October 26, 2024 • 47 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon mourn the passing of legendary Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela. Sam Darnold’s facemask non-call was so brutal even the Rams couldn’t believe it. We react to Bronny James checking in with his father, LeBron James becoming the first father-son duo to play together in the NBA. The LA Clippers have officially brought a student section to the NBA. Plus, why a Cooper Kupp trade may now be off the table!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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friend Mike Carmon, Live from Thetirack dot com studios. Opening
night of the NBA, the Knicks lose a nail bier
to the X one Boy. I'll tell you what something.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Is that because zero biting your nails to pass the time.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
There is no nail biting in this game. Oh it's over, Okay,
I'm gonna have to say that was I.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Don't want to watch what's happening on the court, so
I'm gonna bite my nails and I'll pay more attention
to that.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Second half just underway, Lakers lead the Tea Wolves fifty
nine to forty four. We'll have more on this game
coming up in a few minutes. Yes, we saw history.
Lebron and Bronni James played together. Bronnie checks in right
around the four minute mark of the second quarter, and
we will have willing to hear the advice that Lebron
gave to Bronny right before they went on the court.
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Coming up in a few minutes. About that, Lebron was Mike.
That's pretty good. But if you thought the NFL trade
deadline was interesting last night, hey, you know we saw
that the unfortunate injury and all props and prayers up
to Chris Godwin after last night. The Chargers clearly need
a wide receiver. You know, the Bucks need one now.
Mike Evans is out.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
He's week to week, so you're not gonna see him
a week eleven, so.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
More teams needing wide receivers. However, today new Wrinkle jumped
in as maybe the Los Angeles Rams are saying time.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
To move on.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Not just one, but two star players have been named
in trade talks. The first one Cooper Cupp, who was
about to come off the injured list. They're playing on
Thursday night against the Vikings. He said he's aware his
name has been mentioned in trade rumors before the trade
deadline coming up on November fifth, but he is quote
focused on being the best La Ram that he can be.
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According to reports today, the Rams are looking for a
second round pick and if a team will pay out
the remainder of his contract. Now it's a dice roll because, okay,
second round pick. I mean Cooper Cup is that good.
But Cooper Cup doesn't stay in the lineup that often.
So while he's a guy that can really tip something
for you, he's a bit of a dice roll for
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the Rams. I would do it. But the first thing
I want to say is I am sad because I
thought the Rams. Look, I had the Rams are going
to the Super Bowl this year, and this is they
They got young, they were able to flip their team
over offensively, they have so many weapons, and then the
injuries just crushed them. The just man man Benny Yeah apparently, so,
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I mean apparently they said, Okay, we're done with the Ram,
done with the injury. Now I'm gonna work on the Bucks. Okay,
Carmen is working on the Bucks. But it's sad because
the Rams, they were a team that that that had
gone from one of the oldest teams lastly flipped one
of the youngest teams. They're one of the best teams
in the NFL. Down the stretch, looked like they were
gonna make noise again, and Matthew Stafford is healthy, and
now it's just, hey, we're limited, and we see we
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have to reload on the fly. And it's what the
Rams have always done and it's kept them competitive. There's
no hey, we're ripping it down to the studs. We
are going to reload on the fly. Hey, we're a
really good team. We think we can win the Super Bowl.
We're gonna trade Jared Goff and trade couple of first
round picks to get Matthew Stafford. Wait, what this How
we're doing it on the fly. And that's kind of
how teams have to do it now. There's no more
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patience for a team to say, hey, we're completely starting over,
because look, look at the mess the Patriots are right now.
I mean, you can say, okay, it's great, we don't
really have any any aspirations or least it we're gonna
be better than we are. But when that reality hits
and you're one in five, one and six and there's
no hope. Yeah, that goes out the window.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Well, and your coach is a dope and gets in
front of a microphone and calls your team. Saw.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So reloading on the fly is the has become the
new way to do it, and the Rams have done
it better than anybody the last three years. So yeah,
if you can trade Cooper Cup mainly because if this
is not gonna be your year, you have some really young,
talented pass catchers that need the ball more. Right, Pokin
A Coup is gonna come off the injured list. He's
terrific too to at well as a weapon. Winnington is
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really good. They've been high on him from the beginning.
And these guys need snaps. And if you're not gonna
win the Super Bowl this year, okay, let's get a
starting player. Let's get somebody, because someone's gonna wind up
making this move for Cooper Cup because he's too enticing
to not it is it is a gamble, but he's
too enticing to not do that. Uh, And they'll be
able to find and say, Okay, now all our receivers
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are young. They they're getting the time they need to.
Winning two will be the number three at will will
be the two to Puka Nakua and they're gonna move on.
So I agree with the trade of Cooper Cup, and
he will now be the biggest sought after guy because
he is a proven commodity thirty one that is not
someone that you're gonna see his skills decline so much
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over the next couple of years because of how he
plays his style of play, So he's going to be
more sought after than some of the other guys we
had mentioned. The Mike Williams is a big red zone target,
like the Chargers need him, and hey, Deontay Johnson if
he wants to be traded, and now you know, he
already found his way out of Pittsburgh and now he
might be fighting his way out of Carolina. But Cooper
Cup is a Super Bowl champion, It's come up big
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in the playoffs. He's gonna be too enticing for a
team to not want to go get. Obviously, teams like
Pittsburgh or Tampa Bay Kansas City especially might go after
Cooper Cup. But look for teams like Washington and Dallas
and and the Chargers as well. Hey you know what,
oh no, no, no, we could be a Cooper Cup
away from the playoffs. Suddenly that might make the Dallas Cowboy.
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Jerry Jones has to get really serious about doing something.
We're gonna add Cooper Cup for a second round pick.
We'll give up a second round pick for him. The
Chargers may say, no, he's the guy Cooper Cup likes La.
Stay in La, just come over to play with us.
Washington could say, you know what if we get him suddenly,
what's that gonna do for Jaden Daniels development. We're looking
at a team now that we can win this bleeping
division because Jayden Daniels is so good when he comes
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back to play. So there will be a lot of
teams in for it, not just the obvious ones like
Kansas City and Pittsburgh, but those other teams that can say, hey,
Cooper Cup is someone that maybe he turns us into
a big time playoff team.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah. Ultimately, not a guy that's gonna take the cover
off the defense, right, He's a guy that it's a
move the chains kind of situation. To your point about
health nine twelve and just two games thus far this year.
But when he's on the field, anything that gets near
as catch radius he's gonna come down with. So having
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that type of security to help you move the chains
and in the red zone. Certainly a couple of double
digit touchdown campaigns in his career as five six in
a couple of other seasons. So opportunity, uh, certainly for
a lot of teams to kick it out, because look,
we've talked about it a lot. There's nobody running away
and hiding in the NFL. Even a couple of the
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teams that are sitting out at five wins, they're not
finished products by any means. Right, You tell me how
great Houston is with their five and they're not. They're
they're getting by, and they've taken advantage of beating a
couple of bad teams who imploded late and fourth quarters,
which is how you get over in the NFL. To
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too at Well, when you said his name, I'm sitting
there going known about to two at well a long
long time. He's only twenty five. Yeah, he seems like
he's been around for one hundred years.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You know, who might be confusing Hi with no because
who there was nobody in fantasy you picked up and
dropped and picked up and dropped the last two years
more than two too.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well, it might be that might be that case but yeah,
I mean you got a young defense, you got a
young receiving corps. Which leads to the other part of
this game of Djenga that's being played, and the the
trade winds blowing is that it stays in Los Angeles, right,
because it's not just Cooper Cup that's potentially on the
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way out. And that's my way of passing the ball
back to.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You, because yes, maybe the Rams are just deciding they
want to punt on the entire season because other reports
have come out today that Matthew Stafford could be dealt
to the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Now we did that before the game.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
They're gonna halftime, Yeah, they're gonna they're gonna if if
Sam Donald's playing well.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
But my first thing I want to say, Sam's only
twenty what twenty seven?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
But here's the first thing I want to say because
I want to say this because you know I can't
not do it. But but I thought Sam Donald was great.
I thought he was the greatest quarterback in the world.
And Jason look out Goody is away from the Jets
and d I thought Sam Donald was so great. Why
do you need another quarterback?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
You have Donald? You what do you mean what do
you worried for you.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Got the best guy in the history in the NFL.
He's better than Johnny Unitis. He's better than Joe Montana.
Hold on, he's better we got we got a lot
of hot well.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Joe Montaigna. Now he's not better than Joe the greatest
quarterback ever, he's criminal minds better than Tom Brady's better
than Chad Powers. He's better than all of these guys.
He's so great. Now, I will say from the quarterback,
I will defend the hot take artists and blowhards of
our industry gas bags as it were, related to all
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of the hot takery, cause I don't know, even in
trying to prop up Sam Donald's run with Kevin O'Connell
and what is going on in Minnesota, that he's ever
been compared to any of the names that you just
listed there. As much as folks have been trying to
find the angle and serviceable and obviously a narrow loss
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to green Bay this last week. They did a good job,
did green Bay in the first half, and then or
I should say, against Detroit, and then the door opened
up for Darnald and the offense to come to life.
But yeah, it's one of those situations whereby Matthew Stafford,
after all those years where everybody hated matt Stafford, but
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when everyone wanted to take a shovel to the back
of his head like he was an overrated stiff, and
then how quickly everybody changes their opinion on him because
he put on the Rams colors and suddenly because he'd
had lunch with Sean McVay, he was the greatest thing ever. No, while, now,
if you are in complete reboot mode, I mean you
would say Stafford better than Sam Donald on a neutral field, right? Oh? Sure? Neutral? Yeah? Okay,
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all right? How neutral?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I don't know what colors? Do we make the field
to make it neutral?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Fox Sports Radio the Jason Smiths Row with Mike Carmon
live from the Tirech dot Com studios. So we have
that right, We have Cooper Cup and potentially Matthew Stafford
getting trade ams reloading on the fly. We will have
more on this story coming up in a few minutes. However,
we have just gotten this in right now via the
Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers have announced the passing of
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legendary pitcher Fernando Valenzuela. Valenzuela had stepped away from the team,
away from his duties over the course of the past
few months. He apparently was sicker than we thought he
was wanted privacy, And the Dodgers have just announced a
minute ago that Fernando Valenzuea, one of the most legendary
pitchers in Major League Baseball, has passed away at the
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age of sixty three. And you're already seeing people even
though this news is just a couple of minutes old,
tweeting out thoughts about him, about what a great human
being he was, and everybody I ever knew who met
Fernando Valenzuela and said, oh my god, what a great guy,
full of life, full of energy, full of so much.
And again, this is news coming in from the Dodgers
right now, who announced this less than five minutes ago
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on their social media account, and his name and image
and highlights have been littered everywhere the last several days,
right because the last time we had this World Series
in nineteen eighty one, and that was Fernando Mania, right
when he burst onto the scene with that rookie season
and just the flash that everybody came to Los Angeles.
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And we've seen murals all over the city, and you
know there was concern as he stepped away, but as
you said, I mean nobody had any details privacy. But yeah,
the hammer, right, I mean, that's childhood of you and
I watching baseball like that's some of the earliest memories
was him. Oh yeah, and you know Saturday, you know,
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in twib notes and whatever else. Hey, here's the left
hand or and look at this to try to put
Fernando valens Wale's impact on the game and perspective, because
this was this was, you know, forty years ago when
he was the biggest story in baseball.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
And it isn't even close.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
If you remember Strasburg Mania, when Steven Strasburg first came up,
how much attention we spent on watching him pitch every
fifth day because it was just one of those things
where it was in rapturous, right, Paul Skeen's pitching this
year every fifth day, Look at what Skeens is doing.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
As good as Skeens is.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
As good as Strasburg was, None of that was even
close to what Fernando Mania was. Because you're back in
a time in nineteen eighty one where not a lot
of people had cable television. The Dodgers played late on
the West Coast, and here's this kid with this crazy
pitching motion where he looks up to the sky and
he closes his eyes and he comes down and throws
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the ball and all was going on.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
It was a lefty, that guy. I took the hill.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That was it, and and every every outing was a
shutout or one run. And Fernando Mania was the very
first time we had ever seen that from a player.
There's other players that have come up since where the
excitement level to see them play has been immense. I
don't know we have that if not for Fernando Mania,
because it was just all you could talk about in
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baseball was how can I find a way to watch
a bleep in Dodgers game?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Are we gonna get a Dodgers game on Monday Night baseball?
At some point when that was a thing, right my
night baseball was the big thing in the summer. When
do the Dodgers play an East Coast game like against
the Cardinals that I'm gonna get to watch. Fernando villens
Weil a pitch and and his his He was a
larger than life character because he was so imposing. You
got You had this image in your head of here's
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a guy who's just gonna must look like a dragon
the way he's throwing the ball.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
He was eight No.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Nine and er and then you watch him pitches, you go,
oh my god, he does he closes his eyes before
he pitches the ball.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
What the hell is this?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
El Toro y and and El Toro was just he
was just captured your imagination, unlike any other player we
had seen before. We see someone like Caitlin Clark coming
in and that's something we see Lebron James coming into
the game. We talked about him from months and months
and months twenty years ago when he came into the NBA,
and Fernando Mania just had the mystique about him because
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you knew about him. You saw his name in the
paper and then you thought, but I've not seen this.
I've not seen any anything about Fernando. What is My
desire to see him is so immense. I can't wait
four more days for him to pitch again so I
can at least see what's going on. So if I
watch my local game that ends at ten thirty eleven o'clock,
are they gonna give me the score?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Am? I gonna know that. Hey, Fernando Vella.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Oh by the way, hey in La Ferando Valenzuela pitch tonight, Like,
take a look at the out of town scoreboard. Frando
Valenzuela pitching tonight for the Dodgers. No hits through five innings,
Frando avalan Zuela and no hitter going like, that's that's
what the impact was. And I hope I'm doing a
good enough job just just relaying what it was like
in an era before twenty four hour news, where you
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can find something out to the second guy. It's a
big home run in the game, Wait eight seconds, you'll
be able to see it on Twitter like it was.
Obviously it was a different time, but it was just
such a huge thing for Fernando Valenzuela and all the
great young players that have come out in sports and
the attention that they've gotten coming out all goes back
to Fernando valenz Well well.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
And we just talked about it where we're at here
in Los Angeles and obviously the Mexican community, the Latino
community that is Los Angeles and Dodger faithful that you'll
you see, you know, in big moments and the gatherings
that we have. You know, Fernando an icon unlike any other.
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So a huge loss to the Dodger family as they
get ready for the rematch all these years later against
the Yankees. Again. We'll have more on this story throughout
the show.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Again, the Dodgers announced the passing of Fernando Valenzuela, sixty
three years old.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
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Speaker 1 (16:54):
Absolute History in the NBA. For the first time, we
saw a father and son playing together in the game.
Lebron had checked out of the game a few minutes ago,
banged his arm, looked like he was gonna check back in.
We had said maybe a round a minute to goo.
Lebron comes back in. The Lakers are beating Minnesota pretty good,
a pretty sizeable lead, and then with about four minutes
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to go in the first half, history in the NBA,
and Ronnie.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
James just popped off the bench. How about along with
Lebron history tonight the first father son duo to play
together in an NBA game.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
This is all in the family Iron Eagle on TNT
with a call. Do you think I an eagle brought
NOA of the game? The father son, Hey, you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Do a game with me? You know, Hey, it's okay.
It's called a meathead. Hey, get in the family reference.
I like, all you guys up the side.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
My son's gonna come in to be my analyst here
for a little bit now, just so you know we're
gonna work that way.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I mean, you can do it for three minutes like
they did, like they did here with le bron and
Bronnie on Savannah got up in the left. I think, yeah, yeah.
As soon as Bronni checked out, shout Savannah, Hey, mom
was like, I got other stuff to do. Savannahs seen
a game or two in her life. I think it's okay,
you know what. That's good, been there and done that
about so I'm gonna be hit and beat traffic. They
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checking it.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
What did we see over the course of the last
three minutes? Because now, uh, Bronni checks out of the game.
We're forty four seconds before halftime. The Lakers have a
twelve point lead over Minnesota. It was nineteen when Bronni
checked in. Now it's twelve, so no uh to the map.
Bronni minus minus five, minus five in three minutes. So
Bronni checks into the game with Lebron, and there was
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a sequence in the very very first possession. Lebron takes
a three. It doesn't go uh. Next time down the floor,
Bronny was on the right side of the floor. Looked
like he was gonna he was trying to hang behind
the arc. Lebron took a three, missed it. Bronny sneaks
in behind everybody, goes up for a putback and and
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just misses. But he gets in between behind everybody and
gets a pretty good look at it at a grab
and a putback and it just bounces off the rim.
Next time down the floor, Lebron passes to Bronny. Looks
like they were running little two man game, maybe a
little pick and roll. But Bronny comes around, gets the
ball back to Lebron. Shot clock was winding down. That
was a really bad two man game there. That was
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very close.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Gonna do Dad, dad Dad here here. Even though ron
a crushing pick here, I'm the defender that was stepping out.
I mean, that was a that was a football block.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Bronny passed it back to Lebron At the end of
the shot clock, Lebron missed a three. Uh Minnesota hit
a couple of shots. Now, Joe Ingles is guarding Bronnie James,
and you could tell he was like, this kid's not
making anything on me, Like, no, no, no, I'm not
gonna be the guy posterized for Bronni's first two points.
And it figures, Ay Ingles, that's the guy, right, okay'
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he's the guy, right, That's that's how it's gonna go.
Uh So again, not a lot after that, shortly after
we watched Bronni check out of the game. The Lakers
will go to the locker with a thirteen point lead
here fifty five forty two. But we get the history
of Lebron and Bronny playing together for the first and
not the last time. Look, Bronny comes into this game
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and we're all wondering how much is he gonna play?
When is he going to play? And I would I
would think that it can't be something that's hard and fast,
right because you can't plan. Okay, here's a guy that
we don't know what he's going to be able to
add to us. Is he gonna be eventually a three
and D guy. Is he gonna be a depth piece?
He plays hard defensively, so we know that part of it.
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They're gonna have to sniff out how it's gonna go,
and will I will tell you what how I think
this is going to go. In the beginning, he will
play a few minutes a night and they will see
how it goes. And if it looks like he belongs
on the court, even for short spence, because it's not like,
well you got to play him and get no. No, this
is how it works the NBA. You see limited minutes
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and it's not like, oh, well he needs time, he
needs at bats yet, no he doesn't. He doesn't need reps.
This is how it works in the NBA. You play
the minutes that you are good with playing, that you
can continue to add to the team with. If he
looks like he is not overwhelmed and that he is
all right on the floor and at the very least
a zero sum player, maybe he's not adding to the Lakers,
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but he's giving rest to another player, and the Lakers
lead doesn't really evaporate or they don't fall behind more,
then this is how it will go. And Bronnie will
play very limited minutes throughout the course, and it will
be a more comfortable situation. If Bronni isn't moving, if
he's not what the Lakers need him to be, the
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decision will be made for him because lebron knows, hey
as much as you know. Look, I want Bronnie to
play here. I can't have this where it looks like
the team is gonna have a mutiny against me because
my son is playing when he shouldn't be. Another guy
should be playing other minutes. If that happens, that's when
you will see Bronny go to the G League. That's
when you will start playing.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Well.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Hey, let's get you some time here and you I
can already see JJ Redicks press conference.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Hey, he needs more time. He's not getting it up here.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
We're gonna still bring him back up, so he'll gonna
play up here a little bit, but gonna go down
to the G League get a bunch of minutes because
it's very close. That's the best thing about the Lakers
of the G League is they're in the same city.
They're five minutes from their practice facility, so it's a
pretty easy thing for the Lakers to do that. So
it's gonna be they're gonna kind of feel this out.
But that that's kind of how I see this going.
And you saw the way he played there. Look, Minnesota
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didn't go on an unbelievable run. They didn't take advantage
of him defensively, they weren't blowing by him, they weren't
using him and getting buckets. He wasn't someone that on
offense gummed anything up. So as long as he is
playing and he is not hurting them and he's able
to give rest to some players for just a couple
minutes here at a time, he will continue to see
this kind of action three minutes here at a time.
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He'll play with Lebron, sometimes he'll play without Lebron, and
that's how it's going to go. But and we'll be
able to see it, and you'll be able to see
how he goes. It's if he's not hitting shots, if
he's not contributing, if he's getting lost defensively, then he
will go down and play more in the G League.
But I see this is kind of how it's gonna
go for now, where he'll play these few minutes and
see but look a guy like dog connect is gonna
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seem more mates. He checked into the game. He played
a lot right the kid. There's a reason he's a
first round pick. The Lakers are not.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
The guy Lebron wanted. Yeah, the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, the Lakers are not going to do this at
the expense of the team right now. There's too many
eyes on it. There's too many eyeballs on the situation.
There's too many ways to make it go sideways. There's
too many ways. I can see Lebron pulling an Aaron
Rodgers saying, stop listening to the media. That's the first
thing we need to be doing. So the Lakers are
going to handle this right now in the right way.
And if that's Bronny for the first half, okay, And
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if Bronny gets another three minutes in the second half,
he can spell somebody and give somebody a rest with
a tatcha Moore or someone else, Yeah, then that's gonna
be fine. Then that's gonna be all right.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
No, So I mean, in first half, he gets his
three minutes, he missed two shots right put back, and
then he missed a three point shot. You had that
gummed up little two man game, isolated thing nerves whatever,
and angles not be wanting to be the guy to
give up the first points, as we discussed. But yeah,
I mean, you got two weeks before you have to
make a decision. G League still a couple of weeks away.
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So to start a season, it's an eighty two game marathon.
Just like I tried talking you off the ledge an
hour ago as you were canceling the NBA season, I
don't know what the hell you were looking forward to.
I mean, Mets just went home. The Jets stink. Yeah,
Syracuse basketball, Well.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Wait, football, we're playing our big playing the biggest AC season.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Thursday we got Yeah, tonight was that Miami Vice game.
But Thursday, you've got that. Go ahead, bring him up.
I'll let you bring him up, bring him up, bring
him up, bring him up tonight. Bring them up tonight
because they gave up eleven thousand three pointers. Bring him up.
Go ahead, bring them up real fast. I said it. Oh, okay, okay,
I just want to make sure I already said you
wanted to cancel bast all right, Yeah, yeah, you don't
know what you were dancing to, right. The Mets need
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some time off and they need to retool, and they
need to figure out how they're going to get seven
hundred million dollars to pay one. So no, all of
those things still have to happen. But for tonight and
for the next two weeks, you can give a few
minutes here and there. The Lakers season is not going
to be one or lost in these first two weeks. Right,
we're talking the long game here. It's really all about
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whether Lebron and Ad are healthy. Then you're fighting for
the back end maybe middle of the Western Conference, you know,
playoff picture. If things break right and connect is the
guy that they think he could be as a scorer.
Ha Chimora has been fantastic to open this game, maybe
jumping off a little about what he did the end
of last year into his time with the Olympics before
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he got thrown out. You know, all of those things.
He was playing really well, right and he found his space,
right guy. Finally, you know, we expect guys to become
superstars immediately bounce around a little, find his place. But
for Bronnie James, at five minutes a night, you can
steal five minutes a night, three minutes a night, whatever,
Get guys rest extend the bench. He and lebron He
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gets his minutes in front of the big crowd and
you get whatever nerves are off. But eventually he's gonna
need regular minutes. Like I would, you know, disagree in
just keeping him there if he's only gonna play sparingly
right to where in this case, he checks in because
they had a massive lead. Now it was a plan
to get him in, yeah, but it just so happened.
You also had a seventeen in the seventeen nineteen. He's
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gonna be a game to game thing. There's gonna be
times when he doesn't play, and that's gonna be okay.
He's already played in the first game. They got it
out of the way. And if this is how it's managed, okay,
because sometimes guys play three to eight minutes a night,
and that's what certainly the roster dnps. That's how it's decisions. Absolutely,
But it's game to game.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It's game to game, and if they're if they see
that somebody else should be getting these six minutes, they'll
understand and Bronnie will and playing in the G League,
and he'll kind of bounce back and forth.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I would imagine that's exactly the plan, right, I mean,
you got two weeks before they start the G League.
So for now, yeah, right right with the big club
and take a few minutes here and there, and.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Now to get outside of this now for this first game,
the Lakers had an absolutely hell of a first half
against the Tea Wolves. Again, they on a nineteen to
two run, and the Timberwolves hit a couple of shots
in the last couple of minutes to close it down.
But the Lakers go to halftime with a fifty five
to forty two lead, and it's kind of been all
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over the scoreboard for then. This has not been a
Lebron's got twelve and AD's got thirteen. Yeah, Ad as twelve,
Lebron's got eight, Russell as seven, Hayes has six connect
off the bench already as five, he's hit a three already,
So this is kind of across the board. The Lakers
are getting it from from their big players, and Hatchamora
and Russell are both plus twenty for the game so far.
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So this has been this has been exactly like the
Lakers couldn't draw this up any better. What do you
want your first game? We want Lebron and Brownie to play.
We want it to be a positive experience, and we
want to win the game, and we want to have
all our guys play well and show that we're not
just already going to rely on Lebron and Ad again.
And that's what you've seen so far. This has been
a perfect first half for the JJ Reddick could have
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went to bed last night and his wife would have
cold have turned over and said, what's a perfect game
for you tomorrow? And the first half would be exactly
what they said here And somehow we have a double
digit lead going a halftime, and Lebron plays well, and
Bronni plays and everybody is contributing, and Connect comes off
the bench, and oh Bay and Russell looks good and
hot Chimore did the two guys that I've tried to
make sure over the course of the offseason, I was
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pumping up. They're both having big first half. This is
I don't know, This may be the high point of
the Lakers year. This may be as good as against Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Maybe like this, I mean yeah, ten offensive rebounds, twenty
seven to twenty three rebounding edge. The only downside is
JJ Reddick might be their best three point shooter because
they were three nineteen in the first Sure.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah, you could be right about that. You could be right.
O would have got Frost. We got a question on this?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Oh yeah, you guys Rudy for this? Oh yeah, go ahead.
What do you got if you're the timber Wolves? Right? Yeah?
Do you take this personal?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
They're all on iPads in the locker room looking at
Bronny checking in bring his face belong getting to play
you in the first game in the first half.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Well, I mean we could, like we said, Angles certainly
was not a fan.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
What's the what's the highlight in Fletch when he's playing
for the Lakers and they're showing the highlight and the
guy hits him and he grabs him and he puts
his mouth on to bite the guy's wrists.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Like that's I'm gonna be seeing in the second half.
You believe they put Bronny in the game? Here, you
believe they put Bronny in the game.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Angles game dunking from like mid court.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
See there you go. I mean they shoot forty one
percent for the first half. Do the t Wolves? Uh?
Ten turnovers, good fast break points and a lot of layups,
a lot of lambs for the Lakers in the first half.
So yeah, and worked out well. But I greg group
looking if you could have the the Knicks taken personally
that the guys are jacking threes, they say the tea
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wolves like really, hey, guys, they just checked him in
there he is, look at him coming in togethers have
intestinal fortitude right now in that locker room. Who wants
to guard you? Know Ingles? Who wants to guard Bronnie?
I got him. I got him. I got him because
you know Ingles is that guy. No, I got him.
I got him, Coach, I got him. I got him.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Okay, okay, take it easy here a little over excited,
but no, I got him.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Do't worry, dot worry. I got scar on me. Coach,
I got him. Guys, I got a doory. I got him,
I got he's got his hand come out. I got me.
Me me yeah, me chewing gum, yeah yeah me me
me yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, I got I gotta coach.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I gotta coach again. I think that's why Lebron set that.
Hey Ronnie, watch out, they got Ingles on you.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
What does that mean? Don't worry? Trust I got this,
trust me, don't worry about it. I'm bigger. I'll clean
this up.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
He's bigger than you. I'm bigger than him. It will
be fine. Just just be careful, run around, Just run
around me, Just run around me. So I can, I can,
I can, I can do something. So there it is
absolute NBA history. Lebron and Browny play together, a perfect
first half of the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
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Speaker 2 (31:09):
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Speaker 1 (31:20):
Game one of the World Series, and again you've heard
all the pageantry about this over the course. It's the
World Series Titan. It always counts, does it? The world
serious counts. Dodgers win. Yeah, some deserving owner will walk
away with a big hunk of metal and be the
World Series champion. Now, first things, for a four am,
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we sell it before I give you my pick on
what's gonna wind up being the highest rated World Series
game in baseball history. People who've never watched a baseball
game will watch at least a little bit of this world.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
So do they get to include the numbers from Japan?
Of course they will. Yeah, well, you think it's just
like Hollywood whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
A movie sort of disappoints domestically, they go, hey, weekend
one for smile too.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Globally, Oh yeah, night million dollars. Look, it all counts
the same. I'm not I'm not saying that it's definitely
the case.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
But I gotta say this, all right, because I gotta
be real, righting, bro, I told you about the meeting
with the Devil, my deal with him I got.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I gotta say this. I can't have the Yankees win.
I can't. I mean, I know, I love my dad.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
He went to Game two of the NLCS with me
and it was a great day, rooting for me everything.
I'm sorry, but I can't have the Yankees win.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I can't have him walking over to the house every day,
walking in like he's my landlord and he owns it.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Hey, I see what I got today. I got this
new Yankee World series. I got this. I got this,
I got this. I can't have it, man, I can't
do it. Well. I didn't put enough stuff accoutremont, like
little patches and stuff. It might be better, kindling. I
can't sit here.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I can't sit here and look at Wow, what a
great year the Mets had and how great a run there.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
I'm to know.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Still the Nonumber two team, Hey, look at the great
year you had. We won the World Series.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Can't have it. I can't have the Yankees win. I can't. Okay,
absolutely cannot have it. All right, So fifty to one
any player to hit a five hundred plus foot home
run in the World Series.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Uh, that's never going to pay out because Otani hit
like a seven hundred foot.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
One against them. That area was three hundred and ninety feet.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
So comrand slam plus one ninety never betten that never
bet in that one not happening three or more.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Home runs in any game in the series. Thirty four
to one? Cot that? Oh I love that? Are you kidding?
The left handed hitters? The Dodgers have it? Yankee Staddy?
Do you know what the best payout I heard was
a promotion being run on our flagship here in LA
and five seventy LA Sports with the Seasoning Company. You
get a taco party at your house and it includes
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the setups for twenty not a helmet nachos. How about that?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Oh? Okay, anytime you put your buddies would be sitting
there eating out of helmets.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I'm interested. I'm not helt It was an employee at
the company. But Dannet, what a promote. Not to hell,
it's for everybody. Oh you get a nacho helmety, you
get a nacho helmet. All right? So you want your
dad to be sad when it comes down, he's happy.
I'm happy they're in the worlds. I can't. I just
can't have them win. I can't have them. Do you
want him to be teased like you and your deal
with the devil before this forty one to six burial
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even in the hands of the pitt Panthers, and your
dad fought. Now, man, what are you doing? He did?
He did? He did? He did, he did disrespect him.
He might go Walter on, he did nice, you.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Know, Walter, I can't have the I can't have the
Yankees to change your pick. I can't do it. I
can't have the Yankees win. I got a good run, man,
I can't. I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Now, that doesn't mean I wouldn't pick the Yankees to
win if I thought they were going to win.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
I just can't have them win.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
So you're saying they suck I'm sick of these World
Series where there's a team I really just can't have one,
can't have anybody from the Nles t win, can't have
the Yankees win. Whatever year have you made everybody your
damn enemies. I had the year off last year, oh,
Arizona and the Rangers. Yes, even though oh I didn't
want the Rangers to win because they had Sureser and
de Gron, but it turned.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Out to be okay, you didn't want them to be
getting paid by your team and they didn't play, so
it doesn't mat.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I still have to celebrate, and psychologically it crushed you. No,
they didn't even play. It's part of the extended deal
with the devil. I get over that pretty a lot
of stuff. I get over that pretty fast. They didn't play.
I didn't have to watch it. Well, I didn't want
to have my white eyes. But then but but like
last I said, no, I kind of had the year
off last year where yeah, that was I didn't want
the Rangers to win, but they won. But it's not
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that big a deal because again sures Are into Grom
didn't play. Again. I got a lot of people watched
didn't account.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Yeah, I think you're right. Uh Now, Dodgers are a
minus one twenty two favorite in the series.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
The two biggest things that are that hit me on
this look. Starting pitching is a toss up. The Dodgers
are gonna have to run with their whatever situation they
have going on with Flaherty to Yamamoto bullpen games bueller.
But the Yankee starting pitching isn't great After Garrett Cole,
it's all chances. I think it's better for Garrett call
that he's pitching on the road in Game one rather
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than the Yankee stadium. But the starting pitching is a wash.
The Dodgers lineup is better top to bottom. The Yankees
have mashed this postseason, but it's really been Judge and
Stanton and that's been it, right. They struggle to get
production out of other parts of the lineup. Soto had
the big home run as well, so they have the
big mashes at the top. But once you get outside
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the number four spot in the batting order, yeah, you're
kind of waiting for those guys to come up again.
The Dodgers have gotten it from everywhere. I mean Tommy
Bleep and edmund Man. I lost my shot at the
World Series because Tommy Edmund, who's just a guy, gets
eleven hits and eleven RBI in the NLCS. Right, I
lost my chance of the World Series to Tommy Bleep
and Edmund. But the Dodgers lineup is better top to bottom.
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I have more confidence They're gonna hit with runners in
scoring position, and they're going to be able to manufacture
runs at the bottom of the lineup. And I have
more confidence the Dodger bullpen is going to be able
to have a better series overall.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Than the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
The Yankees have shown, hey, we'll give it up late, right,
you think we're coughed. I know Weaver's been Okay, we'll
give it up late. It'll happen, and it doesn't need
to happen every game, it just needs to happen once.
I have more confidence the Dodger bullpen is gonna get
the job done, and their lineup is better top to bottom,
they will hit better. I feel weird about saying it,
but I really think it's going the distance. I want
to say Dodgers and five, but this is going seven
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Dodgers and seven in what's gonna wind up being a
World Series that we talk about for thirty or forty years.
It's gonna be that kind.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Of world headliner after headliner. A few days off now
for Freddie Freeman. So hopefully that ankle, they can keep
the swelling under control and that he can measure that.
We get a couple of guys back in the series overall,
Rojas and Vessia, there's the triple Lunderscore and perhaps Graderol
as well to bolster the bullpen. We'll see his availability.
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On the other side, Cortes coming back for the Yankees,
but I'm looking at a Dodgers in six. That's what
I've been saying all week when asked. I'll stick to
it here that the bullpen game becomes the stuff of legend.
Like as much as you hate it, you have to
accept that it is here to stay across Major League Baseball,
and nobody's been able to orchestrate it better than what
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Dave Roberts and this staff have done and the way
these players have been used. To your point about the lineup,
I think it's gonna be imperative about you know, when
we're looking at Keith Hernandez and what he does in October,
and guys like Will Smith, where we see the bats
start to come to life a little bit. You mentioned, Edmund,
one of my biggest joys this week was watching people
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with all their fines in the trading card world. Going
back to the Commons boxes of their twenty twenty cards
that they ripped open during the COVID and pandemic shutdown.
It's like, wait, I've got a comments box of all
sorts of crap over here. Look, it's a stack of
Tommy Edmonds. I'm rich.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
So all of that to say too much for the
Yankees on the only part where I thought, you'll get
thrown every game and the Yankees will win and I'll
tell them to stay home for the other games.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
The Dodgers played at such a high level in the NLCS,
and I'm a big believer in playoff momentum and bounces.
The Yankees did not play great in the ALCS. They
played well enough, but they made a lot of mistakes.
They've not played their best baseball yet. The Dodgers may
have played their best baseball right with the shutouts against
the Mets. The the games they realized, hey, we're not
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gonna win these couple of games because a Mets scored
a bunch of runs early. So we're gonna save our bullpen.
Dave Roberts kind of helping to give those games, not
giving those games the Mets, but just saying, we're not
going to exhaust ourselves trying to get back in this
game where we're down six. Nothing so, but the other
games the Dodgers played, they got it from everywhere. The
bullpen was terrific. The bottom of the order hit Key
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Hernandez hit home runs, the top of the order hit
by only fear. The Dodgers get a bit of a bounce,
but there's been enough time going back, the momentum, the
the the fact that Dodgers are getting two home games
in the World Series for the first time in a while,
and their team is just too big to fail. It
may be a bit of rocky going on. It's why
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said Dodgers in seven more than in five or six.
But that's the only thing I look at where I
go ooh. It gives me the tiniest bit of doubt
in the Dodgers, But everything else makes up for it.
They have so many guys, and it doesn't it. Tommy
edmund may hit one seventy nine, Kick Hernandez might hit
four to fifty, right that that might be how it
goes right. You might get Mookie Betts hitting two fifty,
but Tascar Hernandez might hit three ninety. So the Dodger
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lineup just has too many ways to kill you. But
the thing with the Yankees is we talked about it
with your Mets. You know where you see the tail
of two types of plate discipline.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Hey, would you guys take a damn pitch? Oh wait,
they actually now have to come to us and we
can actually mash a bit. That's the Yankees, right, first
ball swing and getting behind and counts. They're a team
that you can pile up some strikeouts against. So how
much plate discipline? How much do they show and try
to extend clarity to where in Game one we're getting
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into the bullpen early, because that could set the tone
for everything else. Right, if you've got to go into
high leverage to try to get through game one, suddenly
it sets everything off. So the first inning plus when
you get the heart of the order coming through, I
mean Judge and Stanton, they've been known to wave the
pitches and go sit down. They've also been known to
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hit five hundred plus foot home runs, So you know,
can you get them to chase out of the zone
and get away from a little bit of the discipline.
If Clarity can do that, huge advantage Dodgers. But that's
the tail of the tape. He's I think four and
a half strikeouts is his game. One over Unders, so
we'll watch from there. Exit.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
How about a fresco exit swallowing dome. There's our picks
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Speaker 2 (42:13):
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Speaker 1 (42:21):
Vikings Rams great game right. Vikings has started out really good.
Sam Darnold's been a big surprise. Rams have been disappointing,
had a lot of injuries. Cooper Cup was out Pokinakua
was out, and we told you that this was the
rubber hits the road game for the Rams. It was
high noon. If the Rams win tonight, they moved to
three and four, and they're in the thick of it
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in the NFC West, in an NFC West that is underachieving,
and an NFC overall that outside of the NFC North,
there's not a lot of great teams, so they would
stick with it. They're getting their guys back. Cooper Cup
came back tonight, had a touchdown. Pookinakua came back tonight.
He had seven catches for one hundred yards a night
on nine targets. If they won, they would keep it going.
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But if they lost, you fall to two and five,
you would see trades. You heard Cooper Cup's name on
the trading block. You might have seen Matthew Stafford's name
out thereafter. And suddenly teams around the NFL were looking
at this game and going, Okay, come on, Vikings, I
really want to go get Cooper Cup. Now, Mike Tomlins watching,
I really want to get Cooper Cup. Jim Harbaugh's going, oh,
I really love to get that Cooper Cup. But we
(43:26):
told you if the Rams win, things are gonna change
and tuddah, what just happened. I told you we're ahead
of the curve. Sean mcvayh and his postgame press conference
was asked about the Cooper Cup trade rumors. He said, listen,
don't don't believe everything you hear. But he did address
it full on and said, I don't expect Cooper Cup's
status with us to change. He's going to stay a
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member of the Rams, and they why not because the
NFC is so wide open. Now you're healthy. I picked
the Rams and go to the Super Bowl beginning of
the I know I would curse them with all these injuries,
but now you are back to be the Rams. The
forty nine ers are still trying to figure out who
they are. They're still extremely unhealthy. The Cardinals and the Cardinals.
The Seahawks are the Seahawks. They're not bad, but they're
(44:10):
not great. The Rams can still be the best team
in that division and one of the top teams in
the NFC. They've gotten everybody back. They still run the
football really well. I told you that Kyen willm is
gonna have a big night. He ran for ninety seven
yards tonight. The Rams can still be the Rams. This
is now them going forward, and now all the other
teams that were hoping for a shot at Cooper Cup
or other players, you gotta go someplace else. He's staying
(44:32):
around now.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
It helped that his tag team partner because he did
channel the Undertaker talking about rising up and they didn't
really finish off the Rams did and put them under that,
you know, with pookin Nakua coming back, all of a sudden,
oh like, it got that much better for Matthew Stafford.
The fact that he's perfected the fifteen yard drop back
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has helped too, because he really he does like the
old video game thing if I'm gonna go all the
way back here and then I'm gonna fire and it's
a cannon shot to my wide receiver. So yeah, all
of a sudden it opens back up. Kian Williams has
been fantastic. Fantasy circles certainly know about him. Gets a
bit overshadowed in the national discussion because the passing game
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gets all the love, but he's been consistent. They had
a couple of games that they should have won earlier
this season that they gave away. That game against Chicago,
they should have won that game. Game against Green Bay,
it got away from them a little bit, but they
were in it until late in the third. And then
you go back to the game against Detroit to start
the season, game that could have gone either way. So
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now you get back on the schedule. The next date
is at Seattle. Then you got Miami. Well in theory
two US now back, so we'll see if it's a different,
better replenished version of the Dolphins. But then you've got
New England, Philly, New Orleans. Like, there's winnable games on
the schedule. Is the point when you start looking down
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the road here as long as you stay healthy. But
do I believe that they put some of the stuff
about trades out there that it wasn't just wanting speculation,
damn right they oh yeah, hey, you never know, he's
the best in the marketplace, whatever else was going on.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Yeah, and you have three receivers that are young that
you really like, right, Nikua is huge.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
And Mark Robinson had two scores today. They really like
Jordan Whittington too.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
He's a guy coming out and obviously two two Outwell's
a gadget guy can catch a lot of passes. Hey,
if we can get by with this passing game and
not have to pay somebody this money and get a
draft pick. I mean, sure, Cooper Cup is great, you'd
want him, but hey, if our season goes by the boards,
we're not going to come back another year when he's
thirty two and a half years old. Hey, try to
stay healthy. Let's try to figure this out. They certainly
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were trying to test the waters for it, but now
I'm sure they pull it all back. It's like in
fantasy you put a guy in the trading block and
he gives you twenty one points. I'm taking him off
the trade block, not trading there.
Speaker 3 (46:51):
Somebody else gets hurt and you say, no, I'm taking
it off. You know, he offered that trade and immediately
rescind it as soon as you see the ankle twist,
knowing that the guy is going to get to his
team and accept it as fast as possible. So on
the other side from Minnesota, they did lose Darrisaw early
in this game to highlight what's going on there, because
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that was a big loss on the offensive line. You
saw what the Rams were able to do in terms
of their defensive deployment thereafter. But let's also start this
once again. Sean mcpay is a genius. He's the smartest
guy in the world, and tonight he was better than Flores.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down, the Jason
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So many angles coming off this game. It was such
a big win for the Rams and a big loss
for anybody else who wanted to get Cooper Cup.
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Second half just underway, Lakers lead the Tea Wolves fifty
nine to forty four. We'll have more on this game
coming up in a few minutes. Yes, we saw history.
Lebron and Bronni James played together. Bronnie checks in right
around the four minute mark of the second quarter, and
we will have willing to hear the advice that Lebron
gave to Bronny right before they went on the court.
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Coming up in a few minutes. About that, Lebron was Mike.
That's pretty good. But if you thought the NFL trade
deadline was interesting last night, hey, you know we saw
that the unfortunate injury and all props and prayers up
to Chris Godwin after last night. The Chargers clearly need
a wide receiver. You know, the Bucks need one now.
Mike Evans is out.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
He's week to week, so you're not gonna see him
a week eleven, so.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
More teams needing wide receivers. However, today new Wrinkle jumped
in as maybe the Los Angeles Rams are saying time.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
To move on.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Not just one, but two star players have been named
in trade talks. The first one Cooper Cupp, who was
about to come off the injured list. They're playing on
Thursday night against the Vikings. He said he's aware his
name has been mentioned in trade rumors before the trade
deadline coming up on November fifth, but he is quote
focused on being the best La Ram that he can be.
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According to reports today, the Rams are looking for a
second round pick and if a team will pay out
the remainder of his contract. Now it's a dice roll because, okay,
second round pick. I mean Cooper Cup is that good.
But Cooper Cup doesn't stay in the lineup that often.
So while he's a guy that can really tip something
for you, he's a bit of a dice roll for
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the Rams. I would do it. But the first thing
I want to say is I am sad because I
thought the Rams. Look, I had the Rams are going
to the Super Bowl this year, and this is they
They got young, they were able to flip their team
over offensively, they have so many weapons, and then the
injuries just crushed them. The just man man Benny Yeah apparently, so,
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I mean apparently they said, Okay, we're done with the Ram,
done with the injury. Now I'm gonna work on the Bucks. Okay,
Carmen is working on the Bucks. But it's sad because
the Rams, they were a team that that that had
gone from one of the oldest teams lastly flipped one
of the youngest teams. They're one of the best teams
in the NFL. Down the stretch, looked like they were
gonna make noise again, and Matthew Stafford is healthy, and
now it's just, hey, we're limited, and we see we
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have to reload on the fly. And it's what the
Rams have always done and it's kept them competitive. There's
no hey, we're ripping it down to the studs. We
are going to reload on the fly. Hey, we're a
really good team. We think we can win the Super Bowl.
We're gonna trade Jared Goff and trade couple of first
round picks to get Matthew Stafford. Wait, what this How
we're doing it on the fly. And that's kind of
how teams have to do it now. There's no more
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patience for a team to say, hey, we're completely starting over,
because look, look at the mess the Patriots are right now.
I mean, you can say, okay, it's great, we don't
really have any any aspirations or least it we're gonna
be better than we are. But when that reality hits
and you're one in five, one and six and there's
no hope. Yeah, that goes out the window.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Well, and your coach is a dope and gets in
front of a microphone and calls your team. Saw.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So reloading on the fly is the has become the
new way to do it, and the Rams have done
it better than anybody the last three years. So yeah,
if you can trade Cooper Cup mainly because if this
is not gonna be your year, you have some really young,
talented pass catchers that need the ball more. Right, Pokin
A Coup is gonna come off the injured list. He's
terrific too to at well as a weapon. Winnington is
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really good. They've been high on him from the beginning.
And these guys need snaps. And if you're not gonna
win the Super Bowl this year, okay, let's get a
starting player. Let's get somebody, because someone's gonna wind up
making this move for Cooper Cup because he's too enticing
to not it is it is a gamble, but he's
too enticing to not do that. Uh, And they'll be
able to find and say, Okay, now all our receivers
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are young. They they're getting the time they need to.
Winning two will be the number three at will will
be the two to Puka Nakua and they're gonna move on.
So I agree with the trade of Cooper Cup, and
he will now be the biggest sought after guy because
he is a proven commodity thirty one that is not
someone that you're gonna see his skills decline so much
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over the next couple of years because of how he
plays his style of play, So he's going to be
more sought after than some of the other guys we
had mentioned. The Mike Williams is a big red zone target,
like the Chargers need him, and hey, Deontay Johnson if
he wants to be traded, and now you know, he
already found his way out of Pittsburgh and now he
might be fighting his way out of Carolina. But Cooper
Cup is a Super Bowl champion, It's come up big
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in the playoffs. He's gonna be too enticing for a
team to not want to go get. Obviously, teams like
Pittsburgh or Tampa Bay Kansas City especially might go after
Cooper Cup. But look for teams like Washington and Dallas
and and the Chargers as well. Hey you know what,
oh no, no, no, we could be a Cooper Cup
away from the playoffs. Suddenly that might make the Dallas Cowboy.
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Jerry Jones has to get really serious about doing something.
We're gonna add Cooper Cup for a second round pick.
We'll give up a second round pick for him. The
Chargers may say, no, he's the guy Cooper Cup likes La.
Stay in La, just come over to play with us.
Washington could say, you know what if we get him suddenly,
what's that gonna do for Jaden Daniels development. We're looking
at a team now that we can win this bleeping
division because Jayden Daniels is so good when he comes
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back to play. So there will be a lot of
teams in for it, not just the obvious ones like
Kansas City and Pittsburgh, but those other teams that can say, hey,
Cooper Cup is someone that maybe he turns us into
a big time playoff team.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah. Ultimately, not a guy that's gonna take the cover
off the defense, right, He's a guy that it's a
move the chains kind of situation. To your point about
health nine twelve and just two games thus far this year.
But when he's on the field, anything that gets near
as catch radius he's gonna come down with. So having
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that type of security to help you move the chains
and in the red zone. Certainly a couple of double
digit touchdown campaigns in his career as five six in
a couple of other seasons. So opportunity, uh, certainly for
a lot of teams to kick it out, because look,
we've talked about it a lot. There's nobody running away
and hiding in the NFL. Even a couple of the
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teams that are sitting out at five wins, they're not
finished products by any means. Right, You tell me how
great Houston is with their five and they're not. They're
they're getting by, and they've taken advantage of beating a
couple of bad teams who imploded late and fourth quarters,
which is how you get over in the NFL. To
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too at Well, when you said his name, I'm sitting
there going known about to two at well a long
long time. He's only twenty five. Yeah, he seems like
he's been around for one hundred years.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You know, who might be confusing Hi with no because
who there was nobody in fantasy you picked up and
dropped and picked up and dropped the last two years
more than two too.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well, it might be that might be that case but yeah,
I mean you got a young defense, you got a
young receiving corps. Which leads to the other part of
this game of Djenga that's being played, and the the
trade winds blowing is that it stays in Los Angeles, right,
because it's not just Cooper Cup that's potentially on the
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way out. And that's my way of passing the ball
back to.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You, because yes, maybe the Rams are just deciding they
want to punt on the entire season because other reports
have come out today that Matthew Stafford could be dealt
to the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Now we did that before the game.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
They're gonna halftime, Yeah, they're gonna they're gonna if if
Sam Donald's playing well.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
But my first thing I want to say, Sam's only
twenty what twenty seven?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
But here's the first thing I want to say because
I want to say this because you know I can't
not do it. But but I thought Sam Donald was great.
I thought he was the greatest quarterback in the world.
And Jason look out Goody is away from the Jets
and d I thought Sam Donald was so great. Why
do you need another quarterback?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
You have Donald? You what do you mean what do
you worried for you.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Got the best guy in the history in the NFL.
He's better than Johnny Unitis. He's better than Joe Montana.
Hold on, he's better we got we got a lot
of hot well.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Joe Montaigna. Now he's not better than Joe the greatest
quarterback ever, he's criminal minds better than Tom Brady's better
than Chad Powers. He's better than all of these guys.
He's so great. Now, I will say from the quarterback,
I will defend the hot take artists and blowhards of
our industry gas bags as it were, related to all
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of the hot takery, cause I don't know, even in
trying to prop up Sam Donald's run with Kevin O'Connell
and what is going on in Minnesota, that he's ever
been compared to any of the names that you just
listed there. As much as folks have been trying to
find the angle and serviceable and obviously a narrow loss
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to green Bay this last week. They did a good job,
did green Bay in the first half, and then or
I should say, against Detroit, and then the door opened
up for Darnald and the offense to come to life.
But yeah, it's one of those situations whereby Matthew Stafford,
after all those years where everybody hated matt Stafford, but
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when everyone wanted to take a shovel to the back
of his head like he was an overrated stiff, and
then how quickly everybody changes their opinion on him because
he put on the Rams colors and suddenly because he'd
had lunch with Sean McVay, he was the greatest thing ever. No, while, now,
if you are in complete reboot mode, I mean you
would say Stafford better than Sam Donald on a neutral field, right? Oh? Sure? Neutral? Yeah? Okay,
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all right? How neutral?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I don't know what colors? Do we make the field
to make it neutral?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Fox Sports Radio the Jason Smiths Row with Mike Carmon
live from the Tirech dot Com studios. So we have
that right, We have Cooper Cup and potentially Matthew Stafford
getting trade ams reloading on the fly. We will have
more on this story coming up in a few minutes. However,
we have just gotten this in right now via the
Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers have announced the passing of
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legendary pitcher Fernando Valenzuela. Valenzuela had stepped away from the team,
away from his duties over the course of the past
few months. He apparently was sicker than we thought he
was wanted privacy, And the Dodgers have just announced a
minute ago that Fernando Valenzuea, one of the most legendary
pitchers in Major League Baseball, has passed away at the
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age of sixty three. And you're already seeing people even
though this news is just a couple of minutes old,
tweeting out thoughts about him, about what a great human
being he was, and everybody I ever knew who met
Fernando Valenzuela and said, oh my god, what a great guy,
full of life, full of energy, full of so much.
And again, this is news coming in from the Dodgers
right now, who announced this less than five minutes ago
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on their social media account, and his name and image
and highlights have been littered everywhere the last several days,
right because the last time we had this World Series
in nineteen eighty one, and that was Fernando Mania, right
when he burst onto the scene with that rookie season
and just the flash that everybody came to Los Angeles.
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And we've seen murals all over the city, and you
know there was concern as he stepped away, but as
you said, I mean nobody had any details privacy. But yeah,
the hammer, right, I mean, that's childhood of you and
I watching baseball like that's some of the earliest memories
was him. Oh yeah, and you know Saturday, you know,
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in twib notes and whatever else. Hey, here's the left
hand or and look at this to try to put
Fernando valens Wale's impact on the game and perspective, because
this was this was, you know, forty years ago when
he was the biggest story in baseball.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
And it isn't even close.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
If you remember Strasburg Mania, when Steven Strasburg first came up,
how much attention we spent on watching him pitch every
fifth day because it was just one of those things
where it was in rapturous, right, Paul Skeen's pitching this
year every fifth day, Look at what Skeens is doing.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
As good as Skeens is.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
As good as Strasburg was, None of that was even
close to what Fernando Mania was. Because you're back in
a time in nineteen eighty one where not a lot
of people had cable television. The Dodgers played late on
the West Coast, and here's this kid with this crazy
pitching motion where he looks up to the sky and
he closes his eyes and he comes down and throws
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the ball and all was going on.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
It was a lefty, that guy. I took the hill.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That was it, and and every every outing was a
shutout or one run. And Fernando Mania was the very
first time we had ever seen that from a player.
There's other players that have come up since where the
excitement level to see them play has been immense. I
don't know we have that if not for Fernando Mania,
because it was just all you could talk about in
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baseball was how can I find a way to watch
a bleep in Dodgers game?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Are we gonna get a Dodgers game on Monday Night baseball?
At some point when that was a thing, right my
night baseball was the big thing in the summer. When
do the Dodgers play an East Coast game like against
the Cardinals that I'm gonna get to watch. Fernando villens
Weil a pitch and and his his He was a
larger than life character because he was so imposing. You
got You had this image in your head of here's
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a guy who's just gonna must look like a dragon
the way he's throwing the ball.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
He was eight No.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Nine and er and then you watch him pitches, you go,
oh my god, he does he closes his eyes before
he pitches the ball.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
What the hell is this?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
El Toro y and and El Toro was just he
was just captured your imagination, unlike any other player we
had seen before. We see someone like Caitlin Clark coming
in and that's something we see Lebron James coming into
the game. We talked about him from months and months
and months twenty years ago when he came into the NBA,
and Fernando Mania just had the mystique about him because
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you knew about him. You saw his name in the
paper and then you thought, but I've not seen this.
I've not seen any anything about Fernando. What is My
desire to see him is so immense. I can't wait
four more days for him to pitch again so I
can at least see what's going on. So if I
watch my local game that ends at ten thirty eleven o'clock,
are they gonna give me the score?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Am? I gonna know that. Hey, Fernando Vella.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Oh by the way, hey in La Ferando Valenzuela pitch tonight, Like,
take a look at the out of town scoreboard. Frando
Valenzuela pitching tonight for the Dodgers. No hits through five innings,
Frando avalan Zuela and no hitter going like, that's that's
what the impact was. And I hope I'm doing a
good enough job just just relaying what it was like
in an era before twenty four hour news, where you
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can find something out to the second guy. It's a
big home run in the game, Wait eight seconds, you'll
be able to see it on Twitter like it was.
Obviously it was a different time, but it was just
such a huge thing for Fernando Valenzuela and all the
great young players that have come out in sports and
the attention that they've gotten coming out all goes back
to Fernando valenz Well well.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
And we just talked about it where we're at here
in Los Angeles and obviously the Mexican community, the Latino
community that is Los Angeles and Dodger faithful that you'll
you see, you know, in big moments and the gatherings
that we have. You know, Fernando an icon unlike any other.
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So a huge loss to the Dodger family as they
get ready for the rematch all these years later against
the Yankees. Again. We'll have more on this story throughout
the show.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Again, the Dodgers announced the passing of Fernando Valenzuela, sixty
three years old.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
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Speaker 1 (16:54):
Absolute History in the NBA. For the first time, we
saw a father and son playing together in the game.
Lebron had checked out of the game a few minutes ago,
banged his arm, looked like he was gonna check back in.
We had said maybe a round a minute to goo.
Lebron comes back in. The Lakers are beating Minnesota pretty good,
a pretty sizeable lead, and then with about four minutes
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to go in the first half, history in the NBA,
and Ronnie.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
James just popped off the bench. How about along with
Lebron history tonight the first father son duo to play
together in an NBA game.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
This is all in the family Iron Eagle on TNT
with a call. Do you think I an eagle brought
NOA of the game? The father son, Hey, you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Do a game with me? You know, Hey, it's okay.
It's called a meathead. Hey, get in the family reference.
I like, all you guys up the side.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
My son's gonna come in to be my analyst here
for a little bit now, just so you know we're
gonna work that way.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I mean, you can do it for three minutes like
they did, like they did here with le bron and
Bronnie on Savannah got up in the left. I think, yeah, yeah.
As soon as Bronni checked out, shout Savannah, Hey, mom
was like, I got other stuff to do. Savannahs seen
a game or two in her life. I think it's okay,
you know what. That's good, been there and done that
about so I'm gonna be hit and beat traffic. They
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checking it.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
What did we see over the course of the last
three minutes? Because now, uh, Bronni checks out of the game.
We're forty four seconds before halftime. The Lakers have a
twelve point lead over Minnesota. It was nineteen when Bronni
checked in. Now it's twelve, so no uh to the map.
Bronni minus minus five, minus five in three minutes. So
Bronni checks into the game with Lebron, and there was
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a sequence in the very very first possession. Lebron takes
a three. It doesn't go uh. Next time down the floor,
Bronny was on the right side of the floor. Looked
like he was gonna he was trying to hang behind
the arc. Lebron took a three, missed it. Bronny sneaks
in behind everybody, goes up for a putback and and
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just misses. But he gets in between behind everybody and
gets a pretty good look at it at a grab
and a putback and it just bounces off the rim.
Next time down the floor, Lebron passes to Bronny. Looks
like they were running little two man game, maybe a
little pick and roll. But Bronny comes around, gets the
ball back to Lebron. Shot clock was winding down. That
was a really bad two man game there. That was
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very close.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Gonna do Dad, dad Dad here here. Even though ron
a crushing pick here, I'm the defender that was stepping out.
I mean, that was a that was a football block.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Bronny passed it back to Lebron At the end of
the shot clock, Lebron missed a three. Uh Minnesota hit
a couple of shots. Now, Joe Ingles is guarding Bronnie James,
and you could tell he was like, this kid's not
making anything on me, Like, no, no, no, I'm not
gonna be the guy posterized for Bronni's first two points.
And it figures, Ay Ingles, that's the guy, right, okay'
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he's the guy, right, That's that's how it's gonna go.
Uh So again, not a lot after that, shortly after
we watched Bronni check out of the game. The Lakers
will go to the locker with a thirteen point lead
here fifty five forty two. But we get the history
of Lebron and Bronny playing together for the first and
not the last time. Look, Bronny comes into this game
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and we're all wondering how much is he gonna play?
When is he going to play? And I would I
would think that it can't be something that's hard and fast,
right because you can't plan. Okay, here's a guy that
we don't know what he's going to be able to
add to us. Is he gonna be eventually a three
and D guy. Is he gonna be a depth piece?
He plays hard defensively, so we know that part of it.
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They're gonna have to sniff out how it's gonna go,
and will I will tell you what how I think
this is going to go. In the beginning, he will
play a few minutes a night and they will see
how it goes. And if it looks like he belongs
on the court, even for short spence, because it's not like,
well you got to play him and get no. No, this
is how it works the NBA. You see limited minutes
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and it's not like, oh, well he needs time, he
needs at bats yet, no he doesn't. He doesn't need reps.
This is how it works in the NBA. You play
the minutes that you are good with playing, that you
can continue to add to the team with. If he
looks like he is not overwhelmed and that he is
all right on the floor and at the very least
a zero sum player, maybe he's not adding to the Lakers,
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but he's giving rest to another player, and the Lakers
lead doesn't really evaporate or they don't fall behind more,
then this is how it will go. And Bronnie will
play very limited minutes throughout the course, and it will
be a more comfortable situation. If Bronni isn't moving, if
he's not what the Lakers need him to be, the
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decision will be made for him because lebron knows, hey
as much as you know. Look, I want Bronnie to
play here. I can't have this where it looks like
the team is gonna have a mutiny against me because
my son is playing when he shouldn't be. Another guy
should be playing other minutes. If that happens, that's when
you will see Bronny go to the G League. That's
when you will start playing.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Well.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Hey, let's get you some time here and you I
can already see JJ Redicks press conference.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Hey, he needs more time. He's not getting it up here.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
We're gonna still bring him back up, so he'll gonna
play up here a little bit, but gonna go down
to the G League get a bunch of minutes because
it's very close. That's the best thing about the Lakers
of the G League is they're in the same city.
They're five minutes from their practice facility, so it's a
pretty easy thing for the Lakers to do that. So
it's gonna be they're gonna kind of feel this out.
But that that's kind of how I see this going.
And you saw the way he played there. Look, Minnesota
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didn't go on an unbelievable run. They didn't take advantage
of him defensively, they weren't blowing by him, they weren't
using him and getting buckets. He wasn't someone that on
offense gummed anything up. So as long as he is
playing and he is not hurting them and he's able
to give rest to some players for just a couple
minutes here at a time, he will continue to see
this kind of action three minutes here at a time.
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He'll play with Lebron, sometimes he'll play without Lebron, and
that's how it's going to go. But and we'll be
able to see it, and you'll be able to see
how he goes. It's if he's not hitting shots, if
he's not contributing, if he's getting lost defensively, then he
will go down and play more in the G League.
But I see this is kind of how it's gonna
go for now, where he'll play these few minutes and
see but look a guy like dog connect is gonna
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seem more mates. He checked into the game. He played
a lot right the kid. There's a reason he's a
first round pick. The Lakers are not.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
The guy Lebron wanted. Yeah, the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, the Lakers are not going to do this at
the expense of the team right now. There's too many
eyes on it. There's too many eyeballs on the situation.
There's too many ways to make it go sideways. There's
too many ways. I can see Lebron pulling an Aaron
Rodgers saying, stop listening to the media. That's the first
thing we need to be doing. So the Lakers are
going to handle this right now in the right way.
And if that's Bronny for the first half, okay, And
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if Bronny gets another three minutes in the second half,
he can spell somebody and give somebody a rest with
a tatcha Moore or someone else, Yeah, then that's gonna
be fine. Then that's gonna be all right.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
No, So I mean, in first half, he gets his
three minutes, he missed two shots right put back, and
then he missed a three point shot. You had that
gummed up little two man game, isolated thing nerves whatever,
and angles not be wanting to be the guy to
give up the first points, as we discussed. But yeah,
I mean, you got two weeks before you have to
make a decision. G League still a couple of weeks away.
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So to start a season, it's an eighty two game marathon.
Just like I tried talking you off the ledge an
hour ago as you were canceling the NBA season, I
don't know what the hell you were looking forward to.
I mean, Mets just went home. The Jets stink. Yeah,
Syracuse basketball, Well.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Wait, football, we're playing our big playing the biggest AC season.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Thursday we got Yeah, tonight was that Miami Vice game.
But Thursday, you've got that. Go ahead, bring him up.
I'll let you bring him up, bring him up, bring
him up, bring him up tonight. Bring them up tonight
because they gave up eleven thousand three pointers. Bring him up.
Go ahead, bring them up real fast. I said it. Oh, okay, okay,
I just want to make sure I already said you
wanted to cancel bast all right, Yeah, yeah, you don't
know what you were dancing to, right. The Mets need
(25:02):
some time off and they need to retool, and they
need to figure out how they're going to get seven
hundred million dollars to pay one. So no, all of
those things still have to happen. But for tonight and
for the next two weeks, you can give a few
minutes here and there. The Lakers season is not going
to be one or lost in these first two weeks. Right,
we're talking the long game here. It's really all about
(25:25):
whether Lebron and Ad are healthy. Then you're fighting for
the back end maybe middle of the Western Conference, you know,
playoff picture. If things break right and connect is the
guy that they think he could be as a scorer.
Ha Chimora has been fantastic to open this game, maybe
jumping off a little about what he did the end
of last year into his time with the Olympics before
(25:48):
he got thrown out. You know, all of those things.
He was playing really well, right and he found his space,
right guy. Finally, you know, we expect guys to become
superstars immediately bounce around a little, find his place. But
for Bronnie James, at five minutes a night, you can
steal five minutes a night, three minutes a night, whatever,
Get guys rest extend the bench. He and lebron He
(26:13):
gets his minutes in front of the big crowd and
you get whatever nerves are off. But eventually he's gonna
need regular minutes. Like I would, you know, disagree in
just keeping him there if he's only gonna play sparingly
right to where in this case, he checks in because
they had a massive lead. Now it was a plan
to get him in, yeah, but it just so happened.
You also had a seventeen in the seventeen nineteen. He's
(26:35):
gonna be a game to game thing. There's gonna be
times when he doesn't play, and that's gonna be okay.
He's already played in the first game. They got it
out of the way. And if this is how it's managed, okay,
because sometimes guys play three to eight minutes a night,
and that's what certainly the roster dnps. That's how it's decisions. Absolutely,
But it's game to game.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It's game to game, and if they're if they see
that somebody else should be getting these six minutes, they'll
understand and Bronnie will and playing in the G League,
and he'll kind of bounce back and forth.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I would imagine that's exactly the plan, right, I mean,
you got two weeks before they start the G League.
So for now, yeah, right right with the big club
and take a few minutes here and there, and.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Now to get outside of this now for this first game,
the Lakers had an absolutely hell of a first half
against the Tea Wolves. Again, they on a nineteen to
two run, and the Timberwolves hit a couple of shots
in the last couple of minutes to close it down.
But the Lakers go to halftime with a fifty five
to forty two lead, and it's kind of been all
(27:33):
over the scoreboard for then. This has not been a
Lebron's got twelve and AD's got thirteen. Yeah, Ad as twelve,
Lebron's got eight, Russell as seven, Hayes has six connect
off the bench already as five, he's hit a three already,
So this is kind of across the board. The Lakers
are getting it from from their big players, and Hatchamora
and Russell are both plus twenty for the game so far.
(27:55):
So this has been this has been exactly like the
Lakers couldn't draw this up any better. What do you
want your first game? We want Lebron and Brownie to play.
We want it to be a positive experience, and we
want to win the game, and we want to have
all our guys play well and show that we're not
just already going to rely on Lebron and Ad again.
And that's what you've seen so far. This has been
a perfect first half for the JJ Reddick could have
(28:17):
went to bed last night and his wife would have
cold have turned over and said, what's a perfect game
for you tomorrow? And the first half would be exactly
what they said here And somehow we have a double
digit lead going a halftime, and Lebron plays well, and
Bronni plays and everybody is contributing, and Connect comes off
the bench, and oh Bay and Russell looks good and
hot Chimore did the two guys that I've tried to
make sure over the course of the offseason, I was
(28:38):
pumping up. They're both having big first half. This is
I don't know, This may be the high point of
the Lakers year. This may be as good as against Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Maybe like this, I mean yeah, ten offensive rebounds, twenty
seven to twenty three rebounding edge. The only downside is
JJ Reddick might be their best three point shooter because
they were three nineteen in the first Sure.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah, you could be right about that. You could be right.
O would have got Frost. We got a question on this?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Oh yeah, you guys Rudy for this? Oh yeah, go ahead.
What do you got if you're the timber Wolves? Right? Yeah?
Do you take this personal?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
They're all on iPads in the locker room looking at
Bronny checking in bring his face belong getting to play
you in the first game in the first half.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Well, I mean we could, like we said, Angles certainly
was not a fan.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
What's the what's the highlight in Fletch when he's playing
for the Lakers and they're showing the highlight and the
guy hits him and he grabs him and he puts
his mouth on to bite the guy's wrists.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Like that's I'm gonna be seeing in the second half.
You believe they put Bronny in the game? Here, you
believe they put Bronny in the game.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Angles game dunking from like mid court.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
See there you go. I mean they shoot forty one
percent for the first half. Do the t Wolves? Uh?
Ten turnovers, good fast break points and a lot of layups,
a lot of lambs for the Lakers in the first half.
So yeah, and worked out well. But I greg group
looking if you could have the the Knicks taken personally
that the guys are jacking threes, they say the tea
(30:08):
wolves like really, hey, guys, they just checked him in
there he is, look at him coming in togethers have
intestinal fortitude right now in that locker room. Who wants
to guard you? Know Ingles? Who wants to guard Bronnie?
I got him. I got him. I got him because
you know Ingles is that guy. No, I got him.
I got him, Coach, I got him. I got him.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Okay, okay, take it easy here a little over excited,
but no, I got him.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Do't worry, dot worry. I got scar on me. Coach,
I got him. Guys, I got a doory. I got him,
I got he's got his hand come out. I got me.
Me me yeah, me chewing gum, yeah yeah me me
me yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, I got I gotta coach.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I gotta coach again. I think that's why Lebron set that.
Hey Ronnie, watch out, they got Ingles on you.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
What does that mean? Don't worry? Trust I got this,
trust me, don't worry about it. I'm bigger. I'll clean
this up.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
He's bigger than you. I'm bigger than him. It will
be fine. Just just be careful, run around, Just run
around me, Just run around me. So I can, I can,
I can, I can do something. So there it is
absolute NBA history. Lebron and Browny play together, a perfect
first half of the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
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Speaker 2 (31:09):
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Speaker 1 (31:20):
Game one of the World Series, and again you've heard
all the pageantry about this over the course. It's the
World Series Titan. It always counts, does it? The world
serious counts. Dodgers win. Yeah, some deserving owner will walk
away with a big hunk of metal and be the
World Series champion. Now, first things, for a four am,
(31:42):
we sell it before I give you my pick on
what's gonna wind up being the highest rated World Series
game in baseball history. People who've never watched a baseball
game will watch at least a little bit of this world.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
So do they get to include the numbers from Japan?
Of course they will. Yeah, well, you think it's just
like Hollywood whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
A movie sort of disappoints domestically, they go, hey, weekend
one for smile too.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Globally, Oh yeah, night million dollars. Look, it all counts
the same. I'm not I'm not saying that it's definitely
the case.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
But I gotta say this, all right, because I gotta
be real, righting, bro, I told you about the meeting
with the Devil, my deal with him I got.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I gotta say this. I can't have the Yankees win.
I can't. I mean, I know, I love my dad.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
He went to Game two of the NLCS with me
and it was a great day, rooting for me everything.
I'm sorry, but I can't have the Yankees win.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I can't have him walking over to the house every day,
walking in like he's my landlord and he owns it.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Hey, I see what I got today. I got this
new Yankee World series. I got this. I got this,
I got this. I can't have it, man, I can't
do it. Well. I didn't put enough stuff accoutremont, like
little patches and stuff. It might be better, kindling. I
can't sit here.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I can't sit here and look at Wow, what a
great year the Mets had and how great a run there.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
I'm to know.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Still the Nonumber two team, Hey, look at the great
year you had. We won the World Series.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Can't have it. I can't have the Yankees win. I can't. Okay,
absolutely cannot have it. All right, So fifty to one
any player to hit a five hundred plus foot home
run in the World Series.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Uh, that's never going to pay out because Otani hit
like a seven hundred foot.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
One against them. That area was three hundred and ninety feet.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
So comrand slam plus one ninety never betten that never
bet in that one not happening three or more.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Home runs in any game in the series. Thirty four
to one? Cot that? Oh I love that? Are you kidding?
The left handed hitters? The Dodgers have it? Yankee Staddy?
Do you know what the best payout I heard was
a promotion being run on our flagship here in LA
and five seventy LA Sports with the Seasoning Company. You
get a taco party at your house and it includes
(33:45):
the setups for twenty not a helmet nachos. How about that?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Oh? Okay, anytime you put your buddies would be sitting
there eating out of helmets.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I'm interested. I'm not helt It was an employee at
the company. But Dannet, what a promote. Not to hell,
it's for everybody. Oh you get a nacho helmety, you
get a nacho helmet. All right? So you want your
dad to be sad when it comes down, he's happy.
I'm happy they're in the worlds. I can't. I just
can't have them win. I can't have them. Do you
want him to be teased like you and your deal
with the devil before this forty one to six burial
(34:17):
even in the hands of the pitt Panthers, and your
dad fought. Now, man, what are you doing? He did?
He did? He did? He did, he did disrespect him.
He might go Walter on, he did nice, you.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Know, Walter, I can't have the I can't have the
Yankees to change your pick. I can't do it. I
can't have the Yankees win. I got a good run, man,
I can't. I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Now, that doesn't mean I wouldn't pick the Yankees to
win if I thought they were going to win.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
I just can't have them win.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
So you're saying they suck I'm sick of these World
Series where there's a team I really just can't have one,
can't have anybody from the Nles t win, can't have
the Yankees win. Whatever year have you made everybody your
damn enemies. I had the year off last year, oh,
Arizona and the Rangers. Yes, even though oh I didn't
want the Rangers to win because they had Sureser and
de Gron, but it turned.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Out to be okay, you didn't want them to be
getting paid by your team and they didn't play, so
it doesn't mat.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I still have to celebrate, and psychologically it crushed you. No,
they didn't even play. It's part of the extended deal
with the devil. I get over that pretty a lot
of stuff. I get over that pretty fast. They didn't play.
I didn't have to watch it. Well, I didn't want
to have my white eyes. But then but but like
last I said, no, I kind of had the year
off last year where yeah, that was I didn't want
the Rangers to win, but they won. But it's not
(35:28):
that big a deal because again sures Are into Grom
didn't play. Again. I got a lot of people watched
didn't account.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Yeah, I think you're right. Uh Now, Dodgers are a
minus one twenty two favorite in the series.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
The two biggest things that are that hit me on
this look. Starting pitching is a toss up. The Dodgers
are gonna have to run with their whatever situation they
have going on with Flaherty to Yamamoto bullpen games bueller.
But the Yankee starting pitching isn't great After Garrett Cole,
it's all chances. I think it's better for Garrett call
that he's pitching on the road in Game one rather
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than the Yankee stadium. But the starting pitching is a wash.
The Dodgers lineup is better top to bottom. The Yankees
have mashed this postseason, but it's really been Judge and
Stanton and that's been it, right. They struggle to get
production out of other parts of the lineup. Soto had
the big home run as well, so they have the
big mashes at the top. But once you get outside
(36:24):
the number four spot in the batting order, yeah, you're
kind of waiting for those guys to come up again.
The Dodgers have gotten it from everywhere. I mean Tommy
Bleep and edmund Man. I lost my shot at the
World Series because Tommy Edmund, who's just a guy, gets
eleven hits and eleven RBI in the NLCS. Right, I
lost my chance of the World Series to Tommy Bleep
and Edmund. But the Dodgers lineup is better top to bottom.
(36:47):
I have more confidence They're gonna hit with runners in
scoring position, and they're going to be able to manufacture
runs at the bottom of the lineup. And I have
more confidence the Dodger bullpen is going to be able
to have a better series overall.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Than the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
The Yankees have shown, hey, we'll give it up late, right,
you think we're coughed. I know Weaver's been Okay, we'll
give it up late. It'll happen, and it doesn't need
to happen every game, it just needs to happen once.
I have more confidence the Dodger bullpen is gonna get
the job done, and their lineup is better top to bottom,
they will hit better. I feel weird about saying it,
but I really think it's going the distance. I want
to say Dodgers and five, but this is going seven
(37:24):
Dodgers and seven in what's gonna wind up being a
World Series that we talk about for thirty or forty years.
It's gonna be that kind.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Of world headliner after headliner. A few days off now
for Freddie Freeman. So hopefully that ankle, they can keep
the swelling under control and that he can measure that.
We get a couple of guys back in the series overall,
Rojas and Vessia, there's the triple Lunderscore and perhaps Graderol
as well to bolster the bullpen. We'll see his availability.
(37:52):
On the other side, Cortes coming back for the Yankees,
but I'm looking at a Dodgers in six. That's what
I've been saying all week when asked. I'll stick to
it here that the bullpen game becomes the stuff of legend.
Like as much as you hate it, you have to
accept that it is here to stay across Major League Baseball,
and nobody's been able to orchestrate it better than what
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Dave Roberts and this staff have done and the way
these players have been used. To your point about the lineup,
I think it's gonna be imperative about you know, when
we're looking at Keith Hernandez and what he does in October,
and guys like Will Smith, where we see the bats
start to come to life a little bit. You mentioned, Edmund,
one of my biggest joys this week was watching people
(38:37):
with all their fines in the trading card world. Going
back to the Commons boxes of their twenty twenty cards
that they ripped open during the COVID and pandemic shutdown.
It's like, wait, I've got a comments box of all
sorts of crap over here. Look, it's a stack of
Tommy Edmonds. I'm rich.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
So all of that to say too much for the
Yankees on the only part where I thought, you'll get
thrown every game and the Yankees will win and I'll
tell them to stay home for the other games.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
The Dodgers played at such a high level in the NLCS,
and I'm a big believer in playoff momentum and bounces.
The Yankees did not play great in the ALCS. They
played well enough, but they made a lot of mistakes.
They've not played their best baseball yet. The Dodgers may
have played their best baseball right with the shutouts against
the Mets. The the games they realized, hey, we're not
(39:28):
gonna win these couple of games because a Mets scored
a bunch of runs early. So we're gonna save our bullpen.
Dave Roberts kind of helping to give those games, not
giving those games the Mets, but just saying, we're not
going to exhaust ourselves trying to get back in this
game where we're down six. Nothing so, but the other
games the Dodgers played, they got it from everywhere. The
bullpen was terrific. The bottom of the order hit Key
(39:50):
Hernandez hit home runs, the top of the order hit
by only fear. The Dodgers get a bit of a bounce,
but there's been enough time going back, the momentum, the
the the fact that Dodgers are getting two home games
in the World Series for the first time in a while,
and their team is just too big to fail. It
may be a bit of rocky going on. It's why
(40:11):
said Dodgers in seven more than in five or six.
But that's the only thing I look at where I
go ooh. It gives me the tiniest bit of doubt
in the Dodgers, But everything else makes up for it.
They have so many guys, and it doesn't it. Tommy
edmund may hit one seventy nine, Kick Hernandez might hit
four to fifty, right that that might be how it
goes right. You might get Mookie Betts hitting two fifty,
but Tascar Hernandez might hit three ninety. So the Dodger
(40:33):
lineup just has too many ways to kill you. But
the thing with the Yankees is we talked about it
with your Mets. You know where you see the tail
of two types of plate discipline.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Hey, would you guys take a damn pitch? Oh wait,
they actually now have to come to us and we
can actually mash a bit. That's the Yankees, right, first
ball swing and getting behind and counts. They're a team
that you can pile up some strikeouts against. So how
much plate discipline? How much do they show and try
to extend clarity to where in Game one we're getting
(41:05):
into the bullpen early, because that could set the tone
for everything else. Right, if you've got to go into
high leverage to try to get through game one, suddenly
it sets everything off. So the first inning plus when
you get the heart of the order coming through, I
mean Judge and Stanton, they've been known to wave the
pitches and go sit down. They've also been known to
(41:25):
hit five hundred plus foot home runs, So you know,
can you get them to chase out of the zone
and get away from a little bit of the discipline.
If Clarity can do that, huge advantage Dodgers. But that's
the tail of the tape. He's I think four and
a half strikeouts is his game. One over Unders, so
we'll watch from there. Exit.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
How about a fresco exit swallowing dome. There's our picks
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Speaker 2 (42:13):
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Speaker 1 (42:21):
Vikings Rams great game right. Vikings has started out really good.
Sam Darnold's been a big surprise. Rams have been disappointing,
had a lot of injuries. Cooper Cup was out Pokinakua
was out, and we told you that this was the
rubber hits the road game for the Rams. It was
high noon. If the Rams win tonight, they moved to
three and four, and they're in the thick of it
(42:42):
in the NFC West, in an NFC West that is underachieving,
and an NFC overall that outside of the NFC North,
there's not a lot of great teams, so they would
stick with it. They're getting their guys back. Cooper Cup
came back tonight, had a touchdown. Pookinakua came back tonight.
He had seven catches for one hundred yards a night
on nine targets. If they won, they would keep it going.
(43:04):
But if they lost, you fall to two and five,
you would see trades. You heard Cooper Cup's name on
the trading block. You might have seen Matthew Stafford's name
out thereafter. And suddenly teams around the NFL were looking
at this game and going, Okay, come on, Vikings, I
really want to go get Cooper Cup. Now, Mike Tomlins watching,
I really want to get Cooper Cup. Jim Harbaugh's going, oh,
I really love to get that Cooper Cup. But we
(43:26):
told you if the Rams win, things are gonna change
and tuddah, what just happened. I told you we're ahead
of the curve. Sean mcvayh and his postgame press conference
was asked about the Cooper Cup trade rumors. He said, listen,
don't don't believe everything you hear. But he did address
it full on and said, I don't expect Cooper Cup's
status with us to change. He's going to stay a
(43:47):
member of the Rams, and they why not because the
NFC is so wide open. Now you're healthy. I picked
the Rams and go to the Super Bowl beginning of
the I know I would curse them with all these injuries,
but now you are back to be the Rams. The
forty nine ers are still trying to figure out who
they are. They're still extremely unhealthy. The Cardinals and the Cardinals.
The Seahawks are the Seahawks. They're not bad, but they're
(44:10):
not great. The Rams can still be the best team
in that division and one of the top teams in
the NFC. They've gotten everybody back. They still run the
football really well. I told you that Kyen willm is
gonna have a big night. He ran for ninety seven
yards tonight. The Rams can still be the Rams. This
is now them going forward, and now all the other
teams that were hoping for a shot at Cooper Cup
or other players, you gotta go someplace else. He's staying
(44:32):
around now.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
It helped that his tag team partner because he did
channel the Undertaker talking about rising up and they didn't
really finish off the Rams did and put them under that,
you know, with pookin Nakua coming back, all of a sudden,
oh like, it got that much better for Matthew Stafford.
The fact that he's perfected the fifteen yard drop back
(44:53):
has helped too, because he really he does like the
old video game thing if I'm gonna go all the
way back here and then I'm gonna fire and it's
a cannon shot to my wide receiver. So yeah, all
of a sudden it opens back up. Kian Williams has
been fantastic. Fantasy circles certainly know about him. Gets a
bit overshadowed in the national discussion because the passing game
(45:15):
gets all the love, but he's been consistent. They had
a couple of games that they should have won earlier
this season that they gave away. That game against Chicago,
they should have won that game. Game against Green Bay,
it got away from them a little bit, but they
were in it until late in the third. And then
you go back to the game against Detroit to start
the season, game that could have gone either way. So
(45:38):
now you get back on the schedule. The next date
is at Seattle. Then you got Miami. Well in theory
two US now back, so we'll see if it's a different,
better replenished version of the Dolphins. But then you've got
New England, Philly, New Orleans. Like, there's winnable games on
the schedule. Is the point when you start looking down
(45:58):
the road here as long as you stay healthy. But
do I believe that they put some of the stuff
about trades out there that it wasn't just wanting speculation,
damn right they oh yeah, hey, you never know, he's
the best in the marketplace, whatever else was going on.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Yeah, and you have three receivers that are young that
you really like, right, Nikua is huge.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
And Mark Robinson had two scores today. They really like
Jordan Whittington too.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
He's a guy coming out and obviously two two Outwell's
a gadget guy can catch a lot of passes. Hey,
if we can get by with this passing game and
not have to pay somebody this money and get a
draft pick. I mean, sure, Cooper Cup is great, you'd
want him, but hey, if our season goes by the boards,
we're not going to come back another year when he's
thirty two and a half years old. Hey, try to
stay healthy. Let's try to figure this out. They certainly
(46:42):
were trying to test the waters for it, but now
I'm sure they pull it all back. It's like in
fantasy you put a guy in the trading block and
he gives you twenty one points. I'm taking him off
the trade block, not trading there.
Speaker 3 (46:51):
Somebody else gets hurt and you say, no, I'm taking
it off. You know, he offered that trade and immediately
rescind it as soon as you see the ankle twist,
knowing that the guy is going to get to his
team and accept it as fast as possible. So on
the other side from Minnesota, they did lose Darrisaw early
in this game to highlight what's going on there, because
(47:12):
that was a big loss on the offensive line. You
saw what the Rams were able to do in terms
of their defensive deployment thereafter. But let's also start this
once again. Sean mcpay is a genius. He's the smartest
guy in the world, and tonight he was better than Flores.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
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