Last Friday Dan Patrick teased us with a bombshell announcement to be made Monday. We're in the second hour and so far nothing, not even a teaser. Perhaps he's waiting for the end of the show.
I've got to get my twins ready for pre-school. If anyone hears the announcement, please let me know.
Last time Dan Patrick teased a big announcment, he wasn't kidding. He left the Mothership to go to Fox and then NBC.
Today he said he has a "Ten on a scale of ten" announcment to make this Monday and said it's "awesome." Whatever it is, he didn't have it planned. He said he got the info twenty minutes into this morning's show.
Apparently, the Dannettes don't know what the secret is; in fact, Dan Patrick offered one of them $500 if they could guess what his bombshell is.
The best Dan Patrick caller, Chris from Syracuse, finally called in after a hiatus that had been over a year. Vaguely stated personal problems have kept Chris from calling. But Chris suggested he'd be calling again.
Dan and the gang were ecstatic. Dan Patrick even said he'd had a recent dream that Chris was back, which was weird because Dan has no idea what Chris looks like.
Interesting to look back at these prognostications (Dan Patrick didn't think Olbermann was going to the Mothership) several months later.
With the first 2 wks of his popular new show under his belt, Olbermann appears to have settled in quite nicely at-- hey look, it's ESPN!
He won't have some of the headaches with management that Patrick had because, for one thing, Olbermann doesn't need the money. He's doing this show for fun and viewers are responding positively to Olbermann's new-found cheerfulness and celebrated knowledge of sports.
If the show has one drawback, it's that the network keeps inexplicably moving its start time. But viewers seem to understand that's not Olbermann's fault as they patiently strive to find the show every night.
Talking about ARod and other athletes busted for PEDs, Dan Patrick this morning explained, "It all trickles down," meaning athletes inflate their stats with drugs, command big contracts, resulting in higher ticket and cable TV prices.
So much for the argument that the athlete is only hurting himself.
I saw Harry Edwards on Jim Rome on Showtime argue that we are in no position to judge athletes
for using performance-enhancing drugs since we’re all drug addicts, taking our
coffee, aspirin, wine, sleeping pills, Cialis, etc.
I concede we medicate ourselves with all those
things, including TV and sugar, but if we say everything is a drug and make a
moral equivalent to all “drugs” we consume, then the idea of “drug” and
“addiction” become meaningless.
There must be a scale or hierarchy in which we
determine magnitude and application of a product and how we use or misuse it.
If, for example, an organization says an even playing
field is produced by banning Substance X, then that substance is illegal and
can’t be compared to coffee.
In these kinds of arguments, I find inflexible moral
relativism as useless as inflexible moral absolutism.
Today Dan Patrick said Keith Olbermann would be better suited to the MLB Network, not ESPN, where it is rumored that Olbermann is trying to get his job back there.
Patrick said he wanted to make it clear he himself would NEVER attempt to return to "The Mothership," as he calls ESPN with a certain ironic disdain.
Patrick made it clear that most of ESPN employees are fine people but a few producers "behind the scenes believed they were bigger than the talent and you can't have that."
"I outgrew the Mothership and they outgrew me so we're both better off," he said, in my attempt to capture Patrick's words as good as possible.
Regarding Olbermann, Patrick said he was "too polarizing" for ESPN and while he'd provide them "good buzz" the buzz would be short-lived.
For the record, I'm a huge Dan Patrick fan, have been for 25 years, so you know whose side I take.
At different points of Dan Patrick's radio program, first co-host Seton and then Dan Patrick used "sociopath" to describe Lance Armstrong's personality as he attempted damage control on Oprah.
The competitor in Armstrong, Patrick said, is the same fuel behind Roger Clemens and others. These men cannot save themselves from themselves.
This morning Dan Patrick says when he worked at the Mothership (ESPN), he and the others were under strict orders to never use Deadspin as a source, but he explained that ESPN is crediting Deadspin for the Manti Te-O Hoax story evidencing how big the story is.
Update:
After Dan Patrick's intro, he had on Deadspin reporter who speculated that ESPN knew about the hoax before the Notre Dame game but didn't report it because "corporate politics" dictate that the games' ratings on ESPN come before any breaking and distracting news.
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