The New Dan Patrick Show: The Facts, Dan, just the Facts
Hawaii wrote in The New Dan Patrick Show: May Your Passion Bucket Runneth Over:
I thought it was a great interview too (I even bothered to recap it which I seldom do, though that was partly for former fellow Big Show recapper Gilbert’s sake).
While I do feel sorry for the guy over the betting pool, I would think someone who is a head coach would know better than to EVER bet on any sport at all. So I can see why the NCAA took issue with it - after all, these coaches are part of a small system of top athletic programs. But Neuheisel ended up getting $4.7 million, so his defense must have been decent.
The stuff that Reilly wrote about is just a perfect example of rules run amok. Sometimes you have to wonder if common sense just doesn’t factor into some people’s lives at all.
BTW, I like your really cool snowflake special effect (despite that the first day I saw it I thought something was wrong with my monitor :P).
The snowflakes are a special effect provided by the nice developers at WordPress. It was scheduled to end on the 2nd, but here it is the 3rd and the flakes are still falling. When spring training starts perhaps they will provide a shower of little baseballs to float down on the screen.
I thought that I had mis-heard DP on Wednesday’s show when he said that Johan Santana doesn’t want to play in the National League. The Mets are desperate for a front-line starter and everything I’ve read has indicated that Santana would like to pitch in New York and prefers the Mets to the Yankees and the Red Sox. (Presumably to get out of the AL and its silly contrivance called the DH.) I just listened to the download of the clip and — yup — he said it at 18.22 into the first hour: “Well, Santana doesn’t want to go to the National League!”
Au contraire!
I’ll chalk it up to too much celebrating over the New Year’s holiday, but DP is dead wrong. I checked MetsBlog (the best source for Mets news), the New York Times, Newsday, the New York Post, the Daily News, Sports Illustrated, and ESPN just to see if I had missed any breaking news. None of them report that Santana doesn’t want to go to the NL.
Get your facts right, DP. Boy, if KO was still on the show he’d have straightened Dan out.
Also mentioned on the Wednesday show: DP and his sidekicks College and a Beer mentioned a possible road trip to see Led Zeppelin at Bonnaroo. Maybe Dan can fit it around the road trip with Lou to major league baseball parks across America.
I swear that while I was reading your post, the snowflakes suddenly stopped. Timing is everything. :)
Yes, I am sure KO would have set DP straight. Though this is certainly not new for Dan to make mistakes. I have listened to shows in the past where I have heard him contradict himself within the same hour. Unless it involves a favorite sports figure or team of mine (as it might with you and Santana) I try to look at it as part of the show’s charm.
Speaking of the “Beer”, from all the Google searches that led people to Palaver I realized he was the old DP Show producer up up 2005. Including some of the Dibble era (all pre-KO I think).
DP once did the ESPN show from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and that was particularly good (Peter Gammons was asked which HoF he would prefer and I think he chose baseball, but it was a great discussion). It would be an awesome idea if they did the show road trip style for a while (ballparks would be a great idea!).
Okay, what I really came over here to say before I got distracted by all your interesting posts (Biddean year, indeed!) - I can’t figure out why your avatar won’t show up. Our blogmamma can’t either. I thought initially it was us but Gilbert - who uses WordPress - posted and his showed up. Let me know if your avatar shows up on other sites or when you comment in your own comment section. If it does I will send a query to WordPress.
Comment by hawaii — 3 January 2008, Thursday @ 10:29:19
Don’t take the Mets thing personal. DP makes mistakes on my teams. He’s on live and working without a net. Since he has staff now (two guys to shoot the bull with, besides guests) he must be bringing in more $. Maybe they have enough for a road trip.
Comment by Karl — 3 January 2008, Thursday @ 17:16:07