Hour 2 – The Dodgers Advance, Devin McCourty

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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: We did it. We made it to a Friday. It's a meat Friday at that and it's Fritzy's birthday.

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Speaker 3: Hamy that was less enthusiastic than Dave Simms called the homemun by Guerrera Junior.

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Speaker 2: You do remind us constantly that your birthday is ten ten. It's the same year, same day, same month as Brett fav You know that, you do, really do.

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Speaker 3: It's one of my many character flaws. It's an insecurity, that's what it would be.

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Speaker 2: But a happy birthday to you, Todd. No, truly a happy birthday ten sixty.

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Speaker 4: I'm fifty six today and.

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Speaker 2: It's a meat Friday. We have roast pork shoulder, rice and beans and Baja fish tacos. Woo better wait no, yes, poet.

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Speaker 5: I'm checking my notes here. This could be Todd's final birthday. That's on air. October tenth. Next year is a Saturday. The following year it's a Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Wow, So this is it, big guy?

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Speaker 3: Oh, so what do we do in that situation? Do we still honor its on Friday? Has to be come out on that exact day it's.

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Speaker 2: Going to be on it's going to be your birth policy. Yeah, so you.

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Speaker 3: Guys a gotta throw me some party to restaurant like on the weekend. Is that what happens then instead of in the Milford studio we do.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, we won't acknowledge it.

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Speaker 4: You guys, now the point brought that up.

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Speaker 3: You have plenty of time to prepare some you know, some catering hall or you got a year to know it.

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Speaker 2: Has to play in the weekend. What are you preparing for me? That's a very my retirement. Yeah, I've given you four years, a total of four years.

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Speaker 4: I don't have a good answer to that right now.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well you got two and a half years plus.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I personally would like to wish you happy birthday for the next two years in advance, so I don't have to text you or feel guilty.

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Speaker 6: That's fair to check the box and then never again.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's probably did you take it that way till soon?

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Speaker 2: Just said that, and I generally like for it's a two years, the next two and then never again.

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Speaker 4: Forever forever.

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Speaker 2: I hope you enjoy your birthdays. I think we should all do that, Todd. I want to wish you a happy birthday the next two years.

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Speaker 3: It really feels like guys are just trying to check a box to be done with her.

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Speaker 4: That's I'm getting that for you.

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Speaker 2: I'm so looking up on that, Marvin. Would you like to wish Todd a happy birthday?

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Speaker 7: I did on Facebook?

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Speaker 4: Did I did? Get all?

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Speaker 2: Righty eight seven seven three DP Show operator Tyler is sitting by. He'll take your phone calls. And good morning if you're watching on Peacock, thanks for allowing us into your daily life. The Dodgers close out the Phillies two to one in eleven innings, advancing to the NLCS. And this is how it sounded. Heart rates through the room. The O one pitch PAHs grounds.

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Speaker 8: It back to Kirkley.

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Speaker 2: He can't find it.

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Speaker 9: He does home what ten stores?

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Speaker 6: And the Dodgers are going to the championship days.

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Speaker 2: All consider field. The Dodger's cell it right.

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Speaker 6: Dear first base on a dround ball back to the pitcher.

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Speaker 2: Andy Pojz somehow gets the job done. That's courtesy of a in five seventy LA Sports Dodgers Radio Network. So if you're a Philadelphia fan, your Phillies are out and then the defending Super Bowl champs go to New York and Jackson dark cam skataboo, and the Giants defense shuts him down as they upset the Eagles thirty four to seventeen, three touchdowns for scataboom. Tonight, Tigers at the Mariners game. Five poll question Seaton for hour two is going to be.

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Speaker 6: That's kind of a random one. But I was thinking about it last night and then all day this morning listening to the radio call of a baseball game. Whilst in the stands of said baseball game, dot dot.

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Speaker 2: Dot weird or cool?

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Speaker 4: Weird?

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Speaker 2: Cool?

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Speaker 6: Sorry, I didn't mean to just jump into weird or cool without letting you guys know.

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Speaker 2: But oh, do we have a weird or cool game? I think I think we do. Yeah. The debut, Yeah, the debut of it, I would say, I would say cool, you would. I would say, that's a diehard baseball fan who gets more information because it'll be a radio broadcast where they're going to describe everything, and I think it'll be wall to wall information while you're watching the game that that accentuates the experience. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: See, why hasn't that caught on more in other sports?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I don't know that a lot of people do that in other sports, but in baseball it's kind of a thing.

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Speaker 2: But I think baseball allows you to have time to consume what somebody's telling you. Where is football maybe not as much, and certainly not basketball soccer. I could see where, you know, you could get maybe information in a different view of things if you had some kind of earbuds in yes, todd if.

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Speaker 3: You're at the game with family or friends, it seems a little anti social and obviously they may be on their phone half the time, which a lot of people are at a game. But you're at a game and you've got your headphones on for the game while you're sitting with friends and family, one of which may have even brought you to take it or hooked you up with take How do you just tune everybody out and just listen to the call.

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Speaker 10: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: It seems a little anti social to me.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you're against doing that.

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Speaker 3: I understand why you would if you like that announcer and you get the extra information, But ultimately, unless you're going to the game by yourself, if you're taking like your son or daughter with family and friends and you've got your headphones on and you're not interacting with the people you're at the game with.

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Speaker 5: That's weird, Yes, Paul, I see this quite a bit when I go to baseball games, and it's rarely people who are with other people.

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Speaker 4: It's usually that.

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Speaker 5: Lone serious baseball fan who probably goes to thirty or forty games a year and often just grabs a seat, sits and has someone accompanying him with with the radio. It's a real specialized person. It's off putting when you see it, but then you REALI that person has really committed to the ball club.

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Speaker 2: Well, wasn't Bartman listening to the baseball game on radio?

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Speaker 5: It absolutely was?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and look what happened? Yes, Ton, So did he hear himself?

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Speaker 3: Look the announcers aghast while he was live trying to interrupting that whole moment there, It's like in something silly, ridiculous fan just hearing the call of him screwing that up.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Paul, in all seriousness, that headphones and hat set up he had made him really easily to identify, because there were three guys going for that fallball for the Cubs, but the one guy had the turtleneck and the hat and the headset on, and he stuck out like a sore thumb.

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll get two phone calls here, settle on a poll question for hour two. Devin mccordy, former defensive back with the Patriots, now works for Football Night in America. He will join us as well. But the Giants beat the Eagles, the first time a Giants team has beaten the defending Super Bowl champs since they beat the Broncos back in nineteen ninety eight. Stat of the Day brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. In the Cubs shutout went over the Brewers, Michael Bush homered again four playoff home runs, the most by any player this postseason, tied for the most ever by a Cubs player in a single postseason. Kyle Schwarber had five in twenty fifteen. A couple of phone calls in here leading off the second hour, Tom in North Carolina. Hi Tom, what can I do for you?

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Speaker 10: Hey, DP, I need some relationship advice?

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, okay, so I fell in love.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, so I fell in love with the Giants in the mid two thousand, but since twenty twelve, we've been growing apart. It just seems like they changed and I didn't know who they were anymore. And when people would ask, Kate, you're still hanging out with the Giant, I said no. We broke up. And last night I was watching baseball and about nine thirty, out of the blue, the Giants takes me and said, what you doing? So I turned over to the Giants game and saw the score and started having some of those same feelings I had about twenty years ago. I really want to watch that Giants game next week versus the Broncos, and I really want to think they've changed. But I need your advice what I should do.

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Speaker 2: Well, it feels like you can't go back there. Tom. You bailed on the Giants, and now all of a sudden they got good, they got hotter looking, and now look who comes back to town, Little Tommy in North Carolina. Maybe the Giants don't want you, Tom? Wow, thank you, Tom Dang? Yeah, sorry, Tom, You're gone. Now I'm here, Okay, all right, that's.

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Speaker 1: What they takes me.

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Speaker 12: They takes me.

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Speaker 11: They're drawing me back in DP.

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Speaker 2: I mean you, no, no, no, you you abandoned them. They've been here the whole time. You're the one kind of socializing and seeing other teams or flirting with other teams. They've been here. You're not allowed back, Tom, You're not allowed back.

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Speaker 13: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's it's strictly platonic between you and the Giants. From now on, front Runner, Thank you, Tom. Let's see Dan and Vancouver. Dan couver.

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Speaker 14: Born in Dan five ten. Dan, the best baseball play play by play announcer in history. Knew how to straddle the line between homer and objective observer better than anyone. He told stories about players from both teams, was emphatic when plays required it, and was silent at all the right times every time the Dodgers take the field. I miss his radio sign on It's time for Dodger Baseball.

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Speaker 11: You know who I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Vinnie, Yeah, I was listening to the last time he was on. I just stumbled upon the interview and at least a portion of it. And he was always very generous with his time that he would come on usually once a year and spend fifteen or twenty minutes with us, and he would just regale you with stories and you just hear that voice like there's certain voices, and you know, voices were far more important when I was growing up than they probably are now because they were the only voices we were hearing. You know, there's so many games that are available, and back then you would listen on radio. I remember being in Los Angeles and listening to Chick Hern on radio or Vinnie on radio, and you just drive around if you didn't go to the game, just drive around. And I always had great appreciation for that, certainly radio play by play voices, and I was very fortunate we had Marty Brenneman and Joe Nusaw with the Reds and had Al Michaels for a couple of years, the Reds broadcaster. Uh Gavin in Ohio? Hi Gavin, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 4: Hi?

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Speaker 9: I was wondering if you guys could sing Happy Birthday for my mom. Her name is Lisa.

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Speaker 2: How old are you? Gavin?

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Speaker 9: Eleven years old?

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Speaker 2: Got school today?

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Speaker 11: No?

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Speaker 8: It's Keecher conference day?

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Speaker 2: Nice? Nice? What do you got planned?

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Speaker 10: Nothing?

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Speaker 2: Nothing? It's a Friday. You're Gavin, you're eleven. You should be having fun.

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Speaker 9: Oh yeah, I forgot. There was a high school football game I'm going to today.

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Speaker 5: Okay, all right, yes, Paul, Gavin, is this shout out in lieu of an actual gift for your mom?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Nice kid? Oh there's Lisa. Okay, all right, good job, Gavin. All right, so.

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Speaker 4: You get him anything, get you?

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Speaker 2: And birthday? Same birthday as Todd. All right, Gavin, You're good? All right? Happy birthday, Lisa, Michael and fort Wayne. Hi, Mike, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 15: Good morning to Dan, and happy birthday Todd. Thanks for taking my call. I'm going to askew slightly negative, if that's okay with you. Two quick questions. Number one, who do you think works more hours this weekend? The Eagles defensive coordinator or Russell Wilson's sports psychologist. And then, secondly, you mentioned yesterday favorite sandwiches, and Marvin said his favorite was a grilled cheese. I'm just wondering if when he makes his grilled cheese does he cut it diagonally or vertically so that it will fit into his small hands?

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Speaker 2: Wow, well, Mike, Mike's coming after people today. Marvin, you want to respond?

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Speaker 7: First of all, that's incredibly hurtful, but yes, I cut it diagonally.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I do too, And thank you. Michael means spirited today, Yes, Todd.

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Speaker 3: And does he play with his stickerbuck while he's cutting his sandwich?

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Speaker 13: And a half hours that.

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Speaker 2: One Once again, I'm going to give you a lot of latitude today.

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Speaker 3: So one day you can do that the next two years it's on the weekend.

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Speaker 2: The next two year, the last birthday you will ever celebrate on this show. Very depressing.

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Speaker 7: Wait, has it been Fritzy's birthday all week?

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Speaker 2: No? No, no, no, because he reminds us too often about when his birthday is totally gets One day.

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Speaker 7: I'll talking about the amount of airtime he' said.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, the Todd Fritz Show featuring Dan Patrick?

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Speaker 4: Is that what he's talking about?

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Speaker 2: Ed in Illinois, Hi, Ed, Good morning Dan.

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Speaker 13: I am going to propose a Since you've talked about a lot of hall of fame things, I'm proposing a retirement hall of fame. And to qualify, you must have been retired longer than you worked. I worked thirty three years and I have been retiredired thirty six. So I'm going to be the chairman of the board, but I will abdicate if somebody is better than I am.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Ed. I think I've been in this business for forty three years, but I was also in radio prior to that. Oh, I don't know what that means because I don't think the after I retire is going to be similar to before I retire as far as my work. I don't think I'm living to be one hundred and twenty. I don't think so I would take the under. I would take the under.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Todd, do you have your first big trip planned with your wife and family?

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Speaker 4: Like once I retire?

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Speaker 3: This is top of my list where we're going to go for a few weeks or a month and just be somewhere far remote place.

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Speaker 2: You would be the last person I would test your husband's taking an Argentine w you can't keep a secret.

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Speaker 4: You shouldn't tell me hold MyD You tell the guys. I'm gonna hold my ears right now.

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Speaker 2: You tell the guys, and I will no, yes, yes, Pauling.

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Speaker 5: Just to stay on the same theme.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys saw this morning.

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Speaker 5: Sister Jean from Loyal University in Chicago, the beloved chaplain. She passed away at one hundred and six. She's working just six months ago on campus. Okay, would you sign up for one hundred and six.

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Speaker 2: Well is it a good one oh six?

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Speaker 5: Okay, how about this? You get one oh six and it's whatever it is, or you get eighty five clean, eighty five spotless, no issues.

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Speaker 2: I would roll the dice on one oh six. If you said ninety five.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna give you ninety four, I'll give you a ninety clean or one hundred and six and it's whatever you got.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm still holding out for ninety five clean. I give it to you and I go quietly in the middle of the night. I would sign up for that. I can't. There's no way this body is I mean, it's not a wonderland anymore. It's it's not gonna last one o six just not one o six is nuts? I know, Yeah, yes, Todd.

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Speaker 3: Ninety five clean, But you have no idea how you're gonna go.

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Speaker 4: It's not gonna be peaceful the middle of the night.

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Speaker 3: It could be some kind of horrific tragic What is the magic number where you're like, you would roll the dice on the how it would how it would end?

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Speaker 2: I thought, ninety five clean in the middle of the night.

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Speaker 5: That's too many years, that's that's too easy of a decision.

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Speaker 3: They're asking too much that ninety five and you know, a busy you know, No, Okay, I'm gonna go ninety ninety clean middle of the night and that's it.

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Speaker 2: How's that sold to the men? Now there's pressure on me. I'd still take the under all right? When we come back. Devin mccordy, former defensive back now working for Football Night in America. Who is the who? Who is the favorite in the NFC after what happened to the Eagles last night? And is he all in on Jackson Darden Cam Scattaboo. We'll have that for you when we come back, Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 2: We'll look ahead to some of the big matchups this weekend. We'll slide into the weekend coming up in about twenty minutes from now. Devin mccordy, NBC Football Night in America's studio analyst and three time All Pro, won three Super Bowls with the Patriots. He was on the call last night Eagles Giants Westwood one Radio. Also, he'll be on Football Night in America. It'll be the Lions and the Chiefs. That'll be at eight twenty eastern. Devin, thanks for joining us. That's quick turnaround from doing the game last night. At what point did you realize the Giants were going to give the Eagles everything they could handle?

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Speaker 18: I got tell a pregame just walking the field and talking to different people. You know, the Eagles there was a sense of, I don't want to say concerned, but they seemed like the team that felt all the pressure.

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Speaker 4: They were kind of on edge.

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Speaker 18: Whereas when I walked and talked to some of the Giants people, they weren't concerned about last week's performance. They said, dart one interception was in the fourth quarter, I mean on a fourth down.

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Speaker 4: The other one to receiver bowl Collin stop.

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Speaker 18: They were confident, and one of the guys told me, I think we can get this one and for our team, we need to get this win, and they played like it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, is this more about the Giants or more about the Eagles?

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Speaker 18: Oh, it's definitely more about the Eagles. The Eagles are better football team than the Giants. But what you saw was a team that.

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Speaker 4: Got out coached and out played last night.

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Speaker 18: Brian Dable and Shane Bowen came in with good plans offensively and defensively, and the Eagles never adjusted. But that's what we've said the beginning part of this season. There's no adjustments. They play well for a half and then it all goals and you get nothing in the second half.

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Speaker 4: And the same thing happened last night.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever tackled somebody like Cam Scattabou, I.

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Speaker 18: Mean, Marshawn Lynch was a guy that you know, as crazy as Scattaboo, as I still would rather tackle him than Marshawn Lynch.

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Speaker 2: What was it? You know? At that experience of tackling Marshaun Lynch was like what.

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Speaker 18: I'll never forget where two bow forty nine and I had to deal with the linebackers. I'll be there to support him on any coverage, just so let Marshaun Lynch get to me untouched.

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Speaker 4: And we get to that point in the game.

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Speaker 18: He gets to me untouched and I'm in the open field and we've all seen his highlights of stiff arming people, juking people, and I'm thinking, just get him to the ground, and I get it there.

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Speaker 4: I hit him. My head bounces back, but I tackle him.

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Speaker 18: He stands up and he just stares at me, has this black voji you can't see his eyes, and he puts his hand out and shakes my hand, almost as if he was in disbelief that I got him down.

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Speaker 4: And I was like, you know what, of all things I've done in.

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Speaker 18: Life, I can say I tackle mar List in the open field and be happy about it.

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Speaker 2: Do you guys practice the Malcolm Butler interception that play?

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Speaker 4: Yep? It was a Friday practice.

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Speaker 18: He uh, he wasn't getting a lot of reps at this point in the season. He gets in, they run, not in the same spot, but it's that same kind of pickplay. He gets beat on a touchdown, and anybody that's ever heard about Bill Belichick, Bill rips him the next day while we're watching film. So when Malcolm got in, I think that was the only play he was gonna guard against to stop right.

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Speaker 2: There was there any thought that Marshawn Lynch was gonna get this ball.

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Speaker 4: There was a lot of thought. We went all goal line, all big people.

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Speaker 18: We only had three corners on the field and their job was to stop any kind of pass. No help anywhere because everybody else was all other a guys were playing against.

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Speaker 2: The run, but he runs for Was there any thought of letting them score so Tom could get the ball back with some time on the clock.

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Speaker 18: I know I thought about that because I had played in Super Bowl forty six where that happened, and we had a play where we let them brass.

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Speaker 4: Shaw Us score.

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Speaker 18: But once we didn't call time out on the clock kept dwindling down. I kind of looked up and was like, we don't have time to let him score now, because even if we get the ball back, won't be enough time to win the game.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, it was a lot of thoughts.

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Speaker 18: I don't know if other guys was, but I vividly remember that because of the Super Bowl prior.

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Speaker 2: All Right, given what happened with the Eagles last night, who's the favorite in the NFC?

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Speaker 4: I think right now you got to go with Detroit.

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Speaker 18: I think their team coming back from last year, they've gotten in their groove. It feels like they're playing better ball. Their coordinators, I think, are settling in and they're getting to know exactly what this team is going to be good at and what they're not going to be good at, and they're playing to it.

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Speaker 4: So I would definitely go with the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 2: And I look at the Eagles offense and I'm just there's a disconnect there. I don't know what it is. And I mentioned last hour they need to kind of rediscover, not reinvent anything. But how do you go from having a they got a great tight end, you've got really good receivers, You've got Saquon Barkley, maybe the offensive line still banged up, it's still like accidentally. They should be able to score thirty points a game.

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Speaker 18: I mean, and danis on both sides of the ball. I think they've gotten so used to coming out and saying, hey, good job, we got the best player in the league. We're just gonna do what we do. And what happens is when you win.

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Speaker 4: A Super Bowl that next year, all off.

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Speaker 18: Season everyone's scouting you to figure out how to beat you, and you're getting every team's best shot and they're not ready for that. If you watch the game, it's the same routes over and over again, same run plays, over and over again. Defensively, Jackson Dark scrambles ten or twelve times.

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Speaker 4: They never change anything. They don't go with a spy.

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Speaker 18: It's just they think they're gonna figure it out, and right now they're not figuring it out. And if they don't, I think this season will continue to go downhill.

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Speaker 2: Is Tampa second in your power rankings in the NFC?

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Speaker 18: I would go Rams, then Tampa, but I like Baker Mayfil, I like what the Bucks are doing. My top four would probably be the Rams, Tampa, and Seattle.

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Speaker 2: Wait, Philadelphia is not in your top four.

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Speaker 18: I wouldn't say right now, not the way they're playing in. My issue with Philly right now is three guys on your team have a meeting. Three guys, why are we talking about in the media.

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Speaker 4: I actually thought the.

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Speaker 18: Way Aj Brown answered the question after the game was the right way. I don't know what meeting y'all are talking about. If we talk, we don't need to discuss that. We even had that conversation. So they have a lot going on from an X and O standpoint, But even outside of.

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Speaker 4: That, in the locker room went between the.

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Speaker 18: Players and the coaches, it seems like they got to fix some things.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking to Devin mccordy won three Super Bowls with the Patriots, but that next year, when you guys won Super Bowls, how did you hit the reset button or you know, try to fight off what the Eagles are going through.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was the guys in the locker room.

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Speaker 18: It was if we did have to have a conversation, we all knew and a lot of that came from our head coach up. Whatever is discussed, whatever we're going through internally, we don't need to go and talk about it.

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Speaker 4: I mean the super Bowl, our first one was super Bowl forty nine. The Flaygate was the hottest topic is what everyone wanted to talk about.

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Speaker 18: If you go back, can you listen to all our interviews, None of us are diving into the balls being deflated or what this means. It was We're focused on Seattle. We're focused on trying to win a Super Bowl, and I think that's all they need to do. But I think they need to trust all the guys in that building that they have the best guys to go win another Super Bowl, And I don't know if they feel that way. Lane Johnson after the game were too predictable? Sakwon Barkley says, We're not too predictable. So like you have all of these different kind of versions of what's going on, and no one's kind of working together.

00:25:31
Speaker 2: In symmetry, the Chiefs are the Lions coming up this weekend? How big is this game for the Chiefs? You're at home and you're still scuffling a little bit here and Detroit's coming to town.

00:25:44
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean for the Chiefs, there's an excitement because the last two weeks this offense has looked like what we've seen in the past, a lot of creativity, getting the ball of different guys in space.

00:25:55
Speaker 4: But on the other hand, the games you've.

00:25:57
Speaker 18: Lost, it feels like your best players have been the ones that cost you. Whether it's Kelsey's drop against the Eagles, whether it's Chris Jones going inside against the Chargers, or this last game him not you know, finishing a player Dan Harrison Bunker kicking the ball out of bounds.

00:26:11
Speaker 4: So I think for the Chiefs, they're like, how can we put together a.

00:26:14
Speaker 18: Complete game with all our top players and everybody on the same page.

00:26:19
Speaker 4: How can we do that week after week after week?

00:26:22
Speaker 18: We did it against Baltimore, but then Jacksonville we have a couple of plays that we let slip through our hands. What better way than to go against the Detroit Lions team that was gonna come and try to punch you in the face for four quarters of trying to go and do it. I think that's what championship teams do. If the if the Chiefs want to stay.

00:26:37
Speaker 2: That way, what's it like when you're out and somebody's really fast and you're and you have man cup, You're you're gonna have help, But what you know, Xavier Worthy. It just kind of reinvigorated the Chiefs offense. But there there are guys who are fast, and then they are guys who are really fast. The difference.

00:26:56
Speaker 4: Let's just stick with it.

00:26:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, with the Chiefs against.

00:27:01
Speaker 18: Playing against Tyreek Hill all of those years, and a lot of it had to do with, hey, he's really fast, we're going to put two guys on him. Twenty eighteen in the AFC Championship, he had one catch for forty two yards because we double team him the whole game. We had a guy outside, we had a guy inside, a guy short, a guy deep. And it's understanding not only that he's fast, but how the offense uses him.

00:27:23
Speaker 4: Where's the Xavier Worthy lines up? Is he in the slot? Is he outside? Is he off the ball? Is he on the ball?

00:27:29
Speaker 18: And then, knowing from your film study, how do they get him the ball depending on where he's at. You have to know those things if you want to have some kind of advantage, Especially when a guy's that fast, he's going to kill you athletically, you've got to be able to match it mentally to slow it down a little bit.

00:27:45
Speaker 2: How close are you watching what's going on with Belichick at North Carolina?

00:27:51
Speaker 18: I actually actually just had a conversation with one of my guys that are there and said they were kind of.

00:27:58
Speaker 4: Caught off guard.

00:28:00
Speaker 18: Yes, the game Saturday didn't go well, but for what I was told was they had a conversation Bill talked in the locker room to the team and everyone walked away went like, man, it didn't go our way, but what coach the message he just delivered there's some hope going forward in this season.

00:28:16
Speaker 4: And that was Saturday after the.

00:28:17
Speaker 18: Game, and then Monday, they just felt like everything just hit him like a ton of bricks, with all of these articles and stories coming out. And one person told me, there's no divide in the locker room.

00:28:29
Speaker 4: There's no questions about whether Bill wants to be there or not.

00:28:32
Speaker 18: So it's very confusing and we laugh because being in New England we saw so many different things, and he said, I never imagine coming to u NC, we get more coverage, more talked about, and more scrutinizing any time, really being in New England.

00:28:48
Speaker 4: So it's just a lot going on over there.

00:28:50
Speaker 2: Right now, and you probably have a lot of people rooting against Bill, and you know, and we start to pile on it happens. We build you up and then we tear you down, and you know, it feels like they're not giving him enough time. I guess we expected results because they labeled themselves to thirty third team, So that's high expectations that you come here and you'll be going to the NFL. And maybe that's it that they're losing. It's the way they're losing, not that they're losing.

00:29:20
Speaker 4: And I've been around coach Belichick for a long time. He knows, and I'm sure he's telling that.

00:29:25
Speaker 18: Staff we either win or we get fired. And he used to preach that to us as a team. He used to say as a coach, every day I come here, I'm on an interview. If I don't perform, I'm going to get fired. And it's the same thing for the players when he was in NFL.

00:29:39
Speaker 4: If you don't do your job, we get you out of here. We find somebody else.

00:29:42
Speaker 18: So even though I think, like you said, a lot of people are rooting against them, they also know they got to win some football games and they got to be competitive or in this landscape, whether college or pro, they get you out of there and they replace you as soon as that happens.

00:29:58
Speaker 2: Great to talk to you. Thanks for joining us. Yes, we appreciate it, Devin, have a good weekend.

00:30:02
Speaker 4: You too, Dan. Good talking to you.

00:30:04
Speaker 2: Devin mccordy, three time All Pro, three Super Bowls. He was on the call last night and b Lyon's Chief Sunday Night on NBC and Peacock uh sneaking a couple of phone calls in here. Let's see John in Virginia. Hi John, what's on your mind today?

00:30:22
Speaker 19: How you doing? Dan?

00:30:25
Speaker 11: Hi?

00:30:25
Speaker 2: Great? John?

00:30:26
Speaker 19: It's called Yes, sir, just called and say how much I love your show. Been watching it since night well two thousand and ten, I believe, and when I retire, I am eighty two years old today, so I wanted to do was Fritzy a happy birthday as well? And I just it's just wonderful talking to you. And I'm blessed that I am still around. I have my family with me, and I'm doing We're all doing good down here in West Virginia. You just wanted to say how great your show is.

00:31:09
Speaker 2: Hell love it all right? Well? John? Thank you? John. Do you think you could beat Fritzy in a race?

00:31:17
Speaker 19: I could probably do it backward?

00:31:21
Speaker 2: Could how about a happy birthday for John? You could beat princey new race? Thank you? John? Uh let's see. How about James and Virginia.

00:31:43
Speaker 9: Hi James, Oh, thank you for taking my call. Brother. Happy Friday, DP Dan that salute the commander man big time, all the time, every time, and not be remiss if I didn't take the moment to say, happy birthday, Todd. It's your birthday, Happy birthday. Yay' for your birthday. It's your birthday. Look go my man. I love it.

00:32:01
Speaker 2: Man.

00:32:02
Speaker 9: You know you're a good dude.

00:32:03
Speaker 11: Man.

00:32:03
Speaker 9: Don't let him get you down.

00:32:04
Speaker 19: Bro.

00:32:05
Speaker 9: And my man John eighty two. That's a great age, man, I hope I see it. That is he's kind of like he was having a day, man, just pushing real quick. Shout out to my man came because I guess they're not the little giants anymore. Man, what a big win for the giants last night Jackson's dart making plays. What is he two and one as a starter?

00:32:23
Speaker 12: Wow?

00:32:23
Speaker 9: Man, that is just crazy. Let's go rubbies and I'll take school ball and the Tigers tonight.

00:32:28
Speaker 17: Man.

00:32:28
Speaker 9: But one last time, man, happy birthday, brother, it's your birthday. Happy birthday.

00:32:33
Speaker 1: Y'all.

00:32:33
Speaker 9: Salute the commanders, and I call that Monday. We'll do a part of the faith that for the game one day night. Y'all have a great one. Man be saved.

00:32:41
Speaker 2: Thank you, James. That's James in Virginia.

00:32:44
Speaker 3: Yes, Todd sounds a little sluggish this morning.

00:32:46
Speaker 4: I mean to get some more rest.

00:32:48
Speaker 2: Not enthusiastic enough for you.

00:32:50
Speaker 3: You gotta step that up if you're gonna come on the show.

00:32:53
Speaker 2: We'll slide into the weekend coming up. Also, who had the best week in sports? Also the most must win game of the weekend, and we'll check in on North Carolina football as well. A lot to get to on this meet Friday back after this.

00:33:05
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00:33:17
Speaker 2: Yesterday was just the second time the Eagles, Phillies, and Flyers all lost on the same day. The other one was October sixteenth, nineteen eighty three. Kevin in Milwaukee, Hi, Kevin, what's on your mind today?

00:33:31
Speaker 12: Big EP five to eleven, three quarters to sixteen. I just wanted to weigh in on the cool or not cool to work the phones to a ballgame? You know the kid I saw it and I thought that guy is really weird, but as an adult, I feel like I get it. Just wide stats as you go and really plugged into the game. One other thing to throw in, Doctor Fritzy caught the call of the Subs home run yesterday in the Birds game and the Brewers announcer just being set.

00:34:02
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00:35:20
Speaker 5: I looked they were eleven and two two years ago, ten and three last year, five and oh this year, that's that's impressive.

00:35:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, they kind of get lost. Yeah, not really a basketball or a football school. They've had moments in both. Indiana could be the this year's Indiana could be last year's Indiana. Because we are looking for who's that team's going to surprise everybody? Is it going to be Indiana surprising us again? And they played really well. You got a really good quarterback there. They won eleven games last year. Now, I didn't think they played a quality schedule. I wouldn't have put them in the playoffs. But you know they're still working this out. You know, what's the format going to be? Automatic qualifiers, all of those things, all right, who had the best week in sports? Todd, I'll start with you. Best week turned in by who?

00:36:12
Speaker 13: You know what.

00:36:13
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give it to the Dodgers. I love the pitching. I saw Sosake and they just stepped up. And it was an unfortunate ending for the Phillies, but their seventh NLCS appearance coming in the last ten years.

00:36:24
Speaker 4: I'm wearing my Dodgers jersey. I'm gonna give it the Dodgers.

00:36:27
Speaker 2: Okay, uh Seaton Best week.

00:36:30
Speaker 6: In sports, Best week in sports, no doubt Hertford Athletic. They went cross country. They won the USL Jaegermeister Cup final on the road in Sacramento in front of an angry twelve thousand people. They won one nothing. It's their first major trophy and club history. Underdogs, huge underdogs in that and they've been by far the hottest team in soccer since July.

00:36:51
Speaker 2: And they're only one year removed from.

00:36:53
Speaker 6: Having one of the worst seasons in USL history and now they're heading into the playoffs absolutely on fire.

00:37:00
Speaker 2: Marvin.

00:37:00
Speaker 7: Best week in Sports The Toronto Blue Jays advances to their first ALCS in twenty sixteen and winning on the road at Yankee Stadium.

00:37:10
Speaker 5: Paulieu Seaton stole mine, so I will go with I'm going to go with Jaguars over the Chiefs. Liam Cohen, the head coach of the Jaguars. He was a bit of a punchline when he got hired. It was awkward when he got hired. He's now four and one and all is well there, at least temporarily.

00:37:29
Speaker 2: Fall David in Phoenix, Good morning, David, what's on your mind?

00:37:34
Speaker 19: Good morning?

00:37:35
Speaker 8: I was flying from Anchorage to Phoenix yesterday, stopped in Portland, and when I got on the plane, there were two young girls next to me celebrating their birthday, which was October eighth, with their birthday girls trip. My birthday is October eighth. And when we were talking about this, a guy next to us on the other side to the plane in the same row was October eighth, which was kind of unbelievable. And not just that the woman in front of me was October night. I think she was angry because she refined her seat all the way back that she didn't share the same birthday with us.

00:38:19
Speaker 2: All right, Well, thank you, David. Random, that is random. Maybe the guy on the other side was saying it was his birthday. Maybe he could join the girls trip vacation or birthday trip. I don't know, but thank you David, Greg and Daytona Beach. Hi Greg, what's on your mind?

00:38:38
Speaker 10: Good morning, gentlemen. I heard earlier we're talking about announcers, and Vincecully was the best, no doubt. I just wanted to mention we had here in New York when I was up there in the fifties. We had Baseball and Valentine mel Allen and we had the Redhead, Red Barber. These guys would split time four and a half innings doing television and then they'd switch seats. The other half they would do radio. Sometimes they would do it together. But mel Allen and Red Barber, Baseball and Valentine.

00:39:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, great voices though they're just something about you know, you hear whether it's Keith Jackson, you would just hear that voice and you go, that's a big college football game.

00:39:25
Speaker 11: You know.

00:39:25
Speaker 2: Every time I heard Vin, you know, it's just Dodger baseball, Johnny most you know Celtic basketball. John in Texas, Good morning John, what's on your mind today?

00:39:37
Speaker 20: Good morning Dan?

00:39:38
Speaker 8: And Danet's.

00:39:40
Speaker 20: So as far as October birthdays go, I feel like there's no other months where it's kind of like a club. You know, Fritzie can speak to that. Nobody says, oh, I'm also a May birthday.

00:39:54
Speaker 9: Nobody cares October.

00:39:56
Speaker 19: That's that's where it's at.

00:39:58
Speaker 20: But anyway, here's the deal. This Phillies pitcher, whose name I won't say because I don't want him to become the Phillies Butner. I feel like, you know, if we can just not have him be the Butckner for the Phillies, that would be great. Also, lastly, talking about I would take ninety five today and people say no, my friends say, oh, you know, I don't want to live to be ninety five. Well you know who does not.

00:40:24
Speaker 11: Say that is the ninety four year old Thank you, John Nice called.

00:40:32
Speaker 2: The Phillies pitcher is not going to be Buckner. That was the World Series. They were winning the World Series. If the pitcher got over to first even then I have my doubts about that. But this is different. The Phillies tied and maybe you extended to one more game, but this wasn't the World Series. That's on the line. Yes, Marvin after that game six.

00:40:56
Speaker 7: What was the feeling going into Game seven as far as like the Red Sox players were they just thinking to themselves, oh my god, we had it.

00:41:04
Speaker 2: Well, they took the lead. I think they had bruce Hurst on the mound and it took a couple of days because there were rain outs and you know, so the build up was still. I think the Red Sox thought they had a great pitcher on the mound and they even were up in that Game seven. A wild series, wild man. Just when you say I think I've seen it all, I still haven't. We'll check in with North Carolina football. Will Bill Belichick be coaching against Cal a week from Saturday.