Hour 3 – Sean Casey, SeptHeisman and SepteMVP

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

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Speaker 2: In this Wednesday, we'll talk some baseball. Sean Casey, MLB network analysts will stop by momentarily. Coming up Saturday, the Premier League not Premier League, it's the Premier League live on NBC, streaming on Peacock. Liverpool looks to continue its hot start and tame Chelsea. That'll be coming up Saturday on NBC and Peacock Final Hour. Have a new poll question here. Your phone calls are welcome each seven to seven to three DP show email address Dpadanpatrick dot com, Twitter handle a dpshow. You had the Dodgers with ten runs and the other three games combined for eleven runs. I think it still comes down to pitching. I know that we talk about hitting all year long. We have moved on from that starter, although Crochet and scooball were wonderful yesterday, and it just feels like when you're in a three game series, like the tension is there from the first bat, the first pitch, and having one of those pitchers that can go seven and a third seven and two thirds and then you can give your bullpen a little bit of a rest because you know there's gonna be one game that's a bullpen game. But watching last night, even Max Freed, I thought that they were going to stay with him, and then all of a sudden, I had to remind myself, Aaron Boone is going to lean on analytics, and he had this to say about taking his starting pitcher out last night, Aaron.

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Speaker 3: Maxfreed was dealing tonight.

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Speaker 4: What was the thought process behind taking him out to go to the pen?

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Speaker 2: There?

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Speaker 3: With nobody on in one out in the seventh.

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Speaker 5: They pressured him pretty good in the fourth, fifth, sixth. You know, I had a couple base runners each inning, so I felt like he kind of cruised through the first few. And obviously he ends up pitching great, but I felt like he had to work pretty hard and I was gonna have the six b at the end, but once we got the double, we finished with the double play, I wanted to go out and get Duran and then felt like we were lined up okay.

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Speaker 2: So they end up losing the game to the Red Sox, and you know, in sebesta three, you gotta jump on quickly. Show Hey Otani, second home run of the night sounded like this on a one to one Otani. It's a towering ball deep right field.

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Speaker 6: He flips the bat bed watches it fly three quarters of the way up the pavilion. Just a mammoth blast for his second home run, and the Dodgers are pouring it on.

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Speaker 2: At Game one, curtit the Dodgers Radio Network, we bring in Sean Casey, MLB Network analyst. You can see him throughout the postseason on MLB Network the studio shows, also MLB Tonight and his Mayor's Office podcast, Great to See You Again. How much of the game comes down to a gut feeling as opposed to the analytics, because it feels like you can lean on analytics and blame analytics, but when it's a gut feeling, it's on you.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, what's up, Danny? Yeah. I think there's definitely something to that, you know.

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Speaker 8: I think we go back to, you know, a few years ago when when Snell was cruising along for the Rays and then Cash comes and gets them because that's what the analytics say.

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Speaker 7: And I think that was the.

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Speaker 8: First time we were all like, oh man, where's the gut feel here of kind of watching what you're seeing and going with that. I think the managers that are that are in these games, you know, are allowed to go on gut fields. And you heard Aaron Boone say, I think that was a gut field for him. He felt like there was some traffic on the bases with Freed in four, five and six, and he felt like, you know that that was the right time he was going to go to the pen there anyhow, So I feel like that was kind of a gut feel from Boone as opposed to the analytics. But you know, Danny being in these meetings, you know, being back in the clubhouse in twenty twenty three with the Yankees and seeing these meetings of how hey, if this matchup comes up, the analytics say here, you know those are on the table. But I do think as a manager in the postseason, the gut feel is part of it, and you know it has to come and play.

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Speaker 2: Managing differently in the postseason, do you do you manage differently or is that let's fight the urge to manage differently.

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Speaker 8: Well, I think I think there's a little bit of managing differently in the postseason on a few fronts because you know there is no tomorrow sometimes, you know, especially some in these Wildcard series too, Like, what is it? Ninety percent of the teams that have won Game one have gone on to win the Wildcard series. So I think that, you know, if a pitcher's in trouble early, you can't do what you might have done in the in the regular season to save the bullpen. You got to you gotta get them out. You got to get to the pen sooner. I think you're going to see more bunts and strategies in the postseason of get the you know, getting the bunt down, putting pressure on getting the guy over. Uh So, I think I think you do have to manage a little differently in the postseason because the stakes are a lot higher.

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Speaker 2: Of the four teams that lost yesterday, which one has the best chance to win their series?

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Speaker 8: I still think the Yankees have a great shot to win that series. I really, I really believe that, you know, I think they you know, when you run into Crochet and Chapman, you know, for seven and two thirds and then one and a third, I mean, that is a that's a tall order. They hadn't they had Chapman on the ropes too, and the ninth couldn't figure it out with basis load of no outs, but you know that's a taller in Game one. I really feel like the Yankees have a really good team. I think they still have a chance to win that series.

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Speaker 2: What do you remember about your first playoff game?

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Speaker 7: Wow? You know what's a goo good? This is a great this is a great point.

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Speaker 8: I was just I was just saying this last week on on MLB Network. My first real kind of playoff game was Game one sixty three with the Reds and the and the and the Mets. When we had the playing game the playoff atmosphere was the first time I ever felt that. And I remember Danny like it was an adrenaline and energy I'd never felt. I'm twenty five year old kid, and I remember thinking, I'm gonna go win this game tonight. I'm gonna go I'm gonna really go go this game, right, I'm a you know, it's the kind of that football mentality which doesn't work in baseball. I end up going zero for four, two punchouts, one of the worst games in my life, right, And I remember thinking to myself, you know, and as in the game of baseball and in life, failures, feedback failures, information, I was like, man, how do I take the failure I got here.

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Speaker 7: Get me back to the postseason to experience it.

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Speaker 8: And when I finally went back to the postseason in six when I was with the Tigers and I, you know, led the posts, led all hitters in hitting, and I hit five hundred in the World Series. The only reason I say that is because what I learned when I was twenty five years old about you know, trying my hardest and really being somebody different to you know, go get this game with the adrenaline of the postseason being on another level. It doesn't work. You got to be able to slow down. You got to be able to let the game come to you. And I think that's why you do sees maybe a guy like Hunter Green last night, maybe the adrenaline was a little too high. Maybe that cost his pitches to be up out over the plate more than they would be during the regular season.

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Speaker 7: But you can't teach experience.

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Speaker 2: How do you pitch to Otani?

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Speaker 7: Man, I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 8: When he's locked in like this, he's very very dangerous. I mean, you know, for me, you got to be very careful. I mean, i'd like to say, you know, I'd like to say you go upper rail, but he's proven he can hit that better.

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Speaker 7: Than anybody in the game.

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Speaker 8: Now too, you got to really mix and match with him. I think you got to get him off the plate a little bit. You got to, you know, get him in, move his feet, and then you try and just try and hit him with the kitchen sink.

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Speaker 2: Kershaw is I think Otani's pitching maybe Game three, but we saw, you know, Kershaw the second half of the season pitched unbelievable. What's it like or was it like to face a Clayton Kershaw?

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Speaker 8: Well, you know, it's funny looking back at me, you know, in my career because that was my last spring training in two thousand and eight, was with with the Red Sox. Scott's time Flies met seventeen years ago, and it was my third bat at the game. We're in Vero Beach. Joe Tory is the manager, with Larry bow the bench coach. Tito's my manager with the Red Sox, and it's like my third bat.

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Speaker 7: I'm coming after that out of the game.

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Speaker 8: So on the on the mound pops a guy I believe he was number ninety eight or eighty nine, and I remember going to Dave magnant and my hitting coach going, hey, hey, you got anything on this guy? He's like, nah, I got me. He goes through his notes, got nothing. So I go to Tito, hey you got anything on this guy? He's like just some rookie off the backfield. They're trying to get some work. And I'm like, all right, should be easy.

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Speaker 5: Let me you know, you know.

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Speaker 8: So I'm Danny. I'm like, all right, let me take it. Let me take a look at the first pitch. See what he's got, you know, maybe set out my eyes. So I get in there, say how to the catch?

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Speaker 3: Here?

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Speaker 7: Look over, Tory gives me a nod. I get in there.

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Speaker 8: You know this big left he's on the mound, number ninety eight. So I set up taking a nice I'm gonna take one.

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Speaker 7: Wam hits me with like ninety eight outside black. I'm like, I am.

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Speaker 8: I'm like, that's this kid from the Backfield's pretty good. This guy's got some pretty good stuff. So I look over Joe Tory and Joe Tory and Larry bow and now laughing because I obviously they know they know this kid better than than we know him on the Red Sox side. So next pitch, Danny, he hits me with it. This guy hits me with a curveball. I swear to guy was behind me.

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Speaker 7: I total buck Tony's buckle.

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Speaker 8: I just Tony's pizza up wall and bam he hits me with strike two, and I'm like wow, I'm like that's this kid's this kid from the backfield, something special, so believable. Like so next pitch he hits me with like about ninety eight outside black.

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Speaker 7: It's no doubt, strike three.

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Speaker 8: Like I just got used and abused by this young eighteen year old kid ninety eight from the backfield.

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Speaker 7: They call it ball. They called a ball just because I think.

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Speaker 8: Gump was like, hey, we can't, we can't ring up shaw Casey on three pitches from this guy number ninety eight on the backfields.

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Speaker 7: And Danny hits me. Next pitch, he hits me with that curveball again. I almost I literally almost blew out my acl. I was like what bam he hits me.

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Speaker 8: And I look over everyone's laugh and I come back to the dugout.

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Speaker 7: And I go to Tito, go, man, you don't know who that guy is. He goes, no, I'm just glad I'm not you right now, But I go, yeah, me too. It turns out that was Clayton Kershaw. I think I was just big, you're ever face that he maybe looked like a four year old kid, So.

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Speaker 2: Sean Casey, MLB Network analysts. You can see him on MLB's postseason coverage and also check out his Mayor's Office podcast. I opened the show talking about it used to be I'd have a hammer or two in the postseason. And you know, we've seen teams that had those two great starters in a best of five, best of seven, you're gonna see them four times. Scooball is one of those guys. Croche. We saw that performance there. Schemes isn't going to be in a playoff anytime soon. Verlander didn't make the playoffs, you know, so you're starting to look around and go, how many of these hammers are out there, and just the importance of them, certainly in a three game series.

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Speaker 7: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 8: Well, I look at the Dodgers and I go, okay, you got game one with Snell, you're gonna get Yamamoto coming back Game two, and you've got Otani game three. You know that that wasn't that rotation setting up all year. If Snell was banged up, did well? Otani came back late, but they they they couldn't have timed Otawni's you know, his ascending into that starter with his last couple of starts. I now think that's a that's a real three headed monster right there. You talk about hammers. These are guys that can absolutely control the game.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 8: The big thing with the Dodgers is can that you know, can they can? They go pretty long because the bullpen's you know, been a little banged up. But you're right when you watch scooble pitch yesterday and you watch Crochet even Freed you.

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Speaker 7: Know, kept him in the game with the Yankees.

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Speaker 8: But these are guys that are, like, you really gotta be on your A game. You gotta find a way to manufacture against these guys because if they're on, it's it's a tough go.

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Speaker 2: How much should it factor in that cal Rawly was the catcher on a Pennant winning team as far as the MVP goes with Aaron.

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Speaker 7: Judge, it should definitely factor in.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I think the biggest reason we're talking about cal Rawley obviously, other than the sixty home runs which is incredible. Is that he's a catcher, you know, because at the end of the day, you know, to be able to catch that many games, to handle the staff, the preparation, pregame of what goes into that. We've never seen a catcher do it, because you know, the legs that are under you start to go in the second half. The fact that he beat Mantles and he's also a switch hitter. He beat Manos fifty four home runs as a switch hitter. Really historic stuff. I mean historic stuff. So you know, I really think that that cal Rawley. That's why he's in this conversation for MVP. That's why he might he might win. It is because he's a catcher.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like you're leaning towards Aaron Judge.

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Speaker 8: You know what, I this is the one thing I think about the MVP race in this generation. Back when I was playing, guys would have incredible, incredible years, historic seasons. But Barry Bonds was in the league, and then you know a few years ago, guys would have historic seasons and look how amazing this is. Yeah, but Shoe Hao Tawny's in that league, in the American League. I feel that way with Aaron Judge. I mean, Aaron Judge won a batting title, hit hit over fifty home runs. Only Jimmy Fox and Mickey Mannle have ever done that. Historic stuff. He's one of four players that ever have four seasons of fifty homers.

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Speaker 7: Historic stuff.

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Speaker 8: He's hitting three point thirty in an age where no one's hitting three hundred. Is that like three seventy years ago? Historic stuff? So like I look at Aaron Judge's numbers. His ops is over, you know, two hundred, greater than cal Rally. There's just so many things is on base percentage what he does every day, And for me, Danny, I don't buy the whole average doesn't matter. You know what batting average shows me. It shows me you're showing up every day. It shows me I can trust you. It shows me you're hitting good pitching. It shows me you're hitting the closers and the number one starters. It shows me that you're winning ball games for my team.

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Speaker 7: So I don't know.

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Speaker 8: I just look at Aaron Judge. I just feel like cal Raly had a historic year. But Aaron Judge exists in twenty twenty five, and he's a generational player that we've never seen one that we've really never seen before.

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Speaker 7: And for me, he's the MVP.

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Speaker 2: What's the coolest thing in your office?

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Speaker 7: Coolest thing in my office?

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Speaker 8: I got a lot of cool things here in the office. I have a picture over there of Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio getting off a plane and there's two signed checks. One of the Maggio he signed us to a school in nineteen ninety eight and the Marilyn Monroe check signed in like nineteen.

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Speaker 7: Fifty three for a dollar fifty to a friend of hers.

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Speaker 2: Are those Sports Emmys? The years that MLB Tonight beat my show? Did you put those out? Those weren't out there? Probably twenty minutes ago. They weren't out there.

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Speaker 8: Dude, I knew I was coming on. I was like, I want to be sure Danny knows Emmys?

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Speaker 2: Damn you. That's like a bat flip there. Damn Oh. You know one more thing. We were talking about great swings, pretty swings. Why is it a right handed hitters? Never we don't single out and go, boy, that guy's got one of the prettiest swings in the game. It's always going to be junior Rafael paul Meyer. I mean, there's it's always the left handed hitter.

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Speaker 7: Why is that always the lefties? I don't know.

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Speaker 8: It just looks a lot sweeter left handed the right he's look like they're always grinding, like, oh man, that looks weird. But boy, it's a good, good swing hundred pens like, oh what hell?

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Speaker 7: Maybe he's a really good player, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: Once again, this guy got thrown out from left field on a base hit.

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Speaker 7: That's right, that's right.

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Speaker 8: And don't forget there's two new members in that Dylan Moore and uh and uh Tommy Fam.

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Speaker 7: Thank you guys for being in that club.

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Speaker 2: How many guys you have gotten thrown out from left field? At first, that's it three of us now in the history of the game.

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Speaker 8: It was me forever the history of the game. And then Tommy Fam this year and Dylan Moore.

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Speaker 7: I'm keeping tabs. I'm keeping receipts on who's getting thrown out and left because I was. I was in the exclusive club.

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Speaker 2: Dandy, damn them. Keep the energy. Great to talk to you, buddy.

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Speaker 7: Great scene, man, I'll talk to you soon.

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Speaker 2: That Sean Casey MLB network analysts. You can see him throughout the postseason on MLB network studio shows and his podcast, The Mayor's Office. It'll be nice if you had a little more enthusiasm, a little more energy, you know.

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Speaker 9: Best thing he's done, best decision he's made in a while is having that setup where he can stand.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Mike. His mic setup is where you can't see it on radio.

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Speaker 9: But his mic setup where is where he's standing at a desk with a camera.

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Speaker 2: The best thing he's done. Well, take a break. More of your phone calls coming up right after this.

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Speaker 2: Slipping a few phone calls. Also, we will come up with the SEPTEMVP. Could be in all walks of life, could be music, sports, it doesn't matter. SEPTEMVP. We'll have that for you coming up and we'll give you the guidelines, the rationale for that. Jay and Delaware, Good morning, Jay, thanks for holding what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 11: Hey Dan an above average ish six foot two eighty. Yeah, I want to hit real prick on the set tithemn. I want to throw in Ty Simpson. He's had eleven yards, eleven touchdowns, zero interceptions and just meet Georgia with almost three purpose yards and then three total touchdowns himself. And also college football related, James Franklin to me has become the college football John call Perry. He's putting them in the NFL but not getting any championships. And just like in Kansas, I feel like the booster, the fans, the alumni is going to start getting pretty wend if he makes another second, third round excellent.

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Speaker 2: Well, at least cal Perry won a title. But yeah, I get what you're saying. All you need is one. That's it. One and you can keep the job for another ten years. Just win the one. Dan in Virginia. Hi, Dan, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 12: Hey Dan, seventy fifth percentile? Thanks for taking my call. I was calling.

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Speaker 13: About word origin.

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Speaker 12: So at this point in our culture, we all know what a Karen is. I don't know where it came from. I don't know where it started, but everybody knows what a Karen is. So how long is it before a Todd becomes a thing and people that don't even listen to VP show know what a Todd is.

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Speaker 2: Well, we'd have to come up with the definition of what is a todd?

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Speaker 12: Dan oh driving in the left lane. It came to me last left hour when somebody said they were struck behind the left lane or they're just screaming at the windshield, get out of my way. God?

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Speaker 2: All right, well thank you Dan. Yes, seton.

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Speaker 9: What we need to do is get a state like what do they call the roadway people like transportation authority to you know how they do those signs.

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Speaker 2: That say like click it or ticket yeah whatever.

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Speaker 9: We need some state in the Union to be the first to put up on that thing. Don't be a Todd, no camping in the left lane. And then it's over. Then we're off and running. Don't be a Todd. The DOT is it? Department of Transportation?

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Speaker 2: Thank you? All right? The passhole T shirt is still available Danpatrick dot com. Today is the last day for you to get that. Can we reach out to a DP show friendly state and see if they would do something like that? We could have fun and get a picture of those mobile signs that electric signs. Don't be a Todd? Yes, Marvin.

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Speaker 14: Can we get a silhouette of Fritzy? Like you know they have to stop sign with the silhouette. Can we get one of Fritzy?

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Speaker 2: Paulie?

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Speaker 3: I think we can. I'm thinking I'm leaning towards Wisconsin as our first call. I've always done very well Wisconsin. They're very friendly to us to put some calls in.

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Speaker 9: Can you imagine get a contest among the states, because now I'm.

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Speaker 2: Like, well, Iowa a better step up? Oh all right?

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Speaker 3: Who gets there first?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Oregon? Yeah? Hello, Yeah. I need somebody at the DOT to come up with a sign those electronic signs. Don't be a Todd, don't be a Todd. Don't camp in the left, No camping in the left, no camping, Yes, Paulie, imagine the.

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Speaker 3: Person that the dot in Iowa has got to run this one up past their boss after this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe they have a sense of humor.

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Speaker 9: Might be one of those things where you ask for forgiveness rather than informission.

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Speaker 2: You you beg for forgiveness.

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Speaker 9: Charlie, interesting sign on six't eighty four today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the origin of that? Oh, Dan Patrick show Todd. He's always in the left lane. He won't pull over, he won't move to the right lane if somebody needs to get around him. Okay, it's just a one, one time only thing. Yes, Tom, that would be.

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Speaker 4: Would be something that we have a Karen and the read actually have a Todd or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Wow, thank you Tom. Will in Michigan. Will, that would be something. It would be Will in Michigan, I Will Morgan, Dan morning, Will.

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Speaker 13: Six four this morning.

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Speaker 2: Let's pick up the energy here, pick up speed a little bit.

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Speaker 13: Come on, Al, come on after you have to correct you after Wit.

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Speaker 2: It's win. It is okay wit at all. I'll tell you that.

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Speaker 13: I'm calling because uh I got married ten days ago, a week ago Friday. I'm curious, have you ever been to Mackinac Island Michigan the one two. Do you have any advice for a newly would in the first month of the marriage endeavora what's going wrong? Well, you know nothing's gone wrong. I'm just curious. I love love just like you do, Dan, and I'm curious, you know, how do I make the most of this.

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Speaker 2: As you have whipped? Are you rethinking this.

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Speaker 13: Not in the slightest No, No, just looking for some uh some some mentorship and some some fatherly guidance if you don't mind. But you know, more importantly, I'm calling this morning. I know the last time I called, I I kind of bummed you out. I I called and I let you know that you were one of the best of all time and how I missed you when you were gone. So I'm calling this morning. I'm just curious. Who do you draw inspiration from in terms of sports personality? And is there anybody else that you would kind of give the nod to? For me, it'd be the Herd Colin Cowherd. I think he's great. Anybody else you give the nod to in terms of who you look up to in the industry?

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Speaker 2: Was this a plant? We're gonna get around to you saying something nice about Colin Cowherd. Yeah, I know you look up to Colin. Also, yeah, who else would you put on the list of people that we like?

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Speaker 14: Yes, mam, Yeah, he asked you for marital advice, and then he said, more importantly.

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Speaker 2: Why didn't you call the Herd? He can help you wit. You got ten days and you need to help with your marriage.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, but more importantly, who do you look so?

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Speaker 2: Who do you look up to? I love the Herd? Good glad you do. Colin does a wonderful job. He's done it for a long time. Time to play the sept MVP, Paul, give us the guidelines, the rationale with this.

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Speaker 3: It's sports ish. It's got to be related to sports dan, anyone in sports on air, behind the scenes, owner, player, who had the best month? Okay, most valuable? Who would like to go first?

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Speaker 2: We'll start with Todd.

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Speaker 4: I had written Josh Allen, then I changed it to Jimmy Kimmel, But now we're going back to only sports.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna no, no, no. I think it's everything in it across the board.

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Speaker 3: Has to have a sports tentacle to it.

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Speaker 9: Oh, Historically I thought the whole point was an NFL player similar to the Septment.

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Speaker 2: Oh for college. Okay, but all right, so NFL.

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Speaker 4: I'll go with the undefeated Bills and Josh Allen if we're going to go NFL.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Seaton, I'm gonna say Pooking the coua pook in the Coup is having the best month.

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Speaker 3: Paul, I'm gonna go with the Bills, but I'm gonna go running back James Cook new contract, four games, four hundred yards, five touchdowns. Doing the math, I think he's on pace for seventeen hundred yards. That's the way to pay off your new contract. And if he can make them have a threatening running game, that's that's a problem for others.

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Speaker 14: Marvin Baker Mayfield hmmm, yeah, why he.

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Speaker 2: Through the interception at the gold line against.

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Speaker 15: The Eagles, but he lost to the who Still he lost at home to the Eagles.

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Speaker 14: He's having a great September so far, and.

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Speaker 2: He going to September September Seattle this this Sunday.

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Speaker 14: Correct, both throwback uniforms. Yes, he's about to go off.

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Speaker 2: Yikes.

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Speaker 3: Eight touchdowns, one pick for Baker in the month.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was a big pick, big pick two. Yeah. All right, So September VP. I guess I'm supposed to have one here, yeah thirty Yeah, yeah, I kind of snuck up on me. Who would I save is my sept MVP. I'm gonna give it to uh uh eleven? Thank you, Todd. I don't know, has anybody been any good in the NFL? Uh?

00:26:27
Speaker 3: You know who'll be sneaky?

00:26:28
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna give it to Matthew Stafford Junior the third And he's still doing it. He's still spinning it and uh big win and uh glad to see that. So that's the septem VP. Man. That was great.

00:26:42
Speaker 3: By the way, you know who was alternate Septem VP. Drake May quietly had a great month. Seven touchdowns, two picks. The record is, you know, a couple fumbles away from being three and one. Yeah, he's not playing a lot of his counterparts from that draft class.

00:26:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't know if you can go, eh, just a couple of fumbles away like those are still part of the growing process and mistakes. Now he's got to play Buffalo. I believe in Buffalo.

00:27:05
Speaker 3: That's why he can only win it this month with Josh Allen next month, the end.

00:27:08
Speaker 2: May not well if he wins. If he wins in Buffalo, He's already off to a great start in the month of October.

00:27:13
Speaker 3: Oh, Hi for October VP toob.

00:27:16
Speaker 2: VP Aaron and Fresno. Hi Aaron, what's on your mind today?

00:27:21
Speaker 16: TP? Danetz, Thanks for taking my call.

00:27:24
Speaker 17: I don't know how I'm gonna follow up with, but I'm going to try my best. I got a pull question, but before I get into that, I got eight seconds of soccer. Seaton Holler at your boy Champions League in Spain, Barcelona, Paris Saint Jamon, West Coast noon kickoff, East Coast, three pm.

00:27:44
Speaker 12: Gonna be an.

00:27:45
Speaker 16: Epic thriller real quick.

00:27:46
Speaker 17: Who are the Bengals going to replace for their quarterback? Derek Carr? Derek Carr?

00:27:53
Speaker 16: Who else we've got, Kirk Cousins, Russell Wilson or other?

00:27:56
Speaker 11: You guys are the best, Thank.

00:27:57
Speaker 2: You, Thank you.

00:27:58
Speaker 18: Er.

00:28:00
Speaker 2: I don't think it's Derek Carr because last time we talked to him he's still rehaving his shoulder. I still think Russell Wilson Junior. The third would be where I would go. I don't know if Joe Flacco. I would want to keep Flacco on the roster because Dylan Gabriel is going to start, and that means Should or Sanders. So you have two rookies. I don't like that at all. Yeah, Paul, but don't you.

00:28:21
Speaker 3: Think I, I guess respect for Joe Flacco. They should release him.

00:28:26
Speaker 2: No, I need to do what's best for the organization. I got two rookies.

00:28:30
Speaker 3: But they're saying to him, this kid who's never played it down of football before gives us a better chance to win. That's not true. It can't be true, not yet. It might be a year from now.

00:28:40
Speaker 2: Now. What I was told by my source is that Flacco still gives the Browns a better the best chance of winning, and that Dylan Gabriel would get the start, and then followed that up by saying, I know one quarterback who is not ready to start, and that Should or Sanders. I can't have him as the backup like I have to have Flacco there as the back. I have to have a little bit of insurance. I can't throw away the season like there's still hope there unless there is, you know, managerial tanking where you go, you know, just put Gabriel in there and we'll get sure to her in there. Who cares we end up with three wins. You still got a really good defense. Josh and Ohio. Hi Josh, what's on your mind?

00:29:22
Speaker 1: Hey?

00:29:22
Speaker 18: Dam first time, long time seven twelves. The I drive a truck them up by campon Ohio last Friday. The overhead signs to say, you know, buckle up and all that they had camp in the state Parks, not in the left lane. I thought, Wow, somebody must be listening to the show and didn't say fritzy. But it didn't say Camp and Ohio State.

00:29:51
Speaker 16: Parks, not the left way.

00:29:52
Speaker 18: It was right by the Hall of.

00:29:53
Speaker 12: Fame there in Camp.

00:29:54
Speaker 2: Wow, thank you, Josh asked Tod.

00:29:56
Speaker 4: I had a truck right in front of me the other day, just heading home, and it said arrow to the left in the back of his truck, passing side, and on the right it said suicide. It's a dangerous to do that if you want to change lands on the Island.

00:30:12
Speaker 2: Julian in Phoenix, Hi, Julian.

00:30:16
Speaker 19: Hey, guys, appreciate you taking my call.

00:30:17
Speaker 13: Dan.

00:30:18
Speaker 17: I don't know if I've heard.

00:30:19
Speaker 10: You guys talk about it yet, but Benito playing the halftime show.

00:30:23
Speaker 11: I'm pumped.

00:30:24
Speaker 8: I see people a little upset on social media just because it's Spanish.

00:30:27
Speaker 19: I'm like, that sounds like a you problem.

00:30:29
Speaker 12: But I love the idea.

00:30:31
Speaker 11: I think it's gonna have crazy ratings.

00:30:32
Speaker 2: He's loved worldwide.

00:30:34
Speaker 19: I want to hear your thoughts, guys.

00:30:36
Speaker 2: Good for him. I could not care less of a halftime performer. It doesn't matter. If Taylor Swift could play, and I'd be like, all right, good for her. I I did a little more excited than that. I mean, okay, I might going, oh my god, Taylor, good for her? About time she caught him break Prince was the one that I got to see that one, and it was It was the best halftime performance I've ever seen. It was wonderful. I didn't I but I wasn't that excited about it. But then when it started to rain and he's playing purple Rain, and it just hits you that he is one of the greatest musicians of all time. But you know, Springsteen played, and I'd love to see an ode to country music. Get George Strait and Chris Stapleton and you know, maybe do something like that. But I could not care less. And if bad Bunny is going to bring eyeballs, now, this is the Apple halftime show. Correct, now it is Apple. Are they going to be selling earbuds that will translate from Spanish to English. It feels like there's a marketing strategy here, somewhere, marketing playing. But bad Bunny is a big deal and good for him. But I you know, you get people's not even from here. Well, how many artists have we had who aren't from here? You Two's not from here, cold Play's not from I mean there's numerous artists. Rihanna, Rihanna is not from here. Bad Bunny, great, new look, new sound. Now it's up to jay Z's the one who is the head of the halftime show. Wouldn't you love to have been there? When jay Z says to the commissioner, Hey, I'm thinking about Bad Bunny, Bad Bunny, what is that? No Bad Bunny the artist wade like a painter. No, no, no, he's a musician. Your daughters might know. Yeah, I don't know who bad Bunny is. Yeah, I want him to be the halftime show. So we're gonna have a bad Bunny Like do is he dress up like a bunny? No? No, no, yes.

00:32:52
Speaker 9: It feels like a solid time to remind people just because you listed off that list of people cold Play and uh whoever else that people from Puerto Rico are US citizens, they are American. He actually very much is from here. He actually is very much from the United States. He is an American citizen. So he has nothing in common with Coldplay or any of those other people that you meant because he is from here.

00:33:15
Speaker 2: You know, people were like, yeah, he's not even from here.

00:33:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, yes, yes, it seems like it's more the announcement is more for the performer and their entourage and they're so honored to be selected. For me in recent years, that's the time to go to the bathroom at half time figure o, where you're gonna eat in the second half, roll into the commercials and all that kind of stuff, and we're going to watch the game regardless.

00:33:32
Speaker 7: I just you know whatever. The money just hands on the backs.

00:33:35
Speaker 2: Because of your age, Like you don't know who bad Bunny is. Your daughter may know or your son, and they may care, but they want younger eyeballs on the game, you know, non football fans. That's what they want. That's why you get one hundred million, because you know, now it's a party and you're watching. You gotta watch the game. Everybody's watching the game. That's why the Olympics embraces women's gymnastics and swimming and diving, and those are things that the diehard fan is not interested in. You're getting a different type of fan and that's why you get incredible ratings because they show different sports that they're trying to attract that different audience. And with the NFL, they want a younger audience. They already have the older people. I don't know if somebody's going to go, I'm not watching bad Bunny. Okay, for everyone that isn't, you probably get ten who are. And he's a big deal. And he also dated a Kardashian, which that's not that difficult, but still I think he dated to Kendall Is that right? Kendall Jenner? He did, Yes, Kendall Jenner, Kardashian junior, the third All right, but good for him, I mean he sells out stadiums, yeah, Paulin.

00:34:48
Speaker 3: He was in Happy Gilmore too, right, Yes.

00:34:50
Speaker 2: He had a big role role. Now I did not meet him in Happy Gilmore too. I did not meet him.

00:34:56
Speaker 3: How would you address him if someone walked up with ends?

00:34:58
Speaker 2: What up? Bad? Yeah? All right, say what up? Bebe all right? A little bad bunny.

00:35:02
Speaker 3: You never know who knows.

00:35:04
Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to know who I am. But that's he's going to learn when he hears my voice and he goes, WHOA, where'd that come from? It's bad Danny?

00:35:18
Speaker 14: What's wrong with you?

00:35:20
Speaker 2: They called me bat, they call me bad Danny? How about we take a break? Should have taken a break a few minutes earlier. Last call for phone calls? What we learn? What's in store tomorrow? After this?

00:35:31
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00:35:44
Speaker 2: What we learn? What's in store tomorrow? But let's start out with a Sports Center tease from Todd getting ready for tonight's Today's Action.

00:36:03
Speaker 7: Coming up on Sports Center.

00:36:04
Speaker 4: The bases were jacked, So why couldn't the Bronx Bombers flex their muscle in the Bronx show?

00:36:09
Speaker 7: Hey the Money? Well they already did. So have you seen what he did at the ravine? Oh my guardians?

00:36:14
Speaker 4: Cleveland gets a bit caught up with Detroit. The Cubs of their daddy. Well at least they're Padre in Game one at Wrigley. Things got to a fever pitch last night, So how did it come up?

00:36:23
Speaker 2: Aces and Ot?

00:36:24
Speaker 4: Speaking of fever, what's gotten a fisa hot and bothered?

00:36:27
Speaker 7: Also caught between a brock and a hard place.

00:36:30
Speaker 2: Pretty good chance his toes a go at.

00:36:32
Speaker 4: Sofi, it's Wednesday, and we're fully prepared to get you over a hump.

00:36:35
Speaker 2: Today. Sports Center is next. Okay, all right, I'm gonna give you a bloop on that when I was clean. Yeah, nice, Todd, Thanks, yeah, thank you. I guess, same time, same channels for baseball coming up today and tonight.

00:36:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, one o'clock Eastern ESPN Tigers Guardians, then ABC Padres Cubs, six pm Eastern ESPN Red Sox Yankees, and nine pm e Eastern ESPN Reds at.

00:37:02
Speaker 2: Dodgers, Robin Orlando, Hi, Rob, welcome back.

00:37:06
Speaker 16: God. I hate to go there after that awesome Sports Center Ts, But you know, this dot thing is a home run. I've gotten in. I think we can make something work. But first off, remember you can't spell dot without too.

00:37:21
Speaker 9: Yes, that's a fellow who gets it.

00:37:26
Speaker 16: So listen, I've got a buddy of mine with the Tennessee Department of Transportation, and when I lived we did a lot of work with this guy when I lived up there years ago. He had a sign he put up on my suggestion, use your blinking blinkers. I think getting the times easy.

00:37:43
Speaker 2: All right, I'll leave it up to you, Rob, and then you let us know. Todd what a legend. Can't spell dot or it can't spell to D D without dot Tod to D Department of Transportation. Uh, Frank in Phoenix, I Frank, what's on your mind today?

00:38:10
Speaker 16: Hey? Dad?

00:38:12
Speaker 19: I was listening earlier to JD in Washington.

00:38:15
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:38:16
Speaker 19: We've said that he can't stand hearing Todd's voice after his left Lane diatribe. Yeah, and I'm afraid that Dad might be suffering from PTSD fortunately Post Todd stress disorder.

00:38:34
Speaker 17: Wow.

00:38:35
Speaker 2: Wow, I think we're all there. I haven't been diagnosed like clinically, but I feel that, you know, I have my I don't throw anything away. So I've got all these T shirts at home and my wife's going through them saying, hey, can we get rid of some of these? And there was one that says, uh, something about that I love you, but don't always like you. And she said, is this about me? I go, no, it's about Todd. She goes, what's the context. I said, no, it's simple. I love him, but I don't always like him. So it's pretty simple to understand. So I kept the t shirt there.

00:39:15
Speaker 7: I appreciate that he did that. There's a connection there.

00:39:18
Speaker 2: How about this day in sports history, Paul got a couple for you.

00:39:20
Speaker 3: In nineteen nineteen eight, players for the White Sox began their conspiracy to lose the World Series through the major underdog, the Cincinnati Reds. Eight man Out nineteen thirty three, Babe Ruth made its final pitching appearance. He pitched all nine innings scoreless, scheme hit the home run to win it, and he stopped pitching and did some research. The Yankees didn't want to pay him to be a pitcher and a hitter, so they made him give up pitching. That's it.

00:39:47
Speaker 2: They said at the time. No, you're not going to be Otawni. You're not going to do that. Babe Muhammad Ali in nineteen seventy five, Stop Joe Frasier. That was the thrilla in Manila. Steffi Groff in nineteen eighty eight beat Gabrielle the Sabatini to win the women's singles gold medal at the sol Olympics. First player to win the Golden Slam. That would be all four Grand Slams and the Olympics. I would say Gabrielle Sabatini won as well. I don't know what she looks like now. Gabrielle Sabatini was spectacular, all right, the fantastic aside by you, Yes, that is that's breaking this down. Yes, that's where I lean on my forty years of experience to break this down. Gabby Sabatini in foeco. All right, let's go around the room. What we learn on the program? Tod'd you learn anything today?

00:40:41
Speaker 4: MLB Newk's Shawn Casey expects to see more bunts an other strategist to move runners over during this posts Seaton O'Connor.

00:40:48
Speaker 9: Get to hear from Sean Casey's one of the best.

00:40:49
Speaker 15: He is always love the energy. Marvin Netherlands. The tallest people, Oh, the Dutch.

00:40:56
Speaker 2: Are tall, Tod. What did I learn?

00:40:58
Speaker 7: Our friend Mark Lareth is old school. Bring those old Bronco uniforms with the D on the side.

00:41:02
Speaker 2: Yeah. He was also fired up about overtime as well some more ties if you missed anything danpatrick dot com. Also last day to get the Passold T shirt Danpatrick dot com. Have a great day, everybody. We'll talk to you tomorrow