The Best of The Dan Patrick Show

Summary

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The Dan Patrick Show – Best Of

Date: July 31, 2026
Podcast Host: Dan Patrick
Production: iHeartPodcasts & Dan Patrick Podcast Network

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Episode Overview

This "Best Of" episode features Dan Patrick's signature blend of sports analysis, humor, and candid conversations with top sports journalists and insiders. The episode centers on major NFL and MLB developments, delving into contract tensions around Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, deep trade deadline drama in baseball, and the ongoing saga surrounding Kyle Shanahan and the San Francisco 49ers. Lively debates about sports legacies and standout musical acts also make for entertaining banter, providing something for both avid sports followers and casual listeners.

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Key Segments & Discussion Points

1. Tampa Bay Buccaneers Turmoil: Baker Mayfield’s Contract Drama

Guest: Rick Stroud (Tampa Bay Times, Sports Day Tampa Bay Podcast)
Timestamps: 02:26 – 07:52

• Baker Mayfield Contract Frustrations
  • The franchise QB is dissatisfied with only receiving a two-year extension, feeling he's earned more after his three-year run with the team.
  • "If you feel or you've been told you're a franchise quarterback, I think most guys would expect more than two years." – Rick Stroud [03:15]
• Impact on Locker Room Morale
  • Departure of star receiver Mike Evans to the 49ers and Vita Vea's trade demands have created uncertainty.
  • "When guys in that locker room see they're not taking care of Baker, they're not taking care of Vita, it's probably not a good vibe." [04:28]
• Franchise Tag, Future Scenarios
  • If Baker excels this year, the Bucs could franchise tag him, but that could further sour relations.
  • "If Baker gets hurt... he's got no security after this year." [05:40]
• Vita Vea’s Status
  • Unlikely to be traded due to his defensive importance.
  • "He occupies two guys on every play...that’s the one guy I have no one I can replace him with." [07:00]

Memorable Quote:

• "Baker is best when he's backed into a corner. We all know that. Walk-on at Texas Tech, walk-on at Oklahoma, win the Heisman..." – Rick Stroud [04:28]

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2. Baseball Roundtable: Trade Deadline, Hall of Fame, and Ohtani’s Legacy

Guest: Jeff Passan (ESPN Senior Baseball Insider)
Timestamps: 13:50 – 28:44

A. Hall of Fame Debates

• Modern Relievers – HOF Worthy
  • "Aroldis Chapman will be in there… Kimbrel, Jansen …by the numbers, Dan? They sure do." – Jeff Passan [15:59]
  • A trend of more relievers and “very good” (not just legendary) players making it to Cooperstown.
• Steroids Era and Analytics
  • New metrics and analytics have led to Hall of Fame reconsiderations, especially for center fielders like Andruw Jones and Carlos Beltrán.
  • "Our ability to contextualize numbers…has carved a path for these guys who weren't inner circle Hall of Famers, but who were excellent players to make the threshold." [17:30]

B. Shohei Ohtani—The Best Ever?

• Debate over Ohtani’s place in history: “most talented” versus “greatest” due to longevity concerns.
  • "Ohtani is unquestionably the most talented baseball player of all time. But for me, greatness is a combination of talent and longevity.” – Jeff Passan [19:12]
• Comparison to Babe Ruth
  • "If Babe Ruth knew about Shohei Ohtani, he never would have stopped pitching." – Dan Patrick [20:22]

C. MLB Trade Deadline Drama

• Tarek Skubal Sweepstakes
  • Rays, Brewers, Dodgers, Braves, Cubs all identified as main contenders; Dodgers considered frontrunner.
  • "The incentive is just there for [the Dodgers] to say, hey, if all it takes is prospect cost... why wouldn't we?" [23:08]
• Business Models & Super Teams
  • Dodgers’ billion-dollar revenues from Shohei Ohtani seen as a “force multiplier.”
  • “Shohei Ohtani's contract is the worst contract in baseball... He's a billion-dollar player, easy as that.” [24:34]
• MVP Race & Breakouts
  • Pete Crow-Armstrong’s leap into NL MVP contention.
  • "The superstars of today quite often come from the deals of the deadline.” – Jeff Passan [26:25]

D. Phillies Dynamics: Bryce Harper vs. Don Mattingly

• Potential tension between Harper and management after Mattingly’s comments.
  • "If you just let that go or if you’re asked about it... say Bryce just wants to win... They made something out of this." [27:27]
  • Harper said, “The Phillies do need to add [at the deadline].” [27:27]

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3. NFL: San Francisco 49ers—Kyle Shanahan Accident and Team Outlook

Guest: Matt Barrows (The Athletic, 49ers beat writer)
Timestamps: 32:24 – 40:19

• Shanahan’s Car Accident – Transparency Issues
  • Confusion and suspicion arose from delayed and muddled public statements by the 49ers and Palo Alto PD.
  • "[The accident] just adds another layer of kind of, you know, uncertainty to the whole thing and makes people think that there's more going on there than what there really is." – Matt Barrows [33:31]
  • Dan underscores the importance of immediate transparency: "This, to me, was preventable." [35:12]
• Team Health and 2026 Outlook
  • Health (especially of new addition Debo Samuel and veteran offensive players) is “everything” for the Niners’ divisional prospects.
  • “Those health issues, Dan, don't go away when you turn 30.” – Matt Barrows [39:01]
• Reporter Insider
  • Barrows describes facing public suspicion: "I'm getting a lot of the blowback...like I’m somehow in cahoots with Kyle Shanahan and Palo Alto pd. I’m not.” [35:40]

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4. Fun Banter: The Greatest R&B Band

Timestamps: 12:41 – 14:01

• Earth, Wind & Fire named as consensus best R&B band, with Sly & The Family Stone in the conversation.
• "I would like to throw Sly and the Family Stone into the conversation. You would get no argument from me..." – Dylan [12:49]
• Playful comparisons: “Boyz II Men are the Sammy Sosa of R&B; they had a three-year run that was unbelievable.” – Crew [13:37]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Rick Stroud on Buccaneers culture:
  "They never pay quarterbacks...I think the valuation of the position is kind of shocking to the Glazers." [03:15]
• Jeff Passon on Ohtani’s contract:
  "Shohei Ohtani's contract is the worst contract in baseball right now for a player. And...he's a billion-dollar player, easy as that." [24:34]
• Dan Patrick on transparency:
  "It just feels like if the Niners come out and say he's in an accident, then, okay, we'll wait for any details that come out..." [35:12]
• Matt Barrows on media fallout:
  "I'm getting a lot of the back blow...like I'm somehow in cahoots with Kyle Shanahan and Palo Alto PD. I'm not." [35:40]

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Summary Table: Main Guests & Topics

| Segment | Guest | Topic Highlights | Timestamps | |-------------------|---------------------|--------------------------------------------------|---------------| | Bucs Controversy | Rick Stroud | Baker Mayfield contract; Vita Vea's status | 02:26–07:52 | | Baseball Insider | Jeff Passan | Trade Deadline; Hall of Fame; Ohtani; MVP | 13:50–28:44 | | 49ers Beat | Matt Barrows | Shanahan accident; 49ers health; media response | 32:24–40:19 |

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Episode Takeaways

• NFL Offseason Intrigue: Baker Mayfield's situation is emblematic of the evolving (and sometimes messy) NFL quarterback market, with potential ramifications for the Buccaneers' locker room and future moves.
• Baseball at a Crossroads: MLB’s trade deadline underscores the disparities in team building philosophies, while Hall of Fame debates highlight changing standards. Shohei Ohtani remains both a generational talent and an unprecedented business asset.
• Media and Transparency: The Kyle Shanahan car accident coverage reveals how lack of transparency from teams can spiral into mistrust and speculation—even among veteran beat reporters.
• Culture and Camaraderie: The lighthearted banter over R&B band rankings shows the show’s signature blend of sports, pop culture, and fun.

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For more: Catch Dan Patrick weekdays on Fox Sports Radio and iHeartRadio, and listen to future episodes for the latest in smart sports talk, big-name guests, and engaging debates.

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Oh, it's a time honored tradition when things go wrong with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We call Rick Stroud. He covers the Buccaneers for the Tampa Bay Times Sports Day Tampa Bay Podcast. You want to start with Baker or Vita Vea?

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Well, Dan, I'm feeling a little disrespected I'm a little undervalued by you, quite frankly. I've been on, you know, McAfee and Rich Eisen, but you finally got around to me. But, yeah, let's start with Baker, because that seems to be the headlines. He kind of went after his ownership a little bit yesterday.

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Okay, help me understand this business strategy with Baker. I mean, this, you know, fits with his personality, but I don't know what kind of number he's looking for and if ownership is going to acquiesce to this.

[E]

Yeah, well, I think he was looking, you know, as much as the number. Obviously that was. It would have begun with a 5, I think is in 50 something million. But the years is what really was disappointing to him as much as anything. And they felt like they came down. I'm sure that they probably started at four years. We're talking about guaranteed money. Right. Because that's really all that matters. You know, I think they felt like they moved to three, and the Glazers were insisting on two. And if you feel or you've been told you're a franchise quarterback, I think most guys would expect more than two years. And to be honest with you, Dan, I mean, this franchise, the $30 million or 33 million that Baker has averaged the last three years, that's the most money they've ever paid a quarterback. They never pay quarterbacks. I mean, you go back to Doug Williams before the Glazers, Steve Young, Benny Testaverde, Trent Dilfer, Jameis Winston, those guys never made second contracts. So I think the valuation of the position is kind of shocking to the Glazers a little bit. They say they love Baker, and I believe they do, but, you know, it just. It wasn't going to happen for him for two years. He just didn't think that that was something that he felt he had earned more than that after the last three years that he's put in here.

[B]

Okay, so what happens?

[E]

Well, I think, you know, they can say that it's not going to be an effect on his team. I, you know, Baker is best when he's backed into a corner. We all know that. Walk on a Texas Tech, walk on an Oklahoma, win the Heisman, all that kind of stuff. But I think you have to kind of look and say, okay, what happened in the off season? Mike Evans decides to go to San Francisco. They offered him more money to stay. He didn't stay for whatever reason. And then you have Vita ve saying he wants to be traded, not a new contract. I want out of here. And then, fortunately, for him, he got the, oh, I got a tweaked back situation, so I don't get fined $50,000 a day. And then now you have Baker. So, you know, when guys in that locker room see they're not taking care of Baker, they're not taking care of Vita, I got to believe that they have talks and it's probably not a good vibe, but you know that Baker's going to go out there and play with his hair on fire, and that's really all that matters at the end of the day, is just how hard he goes, and hopefully he'll be healthy. That's another thing. He's the only one of three guys. Dan has started all three years, every game. But he's played. But he's not played well at times because of the injuries that he's had.

[B]

So how does this go bad?

[E]

It goes bad if, if Baker gets hurt. It goes really bad for Baker. He's no security after this year. It goes bad if they get to the end of the year and, you know, Baker, if he has a good year, they can franchise tag him. I know there's a lot of dead money, but they, you know, the cap is, is, you know, hocus pocus stuff anyway. They'll move money around, so they'll try to lock him up. But, I mean, I could see Baker getting to the end of the year if he had a great year and saying, I don't want to be franchise. You guys had your chance before the season. You know, this, this is kind of what he's been, Mr. You know, shoulder chip. So I don't, I don't really know, but they have a chance to win this division. It's gotten a little better. They're still, I think, the best team in the division, and winning kind of cures everything. I mean, it's not impossible that, you know, they've done this with other players, including Mike Evans. When you get through the season, Mike Evans didn't want to talk about a contract. He was in his last year, but right before free agency, they gave him, you know, two years, $52 million, and everybody was happy. So there'll be time. Franchise tag hold places for guys to get longer term deals. So we'll see how it goes. It all depends on how he plays

[B]

well, and that's different to Vita versus saying it. I don't want to hear about a contract. I want out. What's the likelihood that he'll be traded?

[E]

I think it's probably very slim to none. They need him in their Defense. I've talked to Todd Bowles last year and he said, that's the one guy I have no one I can replace him with. You know, he occupies two guys on every play. But when you're 31 years old and you're way upwards of 355 pounds, probably no one's actually gotten on a scale next to him. So I don't know what he weighs. But you know, that's, that's the tough thing. But, but he's making 17 million. I think they could just juice up this year, give him, you know, get him into the 20s for this season, let him become a free agent after this season. And if they do that, he'd be in the top 10, which is where he belongs as far as pay goes. And maybe everybody's happy, but he is here as that back tweak. He hasn't walked out of camp. He's not being fine. So those are all good signs that maybe they can work something out.

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Thanks. Good thing, Jeff.

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Earth, Wind and Fire. No better R B band than Earth, Wind and Fire, right? I think that's a consensus, correct?

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I think so, yeah.

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Yeah. Dylan, I would like to throw Sly and the Family Stone into the conversation. You would get no argument from me with Sly and the Family Stone. Yes. Yeah, Paulie.

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Cool in the gang upper echelon, though. Not, not equal to. But in that neck of the woods.

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Yeah. Earth, Wind and Fire. And Sly, they probably stand alone. Cool in the gang was cool, but.

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Yeah, they'd probably be a B band, maybe B plus. Yes, Mark.

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And a lot of people would differentiate. There was the instrumental cool in the gang. And then they got into the celebration. Too hot. They got to the real big pop hits. So there's two different cools in the gang.

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Cool in the gangs. Yes, Paul.

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Modern era, boys to men, strong representation.

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They're the Sammy Sosa of R B. They had a three year run. That was unbelievable.

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Wait, were they cheating?

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No, no, no. I just mean three sixty home run season.

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They had three hundred and sixty home run seasons. Boys to Mindy.

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Okay, Jeff Passon, walking into this topic. Espn Senior Baseball Insider. You have anything you want to offer up on this topic?

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I was born on the 21st of September, so I love that song. And I was, and I was, I was wondering if that was, that was intentional. Someone was doing like a little Sly nod there. And, and by the way, Sly and the Family Stone probably deserves some sort of mention in here as well.

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Yes. Yeah, I agree they, that I still look back at what they were doing when they were doing it and Sly was pretty unique. I without Sly, I don't think you have Prince. I like, I think his impact was even Rick James. Sly the Family Stone probably had a large influence on them. Okay, we're here to talk baseball. By the way, are the Mets selling? Are they a seller at the deadline? What are they doing?

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Oh yeah, they're selling. Just how much they sell, I'm not quite sure, but I anticipate Freddie Peralta is going to go. Could be pretty soon. Luke Weaver, I think at this point the market is strong enough where even though he's under contract for next season, there are so few relievers, Dan, of potentially great impact, like 8th and maybe even 9th inning guys on the market right now that I think the Mets are going to cash that one in. Clay Holmes's market is great at this point. I was talking with the team last night that's like, you know, we're interested in him. But the. What they're projecting that they're going to get is a little too rich for our blood. So in this season of absolute doom from the New York Mets, the possibility of at least a little bit of salvaging going on at the trade deadline here, it makes the, makes the pain a little less bad than it's been. But, but really what a disappointing season for them. I mean, what a, what a disaster of a year.

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Speaking of relievers, we brought this up last week or the week before. Is Aroldis Chapman going to be a Hall of Famer?

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Oh, yeah, absolutely. I don't think there's any question at this point. The saves, the strikeouts, once, once the door was cracked for modern relievers to go in. I think Chapman will be in there. The, the questions to me, like Craig, Kimbrell, Kenley, Jansen, did they make the cut as well? By the, by the numbers, Dan? They sure do.

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Wow.

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Like it's, it's those three this generation and I, I think once, you know, once beyond like the Gossages and the Mariano Rivera's, once you started getting to that next tier of closers, it just opened the door for guys like Chapman

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and Jansen and Kimbrough, the steroid era, because of that, it feels like we're getting hall of Fame classes that make like Jeff Kent, Beltron, Andrew Jones. They're really good players. And I, I know that they're all in the same building. They're not all the same hall of Famers. But has the steroid era changed the voting or what the requirement, you know, 500 home runs, 3,000 hits. I don't know if we're going to get, you know, some of these numbers making it tougher, you know, and is Andrew Jones a Hall of Famer? Is Carlos Beltran and the, you know, part of the cheating scandal, part of, you know, this Jeff Kent, he played second base and hit a lot of home runs. Are these, are these all. Hey, hall of Famers, no doubt.

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I don't vote for the hall of Fame anymore, Dan. I don't know if I would have voted for any of them if I did. And when I did vote for the hall of Fame, I was a small haul guy. But I also think that this is less to do with the steroid era and more to do with the knowledge that we have because of analytics and the way that we can look at the numbers, compare them, understand maybe beyond those surface numbers, what the depth of a player's true contributions actually were. And I think the reason that Jones and Beltron got in is because they're center fielders. It's a positional thing. And center field is so valuable defensively. And Andrew Jones was so incredible def. And Beltran was right up there with him among the more elite defensive center fielders of his generation. And so because of that, I think our ability to contextualize numbers better than we have in the past, that has carved a path for these guys who aren't inner circle hall of Famers, but who were excellent players to make the threshold. And part of it, too, is that they're being compared with the low end of hall of Famers. And it's like, I'm not going to call it a sin, but the sins of our past come back to haunt us. You let in somebody who's down here as compared to up there, everybody who's down here is going to be compared to him. And, you know, there are arguments that can be made that are compelling for

[B]

just about anyone talking to Jeff Patterson from the mothership, I forget who we had on who said that Shohei Ohtani is already the greatest baseball player of all time. I think CC Sabathia said that he's already the greatest baseball player of all time. What do you think of that statement?

[A]

I think it depends how you define greatest baseball player of all time. I would say Shohei Ohtani is unquestionably the most talented baseball player of all time. But for me, greatness is a combination of talent and longevity. And I think holding that longevity standard when we're talking about the best ever is an important thing. I understand that that longevity is not something that you can ever predict with someone. You don't know how a guy's body is going to hold up. You don't know if he's going to be able to play 20 years. But the standard that's been set for greatness in the past is a combination of doing it for a really long time at a really high level. And Ohtani's done it for upward of a decade now. And that decade has been about as good as you can get. And that's with all of the injuries, that's with multiple elbow surgeries, that's with the back and forth. That's with spending six years in the purgatory of Anaheim and playing for a Los Angeles Angels team that never surrounded you with a whole lot. And so Ohtani's first decade has been incredible. But is he the best ever? No, he's the most talented ever. He can be the best ever if he continues to do this for another decade.

[B]

But if Babe Ruth knew about Shohei Ohtani, he never would have stopped pitching.

[A]

You know what? I actually think that is an astute point. But I don't know what kind of. I don't know if like Babe Ruth was a bastard competitor either. Like a lot of that comes down, I think, to what your motivations are and Shohei Otani's motivation is to do the things that people tell him he can't do. You want to be a two way player? We don't have those in baseball. Well, now we do.

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You want to be a great all around offensive player. You can't steal bases. Okay, well, here's 51 for you to go or 59 to along with 51 home run. There are just so many things that Shohei Ohtani has done throughout the course of his career that nobody imagined he would ever be able to do. That to me, is the is the reason cece says what he says, and I don't begrudge him for it at all.

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Dan.

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I think if you're a player, the way you look at it is this guy is doing things on a field that I could never have Conceived of somebody who's that much of an outlier, that different than all the rest of us. By the nature of his skills, he must be the best.

[B]

I guess it's not a question of if but when or where Tarek Scubal is traded. Where, how many bidders are involved in this?

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I think you see the Tampa Bay Rays, the Milwaukee brewers, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Cubs is the main five right now. The Yankees sneak in. Could the Phillies potentially do it? I suppose. But I think at the end of the day, the clearest three right now are probably Milwaukee, Los Angeles and Atlanta. And what it's going to come down to, Dan, is the team's appetites to give up their tippy top prospects. Now, I don't think. Jesus, Maddie. Who's the number one prospect in all of baseball? Shortstop in the brewers organization. I don't think he's going anywhere with. The Dodgers include Josue DePaula, their top prospect, an outfielder who looks like Jordan Alvarez and is produced like him in the minor leagues. Would, would the Rays include Theo Gillen, their number one prospect? The top 10 guy in the whole sport, center fielder, young, dynamic, athletic, everything's good about him. Would any of these teams do these high level players for what is a rental? And that to me is why I thought from the beginning that the Dodgers have the advantage over all these other teams.

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Dan.

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The lifeblood of the Tampa Bay Rays and the Milwaukee brewers is drafting, signing and developing young players and watching them blossom under six years of club control in the big leagues. The Dodgers do it just as well as them and also spend four times as much as both of them. So the Dodgers don't need these prospects quite like the brewers and the Rays do. And so the incentive is just there for them to say, hey, if all it takes is prospect cost, in the same way we're going to approach this that we do free agents, if all this takes is money and we have more than everyone else. Well, if all this takes is prospects and we have as much as everyone else without the penalty for going and spending it, why wouldn't we?

[B]

Yeah, I understand that. It's like the LA Rams said, f draft picks. You know, we don't need draft picks because, you know, we can go out and sign somebody or trade for somebody and the Dodgers can have that philosophy. You know, the Yankees had great farm prospects, but when they got up to the majors, they were able to keep them. That was the difference. The Yankees did something that nobody else was able to do. They kept Everybody. The Dodgers approach has been different than can anybody else replicate what the Dodgers are doing with their business philosophy?

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The Mets, the Yankees, the Cubs, the Red Sox, that's pretty much it. Maybe the Blue Jays, just because they have a whole country and they have a very, very wealthy ownership. But what's different about the Dodgers, Dan, is that they've got the Ohtani force multiplier where you know, if you have Shohei Ohtani on your team and a halfway competent group of business executives, that your floor revenue wise is going to be pretty much where everyone else's ceiling is. And the Dodgers have, have leveraged Ohtani to enormous returns. They're the first baseball team to go over a billion dollars a year in revenue and they're on track to replicate that this year. And so he is the greatest bargain in the history of baseball. The $700 million player who has made more, more money for his team than anyone else. And even Dan, even at a straight 700 million, he would be a bargain. But 700 million brought down because of deferrals to about 450 or so million. Yeah, it's, it's the, in terms of a player maximizing his value. Shohei Otani's contract is the worst contract in baseball right now for a player. And, and I, I don't begrudge him for signing this $700 million deal. But he's a billion dollar player, easy as that.

[B]

And, and Shohei might not win the MVP this year based off not being able to pitch if you know this tender knee. Pete Crow Armstrong keeps creeping up odds wise.

[A]

Oh yeah.

[B]

So there, there is an opening for somebody to steal the National League mvp.

[A]

It's, it's amazing what Peter Armstrong's done this year. We knew what his floor was he was going to be based on his position in center field, his speed, the defense that he plays. He's a two to three win player without swinging the bat every year. But the fact that he has walked almost 12% of the time this year, that he's brought down his strikeouts as well, that he's. His on base percentage, which was hovering around 3 last year, is more like 380 this year. He has become the type of player that the Chicago Cubs frankly were dreaming he could be when I got him at the trade deadline for Javier Baez a half decade ago. And, and that's why, remember, that's why this time of year, Dan matters, because the superstars of today quite often come from the deals of the deadline.

[B]

Don Mattingly and Bryce Harper are they going to be able to coexist in Philly?

[A]

I think it's more Bryce Harper and Dave Dombrowski. You know, Don, Don Mattingly coming out and saying what he did was surprise. Like a lot of people in the industry were surprised at that. If, if you just let that go or if you're asked about it, you're done. Mattingly, can't you just say Bryce is just like the rest of us, he wants to win. No, I'm serious, Dan. It's squashed right there like that. They, they actively turned that into a multi day thing that we are now talking about on the Dan Patrick show. And it very easily could have just been either ignored or, or casually comically eye rolled away. But no, they made something out of this. And here's the thing. Bryce Harper was right. The Phillies do need to add. They, they, they need to add in multiple areas. They need a leverage reliever. They need a fifth starter. They need an outfield bat. Another bad as well on top of that. So I think everything he was saying, frankly was true.

[B]

Great to talk to you as always. Have fun this weekend and certainly on Monday.

[A]

I appreciate you not asking about Tarek School. This is the only time that will happen. And yes, I do think school's getting traded. And yes, of course, Dodgers are the favorites.

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Hectic. That would be the way I would start it. It seems like there's a big news item every moment here, including last night with Debo Samuel, the big one and I'm sure you want to ask me about it is, is the Kyle Shanahan accident, crash. And that's obviously still looming over the team right now. I don't think he's going to be back at practice today in full and we really don't know exactly when he's going to kind of resume his everyday duties.

[B]

Okay. It just feels like we keep adding to the mystery of this. Why, why isn't this just a cut and dried story that coach gets injured, car accident, non life threatening injuries. We'll let you know when he's going to be back at practice. Couldn't it just exist like that from the beginning?

[D]

It yeah, it should have if the team had kind of disclosed it on what was it, July 14th when it happened. But I think when you don't do that and there were some things out of their control that happened. For example the Palo Alto PD and this isn't, this is part of the same issue I think and non not disclosing things and kind of creating a problem because of that. The Palo Alto PD does not handle accident reports like crime reports. They're not public information. So they didn't disclose the accident report. They still haven't to this point. So it's not available. It's not like you could go down there and you know like a, like a good reporter and check the police logs and you would have found it. It, it didn't exist. And the only way it became public was when they submitted the information to a state database which was public. The problem is that they, they submitted it incorrectly. They got one of the items wrong which was who caused the crash. And that led to the confusion like maybe a day's worth of news items were saying that this other driver, the 21 year old female driver is the one that swerved well, no, that wasn't the case. So it just adds another layer of kind of, you know, uncertainty to the whole thing and makes people think that there's more going on there than what there really is.

[B]

It just feels like if the Niners come out and say he's in an accident, then, okay, we'll wait for any details that come out after that. It happens. But when everybody's holding this information or those who had it, held it, and then you get the green light, and then everybody's got a tweet and then you have a story, and I go, they're just, they're adding to the suspicion surrounding this. That's. That's what I. This, to me, it was preventable.

[D]

Matt. Well, you're speaking to the choir on that, of course. I mean, I can only think that they were waiting to see, you know, what would happen with Kyle Shanahan. This happened 11 days between before the start of training camp and before he needed to be in front of the media and in front of the team, et cetera, et cetera. So I think that they thought that there was a possibility he would have been back in full by that point. I mean, if he had been back, there's no way, you know, if he's up there at the, at the podium with his hat pulled down low like he normally wears it, at that point, I don't think anyone could have. Could tell that he'd been in an accident. It's. It's the concussion that's really been the lingering issue, and you just never know when that's gonna heal back to normal. But I, I agree with you 100%. If, if they had just put it out immediately and if the Palo Alto PD had just said, okay, here's the accident report and here's all the information and all of that confusion and all of the distrust, you know, towards the team, towards court reporters, I'm getting a lot of the, the back blow from it, too. Like I'm. I'm somehow in cahoots with Kyle Shanahan and Palo Alto pd. I'm not. Wouldn't have, Wouldn't have occurred when Shanahan

[B]

was made available to reporters with no cameras. Any topics? Not allowed.

[D]

There were. I mean, they were off the record, so I can't tell you, but he kind of explained what his, you know, his point of view was, and this was on the record. I mean, he was very distressed that this other driver, a 21 year old female, who he was already really guilty over, you know, putting in harm's Way had initially been blamed for the crash when it was his fault, his inattention. So that was the impetus of him calling reporters in. And then the other part was to explain what we just talked about, that it wasn't his intent to hide it. He said that he, you know, called 14. I don't know, maybe. Maybe a dozen close associates, friends, family, let them know, and he didn't tell them not to put it out there. He thought it would. It just didn't at that point. And the team hasn't said exactly why it didn't put it out there. You know, to your point, it's. It's an accident. It happens. There was no, you know, criminality involved. No one was cited in the. In the whole thing. He's the only one that got hurt. So I think that they just. They just figured, you know, it's. It's something that everybody has, and we're just going to kind of let it go.

[B]

As for the Niners on the field this year, that seems to be a mystery, too. Matt, you're in a real tough division. How would you handicap what to expect from the Niners?

[D]

Well, with the 49ers, it all boils down to health every year. And, you know, one of the guys that they're, they're counting on, Ricky Pearsall, he was, he was going to start opposite Mike Evans this year. I think his season is really up in the air now. He's still dealing with the PCL issue that, that bothered him for more than half a season last year. They're. They're going to sign Debo Samuel, and he very likely will kind of slide into that Z receiver role opposite Mike Evans, which is great. I mean, the, the. There's not going to be any kind of learning curve there. He's well known inside the locker room, but he's another guy in his 30s on that offense. And you're talking about a team that's dealt with health issues in recent seasons. Those health issues, Dan, don't go away when you turn 30. And I think that's going to be, you know, if everybody can stay healthy or get. They can even stay relatively healthy. They showed last year in going 12 and five that they can be a good team, but I think that that is, you know, is going to determine whether they're keeping pace with the Rams and Seahawks or not.

[B]

Matt, thank you. Not everybody wanted to talk about this. I appreciate you. I know you've been covering that team since 2003, so thank you for joining us.

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Anytime. Dan, thanks for Having me Matt Barrows

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