NYC Marathon, Suicide Prevention and more

The pre-show run down:
  The t shirt cannon that shoots out t shirts and the quality of the shirts that come out of it and go to the upper deck versus the lower deck was the topic. Would the lower deck have injuries from being too close to the cannon? Crappy seats get the crappy t shirts, better seats get better t shirts handed too them.

 
The video open:  A review of the new swag shirt size issues and struggles.

Hey! I give to you and you don’t give back!  Dan graciously doled out swag to the boys and did they wear and promote it in return the next day? No! What the heck dudes!

Cougar of the week:

Poor Fritzy. Dan has planted the paranoid seed and it just continues to grow each Friday. He gave Dan a couple of clues on his way into the box and the panic began to tick away in Fritzy’s brain. DP stood on the other side of the box door listening, which Fritzy figured out and the nerves continued to fray. This weeks Cougar was Angela Bassett, both stunning and fabulous. Post box, Fritzy was asked if he could go back and rearrange his cougar choices, would he do them differently? He did reply that we would have had Dan’s mother as one of the first instead of blowing it and letting Seton have her as a COTW when Seton did the COTW one Friday in place of Fritzy. Does he have charts and graphs to track his former and upcoming choices? This is just another mystery of Fritzy we’ll surely discover some day.
 
McLovin in the box:
In fear of what the question and surprise will be next week, McLovin decided to use his box time to brown nose the boss. "He’s tall, he can ball, surprised by his athleticism, more than just a talking hairdo, the greatest ever." How high is that pedistal you’re building for Dan to stand on?

In studio question:  Would you rather have unbelievable speed or jumping ability until the age of 30? I can think of more times I needed to be fast than high. You?

Cris Collinsworth:Did you know that he was a former state champion for the 100 yard dash and his daughter, Ashley, is a consecutive two time state champion of the 100m dash? Fritzy’s woes continue. Cris had to call in on a cell phone and the call was dropped twice. Number one preference is to have the guests call in on a land line but Cris had no choice as he had to call in while he was in transit. It took three attempts but Cris hung in there and made it happen.
What timing, the day after the big come to Jesus meeting and this happened. This is the meeting where McLovin’s name was the first and the last name mentioned. Dum da dum dum, Dum da dum dum dum!

Ashley and Cris Collinsworth

ATG:

The Against the Grain feature this week had two themes – I Will Survive, NFL coaches in the hot seat trying to survive another week. The other was the cold seat, a new term coined by McLovin, who thought this was brilliant because no one else would say it was. This is a coach that doesn’t have to worry about their position. The segment on a whole got off to a rocky start and stayed that way. All you needed to do was read Dan’s strong glances of disapproval and the shaking of the head. McLovin continued on, looking for Dan’s approval, "You’re with me am I right?" No validation came his way, not even a response. Dan just told Seton to hit the music. At the end, to just say are you done? Toast, well done. Paulie thought the audience was disappointed that Fritzy didn’t sing the intro song, I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor, because he was afraid to hit the high notes since his hospital visit. Fritzy gave it the ol’ college try but it was less than glorious.

Do you stay or do you go now?

Matt Lauer appearance:

Dan had stressed many times during the show his feelings about going ahead and running the NYC Marathon. His final thoughts were, if you insist on doing this, make a positive of the event. Use it to raise funds and increase awareness even though the route will not go through the areas most impacted. Should it be used as a source of inspiration as McLovin had thought? Lauer didn’t think so. He understood the business as usual, show your strength approach and the effect of a business revenue of an estimated 300 million. With 19 people dead in Staton Island, resources already being stretched to their limits, generators being used for the race instead of other areas without power, food, water and gasoline needs, it just didn’t make sense for the Mayor to not postpone the race and to bring in people not able to help the needs they already have.

  BREAKING NEWS: IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT THE NYC MARATHON HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE CLOUD OF CONTROVERSY AND DIVISION THAT HAS OCCURRED AROUND THE EVENT.

As far as going ahead with the Giants/Steelers game – Dan wished that the NFL would give some more breathing room and play it Monday night instead as a dual event with the already scheduled Monday night game. Matt didn’t know about the logistics involved with moving the game but thought that the NFL had made other arrangements like that when the snow storm damaged the Minnesota Vikings stadium, which they had. Maybe the NFL will do the same and move the game to Pittsburg.

Too old to be a receiver?

Matt Lauer had pushed for the concert telethon on the NBC Universal networks and found that artist support came more easily than he thought. The telethon, Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together, will air tonight at 8 pm EST on the networks of NBC Universal: NBC, Bravo, MSNBC, CNBC, E!, USA, NBCSN, G4, Style, Syfy and HBO will be participating as well. Other networks were invited to sign on. Procedes will go to the American Red Cross relief fund for Hurricane Sandy victims.

Stop inviting me to your things!  Dan is getting close to running out of excuses as to why he can’t/doesn’t want to attend any of McLovin’s personal events outside of work ie: wedding, baby shower, other miscellaneous parties. Today Dan used what was probably the last excuses he had: I have to work Sunday and I can’t drink beer I have to work. God bless McLovin for continuing to try even though he gets shot down every time.

From yesterdays big meeting: Fritzy’s questions had once again become out of line during lunch and made Dan uncomfortable and it takes a lot to make Dan feel uncomfortable. McLovin possibly didn’t leave a tip, but took money out again. What do you know, McLovin’s mic was not on again during this look in. Another $1 to the Passion Bucket.  
Not your typical sports show because they are family:  The Arcade Fire Friday tribute went to Brent Smith, bartender from the Seven Seas (I hope I got that right) that Dan has known for many, many years who committed suicide. Dan could barely get out the words and the Danettes kept their eyes to themselves as Dan made the announcement then left the room to collect himself. This isn’t the first time Dan has shown the deeper side of his emotions ie. child molestation, Hurricane Sandy, and more. As life happens, I’m sure it won’t be the last. This is just one of the reasons I love Dan, the Danettes and this show. I didn’t know you Brent, but God rest your soul.

If you or someone you know has any thoughts, no matter how minute about suicide, please seek help. For confidential help, please, please contact the Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
  No matter what problems you are dealing with, they want to help you find a reason to keep living. By calling 1-800-273-TALK (8255) you’ll be connected to a skilled, trained counselor at a crisis center in your area, anytime 24/7.

If you feel you are in a crisis, whether or not you are thinking about killing yourself, please call the Lifeline. People have called them for help with substance abuse, economic worries, relationship and family problems, sexual orientation, illness, getting over abuse, depression, mental and physical illness, and even loneliness.

No matter what problems you are struggling with, hurting yourself isn't the answer. Call 1-800-273-TALK (8255) to talk to a counselor at a Lifeline crisis center near you.

No matter what you are dealing with or how much emotional pain you feel, there is help out there. It might not be easy to ask for, and your problems won’t magically go away, but in time, things will get better.

www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org

Coming Next Week:Seton pays off his Tigers/Yankees bet.
 
Dan will reveal a bombshell, probably rhetorical question, guaranteed to rock at least two of the Danette's worlds.  Casey tried to break Dan down and give it upduring Boss’ Thoughts but was unsuccessful. The man is a rock!

Dan has a big surprise to help make up for the question. 

Let the guessing begin!

Two full days of fun, fun, fun

Back to my normal position today and ready to go!

What got Dan to where he needed to go after the storm? His handsome Dodge Ram Truck. High water? No problem. Tree limbs in the street? "Dodged" them. Downed power lines? Drove right on by. Big winds? Never felt them in his solid, heavy duty Ram and never heard them in the insulated cab. Space to pack up your stuff and go? The cargo box of this baby gives you length, width and depth plus the box side wells give you tons of room. Wait in line for gas? No way! Dan always felt safe in getting from point A to point B in his Ram and his truck showed it. The 2013 Ram gets 25 mpg highway.

DP in his beautiful Ram 1500

 
From Wednesday: Fritzy had his beloved Halloween sports related names. Basically, this is the same list he’s had since 2002. He always says something along the line of, "I thought we could have some fun with this" to get them on the show. These are sports names that can loosely fit into the theme of Halloween. Because this is the same ol’ same ol’ Paulie didn’t even put it on the morning run down after Fritzy’s pitch. Not satisfied with Paulie’s decision, Fritzy proceeded to send it to Dan in an email. Dan still wasn’t going to go there and Fritzy knew it, so when Dan created an accidental opening, Fritzy was right there to jump in and start rattling them off managing to give the whole list. My new favorite line from Dan: "Did I stutter? Did your ears flap?"

McLovin’s Halloween outfit worn to the studio yesterday wasn’t much different than his everyday Ellen outfit that he wears other than he substituted a vest for the V neck sweater. Worked his Ellen dances moves again. Lovin it! Now had he added a short, straight, blonde wig, now we’re talking! Looks like McLovin didn’t shower this morning – baseball cap day.

Additional Halloween tid bit: There’s a long standing rivalry between Seton and his wife at home. Seton is a Yankee apologist and his wife is a Red Sox rocker. Seton took his son trick-or-treating not understanding the costume his wife put Kieran in. Seton thought it might be from Where the Wild Things are and introduced his son as a green monster. He was close. His son was "The Green Monster" the nickname for Fenway Park’s 37’ high left field wall. Smoked!

The Green Monster leaves right handers shaking in their cleats
photo courtesy of @himynameisseton

Dan often wonders why they don’t give the SI swimsuit models suits that fit. Is there a shortage of material? Seton questioned if it was due to the economy. Sure, yep, that’s it, the economy. That morphed into how would you feel if your wife were in the SI calendar? Everyone would be thrilled and thought it would be an honor, yet Dan held back knowing how guys like them had the thoughts they do about the models. The older Dan’s daughters have become, the more we hear him say things along that line. Good dad Dan. But hold the bus, Dan loves the John Belushi peeping Tom scene from Animal House. By the way, did you know that the SI swimsuit models love McLovin? Not for his good looks or intellect. Because they think of him as one of the girls. Won’t that suck the testosterone out of your system.

Poor girls the economy has robbed them of their material

Fritzy's current obession with Hayden Panettierre is really getting creepy. Dude, drop it already Creepy with a capital C. Here’s a previous Celebrity Beach Bowl snip it: JLo was once escorted by Fritzy during the CBB but didn’t get a chance to do his awkward 3 second "Hmmm" hug because her burley body guards were surrounding him.

Fritzy just can't get enough

In the boy that was close category:
Seton and Fritzy were playing with Seton’s current favorite toy, the zippy yellow football. Seton was in the wrong area of the studio doing Hall of Fame catches and the ball got away from him knocking over Paulie’s picture of his late father on a motorcycle holding Paulie when he was little and the Father’s Day mug that Paulie got from his two girls. Fortunately there was no harm to that foul. Seton’s guilt of what could have been went with him to his the box appearance.

Little Seton isn’t so little any more - How do you gain weight while you’re in the hospital –
Paulie offers up his sister to give Dan shrinkage
No, that last part just didn’t come out right. What do all of these things have in common? New DP gear is in just in time for the holidays and it’s photo shoot day before wing sauce hits the front of their shirts. Fritzy, after being in the hospital for almost two weeks, not only had food snuck into the hospital but also felt he had to make up for lost ground once he got out. What does this mean? Another shirt size up. Latest nickname for Seton, Mr. Tubby, since he no longer can wear medium swag without it snuggly fitting over the stomach. He also struggled mightily trying to get off a smedium pull over. It was like watching Houdini escape dangling upside down out of a straight jacket. He did strike his best male model pose for us today. Work it babe! Paulie’s sister loves how Dan looks in green. The polo shirts that came in were all in XL, too large for Dan. So what did Paulie do? Offered up his sister to do some shrinkage, laundry shrinkage that is. Side note: The Passion Bucket earned another dollar today during the swag look in thanks to…….. you guessed it, McLovin. Mic not on, you loose a buck. I wonder how much he has contributed since Dan instituted the Passion Bucket program.  DP merchandise is available at: www.danpatrickgear.com  The brand, brand new stuff isn't on the website yet. 

Stay cozy and warm like Paulie with this stadium blanket
available on the website now

Did you know: Dan was featured prominantly in Brad Paisley’s video, I’m Gonna Miss Her (the fishin’ song), that won the CMA Video of the Year award.  Unfortunately, Brad didn’t prepare an acceptance speech because he didn’t think he would win and left Dan out of the laundry list of people he thanked. Side note: Brad’s wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley is now eligible for Cougar of the Week and as Fritzy says, she’s hangin’ in there nicely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwRrKaq0IyY

Big meeting today at Buffalo Wild Wings after the show in preparation of the network addition of NBCSN was announced early in the show. Maybe they want to have Seton bring back his favorite lines – dude, sick dude and balls dude or Fritzy’s porno pictograph. Plenty of time for Fritzy’s neuroses to be at it’s fullest by the time they get to B-Dubs as he was talking about it already during his box appearance. Growing pains can be painful. Time to air it out and come to Jesus!

More reasons to watch:Dan got a shipment of That’s My Boy videos at the man cave for future audience give aways. How to win TBA.

A Box Score to Remember: During the Phone Booth segment Fritzy went to Fritzyland recalling a past dalliance he had. Now we know why he is so adamant about doing the Cougar of the Week segment. He was once a boy toy to his own Cougar, Simone, who it sounds like made Fritzy the sexual being he is today. Thanks a lot Simone. Paulie ran away, McLovin hid his eyes and Seton could not stop laughing as Fritzy shared his story. Keep it coming Fritzy!

Mid-reaction to Fritzy speaking of his personal cougar Simone
photo courtesy of @Kid67y

 

 

 

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Concert: NBC Universal will host a benefit for Sandy victims on Friday at 8 p.m. ET. Money collected will be donated to the American Red Cross relief efforts.

 

Continued prayers to the victims.

Ridin' out a side effect of Sandy

Mike Florio from Profootballtalk.com and NBC sports all things professional football, coming from the snow covered mountain regions of West Virginia, informed us that there would be no DP today. Although the efforts were valiant, Paulie and crew were not able to resuscitate the old boy. Although we love Mike, it just wasn’t the same. What effect did that have on America? Here a just a few examples:

• Housewives discovered how dirty their homes were, but decided to leave them another day in case there was no Dan two days in a row.
• Deliveries were delayed due to lack of focus on finding addresses and following directions.
• Parents rediscovered all the things about their children that they hope they’ll grow out of, soon.
• Production slowed in the work place as Dan helped keep workers motivated and they discovered how bad their jobs really were.
• Students were not able to study, as school was not as exciting as it once was and homework was truly tedious.
• Restaurants over cooked food and undelivered in service.
• Gas stations refused to sell gas for less than $4.00 a gallon.
• Grocery stores only sold organic foods.
• Burger joints became vegan bistros.
• Bars only had non-alcoholic drinks.
• Scores girls put their clothes on.
• Most importantly, no other sports show could stand up to what Dan provides his audience five days a week.

Milford Mancave safe and sound

Come back Milford fiber optics!
Come back Dan and Danettes!
America needs you!

Continued thoughts and prayers to those dealing with Sandy's aftermath -

Dear Sandy: We may bend but we will not break

Today’s dilemma:

First and foremost - I wish nothing but prayers of safety and recovery to those affected by Hurricane Sandy.  What I have seen on the news is amazingly devastating.

Sandy’s coming over and she has an attitude. Your question if you’re Dan and the Danettes is where do you want to hide from her. One location was taken out of the equation when they decided to do the show from Milford instead of NYC. Let’s face it, it may have been tricky finding nearby, grade A restaurants today. You would need to drop down the beds in the NY mancave also, which might lead to some questionable sleeping arrangements with Nick and Artie there too. Do you go home, hope you can make it back to work the next day, or stay at home and call it in? With today’s technology you can also email, text, fax, Twitter or Facebook it in. Do you hang out at Dan’s house watching Monday Night Football and have a Red Hook slumber party? Do you go to the Milford mancave picking up reserves on your way there? At least you would be in your normal Tuesday home away from home. Decisions, decisions. We’ll have to tune in tomorrow to see how it all turns out.

  
Today could be an opportunity for the three Danettes that made it to work to practice their Weather Channel stand ups. Here’s the picture: The wind is blowing hard trying to push you backwards. You’re getting pelted with rain that’s so hard and cold it feels like cement. You’re holding onto your mic with one hand and the hood of your rain soaked jacket with the other. Meanwhile your cameraman has strapped himself to a small tree with bungee cords and your producer is crouched on the ground holding onto one of your legs praying that the two of you don’t blow away. All you can think of is the sooner you get your spot done the sooner you can get back in the news truck that you can see parked at the curb. All of this just to do it all over again at the bottom of the many hours ahead. You’re also plotting on ways you can torture the in studio anchor, who is warm and dry, when you get back without leaving any evidence. And………….action Danettes.

Here’s a walk down memory lane: Remember when Matt Lauer from the NBC Today Show went to the female reporter on live remote who was sitting in a row boat talking about how bad the flooding was in some town? The camera shot went wider to show two men wading in the water about ankle deep behind her. Did you say to yourself: "What the @#%*?!?" That reporter and station lost a bit of credibility didn’t they?

Waiting on the edge of my sofa to see if I’ll be watching a new edition of the Dan Patrick Show Tuesday or damage coverage.  Praying for the safety and recovery of those affected by the storm.