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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 make way for the Hall of Famer Doc Rivers, the Milwaukee Bucks head coach whose attention is not on me in this show, it's on watching the Masters.

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Speaker 3: There.

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Speaker 2: I see what you're doing. You're watching the Masters, aren't you?

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Speaker 3: I sure am?

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Speaker 4: You know that the Master's app is on right now, and so I'm watching the feature groups. Dan, Dan, I haven't talk to you in a while. You know, what's going on with you?

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Speaker 2: Kind of status quo, just you know, kind of running out playing out the string here? You know, just the last couple of years. When are you retiring?

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Speaker 3: Playing out the string here? Last year?

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Speaker 2: Okay? Who retires?

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Speaker 5: First?

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Speaker 2: Doc Ooh man, I got a fill in?

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Speaker 3: What did you say? Twenty eight, twenty.

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Speaker 2: Twenty eight February of twenty twenty eight. Well, you still be coaching in the NBA.

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Speaker 3: I think there's a very good chance I'm going to beat you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll meet afterwards to have a drink somewhere.

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Speaker 2: Is this year last season?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I don't know that, but you know, I'm leading a lot of different ways, you know, so I don't want to commit to anything. I don't you know, Dan, it's so tough and you probably have dealt with this. The word retirement means you don't work at all, and I don't think I'm gonna do that. I would drive people nuts if I was at home every day.

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Speaker 2: Are you still having fun? This has been a pretty tough, trying year.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, this has been a rough year, nothing like you know, if you if you read Sham's article the other day that that article was so far off base that it was nowhere near like as hectic or what where toxic situation as it as it looks. But it's still losing, Dan, You know, this is my first losing season in twenty seasons. That's the hell of a run. Losing is no fun for anyone. And then the Yiannis situation has been really rough for everyone, including the honest. So this has not been a fun year. But every year is not gonna be fun. Then you don't have great years every year, and you just deal with it.

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Speaker 3: So I look at it.

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Speaker 4: I put it in that compartment and not nearly as bad as made look.

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Speaker 3: On the outside.

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Speaker 2: What does Giannis want? Boy?

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Speaker 4: I don't know, And we talk probably more than anyone, you know, Dan, It's a tough one because he has done such a great job here in Milwaukee, right, and yet he still wants to win a title, and clearly we have to do a better job here with our roster to make that even look like a possibility. And if we can't do that, then he's gonna look outward. And so I think that's a twofold answer. I think one, if we had all the pieces here, I have no doubt he'd want to stay here, But we don't, and so that puts him in a tough spot.

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Speaker 2: What say do you have in this not a lot just.

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Speaker 4: With him trying to guide him, you know, Uh, we talk a lot about it, I can tell you that.

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Speaker 2: And why isn't he playing these last couple he wanted to play? Correct? Is he he wanted to play play?

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Speaker 4: He just hasn't been cleared, you know. And so that's another one where I'm kind of caught in the medal. I think, yeah, this was a playoff game, you would play them. But if it wasn't a playoff game, there's no way you would play them. I think that would be the correct answer.

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Speaker 2: Talking to Doc Rivers, Hall of Famer, and uh, watching the masters here have you played Augusta. Yeah, who'd you play?

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Speaker 4: Didn't play it, but Jimmy Dunn, who was a great guy, and then two other friends. Uh, I had a great time. Uh played miserably. You know, Dan, I've been in finals. I've been I've been in so many Christmas situations.

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Speaker 2: Nervous where you.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I got to tell you in the first tea box, I think it was kind of Lisa Rice. I want to say Peyton Manning of all people were coming out and they were you know, Peyton, you know, and it was hard for me to pull the thing back, like I'm sitting there like, oh, holy goodness, it's just a golf course. But it's not just the golf course. It is just one amazing place. No, So, yeah, I was a little nervous.

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Speaker 2: I got traded on the first tea by my caddy. No, yes, like they were betting on us. And my caddy caddied for Sevy when he won in nineteen eighty and I just remember they they swapped bags after my t shot, and I said, what happened, and the caddie goes, you just got traded on the first tea.

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Speaker 4: Well, I can tell you my caddy took a big loss because I hit a huge drive on one, so I did. I ripped it and I saw my caddie give two people high five.

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Speaker 3: That was the a good shot I hit.

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Speaker 2: How did you find out about the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 4: I'm sitting exactly where I was sitting, as a matter of fact, and I get a call, uh from the Hall.

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Speaker 3: It's it's funny.

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Speaker 4: I have my phone block, which I learned to non UH numbers that aren't UH store and so I didn't answer the phone then, you know uh, which was hilarious, and I get a text, Hey, Doc, this is sessions is from a whole Well, we really need you to answer the phone.

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Speaker 2: So I was in the dog house.

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Speaker 3: Before I got in the house, you know.

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Speaker 4: And it's a great call, Dan, I got to tell you, it's you know, it's funny. I get the call and they said, Doc, you're in the Hall, and I did. It's not something you worked for, Like you don't work to be in the Hall. At least I can tell you I've worked because I love coaching. I love whatever else comes with it. But when I called my brother and he answered the phone and I told him he was golf, which pissed me. Off and he just start crying and it was like the most emotional thing because my parents are no longer with us, and he just said my two parents' names and start bawling.

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Speaker 3: He walked away from the phone.

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Speaker 4: Another guy pitched the phone up who I still don't know who that was. And the guy says, hey, Doctor, is everything okay? And I said, yes, things are good. I'm in the Hall of Fame. So he start whoever the guy was start celebrating to me. So that was my first five minutes in the hall. It was pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Now you have your nickname after Doctor J. Yeah, could Doctor J be part of the induction ceremony.

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Speaker 3: That's not a bad call. He could be.

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Speaker 4: There's other names to you know, pat Riley, Kevin Garnett. So it's so funny, Dan, these are the other things I don't. I've never been in the hall, so I've had twenty people ask me what you're asking me? Who's going to introduce me? There's a lot of guys. You know. One thing you know with your success, you don't reach success without a lot of people helping you. It's really you and a whole team that people don't know. And so anybody I asked would be someone who helped me. Pat Riley was instrumental in me coaching. Kevin Garnett is an instrumental me getting my success. Wayne Embry probably is the most important person in my life just because he was guiding me even in college.

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Speaker 3: So there's a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: I've been talking about the rookie of the year with konk Nipple is favored over Cooper Flag. Just to give you my opinion, I don't think this should be close. I think what Cooper Flagg is doing at nineteen as the guy night in and night out, as imposed to Cannipple, who's the third option for a playoff team, wonderful year. But Cooper Flag's nineteen years of age doing some things that we haven't seen since Lebron. Your thoughts on who should be the rookie of the Year, I tell you I do.

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Speaker 3: Think it's closed.

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Speaker 4: And I've gone back and forth on it because it's it's this year, probably more than any year that I can remember. It's probably it's almost two categories. Cooper Flag's numbers just scream at you. They really do. Uh, scoring forty, scoring fifty, being the point guard, playing a position that he's never played before handling that night and and featured guy each night, like when you play Dallas, you're preparing for Cooper Flag.

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Speaker 3: But what what conn.

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Speaker 4: Has done is, in my opinion, he's changed the the culture of an organization that has had cultural problems with his which his approach, you know, his his play is tough. He's a tough he's a two way player. I've never seen a rookie have an impact on a team as much as he has had. And there's something that he said about that as well. And the reason he doesn't have the numbers is because he is on a good team, you know, so he's sharing.

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Speaker 3: The ball with LaMelo Ball and Bridges and everybody else.

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Speaker 2: Hey, you think he could be a featured guy and score twenty five?

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Speaker 4: Again, I think he could score more points if he is on a team was worse. But he's such a team player, he's such a leader, and I do think from a coaching standpoint that that means a lot. But you're right, it's it's it's a tough I wish this is the one year. I would be fine if they had co MVPs. Yeah, but if you just go on numbers, which is what you're supposed to do. You're right, it's Cooper flag. If you go on impact, it's con And that's how I look at it.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Have you had anybody match Kevin Garnett's intensity in your career?

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Speaker 4: No? Yeah, I would say intensity. Yet I've had some guys. You know, Patrick Beverley was nuts.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so so I would throw him out there or bad nuts.

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Speaker 3: It depends on the game, you know.

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Speaker 4: I joked one night, I was very upset at the Wade Patrick play and uh Pet played and I told him, I said, I'm gonna put you on the All Scared team And He's like, what's that?

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Speaker 3: You scared me? Just scare them?

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Speaker 4: And I said, I don't know which way to go every time I put you in. But that dude was so dain competitive man like he you know, it's funny. He was a good defender, but he was a great defender because he scared the hell out of the guy who was garden every night.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 4: And Kevin KG had a lot of that. What I've never had with Kevin. I've never had a leader like Kevin ever. Like Kevin cleaned up the locker room for me every single day. If shoot rounds are bad, Kevin patrolled.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 4: I mean, when you've got something like that on your team, it makes coaching a whole lot easier.

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Speaker 2: How would he have been as a coach?

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'll give you a quick story.

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Speaker 3: He was working with the guy in Boston.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to say his name, but the guy wasn't paying attention to Kevin's you know, like Kevin threw him out of the gym.

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Speaker 3: Like literally threw him out.

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Speaker 4: The guy went to the other basket, gives the note get out of the gym at last in like two minutes, and I walked over to Kim. I said, you know, when you're working with a guy, you got to have a little more patience. He was like, no, I don't and so, no, that would have been really rough.

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Speaker 2: Before we let you go, we have Fritchie's impersonation of you, So we thought that Fritchie would be able to congratulate you on going into the Hall of Fame. Fritchie, I don't want to hear this. Okay, here we go.

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Speaker 7: I just want to say it's been a great run as a player, as a coach, an ambassador to the NBA. I wish you all the best. You deserve everything you got I'm glad you go into the hall. My friend congratulates, and you've got to.

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Speaker 3: Give me forty eight.

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Speaker 1: You've got to give me forty eight.

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Speaker 2: Who is a good cap losing?

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Speaker 3: Give me forty eight. You know, I need always talk like that Frisday.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what happened.

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Speaker 4: You see that play behind me? Yeah, it didn't work. That's why I have the voice that I have.

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Speaker 2: Oh that was a play you diagrammed. Last game.

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Speaker 3: Guys running in each other.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, congratulations on the hall and whatever you decide here at the end of the season. But thank you again for sharing.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate good talk to you, good seeing you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Bud. That's Doc Rivers Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 2: Mike Viccero, New York Post sports columnist, and he's written another book. It's called The Bosses of the Bronx, The Endless Drama of the Yankees under the House of Streinbrenner and Mike joins us on the program. So what brought you to this moment where you go, you know what, I got to tell this story.

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Speaker 8: You know what, Dad, I hear from a lot of younger generation Yankee fans who really don't didn't know George, or if they knew him, they knew the young, kindly old man who would walk into Yankee Stadium and getnovations, and you know, they don't know and a lot of people of our generation kind of forget that. You know, ten years before that he was walking into the stadium to a lot different reaction every day he went there. And you know, it was a full complete story of who he was, who he became, the good, the bad, everything in between, the crazy, lots of crazy in there, Dan, and you know, I wanted to get that between the covers of a book, and I thought you would be a fun project. And it was a blast to go back, especially to the to the older George, the seventies and the eighties and just all the nuttiness and zaniness that went on under him.

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Speaker 2: I was there in the early eighties. I was working at CNN in New York, and I just remember that you couldn't walk on the grass at Yankee Stadium if you're a reporter, right, you had to walk on the dirt. And I did meet with him. I didn't meet him a couple of times, got to interview him once, and I actually sent him a letter to say, Hey, thank you for sitting down with me. And he said, I'm a big fan of Ted Turner, who started CNN. Anytime I can help you, you let me know. It wasn't long after that that Billy Martin got fired again, and so I had somebody help me call Steinbrenner's office. I said, Hey, it's Dan Patrick from CNN. Could you ask mister Steinbrenner if I can talk to him. I never heard back from George Steinbrenner.

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Speaker 6: Still waiting at that come back.

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Speaker 2: I'm still waiting. He did write me a letter though at CNN. I still have it. I have it framed here. But he did write me a letter and talked about you know, Ted Turner. So there was always this fear like he I don't know, did he want people, did he want media? Did he want players to fear him?

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Speaker 6: I think he liked being known as the Boss.

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Speaker 8: I mean, you know, even before the New York paper has figured out that the Boss was a more headline friendly word than Steinbrenner, he called himself the Boss, you know, and that drove Billy Martin crazy, and he acted it. Look, I mean, he liked being in charge of the Yankees. That's what appealed to him about, you know, being part of the group that bought the Yankees. He wanted to be the guy in New York with the Yankees, and that's what it was all about. It very imperious, very impetuous, and together those made for some pretty harrowing times for Yankees fans, you know, and certainly in the eighties when they won more games than any other team in the sport and couldn't win a championship. Because every now and again they go on a losing streak, and George would fire somebody or if you trade somebody, and that was that, you know, the Yankees themselves is to call it getting George, and that happened a lot.

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Speaker 6: In those years.

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Speaker 2: But should he be in the Hall of Fame?

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Speaker 8: You know what I for a lot of years, Dan, I thought the answer is no, because you know what, two suspensions has probably won too many to be considered. But you know what his son Hal told me this one time. He said, you know, you can't write a history of baseball without writing a couple of chapters about my father.

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Speaker 6: And he's right.

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Speaker 8: And the more I considered to say Pete Rose right, to me, I think Pete Rose belongs to the Hall of Fame. But I think his plot should say that had The first half should be you know, got the four thousand hits and did everything he did, and the second half should be why he got in trouble with baseball later on. And I think similarly it's important to do that with Steinwrinner because, look for better or worse, the teams that he owned won seven championships. Every other owner in the Hall combined nine.

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Speaker 6: And yeah, he was.

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Speaker 8: Suspending, And I think it's worth the baseball as a museum, you know, and it's supposed to tell the whole story of baseball, and the important figures in baseball should be on the walls there. And I do think at this point that he should get on. I don't think it's gonna happen for a while. He has never really gotten any traction, but I think he should.

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Speaker 2: What he's called the whole of fame, and he certainly he certainly was famous. We're talking to Mike Vicaro as a new book on the Yankees and George Steinbrenner. It's The Bosses of the Bronx, The Endless Drama of the Yankees. Under the house is Steinbrenner. What would George think of the Dodgers and their approach to today's game.

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Speaker 8: It's a great question because really, in his day he was the Dodgers, right. He was a one man monolith, a one man corporation. Whoever he wanted to get, he would get. He didn't always overpay for them, which is interesting because he knew he had New York to sell. That's how he sold Reggie Jackson.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 8: He offered two million bucks less than of all teams the expos and yet he knew that Reggie would would have the appeal of going to New York and you know, bringing a star with him. As he said, I think he would be certainly challenged by the Dodgers, by the Blue Jays. I mean, look by having Steve Cohen in the same town with them, I mean, it's not the same situation as the Dodgers. But he's his own one man corporation, right, his own, one man, deep pocketed's challenger. And look when George was coming up and trying to establish the Yankees against the Mets, he was going up against Loreinda d Roulay, who was asking you foul balls can be brought back and washed off so they could use him tomorrow. You know, that's not what Steve Cohen does. Steve Cohen mighty be the perfect donor, but he's not going to do that. And that's what Hell is going up against as supposed to have to George.

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Speaker 2: But I always look back and George starting the Yes Network and the value that that had. And you'll know this better than me, but it felt like he was treating his starting lineup like it was the cast of Friends. It was a TV show, and the amount of money that they were getting and reinvesting. I thought, you know, that was business one oh one. It was a brilliant, brilliant move.

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Speaker 3: Yeah it was.

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Speaker 8: And look, I mean I think of George's hard of hearts if he could have had the Yes Network and all of that represented back for the teams in the seventies, because what he enjoyed about those teams is even as much as they were winning, was the fact that he had guys who would go at him, at them on the back page. I mean, you know, Reggie would fight with him, Billy would certainly fight with him. Thurman lived to fight with him. You know, all those guys lived for that stuff.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 8: You fast forward to the team from the you know, from the late nineties and the and the early odds. You know, no one's gonna get into a backpage fight with Bernie Williams or Andy Pettett, you know, I mean, that's just not who they were. They were just guys who won. They weren't characters. And George George admired characters because he knew that he was his own character. He admitted he was a ham. He knew he probably gotten the way too much, and he but but he enjoyed it. Look, he enjoyed being characterized on sim Seinfeld, you know, and and actually got a laugh out of the fact that he got bounced the one time they asked him me a to make a camera. You know, you know, Larry David just deemed him. He deemed the material unusable. He said, he said he was a terrible actor. And I'm not exactly Olivier, but I can tell you he was a ter after So he liked all of it. And then that was all the stuff that he loved about being, you know, being the owner of the Yankees, even you hosting Saturday Live while he was suspended.

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Speaker 6: You know, he was bad and people said that he keep.

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Speaker 8: His day job, but at that moment, he didn't have a day job, so he did that too.

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Speaker 2: The Yankees hold on this generation as opposed to previous generations as what well, I think a.

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Speaker 6: Lot of is inherited. A lot of it is.

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Speaker 8: You know, my father, my grandfather rooted for the Yankees. So that's also what I'm going to do. And look, it happens. It helps that they win every year, win ninety five games every year. They haven't won a championship in seventeen years, which is you know, really a problem for a lot of Yankees fans and people think they're spoiled, and maybe there's a degree of that, but look, I mean why are they spoiled? Because you know, really the the in the corporate mission statement, it's championship or bust.

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Speaker 6: And you know guess who invented that.

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Speaker 8: That was George Steinbenner And so that was really the gift he handed to his son. I mean, sometimes it's a hard gift to accept. But you know, look, I mean they still fill the ballpark. I mean, you're still going to get a game, you know, a makeup game in July that's going to get thirty five thousand people. Well, and back when Don Maddingly was, you know, the biggest star in New York and one of the biggest stars in New York, I mean you can still see the old video of how empty that place was. So it's really become a different things. A it's an everyday thing that people really care about. And that's why every time the Yankees going on a losing streak, you know, I hear from twenty five people who want you know, managers fired and players traded, because that's what George would do? You know, they always ask what would George do? And maybe he would do that? And nice say, well, maybe, you know, Aaron Moon be the manager, he'd just be on his third ten, you know, you know.

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Speaker 2: So, yeah, I was there twice when Billy Martin got fired.

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Speaker 6: All he had to do was go every couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: True, right, How much of a threat is Shoheo Tani to Babe Ruth's legacy in baseball history.

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Speaker 8: Look, I mean he can keep pitching at this level for you know, for five, six, seven years. I mean, I'd love to know what Babe Ruth could have done if he'd stayed with pitching, you know, if he decided to do both things.

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Speaker 6: He just preferred to be a hitter. And so basically he gave.

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Speaker 8: Up being you know, one of the best pitchers in the game and decided to go full ball or into you know, into into hitting. If Otani can do that, I mean, that's why, you know, it's it's a it's a weird argument when you ask who's better Otani or Judge, because look, I mean, Judge is phenomenal. You can't say a bad word about his career, but you know, he hasn't struck out anybody. You know, he hasn't don't have any career wins, and Otani does and he does that at a high level too. It's not like he's a fantastic hitter and he's a you know, situational relief pitcher. I mean, this is a this is an ace of a staff, potential ace of a staff in addition to being you know, one of the two best hitters in baseball. So yeah, I think he's got you know, he's got some work to do and some time to do it. But you know, he doesn't see it seem to be slowing down at all.

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Speaker 6: So why not.

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Speaker 2: I'll leave you with this, how would George Steinbrenner do with today's sports culture, with uh, the Internet, everybody social media, with the things you know, how he governed well.

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Speaker 8: I would argue that he used the back pages against each other as an early form of social media. You know, he called the Deli News, then the Post toff to call him back and they and he'd be.

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Speaker 6: In the news for a week at a time.

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Speaker 8: You know, his son talks about how, you know, he gets mad watching the Yankees lose, throws a shoot at the TV and his father would do the same thing, only the difference was, you know, he'd call the Della News and the posts and say, guess what I just did.

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Speaker 6: I just shoot and that's three days. Be'st three days of the headlines. And now he wouldn't have to worry about doing that. He just go on his phone and do that. I believe me.

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Speaker 8: I guarantee you that they'd have to find hide the old man's phone every now and again because he'd be on Twitter and all the other social media's ex and everything, you know, all the time.

00:23:26
Speaker 6: I have no doubt about that.

00:23:28
Speaker 2: Congratulations on the book. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate it.

00:23:31
Speaker 6: Mike, Thank you, Dan, I appreciate it.

00:23:33
Speaker 2: That's Mike Vicarrol New York Post Sports Columness. The book is The Bosses of the Bronx, The Endless Drama of the Yankees. Under the House of Steinbrenner.

00:23:41
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00:23:53
Speaker 2: You know, there were a lot of people that I asked to come on and say goodbye to seat and most said no, but I got a couple of people who did say yes, Rich Eisen who will join us, join us coming up a little bit, and we make way for a friend of the show, Will Ferrell, who is kind enough to spend some time with us. Good morning Will, Good morning Dan.

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Speaker 9: How are you, buddy?

00:24:17
Speaker 2: Well, you know, kind of emotional last hour, last this is it for a Seaton?

00:24:24
Speaker 9: This is uh baby bird flies the coup?

00:24:27
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, yeah. Is there anything else you like to say?

00:24:36
Speaker 9: That's all I've got. No, No, I just I had to reach out, Dan.

00:24:42
Speaker 10: I wanted to, uh just congrat give congratulations to Seaton.

00:24:48
Speaker 2: Did you comb your hair this morning?

00:24:51
Speaker 9: No?

00:24:51
Speaker 2: I did not, Okay you you look like you're a mess.

00:24:56
Speaker 9: That's I slept in my car last night. But that's a whole nother story.

00:25:02
Speaker 4: But uh.

00:25:04
Speaker 9: But no, I wanted I wanted to, uh, you know, I heard the news like everyone else. I mean, it's big news out here in Hollywood. If if you're wondering, and uh.

00:25:12
Speaker 2: Did Variety pick it up?

00:25:14
Speaker 10: Variety t m Z should be out outside the studios there on your departure. But uh, but I wanted to, uh no, I wanted to, uh just wish you the best Uh, I, I know that trip to Ireland. Meeting up with you guys was was one of the most fun things I've ever gotten to do. And we spent we spent some some some fun conversations talking about your son and his journey and uh.

00:25:44
Speaker 9: Playing soccer and I I love that.

00:25:46
Speaker 1: Uh.

00:25:47
Speaker 10: I love that you're taking taking the time to do all that, and I and Dan kudos to you to allow your team to kind of do things like this.

00:25:57
Speaker 9: Uh, you're you're you're building a room onto the house, right, That's it.

00:26:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the way I see it.

00:26:04
Speaker 9: The question is do you have a proper contractor's license?

00:26:08
Speaker 2: That's what I want. Does he have permit? There may be some fans here, are you okay? Are you actually trying to weasel your way into Seatan's chair? Is that you were a Danette for a week in Dublin?

00:26:25
Speaker 9: Are you asking? Do you have my reservations about this Dylan guy?

00:26:28
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, I think the whole listenership is they're just like, Okay, I've heard his voice a couple of times.

00:26:36
Speaker 9: Does he have the chocks?

00:26:38
Speaker 5: Can he.

00:26:40
Speaker 2: Does?

00:26:40
Speaker 3: You know?

00:26:40
Speaker 10: Does he have the uh, the same curatorial taste in music that Seaton has coming in and out right some some nice drops, my friend nice.

00:26:52
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. Now, are you a part owner of a soccer team? Correct?

00:26:58
Speaker 3: I am?

00:26:58
Speaker 2: Okay, Seaton Son is two two teams. Oh okay, so Seeton Son be nice. Maybe when he you know.

00:27:09
Speaker 10: Ten steps ahead. Okay, I already have my advanced scouting team. Uh watching Uh.

00:27:17
Speaker 2: Little little Karen Karen O'Connor.

00:27:21
Speaker 9: Oh, I thought his name was Jason. Okay, let me get Yeah, it's Jason.

00:27:26
Speaker 2: It's bad. Okay, that's bad.

00:27:29
Speaker 9: Is this Jason?

00:27:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's really good.

00:27:32
Speaker 9: He's going all the way top of the tay Yeah, first division.

00:27:36
Speaker 2: If Dylan doesn't work out, dot dot dot yes the answers, yes.

00:27:43
Speaker 9: Answers yes, Milford. Yeah, I've already I've already got my sacks on a little condo.

00:27:49
Speaker 3: Uh, what.

00:27:53
Speaker 9: So, Dan, when do you retire?

00:27:57
Speaker 2: February of twenty twenty eight?

00:28:00
Speaker 9: Okay, right, I think that's when I retired.

00:28:03
Speaker 2: To Oh, I didn't know you retired. Actors don't retire, do they? I will?

00:28:11
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm gonna.

00:28:14
Speaker 3: I'm gonna.

00:28:16
Speaker 2: When you pick another month, like when you do it in March, let me have February.

00:28:21
Speaker 9: Okay, fine, I'll do the twenty seventh.

00:28:25
Speaker 2: A week after. Okay, how's the golf series that you're doing.

00:28:30
Speaker 9: It's it's I'm very happy with it. It comes out in July.

00:28:34
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, well we'll have you back to promote that.

00:28:38
Speaker 9: I'll come back.

00:28:40
Speaker 3: Uh, I'll come.

00:28:42
Speaker 9: I'd love to come for a meet Friday.

00:28:44
Speaker 2: That'd be nice. We'd love to have you if you come into New York. Then you come up have a meet Friday, and then we just tear it up. You know, how long is that commute up to beautiful Milford. That'll be depending on the time time a day, but you know probably you know, an hour thirty five forty minutes.

00:29:05
Speaker 9: That's no big deal.

00:29:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll put you on the Amtrak, bring you up, pick you up at the train stations, get on that selling. Yeah, we'll bring you up and we'll have them meet Friday. You tell us what you want and we will. We will cook. We will whip up a batch of meat Friday. Will Ferrellstone.

00:29:25
Speaker 9: One last I want to tell us seen one last thing.

00:29:28
Speaker 10: And and I know everything about taking time off for family.

00:29:34
Speaker 3: I haven't.

00:29:34
Speaker 9: I've made a point not to work during the summers to be with my family.

00:29:38
Speaker 10: I've missed out on a lot of projects, which is fine. But I think the one thing no one's telling you is is, in my opinion, you.

00:29:47
Speaker 9: May feel differently. Family's overrated.

00:29:53
Speaker 2: If you had a do over, like you may be.

00:29:56
Speaker 10: Out in the wilderness on this new adventure, you know, six weeks out, and you'd be like, boy, I missed that chair.

00:30:01
Speaker 9: I really missed that chair.

00:30:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you passed up on some great roles like some of.

00:30:06
Speaker 10: The Titanic, the Notebook, Gladiator, Yeah, Crouching Tiger, hitting dragon, those are all mine. Broke Back Mountain, I was gonna play.

00:30:24
Speaker 2: You were gonna play both characters, the two roles of a lifetime. Yeah, take that. Michael Jordan's time off.

00:30:34
Speaker 10: To be with the family. And and actually I think despite that list, I think I made the right choice.

00:30:41
Speaker 2: So well, thank you again for your kind words and your support. And uh, you let us know when you're headed our way, and we'll let you know when you're we're headed your way.

00:30:54
Speaker 5: I love that.

00:30:55
Speaker 9: I love that motto.

00:30:55
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, thank you, thank you. That's that's Will Ferrell, some nice words.

00:31:02
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00:31:42
Speaker 2: We just had Will Farrowan Rich Eisen reached out right away and said I'd love to come on and say goodbye to Seat O'Connor, NFL Game Day morning host and the Rich Eisen Show on the Mothership, also heading back to Sports Center. Okay, DP, are you okay?

00:32:01
Speaker 11: Isn't this Sunday, this Sunday back in Bristol for a night, one night only, one night only?

00:32:07
Speaker 2: Are you nervous? I've been waiting a long time. Yes you have.

00:32:16
Speaker 11: It's been that long since you actually did say that to me.

00:32:19
Speaker 5: With the hint of irony, but no, it's exciting.

00:32:24
Speaker 11: I'm I can't wait, and I also have no idea what to expect, you know, so I've been told it's gotten massive since I last set foot on that campus and twenty three years ago.

00:32:38
Speaker 2: So wait, you haven't been back on campus. No.

00:32:41
Speaker 11: They handed me a cardboard box in late May of two thousand and three, Belongings, and you were then at the big wedding of for Susie and yours truly about ten days later. You were the one who hopped behind the bar, apparently because drinks weren't being served fast enough to your liking. Yeah, so you were passing out Jaegermeister shots to everybody. This is what I heard through the grapevine that night, and I have not been back since then, That is correct.

00:33:13
Speaker 2: Did they escort you out?

00:33:17
Speaker 11: They they definitely watched as I put a box together and walked out the door.

00:33:24
Speaker 5: That actually did happen, Yeah, late.

00:33:26
Speaker 2: May, Because I remember when you were telling me, and I said you you're going to be the face of the NFL network. If you stay here, you're just a sports center anchor. You're part of the you know, the cog here. But that's something new and it's the NFL Network. And you know, my logic was, the NFL is not going to let the NFL Network not succeed. Yes, but you do take a risk, and you know it's obviously worked out for you. But I remember, you know, there's part of us that like, I don't want to give up, you know, working on Sports Center mean no people that walk.

00:34:03
Speaker 11: It was an identity for me, Dan and I'll never forget starting off at NFL Network in two thousand and three and then about three months later being at the NBA All Star Game here in Los Angeles and Susie was the one who was working it. I was her plus one for some of these events. And somebody comes up to me and says, you watch I watch you every day And I wanted a crowdsource that immediately because NFL Network was only on and about ten million homes at the time, I'm like, how do you watch me every day? I watch Sports Center? I'm like, well, I haven't been on that since last May. And the guy looks at me, he goes, are you all right? I could fog up a mirror in front of you right now if you want, you know, But but think, yeah, it was my identity at the time, and if you were so clear eyed about it, you should have told me that, don't worry about it. You'll be back twenty three years later and NFL Network will be owned by yesterday.

00:35:00
Speaker 5: So you should have told me that at the time.

00:35:03
Speaker 2: Dan, Well, this is what they didn't tell you. I'm gonna be co hosting with you Sunday night, by the way. Yeah, by the.

00:35:10
Speaker 11: Way, that would make my day, night and year to do another sports center with you, Dan, if you're up for it, I would love to do something like that.

00:35:22
Speaker 2: Well, it's too late for me, you know. Maybe it's like, how about an ESPN news shift. Like it's two in the afternoon and you.

00:35:30
Speaker 5: Sound like Bill Peto. Now, Dpete, we need John News. We need John News at three p Dan. You know, no, but no, it's not too late for you. Come on now. Yeah, I just say that.

00:35:43
Speaker 2: I used to drink four twenty ounce bottles of Coca Cola every night. Yeah, yeah, so I would be alive at eleven o'clock. The problem was when I got to midnight and I was still alive, and I wouldn't get to bed till two in the mo and I just remember my wife said, isn't there something else you can take? Like I was so worried, I wouldn't have energy on Sports Center. I would be chugging Coca Cola throughout the night. Yeah, and I'd get home and I'd be wired.

00:36:16
Speaker 5: Yeah, tell me about it.

00:36:17
Speaker 11: I would do that, as you know, Stuart and I would do the two am and give me to get home at three. At three, I don't mean to top of you here, but I mean, oh, let me tell you you stayed up at night.

00:36:27
Speaker 7: You know.

00:36:28
Speaker 11: I was telling them we had Landon Donovan here recently, and I told him the story about how Stuart and I drew short drew straws to see who would close Sports Center after the Round of sixteen World Cup that he thanks to his outstanding play that he got the United States there, and I drew the short straw. So I had a closed Sports Center at five in the morning thanks to Landon Donovan. And I watched the sunrise going home and Stuart was well tucked him beat. He threw the long straw that night.

00:37:03
Speaker 2: We're talking to Rich Eisen NFL network slash ESPN. Is it ESPN slash NFL network?

00:37:09
Speaker 11: Now you know, Dan, you know, I'll take whatever you got there, however however you want to do it.

00:37:16
Speaker 5: It's all the same now, which is kind of wild.

00:37:18
Speaker 2: And he'll be hosting Sports Center eleven o'clock Sunday night, Sir, who's good night, Who's mid midnight?

00:37:24
Speaker 5: Tip? Midnight tip?

00:37:26
Speaker 2: Who's with you?

00:37:28
Speaker 5: Just total we're going to do it myself.

00:37:29
Speaker 2: Wow.

00:37:31
Speaker 11: But here's the crazy thing to dp about how the world is totally different that as it stands right now, it's coming off of an NBA doubleheader, and the inside the NBA is going to throw to me sitting on the Sports Center set.

00:37:45
Speaker 5: So it's wild how it's all under one roof.

00:37:49
Speaker 11: And Daniel Jeremiah will join because we're going to talk NFL Draft and the NFL Network version of the draft is still intact and we're going to keep doing it.

00:37:58
Speaker 5: How does so we got that tap on the.

00:37:59
Speaker 2: Shoulder, the Fernando Mendoza not showing up at the draft. Yeah, how surprising is that?

00:38:06
Speaker 5: Not?

00:38:06
Speaker 2: Not really?

00:38:07
Speaker 11: I mean, you know, he's got a large family and you know his mom has MS, so I don't know how easy it is for her to travel. And on top of it, you know, at some point the NFL can't say you're plus thirty? Is that what you aren't? You know what I mean? Like, so, I don't, I don't. I'm not surprised. I don't blame him. And you know, it'll just be one of those moments where the draft television coverage might suffer because there's no moment coming off of a green room to start a draft and give that energy. But at the end of the day, we'll just keep, you know, matriculating down the picks and and see and see if he starts in the fall, that's the next one.

00:38:49
Speaker 2: I know you wanted to say goodbye to Seaton.

00:38:51
Speaker 5: Yes I did. I did, but you know, talking about me.

00:38:58
Speaker 2: Sorry, Satan, We're out of time.

00:39:01
Speaker 5: Come on, man, Seaton, what's up? Brother? You know, I just wanted to come on.

00:39:08
Speaker 11: As Dan knows, I saw the news during a commercial break here sitting right here, and I'm like, oh, man, you know, you're such a part of the fabric of this show and such a great dude. I just wanted to come on and say, whatever your your next goal is and whatever you're doing for Dan and the burgeoning Dan Patrick production network, I'm psyched for you.

00:39:34
Speaker 5: Brother.

00:39:34
Speaker 2: Did you want to break the news now that I'm joining the Richison Show, or should we wait for the press release.

00:39:40
Speaker 11: You know, I'm sorry that I was doing this behind the scenes, but yeah, okay, yeah, no, I mean your your wife is already the voice of this show for over a decade, so I think I've gotten enough of your family, quite frankly, but no, I just wanted to say to you. You know, whenever I would come on the show in person, and I would show up on the set and Paulie would say something weird and awkward about my shoes, and mclovin was just, no doubt coming off of some ego bruise because he took a pot of the face or a football to his head or something, and Fritz would just be already trying to book the next guest to make sure Dan's happy. You would always have a smile on your face and just be chill and present and just being awesome, dude. And I've always enjoyed listening and watching you and just wanted to come on the show and tell that to you.

00:40:39
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Rich thank you very much, thank you, thanks for sharing.

00:40:43
Speaker 5: And I thought it would be there's no tears after that, There's no tears.

00:40:47
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's crying today for some reason, like I don't know. I don't want to be the first guy to cry me.

00:40:56
Speaker 5: But you're you're you.

00:40:57
Speaker 11: I would bet if there was, you know, hall of Famers in Canton, Ohio. Always bet who's the one who's gonna cry first in a Hall of fame class, I would have bet you first.

00:41:07
Speaker 5: Man, you've got a touch of the vermial.

00:41:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know who's the one who doesn't care, the one who won't cry on this show? Oh that's PAULI. Yeah, probably right.

00:41:19
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:41:19
Speaker 1: I brought eyedrops to fake I brought them with me.

00:41:23
Speaker 2: Fritzie yesterday said he might cry on Saturday.

00:41:28
Speaker 8: Sometimes it takes a little while to process Saturday.

00:41:33
Speaker 2: On the Sabbath, that's what he's crying.

00:41:36
Speaker 5: A day of breast. What I'm just thinking about life, what's going on in the world.

00:41:41
Speaker 2: Thank you, Rich, Good luck on Sunday night. All right, we'll see you in Pittsburgh.

00:41:45
Speaker 5: Thanks.

00:41:45
Speaker 2: Yes, that's Rich Ice in NFL Game Day morning, host of NFL Network and The Rich Eisen Show.