Dan Patrick: The Farewell Tour (xi) - Doug Gottlieb, this one is for you

At the end of the first hour of Monday’s show Doug Gottlieb said that Hank Aaron played in the deadball era. I almost fell out of my chair.

(Like I almost fell out of my chair when I saw Rick Peterson sans jacket during Sunday’s Mets-Dodgers game. Wow, talk about a disturbance in the Force. I’ve been trawling the Internets searching for a photo; I can’t believe no one captured this event for history. Peterson without a jacket during a Mets game is an extremely rare occurrence, something on the order of Halley’s Comet visits to earth. It was a real shock to MetsNation to see Peterson that way — practically naked — although the way the team came back to win that game give us pause to consider that perhaps he should go au naturel more often.)

The deadball era in baseball was from 1900-1919 according to KO’s pals at SABR, although others consider it to be the period from the very beginnings of baseball until around 1920. Basically, it was a really long time ago. OK, so Doug’s not a Baseball Guy, but he is a Professional Sports Broadcaster Guy. I’d think he’d know a pretty basic fact like that. It’s one thing to not like Stephen A. Smith’s over-emotional on-air persona or Colin Cowherd’s nasally whine. But a misstating a basic fact is outrageous. I won’t hold it against you forever, Doug, but for this transgression you get a song on DP’s Farewell Tour.

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Come on, Doug. You’re better than this. You’re one of my picks to replace Dan. You have big shoes to fill.
(Though maybe not as big as KO’s ….)