From today’s edition: The show comes to you from the Milford, CT man cave on Tuesday through Friday. The DIY network Man Caves show with Tony Siragusa and Jason Cameron originally created the man cave. The décor has grown by leaps and bounds but the bones of the renovation are still there. The traditional theme music is played with different city scenes featuring Dan and his 2012 Dodge Ram Truck on the streets around Milford in either day or night. The exploration of what’s new or what’s been moved or changed in the man cave since the last show is always a hunt. Many times Dan reveals an addition during the show or on a look in, but not always. Today Dan showed the Sony Watchman that a viewer sent in. He reminded viewers that he appreciates receiving things that mean something to someone but there’s no guarantee he would ever be able to get it back to you if you wanted it back. Also, please don’t send anymore food. Is someone gaining pre-holiday weight? Take your time and look around the man cave. Is there something that caught your eye? Does a pumpkin need to be orange to really be a pumpkin? If it’s white, is it a gourd?
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| The DIY Man Caves when finished with the man cave |
These guys love movies. Not just your action flicks but pop culture movies as well. During the topic the too snappy dialog and too many off the cuff speeches used in movies like Breakfast Club, Easy A and Newsroom were determined unrealistic. Movies need to have real life dialog like they have on this show where after something smart is said you get a dumb, slow, bad line retort and an atmosphere of tension, competitiveness and back stabbing.
The video open:
Reminded us of the back sliding and comeback of the back row yesterday – Back Row Backslide: Fritzy blowing a tease, McLovin throwing the football out of control then running a lap where you see him doing the lap carrying the football in the parking lot across the street from the studio, where Dan parks his truck, and waiting for traffic to clear to come back across. He has some of the goofiest running in place I’ve seen. This is just one of the shows bizarre ways of justice, running laps. As Dan has said, they can hurt each other, just don’t hurt my flat screen. But when does someone retaliate and it’s no longer funny? The Back Row Comeback: McLovin had a great line – If Mike Trout eats the trout fish, is that cannibalism? This resulted in a walk off, fist pump and umbrella swing for the bleachers in the green room. Mike and his fish are seen below.
Mike Trout and his fish
The poll of the day:A Seton special: Who has a better (personal) thing going? Justin Verlander or Barry Zito? Dan felt it was a lame question and went for Zito – quantity over quality although the audience went the opposite direction. Pretty sure the Mothership won’t steal that question for their own broadcasts. The poll question was then replaced with: What is your favorite white guy cliche?, Another question that ESPN will probably pass on as well since they are guilty of using those clichés.
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| Justin Verlander and Kate Upton |
Play of the Day:
Seton played yet another Yankees highlight with John Sterling to take a look back since there wasn’t really anything on last night. Come on Seton, weak sauce. Take it like a man. Your team is out, Tigers are in. Hope you have your preparations complete for paying off your bet next week.
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| John Sterling, New York Yankees announcer |
I Team Report: Six blocks away from the studio a major motion picture is being filmed: After The Fall. Paulie snuck over to the set to sneak a peek and was kicked out.
"The Box" (The show confessional done at the top of the second and third hour):
As Paulie was going into the box the question of sending Fritzy over to the movie set to check out the actresses was presented. Wouldn’t that be a disaster in so many ways.
Look Ins:
Dan will be on the Jimmy Fallon show on Thursday. Why? This is what his son asked and no one else knows why either. Surprised by the booking, is this because of the big announcement coming up? Who will he be guesting with? What will he be doing? Fallon is known for having his guests do crazy things. Dan isn’t good at beer pong and Jimmy is too good with his musical imitations to do anything musical either. On the side: Jimmy was in London for the Olympics and Dan thought after meeting him he was younger and taller than he seems on TV. The other guest will be Julianne Margulies, a name Dan sometimes has problems pronouncing. Could the booking on Fallon be a set up? Yesterday this was a back row buzz kill by Fritzy. Fritzy took a couple of big hits yesterday with a mock show title of Good Strife versus Good Wife, and also his suggestion that Dan and Julianne reenact a scene from ER with Julianne giving Dan mouth to mouth – creepy. Dan brought up his upcoming appearance in the broadcast, as he does much of the look in conversations.
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| Jimmy Fallon thinking of things for Dan to do Thursday |
Andrew "McLovin" Perloff:
McLovin really showed his stuff today with his evaluation of first year mobile quarterbacks in their second year performance earning the praise from Dan he always craves.
Dan Patrick:
Tim McCarver was on the show and Dan was able to give his compliment from yesterday regarding McCarver’s call of the third inning in game seven of the NLCS. After the compliment Dan was fishing for one of his own: "Now you say something nice about me." Somehow Dan thought he was in a mutual admiration society of broadcasters – "Come on, give me a carrot!"
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| Joe Buck and Tim McCarver |
Todd "Fritzy" Fritz:
Fritzy was also in the box today. Dan’s a little disappointed. It’s the least involved Fritzy’s been in the show in maybe a year. The subject matter had been pretty serious and Fritzy wanted to be careful in what he said. Dan admonishes him because he would mean he would need to do some work to find his way into the conversation. It’s not as easy to do that with serious subject matter as it is to make a mock headline or email pictures of women to Dan. Fritzy took offense to Dan taking a shot at him, and admitted it’s been hard to find the right groove to weigh in on the conversation because there’s no comedic inlet. Fritzy misses the levity from yesterday so its back to the drawing board to be able to contribute to the broadcast. Fritzy only continued to dig his hole deeper on this subject during The Box Score. Oh, Fritzy. You’re smarter than that.
Mock Headlines:
Wayne in WA called one in, ok in its effort. Sven from CA called in three – two solid hits and one ok effort.
Additional show nugget:
Red Hook update: After the show the gang must continue to sample more beer today. Such an arduous task. "Gotta drink beer today guys!"
It’s not just your regular sport show: True or False –
In high school, the football coach was going to take the All American quarterback on the team and make him a receiver so Dan could play quarterback, but Dan decided not to play because he didn’t like the act of being tackled.
The Box Score Tally (BST):
I wonder if Casey Geraghty, who’s like the nosey neighborhood kid, is leaving the show after being it’s host for the first year. Each day this week there has been a slight made that may indicate that this may be happening. No official announcement has been made, I think. If so, Casey, I wish you all the best in your new direction, but what will become of Dr. Von Beardy? I can only hope my deductions are wrong.
Further BST:
Regular caller, Chris in Syracuse asked about slow sports days and if the wives have something for Danettes to do when this happens. Paulie’s wife, Dana, has learned how to read the college football rankings and will question when Paulie is watching a lesser game. Seton’s wife, Erin, is giving him a little post season baseball flack for still watching baseball since his Yankees and her Red Sox are out of contention. McLovin’s wife, Sara, just wants him to turn off Gossip Girl so she can watch some college football. Sad.
Box Score I Team Report:
Was it McLovin getting the granola out of the back of his teeth? Something Seton did? No! It was Fritzy eating lunch on McLovin’s side of the desk! Not a lot of room over there with the notebook, phone, keyboard, Blackberry and all. "I’m neat, I clean up after myself" Fritzy said in defense. Would it be acceptable to you if your coworker ate their food at your desk while you were away?
So, what did you learn today?
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