Hour 1 – Aaron Judge HR Was Magical, Jerry’s Bird

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Speaker 3: Eight seven seven three.

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Speaker 2: DP Show Operator Tyler sitting by, He'll take your phone calls seat and I'll come up with the poll question and got a play of the day. All of that forthcoming the Yankees on the brink, they were down five, they come back and win it, and Aaron Judge goes three for four, game tying home run and four runs batted in. So far, he's seven for eleven in the series. The home run that he hit, I won't say it's impossible, but it's nearly impossible to turn on that pitch that is so inside, it's out of the strike zone.

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Speaker 3: And I liked that.

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Speaker 2: You had people who were second guessing, like why would you pitch to him? They didn't. He was down oh two. They threw a great pitch inside that most mortals will strike out on, and he turned on a ninety nine mile an hour fastball that was the only other person I've ever seen that.

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Speaker 3: Was Barry Bonds.

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Speaker 2: Where it's inside, so inside, but he turned on it and kept it fair and hit a home run. Magical, magical, it's going to be so. I know the votes are already in, but I don't think there's a wrong choice in MVP. And cal Raley hit a home run last night his sixty first on the year, and I just I think this is going to be one of those really really close votes and it'd be a shame. I don't know if cal Raley ever gets this chance again. Aaron Judge feels like, we'll get this chance again. But this is one of those almost like Mike Greenwell, you remember him with the Red Sox and he lost out I think the Jose Canseco and then all the steroid stuff came out and Mike Greenwell was a really good player, but he was never going to get a chance again. It's a magical season, a magical season for the team as well. And I had a baseball analyst who said, how's baseball and baseball fans going to react if you have the Blue Jays and the Mariners playing or you know that? Are we going to be like, oh, what are we doing with our small market teams here? And I'm like, I don't know why we get We always come to this conclusion like, oh, who's gonna watch?

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Speaker 3: Like I don't care. You know, it's you're.

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Speaker 2: Getting to see some good baseball. You're getting to see some big stars, and if it's Seattle, it's a great story. Toronto is a great story as well. I know we love the big markets, but Mariners are up to one on Detroit and uh, you know, the Yankees down to to one. You got the Dodgers who might be able to sweep the Phillies coming up later on tonight, and then the Brewers and the Cubs. Kind of an oh, by the way series, but the Brewers favored in that series.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Marvin, that's always that always kind of boggles me when people talk about the small markets. Isn't it about big, big time stars because you have Cal Rawley on one side, and if it's the Blue Jays you have George Springer and Vlaguerrero Junior.

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Speaker 5: Isn't that what you want?

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Speaker 4: You want big stars so people can see them instead of just relying just on Dodgers and Yankees.

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Speaker 2: We don't do that in the NFL. Like green Bay's the smallest market. If green Bay goes to the Super Bowl, nobody's going to complain. They're just not And I think we get caught up in who's going to watch. You know, Baseball struck gold last year with the Yankees and Dodgers. Even though it wasn't a competitive World Series, you had the big markets the big teams. But all I want to see is great, you know, we get to March madness. I don't know, do you really care if Butler goes to a championship game, George Mason goes to the Final four. I think if you get good matchups, that's all we're asking for. And a lot of times you can even have the big markets like we did last year and LA won four out of the five games.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Paulie, But I think the issue is and I love, I don't care who's in the World Series.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to watch.

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Speaker 6: But when you have a World Series where it's like the Diamondbacks, it's almost like work for the casual fan. You have to learn the players, you have to learn the manager. When you have Yankees versus the Dodgers in the World Series, you know the stars already and you know the history of these franchises. It's like going into a movie where you know the entire cast, as opposed to like an independent film. It's more work when there's a team like Toronto where you just know a few players.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But if I go back to Arizona when they had Shilling and Randy Johnson, Luis Gonzales and Mark Grace.

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Speaker 3: We knew that team, We knew those stars.

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Speaker 2: I think sometimes you'll get a smaller market or a less covered team. You know, Rangers two years ago, and people probably didn't know much about the Rangers. But I don't get caught up in, you know the ratings. The Blue Jays and Mariners both came into the American League in nineteen seventy seven as expansion teams, and here they are on the cusp of moving on to the championship series. All right, seton pull question today, at least for the first hour.

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Speaker 7: Let's see you want to start. How about we start football wise. This one's from Marvin after the Joe Flacco trade, What should the realistic expectations for the Bengals be Division title, wild card, AFC Championship game or no playoffs?

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Speaker 2: Well, they have two wins, so I would say, you know, a playoff appearance that you know. Flacco obviously is nowhere near Joe Burrow, but you still have these offensive weapons and he will at least be able to take advantage of them, far more than Jake Browning did. I would say wild card because I don't know what the Ravens are going to do. We know what the Browns are going to do, and the Steelers are going to be a playoff team. I don't know if they're a great team. So if I'm a Bengal fan, I have to be realistic and say, can we get nine wins? Can we get ten wins? And I'd say yeah, I'd say that's realistic. By the way, we want to be fair to Dave Simms, the Yankee play by play voice.

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Speaker 3: He was with us yesterday and.

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Speaker 2: Fritzi, of course, had issues with Dave and his lack of enthusiasm on a Vlad Guerrero grand slam. Dave Simms on the Aaron Judge home run last night.

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Speaker 8: There's the pitch, high flight ball deep left field, down the left field line.

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Speaker 5: It is off the fair pole.

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Speaker 8: Hey now, hey, now, hey, now, Homer aeron jut.

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Speaker 9: This game is tired.

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Speaker 5: It's six six.

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Speaker 3: Did you want him to sound like that for vide Guerrero.

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Speaker 5: That's what the fans want. Did he hear it was a huge moment for the Yankees.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but you wanted enthusiasm for Vlad Guerrero the visits.

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Speaker 10: I would understand if he didn't have quite that much. This enthusiasm for the other people. I could appreciate that for the Yankee listeners.

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Speaker 3: Uh, nice call. That was tough to see though.

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Speaker 2: It's down the line and that's where Judge isn't even leaving the batter's box. He's like, well, it's either a home run or it's foul, so I don't have to worry about I got to hustle into second base with a stand up double. But all right, Seaton, back to our regularly scheduled programming.

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Speaker 7: The pole question, Yeah, the other pole question is we haven't had one of these in a while. From Paul a bathroom and wait most VCW in sports right now or just in baseball, maybe Judge Otani Raley other.

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Speaker 3: So bathroom can wait when they're at the plate.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, they're at the plate and you really got to go to the bathroom. And she's like, you know what, I'm gonna wait until after this at bat?

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Speaker 2: Well, Judge definitely, Judge. I don't know if cal Rawley has entered that picture. Maybe it's a temporary bathroom can wait for him, but Aaron Judge definitely, it's just I think just seeing him at the plate.

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Speaker 3: Somebody that big.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know who we had on this is years ago and PAULI was bringing this up that we were talking about tall guys who have long swings and you know you're not going to be able to get around on that fastball. You know, that's big looping swing. And but Aaron Judge has been so good at being selective and he does you know, there's pitches that he used to go for. Now he knows exactly what the strike zone is and that is the I mean a credit to him, because yes, as you get older, your swing is going to slow down, but you have to be able to somehow compromise what you're going to do with the plate. And I thought that you can't help you can't help the pitcher by widening your strike zone.

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Speaker 3: And that's what I think he did earlier in his career.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Pauline, Yeah, if you look at Aaron Judge after the age of thirty, every year his strike cuts are going down and his walks are going up. His eye is getting better. His stats after age thirty are better than his stats before age thirty.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's impressive though, when he comes to the plate and he's played a great series here, this is what we wanted, this is what you want out of your MVP candidates.

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Speaker 3: What else do we have, Seaton.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we're throwing those two up right now as we speak. The Joe Flacco Floco and.

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Speaker 6: Is it Floco or Flacco?

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Speaker 3: I think I think it's Flacco.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I was gonna say it.

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Speaker 3: You might have been right. Yeah, he says Flocko. He does, It's Joe flak Joe Flocko.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I think PAULI called this when the Browns were going to go to Dylan Gabriel and wondered what what was going to happen.

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Speaker 3: I think it's more than giving too much credit.

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Speaker 6: No, I've been probably too much credit. I just remember talking about it. We were discussing why didn't the Bengals go after Russ Wilson when he got benched, and then we said, as soon as Dylan Gabriel got the start, they should just ship Joe Flacco across the state.

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Speaker 3: Mm.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's interesting. You know, I'm sure, I'm probably sure that he would just drive down to Cincinnati take you know, three and a half hours or so, and you know, it's an upgrade going to Cincinnati over Cleveland, of course, my hometown.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Paul, Now, if you're the Browns that you lived in the state, Dan, any chance you're helping out your cross state rival here or is it no danger?

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Speaker 3: No, no, you are helping them. Shouldn't do that?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it also, this is what the Browns should have done to begin with. If you're gonna have these young quarterbacks, let these quarterbacks have a chance to prove if they can play or not. And you know, you got Flacco and maybe he did help these guys prepare.

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Speaker 3: Now they've gotten to the point I just.

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Speaker 2: Want to see if they can play, because I don't want this to be a situation where at the end of the season the Browns are going to go into the draft and take a quarterback and these kids didn't get a chance to really play. And Dylan Gabriel played pretty well in London, Maybe Shoulde or Sanders gets a chance.

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Speaker 3: To play as well.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, for everybody who said, oh boy, there's a quarterback rich draft coming up, I don't know about that. It feels like every year it's that next year, that quarterback draft. Oh it's deep. I don't know if a quarterback is going number one overall this year. I get the feeling it'll be an edge rusher. But I don't know if these quarterbacks are great. Maybe we're still trying to figure out who's the Heisman Trophy candidate, the leading one.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Paul, it happens every couple of years or maybe more than that. Twenty twenty two, the first pick of the draft that was a quarterback was the twentieth pick. Can you picket out of Pittsburgh? And it was like Desmond Ritter, Malik Willis and a couple of years before that, I think it was. Yeah, like it happens once in a while where there's that just nobody goes early.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it feels like every year we always talk about the next year, like, oh my gosh, there's a lot of quarterbacks there. I'm like, I don't know, because you have the Rams with two first round picks and the Browns with two first round picks, and you know, Stafford's probably not going to play after this season, and the brown situation, I mean, maybe they got a starting quarterback there, But now is when you find out instead of playing Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: More, there's a mock draft I'm looking at right now. On CBS Sports, Mike Renner has a quarter back going number one overall.

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Speaker 5: Do we want to guess who the quarterback is?

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Speaker 3: Does he play at Oregon?

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Speaker 5: He does not?

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Speaker 3: Okay? Does he play at Indiana? He does? Okay. Fernando Mendoza three hot weeks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I still go back to Kirk kurb Street talking about Frenando Mendoza starting the season. Keep an eye on him. Fernando and Indiana's played well, Yes, Paul.

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Speaker 6: Just remember though these mock drafts, the editors encourage you to put quarterbacks in the top ten all over the place.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody wants to, you know, click on a mock draft that's got an edge rusher out of Georgia. Sorry, they just don't. It's like, when's the first quarterback used to be running backs? Oh, I have let me see if I can find it.

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Speaker 4: Yes, morbon I was gonna say for the Mendoza family, don't get too excited, because I'm sure sure Door Sanders was the number one picking somebody's draft the year of gol So.

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Speaker 2: I remember when we had Dion. He joined us at the Super Bowl and we were talking about, you know, where his son would and wouldn't go, And it almost felt like Dion thought that his son was going to go top five, not top five, rounds top five, and that, hey, there's certain teams we're gonna steer clear of. And then all of a sudden, what unfolded? I do have the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year odds updated by DraftKings. I'm going to wait after the break. We'll take a break here back after this Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 3: We talked about this yesterday.

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Speaker 2: The Arizona Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon and he had an altercation on the sidelines. And you know, you can yell at your players, but if you put your hands on players, because players can't do that, back to you and the NFL find him one hundred thousand dollars. Now, I don't know if it was the Cardinals of the NFL. It seems like that would be in a house, but there were varying reports on who was finding him. But it was one hundred thousand dollars for the incident that he had on the sidelines. Now, he did come out and apologize, and I think that's one of those Hey, you might want to get ahead of this and apologize before people start to really look at this and you put your hands on one of your players. About one hundred thousand dollars. Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones got fined and he apparently was thinking he was giving the thumbs up to cowboy fans, but he ended up flipping off somebody.

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Speaker 3: He gave the finger.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Paul Okay, let's play the game, which fine is more proper because you would think putting your hands on a player and pushing them would be the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars fine, and flipping the bird, which is just a gesture no one's actually getting touched, would be the one hundred thousand dollars five.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it is an owner who's doing this.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but the act and it shouldn't be the pockets of the person.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you won the game and you're the owner.

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Speaker 2: As posted, Jonathan Gannon lost a terrible, I mean, an unbelievable loss and in the moment and he was way too amped and should have been fine. But Jerry, Jerry's one of the faces of the NFL, but he's been.

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Speaker 7: Given He's been giving Cowboys fans the middle finger for years.

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Speaker 3: At that time, I'm surprised this is the one figured figured Okay literally, but he he was. He thought he was giving the thumbs up.

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Speaker 2: And I mean it happens to me all the time, you know, when my wife says, hey, you got that, and I go yeah, and then oh darn it, I flipped you off again, hunt.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Now, has precedent been set if Jerry Jones goes double bird. Is it half a million? Or is it the act is two hundred fifty thous I.

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Speaker 2: Think it's just the now. I don't know if a finger offender. Yeah, I don't know. But but Jerry flipped.

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Speaker 12: I mean.

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Speaker 3: You won the game too, and you're flipping people off.

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Speaker 6: He did address it, Jerry Jones Dan He actually talked about it yesterday. He said he was flipping off his own fans, not the opposing fans. There was a swarm of Cowboys fans, not Jets fans. The entire statement was brimming and he was trying to give them. He said, like a thumb's up?

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Speaker 5: How you doing?

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Speaker 6: And he actually went instead of a thumb, he went middle finger. That was his explanation.

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Speaker 3: Okay your thoughts, yes, Todd.

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Speaker 10: Unless you have a carple tunnel or some kind of problem where you need to see a doctor where you can't control the digits in your hand. I don't know how you confused the middle finger with the thumb. I just don't know how that happened.

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Speaker 2: Ever, Well, he is an eighty year old man, so maybe maybe he has some problems with that, you know, some inflammation.

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Speaker 3: Yes, have you ever.

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Speaker 7: Been in a situation where you're out in public or something and someone says, hey, what's up, and you say good, You're like, wait, that didn't match at all. They didn't ask me how I'm doing. They asked what's up. I should have said nothing, what about you? But instead I said, good, this is the same thing, just with your hands. It's the exact same thing. I kind of I went to give him. I went to give a thumbs up, but I gave him middle finger instead. It was weird. I should I do a peace sign or a hang loose, like I just met that up my bad. Hold on, let me recalibrate here.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Paul, I'm with seating on this one. I think it could have been an accident because Jerry hasn't done this before. And the other day I was at the airport and the person at the gate said have a good flight, and I said you too.

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Speaker 3: She wasn't flying anywhere. He was just standing right exactly exactly, and I went back.

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Speaker 10: I was like, I just had to go you too, Yes, Todd, I've done that with good to see you versus good to meet you.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes you meet him for the first time, it's good to see you.

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Speaker 10: You've never met them before, and vice versa. That's kind of awkward as well.

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Speaker 3: I've done that.

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Speaker 2: I've done that because I'll meet people. You know, I've been doing this for such a long time that you think you've seen somebody before and then you go, hey, great to see you again this first time we've met. Oh, okay, you look like somebody you know. Then you're like scrambling. But no, I don't believe that. Jerry thought he was giving the thumbs up and then he flipped off the cowboy fans.

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Speaker 10: Yes, Todd, Why can't that other person play along in that awkward situation? Why does that person have to say it's the first time we met. I have a problem with that person. And two, why do you why do you have to bring it up to that president the first time we met? So just play you along. I'm good to meet you, good to see you.

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Speaker 3: It's close enough, Okay, want to get side. I don't want to. I don't want to go down this road. Someone feel uncomfortable. I've had people come up and say, do you remember me?

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Speaker 2: I hate that because hey, we met in ninety four, where like, I have no idea and I'm sorry you sure you don't remember?

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Speaker 3: I don't. I don't think I do. I don't think I do.

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Speaker 2: Okay, uh here, DraftKings has the offensive Rookie of the Year odds a Mecca Abuka of Tampa Bay. He is your clubhouse leader. Then it's Ashton Genty, Jackson, Dart Tyler Warren. Those are your top four. And Abuka has been you know, when you're you got bragging rights that you're the best Ohio State receiver in the NFL. I mean that's saying an awful lot. And what an incredible pick up up for them with Tampa Bay to get him, because these aren't those little dump off passes when Baker throws to Buka. These are these are big boy passes and catches and he's been wonderful. So he is your NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year right now. According to DraftKings, Yes, Paul.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Buka is fourth in the NFL and yardage a season and first in yards per catch.

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Speaker 2: And they're big plays too, you know, and you don't normally go to your rookie, you know, wide receiver that you know they've got some injuries with their wide receivers, but still that's it feels like when they're doing these fourth quarter comes comebacks. He is not afraid to go to him.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Paul, another bonus for Abuca was looking at his stats. I don't have any drops so far. He's also leading the league in catch percentage, like catches per target. I mean, that's that's serious stuff.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that Baker went to him seven times in Seattle, and he had seven catches in Seattle. I think I have that right. I had a few phone calls here Tim in Utah. Good morning, Tim, lead us off. What's on your mind?

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Speaker 12: Ay?

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Speaker 13: Good morning?

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Speaker 14: Five eight five? I just who wanted to point out Yesterday Fritzy was demanding that Patrick Mahomes tackle a monster of a man, Devin Lloyd running down the field, and then in the very next breath he couldn't take a self tanning bet because he had to consult with his dermatologist first.

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Speaker 5: I'm just a dad. I'm not a professional football player. They're really kind of apples and oranges.

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Speaker 10: If I'm a football player, I got to do football things no matter what the situation is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Fritzy's soft.

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Speaker 5: I don't have to get us canning.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't want Patrick Mahomes to be soft? Is that right? To Yeah, I don't like.

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Speaker 5: What people say.

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Speaker 10: Well this, but his other quarterbacks have gotten hurt doing that. You know, you can get hurt doing anything. You can get hurt driving your car and giving time any given play, you can get hurt. If you're constantly afraid of getting hurt, then you shouldn't be playing football.

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Speaker 7: He's just as likely to get hurt playing wiffleball.

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Speaker 3: You don't know, thank we don't know. Pickleball.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, what if he twists his ankle playing pickleball?

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Speaker 1: We don't know.

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Speaker 10: It's a violent sport, whiffleball and the NFL. You gotta suck it up, don't play. Sit on your couch if you're about gonna hurt.

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Speaker 3: David in Ohio, Hi David, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 1: Hey?

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Speaker 8: Dan? I got a theory as to why Jerry Jones gave that gave the fans the finger. He was waving the fans up there in his ivory tower, and then one of the Jets fans whipped out a Cowboys Super Bowl and vats and flatted in his face.

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Speaker 3: He gave him the finger.

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Speaker 8: I think that's what happened there, So thank you.

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Speaker 2: Oh I see, Yeah, it's been a while since they've won a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Paul, I am breaking down the video, Dan, we have it in context. He's waving to the fans. He's doing kind of a wave, and then he goes thumbs up to one group of fans. Then he points and does a quick middle finger to another group of fans. It does appear he's confused about what's going on.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess one group of fans said one thing that was complimentary, and maybe another group of fans didn't say something so complimentary. That's why it was a thumbs up. And then it was Hey, I'm gonna flip you off.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Tot, hold.

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Speaker 10: Up your wallet instead of the middle finger if you want to stick it to everybody. It's like I got billions of dollars when nothing you can show me or an old VHS cover isn't going to do anything to me.

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Speaker 5: But so sit down and have your drink and take care.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Tod, Chad and salt Lake. I Chad, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 15: Yeah, good morning, guys, good to see you. I wanted to talk about the Mariners as a lifelong fan and being a small market team even though it's the fourteenth Carket in the country. There's some great storylines that they make it through. Just like you mentioned, Dan, there's Toronto and Seattle. If we get a Brewers Mariners series, that's huge because it's the Seattle pilots versus the Seattle Mariners. If we get the Dodgers, it's at I five series New York. We've got you the fact that Dave Simms spent the last fourteen years as the Mariners play by play guy before going back home to New York.

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Speaker 16: The only one I.

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Speaker 15: Can't figure out a real time so far as silly and maybe it's the Philly fanatic versus the Baron Remose. Who knows, But I think there's some good, compelling stories if people get them out there. There's some great stories at the m's have them to be lucky enough to make it onto the alcsn the World series.

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Speaker 3: So all right, well, thank you Chad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if those are storylines that you can sell nationally, but the people who get caught up. And when I worked at the Mothership, I remember, oh, we always thought about the ratings and covering something and how big is it going to be? When I worked at NBC, how many people are going to watch the super Bowl? How many are you going to watch the Olympics?

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Speaker 8: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Sunday night football? What are the ratings? It's just TV people because the fans. You either watch it or you don't.

00:25:50
Speaker 2: I don't know if you go, Okay, sit down, let me let me explain to you why you got to watch the World Series with these two teams. Either do you don't? Either a sports fan or you're not. And I think that we do. We're more selective than we used to be, but we have the opportunity to be selective now. You know, back when I was growing up, you had three channels. What are you watching? I guess I'm going to watch you know, that playoff game or that you know, World Series. So that's I mean, of course you were watching it. Now it's you know, take a peek. I'll watch a little bit of it. I'll see if it's any good.

00:26:28
Speaker 4: Yes, Marvin, that happened in NBA Finals this past season with Indiana and Oklahoma City. Like, oh, who's going to watch it? You're like me, like, either you're a fan or you're not.

00:26:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that was my approach. It's like, are you nobody's going to watch this. I am like, I don't care.

00:26:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, Paulie, if you were Rob Manfred in Major League Baseball, would you rather have the teams you want or seven games? Because like last year was Dodger Yankees but went five. A couple last time it was a seven game series was twenty nineteen Nationals versus Astros and it went seven. I think I'd prefer seven with lackluster teams financially.

00:27:11
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:27:11
Speaker 2: And I don't know the math on that, but you know, can you get more money advertising with five games with New York and LA than you can if it's you know, a smaller market team. If it's the Brewers against the Blue Jays, I got it.

00:27:28
Speaker 3: I don't know.

00:27:29
Speaker 2: I was there for the Phillies when they played Toronto in Toronto Spectacular Series when the Blue Jays won it.

00:27:37
Speaker 3: Joe Carter, Yes, Todd.

00:27:38
Speaker 10: But if it's if you're looking at ratings on any way, shape or form, if it's major markets, a lot of people are more likely maybe watch all the games. If it's smaller markets, and maybe you're tuning into a game six or a game seven. So I don't know how the math works on that, but you may only be tuning in to Game seven in smaller market as supposed to every game of the big market.

00:27:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, because this was a five game series last year with the Yankees and the Dodgers and competitive, but you did have big stars that people were probably tuning in for. But once again, I never get caught up in is anybody going to watch this?

00:28:09
Speaker 3: Does anybody care?

00:28:11
Speaker 6: Yeah, pullet, I'm looking at Sports Business Journal from last year and right before they thought there might be a sweep with Dodgers Yankees. Fox would have lost one hundred and forty million dollars. If it was a sweep every game on Fox. Fox's profit was a little over forty million dollars forty four million dollars per game in ad sales revenue. So by not having Game six and seven, Fox lost.

00:28:38
Speaker 3: Ninety eight million dollars. It's all prepaid.

00:28:42
Speaker 6: The ratings are about next year's rates, not this year's profit.

00:28:47
Speaker 1: Right.

00:28:49
Speaker 2: Uh, let's see Harry in Chicago. Hi, Harry, what's on your mind?

00:28:54
Speaker 16: Hello again? Everybody? Hey Dan, listening to your program. It's way more than about sports. I'm curious. Did you have a favorite broadcaster for baseball growing up?

00:29:07
Speaker 3: Of course, Harry Carey was my favorite broadcaster growing up.

00:29:12
Speaker 16: Oh, but then there's something about baseball where you you just break open a beer and watched the game. And as what I say from one broadcaster or another, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a front of the bottomie.

00:29:27
Speaker 3: Thank you Harry for.

00:29:32
Speaker 16: I want to thank you and the Dan Net for for what you've done to your bodies. Yeah, Harry, you guys have It's real, man, It's real. I love the program. Keep it going.

00:29:44
Speaker 3: Holy cow, thank you, Harry. I don't want to go to another way.

00:29:54
Speaker 2: I remember meeting Harry Carey and I went to a Cubs game and I was down on the field and I asked pr person with the Cubs. I said, you know, I'd love to say hello to Harry and he said okay. And I was still on the field. Harry comes down out of the broadcast booth. This is uh, they're taking batting practice. And I was so honored. He came down and I said I was going to come up and see you, and he was very complimentary. He said, you got to come up. So came up during the game, got to watch him do a little bit of uh, you know, the Cubs game and Uh, there's one of those where you go, that's pretty cool that you know, honored that Harry would come down and say, Loo, yes Tom.

00:30:38
Speaker 5: I did not have a great experience with Harry.

00:30:39
Speaker 10: Carry real quick story many years ago, I called I played a little hotel bingo as we'd like to call. Back in the day before there were aliases and they'll ring hotel rooms.

00:30:46
Speaker 3: So I was explain that I was in La.

00:30:48
Speaker 10: Yeah, you call, you're trying to get a guest on the show on the radio, and you'll find out what hotel they're.

00:30:52
Speaker 5: Staying at, and you'll ask for the players and managers.

00:30:54
Speaker 10: And for some reason back then, the front desk would put you through without asking when there's no that I listed under an alias name, so I asked for having it just wasn't set up in advanced I called the room and Harry Carey answered and he's.

00:31:04
Speaker 5: Like, call me back in an hour. I'm having breakfast. This was a in LA. The Cubs were playing the Dodge in La.

00:31:10
Speaker 10: So I called him back an exactly how I was just getting started in the business, and he's like, are you.

00:31:14
Speaker 5: The guy that called?

00:31:15
Speaker 10: And I was having breakfast and I told you to call me back and you never called me.

00:31:18
Speaker 5: Well, you told me to call me back in an hour. You're having Breaklyn. It's exactly sixteen minutes later. The hell with you? And he slammed the phone down. It's my only experience ever with Harry Carrey did exactly what.

00:31:27
Speaker 3: He has a problem. It was the problem you were him.

00:31:30
Speaker 10: Well, I shouldn't be calling randomly the hotels. I should have sett up with TPR number one. But he said call me back in an hour. I called him back an exact an hour. I thought he would do the show and we were promoting him.

00:31:39
Speaker 5: Are you the guy I'm sitting here waiting for your call. You didn't call me?

00:31:42
Speaker 12: Better?

00:31:42
Speaker 5: Hell with you?

00:31:43
Speaker 15: Like?

00:31:43
Speaker 5: What was that.

00:31:45
Speaker 3: Kenny in North Carolina?

00:31:46
Speaker 14: Hi?

00:31:46
Speaker 3: Kenny's up VP? They ken Man on one.

00:31:53
Speaker 17: Of the first Just give a shout out the seat and saw your post last night. Just stoke for you and your family and your son's opportunity. I'll be following along, but I had to just call. And I want to give a comment on Todd's take when it comes to who should be tackling and who should not be. I recall a Eddie Bauer photo shoot some time ago when he graciously like fell to the grounds and then was out for forty eight days with the rib injury. So I feel he's the last person that should be giving takes on tackling in the NFL.

00:32:25
Speaker 3: All right, Kenny, Yes, Tom, I would look at it the other way.

00:32:28
Speaker 10: I was brave enough to in a meaningless game, but with and I, you know, I didn't damage my ridge, but I severely brewed some rivers, and then we had a fly all the way home across the country a couple of days later, it might have even been the next day. We were flying home, and you know, I didn't sit out.

00:32:41
Speaker 5: I played.

00:32:41
Speaker 10: I wasn't wearing any equipment or shoulder pads or rib pads. So I think that's actually something in my favor what he just said.

00:32:48
Speaker 3: No, it's incredibly heroic.

00:32:50
Speaker 6: Incredibly Yes, we were throwing the ball around at one quarter speed of actual gameplay, and Fritzy tried to tackle seat and casually he went down, and Fritzy, not going to the hospital, just diagnosed himself as severely bruised ribs.

00:33:05
Speaker 10: I had trouble breathing in my seat thirty six D or whatever I was in, and it was really really hurting. So I did not say I broke ribs, but I definitely hurt myself. But I went out that I played and this is what happens.

00:33:15
Speaker 3: You gotta play though, once again heroic.

00:33:19
Speaker 5: It's football. Get out there and do your job.

00:33:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, let's take a break. More phone calls coming up. Mike Greenberg on his new book coming up next hour. Also Jimmy Rollins, the former All Star Hevil join us as well. Back after this with our Play of the day.

00:33:35
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00:34:12
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00:34:45
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00:34:46
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00:34:51
Speaker 15: Just get y'all right to that bad Bundy real quick. So I had a question DP between the Heisman Rays.

00:35:01
Speaker 8: Being so bad no standout plays an NC two A and the MVP going back and forth Josh Allen, Jared Golf Daddy dimes maybe a harder race to call. And another question.

00:35:13
Speaker 16: I'm head of the Scottsville Old Man.

00:35:16
Speaker 8: Birthday Trip, allow myself to eat meet once every year on my birthday.

00:35:21
Speaker 15: Any suggestions for a great stake in the Scottsdale area and best golf course out there?

00:35:28
Speaker 3: Well, the best golf course hm hmmm.

00:35:35
Speaker 2: I don't because you won't be able to get on a couple of these golf courses because they're private.

00:35:44
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't have any recommend recommendations for either one.

00:35:48
Speaker 10: With that, Yes, Todd, doesn't everything called camelback something just like peach trees to Atlanta, scot Scales very big on camelback things.

00:35:55
Speaker 5: Maybe there's a Camelback Resorts golf course.

00:35:58
Speaker 6: Yes, Paul, there's one, a Greyhawk. I think it's public, not cheap, but it's a high end.

00:36:05
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, there there's so many golf courses out there. As far as steakhouses, I don't know that, Yeah, paulin.

00:36:12
Speaker 6: Of course, there's a Ruth's Chris in Scottsdale. Always hard to say, well you you combine the of course with Ruth Chris steakhouses.

00:36:27
Speaker 3: MJ in Florida, High AMJ. What's on your mind?

00:36:32
Speaker 5: What's up? DP? And Dan?

00:36:33
Speaker 13: That's how you guys doing today?

00:36:35
Speaker 3: We're great.

00:36:37
Speaker 13: So I'm not a Jerry Jones fans by no means. I'm sure he's got plenty of haters out there. But Deaton said something that sparked me on my thought on when you see somebody or meet somebody, whether it's whatever, and you go in for the handshake, but they go fist pump or they go hug, and then you know what, what's the what's the what's the one?

00:37:01
Speaker 5: Two three?

00:37:02
Speaker 15: Is it?

00:37:03
Speaker 13: You first try to handshake, then go to fist pump or the hug.

00:37:08
Speaker 2: I'd become more of a fist pumper, like I'll just give you knucks. I just have my hand out so you see it right away. And now I've had people where they kind of swallow up your fist in there.

00:37:20
Speaker 3: And then it gets like weird.

00:37:23
Speaker 2: But I try to come at you, you know, not like it's a Tyson punch. But yeah, right there, how about some knucks there, man, Especially if I'm at an event where I'm going to be shaking a lot of guys' hands, I'd rather just do a preemptive strike and just go how about some some knucks there?

00:37:42
Speaker 4: Yes, marmon, I think for knucks for me is every time I see somebody daily, Like if I see you guys, you give somebody dat Now if I haven't seen you in a while, save it's the people from iHeart or whatever. See somebody you see at the super Bowl once a year, I'm not gonna dap you up because somebody's gonna be like, oh, so you just gave me nugs. I haven't seen you in three hundred and sixty days.

00:38:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you just give me your right.

00:38:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a time, but there's also it's you. You go in, you shake their hand, bro hug, tap tap tap on the back.

00:38:16
Speaker 3: Correct, it's three taps. Sometimes it's weird though, if you're meeting.

00:38:20
Speaker 2: Somebody and you don't really know them, but they want to adapt, you know, they want to bring you in and then tap tap tap, Yes, Ton.

00:38:29
Speaker 5: Can you dap up a woman?

00:38:30
Speaker 10: And aren't you concerned at all about being like a coming across as a germophobe regardless of the gender that you're dapping them up?

00:38:36
Speaker 5: I know you kind of alluded that to that, Like I.

00:38:39
Speaker 2: Would much rather dap up of female than over hug, over hug.

00:38:45
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's how I avoid the whole awkwardness to just if you hug everybody, you don't got worries that a dap as an handshak.

00:38:50
Speaker 5: It's a high five. You're hugging everybody and they're expecting that.

00:38:52
Speaker 6: Then you go, yes, well, I like the crisp handshake shoulder pat because it's kind of almost like a business setting. You're not hugging a person that you work with. Chris handshaking, then a nice little shoulder pad like your friend.

00:39:05
Speaker 3: Mike can tendessee. Hi, Mike, what's on your mind today?

00:39:09
Speaker 18: Hey guys, how's it going great?

00:39:13
Speaker 16: You guys hear me, Okay, Yeah, I got you, Mike, all right, Okay, just.

00:39:18
Speaker 18: In reference to the Jerry Jones mishap, and the last caller kind of was talking about the same thing, so, you know, and I'll give the guy the benefit of the doubt. He may have been, you know, meaning to wave instead of flipping people.

00:39:31
Speaker 12: Off or or however it was. And I like Seaton's take on it, his theory about things we repeatedly say, like in in return to you know, a superficial salutation like hey, how you doing, have a nice day and you accidentally say good, how are you? I That makes sense, and those are responses we say a ton a lot, like there's a couple of them. We use a lot, just like the fist pump the guy the last guy was saying, you either shake or fist pump.

00:39:56
Speaker 2: Or Dappa, hold on, hold on, Mike. There's a big difference in thumbs up or I'm going to give you the bird. It's not one of those awkward hey how are you?

00:40:08
Speaker 13: You know?

00:40:09
Speaker 3: Like hey, you know, where are you going? Have a great day?

00:40:15
Speaker 2: Just Jerry probably saw somebody group said something nice, and then there was another group that probably didn't say something nice, and he flipped him off.

00:40:25
Speaker 3: Yes, Todd.

00:40:26
Speaker 10: The great comedian George Carlin once said, if you're saying godbye to a bunch of people at a party and there's a certain standard thing that you say, it gets very QUI.

00:40:32
Speaker 5: Okay, take it easy. Okay, take it easy. Okay, take it easy. Okay, take it easy.

00:40:35
Speaker 3: Okay, take it easy.

00:40:37
Speaker 2: It's like the flight attendant, you know, when you're all departing, you know, don't they always say the same thing, you have great day, have great day, have great day, great day, great day, great day. I don't think for a moment that Jerry was like, man, I got confused, you know, because I love to, you know, give the thumbs up to everybody.

00:40:57
Speaker 3: Yes, paint.

00:40:58
Speaker 6: It would be funny if you admit what he did. He's getting the two fifty either way. He's losing two fifty.

00:41:03
Speaker 3: Either way, just.

00:41:04
Speaker 6: Say, hey, Jets Fancery called me.

00:41:05
Speaker 3: I gave him the bird.

00:41:06
Speaker 2: Well, is he going to appeal this, because if he is, then I'll believe that it was a mistake. If he's just going to swallow two fifty. And I'm like, okay, because if I did something accidentally and I say the Commissioner. Hey man, I do this a lot, and i'm uh, you know, I'm sorry, but I didn't mean to flip anybody off. I was going to give them thumbs up. Mike Greenberg, get up, thumbs up. He'll join us coming up in about twenty five minutes from now hour two on this Wednesday, right after this