Hour 3 – Forgettable Champs, Rob Manfred

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Speaker 1: You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio. We made it to the final hour on this Wednesday. The Commissioner Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred, will join us coming up in about twenty five minutes from now. This week, on Sunday Night Baseball, Jose Ramirez and the Guardians go to Atlanta to take on Ronald Acuna Junior. The Third and the Brave Sunday Night Baseball Live on NBC and Peacock. Stat of the Day has been brought to you by Pannini America, the official trading cards of The Dan Patrick Show home.

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Speaker 2: Stretch for the NBA. As we wrap up the regular season odd Moment last night with Golden State and Sacramento, and I think Sacramento has got some questions for the Commissioner that our answers maybe for Commissioner's questions with what was happening at the end of that game, because it didn't feel like it was a real finish there. You know, you can complain complain about, you know, bam Adebayo getting eighty three points to what was going on in the last four minutes of that game. I got more questions with what was going on with the validity of the Sacramento Kings Golden State Warriors. Last night, here is Draymond Green of the Warriors talking about trying to understand why Sacramento leading by one three minutes to go and they want to foul Steph Curry.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think the play in was made for teams to not take like that's I think that's the part that everyone forgets. You know, like the playing came about to make teams like maybe through twelve or thirteen keep going. They ain't keep going. They kind of slowed down and then they hit the brakes. So you know, I saw a team tonight foul Seth Curry with three minutes to go in the game for no reason inde penalty. It ain't working.

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Speaker 2: And then he's right that the play in was supposed to prevent teams like this from you know, kind of tanking, not putting their best team on the floor. But these teams don't care about to play in that. This is such a top heavy draft, I mean it's a deep draft. You've got some guys who are going to be playing right away in the NBA that are going to be available, and all of these teams are like, we don't want to win. You know, it's like you want to stay away from the hot stove. You know, you want to have your hands back, like I don't want to get burnt here. That's what it feels like with victories, like no, no, no, we don't want to mess with any of those pesky w's.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Marv, it's like the Pacers right now, what if Tyrese Haliburn says, man, I'm ready to come back. No no, no, we can get Dabansa or Boozer or Peterson, one of these guys. No, no, you just sit here. It's gonna be a gap year for us. Well, look at the Bucks with Yannis. Janis wants to play.

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Speaker 2: They don't want him to play where he gets hurt and then you can't trade him. But I mean, it feels like it's inevitable there's going to be a separation there. But Jannis wants to play. But you know, the Bucks are saying, we're not winning anything. Doc River probably won't be back next year, and we'll kind of figure out what we're doing. And you know, the Bucks kept saying we aren't trying to trade Yannis, but everybody knew that they were listening to offers. Whether they were initiating offers. They did listen to people teams that were offering packages to the Milwaukee Bucks. And you know, I said, he's going to get traded in the off season. He's not going to get traded during the season, and he's obviously not. You know, it'll be in the off season, I believe, But I don't know what you can get for him. Should you rebuild if you have Yannis on your team, should you be in a rebuilding? It feels like with Yannis you shouldn't rebuild. But that's what it feels like Milwaukee is going to be doing. So just some of the things going on here at the end of the regular season. The Lakers in name only played last night. They lost one twenty three to eighty seven to OKAC. The Pelicans scored a hunt hundred and fifty six points last night as they beat the Jazz, who scored one thirty seven. What do we close to forty five teams this year scored one hundred and thirty points and lost a game. In the NBA stat of the day, stat of the day, stat of the day snot of the day status day.

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Speaker 5: STATU day statup to day start.

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Speaker 2: Just out of the Day, brought to you by Panini America, the official trading card said the Dan Patrick Show. You know, it's like Anthony Davis was shut down by the Wizards. It took forever for Trey Young to come back for the Wizards. I mean, I know what you're doing, and I don't know what the commissioner can do about this. I mean, there's so many questions here. When you talk about tanking, when you talk about load management, when you talk about this sixty five game threshold to be eligible for postseason honors. I mean, there's a lot of things going on with the NBA, and I don't know if it's an easy fix for the commissioner.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Marv, sorry, super random, maybe not so random. But somebody on the Pelicans had forty points last.

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Speaker 2: Night, yeah fears. Oh the rookie, Yeah yeah, okay, yeah, I think he's nineteen years of age, Yes, from Oklahoma. Yeah. Yeah, he had forty.

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Speaker 6: Brandy game the green light. Yeah, but he's been waiting all season.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, all right, eight seven to seven to three. DP Show operator Tyler is sitting by Fernando Mendoza, not going to Pittsburgh. We'll talk to him early next week, I believe, and uh, two weeks, I think weeks Okay, okay, not next week, It'll be two weeks, yes, correct, right around draft on Okay, yeah, it makes sense, but his team announced they would not be going to the draft. All right, Seaton poll question for the final hour this award well, previously award nominated program.

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Speaker 7: I think once your award nominated, you're always award nominated. Uh, this is a shocking poll result. If I were the likely number one pick in the NFL Draft, I would attend the draft or stay home with family and friends. That's at fifty one percent going to the draft. I am surprised.

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Speaker 2: Fifty one percent. Yes, you're the number one pick.

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Speaker 8: You get there at six pm, you do the red carpet, you sit down and have some food and drinks. You're the number one pick.

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Speaker 6: You get picked, a.

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Speaker 8: Couple interviews, then you're on a plane. You're only there for three hours.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're still going to be celebrating by the time you get back home. Yeah, I mean it might be a little later.

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Speaker 9: But yes, Tod this Fernandamen does become a little more, a little less likable for someone that's so perfect and choir boy and all that how you think the average person processes his decision to not be there.

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Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you the average person.

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Speaker 9: Unless there's some kind of major health problem with a family member that you know can't get there. But I think his mom has been to other events like the Heisman. I am disappointed. I think he should be there. He should make it his business to be there.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, it's his choice, his family, his moment. This is how he decides, then he's gonna live it. Good for him. Would I like him there? Yeah? But this isn't about me, yeah, seton.

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Speaker 10: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's not the first number one overall pick. He's not even the first Heisman.

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Speaker 7: Winner to not go to the draft. And it does feel like we're living more in an era of players taking control over the things they can control, like whether or not to go to the draft, regardless of where you're getting picked. Yeah, yeah, I kind of feel like I support it, although it's crazy to me to not want to. This is the one of the things that I love most about the NFL Draft is this is all of your dreams just came true.

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Speaker 2: That's why I love watching it.

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Speaker 7: You're watching these kids walk across the stage because their wildest dreams just came true.

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Speaker 6: They made it.

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Speaker 2: They did it.

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Speaker 7: It's unbelievable, and they're choosing to not have that moment.

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Speaker 2: It is really interesting and everybody wants to hug the commissioner, right, you did it? Yeah, that's the moment.

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Speaker 7: You tap them up, you give a big hug, he gives you the jersey, you put the hat on.

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Speaker 2: It's like, this is what the moment?

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Speaker 6: You know?

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Speaker 4: Yes, marm this kind of seems on brand for him because last week during the Pro Day, he was like, I'm not looking forward to being the best player in April. I'm looking forward to being the best player in September. He's probably like, all of this pomp and circumstance is just not my thing. I'm just ready to get the games going.

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Speaker 2: Pomp and circumstance, not pompous in circumstance. Correct, Okay, yes, yes, Tom should or could.

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Speaker 9: The league make it mandatory or the NFLPA or agents would never go along at that? Would they be able to say if you're an expected top pic. I don't know how they can figure out exactly, because sometimes you think you're a topic and then you sit there embarrassed.

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Speaker 2: The two rounds, and you know you're answering your own question.

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Speaker 9: Well, what did I want to the rooms opinion?

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Speaker 10: Your opinion?

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Speaker 2: If no, they can't, they can't, No way they can tell what they what's the punishment going to be?

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Speaker 11: All right?

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Speaker 2: Can we check? The Grizzlies are twenty two and a half point underdogs against the Nuggets tonight. When's the last time somebody was twenty two and a half point underdogs? Now Milwaukee is a nineteen and a half point underdog against Detroit. These teams are putting five players out there, right, not.

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Speaker 6: Five NBA players. You feel like g Lee call ups at the end of the season.

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Speaker 2: Twenty two and a half point underdog against the Nuggets. Maybe our stat guy John Tuby can help us help us with them. A couple of phone calls in here, what Paul.

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Speaker 8: Can anyone name a current starting Memphis Grizzly Know your Grizzlies? Damn, we haven't done this in a while because they got good for a while, so we had to take them off the list. Know your Grizzlies, Marvin. They've got five guys injured. By the way, GG Jackson, it's.

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Speaker 10: Weird that you know that.

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Speaker 8: GG Jackson is on the roster.

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Speaker 6: He's out and he's hurt, So.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't count on the roster because I would have said John Moran.

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Speaker 8: On the roster.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Seaton, did you say starter?

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Speaker 8: Currently active player for the Grizzlies?

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Speaker 7: And I want to say Cam Spencer please? There does play there out?

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Speaker 2: Is that the Connecticut kid?

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Speaker 10: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: That's the only camps you want to give us? The players who are.

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Speaker 8: I got said, because we're going to be here a while, we're gonna mess up seats, exit.

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Speaker 2: I gotta I got a show to do.

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Speaker 8: My bad Cedric Coward, tough name, Walter Clayton Junior, the third, Ryan Rupert, Taylor Hendricks among your luminaries.

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Speaker 2: Well, Clayton won a national title of Florida, somewhat known. Yeah, he was a mop, wouldn't he was the most outstanding player?

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Speaker 12: You know.

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Speaker 2: The Michigan caller yesterday was saying, hey, you guys don't say enough nice things about Michigan, and I said, they played great. I don't think they're going to be a team we remember. I mean, I mean, this is the era that we're in where these players come together for you know, one year, and then they're gone. I mean and it's not about Michigan. It's about college basketball.

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Speaker 10: Now.

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Speaker 2: We remember Yukon because they went back to back. Florida they went back to back, but they did have some bigger names on that Florida team. But I when's the last great team as far as we're going to remember, Like I all remember Fi Slamm a Jama they didn't even win. All remember the Fab five? They didn't even win. Yes, marsh, So you're saying the last famous team? Yes, tricky, right, Yes, I guess. And it's not to be disrespectful to Florida, but you know, you go all that's right. Florida won. There's a lot of the Oh, that's right, they won, Yes, Paulie.

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Speaker 8: Florida went back to back six oh seven because they went back to back. You knew Brewer and Noah and the different guys they had there, but they had to go back to back to do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but those guys played in the NBA, Yes.

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Speaker 8: But they were They got a lot of run because of the back to back. Man, this is a tough one.

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Speaker 2: I don't once again even look at the most outstanding players in the last decade. There aren't marquee guys in there. Even this year Cado, I mean not a marquee guy played well, yes, we acknowledge that.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm going back to two thousand and one Duke where the names you knew when they were there, Carlos Boozer, Shane Bettier, Chris Duhan, Mike Dunlavy, Jay Williams all names.

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Speaker 2: That was one of the great teams of all time, according to Palm Roy Ken Palm what is it Ken, Yeah, Ken Palm ade, Yeah, yes, Martin.

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Speaker 4: But even the Duke team that won in twenty fifteen, julil okafor and Justice Winslow, if they had been better NBA players, yeah, they would have been more famous because it's very hard to be a Duke team to win a national title, and you really don't remember those guys like that.

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Speaker 2: But it's strange when you go, my team won, but damn it, I want you to say they're great or why won't you talk more about them?

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Speaker 10: You won?

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Speaker 2: Who cares? And they rolled through the tournament. This is really an impressive run. There's just no there there where you go, oh my god, did you see that guy play? They don't have that.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Paulie, I was thinking about this yesterday. When they do the reunion of this team. I don't think they're putting anybody in the rafters from this team because none of them were there for more than five or six months.

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Speaker 2: You know, a couple, but no, they're going to put the year in the in the rafters. That'll be your banner. Curtis in Illinois, Hi, Curtis, what's on your mind? Morner DP A couple things for real quick.

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Speaker 13: A little late to the party on the Las Vegas name game, but I like to be Las Vegas raised and then I'll see you were fifty and raise you a Hundi. And then secondly, I was kind of shocked and thrown back a little bit yesterday I missed the podcast that they usually listen to when I can't watch on Peacock to see the post on Facebook about Seaton's last day. But the cynical side of me got thinking, because that's how I roll, uh, that maybe Seton is trying to develop a plan to since you love your Facebook now, and maybe the content that he can start creating will get you hooked since you'll actually see it on Facebook to where you'll want to continue creating content with Setan after you stop the radio show. So US fans can still have something to look forward to.

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Speaker 2: Huh. Well, if you're going to get my attention, you'll get it on Facebook. I see where Curtis is going, all right, I see I see what he's all right, thank you. Lounge.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, the corduroy lounge.

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Speaker 2: That's got a ring to it.

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Speaker 6: Paul exclusively on Facebook, Brandon, welcome in.

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Speaker 2: I went top bottom corduroy today. Is there a name for that, you know? How?

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Speaker 7: Like if you wear denim top and bottom? Is there a name for a double corduroys?

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Speaker 2: Like a badass? That's what it is.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, yes, Mortroy like multiple things, more Emori, more de Roy. I'll be here if you need me.

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Speaker 10: In the corner.

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Speaker 2: No, I won't need you. I'm gonna miss that, laugh Tod. Yeah, that's a little preview for next week.

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Speaker 6: It's corduroy, but it's multiple items, so it'll be.

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Speaker 10: More to.

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Speaker 2: Sean and Daytona beach. Hi, Sean, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 10: God?

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Speaker 2: How the hell do I follow that?

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Speaker 11: Dan? Very easily, long time, very easily, long time, long time. Thank you for calling me back. I have to take a deep breath. I've been watching the seat and sign offs on peacock, and I just want to frame this so everyone can understand. I spent thirty years going around the country doing drive time radio, so I kind of have a little bit of an idea of professionally what Seaton brought to the show. I watched it grow.

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Speaker 12: I hung with you guys since since the man I'm getting choked up. I'm sorry, guys, it's since the attic. Just thank you for everything's seating best bumpers in the business. You really brought so much of the show. So happy for you and your family as you continue to grow. Dan, thank you for everything you've done and then you've brought to him personally and shared with us. Thank you, guys, Thank you s eating all the best and can we get one more official final Tony romo before you go?

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Speaker 10: Buddy? Thanks.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I think we're going to load up on Friday, though, Sean, we'll play the hits on Friday. I don't know you well, we'll take requests. Rich Eisen reached out and wants to say goodbye to you on Friday, Suon.

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Speaker 4: Oh is that right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Rich has always been very nice to me. Yeah, he reached out, very supportive, said I like that guy, I want to say goodbye. I appreciate that I was suggesting he had you on his show to do that. Yeah, like, why don't you use your show to say goodbye? Doing an empty segment five minutes? Then you could go back. Since Rich is on ESPN, you could be back on ESPN Radio, back to the mothership. There you go, Yeah, there you go. Okay, let's take a break. Let's get ready for the commissioner. Be on our best behavior, Todd, don't say anything stupid.

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Speaker 9: I'll try not to.

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll take a break back after this.

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00:17:55
Speaker 2: Dodger manager Dave Roberts join us on the program tomorrow, make way for the Missioner Major League Baseball. He's been there since twenty fifteen. Rob Manfred back on the show, Commissioner, Good to see you. How's morale?

00:18:08
Speaker 10: Hey, Dan Morell is very high here at MLB.

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Speaker 14: Off to a great start, great World Baseball Classic, and really good start to the season.

00:18:18
Speaker 2: I'm curious about you had the fight last night and when that does that get to your desk of you getting involved in that?

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Speaker 14: Yeah, usually that kind of on field incident, Mike Hill will handle. He makes a recommendation, and you know, we kind of go from there. Though only if it's a really kind.

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Speaker 10: Of out of the ordinary problem. Would I get involved?

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Speaker 2: When's the last one you got involved in that?

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Speaker 14: Gosh, I can't even I think the last one I got involved with involved a player and a fan incident.

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Speaker 10: It was several years ago, and I can't tell you the player or the team the truth. It's rare.

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Speaker 2: It's rare, the abs kind of letting that kind of trickle into Major League Baseball. How would you say reaction has been so far.

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Speaker 14: I think the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive.

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Speaker 10: You know, I thought that my.

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Speaker 14: Expectation was that the players would really like it, the opportunity to, you know, correct a miss at a crucial point in the game. What actually surprised me, Dan is how popular it's been with fans. I don't know if you've been in a ballpark yet, but you know, the challenge happens.

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Speaker 10: Everybody's kind of glued to the humble John. It's amazing.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I love it. I guess my only if you want to call criticism would be the umpire. They can't be taking this too kindly. That they're being embarrassed might be a strong word, but they're being judged by everybody. Everybody is reacting to that umpire. What kind of reaction have you gotten from the umpires on this?

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Speaker 14: I think the umpires have reacted with professionalism. I mean, we had a lot of conversation with them about the implementation of this. I think it's important to bear in mind, and it's important for me to say.

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Speaker 10: Publicly, you know, they're right.

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Speaker 14: Nearly ninety four percent of the time, which is an astounding number when you think about how difficult it is, and most of the challenges are pitches that are in or out by less, you know, less than or about half an inch.

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Speaker 10: So you know, you can't be too critical of people.

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Speaker 14: I mean, I understand, you know, you do get fans, they get on them, but I think they knew what to expect, and in general, our umpires want the game to be as good as possible, and I think they see it as an improvement in the game.

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Speaker 2: When do we get to full time?

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Speaker 10: You know, look, I.

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Speaker 14: Think that we're a few weeks in to implementation. I think that we made a good decision by you know, listening to fans, listening to players, that we should do a challenge system, we shouldn't go to full ABS. So we're just too early in the process for me to even think about any change to the system.

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Speaker 10: Right now. I think we're pretty satisfied with where we are.

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Speaker 2: And I like the element of the stadium with the fans, and I would be dressing it up. You know, it's like a game show, you know, you know, was it right, was it wrong? You show it, the crowd reacts. I think it's it's a fun element where you're you're you're treating with something serious, but it is a fun element with that, and I think that it's got overwhelmed.

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Speaker 14: I agree, it's a I think it's a you know, a former fan engagement. The other thing I think that it is important to keep in mind is, you know, we pull our fans about these changes, you know, routinely before we do them, after we do them, and you know, the challenge system was the one that our fans overwhelmingly favored.

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Speaker 2: What do fans not want when you do these polls with them?

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Speaker 10: Oh, there's things that they all want.

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Speaker 2: Trust me, it's number one. What's number one? Where you go, Boy, they don't like this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 14: Look, I think of the things that we've done, the one that's the most controversial among our fans is the extra ending world the run around second base. That's the one that is you know, the most evenly split among fans.

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Speaker 10: I hated, but you know, it is an interesting thing.

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Speaker 14: I think that overwhelmingly players like it. You know, it does prevent the eighteen inning game and the prospect of somebody who's an outfielder trying to go up on the mountain pitch and getting hurt. I really do see it as a health and safety issue.

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Speaker 10: But in recognition of your view of the world.

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Speaker 14: Our most important games that are playoff games, we play them out still.

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Speaker 10: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm the you know, get off my lawn guy that it's just it's still a weird visual where you go and we go to the tenth inning and you see some guy at second base? Is it? Is it here to stay?

00:23:28
Speaker 10: Look? I think that it is here to stay.

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Speaker 14: I think the health and safety concern, the popularity of it among the players, I think it's one that is going to be with us.

00:23:39
Speaker 2: He's the commissioner Major League Baseball. Your contract expires January twenty nine.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, early in twenty nine, right.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but you could sign up before then if you wanted to extend correct.

00:23:54
Speaker 10: Yeah, I could sign up before then if I wanted to extend.

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Speaker 14: Rarely, you know, as commissioner's contracts in baseball gone all the way to the end. But you know, I was up front with the owners when I did my last deal that this was going to be it for me, and I'm pretty committed to that position.

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Speaker 2: Are you involved in approval of stadiums?

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Speaker 14: Yeah, there's certain The Commissioner's office has certain requirements for stadiums that are reviewed to make sure they're in conformity with you know, major league requirements in terms of what a stadium must be.

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Speaker 2: But as far as you know, a roof retractable.

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Speaker 14: Like those are local decisions, you know, in terms of whether they're going to be retractable, the basic design of the stadium.

00:24:39
Speaker 10: Those are ones that clubs make.

00:24:41
Speaker 2: But what happens if a team says, you know, what we want to bring our fences in, they have to check.

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Speaker 14: With the office to make sure that the dimensions of the field still conform with the minimum standards that we require.

00:24:57
Speaker 2: Labor issues are never good content for radio or two. But let me just ask you from a fans perspective, what is it that I need to know about Major League Baseball moving forward with the potential labor issues.

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Speaker 10: I think the most important thing for our fans to.

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Speaker 14: Know is we're going to provide them a great twenty twenty six season, and while they're watching that great twenty twenty six season, we're going to be working hard to get a labor deal done.

00:25:26
Speaker 2: What's the big hold up? What could potentially be the big hold up?

00:25:31
Speaker 14: Just not at a point in the process where I can really give you a good answer to that, Dan, it's just.

00:25:37
Speaker 2: Too early and you're shaking me off here. You're like, you're like Kershawn Mound here, what's going on here? Usually you give me a little bit of something. Listen, listen to your own introduction.

00:25:47
Speaker 10: There's nothing good about this conversation, right.

00:25:52
Speaker 2: What sport do you learn the most from? Aside from baseball?

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Speaker 14: Oh, I pay a lot of attention to football and basketball. I think that you know, I'm a fan of both of those sports growing up, and you know, pay a lot of attention to what they're doing. You know, for example, like NBA games, I watched their instant replay carefully because I think it's something that runs contrary to an issue that we've been very aggressive about, which is time a game. Obviously, you want to get it right, but you don't want to interrupt the flow of the game or delay the game make it longer. So, you know, that's an example of something we pay a lot of attention.

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Speaker 2: And that takes me back to the ABS. Because you want to speed up the game, you're slowing down the game because you're going to review it, as opposed to it's going to be on the jumbo tron with every pitch eventually and therefore you know it will keep the game moving that we won't be slowing down. So how how important does that tap the helmet and get that review? How quickly you get that review?

00:27:00
Speaker 10: Yeah, it is an issue.

00:27:01
Speaker 14: It is the one topic on ABS that I've raised in the last couple of our staff meetings, and the data shows we're like a minute and.

00:27:10
Speaker 12: A half.

00:27:12
Speaker 14: Longer associated with ABS. That's a price I'm prepared to pay.

00:27:16
Speaker 2: Who came up with robots like that? That to me was the negative part of this. People go, are you gonna have robots behind home plate? And I go, no, they'll be umpires? Like but who did the media do this? You can believe the media did that.

00:27:30
Speaker 14: We I mean we as a matter of fact, if you kind of look back when people are asking me about it, when they asked me about robo umpires, I uniformly correct the fact that it is a system that assists a live person in doing his job better, his or her job better. You know, we always call it ABS, and I agree with you that the moniker of you know, robot or the overlay of referring to it as a robot is a negative thing.

00:28:01
Speaker 2: When's the last time your phone rang after midnight East Coast time. Baseball wise, it's.

00:28:10
Speaker 10: Been a while.

00:28:11
Speaker 14: I mean, you know, there's periods of time where it happens, but it has been a while, and certainly not during the twenty twenty sixth season yet.

00:28:18
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Well we're off to a good start.

00:28:21
Speaker 10: No, we have you know, we have been kind of you.

00:28:23
Speaker 14: Know, look, we had the little uproar in the Angels Braves game last night, but you know, it's been pretty quiet so far in terms of the play of the game on the field. The games have been great and you know, mostly.

00:28:38
Speaker 10: Positive so far.

00:28:40
Speaker 2: The WBC. I hate that we're gonna lose momentum on this again. Can you do it every two years?

00:28:49
Speaker 11: You know?

00:28:50
Speaker 14: Look, I think that we're going to have a meeting on the WBC, which we always do after it is completed. I think that the event was so successful this time that we need to talk about frequency, regularity of schedule. You know, we haven't even I mean, it's one thing to not do it every year. Our problem because of COVID and labor negotiations whatever.

00:29:18
Speaker 10: It's it's not even you can't even say it's every four years.

00:29:23
Speaker 14: And you know, we do need to get into given how popular it is, we need to get into a regular rotation. I think the most important reason for that is fans, But I'll give you another reason.

00:29:35
Speaker 10: You know, our.

00:29:35
Speaker 14: Broadcast partners were out in force at the WBC Partner Finals, and you know, I think this is going to be a piece of our national broadcasting agreements, and obviously to do that, it has to be on a regular schedule.

00:29:53
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we'll keep an eye on you. We're grading you all the time as.

00:29:58
Speaker 14: You should, as you should, Dan, you know, I mean you know we, like you said, you got umpires who were subject to scrutiny.

00:30:06
Speaker 10: I certainly should be as well.

00:30:08
Speaker 2: I go back to Bowie Que. I was there Booie's last day in office. Really, yeah, I went when he was packing up.

00:30:17
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm I missed Booie. But I was. Actually when I first started as an outside lawyer.

00:30:24
Speaker 14: I was in a meeting where Peter, You were off, Fay, Vincent Bartchamadi, bud Seal League and I were all in the meeting and there were only seven.

00:30:36
Speaker 10: People in the room, which you think about that's five out of ten. Right, that's pretty good.

00:30:41
Speaker 2: Okay, last day you get to take one thing out of the office.

00:30:47
Speaker 15: You know, I have a I'm gonna betray myself. I have a drawing of Mickey Mannle that a fairly well known baseball artists did sort of as I had done a speech for them, and it was the honorarium for doing the speech.

00:31:08
Speaker 14: You know, I grew up a Yankee fan. My very first game was in nineteen sixty eight. It was mantals last year, but believe it or not, he hit two home runs in the game, one from each side of the plate. It was the last time he ever did it. And I'm taking that Mickey Mantle drawing with me no matter what.

00:31:28
Speaker 2: Thank you, Rob, good to talk to you.

00:31:29
Speaker 10: It's great to talk to you Dan. As always, I always enjoy.

00:31:32
Speaker 2: It, And so the Commissioner Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred. You know, people always ask me, Hey, what are you going to take when you leave here? And I'm going to take Fritzy. I'm going to make sure that you get out of the building great, and my last day, I'm taking Fritzy.

00:31:49
Speaker 10: All right.

00:31:50
Speaker 2: Let me take a break once again. Dave Roberts of the Dodgers tomorrow on the program, We'll come back. Last call for phone calls, what we learn, what's at store tomorrow? After this?

00:31:58
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00:32:10
Speaker 2: You know, the commissioner didn't back away from the WBC. Maybe every two years. You know, when it's four years, it just loses momentum. There the players who were involved in the previous WBC might not be around. I know that we wanted to be special, but I don't know if we need to wait four years for the WBC even three. I mean, this isn't the World Cup, you know, it's it's the WBC and it's part of spring training. Yes more, you.

00:32:39
Speaker 6: Took the words out of my mouth.

00:32:40
Speaker 4: It hasn't been around long enough to consider it like really special, like the Olympics of the World Cup, like you said.

00:32:45
Speaker 2: Uh yes, Baulie.

00:32:46
Speaker 8: I brought this up years ago and it got severely poo pooed. I think someday the World Cup and the Olympics will go to every three years because over a twenty year span you could make so much more money, which it always goes that way. I think it's gonna be a have to accept because it would be less special.

00:33:01
Speaker 11: But it'll happen.

00:33:03
Speaker 2: I mentioned Memphis is a twenty two and a half point underdog tonight, the largest NBA underdogs since twenty fifteen. Let me see if I have Oh yeah, Utah Jazz. They were twenty five and a half point underdogs against OKC. The thunder covered the Jazz again, come on down, and twenty twenty five, were twenty three point underdogs against the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Wizards this year, twenty two and a half point underdogs against the Knicks, the Wizards again, twenty one and a half point underdogs against OKAC that was twenty twenty six, and the Brooklyn Nets at twenty one and a half point underdog against the Timberwolves twenty twenty five.

00:33:47
Speaker 8: Yes, Buck, this is a really telling stat I mean, this shows that this is peak tanking. That all five of those lines are teams that are tanking, and they all happened this past season. That's a message for the commission.

00:34:00
Speaker 2: Yeah see where you going to say something?

00:34:04
Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, you know, I had something in the World Baseball Classic. Actually, but I think I think the scarcity is part of what makes it special. And the more you whittle away at that or chip away at it, the less special it becomes. If you look at the NFL or you look at college football, what makes it special is that it's few games. If you add those games, or you keep getting more games and more games, and it becomes less special. The NFL is slowly becoming less special because you can watch it every single night. It's not an appointment to view because it's always on.

00:34:35
Speaker 4: Now.

00:34:36
Speaker 2: A couple of phone calls in here Thomas in Mississippi. Hey Tom, what's on your mind today?

00:34:42
Speaker 5: Hey Dan, thanks for taking my call. I just wanted to go back to the Brave Angels kerfuffle last night, and I think I think a lot of national media may be burying the lead, which is white, sixty two year old manager, very stereotypical looking manager form tackling six foot four two and forty pounds Jorge Hilaire to kind of nullify the threat there. Apparently Walk can really handle himself. I think he has the black belt, throws around a lot of weight in the gym, and that's my manager.

00:35:20
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, Trip in Vegas is back, Hi Trip, Hey.

00:35:27
Speaker 16: Good one again. I always good to speak with y'all. Had a question for everyone kind of deals with what you were talking about. Last a little bit of something for seedon do you think is the best or the non winner that people think one? Would that be Dan Marino, the five, Slama Gama or the Fab five? And then my thing for Seeden is this will miss you, but do me a favor. Do not let Todd book your flights.

00:35:52
Speaker 2: It's a good call.

00:35:52
Speaker 6: It's a very good call.

00:35:53
Speaker 2: It's a good call. I can't even fathom.

00:35:58
Speaker 6: Connecticut to Florida's Vegas?

00:36:00
Speaker 10: What are you trying to?

00:36:01
Speaker 3: Like?

00:36:02
Speaker 2: When you told me that and I said, did you connect you? You said, yeah, I go, uh Chicago? He goes no, d C No. And I go where he goes, Jacksonville. I go, You're going to Vegas.

00:36:15
Speaker 14: Yeah.

00:36:16
Speaker 6: On the surface, that doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:36:18
Speaker 9: But based on some of the other flights I was looking, I must have missed something.

00:36:21
Speaker 10: I'm like, I don't want to land in Oha.

00:36:23
Speaker 6: What if it's all cold and snowy there?

00:36:25
Speaker 10: Okay?

00:36:25
Speaker 2: When you go to Landitsburg is I'm connecting in DC?

00:36:28
Speaker 9: My way to Pittsburgh, I'm connecting in DC. I don't want to do that, but that's basically based on the flights and that we're doing a show Monday before we fly to Pittsburgh. I was looking for a mid afternoon flight and out of Bradley it's not NonStop stop.

00:36:41
Speaker 2: And Cherry and Seattle joins this. Hi, Terry, what's on your mind?

00:36:44
Speaker 17: Hey, good morning Dan from the great Pacific Northwest. I wanted to give a shout out the seat and for all the great years of entertainment and he by far has the greatest laugh in broadcasting. I had a question for the Room Masters. If you had a chance to caddy the last round for any of the past Masters champions in history of who would you Whose bag would you take? I'm going to go with Arnold Palmer.

00:37:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would take Arnie as well. Not understanding the magnitude of Arnie when I was younger, but then being around him and one of my favorite moments I was in Portland. We were doing the show and the Fred Meyer Challenge I believe it was, and we were out there and Peter Jacobson was the host and we were doing our radio show and all of a sudden, Jack and Arnie are walking up the eighteenth Fairway and Peter Jacobson is waiving me, and I'm thinking, what does he want me to do? And I went out and walked up eighteen with Jack and Arnie. And that's one of those moments that you'd ever think think about you like, you're going, on, am I What am I doing here? How did I get here? And I remember talking to Arnold Palmer after the round. He had these huge hands too. Remember he shook my hand like man Ernie, but Arnie was Arnie was like James Bond playing golf.

00:38:16
Speaker 3: You know.

00:38:16
Speaker 2: There was just something about smoking heaters, his shirt, his sleeves rolled up and you know, private jet, who knows what else. Yes, Paulie, you.

00:38:26
Speaker 8: Could caddy for Jack or Arnold. I would go with Danny Willett. That would be a legendary, you know, a little sneaky Danny Willett.

00:38:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, not many people. Yeah, even Danny Willett's caddy would probably say, no, I really caddy for Tigers. Charles Schwartzell, Charles Schorschell that Todd, don't even try to say that one. Charles Schwey, like.

00:38:52
Speaker 6: Gary Player, is the guy I would like to go with.

00:38:54
Speaker 2: Why it just seems like a really nice guy.

00:38:56
Speaker 9: It just seems like someone that I think I would have a good time one.

00:39:00
Speaker 2: But you have to carry the bag.

00:39:02
Speaker 9: Though I understand that I all love that point, but I did something about Gary play rubs me in a very good positive.

00:39:07
Speaker 2: About this day in sports history.

00:39:08
Speaker 8: Paul rubs me in a good positive way. Nineteen seventy four, Dan, you love this guy. Hank Aaron home run seven point fifteen to break Babe Ruth record.

00:39:17
Speaker 11: That's odd?

00:39:18
Speaker 2: How did it sound? There's a drive?

00:39:19
Speaker 14: It might be?

00:39:20
Speaker 3: This is it?

00:39:21
Speaker 2: It's gone, it's seven fifteen.

00:39:24
Speaker 10: It's seven fifteen.

00:39:25
Speaker 6: There's a new home run kit of all time. That's Henry Aaron.

00:39:30
Speaker 2: Gonna miss that, Seaton extremely. I'll get to watch it on TV. Though, what else, PAULI, that's it?

00:39:36
Speaker 6: Let it stand alone?

00:39:37
Speaker 2: Oh, that's it, okay. Nineteen sixty nine, On this day, four expansion teams Kansas City Royals, Montreal Expos, San Diego Padres, Seattle Pilots all win their first games. All win their first games. Thanks for the phone calls, thanks for the emails, tweets, They all around support. Let's go around the infield and see what we learned on the program, Todd, do you learn anything to Randall.

00:40:00
Speaker 9: Shamblee believes Tiger Woods would have won a lot more events if he never took up weightlifting.

00:40:05
Speaker 2: He said a lot, he said, like twenty five majors over one hundred tournaments. He said, but you know lifting weights, Seatan, what'd you learn today? The commissioner's feeling good. Yeah he should. He's been a good start for Major League Baseball. But he wanted no part of those labor issues. He shook me off twice, like a.

00:40:27
Speaker 6: Sorry, we're gonna have a great twenty twenty sixth season.

00:40:29
Speaker 2: No, you had your chance.

00:40:34
Speaker 6: Oh dude, let's live in the presence. Marvin Seetan wants to take that apology back.

00:40:41
Speaker 2: We ran out of time. We can't go to Paulks.

00:40:43
Speaker 6: Twenty five seconds left.

00:40:44
Speaker 9: That's plenty of time.

00:40:45
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us. The countdown continues. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day, everybody,