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Only that I believe other than possibly in a video game or two, that there are no real bear eggs, that the spawning would be on the salmon side of things, not the bears. Okay. And I got a note from NYU saying they want their diploma back. So I'm in negotiations with that 877-3-DP show. Email address dpadanpatrick.com Twitter handle @dpshow Good morning. If you're watching on Peacock, thank you for downloading the app. We say good morning to our great radio affiliates around the country. Stephen Jackson, co host of all the Smoke, former NBA player, former Pacer will join us. Coming up, Quinn Buckner, Pacers broadcaster, former NBA player. He will join us as well. Come up with a poll question, play of the day, stat of the day, all of that forthcoming tonight. It's the Timberwolves getting 8 1/2 at the Thunder game 5 as the Oklahoma City Thunder try to close that series out. Pacers, they're up 31 as they beat the Knicks. And if there's something, I guess, close to being a perfect game in basketball, Tyrese Halliburton, pretty close, 32, 1512 rebounds, zero turnovers. That's a pretty good night. And he got his dad back in the building. And Tyrese Halliburton after the win talked about that. I'm wondering if what went on with him if, if that was tough for you and just if there were some emotions about having him back in here tonight. Emotions? No. I mean, I'm gonna be honest with you guys here. Like my dad is just fine. Like, he lives just fine. He's at the house watching the game in a beautiful, beautiful home. There was obviously a lot of commentary around him, especially right after, which I think some was warranted, some went too far. But that's just sports and that's just talking heads. I mean, we ain't gonna, I know we're saying free Pops and Pops is free. But he was not in jail. He happened to be in a very beautiful home, sitting very pretty, watching NBA basketball. He's just fine. Good for him. I like him, you know, and you, you can tell the non watchers because you're getting a lot of people now Talking about Tyrese Halliburton. Is he a top 10 player? People who didn't watch him, didn't watch him. Now, you know he was in obscurity in college with Sacramento and maybe with the Pacers. You could say that as well. Not big media markets, but if you're watching, then you've noticed that Tyrese Halliburton is here to stay. Very good player. Now you're going to get the comparisons with Jalen Brunson. Feels like they're different types of players. What one team needs from one guy, the other one needs something different from the other. But it's a great matchup here. And right now, Tyrese Halliburton has the upper hand, up three games to one. All right, stat of the day is always brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. First hour brought to you by Rapid Radios, the official walkie talkie of the show. Push to talk nationwide LTE coverage service. No subscriptions. Business owners stay connected with your employees anywhere. Visit rapidradios.com for up to 60% off and you also get free shipping. All right, so I mentioned you have the game coming up tonight. OKC tries to close out Minnesota as the Timberwolves getting eight and a half. Seton, what's poll question for the first hour of the program? I'm just looking to see if Tyrese Halliburton's gotten paid yet. If he hasn't, I don't know where his contract status is and what years and whatnot, but man, he has he gotten paid off. Does anybody know? I wish it was a contract year for Tyrese Halliburton. He's locked up. He's going to be fine. He signed a five year, $244 million deal about a little over a year ago. He was making 42 million this year. Three years from now, he'd be making 55. 6, which oddly will make him like the eighth highest paid player in the NBA and 20 in three years. And if his dad gets into trouble again, he might have an even nicer house to recline in while he watches his son. All right, so it must be crazy to go from like, making, I don't know, like 5 million a year to 45 a year, but that's a significant jump. Yeah, but has anybody had a bigger salary jump in history than Brock Purdy? Then he go from 900,000 to what, 50 or something like that? If you include, you know, the guaranteed money, that's like, really, like NFL players get paid in lottery tickets here's a big chunk of money and then not much. And here's another big chunk of money and then not much after that. Yeah. Paul. Yeah. Brock Purdy in 2024 made a total $985,000. Next year he'll make at least $41 million. Yeah, that's a. That's a big pay race. That might be the biggest all time. Yeah, that's where you go into your accountant and then you go, hey, my tax returns just a little bit different this year. We're going to need some write offs here. Can you write off Christian McCaffrey or Trent Williams? George Kittle. All right, so what's poll question from the first hour seat. Why don't we go with. Let's see more. Done. Nick's Timberwolves. Neither. You could also go Stars. We could throw it in there too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because aren't we three one with all of these series? Yeah. Does that sound right? Easily. Go Hurricanes. Nick Stars. Timberwolves. That's fun. It feels like the Timberwolves are. They're wobbling. I. The Panthers are just. They're too savvy. Stars against the Oilers. You can't beat Leon Draisaitl and you know that. Everyone knows that. I know. Do you guys ever get confused with the Panthers and the Hurricanes? Shouldn't the Hurricanes be in Florida? The Panthers. Well, I don't know where Panthers are. I don't know if indigenous Panthers are running around Florida right now, but I don't know if they're in North Carolina either. Yes, Marvin. But there's a lot of hurricanes that come up on South Carolina and North Carolina too, so. Yeah. Which you'd want to not have that as your nickname because it's a natural catastrophe to the region. Like Miami, Right? Yeah. Todd, do you want to give a breakdown of where panthers their natural habitat is? Kind of like they're in the Everglades. Just kind of. They're kind of deep in the woods around the Everglades. Not when it rains. Good guess. The crocodiles and alligators are in there. But the panthers, you know, they sometimes they attack the alligators and they're indigenous to the Everglades region. Do they spawn? I guess would be. Can we get Todd one of those, like safari hats? Like those jungle ones that, like Steve Irwin? What are those? Are those pith helmets? Pith. I think they're pith, yes. I think I'd look cute in one of those, but whatever. Yes. Bo, I gotta double check this, but I think Todd nailed that. The Panthers, the Team is named for the Florida panther, an endangered species. A large cat indigenous to the nearby Everglades region. That's hilarious because I just thought of Everglades. I didn't even know what I was talking about. Every once in a while you stumble into one step in it. You step in it's all right. Well, you are the guy who graduated second in his class of six. I now had a chance to prove it. The Everglade Panthers of Florida. There you go. Finally. Did we learn something every day, don't we? Congratulations and get ready for this. It's going to happen. Let's say the Pacers face the thunder. You're going to hear from the non watchers. Oh, ratings are going to be terrible. Okay, they might be down, but keep this in mind. The NBA just signed 11 year. How many billions of dollars? 76 billion dollar TV deal. Yeah, 11 years. 76 billion through the 2035, 36 season. Yeah, they're fine. Okay, so you may take a hit with the ratings and but you know you're going to rebound. I don't know if they're taking money away. I don't know what the deal is. But you know our network's going to say if we don't have a certain rating then we get money back. I don't know that. But you know, for everybody who's going to say, and these are the non watchers being like, ah, you know, the non watchers always have an opinion on things. It's like, and I noticed this with the WNBA with Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. Those are the non watchers who have opinions because those who are watching don't have those opinions. It's all to these other people who want to have like something deep rooted in them that they want to get off their chest. And they use Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese as sort of the, you know, launching pad for that. But the non watchers, hey don't. I mean that's why you're a non watcher. But you'll have an opinion on. Nobody's going to watch this. Okay, then don't. But I look forward to if that's what it is. Pacers okc. One of those team gets its first NBA title. And imagine OKC having three of the greatest players of all time and not being able to close out Golden State. So you have Durant, Harden and Westbrook and you can't get to the NBA finals. Meanwhile you got Shay Gilgis, you got Chad Holmgren and a couple of guys last name Williams and you're going to Be going to the NBA final. And Dort, Lou Dort, can't leave that door. That's Paulie's guy. What are you doing? I can't. I won't. But thank you, Todd. All right, so phone calls, operator Tyler sitting by 877 3DP Show. You know, the whole Tyrese Halliburton emergence here. He was great in Sacramento. Where did he go to? Iowa State. Does that sound right? So, you know, he wasn't featured at any point. And even when you watch him, got a weird looking shot, but not afraid to take a big shot. We know that. And to have zero turnovers, I mean, that's what jumps out when you have the ball and you don't turn the ball over. And the Knicks certainly did. He's averaged around 20 per game, nearly 10 assists. And he also stretches the defense. He can take a deep three, but, you know, 32, 15, triple double. You're up three one and. And there aren't just three great games. They're statement games. This isn't about being a box score stuffer. It's what do you need? When do you need it? And I'll step up. So I don't think we look at him that he's on the rise. Tyrese Halliburton has arrived and he's a problem to deal with. All right, so we'll get phone calls here. All that smoke. Co host Stephen Jackson. I was on the podcast, I think earlier this year with him, had a lot of fun. Quinn buckner are the 76 Indiana Hoosiers. That's still the last team to go undefeated in college basketball. Yeah. 33 now. Yeah. I don't think we're going to have a team go undefeated ever again because you don't stay together. You know, the Hoosiers had. So Bob Knights your coach yet? Scott May. You had Kent Benson, you had Quinn. You know, Dan Dockage was on that team. Abernathy, I think, was on that team. They. Who was the other guard? Bobby. Bobby. Bobby Wilkerson. Drafted by the Cavs, I believe. But yeah, Quinn was the point guard for that team that went undefeated. Also played for the Celtics and won a ring there. Yes, Marvin, he's got a couple of great stories in Celtic City, the documentary that came out. He was awesome in that. I did not realize he played for the Celtics in 84. Yeah. Yeah. Now we'll ask him some of those stories. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Paul, how many times did ucla in the 60s go undefeated? Like three or four times. Was it something like that? Probably More than that. What? A throwaway like Indiana gets a ton of credit for being the last undefeated team. As they should. But it's like UCLA did it. I've got them doing it four different times just in the 60s. Yeah, and Kareem couldn't play his freshman year. But the freshman team beat the varsity team that won the national championship. Just to give you an idea of how dominating they were. So UCLA wasn't the best team on their campus? No, no, the freshman team was. Yeah, Back then, you know, they had freshman team because you weren't eligible to play varsity. They wanted you to get acclimated to college life. Now you're only playing your freshman year and you're not getting acclimated to college life? Yes, Paul, the last three teams to go into the NCAA Tournament undefeated, I gotta double check this. The 1415 Kentucky team, they went 38 1. I think they lost Wisconsin. Wichita State was 35 and 1 and 1314. And of course, UNLV 90, 91. They finished the season 34 and 1, lost to Duke in the final four. Okay, so the Oilers up 31 on the Stars. Panthers, Hurricanes. That's game five. That's coming up. Tonight, some baseball news. Shohei Ohtani, his 20th home run and starting to do a little more work. Pitching wise, the best record in baseball belongs to two. The Detroit Tigers. Excuse me. Yeah, the Detroit Tigers. 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Timberwolves against the Thunder coming up tonight. I've watched baseball, but it's kind of been sort of surface watching. Keeping an eye on a couple things there. And then I realized the Tigers have the best record in baseball. Shohei Ohtani hit his 20th home run. That's a home run. Three consecutive games. Do you realize the Colorado Rockies have been outscored by 174 runs? Damn. They're 9 and 46. They've been outscored by 174 runs. What? Remember the baseballs? That was a. The altitude was a big deal, and they had to put baseballs in a humidor. And then we had to question Todd Helton's career numbers or Larry Walker's numbers or Andres Galarraga, Big Cat Vinny Castilla. They would love to have those days back. Yes, Paul, the Rockies, like you said, have been outscored by 174 runs. Last year, the White Sox, one of the worst teams in history, were outscored by 306 runs. I'm doing the math here. The Rockies are on pace to be outscored this season by 475 runs. Congratulations. Congratulations. Go for the gold. Yeah. That's tough. Yeah. Well done. Well done. Yeah. 174 runs. Like, you almost have to try to be bad to be that bad. And are the White Sox, are they rooting for the Rockies to surpass their ineptitude? You think so, Mark? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Hey, get us out the record books. You guys take it. But I go back to the 76ers. 1972, they won nine games. And Fred Carter, who worked with me at ESPN as an NBA analyst after his playing days, he didn't want anybody to break that record because he said, we're not going to be remembered, so why not be remembered for something? And I said, for winning nine games? He said, yeah, yeah, we're the worst team in NBA history. They won nine games. Yes, Paul, but the Rockies aren't in the bottom in payroll, which would explain something if they were tanking for a draft pick or something like that. It's not like you get Paul Skeens if you're the worst. There are six teams in baseball were spending less this year than the Rockies. So based off that, how can you be this galactically bad investment? I mean, you could spend but bad investments. Whether Chris Bryant didn't they sign him to $120 million deal? Sure did. I don't know if he can even play anymore. All right, so we have our poll question and let me see a couple of phone calls. Andrew in Washington leads us off. Good morning, Andrew. What's on your mind today? Good morning, Dan. Dennis, thanks for taking my call. I'd much rather be Tyrese Halliburton with his contract than Timothee Chalamet with his contract. But I don't know if you saw the video of Timothy Chalamet showed a lot of respect. Ernie Johnson and Ben Stiller kind of were meeting up at the at the baseline before last night's game. And Timothy Chalamet did not come up and introduce himself to Ernie Johnson until Ben Stiller called him up to introduce him. And I was like, wow, that's a lot. That's a big humble move by Timothy Chalamet to show the respect to Ernie Johnson for somebody that's already star. I was like, wow, what a nice kid. Anyways, I was going to ask when does the NBA take away the writers ability to have the players make money? Jalen Jackson Jr. Cost him $200 million by not being on an all NBA team now. You know, from a supermax to like 143 million. And I know you brought this up before, but I just think that that needs to be changed somehow. I don't think his worst should be up to the riders. And by the way, Todd might want to not look into panther spawning, but I'm sure he's interested in cougar spawning. All right, thank you, Andrew. Fair enough. And you're saying writer or rider? Writers. He was saying writers. Yeah, like guys, Prince media. The writers and the broadcasters. Yeah. This is tricky because look, you can curry favor consciously, subconsciously, a media friendly. Next thing you know, somebody may vote for you, they may vote against somebody. It happens down through history. It's happened. Yes, Mark. And that happened to Klay Thompson. Clay Thompson didn't make all NBA and he wasn't eligible for the supermax. And they asked him, oh well, who, who'd you guys vote for? They're like Kimber Walker. He rolls his eyes. You're kidding me. It cost me like $40 million. Yeah. You know, the difference between Max and Supermax deal? I mean, this is million, hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars here. Yeah, more. That's another reason why I think the international US Game won't go over well, because a lot of guys will miss out on money because they didn't make the All Star team. Yeah, I don't know how many guys have a All Star bonus in their contract. I mean, maybe I. I always say if. If you are going to make a certain amount of money, you should make the All Star team. If you don't make the All Star team, I should get money back if I'm gonna pay you $50 million a year. So I kind of see it differently. And then, you know, when I voted, I. I took great pride in voting on the NBA awards, and there were times there were two players I voted for. I didn't get along with them because I said something on SportsCenter, but I still voted for them. And you were doing first team, second team, third team, and there's a lot of money attached to that. There was one. If Jaren Jackson Jr. The third won the defensive player of the year, that he was going to get some incredible, you know, a couple of hundred million dollars more with that Supermax deal, you know? You know, we. We see this sometimes where there's an ascendance. There's somebody where you go, oh, he's starting. You know, Shea Gilgis had this a couple of years ago where you started to go, oh, he's the guy in the Paul George deal. And then all of a sudden you realize, boy, he's pretty good. And then all of a sudden it's, oh, no, he's really good. And then all of a sudden, he's great. Tyrese Halliburton is, you know, it's a slow burn there. But, you know, at least Shea Gilgis was playing in la. Granted, it was for the Clippers. He played at Kentucky, so they were on TV all the time. But this has been a really slow burn for him. You know, even Jalen Brunson, if you look at him in college, if you look at him with the Mavs, it was a slow burn, but organizations having patience with those players or realizing what they have and then building around them. Indiana did that with Halliburton getting the trade. You know, all the draft picks that, you know, they threw in to get. Paul George, Paul George going to the Clippers and OKC got all those draft Picks and they got Shay Gilgis. You would do Shea Gilgis for Paul George straight up. You would. You would have to throw in some things if you were going to do that. If you were taking on Paul George now. Yeah, Paul, there's a lot more slow burn, guys. Giannis's first three years didn't make the All Star team. Jokic first three years. Even Steph Curry with the ankle issues early. No All Star appearances his first three seasons. Yeah, and it's interesting because you're so young going into the NBA that you're not a finished product. Where you'll see some guys in football, you know, baseball, you're spending time in the minors, like years in the minors to get to this point. Basketball, you can be 18 years of age. You know, Cooper flag, he's walking in, that's he's not a finished product. We may not realize how good he's going to be until he's 25. Shea Gilgis, I think is 25. You got Luca, who's what, 25, 26. Like these guys are still kind of finding their way and that's because they play one year basketball. Yeah, Mark, that's why you see so much ageism. We talked about Dalton Connect. If he was 19, he would have been the third pick overall. Because by the time they're 22, they're thinking Reed shepherd is going to be an All Star by 22, not getting drafted and being a rookie in the NBA at 22. So I think that's what a lot of people see when they draft 18, 19 year olds. If Dalton Connect had been 19 and he came from Germany, then all of a sudden, if he had an umlaut over his last name, they'd be like, you got to take that guy, man. He could be the next Luca. Like Franz Wagner, he's an all Star, played really well. I think it helps that he's Franz Wagner, not Frank Wagner. Yes, Paul. Remember how much it helped Nick Stauskas? That was Nikki Stauskis. Not N, I, C, K, Canadian. That's close to Europe. Nick Stauskis, top 10 draft pick. I know. Wasn't it Sacramento who took him? Of course, of course. They love Europeans. Yeah. Even though he's Canadian. Let me see. Don in Florida. Hi, Don. What's on your mind today? Morning, Dan. Love the show. Listen or watch nearly every day. Mike, question is pertaining to Major League Baseball. I born, raised, lived most of my adult life in Northeast Ohio. I'm a Guardians fan, small mid market team. Do you think that Major League Baseball is ever going to change pertaining to revenue sharing. The other point I have is international players that play professionally somewhere else, basketball, if they want to play in the NBA, they got to enter the draft, Major League Baseball, they don't, don't think it's fair to the small mid market teams, which there's a lot of them. And if it's never going to change, why not? Well, I don't think that you could institute a salary cap. I'm sure they would love to, but I just think we're too far down the road that the Dodgers are obviously not going to want to adhere to that. I mean, there's, there's teams that are spending money, you know, the Mets are spending money there, there's quite a few. There's probably 10 teams that are, you know, spending a lot more money than you think. But it's the haves and the have nots. You know, it's unfortunate because there are great baseball cities, traditionally great baseball cities that are never going to get close to winning a World Series, maybe, you know, get close to a playoff spot. And that's just about it. Yeah, Martin. Yeah. When I was younger, I always felt bad for the Athletics in the Royals because they would have players like a Johnny Damon or one of the Giambies. Jason Giambi was a man, they're really good. They're going to be a Yankee or Red Sox in about two years. Always happen to basically like those two franchises. Well, we're doing that with Paul Skeens of the Pirates. We're gonna go, man, who's gonna get him? You know, De La Cruz, who's going to get him? O' Neill with the Pirates. Somebody's going to get those guys. And then you're going to be like, where'd this guy come from? And then you realize that, you know, he played for some other team in a smaller market and you probably didn't follow him. But I mean that it's the haves and the have nots. Angela in Oklahoma. Hi, Angela. Good morning. Good morning. Want to say I love your show. I love you guys. And now I want to really talk about the Thunder because Oklahoma and last night was such a close game. Oh my goodness. I was biting my nails and we won. Yes. And now I'm certainly, certainly scared of Halliburton. Okay. And then I also have one more thing I need to say. I love your so, so much, Dan, that I've looked you up and I've established the day. Dan Pugh PLAYER in high school at William Mason High School he scored you, Dan, a single game personal best of 36 points and earned AP Class AA Ohio 13 honors. I'm so proud of you, Dan. I love the damet. Thank you, Angela. Thank you. I think. Stat of the day. Stat of the day. Of the day. Stat of the day. Here comes that. What? Thank you, Angela. Thank you. Once again. You couldn't stop me. You could only hope to contain me. And league rules frowned upon using a handgun. Yes, Todd, doesn't that make you excited and like, you've been doing this so long and people get so emotional and, you know they're on hold and they can't wait to talk to you for a minute and just. You just made that person's day. She got all choked up just to give you that stat from your high school basketball days and to say hi, I don't know. That's a pretty cool thing, having a little moment here. Are you getting sent away a little bit? I just think that's awesome. How many people have careers where or do anything in life for any kind of job where someone can get that excited and emotional in a given moment about something you did or about how much enjoy what you do. I think that's just a pretty awesome thing. Do you know that I still. She brought up that game and I. I should have had 40. I can already tell you two shots that I missed that were. That. Stay with me. That's terrible. That's. You know, that's 50 years ago. And I still remember two shots. I. I still remember a layup that I missed. And I would have had 30 in again. Drives me crazy. Drives me crazy. It's a willingness. It's. It's a need to be great, Todd. It's very impressive. I even saw it. You know, we see. When we go on the road, we were in Atlanta taping family food, and people coming up to you at the airport or inside the family food building, like, this is their big moment. They'll maybe never see you ever again, and this is their chance to say hi or get a picture. I just. I don't know. I just kind of. We forget something. Maybe we take you for granted. I don't know if that's what I'm trying to say. Like, why am I getting so excited about Dan? We see him every day. What's the big deal? Taking pictures, chasing him across the street, asking you about the middle relievers of the twins. What's going on here? Although when we were at Celebrity Family Feud, Diplo was there, and I didn't know if he was a sports guy. I didn't go up to him, but somebody said, you know, they. They think all celebrities know all celebrities. And so Diplo was, I don't know, 15ft away, and I was just standing there. I wasn't really familiar with him. I know he's a very popular dj, but I guess he was on Celebrity Family Feud prior to us. But Diplo was in the building. That's who that was. Yes. No kidding. Yeah. Yeah. What? Marvin, I didn't know that either. Yeah, no idea. I was told it was like, hey, there's Diplo. And I go, okay, now what do I do? Diplo's like a dj. Yeah. Music producer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he's not like. Yeah, he's not like Skrillex, is he? He's probably almost exactly like. They're in that same. Wasn't Skrillex a thing? For a while there he was, and then everybody realized that style of techno is terrible. Yeah. Oh, my God. Yes. Paul Diplo is a DJ from Tupelo, Mississippi. Went to Temple University. His foreign name is Thomas Wesley Pence, AKA Diplo Diplo. Yeah. So Diplo was in the house. That was a Diplower. After those comments. Thank you, Todd. All right, let me take a break. More phone calls coming up, but up next is our play of the day. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show, weekdays at 9am Eastern, 6am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. T Mobile stats are as impressive as your favorite athlete's highlight reel, because T Mobile helps keep you connected from the heart of Portland to right where you are on America's largest 5G network. Switch now keep your phone and T Mobile will pay it off at the $800 per line via prepaid card. Visit your local T Mobile location or learn more@t mobile.com KeepAndSwitch up to four lines via virtual prepaid card. Allow 15 days qualify and unlock device. Credit service port in 90 plus days. Device and eligible carrier and timely redemption required. Card is no cash access and expires in six months. Made for this Mountain is a podcast that exists to empower listeners to rise above their struggles. 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Tirerack.com the way tire buying should be Keith in Denver Good morning Keith. What's on your mind today? I'd like to visit. About what? We think there's a baseball team here in Denver. You. Well, I'm originally from the Midwest, moved here in 81, used to play baseball. Every day was part of the 80,000 fans. That was for the first Rockies opening day and the disappointment we have here in this city is ridiculous. You made a comment the other day, Dan, and I love your show about the attendance at the Rockies games. The problem is if you look at the TV screen for the attendance of the Rockies game, at least half the ballpark is from the other team. There are so many transplants here in Denver that half the ballpark is for sure. And for the other team, it's a ridiculous scenario. I refuse to go anymore. To give Montburn a $10 beer in in return, we also had four players. Four players that were given market contract offers, either had them or were given them in Aeronauto Holiday story Tulitzki and all of them said they didn't want to play for it says a lot. Yeah. Thanks for the phone call, Keith. I hear the disappointment in your voice. You know, you get success and then all of a sudden you think that you're kind of entitled to that it's just going to continue. And then, you know, get an owner as a different thought process here. You know, manage. It's a business. And then do you have the right people? The right people in place where you're bringing in the right town and spending the money, and then there's nothing you can do. You're held captive. It's. It's your baseball team and for better, for worse, trying to support them. Yes. The problem for the Rockies, too, is that while their spending isn't terrible, the Tigers spending is only like five or six spots higher than that. There's only like $25 million difference or something like that. So clearly they're spent way better. Yeah. I often talk about NFL teams when somebody says, oh, they got all these draft picks. Who's drafting? That's what I want to know. Just like with okc, they have all these draft picks. Well, they have Sam Presti. I feel pretty good about that. The Ravens would have draft picks. And I go, ozzie Newsom. I feel pretty good about that. See, that's the key. You know, the Browns have had draft picks for the last 15 years. They just don't draft well. You know, they've drafted a couple. You know, Joe Thomas is a Hall of Famer, but they've whiffed. That's the important part. And even when you get like, Kansas City, Red beach is incredible, and they're drafting at the end of the. Of the round, it's. Do you have the right people to select the right people? That's where it starts. Yeah. Pauline, I was looking at the attendance so far this year. It's a small sample size, but the Rockies aren't that bad. They're like 18th in attendance. People still go to the games. So my question is, which is the easiest sport to attend your team's game? When they stink, is the obvious answer. Baseball, because you're outside, It's. It's like going to a park with a baseball game. When they stink. Well, There's a lot of games. You got 81 games to be able to choose from. Football, you know, you get half of the 17 game schedule. Feels like you have to go to those games because you're. You're spending all that money, whether they're good or not, on your tickets. Yes. Yes. I just can't imagine if you're an owner. Let's say you're the owner of the Rockies or the A's, the White Sox, last year. Are you going to every game, every home game? You imagine just sitting there and you're watching an aptitude, but you have to watch your product because it's yours. That would be. That'd be a challenge. I mean, you can have a bad football team, but you got to go to eight games and, you know, you may win three of those games. So it feels like that's a little bit easier to go to a football game, A, because of the tickets and B, because, well, it's. It's only, you know, a finite amount of games here. Baseball's just. There's so many of those games. Gibbs in Virginia Beach. Hi, Gibbs. What's on your mind? No, babe, this. This is the guy that was talking about bear spawning with the. With the fish. Hey, Dan. Oh, Gibbs with a little humor there. I see what you were doing. Talking to somebody. Okay. All right. What do you have for me? Hey, Dana. Hi, bud. Thanks for calling me back, as always. I want to give a shout out to Keith in Virginia Beach. I love that. The Virginia beach crowd is heavy in this right now. Keith, I'm here for you, man. Anytime you want me to come over and start moving that stuff out. I got you, brother. And shout out to Gibbs. Gibbs. Let's give. Okay. Never mind. Another day, Gibbs. That's work on ourselves. I. No idea. Gibbs was giving us some humor. Oh, I missed it. Yeah, me too. I've been there. I've been there. Yes, you have. Suddenly you sounded funnier. Zach in Minnesota. Hi, Zach. Good morning, Dan. How are we doing this morning? Oh, oh, just wonderful. Yeah. Hey, that's good to hear. Glad it's not just me over here. Six foot three, eight of an inch and a deadly £220. Thank you. I just want to touch base. Last week, you guys were talking about a baby onesie idea. First time caller. I think you guys also got to leave the space for their weight so they can also earn their first bell at some point. You know, throw an extra 10 bucks, send it back to get it signed. That'd be something fun. So Just want to touch base. Earlier we were talking about careers that were just overspending and over time. And you guys were talking about Skrillex. Did you know that he started touring at the age of 16 and is still touring to this day? Well, that's great. Thank you, Zach. I didn't know I was going to get an update on Skrillex. A dj, but I got one. I hope, I hope America is further enriched because of that. Is that a unique situation too, by the way, that somebody started touring at 16 and continue to to this day? Hey, it's E me because I brought up Skrillex after seeing Diplo at Celebrity Family. I can't believe that was Diplo. He's a. He's a thing. Yeah. Yeah. Do you think he was wondering who we were? Yes. Yeah, he's definitely wondering who we were. I don't even actually think he thought long enough to wonder who we were. He just moved right by us. There's a bunch of random people. Yeah. Randos. Yeah. All right, update the poll results if you can. There seat no counter. Heck yeah. Which team that is currently down three. One is most done. Hurricanes, Nicks Stars, Timberwolves. Right now, timberwolves have about 35% of that vote. Close race between Hurricanes and Nicks People still believing in the stars. Okay. All right. Coming up next hour, we'll talk to Stephen Jackson. He is co host of all the Smoke. Great podcast. 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