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Dan Patrick (3:20)

Every day is March Madness. Welcome to the program Dan and the Dan Edge. Dan Patrick show. It's not an optical illusion. Seton is in the front row with Paulie today. We're back, Molly Marley. Molly, thinking of my daughter. I'm going to Dave and Busters with my daughter tonight. She just text me. We on for Dave and Busters. So. Yes. Going to Dave and Busters tonight. Yes.

Seaton (3:48)

That's a bold move going there tonight.

Dan Patrick (3:49)

Yeah, well, they have TVs there, so I can still, you know, play the games there. A lot of TVs there. Dave and Buster. So, Molly, thank you for texting me during the show. What time.

Todd (4:01)

What kind of seat are you in?

MLB/Netflix Announcer (4:02)

Skeeball.

Todd (4:02)

What's your experience? You have a four seed, a nine. Where you think you are?

Dan Patrick (4:06)

I'm more of a play in playing.

Todd (4:08)

That's not good.

Dan Patrick (4:09)

Okay, let me try it again. 3, 2, 1. Every day is March Madness. It's not an optical illusion. Seaton is in the front row with Paulie, not Molly.

Seaton (4:19)

How about that?

Dan Patrick (4:20)

Yeah. Dylan is in Seaton's chair. Marvin is out today. And of course, Todd is here as well.

Seaton (4:28)

Sorry. Just getting my sound effects ready for the day.

Dan Patrick (4:30)

Wow.

Seaton (4:31)

It's been a minute since I got to play with all this stuff. So

Dan Patrick (4:37)

get ready.

Seaton (4:38)

It's gonna be a fun three hours.

Dan Patrick (4:39)

Okay. 8773 DP. Show operator Tyler sitting by. He'll take your phone calls. Thank you. Thank you. Still time to fill out your bracket. To be involved in the celebrity bracket challenge, go to danpatrick.com Here are the celebrities. John Smoltz, Mark Cuban, Rebecca Lowe, Roger Bennett, Guy Fieri. Diners drive ins and dives. Philip Rivers, Brady Quinn, Johnny bench, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Alex Ovechkin, Nick Wright, Jim Boeheim, Frank Caliendo, Mike Golick. Senior. Connor Hellebuck. The gold medal winning goalie, Team usa, Josh Du, Darius Rucker, Jason Garrett, Reggie Miller, Melissa Stark and Chris Mannix. Okay. Yeah.

Tracy McGrady (5:30)

Paul.

Paul (5:30)

I think this is year two for Ovechkin and I could Just picture him sitting there going, duke, Sienna. I like Sienna. They're scrappy.

Dan Patrick (5:39)

High Point. High Point. I like their chances.

Paul (5:43)

Kennesaw State.

Dan Patrick (5:44)

So Todd reached out to every beautiful woman in Hollywood, and they have no connection to us. And they all turned us down for these celebrity brackets.

Todd (5:54)

You never know. Some were no response. Some, that's not really her thing, or she's overseas or she's in production. I've heard all the stories.

Dan Patrick (6:00)

Well, we would like to thank Rebecca Lowe and Melissa Stark for joining us. These celebrity bracket challenge. They do have some kind of affiliation with the program. Alrighty. So you still have time. We got our brackets in. You might be surprised who I'm picking to win the national championship, but I'm not going to tell you right now. I don't. I don't want to change your opinion on your bracket. If you're filling it out. This could shift the odds considerably with March Madness.

Seaton (6:31)

So curious if you're going chalk or

Dan Patrick (6:35)

Miami Ohio in a must win situation. I thought perception wise got the win over smu, Prairie View, A and M over Lehigh. You got games coming up at noon eastern. TCU and Ohio State. Troy, Nebraska, South Florida, Louisville, and High Point, Wisconsin. Doesn't it feel like there's a place in Wisconsin called High Point? Hey, High Point, Wisconsin. Where's that? Outside of Milwaukee. Troy, Nebraska, where's that? It's close to Lincoln. Yes.

Paul (7:09)

Paulie, is that Stevens Point, the school

Dan Patrick (7:11)

that we love in Wisconsin? Stevens Point?

Paul (7:13)

Yeah. You're morphing them.

Dan Patrick (7:14)

Yeah. So High Point could be close to Wisconsin. Stevens Point. Yes.

Dylan (7:18)

Dylan, do you want to know what the highest point in Wisconsin is?

Dan Patrick (7:23)

Do you have that?

Dylan (7:23)

I do.

Seaton (7:24)

Thank you.

Dylan (7:25)

I do. It is Tim's Hill.

Dan Patrick (7:28)

Him. Hims.

Dylan (7:29)

Tim's.

Dan Patrick (7:29)

Tim's Hill with two M's.

Dylan (7:31)

Oh, 1951 and a half feet. That's not very tall. Dan.

Seaton (7:35)

I went to Tim's Hill.

Dan Patrick (7:37)

I went to high school with a guy named Tim Hill.

Dylan (7:40)

I have a friend named Tim Hill.

Dan Patrick (7:41)

And this is. Oh, you have a friend named Tim? Yeah. Okay.

Tracy McGrady (7:45)

All right.

Dylan (7:46)

Not from Wisconsin.

Dan Patrick (7:47)

Okay. I, you know, I had to put my bracket in, and I. So I took it back. So, you know, Anthony could, you know, type up, you know, make a graphic of everybody's brackets, and it's in the garbage can, and it's all crumpled up. Mario did this, and he's like, yeah, do you want your bracket? I go, yeah, let me have it. And then he goes, it's in the garbage can. And I, like, if I win the whole thing, I Was going to frame it, and now it's all crumpled up here. You know, I would autograph it and. Yeah, Paulie.

Paul (8:19)

They didn't crumple up the lyrics to Let It Be after they recorded the song.

Dan Patrick (8:23)

Yeah, Todd would have.

Todd (8:26)

Yeah, I always like to do stuff like that.

Dan Patrick (8:28)

Yeah. Yeah. You're not a big Beatles fan.

Todd (8:30)

I. You know what? Ever since I got, like, a free Beatle sweatshirt from somebody.

Dan Patrick (8:33)

From a fan. All right. No, we're not going down that road. All right, so poll question. Dylan, you got to do the honors today.

Dylan (8:41)

Oh, all right, then.

Seaton (8:42)

I got a couple options for you, too, While Dylan maybe fills things in.

Dylan (8:45)

That is perfect.

Seaton (8:47)

This year's tournament will be mostly chalk. What is it called when it's not chalk?

Dan Patrick (8:51)

Not chalk. I think it's called not chalk or not chalk.

Paul (8:54)

Upset Laden.

Seaton (8:55)

Upset Laden. More.

Dan Patrick (8:57)

More parody. Wait, are you doing the poll questions today?

Seaton (9:00)

I'll. I'll give Dylan a head start.

Dan Patrick (9:02)

Okay. Yeah, Okay. I. I wanted to give Dylan something to do. I didn't want to give you too many things to do.

Seaton (9:08)

Yeah, all right.

Dan Patrick (9:09)

Okay.

Seaton (9:09)

That's fine.

Dylan (9:09)

That works out well for me because I was not prepared.

Dan Patrick (9:14)

Today is the day. March Madness. Now we get to 64 teams. We're ready to go. And, you know, Sunday at the Masters, you got college football on New Year's Day, NFL, and Thanksgiving, Everything carries a tradition. March Madness hits different because, you know, the interesting part is no champions crowned today. So all this is. Is just survival. Today, tomorrow, and then the weekend. That's all you want to do. Can you get through the weekend? Because then you get a little bit of time.

Tracy McGrady (9:47)

You.

Dan Patrick (9:47)

You get some publicity for your school, and then you get a few days before your next round. But the urgency is unmatched. That's what I love about it, because you're just trying to get something that's fleeting and the margins razor thin. The upsets will come. They always do. And that's always the hook. Because for two days, it's. We. We kind of throw ourselves in, like studying for a final, cramming for a final. All night to go and take it and then come away and act like, you know, college basketball. You win, you move on. You lose, you go home. It's simple, it's brutal, it's exhilarating, it's addicting. It's madness. And that's what we love about it. All right, so get your brackets in. You can play along with us with the Celebrity Bracket challenge. What other poll questions or possibility for the first hour of the program?

Seaton (10:39)

Well, we're starting to. There's some off air talk a little bit about the like, sort of reverse draft you might do a little later.

Dan Patrick (10:49)

Okay. Dylan, would you explain this? That these are the top four seeds in each bracket. Each, you know, east, west, south, whatever it is. Yeah.

Dylan (10:59)

So we're going to.

Dan Patrick (11:00)

Obviously, I don't know what the east,

Dylan (11:03)

west, north, north, south, whatever.

Dan Patrick (11:05)

I don't know what the regions are.

Paul (11:06)

Don't they have like east, west, south and Midwest?

Dan Patrick (11:09)

Okay. All right. Or whatever.

Dylan (11:12)

No north.

Dan Patrick (11:13)

Yeah.

Dylan (11:15)

So usually, obviously the goal is to pick winners in the tournament. We're going to do the opposite. There's plenty of letdowns in the tournament. We're going to take the top four seeds. So a pool of 16 teams and each draft, three teams that we want to or not want to, we think will not do well. So you get knocked for advancing.

Dan Patrick (11:35)

But do I get more points if I say I'm gonna take Duke as the number one seed?

Dylan (11:40)

Yeah. So you'll get four points for that. We'll go in reverse order. So if you take a one seed, you get four points. Two seed, three, three seed.

Dan Patrick (11:47)

Okay. So the worse they do, the better I do.

Dylan (11:49)

Correct. So if. And it's. We're calling it the Arizona draft because

Dan Patrick (11:52)

historically I know stage of the face. Because you can take Alabama to four seed and they don't have one of their better players and. But you only get one point if.

Dylan (12:04)

Exactly.

Dan Patrick (12:05)

When they balance. Okay. All right, so we'll pencil that in.

Dylan (12:10)

There is a prize. Dan.

Dan Patrick (12:11)

What is it?

Dylan (12:12)

There is a prize.

Dan Patrick (12:13)

What is that?

Dylan (12:15)

I hadn't really thought of a prize, but there will be a prize. A gift card.

Dan Patrick (12:19)

Why don't you keep me apprised of the prize? Prize.

Todd (12:23)

That's the word. Prize.

Dan Patrick (12:24)

See what I did, Todd?

Dylan (12:25)

That was a gift.

Dan Patrick (12:26)

Yes.

Seaton (12:26)

Which of these teams. Maybe this is going to cut out the point of doing the whole reverse thing, but which of these teams are you most likely to be disappointed by?

Dan Patrick (12:33)

Yeah, that's going to cut out the.

Seaton (12:34)

That cuts out.

Dan Patrick (12:37)

Can't you wait?

Seaton (12:38)

No, because I want to do a poll question out of it.

Dan Patrick (12:41)

Well, why don't we wait to have

Seaton (12:42)

our draft and then it'll be a poll question.

Dan Patrick (12:44)

Then we could do a poll question attached to that.

Seaton (12:46)

That sounds like fun.

Dan Patrick (12:47)

We're workshopping this. It's unscripted. Yes.

Paul (12:49)

Paul, should we call it the disappointment draft to take a little heat off Arizona? We're huge in Tucson, man. Huge in Tucson.

Dan Patrick (12:56)

Why are we going after Arizona this year? Could this be the Year Arizona wins it all.

Seaton (13:02)

Not likely. It's the NCAA morenament, not the tournament. It's the mourn.

Tracy McGrady (13:09)

Wow.

Dan Patrick (13:11)

Well, you might be surprised with my bracket.

Seaton (13:17)

You're gonna. You're taking Arizona.

Dan Patrick (13:18)

I've got Arizona.

Dylan (13:20)

You don't learn anything.

Seaton (13:22)

What is wrong with you, dude?

Dan Patrick (13:23)

That's all I'm gonna tell you. I got Arizona winning it all.

Seaton (13:27)

So then you should be like, you're not allowed to take them in this draft then.

Dan Patrick (13:32)

No, I could do.

Seaton (13:32)

You can't hedge your bets like that. Yeah, I'm gonna win either way. Either gonna win it or they're gonna.

Dylan (13:37)

I'm with seating on that one.

Dan Patrick (13:39)

Okay, all right. That's fine. But every year I always, I call them the Chargers of college basketball. I think they're gonna win. I hope they're going to win and they don't win and then they bow out early usually. But this year, and even when I was filling out my bracket and then I gave it to the backroom guys to type it up so we could show it if you're watching on Peacock or NBC Sports Network. And then Mario goes, Arizona. And I go, yep, yep, this is the year. Yes.

Dylan (14:12)

Dylan, I feel like Arizona and the Chargers have sort of broken you. You just keep coming back no matter how mean they are.

Dan Patrick (14:22)

Yeah, but I haven't done that with the Chargers in a couple of years.

Dylan (14:25)

They'll be back.

Dan Patrick (14:25)

And I think when Philip Rivers was there, that was the last time. I don't do it anymore. But Arizona basketball, we're all in. Let's go cats. Come on now. And there's, there's going to be a couple of players where you go, that guy's a star, at least for a day, a weekend or five days. And the one guy that I think you're going to like, well, okay, the way I used to play basketball, I love this guy. Now remember Jack Golke at Oakland? He knocked off Kentucky. I think he was 23 years of age. And I remember having Caliperi on when he was at Kentucky. I go, did you think about double teaming the guy? And oh yeah, smart ass. And I go, just saying, that guy was crushing you. High points. Chase Johnston, he's attempted, I believe, four or five two point shots this year. He shot four free throws. He is 64 for 132 from three point range. He makes 48 and a half percent from three point range. Seaton, that would be stat of the day. Oh, that is Marvin's not. Here.

Tracy McGrady (15:50)

Comes that.

Dan Patrick (15:51)

What? Stat of the day

Seaton (15:55)

seems like more interesting fact of the day than anything else.

Dan Patrick (16:01)

It's a stat.

Seaton (16:02)

Okay.

Dan Patrick (16:03)

It's a stat. All right. What?

Paul (16:04)

Paul, so you just a 132 threes he attempted and he attempted four twos.

Dan Patrick (16:10)

Yeah. We love this guy. I love it.

Paul (16:12)

He's been in college basketball. This is year six for him, for Dr. Johnson.

Dan Patrick (16:17)

Is. Is cream Abdul Jabbar still with St. Louis?

Paul (16:20)

Avila?

Dan Patrick (16:21)

Yeah, of course.

Paul (16:21)

I think he won player of the year in the conference.

Dan Patrick (16:23)

Was that Bobby Avila?

Paul (16:25)

Checking?

Dan Patrick (16:26)

Yeah. But they, they had all these nicknames for him, but white guy with glasses, got some tattoos.

Paul (16:34)

Robbie Avila.

Dan Patrick (16:34)

Robbie Avila. Yeah.

Paul (16:36)

Your Billikens.

Dan Patrick (16:37)

Yeah. Cream Abdul Jamar. A great nickname. Miami of Ohio, with the win against SMU, they shot 39. They took 41 threes. SMU made five three pointers. That was the difference. SMU had a better field goal percentage, free throw percentage, and outscored Miami by 26 points in the paint and ended up losing. Here comes that what stat of the

Seaton (17:14)

day,

Dan Patrick (17:17)

and I mentioned that it's, you know, less than an hour drive from Oxford, Ohio to Dayton and you could expect a home court advantage for Miami, Ohio.

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Tracy McGrady (22:54)

How he ruined the NBA. He actually can shoot the ball. I want to see him shoot.

Dan Patrick (23:00)

But you got all these imitators now and I've talked about this before. He probably had more of an impact on how people play the game than anybody else in the history of the sport.

Tracy McGrady (23:11)

Yeah, that's just bad. Coaches and GMs going out trying thinking that could find the next Steph Curry and have all these guys shoot threes.

Dan Patrick (23:20)

We talked about Vegas and Seattle getting franchises, expansion franchises. And I saw where you talked about this. Do we have enough quality basketball players to add two more NBA teams?

Tracy McGrady (23:34)

You seen the Washington Wizards play? Bam. Did sit in the other night. Do we need more of that? I'm just saying I see bad basketball around the NBA. I know some players are hurt, like Tyrese Hallan Burton is hurting Indiana. But that product that we're seeing is bad. Seth Curry. And those guys are hurting Golden State. We just had a boss, a Golden State New York Knicks game in the Garden. No, man, the talent. Get me wrong, there's a lot of talent coming out of college. There's a lot of talent in the NBA. But when I'm saying you're trying to start a franchise, where is like the, the Steph Curry, the Dame Lillard that can carry the franchises? I just don't see that type of talent out there. Can these guys play? Absolutely. But it's more just going out Scoring buckets. Like, there's a lot that comes with having to be a franchise guy if you're trying to start new franchises.

Dan Patrick (24:44)

Got a problem with bam Adebayo scoring 83?

Tracy McGrady (24:48)

Not at all. If it was me in that position into, you know, make history, I'm going for it. Dan, you're going for that too. Regardless of how you get it, you're going to try to make history. So now I have no problem with that. I have the problem with how the defense was played on him and how the strategy that was played on him to stop him. I have a problem with that. But not him going out and get it. No.

Dan Patrick (25:11)

Would you go for 62?

Fox Sports Radio Announcer (25:13)

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Dan Patrick (25:15)

But if you wanted to, how many could you get or have gotten?

Tracy McGrady (25:21)

Well, there. There were times in my career where I didn't even play the fourth quarter and I finished like with over 50 points. So yeah, if I wanted to, I had an opportunity to hit 70, 80 points that 62 point game. I missed nine free throws. Oh, my free throws. And I missed eight of my last, like 10 shots. I just got tired. And that wasn't a game where I actually felt like I was in a rhythm and felt great. My 52 points and three quarters against the Bulls, I felt extremely in rhythm and felt like I could go for, you know, 70 that night, but I didn't play the fourth quarter.

Dan Patrick (26:03)

Who do you think could get to

Tracy McGrady (26:04)

90 in today's game? Yeah, I think Donovan Mitchell, I think Devin Booker. Those who come to mind right now, I think those two can. Can really do it.

Dan Patrick (26:24)

Well, you got to be ball dominant. You got to be able to hit threes. You got to be able to get to the free throw line. Like, Luca would be the guy who would come to mind for me.

Tracy McGrady (26:35)

Yes. My apologies. And throw Luca in there as well.

Dan Patrick (26:40)

There's not many of them.

Tracy McGrady (26:42)

It's guys that can generate files at a high rate, knock those free throws down and also add in about, you know, seven, eight threes makes and just a ton of free throws and field goals. So if you get to about 18 to 20 field goals and you're shooting like 30 free throws and you add some threes with that. Yeah. And Luca can generate that.

Dan Patrick (27:07)

How do you think Kobe would have reacted if he were still alive to Bam's 83?

Tracy McGrady (27:14)

He would have been professional amongst, you know.

Dan Patrick (27:22)

But privately.

Tracy McGrady (27:24)

Yeah. A conversation

Dan Patrick (27:28)

Talking to Tracy McGrady, a Hall of Famer, NBC Sports, NBA studio analyst and one's basketball league is back one on one. Explain the relaunch and who is Involved in this.

Tracy McGrady (27:42)

Yeah. So the relaunch, if you look at, like, alternative sports, they're doing extremely well. And I just think over the years, me finding what my passion is, and that's sports. I love sports. So a year ago I invested into the Buffalo Bills and got some ownership in that. And when you look around the landscape, ownership in our professional sports, there's not a lot of, you know, people look like me that, you know, have ownership in these franchises. So with me, I wanted to revamp and pivot with my league and start something to where I actually can give out equity and ownership in teams. So I'm starting OBL with the Battle of the Cities. And I have eight cities that, you know, that is a part of obl. And in these respective cities, I identify like influencers or people that have heavy influence. And it's from these cities, like New York. Jadakiss, My, my, my, my guy in the hip hop community, he's going to be the owner and the GM of the New York team. Of course, my cousin Vince Carter from the Florida area, I gave him the Orlando team. John Wall, my, my guy from Raleigh, North Carolina, he's the owner for the, the Raleigh team. Tim Hardaway, senior, has the Miami team, so on and so forth. And I have eight teams and eight GMs that I'm bringing on board and giving these guys 15% equity. So and with that, there's. When you look at sports, there's not a lot of guys that are actually from that city that they play in. And I wanted to bring that to sports. I wanted a community to back and support a kid that they probably seen from, you know, elementary and middle school playing basketball. So I have these guys that are going to be from these respective cities. Getting the support and the backing from the community is what I wanted. And that's what we created along with having opening up, you know, some equity for some of these guys to own franchise.

Dan Patrick (29:52)

What was your favorite football team growing up?

Tracy McGrady (29:55)

It was the Cowboys. And reason being, Emmett Smith is a Florida guy, Deion Sanders is a Florida guy, and Michael Urban, all Florida guys. And I grew up watching those guys. So that's why I was a Cowboys fan. Many, many, many, many years ago in my career, I decided I'm not going to be a Cowboys fan.

Dan Patrick (30:18)

Wait a minute. If they were good, Tracy, would you still be a Cowboy fan?

Tracy McGrady (30:23)

Yes, but we're not. I said, if we're going to be mediocre, I might as well stick with the hometown team. So now I've been a Bucks Fan for well over, you know, 15 years. So I'm a Bucks fan, not a Cowboys fan. I'm riding with my home team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Dan Patrick (30:42)

But wait a minute. You're part of the ownership group of the Buffalo Bills?

Tracy McGrady (30:46)

Yeah, of course. But you. Yes, that's obvious that I'm a Buffalo Bill.

Dan Patrick (30:51)

Okay. All right. Just want to throw that out there. Oh, all right. What kind of football player do you think he would have made?

Tracy McGrady (31:00)

I was a quarterback. I was quarterback and receiver. I played football.

Dan Patrick (31:04)

Well, I was. Were you Allen Iverson?

Tracy McGrady (31:10)

Yeah. Yes.

Dan Patrick (31:12)

Okay.

Tracy McGrady (31:14)

Even now, if you, if you find that note about me throwing a football. I was throwing a football. 60 yards, easy.

Dan Patrick (31:23)

Who plays the position the way you used to play it?

Tracy McGrady (31:27)

Cunningham. Randall. That's where my inspiration came from. Randall Cunningham. My first autograph. I remember my mom working at Wild World of Sports, working at Disney, and I was a kid, man. And she came home one day because she used to tell me she used to see all these pro football players when they, I think they had, like, the Pro bowl down there. They had something down there when I was a kid and see all these guys. So she came back. She came home one day and told me she's seen all these guys. I was like, mom, give me an autograph. My favorite player is Randall Cunningham. So she came back one day and had a. I got an autograph from random Cunningham. My first ever autograph. That was my guy.

Dan Patrick (32:09)

Could you see one on one being somehow put into the All Star Weekend?

Tracy McGrady (32:17)

I can't. You seen the slam dunk contest? You saw a slam dunk contest then?

Dan Patrick (32:24)

I didn't see much of a slam dunk contest, but there were guys jumping.

Tracy McGrady (32:28)

Yeah, yeah, there you go. You know who I work for, Dan? You know what network I'm on?

Dan Patrick (32:33)

Yeah.

Tracy McGrady (32:34)

What is that?

Dan Patrick (32:35)

NBC.

Tracy McGrady (32:36)

And we covered All Star Weekend. I'm fighting like hell to get one on one basketball. And so All Star Weekend, because I, I, I think that will be the draw of All Star Weekend. Like, these kids that are watching the NBA, they will go crazy. We will get more younger people and Saturday night to watch that event.

Dan Patrick (32:58)

Yeah, but, Tracy, I got to get stars to be in it.

Tracy McGrady (33:01)

Why?

Dan Patrick (33:03)

Well, it's like the slam dunk contest. Nobody cares if you don't know who these guys are.

Tracy McGrady (33:07)

It's competitive. But that's the point. That is the point. If we're trying to expand teams in the NBA and we don't have a lot of stars, couldn't we make stars in that? Couldn't we, you know, identify who these guys are if they get on this platform that creates stars. So now a guy that you don't know about, you haven't heard, he get in this one on one game and you realize I'm gonna be checking for this guy. He's really good. Like you would take a liking to some of these guys that you don't know in this type of setting.

Dan Patrick (33:44)

You know, you imagine Wemby out there trying to somebody trying to guard Wemby one on one.

Tracy McGrady (33:51)

Hey man, give him the trophy.

Dan Patrick (33:56)

Who is the best one on one player in the NBA?

Tracy McGrady (34:00)

You're not. He will be a very difficult draw. Oh man. Because you like, how would you affect his shot? Seven, five. You can't. I see some of these guys like my height, my length trying to guard him and contest this shot and they are so far away from affecting it. It is. He's. He's amazing.

Dan Patrick (34:21)

Well, good luck with the league. The relaunch of one's basketball league one on one and he's Tracy McGrady.

Tracy McGrady (34:29)

Keep doing your thing.

Dan Patrick (34:30)

Thank you, bud. That's TMAC there.

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Dylan (39:25)

So basically, we're going to take all of the top.

Dan Patrick (39:27)

By the way, by the way, social media is all over this Sammy Sosa accident in quotation marks because a Sammy Sosa figurine that I've had for decades fell off Seaton's desk. And some say Sammy might have jumped. Others, you know, Weeks, my cameraman who does a great job, he accidentally knocked the Sammy Sosa figurine off and shattered. But social media is coming to his defense.

Seaton (39:59)

Yes, Buddy Jeff in Saskatoon. He has stated that Mr. Weeks was simply waiting until the show was over to confess. He cares that much about the vibe of the show. He didn't want to undermine the standard. The defense rests.

Dylan (40:13)

Okay.

Dan Patrick (40:14)

When Sammy Sosa went from a one of one figurine to many pieces of one, the cameraman Weeks was honoring Sosa by later acknowledging that he, quote, made mistakes like Sammy did in 2024. Would have to think that your cameraman Weeks knew nothing about the Sammy crash, given his head was buried deep under the desk at the time. Seaton has to own this one. That's from Dennis to man. It was a loud crash. The Sammy Sosa figurine. Mr. Weeks was waiting until after the show to confess because he cares more about the vibe of the show. The defense rest. Thank you. Social media is all over this. Who would have thought Sammy Sosa figurine. It's all about content. Alrighty. Yes.

Seaton (41:06)

Now, see, this is already starting to, like, a perception is reality kind of thing. Could you imagine if Fritzi saw the figurine break instead of Seaton? The fallout would be brutal and the show would be hilarious. Lots of people saw it break. I was just the one person that got up to try to help.

Dan Patrick (41:23)

So you guys saw this.

Seaton (41:24)

There's many other people milling about in that video. I'm just the one that was like, oh, let me go help Weeks out.

Dan Patrick (41:31)

Did you Guys, be honest. Did you guys think that I would not notice the Sammy Sosa figurine had shattered on the floor?

Paul (41:40)

Paul, I know you would notice everything. I saw a football turn this morning and I went to turn it back and then I thought better of it.

Dan Patrick (41:47)

Yeah.

Paul (41:48)

And I didn't touch it.

Dan Patrick (41:49)

Yeah. Yeah. See, you know what?

Seaton (41:51)

I'll admit something.

Dan Patrick (41:54)

Okay, you want me to.

Seaton (41:56)

Do you want me to do this?

Dan Patrick (41:58)

I don't know what you're going to admit.

Seaton (42:00)

Okay, hold on one second. Oh, this, this, this is the 2019 MVP AUA 3 on 3 league trophy that I believe was given to Andrew Perloff.

Dan Patrick (42:14)

Yeah.

Seaton (42:15)

A few weeks ago I knocked this off the thing and it shattered. And I had Jay in the back glue it back together and he did such a good job that I was like, oh, it's no big deal. I'll just put it back there. But I. I saved you the despair. And look, you can't tell. Look, it's back together.

Dan Patrick (42:32)

No big deal. And plus, it was for McLovin. Yeah.

Seaton (42:35)

And his Andrew.

Dan Patrick (42:36)

And I don't care. Yeah.

Seaton (42:37)

Who cares about it?

Dan Patrick (42:38)

Is there anything else that you guys would like to mention? Now's the time. Now, Clean sweep. All right. I move forward with everything, but if I find out after the fact, then we'll have issues. Yes.

Dylan (42:56)

Dylan, I. I mean, I do have something to admit. I was sitting right here and I had no idea that that thing broke or that anything was going on over there, which might be more of a different indictment.

Dan Patrick (43:07)

Yeah.

Dylan (43:07)

But I had no clue, John.

Todd (43:11)

I may have taken a couple packs of dude wipes that were meant for the studio and I may have taken it for home use.

Dan Patrick (43:16)

Okay, that's okay.

Todd (43:18)

Which is kind of like, you know, criminal activity.

Dan Patrick (43:20)

You got. This is a, you know, one time, one time clean, clean slate.

Tracy McGrady (43:26)

Paul.

Paul (43:27)

I wolfed down a piece of soda bread before we went to the food last week. A little quarter of soda bread. It smelled so good.

Seaton (43:34)

That is a massive violation.

Paul (43:36)

And I'm pretty sure it was on camera.

Dan Patrick (43:38)

Yeah.

Todd (43:38)

Why does the host get to eat first anyway?

Dan Patrick (43:40)

Everything is on camera, right? Everything is on camera. Dylan, you got anything else?

Dylan (43:45)

Well, a few months ago, I broke one of your golf training sticks. But I taped it.

Dan Patrick (43:52)

I noticed that you taped it.

Dylan (43:53)

You did? Yes, I did exactly what they said was gonna happen.

Dan Patrick (43:57)

The tape part of it gave it away. That you broke something.

Dylan (44:00)

Yeah, I whacked it by accident.

Dan Patrick (44:03)

Yes.

Paul (44:04)

Paul, a bunch of years ago when we had our first few fill in hosts for you, someone moved some stuff on Your desk. And it was a red alert around here and Seaton. I were scrambling to get your desk back together. We actually took aerial photos of your desk just in case an incident like that happens again.

Dan Patrick (44:22)

Terry in Seattle. Hi, Terry. What's on your mind, listener? With regard to the Sammy incident, I think that there's some culpability with whoever placed Sammy on the desk in the first place. It wasn't securely attached to the desk. And also, you could bring in Al Pacino and have him reenact his scene from Scent of a Woman and have him do a defense for the Sammy incident. All right, let me see if Al Pacino can join us.

Todd (44:54)

Let me tell you something. Every inch is a foot. Every foot's a yard. We're gonna fight for every one of those inches because that's the difference between winning and losing. Now, I can't do it for you. Now get out there and let's get that inch.

Dan Patrick (45:13)

Thank you, Jerry. Thank you, Jerry.

Seaton (45:15)

Is that the right movie?

Dan Patrick (45:16)

No, it's definitely not.

Paul (45:17)

That was four different movies.

Dan Patrick (45:20)

Okay, it's time for the disappointment.

Todd (45:23)

That was Any Given Sunday.

Dan Patrick (45:24)

No, of course. That's the one you do Any Given Sunday. Look, but don't touch. That's the one. That's the one. That's the devil scent of a woman.

Todd (45:36)

No, the.

Seaton (45:36)

The.

Todd (45:36)

Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't touch. Devil inside.

Dan Patrick (45:43)

Look, but don't touch.

Todd (45:44)

Touch, but don't taste. Taste but don't swallow. And he's up there giggling up there at you.

Dan Patrick (45:50)

Okay, I can't quit this show.

Seaton (45:56)

Is that an announcement?

Dan Patrick (45:57)

No. For the next two years, I can't quit this show. All right, Dylan, the disappointment draft. Let's explain the disappointment draft.

Dylan (46:07)

All right, so basically, Dan, how it works is we're going to be taking. Picking teams that we do not think will be advancing. So one through four seeds, it's going to be more akin to golf scoring. So if you take a one seed, you'll start with minus four points, two seed, minus three points.

Dan Patrick (46:25)

So the more aggressive you are, the more points. And therefore total points wins.

Dylan (46:30)

Correct. And you want to be lower. So more in the negative or closer to zero is better. And for each, like if that team advances, you get a point added on.

Dan Patrick (46:38)

Okay, so we should start with the biggest loser. Todd, you go first.

Tracy McGrady (46:44)

Wow.

Paul (46:46)

Wait, Paul, what do you mean loser? Like sports loser? Because I would throw my name in the ring.

Dan Patrick (46:51)

No, you're still losing.

Paul (46:52)

Oh, okay, now I'm not.

Dan Patrick (46:53)

Yeah.

Dylan (46:53)

Can't believe you talk to Al Pacino.

Dan Patrick (46:55)

Like that.

Todd (46:55)

Hoo.

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Dan Patrick (46:56)

All right. So, Todd, who's your pick now? This is the disappointment draft. They're going to disappoint.

Todd (47:01)

Yes. I'm gonna go a little less brave with my first pick and say the Zags are gonna bow out quickly. I know by going with a three or four seed, you get less credit.

Dan Patrick (47:09)

Just pick the team.

Todd (47:10)

The Zags will disappoint.

Dan Patrick (47:12)

Dylan, since I'm kind of picking for

Dylan (47:14)

Marvin here and I know he would be upset by this, I'm gonna take Yukon.

Dan Patrick (47:18)

Wow. Marvin not here today. Suspended. I mean, out for a day. Seaton Earl. Tied roll T. Oh, that's an easy one. Yeah. There are four Seat, Paul.

Paul (47:33)

The Florida Gators. A Warner based off almost nothing.

Dan Patrick (47:39)

All right, I'm gonna. I'm gonna knock out a number two. I'm gonna knock out a number two seed. Purdue. Purdued. Wipes.

Tracy McGrady (47:54)

Wow.

Dan Patrick (47:54)

See what I did with that? Pursued wipes. Okay. All right. Yeah.

Paul (47:59)

Produce veteran laden, Dan.

Tracy McGrady (48:00)

Oh.

Dan Patrick (48:00)

Oh, I know. And then I'm gonna come back around and go Illinois as a three seed.

Seaton (48:10)

Nice,

Dan Patrick (48:12)

Paul.

Paul (48:14)

Hate to do it. Michigan State as a three seed.

Dan Patrick (48:17)

Oh, John Smoltz would be disappointed. Satan.

Seaton (48:22)

Duke Blue Devils. That's right.

Tracy McGrady (48:25)

Whoa.

Dan Patrick (48:25)

That's right, Dylan.

Dylan (48:28)

I'm sorry, Dan, but I gotta go. Arizona, the namesake originally Wildcats.

Dan Patrick (48:32)

My pick to win it all. Todd, you got two picks.

Todd (48:36)

I'm gonna go with the Iowa State Cyclones. And I'm gonna go with the Virginia Cavaliers.

Dan Patrick (48:44)

All right, Dylan.

Dylan (48:48)

Since they've never won a tournament game, Dan. I'm gonna go Nebraska.

Dan Patrick (48:52)

Oh, we love Nebraska.

Dylan (48:55)

No, no knock.

Dan Patrick (48:56)

We're huge in Lincoln.

Seaton (48:59)

Seaton, Kansas.

Dan Patrick (49:01)

J Horse. You probably thought I was gonna take Kansas, didn't you?

Seaton (49:06)

I wanted to swoop in there.

Dan Patrick (49:07)

Yeah, you did. Paul,

Paul (49:11)

Is Virginia still on the board?

Dan Patrick (49:12)

No. Yikes.

Paul (49:15)

I'll go Houston.

Dan Patrick (49:16)

All right, so it's either Michigan or Arkansas. Arkansas shouldn't be a four. I'll go Michigan just for the potential points there. So Arkansas is the only team that didn't get selected in the disappointment draft. Yes, Paul.

Paul (49:40)

We're gonna watch the games way differently.

Dan Patrick (49:41)

I know, I know, I know. Oh, man.

Dylan (49:45)

Does that mean Arkansas bows out round one?

Dan Patrick (49:49)

I hope not. Nobody picked him though.

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