Hour 1 – Caitlin Clark not in the 3 Point Contest, Have you read Homer?

Summary

The Dan Patrick Show – Hour 1

Date: July 23, 2026
Episode Theme:
This episode centers on controversy and confusion surrounding Caitlin Clark and Sabrina Ionescu’s absence from the WNBA’s three-point contest, the league’s communication missteps, and broader issues of sports marketing and event participation. It also includes lively discussions on NBA All-Star contest invitations, a humorous exploration of classic literature ("Homer"), and listener interactions on women in sports media.

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Main Topics

WNBA Three-Point Contest Controversy

• Key Issue: Conflicting reports are swirling about whether Caitlin Clark and Sabrina Ionescu were invited to the WNBA three-point contest, and if so, whether they declined or never received official invites.
• Importance: Both players are high-profile stars, and their participation would generate significant interest and ratings for the event.

The Messaging Mess

• Dan Patrick notes ongoing and persistent miscommunication within the WNBA, which appears especially acute leading into the All-Star break, when the league should be riding high on recent successes.
  • Quote: "I don't know if you don't invite Sabrina Ionescu – her, a two-time three-point shooting champion – and if you did invite her and she declined, then up the ante. You want stars to be on display." (03:10)
• The lack of clarity and follow-through on invitations is seen as emblematic of broader issues ("two steps forward, three steps back") with WNBA PR and marketing efforts.

Star Participation and Event Value

• Dan and the Danettes agree the league must showcase its biggest stars; star power drives viewership and league growth.
  • Quote: "You have to build on what you have right now with Sabrina and Caitlin Clark." – Marvin (22:39)
• They discuss the mechanics of contest invites and the confusion that can arise if a defending champ like Ionescu isn't clearly and formally invited.
  • Quote: "You can't decline an invitation that you officially didn't get." – Sabrina Ionescu (23:06)
  • Quote: "I'm going to follow up with you just to say I want to make sure I talk to you. Are you going to participate?" – Dan (10:04)
• The hosts debate whether not being included in the "first wave" of invitations is an insult to Ionescu and speculate about similar issues in NBA All-Star events with players like LeBron James and Anthony Edwards.

Segment Timestamps:

• [03:02]–[13:24] – The three-point contest invite confusion, WNBA communication issues
• [23:06] – Sabrina Ionescu’s statement on not being invited

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On WNBA PR:
  • “They just keep focusing on things or not focusing on things, and they feel like it’s two steps forward, three steps back.” – Dan (02:52)
• On Star Power:
  • “If I can get Caitlin Clark and I can get Sabrina Ionescu, people are going to watch that. That’s what the goal is.” – Dan (03:24)
  • “But miscommunication – it doesn’t feel like they have the story straight.” – Dan (11:07)
• On Ionescu’s Exclusion:
  • “There’s no way Sabrina Ionescu isn’t in the first wave.” – Marvin (13:24)
  • “You have to have the big dogs to promote your product.” – Marvin (22:39)
• Sabrina's Clarity:
  • “I can’t decline an offer I never got officially invited to… I just wanted to set the record straight.” – Sabrina Ionescu (23:06)
• On All-Star Events:
  • "You would never teach somebody Jim Furyk’s golf swing. But if I look… they’re all in the same spot. I don’t care what you do to get there…” – Dan (39:16)

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Show Structure & Key Discussions

The Mechanics and Importance of Official Invitations

• Dan and the team discuss how the invitation process can and should work, comparing it to NBA events and using humor to highlight the absurdity of dropping communication with a star player.
  • Possible scenarios for Sabrina’s lack of invite (lost in the mail, oversight, bad planning).
  • How big stars like LeBron or Steph are always worth inviting—even offering oversized incentives if needed.
  • Audience engagement: 51% of the audience say that Clark/Ionescu's participation would determine whether they watch the contest. (27:46)

Broader Sports Questions

• NBA Slam Dunk & Home Run Derby: Comparisons are made to other All-Star events, where star absence diminishes the prestige and draw of the contests, and the importance of always inviting top talent.
• Red Sox & Shohei Ohtani: Brief update on MLB news (Red Sox win streak ends, Ohtani’s MVP prospects affected by injury). (09:02, 16:05)

Listener and Host Interactions

• On Women in Sports Media: Dan reflects on the rise of women in sports broadcasting, mentioning several notable hosts and sideline reporters and expressing pride in their progress. (34:43)
• Mail Humor & Consulting Offers: Running jokes about lost invitations (Drew Brees’ Hall of Fame speech) and Dan’s offer to fix WNBA’s PR as an unpaid consultant. (09:19, 34:35)

The “Homer” Literary Detour

• In a running side-bit, Dan and the Danettes banter about Homer’s identity (Iliad/Odyssey), comparing him to Sting or Mozart, and referencing Matt Damon’s upcoming role related to "The Odyssey."
  • Quote: “Did Homer have a last name or was that his last name?” – Dan (32:45)
  • They humorously discuss the plausibility of the Trojan Horse and pop culture adaptations (Troy, The Odyssey). (31:44)

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Key Timeline

• [02:12] Show proper begins; preview of show’s guests and main issues
• [03:02–13:24] Deep dive into the WNBA shooting contest, star power, communication issues
• [13:24–16:26] Comparison to NBA/NFL All-Star events: incentives, process, value of star participation
• [22:13–31:44] Continuation of WNBA topic: Ionescu’s clarity, possible missteps, audience poll, "Trojan Horse" banter as segue
• [34:43] Listener call about female sports broadcasters; Dan’s appreciation for their rising status
• [39:16] Discussion on sports technique (Clark’s shooting form) – “If it works, it works”
• [41:45] Play of the day: Red Sox end winning streak, gambling stat shared
• [42:52] “Homer” literary tangent, Matt Damon tie-in, pop culture rankings

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Style & Tone

• Conversational, unscripted, with in-jokes and quick-witted exchanges
• Frequent swings between deep sports analysis and playful irreverence (literature, classic sports storytelling)
• Honest criticism of sports leagues, but rooted in a desire to see the product (and its stars) succeed

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Summary

This hour of The Dan Patrick Show unpacks the WNBA’s three-point contest snafu—using it as a lens to critique broader league communication lapses, debate the value of events when stars are absent, and illustrate how sports leagues (NBA, WNBA, MLB) can miss easy wins by failing to properly market their brightest players. With sharp commentary, quoted soundbites (notably Sabrina Ionescu setting the record straight at [23:06]), and humorous asides (the "Homer" discussion), the show balances industry insight with entertainment. Listeners come away with a clear sense of both the stakes (for women’s hoops and beyond) and the show’s unserious side, ahead of interviews with Matt Damon and Chris Simms in later hours.

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TV network, whatever it, you know, whatever the bigger picture is. So we'll talk to Heather about that coming up. 877-3-DP show email address dpdanpatrick.com Twitter handle the DP Show Good morning if you're watching on Peacock, thank you for downloading the app. We say good morning to our radio affiliates around the country. IHeartRadio Fox Sports Radio will come up with a poll question and operator Tyler sitting by. He'll take your phone calls at 877-3-DP show a weird day for the WNBA. Sabrina Ionescu and Caitlin Clark had big games last night. You know what we're talking about today. Or at least this is what social media is talking about today. Conflicting reports on whether or not the Caitlin Clark and Sabrina Ionescu were asked and declined or not asked to be in the three point shooting contest. This comes days after the WNBA Players association said to Sophie Cunningham, you can't promote and market yourself with your finger point that she has made famous. They just keep focusing on things or not focusing on things and they feel like it's two steps forward, three steps back. I don't know if you don't invite Sabrina, Sabrina Ionescu, two time three point shooting champion. And if you did invite her and she declined, then up the ante. You want stars to be on display. Now I know you want to put out new names. You know, Az Fudd will be out there. She's a very good, you know, three point shooter. She'll probably be the favorite. But if I can get Caitlin Clark and I can get Sabrina Ionescu, people are going to watch that. That's what the goal Is Caitlin Clark declined. Why? Is there anything we can do to spice it up? Sabrina Ionescu There was a report where she said I wasn't invited. Why? Why is there any miscommunication here? But that's part of the problem. The WNBA has tons of miscommunication. And here we go into the All Star break and you should be on an all time high going into the All Star break and you're not. Still a lot of questions. And maybe the commissioner gets in front of the media. I'm hoping I'm expecting. But you don't know. There's a lot of questions. But these are questions that you know are coming your way. You've been able to prepare yourself for a long time for these questions. The problem is it keeps happening a little more often than it needs to. Grab ahold of the league. Give us what the philosophy is. Give us your thoughts. Were Caitlin Clark and Sabrina Ionescu invited? 3 point shooting contest. If Caitlin Clark turned it down, that's fine. She has nothing to gain by winning the three point shooting contest. Sabrina Ionescu, two time champ. She may not have anything to gain from it either but boy do I want to go out of my way to make sure those two players are in the three point shooting contest. Absolutely. But instead we should be focusing on great basketball because Sabrina Ionescu and the Liberty. Great game last night. Caitlin Clark had another great game. She's quietly putting together pretty good run here of impressive games. And I think she's healthy. She hadn't been healthy in a while. But you got the All Star break coming up and I've got text messages into a couple of sources on the three point shooting contest. Now I didn't think I was going to be starting my day sending out a text message to two different sources on can you separate fact and fiction here? Did Sabrina Ionescu get an invitation to the three point shooting contest? If Caitlin Clark doesn't want to do it, I understand it now. If you want to do it for the betterment of the game, okay. But I don't know if I'm her, I would probably reduce my exposure as much as I can. She got another technical last night. The next technical she gets, she gets suspended for a game. All righty. 8773 DP show email address [e-mail] Twitter handle @DP Show. We'll get your phone calls, settle on a poll question. All of that coming up. The Red Sox finally lost. They had won 15 in a row. They lost last night to the Orioles. Shohei Ohtani is dealing with the sore knee. Now you want to have an opening for somebody else to win the mvp. Now you have it because when Otani does double duty, he's going to win the MVP just about every year or he'll be favored to win just about every year. So now there's an opening and it might be Pete Crow Armstrong with the Cubs. Now all of a sudden the odds are closing just a little bit here. That's the only way Ohtani can lose it, but he's going to have a missed start or two. You still want to have the bat in the lineup, but this is where it could get interesting down the stretch. Dylan, what's the poll question today? By the way, stat of the day is brought to you as always by Panini America. The official trading cards of the Dan Patrick show and first hour brought to you by Dude Wipes because wetter is better available at Amazon and major retailers nationwide. Dude Wipes Best clean, pants down. All right, Dylan, what do you have for me?

[Dylan]

Well, we got some, some WNBA polls from Todd over here. Sabrina Ionescu declined an invitation to defend her three point shooting contest title, was never invited to participate or was invited, but it got lost in the mail or was misplaced somehow.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, Drew Brees said he sent me an invitation for his hall of Fame speech and we can't find it. So it does happen. Now I don't know if Todd knows where it is. Maybe something got lost. Was it sent to him? Was it sent to the DP show email address? We're not sure that's the kind of thing you have in the mail, but I don't know if you can trust the mail nowadays either. Yes, Todd, isn't it also the kind

[Todd]

of thing, whether it's Drew Brees in the hall of Fame or a WNBA three point shooting contest that someone follows up to make sure that it was received or you're expecting a response, yay or nay that you're going to participate or you're going to go to the hall of Fame and talk to and if you haven't hear, then it seems like the common thing to do to say just want to make sure you got it. Are you playing? Are you coming?

[Dan Patrick]

Yes. I would think with Sabrina Ionescu maybe something got lost. But you're the two time defending champ. I'm going to follow up with you just to say I want to make sure I talk to you. Are you going to participate? And if she says, hey, I went through team PR and said that I wasn't going to Participate. Great. Just want to understand that. Is there anything we can do to encourage you to defend your championship? Yeah, Pauling.

[Paulie]

I wonder if it's somewhere in between where maybe they invited a bunch of people first to be in the three point contest, and Sabrina wasn't in the first wave of being asked and she was insulted because she did not seem in a good mood when she talked about it yesterday.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay, but why wasn't she then in the first group?

[Paulie]

Exactly. It makes no sense. And it all leans back to bad communication or bad planning.

[Dan Patrick]

All right, Dylan,

[Dylan]

would Sabrina Ionescu's participation in the WNBA three point contest determine whether you watch it or not?

[Dan Patrick]

No, but it wouldn't hurt. I think if you had Caitlin Clark and Sabrina in there, that would be great. And then if somebody happened to beat those two, that would be great as well. If Az Fudd ended up winning, great. I'm okay with that. I just. We want to see stars. We want to see them. You got. Showcase them the best you can. But if they don't want to, you know, participate in this, fine. But make sure you get the story straight because it doesn't feel that way. It feels like there's a miscommunication communication here. Is there a slate? Hey, you didn't go to me first. Okay. Hey, we want to showcase some of the younger talent. Okay, whatever. Your reasoning is, be buttoned up for a change. Yes, Dylan, it does feel like the

[Dylan]

WNBA heard the phrase any press is good press a long time ago and just kind of took it and ran with it. Like they. Seems like they can't get their foot out of their mouth.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, this I don't believe in. Any press is good press. Not at all. And I think the WNBA is pretty much a poster child for this. Hey, we're talking about the wnba. Are you. Are you really not? What's happening on the floor? I think asia Wilson had 38 last night. Nobody's talking about that. We're talking about the other stuff. But here's the issue. The people who do talk about these issues don't care about what's happening on the floor. They want to use Sophie Cunningham social media post or what this person is saying about race relations with players and Caitlin Clark sexuality. That's. That's a problem. You're talking about it. But are we really moving the game forward? Does it translate into ratings when Caitlin Clark plays? People watch. That's it. The five or six top viewed games this year. Caitlin Clark. Now, they don't have the best team, but they're watching because of her. Yes. Marvin.

[Marvin]

Yeah. There's no way Sabrina Ionescu isn't in the first wave. The NBA All Star Game, the three point Shootout. Sabrina Ionescu was a part of that when she went one on one against Steph Curry.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. And her shoe was one of the more popular shoes in America, certainly basketball shoes. Yeah.

[Paulie]

Paul, I've always wondered how this works with the NBA. You know, LeBron James was never in the three in the three point contest, obviously, but never in the slam dunk contest. I wonder how many years they asked and if they ever stopped asking. Or a guy like Steph Curry, you think, well, he's older now, he may not do it. But don't you always make the ask for that one year?

[Dan Patrick]

Well, I say to LeBron, if I'm the commissioner, is there a scenario where you'll compete in a slam dunk contest? Is there a charity? Is there something that we can. I don't care if you're paying him and you're not paying the other players. I. I don't. It doesn't matter. How am I getting you in there? Because I don't care if he wins the slam dunk contest and he wins $62,000. I gotta have him out there, then I. Then I can reap the benefits of that, you know, A million dollars for LeBron to compete in the slam dunk contest. I'll get that money back. Yes, Mark.

[Marvin]

I remember Cheryl Miller asked LeBron James on live TV during the slam dunk contest if he would participate in next year's. And he said he was in. That's why people had a sour taste in their mouth, because they asked on live TV to kind of put him on the spot. And he was like, you know what? I'm in for next year. And people got really excited, and he ended up never doing it.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, yeah. Deal.

[Dylan]

If I was another player, though, in the slam dunk contest, and I was like, they're paying LeBron how much to do this? They're not paying me anything. I'd be kind of miffed.

[Dan Patrick]

Have you seen the guys who have been in the slam dunk contest?

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[Dan Patrick]

They're lucky to be invited to the slam dunk contest.

[Dylan]

McClung.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, Mac McClung. Hey, pay him to be in there. They actually acted like he was on a roster. Like, they go, can somebody pick up Mac McClunk for 10 days so we can put him in the slam dunk contest? We've manipulated this before. Yeah, Marvin.

[Marvin]

Yeah, he was playing for the Lakeland Magic.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah.

[Marvin]

Not the Orlando Magic.

[Dan Patrick]

Yes, Dylan.

[Dylan]

It would be kind of great if the Home Run Derby was just all minor league players, which is essentially what the Slam Dunk contest is.

[Dan Patrick]

It's a, you know, we still tune in. There's something to being the Home Run Derby champ that there is that, that to me hasn't lost its luster. And the way Philadelphia embraced it and you had Schwarber in there and, you know, Bryce Harper competed. Now it's in their home park. That had something to do with it. But if there's an appearance fee, I don't care. I gotta showcase my best players. Yes, Marvin.

[Marvin]

I think the big difference between the Home Run Derby and the Slam Dunk contest, all the Home Run Derby participants are all stars. Like they're already participating in the All Star Game as players. So it's different when it's Jeremy Evans of the Utah Jazz that wins the slam dunk contest. And if he walked in here right now, we'd be like, man, that guy should play basketball.

[Dan Patrick]

Even if he had his uniform on. We'd be like, what do you do for a living?

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Yeah, Paul, I think there's a ton of upside for baseball players to be in the Home Run Derby because it gets you national. Was it Pete Alonso from the Mets? He won two years in a row and he's really awesome at it. And that made him from a New York guy to a national guy.

[Dan Patrick]

When we come back, you'll hear from Sabrina Ionescu on not being invited. We'll have that for you. We'll settle on a poll question. Matt Damon in an hour from now. Your phone calls as well. Chris Sims trying to explain his all time quarterback rankings for those in their prime. I don't even know what this means. If you said, which quarterback do you want on your team at their best in the postseason? That's all I care about. There's a lot of great regular season quarterbacks. Brady is the ninth, like in his prime. Okay. You know, Chris does a wonderful job with assessing quarterbacks. Peyton Manning wouldn't be the guy that I would take in his prime. If it's regular season, it might be Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson, but okay, I'll let, I'll let Chris have his say. And that'll be coming up a little bit later on. We'll take a break here. We're back after this.

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Settle on a poll question 8773 DP show I'm okay if the WNBA says we want to bring in new talent. Maybe try to have some people be able to make a name for themselves with the three point shooting contest. I I'm okay if you let me know that's what you're doing. That's all. But two time defending champ Sabrina Sabrina Ionescu was not invited.

[Marvin]

Yes Mark, the WNBA is in no position to try to build new stars. You have to build on what you have right now with Sabrina and Caitlin Clark. Like, oh I love Olivia Miles, but you got to have the big dogs. If the aba, the slam dunk contest had to have Julius Irving, you can't say oh you know, we want to bring up a bunch of new guys. No, no no. You need the big dogs to promote your product.

[Dan Patrick]

Here is Sabrina Ionescu on not being invited.

[Sabrina Ionescu]

I saw that yesterday. I guess you can't really. At least personally I can't decline an offer I never got officially invited to. So I was pretty surprised to see that never got never got invited. And obviously that's, you know, whether it's against Steph Curry or you know, in the W, I always go out and try and beat my record every single time I've gone out. So yeah, I mean, I just kind of wanted to set the record straight. Like that was just false. But I'm really excited for the participants in it and obviously there's going to be a new winner, so I'm excited to see who wins.

[Dan Patrick]

She's really clear there. There's no vagueness. You can't decline an invitation that you officially didn't get. And she did use the word officially. What are we doing? Two time defending champ who went toe to toe with Steph Curry. It's not like you go, yeah, but how would you do against the guys? You utilize her in a crossover event, but not your own event.

[Paulie]

Any chance it was so obvious that they forgot to invite her again. No excuse.

[Dan Patrick]

No, there's, I mean, I, I don't get it. I don't, I don't understand it. If Caitlyn Clark doesn't want to be in it. I get it now. You can say, you know, what health reasons or, you know, whatever you want. I don't think she has anything to gain. Sabrina, I ask you, wants to be in the three point shooting contest. I think, I think she still wants to be in it. You know, we had this three point shooting contest and we forgot to invite Larry Bird. Oh, you know, it happens. Yeah. Stealing.

[Dylan]

Does that mean they hit her with the like. Oh, yeah, you can come if you want. Like after the fact.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, that would be bad too. I like celebrating basketball. I like celebrating good basketball, good players. Problem is it feels like I dump on the wnba, but I'm not, I don't go out of my way because people feel like, oh, you're, you know, you're still leaning on the commissioner. No, I'm not. I moved on from it. She can join me anytime she wants. It's an open invitation. It's more of an invitation than Sabrina Ionescu got callback. It's an official invite if she wants to come on the show. But I want to move past this. I want the league to move past this. I want social media to move past this. But they're not, they're not going to anytime soon. Yes.

[Todd]

Todd, is it at all possible that Sabrina's standing on ceremonies a little bit, that she didn't get an official thing on letterhead, that she. Someone told her through a third party that they wanted to see if she'd like to participate where she made sure to use the non official invitation?

[Dan Patrick]

Well, she should get an official invitation. She should get a call from the commissioner. Right. Hey, how long does that take? Hey, we just. Can you put Sabrina on the phone? Hey, it's the commissioner. Want to invite you to the three point shooting contest. She's one of your biggest names. I want to make sure she's in this. Without az fud in here, most casual basketball fans won't know anybody else in there. Now there's great shooters in here, but I got to two time defending champ who sounded like she wanted to be invited, Caitlin Clark. My source is still trying to get word on if she got an invite or she wanted to get an invite.

[Paulie]

Yeah, Paul, the other thing is they built this entire contest to get Caitlin Clark in it. It's the state farm three point contest. That's her biggest sponsor. The other thing about this contest, this year they have a new from the logo shot that was created obviously because she's known as the logo shot person. And they created that this year for this contest. So whatever you have to do to get her in it, you get her in it.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, that's a great point. All right, so let's settle on a poll question. First hour there, Dylan.

[Dylan]

Well, we got that. Would Sabrina Ionescu and Caitlin Clark's participation in the WNBA three point contest determine whether you watch or not?

[Dan Patrick]

Yes, absolutely.

[Dylan]

Do you want, do you want to know what the people are saying? Sure, 51% agree. They say yes.

[Dan Patrick]

It should be more than that. I mean, if they're shooting. Yeah, if Caitlin Clark is, you know, shooting anywhere, I'd watch. I mean, even when she's doing her getting ready for the season workouts, her and Steph Curry. I watched that. My three point shooting porn. I'm like, oh man, look at that. Look at that shot. Look at the release. Look at the form.

[Marvin]

Yes, Marvin, feel free not to send me stuff anymore either. It's like 7:30 in the morning on a Saturday. DP.

[Dan Patrick]

I know, I did.

[Marvin]

Like, look at this workout by Steph.

[Dan Patrick]

I go, man, that's so good. So good.

[Paulie]

Yeah, Paulie, this does happen with the NBA as well. You know. Anthony Edwards has never been in a dunk contest.

[Dan Patrick]

Has he been invited?

[Paulie]

My lord, I would hope so. Talk about a guy you would tune in for, especially his first couple years.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, if he doesn't get invited, then you have a story, right? That's what we're talking about here. Yes, Dylan.

[Dylan]

I mean, what is like, is the invite just a phone call?

[Dan Patrick]

I have no idea. I. I don't know how this works. Yeah, but you contact the PR department with the team, maybe Sabrina's agent just say, hey, hey, this is the commissioner. Want to make sure Sabrina knows we want her at the three point shooting contest. We need to have a deadline here before we hear back so we can fill out the field. That's all right. Yes, Dylan.

[Dylan]

Yeah, but if, if that is the official invitation, like, what was her unofficial invitation to the three point?

[Dan Patrick]

I'd like to find that out. Yeah, it might have been. Hey, have you heard from the NBA for the three point shooting? No, but somebody else said that they were going to reach out or whatever it might be. But she should get an official invitation. And if that's a phone call from the commissioner, you're the two time defending champ. You have one of the most popular shoes in America. You play for the Liberty. Whenever the Liberty and the Fever play, they get record ratings. So there's something attached to this.

[Dylan]

Yes, Dylan, I do kind of agree with Paulie. There's a chance that, like, they just might have assumed she would just like be showing up.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, no, you have to fill out the field. They, they, they have 1, 2, 3, 4. They have six people.

[Dylan]

But it's so, it's so obvious that it's like, could you make that glaring of a mistake?

[Dan Patrick]

You can't have like nine people show up. You can't go, hey, I don't know, think about doing the three point shooting contest. No, we have six that are going to compete. You can't just sidle up and all of a sudden Brianna Stewart goes, I've been hitting my three point shots here. Can I get in this? That'd be fun. Yeah.

[Paulie]

Paul, she has to be the first ask. You want to lock her in and then fill out the next five. And again, it's not like the Masters where if you're a Masters champion, I'm sure there's some open. There is an open door. Invite for life, but that's set. Set for life. And everyone knows that rule.

[Dan Patrick]

All right, well, let's see what comes out of this.

[Paulie]

We are sending a note to the WNBA for clarity.

[Dan Patrick]

Oh, I'm sure they're going to get back to us right away.

[Paulie]

Want to bet on it?

[Dan Patrick]

On if they get back to us?

[Paulie]

Yeah, before the show's over.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, once again, we're contacting them over something that's negative, so. I mean, the NFL may not like me, but they do get back to us. Their PR department. They do a great job. Yes, yes.

[Dylan]

Dylan, what if we just start Trojan horsing some nice things about Them through. Actually, we don't. Who cares if she got invited to the three point contest? You guys keep doing you.

[Dan Patrick]

Speaking of the Trojan horse, Matt Damon from the movie Odyssey. There's a. There's a Trojan horse that washes up on the beach and the enemy brings in the Trojan horse, and there's men inside and don't want to give it away. No spoilers here.

[Dylan]

Yes, Dylan, the fact that that ever worked as, like, a trick.

[Dan Patrick]

I know.

[Dylan]

Like this giant horse. There's no one inside, we swear.

[Paulie]

What's all the noise?

[Dan Patrick]

Well, they do take their swords and they are, you know, piercing the exterior of the Trojan horse just to see if there's somebody there. Now, I don't know how long they were in the Trojan horn. Like, you have to suspend belief when you're watching the movie. Okay? You do, because this is the Iliad and the Odyssey. And I don't know if this is how Homer. Did Homer have a last name or was that his last name? Was it like Jimmy Homer?

[Paulie]

Like Sting?

[Dan Patrick]

I. I don't know. But, like, Homer wrote this,

[Paulie]

right? Because how many Homers in that city?

[Dan Patrick]

It's like Mozart. Like, he was Mozart. People didn't know if that was his first name or last name. Yes, Paulie.

[Paulie]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

[Dan Patrick]

Yes. Amadeus Amadeus.

[Paulie]

Okay, I have Homer as one name. I don't find anything.

[Dan Patrick]

Dang.

[Paulie]

The identity of Homer is a mystery, and the scholars kind of cobble together his identity.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay, Like Shakespeare. Yeah, yeah, Bill Shakespeare. But once again, you know, they just called him Shakespeare, not William Shakespeare.

[Paulie]

Like he's walking down the street. Shakespeare.

[Dan Patrick]

Shakespeare. Nobody goes, hey, Billy. Hey, Billy. How you doing? All right. Okay. Let me. Let me take some phone calls here. Let's see how life is on the other side. Robbie in Idaho. Hi, Robbie. What's on your mind today? Adp.

[Caller]

You like you always. You do.

[Dan Patrick]

Awesome. You have great advice.

[Caller]

You better be careful because the WMA might court you to be a consultant in your retirement. So just be careful because they want. They want to be great, they should do that. And sorry, Todd, for taking ideas for DP in retirement.

[Dan Patrick]

All right, well, thank you. Thank you, Robbie. If the wnba. I just got my voting privileges back from the NBA. They never should have been taken away in the first place. But this is when I left the mothership, and I think they thought that, you know, I'm doing a show in my attic for three years. We can't give him. He may not have cable. We're not going to give him voting privileges. But I fought for him. I Got him. And if the WNBA would like for me to be an unpaid consultant, I'm here.

[Paulie]

Next gig.

[Dan Patrick]

Fresh. Fresh in Milwaukee. Good morning, Fresh. What's on your mind?

[Caller]

What's up, DP And Dan? That's. How you guys doing today?

[Dan Patrick]

Spectacular.

[Caller]

Good. Well, I just wanted to call in and give some flowers out to all the female sports broadcasters. And I wanted to ask you, how much pride do you take in seeing how high the bar has been raised by women in sports media today?

[Dan Patrick]

I'm happy for the opportunities and jobs that they are getting instead of just being on the sidelines to be able to host. You know how I feel about Rebecca Lowe. I go back to Gail Gardner. Gail Gardner, to me, was so classy on SportsCenter. And it's weird sometimes. Like, I didn't view her as a female doing sports center. I just viewed her as somebody doing SportsCenter. Linda Cohen did a great. There's way too many, because then I'm gonna leave somebody out. Susie Colbert, she was hosting NFL shows. Now it's everywhere. That's great. But it took a long time to get to that point. So thank you, Fresh. But I go back a long way with, you know, a lot of these broadcasters, and all they wanted was a chance to be able to host, not be somebody on the sidelines giving you an injury update. Not that that is not an important job because Erin Andrews made a career out of it. Melissa Stark, Lisa Salters, there's a lot of women who have done, you know, great work. But getting to host, getting in the host chair, that's different. Chris in Syracuse. Good morning, Chris.

[Caller]

Hey, thanks, Dan. Got a couple things to throw at you. Yeah. The SEC schedule is out, and with the conference at 16 teams, they're forced to sacrifice one of my favorite games. Alabama, LSU, for the first time since 1963. And you think with nine conference games, the SEC they could keep that classic matchup alive? Especially this year, being Lane Kiffin's first at the helm for lsu, you'd think Bama and Ole Miss would be Givens. Yeah, it's just too bad. And I'm really looking forward to your visit with Chris Simms. He's not the type to have a controversial take just to get attention. I'm very curious to see how he justifies Brady at number nine. And also, I wonder if Doug, you were talking about Caitlin Clark shooting form, how great it is. I wonder if Doug Gottlie ever walked back his comments on Caitlin Park's shooting form.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, I was critical of Doug because criticize Kevin Durant's shooting form before you get to Caitlin Clark. And Kevin Durant has over 30,000 points. It works for him. Reggie Miller had the strangest jumper. It worked for him. Caitlin Clark, it's a little bit to the left and brought over. Now, if you want to say, are you going to get that shot off? Against WNBA defenses, she's proven that she can do that, but that would be the only thing. It starts to the left on the left side of her head and then moves over to the right. And sometimes that happens. If you don't have strength, you can get into bad habits. Your form is not great because when you're younger, you can't get it to the basket. That's why I always encourage baskets that are around 7ft or 8ft. When you're younger, I don't want you trying to hoist it up to 10ft. Get your form down, and that'll help you when you get to. When you go from 8ft to 10ft, get your form down. That's the hardest thing to do because normally you're on your hip trying to heave it up there. But Doug and I know people pointed out that Doug wasn't a good shooter. Doug has really good form. He has a really good shot. He just couldn't make free throws. He was in his head. He got to the free throw, and so many guys do. They get there, and it's like I'm just dribbling the ball and everybody's watching me. And he was a terrible free throw shooter, but his form is really good. But he was incorrect with Caitlin because does the ball go in the hoop? Did it go into the hoop more times than anybody in the history of college basketball? I'm not going to change that. I mean, it's not like she's Markel Fultz. Like, she doesn't need help. She's great. She's not Ben Simmons. Yes, Dylan.

[Dylan]

Well, it's like golf swings, right? Like, I mean, Ryan Fox just won the Open with what you could objectively call an ugly swing. You know, he has, like, a little hitch at the top, but if it works, it works well.

[Dan Patrick]

There's baseball swings. It's what works for you. You would never teach somebody Jim Fury's golf swing. But if I look at Jim Furyk when he is going to hit the ball, and I look at Tiger or Ernie Else or Rory, they're all in the same spot. I don't care how. What you do to get there, as long as you get there, that's all that matters if I know at the end of your shot you're following through towards the hoop, I'm good with that. Now, you might say it's taking you a little bit longer to get the shot off. Well, you'll know that when defenses block it. But Kevin Durant's probably had his jump shot blocked maybe less than 10 times in his career. Caitlin, I don't know how many times she's had her jump shot blocked. I'm okay with that. I, I, I am. I'm going to trust that she's going to have a pretty good career and maybe she'll get invited to a three point shooting contest. Play of the Day Next,

[Paul Verze]

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[Dan Patrick]

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[Paul Verze]

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[Dan Patrick]

Chapman throws. Alonzo swings and rips one too short. Backhanded by Chang. He plants, he throws the first in time. Ball game over. The Red Sox have tied the record going back to 1901, 15 wins in a row. They win in here today six to three. There is magic in the air at Fenway Park. Well, it dissipated because at night they ended up losing after a 15 game winning streak. That's courtesy of the Red Sox Radio Network. That's your Play of the Day, brought to you by the hottest rookies, biggest superstars, all time greats. The one place to collect them all, Panini trading cards, instant classics, autograph cards, memorabilia cards, rare inserts and more. Start your Continue your collection panini america.net early poll results dylan.

[Dylan]

Yeah, Dan, I also have a quick stat for you off the Red Sox, okay. If you started with a hundred dollars at the beginning of their 15 game winning streak and rolled it over every week, you'd have $1.1 million. Wow. Which everyone did, I'm sure.

[Dan Patrick]

Gambling podcast later today at Dan Patrick Takes a Gamble at Dan Patrick. All right, so Matt Damon will join us coming up next hour. There's a line in the movie the Natural with Roy Hobbs. Roy Hobbs is courting a woman, the woman who eventually shoots him. Spoiler alert. She asked him if he's read homer. His response? The only homer I know has four bases in it. Wrong answer for Roy. He ended up getting shot. But you think that's the reason that he didn't read homer? Maybe. But speaking of homer, with the Iliad, the Odyssey, Matt Damon, he'll join us coming up next Hour. The Odyssey. Yes, Dylan,

[Dylan]

is. Is there. I think we talked about yesterday. Is there going to be an Ilia? Is the Iliad just a poem or is that a full book too?

[Dan Patrick]

Once again, you're asking the wrong guy. Sorry, I. I was supposed to read that, but I don't know, maybe, maybe Google Iliad.

[Paulie]

Yes, Paulie, the movie Troy in 2004 is based off the Iliad.

[Dan Patrick]

Oh, okay.

[Paulie]

Hunky Brad Pitt and hunky Eric Bana.

[Dan Patrick]

It's a good one.

[Paulie]

Hot take, I think I take Eric Bana's looks over Brad Pitt peak. Wow, he's got the accent as well, which not even fair.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, maybe Chris Sims could do his rankings in their prime all time. You know, since he did that with quarterbacks. Eric Bana.

[Paulie]

Oh, easy on the eyes.

[Dan Patrick]

Really?

[Paulie]

That guy, he's got like a nine pack. He's got an ad that's not even technically there.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, I will say that Matt Damon, he is New Jack City. Like he is ripped. Yes, Paul.

[Paulie]

I have a list of directors Matt Damon's worked with. It's all of them. He's got Francis Ford Coppola, Gus Van Zandt, Spielberg, Soderbergh, any other Berg, Martin Scorsese, the Coen brothers, the Farrelly brothers. Christopher Nolan twice just goes on and on.

[Dan Patrick]

Didn't he do Fairley Brothers? Stuck on you with Greg Kinnear? Yeah, that was a sneaky, funny, goofy movie that they were conjoined twins or something like that. Ted in California. Hi, Ted. What do you have for me today?

[Caller]

How are you, Dan?

[Paul Verze]

Great.

[Caller]

So my dad, big, big Red Sox fan, named me after Ted Williams.

[Dan Patrick]

Oh.

[Caller]

So in 1975, I was 12 years old, wanted a motorcycle. He said when the Red Sox win 10 games, you can ask me for a motorcycle. Well, in July of that year, 1975, they went on a 10 game winning streak. So I felt it was time to ask him. And he said all right. You asked me the answer. Still no.

[Dan Patrick]

And sorry about 75 with the big Red Machine there. Carlton Fisk. Stay fair, stay fair, stay fair. Then they lost in seven. And then the next year the Big Red Machine took down the Yankees in four straight. Big Red Machine probably should have won two more World Series titles. They were the team of the 70s. But give credit to the Oakland A's. Dodgers were great back there are a lot of competition back then, you know, there. This wasn't a. That team spends more. Nobody ever talked about that. I, I don't know what the payroll was of the Big Red Machine, but it was probably all kind of close. I mean, imagine all those hall of Famers. You couldn't have kept them together. Everybody at that. Their position was hall of Fame caliber David in Ohio. Hi, David.

[Marvin]

Hey, Dan.

[Caller]

I have a theory of what happened to your invitation from Drew. I think Todd simply just lost it in the breeze. Thank you.

[Todd]

In the breeze.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. Drew Brees. Oh, by the way, hall of Fame got back to me and I said, hey, Drew Brees said six to eight minutes for his speech. And he said that's not true. That's not true. Most speeches go around 10 minutes. It depends on how many people are being inducted. But from what I was told by somebody who would know at the hall of Fame and they said to me yesterday, they heard Drew say it on my show, but they were surprised because they have not said six to eight minutes. But Drew Brees said they give me six to eight minutes and I was told something different. If my invitation happens to show up here, Todd, I can tell Drew Brees, hey, you got two minutes to play with. You know, you can go 10 minutes if you want to. 10, 11 minutes. All right. One hour in the books. Two more to go. On this Thursday, big time actor Matt Damon, Willie still have his beard as a long beard, big beard. In Odyssey, Chris Sims will stop by and try to explain himself. His all time quarterback rankings in their prime. Who's in the confessional? I am. I'm in the confessional. Hour two on the way. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.