2012 MVD Results, CDOTY, Wing Winner & More

        Moments in Sports 2012

Deep in thought, Roger Penske

Since this was the final show of the year, the overall show topic was what was the 2012 sports moment, either on or off the field of play. Everyone had something that was special for them, either positive or negative. I’m staying positive and recognizing Roger Penske, who was finally able to obtain a NASCAR Cup Championship after being in the sport for 39 years, with driver Brad Keselowski, crew chief Paul Wolfe, the Miller Lite crew and Penske Racing shop. They were the only Dodge team, the last year in the sport for Dodge, Penske relied on their own engines and didn’t have an engine failure in any of the 39 total races they ran in 2012. Have you thought of what was your 2012 sports moment? Maybe it was something negative that happened. Maybe it was something positive. Was it something that stayed within the game? Or did it transcend to the mainstream? Was it a milestone? Was it something that was trending or something that touched you in personal way?

BK making his owner and sponsor proud

Wing Winner

The contest winner for the Buffalo Wild Wing Bowl experience was a former Air Force veteran of 6 years who served as a mechanic, Carl Allen from Tucson. The bowl game is at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, AZ December 29^th. No need for airfare, he plans on doing the hour trip as a road warrior. While there he’ll get a chance to meet the man himself, DP. Congrats Carl! Hope you have a great time!

BDub Bowl - where cheerleaders are prickly

           He Doesn’t Need a Dog

Appearance tag for the dog-less

The Mothership doesn’t take kindly to any of its talent interacting with Dan or the Danettes whether on the air or off. That makes Michael Wilbon’s courageous appearances on the show even more special. How he got the hall pass I don’t know. He must know something that no one else does to be able to pull it off.


            Dan’s New Year Wish

Similar to the scene at the studio  this morning

                                            Actually, he has two wishes.  One - loose the use of the phrase "high motor". It’s worn, it’s old, there has to be something else out there. Two – a new roof for the building they’re in. Mother Nature took her fury out on the building the studio is in and damaged the part of the roof that’s near the portion of the desk Seton and Paulie share that holds the audio control board Seton operates for the show. At one point Dan heard "I need a bucket, I need a bucket, I need a bucket!" I wasn’t because Seton was hung over and sick from partying the night before, it’s because the tainted rainwater was dripping from the roof and splashing onto the console. Seton sacrificed his body shielding the equipment until help arrived.

   Dan’s Mom Comes to Celebrate

Fill trophy with above, consume and repeat

We were treated today to an abbreviated visit by Dan’s mom. No time for stories today. At her advanced age, she’s still known to knock down a few beers and was going with Dan and the boys to celebrate at Bdubs after the show. Dan had said before that at an ESPN party one time his mom had a couple of mind erasers just because someone said she should try them. Love it. Dan’s mom also doesn’t have a filter. Dan told her the night before that she couldn’t give a shout out to all of her friends on the radio. What did she do? A Merry Christmas shout out to all her friends. She also told Dan he had four really great guys that worked for him. She is Queen of the Danettes. No wonder Seton picked her as COTW when he filled in for Fritzy one week. She was after Dan during one of the breaks for being so serious and Dan decided to do a word wrap around the word serious claiming he wasn’t but admitted to his mom there are so many moving parts and that he was very lucky.


Long Ago in an Attic Far Away

Climbed the stairs 5 years ago
to the top of the heap

Dan reminisced about how five years ago when they were doing the radio show from the attic in his house he was on the edge of filing bankruptcy or having to mortgage the house to keep the show going. There were times he didn’t know if he could make payroll for the guys. Paulie would ask, how we doin’? Dan would say good and then turn around and tell his wife, I just lied to Paulie. You could still feel some angst in his voice recalling the past.



2012 MVD Results

Although Dan swore only he and his mother knew the results, Jay Glazer scooped them by calling in and announcing the results for both MVD and CBDOTY.

#4 Andrew "McLovin" Perloff - Andy took this award the second year. Then his desk mate ran away with the next two years. The back row magic seems to have faded. Although McLovin continues to gain national recognition, there have been problems: failure to create poll questions, more downs than ups in his Against the Grain segments, not showering, then showering at work and not using his own towel, too many hat days and too many contributions to the passion bucket for having his mic off are just a few examples. The final blow came when he didn’t take home his Christmas gift from Dan or the tie he so needed to borrow. When asked to move the gift he clumsily dropped it under his side of the desk. So close, yet so far. McLovin’s motto for 2013, every day is the Pro Bowl. Much more attainable than every day is the Super Bowl like everyone else.

Maybe if he wrote his piece while drinking his sponsor
the segment would soar

#3 Todd "Fritzy" Fritz - What kept him out of making this three years in a row? Hard to really tell, but here are a few ideas: One too many mock headline clunkers? Too many visits by the IT guy from down loading porn? Cougars of the Week that were really Alley Cats? Routinely leaving COTW material in the fax machine? Hmmm.

Would more grit equal more glory in 2013?

#2 Paul "Paulie" Pabst - Five years in a row at the runner up position. As Paulie says, C’s equal degrees. Paulie is a sure and steady soldier keeping the arms and legs of the operation moving. Breaking the picture of Dan with Jennifer Anniston and Adam Sandler that was above the fireplace and not saying anything today surely didn’t help. Maybe if Paulie can find true joy in doing the show in 2013 he can become MVD. But would that mean he would need to loose his Meanest Danette title to do so?

If only Paulie could really enjoy himself
(fake, fake, fake, fake smile)

#1 Patrick "Seton" O’Connor - This Danettes willingness to share: share stories, share photos, share info and share the spotlight with others in Stat of the Day must surely have rocketed him to the top of the Danette heap this year. Add to the list: Wearing underwear outside of his jeans in public, Tiger suit and face paint day and getting his wrist inked live on the air were all unique contributions. Congratulations Seton in receiving the trophy and dedicated photo for the next 12 months. Seton gave his speech from the heart and off the cuff. The highlight was when he used the words of Sally Field: You like me, you really like me!" 

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MVD Winner Recap

Paulie for 2013 MVD
Campaign needs to start sometime!

Seton 2008

McLovin 2009

Fritzy 2010

Fritzy 2011

Seton 2012

Paulie 2013???

Inaugural Comeback Danette of the Year

Fill, consume, repeat

No count down here, just flat out announcement of who won the award. After being disappointed by not winning the MVD, one Danette clinched his fists, closed his eyes and tightened his body in anticipation of hearing his name for the last award. When he heard his name called he leaped for joy and pumped his fist in celebration. The winner was….McLovin. McLovin was prepared whether it was MVD or CBDOTY with his words written down and ready to go. Wearing his navy suit coat and Dan’s tie, he thanked his two girls, the same two that the day before he said ruined his life. Too funny. He was awarded a large gold         trophy cup filled with Bdub wings that he didn’t eat although Dan kept encouraging him to do so.


Note:  Dan and the boys won't be back live until January 2nd. 

Sponsor Unplugged, Pleasure & Guilt, Keep Your Hands to Yourself,

             Sponsor Unplugged

The jersey's in a moving box somewhere

LaDainian Tomlinson from the NFL Network has something that Dan wants, but the NFL Network had something they wanted in return from Dan. The problem is, that wasn’t put on the pre-interview notes that were given to Dan. Dan didn’t really get what he wanted, LT’s Vikings jersey that was previously promised and not delivered, but he did get a very good interview. The NFL Network didn’t get what they wanted, at first, the plug for the Melissa Stark interview with Mike Shanahan, Redskins head coach, that will be airing on Sunday. The interview is over, guest says goodbye, move on and that’s it. Not quite. Fritzy was contacted by the network unhappy that the promised plug in exchange for getting LT was not done. Fritzy relayed the message to Dan during the break and rightfully so, Dan expressed his displeasure with Fritzy for not following through and getting that information into the notes. Dan does not take lightly to being made a fool when it comes to professional obligations with established relationships. So they return from break and Dan back pedals but it comes off looking more like a commercial than a casual plug built into the interview. Thanks Fritzy.

How could Fritzy forget Melissa!
Shown here in a visit to the NYC man cave

Uh, It wasn’t in the Mail

It's not easy being Nick Taylor

When you’re having a party, do you talk about it with the people you invited in front of the people you didn’t?  Dan made that social blunder today in talking about the upcoming staff Christmas party that Dan and his wife throw each year since leaving the Mothership.  One of the cameramen, Nick, @Nick Tay Tay, told Casey he was upset he wasn’t invited.  Casey in turn sent an email, and then Paulie told Dan.  So Dan hand delivered an invitation to Nick in front of someone else Dan didn’t invite, Cosmo, the bald cameraman.  Awkward.  Wonder if Wild Bill got one?  Don’t feel so bad guys.  One year Seton didn’t get an invitation either.  Lots to look forward to – Fritzy, sadly no chunky oatmeal Christmas sweater this year, leaving early, Seton getting there late, Paulie getting there early for a good start on the premo food, and McLovin shadowing Dan all night to see if Dan is talking about him.  Good times. 

Three years in a row and out.  Goodbye chunky oatmeal Christmas sweater!

Keep Your Hands to Yourself 
Everyone knows how cherished the Notre Dame locker and contents are to Dan and Seton. But not everyone respects the locker. When questions were being asked by Dan as to who was playing with the memorabilia, McLovin suddenly said he had to use the bathroom and rushed by everyone and out the hallway doors. He didn’t rush off to the bathroom though. Instead he rushed through the green room and into the back room to hide and watch on the monitors what was being said and done after he left. Weak sauce.

Peek a boo, I see you!  Whatcha doin'?

Pleasure and Guilt

Spicoli?

One of Dan’s pleasures is watching Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Is it because of Phoebe Cates? Maybe. Or is it because of pop culture icon Spicoli, played by Sean Penn, and all the awesomeness his character embodies? Maybe. Ok, it’s both. When you feel you need to quickly change the channel to an infomercial so your daughters don’t know what you’re watching, that’s a guilty pleasure.

Or Linda?
And ....reveal

        

The Man Can Ball, Happy Holidays....I Think

The Man Can Ball

Who’s got big man game?  Brian Baumgartner, Kevin from The Office, has big man game.  So much so that he’s on the NBA 2K13 Celebrity League with the likes of Justin Bieber.  Now the big man showed his stuff on his network show when he shot thirteen in a row from fifteen feet out, as well as going four rounds against Terrell Owens in a celebrity three point contest before losing to T.O.  Who doesn’t have game?  Leslie David Baker, who plays Stanley on The Office.  Too many donuts, not enough baskets.

He's looking for you

In character, Dan asked Kevin (Brian) to tell us who he thought was the funniest person in the office. His choice was Dwight, played by Rainn Wilson. The more “Kevin” talked, the more Dan lost it - face turning red, turning away from the mic and rocking in his chair.  Will Michael Scott make a return before the very end of the show?  Brian doesn’t think so.  Steve Carrell was proud of how his character was written off of the show and DP doesn’t think they should bring him back for just the sake of bring him back like so many other shows do when they have their final episodes. Former characters, who no longer have a reason to be there, show up just to say goodbye again.  Dan did slip up in the interview, but only once, by calling Brian, Kevin during the time on the air.  Poor Brian put up with much worse than that from Dan when they were all in Dallas for the Super Bowl and Dan only called him Kevin and not his actual name.  Bet that happens to Brian a lot.


Happy Holidays! …I Think

Dan received a Christmas card from David Letterman/One Direction that read: Have a Rockin’ Holiday!  No word if the card was personally signed or if it was a mass printing sent out to the laundry list of 2012 guests on the show. Does this mean that Dave is no longer ticked at Dan?

No more harsh feelings or just a name on a list

Photo-bombing Dan, Rush to Error, Up High!

McLovin Does It Again

Congratulations McLovin! Awful Announcing named McLovin’s Harlem Globetrotter ball spin on the finger, in the box, where he knocked off and broke his glasses then reached for them on his face like they were still there as their number ten of twelve Awful Announcing’s Top Twelve Bloopers of 2012. Keep up the good work Andy! Footnote: McLovin tried to recreate the moment in celebration of the recognition by AA and was unable make it happen. Par for course. Try to do something and can’t, try not to do something and do.

Did it one, did it twice (in NYC), third time not a charm
www.awfulannouncing.com/2012-articles/december/top-12-announcing-bloopers-of-2012.html

Up High!

If Adrian Petersen, from the Minnesota Vikings, reaches out to shake your hand you may want to think twice, no matter who you are. Adrian is becoming known for his hand crushing handshakes, just ask John Lynch’s ten year old son. Show no mercy no matter what. Go up high, go for knucks or risk your metacarpals.

Goin' up high and with knucks

Rush to Error
Dan has been an enormous fan of the band Rush for many, many years. Something he’s had wrong all this time is the pronunciation of the drummer’s last name. He received a gift for the man cave, a pair of beat up drum sticks that were given to a fan of the band, who is also a fan of the show, by one of the band’s techs. With the drumsticks came a note explaining that the name of the drummer is not pronounced Pert like the shampoo, but Peert like there is an ear sound between the P and the T. As hard as Dan tried, he just couldn’t get it right after saying it wrong for so long. Dan didn’t say either of the ways above. He was now saying Peart like the fruit with a T. Oh, Dan. So much for your chances of getting the NSSA Sportscaster of the Year this year.

Not the shampoo

Sounds Like Cereal
Sven in CA called in with his Grudenisms which really only one fit the category: Bunch crunch toss play. Can’t you see it? You pour from the open box this funky bunch of nuts and flakes coated in goo. Slop on the milk. Toss it with your spoon. Play with the masses trying to soften it up so it won’t break your teeth. Finally, put a spoonful in your mouth and bite down making a large, long crunch noise. Yep, that’s where Gruden got that line.

Bunch crunch toss play

Caller You’re On The Air

If there were awards for the fans that call into the show, who would receive them this year? Shae in Irving would receive the Come Back Caller of the Year after a lengthy absence from the show and then coming back in 2012 with each call he made sharper, snarkier and funnier than ever. Congratulations Will Ferrell, ahhh, I mean Shae! The Caller of the Year, make that years, is Chris in Syracuse who had called each and every day, even when there were guest hosts, as well as to The Box Score until circumstances beyond his control have kept him away. Congratulations Chris and We Miss You! Shae and Chris, your awards are in the mail. No, not really, that wasn’t true, but congratulations anyway!

Caller, you're on the air

Photo-bombing Dan  
If you had watched the movie, That’s My Boy, with Adam Sandler, Dan and yes, the Danettes, you may have noticed that Paulie was the most prominent of the Danettes. So what was his secret? His boyish good looks? His natural ability to convey a message without saying a word? Crazy acting chops? No way! It’s his ability to stand close and sway from side to side of Dan during Dan’s camera shots. So crafty, so Paulie.

Dan channeling John Laroquette
backed by the Danettes, Paulie at his side 

Believe in your smell homo erotic pornament inside job

Inside Job
Did you catch The Insider last night with DP Show friend, Kevin Frasier? Did you notice who the second most featured face to Jim Parsons was on screen? It was the person who broached The Insider production team and told them what angle they should be filming Jim Parsons. That person was none other than Mr. Andrew "McLovin" Perloff. The person who can not keep up with the direction of the show he does five days a week was trying to direct a cameraman from another show. Those other people McLovin works with? Oh, those are tech people that usually work in the back. Really??? Too bad he didn’t come up with a better way to display himself, such as his jealousy towards the visiting Danette for the day. Paulie received criticism from the home front, close friends and family, who saw The Insider segment. They thought Dan and the Danettes were good on TV and should be on TV often. So some of them aren’t sports fans, but Paulie’s still your friend or family member, tune in once in awhile and see what he does! It’s only live 15 hours a week, replayed in full 15 hours a week, available in condensed version 10 hours a week and has a follow up show that is live five times a week and replayed five times a week. P.S. This show, if you haven’t been told before, is more than sports.

Former Mothershipper KFraz

Believe In Your Smell

Green Bay Packers, Greg Jennings, will take whatever Old Spice has coming as long as they’ll have him. He remarked that the advertising team is so fun and creative. They’ll throw one thing at you, if they don’t think it’s good enough they’ll toss in something else. Hey! Let’s do push-ups on the beach with a Jet Ski on your back and a hot model riding the Jet Ski! Yeah! Good thing Greg’s Santa, his wife, doesn’t mind. Greg knows who’s the boss. It’s not the quarterback, Aaron Rogers, choosing who to throw to, it’s the woman who shares his home and bed. Smart decision Jennings. I believe you’re smellin’ good.

Good thing this didn't slow Jennings down

MVD To Be Awarded Friday
Dan’s mom will be in studio on Friday and present the MVD, most valuable Danette for 2012. We love it when Dan’s mom visits and the Danettes ask her questions about Dan growing up. When it was announced that she was coming Seton’s eyes got big and a smile grew on his face. It’s a sure thing Seton will have at least one question to throw her way. New this year will be a second award, Comeback Danette 2012. This will be given to the Danette who came back from a not as stellar 2011. This person can be the same person who gets the MVD or it can be someone else. The wheels are turning, the plotting is occurring, can one of the Danettes pull off a last minute act of greatness to change Dan’s mind in either or both categories before Friday? Dan has said that the come back award could be considered a participatory award and that it has something to do with the back row and right. But who’s right? Dan’s or the back row? Does that mean the award goes to that person in the back row or that they were just involved in the person who is getting the award in getting it? Does McLovin regret not being more creative and inspiring in his poll questions with these honors coming in just a couple of days? Should Fritzy not have reused some of his mock headlines? Friday can’t come soon enough.

DP's mom doesn't need a dog to join this group

Homo Erotica and Pornaments
Picking up on an idea stemmed by Paulie, Fritzy may have a branch business, pornaments. With Fritzy’s twisted, runaway fantasy imagination and porno viewing experience this could be his break out moment. He was jotting down ideas as they were coming to him before the show was out. There was a viewer sent ornament that McLovin picked out today that was Dan Vader, a take on Darth Vader from the Star Wars series. On the ornament McLovin is dressed as Princess Leia on the ground holding onto Dan’s leg. Freud line 1, Freud line 1. Add to that tomorrow Dan will be brining in at McLovin, or supposedly McLovin wife’s, request the candy cane stripe tie that Dan wore on FNIA Sunday and will also be wearing today at the taping of Turning Point for NBCSN. Is McLovin holiday lovin role playing on the way or is there really a holiday party McLovin will be wearing this tie to? Throw in that McLovin is still using Dan’s shower at the man cave daily and not using his own towel…. creepy. Plus, what’s all this kissing Dan’s boo boo and making it feel better stuff?

This would be Sigmunds look after 5 minutes with the Danettes

Could Have, Would Have, Should Have
There was a bit of an emotional bruise that Fritzy shared in his box appearance today. He now had wished that Jim Parsons had ventured into his mock headline territory. Parsons had done a little of what the other Danettes had done but not Fritzy’s areas. The other Danettes were able to coach and take pride in Jim’s performance of the areas that they gave up to him. Fritzy doesn’t have warm and fuzzy feeling today. Inside he’s left a little empty. Whether it was territorial or possibly time constraints, Fritzy will probably step up and hand over a few mock headlines to the next visiting Danette for the day before the others take advantage of that opportunity again. By the way Fritzy, bravo on your mock headline come back today.

Who will be the next Danette for the day?

Remembering Grown UpsJim Boeheim, the Syracuse Basketball Head Coach, had made use of the media coverage of his 900^th win to express his views on gun control in the wake of what had happened at SHES. Before his appearance on the show today to discuss the win and using the media pulpit, Dan had expressed an opinion of his own. It wasn’t about gun control, it was about teachers. The teachers who have and practice those things to try to keep the children in their care in the schools safe. Naturally much of the focus has been on the children who had died in this tragedy but Dan wanted to also remember the teachers that lost their lives trying to protect those children. After that Dan had the relief of being able to go to commercial to regroup.

Missing a Semi-Final Game

Missing a Semi-Final Game
Monday was one of those days, and nights. One of those times when circumstances took what would have been the normal ability to view or listen to The Dan Patrick Show, and took most of that away, for just one day. In relationship to the events that have affected us all, in one way or another, from Newtown, CT, this was quite minor. But what I realize now, that I hadn’t before, is that this show was a form of escape from the seriousness of the every day world we live in.

DP Show shows respect to Sandy Hook Elementary School victims

I was so looking forward to this day’s broadcast. I considered it a special event, somewhat like a semi-final playoff game. Making contact with the show, whether by ear or eye, was too few and far between. When able to listen, or catch a glimpse of the show, I was gathering small three to five minute pieces of a large three hour puzzle and trying to put them all together. So frustrating. By the late, late evening I was finally able to grasp at larger segments of what had been, but was so tired that comprehension in putting the bigger picture together was a mental skill that was lacking. Why didn’t I anticipate that there could have been the slightest possibility that this could have occurred and recorded the show? This would not have been one of those days when I was snowed in, had a dead battery or a flat tire with a bad spare or even needed to have a bathroom available and near by. Nope, it had to be one of the busiest and inconvenient days.

Dan always says, make every show the Super Bowl. Dan’s Super Bowl will be the final show where we hope to learn all those things he and Paulie have told us they can’t tell us until then. So that would make this particular show a semi-final play off game. What made the airing of Monday’s show so special? There was a well known celebrity, who considered himself an everyday fan of the show, who was going to be able to come to the studio in NYC and be a Danette, if only for just a little while. Something that as fans of the show, all of us would embrace. What made this celebrity, Jim Parsons of The Big Bang Theory, more connectable was a little insight as to who he was prior to him joining Dan and the Danettes and that his physical appearance helped us visualize the guy next door or maybe ourselves. He wasn’t a pretty boy or possessing a physical talent that the every day man, or woman, couldn’t obtain. He’s relatable. He’s a guy that could be mistaken for any other guy, especially a geeky city or mid-western guy.

Jim Parsons, every man
Plaid flannel and a t shirt, the Danette winter uniform

He told his story on Jay Leno of his love of football, joining a fantasy football league, and his morning escape while getting ready to do his job, the escape being The Dan Patrick Show. The way he spoke about his sincere desire to be an unpaid intern for a day and what that would mean to him made so many of us say to ourselves, yeah me too! The joy and enthusiasm expressed in his face, body language and voice when Leno reminded him that Dan was part of the NBC family and maybe there was something that could be done was worthy of watching and hearing more than once. Parsons reacted the same way that the rest of us would to such news. It was almost as if it was Christmas morning for a small child.

From the bits and pieces that I was able to put together, Parsons slid into the chair mid-back row and fit right in with the group just as we hope we would. He took a stab at twitter, against the grain, stat of the day, five good seconds and a box appearance. Quite noticeable was no attempt at cougar of the week or mock headlines. Possibly his awareness of Fritzy’s possessiveness of this territory and high sensitivity level was front and center. Because this was the NYC man cave, Parsons was able to leave a photo booth remembrance of his visit. Parsons was as smooth Monday as we would hope we would be able to be in the same situation. Parsons’ one mistake, in his excitement in packing to come to the show he left his contribution for the Milford man cave in California, a script signed by the cast of his show.


Merry Christmas Jim Parson. Hope this was all you thought it would be, and maybe more. I don’t know how eventful and exciting Jim Parsons’ life truly is, but I hope, from a DP Show fan’s perspective, that Monday’s experience ranked up there in his top ten experiences as this would have been in most of our top three.

It's not the foreground that's interesting,
it's the jealous background that is.