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On this Thursday, Dan and the Dan Hads Dan Patrick Show come on in a lot to talk about recapping the baseball last night, some basketball. You got baseball coming up later today and tonight you got football tonight as well, the Broncos at the Saints. All right, a reasonable fact simile of football coming up tonight, the Broncos and the Saints tonight, bo Nix against Spencer Rattler. It's the Broncos, it's the Saints. It's the big easy tonight on Thursday night football. Someone has to win. If I were you, I'd watch baseball. Next stat of the Day brought to you by Panini America. I think you sold it a little bit. Official Trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show First Hour brought to you by US Employment Professionals. You're gonna hire your next pro. They'll help you forget about posting jobs, sifting through resumes and interviews with unqualified applicants. Move up to the pros. Go to expresspros dot com. Find the location nearest you. That's expresspros dot com. Good morning, if you're watching on peacock. Thank you for allowing us into your homes and radio affiliates around the country. iHeartRadio, Fox Sports Radio as well, poll question, play of the day, stat of the day, all of that forthcoming. Dodgers blow out the Mets, and the big blow of the night sounded like this.
The pitch is hit.
High in the ear right field, hooking toward the poll, and this ball.
Is fair and gone.
Show Hey, old Tony unloads Hey three run home run here on the top of the eighth inning, his second of the postseason, makes it seven nothing Hella.
Courtesy of A seven LA Sports Dodgers Radio Network. Once again, there's a certain sound quality when show a Otani hits a home run. Play it again, just up until he makes the uh, the swing, the connection, the pit, it's just it's like pop. It's it's different. It's just a different sound. And watching that last night, I tried to bring my wife in and say, just listen to this, how it sounds different the pitch. She didn't get it. She goes, Okay, what am I listening for the pit? I said, did you hear that how it goes off the bat? And she goes, yeah, And it's supposed to be like a ping. I go no, no, no, no, no, no no, this is this is the the pros hunt. That's college. Oh okay, play it again. The pitch. See, that's just you know when you you put your finger in your jaw and you popp it. Marvin, are you capable of doing that?
Nope?
Yeah, yeah, there you go. Yeah, that's how it sounds when Otani hits a bomb. But the pitch, yeah, he didn't even get to the pitch. It was already the pitch and then swung and it's gone and it went over the foul pole. Now this is what I'm going to propose. We have little cameras all over sports.
Now.
You got them in the bunker at the British Open, you got them at second base. If they touched her, there's gonna be a double playball right in front of home plate. We have hylon cam. Why don't we have foul pole cam? Oh no, no, where you could just have the camera shooting straight up? What about the human element? Come on? Damn? Oh my bad.
Good idea, bad idea.
I'm going to go bad idea, bad idea for foul pole cam.
Yes, because I listened to Smoltz after the home run by Otani, and the announcer goes, the play by play man goes, was that fair? Was that foul? And smoltchos well, when it's over the pole, they may review it, but they probably won't overrule it because there's no angle.
To see it.
It's like by not having the angle, they're leaning towards saying fair.
Do we want to get the call right now? Okay, all right, fair enough. I was just thinking about that last night that I suggested pylon cam. I think a decade ago they finally got around to doing that. Maybe you do film pool cam or maybe not? Maybe not? Eight seven seven to three DP show email address Dpadanpatrick dot com Twitter handle a DP show operator. Tyler's sitting by taking your phone calls and Seaton has the honors of the poll question at least for the first down or this program.
So what are you watching tonight? Broncos at Saints, Dodgers at Mett You can only watch one. TVs do not allow you to flip back and forth. You start on one, you're locked in for the rest of the night.
Have they figured that out yet? With Amazon? Where you kind of have to get out to get out to then get out to then go to another channel, but then you have to get in to get in, to get in to go back to Amazon.
Yeah, you can't just flip over to the previous channel like you could do with that. Yeah, all the other channel?
Yeah, is that on purpose?
I do like though that people solution for it is what if we just got all of them sort of.
Put together in one device and h.
Cable.
There was just a tweet the other day where somebody was like, there should be a way to like listen to podcasts live as they're happening.
Yeah, dude, it's called the radio. It's called the radio.
It's been around forever. There's AM and FM, it's called the radio.
Okay, So what are you watching tonight? You're watching baseball? You're watching football?
All right?
I mean I'm gonna watch baseball, Todd, you're a Bronco fan. Are you gonna watch the Bronco I.
Will be only on the football and peak at the baseball during commercials.
No, you can only watch one time.
Oh that's right.
So I'm gonna not watch any of the baseball and I'll find out what happened after the fact.
Okay, anybody else taking football tonight over baseball? Yeah, I'm gonna take baseball. I mean, it's a regular season game. Saints are all banged up. I don't want to tune in to watch bow Knicks lead the Broncos in rushing again. Bow Knicks has led the Broncos in rushing three times this season, so he's already tied the franchise record for that. John Elway in nineteen eighty three, Marlin Briscoe in nineteen sixty eight. They led the team in rushing during their rookie seasons three times. So bow Knicks tune into watching him run the football and then Spencer Rattler be able to see him again. But I think the Saints are pretty much this is what's going to happen. Alvin Kamara scores a touchdown, Saints up seven to nothing, Broncos end up winning it. I don't know, throw out a strange number here, twenty.
Three to nineteen.
Oh that's what you're saying?
Why not?
Okay?
The over under is thirty seven. Ugly. Yeah, I think there's going to be a nineteen in this and then maybe.
Five somewhere fifteen question Mark Kristen Mark.
Alvin Kamara scores a touchdown guaranteed first one, and then uh, that's about it, and then it'll be some field goals and maybe, uh, I don't know, Courtland Sutton scores a touchdown something like that. That's what I'm seeing. Also college football tonight, Georgia's State versus Marshall and Boston College versus Virginia Tech. I got the updated odds to win the World Series. In case you're wondering, if you said the Yankees, you'd be correct slight favorites over the Dodgers. And then it's a distant between second and third with the Mets and a distant third and fourth with the Mets and the Cleveland Guardians. All right, set any other poll questions that we're considering in the first down or of this program.
Somehow we've got about thirty seven Russell Wilson pole questions.
Yeah, yeah, you know what, Let's hold off on Russell Wilson Junior the third until the second segment because I came in and I couldn't believe the amount of interest in Russell Wilson Junior the third maybe starting Sunday night versus the Jets. We even have Mike Tomlin talking about this. I don't know if there's any other owner who would give answers the way Mike Tomlin does. Now coach Tomlin, he doesn't care.
I don't.
I don't know if there's any other coach who just says, I'm gonna tell you what I really think. Oh, he's gonna tell you. You know that you shouldn't be asking these questions, Hey have you made an announcement on who your starter is? Or hey, okay, can you play the question that Mike Tomlin is asked? And then Tomlin's response, this is yesterday.
What hasn't Justin done?
Or what does he need to do better? So you know, there, you guys at quarantine and I just name him and started.
No, Justin has been really good, and we've been really good at times. But not to be confused with great man. This is a competitive league, man. We're trying to position ourselves to be that team. And we got a player with talent who hadn't had an opportunity to play, So we're going to potentially explore those things. Sometimes it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with what Justin has done or has not done.
Okay, I think there's a compliment in there somewhere. They're four and two and you know that I'm a fan of Justin Fields. I'm not a fan of him throwing the football, which is a problem with your quarterback there. I don't know if he's going to get much better. We kept saying, Okay, let's let him have a go to receiver, consistency with his head coach, they got a new offensive coordinator, maybe a little time to throw. The expectation levels for you to win a game like they were in Chicago, aren't his high. I mean, this might be a ceiling, but he's not turning the ball over. I think you've got to be fair to him in the situation of he is playing pretty good football, sixty six percent completion rate, he has eleven touchdowns that combined through the air and on the ground, and they're four and two. But we always love the possibility of somebody else and now Russell Wilson, Uh, can he regain it, gain his super Bowl form? We know Justin Field's never had Super Bowl form, but Russ did. Oh, he's got a chip on his shoulder. Okay, hopefully not as throwing shoulder. That could be painful.
Yes, yes, yeah, I mean odds are Justin Fields will never have that Super Bowl form.
Yeah, I agree.
But he's okay, odds are most quarterbacks won't. I think it's kind of the point.
Yeah, So we'll have more. We'll have our Russell Wilson Junior. The third poll questions coming up. So Broncos, Saints and Yankees Guardians. That's later on this afternoon. Then Dodgers in the Mets coming up later on tonight. Lonzo Ball made his return. I'm sure you marked that on your calendar. Pretty exciting Lonzo Ball. Yeah, I remember him had his knee issues and had been out of the lineup. He plays for the Chicago Bulls if you're not aware of that. But he did come back last night and got a nice ovation. Where's his dad been? Like, that's that's this comeback I'm waiting for. Like his dad has disappeared, which is a good thing because I kept saying, why don't you just let the kids play? Don't make it about you, But he kind of disappeared, you know, Lonzo, Lonzo has a chance to be a really good player. Uh well no, LaMelo has a chance to be a really good player. Lonzo second pick overall is and his shooting form is changed. We saw that last night. He doesn't do the you know, the whole windshield wiper there, it's a little bit more and you know they set him up in the corner for three. They ran a play for him. I'm like, okay, all right, Lonzo's back for a bad basketball team, but a good story been gone for a couple of years. Yes, Marv.
Unfortunately, Lonzo ball's going more the way of us Sam Bouie, where it's like, you're the pick before oh this guy.
Oh.
I'm not saying they were. I'm not saying Tatum is Jordan, but it's like, oh, who they pick? Yeah, Jason Tatum, you picked Lonzo. Not saying Sambui either. I'm not saying they were bad players, just injuries, their body betrayed them.
Yeah, but I think we got caught up. Markel Foltz is, Oh, you know it's the Sixers with Markel Folds. Because I came in that day. I think it was after the draft, might have been before the draft that I had an an NBA executive who said the best player in the draft is Jason Tatum, and you know, the Sixers made the trade. And then that's where he said, I'm I'm gonna be absolutely shocked because I watched markel Folds a couple of times. Think he won nine games at Washington, and I remember going, Okay, I mean, like he can play, but I don't think he's the number one pick. And you know, there was a lot of expectations on him. He couldn't live up to it. He lost his shot. You know, it kind of reclaimed his career. But we've seen that Jason Tatum is gonna be a Hall of Famer here. But that was the That was Brian Colangelo with the seventy six ers. I think who made that choice there? And you're like, and you trade to get that pick. That's one of those it's like a Bryce Young thing where you're gonna go or Trey Lance. You know, you're gonna go, hey, you know what, we love him so much, We're gonna trade up and get that pick instead of well he kind of fell on our lap and we thought he was the best player. You know, you kind of double down and you go we love him and we love him so much, we're gonna go get him.
Yes, Mark, in NBA scouts, we're not sure about the best player on Duke, Like I'm not just not sure. How about the guy from Washington that won eight games. Yeah, in the Pac twelve was it eight or nine? They didn't make Say that with Ben Simmons, you're a number one pick of your team didn't make the tournament. Eighty nine teams get into the NCAA tournament every year.
That's not true. Is Ben Simmons is going to be a great story? Is there a chance that he could be a great comeback story? Now? I think that basketball is it gives him the opportunity to be something like he becomes a celebrity. I don't know if he loves basketball. He gets paid to play basketball. I don't know if he loves it. You know, you wake up and you're like, I'm six ' nine and I got a handle here, and I guess I'll play basketball. There are guys who are six 't one hoping to wake up and be six ' nine because they truly love basketball. Ben Simmons basketball kind of found him. I don't know if he found basketball. It's like, I guess I'm gonna play and we keep waiting. He gets paid a lot of money, a lot of money to do nothing, and he does that really really well.
Yes, Paul, Ben Simmons is getting paid forty million dollars this year. But the one ray of hope for him for those who believe he may be something.
Wait, offseason workout video.
No, it's a contract year. This is his last year of his contract. Oh so whatever he does this year either decides his financial future. He's all set though, Just in case you're wondering, he will have made after this season two hundred and seven million dollars.
Yeah, and he dated a Kardashian, so he's pretty much accomplished everything he needed to in life. There's a lot of guys on that list, but he's he's on that list. There, let's take a break. I think we found our pole question for the French Towner phone calls always welcome eight seven, seven to three DP show the starting lineup, the Minister of Humor, Fritzie. You got seated in the back row, Marvin and Paulie in the front row. Yours truly backroom guys, including Mario. It's his birthday, Happy birthday, birth Thank you, Happy birthday Mary. He's going to the Mets game tonight. What could go wrong?
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Hour two on this Thursday, Dan and The Dan Nets Dan Patrick Show. John Smoltz was on the call last night, Dodgers blank the Mets eight to nothing. Show, Hey Otani parks another one, Dodgers go up two games to one. Later today Yankees at the Guardians and the Dodgers at the Mets later on tonight, and then the Broncos will be at the Saints. Our poll question last hour which one are you watching? You watching Dodgers Mets tonight or are you watching Thursday night football with the Saints and the Broncos. I think the Broncos favored by two and a half, but the Saints are pretty banged up here. But I would expect if it's two and a half points, it'll be a close game, might not be a pretty game, and I'm pretty much guaranteeing that Alvin Kamara will score the first touchdown and that might be the only touchdown the Saints score. Speaking of gambling, the Gambling Podcast later on today, Shane Irving Bad Larry. I think Bad Larry went nine to zer last weekend, and then uh Dylan the graphics guy, So that'll be available at dan patrick dot com. Stat of the Day brought to you by Pennini America, the official trading cards of this program. It'll be Big ten Saturday Night, Iowa, Michigan State Saturday on NBC and Peacock. Here Comes Saturday Night, presented by Discover Seaton Poll question for hour two. By the way, thank you if you're watching on Peacock downloading the app our streaming partner and our radio affiliates around the country.
By the way, people are really appreciated, like reacting strongly to Todd's impression of Kevin Harland doing a al Pacino impression. They really really seem.
To there's no after life. This is the NBA on DNT.
Thank you, Tom.
Now Todd wants to talk about it.
Now.
It's good Todd doing Kevin Harlan doing the you know, give me a little taste of it. I'll tell you the bucks were up twelve and now that down eight.
They got to talk about it. This is the NBA on DNT.
Wah, Yeah, we were talking about al Pacino. I guess his heart stopped during COVID and then he was asked about what did the afterlife look like. And he said, you know that basically there was nothing there. Well, what did he say?
There's nothing there? You can read about it, you could talk about it.
You can go find somebody that's going to tell you otherwise, I'm telling you I saw black just a black screen.
Baby, You're not coming back as a fish or a turtle.
Get done.
People talked about there's a you know, a white light that you see when you die, but al Pacino said that he didn't see any white light. He said there was nothing there. There was nothing. There was nothing there.
Who By the way, the Knicks have taken a fifteen twelve.
Week, fifteen twelve long turn. They went down nine to two. No nuts want to talk about it. Battle of New York, New Jersey, Brooklyn. They got to talk about it.
Whaw eight seven to seven three DP show email address Dpadanpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show. It feels like a Friday. It felt like a Friday, Yester or Thursday yesterday. And it kind of got me because I have surgery coming up tomorrow after the show, and then I realized the doctor reminded me, yesterday goes nothing to drink, nothing to eat. After midnight and I go, oh, I got a meat Friday. So now we're pondering, do we do a meat Friday on Thursday? No? I mean I don't need it. I don't need a kind of a gratuitous meat Friday on a Thursday. I'm okay with it. It's going to be difficult to do the show tomorrow. As I walk out, I see everything on the tragger and it smells great, but I can't have anything.
Yeah, I mean so that means that you're not having any Yes, but there's still food being hacked.
Yes, And then Paul he says, hey, would you like to play hide the meat? I go, wait a minute, what are you talking about?
It's more of a.
Yeah, we can hide the meat tomorrow. Yeah. Yes.
Did they ever explain to you if you probab didn't ask and you just obviously just accept it's a doctor, what the digestive process would do to complicate what they're trying to do to your shoulder.
I think it's the anesthesia that they're were Yeah, why are you so fascinated now when I surgery booked for months now?
If it's gastrotestol surgery or something. But it's like you know, but your it's your shoulder.
Why can't you eat it's you know what, There's a reason for it, but it seems strange that you can't have something to eat for dinner the night before when you're having no shoulders?
Do you listen to what I say? At no point that I say, I can't have dinner tonight.
At midnight starting midnight at midnight, right, but you can't have like a little small like a yogurt at seven in the morning. What's that going to do to an afternoon shoulder surgery. I guess that's my point.
So so why do I want to do something thing you wouldn't exactly?
You got to listen to the doctor about it.
I'm curious if the doctor would say, yeah, if you eat a banana at six am, nine hours later when we do the shoulder started, it could get complicated.
I don't know why you're so fascinated when you didn't care before.
I'm fascinated by the position you're going to be laying in and why you can't have yogurt eight hours before they're going to touch a shoulder.
Sometimes you just accept what the dodge doctors.
I'm neurotic. I would totally did faster two days.
Yes see, I'm seeing something here that suggests there are various complications such as inhaling stomach contents into your lungs.
That sounds terrible.
How does that every Friday?
That it's terrible?
Somehow I bounce back, but that does sound.
You imagine if you're like on the surgery, you're on the operating table and you're having surgery, and you just start you're knocked out, but you start uncontrollably vomiting, And that's what I think.
That's the reason. Once again, we didn't need an explanation. I was fine with whatever the doctor said to me yesterday. You can't have anything to eat or drink from midnight on in my surgeries in the afternoon.
However, living in the age of misinformation that we're in, Todd is very clearly doing a conspiracy theory thing right now, like, oh, well, what's gonna happen if you have a you know, banana nine hours later?
I would compare it to a name when they say you.
Got to shut your phones off because somehow it's going to be very difficult for them to land the plane because it's going to do something to their How we all the meters and things that are in front of them that they're looking at, because if people put their phone on too soon, you're not gonna able to find the runway somehow.
You done?
You know what I'm talking But we've all felt like that.
And I don't want your sympathy tomorrow either, and I don't want it on Monday when I come in. Okay, I don't because you didn't care. Now you're caring for whatever reason.
Here, we shut up your phones. We have to have a safe landing.
Yeah, but you can much rather have a safe landing, by the way, Yeah, my access to you know, Twitter, right.
Like Todd's Like, you should be able to have yogurt. You should be able to keep your phone on while you're landing.
I'm not saying blue buried strub, just like a plane vanilla yogurt. You know what you know to make it too complicated for the digesticy.
Yes, Paul, two parts to this.
First of all, Fritzy, I believe you totally know why they have people not eat before surgery. You don't want a full stomach. Like Seeton said, you could aspirate. Your body is not functioning normally with anesthetic according to this thing I'm reading, and so your body can have regurgitations.
I'd like to apologize to the audience right now.
Now.
The airplane thing, the pilots are as they get closer to landing or taking off, there's cell phone radio wave signals that can interfere with the pile, the pilot's radar, equipment, navigation, and even their headphones what they're hearing.
So it's precautionary measure. All right, got all that information, Just put on airplane mode. I'm going to do that tomorrow when I'm in surgery. Airplane mode, I think you can have a few crackers, and I think they're gonna give me an ivy yogurt. I think that's what I've asked for a little yoga for the dan and raspberry. Thank you. Well, you can't spell dan and without d help me out there. All right, So once again, I'm going in for surgery. You might call it a procedure, but cleaning up my shoulder tomorrow. Hashtag prayers, I mean prayers up for me.
Yeah, I'm having a not a procede, maybe a procedure on Friday.
I'm not allowed to have caffeine though.
Wow. Yeah, So that's.
I'm just sort of like to relate to you and commiserate, like I'm in this with you, buddy.
But you can have food. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, I'm not in it with.
I can't I can have food.
I can't have I can't work out, I can't have tobacco, and I can't have caffeine. And I only do one of those three things. I'll do it in bunches.
I can't do caffeine. I can't do food. They said, not even water.
And it's only four hours before I'm allowed to have as much water as I want.
Yeah, my own great, I'll watch you.
But I do have to go four hours without caffeine.
Alrighty eight seven seven three DP show even the ticker looked at Yeah, you're getting your ticker looked at them. Okay, yeah, I figured it's about time, you know. I can't wait for the anesthesia because there's no better sleep than when they go count backwards from ten and I go ten nine. It is powerful.
It's like just as enough time to be like, I wonder if this is gonna work.
Yes, yes, Because I did have a doctor who did micro fracture surgery on my knee and he goes, would you like to stay awake? I go no, that would hurt. He goes, no, no, no, I'm gonna numb your knee, but you can watch the surgery. And I go, no, why do I want to do that. I don't want to ruin a good sleep.
Yes, don are you curious? Just for giggles?
As they're willing you in and you're just for giggles.
Yeah, you take them just as they getting ready to put you on the tables. I had a turkey club a couple of hours ago. I just want to make sure that's cool.
No, you can't do that stuff.
Oh, cancel the surgery. I'll believing if you didn't. If you're just joking, you can't.
I'm looking that up right now, and I saw that that's absolutely improper, and they would probably cancel your surgery. It'd be just like making a joke with TSA at the airport. They don't know once you say it, it's no longer a joke.
Yeah, okay, like yelling fire in our crowded theater. There are certain things you just don't do.
Thank you, Todd, thank you, thank you. A Seaton Pole question for hour two is going to be what. John Spoltz will join us in about ten minutes from now.
Well, let's see hour one we had up there. Which are you watching tonight? Broncos, Saints are Dodgers Mets right now? That is at fifty four percent Dodgers Mets.
That's interesting.
We got a side poll here from Paul, which do you prefer your teams named after states of being such as the Liberty illnesses such as the fever. I would throw in their natural disasters too, and I get the matchup that we're talking about. However, we tend to name our teams after natural disasters, which is sort of morbid, like hurricanes, Yeah, hurricanes.
Or Alliance thunder Indiana fever. A fever is generally not a positive thing.
Fevers have wiped out entire populations before.
But you could say you've got a fever from basket. Yeah, like the New York Liberty. It's like our team is based on a concept state of being.
And are there any.
Others like that where it's that the l A Freedom. Is there a team like that?
I think there's a mining team called the Harrisburg Head Colds, like a might lea based to.
Check that's not.
Checking the Harrisburg head Colds Harrisburg. I don't think so.
Wasn't there an MLS team called like the earthquakes?
Yeah at one point.
Yeah, you don't want that. You do not want them coming to Let them.
Just win Trent and Typhoid. The Seattle scurvy, Yeah, Seattle scurvy. Let's go this Harrisburg head Colds.
Logo to like, it's a fun night for the family too.
It's you know, affordable.
The giant stuffy nose is the logo. It's great. I would get that hat.
So you have the Tampa Bay lightning. Now, lightning's pretty friendly generally, the Miami.
Heat, I want to get hit by it, you prefer not to.
The Tampa Bay storm. The Colorado avalanche rarely positive to get caught an avalanche. Yeah, the Oklahoma City thunder and the San Jose earthwakes. Okay, those are some of the natural disaster type.
Yeah.
Sure, I wonder what they're winning percentages compared to like like all the natural disaster Like do the natural disasters perform better than like named after animals like the bulldogs?
They always lose to the hurricane Jeremy in Huntington Beach joins US on the program.
Hi Jeremy, Hey Dan, I just want to get a start of the day, okay, Keik Hernandez is among the top ten for postseason home runs amongst active players, tied with Aaron Judge of fourteen.
Okay, steat of the day, SA of the day, my boss, stat of the day, stat of the day.
Here it comes that what stat of the day?
So Max Munsey, Hernandez, and sho Heo Tani all homered. Munsey has thirteen career postseason home runs, tied with Corey Seeger and Justin Turner for most in Dodgers franchise history.
Oh how stead of a day?
Start of a day?
Statut a day?
Start out a day?
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Hey Dad, first time soft two O five soft? So yeah, so the to a coordinator official speech off center an interpretation for that te men and defense. So under two minutes in the second and fourth quarter, they'll add the time back with the five yard penalty.
Well, I said they were going to change it. I didn't know they were going to change that rule after what Oregon did against Ohio State. But they did. They changed it, and rightfully so, because the offensive team shouldn't be penalized for something the defensive team did. And that's where you take the time off the clock. It should have been five yards and then they reset the clock. But hey, Dan Lanning and Oregon found a loophole. They exposed it, and that loophole closed up quickly. John Smoltz is next Dan Patrick show.
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It's such a weird stat with sho Heyo Tani, who homered last night. He's zero for twenty two with eleven strikeouts in the postseason. With the bases empty, he's seven for nine, two home runs, and the batting average is seven seventy eight with runners in scoring position runners on base. The last time a player with a higher batting average with runners on base in a single postseason you have to go back to nineteen oh nine. That's what's been amazing about show Heyo Tani. Just don't get anybody on base. You're the Mets pitching staff if you're facing him, because if you do, just walk. O'tany all right. Stat of the day brought to you by Panaani America, the official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. Larry and Florida. Hi, Larry, as we wait for John Smoltz to join us.
Hi, first time caller, won sixty clean and mean at seventy years old. And I wanted Dank, wanted Dan urried you on healing. I had some severe injuries and was crippled. I was ocean rescue in Florida and had broken back and torn ligaments in my leg and wasn't supposed to walk again. But the ocean and the warm water, once you get past that a national scarring and healing. When you get into the water, you're going to get relief. And I went back to two triathlons and qualified for Masters as a as a senior. So just be encouraged and go to water when you need to get comfortable with it.
All right, Well, thank you, Larry, thank you for the update on your health. Congratulations. I just need an ocean now. That would be the only thing I'm lacking here. When I'm going to have my healing process. So yes, we do you.
Want a custom sling like fur for the season, flannel, flannel slam?
I do like it. They gave me a sling yesterday.
Is it gorgeous?
No?
Do you want something kick it up a notch?
Well, Etsy whatever. I don't know if I'm going to be wearing it that long. Whoa, Yeah, yeah, you know, I tend to like Forrest Gump and I run and then you know, the braces go off my legs that kind of thing. I don't like to keep the crutches or anything like that. But yeah, surgery tomorrow on my shoulder, my my non pitching shoulder. We bring in John Smoltz, the Hall of Famer. He was on the call last night Dodgers Mets game four tonight at eightho eight. How many surger? Let's do the John Smoltz. How many surgeries lifetime he's had? All right, Todd, I'll start with you. Smoltzi's had how many surgeries he's had?
Seven? Surgery?
Seven surgery?
Seat are we including procedures in this like cleanups and things like that?
Yes, yes, because I'm I guess I'm having a procedure on my shoulder. Tomorrow.
You know if the first number that came to my head is a little high. But twenty two, Wow, he's not marks not, he's not.
But I don't know. It's just okay, Mar Sven. How many surgery slash procedures for John Smoltz?
Eleven?
Okay, Paulie, I'm going only three, two baseball related and one lifestyle related.
I'm gonna go four for John Smoltz. John, how many surgeries procedures have you had in your life?
Thirteen?
How many?
Thirteen?
Thirteen? How many are baseball related?
Uh?
Pretty much most of them I've had. Well, I should say I didn't have left shoulder surgery during the seasons. I probably should have. So I had two left shoulders done after I retired, one right shoulder done while I was playing, four elbows, one knee, and then after I retired, two hip replacements and a thumb surgery while I was playing. And I'm headed for a knee and one more shoulder, and I should be done for surgeries.
Are you getting a replacement knee?
Not a replacement? Hopeful?
Not?
Hopefully I can afford avoid that. I have to possibly get a replacement shoulder, which I'm not really thrilled about. But I will say, Dan, I just found out that you're having Do you have a good recliner.
Kind of?
I think that's where if you have your shoulder surgery, that's where you're gonna want to sleep the first two weeks. Just a hint, just a hint, because you're having rotator cup.
I'm assuming no, no, what are you having? It's just a clean up. Oh okay, all right, yeah clean, yeah, and I'll see all right, yeah, yeah, I had the labram done. But you know, most great pictures who throw hard have that surgery and exactly right. So I had that done, but uh yeah, still haven't recovered shoulder surgery, by the way, not an exact science. They got hips down, they got knees down, shoulders not not not exactly. All right, let me get to last night Showtani's home run. Are you sure that it stayed fair when it went over the foul pole? Like you what was the angle there? And did Fox ever have an angle that was truly definitive there?
From our vantage point, it sure looked like it was right over, you know, super high obviously and looked like it landed fair. But I don't know that they're as high as he hit it. I don't know how you can get a real good angle on that, but he down the line. He thought it was obviously, and then it was guaranteed by replay. But when he first hit it, I was like, oh my gosh, it's a moonshot and it really didn't hook that much at the end.
Well, once he hit it once, he has that sound, and we've talked about this before that it to sound different than any other baseball player in my opinion, that you knew it was going to be far enough. The question was was going to stay fair? Why do they pitch to.
Him, Well, they have to with runners on. It's you know, look, I've said this, you got a better chance of winning the lottery if you think that the current trends are going to continue. Meaning he hasn't gotten a hit with nobody on. That's just an anomaly that just doesn't make sense. And what doesn't make sense is what seventeen for his last twenty with runners in scoring position. So I believe, and I still believe, at some point in this series, much like we saw in the Yankees, they walk Soto to pitch the judge and loaded the bases. That eventually is going to happen with Otani. They're going to walk Otani to pitch the Bets. Well, good luck. I mean, that's why the Dodgers top four are pretty darn good. But it's gonna happen. It's just right now. You just don't want people on base when you're facing them, obviously, and it used.
To be that we got geared up for those starting pitchers in those matchups. That's not the case anymore. But you know what the Dodgers got out of Walker Bueller was a gift last night. You know what it used to be they were, you know, knee deep in pitching. Now they're not. So what is their philosophy where the Mets do have good starting pitching?
Yeah, you really are reading two different books, right You're reading a book of traditional baseball by the Mets that carried them through the second half. Their starting pitching was fantastic. They did a great job getting in deep into the games. And then you've got a team beat up in the Dodgers, where their rotation on paper in the beginning of the year was phenomenal, and then everybody gets hurt. They don't have any real options, so they typically would leave Walker Buehler in that game ninety nine percent of the time in a regular season game. They just weren't going to do it with the bullpen and the necessity to bank that win. I hate it, you know, for Walker Buehler because he did such an incredible job, especially rebounding from San Diego, because every pitcher wants to be in there when they haven't given up runs. But it's kind of the narrative that the Dodgers are playing by, and really they haven't lost the game doing it yet, so until they lose a game doing it that way, I don't think.
They're going to change.
Who do you like in the series?
You know, I've said all along that this series was going to go back and forth, and it certainly has the makeup to do that because when you play the long game on paper, the New York Mets had the advantage with starting pitching, but that advantage was really last night and they didn't take advantage of it, right, they didn't score. So now moving forward, Yama Moto, Yama Moto and Jack claherty are going to be pitching, and then you've got a bullpen possible game for the Dodgers. So I just think the series is going to be extended, and I still stand by it. It may not work out this way. The team that gets the most innings out of their starting pitching is going to win this series. I could be proven wrong because of what the Dodgers do, but I still think that's going to be the case.
He's John Smold's Hall of Famer would be on the call tonight for pitch eight oh eight with the Dodgers and the Mets. At your peak, was there anybody not that you feared? But let's let's remove bonds from the equation. Okay, where you were on the mound and that guy made you nervous? Like you how how often would that happen at your peak?
Yeah?
And and and honestly that happens more than you think. And the goal is to never let that be known. Right, And you got to fake it on the mount Tony Gwnn not even close. Like if Tony Gwynn was up and there was first and third or man on second, you just know that guy was going to advance and he wasn't gonna you wasn't he was going to strike out. Albert Pooholz had that fear. Fact, I had that fear factor with him, big poppy. You know, you just knew that they weren't. The moment wasn't going to be too big for him, and a young Miguel Cabrera was unbelievable and his he was beyond his years as a young player set up a picture. So I learned at an early age, and Glavin really helped me do that kind of a stone face, kind of like, hey, just fake it if you don't, you know, don't let them know. And I learned how to do that, and hopefully I did it.
Okay, Cabrera one of the more underrated hitters in our life, underrated players in our lifetime. But but so how do you fake it? Like, I don't know what you do when you're on the mound. You act like a tough guy.
Yeah, you just have this stare. I had a when my Italian grandmother was alive. She didn't understand sports, and she didn't like that I had this mean face on the mound and she said, I don't like that you don't smile. And I say, Grandma, you don't understand. I gotta I gotta be mean. I know, you know, I'm not a mean person, but I got a trick those guys into thinking, and I learned to just kind of have the stair down, you know, the barrel of the catcher and just not even really give much credit to them stepping in the box. And I wasn't afraid to go after the best. I lost, sometimes I won sometimes, but yeah, you just you know, if you don't have your stuff, and that's the worst part about pitching. You know, when you leave, You're like, I don't have my stuff. And the best game an example I can give you is it was at the end of ninety six and I was exhausted and I'm facing the Yankees in the World Series. That's the game I lost one to nothing against Pettitt. And I came in after the first inning and I sat next to Tom glav and I go, glad, I got nothing. I mean, I've got nothing. And you know what he said, He said, trick them. So I come in the second inning, I said, glad, I am hanging. He goes trick them. Third inning, I'm like, I don't think he goes trick them. And I literally tricked them till the you know, I went seven or eight and we lose the game one to nothing. And as soon as I got out of the game, I called orthopedic over. I said, Doc, I need a shot on my shoulder right now. He goes the season's over. I said, I don't care. I am barking. So I learned how to do that over time. And you just kind of part of your DNA.
Who would you rather face Aaron Judge or show he tunni? Uh?
This is not There's no easy answer, but Aaron Judge is a right handed pitcher. I'd rather face the right handed slugger. There's ways to get obviously both of them out. There's not a big, big way to do that. But Otani provides so many different challenges being a right handed pitcher that when he gets on, he's gonna steal and Aaron Judge can embarrass you with a five hundred foot home run. They both can. But I honestly can say I was never I felt like I had the advantage against every right handed hitter just the way I pitched. That doesn't mean I always was successful, but some left handers, Man, when they got in the box, I'm like, oh, I got to pitch differently.
Is there a home run sound from somebody that you still hear? Oh? Man? That you gave up.
Oh yeah.
First of all, I only gave up two runs in the All Star Games, and I got two losses. One of them was a mate Miguel to how to home run at Tiger Stadium that my buddy still still say hasn't come down. That was one got me the loss. And in the in the when I was closing, Albert Pooholes hit a game winner in the eighth inning in Saint Louis. I threw the ball. Is the only time in my career was I was really mad coming into the game. It's a backstory too long to tell. I was so mad that I threw this ball as hard as I could first time and only time, and he hit it in the big mac Lamp. I mean he as soon as he hit it, it was like game over. I know it and I'm I'm I'm off the field. And I tried to destroy the curtains in the clubhouse. And another long story that almost broke my thumb. So those two stand out, but there's a lot of them. Like my fear, my theory is, if you're going to give it up, give it up, don't don't be the wall cliffhanger like you might rob it. If you're going to give it up, give it up. And I've given up some some bombs.
Greg Mannick said that to me. He said, the ones that just trickled over the wall, those are the ones that crush you. He goes, Yeah, if I throw it, you hit it, and you hit it four hundred and fifty feet, good for you. It's the one that maybe shouldn't have gone out. Those are the ones that haunt you. Yeah.
I had one in the in the nineteen ninety one NL Pennant against the Pittsburgh Pirates. First inning, game seven, Van slikes up and he hit it, and I was so dejected, like game tied. All right, let's just I was already processing like game TIEDE refocus. David Justice catches it at the wall and Greg Olsen comes out and he goes, are you all right? Like what's going on? I said, it's over? He goes, what I said, it's over. That was their chance. But I really thought he hit it. He hopped everything that you do when you hit it and you know you get it. And this one didn't go out. And that's the one I'll always remember because I put my head down and I went, well, we've got.
A tie game.
And but the ones that you know one percent, you're already asking for the ball from the umpire and you know, you just saw want umpires to throw you balls because that means it's a home run.
Do you remember the first time you saw Halle Berry with David Justice?
Yes, absolutely, yeah, I'll tell you what. She was so nice. It was a unique time in our Look, we had the Jane Fonda and of course you know our owner Ted Turner, but we never had anybody like Superstar where it was a total different time in that clubhouse. And she was so nice, and of course we were in the middle of continued in to win. So yeah, absolutely.
I met her. I did an interview with Justice at his condo and she was there, and you know, at the time, I didn't know who she was. I don't know if anybody really knew. And I remember him telling me that he stays up to watch the eleven o'clock Sports Center and I say to him during the interview, I said, with her in bed, and you're gonna watch Sports Center and he goes yeah, and I'm going, oh my god. She was like I couldn't stare at her. It was like staring into the sun. It was, Yeah, that was. She was like the Barry Bonds I think of, you know women around baseball. They were digging the long ball even before you know Maddison Glave. Yeah that was. That was a long time ago. Have fun tonight, and yes, thanks as always for joining us. John my pleasure. Dan. That's John Smold's Hall of Famer. He'll be on the call tonight. Dodgers Met's game four on Fox. That's at City Field. First pitch is eight oh eight. Did we track that? Was it at eighth eight last night? I'm always curious about that. Where they got to time it out? It starts first pitch at eight oh eight. John's a lot of fun. I'm always amazed at the memory that athletes have. You could talk to a golfer and I could say to Tiger, Hey, nineteen ninety at Pebble Beach, seventh hole, final round, what did you hit? And he would tell you. Pitchers all the time, you'd say, hey, what was that pitch you through? Oh I threw a slider or a hitter. You can ask that. They know. It's remarkable. You know, we talk about Lebron, that Lebron is this savant and he can like recite plays and what happened on a certain play, and he probably is. But as far as memory goes with golfers or pitchers or hitters, they can tell you to one count low and away, came back two and two and it was a fastball outside corner, hit it down the line. Like remarkable to be able to have that memory.
Yes, Pauline Dodgers metch was scheduled for eight h eight pm Eastern. In the Official Major League Baseball box Score, the game first.
Pitch was eight o nine. Yeah, that's what I thought. So you run a tight ship. Uh, you know, I would like to have truth in advertising here. I planned my day around that. I'm going to ask, can we get a hold of the commissioner and like to ask him just one question, why eight o nine and not eight oh eight.
See if you can do that reasonable question.
Thank you, Tom,
