Hour 1 – The Jury Is Still Out on Marvin Harrison Jr., Rob Manfred

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 3: If you're watching on Peacock, our streaming partner, or listening on our radio affiliates around the country, Operator Tyler's sitting by. He'll take your calls. Eight seven to seven three DP Show. Seatan will have the Pole Question Honors today and we'll have a play of the day as well. We have football coming up tonight. The Seahawks are favored by one and a half at Arizona over under forty three and a half. For entertainment purposes only, there's one player I'm watching tonight, one player I'm really curious about tonight. Now there's other ones. There's probably two other players that I'm interested in, but not as much as this one player, Marvin Harrison Junior, the third When he was going into the draft, I remember when he was a sophomore and the analysts were saying, hey, if he had come out, he would be a first round pick, he'd be a top pick, he might be the number one pick. Nobody can find any negatives. Everybody gushed about him, and then I'm thinking, Okay, he's a bigger version of his dad.

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Speaker 2: His dad's a Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 3: He had sixty two catches eight touchdowns in his rookie year. Now that's not bad, and his receptions per game are down this year so far. But there are receivers in that twenty twenty four draft who have outplayed him, Rock Bowers, Malik Neighbors, Lad mcconkee, Brian Thomas, Roam Adonsay is closed and they were all drafted after MORVN.

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Speaker 2: Harrison.

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Speaker 3: I expected him to be one hundred catches, one thousand yards, and.

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Speaker 2: Ten touchdowns at least.

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Speaker 3: And I don't know if this how much this is on Kyler Murray because you're playing with a quarterback, a mobile quarterback. But there are times when I've watched Marvin Harrison Junior the third and he is just dropping balls. It's not one of those Hey, this is a fifty to fifty ball. This is ninety five percent ball. It's yours. So I'm watching him. Kyler Murray I always find fascinating for a variety of reasons. And Sam Darnold because people probably didn't realize that Sam Darnold's in Seattle. We know what he did with Minnesota, but Minnesota didn't value him. They took JJ McCarthy and they let Sam go. But I'm anxious to see interested to see how Sam Darnold is tonight in primetime. And also Kyler Murray because these standalone games. Everybody's going to have an opinion on Kyler Murray, Sam Darnold, and Marvin Harrison Junior the third Tomorrow everybody will because that standalone game and then all of a sudden, you're going to have your opinion.

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Speaker 2: You may have had an opinion, maybe you didn't have.

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Speaker 3: An opinion prior to tonight, but you will tomorrow because it'll be formulated when you watch this game. All right, uh Seaton poll question for the first hour of the program.

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Speaker 4: Well, I hesitate to go here. Oh, I think you usually know what that means. The t O dub has to Hey, by the way, how was your drive in today?

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Speaker 2: Todd?

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Speaker 5: My drive was good. I spent the majority in the middle lane. Next summ in the right lane. You know, I just all of a sudden, I have, like this, aversion to the left land. How is your guys brainwashed?

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Speaker 2: How was your drive home yesterday?

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Speaker 6: My drive home was very similar.

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Speaker 5: I did some left lane driving, but then I moved, you know, realizing that it's a passing lane. As soon as I was able to pass the car, I went into the middle lane. I generally like the middle lane most just because I think that's the safest lane. You get to see what's in front of you on to your left and right. So I'm not a big left lane driver.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so we made some progress yesterday. It took about forty minutes to beat you down to let you know the left lane is the passing lane, and if somebody's you know, wanting to pass you, you move over to the right side.

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Speaker 5: I do think a lot of people will drive fast and the left lane because they're impatient, they want to get somewhere faster that it's not necessarily being used as a passing lane, which maybe I wasn't clear. I should have added that to my argument yesterday that I don't think everyone sees it's passing, like, oh, I go on the left lane, I can pretty much goes fast as I want to get somewhere quicker.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's on them. You're not you can't be the speed police.

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Speaker 3: If they want to go ninety miles an hour, move over, let them go ninety miles an hour. I don't like it when somebody's right on my bumper, but I'm figuring do I let them stay on my bumper or do I move over and let them go? That was the point I was trying to make yesterday. I wanted to take myself out of the equation. If there could be a problem on the highway, how about I just move over and let that go going.

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Speaker 2: I'll never see you.

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Speaker 6: I'll just say it's a battle of the jerks in that situation.

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Speaker 5: That's presents being a jerk for riding on my ass and I'm being a jerk for not getting out of his way.

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Speaker 4: I think it's a bush right. That's yes, it did dawn on me. I'm glad that Todd said what he said. Just a little earlier, because I was thinking today on my way in about Todd. And I've probably been in the car with him a dozen times, two dozen times on our way to and from work, so I have a good sort of grouping of car rides to think about when with Todd. And He's never in the left hand lane ever, never, nor is he ever usually speeding like that. But he it did dawn on me driving in the Todd's never even in the left hand lane. So I wonder why it's such a strong stance upon that on.

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Speaker 6: The rare occasion that I'm in the left lane. I don't appreciate someone. Again, I should have addressed.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday he never drives in that lane ever, never.

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Speaker 6: Much safer in the middle lane.

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Speaker 3: But you were a left lanist yesterday and I did not understand why.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I came across as someone that just loves the left lane and inconvencing people and being a jerk to someone trying to.

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Speaker 6: Get past me.

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Speaker 4: All right, Seaton, Well, you know I'm trying to figure out the poll question for Marvin Harrison Junior. Oh, because I there's no way to possibly predict that this is going to happen.

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Speaker 3: Well, if you look at his draft profile or the draft profiles, it was pretty spotless.

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Speaker 4: But you can't. You can't predict that, you know. I think once he gets to the next level, he's going to forget how to use his hands.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't think that that. I don't think you can necessarily see that.

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Speaker 3: No, That's why I'm fascinated to watch and see what he does in an entire game. I haven't watched the Cardinals in an entire game. And that's where you get a true sense of how good somebody is, how consistent somebody is. Are they just a highlight guy or they somebody who moves the chains throughout a football game?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Pauling, I have his draft profile by Lance Zerline of NFL dot com.

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Speaker 2: And it's glowing.

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Speaker 7: It's physical, strong enough, speed, everything you want to say positive. He was the college receiver of the year his last two years of college. There's one negative. Weaknesses had uncaristic drops in twenty twenty three his last year of college.

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Speaker 2: That's the only negative.

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Speaker 3: Well, he still has those in the NFL because there are times when you go, how do you not catch that one? That one's not tough. But there are other receivers who have outperformed him so far. Eight seven to seven to three DP show email address Dpatdanpatrick dot com, twitter handle at dp show the Giants situation Jackson Dart will get the start against the Chargers. We asked the question yesterday, if you're Russell Wilson, do you ask the Giants to release you? Or can you be traded to the Cincinnati Bengals. Now, Russ is going to say all the right things he is. Have you ever gone to home Goods and you see those signs, those things you can put up in your house, like faith and family and fun, live, laugh, love, eat, pray, love like Russ is sort of a bumper sticker.

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Speaker 6: One day at a time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, whenever he says something, it's kind of like he took it off a bumper sticker, And he did that yesterday when he talked about if he would seek a trade.

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Speaker 2: Here's Russ.

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Speaker 8: Now, I'm focused on helping the scene.

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Speaker 9: When you know I'm focused on helping Jackson. I'm focused on me getting ready to be the best version of me today on Wednesday, and so you know, I want to be here. You know, I love this organization. I love the process of it all. It's a glove of the guys in the locker room. I'm not giving up on us in this season.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: I think he talked about two things gratitude attitude, and he's going to be a good backup at which he will be. But if you're Russ, the Bengals need help, you still want to play. You're playing your way out of the Hall of Fame in some people's eyes. Now I think he's a Hall of famer. It's weird. This became a big story yesterday on The Mothership about Eli and Russ, and I'm thinking, Okay, how much do you value what you do in the postseason? How much do you value what you do in the regular season? Because if Russ completes the pass or hands the ball off to Marshawn Lynch, then he's a no brainer, absolute no brainer. But it's weird that Russ is playing his way out of the Hall of Fame. Matthew Stafford played his way into the Hall of Fame. Hthugh Stafford as one Super Bowl win, and so does Russ. Russ went to another one. Russ was a ten time Pro Bowl quarterback when it meant something to be a Pro Bowl quarterback. Matthew Stafford was a Pro Bowl quarterback once. But it's what have you done for me lately? And Russ is not played well the last couple of years. But I know, we get you know, Eli's going into the Hall of Fame. Eli's going into the Hall of Fame. He was very durable, he played over two hundred consecutive games. But he's getting in because of two postseason runs. You beat the Patriots and Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, you're going in. You win the MVP in both of those. Now, I would argue the defensive line should have been the MVP. They don't give it to a group. It's like I argued for the Denver Broncos when they beat the Green Bay Packers, and with Terrell Davis, that offensive line won that Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: But you have to give it to an individual.

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Speaker 3: Eli has two MVPs and he won two super Bowls and he beat Brady and Belichick. I understand that. Is Eli a better quarterback than Russ?

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Speaker 2: No? Not, in my opinion.

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Speaker 3: I think the problem was and having been on the field when Russ was leading the Seahawks down to beat the Patriots, the Patriots had no answer for him. I thought Russ was unbelievable that night. Did it come down to an offensive coordinator and a head coach who wanted Russ to be the MVP in the Super Bowl and not Marshaun Lynch If you believe that with the play call with Daryl Bevell, and you know, with Pete calling that play or agreeing to that play, and then all of a sudden he throws the interception.

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Speaker 2: But if he.

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Speaker 3: Completes the pass, he's in the Hall of Fame. There's no argument. There wouldn't be. He would have been the MVP and they would have won two super Bowls with him. But it's that postseason. What have you done for me? What do you do in the biggest games. Well, I can look at it. It's just like when we get into Jordan versus Lebron, Well, Mike won six all six, Well what happened all the other years? Well, you know, but he didn't lose a Super Bowl. Okay, but Lebron went to a lot more NBA finals than Mike. Like, I have to value that. There is value of getting there. It's like we dismiss Jared Goff going to a Super Bowl. Yeah, but okay, but he still got there. Like we pick and choose and Eli Eli was not the best player on the field in either of those Super Bowls, but he did come up big in a couple of moments and throughout he only had two postseason runs, so durable average, you know, as far as statistics regular season, but if you know you want to put in both good, I have no problem with that. But you can't dismiss what somebody does during the regular season because you need something happening during the regular season to get you into the postseason. And Russ was a Pro Bowl quarterback ten times.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why I don't think it's fair the way that that Super Bowl interception is categorized. He didn't make Russell Wilson didn't make a mistake. He didn't throw the ball poorly, he didn't overthrow it and it went to Malcolm Butler. Malcolm Butler made a better play. Russell Wilson threw that ball perfectly. Malcolm Butler just made a better play. And that happens. That shouldn't be a negative on Russell Wilson's career. Necessarily. I understand it's an interception, but it wasn't his fault. He made the right play, He made a good throw. Somebody just made a better play.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Paul Eli Manning took the New York Giants to the playoffs six times in his career. He never won another playoff game except for those two runs. Russell Wilson took the Seahawks to the playoffs nine times.

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Speaker 3: Well, Russ was over shadowed by a Hall of Fame coach and an incredible defense, incredible secondary. But you know, Russ, Russ has been a great story. You're not a high You're not a first round or second round pick. Eli was number one overall, like Russ, beat the odds. So if I'm Russ, I want to show that I can still play. I want to show that I can win and you can be an attitude and gratitude guy with the Giants, but your attitude gratitude should be I want to play for the Bengals.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, Russe, he's not a bad guy. Might be a little awkward, you know, but he's not a he's not a bad person. He doesn't he's that mean. It's kind of an awkward dude sometimes. Yeah yeah, okay, yeah, I know, yeah, right. I appreciate we're all just trying to be the best version of ourselves that we can today.

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Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: How about some attitude and gratitude from you, Todd, Sure that'd be nice.

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Speaker 5: I wanted to add to Steven's point with the like, I know he's not our Rogers Russell Wilson, but anyone who debates whether Russ should get into the Hall of Fame with one super Bowl or two super bowls, now how close he was to getting that two super bowls. That would be very foolish to say, well, you'd definitely be in if we had the second super Bowl because of that one play and with one I don't know, maybe at Lench was not letting him there.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I had a former quarterback tell me this yesterday because I'm saying, help me understand. You know Jackson Dart And he said, you got to fill up the stands.

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Speaker 2: This is a home game. That's why they're starting him.

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Speaker 3: They want they want the stadium packed, because that's the bottom line for an owner. You want Jackson Dart in there. Everybody's going to be excited. Let's not waste his debut on the road in New Orleans. We want to put him in there in a home game. And I said, okay, explain to me what Russ was doing on final possession where he's throwing the ball where it can't be caught, no chance where And he said, the older you get, you start thinking about your legacy and the numbers, and you don't want to throw an interception. Russ has one of the best touchdown to interception ratios in the history of the game. And he said, it's weird that you start thinking about your stats a little bit more, whether that's true or not. With Russ throwing it away and he didn't even give his receivers. He didn't give neighbors a chance to get this. But the Bengals need help. Russ isn't going to cost you anything. And if you're a Russ, you know you got Jamis Winston backing up Jackson Dart. Now you can move on and maybe it'll come to that. But Russ can't say that publicly. He has to say that privately through his agent. Hey, can we work something out? All right, we'll take a break. The Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred's going to join us. We'll talk about Robo Umps. I got to get him to change that name. We're back after this on The Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 3: We'll get to your phone calls coming up, settle on a poll question, got our play of the day coming up? Phone number eight seven to seven three. DP show email address Dpatdanpatrick dot com Twitter handle the TP Show Commissioner Major League Baseball since twenty fifteen. Rob Manfred back on the program. We spent a lot of time yesterday talking about ABS, But I want to know how did we land on robo umps.

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Speaker 2: I don't like the phrase.

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Speaker 3: It conjures up something that I think needs to be explained.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, Dan, it's interesting.

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Speaker 12: I was with a couple of my guys traveling yesterday and I said exactly the same thing, and I've said it repeatedly. I mean the fact that the matter is the system was designed in order to preserve kind of the management role of the homeplate umpire. It's completely invisible to the fan, right, I mean in terms of there's no device or anything on the field that they can see, and all of the calls, including correcting an erroneous ball strike call made by human being from.

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Speaker 8: The fans perspective.

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Speaker 12: So you know, we do prefer the term ABS to robot lumps.

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Speaker 3: Okay, this is an entertainment business. Are you going to show anything on the jumbo tron? You know, like tennis will show you if the ball was in or out? What is baseball going to do?

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Speaker 12: We are going to have a rendering on the scoreboard so the fans can see it. I mean, you know, at the end of the day, it is about the fan experience in the ballpark and our experience in the minor leagues, as well as the testing we did in the spring and at the All Star Game, suggests that fans are really interested in seeing that rendering.

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Speaker 2: How do the umpires feel about big Brother over their shoulder?

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Speaker 12: I would say the umpires have been generally cooperative on the issue.

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Speaker 2: You know, you know, it's.

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Speaker 12: Always tough when you get corrected publicly, and you know, I understand that, and you know it is important to say although we've taken this step, you know, our umpires do a phenomenal job on the vast, vast majority of calls, and you know, I think over time this may reduce the amount of complaint we have about ball strike calls.

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Speaker 3: Okay, whenever I see something that we kind of dip our toes in and then all of a sudden we're in over our head, then this is going to be the future of Major League Baseball. How long will it take before this is the future?

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Speaker 8: You know, that's an interesting question.

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Speaker 12: I think that if you had talked just to the owners about this topic a couple of years ago, they would have been in favor of, you know, calling every pitch, and we're certainly capable of doing that, calling every pitch with ABS. I think what made us take the intermediate step is we got a lot of input from players, particularly players who had used it in the minor leagues, that they preferred the challenge system, that you know, it preserved a human element in the.

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Speaker 8: Game at the major league level.

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Speaker 12: We also got a lot of input about the significance of framing catchers and you know, individual players who had a skill set that could be really impacted by this. So, you know, we took that input to heart and landed where we did. I think that we will see after the twenty sixth season whether there's a push to.

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Speaker 8: Go the whole way.

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Speaker 3: Why did we allow is if it was part of the charm of baseball that an umpire could have his own strike zone.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, going back to you know, when I first came to the Commissioner's office in nineteen ninety eight, Actually Sandy Alderson and I started the first the same day, and you know, one of the first things Sandy embarked on was an effort to get away from that notion that individual umpires could have their own strike zone. And we have dramatically increased the uniformity of the zone that's called by our umpires by having a computer based system like ABS that we've been using to evaluate umpires for more than a decade.

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Speaker 8: You know, after each game when they miss a call.

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Speaker 12: They get that pitch, they have to log in and look at it, and it has produced greater uniformity.

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Speaker 3: Okay, but it was a charm you know, like that's Joe West strike zone or that's Eric Gregg's strike zone or Yeah.

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Speaker 8: The problem.

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Speaker 12: The problem is sometimes you know, you talk about people who are just too charming. You know, I think there were games where that term became excessive. I mean, I think Eric Greg's game in the World Series probably an example of that.

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Speaker 3: He's the commissioner Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred. Okay, give me the data to help me understand starting the tenth inning with the runner at second base, which I do to test.

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Speaker 2: But where are we with that? Is that here to stay? Commissioner?

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Speaker 8: Well, look, the.

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Speaker 12: Most important thing I can say to you is starting next week, you're going to have postseason baseball where you play it out no matter what.

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Speaker 2: So you your month is talking.

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Speaker 12: It's gonna be a great postseason and we're going to play the games out the.

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Speaker 8: Yeah again, you know, look, I think that that was interesting.

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Speaker 12: I'm not sure that was at the top of my priority list in terms of rule changes, but it came with the COVID changes that we, you know, felt we needed to do to get through the season.

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Speaker 8: The players really liked.

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Speaker 12: It, and I think the push to keep it was based on, you know, player preference and avoidance of putting, you know, really valuable players in positions of asking them to do something in extra innings that they didn't ordinarily do you know the outfield are pitching, and you know, I do think it is consistent kind of with the notion that the game has to be quicker to be responsive to the audience that we're serving in today's world.

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Speaker 3: But these leagues are becoming highlight leagues. Adam Silver, the NBA commissioner, said, we're kind of a highlight league. How do you guard against that of just being a highlight and not going the experience of going to a game or watching a game.

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Speaker 12: I think we have a huge advantage in that effort, and it is an effort for all sports. I mean, you know, how younger people consume things. We don't need to revisit that. But I think that our in ballpark experience largely do to the work of the individual teams and what they do in the stadiums, the entertainment they provide, the food and beverage options, what they do in between innings is so good that it does creating people the desire to see the whole game, the whole product, and the fact that we play every day also important in that regard. So we have some assets there and it's something that we're really focused on.

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Speaker 3: When all the owners get together, how often does the topic of a salary cap come up?

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Speaker 12: You know, it's interesting, It really is episodic. You know, it's more frequent when you get closer to a labor year like we are now. I think it's natural for people to discuss, you know, options that are available. I think what's really important for me to say is, you know, we haven't decided what exactly our approach is going to be. We have a whole other season to get through, and you know, while obviously there's conversation, you know, it remains to be seen what substance position the owners.

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Speaker 8: Are going to take.

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Speaker 2: Where do you stand on it?

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Speaker 8: I think that it has.

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Speaker 12: Been my view for a really long time that you sell competition to your fans, and that we need to always be looking for things that enhance the perception of the competition. And I think one way to do that is reduce and regulate the disparity and payrolls.

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Speaker 3: Again, I also want to make sure that you know the minimum spend because some of these owners they may not be spending as much as they need to.

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Speaker 8: How do I think that's I think that's one thing.

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Speaker 12: Well, I think that's one thing that is widely misunderstood. You know what, people the name of the mechanism that people use in the other three sports is a salary cap. But a necessary element of that system is a minimum as well as a cap, And I agree with you that the minimum in some ways may be more important than the cap.

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Speaker 3: The Cal Rawley story is a fun story, But how does Baseball's like your marketing arm. How do you approach a story like that to let people know he's playing in Seattle, He's hit sixty home runs, great nickname there. How are you guys doing enough to promote some of these other stories?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, look, I think that it's really important with a story like Cal for Major League Baseball, in addition to the club, what the club is doing locally to promote that player build his brand. You know, we have a massive social media program now that is all player directed. Almost everything we do on social ism is player or acted.

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Speaker 8: You're going to see a.

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Speaker 12: Set of postseason advertisements that will start airing Cal is prominently featured in that. You know, honestly, selecting him for the home run derby is another example. You know, you want a player like that in a home run derby where he's going to get a national audience. I think going forward, one of the things that we are really focused on is more presence on national platforms for regular season games, so that people across the country see more of players like Cal.

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Speaker 2: How important is gambling to Major League Baseball?

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Speaker 12: You know, I think it's it's something that is really misunderstood. We have a you know, nice little business where we sell data and we sell some sponsorships, but the overall revenue impact of gambling for us is really not significant. Actually, the biggest expenditure of time on the top topic is working with our partners, the sports books to make sure that gambling doesn't present an integrity an integrity issue.

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Speaker 8: For us over the long home.

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Speaker 2: Are you allowed to have a man cave at home.

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Speaker 12: You know, I do have a room that my wife has is a bedroom that she has reluctantly seated to me.

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Speaker 8: There is a lot of you know, a lot.

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Speaker 12: Of baseball stuff, a lot of golf stuff, and some exercise equipment.

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Speaker 8: So I guess that qualifies.

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Speaker 12: You know, you can't quite have a cave in an apartment in New York, you know, if there's something, you know, it's sort of an oxymoron, right.

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Speaker 2: So you're not the commissioner in your own house.

00:29:46
Speaker 8: Yeah, well that's certainly true. That's certainly true.

00:29:49
Speaker 2: Great to talk to you again.

00:29:51
Speaker 12: Great to talk to you, tant Really, you know, I know, I hope because we'll be playing the games out you'll be paying attention to what's going to be a great postseason for It's been a really exciting week this week trying to figure out who exactly is going to be there, and we're looking forward to some great series next week.

00:30:07
Speaker 2: Thank you, commissioner.

00:30:09
Speaker 8: All right, thank you, Dan.

00:30:10
Speaker 2: It's Rob Manfred.

00:30:11
Speaker 3: He's been in that position since twenty fifteen, and I believe his term ends January of twenty nine. He didn't want to compete with me with my retirement, and I respect him for that because he's not going to get a lot of publicity.

00:30:25
Speaker 2: H Nick in Virginia, Hi, Nick, what's on your mind?

00:30:30
Speaker 13: Hey, what's going on? Dan A long time, first time, I'll say five to eleven and a half and at Harry won fifty six. Wanted to touch based on the robot umpires. I got a unique nickname for him called Rumps because I thought they may be ass but you know, listen to the commissioner, there's some science behind it. I get it. Being a golf bro with track Man and everything that's out there, it is, you know, numbers never lie.

00:31:02
Speaker 14: I get it.

00:31:02
Speaker 13: But man, part of that game and part of just beam that fan experience is yelling at the up. You know, Hey that's a strike, Hey that's a ball. Love baseball, Love the show, Love you guys. I got one other, just quick shout out for a maybe a retirement project for you is I love meat Fridays, man. I'd love to see some sort of recipes or something maybe put together like a Meat Friday with Dan Patrick cookbook and maybe stats in the day and your desks and just something, you know, something to have on the shelf that we can always have you even when you're when you're not on the air.

00:31:35
Speaker 3: So we've talked about that Nick Dylan, who does our cooking, of maybe coming up with a cookbook here, maybe in conjunction with Treger, but putting some of our favorite recipes on there.

00:31:47
Speaker 2: Jeff in San Antonio, Good morning, Jeff. What's on your mind?

00:31:53
Speaker 9: You?

00:31:53
Speaker 15: Thanks for calling me, Breck Yeah, just a I don't call in too much. Just want to hit on a few things. First of all, because are a great show, Amy, no Amy, you guys are the best. And then, first and foremost, Lebron's not the goat for many reasons. If Eli's the Hall of Famer, Russ is the Hall of Famer. The lastly, I just want to get Marve some love. You know, Fritzie kind of sucks up the air in the room so much, rightly so any other danan'ce get lots of attention. But you know, Marvin stepped in you guys, didn't skip a beat. He just gets better and better every day. So I just want to give you some love. Marvin.

00:32:26
Speaker 2: You guys have a good day. Thank you, Jeff, very nice, Jeff, thank you very much.

00:32:29
Speaker 13: Thank you.

00:32:30
Speaker 2: Round of applause for Marvin.

00:32:31
Speaker 16: The small round of them. We're having a moment, you were, but you know how it works on this show. It doesn't last long and it usually turns out bad.

00:32:45
Speaker 2: Uh. Andreas in Austin? Is that? Did I get the name right? Okay? Andreas in Austin?

00:32:56
Speaker 17: Yeah, second time, long time five eight and an opposite of Fritz one sixty.

00:33:02
Speaker 6: That's not nice.

00:33:02
Speaker 17: I love you, big guy. I appreciate you all writing me into the scripts today. I have a comment and ask for the Dan and Sister Dan and the day Nets and then it suckets through out there. The comment is one of appreciation as we've been listening all to so listening to y'all since about two and nine and twenty ten when I was actually in high school and now I'm thirty two about to get married tomorrow, so really appreciate all the entertainment, the insight and perspective you've shared. And that kind of leads me to my ask to the point I just made getting married tomorrow, so I'd love to have some advice from you Dan and the dan Netes on how to make a successful marriage or some things not to do to make an unsuccessful marriage. And before I hang up and listen, I got to say suck it to Nick Wright. I know it's been a few years since he had that audacious take on Texas barbecue, but we don't forget things down here in Texas. So appreciate it, gentlemen, and looking forward to hearing that advice.

00:33:51
Speaker 2: All right, andres good luck with that. I'll pass that on to Nick Wright always.

00:33:58
Speaker 3: You know I brought this up before you. You fall in love, but you'll stay married because you like each other. That's so important. Can you can you sit at a table just you two and have enough things to talk about always think of her, have respect. Certainly, when you have kids, you're you're you move down the totem pole. But I think it just comes back to always thinking, always thinking of the other person always, and hopefully you know they reciprocate. But you you have to like each other. And it sounds crazy, but we all do the same thing. You look at somebody go oh my gosh, she's beautiful. Okay, now you've got to get to know her, and then all of a sudden, beauty starts to fade away, and then all of a sudden, it's do we like each other? And you'd be surprised how many people. Hey, I love my wife, but you got to you got to like them and it just have a friend and treat them as a friend with respect. Good luck with that, Andreas. We'll take a break. We got our Play of the day up next.

00:35:06
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00:35:24
Speaker 4: Play this is the play of the day.

00:35:27
Speaker 6: Check this out.

00:35:28
Speaker 18: Swinging a drive, keep the right field there. It is not verse sixty. The modern day Bambido has just tied Babe Bruces record of sixty home runs for third all time in American League history fifty nine and the.

00:35:45
Speaker 2: First number sixty.

00:35:47
Speaker 18: The magical Tour of cal Raleigh just continues here at twenty twenty.

00:35:53
Speaker 3: Five, courtesy of the Mariners Radio Network. I said, if cal Rawley got to sixty runs and they won the division, he was going to win the MVP.

00:36:03
Speaker 2: And I still feel that way. That's your play of the day.

00:36:06
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00:38:08
Speaker 6: Day here comes that?

00:38:11
Speaker 2: What stat of the day?

00:38:15
Speaker 3: So his ER in the season is one point ninety seven good and' zra in nineteen eighty five was one point five to three and he basically had two pitches. He had an unbelievable breaking ball and an unbelievable fastball. A shout out to Paul Skeins in that season. Let's see uh Dave in Arkansas? Hi, Dave, what's on your mind?

00:38:40
Speaker 14: They call me Pittsburgh Dave, and I've got to stand up.

00:38:46
Speaker 17: I'm going to stand up and take it.

00:38:47
Speaker 14: I know it's not going to be popular, but I couldn't get through yesterday. But if anybody needed a supporter for Fritz yesterday, it was me. Oh over there in the left lane. You can go around. You can go that way now if I see it coming and I know you're coming.

00:39:08
Speaker 2: And you got a long way to go. Fine, But yeah, pretty dramatic.

00:39:19
Speaker 4: Sounds like Dave also a left lane camper.

00:39:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, do you want that support?

00:39:24
Speaker 5: Ton, I'll take any support I can get. After's some of the things I saw on social media. Anything that remotely sounds like someone in my corner, I will embrace that.

00:39:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got roughed up on social media yesterday.

00:39:36
Speaker 5: I don't think I made my point clear enough about they think I was camping and trying to intensially block people from getting where they have to go.

00:39:41
Speaker 6: I just don't like someone getting a no. But that was the point, was someone.

00:39:45
Speaker 5: I think there are people that don't use it as the passing lane, as I said earlier, and they're just speeding because that's the way where I'm least likely to get a ticket for going very fast to get to my destination quickly.

00:39:53
Speaker 4: Yes, that is very much changing the nature of the discussion. Yeah, man, you do you move the gold post?

00:40:02
Speaker 6: Am I really moving the gold post?

00:40:03
Speaker 2: Yes?

00:40:04
Speaker 3: You kept changing the topic. You would be like, oh, there's Grandma's going thirty miles an hour. There was something about driving through a CBS.

00:40:12
Speaker 4: We discussed the left lane being a passing lane for seventy five percent of that conversation yesterday.

00:40:21
Speaker 5: I think the point being this is is a lot of people that don't use it as a pass and it's a convenient argument.

00:40:25
Speaker 6: But a lot of people are.

00:40:26
Speaker 2: Left plane to go fast. It is called the passing and stay.

00:40:28
Speaker 6: But they didn't stay in the l and continue going.

00:40:31
Speaker 2: I can't.

00:40:31
Speaker 4: I can't do this until they run into you. Who will get out of the left lane.

00:40:35
Speaker 6: A lot of people using the left lane reasons other than passing.

00:40:38
Speaker 2: From going fast. It's known as the passage and whatever they want, that's not what a lot of people need.

00:40:43
Speaker 3: Okay, we need the audience to help us. We're gonna come up with a T shirt today. It's going to be available today. We're we're gonna print it up today. It should be available today. It will be available for about forty eight hours. You know, we're going to take it down.

00:40:55
Speaker 4: But we got five options that are about to go up on dan Patrick dot com for a poll quest and the sort of you could choose.

00:41:03
Speaker 3: Okay, you want to run down the candidates there's life in the past lane.

00:41:08
Speaker 4: Life in the pass lane is one. If I passed you on the right, you must be Todd Fritz is another. If I'm going too slow, Todd Fritz said, go around me. We have left lane, Camper, and we have move Fritz, get out the way.

00:41:26
Speaker 6: There's some strong choices right there.

00:41:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we're going to take the one that gets the most boats.

00:41:31
Speaker 3: And then we're gonna make a t shirt today and it'll be available at Danpatrick dot com.

00:41:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, Todd kept trying to.

00:41:44
Speaker 3: You were still explaining yourself today and I just came in and I'm like, Nope, we're not doing it.

00:41:48
Speaker 8: I do.

00:41:49
Speaker 6: You do make a good point. I don't know where I was going with some of the other stuff about elderly.

00:41:54
Speaker 3: You lose this argument, so then you try to win another argument, or you try to deflect something.

00:42:00
Speaker 6: Took a shot at motorcycle. What was that?

00:42:02
Speaker 4: I don't know.

00:42:03
Speaker 3: Brando Shambly will join us from ryder Cup. More of your phone calls as well. One hour in the books, two more to go on this Thursday.