Hour 3 – John Smoltz, Reggie Miller

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No, all right, all right, little enthusiasm there. I appreciate that. More phone calls coming up, 877 3D P show. We'll talk to John Smoltz. Smoltzie on the call for the world baseball classic

and the championship game coming up tonight. Also Reggie Miller will stop by a little bit later on with his thoughts on the NBA, the Association. Lakers over the Rockets last night. I was watching that.

And there are now a game and a half ahead of the Rockets

for third place in the Western Conference.

And they won six in a row. By the way, this spurs won their 50th game of the season last night. They haven't won 50 games in a season since 2016. And watch a little bit of Jalen Brown putting up 41 last night, 18 in the fourth quarter as Boston picked up the win against the suns.

And this is something I did not know. Steve Kerr got his 600th, that's 600th career victory. And there's only one other coach in NBA history who has 600 wins as a player, 600 wins as a coach. The only two people in NBA history who won at least 600 games

as a player, 600 as a coach. Marvin? That right. No, Todd Bill Jackson. No, that's a good guess. This guy had one of the stranger jump shots, not a big time player.

Played for a great team. Played for a great team. John Nelson, Nelly, is they like to call on playing for the Celtics, and of course, legendary NBA head coach. All right.

877 3D P show operator, Tyler, sitting by, you'll take your calls. Good morning. If you're watching on peacock or the NBC Sports Network are listening on our radio affiliates around the country, including I Heart Radio and Fox Sports Radio. John Smoltz on the call with Joe Davis last night, World Baseball Classic, the semi-finals,

and as a wail against Italy, Team USA playing for the title tonight on Fox at 80 Stern against Venezuela. The atmosphere is what surprised me probably the most, John. I don't know if I said what's the one thing that you were surprised at so far with the classic is what?

Yeah. I would say, first of all, the star factor of the amount of players that had bought in place, especially with Team USA. It's probably the most we've ever had, you know, a lot of guys want to dip their toe in.

You got to be all in or not.

And that is what I've always seen from the countries that have gathered their stars

“because that is the most important thing to them.”

The intensity and the passion has gotten more and more and the loudness, of course, where we are in Miami helps because a lot of the people live here that represent those countries. So that, to me, has been single-handedly, very, very obvious and very apparent who they're rooting for and how many people it's outweighs the American fans, that's for sure. How do you build a team like this?

Not sure who's going to play. Maybe the countries, it's a little bit easier for them to build their team, but for Team USA, how do they go about, you know, putting the roster together in future world baseball classics? It starts a year in advance, that's the hard part, or there's all kinds of restraints

and handcuffs. I don't know why you'd want to be a manager at first and foremost, there's absolutely no upside. The list you want to manage in the big leagues and it starts with a starter player buying in.

I think the more these tournaments have been played, you can dislike a lot of things that come along with it and I do, but from a tournament standpoint, you don't have the freedom to do whatever you want. So you've got to take what you get. So if you get a star like Aaron Judge, who's bought in and he starts talking to players

“and price hard, but that's how it works.”

And look, what Schains has done at his age, the stock has gone through the roof. I just can't even imagine, you know, when it starts happening like that and you get pictures to buy in, then all of a sudden you get to showcase what you have and then the US pressure to win it gets better as they're more equipped to win it with the players to have. It kind of sounded ominous with Paul Schains, where the way he throws, how he throws, you

point.

“Is that summarizing what your thoughts are with him?”

No, I mean, that's the summarization of what we now come to get used to. Nobody's escaped it. He might be an outlier shoot, he carries a tank on his back when he's warming up. But a lot of things I like that he does because he's so big and he has such great opportunity to dominate a baseball game, but what I'm more impressed is the mentality of what he's doing

and how he's doing it. That in and out of the south can get you away from the epidemic of injuries that we're seeing in pictures. Because he's different, he's unique, he's six, five, six, six, whatever. I don't think buying into the narrative that is going to happen.

Now, we as broadcasters and former players, we report that this is happening at an alarming rate and it's not connected to the World Baseball Classic. I know that's a lot of people want to say it's like, why would I want to put my player through a World Baseball Classic when the injury rates are what they are?

The reason is because we've never even addressed it.

So if you don't address it and yeah, I've been banging that drum for years, I'm glad to see you players come into this event and say, I'm in, I want to play for my country, I'm going to pitch the way I possibly can to be the best that I can and deal with the mental toughness that you've got to have because there's all kinds of noise and you can

“buy into a million of theories if you like yourself and I think when I've seen this”

team USA, they're not doing it and they know they have a mission, they know they need to win because they're expected to. He's John Spoltz to be on the call with Joe Davis tonight. And it'll be on Fox, Team USA, playing for the title against Venezuela, Health Rettinging is Venezuela.

Well, they've got a lot of start part of themselves, but they also have a ton of emotion. You can play in a tournament like this with that kind of emotion because it's condensed. You can't do it in the right of season, you'd be wiped out.

And so their ability and their belief in trying to do something they never done and in this

tournament history, it's been kind of dominated by Japan. The US has a chance to get their second, but what it would mean for the country of Venezuela and everything that they've gone through and all the people that live here, you can't help, but the infection is about how they are just gravitate towards that emotion. This, look, I've had about 10, 12 years ago, I'll probably would be bothered by this winning

a blue baseball classic is more important than winning a world series. I'd get it now though. I get it for the country, I get it for the players to come from that country. Totally understand why they're passionate and the importance of this weighs a little bit higher than an ultimate goal in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the

major baseball winner of the series. How do you make this bigger?

“I think you make a bigger when you do it in the middle of the season shut down for, for a”

week. I really, I've been, I've been saying that for years, I think it's a perfect spot to showcase the international talent. You'd have everybody wearing that uniform that be in midseason form, there'd be no restrictions to truly get to see the Goliath going against the Goliath without them coming out and

throwing, you know, a million arms.

I don't know that we'll ever get there. I hope we do, hockey did it last year, I didn't miss one second of it. I was blue to it, there's the most incredible event that I've ever watched. When you see what those players were doing for that country and it was much more condensed, we could do the same thing.

That's how you make it better. You, you can, you can allow what this tournament has done is accomplished its goals. Paymeabily, baseball is going to be thought of differently there. You've got all other countries that are bringing baseball to the forefront when other sports were really kind of marquee and, and, and King, that has worked.

Is it the perfect timing? No. The spring training and all these clubs think about managing team USA, you've got 30 bosses. You've got 30 bosses telling you what their players can and can't do. It's a very difficult situation, but given the circumstances, this has been an epic year.

It's probably the best tournament we've seen in a long time. Have you talked to the commissioner about this idea? Oh, yeah, many years, many times, absolutely. I just think it's an old brainer, but we got the Olympics, we got other things that are probably getting away right now, but the international flavor in our game is so good.

Even if you just did an international world versus USA, you can't come up with a roster that wouldn't be epic either way, and people, look, I think our all-star games still the best all-star game at any speed. It's the only one worth watching. We play it closer to the regular season and everyone's still trying to figure out how

to spruce it up. Well, this is how you would. That would be great though, just to like the NBA did with the USA versus the world. Yep. And you could do two games.

If you shut the game down for a week and give everybody the break they need is a season long, you could do so many things to promote within that week and own that week.

all-fain, so that everybody can be aware of as the president and be connected.

Did you fill out your bracket yet? No, yeah. I don't even know.

“I didn't even know today was St. Patty's Day.”

Yeah, I didn't even know. I've been on a two-week road trip and I haven't even looked at one thing. I do know that the bracket that my team I root for is in the hardest bracket, go figure. But that's just the way it is. But you have Supreme confidence in Thomas Hill and Michigan State.

It's a Supreme confidence. I only wish I could go to Buffalo and watch you in person, but I can't get there. Have fun tonight, John? Well, do.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

The John Smoltz will be on the call with Joe Davis tonight. That'll be on Fox. They started 80s during Team USA versus Venezuela. All right, some phone calls in here. Then it feels like everybody throws a hundred now.

I get used to be if you got to 95, and then everybody was throwing 95. Now it's a hundred. Yeah, see. I just saw a video sometime in the last like two weeks on social media of a kid in high school.

Like 15, 16 years old hit 101, gone at this crazy.

If you through, I remember we faced one kid in high school that through 90 miles an hour.

And he, he went to college, but eventually like blue is arm out. And it was like seeing a unicorn or like a meteorite just fell from the earth. Like holy crap, you see how fast this gets throwing? Yeah, I, I told the story, and I just knew his last name was Nagle. And not Denny Nagle, but Nagle.

And when we were growing up, it was like, we knew if we were going to get through and go far with our team, you had to get through this left hander.

“And I remember that we ended up with two hits, and we ended up beating him one to nothing.”

So I tell this story. And next thing I know, John Harball, he sends me a text and he says, Hey, I got a couple of friends, I went to college with, they would like to come to your studio. I go, okay, they're going to be in the area. They're from Cincinnati, and I go, Oh, okay.

Next thing I know, three guys walk in, one of the guys says, I'm Nagle. I go, your Nagle goes, yeah, I said, we beat you one to nothing. And I'm like, what are the odds that John Harball knows the guy that we were playing again, facing a couple of times when I was growing up? And he, and he pitched it, Michigan, and I think he ended up hurting his arm, but it's

one of those where you go, Galilee, that guy has throw in some serious cheese here. Yeah, Paulie. I was looking up the stats, Mason Miller, the great release pitcher for USA. He's already throwing 35 pitches of a hundred or over. Yeah, 35.

He doesn't really throw that many under a hundred, yeah. But schemes, I mean, schemes is a big guy, but there, it feels like they're all destined to have Tommy John, you just are. But it used to be a rotator, because I had rotator and labram damage. Now it's Tommy John's surgery, yeah, Paulie.

Mason Miller is throwing 35 pitches over a hundred, the rest of the teams in the WBC have throwing 34 over a hundred at every other pitcher. Why yikes?

“But at one point, it does become normal for the hitter to see a hundred, because I remember”

when I saw 90, and it was like, that's different. And then if you would go to the batting cage and dial it up to 95, you're like, it would take you probably 20 pitches to be able to time it to catch up to it, just to put it in play. And then, you know, they're throwing 95, but they're not throwing 95 right down the middle.

Whether they're throwing breaking balls or sliders or whatever. And now, you know, these guys will hit a hundred miles an hour. If they know where it's going to be, they'll hit it. But it's the other pitches that are the difference between being all star, being a whole femur, being a sigh, young winner, and, you know, that's where, hey, throw a hundred

down the middle, and majorly hitters are going to crush it because they've seen a hundred. We have it. Like, if you, if you get in the batters box and just watch somebody throw just 90, and you hear that 90, and then you tack on 10 miles more, and then you hope to see it, it's a different experience when you're like, yeah, and if you get hit, that thing really hurts.

Rob Dibble hit Tim Tuffel in the back when Dibble was with the reds, and he hit Tuffel.

And I remember Rob Dibble telling me the story that I don't know what Tuffel did or somebody

with the met's did, but, you know, Dibble came in, one of the nasty boys, and he threw a pitch and he said, it hit Tim Tuffel in the back, and actually stayed there momentarily. It hit him in the back and stayed, and then it dropped down to the ground, and then there was this big altercation there, yes, Pauli. I went back and watch the video.

Tuffel wants to run out, hit Dibble, but he's like, oh my, three seconds. All right, we'll take a break, Reggie Miller joins us next here on the Dan Patrick Show. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick Show weekdays at 9 a.m. Eastern 6 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Hey, this is Jason McIntyre.

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app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Denver Broncos just picked up Jalen Wano for the Miami Dolphins, according to Shefty. What? Yeah, gave up their first round pick this year, and I think a fourth or fifth round pick in the future, but boy, the Dolphins rebuilding and that's a great pick up for the Denver

Broncos to get Jalen Wano. Let's bring in Reggie Miller, Reggie on the call for the Warriors Knicks on Sunday tonight. He's got calves at the box eight Eastern on NBC and peacock.

“What do you remember about your March Madness experience?”

I think by senior year going to get in the first round Dan Marley and I believe it was central Michigan, beating them and then thinking that we were going to have a clear cut sweet 16 birth because we played good old best name, finished demo, and while I mean thinking okay, we're going to run through them and then we were going to get the match up that

everyone wanted to see because we never played one another.

It was a great Anthony and UNLV and those high octane running rubbles. That was the match up. We overlooks finished, he cooked us, he cooked me, and we lost the finished demo in one in the Cowboys. That's probably what I remember most my senior year.

But how does that work? Explain that experience that here's finished demo who wasn't a good NBA player. You became a whole of Famer, but on that day, he was a whole of playing player against you guys.

“And that's the beauty of March Madness, when it doesn't matter what CGR, remember you're”

playing on neutral sites, you're not playing at home, everyone is someone equal because of these neutral sites and we overlooked Wyoming and this was a blockbuster game for them. And the finished demo punched just take it to the NBA from that game and it was a disappointing loss for my ruins. How long does it take to get over a loss?

Well, that was your last game. It was. I found out I didn't play great. It's difficult, but you just yourself off and move on, but it's one of those losses that you hope you grow from and sometimes when you have losses like that, that's your best

teacher and you learn from it and you move on. Better team in your opinion, more talented running rebels or the fab five. Wow, very similar in terms of how they approach the game. Now are we talking about the one you know between what undefeated and one of the championship versus Duke?

Because that team was unbelievable, grandma, Stacey, hard been, great Anthony, I mean, they were loaded. But in terms of culture, right, I mean, you've got to think of the fab five. I know they didn't win each championship, but they changed the landscape and how we thought with John Howard, Chris Weber, my boy, Jalen Rose.

“So culture wise, I'll go with the fab five, but I mean, you've got to remember if those”

running rebels teams, they didn't win each championship. Okay, but more talented. If I go starting five, fab five against the starting five at UNLV, I would probably

Okay.

Yeah, I would say the same thing, I mean, Larry was great.

I thought Stacey was going to be even better. You was good. He was good. But because of his length, you thought at 6869, yeah, 7 foot, 2 wingspan, but he was good in the NBA.

He wasn't great. He was good. A great Anthony had a good NBA career, but let's face it. Well, BethF, our team, Jalen Rose, was great. We know about C-Web, John Howard had a long NBA career, now coaching.

“So yeah, I think career wise you go with the fab five.”

Talking to Reggie Miller, the Hall of Famer, you know, I don't go out of my way to talk about the Lakers, but when they do something and they're winning and they're, you know, a game and a half up on Houston. But now, you know, if they get into the top four, now, you know, maybe maybe there can be a magical run here, but I don't know what's different in the last, you know, two weeks

or so.

They won six in a row and we've seen LeBron almost embrace that third wheel of, you know,

I'm going to defer. I'm going to pass. I'm going to let these two guys, is it that simple? Because they still have to play defense. It's that simple and you're right, at the end of the day, the defense will either do

them in or that'll be the defining moment for them.

“And I think they're starting to understand how the roles will be situated because LeBron”

was out for those few games, that's when they started this win streak and between Austin Reeves and Luca, they were carrying them offensively. Let's give Marker so hard a lot of credit. He's not getting enough. People are talking about what he's doing at both ends of the floor.

Defensively, he's been unbelievable for them. And on top of that, because of all the double team, you know, Luca and when Reeves drives and penetrates, him knocking down big times, three point shots, you know, when he was with Boston and when he was winning defensive player, he's, he almost is reverting back to that Marker's smart.

So I think guys were starting to understand, they're getting something out of the laundry, eight in the middle, something that we hadn't seen all season. So guys are starting to figure it out, but at the end of the day, they are the Lakers

“are going to be judged by their defense.”

And last night, how they played defensively in that win, on the road, in Houston, in a huge game with, you know, there's only a half game, a game separating them. I know they play again on Wednesday, which will be another big time game, but the Lakers

are starting to, there's always expectations with the Lakers in just like with Boston.

There's always going to be expectations to win. And we dissect every single thing they do, because one has 18 championships, the other one has 17. That just comes with a territory of playing with one of these blue blood NBA franchises. The SGA foul-baiting, you know, some players have brought this up as a player who did

this, and you know, openly admits that he did it, what does the NBA do about the way SGA plays if anything? I don't get it. I don't understand what foul-baiting is. We didn't say this about MJ, and MJ went to the line 10 plus times.

James Harden was in that same category, went to the line 10 plus times. Yannis, I don't understand this. You play the game, and you try to take advantage of whatever rules or how they're calling the game, games change from night to night. I know there's a general consensus of how you're supposed to play, but you have different

officials each and every game, he is not, would you call it rage-baiting, and rage-fowl-baiting, bow-baiting, every single night, that's it, he's attacking the difference, are some calls questionable, absolutely, but I just don't get it while he gets called out all the time. Last night, Jalen Browl has been, you know, calling this out all the time.

He's shot 21. Well, maybe he's learning from SGA, how to bait, then thank you, learn and adapt, learn and adapt. That's what you've got to do. Okay, I brought this up, and I got some criticism, that I thought that maybe SGA is

kind of a younger, tomorrow derrosion. Now, tomorrow derrosion has almost 27,000 points, not exciting, methodical, consistent.

And future hall of anger.

Yes, yes, now, we don't talk about anything else with SGA except for scoring. Nobody brings up passing, nobody brings up defense, nobody brings up any of that. It's just he is a bucket. He is going to score on anybody. And I thought, tomorrow derrosion has been doing this.

Now, he hasn't done it for great teams. Maybe not, you know, anywhere near the level of SGA is an MVP.

“But is that a fair offensive comparison between tomorrow derrosion and SGA?”

It's fair, but I will say this. He's just not a bucket SGA. He's been top five in steals. So he does play defense. He has a two way player.

Okay. And he leads this team in assists. So he does just should be the rock, but why is he getting all this hate to me? Well, that's not a hate.

That's not a hate, I'm just saying we always look at a comp.

I don't know who the comp is for SGA. We do that for all of these players. Now certain players, there isn't a comp, like Joker, there is no comp. Right. Well, if tomorrow derrosion is the comp to SGA, I'll just ask you this.

If you flip flop them and you put tomorrow on that, okay, C team, do they want to chip? Are they 54 wins right now? If you just flip them right now, are you even making a younger democracy tomorrow is a little bit older? Are they still waiting to chip with tomorrow?

And is SGA and is Sacramento better? Because they would be better, but they're not winning anything.

“But if tomorrow was in okay C, I think that okay C team is that good.”

That he wouldn't be, you know, another thing is SGA is a great closer. I mean, we haven't seen tomorrow derrosion in games where you go. Oh, tomorrow derrosion is a great closer to him. He just hadn't played in big games where we noticed it with SGA. We did see it.

Some maybe it is a, it's managed to compliment, but it's just because they're mid-range. They get to the hoop, nothing fancy, just it's kind of like, they just go about their business. And both are, are bucket getters, don't get me wrong. People need to understand, remember tomorrow derrosion when he was in Toronto.

When he was in Toronto, he was a straight bucket geter, and again, the whole trade for quiet, and he, he, he just hasn't been on the national stage long enough for people to understand that, but remember, 27,000 points in the NBA. Yeah. No.

You don't need to remember that. All right. Who surpasses at a bio? Yeah. Bam out of bio's 83 points.

Who can? Yes. How many players you think could get 84 points or more? I think Luca could. I believe at man could.

I believe a Jason Tatum could. The things will have to fall into place. And again, I know you and I were probably going to go there on this conversation with Bam. I talked about this Sunday night about small strut and bam.

The criticism kind of taken for how they got to the 83, your shooter, you were a score theodore. And a lot of Pauli as I'm talking to look this up. If you got 31 at the end of one, if you got 43 at halftime, I believe he had 70 early in the fourth.

Am I correct on that? Yeah. And 64 after three, 70 with like 9 or 10 minutes left in the fourth, are you kidding me?

“You have to at least attempt to go for it.”

By any means, necessary. Well, at that point, you can't accidentally get 64. You can't do it in a gimmicky way. Right. He didn't do that.

There was no gimmicks to the 64. So now from 64 to 83, that's where it gets a little murky or muddy. But I do not care. I know in the fourth, he was only like one of six from the field and most of those points came from the free throw line.

Correct? Yeah. No problem with, you know, the wizards of the ones who should be embarrassed. Thank you. Not bad.

I'm out of bio. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. And I did ask him this.

I said, did you think about stopping at 81 because your idol, Kobe had 81? He said, no. No. Because Kobe wouldn't want me to go for, no reverse, Kobe's blowing by 81.

And people think, you know, when I said that, that I was hating on Kobe, I would never hate

To me, it oblifts what Kobe did. Him getting 83. I mean, that's unbelievable for them to be one, too. We're not going to look at Kobe's 81 and forget about it. It was two totally different games.

Kobe needed every one of those 81. Yeah. In that performance versus Toronto, Bams was a little different, but in 5, 10, are we even going to be talking about that? We're just going to look at the stats sheet and say, oh my god, damn that obito had 83.

Cudos. 83. I know. Come on. But as he said, he goes, look, I didn't fit the agenda because I said, why does it feel

like you have to apologize for getting 83? And he said, because you don't expect me to get those numbers. And therefore, people have a problem with it like he had to do it in a gimmicky way. Right.

“And that's why you should almost reverse it.”

We should be celebrating him.

Like, oh my god, a guy that never ever gets the shot, it's been a great defensive player,

a great team guy, a rematter defender has a lot of gold at the Olympics for our nation. We should be celebrating them. Like, this is good. I don't care how you got it, damn. Congratulations.

Because you'll probably never ever have his career high was what? 41 times. Once. Yeah. So why can't we celebrate?

I don't care how we got it. He got it. Okay. But not to break that. Two.

I always thought if you were going to beat Kobe's, you had to be able to shoot the three. It had to be ball dominant. You had to be able to create your shot and the game had to be close. You had to be competitive. And so I see Luca as a guy who could go for that.

I can't. Yeah. I mean, he's got the talent to do it. I think they don't tell him shit's on that threes. Like, but you have to want to do that.

“You have to have a coach who lets you do that.”

You don't go out on the floor and go. I'm putting up 70 tonight. You just get into a rhythm where you go. All right. I got a good game going.

Look. And also too. I saw this. You know, Kobe at one time had a 60 point through three and was up big and shot. He shot out.

He shot out. Yep. Play Thompson. Had the same thing. He had 60 through three and was sat out.

I think a young Stephen Curry, a 28 year old Stephen Curry. Not 38. I think a 28 year old Stephen Curry in today's game. The way everyone's shooting. You know, how he the way he approached the game could get 84.

It's just crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy. But you look at the point totals.

Reg teams get 130 in lose.

“Do you remember in the 90s and early 2000s?”

Coach is saying, we can't give up 30 point quarters. 30 point quarters. That's.

You got four minutes left in the first.

One standard practice now. Standard now. Well, it for a while was first team to 100 or first team to 90. Lawler's law. Right.

Do a 100. That was bad. No. It's nothing. It's a nightly basis.

Cabs and the bucks. 80's turn on NBC and peacock. Thank you, Reggie. Good luck to your UCLA Bruins and the tournament. Let's go.

Men and women. Well, then we. All right. Let's do it. That's Reggie Miller.

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Oh, let's see. Let's see. You know, the jail and water trade that just went down about 45 minutes ago. Adam chef to reporting. Water traded from the dolphins to the Broncos.

And this is what's weird. When I said, I hope Malik Willis doesn't go to the dolphins. If they're going to basically rebuild. Like why why are you spending the money on Malik Willis. When I went ahead, when you were being the starting quarterback.

He doesn't cost me anything. And I wait until maybe next year to get a quarterback. Why might now Malik Willis isn't costing you a lot.

He's, you know, less than 25 million dollars.

He, I mean, he wants to prove himself.

“I don't understand the philosophy there.”

New coach, new GM. And my philosophy would have been I would have traded jail and water last year. If I could have. Like you can't sort of have asset. You got to, like, what are we doing here?

And if you're going to start trading away. You're, you're, you're going to cut, you know, tiricill and get rid of two. And okay. You're not winning with jail and water. Trading.

I think that's smart. It's just like Max Crosby with the Raiders. It's nice to have him. You're not winning anything. He can help you get draft picks.

And maybe they still trade him. Maybe somebody is willing to give you a similar deal. Then what the ravens backed out on. But the jail and water deal to Denver. That's a great pickup.

Yes, Marvin. Hopefully, he doesn't fail his physical. Ooh. Yeah. All right.

Two soon. Two soon. Sorry, Max. Two soon. All righty.

Uh, let me see. Meg and New York. I'm Meg.

What's on your mind today?

Hey. First time long time. Five, six. And let's leave it at that. I have a take on birth dates.

“I say holiday birth dates for notable birth dates can actually be really great.”

But like he said, Dan, it really has to do with the date itself. So, my mom's birthday. Valentine's Day. Fine. My sister laws.

Tax day. Not fun. And mine is a full day. So that could kind of go either way. But um, I like the attention.

So he's been a fun date for a birthday. Um, no one's ever really done a great prank. But that's okay. I'm a happy April Fool. Turned up 57 in a couple of weeks.

And I'm cancer free. So you guys, you're all ready. All righty. More importantly. All right, man. Yes, all right, man.

All righty. Thank you, Meg. Thank you for sharing. Uh, let's see. J and Syracuse.

Hi, Jay. What's on your mind? Howdy, Dan. Howdy, Dan. Howdy, Dan.

Howdy to be our geez. I, uh, what's up to Meg? Because Mike birthday is also April Fool's Day. I'm going to be a good boy. I'm going to be a good boy.

I'm going to be a good boy. I'm going to be a good boy. I'm going to be a good boy. I'm going to be a good boy. I'm going to be a good boy.

I'm going to be a good boy. I'm going to be a good boy. I'm going to be a good boy. I'm going to be a good boy. I'm going to be a good boy.

I'm going to be a good boy. I'm going to be a good boy. I'm going to be a good boy. I'm going to be a good boy. I'm going to be a good boy.

I'm going to be a good boy. I'm going to be a good boy. I'm going to be a good boy. Yeah, I watched it already. But thank you, Brian.

“That's why I got to the topic of that ABA ball.”

The NBA should adopt that. And we had a listener who sent in an ABA ball. The official ABA ball. And it's gorgeous. Plus, if you want to learn to shoot, learn rotation.

Having that red white and blue ball, it's great for that. Yes, more. You should bring this up to the commissioner. They should do a ABA night. A red white and blue ball.

Maybe the nuggets versus the spurs. To ABA teams or the paces against the spurs. ABA, ABA ball, old school. I'm going to give you a blue, blue, blue, blue. On that.

That's really. I think that'd be awesome to have an ABA night. It's a quad, blue. Yeah. Blue, blue, blue.

Yeah. I think it's a rare quad. Yeah. You pulled up. You're the, you're the, you're the, you're the quad god.

Yeah. Quad one win. You're the quad god. Yeah. Thank you.

I'd love that. Jeff and Dayton. Hi, Jeff. What's on your mind? Hey, Dan.

First time a long time. I will be at the first four games in Dayton tonight. Not the play in games. These guys have earned their right to be there. This time a year old is brings a two-fold question for me.

First, why do the max swax meax the world bother with the conference championship tournament? I can't believe they're making much money at it. And they end up sending their fourth or fifth 15 instead of their first. Yeah.

Yeah. You run the risk of that.

Now, I always talk about these conference championship.

Whether it's football where, you know, you might not be sending your best team. Because they don't win the conference championship. Certainly in basketball. But it, you know, it has to make money. Or they wouldn't be doing it.

Broncos are getting jail in water. Denver gets water. The dolphins fourth round pick in this year's draft. Miami receives the Broncos first round pick along with their late third and fourth round picks in this year's draft. All right.

So Denver paid. And hopefully Miami can do something with them. Is there this day in sports history, Paul? One of your favorites, Dan. 2005.

And we'll be players spoke at a steroid committee hearing the house government reform.

Mike McGuire, Sammy Souser.

Todd Wood, you learned today.

“Carlos Boosa told us with two hip replacements.”

Coach K. Once came into the Duke locker room doing a summer assault to motivate his team to attack.

It's a wild story. Sheet and what did you learn today?

“That house was Carlos Boosa's first big purchase.”

Yeah. Marvin.

John Smoltz was the WBC to be held midseason.

Paul. Venice, Dembo. Todd Woodard, I learned today.

“Darrell and Chicago believes Justin Fields will be a superstar someday.”

And he can't wait to say, told you so and everyone. Go to Danpatrick.com, you can take part in our bracket challenge. Have a great day, everybody. For Fritzy Seet and Marvin Pauli, yours truly. Talk to you tomorrow.

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