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After a brief discussion about the Lakers and the NBA Draft, Dan confirms reports that he has been contacted by the Price is Right to audition to replace Bob Barker.

Dan is flattered, and is intrigued by the idea of working with Barker’s Beauties. If Bob got in trouble at times with the beauties, would kind of trouble can Dan get into?

Keith, as usual, plays the role as topper, and says that while he was still a sportscaster in LA, he was asked to audition for the game show “Your Face or Mine”, which looks like it was never made in the U.S. (But was in the UK for a while.)

Dan is honored that they asked him, but he hasn’t auditioned yet. I doubt he will, as when he mentions the possibility of it the rest of the show, he sounds like he’s in his sarcastic voice. What do you all think? Could Dan really leave ESPN for the Price is Right?

In a hopefully unrelated note, Dan says there will be a big announcement on Tuesday at 2 p.m. ET that will change lives. My prediction: The Big Show will be rebroadcast on ESPN on days Dan is NYC with Keith. Obviously, the announcement has to do with both Dan and Keith since they it comes during the Big Show. Other possibilities: Expanded Big Show hours? Or god forbid, less Big Show?

Dan jokes about being a co-hostess of The View. Keith calls Elizabeth Hasselbeck squeaky annoying. Dan then raises the possibility of Rosie O’Donnell coming to MSNBC. Keith says a Rosie show would make him look conservative.

Dan and Keith mention it’s the 10th anniversary of their last Sportscenter on ESPN. Keith says his strongest memory of that was during the break before the farewell, when the producer asks Keith to shorten it to 5 seconds for a tennis score. Keith said no, and thanked a lot of people instead.

Dan: Greg Oden, the No. 1 pick of last night’s NBA Draft, looks older than LeBron James.
Keith: Greg Oden looks older than Robert Parrish.

Dan lifted the seat cushion on Letterman the other night because of confetti that fell before the show.

Keith thinks 3,000 hits by Craig Biggio will be more impressive than Frank Thomas’ 500 home runs, because the steroid era will diminish everyone’s accomplishments. Keith points to Dale Murphy and Andre Dawson as examples if players not getting into the Hall of Fame because of not getting to milestones like 500 homers or 3,000 hits.

Greg Oden joins the Big Show in the final segment. Oden says Joakim Noah’s outfit works for him. I guess Oden’s right, because Noah is crazy and so is that outfit. Oden woke up about two hours ago. (It’s 2:50 pm ET, and I assume he’s still somewhere in that time zone, since the draft was in New York. I am by no means a morning person, but isn’t a 1pm wakeup time kind of late?)

Dan and Keith then discuss franchises that were/are Mickey Mouse organizations. Keith brings up the Clippers, Lions, and the original Mets, Dan suggests Buccaneers, Cardinals, Yankees??? and Indians. All fit except for the Yankees, who may fit on this list soon if they keep having seasons like this one.

Watch Countdown tonight. Dan guarantees you’ll laugh, cry, and may throw something at the screen.

I was quite surprised that Keith seems to have forgotten about being touted at one time as a possible host for the Fox game show Greed. He made it sound as if he never considered another game show offer after Your Face or Mine, but that’s not what his history tells us.

Dan Patrick on The Price Is Right? That would be weird indeed.

As for the big “life-changing news”: Well, I too assume it involves Keith, as those are the exact words Dan used when announcing Keith would be on his show every day. I can’t picture him doing two or three hours of The Big Show instead of just one, though. Then again, with the way he loads up his schedule, who knows?

I can picture Dan and Keith being put on TV at The Mothership again, but then again, Keith implied on Letterman that his complete and total ban from the campus of The Worldwide Leader (the Olbermann Fatwa?) is still in place. Thus it does seem most likely that if Dan ‘n’ Keith are making a return to TV, it’s from New York. Given the amount of time they’ve spent lately discussing the anniversary of their last show together, that would make sense.

But then you have to question the timing of their Letterman gig. If they had a new show to flog together, why wouldn’t they want to go on AFTER the formal announcement, so they could flog it?

Is a puzzlement. I guess we have no choice but to wait and see.

Oh, god, thank you for that link to the page with Noah’s outfit, gilbert; I read “YOU LOOK LIKE EVERY BATMAN VILLIAN ROLLED INTO ONE” and laughed so hard I had to put my head down on the desk.

I CAN HAS COLLEGE BASKETBALL?

I’m still so dead-amused over Keith and Dan’s Letterman appearance. I was wee when they were both still on television together, so my memories of The (Real) Big Show mostly involve footie pajamas and staying up too late to watch the show whenever Syracuse University made the highlights. It was a real delight to see them reunited on television, however briefly, and it’d be wonderful if they could somehow swing joint TV appearances as a regular gig.

…any way for Countdown to start including a sports news segment? Athletes are kind of like celebrities, and hey, if we have to sit through eight minutes of freakin’ Michael Musto rambling on about Paris Hilton because someone thinks that’s news, I think that entitles us to a solid six minutes of commentary on The Yankees. That’s news.

This is obviously an announcement involving both Dan and Keith; the use of the word Big with each mention is evidence enough.

I think it’s one of two possibilities: Keith comes on to the DP show full time, or Dan and Keith are going to start filming a show together for ESPN TV.

I don’t think that Dan will be doing a spot on Keith’s show because of the content of the show. Keith’s show is political commentary, and not a standard news show where people can tune in for a sports segmen - I don’t think it would fit. I don’t think that Dan would take the Price Is Right job either simply because it’s not sports, it’s the Florida of broadcasting where someone is going to go to die on television like Bob.

My guess is a new sports talk show on television with both Dan and Keith. I’m thinking something like PTI with both of them, maybe in a more conversational format, but definitely some type of commentary on topics. Both are also great interviewers, so a hybrid type show like Jim Rome’s wouldn’t be a bad guess either.

Your kid at NYU, that link was to Deadspin, probably the most popular sports blog on the Internets. They provide gems like that often.

KO said he reads Deadspin too in an interview he did a while ago.

I have a bad feeling about this annoucement thing. They seemed less enthusiastic about it than the anouncement when Keith went to 5 days. They said stuff like “it will rock your world” and nonsense like that. This was much more subdued. I wonder if ESPN won’t be using Dan in some other way come the fall, which will end the Big Show. I certainly hope I am wrong. No Big Show would seriously ruin my commute. :(

A couple of years ago, when he first went back to sports with Dan, Keith tried doing a brief sports segment on Countdown that went nowhere. That doesn’t preclude Dan joining Countdown in some capacity - not necessarily sports - on at least an occasional basis.

I doubt Keith could commit to doing a full show every day, not with his current work load. A once-weekly television thing might be a possibility (with Dan coming down to the city for it), but again Keith’s current full schedule might make that a long shot.

I’m inclined to believe, however pessimistic it might be, that Dan’s radio show is coming to an end - or at least Keith’s participation in it.

I don’t know if anyone saw this, but a video clip of Keith’s final moments on SportsCenter is posted on the DP radio show front page.

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