ARTICLE: Dan Patrick strongly considering leaving ESPN

[ThreeSportStar80]

michael smith is great

Yes, he does a great job...

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

I'll take boring over screaming any day.

Again, your opinion.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Again, your opinion.

Yeap, it's what this board is about.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Yeap, it's what this board is about.

Exactly... That's the fun part I guess...

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

ESPN bothers me a litte lately. I dont ever remember them even mentioning the AFL until they got the games. And they will barely mention things going on on other channels. Wont tell if a game is on TNT or something.

UFC, Im sure, is killing the AFL yet they never really mention it

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

The AFL is boring that's why...:laugh2:

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

Hey, wheres the clip of Dan Patrick getting pranked live on ESPN.

I guess they had to take it down

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

nevermind, here it is


http://youtube.com/watch?v=dWIamvQHgp0

 

[baj1dallas]

good, maybe they can replace his radio show with something more interesting than 3 hours of discussion of the yankees, dan patrick, and keith olberman.

 

[David276]

as long as he takes Jen Engel off the air with him.

 

[Stautner]

I love DP on SportsCenter. Can't STAND his radio show. There's more dead air and repetition in ten minutes of Dan Patrick than in an hour of almost anyone else in sports radio. He has some great one-liners, true. But his vacant pauses and the way he pounds every decent story he introduces makes his show as tedious as grinding teeth. Give me Eric Kusilius any day.

I agree that he is much better on TV. TV is more limiting - he gives the scores and throws in some one liners and uses his voice inflection to make it more interesting, but on radio he is more free to editorialize, which in his case seems to become more of a tabloid session.

 

[VACowboy]

...on radio he is more free to editorialize, which in his case seems to become more of a tabloid session.

He turns a 20-minute story into three-hour op-ed that's all about some stupid tangent he's taken off on. I don't mind non-sports interest stories that add fun to the show, but when every story becomes a viciously circular episode of Seinfeld, I get bored really fast. Other than that, and the volumes of air he sucks before repeating something he just finished saying for the tenth time, I hate radio hosts who think they're funny, and DP does.

 

[big dog cowboy]

DP on the TV > DP on the radio

Unless he gets "The Price Is Right" gig my guess he stays at ESPN.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

Let him go--bye bye

 

[jumanji]

i love the dan patrick show...i think it's the best radio show out there right now. keith and him together was gold and i like when both of them are on together.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Stephen A Smith sucks

 

[Bizwah]

Stephen A Smith sucks

I second that........

He makes me want to pound nails into my eyes when he speaks.

 

[dmq]

What I hate about Patrick is that he is always politically correct.

 

[silverbear]

I love the Dan Patrick show. I think its talk show greatness in the afternoon.

Hes hilarious and he has great sports discussions during the season.

I love the stuff where hes like "Mike Tyson just called in and said that guys crazy."

Or Ryan Leaf just called in and said that guys a bust.

Or Barry Bonds just called in and said that guys on steroids.

Or Bill Gates just called in and said thats guys rich.

I love big daddy dan. Radio greatness.

He and Olbermann together were as good as ESPN ever got, and there was a time when it was greatness...

 

[Sarge]

Seems everyone, player or otherwise, lets it leak to the public that they are 'strongly considering leaving' when their contract is up.

So predictable. The minute I read the thread title I knew his contract was going to be up soon.

Zzzzzzzz.