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You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio. Hope you had a great weekend, everybody. Gang's all here, ready to go on this Monday as we always do. Best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you liked, you didn't like. 8, 7 7, 3, DP show operator Tyler sitting by to take your calls. Also, say good morning to our radio affiliates, iHeartradio, Fox Sports Radio, and if you're watching on Peacock, thank you for downloading the app. Stat of the day as always, brought to you by Panini America, Official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. A few things to go through the thunder over the Pacers last night, that series tied at a game of peace. If I said to a Pacer fan, hey, you can win game one or you can win game two, you'd probably say, let's win game two and take that momentum back to Indiana. But you win game one, you get roughed up in game two, the Panthers in double overtime. Game three is tonight in Florida. They always say south Florida because they never want to say where they're actually from. Which is Sunrise, Florida? Because people go, where is Sunrise, Florida? South Florida. But congratulations to the Panthers in double overtime. We've had overtime and now double overTime. Email address dpdanpatrick.com Twitter handle @DP show and we say good morning to Fox Sports Radio iHeartradio as well. Interesting results from the French Open. Coco Golf, who has been on the worldwide radar since she was a teenager. Well, 13 or 14 years of age. Here she is, 21 years of age, winning her second major. Carlos Alcaraz. Who would have thought you got center with a chance. You got three championship points and you can't put him away. That's what always amazes me. Watching tennis. You're down to your last point, then all of a sudden you win. Then all of a sudden you move on to the next set. Then all of a sudden you've got the advantage, you've got the momentum and it's five hours. There's no clock. You just play. It felt like every time Michael Chang played a tennis match, it went five sets. He may lead, I'm going to say lead the league. He may lead men's tennis in five set matches and maybe not winning those matches, but it felt like every match was five sets. But the French Open and Alcaraz and center, hopefully you have, you know, moving into a new generation of great players that that's the next wave, that they'll be facing each other for many, many years to come. All right, we'll have a poll question. Play of the day, stat of the day. All of that forthcoming first hour brought to you by Mako. Most cars on the road could use a little tlc. At Mako, they bring your car back to life. Affordable paint jobs like collision repairs. Get a free estimate today. Oh, better get Mako. A couple things stood out last night. The Pacers are the first team in over a decade to not have a 20 point score in the first two games of the NBA Finals. Now, I like spreading the wealth, but this is Oklahoma City's defense here. And another thing that would concern me if I'm an Indiana Pacer fan, is Tyrese Halliburton. He did have the big shot in game one. He didn't have a great game. And last night he was kind of, I don't know, neutral. He was just okay. He can't be just okay. But give credit to okc, the defense that they're playing. And then you have Shea, Gilgis, Alexander, the difference in Game two as opposed to Game one, he was more economical with his shooting. And you know, you're taking 30 shots to get to 38 points in game one. And you're taking, what, 21 shots to get to 34 points and you throw in eight assists. That's where they're really dangerous. And you had so many players from the bench coming in and contributing. You saw a true OKC performance last night. Now, that's one game. But is it habit forming? Does OKC realize we should have won Game one? We made a mistake. We can't let this team get any breath of fresh air and think they have a chance to beat us. And you saw that in Game one and they should have known that if you watch the Pacers when they're down by 15, you don't know if they're down by 15 or they're up by 10. And that's what OKC realized in game one. Now I'm looking at DraftKings telling me the NBA Finals outcomes. As far as, if you're betting, if this is going to go five, that is the favorite right now, followed by four, two, Thunder, followed by Thunder 43. And then it jumps to the Pacers winning in six, Pacers winning in seven. You can place a bet at the Pacers winning the next three to win this series, but those are long odds as well. OKC is favored. They showed you why they were favored. And now the series is going to shift to Indiana. Let's see. Seaton, you got a poll question for me? Yeah, we got a couple for you here. Well, let's see. You're kind of hitting a bunch of sports. So we can start with Paul's question that he sent over. The most strenuous sport. Basketball, hockey, tennis. We'll leave football out of that. Basketball, because that's clearly the one. But basketball, hockey, tennis. So we're going with sports that are happening now. Yeah, you could throw boxing in there. Is that even happening now? Well, is. They're just. Yeah. Is that even happening? Not even. Not marketing matchups, I think. I think sports. Were you actively like, like, all right, there's fighting in all sports, but the sport isn't fighting. You could take those out. Ufc, take that out. Could take boxing out. I think you take football out. Okay, so just the ones that are going on now. Yeah. Okay, so which one is more strenuous? Well, I guess we're going to focus on tennis because it went five and a half hours. Hockey always, to me, I mean, hockey is. You're out there for 90 seconds, go as hard as you can now, you know, go to the bench, and then we're going to do it again in a couple of minutes and then repeat and repeat. Tennis is. You're out there, and it's not like you can go, can I go sit down for a little while? You're going to play. Now, granted, how long do the points last when you're on the clay? It, you know, lasts a little bit longer. You have rallies on. On the clay as opposed to when you're at Wimbledon or US Open or Australian Open. But I'm just amazed that when you're out there for five and a half hours. And also there's the mental aspect of that, of being out there for five and a half hours. It's not just athletically, but mentally, you have to be all in out there. And then you see these guys when they're, you know, in their mid-30s or late-30s still doing it. That's even more remarkable that they're able to do that? Yes, Todd. And not only the duration and the heat or whatever the conditions are, but just mentally from one game to the next. Just like yesterday, you just had it. You're about to win a championship, and then you have another chance and another chance. And how it. How. How you're going to bounce back from that, how it gets in your head, knowing what's. Now there could be another knowing in the back of your mind. Could be another hour and a half of Tennessee had to be played to figure out who's going to win this thing, as opposed to just, you know, you're skating around and everything, but you get those breaks, like you said. And nobody knows tennis quite like you do. Second doubles. I know every once in a while, they threw me out there for a couple of points. Did you let her in high school? In tennis, we all got letters. I wouldn't say I lettered as far as earned it. Everyone on the team got a jacket. And you got the little Lincoln L with a lightning bolt through it. Did you? I think you have to play in a varsity match to letter. I think I played briefly in a couple of varsity matches, but I wore that satin blue Lincoln tennis jacket like I was the captain of the team. You would never know the way I was strutting up and down the hallways of Lincoln High School. You would think, wow, this guy must be, like the number one singles guy. And I'm going to guess you still have that jacket. Oh, I sure do. I couldn't. I couldn't fit it at all around me. It's basically a scarf at this point. Why don't we bring it in and maybe I frame it and we put it in here with all the other great jerseys. I got my name on it says Todd and Script on the side. It was. It's pretty cool. What else, Seaton, are we thinking about? Oh, man. It's got Todd and Script. It's sweet. We haven't really hit this one yet, so I'm guessing we'll save it for a later. Okay. Topic. Aaron Rodgers. No. Oh, okay. Okay. Will the NCAA settlement shift college sports dramatically? Question mark. Game changer or not really. Paul Feinbaum from the Mothership will join us a little bit later on. We'll. We'll talk about this. We've talked about this. I find it fascinating of where we were to where we are now. You go back to September of 2013. Johnny Manziel on the COVID of Time magazine, and the article, the headline is time to Start Paying athletes well, we're there, but there's questions. This is fluid once again. And I don't know what college sports is going to look like in 10 years from now, because right now it just feels like everybody's trying to figure out, okay, how do we navigate this? And they haven't navigated this very well. Now the NCAA is basically out of the picture, and maybe, you know, they're going to be governing the sports that are on the periphery. But, yeah, that. I got more questions than answers have been supplied to me. And I've talked to people who are part of the decision makers in this, and even they are kind of confused by everything or cautious about things. And I think that's what we have to kind of do a little deeper dive into. What does it really mean for you, the college fam. That's really all that matters now. Athletes getting paid. They've been paid. They've been paid before. They'll continue to get paid. But I. I care about what it means for us, the fan. That's it. Because I'm going to let college athletics deal with whatever this mess is, and hopefully they clean it up. Hopefully they can clean it up. Hopefully it's defined, but I just think there's so much gray area here. I got so many questions, and hopefully Paul Feinbaum can provide some answers. Fritz, he just sent me an article that Tyrese Halliburton was seen limping from the podium after game two loss. No further word on how serious it is. But, you know, always, of course, a concern for one of your top guys is limping around. Yeah, yeah. But heading back home, hopefully it was just a lost game two limp. Well, game three will be Wednesday night in Indianapolis. I always love that when, like, a dude gets torched on a play, you know, and all of a sudden they're like, ah, you know, gotta grab the back of my leg real quick, take a second. I wouldn't have gotten torched like that if I just hadn't tweaked something. But okay. No, I'm good now. I'm better. Okay. This happened, all of us. Yeah. Dude, you airball, you start checking your hands, all of a sudden your shoulder is a little funny. That's why I airballed that. My shoulder just clicked. That was weird. I guess my favorite is when ball goes, there's an error, and the guy looks at his glove like, damn glove. This thing just rip. What the heck? This thing. Oh, no, it's fine. That's weird. Yeah. Or a golfer misses a putt. There's always something in his line that then he tamps it down with his putter. He argues with like the land itself, where he's like, no, to the right. Yes, it to the right. It was gonna break to the right. Yells at his caddy. Yeah, it's like, wait, you told me. Yeah, U.S. open gets underway in Oakmont. By the way, I've played Oakmont. I don't want to play Oakmont again. I should say it played me. Do you want to go early in the week, poll who you got at Oakmont? No. Next weekend? No. If I give you Scotty Scheffler or the field. Is Scheffler in the Tiger woods versus the field category now, has he graduated to that? That's insulting to the Tiger. Wow. Oh, the Tiger. Ladies and gentlemen, the Tiger, Rory Bryson. Well, Rory's got problems with his driver. Like, he was terrible in at the RBC this weekend. We didn't even make the cut, so. Oh, is that what he is saving it for next week? Yeah, he had problems. They confiscated his driver and then he's still trying to find a driver. He's just hustling everybody. Oh, well, he can't play anyway. 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Get to your phone calls as we always do every Monday. Best and worst of the weekend Paulie and Fritzi aren't sure if Tyrese Halliburton is limping or he just has a really cool walk. I think he has a really cool walk, but it looks like he's limping just a little bit there. Here's Rick Carlisle talking about Halliburton and how he played last night. There's a lot more to gain to the game than just scoring. Everybody's got to do more starts with the best players. Starts with, you know, Tyrese and Pascal and Miles, who will be in here to talk to you guys, and then it goes from there. And so, you know, people shouldn't just look at his points and assists and judge how, how he played or any of our judge how any of our guys played just on that. That's just not, that's not how our team is built. I mean, we're, we're an ecosystem that has to function together. And, you know, stats, you know, we got score enough points to win the game, but who gets them and how they get them not important. I just want Halliburton to be aggressive, but I'm going to give credit to okc. Chad Holmgren bounced back. That was, that was emblematic of a team that won 68 games during the regular season. That was a true team performance. They were bringing guys off the bench. I thought you can only have 12 players on an active roster. It felt like they were suiting up guys in the locker room to say, do you want to play tonight? Because did they play 13 players last night? Paul I looked at the Thunderbox score. I always look at the box score for little tidbits for the show. The Oklahoma City Thunder played 17 people in yesterday's game. I honestly thought the max on a roster is 12. Like you remember the. Hey, I'm the 12th man on the bench. Yes. You're the last active player. Yes. Okay. I did a little research. Believe it or not, during the regular season, NBA teams active roster has to have 12, but can be up to 15. It's your choice. So if you only want to pay 12, but you have to have 12. Oh, okay. You can have 15 regular season. In the postseason, you could, you can expand your roster to 18 players somewhere on those little temp postseason contracts. So 17 of the 18 players on the Thunder played last night. How does that affect courtside seats for the Lakers and the Knicks? If all of a sudden, you know, you see a couple of guys in uniform and then somebody gets knocked to the second row, I'm guessing, why is Adam Flagler sitting in the courtside VIP seat? Yeah, whoever that is, Adam Flagler, he is a Thunder. And then there's not Andrew Wiggins coming off the bench. Right. The. It's Aaron Wiggins who went to Maryland, I think. Is that right, Marvin? Proud therapy. Yeah. All of a sudden I'm going, wait a minute. Aaron Wiggins? It makes you like a double take kind of thing. Like, really? Yeah. Wiggins had a good game last night. Really? Yeah. Yeah. By the way, the Knicks have asked for permission to talk to the Dallas Mavericks about their head coach, Jason Kidd. And it got me wondering, okay, how thought out was firing Tom Thibodeau? Because I thought, okay, then you know who you want to hire. I'm going to make that assumption, which is dangerous in this business, that they knew what they were doing and maybe they know what they're doing. If I'm Jason Kidd, do I want to leave Dallas? Do I want to leave the opportunity to coach Cooper Flag? You win the lottery, you stumble into this. Do you want to go to the Knicks? Unless Jason Kidd and Giannis get reunited, that would be. I mean, that's the only thing I see where I go, okay, we, we're gonna get Jason Kidd and that means Giannis is going to want to play for Jason. Kidding. Okay. But I'm not bringing in Jason Kidd and going, okay, let's see if you can take them further than Tom Thibodeau. But you're asking for permission. Okay, so what are the Mavericks? What would they want in return? Because I don't think the Knicks, they don't have a draft pick this year. I think they have a protected first round pick in 2026. I'd probably take that. But you're going to trade your coach or that would, I mean, you're going to have to trade your coach if they're interested in, then what's Dallas going to ask in return? And the only way I'm bringing J Kid in and trading for him is if Giannis then decides he wants to play for the Knicks. But then I got to figure out what am I sending, you know, the Bucks for Giannis. So if I give up a draft pick to Dallas for J Kid, then what's Milwaukee going to want? They're going to want some draft picks there. And what players are you going to make expendable, where they go? You know what? Yeah, this, this trade makes a lot of sense. We always look at trades from one angle. You got to look at both sides here and go, if you're Milwaukee, he might want out. What are we getting in return? That's where I would definitely call up the Boston Celtics and I would say, hey, are you interested in Yance if he wants to leave now, I don't know if he would want to go to Boston, but that's where I would start. Because I'd ask about Jalen Brown, I'd ask about Derrick White. I think the Celtics roster feels like it's, it's going to be some moving parts there now. Who are they going to move, what are they willing to move and if you get Giannis. But when I saw the J Kid situation, I thought there's only one reason why I do it, and that's because Giannis like Jason Kidd. Yes, Marvin. But the NBA is a copycat league. And if the rest of the NBA sees what the Oklahoma City Thunder are doing, going this deep with 12 guys that play in regular rotation, you're not going to trade all your depth for one superstar because you're going to be in the same position as you were last year talking about the Knicks, because if they get eliminated in the conference finals again, you're going to say, man, only if they had a bench. Yeah, and then you just trade away good pieces. Probably Mikhail Bridges or somebody like that. Yeah, but I don't want Mikel Bridges if I'm Milwaukee. Oh, I think it's a bad trade on, on both sides. I mean, you're not winning. They give up, what, five first round picks for Mikel Bridges. Well, that was the Nets, though. I know, but still, I don't, I don't now if I'm getting Giannis, what am I giving up? I go, I always go back to Carmelo Anthony got. He wanted out of Denver, he wanted to go play for the Knicks. He gets to the Knicks and he goes, where? Where are all my teammates? We traded four guys to get you, Carmelo. Do you know how this works? And then, you know, he lamented the fact that he didn't have a great roster there. Yes, Mark. Well, I wasn't talking about Mikel Bridges specifically, but I was just saying somebody that's a good rotation guy and you trade him and another star and then you're going to be in the same position as you were last year. Which Giannis? Yeah. Jalen Brunson and a bunch of guys. Yeah. Paulie. I'm not sure the super team, supermax guy era is over. I think it's had a chilling effect. I think the Suns really hurt the super team era. Like the Suns have gone nowhere. Spending a ton on three great players. But I think teams still look at it might be tougher to do what OKC is doing than to sign two supermax guys. That's simple. That's just a check. Well, Brian Windhorst has been talking about that this year that the gotta have three stars there. That's changed. If you can have one great player and you can have some really good players and then you have bench players, I mean, that's kind of what Denver did. I mean, Jamal Murray can be a great player. I don't think he's a great player, you know, consistently. But he does have those pockets where you know he'll put up 43 and you go, dang, who says Joker doesn't have any talent around him? And then all of a sudden you want Michael Porter Jr. The third not do anything. But yeah, OKC has Shea Gilgis. They don't have great players around him, but boy, they have good players who know exactly what they're supposed to do. And it took a while for Shea Gilgis to develop into this. Nobody knew who SGA was going to be or the Clippers never would have gotten rid of him. They would have said, this guy's better than Paul George. We're not going to get rid of this guy. Yes, Marvin. Yeah. But even in the Big Three era, like the Celtics, LeBron's Heat, they had good, like they had good players around them. They had a good bench. That team that got to the Finals in 2011 with LeBron's Heat, besides Wade Bosch and LeBron, that wasn't a good roster. They got beat by a better all around team in the Mavericks and same thing with the Boston Celtics. You get a James Posey, you get a PJ Brown, you get all these guys. Jason Terry to come off the Bench. And that's how you win a championship. You just can't win with three great players and a bunch of scrubs. But there's no way I want to bring in J Kid if it just means, okay, we get Giannis, okay, but what am I giving up to get Giannis? Because I think you're correct in saying all of a sudden he's going to get there and go, who do I have? Hey, you got, you got Brunson, okay? But you're gonna have to give up a couple players to get him. And are you. And if you're trading for J Kid, what are you giving up for Jason Kidd? A draft pick. You got to give up a first round draft pick. All right, some phone calls here. 877-3DP show Chris in Syracuse. Hi, Chris. Hey, thank you, Dan. Hey, I want to throw a best and worse at you. My best hearing. Joe Flacco's very honest and thoughtful response to that lazy old age media question of whether he's going to be a mentor to the young players or the young quarterbacks. And, you know, he basically said, hey, it's a track question. You know, if I say yes, I'm not a competitor. If I say no, I'm a jerk. And he basically said, you know, I'm going to do what I always do in the locker room and quarterback room. I'll speak my mind. If they want to listen, they'll listen. And my worst kind this week, the motherships obsession with New York Knicks coaching vacancy. It seems to be a bigger story than the NBA Finals. Well, get ready for Aaron Rodgers being a bigger story than any other story in sports. His arrival, his contract. What do former teammates have to say? The packers, they have to face Aaron Rodgers in week eight. He's going to face his former team, the Jets. This is what happens now. Even, even networks who are rights holders, that means they may carry the World Series or the Stanley Cup Final. NBA Finals. Football trumps all of that. Nick Chubb's addition to the Texans. Okay, I mean, there are times when you can talk about this. There are times when there's not other things to talk about. And you go, well, oil spills, talk, NFL. But yeah, this is, this is what happens now. This is where commissioners aren't happy when they call up bosses at networks. Not that that's ever happened when I was at espn. When are you going to start talking about. Why are you talking about, you know, nobody cares about the Yankees and the Red Sox in June. We got to talk about the. Not that that Happened. But yeah, you would like the. And we weren't even the rights holders, but you know, we were really powerful back then with SportsCenter. Yes, Marvin, Aaron Rodgers picked number eight. Yeah, yeah. They weren't giving him 12. They were giving him almost $12 million with incentives like whatever, 19 and a half million dollars. And now he's showing up. Yes, Paul, it seems like a pretty team friendly contract, only 10 million guaranteed. He could. With playing time and success and team performance, he can get that up to 19.5 million. But the past few years, the Steelers have gone out of their way to not pay at the quarterback position. The jets went out of their way to pay at the quarterbacking position. So if I'm Aaron Rodgers, it's like, all right, I'll take a pay cut, but I'm going to a team that will probably be in the playoffs. And then does he want to play another year? But, you know, Albert Breer, the Monday morning quarterback, was talking about this and he said the Steelers are all in this year because if you look at, you know, their marquee players are getting up there in age, you know, T.J. watt, you're going to have to redo his contract. He's got one year left. He wants to be compensated in the Miles Garrett, Micah Parsons, Max Crosby neighborhood. But you're all in. I don't know, it's weird. You get DK Metcalf and all of a sudden you're all in. Okay. I mean, Minka, Fitzpatrick, still really good player. Hayward still a good player. But in that division, are you. I mean, you got to measure yourself against the Ravens and they're nowhere near the Ravens. Are you better than the Bengals? And that's what surprised me. That and Albert Brewer said, hey, that's why they went and got Rogers and did not draft a quarterback. They didn't bring in Kurt Cousins. They wanted Aaron Rodgers. They want to see if they can do something. But I want more than just, hey, we got to the playoffs, we finished nine and eight and we won a playoff game. Like, I want more than that. And it's not sustainable. That would be the only thing is it's a quick fix. And all it takes is one slip up from a guy who's going to be 42 years of age. And then what? Then all of a sudden it's Mason Rudolph and then where are you going in the future? You have to have your quarterback. Quarterbacks give you hope. It's when the teams don't have a quarterback and you go, and they better get a Quarterback, Better get a quarterback. And then once you do, then all of a sudden you go, okay, we're good. Like, Jacksonville's trying to figure out if they have their quarterback. I mean, he's under contract, but, like, he better be the quarterback. You know, the Chargers with Justin Herbert. Jim Harbaugh took that job because he knew I got a quarterback here. He really likes Justin Herbert and he liked him from afar. And it's like, yes, you know, that guy is going to be a Hall of Fame quarterback. But, you know, looking at the Steelers, like, the Bengals have their quarterback, the Ravens have their quarterback. I don't know what Cleveland's got right now. I still think Shador Sanders is going to be starting quarterback. I mean, it's crazy, but somebody who's involved with that team told me, hey, he has handled himself the way you want a fifth round draft pick to come in and handle himself. He has been professional. He's, he's engaging, he's involved. His approach, his workout, you know, all of these great things. Everything's good. Everything's good so far. Yes, Todd. And what choice, though, do you have after being humbled like that? You're going to walk around with some 5th round pick swagger. You pretty much got to play the role of where you got pick. Oh, he's so charming and looking like he wants to learn. You know, you would think a 5th round pick would be a chip on your shoulder. You can have a chip on your shoulder. You can walk in a little entitled there. And he could feed the problem even worse by doing that, is. Well, I don't know what happens when he starts starting games for you. Does he then go back to the way he was at Colorado? If he plays well. Okay. Yes, yes, Paul. I had this web page here that, that breaks down what each NFL team spends at the quarterback position. Quick quiz. Which team last year spent the most on their quarterback? First, second, and maybe even third string? The Cleveland Browns. Ooh, I got Cleveland now they're down there a bit. Well, with DeSean Watson's salary. Yeah. Well, yeah, they're fourth. They're fourth in the entire league. Yeah. Number one was the Los Angeles Rams. 46 million on Stafford, 3 million on Garoppolo. The team that spent the least at the quarterback position last year, Carolina. The Las Vegas Raiders. Between Aiden o' Connell, Desmond Ritter and a gentleman named Carter Bradley, they spent $1.8 million at the quarterback position. Yeah. Jeepers creepers. Yep. Jeepers. They probably are paying a former quarterback even more money to help run the Front office there in Tom Brady. The Rams paid their second stringer more than the Raiders paid their entire roster. Andy in Rhode Island. Welcome back, Andy. What's on your mind? Good morning. What's up, Danette? Dan, I have two best and a worst for you. My, my first is going to be NHL Stanley final and it is the gift that keeps on giving. Dan, it has been so entertaining. Keeps me locked in and I couldn't go to sleep until it was all over. My second, my heart goes out to Portugal for that great victory over Spain and the penalties and I know it meant so much to Cristiano Ronaldo because you know, the haters, they're still out here. Messi versus Ronaldo, but we'll leave that for another day. Yeah, but they, they sub Ronaldo out though, I think, didn't he? I know, because it looked, yeah, it looked like he had cramps, I believe. Okay. You know, he has close to 40, Dan. So, you know, we, we. I, I'll, I, I can, I can take that. I'm happy that, you know, he was very happy about his victory. The third Dan. I'll leave it at this. These one versus one leagues. Unprofessional. I am not a fan of watching Lance Stevenson versus Michael Beasley one on one. I don't know what are we doing? What are we doing, Dan? This is not good for us. Thank you, Andy. I didn't even know anything about it. I, I like, I'm flipping through and all of a sudden I see two guys playing one on one. I'm like, what is this? And then it's a hundred thousand dollars winner take all. Lance Stevenson And Michael Beasley Jr. III, if they were playing out on my court in the man cave. You take a peek at that. I might take a peek at that as you on your way to the kitchen. Yes. And then coming back and I'd be like, who are the guys out there playing basketball? That's, that's when you know you got to get outside and get some fresh air. Like, you know, now you need to go out. You know, why don't you, why don't you do some gardening or go play golf or something when you're watching Michael Beasley and Lance Stevenson in their prime. I'm not watching that hold. You're not watching Michael Beasley in his prime? Kansas State Michael Beasley. Oh, you'd watch Kansas State Michael Beasley. Michael Beasley is gifted of a one on one score. I couldn't care less. You'd watch Michael B. I would not, not Lies. I. I would not, Marvin. I swear. I swear on Fritzi's life, I would not watch. Yeah. I like Kyrie Irving goes, man, I'd never want to play Michael Beasley one on one. Well, okay. Shouldn't he be in the NBA? He's not 48. If he's so good, shouldn't he still be playing? Yes. Paul. Michael Beasley is first team hall of. I thought he'd be way better than he was in the NBA. Little wordy. He didn't make one all star team. He doesn't have a good shot. Nice player. Got a weird shot. Lefty. Yeah, lefties always look good when they shoot. Always. He doesn't. Did you watch Michael Beasley against. No. In the one on one matchup for a hundred thousand dollars? You know, I got a life. Yes, yes. Where you're scolding me because I'm not watching Michael Beasley at Kansas State. I said, oh, I was watching O.J. mayo, I think at USC. All right. I believe you on Fritzi's life. Yes. All right, Folks are clarifying that. Who was the other player at Kansas State that Bob Huggins brought in? Bill Walker. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, how did you get those guys? Like, man. Yeah. Are they from Kansas? No, they're from Cincinnati. Private jets have to connect to get to Manhattan, Kansas. Like, okay. Like with O.J. mayo. Like, oh, I'm going to USC. Are you now? Yeah. That was a good sneaky line by pulling their private jets have to connect. Thank you, Todd. I like that. Yeah. How about we take a break here? All right. How about we take a break? We will bring you our play of the day and settle on our poll question. We're back after this. 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I wonder if they had had a little more success. I wonder if they had won a playoff game. I wonder if Russell Wilson would have been brought back because he didn't have bad numbers. He, he didn't have great numbers. The problem was December. November was good, December wasn't. And then they missed out on bringing back Justin Fields, which I still would have gone that. If you said I can have Aaron Rodgers for one year, I have Justin Fields for three or four years, I would have gone in that direction. And I'm, I'm sure that I'm going to die on this hill. I'm in the minority with thinking Justin Fields is a starting quarterback. A good starting quarterback. I think he is. But you need continuity. Offensive coordinator, you know, have some weapons. He's not a great passer. That can hurt you with that position. He's. I think he can be a talented player. He's just not a great passer. But that's a big part of the job there. Yeah. Yeah. Not all of it. Yeah. But a lot of it. Paul and Austin. Hi, Paul. What's on your mind today? What's up, Dan? Got a best and worst and a stat of the day. Worst is the Atlanta Braves. Just an abysmal season. Best of the weekend. Gentlemen's French Open singles final. What an epic 5 1/2 hour slug fest between two extraterrestrial talents with Carlitos coming out on top. Dan, I've watched a lot of tennis. These dudes are different. Insane ball striking, speed, stamina. I don't think it's far fetched to say these two can win 15 majors each. And also Saturday, Marvin, you got some music. Since the start of 2024, world number one, Jannik Sinners record versus Alcaraz is 0 and 5. His record versus all other opponents is 91 and 3. Well, French Open stat of the day courtesy of Paul and Austin, brought you by Panini America. The official trading cards of the DP show. And these are really young players. One's 22, one's 23. And let's not jump to 15 majors. Okay, how about we say 10? Let's just start with, you know, hopefully they'll get to 10. Hopefully they're, you know, going against one another. I mean, that was the beauty of tennis. When you had Federer and Nadal, you had Joker. You knew that they were going, two of the three were probably going to be there and to have familiarity and greatness there. And I mean, Djokovic is going to be probably recognized as the greatest tennis player of all time. You know, Federer had him a couple times and couldn't put him away. Nadal obviously on clay, but it feels like Novak is, he might be the goat now. There's going to be people who I, I don't want to go down this path. I don't want to turn the show over to tennis because there's going to be people who will say, oh, Rod Laver and Rod Laver. I, I didn't get to see him play in person. But yes, he was wonderful on all, all surfaces. Jimmy Connors won over a hundred tournaments in his career. I think there's only two other people. I think Djokovic, I don't know the other one to have. 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