Eric Stephen on Testing Issues in MLB, Replacing Price, Closer? + Geek News

FnA Podcast with Kevin Figgers and Adam Auslund. Eric Stephen comes on to talk about if players feel safe in MLB, what seasons Kershaw and Seager will have, is Jansen the closer, crowd noise and more. In Geek News the fastest car in the world and highest price video game.

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talking about the fastest car in theworld and it's Alan car, not the
de Lorean. Would that go eightyeight. We never know if it went
faster, it had to hit us. But no, it had to hit
a certain speed before it bumps somethingand then it sent things into a tizzy.
Right, but a long time.We'll have to get Brian Seemen on
the show to find out more aboutBack to the Future. Then they say

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it was the greatest movie of alltime. Yeah, that's his favorite movie.
Yeah. I don't want to hateon that. I don't either.
It's good it started, I meanback to the good it's a good trilogy,
the third one. Yeah, it'snot the best, No, but
it doesn't not embarrassment like Ninja Turtlesthree. Oh god, we're like and
they also went back in time.They did. That's right. Should have

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stayed right here, closer to April'splace. So let's talk about fast cars.
And also in your video game factof the week, the highest selling
video game of all time. Itjust happened very recently, like this past
weekend. We'll tell you what gamethat was and how much it ended up
going for a Mario Tennis is verypopular, so is it? Yeah,

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what system was that for? Thevirtual boy? That was the virtual boy
that made people get seizures? Andgo blind. Yeah, but those games,
it was so good it was worthalmost dying. Yeah, not not
quite. The most frustrating was MarioGolf that I couldn't stand. That was
that was as frustrating as real golf. Wee golf pretty fun, it is,
yes, we golf, even TigerWoods Tiger Woods Golf that he had

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for a while, which I don'tthink they've made for a couple of years.
Those Golden Trcade games are very popular. I never played him seeing him
never actually never actually played him.Even Arcade one Up, which we've talked
about before. That's a company thatmakes old school arcade cabinets, but they
scale them down a little bit andthey pack in more games. They have
one for Golden Tea which has likefive different Golden Tea games on it with

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that little track ball. Yeah doyou need? Do you own it?
I don't. I want the NBAJAM one, right, which did?
I think? It just came outvery recently. Unfortunately, my funds are
a little bit low an expense likethat. Yeah, that makes sense.
I'm gonna get it though. Becauseyou can play online, you can play
against people online, and it's fourplayer. It has NBAJM tournament edition.

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It has hang time on it.They should. I don't play video games
like that, but if they broughtNBA JAM back like a modern edition,
I do It'm playing for sure.You're right with updated rosters. Absolutely absolutely
coming up here in the first segmentof the show. Oh, we have
voicemails on the back end of theshow as well. Let me get to
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us and just comment on things thatwe already talked about. It can be
nice, you know, if youwant. Didn't hurt. Last show we

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did an NBA three We had rapnews involving that wasn't Wilson Smith. Will
Smith was two weeks ago. Therewas an update on the will Smith story.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Woman Again, the TI called
out fifty cent for our versus battleand then he said fifties trash, I
want jay Z And then fifty centgot involved with Will Smith on Instagram,
controlled his ass something fierce my attemptto be humorous. So it was funny,

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man. Maybe we'll get into thatlater this week though possibly maybe maybe
there'll be an update. Maybe they'llbe an update. The update if you
guys aren't aware of the Will Smiththing with Jada Pinkett, they Jada did
have a relationship with August Helsina,but it was at a time that Will
and Jada were separated. We wereon a break, yeah, the old
Ross and Rachel. Yes. Soso that that's the update on that,
and maybe some more will trickle outabout that story later this weekend. We'll

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get into it in rep news.Will's not looking so good. He looked
like he had the Corona face,you know, yes, but even within
even within that, Will still lookpretty great. So they're but they've been
back together for at least a coupleof years. Okay, So, because
did we even know they were separated? No, there are rumors that they

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were having oh issues in their marriageand they're separated. But then people are
like well, no, they taketime apart all the time. This is
part of their special relationship. It'snot like Slange and the Elevator jay z
No. But but like they had. You know, Jada does her podcast
with their kids, and I thinkWill was a guest on it, and
so they sat down and talked aboutit and all that and talked about how

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they were separated at the time,and he hurt her more emotionally than cheating
on her physically, and that's whythey separated for a bit. She justifies
getting her back blown out. That'swhat fifty Cent said in a private chat
with Will Smith. He set himup and he actually made Will swear so

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many cuss words. Fifty Will Smithwent straight wows on him. Yeah,
we're coming up here. In thefirst segment of the show. We got
baseball. Yeah, baseball getting startedhere at the end of the week.
Can't you believe it? And ifyou're if you're in Los Angeles listening to
our local our station, here afive seventy l A Sports first game exhibition

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game will be broadcasted on Sunday onour air, So look forward to that
here. Nope, So so wegot it. We have baseball getting started
here, and the Dodgers are backat their workouts facility or at Dodgers Stadium,
getting their workouts in, getting anice lather, getting ready for the
season. And of course, oneof our friends, one of the best
friends of the podcast who goes veryin depth with the Dodgers with SPI Nation,

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member of our Pro Baseball Writers ofAmerica, going to join us here
in a second to break down everythinghappening with the Dodgers in camp as baseball
gets started. At him, AlanDragon did thank you guy. Well,
we are a little over a weekaway from one of the greatest rivalries in
all of sports opening up the MajorLeague Baseball season. And no, I'm

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not talking about the Dodgers versus theGiants, but the Astros versus the rules.
So we're bringing on someone who wasalways above reproach and justified in his
baseball analysis, who never cuts cornersto back up his well formulated opinions.
He's a baseball writer for sp Nationand True Blue LA. It's Eric Stephen,
King of Baseball Info. Follow himon Twitter at Eric Stephen with a

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pH where you'll read thoughts from aman that sounds like he has a PhD.
In MLB, Eric, how areyou very good? I should pay
you to do my interest. Thatsounded awesome. It made me fired up
to listen to me. That's thetrick gets people coming back. You know.
It's also homage to Petro some money. They started it, they did

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it first. Let's trying to bitea real show, all right, Eric.
Last week a handful of teams canceledtheir workouts because of testing issues.
Do you have faith Major League Baseball, which was late on testing for other
things back in the day, isgoing to get their st together and make
players feel safe out there? Sothere, I think so, But like

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I think there's gonna be hiccups alongthe way. I believe the Washington Post
and maybe the and the New YorkTimes had articles and The Athletic as well
over the weekend about certain teams usinglike alternate testing sites like to sort of
expedite some of these tests because youknow, in reality, the the whole

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league, all thirty teams using thesame lab in Utah and expecting like twenty
four hour turnarounds on these every otherday tests, like that's putting a lot
of strain on them. And Ithink MLB and mlbpas are they're trying to
like ease that, like maybe gettinga second lab scene reported, but teams

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are starting to use other other facilities, and then it gets you get into
the ethical question of now, isMLB getting all these you know, thousands
of tests that they're doing. Isthat taking away tests from the general public,
because we've seen the public having towait up to a week maybe for
test results if they can get atest at all. So it gets into

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this real ethical quandary. But Ido think MLB is going to just keep
powering through it and figure it outas they go. I think maybe one
or two teams today I saw postponedworkouts because of a delay. But I
think part of this is also everyone'ssort of working out the kinks right now
during the summer camp and they're takingan abundance of caution. Once the game

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starts, then it gets you know, you hope they have it figured out
by then, but I don't knowif they will. But because if you
have to like fit like a playersbecause you're you're not really sure about a
test result or you know, somethinglike that, that's where it gets into
to be a real problem. Andyou're talking about like a competitive disadvantage just

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because of the system and that that'sno good. But I think they're just
going to keep powering through it andjust sort of figure it out as they
go. And you talk about that, Eric, does that not play into
people talking about their not being alot of legitimacy to the season already by
the fact that there's so few games. You talk about the fact though,
well what if there's an outbreak?And to a lesser extent, now you
have so many guys with big names. I mean, Buster Posey's not the

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player he was ten years ago,but him opting out and not playing is
a big deal. The Cardinals closerearlier today has diabetes. He's not going
to play. David Price, ofcourse, was going to be a huge
factor for the for the Dodgers.If we see big names and Mike Trout,
to the best mind knowledge, stillhas not one hundred percent committed to
what he's going to do, eventhough he is working out with the Angels.
Right now, we see more andmore marquee names drop out of this

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season and they decide not to play. Do you think that further calls into
question the legitimacy of this season andwhoever the eventual champion may be. I
think this season, like, nomatter how you slice it, it's it's
just gonna be this weird blip onthe radar, like looking back years from
now, you know you're gonna lookback and go, oh, that was
that weird season where they played sixtygames. And again this is if they

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even are able to finish the season. Who really knows at this point,
but I think there's two things.One, it's going to be a weird
season. But I think the legitimacyof the champion you're still I mean,
we don't know how it's going toplay out. I guess it could play
out where if a like a bunchof teams basically have to forfeit games because
they don't have enough ready, readilyavailable players or something like that, that

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could really, you know, puta damper on things. But I think
generally you're gonna see most of thereally good teams still make the playoffs,
and you still have this gauntlet ofthree rounds of the playoffs plus the wildcard
round. If a team makes itthrough, that's as you know, that's

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been legitimate. I guess, youknow, you could have a situation where
someone could sneak in and then justget hot. But even that, that's
that's an accomplishment. So I thinkthe champion is going to be legitimate,
but the season is just going tobe this weird oddity no matter what happens.
It's Eric Stephen with us from TrueBlue LA and of course from SB
Nation Dodgers Analysts, Baseball Analysts.He's been coming on the show for a

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long time again. Follow him onTwitter at Eric Stephen with a pH.
Eric Kevin brought up David Price.They're opting out of playing this season,
who do you think fills his spotin the rotation? So I think it's
gonna be Ross Strippling. It's reallyonly at this point it's only him or
Dustin May and actually both have beenreally good, like rather amazingly like Stripling

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and Kershaw and I believe Alex Wood. They're all pretty stretched out, like
Kershaw on Strippling pitched into the sixthinning yesterday and the Interestquod game, So
they're going to be like ready togo pretty much full bowler once the season
starts. So that's like probably somethingthat I wouldn't have expected. You know,

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we weren't really sure how how mucheveryone was throwing in the downtime,
I guess, but I think theStripling has an advantage for a couple of
reasons. Well, I guess youcould say he they liked him an even
roll, so like if they preferredUst and made a start, I guess
dust and May could be in there, and they used Strippling in the bullpen.
But I think just what Strippling wentthrough this year, where you know,

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they traded him to the Angels,but then it didn't go through,
and then they said he was goingto get a shot to compete for a
starting role in spring training, andthen they went and named the rotation like
in the last week of February,and like, so he kind of felt
he didn't get a fair shot.So I think they're going to give him
that fair shot and then just givehim the ball to start the season.

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And then you know, we've seenthis the Dodgers, like eventually other players
are going to start. Dustin Maystill going to probably start games this year.
If Tony Gonsolin he came into camplate, probably won't be in that
you know, mix for the openingpart of the rotation. But if he's
not in enroll, you could seehim potentially starting games at some point,
so like they have options, butI do think stripling we'll get the first

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crack at it. What do youthink it means to lose David Price with
just his performance and what he wasgoing to give them on the field,
because there have been a lot ofinstances where guys come from the AL like
David Price, they had a badyear as Ra was almost four and a
half. You could say the samething was with Josh Beckett when he came
over from the Boston Red Sox andhe ended up having a really good twenty

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fourteen before injuries, had that nohitter. How much are they going to
miss David Price out there on themound? Yeah, I think as long
as he was healthy, like hewas going to be a, you know,
just a very solid, solid pieceof that rotation. And pretty clearly
like they're they're not like game threestart in a postseason series, So that's

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where they're going to have to figureout, like how you sort of line
up after Bueller and Kershaw, andthat's where they have, like these two
months are gonna have them sort offigured that out, I guess. But
he would have stabilized everything because youknow, now you're looking to see who's
going to start Game three d Gamefour, whereas before maybe the only question

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mark was figuring out the Game fourstarters. So you you go into the
postseason with two question marks. TheDodgers found themselves in that spot a little
bit last year. I mean theyhad reu Kershaw and Bueller, but they
didn't really have They went with richHill and you know, Game four,
and he was, you know,coming off injuries and he can only really

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go like two or three innings,and he was still their best option.
So if they have, you know, the fewer options they have that it's
it's going to be bad. Butjust add having Price would have given him
the stability to sort of avoid thattype of situation. Eric Stephen joining us
at Kenley. Jansen just reported tocamp. He told the media that he
did. He and pretty much everyfamily member in his home came down with

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COVID nineteen. He's now back incamp and assumably going to be the closer.
There is a little bit of arumbling over the weekend that Julio Urius,
who was slated to be a partof the rotation, and of course
he played so well down the stretchcoming out of the pen for them last
year, that he could be thoughtof as a back of the bullpen and
even a closer role for the Dodgers. What do you think is the most

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likely scenario for Julio Urius, especiallyif Kenlly Jansen maybe isn't as sharp as
they think he might be. Imean, is it Joe Kelly? Is
it grad role? Who do youthink is the leader? Leader in the
clubhouse? No pun intended of beingthe closer if Kenlly Jansen is not up
for the role right now, Yeah, I don't really see us in that
in the closing hole now, justbecause I think, you know, especially

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with Price out, they kind ofneed him in the starting rotation because you
know, let's say you move Uriusto the bullpen and now you have to
put Stripling and May in the rotation, and then with gonselin like not really
built up yet, you don't reallyhave a six sixth starter, so like
you're you're weakening the depth there.They have other, you know, options

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if Finley's not going to be available. They Dave Roberts said, Kenley's been
throwing and he's gonna probably like Ithink I think he said he's gonna appear
in four games in these last weekerin this last week or so of exhibition
stuff, and to get him readyfor opening Day. So we'll see.

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But you have you know, likeI guess Blake Trinan, you Joe Kelly,
like these aren't They're not the best, like most attractive options. But
I think they'd rather do that andthen keep curious in the rotation than you
know, sort of messing everything upgoing the other way. Eric, What
do you think a shortened season likethis is going to do for starting pitchers

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who are maybe a little bit older, a little bit longer in the tooth,
like Clayton Kershaw. Can he maximizedor put more into every performance knowing
that he may only have ten startsthis season. Could it change the way
we see him using the fastball andmaybe getting back to hitting ninety four more
often than usual. Yeah, Ido wonder about that. There's you know,

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it's such a short run and likeso you're not gonna you might not
see the usual sort of like thedead arm period of like in the late
summer something, because the season,even if you go into late October will
be over by then. But atthe same time, they this was like
such a weird year when everyone didtheir normal like offseason ramping up and they

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were all getting ready to you know, if you're starting pitcher, you're getting
ready to pitch like in that lastweekend of March, and then everything went
shut down and then so you sortof had to stay sort of ready,
but you couldn't go full bore forlike four months, three months, I
guess, so you had to likebe in between zone. And I'm sort

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of worried that if people are goingto come out and just go, you
know, guns blazing like right away, you might see more injuries that way.
But that said, like there's somethingto be said for the three months
of not wearing tear that's on ClaytonKrishaw's back, his shoulder, his arm,
everything, and so I think he'llbe effective. It's just going to

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be interesting, Like I'm really lookingforward to see seeing that, like how
he sort of comes through like he'sgonna be this is gonna be like the
freshest he's ever been in October.So that that's something to watch and I
think, you know, potentially evenget excited about we're gonna see some deadpool
like maximum effort on every pitch.That's right, Eric Stephen joining us on

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the f and A podcast. EdwinRiels has kind of been the star of
camp so far. Now granted hasonly been a week, but he's you
know, hit multiple home runs.He's looked really good. Where is his
standing? What that's team as ofnow? I know what the dh people
believe that might give him more opportunitiesto have at bats with the team during
this shortened season. How does EdwinRios fit into what the Dodgers plan is

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for this season? So I thinkas it stands now, I think he's
a lock to make the opening dayroster. I'm actually writing a little bit
about that. Now. It comesdown to this, like, well,
he's been, you know, lookinggreat in these interest quade games. Not
the year gonna just go off that, but you know, he had a
good season last year, showed upto camp in good shape, did all

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the right things, actually did wellin a pinch hitting role last year.
So it shows that he can domultiple things if he's in the majors.
In a normal situation, twenty sixman roster, you have thirteen position players
and the Dodgers kind of have aset twelve and then it's basically Matt Batty

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and Edward Rino's figuring out who thatthirteenth player is. And it was probably
going to be Beatty if I hadto guess if this was a normal season.
But then you look at it.Aj Pollock's out. The Dodgers only
have like eighteen eighteen position players ontheir forty man roster, so they're gonna

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probably have fourteen position players on thethirty man opening day roster in this new
season. And so right Rios isbasically a lock right now. Like even
if they add like a wild cardlike Terrence Gore, who's more of a
speedster and he's on a minor leaguedeal. That's even if they add him,
they still have room for Rios,and he's probably going to get a

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decent amount of playing time, whetherit's pinch hitting now and then or the
occasional spots start either you know,maybe filling in at third or maybe one
day at BH or something. Ithink he's going to be on the team
no matter what. What if Chicobeats him out though that's true, Eric,
what type of season do you projectCorey Seeger having now two years removed

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from Tommy John surgery. So I'myou know, it's one of these weird
things. So one of my sortof fun go to stats is in Dodger's
history, there's only two players whohave hit twenty home runs as a shortstop
in the season. And oh man, I'm already forgetting the other person's name.

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It's George Wright, I believe inlike nineteen thirty is one, and
then Corey Seeger, who did ittwice as the other. That said,
when I look at Corey Seeger,I don't think of home runs. He's
gonna hit you like fifteen to twentyfive, somewhere in that range in a
normal year. But he's a doublesguy for me. And if he's like
pounding doubles all over the field,some of those are going to end up
home runs and that's great, Butthat's more of a sign that he's locked

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in. Like last year he washe wasn't healthy like the full season,
and he wasn't really hitting like heused to, but he still had forty
four doubles, So like there weresigns that he's like getting better and just
so far again inter squad games.You don't want to like build every case
off of this, but he doeslook pretty locked in right now and he's

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just banging doubles all over the field, So that's always a good sign for
me watching him hit. So Ido think he's gonna have a like,
a really good year if he's healthyand he's further removed from the Tommy John
and the injury sort of he's dealtwith. He had the back injury a
couple of years ago. The furthermovie gets from that, the healthy he's

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going to be, and I thinkhe can be closer to what he was
those first two years when he's reallyone of the best players in the National
League. How about Cody Bellinger.I saw Dave Roberts mentioned earlier that Cody's
making an adjustment to a swing.He got off to such a hot start
last season and really tailed off thesecond half of the year that they did
he get into specifics as to whatexactly the problem was and why he's why

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he's making the switch, or didsomething happen last year mid season that he's
a tendency he wasn't picking up on. Just what's the adjustment that Cody Bellinger
is making to a swing this season? I'm not sure exactly like the mechanics
of it, but I think partof it was, you know, Bellinger
relatively slumped in the second half,like he he hit like two sixty something,

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but he still almost slug six hundredduring that time. He was still
hitting home runs. But I thinkjust the total approach, Like I think
he's more of a tinkerer than anything, and that that's what he's sort of
working on. And I guess hemade the adjustment in the interim between the
years, spring training and now,so like you know, all that,
maybe that all that idle time gothim to thinking too much, and maybe

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that's what he's doing. I'm notsaying it's it's a bad move. It's
just it's kind of a weird thingto do now. But we'll see how
it goes. I haven't really delvedinto like what the mechanics of it are,
and you know, I'm sure otherpeople will be able to describe it
better. But I think it's morelike I didn't end last year exactly how

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I wanted, so that that's probablywhat he's going. We're just looking for
the right the right of the rightfield, right approach, that sort of
thing. Eric, you wrote aboutTerrence Gore, Dodgers outfielder. Could he
make the team. What would hebring? What elements do his game should
fans know about? So he's stilla maybe for me, but definite possibility

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because a you have thirty man roster, so you have a little bit of
extra wait room. There's that thenew rule for extra innings where every extra
inning is going to start with apinch runner on second base, and it's
it's always the batter who made thelast out of the previous inning. So
it's not like if you use himas a pinch runner in that spot,

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he does have to take that person'splace, so it's not like a free
runner or something. They could usehim every inning. That would be kind
of amazing. He just keep goingout there. But he's probably you know,
if he's not the fastest guy inbaseball, he's like top five or
ten, and he's one of thebest, like Bass dealers. That's really
his role. He's played in ona hundred Major League games and sixty one

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of them as a pinch runner.He's really fast. That would sort of
really be his role, maybe adefensive replacement late in the game something like
that, even if it's not likein that extra innings, but if it's
a close game in the seventh oreighth or the ninth, he could pinch,
run and you know, get intoscoring position and potentially score. So

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I think the Dodgers are kind ofweighing that. It's it's one of those
things where you see this like sometimesin the playoffs where they were thinking about
doing this with Tim Locastro a coupleyears who's also very fast, and you
know, in that early round ofthe playoffs where you don't have to use
you might not have to use allfour starting pitchers. You might just have

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to use three, or at veryleast you have like one extra spot.
Because the series, you don't haveto carry thirteen pitchers. You might be
able to get away with eleven ortwelve, So you have a little extra
room for these extra guys. Anda specialist like Gore, who's very good
at what he does, there mightbe extra room for a guy like him,
and you know, so he'll bea late game weapon. If he's

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on the team, Astro is gonnaget gored. It's funny the trade that
happened with Mookie Betts and David Pricewas held up because of an injury issue
or perceived injury issue that bruised ourgratoll had when he was originally going to
the Red Sox, and a lotof Dodger fans were screaming angrily, who's
this guy? You can't even pronouncehis name. That's holding up the damn
trade. He's a loser. Thenthey rework the trade. He comes over

(28:22):
to the Dodgers, they look himup and say, oh, I got
this guy's huge. He throws onehundred trillion miles an hour. We've got
to get him out there. Sothe newest favorite Dodger of the fans,
because of course we haven't really seenhim yet outside of an appearance and in
a scrimmage. What are they expectingbruised dark Gretool's role to be with the
team this season? So I thinkjust based on who's around, Like Peter

(28:45):
Bias still hasn't reported the camp,he's sort of in that the same We
don't know exactly why he's out speakright, But I'm just saying they,
you know, they only have theyhave a certain number of guys who are
just around, like and just beingaround makes your chances of making the team
even better. And the fact thatthey're probably going to have like sixteen pitchers

(29:08):
in that opening roster Bodsweald Gradol hasalmost certainly got to be on the team,
and you know, depending on howhe does, he could be one
of those options we talked about earlieras potential closer if if Kenley's not ready,
or at the very least like aladenning guy with Trinan and Kelly to
help set up Jansen. But yeah, I think that hold up was so

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weird because if you read most ofthe like Twins reports, they were pretty
clear that, yeah, this guy'sa reliever, and it seemed like most
of the reports coming out of Bostonwas, well, we thought this guy
might be a starter, and thenlike, I don't know, that seemed
I don't know if that would theywere just using that to get out of
the trade or at that point orwhat. But I don't know. It
seemed like he was always going tobe a reliever and he's got really good

(29:56):
stuff. So I'm pretty excited tosee him, Like, but yeah,
I'm not not really sure what hisrole is going to be just yet,
but he could, like by theend of September or October, he could
be one of those set up guysand to play a big role for them.
Eric Are you a fan of fakecrowd noise. Were you an Atlanta
Falcons fan a few years back?No, So it's always weird to me,

(30:21):
Like it is. I'm not afan of it, just on principle,
on some way. But I wasthere one of the days last week,
I think Thursday's inter squad game,and it is deathly silent there when
there's no nothing going on, likeif it's just the people playing baseball.
It is like the most early quietthing I've ever experienced. It was it

(30:45):
was I'm the only time I've seenDodgers stay any more quiet was when Matt
Stairs hit that home run and twodoes eight. So I think also for
the players standpoint, I think theyneed it in some way. Well,
hey, you don't want to youwant to you don't want to have the
other team hearing what you're saying andyou're dug out, which is so you

(31:07):
have to have some sort of noiseto break up the monotony of that.
But I think it's a little moreexciting. You know, they're they're playing
walk up music. They might they'llplay just like almost ambient crowd noise,
I would imagine, just to getjust sort of a game feel because otherwise
it's it's very odd to have likealmost nothing. Anthony Rendon I think last

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week with the Angels, he saidhe hated it. He rather he would
rather have music, but I thinkit was stupid. He also said his
quote was something like, it's trick. It was like tricking your senses.
It's like, what do we say. It's like smelling hamburger and smelling hamburger.
It was weird. It's weird hamburgerpizza thing. And I was like,

(31:52):
I was staring at my transcription ofit, like what hamburger pizza.
You get paid that much money,you can say whatever. No, that's
true. Yeah. So like Ithink as long as there's anything for the
players to not have the silence,because I think that's very weird, it's

(32:13):
probably gonna be okay. I waswondering if they was just going to be
like on television at first, butjust hearing the nothingness in the in the
stadium, I think they have tohave it like in the stadium too.
Dislike the silence. Well, it'sinteresting because some say it takes away.
I'll just watching a couple of theinter squad scrimmages, and I know there's
scrimmages. They're not games, somaybe the vibe is different, but it

(32:34):
didn't take anything away from me personally. The fact that I saw there's a
picture, there's a catcher, there'sguys out in the field. Justin Turner
yelling at David Vasset added a lotexactly hilarious. Those are things that would
be missing out on, you know, so as a viewer at home,
and of course this is all fortelevision viewership because no one's going to be
in the stadiums. Some people arguethe other way, it doesn't really take
much away from me personally. Nowit's different, especially if you're members of

(32:57):
the media and you're in there andit's so quiet, really get it.
But for the viewership experience, you'renot eating your nachos because you're afraid that's
yell hey, you know, likeone of those sorts of situations. But
no, I don't know, likeyou tell me, Eric, if you're
just a viewer on television and you'rewatching the Dodgers play the Diamondbacks in mid
August and there's no fans there,but you can hear the announcers and you

(33:20):
see the players, does it reallytake away from the viewer experience that much
for you. No, I thinkI think part of it too is like
I would welcome, especially for thetelevision viewing, like or just the broadcast
having more you could have players mikedup or like just make sure they're heard,
so like in the downtime, youknow, where it's more. You

(33:45):
could probably hear more things going onon the baseball field as it's happening,
because there's no crowd roaring. Youmight hear they might play some stuff.
But I think if you can hearthat on the broadcast, that would add
to it. But I think partof it is you. Then you get
to a point where teams don't wantto give away too much in terms of
they don't want to be that real. Sometimes it would be awesome to hear

(34:07):
like what actually happened down there,but like they don't want to like reveal
everything. We saw this a coupleof years ago with what was it the
Mets and the Dodgers and the NoahSyndergard hit there through behind Chase Elly and
got ejected and then the umpired audioleaked where he said his ass was in
the jackpot and that was awesome.That was awesome, actual, like you

(34:29):
know, interworkings of baseball stuff,but they would never want the real stuff
that happened to come out. Butanything that would sort of add to that
where you get a little bit oflike personality, like added to the broadcast,
I think that would be great.It's funny. I was talking to
Rodney Pete about this. He says, Man, if you guys knew like
some of the stuff some of theplayers said on the field, like many
of us, will be perceived differentlythat oh he's so nice, he gives

(34:50):
the charity and does all this stuff. And say, have you heard half
the stuff half these guys say onthe field. They will be just owned
by their moms and their grandmothers.You know. So it gets it gets
pretty hairy down there. Eric,thanks so much for doing this today.
We had a quagmire like giggy giggy, Jack Pott to your diary moment.
Would you agree to do this interview? It's always great again. Follow Eric
Stephen on Twitter at Eric ste ph e N. And of course he

(35:15):
does it for True Blue LA beendoing it with the Dodgers for so long.
He had to bring up that MattStairs reference. Couldn't have just gone
Matt Adams. Huh, and healso does it for SB Nation. Eric,
thanks so much for coming back onthe f and A podcast. My
pleasure is always guys. Anytime nervewhat's a nerve gan playing DND tonight?

(35:37):
I want to come does what's up? Guys? He's world. Won't be
jealous that I've been shotting online withbabes all day. Just keep your power
closed off. Her panels great.Growing up, we all felt the need
for speed, except Kevin, whothought Top Gun was trash. Trash is

(35:58):
a strong word over vastly overrated.Yes, you said the only part you
liked was the volleyball scene, andyou rooted for Iceman. I don't think
believe Slider of these things at all, because both of them had their shirts
off. But I did say overallthe movie is vastly overrated. I don't
understand why anybody will say this wasever great. I loved it. Is

(36:19):
it a cult classic? Okay,I can ride with that, But to
say that this is a great film, this is a great display in filmmaking.
Absolutely not. You're entering the dangerzone with a lot of you loved
Archer. Yes, that's true.Now, when I think of the line
Need for Speed, of course Ithink of that movie, but also the
great PlayStation game. Sure it wasNeat for Speed versus grant Aisthma for a

(36:40):
little bit, Ran for Rosmo,more of a driving simulator. Yeah,
I respectable, it was no Yeah, well, Need for Speed was more
Arcades tileh which I loved, andout running the cops in Hot Pursuit Straight
from the Underground. Maybe a simulationfor some here in Los Angeles, yep.
But it also it brings me backto a time when we were all

(37:01):
comparing how fast our cars were withone another. In high school, if
you were lucky enough to have yourown ride, and if you were lucky
you're to not be under the sixmonth law that said you couldn't roll with
friends, which my weak white assadhered to. Sounds like first wore problems
at him. Nobody in my highschool had a car, so ah,

(37:22):
I did have a Honda prelude,not right when I was sixteen, but
a little bit later. Your caris your baby, though, and you'd
give them lame nicknames, like DavidVassell calling his Accura. I think it
was Titanium Thunder Thunder that followed BlackMagic, his previous car. Oh,
I forgot about black magic. Mybad black magic was that a t bird

(37:46):
was a thunder. I don't thinkit was a thunderbird. I don't remember
exactly what it was, but titaniumthunder wasn't a thunderbird, was it?
No? Okay, sorry, we'llget vasset on soon enough and talk Dodgers
with him. Eventually he was drivingthe family wagon now exactly, he's got
the decal back with all the membersof his family. Our vehicles, though
we're the most important things in ourlives. It was a status symbol that

(38:07):
was a step up from the clothesyou wore, like your favorite Stuicy shirt.
And back then, hot rotting incars wasn't just overcompensating for small d.
We really love to drive because itwas new and thrilling. Although when
someone did get too wild with theirspeeds or doing donuts in the parking lot,
my group of friends would yell atthem sarcastically. Remember this is NorCal.

(38:30):
Oh you'r D's hella big, Likebasically, oh you're cool, You're
D's hello big. That's that's whatwe used to mock people with. Yeah,
you know what, I think theystill resonates today, especially with the
jag off and wants to be like, you know, really rev his engine
on a quiet Sunday afternoon when peopleare just chilling. He wants to roll
down the street because he's driving ayou know, a GT. He thinks

(38:51):
he's cool or something. Thanks guy, you might make you feel better about
yourself. I know these were motorcyclesnot cars, but that doesn't remind me
my favorite South Park episode, whichone you know what I mean room where
they they redefined the other effort andapplied it to bikers. That's very intensive.
Here's a story of someone doing somethingextremely reckless in a car where their

(39:16):
d must have been hella big,even though it was a girl. An
Italian woman got to one thousand dollarsticket. You know how much can I
make a year after being caught ona speed camera going four hundred and thirty
seven miles per hour in well aFord focus. Four hundred and thirty seven

(39:38):
miles per hour in Italy. Thiswas the fast and the furiously Ford focused.
They say. This Italian was goingso fast she buzzed the leaning tower
of pizza and actually straightened it outwith a gust of wind. A trail
behind that car that an Italian isdriving, an American car that wind blew
into Vatican City. Po Francis wasactually lifted off the ground for a second.

(40:01):
He thought he was making an ascentto heaven, as did all the
children in the Catholic Church. Butif you're a non believer in a Ford
Focus damn near going faster than thespeed of sound and making a sonic boom,
well you'd be right to question thisevent because after further examination, she

(40:22):
was not accurately clocked. Yeah,there's no way. Officers realize that the
speed camera must have malfunctioned. Sinceeven the fastest car in the world,
a connect seg a Gara, Hellis that I don't know some you know
eurocar it can't top two hundred andseventy eight miles per hour. I mean
even that's flying. I mean,and that's with engine case. I'm pretty

(40:45):
sure if a Ford Focus was goingto four hundred miles an hour like the
just the entire foundation would fly off. You had door knobs and handles and
the hatchback, all that stuff flyingup. You're right, a Euro Ford
Focus tops out at You want toguess quiz hot shot one seventy five Yeah,
that's a pretty good guess. Itstill seems too fast. You'd never

(41:10):
want to actually go that fast,Kevin, Why didn't you get a focus
instead of a fusion? You couldhave gotten to work from seventy eighth and
Vermont like thirty seconds. Yeah,you're right. He would have never had
to move bad. Best one onmy part. Now, the fusion does
look a lot better. Focus looklike my old car. I wanted something
different, so the hatchback feel toit a little bit. Even if it's

(41:30):
not a hatchback, it just hasthat kind of you know, wait,
test mileedge. It was a NissanVersa, so that was also a tiny
like a tiny year Sedan. Well, what's the fastest you've ever gone in
a vehicle? I'll probably hit onehundred once, Okay, okay, an
open freeway at four o'clock in themorning, when I'm working my overnight shift

(41:51):
that Fox Sports Network or something FoxSports Radio. It's possible. You probably
like effort. Nobody's out here.I'm not saying I'm only putting myself in
danger. It's not safe, andthat's not true, and I'm condoning you
should never do that. And Iregretted it when I did it. Don't
try this at home. I amvery cognitive it now of of my speeds
on the on the highway, becauseI've heard of people who have actually been
pulled over by CHP for driving toofast. Yeah, that does happen.

(42:14):
You could be going four hundred andthirty seven miles. Yeah, that's true.
Well, if that's the case,HP and catching you, They're done.
Everyone be safe out there. Igot the afterburners on. You got
the nas yeah, yeah, allright. Video game fact of the Week's
a fact that recently we talked aboutthe rare prototype Nintendo PlayStation system, which
was the mixed console bastard system bornout of a brief fling between Sony and

(42:37):
Nintendo in the early nineties, andthe one of a kind once mythical Nintendo
PlayStations sold earlier this year for threehundred and sixty thousand dollars thousand. It
was more than that to my knowledge, that was the most expensive system ever
sold at auction. But what aboutthe most expensive game auctioned off? It

(43:02):
just happened this past weekend, Kevin. You want to guess the rare game
that was found in near mint condition, unwrapped inbox and never played for over
thirty five years, which states alittle bit guessing it's a game that wasn't
mass produced pop quizto Is it anAmerican version of a game? Yes?

(43:25):
Okay. It also happens to beone of the best selling games of all
time. Okay, so it's avery popular game. Yeah. It held
the title for a few years,a few decades. Actually, like the
highest sales are the most popular,highest best selling game, but it no
longer does though. It's Minecraft thekids. Although I can get with those

(43:49):
those graphics. I like it.Yeah, I guess. I guess they're
building virtual legos. Yea Marial world. I'm gonna give it to you.
Super Mario Brothers. Is that whatyou meant? Yeah, Tomato, Tomato,
it's it's a Mario game. Imean the original Super Mario Brothers.

(44:10):
The game was sealed and it justsold for one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars,
breaking the record previously held by SuperMario Brothers. Another version of it
sold for one hundred thousand dollars inFebruary of twenty nineteen. I don't know
why. The first game that poppedin my head was Altered Beast. That
was wishful thinking. I don't know, but MegaMan went for seventy five thousand.

(44:37):
I think an original copy of thefirst MegaMan that's third. I don't
know if I played the first MegaMan. Same here. There's sold many versions
of it now. I always heartwo is beloved being the best. I
played that a little bit. They'rehard, they are very difficult for fun
though. The reason this Mario wentfor fourteen grand more than the last one
that was sold is because it hadthe cardboard ten ab on the top of

(45:00):
the box to hang it up onthe shelf rack of games you'd see back
then on the wall. And apparentlythat means this game is older and more
vintage than the other copy that wasmanufactured months later, back in nineteen eighty
five. Is more original, evenmore original. Say you got one hundred
and fourteen thousand dollars just you knowbetween the couch cushions. Who doesn't?

(45:21):
Yeah? Sure? Would would thisbe the purchase you'd make? Hell?
No? Hell four by veil soso we can sit and collect dust on
my mantle and I could say,you see that that's a rare video game.
You ever played it? Oh?God, No, I would never
do that. You better put thatin the class case. Collect dust,
collect these these nuts. Stagging Investmentone hundred and fourteen is something else,

(45:44):
a lot more valuable than a videogame that I'm never going to play.
The only way I'd even consider itif I was a billionaire short why the
hell and not? That's the onlyway I consider it. But what if
it was Mario with Duck Hunt andit was a version where you could kill
that damn dog? I would shootthat dog mid giggle, You have to

(46:07):
move the goalposts on me. Imean clearly at that point, I would
give up everything that I own,including life and limb, just to tag
that with the light guns should toshoot that smiling ass dog. And as
we've talked about before, in theArcade version, you could there was a
bonus round where you could hit thedog and then it was walking around and
crutches. It didn't die though mosthis name needles, Oh noodles, it's

(46:29):
something ridiculous noodles or something. Oh, mister snickles, mister snickers attempt to
be It's like it's like, misterSnickers, are you hungry? I do
want to get away? Snickers anddoodles something like that, I'm right.
I'm looking up right now. Mister, Oh, it's gonna buck the hell

(46:51):
out of me. Dog from duckHunt, Mister, like mister Needles,
mister little bitch ass dog that keepslaughing, even though you could be way
far into the game, be doingreally well. You miss one duck.
It still laughs at you. That'snot right, right, It just keeps
everything. Everything I pull up,just says the dog from duck Hunt.

(47:14):
We have the name, mister Peepers. Mister, that's what it was.
That's very cre But wasn't it wasn'tthat? It wasn't it Peepers. I
think you're right. I'm pretty sureit was pop it is. It is
definitely Pepper. If that's what yousaw, that's that's what's That's what I
didn't see it. It just poppedin my head. I think you're right.
Mister Peeper's dog duck Hunt. Yes, as far as it's mister.

(47:37):
People on Google, yeah, theysaid, when did it get that name?
Mister Peeper? Sounds better than thatdamn laughing dog from duck Hunting.
You know what, I'm not sosure, to be honest with you,
I guess because he's peeking behind thebushes. You know, yeah, he's
peeping. It's just he's looking foryou to screw up. Yeah. Still

(47:57):
probably not the best name for wasthat in the manual? Yes, maybe
not in the manual, but yeah, mister peepers that was his name.
And by the way, I don'twant to hear of course Adam wants to
shoot a dog again, just likehe did when he was ten. Trend
here Adam, You know, no, that was pretty much an accident.

(48:19):
Do we have speaking of Hey,do we have any phone calls? Yes?
Two nine, four, nine fourseven, eight eleven ninety seven.
A couple of voicemails that came infrom over the weekend. So let's take
a listen. AFLs James uh realquick corrections and retractions. I stopped the
podcast halfway through. You don't knowif Adam got back this. Kim Basinger
played eminent mom eight miles. BrittanyMurphy was the girl he got with rest

(48:45):
in peace. And second thing,y'all mentioned barbecue sauce. I was going
to, uh, buddy mine bottleshis own like organic kind of barbecue sauce.
I was gonna send you, guys, some just didn't know if you
wanted spicy or none. And thenas far as the quick sports take,
it's crazy. I mean, Iguess it's was bound to happen, and
I don't know if it would happenwith the NBA what they would do with

(49:07):
the MLS having two teams not beable to make their bubble because Dallas of
course, and ten people can testpositive, which who knows what that means
because with the Orlando girls team twodays later they were all like false positive.
So I don't know what's going onwith the testing, No one does.

(49:28):
And then Nashville had five people testpositive. I just wonder what the
NBA would do if, you know, we can see the nets are designated,
but if say they got there andeight, you know, tests the
positive on the team or whatever,would they just cancel the whole thing or
just yanked that team out? Y'allhave a good one later. Well,
thanks, James, I prefer wellwhy many would? Many would? They

(49:52):
weren't going to win it all anyways, especially now, I guess you could
say it's encouraging the first returns ofthe players who've entered into the bubble.
With the NBA, they've only hadtwo out of three hundred and twenty two
players that tested positive, and thosetwo guys were sent back home to quarantine.
Again I mean or Orlando. Whenit comes to the MLS, as
you mentioned, two different teams,Nashville and Dallas, just took their teams
home completely. There was a gamethat was scheduled yesterday for yesterday morning that

(50:15):
was postponed because two players, wellone player tested positive, another player's test
came back inconclusive. And this goesback to something we discussed on the last
edition of the show. With thesetests, a lot of times we don't
even know how accurate they actually are. We talked about again the Yeah,
the man who lost his life unfortunately, the Broadway actor who tested negative three
different times before finally testing positive thefourth time and ended up passing away.

(50:38):
It's it's not an exact science whenit comes to this, and it's interesting
because they've been threatening guys and twohave broken the rules so far, whether
it was an accident or not.One was going to the door dash order,
I just pick it up my delivery. And that happens on Friday.
Who was it from the Sacramento Kings. It was Rashaun Holmes. I think

(50:59):
they got there on Thursday, healready said enough of this food, I'm
ordering for delivery on Friday. That'sunbelievable. But those people have to go
through more stringent testing afterwards. It'sa deterrent. They give you the deep
nasal swabs, so or is thatform of testing more accurate? But it's

(51:20):
more invasive, so they don't wantto be doing that every day. I
don't know, that's the thing.I mean. I've heard some people have
said that the nasal swab is moreaccurate than the cheek swab, but I
don't know if there's any science behindit, or if it's just you know,
a wives tale that's just got passedaround from person to person. I
think, honestly don't know. Theywere using the nasal swab earlier when it
came to testing, when this allstarted back in March, so maybe it's

(51:45):
a little more reliable and it's beenwidely used more often. I feel the
results come back quicker with it,so whether that means it's more reliable,
I don't know, but I knowthey said for the nasal swabs, you
can get your nute results as assoon as that same day. With the
salt with the put it in yourcheek. I think they say it takes
up to two to three days toget the results back. I'm gonna ask
doctor Phil Cohen this weekend. Youshould That's a good question out of more

(52:07):
accurate. There's someone that can helpyou with this barbecue sauce. The spicy.
You're the better brother, and Iappreciate it, James, I love
the spicy. No, my buttholedoesn't always love. Yeah, you know,
I'm running that back for a halfsecond. I think the spicier the
better. Because I had those atomicwings, that wing stop and mustom,
I still hadn't been the same Iwas seven years ago. So it's like

(52:28):
swallowing gum. Yeah, it's it'sit's a man while taking the toll.
I think I lost a couple ofyears of my life eating those wings.
I may have eaten the shack PapaJohn's pizza last night. Now, what
are the top It's just bigger.The slices are a little bit thinner and
cut wider. It's more like aNew York style pizza. The pepperoni's actually

(52:49):
on top of the cheese, whichis interesting for Papa John's. It's nice
and there's extra cheese and extra pepperonion it, so there's actually toppings on
it, because that's that's a firstmy experience with Papa John's. If they
actually put toppings on there. AndI know how you feel about the Papa
Big Papa Shack. We'll take careof you. Though. This is probably
the best pizza I've ever had fromPapa John's. That's saying something, Okay,

(53:10):
all right, take that for whatever, for whatever it's worth. Yeah,
for sure. And then what wasthe other thing James had? Oh,
the corrections of attractions for the movie. We talked about a miles.
It was Brittany Murphy who would havemade a great Harley Quinn if we didn't
lose her show young because she looksgood when she's like all trashy looking.
Yep, I'm thinking about her Amile exactly makes sense? All right,

(53:34):
what's our final call? Only afew minutes into this episode, I already
got to call you, guys seaterdowt to positive in this one. But
since the NBA players are having tolive away from home to do their job,
and that's not a huge fucking sacrifice. That's something that everybody does.
That's something that a lot of peopledo. When I was working in North
Dakota. Guess what. There wereguys who stayed away from their home in

(53:55):
North Dakota in a town that didn'thave anything for I don't know. Maybe
they made eighty thousand dollars a year, which is a lot for a guy.
But they had to live in ashack, they had to work in
the ice, they had to workin oil fields where they could fucking die.
So this is an NBA player ina hotel room who has food that
he doesn't like as much, thatdoesn't get the golf as much as he
much might like. Suck that fusthat. That's not a sacrifice. That's

(54:21):
doing your job. Okay, peopledo that. When I was a seasonal
worker in Alaska, I had tolive in a shitty basement or a sheitty
trailer in a hotel, making almostnothing, having to pay for my own
fucking food fairly making a profit.And that's what a lot of people do
to Okay, So just because they'renot living at home, and just because,
not to be personal, but justbecause you guys haven't had a job

(54:42):
where you have to leave your homeand you can't have things, doesn't mean
that other people don't do it.A lot of people do it in America.
Thanks you got the hip hop hornsin there for Peter. Because Peter
went off, he would hit himup style on all these entitled NBA players
complaining about their American airlines. Boxedlunch. I did say, I can
see that for respective as well ourpoint of view, you can play the
world's smallest violin form. But soalso point out that they don't even have

(55:06):
to do this because they have somuch money, right, they're not going
to go broke. Yeah, well, I think that plays into people's like
Peter's thinking. You know, ifyou're gonn to go, recognize what it
is and don't complain about it.Yeah, you can't have it both ways.
Just stay home. If you wantto live your life a luxury and
stay at your mansion and have whateveryou're doing, then do it, but
don't recognize what the situation is.Because I'm sure all the players had a

(55:27):
general idea of where they were going, looking at the living quarters and all
of that before they got there.Now, the food I'll give them,
I'll give you the box lunch.That's what the coats John Ronald talking about.
I'm in the motail six. It'slike, let's be real, let's
look at what the w NBA playersare and talk about who's in the motail
six and who's where. Yeah,so I get it. I just expect
it. I expected it, Soit didn't really bother me that much because

(55:52):
I'm sure these guys are accustomed tohaving the best at all times. They
are they are, and anyone thatlowers their quality of life even a little
bit is likely to complain. Yeah, I mean it's a it's again.
It's for two days. It's literallyfor two days. It's about to be
eight more for well, for RashaunHolmes and for I can never pronounce.
Is it Cabelco Bruno Cabelco? Ithink that's the Cabelco. Yeah, from

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from the Rockets. Broke quarantine.Somehow he just stepped foot out. He
set foot out of his room.And is that is that enough to broke
quarantine? Went over the line,He's just stepped out. Imaginings trying to
grab me some ice, man,So I guess some ice with some coniac,
you know, quarantine me for evenlonger. They set my food package
outside my door, which I hadto step this far want me to do.

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I'm just glad they're enforcing the rules. That's that's a good point.
Sure, yes, that they're ontop of it from day one. They're
not messing around with this, norshould they, because they know what's at
stake. It's almost better that ithappens now for these guys to be an
example for everyone else. You're notgoing to be able to get away with
it. Good. Yeah, you'relearn from their mistakes. You'd rather it
happened now than happen later, youknow. And they still have they both

(57:00):
have enough time to get back beforethe seating games. Is it eight more
days that's tacked onto the two daysthey were already quarantined anyway, at least
as long as they tell me asthey continue to testinate, which I doubt
that setting foot outside to pick upyour Chick fil A order is gonna make
you, you know, test positivethat driver, though it's possible. I
worry about that. I need tostop ordering out so much because of that.

(57:22):
I stopped going to the gym earlybefore they closed down again. Man,
that's gonna be. It's gonna be. Contact. You try to be
as careful as you possibly can bewhen it comes to where you're getting stuff
delivered and washing your hands. Ifyou go to the grocery store and buy
your own stuff, that stuff wastouched by somebody. Yeah, when it
was sat down. I just thinkabout what's necessary at him. You don't
have to get this Papa John Shackpieces night just because it's new and it
came out. Well, you havestuff to eat at home, that's true.

(57:47):
Oh good stuff, Yeah, betterstuff than I saw from But it
don't taste some of the meals inOrlando. But it don't taste good sometimes.
Yeah, especially once you start drinking. See, that's when the bad
choices come in. Take a tasteof the drink there. I shouldn't have
We know, we know the batyeah and stop. It's easier to say
know it. This morning I saidenough is enough, and you took one

(58:07):
last drink. How was it?I sorry? After I finished this bottle,
after I finished this chorus lighting JackDaniels, I'm all done. Grandfa
needs his medicine. But I threwout my Canadian Mist so cheapest whiskey that's
ever been purchased. I threw itout. You poured, you poured it

(58:30):
into the sink. It was aplastic bottle. I just threw it into
the heavy bag, and I'm notgonna get so desperate that I take it
out like I'm George Costanza eating outof a trash can. It's not gonna
happen, Kevin, is the isthe trash bag still in your house?
I know, I gotta take itout of the dumpster, Gotta run as
the gout, run outside, screamno no, no, no, no,
no no no, Drop it intothe dumpster, drop something on top,

(58:51):
else on top of it, makedouble we gotta take it to the
dump. Yeah, burbank as extremeas you possibly can, and that's still
might not stop some people. Imean some people. No, I did
not implicate anybody by name at all. An old fashioned yeah maybe. Thanks
again to Eric Stephen for joining usbid phone call. Peter. Yeah,

(59:12):
yeah, I don't necessarily disagree.I know I'm in the minority. I'm
with you, I'm with you.Peter talks about this, I'm with it.
I understand the quality of a livething for the guys, But again,
it's two days. You can survivetwo freaking days. It's not that
big that food, though, Kevin, how are you going to live without
eating off your own? And Ithink you over two days? I mean,

(59:32):
some of these gaskings can stand tofast a day or two, you
know what I mean? A lotof them can. I was like,
you know you mentioned Zion, Yeah, going the Yokish diet. Geez.
You know who else looks thin andmade me feel really bad about myself Earlier
today Carmelo. Carmelo lost weight duringquarantine. How come I couldn't? All
these guys are a phenomenal shape.It's really it's kind of surprising for fifteen

(59:53):
years for Carmelo Anthony to finally losesome weight. You look legitimately skinny.
As long as you get he's there, Portland's coming. Yep, that's our
team to take the A spot.I'm all in, Eric Stephen, thank
you for joining us talking Dodger Baseballreturned to play from Major League Baseball.

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Perhaps we'll get into Rajen Rondo andhim being out for six to eight weeks,

(01:00:37):
even though that means he could stillbe back for the second round.
Yeah, it's not that devastating us. He was only getting seven points,
shooting really poorly, and that wasn'tplayoff Rondo though. Can he looks skinny
too, but he always always has. He's always been ripped. He's always
be one of those ripped players inthe NBA. Rajen Rondo, for sure,

(01:00:57):
he's been making me feel bad aboutmyself in twelve years. Oh yeah,
exactly, I'm looking at that.I'll pass. Uh, So what
we'll get into that in a littlebit. More NBA happenings from inside the
bubble as we get closer and closerto play here in just a few weeks.
So that's that's definitely exciting. Andof course Major League Baseball gets started
Sunday with exhibition of the exhibition schedule. All these teams playing some exhibition games

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and then they'll get their things started. Uh middle of next week. Man,
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We'll talk to you guys. Ifeel like we're doing everything. We'll talk
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