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This just in the Tush push has been pushed back to May. They have tabled it. There will be no vote today or they didn't have the requisite votes that they wanted to and now it will be tabled until May. So the Tush push is still alive, barely. Yukon in Texas advance in the Women's Final four. Big night for torpedo bats last night, especially Ellie Dela Cruz. The NFL Competition Committee voting on rule changes. They are going to have the touchback started the thirty five yard line on
kickoffs instead of the thirty. They're trying to encourage more kickoff returns. Eight seven to seven three DP show email address Dpadanpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at DPS show. We say good morning those watching on Peacock and our great radio affiliates around the country, over four hundred cities carrying this program. More phone calls eight seven to seven three DP Show operator Tyler sitting by Seaton. Poll question and then we'll get to Jeff Passion of ESPN. Yeah, we got one here.
Prediction today brother Lishav will be.
Made legal or illegal.
That's holding at about fifty five percent saying it'll be made illegal.
Well, it's now tabled. So what's the pen of week poll question for the final Well, they weren't going to you go into those situations. If you're the commissioner, you want to know what the result's going to be before you walk into it. And he probably realized he was not going to get the support that probably he needed to get rid of the tush push.
In my opinion, Todd's got one here that says torpedo bats will be dot dot dot used more and more, become a common thing or banned in the.
Not too distant future.
Hmmm, we're going basically with a legal illegal set of poll questions today.
Let's bring in Jeff pass into the mothership. How did we get here, Jeff? Where torpedo bats are all of a sudden all the rage? When when was the first torpedo bat used in Major League Baseball in.
The twenty twenty four season. I believe it was John Carlos sam And.
You know when he had that October that he had last year in seven home runs fourteen games, And like, I feel like a clown honestly that I didn't notice it because it's such a different implement right like you see it, especially with Jazz Chisholm. It just looks different, and clearly it's hitting different for some of these Yankees players. And fifteen home runs over the first three games. It's I mean, it was quite the showing by that team.
What is the approval process for something like this that using this bat and then getting Major League Baseball to sign off on it.
It's actually a lot simpler than you would think. There are forty one manufacturing companies that are allowed by Major League Baseball's approval process to make bats, and as long as you have bats within specific specs. It can't be longer than forty two inches, the barrel can't be bigger than two point sixty one inches in diameter, the handle has to be i think point eighty six inches. As long as within those parameters, and it remains a smooth cylinder.
You can kind of distribute the weight however you want. And honestly, I'm surprised that it took this long for it to happen because the logic behind it that Aaron Leonard, who's now a coach with the Miami Marlins and was with the Yankees at the time and is an MIT educated physics professor. Like the logic that he had, it's kind of simple. Imagine a bat as something where you have a wood budget, right, you have a specific amount of weight and mass to distry you over this implement,
how do you want to spend your budget? Where do you want to put the majority of the wood or the majority of the mass. It kind of makes sense to put it where you strike the ball most frequently, and that's about six or seven inches down from the
end of the bat. And you know, it's it's like, this is such a baseball thing because we're caught up in the idea of what the game is supposed to look like, and yet we're in an era where teams are looking for every tiny, minuscule marginal advantage imaginable because they understand that that one percent might be the difference between them winning a game and not winning a game. And so for them to do this, it was really
just a matter of time. And more than that, this reminds me a lot of back when the Rays started using the opener. Right, like any other organization, you would have tried to do that with the pictures of what we're going to start a relief picture. What's what's the point of this? Like you need buy in. And that's where Aaron Leonard started this whole process. He went to players and he said, Okay, how do we counteract the incredible pitching that exists in baseball right now? Like what
can we do? What would you like? And the players all got back to him and they said the same thing, we would like like a bigger sweet spot. And so that's what they did. They went out and they made a better mouse trap.
Okay, but it's available for everybody, correct.
Totally, absolutely, it's be I mean we saw it with Eli Dela Cruz last night. You know, I had talked with a couple of bat manufacturers yesterday, like they've been preparing for this, Like they went around during spring training this year, and there was a whole lot more intrigue among players beyond just the Yankees, to the point where you know, all of them, all of the major ones at least had the ability to now turn a bat like this on their leads. And so this is going
to answer the poll question. This is going to be common, and this is going to be something that is the new normal in baseball now. Is everyone going to use it. No, of course not, because bats are all about feel. And if a guy orders a torpedo bat and he's all in on it and then he goes over six, you know, he might say, I'm going to throw this into the woodpile, burn it. I don't ever want to see it again. But guys who were finding success this early, they're going
to lean into it. And I think I'm not going to say this is directly attributable to the torpedo bat. But it would not surprise me to see an increase in offense in baseball this year on account of better equipment and baseball.
Can't you have a problem with that if there's more often No.
No, it's just it's always a matter of balance, right, Like we've seen this in sports in the past. You know when Sam Makita curves is stick back in the nineteen sixties and Bobby Hole was using a curve stick as well of the NHL to put rules into place
on curvature because too much imbalanced the game. When we saw swimmers wearing those full body suits in the Olympics and they were breaking world records all over the place, it's like, okay, is this where we want our sport to go to a place where technology is not just taking over, but taking it to an area that we never imagine and that throws off that natural balance. So
baseball is always monitoring that sort of thing. But considering where offense sam has gone in recent years, yeah, they can use an injection of it, because pitching is so damn good these days.
Talking to Jeff Passing, the ESPN senior Baseball insider, speaking of pitching, I was wondering, I'm always of I guess the awareness of things will come back around, like rushing attempts in the NFL, like the running back would come back, and we saw that last year. I'm wondering if there's going to be a comeback for a starting pitcher but he's not starting a game. I start a game with relievers, but I get to the fourth inning, and now I bring in a guy who's built for the rest of
the game. Because some pictures like Mariona Rivera was not a starting pitcher, but he became the greatest closer of all time. Certain guys are really good at closing. Other guys, you know, Hurt Shilling wasn't a good closer, became a great starter. So I wonder could you see somebody who still keeps alive the workhorse pitcher in baseball?
I think here's the flaw of that specific argument. I do believe to be clear that there is room for a workhorse starting pitcher. Still, I think it's going to take an organization that has a risk profile that trends more toward risky, because you know, pictures get hurt, like
that's the thing. But the issue I have with bringing a guy in in the fourth inning is that by the time he's in the eighth or ninth, he's going to be going the third time through the order, right, And the beauty of relief pitching is that it's a new look that you haven't gotten a chance to see this guy, and it's brand new stuff, and you don't know what's humming that day, and you don't know what might be a mediocre pitch that day, Like it's a
fresh start. Whereas if you have that starter in in the fourth ending, you know, the starter in the fourth inning, and bring him in by the end, he's going to be more tired generally, you know, unless you're like prime justin Verland, or the christness of your pitches are not quite the same in the latter innings as they were in the former so and especially because those eighth and ninth innings are the highest leverage spots in the game, Like every run matters, right, A run in the first
is equivalent to a run in the ninth. But when those twenty seven outs start taking down to twenty four and twenty one and eighteen and down to you know, nine and six and three, there's more value in that. There's more opportunity to win the game at that and that's when you want your freshest arms as opposed to guys who have been grinding through for one hundred pitches.
What do we call the A's.
I mean, I'm happy to call them the West Sacramento A's, Like I know they don't want that, but we tend to have this thing in American sports where you have the city and then the nickname and not having one of those things, even with like the reds concerning it to the Washington football team, like there's something after the city. So not acknowledging or recognizing the city outside of a patch on your shoulder, it's bush. But you know that's kind of how the A's operate. It's a bush organization.
And they you know, they're squatting in a minor league ballpark for three years right now, and it's super weird. And that is the expected consequence of twenty years of failure to build a stadium where frankly they should have and where a stadium was warranted. But John Fisher wanted to go to Vegas, and I like, I get it. There's money to be made there, there's a stadium to be built there. But it's going to be a weird interim period. In the meantime.
I hope they get to host a playoff game.
Me too. I am with you on that. Did you see the media ten.
Yeah, look good, look very accommodating. We're calling them the Triple A's so oh.
I like that.
But they're better than that. That's like, they're going to be a decent team this year.
Here's the stat for you before I let you go. In nineteen ninety five, Tony Gwynn had five hundred and eighty five plate appearances. He struck out fifteen times.
Yeah.
In twenty twenty five, Rafael Deever has struck out fifteen times in nineteen at bats.
Yeah, I could you know. I love those numbers. I also think that comparing anyone to Tony Gwynn is badly unfair, because that guy, he was one of the kind. And I you know, I love modern baseball. I would love to drop Tony Gwynn into twenty twenty five to see what he would look like like. Would he have at all embraced the notion of launch angle and the exit velocity or would he just be like Luisa or Eyes, perfectly happy to go around and just bat three twenty every year.
I think Gwynn would probably bat three twenty, but he would hit thirty home runs. Yeah, I think he hit twenty home runs. And I mean this is a guy who stole fifty bases in a season. I think he hit twenty home runs. I remember Wade Boggs telling me if they want me to hit, if they wanted me to hit home runs, I would hit home runs. But there's no better guy in taking a ball to left field than Wade Boggs was, and that's what he was paid to do.
And that's this. This goes full circle then with the torpedo bats, because the thing is when you redistribute the wood down to the sweet spot, that means there's less wood in other areas of that that do like make contact with the ball right. And so this is players saying that I am going to deprioritize contact for hard contact. I'm going to give up some of those balls that are just a little bit off the sweet spot in order for the other ones to be doubles and triples
and home runs. And it's a very simple reason, because slug pays, and if you can hit the ball for power and have a high slugging percentage, you are going to get paid in arbitration, you are going to get paid in free agency. You are going to end your career in a much better position financially than somebody who goes out and hits three twenty with a low slugging percentage.
Great to talk to you as always. Thank you, Jeff.
Pleasure is mine, dam and the lime green.
My God, thank you, thank you, thank you, I thank you saying that's great as by god? Is that a compliment, Jeff Passon of the mother Ship? Noteworthy? Yeah, once again, this was my gift for being in the Adam Sandler movie Happy Gilmore two. Not a lot of people have those, No they don't, just saying no they don't. But Sandman gave this to me, I think it's double X like this is this might be Sandler's. I gonna say game
warn no, it could be movie worn. But I remember he had one on the set and I go, oh, I like that. He goes, Danny, you're getting one. I said, oh, okay, I'm getting updates though, and happy Gilmore and uh he just said uh he said, Danny hg.
Strong.
That was the text last night after I saw him playing basketball, you know, pickup game in New York City.
Yes, PAULI, I'm seeing reports of a July twenty fifth, Yeah, release date.
Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, there was a if somebody had misinformation and it was going to be like March, and I go, it's not March. They won't get it done by then because I was doing my part, what in December or something like that. I said that that's not happening, and it's you know, you wanted around the fourth of July. You want it to be a summer blockbuster, yes, Marvin, Yeah, so.
When are we going to the premiere?
Probably the twenty fifth, if they have a New York and La premiere, and I'll see what I can do, maybe pull some strings there, see if I can get you guys yet. If not, then you guys can go to the premiere and then I'll go into the premiere and then I'll come out when I'm done and then see you guys.
So we got to be next to Kevin Frazier, Dan, Dan, Yeah, yeah, like you don't know us.
That would be great if you guys were credentialed and you guys were interviewing people. You're on the red carpet, Todd interviewing people on the red carpet.
How long did it take.
To get in here?
What's the transit schedule?
You take the train?
Yeah, it's funny how none of the guys would get interviewed on the Red carpet by Todday.
I have a tendency to lean towards talking, chatting up the win.
How about we take a break and we'll come back back after this on the Dan Patrick Show.
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That's Covino and Rich recapping some of the items from the NFL owners meetings. The Tush Push will be tabled till May and then they'll try to bring it back to life again see if they get the requisite votes to be able to maybe get rid of it. That's the feeling that I get. Also, there's going to be three games on Christmas Day, two on Netflix, one on Amazon Prime. The kickoff touchback will now go from the thirty to the thirty five yard line as they try
to encourage more kickoff returns. Those are just some of the headlines there. Also overtime, both teams will get the ball. Remember it was sudden death overtime and then it became overtime. It's like instant replay became replay because it was an instant and now it's not sudden death overtime. It's we'll get around to it overtime. But both teams now get the ball on overtime. And I guess if your team is trailing with an on side kick, they were looking at voting on that as well. On side kick is
one of my favorite plays in all the sports. It's rarely successful, but it gives you hope, and you've taken hope out of the game late in the game, and I hate that. I know it's all about player safety, player safety, player safety, it's also about entertainment too. Damn it, where's my entertainment?
Yeah?
See, especially the surprise onside kick. That's when it's really like.
Even when you see it coming a mile away and you're like, hey, they get this back, they might be onto something, it's still great. But then all of a sudden, when there's that random surprise one, that's great.
Yeah, I agree. All right, So that's the NFL owners meetings. But I guess they have things to decide discuss, and then you'll get all of these people together and then you start to talk about Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers. There's video out there Rogers playing catch, I guess with DK metcalf. How does that work? Does Rogers go, Hey, you want to catch? You go to a local park and you go, oh be damn DK metcaal where he's going, Hey, I'm just gonna run some sprints. Hey there's Aaron Rodgers.
Hey erin, I want to throw me some passes. Happen to be at least one camera there, Yes, Tod, is it rude for DK to say, Hey, when you sign with the Steelers, want to play with us, I'll have to catch the Yeah, I'm sorry I'm here to meet Mason Rudolph, not you, Aaron. Okay, you sign with us and then we can play catch. Let me see Daniel in California. Hi, Daniel, what's on your on today?
Hey? Good morning, Dan?
They should taking my call? Sure, I heard you get
a little tennis earlier. And being the tennis fan that I am, I think this is an opportunity to pose a question to the sports historians that are Dan and the Dan at MMM, so you can certainly make the case the three greatest tennis players of all time, or three out of the four Mount Rushmore tennis players all played in the same era at the peak of their abilities in fed It All and Joker, each holding at least twenty Grand Slams, with Sampers coming in next with
only fourteen. My question is only still impressive fourteen. My question is can you think of any other sport in which three of the four Mount Rushmore players and their respective sport, whoever you think they may be played during the same time.
You could probably look at basketball with Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, but people you know, they don't include Wilt in the conversation. As you know, among the greatest players of all time. They just don't. He's one of those Oh yeah, Wilt, but his numbers are Babe Ruthian. But we do acknowledge Babe Ruth stats, but we don't really acknowledge Will Chamberlain stats like they're two preposterous. You're like, wait, eight,
you had fifty five rebounds in a game. Come on, you scored one hundred and come on, we didn't do that with Babe Ruth. It's like, yeah, he had it. Sixty home runs, yes, Marvin.
In the NBA. I think championships mean more to somebody's greatness than anything else. How many home I mean, you know how many World Series Willie Mace have I don't know, or Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle, I don't know, but you know the numbers. And I think numbers, especially from yesteryear, was way more important in baseball when determining who's the best player.
But why is it we don't look at baseball and count your championships, but in basketball we do, and football at the quarterbacking position we do. So there's certain sports, certain players or positions that we look at differently, And is that fair to everybody else? Like Barry Bonds didn't win, Hank Aaron won one World Series name Willie Mays didn't win? What did he have one or two World Series titles?
But then he had the Yankees winning everything. Does that mean they were better players or they on better teams? The Celtics, those guys all won championships. I mean, if you didn't have four or five, you're like left out of the party here. Now you'd kill to have four or five times. I mean, here's Lebron with four and he's amongst the greatest players of all time. So once again we pick and choose how we use the eras
with the arguments there. But you could make a case at some point that Oscar Jerry, Bill Russell and Will Chamberlain were the best players of all time. And then of course you had Larry and you had Magic, and then you had Mike and then that all of a sudden changed everything there. But there was a point in time. But yes, the caller is right about tennis that those three. You know, Rod Laver is still to me among the
greatest players of all time. He could do it on any surface, and you know, just health and conditioning and everything that's gone on with these But these three tennis players. That's incredible because I thought Pete Sampris was the greatest I ever saw, and then all of a sudden, when Pete told me about Roger Feederer, and I said, what do you think about Roger Feeder? He said, I don't even think of doing the shots that he does and is successful. And that told me everything I needed to
know about Federer. Here's Pete saying, you know, I can't even come up with the thought of trying to pull that off, and he does and that separates him.
Yeah, Pauling going back to the caller with all time greats at the same time. It's not exactly, but Joe Montana, Dan Marino, and John Elway entering the league in the early eighties kind of at the same time, two in the same draft. Was like, those are three of the greatest resume. I know Dan Marino's not there, but if you talk about great quarterback play, those three are up there with the all times.
Well, Dan Marino is I don't I'll be careful when I say this, but he changed the game the way Steph Curry has changed the game, like he changed the quarterbacking position. Five wide shotgun quick release nobody was doing what he was doing. Dan Marino was way ahead of his time. And you know he didn't have the team's success. You know, they got blown out in his one Super Bowl visit, but if you he would be one of those guys where you talk to other quarterbacks and you say, man,
I wanted to be like him. I mean, Montana was wonderful and Farv and all the great guys, you know, but Dan Marino changed the game because it didn't look like that. And then Danny just spread everything out and was going to pick you apart. And they weren't throwing these little short passes he had duper and Clayton not more. It wasn't necessarily using the running back out of the backfield. He was taking shots down the field.
Yes, marn damn Moreno's record of forty eight touchdowns it stood into a two thousand and seven you know, crazy that sounds. You threw forty eight touchdowns at five thousand yards in nineteen eighty four where it was three yards in a cloud of dust.
But he made it look easy. Yeah, he did. I don't know what the second place, you know, maybe Warren Moon. What was his touchdown total that year? That Marino had forty eight touchdowns. Was that eighty four that he threw for forty eight? Yeah, Pauling, Yeah, damn.
Ma Reno had forty eight touchdowns that year. Second place was thirty two touchdowns. All right, let's see who can get this kind of a bit of a journeyman long Pastorini No, oh man, I'm gonna give you three points for that kind of a journeyman player had a nice bounce around career. He had thirty two touchdowns with Seattle in nineteen eighty four. Jim zorn Post Zorn Era Zornish another great reference by you, okay. Dave Craig of Seattle
had thirty two bonus coverage. Neil Lomax of Saint Louis was third with twenty eight times.
Lomax Glenn Dicky fifth.
Right.
Stat of the day brought to you by Panini America. The official trading cards of the Dan Patrick show how many pitchers threw at least one pitch one hundred miles per hour last season? Because I was I was curious how common it is the number of pitchers, because we were talking about serves of one hundred and fifty miles an hour slapshots over one hundred miles an hour, those kind of things, you know, a golf swing of one
hundred and twenty miles per hour. How many pitchers had at least one pitch of over one hundred miles an hour Marvin thirty eight.
I think Paul sixty six, Seaton twenty five, Todd forty two, sixty two, sixty two pitchers through at least one pitch that was one hundred miles an hour.
Stat of the day, stat of the day, that past stat of the day, stat of the day, Here comes, here comes that? What stat of the day? Mike in La, Hi, Mike, what's on your mind today?
And I wanted to call in because I heard you talking about Wilt Chamberlain. And just last week we released a book published by Mama's Kitchen Press out of Austin, Texas called Shooting Stars at Sky And there are two poems about Gwilt in it, one that I wrote, he was my hero growing up on a farm in Indiana.
The other is by Tom mis Sherry, who was on the team with Guilt and Wilts scored one hundred points and the poem has helped Milt's one hundred point game Miss Sherry's a great poet's They used to call him the Matt Rush And I don't know if you remember him, but he's got four poems in the book and it's a beautiful collection. I was the editor and Mama's Kitchen Press is the publisher.
All right, Well, thank you, Mike. Yes, Tom was an enforcer, had a nice big mustache. He's one of those guys who would set picks. Yeah, they used to have guys that. That's what they did. They set picks. It's like Rick Mahorn. Rick Mahorn set a pick and when he did, you got picked. Ouch. Let me see what else Kyle and Vermont. Good morning, Kyle. What's on your mind today?
Good morning, Tyla? Is I have an obscure stat of the day.
All right?
Tony Gwynn, in his basketball playing career at San Diego State University, had five hundred and ninety total assists his major league career four hundred and thirty four strikeouts.
Okay, stand of a day, stant of a day, start out a day, scant out a day.
This is the style of the day. We are drunk with stats today, But I'm surprised Tony Gwynn stuck out four hundred times in his career. To be honest with you, I I you know, so twenty years, twenty strikeouts a year, all right, So if you're averaging whatever, twenty nine strikeouts a year or something like that, so insane, I know. But DiMaggio had a year I think when he had his fifty six game hitting streak. I think he struck out fifteen times or less that year. But back then,
you know, it changed. I don't know when it changed, but I just remember it wasn't a you didn't have the walk of shame when you struck out. It was like like Reggie Jackson. I always felt like he didn't didn't get ahead. He struck out, but damn did he look good striking out like that cork screw. And he was like he was going for a home run every time, like he was swinging for home runs before it was in vogue to swing for home runs. Mickey Mantle struck
out a lot. I think Willie Stargell struck out a lot. But I just remember, if you struck out a hundred times, man, we looked at you. It's like, what is wrong with you?
Yes, time seem like Dave Kingman back in the day would either hit a home run a strikeout.
With the Mets, yeah call, yeah, it was home run.
You know.
Rob Deer was a home run or strikeout guy. There been a lot of those guys, but it wasn't this epidemic or acceptable where it's like, hey, it's all right, you'll get him next time. Man, you were right on top of that one. And I remember when one of the Yankees told me that a Rod he was okay if he struck out, if he looked good, striking out like you don't want to look like man, you're right
on him, right on him. I remember. You know, your teammates would try to pick up your spirits when you were up there against some guys, you know, bringing cheese and you go back and you struck out feeling down. Hey, man, you're right on him. Okay, you all hey at foul ball? Who if you straightened that went out, Yes, Marvin.
There was nothing worse if you got caught striking out like you struck out looking and somebody say, oh, can I help you? Ha, No, just looking. I was like, damn, that's not nice.
I'm sorry, do you need help?
No?
No, just looking, Yes, Paul.
I'm nerding out on Tony gwinnstats like I like to do. He hit three seventy at age thirty seven, which is nutty. He also he had five seasons where he hit over three point fifty. He had none seasons where he hit under three hundred.
Andy in Buffalo, Hi, Andy, what's on your mind today?
Hey?
Dan?
First time, long time, five eight one twenty. So I'm actually calling from LA. I've lived in LA for almost twenty years now, but I'm from Buffalo. It really irks me when you guys talk about the best quarterbacks of all time and you talk about qualifications.
And this and that, and Dan Marino's name always gets brought up. But the guy that kept him out of another Super Bowl and went to four and won four AFC Championship games in a row and had an offense named after him is never in the discussion.
And it drives me nuts.
So Jim Kelly's who you're talking about.
Yes, if you're going to talk about Dan Marino, you've got to talk about Jim Kelly. That's crated at five wide shotgun.
Who cares.
The last time the Dolphins were relevant was when that guy was chucking the rock, and he was irrelevant for thirteen years after that Super Bowl, So Jim Kelly's got to be in the conversation my guys.
All right, all right, Andy, Yeah, fine with that. All came in at the same time Jim went to the USFL. I don't think Marino was irrelevant. If you ask quarterbacks who had more of an impact. Dan Marino is going to win that one. Jim kelly great career, unfairly labeled, you know, as not winning you know, a Super Bowl. He went to four four straight, and we do. We did this to the Minnesota Vikings when they lost Super Bowls, and it hurt some of those guys getting into the
Hall of Fame. Jim Kelly, Thurman, Thomas, Andre Reed, James Lofton. They were great teams. Those Buffalo teams were far better than the Dolphin teams. I think we can be honest about that. Dan Marino changed the game. Jim Kelly didn't change the game. Dan Marino changed the game. Jim Kelly was a wonderful He's a Hall of Fame quarterback.
Yes, marm and the Bills are complete team and they're getting their flowers now because they have about six or seven guys in the Hall of fame, almost like the seventy Steelers.
Yeah, but you know, this is what happens when you start comparing and because I wax poetic about Dan Marino and I you know, don't bring up Yeah, I mean, I bring up John Elway, who's to me, was the greatest quarterback I saw because that guy could run and throw, could throw as well as anybody, and didn't have He did not have an All Pro skilled position player on his team during those three Super Bowl runs that they lost once again, no wide receiver, no tight end, no
running back who was an All Pro. And he went to three Super Bowls. Now, they did have a really good defense, but what happened in those games to get into the Super Bowl, Elway led them to victory.
Yeah, it's crazy too, because the Bills might be looking at another surefire Hall of Famer who can't win a Super Bowl.
Wow, well he can't get there yet, get there yet? Hey, what happened here?
Hey?
Is that just April fools? We're just kidding. Oftentimes I'm very.
Wrong about the stuff I throw out here, just like I'm pretty sure he hasn't.
April fools. Yeah, that's who we are. We're the April fools, last call for phone calls, what we learn, what's in store tomorrow.
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You know, we started out with Tuesday Todd. That felt like Friday Fritzie. But I think we calmed down a little bit, Todd, So thank you. Thank you for playing nice in the sandbox with everybody else.
Yeah, I did calm down a little bit.
Yes, you needed to Rocko in Florida. Hey, Roco, what's on your mind?
Hey Dan, Dann's and I was calling in. You were talking about the stats and how baseball is definitely generated off stats and not champ chips as much. But before like the grom and stuff, one to fight young on the losing teams. But back in the day. I mean, it's funny. People don't realize. Some people don't know. Ryan never want to fight young with all those accolades and everything. And then I just want to give the ace nickname, uh,
the little Orphan Athletics. So other than you guys have a good death.
Thank you, Rocco. Yeah, Uh, Jeff and Clearwater. Hi, Jeff, what's on your mind?
What's up?
Dan?
Five?
Stat of the day.
Jim Harball has more rushing yards than Bo Jackson.
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I think we should check that that Jim Harbaugh has more rushing yards than Bo Jackson. Bo didn't play that long in the NFL and Jim Harbaugh played a long time.
Yes, Paul, I have Jim Harbaugh with two and eighty seven rushing.
Yards in fourteen years. He might have got Bro Jackson hopefully. Wow, it's pretty good. That is good. That is good. I like that. Robin Orlando, Hey, Rob, what's on your mind today?
Yeah?
And I hate the end of the day on a negative man. But a little suck at the Marvin there, because comparing the Bills to the seventies Steelers is like comparing the Vikes, like comparing the Vikings of the seventies to the forty nine ers of the eighties.
I'm out, thank you, Rob Well. Suck at Marvin, yes, Mark, but I.
Was talking about the number of Hall of famers. Bet are it that won the nineties bills?
Like?
Not?
The bottom line winning champions.
Yeah, so Rob relaxed.
Yeah, that's Steeler dynasty though. That's that's the best dynasty I've ever seen because that defense. I mean, they had guys who didn't even start who went into.
The Hall of Fame. The rotation guys got it. Ye, yes, yes, it appears Bo Jackson had twenty seven eighty two to Jim Harblar's twenty seven eighty seven, five yards less than Jim harble.
Let's compare the highlights of those two with their NFL rushing careers. That's pretty good stat that's pretty good. That's a great stack. Yeah, well done. Stat of the Day is always brought you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. Thanks for all the phone calls, today, emails, tweets, the all around support for this program. How about this day in sports history, Paul got a couple.
Nineteen nineteen, The final game of the nineteen nineteen Stanley Cup was canceled due to an influenza break worldwide. No winner is declared in the series between the Canadians and the Montreal of the Seattle Metropolitans. Nineteen thirty, Leo Hartnett of the Cubs caught a baseball that dropped from the Goodyear Blimpet eight hundred feet in Los Angeles and first ever strike nineteen ninety two in the NHL nineteen ninety two seventy five year history the NHL first.
Strike, the nineteen thirty moment with Gabby Hartnett. He was trying to break the world record, but they weren't sure if the blimp was up. It was between five hundred and fifty and eight hundred feet, they don't, you know, so they couldn't calculate it to see if it was going to be a world record, so it could not be verified. Did you see the blimp that's got Charles Barkley on it? The Capitol one blimp that's flying over
San Antonio now? And Barkley has a history of saying mean things about San Antonio women, and they have a blimp of Charles, the Capitol one blimp, I believe, flying over San Antonio as we speak.
Yes, Paul, Yeah, it's Charles head on front and him like diving forward like a big blimp.
Shot. Hey, you big blimp. Can't say that about him anymore? Uh, Indianapolis, Let me see anything else here. Duke's first NCAA Championship on this date nineteen ninety one when they beat Kansas seventy two to sixty five. That was the Grant Hill dunk, right. I just watched the Laytner documentary again. It is amazing now.
Jalen Rose makes everything about the world was against the Fab Five, but they have him on when they're talking about Laytner stomping on Timberlake's chefs in the Kentucky A gain and he's like, hey, if one of the Fab five had done that, you know, they basically put us
in jail. But Laightner got away with the technical. It's still one of those amazing moments because he played the perfect game and he could have been thrown out of the game and probably should have been thrown out of the game because it was right there in front of the official stomping on him, no question, and that's when coach Kate goes. He yells at him, He's like, what are you doing? And I don't think Latner knew what he was doing in the moment. Todd, would you learn today.
Coastal Carolina giving up free concessions offensered buy a ticket to a game, but no Chanter beers.
However, right could have gotten out without that time.
You didn't like that last seat.
According to some on Twitter, I learned you're trying to be seen from space today.
I got slimed. Marvin Mike in New Jersey is active tops? What about you, Todd?
What's called the NFL owners meeting for some reason?
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