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was controversy, there

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was some bad blood, there was gamesmanship,

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lack of sportsmanship, and a

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whole lot of bad golf. And

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eight seven seven three DP Show email address

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Dpitt dan Patrick dot com. Remember

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when football had time on its side? Suddenly

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it doesn't feel like football has as

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much time on its side as you would think.

1:17

You know, in May, we went at football has got a lot

1:19

of time to figure this out. You know, they're going to be able

1:21

to glean from the other leagues what they're

1:23

doing, what they did, but they didn't

1:25

do college football. Hey, going

1:28

ahead, Hey we may have twenty

1:30

thousand fans instead of eighty or ninety thousand

1:32

fans. Now we're in late June. Now,

1:35

all of a sudden, college football starting

1:38

to look at the reality of this, the

1:40

number of COVID cases in other

1:43

states that didn't have hot spots back in

1:45

May, and suddenly they have them now here

1:47

in June. What's going to happen

1:49

in July? Preseason? Football

1:52

is in six weeks from now, getting

1:54

students on campus, players on campus,

1:57

players testing positive. Here. Suddenly

2:00

football doesn't have as much time on its

2:02

side as we thought.

2:04

And doctor Faulchi, who heads

2:06

up the CDC, said yesterday

2:09

he has his doubts about football playing

2:11

this season, but

2:14

I you know, he's not aligned with

2:16

any league. We had the chief

2:18

medical officer from the NFL, doctor Sills,

2:20

who joined us, and of course he's aligned

2:22

with the league. I thought he was

2:24

coming on and made available just so he

2:26

could say, Hey, don't worry about

2:28

this. Doctor Foulci has

2:30

nothing to do with the NFL. Ezekiel

2:33

Elliott test positive. All of a sudden,

2:35

the NFL makes their chief medical officer

2:37

available twelve minutes before

2:39

surgery. He comes on

2:41

the show. And while I appreciated

2:44

his availability and he came on and

2:46

he was a good guest, I have

2:48

to look at the ulterior motive, and that was basically,

2:51

we got some smoke here, guys, we

2:54

got some smoke. We can't let anybody think that

2:56

we got fires. Here is Sean McVay,

2:58

the Rams head coach. I don't

3:00

know exactly what he's saying, but I

3:03

did enjoy how he said it. We're

3:05

talking about some of this stuff and we're playing

3:07

football. I mean, we're gonna social distance,

3:10

but we play football. This is really

3:12

hard for me to understand all this. I don't

3:14

want to be I just I don't

3:16

get it. He's

3:18

got a great point there, he does.

3:21

I don't know if he's saying, what are we doing playing

3:23

football or this social distancing?

3:26

But we're still trying to figure that out.

3:28

Yes, yeah, what is the great point that he's making

3:30

there. I think, I yes, point

3:32

he was kind of agreeing with you

3:35

before that. He's kind of talking about what Harbaugh

3:37

said last week, because it's kind of silly

3:39

to have a social distancing policy during

3:42

like the offensive line meeting. The

3:44

offensive linemen have to be fifteen feet away from each

3:46

other during the ol meeting, and then an hour later

3:48

they go into a practice, whether they're beating the

3:50

hell out of each other, goes one doesn't match

3:52

the other. And I think is a summary what he saying,

3:54

I think, and that's what I was trying to

3:56

take from this. Is he saying something in

3:58

a positive way or in a negative way.

4:01

Should we be playing football? And

4:05

as it is right now, I don't know

4:07

how you play football. I

4:09

just don't you know baseball. Let

4:13

me move on to something else. NBA.

4:16

The NBA is trying to figure this out. But they're

4:18

in a bubble and you don't have as many players,

4:20

and while there is physicality there,

4:24

I don't have to worry about as many people. You

4:26

look at a pro football team,

4:28

just the number of people you're going to come in contact

4:30

with. I don't know how you're

4:33

able to practice social distancing,

4:35

safe distancing and still play the game of football.

4:37

Just don't Maybe something happens

4:39

here, but I'm

4:41

going to be surprised if the NFL starts on time.

4:44

And I'm sure i'm in the minority on this, but I

4:46

don't know how the NFL starts on time.

4:50

And as a result, you're going to have

4:52

some college football games that are going to

4:54

be canceled. Yeah, time there's

4:56

any higher ups in the NFL. If coach

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McVeigh was meaning like, let's you know, we're we're

5:00

playing football. Let's not pretend that we're gonna be able to protect

5:03

these guys. Something could happen and I don't care

5:05

how long your book is a protocol. Does he get

5:07

a talking to from Roger Goodell or any higher ups

5:09

in the NFL. Let's not make these kind of

5:11

public comments. Whether you're tongue in cheek or well,

5:13

he's got to follow the rules. I don't know if somebody

5:16

reaches out to him and says, hey, can we keep it

5:18

in house here? I mean that's what I would say. If I'm the

5:20

commissioner, I would say to

5:22

Sean McVay, Sean, voice

5:24

the concerns to me or to

5:27

your superior and then we can collect

5:29

all of this data. But let's not

5:31

go, you know, off the cuff here off

5:34

script, because I

5:37

still believe that doctor Sills was made available

5:41

because he wanted to calm fears

5:44

about the NFL. And

5:46

Ezekiel Elliott testing positive,

5:48

That's why everybody took note. We

5:50

don't know who the other players are, but

5:52

Ezekiel Elliott tested positive. Then

5:55

all of a sudden, the reality hits you of

5:58

what would happen if Patrick Holmes

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test positive on a Thursday before a

6:02

Sunday game. He's gone

6:04

for at least two games, maybe

6:07

three games. Rudy

6:10

Gobert shut down an entire league

6:13

and as a result, shut down all

6:15

of sports by testing positive. People

6:20

have this feeling of, hey, we made it through

6:22

the first wave. Well in certain

6:24

places, certain cities, certain states.

6:27

You may have made it through the first wave. That

6:30

doesn't mean that the second wave is not going

6:32

to be even larger. Here. If there

6:34

is a second wave, I

6:37

don't feel like we've gotten through the first wave

6:39

at all. Yeah. Yeah, some states

6:41

just hit their highest average total

6:43

yesterday. That's their first wave. Like

6:45

New York is easing up the restrictions.

6:48

That doesn't mean they don't get hit with what would

6:50

be a second wave here and now

6:52

students going back. I have a daughter who

6:54

will be going to school for her senior

6:57

year. When she goes,

6:59

you know, we're still trying to sort all of this out. This

7:02

isn't just about sports. It's

7:04

about you know. I asked doctor Fauci,

7:07

if you had a child, would you be sending

7:09

your child to school? And

7:11

he said, it depends on the area.

7:14

In the hot spots. You

7:16

know, if it didn't get

7:18

you, it feels like it's going to

7:20

get you. We

7:23

were hit hard here in the New York, Connecticut

7:25

area, New Jersey area hard La

7:29

got hit. And then I had friends

7:31

who were in different states who said, hey, we don't

7:34

have anything here. And

7:36

a friend you know who lives in

7:39

Texas said, hey, you guys, it

7:41

feels like there's an overreaction. And I said,

7:43

it's eventually going to come your way. It

7:46

just is now to what degree? And

7:49

you know what, the knowledge we have and safety

7:51

precautions, testing all of those things,

7:54

we're far more down the road as far as at

7:57

least understanding what we have and the

7:59

preventative measures. But as

8:02

doctor Founci said, wear a mask.

8:05

That's all. If not for you, for

8:08

other people wear a mask, and

8:11

maybe that helps us in the next

8:13

two months. But football is on the clock

8:15

a lot more than we thought a month ago, six

8:19

weeks ago. Preseason

8:23

football is in six weeks games.

8:28

Can't imagine it happening. You're

8:31

gonna have practice in a month. Can't

8:34

imagine it happening. Everybody's

8:36

gonna be watching what's happening with the NBA.

8:39

But you know, that's a bubble. NFL

8:42

can't do a bubble. Doctor

8:44

Founci talked about a bubble. You can't do

8:46

a bubble. Where

8:48

are you going to do it? Too

8:52

many players, too many teams, too

8:54

many people who work with the team

8:57

covered the team, can't do it. Yeah, and

8:59

if well start testing positive within the NBA

9:02

bubble, that's just going to exacerbate for years

9:04

and concerns even more for an NFL that's

9:06

ready to go without any type of bubble. Maybe

9:09

someday they're going to come up with a special set of

9:11

baseball cards to commemorate the sport during

9:13

the pandemic. Because this

9:15

is like a rogues gallery, and

9:18

you start with the commissioner, Rob Manfred. You

9:21

put stats on the back one

9:24

percent guaranteeing the sport was coming back

9:26

his pandemic stats would you start

9:29

with that said the

9:31

sport was coming back one hundred percent guaranteed,

9:34

followed by the statement that he's not sure if the sport

9:37

is coming back. Players Association Tony

9:39

Clark numbers

9:41

on the back of his card would probably be the shrinking

9:43

number of games. Remember they demanded one fourteen,

9:46

then it was eighteen, now down to seventy. I

9:48

don't know if he goes any lower here. Scott

9:50

Boris would have his own card super agent.

9:52

His stats would include the fifteen players that he represents

9:55

who make over twenty five million dollars a year.

9:57

And don't forget Blake Snell, first

10:00

player to really come out and ask why he

10:02

would be playing for less money and what he was risking.

10:05

I could go on and on and on, and

10:07

here we are with baseball, and it

10:09

doesn't feel like we're any closer. I feel like there's

10:11

going to be baseball. I do.

10:15

I just don't know what's going to happen here on

10:17

Friday, Saturday, Sunday. So when

10:19

I come in on Monday, do

10:22

we have something that

10:24

is illuminating? Do we

10:26

have another offer to reject? That's

10:29

all. It feels like you know when you swat flies like,

10:31

oh they're damn, there's another one. That's

10:33

what it feels like Major League Baseball is doing. There's swatting

10:36

flies here. Hey, how about

10:38

it, it's a swat. How about this swat?

10:42

They're they're they're playing us, they're

10:45

playing us. There's only a certain number

10:47

of games that the owners are going to agree to, and

10:50

I don't think it's anywhere near over sixty games.

10:53

It's probably closer to write at

10:55

fifty. I really sincerely

10:58

feel that that this is what owners are doing.

11:02

Certain number of owners don't want to have the season

11:04

come back, so start with that. If six

11:07

to eight owners don't want this to happen,

11:11

that's where the commissioner who works for these

11:13

owners has to say, all right,

11:16

I'm going to put you on the hook for fifty games,

11:19

and out of those fifty, you're

11:23

you know, twenty five are going to be at home, twenty

11:25

five on the road. So you're gonna lose the revenue

11:27

from twenty five home games with no fans.

11:30

But if we have a postseason, everybody shares

11:32

in the postseason money and

11:35

you don't have to pay the players what you thought you

11:37

were gonna have to pay this year so I can reduce

11:39

the amount of money you're going to lose. Now,

11:42

they may may make money. I'm guessing

11:45

somebody's gonna make money here, but

11:47

not everybody is going to be in that same situation.

11:50

That's why things happening with Major League Baseball.

11:52

They know when they're going to start, the number

11:55

of games that are going to be played, and when this season

11:57

will end. That's it. Haven't

12:00

budged off of it. And until I see something

12:02

different between these two signs, I did say

12:04

to the commissioner, at least

12:06

on the show, go, you

12:09

know, be in a room with Tony Clark, the head of

12:11

the Players Association. He did that. He flew to Arizona,

12:14

got into a room. Nothing

12:16

was solved, but that

12:19

to me felt like he was symbolic. Hey,

12:22

I'm giving you the appearance we're doing everything

12:24

we can do. Because the

12:27

commissioner flew to Tony Clark, the head of the

12:29

Players Association, all the

12:31

owners are trying, yeah

12:34

pulling. Could you see if it goes down to

12:36

fifty games After all this frustration, the hardcore

12:38

baseball fans, like some famous

12:40

person or some hardcore baseball fan group, gets

12:43

on social media organizes a boycott in

12:45

person of the regular season where okay, you're

12:47

gonna do fifty, we're not showing up for your fifty

12:49

games, and you get a large group

12:51

of people on social media to follow it and join

12:53

in and take a team that gets twenty thousand

12:55

a game and now they're getting six because

12:58

a group of hardcore baseball fans said no, we're

13:00

not going to participate. You decide you're not going to play,

13:02

we won't show up. Non'll show up for the postseason

13:04

because then it's important. But I could see that happening

13:06

with how social media works now, you could

13:08

organize that kind of boycott with a couple of clicks, you know, because

13:11

if you're a hardcore baseball fan, then you'll

13:13

be bad. You can watch on TV, you could watch the

13:15

Cubs, but you're not getting my money in

13:17

person and my hundred bucks because it's

13:19

the ticket in the parking. We always wait for people to organize

13:22

when it comes to a you know, any kind

13:24

of protest with sports, and it never happens.

13:26

Now, it's like, why do these municipalities

13:29

pay for stadiums? Why can teams

13:31

leave a city?

13:35

It absolutely stuns me when

13:38

you think of taxpayers paying for

13:40

stadiums, and then

13:42

that team can up and leave if

13:44

they want. Hey I want a new stadium, Well you

13:46

don't get one without I'm taking my team.

13:49

Any language that

13:52

you know, fan base taxpayers are paying

13:54

for a stadium, then

13:57

the language has to be you can't leave, you

14:00

can't leave, and

14:02

if you don't like it, then leave because

14:05

you don't have the positive motive here.

14:07

You're there's not an altruistic

14:10

feel to this that we're in it together. Like Lambeau.

14:13

They're in it together. That's a business together.

14:16

And these owners when they go, you know, I'm

14:18

thinking about I didn't get my stadium.

14:21

Yeah, stand crunky,

14:23

Yeah, I didn't get my stadium. I'm leaving here. Yeah.

14:25

Time and a lot of those same taxpayers that have forced to

14:27

help build the stadium can't afford to actually go

14:29

to a game with their family because it's just too expensive.

14:32

We'll talk to Mark Cuban, he'll join us. We'll get

14:34

to your phone calls coming up

14:36

during the commercial break. The final three holes

14:39

of we called it the mismatch the PGAUAA

14:43

and might have been betting on the side

14:46

here, but it was Tiler the moderator

14:48

versus Mario and

14:50

we have a shower of shame coming up in

14:52

about thirty minutes from now, so we'll take

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a break. Mark Cuban to the Maps will join

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So a little bit of controversy, there some

15:51

questionable scoring and

15:54

some sportsmanship or lack there up between

15:56

the two, but they

15:58

did it. They made

16:00

it through nine holes. So

16:03

Sean or Sham coming up yes, point, I

16:05

may have had the worst day of all. Yesterday. When we were

16:07

talking him back before the golf, I said

16:10

to the house bookie Dylan, the graphics guy, I

16:12

got, I would like to bet what's the max? I

16:14

a bet on Tyler to win? He goes,

16:17

I go, how about a thousand? He goes, because

16:19

I would take that bet, and I would, and

16:21

I I bailed. I

16:24

was gonna bet a thousand on Tyler. Yeah,

16:27

after watching now I would. I there's

16:29

no way I could put any money on either one of those guys

16:32

because they while you're watching like

16:34

it was, it was a roller coach run. Yeah, mc

16:36

cleve Pauli's like the Floyd Mayweather bets

16:39

he would was about to make. Oh

16:41

but I didn't make it. So yeah,

16:44

Floyd. Floyd wins every one of

16:46

his bets. Right after the fact, he

16:48

wins every one of them. Now he does show the tickets,

16:50

right. I'm frustrated because I

16:52

bet on Mario and that was

16:54

a mistake. But I'm curious

16:57

about some some scoring. Are

17:00

you accusing somebody of something? Well, Tyler

17:03

was I think somewhere.

17:06

His ball was about one hundred yards behind a cart

17:08

at eight on the second hole. And he ended

17:10

up marking down in eight. Okay,

17:16

but you're accusing Tyler of cheating. Yes,

17:19

wow, that's a bomb

17:21

show. Well I'm accusing everyone say, ah, we

17:23

gotta move on because we have a type filming schedule.

17:25

Let's just put down eight. Well, that

17:27

could be true, but I know

17:30

that they the boys found out they

17:32

were introduced to a new word, fescue, and

17:35

they were hitting balls into the fescue. And

17:38

at one point it looked like Mario

17:40

was taking out a sickle

17:43

to clear out the brush

17:45

there so he could hit his ball, and I think

17:47

he whipped a couple of times in the fescue,

17:50

yeah, mclement, And looked like Mario was two different

17:52

golfers. In the first segment of nine

17:54

twenty year and eleven. Did he get tired nervous?

17:59

I think it's talent kind of came to the surface

18:01

there. And Tyler settled down after

18:03

a few beers and he he had

18:06

a dip yea yeah. Once he broke

18:08

out the bud light Seltzer's he

18:11

really settled into a nice groove. I said,

18:13

come on, a bud light Seltzer

18:17

and he said, oh yeah, I need it. After

18:19

the first hole, I heard

18:21

him crack a beer. I'm

18:24

surprised he didn't have zeema there. All

18:27

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18:46

Cuban? Can I hear Mark

18:49

Cuban moments

18:52

away? We're still trying to get the audio there he

18:54

is ready now, Mark? What's

18:57

up Dan? Hi Bud? How are you doing? I'm

18:59

I'm good. What have you been doing at home? Um?

19:04

A lot of the same, watching my kids run

19:06

my life and trying to pretend I'm still in charge

19:08

with my wife. You know the usual. Do

19:12

your kids think you're cool? No?

19:14

Absolutely not No.

19:18

Well wait, you you own the Mavericks. You

19:20

seem to have some money. That's

19:23

not impressive to your kids, Shark tank, Come

19:25

on, No, they think they're cool,

19:28

but they don't think I I

19:31

love the story. I know you've talked about this before

19:33

of flirting with running for the presidency, but

19:36

you know, you have to take inventory with your family.

19:38

So first of all, was it real that

19:41

you were considering a run? Okay?

19:45

Yeah? And then if

19:47

your family voted for you

19:49

to run for the presidency, would

19:52

you have done it? Yes? Absolutely,

19:55

Okay, so take me at dinner when

19:57

you so, I'm I'm assuming it's dinner,

20:00

and then you everybody gets a vote? Yeah,

20:03

absolutely, And that was one of those things like Okay,

20:06

my wife and my oldest daughter like, no,

20:09

we've heard it, we hear everybody.

20:11

Everybody's asking us, um, don't

20:13

even think about it. And I'm like, can we at

20:15

least take a vote? And everybody

20:18

got. Everybody was no, except for my ten year

20:20

old son. He was on the fence. He's

20:22

like, but I think it would be cool to have secret

20:24

service. Sisters are

20:26

like, no, well

20:28

that's a big commitment there. But I was wondering

20:31

about that if you wasn't it wasn't an

20:33

anonymous pole like that.

20:35

You everybody in your hands, everybody

20:39

you needed a lobbyist on your side, Mark,

20:41

Yeah, well consider they all vote. Helped

20:47

me out with this, uh this bubble here

20:49

of understanding exactly what we're up against

20:52

because I have issues

20:54

with it, but I'm I'm called Danny Downer

20:56

here. Like the NFL and college football, everybody

20:58

just assumes it's the NFL. In college

21:00

football, we're gonna play football. I

21:04

just I don't know. I don't know if we have a

21:06

Rudy Gobert moment and then what happens

21:08

here? Mark. I mean, there's a lot of uncertainty,

21:10

There's no question about it. But you

21:12

know, every day we learned a little bit more. And this it

21:14

all comes down to the science and trying to

21:17

do whatever we can to keep everybody safe.

21:19

I think if you look at your own home or what you're

21:21

doing there, you know, when you have

21:23

a controlled environment, you feel safer.

21:26

And as long as you know people adhere to

21:28

the program, you know, we hope we should

21:30

be okay. You know, it's

21:33

when you get the aberrational scenarios

21:35

that we can't anticipate that I think

21:37

creates some risk. But you know, as

21:39

long as everybody's on board, I think we can pull it off.

21:43

Are you going to be there? I

21:46

will be there at least part of the time. We're shooting

21:48

shark Tank. We're finally opening up allowed

21:50

to and allowed to shoot shark tank. So we're trying to

21:52

squeeze it all in. I try

21:54

to get the Mothership to allow us to shoot Shark

21:57

Tank since it's an ABC show at

21:59

Walt Disney work, but we haven't been

22:01

able to pull that off yet. We're talking to Mark Cuban,

22:03

he's the map's owner. I saw a stat.

22:05

I don't know if you even know this, The

22:08

best winning percentage for an NBA team

22:10

since two thousand and one is

22:12

San Antonio yep, second

22:15

or second? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I

22:17

knew that. It's pretty impressive. Yeah,

22:20

you know, up until the last few years, we're

22:22

pretty good. But you know, having a big, tall,

22:24

German guy certainly helped. And

22:27

so yeah, I mean I screwed

22:29

up some things letting Nash go, but overall,

22:32

I mean it wasn't a bad run. Didn't

22:34

I give you grief about getting rid of Nash back

22:36

when you got rid of I

22:42

at least do it to your face. Mark, I don't you

22:44

know I

22:46

got so much I'll forget it. Yeah.

22:48

If you and we've talked about this before

22:50

when you were interested in buying a baseball team, but if

22:52

you looked at this as a businessman,

22:55

what's going on in baseball? If I had

22:57

you have the the commissioner

22:59

in the head of the players Association, and you're

23:01

the arbitrator, how could you bring baseball

23:03

back? That made the most sensial And

23:05

we're just talking financially, because I don't know health

23:08

wise how we're going to be, But financially, how

23:10

would you do it? It certainly

23:12

from the outside appears to be a matter of trust,

23:14

and I can understand why they don't trust them, you

23:17

know, I mean, look at my experiences with him.

23:19

You know, it was very much particularly under Bud Seler,

23:21

it was autocratic. It was you know, his

23:24

way or the highway, and you know he give or take

23:26

draft picks away. And so when somebody's

23:28

in, you know, when a businesses run that way, and

23:30

I don't know, you know if the current

23:33

folks are doing it the same way, but when a businesses

23:36

run that way, it's really hard to trust. And

23:38

the only thing really you can do is open to kimono

23:40

and put all your economic information

23:43

on the table and let them see exactly

23:45

what's going on. And that's just not how baseball

23:47

operates. Adam Silver, though,

23:49

has that trust on both sides. It

23:52

appears that way. I mean, you do

23:54

you think that he has that true trust? On both sides.

23:57

Yeah. I mean he's very collaborative. He's a great

23:59

list. He understands what the bigger picture

24:01

is, not only just for the NBA,

24:04

but also for players and for the

24:06

sport of basketball globally, you

24:08

know, And I think he takes on that responsibility.

24:11

But he you know, Adam is not said

24:13

in his ways. It's not this is my way or

24:15

the highway. He's very open to suggestions,

24:18

no matter where they come from. Uh,

24:21

by the way, who would have been your running mate? If you're running

24:23

for the presidency? You available?

24:25

No? No, no, no, you don't

24:28

want

24:29

Yeah, you got that far

24:31

and I really didn't know. You gotta you

24:34

gotta win the game first. I get in the game.

24:36

First. You'd have to you'd

24:38

have to wear a suit and tie every day. You couldn't

24:40

do that. That would be the first thing I

24:42

changed. Sweatsuit?

24:46

Why not the lord tracks that you

24:48

imagine the state of the union, you

24:50

know, commander and sweatsuit?

24:52

Mark Cuban, why not um

24:55

the protest or at

24:57

least kneeling before the

24:59

anth. I don't know if your team has talked

25:01

about this. You got other things to worry

25:03

about. But is there any policy

25:06

that you have as as the owner of the man

25:09

or the NBA has uh that

25:11

would prevent this from happening. Well,

25:13

the NBA's got a policy that you're supposed to stand

25:16

and face the flat during the national anthem.

25:19

But you know, like we were just talking, Adam

25:22

is very collaborative and open

25:24

minded, and you know, this is a once

25:26

in a generation opportunity for us

25:28

to really impact American society

25:30

and change how minorities and

25:32

African Americans in particular are treated. And

25:34

so I don't think you stand on

25:37

legacy items, you know, to you

25:40

know when you have such an amazing opportunity.

25:42

And you know, I haven't had the discussion with our

25:44

players about this, but you

25:46

know this is their league. They drive

25:48

this league one hundred percent, and

25:51

you know, I'm gonna be very supportive because again,

25:53

you know, when the pandemic first hit and we closed

25:56

down basketball the night we were playing, that

25:58

was bigger than the NBA. That was the health

26:00

and safety you know of everybody. You

26:02

know, now this is bigger than the NBA

26:04

as well, and so we have you

26:06

know, the players have a platform to get

26:08

to really show what's important to them

26:11

and hopefully have an impact on

26:13

race relations in this in this country,

26:15

and so again that's that's

26:17

far more important than you know,

26:19

some rules that were established in the eighties

26:22

that may not be relevant today. I wanted

26:24

to quote you correctly. Are you planning on kneeling?

26:27

Um? You know, I don't know if I'll be allowed to be down

26:29

by the floor, but if I can show, um,

26:32

if I can be act in unison and show support

26:34

for our players, I'll certainly will. What do you

26:36

make of Kyrie Irvings comments here, Mark, I

26:38

don't know. I mean you have to ask Kyrie on that. I'm sure

26:40

he's got his logic. I just I don't

26:43

know Kyrie and all I haven't spoken to him. When

26:45

you realize that your star player was out of shape,

26:48

did you place a phone call to your star

26:50

player? Oh? No, I knew Luca was

26:52

working out that stuff about him being out of shape.

26:55

Yeah, you know, because we Luca and I text

26:57

all the time, and he's really proud to show me his

26:59

workout pictures, really proud.

27:01

And if lucas lifting weights, he's taking pictures,

27:04

trust me. Wait, wait, so when you get

27:06

selfies, you know, and your wife

27:08

said, oh what do you got? Oh, it's a selfie

27:10

and it's actually from Hey,

27:13

I got somebody with their shirt off. Oh

27:15

no it's Luca. No,

27:17

there are no what are you wearing? Selfie?

27:22

But how did it come out that he was not in shape?

27:25

I think that was a mistranslation from

27:28

one of his coaches who was trying to make the

27:30

point that he's not in game shape yet. But

27:32

he's in good shape. That's good. Hey,

27:35

it's great. What do you have behind you? You got one

27:37

thing that's hanging and then one thing it's not. Oh,

27:39

this is my little shark tank poster. So I always

27:41

get the pitch right always. That's

27:44

an old broadcast dot com the thing that's been

27:46

up there for for a long time. Other other

27:49

than the trophy, what would impress me the most

27:51

about your your memorabilium?

27:55

Probably when I first bought

27:57

the MAVs in the first All Star Game, I went to

28:00

Julius Erby was my hero growing up in Pittsburgh

28:02

when I was a little kid. I mean I literally went

28:04

to the filming of the Fish at say Pittsburgh just

28:07

see Julius Irby from a distance.

28:09

So one of my favorite pictures is

28:11

a picture of me standing away

28:14

from Julius Irby and one of my friends taking

28:16

a picture. So it looks like I'm

28:18

almost talking to Julius erving. So

28:21

that's that's my classic. You've

28:23

since spoken to Doctor Jay. Did

28:25

you tell him about that? Yeah? Absolutely?

28:28

Yeah, sure, certainly did The Fish

28:30

that Saved Pittsburgh. Yes,

28:34

they filmed it a Pacific arena when I was a kid

28:37

and I took the forty one b Bust

28:39

down to downtown Pittsburgh and I

28:41

snuck in through the back door. And I wasn't

28:43

an extra. I did sign up, but I was watching

28:46

in the wings while they were filming, and I'm just so

28:48

excited. That's great. Hey, it's

28:50

great to talk to you, and hopefully we get this season

28:52

started. Um, but I do think football

28:55

has got some question marks here. At least

28:57

you guys got a head start with this bubble. Well,

29:00

we'll find out, you know. We'll take the Hotel California

29:02

approach, and you know, you check in and you don't

29:05

leave to you're eliminated, you

29:07

know. But everybody's learning every

29:09

day, you know, and we'll see what happens. Because

29:12

the other thing, Dan, I'll mention real quick, this isn't

29:14

just about the NBA. If we can't

29:16

pull this off, what are college basketball,

29:18

in high school basketball, in middle school

29:20

basketball, going to do and

29:23

who you know, we are going to be the template for

29:25

them in a lot of respects on the things

29:27

we learn and what we can communicate to everybody

29:30

downstream. So again, this is another

29:32

situation where it's bigger than

29:34

just the NBA, and it's

29:36

bigger than just basketball. But do you think that,

29:39

you know, the teams that worked hard to get a home court

29:41

advantage won't have a home court advantage. Were

29:43

you in favor of giving these teams anything?

29:46

I don't know how we could do that. And again,

29:49

I don't even that really wasn't even a topic

29:51

of conversation, you know, at least

29:53

any of the conversations that I was in. It

29:56

was more about the bigger picture. You know,

29:58

how can we do this safely? And again,

30:01

the MAVs had the number one seed? What's

30:04

that? What if the MAVs had the number one seed, I'd

30:07

be like, we got to play all the games and down well,

30:10

I did want to do this, Mark, and I don't know,

30:13

like can we get could we have gotten

30:15

to the point where the Eastern Conference and Western Conference

30:17

teams played each other, or

30:19

maybe just the finals played each other? And

30:21

then so they were traveling there

30:23

instead of staying in Orlando in this

30:25

bubble, you know, we have to listen

30:28

to the scientists who tell us what to do and

30:30

how to do it best. The one thing we

30:32

can't compromise on is doing our

30:34

best to keep everybody safe. And so

30:36

you know, the more you travel, the more people involved,

30:39

the more locations involved, the more difficult

30:41

it is. So I think we came up

30:43

with the right approach and we'll learn, you

30:45

know, and then we'll just cross our fingers and hope that

30:47

we get a vaccine. So by the time

30:49

next season rolls along, we'll have, you know,

30:52

more ammunition to try to deal with us. Will

30:54

there be an asterisk attached to this season?

30:57

No, No more than nineteen ninety nine. Everybody

30:59

said nineteen ninety nine there'd always

31:01

be an asterisk, and you know, no

31:04

one remembers I said that to people. I

31:06

go, you know, when the Spurs

31:08

won the title, there was no ash. Nobody brings

31:10

that up at all, and they go, wait, what happened? Or

31:13

even the year, you know, twenty twelve when there

31:15

was a sixty six game post lockout season, Yeah,

31:18

right, no one brought that up, and that was

31:20

a big deal because you were playing back to back to

31:22

back games to get sixty six games stuck

31:24

into a season, and so that was

31:27

even more difficult. And so you

31:29

know, no, people don't look at that. People

31:31

just look at the rings on your finger. Once again,

31:33

he let Steve Nash get away. He's,

31:35

uh, it's only

31:37

sixteen years ago. Sixteen years

31:40

ago. Do you think Nash

31:42

has moved on from it? He's every

31:48

time I see him, he gives me that look. You won't

31:50

say it, but he gives me that look. I

31:52

can't. We kind of put we kind of put it behind

31:54

us. We went out and had a couple of drinks one day

31:56

and I think we got past it. But

31:59

Phoenix had kid kJ

32:01

and Nash on the roster at the same time, right,

32:04

Yeah, yep, Wow. I

32:07

can't imagine what practice must have been like for

32:09

those guys. Yeah, a lot of passing.

32:13

Hey, thanks for joining us, Good luck with Shark

32:15

Tank has always and h B safe.

32:17

Thank you, Mark, But Shacob break. We

32:19

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32:21

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32:40

history poll, Dan, there's a few eighteen forty

32:42

six and New York Knickerbocker Club played the

32:44

New York Club, that's what it's called in the

32:46

first baseball game in Hoboken, New Jersey,

32:49

as the first organized baseball game. Let's

32:51

see. The NFL approved

32:53

the merger of the Philadelphia Eagles

32:56

and the Pittsburgh Steelers in nineteen forty three.

32:58

I guess they are called the Stiegels. I

33:00

always thought this was a joke, but that that really happened.

33:03

Um. University of Maryland

33:06

star Len Bias died of a cocaine in du seizar

33:08

in nineteen eighty six. And in seventy

33:10

three, Dan, for you. Pete Rose of the Red's got

33:12

his two thousand, Thank

33:15

you for him. That's this day in sports

33:17

history. Gibbs in Virginia's back,

33:19

Hi, Gibbs, what do you have for me? Dan?

33:22

What's going on? Great shows this week?

33:25

Uh? Well, I should be called not exactly

33:27

Atticus Finch in Virginia Beach. The

33:33

load of golf I've got from my friends

33:35

and family. Couldn't sit in a ten gallon bucket

33:37

right now, So thank

33:39

you. But but Gibbs

33:43

is a lawyer for a construction company

33:45

and mclovin called him out and

33:47

said, not exactly out of Attacas

33:49

Finch the lawyer from Tequila.

33:52

Yeah yeah,

33:54

and damn, my call was too expressed

33:57

to the audience that your pull and into

33:59

the in the collegiate realm

34:02

law not to express

34:05

my career choice to mclovin,

34:08

Um but h mc love

34:10

and I did mention that I was a double car heel

34:12

from Carolina, so that's law school and NBA,

34:15

so the life of a public defender

34:17

in rural Alabama really did not at

34:20

the time, So thank you very much. Um.

34:23

But but Dan, I just want

34:25

to say thank you for all that you're doing and the rest

34:27

of it. I wanted to call in earlier, but the rest of this week

34:29

was a little too serious and didn't

34:32

find the right time. But absolutely

34:34

thumbs up to the callers for this

34:36

day in lighting mclovin up, y'all have a great

34:38

weekend. Thank you, Gibbs, Jimmy and Chicago.

34:41

Hi Jimmy, what do you have for me. What's

34:43

up? Then? Glad to be back. My nude

34:45

job has been kind of messing up my morning Sentuel.

34:47

But um, I wanted to, uh, if

34:50

you guys could I know your present time, but if you guys

34:52

could do a best movie draft. I've been wanting

34:54

to ask you guys to do that for a while. Uh

34:56

like a lightning maybe first round. That would absolutely

34:59

my day. Okay, you know we might get

35:01

around to that, Jimmy. We you know, we've done our best

35:03

to try to steal stay with sports because

35:05

there have been a lot of topics here that we haven't strayed

35:08

too far. I mean sometimes we get goofy,

35:10

but then you come to expect that. Robbie

35:13

and Mississippi. Hey Robbie, what's on your mind

35:15

today? Hey Dan, thanks

35:17

for taking my call. I am a civil

35:19

rights of his storian in Mississippi at Jackson

35:22

State University, the alma mater

35:24

public beloved Walter Payton, and I would add

35:26

here too also Eddie Peyton, the

35:28

Lions Detroit Lions

35:30

player who was our longtime golf coach. So if your guys

35:33

need some lessons, you might send them down this

35:35

way. But I wanted to respond

35:37

to something you said kind

35:40

of in passing with Paul Feinbaum

35:42

about old Miss in particular, and

35:44

the fact that what most people don't understand and realize

35:47

is that old Miss is actually a

35:49

term that is derived from slavery,

35:52

in which slave masters

35:55

their daughters were known as little miss and their

35:57

wives were known as old Miss. And in the early twentieth

35:59

century it became popular to

36:01

refer to the University of Mississippi as old

36:03

Miss. And I think that's something that the university

36:06

is gonna have to reckon with here in Mississippi

36:08

as well, especially when we think about the

36:10

context of young black athletes

36:13

thinking about where they're going to go to college. I agree,

36:15

and Robbie, thank you for bringing that up, because

36:17

I Princy gave me some information on

36:20

I did not know what old Miss referred

36:22

to. This has been educational

36:25

if you choose to make it or allowed to be educational,

36:28

just understanding, and it's

36:30

been around so long that you just sort of take

36:33

it for granted. I didn't.

36:36

I thought old Miss was just Mississippi

36:38

and it's just our old Miss. I

36:41

did not know old Miss was the slave

36:43

owner's wife's name. Jeff

36:46

and Detroit, Hi, Jeff, what do you have for me today? Hey,

36:50

Hey Dan, Happy meet Friday. I just wanted

36:52

to tell you and all the guys happy

36:54

Father's Day. I know how important it is to be

36:56

a father, and all you guys seem to do

36:58

a pretty good job at it. All this today

37:00

were fantastic, great shows

37:03

all week long. Man, you Rob Lou,

37:05

I'll at you on Monday. Thank you, Thank

37:07

you. Jeff. Yeah, happy Father's

37:09

Day. Yeah. I'm not sure

37:11

what's in store this weekend for you, but

37:14

I'm just taking inventory. I have four kids.

37:17

I don't know who's going to be home, but I

37:19

said to my wife, who's ever there. I'm

37:21

sure that they'll say nice things about me. That's

37:24

all that matters. Yeah, results of the pole,

37:26

would you rather be left alone or do a big family activity

37:29

on Father's Day? Fifty six percent be left

37:31

alone? Yeah, then

37:33

the lying. But my

37:35

daughter's birthday is on Father's

37:37

Day. That throws a

37:39

little curve. Yeah, she was born on Father's

37:42

Day, and so

37:44

I got to celebrate that so that

37:46

that superseds Father's Day.

37:48

So well, I got to make sure that she feels

37:50

like she's you know, sort of like you want

37:53

love to have witnessed that

37:55

great white shark. It's happening. By the way,

37:57

a lot of people tweeting me, Hey, I heard you, very like

38:01

word. If

38:04

anybody ever sees mclovin, just

38:07

ask about the great white shark. Please. People

38:10

are actually asking for a T shirt that says I've seen

38:12

a great white shark. Now

38:14

you could have mclovin like on the beach

38:17

pointing and then just have a great white shark.

38:19

That's a great white Yeah. Hey,

38:21

that's a great white shark right there. All right, this is about

38:23

a seventy five percent chance it was like a tuna

38:26

or dolphin.

38:29

Yeah. I don't think I'm getting enough love for that story.

38:32

That's a great line. That's a great

38:34

line for Friday line, Like I

38:36

always be dead serious. Oh oh

38:39

you were? Um, Well,

38:41

the back Row had a good week this week, I think,

38:45

right, I think so, yeah, we don't

38:47

get counted by water balloons. Do you think the whole

38:49

back Row feels that way? I don't know. I

38:52

think for the most part it was. It was a strong week.

38:54

Yeah. Point I buried to leave, but before everyone

38:56

got here this morning, Fritzie and I had a little personal

38:59

chat. We did well shoot maybe discussing

39:01

you know it stays with Todd and I but it was. It

39:04

was a lovely conversation. Yeah, but you're like Pete

39:06

Carl saying somebody called me about Colin Kaepernick

39:08

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39:10

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