Stacey Dales

Last year, two mays ago, they closed down the LA studio for SportsCenter.

It was sad because that crew was so great.

Love working there.

Neil Everett, Stan Verrett, and everybody in production.

And then, you know, that's when I started thinking about, okay, maybe, you know, the writing's on the wall here.

Maybe I should listen to the universe and carve a new path.

So that's when I started thinking about it.

But it took me by surprise, so I didn't want to do anything sudden.

I wanted to do it on my timetable as well.

One of his catchphrases.

But that's who I remember most.

He just made me feel so at ease.

And full disclosure, so did you, Dan.

I mean, when I was still in Seattle, the great Gary Miller got you on the phone with me.

We had a great talk.

you really let me know hey a lot of the women before you didn't really do great probably just robin you know type of thing but um it really helped me so um the first sports center with chris he welcomed me and i just didn't want to screw up you know i just wanted to stay in my lane not upset the apple cart do as i'm told and and just you know try not to stumble but i was a little nervous

yeah and and thanks for those nice words dan and yeah that did mean a lot because you're honest and that's how you are you're genuine and you know i've always adored you i always tried to like look up to you uh because the way you did sports center of course now you know doing this amazing successful dan patrick show that you've done for a few decades already um but when you did sports center you just talked to people you weren't shouting you really weren't you were connected

And to me, that's what it was all about.

As you know, like I always use this term, but it's not overused for me because it's the truth.

I'm a fan first.