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We did it. Collectively, we made it to a Friday. It's a meet Friday. Dylan is the one whipping up a batch. He'll let you know what the menu is here momentarily. Stat of the day is always brought to you by Panini America. I'm working on my accent. Panini Automatica, the official Trading cards of the Dan Patrick show and this program, first hour brought to you by the great folks at Rec Tech, the official griller and grill of the dan Patrick show. Rectech.com and wood fired grills. The grills fired up outside today. Dylan, the menu for today is.
Dylan
Well, Dan, we've got a doozy. Today we are having our annual beef Wellington USA style in honor of 4th of July.
Dan Patrick
Now how is that different from any other beef Wellington?
Dylan
It is exactly the same except it will say USA and puff pastry on it.
Dan Patrick
Okay. Yes.
Paulie
Paul, I'm a bit concerned. This seems like an borderline anti American pro England World cup dish. Is that what's going on here?
Dylan
It's actually. We're taking it back. That's what we're doing. We're taking it back from England.
Dan Patrick
Okay.
Dylan
Much like we did in 1776 then.
Paulie
All right, I'll back that then.
Dan Patrick
I vaguely remember that. What else is on the menu?
Dylan
Cherry pepper pork chops. Those are going to be a little spicy garlic bread, cheesy garlic bread and jalapeno cheesy corn. And the meat, the beef tenderloin and the pork chops supplied by heartland state code.
Dan Patrick
Dan, who has it better than we do? Nobody. All righty. Got a play of the day. Poll question, stat of the day. All of that forthcoming. Oh, the United States lost last night. Oh, no, they didn't need to win. I like, you know, once again, it's a lot of people clutching their pearls on this and people coming in who aren't, you know, World cup or Team USA followers per se on the periphery and it's like, we lost. What's that mean? No, it's okay. We're moving on. It's okay. But I think we, you know, get caught up in, well, we win.
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We're.
Dan Patrick
We win. Come on. We can't beat Turkey. I, I mean, come on. Well, they didn't have their starters in. I think he had nine new starters. Kristen Pulisic got to play. Look good and I think it's promising moving forward where now we get ready for the knockout stage. 8773, DP Show. Email address dp@danpatrick.com Twitter handle @DP Show. Good morning. If you're watching on Peacock, thank you for downloading the app and our radio affiliates around the country. Linda Cohn, ESPN legend, her final day at the mothership today. She will join us later on. Alan Hunter and one of the original MTV VJs is going to join us. We're gonna talk some music. He's gonna be our musical ombudsman because Dylan and I going back and forth. Dylan decked out in his Grateful Dead hoodie today. Or sweatshirt today. Great. Congratulations. Todd's in the back row. Marvin and Paulie up front. Yours truly and the back room guys. Aside from Turkey a over Team USA. 3, 2. USA advances to the knockout round. Ivory Coast.
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Dan Patrick
Ecuador, Netherlands. They end up winning. Sweden and Japan tie. Paraguay. Australia end up tying. Back to Team usa. One of the better stories of the tournament, of course, home field advantage. But while the loss was disappointing last night, especially a goal coming in the closing moments, in the bigger picture, the grand scheme of things, this doesn't affect the Americans reaching the knockout stage. That was the goal. Then all of a sudden you have reporters saying, well, you guys could have gone undefeated. And the group stage coaches are saying, well, we didn't. Who cares? I mean, we can go undefeated and lose the next match. Our goal was we're moving on and we want to be ready. This is a good problem for Team USA to have. We haven't. We haven't had this good problem before. But Team USA still has every reason to believe it can make a deep run. You know, good teams learn from victory. Sometimes you'll get a win and it covers up some of the bad things you were doing with the loss. It may ultimately prove more valuable because maybe a wake up call with some certain things that Team USA did and did not do. But three, two, the final in that. All right, Dylan, poll question. First hour is going to be what?
Dylan
Well, I've got a smattering of poll questions from Todd. Actually, for starters, Team USA's World cup late loss to Turkey is no big deal. A bit concerning or very troubling.
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If you had told everyone that ahead of time, we would be able to afford to lose a game in the group stage, I think people would sign up for that, right?
Dan Patrick
Yeah, it's a good problem to have. Yeah.
Paul
Paul.
Paulie
It's like a college football team going undefeated and they're already in the playoffs and then they lose their conference title game. It doesn't matter. You'd like to win it, you'd prefer to win it. They didn't.
Dan Patrick
World cup title odds. In case you're wondering, France is your favorite, followed by Spain, then Argentina, England, Portugal, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands. Team USA is plus 3000 to win the title. France, by comparison, is plus 400. But also, I was looking at this. According to DraftKings, Team USA odds to win the cup plus 3000 to reach the final, plus 1200 to reach the semifinal, plus 400 to reach the quarters, minus 115. Dylan. Of course, the resident gambler in this program, usually on the wrong side of things. Are you betting on team USA Big or just maybe to advance a couple more games?
Dylan
Well, for starters, I have to admit something. I actually watched the entire game last night, which I think was the first buzzer beater I've ever seen in a soccer game.
Dan Patrick
Did you bet on Turkey?
Dylan
I did.
Dan Patrick
Okay, that's fine.
Paul
It's.
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You're not anti American for doing it. You're. And you're a pro capitalist,
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which is
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pro American, by the way, if you're pro capitalist. Okay, well, congratulations on that.
Dylan
Thank you. It is. It does show how quick, you know, the price of my patriotism is, apparently. Turkey plus 250, I guess.
Dan Patrick
Okay.
Dylan
I can be bought.
Paul
Okay.
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Yes.
Paul
Paul.
Paulie
It just felt. I was listening to Clint Dempsey after the game that America wanted to go three and. Oh, the American soccer fans. A big night in L. A. Let's take down turkey, go three and. It's almost like it was a little rain on the wedding day type thing. It's no big deal, but you prefer to walk off with three wins.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. Yeah, I agree. You want to, you know, keep that momentum going. Eric Winold, when he joined us yesterday, he said, no, this is about just keeping momentum going instead of having reporters asking questions like, wait, what happened? You know, we. You could have done something no other team has done. No, the fact that we didn't need to do that tells you everything you need to know about this team. What other poll questions do you have there? First hour. Deal.
Dylan
Well, do we want to get into the WNBA stuff at all, or we gonna.
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Sure.
Paul
Okay.
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You know, throw it out there.
Dylan
Alyssa Thomas's flagrant two and one game suspension for actions against Caitlin Clark is fair, even though not assessed at the time or way too little, too late.
Dan Patrick
I think it's a smart move, that's all. Smart move. Looking at, you know, watching in real time, you don't see it. You slow it down, and you can just go back retroactively. Suspend her for one game. Should have been called in the moment. I still think the more dangerous call was when Caitlin Clark went up for a jump shot, tried to come down, and there was a player in her landing area. Like, that's where you sprain an ankle, break an ankle, and that has to be called. But, I mean, this caught fire yesterday. We still don't know about the 30th anniversary poster of the WNBA. I think it has to do with licensing that maybe you don't have the rights to Caitlin Clark. I don't know if that, you know, includes Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird and Candace Parker. I mean, it's not white and black because you have, you know, Candace Parker. To me, Catchings, who are black, they're not on the poster. There might have been licensing. Do you have the rights to Caitlin Clark to be able to put her on that poster? As silly as that may sound, there has to be a reason. We said yesterday. Is it incompetence or was it intentional? Because I don't believe any publicity is good publicity, especially if you're the wnba, especially with this topic. But the number of people who are like Caitlin Clark should just go overseas and play. These players bargained to make more money so they don't have to play overseas. You would have these players finish the season and go over to Russia and play. They don't want to do that anymore. And if they're Caitlin Clark and Nike is paying you all this money, you want to be on display here. So taking your ball and going home, that not. Not a logical response to this.
Paulie
Yes, Pauline, on the WNBA 30th anniversary poster we brought up yesterday, it could be a rights thing. Darren Revelle of Collect, our friend who does sports business, said it definitely was part of it. Other than Nike, Clark allows licenses to use her name and number, but not necessarily her likeness without permission. It definitely could have been a permission thing with Nike and Clark's likeness.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, but I don't know about these other players. That's. I mean, Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird, Candace Parker, Tamika Catching should be on that poster. I mean, that bothers me more than the Caitlin Clark, because Caitlin Clark, it feels like that's just marketing or licensing. Why wouldn't you put I, you know, erroneously said founding fathers, but it's the founding members of the wnba, you know, the people that this was built on, like they should be on a 30th anniversary commemorative commemorative poster. Um, but, yeah, that was wise for the wnba. By the way, just a note to the wnba, have somebody available. You know, yesterday we're, you know, one of the few outlets that called looking for a quote. We couldn't even get a quote out of anybody. And Paulie was working on that most of the show. Like, have somebody available. All right. Like, you have to answer tough questions sometimes, and this is a time when you have to answer a tough question. But have somebody available. That's all have somebody available for comment. Everybody was traveling. Nobody was available yesterday. And then it spirals out of control and it gets even worse. And then all of a sudden, everybody's got an opinion about this. Even people who probably didn't even see the game. They saw the highlight. Oh, my God, look at what they're. Okay, we've been doing this. We've been doing this since she got into the league. It will continue until something happens with the WNBA where they have some kind of edict that says, look, it feels like we're going to the opposite extreme to not protect her. Yes.
Paulie
Paul, you said this yesterday in the moment with the poster situation. If it's a conflict of rights or likenesses, say it. Say it early and get it out there. If they would have said this yesterday morning early, you wouldn't have had 12 hours of hot takes about they leaving her off the poster.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, I know. And then, you know, people get caught up. Well, because she's white and straight. They've had white and straight stars before. Okay, like, that's not why WNBA players may not like Caitlin Clark. They don't like that she gets all the attention. That's all. Now, if you want to factor in other things, okay, maybe. But the overriding factor, I think that you have this pushback from players is, hey, she's kind of got carte launch. She got the red carpet treatment. We're the ones who have been here in the league. We built this league. Okay? And they're right. But that doesn't mean the WNBA should not protect Caitlin Clark. She. Their ratings are 30% higher than any other team. People tune in. She's a difference maker. I mean, that's not an opinion, that's a fact. She's a star. They should protect her. Because we're watching the stars. We see what happens. What doesn't happen. We see when Wemby does something, or Jalen Brunson or Luca, we're watching the stars. So be aware and watch the stars as well. You don't have to treat him that way. But, you know, there should be more respect than how she plays the game. Now, does she try to sell every foul, every time down the floor? Yes. Yes, she does. And I think that's bothersome to the league, to the optics and to the opposition. But I just want to make sure that, you know, this doesn't get out of hand where, you know, she suffers a really bad injury and she's coming off an injury plague season a year ago. But, yeah, yesterday they let it kind of metastasize and that's, that's on the wnba, but have somebody available, that's all. And you could even say, look, we have no comment on that or we can't comment on that. Or maybe you can say, hey, it's a licensing situation. That's all. There are certain players that we don't have control over. That's all. Then we move on. And then we just talk about those two plays in that game, including putting your fist on her throat or close to her throat and then helping yourself up. That was intentional. That should have been a suspension. They did. It took a while, but everything, everything's okay now, right? We move on,
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Taylor Twelman, usa, former USA Soccer player, will join us coming up. Oh, man, it just yesterday it, we kept going, does anybody want to talk about this? And it got to the point I said, paulie, don't worry about it. Like we tried. And then, you know, you're getting somebody and nobody can talk. And I'm going, why the mystery here? Okay? You just make it worse. Every time you think they're going to build on something, they don't. It's like Jenga. The WNBA is Jenga and all of a sudden you're going, I'm going to take that. Crash. Oh, look at this, we're building.
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Paulie
They had a player score 53 points in a game and tie the all time scoring record last night. And it won't get the attention that this will even close.
Dan Patrick
Unless Marina Mabry did it against Caitlin Clark's team. Then we would have gotten attention.
Paulie
They should have planned it to be against the fever.
Dan Patrick
Just. Yeah, 53 points in a game. But she's best known for, I think pushing Caitlin Clark down or had an altercation with Caitlin Clark. That's what she's known for, I think before this. Yes.
Marvin Mabry
Marvin Mabry and covering WNBA games when I was at the Mothership. Oh, what did young kids say? She wants to smoke. She's gotten into some altercations with plenty of people in the league before. So she's a tough one. The wnba, they have more enforcers and more tough players than the NBA. For sure.
Taylor Twellman
They do.
Marvin Mabry
So this whole thing is. Oh, man, they're, they're, they're not treating Kayla Clark, man, they are over on top of each other like crazy.
Dan Patrick
That they are. It's a more physical game. It is. They, they allow, you know, more continuation than the NBA. Alrighty. We'll decide on our poll question. We'll talk about the match with Taylor Swellman. I keep saying this. A good problem to have that we didn't need to win a game in the World Cup. We're back after this Friday Edition Dan Patrick Show.
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Taylor Twelman, Apple tv. Their lead soccer analyst and former US Men's team player. He'll join us coming up momentarily. Also here from Team USA coach Mauricio Pochettino on last night's loss. I put that in quotation marks 8, 7, 73 DP show email address dpdanpatrick.com Twitter handle @DP Show Poll Question, are we settling on something for the first hour? Dylan?
Dylan
Yeah, we actually have some early results, Dan.
Dan Patrick
Oh, okay.
Dylan
Team USA's late loss to Turkey A is no big deal. A bit concerning or very troubling. 61% say no big deal.
Dan Patrick
No, it should be like 90% no big deal. Well, it's not a big deal. Not a big deal at all. Yes, Paul.
Paulie
There was one tough moment with 30 seconds to go right before the goal. There's a really good player named Arta Guler. Young guy for Turkey A. He nutmeg. Christian Pulisic. And that lives forever.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. Here is Mauricio Pochettino after the loss last night.
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Dan Patrick
He said the media was being petty and not maybe understanding exactly what they've accomplished. And the bigger picture, accomplishment like that's the key to all of this. It's not going undefeated in the group stage. It's getting as far as possible here. Yeah.
Paulie
Paul, did Pochettino just go scoreboard on the media there?
Dan Patrick
Felt like it.
Paulie
I don't know.
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Dan Patrick
A couple of phone calls. While we wait for Taylor to join us, Andrew in Washington leads us off. Morning, Andrew.
Caller Andrew
Oh, good morning, Dan.
Paul
Dan. Yeah. I watched that whole game last night.
Caller Andrew
Like Dylan. It's my first buzzer beater in soccer. It was kind of cool, but I know that it didn't mean anything for the USA to win. I'm just glad they got a lot
Paul
of, a lot of their players time
Caller Andrew
on the pitch before getting to the knockout round. Had a question for the room. You know, I'm going on vacation next week as well as you guys are. My question is this because I'm kind of going into this. I wish you guys were on next week. I need some content. I need something every day to do. I'd love to be able to call into a show, but unfortunately you guys are off because I'm going to a vacation that I really am not looking forward to going on. So the question to the room, maybe in some callers is do you have any advice on that or have you had to ever go to a place or go see people on a vacation that you really weren't looking forward to?
Dan Patrick
Well, why aren't you looking forward to the vacation?
Caller Andrew
Well, I guess you could say it has to do with in laws and a little bit of drama and there's some missing family members that we're really looking forward to seeing that won't be there. So now it's going to be more time with people that we want to spend less time with.
Dan Patrick
Hopefully they don't listen to the show every day like you do there, Andrew, but good luck. I don't think I've been in a situation where like, I wasn't keen on going to Disney World one time because I'd been working second shift and I mean, I was, I was fried. And Disney World is not a place to go if you're fried from your regular job and taking four kids. They were probably under the age of nine and you're walking around in the heat and you know, you got one who's in a stroller but doesn't want to be in a stroller. You got one who wants to go here, two that want to go here, one that melts down on It's a Small World and went into hysterics and you're like, it's a vacation. I had to keep reminding myself it's a vacation. It's a vacation. It's a vacation. Yes.
Paulie
Paul, Going to Disney with kids is great to look forward to and great to look back upon.
Dan Patrick
Yes.
Paulie
The actuality of it is tiring.
Caller Andrew
Yes.
Dan Patrick
That's where it. It's not exactly like childbirth, but, you know, do you be like you. It's so the anticipation and then you have the baby and you go, I'll never have another baby. And then all of a sudden you look back and you go, you know Maybe I'm ready for another baby. That's sort of how I view Disney World. It's like I look forward to it. Oh, man, that's a lot of labor pains. And then you look back in the pictures and you go, oh, man. Remember that? Oh, that was so cute. Remember when. When you Snow White? You got a picture with Snow White? Yeah.
Paulie
Paulie, I know a guy and his wife. They go to Disney probably every other year. They don't have any kids. They're in their 40s. Is that odd or do you kind of respect it?
Dan Patrick
I have a friend who got married down there and they would like to eventually work down there at Disney World. Let's see. Paul in North Carolina. Hi, Paul. What do you have for me today?
Paul
Hey, good morning, fellas. Hey, guys. First of all, Dylan, thank you so much for bringing Grateful dead and widespread panic in the fish conversation. Thank you so much. And Dan, the fact that we heard you reading out at Grateful Dead set list yesterday, awesome. Well, listen, I wanted to bring up this lamella ball trade here in locally in North Carolina. It's getting a lot of criticism, but I think the Hornets are playing chess and everyone else is playing checkers. They traded for Kobe white at the deadline. They just saved a ton of money. Traded lamello ball like they now have the second most assets in draft assets. They have the most biggest trade exception in the history of the NBA. The market size of Oklahoma City and the market size of Charlotte are very similar. If you look at the build of what the thunder have done to what now the Hornets have and going forward, very similar. And I think like I heard somebody refer to the Hornets general manager as chef Jeff because his name is Jeff Peterson. So I think chef Jeff is doing a hell of a job. And I think this is the middle of all trade. Like there's criticism for the moment giving one first round pick back, but that trade allowed them for that that exception. So I think that that had been taken into consideration. They weren't going to give them a crazy amount of draft picks. So I think it's, you know, because the offset of the salary of Kobe white to a mellow ball just frees up a ton of money. I think this is genius and this has been in the works for months.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, yeah, I'm fine with might be a little bit addition by subtraction. I think they want to change the culture of this team. Con Knippel had a coming out party and they probably look at lamelo ball who is a highlight. I want to emphasize that he is A highlight social media star. But if you're looking at trying to emulate okc, well, you're going to do that by getting picks and thinking of bigger depth. And that's what OKC did. And these GMs should be trying to emulate that. But it's really hard because once again, nobody knew SGA was sga. They traded Paul George and at the time people were like, how do you trade Paul George? Well, you trade Paul George because you know you're going to get assets in return and then you're going to build out that. And that's what they've done. And if your team is following that blueprint, that's a good blueprint to follow. Taylor Twellman, Apple TV lead soccer analyst and former member of Team usa, joining us, short notice. Where are you right now, Taylor?
Taylor Twellman
I am in Boston, Massachusetts for Norway France, which should happen in a little bit. Dan, should be a good one.
Dan Patrick
How important is this game?
Taylor Twellman
It's important because I think the general public doesn't fully understand with the 48 team tournament that the top four teams in the world FIFA rankings, France, Spain, Argentina, England. If all four win their group, they avoid playing one another until the semifinal. So while both France and Norway are going through, it's vital for France that they, they win this group. And so there's still, still something to play for here.
Dan Patrick
I a lot of people clutching their pearls after the loss last night and bigger picture with Team usa and I kept saying that's a great problem to have that we didn't need to win a match. I don't know how you feel, but that's how I saw the result. Your thoughts
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Taylor Twellman
I mean, Dan, listen, they scored in the 98th minute, so it's a, it's an absolute bitter pill to swallow. I literally was on the verge of putting it out on social media. Great perseverance from the second string. Great reaction to twice going down. I mean, once going down to one, scoring the time goal and then finding a way with second half subs to mitigate that. Now, in saying that, I went into the game saying this, the result was inconsequential, but the game wasn't meaningless. And so now Pochettino has answers to which players in the knockout stage are ready for the moment. That I'm not totally sure he got answers he wanted, but he got answers. It's the first time, so own it. Take the, take the fruits of those labor and say, hang on a minute, we're favored against Bosnia. We got to be the proactive team and we got to be on the front foot from the opening whistle.
Dan Patrick
What did you see from Christian Pulisic last night?
Taylor Twellman
He's fine. He's completely fit. I'm actually, I was in the camp of saying don't play him because I don't think the reward outweighed the risk. However, I understood saying, listen, if we can get him 20 some odd minutes, it gets rid of those. He's been out for two and a half weeks. He gets into the flow now he's in the thick of it. So you gained a lot now by him not being injured, getting rid of the 20 plus minutes. He got nutmegged on the game winning goal. I know that's going to be tough and he probably was thinking about that at the end of the night, but immediately you saw how important he is. He made that team much more dangerous within three minutes of being on the field. And against this Bosnian team where they defend and tactically are very south. Danny's their most important attacking player.
Dan Patrick
USA faces Bosnia Herzegovina. So what can you tell us about them?
Taylor Twellman
Bosnia is very similar to Australia and Paraguay. They'll defend first. They'll defend very Simply with a 4, 4, 2. They'll have numbers behind the ball. The difference between them versus Paraguay and Australia, they have absolutely no problem doing that for 90 minutes. And what I mean by that is they will be 100% committed in making sure defensively they frustrate the United States. Now the caveat to this is emotionally, where are they going to be? This is their first knockout stage game in the history of their country in the World Cup. So emotionally, are they going to be prepared for 70,000 people that are red, white, blue rooting for the opposition? This is 100% on away game, both on the field, off the field and everything else about that. So the first 15, 20 minutes will dictate whether or not the United States has a game like they did against Paraguay or they're going to have 90 plus minutes because now in the knockout stage that can go to penalties. Dan, it's important that the United States wins that first half because if they do, Bosnia's got to come out of their show. That's not where they're at their best.
Dan Patrick
If I talk to you in two weeks, what are we talking about?
Taylor Twellman
We're talking about the United States preparing for the quarterfinal. I really believe that. I've said that from the beginning. I just believe that they would win their group and by winning their group, it would set themselves up with a third place team and then a Winner of two second place qualifiers. I think we're talking about the United States in a court, in a quarterfinal.
Dan Patrick
Before I let you go, would you rather have Mbappe's future or Holland's? Thank you.
Taylor Twellman
Because he doesn't eat liver and onions.
Dan Patrick
Thanks for joining us on short notice there. Safe travels, Taylor. See you, buddy. Taylor Twelveman, Apple TV SOCCER ANALYST we saw, sorry for the connection, but he literally was driving to the match and pulled over at a gas station to be able to help accommodate there. But Mbappe and Holland going against each other, that's a lot of fun. There's a lot of talent. And what you're seeing is there are players that get on this stage and they shine and they're younger players. And you know, we've seen big time players get on the stage and not do well. But when you see some of the younger players, you know, 17, 18, 19 years of age playing for your country, playing the World cup, playing in the United States, and that's a lot to ask. That's a lot. And it feels like we're asking more and more of these younger athletes when they're 17, 18, 19, hey, Dallas Mavericks, Cooper's gonna be your leader. He's 19, 18, 19 years of age. And then you go to the other end of the spectrum and you see what's happening with the these athletes who are in their 40s, I mean, joke. Novak Djokovic is 39. Aaron Rodgers, Messi, Ronaldo, Brady. Brady won a Super bowl, you know, in his mid-40s. Kawhi Leonard, 34, LeBron's 41, not I put in Kawhi because he had one of his best seasons after being injured. And when you think about being 34, Magic and Isaiah Thomas retired at 32 and 33. Larry Bird was 35. So that, you know, we're kind of bookending that it's, it's commonplace. Serena gonna play at Wimbledon, singles match in her 40s. That used to be, if you got to 35, you were old. Now with all of the nutrition and travel, you know, workout programs, off season, all of that, we're surprised when you don't go into your late 30s here. And you also see these athletes when they're 18 or 19 years of age and they're coming in and making an impact right away. All right, we'll take a break. We'll get to more phone calls coming up. Alan hunter, FORMER MTV VJ See, that's what I love about this show. We're going to have one of the original mtvjs on and we'll talk some music with him. Linda Cohn, 34 years at the mothership. Today's her last day. She'll join us as well. Our Play of the day next Fox
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Caller Andrew
Oh my God.
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The play of the Day. This is the play of the day. Check this out.
Caller Andrew
Chance for a cross comes back to the top of the box. Now it's clipped in at the backside. Matt Turner it stopped. Home turkey. I scored the winning in the 98th minute. They might be going home tomorrow, but they're going wild now.
Dan Patrick
That's our play of the day courtesy of Fox World cup and Christian Pulisic saw his first action, had a couple of shots on goal and also got nutmegged as well during the contest. I don't think that shows up in the stat sheet there. Shots on goal and you got hit in the groin. For over 40 years, Tire Rack's been helping you find the right tires for how and what and where you drive. Ship fast and free, backed by free road hazard protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tirerack.com the way tire buying should be the New York Mets have fired their manager Carlos Mendoza 15 games out of first place. With that kind of payroll in New York looking for results and now Carlos Mendoza has been fired. Didn't even make it to the All Star break.
Paulie
Yes, Paul the announcement from the Mets says the New York Mets today announced the departure of manager Carlos Mendoza. He's departing as if he's going to Europe with friends for a couple weeks. And this is a friendlier way of saying fired part ways is always a great one. We've agreed to move on as if it's a pleasant experience. We want to sanitize the experience of being fired.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, it was mutual. You know I. I always love that. As if they walk into the room, and then you have ownership, and then you have the manager at the same time going, okay, I'm gonna. We're gonna fire you. It's mutual.
Dylan
All right.
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877-3-DP show email address dpdanpatrick.com Twitter handle @DP show the departure of Carlos Mendoza. Eric and Green Bay. Good morning, Eric. What do you have for me?
Caller Eric
Good morning, guys. Dan, I know you love love, and the wedding of the century is coming up soon. I was just wondering who you were going to be wearing for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding. And before I sign off, I just wanted to put myself squarely in Dylan's corner as far as Beatles music is concerned.
Dan Patrick
I know you're.
Caller Eric
You're going to be talking about the Grateful Dead later in the show, but when it comes to hey Jude, I'm just transported back to college, and I'm thinking about some random dude with his hat on backwards trying to impress a girl, and he throws that song out to try to pass himself off as a deep thinker. I think that song's really overrated. As a lifelong Beatles fan, it's kind of overwrought a little too long. It's like, get over yourself, McCartney. You guys have a great weekend.
Dan Patrick
Thank you, Eric. Thank you, Eric. I'm gonna wear a kilt to Taylor Swift's wedding. I was thinking about that. You know, the tartan army is coming to town there. Madison Square Garden. Yes, Dylan.
Dylan
Do you go underwear with the kilt or do you free ball it?
Dan Patrick
Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? Zooch in Missouri. Zooch.
Caller Andrew
Good morning, Dan. And, Dan, it's.
Paul
I might have missed a lot of
Dan Patrick
the Dead comments, but, Dan, did you
Paul
ever get to listen to the very
Dan Patrick
first album with Golden Road as the first song? No. No, I didn't do a deep dive deep cuts, but I listened to 15 Grateful Dead songs. So I would. I would be ready for the conversation next hour. But thank you for the phone call. Dylan sent me a live album from the Grateful Dead, I believe 1972. I did listen to a little bit of that last night.
Dylan
Yeah, it's from their. Their tour. And so it's a compilation of different songs from when they toured in Europe in 1972. But I feel like that's a good entry into getting into some more of the lives.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. Okay. I hate live albums. Hate live albums. Why is that? I just don't need to hear the crowd. And there's always some idiot yelling, you know, in the middle of a song or right before song. No, I don't need it. Let's see. Jeff in Pennsylvania. Hi, Jeff. What do you have for me?
Caller Andrew
Hey, Dan called in several times before. Unfortunately, now I'm up to like 196.3 songs keep going on there. But while I was on hold the first time as a father, changing diapers, all these things. The wait times are much different now than they used to be, but huge Mets fan. First I want to comment on college football, then touch on the Mets as well. But I'm so happy they fired Mendoza. Not his fault. Poor guy didn't deserve it. Super nice guy, but at least we're doing something. I'm actually going to the Mets Phillies game this upcoming month and I'm gonna have the bag over my head. I've never done it before, but at this point, when you spend that much money, I'm just, I gotta go. But I can't let people see me there. It's just embarrassing at this point.
Dan Patrick
All right, well, thank you, Jeff. Good luck with fatherhood as well. Dylan in Washington. Hi, Dylan.
Caller Andrew
Oh, good morning, Dan and Dan Netz. Happy Friday. Real quick, I got a little fan that wants to say hi. Sorry, she's a little shy right now. I just wanted to touch on the WNBA and start it off with women's sports. We have softball. They have an infield that they brought in. Women's golf playing a shorter course. Soccer is the same, but those women get right back up and don't flop. So they're, they're actually, actually it's nicer to watch women's soccer, but wnba, I've always thought that they should lower the hoop to like nine, nine and a half and let's see some dunks. And then you, your viewership will add up. I mean, viewers like action. And I was watching my niece's game a little while back in the select 10 year old and they're shooting on
Paul
a 10 foot hoop.
Caller Andrew
Those poor girls, they got skills, but they're doing everything they can to huck that ball up there.
Dan Patrick
I mean, that's different. That's different. If you said to the wnba, do you want to lower the rims? It would be universal. They'd say no. And I don't. I mean, we might look at the novelty of women dunking and be interested in that. I'm not interested in dunking in the NBA. When's the last time you went, man, I'm going to. We don't even watch the dunk contest anymore. This is a three point shooting league, both leagues. But I there is some tremendous shooters in the wnba. Tremendous. So there's no way they would ever say, hey, let's bring it down to nine feet. But if you have youth basketball then that should be nine feet like you want to get. And players get in bad habits because they will shoot their shot from their hip when they're younger to try to get it to the rim. I want you to be able to shoot a shot where you can actually have form and work on your form instead of you have to hoist the ball up so you're not really developing a shot. But if you want to have 9ft for those who are 6th grade, 5th grade, awesome, go get them. But, but there, there's no way the WNBA is going to go well. We're going to have a dunk contest and you know those who can dunk, great. But that's not why I'm tuning in or not tuning in. We're talking music. Coming up next hour, the one of the original MTV BJ's Alan Hunter will join us on the program. He'll be our music ombudsman. One hour in the books. Two more to go on this meet
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