Speaker 1: of course you had Hank Gathers as well. Yes, mclum,
Speaker 1: I have a side pole question, Okay, a Friday pole question.
Speaker 1: M that is involved. There's an NBA hook. What are
Speaker 1: the precautions is apparently they might not send maids into
Speaker 1: the rooms to make the beds in this Orlando hotel. Right,
Speaker 1: so here's a question for everybody. Do you make your
Speaker 1: bed in the morning? Yes? Or no? I mean, we
Speaker 1: also have partners, so I guess it's a tricky one.
Speaker 1: But when you were a single man, did you make
Speaker 1: your bed every morning? No? Yah? See I when I
Speaker 1: was singled, definitely not. But now if I'm the last
Speaker 1: one to get up, I try to. I really do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: depending on the way the morning's already going, it's already
Speaker 1: a bad morning before I'm even getting out of bed,
Speaker 1: I might not, but I usually ninety percent of the
Speaker 1: time I do. But then if you just have the
Speaker 1: duvet and then you just yeah, thirty seven pillows? Why
Speaker 1: do women have fifteen pillows on the bed? I never
Speaker 1: understood that, Like it's not a photo op. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: this No, I just want to go to sleeves for
Speaker 1: that one day a year where you have some type
Speaker 1: of house party and everyone walks around and look at
Speaker 1: your house. Why don't let them in my bedroom? Does
Speaker 1: it as making your bed if you just flip the
Speaker 1: top cover. Yes, technically you're talking over the pillows. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 1: you got no room to talk back row that's the
Speaker 1: most I would I would do that. It's just kind
Speaker 1: of putting the covers over and throwing a couple of pillows.
Speaker 1: I can do that, because let's getting more involved than
Speaker 1: my attitude is. We're just going to be back in
Speaker 1: the bed later anyway, Like what's the purpose of making
Speaker 1: it all nice and neat for who? No one's in
Speaker 1: the room and then we're just going to be back
Speaker 1: in they're messing up the cover anyway. I choose not
Speaker 1: to think of that image right now, just saying I
Speaker 1: don't need that image in my head. It's a meat Friday,
Speaker 1: It's not the meat I need to be thinking about. Here.
Speaker 1: Teams that score the highest percentage of their points on
Speaker 1: three pointers this season, Mavericks are number one, thirty nine
Speaker 1: and a half percent, Rockets at thirty nine point one,
Speaker 1: the Raptors at thirty six and a half, and the
Speaker 1: Pelicans at thirty six point one. Some interesting numbers. You know,
Speaker 1: to get your shot back, it is going to take
Speaker 1: a little bit of time. And you know, do we
Speaker 1: see where some of these teams that are relying on
Speaker 1: the three point shot are going to struggle a little
Speaker 1: bit because of this long layoff defense travels. That's what
Speaker 1: my coach would always say, like, man, don't travel with me.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not in my suitcase. Yes, mcle Now,
Speaker 1: what do you know about the shooting lines, like the
Speaker 1: visuals here, because that's your shooters always talk about that. Yep.
Speaker 1: That to me is the great home court advantage is
Speaker 1: the backdrop, like like the comfort level you have when
Speaker 1: you go on your floor and you you know the lighting,
Speaker 1: you know the background there, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: different in Orlando. Not that they won't get accustomed to it,
Speaker 1: but I do think there there are guys that when
Speaker 1: they get on the floor, they don't even have to
Speaker 1: look at the hoop to know where they are on
Speaker 1: the floor. They just there's a feel that you have.
Speaker 1: You know, you're you're just comfortable in that space there.
Speaker 1: But the backdrop when you shoot is very underrated. I
Speaker 1: remember when we started playing NCAA tournament games in the
Speaker 1: domes and players would always talk about the depth perception
Speaker 1: when you're shooting. I don't know if that's going to
Speaker 1: be an issue at all, but shooters notice these kind
Speaker 1: of things. I had some phone calls in here Doug
Speaker 1: in North Carolina, Hey, Doug, what do you have for
Speaker 1: him any day? Well, first off, I got to tell
Speaker 1: you when you were interviewing Rex Chapman yesterday, I could
Speaker 1: not take my eyes off a YouTube that you've had
Speaker 1: a lot of funny interviews. That was probably the best
Speaker 1: interview of the week. And when he said no one
Speaker 1: ever called me a thag, it was an eye opening
Speaker 1: moment for me. So just if your listeners haven't seen it,
Speaker 1: go to whatever platform you would they could find that on.
Speaker 1: It was just wow and a great job. But I
Speaker 1: wanted to put you in a position of being a
Speaker 1: general manager. I'm assuming that the lottery teams are basically
Speaker 1: all set, so you guys have been talking about the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I want to go the other way and say Dan
Speaker 1: Patrick is the GM of the Detroit Pistons. They're my
Speaker 1: team and they're going to be a lottery team, and
Speaker 1: I think they need a general manager taking Edwards or
Speaker 1: Ball if he'd get the first overall pick, I'd have
Speaker 1: to look at the roster a little bit more. Doug,
Speaker 1: you know you're asking me on short notice, But thank
Speaker 1: you again for the compliment on Rex Chapman. The number
Speaker 1: of people I heard from yesterday to say if you
Speaker 1: ever wanted to give the format. I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: the word that was used, but just you're listening to
Speaker 1: two people talk, but they're actually talking on a national
Speaker 1: radio and TV show. That's what we did with Rex Chapman.
Speaker 1: But that's because Rex allowed that to happen. Yesterday. He
Speaker 1: allowed me to go certain places with him, and then
Speaker 1: he offered up things as well as if we would
Speaker 1: have a normal conversation, and that would be a normal conversation.
Speaker 1: I talked to him yesterday after the show and I
Speaker 1: just said, are you okay? And he said, yeah, I
Speaker 1: hope that was good for you guys, and I said
Speaker 1: it was and then he started, you know, telling me
Speaker 1: other stories about things that he had gone through, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's clearly emotional for what he was talking
Speaker 1: about the op ed piece that he wrote for the
Speaker 1: Lexington Herald. But he just he's a very, very interesting
Speaker 1: guy and he's got one of the best social platforms
Speaker 1: with you know, you know, he's always got these videos,
Speaker 1: a lot of comedy in there. He's very he's got
Speaker 1: a great sense of humor, but he can laugh at himself.
Speaker 1: And when he brought up the shoplifting and he was
Speaker 1: addicted to pills. Even when he said that Cali Perry
Speaker 1: he had heard was going to the Lakers, he said
Speaker 1: he was high. He was he was high on opiates
Speaker 1: when he said it. But uh no, if you get
Speaker 1: a chance and listen to that, go back any interview
Speaker 1: from the Mercedes amg Man. OK, you can go back
Speaker 1: and listen to that on our app Let's see Jesse
Speaker 1: and Los Angeles joins us Hi, jess, what do you
Speaker 1: have for me? But got five ten and one seventy
Speaker 1: three two comments on the NBA, if that's okay. One
Speaker 1: is regarding the idea that if the Lakers will win
Speaker 1: the championship, he was kept saying, you know, would I
Speaker 1: have an asterisk because of Lebron James. It probably will
Speaker 1: to some people, but he definitely should not. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let you know why no one puts on and
Speaker 1: no one puts an asterisk next to the twenty eleven
Speaker 1: twenty and twelve season when he won his first title
Speaker 1: with ab and they only played sixty six regular games
Speaker 1: that season because the lockout all this year with a
Speaker 1: seventy one game or with the extra eight, they're going
Speaker 1: to be playing seventy one, So That's why I don't
Speaker 1: think there should be an act. Well, there shouldn't be Jesse, absolutely.
Speaker 1: I just know how this my world works. This is
Speaker 1: where you're going to have people who are going to
Speaker 1: do it because when you talk about Lebron, you get clicks,
Speaker 1: you get eyeballs. If Lebron wins, he wins, it's a
Speaker 1: title because everybody else. In fact, we've taken out the
Speaker 1: home court advantage, so I've taken away something from Lebron.
Speaker 1: If you want to have an asterisk by this, that
Speaker 1: would be the asterisk is somebody going to win because
Speaker 1: we created a different kind of playoff format. Here. Is
Speaker 1: there an asterisk if the Celtics win, well, hey, you
Speaker 1: only played this number of games. Hey, everybody played in
Speaker 1: the same spot. If the Lakers win this year, you
Speaker 1: can put an asterisk, but it should be a positive
Speaker 1: one for Lebron James. We took away the home court
Speaker 1: advantage that they work so hard during the regular season
Speaker 1: to get, and now everybody starts out on the same
Speaker 1: floor or floors in Orlando. But I'm under no impression
Speaker 1: that logical people will attach an asterisk if the Lakers win.
Speaker 1: It'll just be people who want to troll you and say, yeah, Michael,
Speaker 1: Michael never won a strike shortened or a pandemic shortened season. Oh,
Speaker 1: that should only account as half a championship for Lebron.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is to shoehorn Lebron into everyday conversation on
Speaker 1: these shows, that's what's going to happen. I'm just telling you,
Speaker 1: looking in the crystal ball, if the Lakers went now,
Speaker 1: it's a It's a good problem to have if you're Lebron. Hey,
Speaker 1: I won the title. Yeah, but it's a yeah. Sorry, sorry, Bro.
Speaker 1: I want a title here. You can't take it away
Speaker 1: from me. But I don't want to say I told you.
Speaker 1: But if we get there, I told you that some
Speaker 1: will look at this and still say yeah. But nineteen
Speaker 1: after the hour, more phone calls coming up. Always great
Speaker 1: to check in with John Smoltz. How optimistic is John
Speaker 1: that we will have a baseball season? Because I'm not
Speaker 1: optimistic at all. Nineteen after the hour, This is The
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick
Speaker 1: Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday
Speaker 1: morning nine to noon Eastern or six to nine Pacific
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for The
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show at Fox Sports Radio dot Com or
Speaker 1: stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by
Speaker 1: searching f are This program brought to you by Mercedes
Speaker 1: AMGB Prepared for whatever comes your way. It's the all
Speaker 1: new GT four door coup Because life is a race.
Speaker 1: Visit your local dealership for a test drive today. If
Speaker 1: you missed any interviews this week or any week from
Speaker 1: the Mercedes AMG Man Cave, go to the Dan Patrick
Speaker 1: Show app watch and listen from inside the Mercedes AMG
Speaker 1: Man Cave Mercedes AMG driving performance during the live looking
Speaker 1: I went in the back brought the danettes back there.
Speaker 1: I have my air stream. It's an RV and uh.
Speaker 1: It's really a beautiful piece of art. It's you know
Speaker 1: that silver bubble type RV and H and I bought
Speaker 1: it for my wife. This was years ago, just to
Speaker 1: go camping, and Fritzie, of course, spoiled the surprise on
Speaker 1: the air that day. That was one of the worst
Speaker 1: things ever I can That's why I never want to
Speaker 1: tell you. Haven't can really confide with a long time
Speaker 1: I haven't. But I'm thinking maybe a camping trip. You
Speaker 1: and your wife are going on a camping No, you guys, huh.
Speaker 1: We could go and I'd stay in the RV and
Speaker 1: I'd get Cabello's to get us a really nice tent
Speaker 1: and week one tent, a big one, be a big one.
Speaker 1: It's not individual tents. Well, no, nice about front row
Speaker 1: back row tents. I could I could do that. Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: time now they didn't they have restrooms inside tents. Now
Speaker 1: they do. Not that the campgrounds are really good and
Speaker 1: maybe you could just be one with nature. I could
Speaker 1: have you gone camping before I have. But there was
Speaker 1: a fourth grade trip and then there was a torrential
Speaker 1: downpour of rain and our grill fell over and it
Speaker 1: caused like a mini fire. Was kind of a jasta.
Speaker 1: We had to go into some kind of community college
Speaker 1: gym to like sleep, and that wasn't much of a
Speaker 1: camping trip. I feel like we could have written that
Speaker 1: story for Tata. It would have been exactly this. They're like, hey,
Speaker 1: can you imagine what would happen during Todd's camping trip, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: the girl would fall over and start a mini fire.
Speaker 1: Then they had to be evacuated to actually weren't working
Speaker 1: as darkness and damp and inside a gym of some school.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. We make the smooth segue
Speaker 1: to John Smolts, the Hall of Famer MLB Network analyst.
Speaker 1: MLB Network will launch a new series on Monday at seven,
Speaker 1: The Sounds of Baseball. Vin Scully's featured as the first
Speaker 1: voice the Greatest calls in moments from his play by
Speaker 1: play broadcast John Howard, Are you at the golf course?
Speaker 1: I am, But I got a camping story to tell you. Okay,
Speaker 1: So it's not you know woodsman camper type scenario. We
Speaker 1: had a twenty seven foot condos condor as a kid
Speaker 1: motor home and we would go camping in the Upper
Speaker 1: Peninsula and we'd go, you know, all over the place
Speaker 1: in it. And then we just detected that there was
Speaker 1: a short in the electrical system. And we all knew it,
Speaker 1: but we were out on our trip and the rule
Speaker 1: was you had to have shoes on because the metal
Speaker 1: stairs and the metal handle, if you touch it without shoes,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get, you know, shot, So we all knew it.
Speaker 1: I'm on the inside of the motor home, campfires right outside.
Speaker 1: I decided I'm going to jump from inside with no
Speaker 1: shoes out missed the step, but I grabbed the handle
Speaker 1: and I'm getting fried, like stuck to the handle, and
Speaker 1: my mom was behind me and kicked me off the
Speaker 1: handle out on the ground. And to this day, my
Speaker 1: mom thinks that's why my arm was the way it was.
Speaker 1: Wait built proof of it in a good way or
Speaker 1: a bad way. A good way, Yeah, in a good way.
Speaker 1: She thinks, you know that I developed a super arm
Speaker 1: or something when I was twelve years old. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that was, that was a that was we'd no longer
Speaker 1: had the motor home after that. We had to get it,
Speaker 1: get rid of it. But it was my fault for
Speaker 1: jumping out there without any shoes. And but in the
Speaker 1: long run, maybe, you know, maybe it did help my arm.
Speaker 1: Well that's that's kind of like the natural with wonder
Speaker 1: Boy the bat. Yeah, exactly. I do not advocate that
Speaker 1: for any young twelve year old who's trying to throw
Speaker 1: ninety All right, well, great to talk to you, John,
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Thanks for Johns. All right, give me
Speaker 1: something optimistic about this baseball season. Okay. The optimism is
Speaker 1: that they're going to play all right. All the negotiations
Speaker 1: and all the bantering back and forth is part of
Speaker 1: the deal that they have to work out a million things.
Speaker 1: So once they get close to working out ten things,
Speaker 1: you're going to have, in general, I think an agreement,
Speaker 1: and then they'll play the season. Out of this season,
Speaker 1: I think you're going to see some things that will
Speaker 1: adjust for the future that will be a benefit. This
Speaker 1: is unprecedented times. These are tough decisions. There's no easy answer.
Speaker 1: Players are going to have to make adjustments. Owners are
Speaker 1: going to have to make adjustments. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I think they're going to play the
Speaker 1: game and they're going to have a unique opportunity to
Speaker 1: create some different playoffs atmospheres and even excitement, And I
Speaker 1: think it's going to trail into the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: You're going to see some things that come out of it.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, that will benefit teams that basically start
Speaker 1: out the year and say, Okay, you know what, we
Speaker 1: don't have a chance to win, so we're going to
Speaker 1: build for the future. But with extra playoff spots, I
Speaker 1: think that eliminates half the teams from doing that. I
Speaker 1: think it creates a better opportunity to see more cities
Speaker 1: have a chance to compete in the playoffs. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: going to go from ten to fourteen teams for the
Speaker 1: playoffs if they have it this year, and I guess
Speaker 1: they're on the books for next year. I mentioned if
Speaker 1: I'm a pitcher, John, I have some trepidation with a
Speaker 1: let's say it's fifty game schedule. How am I going
Speaker 1: to be used? And we've seen you know, you can
Speaker 1: steal a championship here or you can win your division.
Speaker 1: You're you know, with fifty games, if I have three
Speaker 1: really good starters or four starters, or do I add
Speaker 1: even more where I keep everybody fresh for the entire season.
Speaker 1: But I would just be a little bit nervous about it,
Speaker 1: you know, being a pitcher coming back with a shortened
Speaker 1: season and how I'm going to be used. Would you
Speaker 1: have any concern about that? Yeah? But I just don't.
Speaker 1: And maybe I'm you know, I'm not up to speed
Speaker 1: on all this. I just have a hard time believing
Speaker 1: it's going to be a fifty game season. Kay. I
Speaker 1: think that's that. I just I really do. I think
Speaker 1: there's going to be somewhere between, you know, somewhere between
Speaker 1: fifty and one hundred is going to be the number,
Speaker 1: because that seems to be the numbers that are both
Speaker 1: back and forth. Fifty games seems a little unrealistic from
Speaker 1: a standpoint of how they're going to compete and get it,
Speaker 1: you know, ironed out. But from a pitching standpoint, I
Speaker 1: think the biggest thing that that will be an advantage
Speaker 1: is the veteran pitcher knows how to handle this situation
Speaker 1: better than a guy who just basically chucks it and
Speaker 1: throws it as hard as he can. Those guys probably
Speaker 1: a little more at risk. But I think they're going
Speaker 1: to have I would assume they're going to have expanded rosters.
Speaker 1: I think in the beginning month you're going to see
Speaker 1: caution with a lot of pitchers, and you're going to
Speaker 1: see a lot more pitchers being used, that's my opinion,
Speaker 1: and how they would handle that. Getting ready, getting arm
Speaker 1: shape ready is not that big a deal, but getting
Speaker 1: game ready would be a little bit more interesting to
Speaker 1: see how how people handle it. And then of course
Speaker 1: they got to work out how long does the season
Speaker 1: go and how far into the off season. Then you're
Speaker 1: starting to deal with recovery. But but I'm optimistic Dan
Speaker 1: that this thing's gonna work out. We're gonna play baseball.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be unique it's gonna be different. You know,
Speaker 1: they're gonna hear sounds in the stadium that you never
Speaker 1: heard before. As a player, you're gonna have to get
Speaker 1: used to that because it seems like there's not going
Speaker 1: to be a lot of crowd or any crowd at
Speaker 1: all throughout most of the season. But what are those
Speaker 1: sounds we're going to hear that we weren't privy too before. Well,
Speaker 1: I can speak from experience when the Lanta Braves when
Speaker 1: I broke in, I could hear the lights buzzing, I
Speaker 1: could hear the vendors saying how bad I was. I
Speaker 1: could hear every single thing. It's gonna be more like
Speaker 1: um back to your youth days of tournaments where they
Speaker 1: act and the sounds we're just not used to because
Speaker 1: it gets drowned out by the crowd, and you know,
Speaker 1: from you're gonna hear everything the players say. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna be it's gonna be pretty unique to hear some yelling,
Speaker 1: some cheering or whatever that's going on, or some bantering
Speaker 1: back and forth. So that part we'll take a little
Speaker 1: while to get used to, believe it or not. When
Speaker 1: you're on the mound and you're focused on getting out.
Speaker 1: There's a roar, a dull roar, but there's a buzz
Speaker 1: and you're you're trying. It's almost like, you know, some
Speaker 1: people can go to sleep with sounds. Some people can't
Speaker 1: even begin to sleep with a sound. It's going to
Speaker 1: be different for different people and how they handle it.
Speaker 1: He's John Smoltz, the Hall of Famer MLB Network analyst,
Speaker 1: of course working for a Fox as well. You know,
Speaker 1: I start to look at what the game is now
Speaker 1: and when we had the lockout before, when we had
Speaker 1: the ninety four strike shortened season. You know, you're just
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what the fan interest is going
Speaker 1: to be, Like what is in jeopardy right now if
Speaker 1: we don't have a season this year? Or is that
Speaker 1: you don't want to talk about that hypothetical. No, no,
Speaker 1: I mean that's a real question and a question that
Speaker 1: everyone is having to deal with right now because it's
Speaker 1: not a normal circumstance. We're not just talking about labor disputes.
Speaker 1: That's one thing to and then hard, you know, it
Speaker 1: gets it's hard for people to get over because they
Speaker 1: don't understand it's not just about economics, but it always
Speaker 1: boils down to about economics, right, So no one wants
Speaker 1: to hear, especially in these times, about economics. But if
Speaker 1: the game's not played, that's a real issue that will
Speaker 1: not go well for both sides. That that'll be a
Speaker 1: fan base that will really struggle to try to figure
Speaker 1: out why they couldn't work it out. And that's the
Speaker 1: pr battle that both sides always have to factor in,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure are and that's why I think when
Speaker 1: you hear, you hear some of the things that come
Speaker 1: out that somewhat could be posturing that. But I just
Speaker 1: really believe that at the end of the day, they're
Speaker 1: going to get to a number that's agreeable by everybody,
Speaker 1: a game number, and they're going to play baseball, and
Speaker 1: the country sorely needs it. They know it, you know.
Speaker 1: Nineteen I was part of the strike that was brutal
Speaker 1: from the ends, from the end endpoint of we lost
Speaker 1: some fans permanently, we lost some fans for a while,
Speaker 1: And when you don't play the World Series, man, that
Speaker 1: is that's how much those times and how difficult those
Speaker 1: decisions were based on the circumstances and the negotiations that
Speaker 1: a lot of people didn't understand, and there was no
Speaker 1: way for everyone could go back in that time, You
Speaker 1: could not and should not have tried to explain it
Speaker 1: because it didn't matter. It didn't matter if you felt
Speaker 1: one hundred percent or you were righteous into your belief,
Speaker 1: it didn't matter. The outcome was not going to set
Speaker 1: well for players, and that certainly is the way it
Speaker 1: went back then. Well, you had cal Ripken's streak that
Speaker 1: people were interested in and bringing back baseball. Then you
Speaker 1: had Sosa and McGuire, like you were in the middle
Speaker 1: that Sosia McGuire pitching in the National League, Like, how
Speaker 1: big a deal was that with that home run chase
Speaker 1: between those two? It was unbelievable from a standpoint of Look,
Speaker 1: I was a younger player and in the midst of that,
Speaker 1: you know, just I felt like in every time I
Speaker 1: was looking up, my mouth was open with just the
Speaker 1: leadership and everything was going on. But from the home
Speaker 1: run chase, everybody got caught up in that. You couldn't
Speaker 1: help but get caught up in that. And certainly a
Speaker 1: lot of people will point to that as how that
Speaker 1: field baseball or brought fans back and got the excitement back.
Speaker 1: I really think, and I'm not just saying this I
Speaker 1: really think the outcome of this season is going to
Speaker 1: create some very interesting and exciting future negotiations for how
Speaker 1: the playoffs could or should look. And I think you're
Speaker 1: going to see some teams reevaluate how they put their
Speaker 1: teams together based on the opportunity to have a couple
Speaker 1: more playoff spots. Playoff baseball is great, just like playoff hockey,
Speaker 1: you know, basically any playoffs is where the interests, the attention,
Speaker 1: the adrenaline, everything is amped up. And I think you're
Speaker 1: going to see this season, however many games are played,
Speaker 1: the good teams are going to be good. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get a surprise team because of the of the situation.
Speaker 1: I've always said, you've heard me talked about it before.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge, huge fan of split seasons. Don't need
Speaker 1: to go into all those details that now about what
Speaker 1: that is and how it would look, but this is
Speaker 1: basically the version. This would be like a first half
Speaker 1: split season, because that's all the amount of games you're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to play this year, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: you're gonna see some opportunities of teams that had no
Speaker 1: chance leaving spring training. The lot the outlook was bad
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two games. No way our roster
Speaker 1: can compete. But let's just say they do eighty one
Speaker 1: or eighty two games. Every team has a legitimate chance
Speaker 1: based on the schedule that they're going to play this
Speaker 1: year with maybe minus you know, two to five percent
Speaker 1: of the teams that are just not ready yet. Nice
Speaker 1: job by you not wanting to talk about McGuire and
Speaker 1: Sosa and giving up home runs. Perhaps during that did
Speaker 1: you give up home runs to those guys? No, I
Speaker 1: think I only gave up one to either one of
Speaker 1: them in my career. I think you might want to
Speaker 1: have that that fact check, but I think it was
Speaker 1: only one at their peak. You got Sosa McGuire, who
Speaker 1: would you want to face? Well, uh, Sosa was a
Speaker 1: little bit more of a wild swinger. They both swung
Speaker 1: and missed a lot. I would say Sosa only because
Speaker 1: his generated power is different than McGuire's generated power. McGuire
Speaker 1: looked like he could sit in a chair and flick
Speaker 1: it with those popeye arms and just you know, out
Speaker 1: to big maclamb he has. He was imposing. He sat
Speaker 1: up there and you just you know, he wiggled that look.
Speaker 1: It looked like a toothpick he had in his hands
Speaker 1: for a bat, whereas Sosa, you just never want to
Speaker 1: see him hop, and if he hopped, you were in
Speaker 1: trouble because usually that that meant the ball was going,
Speaker 1: you know, over the fence. But I had relatively good
Speaker 1: success against most guys that would swing and miss a lot.
Speaker 1: Obviously Bonds was not one of those guys because I
Speaker 1: gave up the most home runs to him. And so
Speaker 1: I don't even know why I brought that up, because
Speaker 1: you didn't ask me, I know, but I was going
Speaker 1: to because I, okay, put the audience on the mound
Speaker 1: as you're facing Bonds peak, Bonds, What do you think, Bonds?
Speaker 1: The strike zone looked like it looked like a coffee cup.
Speaker 1: His discipline was so unique, And somebody told me later,
Speaker 1: I mean his eyes when they did the test of
Speaker 1: his eyes, that he could track a baseball longer than most,
Speaker 1: which which you spoke to his disciplines. But when you're
Speaker 1: on the mound, you know you've got one chance to
Speaker 1: get him. He's not gonna miss a mistake and he's
Speaker 1: not gonna swing at two bad pitches. When he was
Speaker 1: at his peak, and I challenged him a lot, and
Speaker 1: that's why I gave up a lot of home runs.
Speaker 1: Fortunately I never gave up the ones in the post
Speaker 1: season that that hurt me. But I challenged him. We
Speaker 1: talked a lot. He had respect for me challenge him,
Speaker 1: but he knew that he was he was better than
Speaker 1: anybody who was on the mound. And you know, from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of trying to squeeze a ball on the inside.
Speaker 1: Here's the I mean. I mean, I think I've told
Speaker 1: you the story. But I decided in the playoffs when
Speaker 1: I was closing that I was going to mess with
Speaker 1: his mind. I asked Greg Maddox what he thought about
Speaker 1: this game plan. He says, yeah, I think it'll work.
Speaker 1: And the and the mindset was, I was going to
Speaker 1: throw a pitch inside and then throw a pitch really inside.
Speaker 1: I said, I got to move his feet. I never
Speaker 1: move his feet, I never make them uncomfortable. And then
Speaker 1: I'm going to throw one up and in. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to hit him, but I got to establish the
Speaker 1: inside part of the plate. So I execute the first
Speaker 1: two pitches. He kind of looks at me because it's
Speaker 1: totally different than the way I'd faced him. I threw
Speaker 1: one almost under the arm, pitch inside, probably a foot
Speaker 1: in off the play. He hit it for a homer
Speaker 1: four hundred and twenty feet. The ball didn't hook. We
Speaker 1: won the game, and I came in and Greg Maddox goes,
Speaker 1: how'd that worked for you? Not very well? Thanks for
Speaker 1: the inside, and I never tried to do that again.
Speaker 1: It was It is single most greatest home run I've
Speaker 1: ever seen a person hit. Because you got to see
Speaker 1: the replay. It doesn't seem possible that a guy could
Speaker 1: pull his hands in and not hook the ball foul
Speaker 1: and then basically run around the fence or run around
Speaker 1: the bases like you know what, I'm way better than you.
Speaker 1: He was. In your first season nineteen eighty eight, you
Speaker 1: made six home starts for the Braves. The average attendance
Speaker 1: for those six home games was a generous ninety seven
Speaker 1: hundred people. Yet no way either, I'm telling you, there
Speaker 1: was less than five thousand in a lot of those games.
Speaker 1: They were accounting season ticket holders. It was so difficult
Speaker 1: to not hear, and I was struggling with, you know,
Speaker 1: concentrate in any ways, because you're hearing all of these noises,
Speaker 1: and all of them, I mean literally rag City because
Speaker 1: we weren't very good. And thankfully when we started getting good,
Speaker 1: the fans, you know, you didn't hear the light buzzing.
Speaker 1: You didn't hear the beer salesman, the crackers, you know,
Speaker 1: peanuts or it was. It was unbelievable. And that's you're
Speaker 1: not going to hear those sounds because they won't be
Speaker 1: in the stands. But you're gonna hear You're going to
Speaker 1: hear this weird quiet and echoing of the bat, the
Speaker 1: sound of the bat, you know, hitting in the in
Speaker 1: the in the stands where nobody's going to be. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be. It is going to be weird. And I
Speaker 1: don't know what it's going to be like for the
Speaker 1: broadcasters who are actually in the stadium to be able
Speaker 1: to broadcast the game, that too, is going to be
Speaker 1: a unique challenge when you're used to all kinds of noise. Yeah, John,
Speaker 1: I used to go to those Braves games. I was
Speaker 1: working at CNN at the time, and we would start
Speaker 1: in left field because the sun would be honest and left.
Speaker 1: Then we would move to center, and then we would
Speaker 1: end up in right just above Homer the Brave, and
Speaker 1: we could sit wherever we wanted to with the Braves,
Speaker 1: and you guys were a young team and you could
Speaker 1: see that you were on the verge perhaps of something.
Speaker 1: But I just remember going to those Braves games and
Speaker 1: it was basically we had the beer vendor just sit
Speaker 1: with us, because there was nobody else to serve. We
Speaker 1: would just tell him, We'd just say, hey, just sit here,
Speaker 1: and then that way you don't have to walk around
Speaker 1: but things. My first couple of years there, I went
Speaker 1: to a small comedy shop in Atlanta and eighty percent
Speaker 1: of the jokes were about the plant a brave and
Speaker 1: early I started laughing. Then I realized it's all about us.
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, uh what time? What time can you
Speaker 1: can you get? You know, this would be a good
Speaker 1: year to start to paint the seats. They they ragged
Speaker 1: us so bad and then ultimately we turned it around.
Speaker 1: But um Man four or five thousand in the stand
Speaker 1: that was a commonplace back Fulton County. Are you on
Speaker 1: the first tea right now? No, I'm actually on the
Speaker 1: sixteenth tea way up top par five? Okay, well elevated.
Speaker 1: Can you can you tee off? Because we've had really
Speaker 1: very little sporting events? Uh, can you can you tea
Speaker 1: off just so we can hear. Then. Yeah, absolutely, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna here we go, n John Smoltz, Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1: Very good address. I'm gonna I'm gonna address the ball. Hello, ball, okay,
Speaker 1: and now here we go. I'm gonna send this one
Speaker 1: about three ten with a little fade. Oh that was good. Oh,
Speaker 1: that was really really good. I'm gonna take you at
Speaker 1: your word, John, Yeah, miss the bunker, middle of the fairway.
Speaker 1: I got about two twenty in on a par five.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna check back in with you a little bit
Speaker 1: later on today to see how you're doing. John. Hey,
Speaker 1: always great check. Thank you, thanks for joining us, and
Speaker 1: we appreciate your time as always my pleasure day. That's
Speaker 1: John Smoltz, Hall of Famer. Take a break. We'll bring
Speaker 1: you our moment of the week right after this. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure
Speaker 1: to catch us live every weekday morning nine until noon
Speaker 1: eastern six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, and
Speaker 1: you can find us on the iHeartRadio app at FSR
Speaker 1: or stream us live every day at YouTube dot com
Speaker 1: slash The Dan Patrick Show. More phone calls coming up?
Speaker 1: What do we have fahitas on the trigger steak fahitas
Speaker 1: and I think chicken fahitas. Ooh, that's nice. Peppers and
Speaker 1: has been marin any all morning. OO like it our
Speaker 1: moment of the week, and this one stood out. It
Speaker 1: happened yesterday. Here's Rex Chapman, a guest on our show yesterday.
Speaker 1: He talked about the time when Michael Jordan called him
Speaker 1: and tried to recruit him when Rex was in high school.
Speaker 1: Michael wanted to get him to go to North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Michael called me in high school for Dean to go
Speaker 1: to Carolina. He was probably second year player in the league,
Speaker 1: and that was cool and everything, But then we had
Speaker 1: the same agent forever, David Fault. Wait wait, so Jordan
Speaker 1: calls you. You're a senior in high school, yeah, junior,
Speaker 1: a junior in high school. Yeah, And he says like,
Speaker 1: how does that? So Mom picks up the phone and goes, oh, no,
Speaker 1: no better, it's even better. Back in the day, there's
Speaker 1: only a landline, you know, in your house, and me
Speaker 1: and my sister, she's a year younger, you know, the
Speaker 1: phone was a whole big deal. And every time recruiters
Speaker 1: called the rule for my sister, Jenny was Jenny had
Speaker 1: to get off the phone if a root recruiter called it.
Speaker 1: So she hated me and hated the whole thing. And
Speaker 1: Michael Dean had told me Michael was going to be calling,
Speaker 1: and I was home, but the phone rang. I guess
Speaker 1: she was on the phone, and she clicks over and
Speaker 1: says hello, and he says, Hi, this is Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: Can I talk to Rex? And she hung up on him.
Speaker 1: He got it. He called right back and I figured
Speaker 1: it out. Figured it out? How did you? So now
Speaker 1: you know why Michael lets you up that one night
Speaker 1: because you turned down Carolina. He holds grudges Rex. That's
Speaker 1: our moment of the week. And he talks about a
Speaker 1: night that he had when I think he was with
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat and lit up Jordan and the Bowls
Speaker 1: for thirty eight or thirty nine, and then the next
Speaker 1: time they played, Michael elbowed him right in the sternham
Speaker 1: to start the game and Rex realized that this was
Speaker 1: going to be a little different outcome. That's our moment
Speaker 1: of the week. By the way, Rex said that he
Speaker 1: was on the verge of being traded to the Bowls
Speaker 1: right before the All Star break. This is when Jordan
Speaker 1: was playing baseball, Rex dislocates his ankle. The trade never
Speaker 1: goes through. He goes back to Washington, and then he
Speaker 1: was going to be traded for Ron Harper. Harper stays,
Speaker 1: Harper wins a couple of championships with Michael Jordan. Moment
Speaker 1: of the Week brought to you by Discover. Get your
Speaker 1: free credit scorecard today, even if you're not a customer.
Speaker 1: It includes your YCO credit score. Checking your scorecard will
Speaker 1: not hurt your credit. Learn more discover dot com Slash
Speaker 1: credit scorecard limitations do apply. Uh Dale and Indiana joins
Speaker 1: us Dale. What do you have for me? I heard
Speaker 1: you guys talking about camping earlier in the last segment,
Speaker 1: and I'm actually taking my stuff, my wife and my
Speaker 1: three boys, ages four, eight, and nine this weekend. And
Speaker 1: I was hoping to go around the room to see
Speaker 1: what is the one item that everyone would take? Not essentials,
Speaker 1: you know, like a tent, a chair, a grill, sleeping bags.
Speaker 1: What's every one's taking? Tell me out to make this
Speaker 1: a good weekend? All right? We got about twenty seconds.
Speaker 1: Good luck with that, Dale, Fritzie, what would you take
Speaker 1: outside of a lot of toilet paper? I'd take the football,
Speaker 1: Seaton Bourbon Bourbon, yeah, mclovin, Generator poly beer, Yeah a beer,
Speaker 1: all right, would too? All right, final hour coming up.
Speaker 1: More phone calls as well, Seetan Pauly, Fritzie mcloven years
Speaker 1: truly and you've been listening to the Dan Patrick Show