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Speaker 1: have a quarterback who is under twenty five to start
Speaker 1: your team with, who would it be? Joe Burko thirty
Speaker 1: eight percent, then Josh Allen second at twenty one. My
Speaker 1: Miami Marlins swept the Cubs two in the wild Card
Speaker 1: round game. One of their nlds with the Braves begins
Speaker 1: tomorrow afternoon to two Eastern and their manager Don Mattingly
Speaker 1: joining us on the program. Donnie, how's around with the
Speaker 1: Marlins roles? Pretty good? Dan? I didn't know you were
Speaker 1: on the bandwagon. Oh yeah, absolutely, whenever you win, I'm
Speaker 1: on the bandwagon. I like it like it. Um. By
Speaker 1: the way, who gave you Donnie baseball as a nickname?
Speaker 1: Kirby Puckett? Fine? We used to do a dinner and
Speaker 1: here's how it got star. We used to do a
Speaker 1: dinner up in Rochester every year and a lot of
Speaker 1: guys would go for Ken Kaiser the umpire there was
Speaker 1: for an orphanage up there, and you know, you have
Speaker 1: the hospitality sweeten guys who are just having fun. And
Speaker 1: Kirby's always like baseball baseball, donning baseball, baseball baseball, and
Speaker 1: it just kind of stuck. And and that's how for me,
Speaker 1: that's how I got started. But did you ever feel
Speaker 1: weird like Teddy ballgame for Ted Williams? But did you
Speaker 1: have like you weren't uncomfortable with that nickname? Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm done a baseball now for a long time when
Speaker 1: you're younger, definitely uncomfortable with because of like he said,
Speaker 1: Teddy ball game and guys like that. But now I
Speaker 1: have I have a lot more fun with it. I
Speaker 1: tell guys, I'm Donnie fan base. You can say that
Speaker 1: as you win a playoff round there after, after what
Speaker 1: happened at the start of the season. If I would
Speaker 1: have told you back then, hey, by the way, you're
Speaker 1: gonna go to this at least the second round and
Speaker 1: you're gonna beat the Cubs in the wild card, what
Speaker 1: would you have said? I just said, we you know what,
Speaker 1: I think we could do that, quite honestly, especially when
Speaker 1: it got to the sixty. I think the one sixty
Speaker 1: two we had a belief in ourselves because of the pitching.
Speaker 1: You don't know if that holds up. Your depth has
Speaker 1: to hold up over one sixty. But with the sixty
Speaker 1: and the guys we brought in, with our pitching and
Speaker 1: the guys that we had like right behind him, you
Speaker 1: felt like, okay, we can we can stop some people.
Speaker 1: If we can put some runs on the board, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be okay. But how close did you think you
Speaker 1: were or your team was to maybe being shut down
Speaker 1: I think that got close, you know, listening to Michael
Speaker 1: Hill while we were in Philadelphia, and the numbers just
Speaker 1: kept piling up, and you know, and at that point, Dan,
Speaker 1: the stories were coming out that our guys were running
Speaker 1: all around Atlanta, and it made it sound like our
Speaker 1: guys were just being totally irresponsible, and you know, we
Speaker 1: couldn't do anything about it, but it just wasn't true.
Speaker 1: And you know, it got going like it doesn't in
Speaker 1: the world now. It got a couple of guys and
Speaker 1: that thing flew through our clubhouse. What you're seeing in
Speaker 1: in Nashville right now with the Titans, You've seen it
Speaker 1: with the Cardinals. Once it gets started, when you're in
Speaker 1: a clubhouse setting, man, you're close in there, and and
Speaker 1: it just took off. How often are you tested? Every day? Now?
Speaker 1: It was every other day, but since we entered the bubble,
Speaker 1: it's been it's been every day. Do you like the
Speaker 1: new format? Well, I guess you do like the new format.
Speaker 1: You moved onto the second round here, But could you
Speaker 1: see this being permanent where it's best to three to
Speaker 1: start out? I like the best of three. I think
Speaker 1: it's it's more fair. I could see it the playoffs
Speaker 1: being expanded a little bit, maybe not to sixteen, but
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit more than has been. I kind
Speaker 1: of like this bubble format at the end, when you
Speaker 1: get down to the lead eight or the final four.
Speaker 1: I guess that's tough with cities though that once you
Speaker 1: know fans can be to that would be tough. But
Speaker 1: this is kind of fun because you were playing it
Speaker 1: kind of same time. Every day. You play every day,
Speaker 1: you don't have to travel. The biggest problem is just
Speaker 1: being away from your family. And now that we're into
Speaker 1: this situation, if your family and quarantine, they could come
Speaker 1: into this. How do you manage differently this season as
Speaker 1: opposed to any other season? A little more sense of
Speaker 1: urgency with the sixty game season. And I told we
Speaker 1: told our players that we told our players in spring, Hey,
Speaker 1: it's time to turn the corner, and that we're in
Speaker 1: this thing and we're going to be playing Pennant Race baseball.
Speaker 1: I told him, I'm going to manage differently. It's going
Speaker 1: to be trying to win every game we can win,
Speaker 1: and that means sometimes pinch it and very as you
Speaker 1: don't that they don't like being pinch it for and
Speaker 1: polling pitchers a little bit quick, but you still have
Speaker 1: to manage the length of even a sixty game, So
Speaker 1: you just can't blow your bullpin up every day. You
Speaker 1: still have to use some common sense. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: I wondered, and that's why I thought, you know, Tampa
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers were the teams that I was picking
Speaker 1: to play in the World Series. I was looking at
Speaker 1: depth on these pitching staffs because at first I thought
Speaker 1: you're gonna need at least twelve pitchers, and then I
Speaker 1: realized you might need fifteen pitchers at least being available
Speaker 1: to you at some point here. Is that what this
Speaker 1: has all come down to, that we talk about offense,
Speaker 1: but this short, this truncated season is about pitching. I
Speaker 1: think it. I mean there's been quite a bit of offense.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're playing one of the teams this round
Speaker 1: that's got a really good offense. But I think when
Speaker 1: you get into these series, you know, you've seen it
Speaker 1: in the Cincinnati Braves series. These guys are good offensive teams,
Speaker 1: but good pitching. You're you're gonna see one and two
Speaker 1: and three, You're not seeing four and five in the
Speaker 1: middle of the bullpen. You're gonna see the back end
Speaker 1: guys and one, two, three, And there's a lot of
Speaker 1: good pitching out there. So if you have that, you've
Speaker 1: got a chance to be in every game. I look
Speaker 1: at these home runs and how far they're going, Donnie like,
Speaker 1: okun you hit one like four nineties seven ers like
Speaker 1: these are preposterous numbers, aren't they. Like do you remember
Speaker 1: home runs back when you guys played where you went
Speaker 1: that like a four hundred and you know twenty foot
Speaker 1: shot was a bomb. Back then, it felt like not Now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a few guys, right, you know, you had
Speaker 1: Big Mac and Conseco and there was there was a
Speaker 1: few guys out there that hit them a long way.
Speaker 1: But now there's a lot more guys doing it. I
Speaker 1: think the ball still feels like it jumps. I think
Speaker 1: the players are stronger, I honestly do. I think that
Speaker 1: training is better, So I think they're hitting balls farther,
Speaker 1: they're taking more chances. They don't ever cut their swing down.
Speaker 1: We've talked I think we've talked about this before. With
Speaker 1: the strikeouts. Yeah, it's you know, it's guys pretty much
Speaker 1: go for it a lot and are trying to get
Speaker 1: the ball in the air when you mentioned a Kunya.
Speaker 1: He's a special he's a special talent and when he
Speaker 1: hits him, he's got bat speed galore. When he catches them,
Speaker 1: they're going to go a long way. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: I wonder about that that. Did you lift weights back
Speaker 1: when you played a little in the off season, and
Speaker 1: that's when it was just starting kind of the nautilus time, right,
Speaker 1: So that really helped me, honestly, really hit the weights
Speaker 1: in the winter. But now guys do it kind of
Speaker 1: season long and they keep up with the program pretty good.
Speaker 1: I just think the diets are better, the training is better.
Speaker 1: You know, we want to rest them. We try to
Speaker 1: rest players now. That's before there was no real rest.
Speaker 1: You didn't think about that. Now you want guys read
Speaker 1: did and I think players probably take a little better
Speaker 1: care of themselves than we did. Well, what was the
Speaker 1: clubhouse spread like when you played with the Yankees as
Speaker 1: as opposed to what it's like now for these players, Well,
Speaker 1: this year is different because we've been eating off the
Speaker 1: out of plastic the whole year, right, No group stuff, um,
Speaker 1: but in general it's it's a lot better. Like there's
Speaker 1: a chef in every clubhouse right on the road in
Speaker 1: a normal season. So you guys are going into the
Speaker 1: ballpark to get a good lunch. Then they'll eat before
Speaker 1: the game. You after the game. You're gonna get three
Speaker 1: good meals at the ballpark. And it's totally different. What
Speaker 1: did you eat with the Yankees? Whatever the guy put out?
Speaker 1: Sometimes you didn't money eat. Yeah, maybe a piece of
Speaker 1: pizza every once in a while, you'd like it. But
Speaker 1: there just wasn't like before a game it was a
Speaker 1: cold cut or a candy bar. There was no real
Speaker 1: food in there. Was there always beer in there pretty
Speaker 1: much pretty much there was always Yeah, obviously change with
Speaker 1: some of the things that happened with guys going home
Speaker 1: after games and things like that. So there there was,
Speaker 1: and probably a good change because of you know what
Speaker 1: goes on with with guys in there. Ever have a
Speaker 1: beer before a game? No? Never. Never did you believe
Speaker 1: what the Red Sox were saying that they would cowboy
Speaker 1: up and you know, do a shot before the World
Speaker 1: Series that Kevin Millard talks about that, you know what,
Speaker 1: I kind of that group seemed to be. You know,
Speaker 1: they may do it right and and you know, probably
Speaker 1: if it wasn't something that was silly, you know, like
Speaker 1: it was every day in three or four. But if
Speaker 1: somebody just took one, I mean two hours before the game,
Speaker 1: I can't believe they're going out there hammered or anything
Speaker 1: like that. Did you did you get a say in
Speaker 1: what their uniforms look like? What do you think of
Speaker 1: the Marlins uniforms? Be honest, now, no, I think guys
Speaker 1: like the black they I think there has to be
Speaker 1: some changes because you can't really see the name and
Speaker 1: the number on it. We like a new logo for
Speaker 1: sure when you see the old logo. I think the
Speaker 1: guys really like the new logo. Uh in general, it's
Speaker 1: a it's changed, right, And when you're bringing in you
Speaker 1: want to change what you believe in, how you do things.
Speaker 1: You want the perception change, so you have to change that.
Speaker 1: And I think Derek's did. Everything that's been based has
Speaker 1: been fanned. You know, participation. What do you like? Why
Speaker 1: the colors? You know? Uh so, yeah, they're they're fine.
Speaker 1: Uh so Yeah. I think guys in general like the
Speaker 1: new logo. What happened on August sixteenth? You tell me,
Speaker 1: I don't know where we at the Braves game? You got?
Speaker 1: You got? You yelled at the umpire some F bombs
Speaker 1: in there. Did I use the F word? Yep, you did,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't Donnie f and baseball by the way.
Speaker 1: But but what happened here. You know what's funny. I
Speaker 1: think about you when I get that's not good. But
Speaker 1: you don't think about me during. You think about me after.
Speaker 1: If you thought about me during, you wouldn't get thrown out.
Speaker 1: I know it's funny because like mel stadhomars, he'll be
Speaker 1: next to me, he goes, I knew you were gonna go.
Speaker 1: I can tell, I can tell it. And that one.
Speaker 1: I was kind of surprised because I know I was
Speaker 1: kind of barking about the zone. But there's like, there's
Speaker 1: nobody in the ballpark who cares, right, there's nobody. Well
Speaker 1: that's why we could hear the F bombs. There's nobody
Speaker 1: in the ballpark probably, And you know the magic words
Speaker 1: that you did it on purpose? Right? Oh? I didn't.
Speaker 1: I did not. When I got thrown out. I was surprised,
Speaker 1: and that's what I didn't say the magic words until
Speaker 1: after I was thrown out and I'm walking up there,
Speaker 1: I'm like, whatever, Yeah, what did your wife say? When
Speaker 1: she sees that? She laughs, She laughs. She shows me
Speaker 1: the videos or she watches it and she laughs at it,
Speaker 1: and she'll like, she'll like rate, like she'll sing me
Speaker 1: video other ones, and like I had people call me
Speaker 1: on that one and then they said, oh, that's one
Speaker 1: of your that's in the top five. I'm like, it
Speaker 1: didn't feel like it, right, it didn't feel like that. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, compose yourself at least for the first couple
Speaker 1: of games. Right, I'm getting better, I'm getting older. Damn,
Speaker 1: I'm starting I really calmed down. What one time this year?
Speaker 1: I know, I know, but who So you had managers though,
Speaker 1: like Billy Martin, he was strategic and getting thrown out, right,
Speaker 1: I don't know he could do it in a variety
Speaker 1: of ways. It felt like, yeah, he probably could. And
Speaker 1: yeah when he got fired up, Oh it didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he may have wanted to go, like he had somewhere
Speaker 1: to go, and he probably did. Yeah, absolutely. I know
Speaker 1: one time he went him and Mickey, but he got
Speaker 1: tossed and by the fifth he was gone. Way he
Speaker 1: met up with Mickey Mantle and they left the stadium. No, yeah, Billy,
Speaker 1: they did. Yeah they were going on. Yeah. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was it was a bar. The question
Speaker 1: was where they were going to. I'm sure after that.
Speaker 1: Those are just different times, you know, obviously. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's not something that's not who you were. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: because you were boring pretty much, yeah, pretty much. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: you know on the download behind the scenes, now you're
Speaker 1: Donnie f and baseball. Um, hey, congrats, what a wild ride,
Speaker 1: uh this is. You know, we'll be interesting there with
Speaker 1: the Braves. That starts tomorrow afternoon at a too eastern
Speaker 1: in minute Made Park in Houston. Thanks again for joining us, Dunning.
Speaker 1: All right, damn, I'm gonna talk to you all right,
Speaker 1: Don Mattingly. Yeah, being around Billy Martin was always entertaining
Speaker 1: because you never knew from day to day who was
Speaker 1: going to be there, and there was you know, I
Speaker 1: told this story when I worked at CNN in New
Speaker 1: York and were five pen Plaza and Larry King Live
Speaker 1: was in there and he was going to have Billy
Speaker 1: Martin as a guest and I Billy came in and
Speaker 1: they were going to tape it, and Billy I was
Speaker 1: up in the sports department and they said, hey, would
Speaker 1: you come down here? And Baby, said Billy Martin because
Speaker 1: he showed up an hour before he was supposed to
Speaker 1: go on. And Billy shows up by himself. So I
Speaker 1: go downstairs with him that I wasn't thinking. We went
Speaker 1: to the Blarney Stone, which is a bar. So I
Speaker 1: take Billy Martin down to a bar in New York City. Well,
Speaker 1: I think after the fifth or sixth drink, that they,
Speaker 1: you know, somebody was buying him, like everybody wanted to
Speaker 1: buy Billy Martin a drink, and these weren't beers. So
Speaker 1: Billy I have to get him on the elevator to
Speaker 1: take him back up to tape Larry King Live. And
Speaker 1: Billy's telling me this is the best time he's ever had,
Speaker 1: and and hey, when you see me at the ballpark,
Speaker 1: you say a low to me and whatever you need. So,
Speaker 1: like a week later, seven days, ten days later, I
Speaker 1: go to the ballpark. I say, hey, Billy, how are you.
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick's CNN right by me, and I went, oh,
Speaker 1: you probably a lot on his mind before the game.
Speaker 1: So I did another drive by, said hey, Billy goes,
Speaker 1: what's your bleepment problem? I said, I was. I was
Speaker 1: just saying, oh, yeah, I know what you're doing, I say,
Speaker 1: And I thought, okay, I gotta get my I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell him exactly what happened. Hey, I I took you
Speaker 1: to the Blarney Stone before Larry King Live, and he
Speaker 1: just kept walking down into the tunnel going to the
Speaker 1: locker room. I don't know if I ever talked to
Speaker 1: him again or well, or he talked to me. I
Speaker 1: should say. More phone calls coming up, and Reggie Miller
Speaker 1: will join us next year. We'll take a break seventeen
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler had a forty point triple double last night,
Speaker 1: but maybe the real story the Lakers three point shooting.
Speaker 1: They shot forty two three pointers. They made fourteen or
Speaker 1: thirty three percent if you include in the bubble regular
Speaker 1: season in the playoffs, the Lakers now five and eight.
Speaker 1: When they shoot thirty three percent or less from three
Speaker 1: point range, they're twelve and one, when they shoot better
Speaker 1: than thirty three percent in the playoffs in the bubble
Speaker 1: ten and oh, when they shoot over thirty three percent
Speaker 1: on three pointers. I still go back to Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: can't take fewer shots than Mark Keith Morris. Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: has and that's a hard rule, like Frank Vogel's got
Speaker 1: to say. And by the way, Lebron Anthony Davis has
Speaker 1: to take more shots shots than Mark Keith Morris springing
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller Hall of Famer, Turners Sports NBA analyst reg
Speaker 1: what the heck happened last night? Well, to your point,
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis has to stay on the floor, stay at
Speaker 1: a foul trouble. I think that contributed to Mark Keith
Speaker 1: Morris having more shot attempts is because Anthony Davis's butt
Speaker 1: was parked on the bench because of that foul trouble.
Speaker 1: But you and I, going back to the beginning of
Speaker 1: the playoffs, said for the Lakers to win the championship,
Speaker 1: A d has to be the best player over Lebron
Speaker 1: on the floor, and he was in those these first
Speaker 1: two games of the NBA Finals. He gets in foul trouble.
Speaker 1: Now you if you're Frank Vogel, you kind of go
Speaker 1: to Plan B to try to you know, mix and
Speaker 1: match your you know, your team and your effort. And again,
Speaker 1: let's give Miami the credit in Jimmy Butler because they
Speaker 1: played spectacular and living here in La I know people
Speaker 1: think the sky is following because the Lakers lost with
Speaker 1: the heat missing two starters and Druggage and Bam out
Speaker 1: of bio. But it's one game, and what you're telling
Speaker 1: me is for Jimmy Butler to have a forty point
Speaker 1: triple double, Kelly and Lennick played great and made shots
Speaker 1: and they still scratching claw to win that game. They
Speaker 1: would have to play like that the rest of the
Speaker 1: way to beat the Lakers. That's why this is not
Speaker 1: that big of a deal. It's one game where the
Speaker 1: sky was following when they lost to Houston game one,
Speaker 1: the sky was following when they lost to Portland Game one.
Speaker 1: Would they go on to do win fourth straight? So
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about that. There's still up two one
Speaker 1: in the series. And now with all this negative press
Speaker 1: coming towards Lebron and what's wrong with ad, he may
Speaker 1: have lost his Finals MVP chances all this is going
Speaker 1: to do is is really chick off the Wakers and
Speaker 1: we'll see a much better performance in game four. What
Speaker 1: if you read an article that just said, hey, you
Speaker 1: know what, acknowledge the heat, Jimmy Butler, great performance, and
Speaker 1: you know Lebron's gonna win his fourth title and Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis gonna be the MVP. Nobody's writing that, even though
Speaker 1: deep down they probably feel that. But Jimmy Butler after
Speaker 1: Lebron says to him in the first quarter, you're in trouble.
Speaker 1: And then Jimmy Butler comes back in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: and says to Lebron, you're in trouble. That's I mean,
Speaker 1: I love that, isn't it great? I mean this is
Speaker 1: you're two superstars, yeah, or that one another, which normally
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. You know, normally you pick on other guys
Speaker 1: that you know you can kind of get in their heads.
Speaker 1: But Jimmy Butler responding to the key, which I love.
Speaker 1: But again, without two starters and not knowing if Bam
Speaker 1: is going to be available in game four, I really
Speaker 1: don't see Gorn coming back with a torn planner bashit.
Speaker 1: Who knows? It depends on how how big the terror
Speaker 1: is maybe he comes back. I'm not really sure, but
Speaker 1: how effective Canny be on that? So if you're still
Speaker 1: gonna be without two starters, you've got to play like
Speaker 1: this the rest of the way out. And if you're
Speaker 1: gonna tell me that Jimmy Butler is going to average
Speaker 1: a triple double and forty points, that's not his DNA.
Speaker 1: That's not what has made the Heat so successful to
Speaker 1: get to this final run. Finals run. They were everyone
Speaker 1: was collectively involved. Hero Duncan, Jay Crowder. Those guys played
Speaker 1: effective last I mean not great, but effective, and they
Speaker 1: rolled the shoulders of the hot man, which just so
Speaker 1: happened to be Jimmy Butler. But that's not him, It's
Speaker 1: just not him. And he didn't even take a three pointer.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler put up forty and didn't take a three
Speaker 1: point winner. What's wrong with Jimmy Butler? Doesn't he realize
Speaker 1: you have to shoot threes in the NBA to be good?
Speaker 1: And I think the Lakers they got away with made
Speaker 1: them so successful in Games one and two. They pounded
Speaker 1: the Heat inside, they killed them with points in the pain.
Speaker 1: They used their size to the advantage. Last night. It's
Speaker 1: almost like they morphed into the Houston Rockets like they
Speaker 1: had to jack up a whole bunch of threes and
Speaker 1: that's not their game. And you're right, Jim Butler, but
Speaker 1: if you look at his stats all season, he hasn't
Speaker 1: taken a lot of threes. He's not a great three
Speaker 1: point of shoot. A shooter. He can make them, but
Speaker 1: he would much rather put pressure on you on your
Speaker 1: interior defense, get Boud on those drives and go to
Speaker 1: the free throw line. He's Reggie Miller joining us. Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving said on Kevin Durant's new podcast that he finally
Speaker 1: has a guy he can trust in the clutch at
Speaker 1: the end of games. Then Kyrie said, why is everybody
Speaker 1: you know saying this is me calling out Lebron? Why
Speaker 1: has it always got to be brother on brother here?
Speaker 1: But by acknowledging KD, he finally has that clutch guy
Speaker 1: he is calling out Lebron is not being that clutch
Speaker 1: guy in my opinion. Oh, I don't know. Again, we're
Speaker 1: piling on Lebron. You know it's no no, I'm piling
Speaker 1: on Kyrie. Kyrie is somebody. But Lebron gets kind of
Speaker 1: dragged into it, don't you think, But all he has
Speaker 1: to say is it's great to have another clutch player
Speaker 1: with me, because then that that's real, that's honest. I
Speaker 1: think that's what he is. I think that's if you're
Speaker 1: really he says that that's the I finally have, I
Speaker 1: finally have a clutch shooter I can count on, come
Speaker 1: on again. But he is right on that because Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant is a great shooter. Lebron James is not a
Speaker 1: great shooter. Is he clutch? I think Lebron is clutched, Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: the numbers show that he's clutched. Kyrie has made one
Speaker 1: big shot in his career. That's a pretty big shot
Speaker 1: that he made. That doesn't make you clutch if you
Speaker 1: hit one redge. I think Kyrie is clutch as well.
Speaker 1: I think at the end of closing games, Kyrie knows
Speaker 1: how to take over because of his ball handling and
Speaker 1: his score. And who's more clutch, Lebron or Kyrie. Well,
Speaker 1: staffs would say Lebron, Yeah, because Lebron's been around long
Speaker 1: that's the answer. Because Kyrie can't stay healthy either. That's true.
Speaker 1: You can't be clutch if you're not on the floor. Again,
Speaker 1: I think he was more so trying to pump up Katie,
Speaker 1: his teammate as they get ready for next year, and
Speaker 1: I think he was. I don't think he was trying
Speaker 1: to throchet at Lebron, though it probably came off that way,
Speaker 1: because again, Lebron's an easy target and we're in the
Speaker 1: finals and it's all about what the Lakers will do
Speaker 1: or will not do, and I just think it was
Speaker 1: an easy target. And then Kyrie says that Steve Nash
Speaker 1: is not really the head coach, that sometimes Kyrie's going
Speaker 1: to be the head coach and sometimes k D's going
Speaker 1: to be the head coach, but he didn't view Steve
Speaker 1: Nash as their head coach. Well, see, that's where I
Speaker 1: think they may run into problems because you do and
Speaker 1: you still have young players on that team, Spencer Dinwoodie,
Speaker 1: Harris LeVert. So with that young coupled team and teammates,
Speaker 1: and you've got these established veterans who have won championships
Speaker 1: and Katie and Kyrie, you hope it doesn't come off
Speaker 1: like we're running the organization here. We're going to be
Speaker 1: calling all the plays and you guys fall in line.
Speaker 1: I hope Steve Nash, look, I know it's a collaborative
Speaker 1: effort because I've helped a lot of my coaches along
Speaker 1: the way, and certain things are what's working on the
Speaker 1: court and what's not working on the court. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you got to respect that's
Speaker 1: my coach. He's going to draw up what he feels
Speaker 1: is right for us, not me, for us to win
Speaker 1: and be successful. But those two, Katie and Kyrie may
Speaker 1: feel like they are running this team because they're the
Speaker 1: ones that signed off on Steve and Ash becoming the
Speaker 1: head coach. So there they do have power, a lot
Speaker 1: and a lot of it, and again they have the
Speaker 1: rings to back it up. But I just think at
Speaker 1: times they can send a bad message if you're saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's the de facto coach, but really, you
Speaker 1: know we're gonna be giving him your plane minutes. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's not going to be the case. I know what's happening.
Speaker 1: I know what's happened. You're sticking up for Kyrie because
Speaker 1: he puts you in the movie. And if they if
Speaker 1: they do a sequeled Uncle, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. Uncle Drew too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Return of Lights, Yeah, I get up. No, stop
Speaker 1: that is there gonna be a sequel to Uncle Drew. No,
Speaker 1: because there's no way I'm going to sit in that
Speaker 1: chair for four and a half hours again, because normally
Speaker 1: you sit in there for three hours. That you moved
Speaker 1: it up to scare the producers from calling me and saying,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be sitting in a chair for four hours. Though,
Speaker 1: that movie will go down as a class. Some of
Speaker 1: the lions and there are hilarious. And I appreciate all
Speaker 1: you guys coming to the premiere as well. And that's
Speaker 1: where Katie sat right behind us behind Katie's not even
Speaker 1: in the movie. And and oh boy, when I'm with
Speaker 1: to Dan Edson, I went, something's up here? Right? He
Speaker 1: came as a guest of Kyrie. Yes, why didn't we
Speaker 1: put it together? Then? We did? We just had nobody
Speaker 1: who would listen to us. We're like, whoa Kade coming
Speaker 1: with for Kyrie? Uh? Doc going to the seventy six ers?
Speaker 1: What do you think I think? If I'm Joel NB
Speaker 1: and Ben Simmons, I better get my ax right right,
Speaker 1: No more deflecting that it's Coach Brown and his fault.
Speaker 1: I gotta look at myself in the mirror and get
Speaker 1: my game in order. And you were already expected to
Speaker 1: win and compete in the Eastern Conference, which you laid
Speaker 1: a dad at the restart, So now the pressure is
Speaker 1: on my two stars. It just feels like it's a
Speaker 1: younger version of the Clippers. They still need some help.
Speaker 1: They need some outside shooting. Yeah, but where do we
Speaker 1: find outside? Everybody goes, yeah, we could do some outside shooting.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Look, you still have Harris, so I
Speaker 1: think it's a capable shooter at times, and score Tobias Harris.
Speaker 1: They have Batist Stybel the young player out of Washington,
Speaker 1: but other than that, they have no bench. And then
Speaker 1: they got out of Horford. Still they're starting five is decent.
Speaker 1: It's good they can compete with you. It's when they
Speaker 1: go to the bench, and who knows, maybe Doc and
Speaker 1: along with Elton Brand who's the general manager, they can
Speaker 1: kind of rebamp that bench area. But look, I was
Speaker 1: upset to see Doc leave the Clippers. I thought he
Speaker 1: he should have remained there and gave it another go.
Speaker 1: But changes, changes are all around us every day. So
Speaker 1: you're calling for the Lakers to take the next two
Speaker 1: and then it's over. I think so the guy is
Speaker 1: not far It's one game. But I will say this,
Speaker 1: all bets are off if Miami obviously ties this up
Speaker 1: to two, because now what's coming into play is when
Speaker 1: you extend series and you got to go extra game
Speaker 1: tweak of an ankle. I mean, look what happened to
Speaker 1: Bam and look what happened to go on Druggage. You know,
Speaker 1: someone can go down on the Lakers, and it just
Speaker 1: changes the complexity of a series. Take care of business
Speaker 1: when you've got to be able to take care of business.
Speaker 1: If this comes out to two tomorrow, all bets are off.
Speaker 1: Miami has a legitimate shot to win this. What are
Speaker 1: you going to miss about the bubble? Probably the solitude.
Speaker 1: You know, it was finally giddy one with my thoughts.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta stayed one and you just get
Speaker 1: stay in your room. And Netflix and Hulu became my
Speaker 1: best friends. And that's probably what I'm gonna miss. The solitude.
Speaker 1: I don't have, you know, kids, I'll have any of that.
Speaker 1: Though I missed my voters. It was nice and quiet.
Speaker 1: Got a lot of sleep. Mama Bear didn't like I
Speaker 1: got a lot of sleep. You know. A funny story
Speaker 1: because this is what would happen. She would FaceTime me,
Speaker 1: and I'd be in bed, just like lay covers, all up,
Speaker 1: slaughter coming down. So every time she would FaceTime me,
Speaker 1: I would hurry up and get up and go into
Speaker 1: the front room, pull on my glasses. I was setting
Speaker 1: because I don't want her to know that I was
Speaker 1: like sleeping, because I felt bad that I would be
Speaker 1: able to get sleep she wasn't. Every time she would FaceTime,
Speaker 1: I'd run into the other room and act like I
Speaker 1: was working. She's like, hey, what are you bunch over
Speaker 1: numbers getting ready for you the next day. I remember
Speaker 1: being at the NBA Finals and You're on the road
Speaker 1: for like three weeks. And whenever I would call in
Speaker 1: to my wife, and we had four kids under the
Speaker 1: age of seven, so I always, you know, I always
Speaker 1: I hope that she wouldn't answer and I could leave
Speaker 1: a message, because chances are she'd say what are you
Speaker 1: doing for dinner? And I go, oh, I'm going to
Speaker 1: Mastro's steak. Uh, I'm going out. And then you know,
Speaker 1: I'd say, well, what are you having? Uh, We're having
Speaker 1: leftovers Chef Boyard, you know, spaghettios, And I'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I felt horrible. I feel so bad, Like what do
Speaker 1: you have I'm having I'm gonna go get a full
Speaker 1: head in the eye. Yeah, I felt best. I said
Speaker 1: that once and I was like, you know, what are
Speaker 1: you doing? Gas? I'm like, uber eat yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: uh good to talk to you, and uh Red Red
Speaker 1: says it's over. It's over. The Miami Heat are going
Speaker 1: to go down in flames again. But let me just say,
Speaker 1: at the start of this, who did I pick so
Speaker 1: when seven the Heat? But without two starters and not
Speaker 1: knowing if BAM's going to be effective in game four?
Speaker 1: This is too much for Jimmy. As great as he was, phenomenal,
Speaker 1: Love you Jimmy, uncle Jimmy as we call him in
Speaker 1: our household. It's too much to bear unless unless Miami
Speaker 1: goes crazy from the three point line. If they can
Speaker 1: average sixteen seventeen, three is a game, they can make
Speaker 1: it a series. Thank you, reg You're the best theatre
Speaker 1: dans I love y'all. That's Reggie Aloisious Miller Junior the third.
Speaker 1: Give me a couple of phone calls in here Dennis
Speaker 1: in New York before we take a break. Hey Dennis,
Speaker 1: Hey Danny, how are you, good sir, Dennis. Hey, I
Speaker 1: got a best snore for the weekend. My best is
Speaker 1: kind of delayed. I just threw some ribs on a
Speaker 1: trigger for the double headed Monday night. And then the
Speaker 1: worst is I had to make that yearly trip this
Speaker 1: past weekend. But every guy dreads I had to go
Speaker 1: to the pumpkin patch for the wife and that's all.
Speaker 1: Thank you, all right, well, thank you Dennis. Yeah, mine
Speaker 1: is the apple picking. We drove by some people picking apples,
Speaker 1: and then I just said to my wife, Nope, nope,
Speaker 1: come on, nope, I always go. Why do I have
Speaker 1: to pick? I mean, how ingenious is this. We're gonna
Speaker 1: give you the opportunity to go pick the apples, and
Speaker 1: you pay more to go pick the apples. It's ingenius. Hey,
Speaker 1: why don't you bring your car in and then you
Speaker 1: change your tires and your oil and we'll charge you
Speaker 1: more for the experience apple picking. Hey, let's go get
Speaker 1: some pumpkins. Nope, noope, Yes, the supermarket's got them all
Speaker 1: arranged different colors. They'll tell you what they're called, what
Speaker 1: they cost and everything. And they give me the little
Speaker 1: thing you're put in the plastic with a little twist tie.
Speaker 1: It's all good to go. You can't bring Beard a
Speaker 1: pumpkin patch. What you do is you bring a flask,
Speaker 1: a little whisky, little rum, grab yourself a thing, apple cider.
Speaker 1: Jed's a millionaire, now, why just a little to take
Speaker 1: the edge off. Yeah, kids love it. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know that now that my kids are grown that I
Speaker 1: don't have to do that. Like, there's certain things that
Speaker 1: you don't have to do, but the apple picking and
Speaker 1: then you're just walk and then you get to get
Speaker 1: on the tractor and they you get the hay ride.
Speaker 1: That's another Hey, let's go in the corn maze. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go in and hopefully I won't find my way out.
Speaker 1: Take a break class call for phone calls. I love you, huh,
Speaker 1: take a break back onto this. Thanks for listening to
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Speaker 1: live on the Peacock Act. Slipping a few more phone
Speaker 1: calls before we call it a day. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I have a problem here. Others have told me,
Speaker 1: I have a problem, and here is my problem in
Speaker 1: the pandemic COVID at home, and I notice there are
Speaker 1: jobs that need to be done, but nobody else notices
Speaker 1: the jobs, like small jobs. And this makes my wife
Speaker 1: nervous because I'll go, you know, I was wondering, maybe
Speaker 1: we get some tongue oil and put it all over
Speaker 1: the wood that we have in the house. And she
Speaker 1: will be like, yeah, but don't call anybody. So I
Speaker 1: immediately call somebody, have somebody come over and just look
Speaker 1: at the wood. And then he brings in some tongue
Speaker 1: oil and then he puts it on it, and I
Speaker 1: go yeah. And then she says, don't schedule anything. So
Speaker 1: I immediately say to him, when are you available? And
Speaker 1: then I want to redo a closet. I don't, No,
Speaker 1: I can't do it, but I look at it and
Speaker 1: I go and now we should redo that closet. My
Speaker 1: wife will go, no, we don't, like, we don't need
Speaker 1: it done. Yeah, we do. Yesterday, while watching football and basketball,
Speaker 1: I walked all over the basement looking for jobs, like
Speaker 1: how can I improve this. I have a few bottles
Speaker 1: of bourbon. I think I got to set up a
Speaker 1: special place for these bottles of bourbon, and my wife goes,
Speaker 1: they're fine where they are, I know, but I could
Speaker 1: find a special spot. Now this has just come to light.
Speaker 1: It's been there for a while, but in the last
Speaker 1: six months it's it's been it's surfaced and it's bad.
Speaker 1: And then my wife, when she notices that I'm not
Speaker 1: saying anything, I'm just looking around, she'll go, no, we're
Speaker 1: not going to paint the kitchen. I go, I wasn't
Speaker 1: thinking about that. You were thinking about something, And she's right, Yes,
Speaker 1: I think that's happening to a lot of people, because
Speaker 1: I'll go on a little walk around the neighborhood and
Speaker 1: you're seeing a lot of obsessive compulsive behavior. People are
Speaker 1: so bored out of their mind. They're touching their bushes
Speaker 1: and they're they're reorganizing things on their front. No, you're
Speaker 1: not doing it. I'm not doing that. But I'm observing
Speaker 1: others that I find it very fascinating. They're checking their
Speaker 1: mail every twenty minutes, last highlight of the day to
Speaker 1: go down the driveway and check the mailbox, and they
Speaker 1: just keep touching things around their lawn like they have
Speaker 1: nothing else to do with them. Yes, Paul. It's called
Speaker 1: basic home maintenance. I think it was Todd's talking about that.
Speaker 1: People do that, Yeah, plants like a quarter to the right,
Speaker 1: like mow the grass or go get mail or those
Speaker 1: kinds of things. And do you think that you are?
Speaker 1: And this can be either a compliment or a quirk
Speaker 1: unsatisfiable Terry Terry Bradshaw talked about that once, like you'd
Speaker 1: win a super bowler. Okay, what's the next thing we're
Speaker 1: doing after the Well that that's definitely you know, I
Speaker 1: definitely feel that because you do it around here with
Speaker 1: um after a room is set, you'll say, let's put
Speaker 1: these patches over here, and yes, yeah, but it also
Speaker 1: is responsible for how cool this place looks. So it's
Speaker 1: not necessarily a negative. Yeah, but it drives to be crazy,
Speaker 1: drives you crazy, yeah, because I like all obsess about it.
Speaker 1: And I'll notice if you guys are moving things around. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: you'd spend a considerable amount of time tinkering with things here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like picking out the helmet today, the Green Bay Packer's
Speaker 1: helmet today, or a helmet behind me, the Dan Patrick
Speaker 1: show helmet, or the patches I've got over here in
Speaker 1: front of me, like it could be a fire department,
Speaker 1: a police department, you know, any the lifeguard, first responder,
Speaker 1: you know, any of that stuff. And then exactly where
Speaker 1: the dolls are uniforms picture frame is crooked. The order
Speaker 1: of the basketballs over here by Paul's side of that
Speaker 1: is true. That's one of your favorites because you walk
Speaker 1: by it so many times. You're always readjusting those Well,
Speaker 1: I noticed that you guys will bump into them, and
Speaker 1: those are those are basketballs that have autographs on it.
Speaker 1: I've never touched those basketballs for the reason that I
Speaker 1: don't want to bother you. I purposely make sure no
Speaker 1: one touches well, you know who does I do? Wait,
Speaker 1: you do touch I know no, I know who does
Speaker 1: touch them? Okay, and I've asked them that too. Okay,
Speaker 1: yes to Now do you enjoy doing those things? You
Speaker 1: take comfort in that? Or is it something again that
Speaker 1: that's when it becomes a problem if you have to
Speaker 1: do I love finishing something like you you started and
Speaker 1: it's in, it's finished, and that's not a project. Touching
Speaker 1: things and tinkering, Well, I do. I'm very tactile. I
Speaker 1: do like to touch the things because you wanted to
Speaker 1: look a certain way on camera, or I gotta do
Speaker 1: you have to touch those things that you can't control,
Speaker 1: the urge to touch things. I have to be more
Speaker 1: like you and not do anything. Don't do it. Just
Speaker 1: take a nap. I know, I have a cupcake. Take
Speaker 1: a nap. I know. Bob in Seattle, Hi Bob, Sorry
Speaker 1: to go off on that tangent. Best and worse to
Speaker 1: the weekend, Bob, Good morning, Gepe six foot one eighty.
Speaker 1: Best of the weekend was wearing my brand new let
Speaker 1: Russ cook t shirt or watching the Seahawks went over
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. Oh nice, glad you like it. I love
Speaker 1: the shirt. Um. Worse than the weekend the Lakers losing
Speaker 1: to Miami, although Jimmy Butler was a beast yep. Thank you, Bob. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can check out all of our merchandise. We got
Speaker 1: flannel shirts on there too as well. Go to Dan
Speaker 1: Patrick dot com. Matt in Utah, Hey Matt, what do
Speaker 1: you have for me today? Hey Betan, how's it going good?
Speaker 1: Best and worst of the weekend. My best is the
Speaker 1: Eagles squeaking out of way over the Niners last night.
Speaker 1: I made a little too close for comfort. My worst
Speaker 1: was on Friday, had emergency surgery for my gall letder
Speaker 1: to being removed, so been laying around all weekend. But
Speaker 1: I guess it could turn into a best because I
Speaker 1: can watch the show more often. I suppose. All right, well,
Speaker 1: we'll try not to make you laugh there. I'm sure
Speaker 1: we did a pretty good job today, right, Todd, Not me.
Speaker 1: I'm not the funny one. I was still laughing about
Speaker 1: your Mike Tyson impersonation over the weekend. I just I
Speaker 1: thought about it. The laugh like when people do Mike Tyson,
Speaker 1: they don't do the laugh, and that backs side laugh
Speaker 1: is just great. Who gets the goldbell odd of a movie?
Speaker 1: So you can get your tonsils value. You don't get
Speaker 1: your gold black. You need get goldbladder? Can you pen?
Speaker 1: If you take the appendance, look, you'll leave the golbl
Speaker 1: are you Luke and Indiana? Hi, Luke? What's on your
Speaker 1: mind today? Hey? Dan? Got a worst, best and best
Speaker 1: ter My worst would have came on Friday. Just seeing
Speaker 1: the passing of Bob Gibson, another Cardinals Hall of Famer
Speaker 1: um just you know him and Lou Brock both passing
Speaker 1: away here recently, it was tough to see. Best was
Speaker 1: on Sunday seeing my Tottenham Hotspur hit Menu for six goals,
Speaker 1: beating him six one, and didn't think that could be
Speaker 1: top until I look back a couple hours later and
Speaker 1: see Ashton Villa getting thrashed seven two by Aston Villa.
Speaker 1: So that was a good top off to my Premier
Speaker 1: League Sunday. All right, well, thank you, Luke. I watched
Speaker 1: the little bit of the Aston Villa this day in
Speaker 1: sports history boiling pretty good one for the Chiefs. Two
Speaker 1: thousand and three. Dante Hall, remember him the kick returner.
Speaker 1: He scored on a return in his fourth straight game.
Speaker 1: Four straight games he had a punt or kick return
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. In the first five games of the season,
Speaker 1: he had four tds returning. By the way, Sandler did
Speaker 1: give me a shout out on Jimmy Fallon Friday night,
Speaker 1: he said he was going to and he did. And
Speaker 1: then the next morning, Saturday morning, he just sends me,
Speaker 1: sends me a text on well question Mark and he said, yes,
Speaker 1: it's about time you acknowledged me. Like, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to give you a credit for acknowledging me on you
Speaker 1: know Fallon. I'm in the movie Todd When did I
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