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Speaker 1: this Thursday. Breaking news. Another Tennessee Titans player has tested
Speaker 1: positive this morning. The facility remains closed. Personal activities are prohibited.
Speaker 1: This according to Adam Schefter, I don't see how the
Speaker 1: Titans are able to play this game this weekend against
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, much like last week when they couldn't
Speaker 1: play against the Pittsburgh Steelers. And the NFL has a
Speaker 1: real problem on its hands. Welcome to the program. Coming
Speaker 1: up a little bit, we'll check in with Chris Haynes
Speaker 1: and the Bubble. Lebron and the Lakers have an extra
Speaker 1: day to get ready for what they hope will be
Speaker 1: the final game of the NBA season. We'll have a
Speaker 1: poll question. We'll check in with John Smoltz. Smoltzy did
Speaker 1: the Podres and the Dodgers game last night. It was
Speaker 1: an awesome ending. There was some great theatrics there, so
Speaker 1: we'll talk to him about that. The Dodgers win, the
Speaker 1: Rays win, the is win, the Braves quietly with great
Speaker 1: pitching they win again. You got football tonight, Buccaneers at
Speaker 1: the Bears, and the NFL is investigating the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1: Every offseason, a group of NFL employees gathers in a
Speaker 1: small room. They figure out a way to somehow put
Speaker 1: together a sixteen game schedule, and under normal circumstances, it's
Speaker 1: not an easy job. Now the NFL has to figure
Speaker 1: out what to do when games are canceled postponed because
Speaker 1: of COVID test. Keeping players healthy is priority number one
Speaker 1: in this situation, and after that, the league could face
Speaker 1: a logistical nightmare the schedule. Under normal circumstances, like that
Speaker 1: Jenga puzzle, you pull out one game and you might
Speaker 1: be okay. A few more games get delayed and they
Speaker 1: face a very difficult decision. So can you add a
Speaker 1: week eighteen? Do teams have to forfeit games? Are standings
Speaker 1: going to be decided by winning percentage? It's going to
Speaker 1: be impossible to accommodate everyone. And the other pro leagues
Speaker 1: did the best they could and had success. The NBA
Speaker 1: should be applauded that they pulled this off, and the
Speaker 1: NHL they pulled it off. The NFL could soon find
Speaker 1: themselves in the same boat as they try to complete
Speaker 1: a season in the most fair way possible. But you
Speaker 1: go back to the NBA and the NHL, they bubble
Speaker 1: ized their teams and the NFL. You know, that's the
Speaker 1: big question that you're always going to have, that where
Speaker 1: are your players right now? And you know there's a
Speaker 1: report the Titans players got together and held sort of
Speaker 1: an informal practice. But what are they supposed to do?
Speaker 1: You can't go to the facility. I don't know if
Speaker 1: the NFL had an edict that said you guys cannot
Speaker 1: gather whatsoever. But these players, they have to be ready
Speaker 1: to play against the Buffalo Bills this weekend. Unless the
Speaker 1: NFL just comes out and says, which I think they will,
Speaker 1: this game is not going to happen this week. But
Speaker 1: these players got together. I don't know if it's in
Speaker 1: violation of some mandate that the NFL had, But there's
Speaker 1: a real issue here because now if the Titans have
Speaker 1: another game, you know, you're only out one bye week,
Speaker 1: and if you're going to add a week eighteen, we
Speaker 1: can't just accommodate the Tennessee Titans if they have games
Speaker 1: that they are postponing, and do you have a forfeit
Speaker 1: in here? And you know, how do you sort through
Speaker 1: that logistical nightmare of going Is it their fault? And
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is the worst part of
Speaker 1: the NFL season or is this just the start of
Speaker 1: this Because we had this in baseball, we had this
Speaker 1: with the Marlins, we had this with the Cardinals, and
Speaker 1: then everybody wised up. This could be the worst that
Speaker 1: we're going to have, or it could be the start
Speaker 1: of what is going to be a very very bumpy ride.
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Speaker 1: pull question for me today. By the way, same month,
Speaker 1: same day, same year's sale whoa Yes, our very own
Speaker 1: Todd Friends has a birthday coming up this weekend, same month,
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Speaker 1: t shirts in our merchandise store. Yes, Todd, I'm excited
Speaker 1: about that. Thank you. Any time I hear the same day, month,
Speaker 1: year thing around this time of year, well it's you
Speaker 1: hear it because you're the one saying it. That's that's
Speaker 1: how you hear it. Birthday's on Saturday, though. I love that. Yes, God,
Speaker 1: I'm thankful it's not tomorrow. Same month, same day, same
Speaker 1: year as Brett Farve. As Brett Farve. Yeah, I wonder
Speaker 1: if Brett Farve goes around saying, hey, you know my birthday?
Speaker 1: I say, same month, same year is Todd Fritzie. Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't do you want to hear something interesting? Yeah, me
Speaker 1: and Fritzie, same month, same day, same year. How about that?
Speaker 1: All the Hall of Famers and all the legends are
Speaker 1: like the Fritzie. When Dan Patrick and you guys have
Speaker 1: the same exact birthday, ten ten sixty nine, No way, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and now they like him even that much more when
Speaker 1: five goes through the Hall of Fame and he sits
Speaker 1: around with all the Hall of famers and then there's
Speaker 1: like a law in the conversation and Farve we'll go, Hey,
Speaker 1: did you guys know I share the same day, same month,
Speaker 1: same year birthday? Is todd fritz I think it's funny.
Speaker 1: But when trivial pursuit comes out and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: that's the question, and everyone is stumped and you're able
Speaker 1: to play that little triangle that you could put in
Speaker 1: the trivial pursuit game. Is that an old reference? No
Speaker 1: one plays trivial pursuit. I don't know where you're going today,
Speaker 1: Like you're out of the gate on fire. A good
Speaker 1: trivial pursuit. Now I now I regret Seaton. Let's call
Speaker 1: off the sale. Okay, yeah, that's a bad idea. Don't
Speaker 1: hurt the you know what, we're going to charge you double.
Speaker 1: Why would you hurt our fans? Because yes, yes, we
Speaker 1: love him. You know, all those Hall of Fame quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: Fritzie's been harassing all of them for decades, probably Alway
Speaker 1: and Marino, like oh, Fritzie, that guy calls me four
Speaker 1: times a week. They would actually know Fritzie every single
Speaker 1: water A couple of them would, Montana would, Marino would
Speaker 1: far might know who you are. I don't like to
Speaker 1: take you answer. Who else have you annoyed over the
Speaker 1: years at some point? Pretty much this program has brought
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Speaker 1: whatever it takes to get it done. Home Depot makes
Speaker 1: it easier. They got delivery options to get you what
Speaker 1: you need exactly where you need it, so you can
Speaker 1: keep doing whatever it is you get the job done
Speaker 1: the home Depot. How doers get more done? Yes? We
Speaker 1: love Okay. So there's a lot going on the sports. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: MLB playoffs, NFL, COVID, NBA finals. So I have a
Speaker 1: series of nick Foles. Who would you rather be Poles?
Speaker 1: If you want to jump into those now? Or we
Speaker 1: can wait, wait, wait, wait a nick Foles question? Nick
Speaker 1: Foles against Tom Brady tonight, So our old question, would
Speaker 1: you rather be Nick Foles with that ring or Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford number one overall? Pick and never get a ring?
Speaker 1: Whose career do you want? Dan Badger? It's too early
Speaker 1: for that todnight, it's gonna be a referendum on Nick Foles.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Well, it always is. I mean, that's what
Speaker 1: it comes down to. This is, you know, Tom's chance
Speaker 1: at you know, retribution. Bears question, what would you like
Speaker 1: the season to go nine and seven with like Nick Foles?
Speaker 1: Or would you like to sort of go five and
Speaker 1: eleven and reset after this? Are we really asking Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears pole questions today? I mean even Paulie doesn't care
Speaker 1: about that. That's true. Wait till the night it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what's happening, it's gonna be a Brady
Speaker 1: Foles referendum. Buccaneers looked to start four and one in
Speaker 1: a season for the first time since two thousand and five.
Speaker 1: Only the Cleveland Browns and the Miami Dolphins have gone
Speaker 1: longer without starting the season four and one. Stat of
Speaker 1: the day, stat of the day, past out of the day,
Speaker 1: stat of the day. He comes that, what stat of
Speaker 1: the day. I watched a lot of baseball yesterday because
Speaker 1: you know Fritzie and his Astros fandom, and now he
Speaker 1: Fritzie yesterday goes, hey, uh, if the Astros hold on,
Speaker 1: we should get Dusty Baker on the show put the
Speaker 1: pox on them pretty bad. Yeah, good job, Todd. It
Speaker 1: must have been like a minute and a half way
Speaker 1: an they refused to go down. They will not be swept, buddies.
Speaker 1: You didn't You didn't offer up any of the oakland
Speaker 1: A's right. Not only that, but I also was about
Speaker 1: to send a note to Astro's media relations, thinking that
Speaker 1: they had pretty much one with, you know, in the
Speaker 1: sixth inning, and that would have been really bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was within minutes after sending that that's when all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Days went on a barage. And then
Speaker 1: I watched the Dodgers last night and the Padres. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated with it because this is a Padre team
Speaker 1: that maybe thought that they were a year away from
Speaker 1: being here. But they've got some stars. There's a little
Speaker 1: bit of swagger there. Kershaw was on the mound, Bellinger
Speaker 1: had an unbelievable catch, robbing Tatis of a home run.
Speaker 1: Machado's having words with the Dodgers. Can't wait for the
Speaker 1: next game, but Smoltzy called that game, so he'll join
Speaker 1: us coming up a little bit later on the Rays
Speaker 1: and the Yankees that I guess we have a new star.
Speaker 1: His name is Randy Arose Arena. Nailed it, Randy Arose Arena.
Speaker 1: It's actually fun saying that Randy Arose Arena. He's now
Speaker 1: batting six hundred for the postseason, eight hits in twelve
Speaker 1: at bats against the Yankees. He singled in his first
Speaker 1: two at bats Wednesday, and then he he hit a
Speaker 1: couple of home runs after that. He's being called the
Speaker 1: Cuban Mookie Bets. And this is a guy who came
Speaker 1: over from the Cardinals in January to the Rays. Now
Speaker 1: you it feels like every postseason you have some guy
Speaker 1: that emerges and you go, wow, where did he come from?
Speaker 1: He had a decent regular season, but one of the
Speaker 1: Tampa Rays said that he's the best player on the planet. Okay,
Speaker 1: in the last couple of days, he is Randy Rose Arena.
Speaker 1: But keep an eye on him. The Rays have a
Speaker 1: record breaking guy. Yes time a Rays Arena t shirts
Speaker 1: or has that already been used many many times? I'll
Speaker 1: be shocked if the local media haven't done anything with that. Well,
Speaker 1: he just started doing something. Yeah, but we gotta get
Speaker 1: on We gotta get on that early. If he goes
Speaker 1: over four tomorrow night, then people who are going to
Speaker 1: sign up for the same day, same month, same year,
Speaker 1: all aren't gonna take the Randy Rose Arena razna. It's
Speaker 1: something to consider. I'm not saying it's got to go
Speaker 1: into print right now, you know, contact the facility or
Speaker 1: is this a sample of what you're gonna be like
Speaker 1: for the next two hours and forty five wound up?
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. I didn't have any
Speaker 1: Mountain drew or caffeine or anything. I'm just feeling good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the guest list is okay, okay, but it's not
Speaker 1: an award winning enoughhing against our guests. But it's nice
Speaker 1: to have a guest each owl. I feel good about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: am I rambling a little? A little high? Yeah? What
Speaker 1: is this? Settle down? Yeah? The Astros lost, so I
Speaker 1: don't know what. I'm in a good mood of mclen
Speaker 1: What other poll questions? What other non Chicago Bears Poles
Speaker 1: poll questions? I have a baseball style question from the
Speaker 1: pre show debate. Would you rather watch baseball like the
Speaker 1: Yankees play it and root for a team that just
Speaker 1: hits home runs? Or would you rather have a team
Speaker 1: that you know it's gonna win because I have a
Speaker 1: very effective middle bullpen, which is how you win in
Speaker 1: today's MLB. Yeah, that's a shot, and all you guys
Speaker 1: are rooting for the raise. I love watching these Yankees team.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. The Rays hit home runs last night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they don't have Stanton and Judge do nothing but
Speaker 1: strikeout or hit home right now, I mean this whole
Speaker 1: Oakland Astro series, there's been eighteen home runs in three games.
Speaker 1: Just to give you an idea, I mean, this is crazy.
Speaker 1: There weren't eighteen home runs hit in any full postseason
Speaker 1: series prior to nineteen ninety five. Like, no matter if
Speaker 1: it went seven games, you don't hit eighteen home runs.
Speaker 1: They've hit eighteen home runs in three games. Crazy, but
Speaker 1: that's the new baseball. Yeah, I'm a club. I saw
Speaker 1: this feature that all the cardboard fans are getting beat
Speaker 1: up in the album. You have cardboard fans that want
Speaker 1: to be moved to other seats. So do you think
Speaker 1: this is affecting ratings one way or the other. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just know from my I watch anyway,
Speaker 1: But I think this is you know, it's ratorial, it's
Speaker 1: regional that you're gonna watch your team, But I don't
Speaker 1: know if a Dodger fan is going to go, hey,
Speaker 1: Dodgers aren't on. I'm gonna watch Tampa against the Yankees
Speaker 1: unless you're gonna go, you know what, we could be
Speaker 1: facing them in the World Series one of those teams.
Speaker 1: I might watch that. But you know, baseball is different.
Speaker 1: It's regional. NFL is national. The NBA is strong regionally,
Speaker 1: but also there you know there's a national spillover as well.
Speaker 1: You know, people keep bringing up this. Nobody's watching the NBA.
Speaker 1: They're gonna play on Friday night, and you know, hey,
Speaker 1: this is this title doesn't mean the same because Lebron
Speaker 1: would do it in the bubble, and I haven't heard
Speaker 1: anybody say, well, if he didn't or doesn't win the title,
Speaker 1: then it doesn't mean as much. But if he does
Speaker 1: win it, then we're going to show water it down.
Speaker 1: So he can't have it both ways there. Lebron, by
Speaker 1: the way, tweeted at six thirty this morning that he
Speaker 1: was up. Just wanted to let his followers know that
Speaker 1: he's up and he's gonna get sleep when the season ends. There.
Speaker 1: I don't does he think the game's tonight because somebody
Speaker 1: better tell him, like you can go back to bed.
Speaker 1: But he's been in the bubble. I think he's been
Speaker 1: in the bubble ninety one days. You talk about inspiration,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not hey, I'm gonna win another my
Speaker 1: fourth title or I could get you know, a fourth
Speaker 1: MVP Finals MVP. It's I've been in here ninety one days, yes,
Speaker 1: Pa well, which was worse. He was also at home
Speaker 1: for March, April, May and June, not able to go anywhere,
Speaker 1: barely able to practice. I'd rather be at home than
Speaker 1: be in the bubble. And I think when you're went
Speaker 1: into Lebron James kind of home. Yeah yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's like it might as well be a super like
Speaker 1: five star resort where he lives. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's staying, but whatever, the nicest place is at
Speaker 1: the bubble, he's got it right. I mean, may have
Speaker 1: the Mickey Mouse sweet but you know, there's no way
Speaker 1: it's as nicest. But it's current home is. But at home,
Speaker 1: he's sitting, they're dealing with kids, dealing with family and
Speaker 1: not playing basketball. You're not dealing with kids. You get
Speaker 1: to enjoy kids boling. Remember that's a guy whose kids
Speaker 1: are out of the house. That's true. You don't watch
Speaker 1: your own kids. You don't babysit your own kids. By
Speaker 1: the way, that's a time flies. Yeah, enjoy it. Enjoy it,
Speaker 1: guess because it goes faster. Then you think I'm that
Speaker 1: guy now. And in the throes of this where you
Speaker 1: got kids with diapers off and running around, it's crazy
Speaker 1: and you're just going, oh my god, it's like pretending
Speaker 1: to go to the bathroom, and so you just get
Speaker 1: five minutes of peace and quiet. Shut the door, yeah
Speaker 1: and lock it me Well, be right out. He's like, meanwhile,
Speaker 1: you got a three year old going, dad, god minute, Okay, yes, boy.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I just go into the garage and move stuff
Speaker 1: around that doesn't need to be moved. The garage is
Speaker 1: perfectly clean, and I was like, I'm gonna clean some
Speaker 1: stuff on the garage. Sorry, seeing a little bit and
Speaker 1: it's cold, and you know it's not the cleanest place
Speaker 1: in the world. Just moving stuff around. I'm busy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm busy. Matt Miller, NFL insider for Bleacher Report. With
Speaker 1: this tweet, a lot of chatter the NFL could make
Speaker 1: the Titans forfeit this game as a punishment for violating
Speaker 1: COVID protocols. We'll make some phone calls here. We'll keep
Speaker 1: an eye on this, but I think that's I knew
Speaker 1: that they were going to look at postponing this, but
Speaker 1: forfeit was something I brought up last week and I
Speaker 1: was told by a source, it's hard to go. Let's
Speaker 1: make you forfeit if it's not your fault. This week,
Speaker 1: it feels like the Titans may have thumbed their nose
Speaker 1: a little bit at the NFL, like, how did this happen?
Speaker 1: How the outbreak happen? You got together and you know
Speaker 1: it was not a sanctioned practice there you can't go
Speaker 1: to the facility. And you got another Titan who was
Speaker 1: tested positive this morning, So we'll keep an eye on that.
Speaker 1: Chris Haynes, who's been so great to us, the NBA
Speaker 1: insider with Yahoo Sports and TNT, and he's joined us
Speaker 1: quite a few times from the bub. Wanted to have
Speaker 1: him on to say thank you, get his thoughts. As
Speaker 1: you know, we move on to Game five, perhaps the
Speaker 1: final game of the NBA season. We'll check in with
Speaker 1: the Patriots a little a little bit later on and
Speaker 1: John Smoltz, who called the Dodgers padres game last night.
Speaker 1: We'll join us as well. We love your phone, calls, emails, tweets,
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Speaker 1: I can't do a Chicago Bears pole question. McLevin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that didn't exactly catch on like I thought it was.
Speaker 1: But wait till tomorrow. I'll bet you what we're talking
Speaker 1: about Nick Foles in the morning. He just has a
Speaker 1: way of coming back around all the time. Yes, I
Speaker 1: got a baseball poll question. Okay, it's philosophical. Oh, Dodger six,
Speaker 1: Padres five, great catch to win it basically for Cody
Speaker 1: Bellinger at the wall, would you rather in a big
Speaker 1: playoff game or whatever rob a home run? As a
Speaker 1: center fielder to win the game, or hit a home
Speaker 1: run to win the game for your team. You could
Speaker 1: pick one. I would say rob a home run because
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen very often, right, thank you. So that's it.
Speaker 1: We put that poll question to bed Andy. We're going apo, Yes,
Speaker 1: well I might. I feel like as a kid, you
Speaker 1: played the game where you threw the ball up against
Speaker 1: the wall, and like you would rob the home run
Speaker 1: all the time, but you couldn't. Man hitting a home run,
Speaker 1: It's just there's a lot of guys who've done that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's pretty awesome. Have you done it? Hit a
Speaker 1: game winning home run? No? No, no, But that's maybe
Speaker 1: that's why it appeals to me more. You know, like anybody,
Speaker 1: you can make a great play with your glove, but
Speaker 1: man hitting a home run, that's pretty awesome. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you can accidentally hit a home run. You can't accidentally
Speaker 1: rob somebody of a home run. Yes, with love. I
Speaker 1: feel like the most famous plays of all time are
Speaker 1: Bill Mazeroski and and Bobby Thompson that's the and Joe
Speaker 1: Carter the walkoff home runs Undefeated. I can't think of
Speaker 1: I know, Kirby Puckett climbed the wall. But it's it's
Speaker 1: really never happened like that. Like, would you rather get
Speaker 1: a game hit, a game winning shot, or a game
Speaker 1: winning block? You want the shot? Lebronze block was pretty good. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. That one is pretty good. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Probably a gajillion awesome game winning shots. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of there's a lot of game winning shots. Yeah, not
Speaker 1: necessarily a lot of game winning saving box. Yes, time
Speaker 1: with the home run, you get to admire it of
Speaker 1: however long you want. You get to run around the
Speaker 1: basis unless that catch wins the game and everyone's celebrating.
Speaker 1: That could be the first out of an inning of
Speaker 1: seven three did Todd No, But it's once you make
Speaker 1: that catch, it's like, okay, you run it in. No,
Speaker 1: we throw the ball in. There's no you don't get
Speaker 1: the running around the basis. Everybody waits for you. Cony
Speaker 1: Mellinger came in, they all waited for him. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: the chicks dig the long ball. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many are lining up to say, wow, you pulled that
Speaker 1: ball back out from behind. Ye See, when I was
Speaker 1: in Little league, I made a game winning catch and
Speaker 1: it was awesome. It was never hit a home run though, yes,
Speaker 1: the football equivalent. Would you be Roethlisberger throwing the touchdown
Speaker 1: to win the game or Malcolm Butler stealing a touchdown
Speaker 1: and taking a loss and making it into a win.
Speaker 1: I would rather be Malcolm Butler. Malcolm Butler had one
Speaker 1: of the top two or three plays in the history
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl, and it was a defensive play.
Speaker 1: You could say the NFL, yes, history of ever, the
Speaker 1: history of history. Yes, But isn't that the Pete Carroll
Speaker 1: Russell a mistake? It's not the Malcolm Butler I had.
Speaker 1: We always talk about it as a screwed up by
Speaker 1: not giving it to Lynch. It's only a mistake if
Speaker 1: you make it a mistake, and Malcolm Butler made it
Speaker 1: a mistake, so he had to do something. If he
Speaker 1: doesn't make the interception, then they lived to see another
Speaker 1: play there. So you could do David Tyree versus Malcolm
Speaker 1: Butler as a pole too or something like that. Wows
Speaker 1: that one right there is tough because Tyree had Is
Speaker 1: that the greatest catch in Super Bowl history? Now, it
Speaker 1: wasn't a touchdown, it led to a touchdown. It's the
Speaker 1: most unique catch in Super Bowl, the luckiest catch. Oh
Speaker 1: that's right, stopist Patriot. All right, Before I get to
Speaker 1: Chris Haines, I want to play something for you because
Speaker 1: we have missed this during the bubble. I want to
Speaker 1: take you back to Game seven, twenty sixteen NBA Finals
Speaker 1: and just let you hear what it used to be
Speaker 1: like when we had a big moment in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1: Each team has a foul bocam as we come up
Speaker 1: on a minute remaining and they put it Curry of
Speaker 1: the pick a role trying to get him on Irving Irving,
Speaker 1: and Curry one on one, Irving pluts it up. Match God,
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving from downtown of the Cavaliers by three. Now
Speaker 1: that that is something that we miss in the bubble.
Speaker 1: They've done a great job, but you can't capture that.
Speaker 1: That is real. That was in the moment, that was
Speaker 1: on the road and Kyrie Irving hit that shot. Chris Haynes,
Speaker 1: Yahoo Sports Senior NBA Insider, TNT sideline reporter. He's known
Speaker 1: as Mister Bubble and he joins us on the program.
Speaker 1: Do you have everything packed up right now? Chris? Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: yes I do. I'm ready. I shipped I shipped things
Speaker 1: ahead of me a couple of days ago. I'm just
Speaker 1: I got some suits in there, so you know, I
Speaker 1: don't I'll never root for a pull for anyone particular
Speaker 1: team to win, but I wouldn't mind if it is.
Speaker 1: I saw where Lebron's already up. He was tweeting people
Speaker 1: at six thirty in the morning just to say that
Speaker 1: he'll sleep when he gets out of the bubble. Here.
Speaker 1: You know, you start to realize this, He's been in
Speaker 1: the bubble ninety one days. How many days have you
Speaker 1: been there? One on two, one o two, not that
Speaker 1: I'm counting, but one on two today. But DP before
Speaker 1: I got I got a pivot, just like the debates
Speaker 1: from last night. You know, they asked, asked you a
Speaker 1: question and they answer something else. So to your point
Speaker 1: about the long ball versus catching a you know, catching
Speaker 1: a pitch. Look, I grew up a big David Justice fan,
Speaker 1: huge David Justice fan, and then David Justice Prime on
Speaker 1: his side with him was Halle Berry. Yes, now, I
Speaker 1: don't recall, you know, David just a big good home rader.
Speaker 1: I don't recall Ozzie Smith having the hot babe, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the best defensive players we ever had in
Speaker 1: this game, I don't recall him having the lights of
Speaker 1: a halle Berry on the side. So with that being said,
Speaker 1: I would pick the long ball. I would pick the
Speaker 1: hit the game win home run any day over a
Speaker 1: game savings. I think as good looking as David Justice was,
Speaker 1: he could be a light hitting catcher and halle Berry
Speaker 1: would still have liked David Justice. So I think, come on,
Speaker 1: I'm probably right. Do you realize that I did an
Speaker 1: interview with David Justice when he was with the Braves
Speaker 1: and I go over to his condo in Atlanta. I
Speaker 1: was working for CNN at the time. And I go
Speaker 1: over and halle Berry's there, and I to the conversation.
Speaker 1: Now nobody knew who halle Berry was. I go in,
Speaker 1: we sit down, we talk, and you know, he says
Speaker 1: during the interview, he says, you know, I don't it's
Speaker 1: hard for me to go to bed at night because
Speaker 1: I'm usually watching you know, sports late at night, and
Speaker 1: she's over on the couch watching this. And I said,
Speaker 1: so out of character, I go, wait, she's in bed
Speaker 1: and you're watching me on TV. And he goes, yes,
Speaker 1: and I went, but it's wrong with you well we
Speaker 1: see why didn't work out. Yeah, because he liked me
Speaker 1: a little bit more than he liked her. I think
Speaker 1: artis all messed up. Is there a chance to Heat extended?
Speaker 1: I mean I get there is a chance, but the
Speaker 1: likelihood of a game six is what in your opinion?
Speaker 1: Oh god? I mean, look, the Heat are a resilient group. Um.
Speaker 1: They fought, they fought back in you know, in game four.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't expect him to have such a
Speaker 1: such making making such a close game with Bam coming
Speaker 1: back for the first time since Game one. So no,
Speaker 1: there are definitely that there's no quiting his team. And
Speaker 1: I think they've shown it all playoffs and especially all
Speaker 1: regular season long, just how resilient they are. Um. But
Speaker 1: with that being said, man, look, I felt like if
Speaker 1: Miami got Game four and it got Series is two too,
Speaker 1: I felt like Miami may have a good shot of
Speaker 1: taking because I think I think the way that they're
Speaker 1: made up with a bunch of dogs over there, I
Speaker 1: just think they're probably a little bit mentally tougher. But
Speaker 1: I just think person nail wise, especially with the way
Speaker 1: Miami is hurting, that gives the aids to the Lakers.
Speaker 1: So for that alone, I think Lakers get the next game.
Speaker 1: I wondered about this, that Lebron was upset that, you know,
Speaker 1: not that he didn't win the MVP during the regular season,
Speaker 1: that he got very little respect from the voters. You know,
Speaker 1: that the Greek freak ran away with it. And I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if those voters maybe realize or you know, if
Speaker 1: you did a redo right now, Lebron would have been
Speaker 1: the MVP for the season if you included the postseason
Speaker 1: with the regular season. It doesn't work that way. I
Speaker 1: feel like he might get a little more love in
Speaker 1: the bubble for the MVP over Anthony Davis. If you
Speaker 1: do you have a vote, and if so, who are
Speaker 1: you voting for? I do believe I have a vote
Speaker 1: right now based off right like if it ended today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: after four games, Lebron probably gets the ad. Wasn't He
Speaker 1: was unfactable game three, so it wasn't as effective. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's funny DP, like, I'm gonna ask
Speaker 1: you this. I was talking to my brother Mark King's
Speaker 1: about this, you know, being I have a vote. So
Speaker 1: when you vote for finals MVP, it depends on the voter.
Speaker 1: Do you vote the winner based on their performances a
Speaker 1: cumulative in all four wins, or do you base it
Speaker 1: off the course of the whole seven game series. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have a problem with either one. And they don't
Speaker 1: give you guidelines because because every year I would vote
Speaker 1: Jordan MVP for the regular season and even though Charles
Speaker 1: won at one time, Carl Malone won at one time,
Speaker 1: I just said, there's no more valuable person to the
Speaker 1: NBA than Michael Jordan. You get to the finals and
Speaker 1: I would vote Michael. He was just but he didn't
Speaker 1: have like Scottie could have a really good game, but
Speaker 1: it was still all about Michael. Lebron can have a
Speaker 1: really good game, but Anthony Davis is capable of having
Speaker 1: some great games. You might look at this because I said,
Speaker 1: I hope the voters give strong consideration to Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: for just some votes for MVP, for what he's done
Speaker 1: with that team in the bubble and standing up to
Speaker 1: Lebron in company, you know, and if they got one
Speaker 1: more win, like Jerry West won the MVP and the
Speaker 1: Lakers lost to the Celtics and Jerry was the best
Speaker 1: player on the floor. But Jimmy Butler has gone toe
Speaker 1: to toe with everybody in the bubble and taking a
Speaker 1: ragtag team that nobody gave a chance to. And I
Speaker 1: he would be the one that I would lean towards.
Speaker 1: If you want to surprise vote, it'd be Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: for the accumulation of everything. But this is Lebron, and
Speaker 1: I think Lebron's gonna be your MV. I think he's
Speaker 1: going to have a performance that it's gonna make it
Speaker 1: easy for you to vote for Lebron. James. Yeah, not
Speaker 1: that you know, I would. I can. It would be
Speaker 1: hard to give my vote to a player on a
Speaker 1: losing team. But I posed that question because a he
Speaker 1: had a suspect Game three, but they lost that game.
Speaker 1: So I was saying, you know, do you hold that
Speaker 1: against him in the four games that he won? And
Speaker 1: if he you know, if you produce and had a
Speaker 1: star after an awful game, so as it right now Lebron.
Speaker 1: But we'll see. Yeah, but you know, I never know
Speaker 1: because Lebron's so polarizing that, you know, do people want
Speaker 1: to vote for him? Do they think it's a great
Speaker 1: story or do they not want to vote for Lebron
Speaker 1: and they want to give it to a D because
Speaker 1: you know, big stage in Los Angeles, nobody knew if
Speaker 1: he had this mental makeup, and you know he's played
Speaker 1: I mean the defense he played in the last game,
Speaker 1: like that was a difference maker what he did on
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler. But you know, we look at the glossy
Speaker 1: stats there and I you know, Lebrono put up a
Speaker 1: triple double and you know, the Lakers win, and I
Speaker 1: think lebron will be your MVP. So I wouldn't lose sleepover,
Speaker 1: but I know that, you know, if you really care
Speaker 1: about it, then you agonize over to a little bit.
Speaker 1: I voted for Rookie of the Year and changed my
Speaker 1: vote on the day the votes were going in with
Speaker 1: Jason Kidd and Grant Hill and it ended up a tie. Yeah, Chris,
Speaker 1: that ended up a tie, and I to this day,
Speaker 1: I was I still think back and go, did I
Speaker 1: make the right decision that day? And it was just
Speaker 1: for Rookie of the Year. And I said it to
Speaker 1: both Jason Kidd and Grant Hill that I did that,
Speaker 1: and I didn't tell him who I voted for. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, if you care about it, and then it's
Speaker 1: a privilege like the Heisman. I care about it. I
Speaker 1: get a chance to vote on it, and you know
Speaker 1: you're you're kind of sourcing this out to see what's best. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you were all right in that DP. You know,
Speaker 1: those two, those two end up having you know, great careers.
Speaker 1: Obviously Grant was cut short, but you know it was
Speaker 1: it was dessert. It's like when you looking back at
Speaker 1: some of the co rookie of the years, you could
Speaker 1: look back and say, that's fine, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like like it was tough to pick you to war.
Speaker 1: Whether whether it ended up a true tie though, Chris,
Speaker 1: That's what I always wonder because sometimes they go, let's
Speaker 1: just give it to both of them. Yeah, So I
Speaker 1: think what finals MVP? I believe it's it's an odd
Speaker 1: number of writers who get who get the picket, so
Speaker 1: there's no way you can get a co finals MVP.
Speaker 1: What are you hearing about the start in next season? So,
Speaker 1: according to Adam Silver, who spoke with us, let me
Speaker 1: see a few days ago at the earliest would be Christmas,
Speaker 1: but it's looking more more like some point the latter
Speaker 1: part of January, and so I think that's what most
Speaker 1: players are expecting. Is there anything that is going to
Speaker 1: happen before they started next season that we should keep
Speaker 1: an eye on. I mean no, I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: we have some coaching vacancies, which I'm kind of surprised
Speaker 1: we haven't filled those. What's the hold up with Indiana
Speaker 1: with Houston, with New Orleans? Well, I think Indiana has
Speaker 1: to see figure out see what the Clippers are going
Speaker 1: to do first because obviously that's the most marquee job
Speaker 1: that's available right now, and so you kind of want
Speaker 1: to see what names emerged from that candidacy and then
Speaker 1: maybe you can pluck a few of those of guys
Speaker 1: over to interview for your position. So uh, you know,
Speaker 1: LA Clippers there and win. Now. You know, desperation mode
Speaker 1: right now. So they got to get a guy who's
Speaker 1: going to command respect from day one. Your names like
Speaker 1: Jeff Van Gundy, Tyron Lou spoke to them last weekend.
Speaker 1: So uh, that's that's the job. I think the other
Speaker 1: teams want to kind of wait and see what happens there.
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for joining us as many
Speaker 1: times as you did, and you know, you were always
Speaker 1: fun and we appreciate it. I know it's been tough
Speaker 1: to be in there. Over one hundred days, but you
Speaker 1: always had a smile and uh, we appreciate our audience
Speaker 1: really appreciated your contributions. And we missed the shoes in
Speaker 1: the background there they're all packed up and packed They're
Speaker 1: getting they getting they out of here. DP. I gotta
Speaker 1: get home to the wife. Are you are you home Saturday?
Speaker 1: Are you flying out Saturday? Saturday? Six am? Saturday night
Speaker 1: is date night, Chris, I love my kids, DP, but
Speaker 1: I told the wive I don't want to see the kids.
Speaker 1: Bro suor Thank you again, though, Chris, we appreciate it,
Speaker 1: and congrats on your success. That's Chris Says, who's sports
Speaker 1: of course, working the sidelines there at TMT. We'll take
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Speaker 1: play this is the play on the day. Check this out,
Speaker 1: No balls, no strikes and tattis the fly ball to
Speaker 1: center field and deep Bellas you're going back to the wall,
Speaker 1: he leaves and makes spectacular catch. Cody Bellinger Rob's tattooss
Speaker 1: of a two run home run. His glove was six
Speaker 1: or seven inches over the yellow line and straight away
Speaker 1: center a spectacular cat. Charlie Steiner on the call AM
Speaker 1: five seventy LA Sports Dodgers Radio Network. Clayton Kershaw went
Speaker 1: six allowed three runs. He also became the first pitcher
Speaker 1: ever to allow back to back home runs three different
Speaker 1: times in a postseason career. But they get the win
Speaker 1: in dramatic fashion. John Smoltz, who was on the call
Speaker 1: last night for Fox, he will join us coming up
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Speaker 1: the great catch for the Dodgers, and this is what
Speaker 1: he had to say about the catch in the post game.
Speaker 1: You're the first player since two and twelve that's hit
Speaker 1: a postseason home run and robbed a postseason home run
Speaker 1: since ESPN started taking the robbery stat what is more
Speaker 1: exhilarating knowing that you can actually hit a home run
Speaker 1: in this park and get your team on the board,
Speaker 1: But being able to rob one like that, I would
Speaker 1: say catch one, specially enter those circumstances. I'll take that
Speaker 1: one over the homer for sure. And that's the right answer,
Speaker 1: because there are a lot of home runs to win games.
Speaker 1: There aren't many great catches like that. You're robbing somebody
Speaker 1: of a home run to win a game doesn't happen
Speaker 1: very often. All right? Eight seven seven three d P
Speaker 1: show email address DP at dan Patrick dot com. Once again,
Speaker 1: our leads story has to do with the Titans. There
Speaker 1: is a chance the Titans not only won't play this
Speaker 1: game this weekend against Buffalo, but that game could be
Speaker 1: forfeited here and the NFL has been investigating the Titans,
Speaker 1: so we're keeping an eye on that. Any information we have,
Speaker 1: we'll bring that to you, mcleven. We settle on a
Speaker 1: pull question here, Yeah, I put up, would you rather
Speaker 1: rob a home run on to win a game or
Speaker 1: hit a home run to win a game with a
Speaker 1: home run not rob Oh really good. I mean it's
Speaker 1: the more classic sports moment. You know, it's it, but
Speaker 1: it's not as unique though. I mean yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it wasn't a walk off, it was. It was in
Speaker 1: the middle of the game too. I don't think yeah, see,
Speaker 1: I think part of it is though. It's like as
Speaker 1: a kid, it's what you dreamed of doing, was hitting
Speaker 1: a game winning home run or you know, hitting the
Speaker 1: game winning shot. It's like all of those kinds of things.
Speaker 1: You know. Tom Brady, I guess, is buying a house
Speaker 1: in Tampa. Case you care about this. TMZ Sports had
Speaker 1: some pictures there, seven and a half million dollars waterfront
Speaker 1: estate in a private community. I didn't think he'd be
Speaker 1: in a like just a regular community. There's you bedroom
Speaker 1: bungob behind a strip ball. Yeah, five bedroom modern house,
Speaker 1: integated community in Clearwater, Florida. He had to move out
Speaker 1: of Derek Jeter's mansion that was the Jeets is selling
Speaker 1: that for twenty nine million, So Brady is going to
Speaker 1: get his own own spot there. And it's got a
Speaker 1: private gym, theater, billiard room, media center, and has an
Speaker 1: elevator in there. And then there's an empty lot next
Speaker 1: door if Tom would like to expand, So that's for
Speaker 1: sale as well, just to let you know that Tom
Speaker 1: is doing okay in Tampa. Sounds like he's gonna make
Speaker 1: Tampa home for a little while longer. That's not a
Speaker 1: one and done though, Like that's definitely I'm here for
Speaker 1: at least two more years. Yeah, Poll, I'm looking on
Speaker 1: Zillo right now, Dan, and seven point five million is
Speaker 1: not even close to the highest price house in the area.
Speaker 1: There's houses. I got a four or five houses in
Speaker 1: the twenty millions. I got a dozen houses over ten
Speaker 1: million dollars. Brady getting a little frugal. Well, he doesn't
Speaker 1: want to go all in in Tampa because how long
Speaker 1: is he going to stay? And then you're trying to
Speaker 1: unload something like that, chiefs Grady. Not all in that
Speaker 1: bucks question mark. Giselle wants to stay home? Who no
Speaker 1: more modeling. I was told that Giselle she wanted to
Speaker 1: be in Miami, And well, I can understand, you know,
Speaker 1: she like, you know, being a model, and you know
Speaker 1: you could be in Miami and probably a lot more
Speaker 1: opportunities there, but instead, you know, going to Tampa. Not
Speaker 1: that it was he was going to play for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: But there was talk would you know that, would the
Speaker 1: Dolphins be interested in Tom Brady? But I go back
Speaker 1: to you know when I told you that, a source said,
Speaker 1: you know, the Chicago Bears were on the shortlist as
Speaker 1: one of the three teams, the Chargers, Buccaneers, and Bears.
Speaker 1: And now you have Brady playing against the Bears coming
Speaker 1: up tonight. You asked McLevin, a lot of people will
Speaker 1: retire in Tampa. You think he could. I think he
Speaker 1: could settle there. Always settled in Denver and he was
Speaker 1: only there for three years. I don't know what Tom's
Speaker 1: plans are. I'm sorry you didn't paying Manny settled in Denver. No, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, and he wasn't there that long. Andrew Luck
Speaker 1: is still in Indianapolis. The community, good schools, good schools.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, so we got our poll question. By
Speaker 1: the way, in case you're wondering, Lebron James in closeout games,
Speaker 1: so his teams two in Miami, won in Cleveland, three
Speaker 1: and oh in finals games when they stand to win,
Speaker 1: they're a win away from the championship. All time, Lebron
Speaker 1: his teams are thirty eight and ten in games where
Speaker 1: they have a chance to close out this series. So
Speaker 1: I think the inspiration motivation is I've been in this
Speaker 1: bubble for ninety one days, let's win this thing. And
Speaker 1: then they didn't want to go up against Thursday night football,
Speaker 1: so now you have Friday night. Talk about oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, there's a basketball game on Friday night and
Speaker 1: that's the power of football. Yeah, mccleven. I mean we
Speaker 1: could come in Monday morning, the Lakers can have a
Speaker 1: title and it's gonna feel Would that feel a little old?
Speaker 1: If they want on Friday, the other game is Sunday,
Speaker 1: they'll miss out on the news cycle. If they played tonight,
Speaker 1: then they would get a piece of the news cycle.
Speaker 1: But you know, if you do it late Friday night,
Speaker 1: we always talk about a news dump. If you want
Speaker 1: a story to go away, you see five o'clock Eastern
Speaker 1: on Friday, that's when you go and hey, we're releasing
Speaker 1: this information. The NFL is famous for doing this. Be
Speaker 1: like a story came out on Friday at five o'clock
Speaker 1: because everybody's pretty much, let's go home and enjoy the weekend. Yes, Todd,
Speaker 1: how much is the reason the game's not tonight is
Speaker 1: because of Brady specifically, or just any random NFL Week
Speaker 1: five game would destroy a clinching NBA Finals game. Is
Speaker 1: that what we're saying. Well, it's been scheduled for weeks,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if they went we can't go
Speaker 1: against tom Brady. If Tom Brady's not playing and they're
Speaker 1: oh and four, then I mean it's still gonna be Friday.
Speaker 1: There's are so many games that are Tuesday Thursday, Tuesday Thursday.
Speaker 1: When you think of the NBA, it just seems very
Speaker 1: odd all of a sudden, they're making everybody stay in
Speaker 1: the bubble at least one more because football. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they've always done it. They cater to the TV audience.
Speaker 1: That's why they have these games on at nine o'clock
Speaker 1: at ninth. They're catering to try to get the biggest
Speaker 1: audience with Los Angeles, you know that market there. You
Speaker 1: know the NBA is transparent about that, but you don't
Speaker 1: want to go up against the NFL. You know, the
Speaker 1: ratings have been kind of soft anyways. I think the
Speaker 1: NBA just is saying, look, we just want to get
Speaker 1: to the finish line here. It's the same thing with baseball,
Speaker 1: it was the same thing with hockey. You just want
Speaker 1: to have a season or reasonable facts, simile, and you
Speaker 1: know these leagues have done the best they possibly can.
Speaker 1: NBA and NHL, they did the best they can. And
Speaker 1: then you hope that next year looks different, and it
Speaker 1: feels different. It is different. But that's all the NBA
Speaker 1: wants is if we have soft ratings, let's just get
Speaker 1: a champion. That's what they want. You want a champion Baseball.
Speaker 1: They didn't care about the regular season. Boy, they care
Speaker 1: about the postseason. John Smoltz was on the call the
Speaker 1: Dodgers win last night. There's some bad blood there. I
Speaker 1: like it. Padres and Dodgers. Also, Troy Aikman calls out
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. J J. Watt did he play a role
Speaker 1: in Bill O'Brien being fired as the Texans head coach.
Speaker 1: More on that coming up,