Dan and the Danettes prepare for a weekend of sports as college football returns. Callers weigh in and Dan tells a story from his experience in the world of wrestling. Joey Votto asks Dan why he didn't tell him to retire earlier, and discusses the process that led him to this moment.
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It's the final hour on this Meet Friday, Dan and the Dan It's Dan Patrick Show. Come on in, stay awhile we'll talk to our good buddy Joey Vado, former league MVP, certainly has Hall of Fame credentials and he just announced his retirement. By the way, it's a Meat Friday, in case you're wondering, and it is Cuban Sandwich Day, National Cuban Sandwich Day and as a result, Cubano sandwiches on the trigger and waffle fries once again, Who has it better than we do?
No Body? What is going on here? I don't know. Are you guys all in on this Meet Friday with the Cuban sandwiches?
See, I think you're mistaken. We are in perfect unison and harmony there. That was lovely actually yeah.
But I like when you're in harmony in unison right after I say it, like when I say who has it better than we do?
Nobody?
Okay, a little better yes, seed, Yeah, it's gonna say. I mean Paul sort of took the low end there. I went up high with sort of Marvin and Fritzy filled out the middle there it was fo Yeah, we had a four part harmony going, and that's not good enough for you somehow, Okay.
I didn't know. The Beach Boys came in. Yeah, you guys were going to sing.
Yeah, Todd's essentially Brian Wilson since you've been gone.
No big deal there.
We got tenors and altos and sopranos.
We thought we did all right, there are really good you dying your impersonation. I can't compare to that. That's true, Yeah you can't. You know what.
Yeah, that's defensive, that's passive aggressive.
What just happened a little bit, Frank.
It's a little too complimentary of other people's impressions, and not just Todd's. So you like that.
Tod, Tod, I gave you the opportunity. In fact, Frank even said you do. Kevin Harlan, we gave you that.
It's never enough, they said that I need that much.
It's like the second song with Darius Rucker. You only had to do one. Well, you should have been one and done, but you went to and then here you go kind of passive aggressive after Frank. Everybody talking about Frank and we're laughing at his impressions, and then you got to bring Marge Simpson back.
All the time working.
Kick an ask right now, listen to it.
Don't build the natter gance, touch secrets away, right.
People paid money to go Sarious Rucker, and this happened in the middle of what was a concert they paid for.
So unfair.
Have put their money back, or at least half back.
Yeah, but Todd, if you can do impressions, why couldn't you do an impression of Daryl Hall sending this song that's about me like it would have would have sounded a whole.
Sounds just like him.
I don't know what happened there.
Don't I'm gonna take your word for it, all right.
By the way, coming up on Sunday night, it'll be Drake May going against Jad and Daniels Patriots command Patriots Commanders the NFL preseason Sunday at eight Eastern and NBC and Peacock. All right, so Joey Vada will join his phone calls. We'll get to those. Good morning. If you're watching on Peacock. Thank you for downloading the app, spending some time with us, or allowing us to spend some time with you, Just to let you know, we have schools that are going into new conferences, so old conference, new conference, just so you don't get surprised coming up this weekend, like Arizona State Big twelve, cal ACC Colorado Big twelve, Oklahoma SEC, Oregon Big ten. See Oregon's the one that still kind of stands out. I know UCLA and USC, yes, but but there'd been so much fanfare leading up to that that we were given a heads up a couple of years ago. SMU is in the ACC Utah Big twelve, Washington Big ten. Yeah, PAULI, I still find USLA and USC and the Big ten weirder because when we were children, when we were younger, as a Big ten fan, you aspired to win the Big Ten so you could fly out and play UCLA in the Rose Bowl or USC in the Rose Bowl. Like USLA is the most West Coast feeling school, maybe other than Pepperdine. The look the field, the vibe of it, and for them to be in the Big Ten, it'll never compute. It's like the Chargers. The Chargers are the San Diego Chargers, and I fight to.
Call them the LA Chargers.
Yeah, the Guardians are, They're the Indians and I have to hesitate and say Guardians.
Yeah, the Chargers always get me. It's always like, oh yeah, you know, Harball of the San Diego, the Los Angeles Chargers, even Cleveland too. With the Guardians eight seven to seven to three, DP show email Addressdpadanpatrick dot com, Twitter handled DP show.
Aaron Judge did it again.
He's got forty eight homer and that's a quiet forty eight home runs and on pace to hit sixty one. It's a week zero, it's Florida State, Georgia Tech. What is Florida State by ten and a half? Does that sound about right?
Okay?
Ten and a half? And Colts and the Bears win their preseason games. The Bears go undefeated in the preseason. Full slate of games coming up tonight, tomorrow and on Sunday Final Hour.
Yeah. See yeah.
I think the thing with Aaron Judge is that he's like quietly having a great season, because right up until this moment, anytime you heard his name or the Yankees, you kind of just rolled your eyes, you know, not you I'm saying like people, you know, like it's just kind of like, oh, guy, I know Aaron Judge in the egg or whatever, and then all of a sudden, it's like, I know, Aaron Judge, Oh dang, he actually is killing it. You know, you're like you it's sort of like people expect him. He's supposed to do that, so then it's not really a thing until it became impressive.
But do you think it's because what I said that you certain players graduate to where we take you, for granted, definitely where we just assume, like Patrick Mahomes will will Mahomes win another MVP in his career regular season.
He might be too good?
Yeah, or whatever he does, we're going to go is that is like thirty five touchdowns, you know, eleven interceptions, But somebody's going to put up statistically better numbers and then it comes down to better regular season record.
To me, it doesn't.
You know, Mahomes is in a kind of a stratosphere by himself. I don't know if anybody is up there with him in football, Yeah, Paul.
Yeah, exactly. He's competing against his own history. He had a season with fifty touchdowns and twelve picks. He had a season with forty one touchdowns at twelve picks. Like last year was his worst regular season twenty seven touchdowns at fourteen picks. Nobody remembers that because of his postseason, but it's like if he doesn't throw forty five, he doesn't get any regular season notoriety.
Yeah, and I think last year they were more of a defensive minded team, and you know, we brought that up during the season. You could see that where he was kind of figuring out these receivers and vice versa. Never seemed to get on the same page until when they needed to, and that's to win a super Bowl. Adam in West Virginia starts us off final hour of the program.
Hey Adam, Hey Dan, I was watching a wrestling documentary last night because well I don't know why, but Stone Cold was on there and it had a snow of you and the commercial was stone Cold and he signed the chair in the snippett, and I don't remember that being in the commercial, and I was wondering, did you happen to have any prep for that? Did you just go into it? And what was your favorite Sports Center commercial that you did? Oh?
I had too many, so I don't know if I would say I had one that stood out. I mean that one with Steve stone Cold, Steve Austin was great because the premise was he was studying and he was in the break room. I was doing Sports Center. I walk in, I'm getting coffee and he needs to pick me up. So I grab a folding chair and I hit him in the back, in the middle of the back.
And then he's like, oh, thank you, Dan, let me have another.
And then we did it a couple of times, and then he kept saying to me, you got to hit me harder, you got to make it look real. And I did the last one. You can see the papers that are on the bulletin board there, they're like flying and I take a good rip. I take a Albert Poohol's rip right to his back and he had a small pad in the middle of his back and he said.
Brother, just make make sure you hit that pad.
And so now I'm thinking, okay, I got to make sure that I don't, you know, disabled this wrestler by missing that pad. And it wasn't a large pad that was there, but I had to hit that every single time. And I still have the folding chair. He did autograph the chair, but I have that in the home man cave there. That was one of those where it's like God I hope he's okay, and I you know, we eventually had him on and he did talk about that. But he was great. He was a lot of fun. I did one with Lance Armstrong where Lance was the generator for the building and I'm doing Sports Center and the lights start to flicker and then my computer goes out and I go so you just see me walking down the steps at you know, a sports center and I'm going down into the basement. I open up this door, high voltage door, and Lance is there, tweling himself off and he was riding his stationary bicycle and I said, you know, like hey Lance, and he goes, hey Dan. I said, you know, we're still working. He was oh, I thought everybody left the building. And then he starts pedaling again and you hear the generator go on, and then I closed the door and it says, you know, this is Sports Center. One that I got that was I don't know if it made air, but when Bill Buckner had the ball go through his legs and of course that costs the Red Sox the World Series, well cost them game six. I went up to Boston and I met with him and I said, you know, what would be cool if we did a this is Sports Center and you actually catch the ground ball, well, god love him. Bill Buckner did that commercial. Did that for me and I came back with it and they're like, oh my god. Now I don't know if it ever aired. I just know that Bill Buckner was willing to do that where it was this is Sports Center and he's catching a ground ball. This time it didn't go through his legs. But there were so many times that you would have athletes come in and then they would just grab you and they say, hey, we need you to be in this commercial.
Okay, what are we doing?
I think when Keith Oberman and I are in the bathroom putting on our makeup and we're talking about tough guys in the NHL, but we're putting on, you know, a blush foundation, which is what we did. We didn't have a makeup artist back then, so we did do that at around ten thirty. Every night went on at eleven o'clock and so we would talk then and that was really a real situation we did, and that was that was I thought was great, just the fact that we're putting on blush and talking about tough guys in the NHL. But those are just there were so many that we did and they Widen and Kennedy are the people who did it, and they were wonderful. They knew what they wanted down to what you were saying, what the word was, or you know, you know, and we'd always offer, hey, what if I say that, and they go, no, we're going to say this. But the first one, one of the first ones we did was Grant Hill playing the piano in the lobby. And first of all, we couldn't get any athletes to come to Bristol, Connecticut, and they only got paid I think one thousand dollars and that was a charitable donation. I reached out to Jason Kidd, I reached out to Grant Hill, and I said, Hey, would you guys come in to Bristol, Connecticut. And I mean thank god that they said yes, because after that then athletes then were contacting us, say when do I get my Sports Center commercial? But the premise of that was I just got done with Sports Center and it wasn't a great sports Center had some problems. I come into the lobby, Grant Hill was there in his basketball uniform. There's a piano there and he's He said, hey, Dan, what's wrong. I said, Uh, it wasn't a good show. Hair didn't look good. Prompter went down. He goes, well, maybe this will help.
Then then.
I said thanks Grant, and then I put a dollar in the chip jar and he goes, you're welcome, Dan, and then I walked down. I did one with Mark McGuire when he hit his record setting home run ball and he gives it to me and I said, I'm going to cherish this the rest of my life. And then the next scene is me walking into sports Center after my I think it was a Ferrari that I had out front, so I do.
I get out of the car and I lock it up.
I'm like and then it says like sixty two Homer or something on the on the license plate. It was a personalized license plate. Dana Ka Patrick came in and she parked in my parking spot that said Dee Patrick and she had her car race car in there parked and I had it towed, and you know, she's like, what are you doing? I go, wait, that's that's my parking spot. There a lot of fun, always great and uh, just to get the athletes to come into our place and uh, you know, have fun with it, you know, sense of humor.
Yeah, Paul, I just watched back the Mark McGuire one. It's great.
You're really emotional. He's giving you the ball. He's in full uniform. Of course, he's right in the Sports Center set and you're like, I'll cherish this. And then there's this quiet breeze and then you pull up in a Lamborghini. It's like a two hundred thousand dollars Lamborghini and you pull sideways and fell like three spots. You get out, it's as sweet six to two on the license plate and they'll pay off is of the lock.
Yeah, it's great. Yeah, Yeah, they were fun. They were fun. There were some anchors who that's all they wanted to do. They didn't care about doing Sports Center. They just wanted to make sure that they were like it became competitive. Stuart's got extremely competitive with getting in as many of those as possible, and he wanted you know, Stuart would work overnight, you know, mean he heed worked the late night show and then if they said, hey, we're going to shoot this tomorrow morning at nine am, Keishawn Johnson and Kobeer, Stuart would be there like. He was always willing and he was really good at it but had fun. Kenny Maine was always available. There were certain anchors who I don't think wanted to do it. I don't think Bob Lee was really keen on those things until he decided that he wanted to do them, you know, because they became really popular. But the genesis of those commercials was I went to my boss and I said, why don't we promote Sports Center? He said, because we promoted all these other shows that ESPN had, And I said, why don't we promote Sports Center? He goes, well, we don't need to. I said, well, we should still promote Sports Center. And then he was two to his word and he said, all right, you know, maybe we'll do that. And then he brought in the people from Widen and Kennedy. They spent a week with us. They just walk walked around and they just wanted to observe what we did, when we did it, how we did it. And then they went back to the drawing board. They came back and they had all kinds of ideas and really was that was something that was a really really special moment when Sports Center actually was a big deal all right, let me take a break. Our good buddy Joey Vado will join us. And now he is in retirement. I don't know how retirement feels after just a couple of days, and what's the future hold for him? But friend of the show Joey Vado coming up next year on the Dan Patrick Show.
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More of your phone calls coming up on this Meet Friday. He's one of our favorites. We always entertain with Joey. Vado even said that he was trying to take a shot not too long ago with Taylor Swift, and then all of a sudden, Travis Kelcey moved in for the kill. And then he's done. And then he had nothing left to live for and decided that he was going to retire and go live in Toronto and no one would ever hear from him again. And then he got all emotional the last time when we were talking about the final days, maybe a couple of tears in there. And now it's over. The Hall of Fame career of Joey Evado, freshly retired Reds first baseman joining us on the program. How's retirement feel, Joey.
Why didn't you tell me to quit earlier? We had a last interview and you were kind of nudging me, but push, push, I mean, I wish that I had not wasted the last six months of my life. I wish you had told me clearly, hey, it's over.
But what is scarier not playing well or the fact that you're retired or retirement.
So I played seventeen years with the Cincinnati Reds, and all of them all of them great and the fans were great. I played well for most of it, and then there was just no interest, no major league interest in the offseason and free agency either. And I reached out to the Toronto Blue Jays, my hometown team, and signed a minor league contract with them, and I got hurt in spring training, And truly, it feels like retirement since last fall. It feels like my last game in Cincinnati was you know, everything went quiet, there was no interest. When you're not on stage, nobody cares. I wasn't able to I wasn't able to perform and compete in front of fans on television, do interviews. You know, your phone goes cold, your circle gets really, really small. And it's really felt like retirement over the past nine months. So I don't think. I think if you were to ask me after the last day of the season last year, I would have had a much different answer than I do now. But now I'm not quite as afraid because I basically felt like I've retired over the last nine months.
Yeah, but I've been around athletes for forty years. You guys don't want to be told when to retire. You have to realize yourself, even if others see it. I couldn't have convinced you, Hey, just stay with the Reds, retire Cincinnati red don't try to do this anymore. You're good, you know, come back, retire. You have an official retirement with the Reds.
But you had to explore that, not me or anybody else.
I think in my experience. So, I had a pretty serious injury in twenty twenty two, and I couldn't stand the idea of injury essentially crushing my competitive ability. And I'm not talking about the internal I'm talking about the physical ability and the idea of an injury essentially ending not my peak, but my ability to compete.
You know, when you enter a season, you're.
Thinking, and almost my entire career, I'll be at the All Star Game, almost my entire career. I thought I'll win an MVP Award this year, virtually my entire career. I thought I'll be trending towards a playoff, a World Series, a great season. I'll be able to look back with positive reflection. And the last couple of years they were just such such ugly performances that I thought this year will be the year I'll be able to prove it. I'll be healthy, I'll be able to be an All Star. I'll prove to them, you know they should have resigned me. I'll prove to leave you should have signed me. I'll be at the you know, I'll be able to like have my moment and at some point there's an end to it. And I think the thing that I said whenever I was asked should you should you in your career? I said no, No, I want the game to tell me I'm done. I don't want a team to tell me I'm done. I don't want somebody in the media or a family member or a friend or a fan to say you're washed. And I was washed.
I mean I was.
I was done probably last year at some point. But I'm the one that has to be able to make that decision. And that's where I'm at right now. And I can say I can say I was down in Buffalo. I played for the Triple A team in for the Toronto Blue Jays in Buffalo, and I played in Scranton, Wikes Bar or Wilkes Bar, and I played in Wolcester, if I'm saying that correctly, Massachusetts. I rode the bus I carried my bags, and I still wanted to make it happen. You know, when I say carry my bags, carrying my hotel bags, I you know, I was doing the minor league life, and I still wanted to make it happen. And it wasn't until the other day when I didn't want a plate appearance, when the coach was like, do you want this at bat?
And I was like, I don't. I don't And.
I've never had that. I've always been, always been on. I always had a direction. I've always been like I'm going that way. And I was like, I'm good and I'll share a quick stick. So I'm sitting on the bench and the coach asked me if I wanted a play appearance. And my late father, who died sixteen years ago and I had a really strong relationship, was he was you know, to this day, when you lose someone like that, it's something you can't ever film. And he and I played catch together and we love the Toronto Blue Jays, and our favorite player was Devon White. He had a specific catching style and he's a fantastic defender and a real charming personality. We just loved him. He was the guy for the Blue Jays our guy, and so we'd go out and play catch and he'd try to catch like Davon White. I'm nine years old, eleven years old, and we're playing catch together and I'm sitting on the bench in Buffalo, passing on a plate appearance and guess who's sitting beside me, Devon White. And he said to me, so, what do you think you're gonna do? And he was talking about my hitting style, like what adjustments do you think you're going to make? And I go, I think I'm done and he goes, give mean retire and I go, yeah, I think I'm done, and he.
Goes, okay.
And it was like a full circle moment to be able to have a childhood getting emotional thinking and talking about this, but have a childhood icon and something that I was able to share with my father sitting next to me and Poignan poet. You draw sort of connections even if they aren't real, but that felt like a genuine connection for me, you know, that felt like that was almost like poetic. That felt like an end to the story. And I went into the to the clubhouse, thanked my minor league team teammates.
Who require in my opinion.
Deserve to thank you because I took plate appearances from them, I took playing time from them. Guy that I replaced hit at Brand Slam, I think today or yesterday where I would have been playing, and.
That was enough. That was enough.
Think the manager, think the general manager. And then I shared with the public that I'm retiring and that's it in the best of ways.
So I feel good about it.
Talking to Joey Vado just retired, played seventeen seasons with the Reds, won the MVP in the twenty ten six Time All Star. But you came to that conclusion no matter how you came to it, you came to it. And that's what's difficult. Like, I'm going to have this in three and a half years, I'm going to retire. It's going to be December twenty fourth to twenty twenty seven. So I'm planning on it because I don't want to hold on and have people laugh at instead of with that, I want to make sure that I'm sharp doing this, and it's got You got to be on tart. You've got to be on top of everything for three hours it's live, and I do worry about that. I got memory issues you're just trying to make sure that you're still doing it great, because sometimes nobody tells you maybe you are slipping a little bit. And so I had to put a, you know, the expiration date on my career. At least doing this every single day.
That's a different experience.
My expiration date happened in the moment, and people like you, and the game and my former team and the league were telling me, we're good. You're not an interesting player for us. You're not the future. We have playing time that we want to give to other players. Whereas you there's you know, I see it. You see it with Bob Costas, or you see it with some of the other icons and media. They're just always going to be in demand, you know, Charles Barkley, same sort of thing. There's just always going to be in the demand, and you'll be the very same. But it's interesting to me that you're electing to call it, call it, you know, and I wasn't able to do that. It's just different. I'm forty, I feel good, I feel you know, I feel good. So the idea of stopping something I've been doing my entire my entire adult adult life.
By my my even my teen years.
You know, I was having a conversation with my mother yesterday, and after this we can lighten it up a little bit. But I was having a conversation with my mother yesterday, and you know, we were sitting down at so when I was eighteen years old, my mom's been working at the very same restaurant. She's a Somalia, one of the best samalias in Canada, and you know, she works at a prestigious restaurant. And when when I was eighteen years old, I let her know I'm going and I was about to hop on a plane. She's crying, crying, crying, and I go back to the very same restaurant and I sit with her and we have you know, I don't drink, but you know, we had a little bit of wine. Typically I don't drink, and we had like a celebrated, celebratory glass of wine.
And I said, we made it. We made it.
And I said to her, you know the thing I'm most I'm not worried about not playing anymore.
But when my.
Father died, I used baseball as my escape. And it's almost like yesterday, when or a couple of days ago, when I stopped playing it was my way of saying, you know what, I'm ready to face not like i've more in my father's passing, but I'm ready to face life. I'm really ready to say I'm done and I'm taking it on and and you know, it was intimidating for me for a while, but I think the last nine months, how alone I've been in terms of this process has helped me, has helped me transition into it.
So what was it like to have teammate to ask you to buy beer for him?
The team that the guys were down so good to me down there? You know, there was It's interesting because I had some people tell me that they were emotional afterwards, and I thought, you know, there's some players that looked up to me. If there's one or two Canadian players that like, you know me as a player, And I was like, really, you're just my teammate. You know, you don't think when you're competing every day, when you're training towards towards being your very best, that anybody cares about you. And generally speaking, in life, most people are concerned about themselves or but you know, I think that when when Griffy Junior, for example, transitioned out of out of Cincinnati. I was like, oh man, that was my teammate, you know, that was my I played his video game. I watched him, you know, as a boy, and so you don't realize the sort of impact you have. But it was a great experience. It was hard, the hardest thing I did this last nine months, essentially always being told no and I was the only one saying yes, and the game telling me no and I'm saying yes. Airbnbs, basically five months of hotels hurt the whole time, Minor league complex, but I loved it, and there was no moment that I was There was no moment. It was the complete opposite experience of the posh big league life, Major league life, the charter jets and the people taking your bags, their first class hotels and great pay and all these things. Let's get real here, you know, you know, it cost me money to play baseball this year, and I am not complaining at all, but that's the reality of it.
But at no point I had the best time at the best time this year. But it was hard. It was terribly, terribly hard. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.
What's the next act here?
Got a trip to Milan next month. I'm going to Uh, there's a big baseball card signing in Milan.
No, no, the next act.
Uh, it'd be nice to be home for a little bit and had lunch with my family. My big family and my family had had a lunch across in Niagara Falls.
And this was on an.
Off day in while I was playing for Buffalo, and I was like, this is way better than what I'm doing, Like carrying around my nephew and playing with him and my niece and seeing my mom and then my great my grandmother is a great grandmother to my niece and nephew. It's like we're having lunch and taking our time. This is the best of life, you know. So there's only so much in that. I'm gonna have to continue to drive forward with something. But well maybe i'll I'll replace you. It'll be The Dan Patrick.
Show featuring Joey Voto. Yeah yeah.
Do you still hate Travis Kelce for moving in on Taylor Swift before you had the opportunity?
Are they getting married or are they just sinners living together? What's what is it?
I don't know what.
Are their parents saying about that? Are they just.
Gonna you know, I don't know. I think they have their own homes.
I think the family unit, what's going on? What's what about the family unit? What is this?
You know what what could have been? What could have been? But you you waited. We're in the on deck circle. You were in the on deck circle for Taylor Swift and Kelsey came in and went yard.
Yeah, well scored a touchdown. It's good.
Well, you know what, I look forward to seeing you in the media. I think that'll be great play on that analyst. That'd be nice.
Think how's the travel with that.
You're there for a few days in cities because you'll you'll be there for a series and uh, so you have an opportunity to go and you know whatever, how many four days fives in the city and then.
What how's the spread? How's the spread?
How's the spread? Uh, you'll be you'll be treated on clubhouse spread. You'll you'll be good your clubbies, you know, they'll still take care of your maybe, you know, maybe Jeter buys you dinner.
Can't you imagine though, just traveling around and talking about other people doing stuff. You know, I will say this, I've been and I don't it's.
Called it's called being in the media, Joey.
That's what you do. You talk about other people. You always want to talk about yourself, Now to talk about others.
This is the thing that I'm most excited about. I say this sincerely. This career, this baseball thing, this athlete thing is so selfish. It is I am. You know, my body's my business. But it's all about me, me, me, me me. And the thing that I am most looking forward to it are using the words we. They per him like you are on, you were on stay I get. I'm looking forward to talking about other people.
And whether I do that.
In the media landscape or I do that just in my community, whether volunteering or a family or my friends or whatever. You I'm most most looking forward to that because I feel like it'll rewire my brain. I think it'll put me in a healthier place, because you are constantly concerned about yourself and I'm tired of that.
I'm tired of that.
And so that's what I And what if I do that for TBS or Fox or ESPN or whomever, that'll be great too, And I think I'll have a great time.
So yeah, Dan, well thanks for we had at too.
Great.
I'm a nobody and when you put the show and you made me feel welcome.
So thank you so much.
Let's stay in touch.
I'd love to how about that, Aaron, see.
You in Milan. I'll see you in Milan.
Yes, bring your shirk.
Thank you, Joey.
Thanks Dan.
Joey Vado, former Reds first baseman and future Hall of Famer. We'll come back to meet Friday. The Tragger Girls are opened up and this day and sports history some weekend predictions. We're back after this Dan Patrick Show.
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I appreciate Joey Vado.
I always thought whenever we spoke to him, you got inside him to what it's like to be a professional athlete, kind of the highs and the lows, got emotional, got emotional when he left the Reds still trying to play, and it's probably the hardest conversation that people have with athletes when it is time to go, and rarely do they know when it's time to go. He had to sit there and in the moment when the manager says, do you want to played appearance? And he said no, And that's the last thing that he probably thought that he would ever say at a baseball game that he didn't want to go to the play. All right, this day in sports history, have that for you. The Hall of Fame coach Bill Kauer will join us on the program on Monday. Final results of the pole question, Seaton, would you do the honors? Yeah, we got up there.
Let's see how much does the preseason record matter a little or a lot? You want to take a guess on how that one went. How much does a preseason record matter a little or a lot?
A little?
Ninety six percent have a little right now? Only uh yeah, four percent have a lot. We also have up there better quarterback named Bo Nicks or Jackson Dart. Jackson Dart getting his first dub of the season already at sixty nine percent out of boy Jackson.
All right, congratulations this day in sports history.
Paulie I got a couple here, Dan not too positive. Nineteen eighty two, Galor Perry, the Mariners tossed out of the game for throwing in the legal spitball.
As if there's a legal spitball. Pete Rose used to be legal spitball, Yeah till used to be the thirties.
Nineteen eighty nine, Pete Rose, the manager of the Cincinnati Reds, agreed to a lifetime ban from baseball after being accused of gambling on baseball whilst a manager.
M hm, that's it. Okay, let me see.
I don't know if I have any Oh do you remember in two thousand and eight it was Angel Matos of Cuba. He and his coach were banned for life after Matos kicked the referee in the face following a disqualification in the bronze medal taekwondo match at the Beijing Olympics. Got a lifetime van for that. Let me see anything else? Any big predictions for this weekend, yes, Paul, Georgia Tech.
Outright, whoa ooh, Okay, they're going to start playing like their uniforms. Look, they've got great uniforms. They're gonna start playing. They've got a good young coach, they're good squad.
Florida State is giving ten and a half to the rambling wreck from Georgia Tech. Other games, Montana State minus thirteen and a half against New Mexico SMU minus twenty four and a half against Nevada, I think. And then you've got preseason games tonight Jags, Falcons, Dolphins, Tampa Bay, Niners, and the Raiders. Let me see John in Minnesota. Hey John, what's on your mind today?
Hey damn, thanks for taking my call. My question is this is kind of a personal question. The short answer is short, is you like the current state of an NFL game? And I guess the longer explanation was it just kind of feels like a family game. Is it's like playing a video game, putting arcade mode on. So it makes average players slightly better than they should be, average teams and games longer.
You you, well, it's it's more entertaining. Now, that's what they all these leagues want more entertainment, more scoring, more big plays. It's just, you know, I don't want to be the get off my lawn guy when it comes to, you know, sports or new innovations.
I just don't want to do that. It's easy to do that.
I don't want to do that because I still want to enjoy sports, watching sports, covering sports, talking about sports, going to games, and what I like to see it a little bit more older school, Yeah, a little bit, but it's exciting, it's fun. It's all about gambling, all about fantasy. Todd, would you learn today?
Some betting experts you spoke of yesterday are fading on the Texans and their tough schedule upcoming?
Yes Seaton, what did you learn today?
I learned Joey Vado handling retirement better than I thought he was gonna.
Marvin, would you learn? Delaware State? They made it to Hawaii.
Yay, another forty and a half point underdogs. Paulie, what did you look?
That may have been Frank Calliyanda's best ever appearance on the show.
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