Ever wondered how California's tech millionaires and celebrities are reshaping the political landscape? Join us as we navigate the complexities of state politics, questioning stereotypes and examining the unexpected leanings of the wealthy coastal elite. With personal anecdotes and insights into local governance challenges, we explore the shifting dynamics of voter engagement post-COVID and what these changes mean for California's future as a purple battleground.
Our conversation takes a turn towards the lighter side of life, from the excitement of the Dodgers' championship win to the ever-enthralling world of hip hop and sports. Reflecting on the missed joys of the baseball season, we reminisce about iconic plays and the emotional rollercoaster of being a dedicated sports fan. We also discuss the evolving role of music in sporting events, with controversial performances sparking conversations on public perception and cultural impact.
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Mig (00:11):
Welcome back to the Drifting on Arroyo podcast.
This is Mig, this is Lano andthat's it.
People, I was going to say youget a half-assed show this week,
but since there's three asseson this show, it's actually the
two-thirds ass show.
So just trying to bemathematically correct?
Lano (00:30):
yeah, sorry for no show.
Last week I was out.
I got um sick from halloween soI wasn't up to recording that
night but seems like you guysare ready.
Mig (00:39):
Why'd you eat so?
Lano (00:40):
much candy fool, was it as the kids?
And then it was election nightand I kind of wanted to watch
that.
It was a bunch going on.
And then this week Rick'sworking evenings huh.
Mig (00:50):
Yeah, but a lot has happened since we were last on
Spoiler alert.
The Dodgers are world championsagain, right, right, right, in
case you didn't know, uh-oh what?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Wrong button.
Mig (01:05):
What world champions again right, right, right, in case you
didn't know what's wrong withyou, man.
And then, uh, we have elected anew president, which I 100
endorse and um?
Lano (01:18):
did they finalize um?
I saw that we won the or the,the house.
And then what was the?
Mig (01:24):
is that finalized?
Lano (01:25):
Well, I don't know, that's what I was asking.
Mig (01:27):
Because last I heard there had to be a certain amount of
seats won and the Republicansdid have more seats, but I don't
know if they had enough to havethe majority.
I think it was something like230 or something like that, and
(01:47):
last count they were like at 218.
I believe, or something likethat.
I'm not sure.
Lano (01:53):
So I guess I brought up the Google.
So the final on the electoralwas 313 Trump and then 226
Harris, and then where's theHouse at?
And then I don't know.
I got to look for the otherstuff.
(02:13):
Let's see.
Mig (02:16):
Yeah, it's just too bad you got sick man, because it would
have been fun doing like anelection watch show.
Lano (02:23):
Oh, and then.
So the Senate was 53 to 47.
And then, what are all theseblack ones?
They're still counting.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I don't know.
Lano (02:31):
Are they reported or it's not finalized?
And then the House was 214 to206.
But I don't know what thatnumber is to get the majority.
Yeah, you see 218 for majority.
Mig (02:44):
Because once you hit that 218 number, there's a certain
number of seats Right.
So once you hit the 218.
Then they're likemathematically.
Then yeah, they're.
Mathematically, whatever sidegets 218 is going to have the
advantage as far as when votingtime comes.
Lano (03:01):
And then I mean, he's already making changes already,
right.
Mig (03:07):
Changes are being made a lot of stuff is happening
already.
Lano (03:08):
But didn't he say like if something on the break, if you
don't go for his um, hisselections or whatever, then uh,
something during the recessthey like like he's just putting
you on on warning or somethinglike that, because I guess to
appoint someone that could likeup to a couple years.
So he told everybody like hey,you guys better go with my picks
(03:32):
before it starts, or recess, orsomething like that.
I saw him make an announcement.
Mig (03:37):
Oh, it probably is some kind of ploy or something that
they have to like avoid votingSomething.
Lano (03:47):
Yeah, you know to delay and filibuster and all that yeah
, I'm curious because um nowricky gave us that story how um
his business or his formeremployer was like thriving right
during during the, the previousum I mean well, not not the the
(04:08):
previous previous, like beforebiden.
And then when, with the thebiden regime, they kind of like
started struggling in terms ofum I don't know, it could be
both sides of the people umhaving money to spend on
plumbers or or just taxes on thebusinesses or whatever, so they
shut down so I'm curious nowthat he's uh like an owner of
his own business, how under thisadministration, how it affects
(04:30):
him?
Mig (04:31):
You know, I don't think it's as much the administration
as it is our localadministration, but the thing is
, with having the administrationon your side the presidency
you're able to wield a waybigger sword.
(04:52):
Just recently I don't know ifpeople know out there, but here
in California pretty much callit Commie-fornia because we're
being run like communists,pretty much called it
Commie-fornia because we'rebeing run like communists it's
like you drive what we tell youto drive and you eat what we
tell you to eat.
You wear what you tell you towear and you speak the way we
(05:12):
tell you to speak.
Pretty much how it is inCalifornia, and Newsom decided
to gather a meeting with theCARB, california Air Resources
Board, after the elections, sothat way no one looks bad.
Lano (05:33):
Oh, this is that gas tax you're talking about.
Mig (05:35):
Yes, everyone holds their seats where they have their
seats, and so nobody makes astink about it because nobody
knows what's going on.
So what he did, and the problemis that with CARB it's pretty
(05:57):
much an organization ofbureaucrats, so they don't get
held responsible likelegislators or Congress or
Senate or anybody that's elected.
Lano (06:09):
They just they're not that liability is not there.
So this 100% In CARB isCalifornia Air Resources Board.
Air Resources Board.
Mig (06:14):
It's an organization with 14 board members, 12 of which
were personally appointed byGavin Newsom.
So this is 100% on Newsom.
So if you ever hear him sayingthat he doesn't know about it or
he has no influence over it oranything like that, he's
straight up lying, which he hasdone before, and even before
(06:37):
when he ran for office and beingelected the first time around,
he straight out lied because hesaid that and I remember it
clearly on his campaign trail hesays that whatever the people
vote in on propositions, he'sgoing to go with it, he's not
going to go against it.
(06:57):
And that was a bold-faced lie,because propositions that went
in that he didn't like, hevetoed and they ended up dying
and he ended up doing whateverhe wanted either way.
Mm-hmm, you know.
And the problem you know,everybody like people want to
complain and everything.
That's why I say it's soimportant when it comes to
(07:18):
elections, it's so important topay attention to what's going on
locally, I mean the presidencyand everything.
California really is irrelevantbecause California is always
going to like for the past 20years or so, 25 years has gone
Democrat, so like as aconservative or Republican here
(07:39):
in California, really your voteskind of like doesn't count, but
it does Because it's importantfor them to see and we see with
this past election how much morethe conservatives or the red
wave is coming out, because nowit's showing just the coast.
You know the cities along thecoastline, I saw that map and
(08:02):
who lives along the coast, thecoastlines, all the saw that map
somewhere.
And who lives along the coast,the coastlines, all the
millionaires and all the elites.
And how do they vote?
They all vote Democrat.
So they're saying so.
I'm just saying you know,everybody wants to say that the
Republicans are this and thatand they're the rich and you
know all the tax breaks andeverything for them.
(08:23):
It's like why they're the richand you know all the tax breaks
and everything for them.
It's like why they're not theones living in these
million-dollar mansions alongthe coast on the beach.
You know it's all the techmillionaires, it's all the
celebrities, and we all know howthey vote and how they lean.
So you just do simple math, putthat together and you'll see
(08:46):
who's who and who's for what.
Lano (08:47):
But um, they said.
Well, now they're saying likewe're a purple state, I guess
that's like um, is that like uh?
Mig (08:52):
well, because a lot, a lot of the people that would like
sit out and just say like ah,you're like, like, like I said,
you know, they say it doesn'tmatter, my vote doesn't matter.
Well, those people startedcoming out yeah so our numbers
got a lot bigger that's what'skind of like election night.
Lano (09:08):
We're like me and my wife are watching it and then like
all the focus is on the swingstate, like it's not on
california because it's like ourwell, I mean if, because with I
mean just in, in all the peoplethat left after COVID, after
the lockdowns.
Mig (09:26):
It's like how many people left California?
I think it was somewhere aroundlike the 100,000 number.
You know, if all those peopleleft, how would they have voted?
Lano (09:37):
Right.
Mig (09:37):
You know.
So that's that many more votesthat we possibly lost.
Lano (09:42):
Because they went to red states right as a Republican,
yeah they all went to likeFlorida and Texas.
Texas and stuff.
You know, so but and that'swhat I don't like is this like
our votes already like accountedfor, Like it's just like we
don't.
Mig (09:56):
Yeah, but that's what I'm saying.
How long has it been like thathere?
Yeah, it's a long time, dude.
I mean for as long as I've beenpaying attention to politics
and that's like I didn't reallystart paying attention until
obama jumped in oh, because Ireally thought obama was going
to be a difference maker.
And I mean, I'll be the firstone to admit it, dude, I was
(10:20):
buying into that obama kool-aid.
I was drinking it, you know,because I thought that's what
this country needed.
You know, it needed to beshooken up and everything.
But once I started seeing moreand more what this dude was
about, I was like no, you know,this guy doesn't like to love
the country man, he hates it.
It's like, how do you go up toan event and when the Pledge of
(10:44):
Allegiance is going on, you juststand there with your hands in
your pockets.
You know you're running for thepresidency, dude, right, put
your damn hand over your heart,you know, and show the respect
that the flag deserves, you know?
And if he's just sitting therewith his hands in his pockets,
dude, you don't know how muchthat rubbed me the wrong way
(11:06):
when I saw that.
And this is before the wholescandal of him not being born
here and him not being a citizenand everything.
This was way before that dude.
I mean, I'm talking about whenthey just first brought him in.
I saw that dude and just thatlittle act.
Right, there is what rubbed meso wrong.
I'm like this dude does notcare about the country.
(11:30):
I'm like he's going to be outfor himself and you know, look
at, the proof is in the history.
The dude went in with nothingand he came out a
multimillionaire.
How does that happen?
Lano (11:46):
So the last Republican governor of California was
Schwarzenegger, which I don'tknow, if you consider that that
dude was not a Republican.
Because I mean he's like acelebrity, he's not like a.
Mig (11:56):
Republican politician.
That dude was not a Republican,but that was 2003,.
Lano (12:00):
So that was over 20 years ago.
Mig (12:04):
I think the last one before him was probably.
Lano (12:05):
Pete Wilson no, yeah, yeah .
Mig (12:08):
Well, anyways, getting back to Newsome, so what they did is
they got together and the boarddid this vote where they want
the refineries to start makinglike an and I'm doing an air
quotes an ultra low carbon fuel,you know, so it doesn't emit,
(12:31):
um, so the gas burn cleaner,whatever bullshit they claim,
which is all crap, becausethere's there's other experts
that say it's not really goingto make any difference
whatsoever, you know, but it'sjust all it's going to do is
(12:56):
inconvenience the refineries tochange equipment, you know,
change a refining process andjust cost us more.
Where they're trying to play itoff, telling you it's only
going to be like eight to sevencents tax more per gallon, where
really it's going to beanywhere between 47 cents and
about 65 cents more.
Lano (13:12):
Yeah, google news is showing, um, they don't like.
A lot of articles are saying 65cents and then a lot of people
they're not even sure how muchis going to go up because, um,
they think it might be more than65 cents.
Mig (13:24):
And then it's like, whenever he gets called on it,
his excuse is always that oh,the oil company is gouging.
Oil company is gouging, I'mlike.
So if the oil company isgouging, why is it only gouging
California?
Why isn't the rest of thecountry, all the other states,
being gouged?
I mean, all you got to do is asimple Google search of national
(13:48):
gas prices, go state by state,and there's like over 30 states
where the gas is under $3.30.
Lano (13:57):
And they freak out when it's like at $2.50 or something
$2.35, they're freaking out.
Yeah, Now gas.
Gas Does that affect?
Is that diesel too, or noEverything?
Mig (14:07):
Everything gets.
Lano (14:08):
Yeah.
Mig (14:09):
You see, and the thing is, what people don't realize Is
that, like you, lano, I mean, Iknow, you realize it, but people
, you know, they don't reallypay attention.
They're like, oh, I got anelectric vehicle, so it doesn't
matter to me.
I'm like, yes, it does matter,because everything that's
shipped to the stores,everything that's shipped to
restaurants, any product that'smoved around or anything is
(14:32):
moved by trucks.
Lano (14:35):
Produce goes up, this nation runs on trucks.
Mig (14:40):
It's bloodline is trucks and we need that diesel fuel.
It's bloodline is trucks and weneed that diesel fuel.
And if it goes up, the bottomline is the corporations and the
businesses do not lose.
All they do is they pass thaton to the consumer and at the
end we're the ones that lose,we're the ones that have to pay
more.
You work on diesel trucks.
Lano (15:03):
I work on diesel trucks.
Yeah, how, how big are thosegas tanks, the tanks?
Mig (15:06):
are easy.
Each tank is 100 gallons eachtank 100, so like how much so
you're?
talking about they're filling uptheir tanks for like 500
dollars, oh yeah of a tank, yeahyou know.
And then you, you add to thatanother, another, what 60
dollars?
Yeah, so it's going to bealmost $600, dude, I mean.
And then throughout the yearit's like they're.
(15:30):
They're estimating thatthroughout the year that's going
to tax on, that's going to taxFamilies or individuals,
anywhere between $600 to $1,000more a year that you got to come
up with To drive your car.
Lano (15:43):
Because when was it?
When, the, when, the?
There was a period Like when,the?
Um, there was a period likewhen I bought a bicycle because,
like, gas was just getting tooexpensive.
Yeah, it was, um, I don't wantlike 15 years ago, 20 years ago,
something had happened wherethe gas had gone up and it was
like six bucks and and we, westarted riding bikes again, I
started taking public transit,because everything was just
(16:04):
going up.
Well, I don't remember what thereason was then, but everything
had gotten super expensive.
Yeah, I don't remember.
Mig (16:14):
But that was the last time where, like milk went up,
groceries went up.
It could have been during adesert storm or something, you
know when, maybe?
Lano (16:18):
But like prices never went below that, like we got used to
, you know, paying the $3 or $4and stuff yeah.
And then we got used to paying,you know, for the milk, the $5.
Like prices never went downagain.
Mig (16:33):
Like, after gas went down, the coffee never went back down.
I mean, and that's what they do, because why should they?
If people are going to pay it,they're going to keep on.
And that's what we as consumershave to do is like like if
there's something we don't like,then just stop buying the
(16:53):
product.
You know it's like they theywant to talk about.
You know the other, the otherbig argument that they have is
like oh well, the oil industrymade up billions in profit.
You know it's like okay, well,you know, if this particular
company is making billions inprofit and they have like four
other competitors, go to thecompetitors that are going to
undercut them and once theystart losing, they're going to
have no choice but to bring downtheir prices.
You know it's simple economyman.
(17:15):
It's a simple formula.
You know that checks andbalances itself.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Right.
Mig (17:24):
You know, but when it gets all this interference and all
this involvement, I mean, andthis tax, it goes through and
it's going to be permanent.
Don't think it's going to goaway and come down.
Yeah, because if you look rightnow at the price of gas, say on
(17:45):
average, anywhere it's about, Isee average maybe about $4.49,
maybe $4.30, around there.
Almost like $2.15 of that isgoing to be nothing but taxes.
It has nothing to do with therefineries.
(18:05):
It has nothing to do with therefineries.
It has nothing to do with theoil company.
It's all taxes.
Lano (18:12):
Yeah.
Mig (18:13):
And where does all that tax money go?
Lano (18:16):
That's the thing, like if they're going to tax us, I want
to see like results.
You know what I mean.
Mig (18:21):
It sure as hell doesn't go to fix the roads.
Lano (18:23):
I know that's what I'm saying, because the roads are
horrible, the streets aside,like those potholes picked up
and all that stuff Like thefreeway, whatever expansions I
want it done faster, like youknow what I mean.
All that stuff like they takedecades to fix, if you look at
history, like we built the wholerailroad, like you know, and I
don't know how long, but to addanother lane to a freeway it's
(18:43):
going to take like 10 years orsomething like that.
Mig (18:51):
It's just.
I think the problem withgovernment now is that people
hold positions for too long, youknow.
It's like you really got to putshort-term limits on there,
because I think if you leavethem in there for too long a
time, they start buildingrelationships and they start
making it easy to be corruptedand like bought off and bribed
and everything.
So if you just don't give themthat time to be in a certain
(19:12):
position you know to be able tohave enough influence for you to
be bribed or paid off orwhatever it is, then all this
gets solved or whatever it is.
Lano (19:25):
Then all this gets solved.
I mean, I had a Volkswagen inhigh school and I remember to
fill up it was under $10.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah $10.
Lano (19:34):
I remember when the lowest I can remember is maybe $0.98.
Whatever a gallon was, that wasa dollar or something like that
.
If I'm putting in 10 gallons,I'm putting in $10.
If I'm putting in $8, I'mputting in 10 bucks.
If I'm putting in 8 bucks, I'mputting in 8 gallons.
Mig (19:51):
What's the lowest?
You remember gas being Lowest Iremember is maybe about 75
cents.
75 cents, yeah.
Lano (19:58):
I know back in the day it was a quarter and all that stuff
, but now it's close to $5.
How many times has thatincreased?
Yeah, I mean.
And close to five dollars, likehow many times has that
increased?
Yeah, I mean.
And then like results, likegrowing up, I remember seeing
smog, I remember playing outsideand my chest hurting so like I
know, like the air is a lotcleaner now it is a lot cleaner,
but that's this technologygetting better
exactly in terms of, likeengines and, like you know, the
(20:18):
cadillac converter, all thatstuff on the car is getting more
efficient and it's notnecessarily like and it's I mean
the thing.
Mig (20:25):
The thing is dude.
It's like these people want topunish us for what, for
pollution is going on halfwayaround the world, you know.
It's like why do we have tosuffer and pay for people that
(20:47):
don't care and are not doing itand are not taxed or whatever,
halfway around the world?
Yeah, you know they can polluteall they want, you know, but
we're the ones that have to payfor it.
That's why it's all.
I think it's all a scam.
It's, I mean, it's all justmoney making for these people
(21:11):
like Newsom and everything else,just so they could have their
backroom deals or they havetheir interest people buying
stocks for them.
You know it's crooked as NancyPelosi.
You know all the inside tradingthat she's done.
Hope she goes to jail for that.
Lano (21:30):
You know concert tickets, how they're so expensive.
Mig (21:33):
Yeah.
Lano (21:34):
And like all that stuff's like generators, like powering
all those TVs and you know audioequipment.
You know all those are gasgenerators.
Mig (21:42):
Yeah.
Lano (21:42):
Gardeners.
You know they're lawnmowers.
That's all like gasoline thatthey're buying.
So gardeners, like their wages,are going to go up, or take a
grass, everything's just goingto go up.
Mig (21:52):
I mean, look, I know I talk a lot of shit about electric
vehicles and everything, and thething is you know what?
I'm fine with them If you'redoing it to save gas.
That's a perfectly legitimateReason for having the electric
vehicles.
The part that I have a problemwith it Is these people that are
(22:13):
under the illusion that theythink they're saving the planet
or saving the climate by drivingthese things Right, Because
you're not.
I mean if you see by drivingthese things Right Because
you're not, I mean if you seehow much land is being destroyed
in the mining of lithium tocreate these batteries, and then
(22:35):
what do you think happens tothese batteries after they're no
good and they're done?
It's like if they tell you youcan't even throw away batteries
and double A battery in yourtrash.
I know they want you toproperly dispose of that
batteries and the AA battery inyour trash.
I know they want you to properlydispose of that.
What the hell are they going todo with these car ones, right?
So don't tell me they're savingthe environment because it's
(22:56):
not.
Lano (22:56):
I just got a new TV and I have to look for a place to
throw away the old TV.
I have to go to some e-wastecenter and spend my Saturday.
I have to go to some e-wastecenter and spend my Saturday.
But I mean me like I'm a techperson and like the Tesla to me
is like the most like high-techcar.
Mig (23:12):
No, I know, but you're not under the illusion that you're
saving the planet driving it.
The thing is, is because you'rea techie, you like all the
technology that it has and youlike the fact that you save on
gas.
Lano (23:25):
Yeah.
Mig (23:31):
You know, but you're not like preaching to me, like oh,
you should get one too, you know, because all the emissions that
your truck spits out andeverything it's like this and
that or whatever it's going tocome down, you know, I'm like no
, dude, it's bullshit, it's allbullshit, dude.
Because, dude, if I pretendwe're in a movie, Right.
Okay, pretend we're like in aJames Bond 007 spy thriller
(23:54):
movie.
You're the bad guy.
You want to destroy the planetWith one push of a button.
You want to destroy the climateor whatever and everything.
One push of the button, becausethat's the panic that all these
people Want to make you havethat we're just like one button
(24:15):
push away From the climateCompletely being destroyed and,
you know, just making the planetunlivable.
What is that?
One thing that has to happenthat's going to make that happen
Instantly.
Lano (24:34):
Like a threat from someone , right?
Is that what you're talkingabout?
Mig (24:36):
Yeah, Because all these people are like all doom and
gloom, right, right, is thatwhat you're talking about?
Yeah, yeah, because all thesepeople are like all doom and
gloom, right, and like, oh, in10 years, you know, and the, the
waters are gonna rise andthey're gonna flood and the
deserts are gonna overheat andand blah, blah, blah.
You know all this panic andeverything and it's all bullshit
, dude, and it's like what it'scycles like it's cycles there's
(24:57):
ice ages every thousand yearsthere's, like you, like you know
, ice spells every whatever.
Lano (25:01):
That's what I'm saying it cycles.
It's in the Bible.
Those floods are there.
You know it's in fossils.
Mig (25:08):
I mean you get one heat wave where it's like 105 for
like a week straight.
Oh, this used to happen before.
You know it's like the climateis, is is rising and you know
this is all due to greenhousegas.
Lano (25:25):
I'm like come on, man, I mean before life, and there's
all these different.
You know civilizations thatcame and been extinct and came
and gone back, and you know allthat stuff it's all.
Mig (25:35):
It's all garbage but all right.
Lano (25:38):
well, next I want to talk about Dodgers, anyways that's
where we try not to do politicalSorry people.
I do want to get through thisphone call and then we'll talk
about Dodgers.
Mig (25:49):
Let me see if I have the computer set up no yours, no
yours, no yours, no yours, noyours.
Lano (25:55):
Let me see.
Mig (25:59):
I'm sure your dad's going to call next week, dude.
After he hears my rant.
Lano (26:04):
I'm going to get you out.
The more calls the better.
I mean we'll go back and forth.
All right, here's the phonecall.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Hello, this is Mike, the original OG, just calling to
remind you guys.
At the last podcast, vano askedthe question do you think we
missed something this yearbecause we weren't paying
attention to the Dodgers andthey had Shantay Ohtani and the
question was what did you miss?
(26:30):
Well, you guys, you missed theWorld Series.
You haven't been in the WorldSeries since 2020.
No parade 1988, I was there.
1988, I was there.
1981, I was there and Nano.
They were both within yourlifetime and you missed them.
Who knows if the girls aregoing to get a chance to ever
(26:52):
see a World Series, but you guyscould have had a lot of
conversations this year and alot to talk about.
Go Dodgers.
Mig (27:03):
Well, actually, Mike, we did miss the World Series
because we just missed theseason.
That's really what we werereferring to.
Lano (27:12):
And it was me talking about Shohei's 50-50.
Mig (27:17):
It wasn't so much that we missed the World Series, because
we all watched the playoffsWith a lot of intent, but the
thing is we just didn't Watchevery game and it's hard to
watch every game.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
You have to have the packages.
Mig (27:34):
The whole Shohei 50-50, it's like.
It's not like back when Maguireand Sosa were having the home
run chase, you know, and that'swhen you wanted to tune in and
see every game and see if it wasgoing to happen or not, or
anything, it's like.
But, trust me, the World Series, we were watching Every game,
(27:57):
game one After Freeman hit thatgrand slam.
I was screaming like a maniacand I scared the hell out of my
sister.
She thought she thought someonewas being murdered, you know.
But but no, I mean, I, I get.
I get what you're saying now,you know but that's my dad.
Lano (28:18):
So my dad being the super fan, you want to know how many
games he went to this year asmany as I did zero, even zero
games just as much as we went.
So I think he missed it too.
Yeah, I mean, but but it wasn'ttill after the 50 50, he told
me.
He told me he's like you know,I'm gonna start watching these
dodgers play.
I'm gonna watch every singleplayoff game in the world series
(28:39):
, and, and and we all did I meanonce they made the playoffs and
stuff.
Mig (28:42):
We all watched every single game and I mean I was on
vacation watching it at thehotel I'll admit I didn't watch
a lot of the padre seriesbecause I kind of felt that
they're gonna and that's thething.
Lano (28:54):
Like I get anxiety when those close games, like I get
frustrated, I get upset and likeI won't watch it just for that,
like let me, let me get out ofthis like series, and then I'll
start watching it because,because I don't want to get my
blood pressure high yelling atthe tv, and, yeah, because, I
didn't, I wasn't sure.
Mig (29:11):
I mean, for for that reason , you know mike says, you know
we didn't watch the season orwhatever.
So I didn't realize how hotthey went into the postseason or
anything and I thought theywere going to just get it handed
to them by the Padres.
You know, because the Padreswere coming in so cocky and
everything, and I saw some ofthe games that they lost and I
(29:33):
didn't think they were going topull it off, but they did so
after they beat the Padres.
That's when I was like, okay, Ican't miss any games, and I
started watching all of them.
Lano (29:44):
But then, like once they hit the playoffs.
That's when, to me, it becomesmore accessible, because they
start showing it on channelswhere they're not premium
channels.
You have to pay, they're not.
Yeah, that too they're free TV,like we know the schedule, yeah,
like that's when it becomes andthat's when I'm able to watch.
(30:05):
It's not like when, in the olddays, you're watching it on TV.
And 88, I do remember watchingit on TV.
I remember my dad said he wasgoing to the game but he didn't
take me.
But I do remember that WorldSeries, the 81, I don't remember
the 81.
But I do remember watching thatGibson home run.
Now, when Freeman hit that yourtime of you screaming and your
sister getting startled orwhatever did you, is that bigger
(30:34):
than Gibson?
I mean I didn't know the wholestory about him being like.
I mean Gibson, I knew he washurt.
Like you know he could barelywalk Freeman, like I didn't.
Really I didn't know thebackground on that.
Mig (30:44):
I mean, the thing with Gibson is that because the A's
were such heavy favorites, wewere the underdogs.
Eckersley was unhittable dude.
Yeah, he was like a legend, Imean he was like a legend.
I mean he was lights out likewhat Mariano Rivera was, you
(31:05):
know, you're just not going tohit on him.
And for Gibson to go up therehobbling, I mean like hobbling
dude, I mean he was really like,and honestly, even now when I
go back and I see that highlightof that home run, it doesn't
look like he hit it that hard,no, like it's all arms but it
just, it went, it just went andit went out, you know.
(31:30):
That's why, like the Freeman,home run is different, cause you
knew instantly as soon as hehit the bat.
As soon as the ball hit the bat, instantly knew it was gone.
You know, but um, the onlything that would have made the
as soon as the ball hit bat andinstantly knew it was gone, you
know, but the only thing thatwould have made the Freeman one
more special is if Vince Cullywas still here to make that call
(31:51):
.
That's what I miss and that'swhat I remember about 88.
Lano (31:55):
That's like the thing I miss the most and that's why
Because now Vince Cully he wasthe TV miss the most, and that's
why Because now is it VinceCully he was the TV and the
radio.
Mig (32:03):
Yeah.
Lano (32:03):
We're here.
I don't know if the TV guy doesthe radio or it's two different
people.
They're different.
They're different Because onthe radio.
Mig (32:10):
it's Rick Monday and someone else.
I don't know who does it withthem, but Rick Monday does a
really good job.
I enjoy listening to RickMonday.
Did you hear that?
Lano (32:18):
call no, I was watching it on TV.
I was watching it on TV too butis there a version out there.
We can find it with the RickMonday call.
I'm sure there is I want to seewhat he says.
Mig (32:27):
Yeah, because on TV it was Smoltz and it was whoever the
national guys were.
But that's a big reason, Mike,why I kind of don't follow him
all season long anymore, becauseI was so used to hearing it on
the radio, being at work andeverything and just not having
(32:51):
Vince Scully there.
It's not the same Now, thatgame one, it's just not the same
.
Lano (32:58):
There was rumors some people might know would go to
the same.
There was rumors Some peoplemight know go to the game.
Did that ever happen?
No, what about Mark?
Because he had sent some texts.
I didn't believe it, but he hadsaid that he got some.
I don't know If he went or not,because he had sent a text that
he got some tickets.
Mig (33:17):
But I thought he was BSing, I don't know Now.
Lano (33:20):
I don't even know.
Was it like were we the otherdogs or the Yankees were the
other dogs?
Like who had the better record?
I just know it was East andWest and the biggest teams were
the Yankees and Dodgers.
Mig (33:29):
Yeah, I think they were.
I didn't pay attention to whatthe gambling, what the lines
were, but I do remember themsaying there was two top teams
of both leagues, like two numberone seeds, that played yeah,
and then 88 we were like Justunderdogs Because we beat the
(33:49):
mighty Mets.
Lano (33:52):
The Mets were the former champions, and then Oakland was
just dominant.
Mig (33:55):
I'm sure if back then Well no, they wouldn't they still
made it though you know how theyhave wild card rounds now here.
Yeah sure if back then?
Well, no, there wouldn't theywould, they still made it though
, because if you know how theyhave wild card rounds, now here
yeah, yeah, you know, I wasgonna say I'm sure back then
they would have probably had toplay through a wild card round.
But no, that's, that's not true, because they they had to win
their division in order to getin.
So next.
Lano (34:14):
I always remember it was like a short, a short round at
the beginning yeah, because Imean best of five you win.
Mig (34:19):
You win division best of five, and then the best of seven
and best of seven.
Lano (34:25):
And then I remember we played the Mets and I don't know
who we played before, but thenwe played I don't know.
So, like me watching it, like Iwas like oh man, because like
we're down, and then, like youknow, we got the bases loaded.
And then know we got the basesloaded and then like I'm, we're
at the hotel, because I was outof town, right, we were in san
jose and me and my wife werelike we're watching it and I'm
just like, oh, like like basesare loaded, let's see what
(34:47):
happens.
And then, like he hits it outlike we just won.
I just told her, like we justwon the game.
Mig (34:52):
She's like, well, like yeah , like we just won you know what
honestly dude I was, like it'sover she's like the one more out
, more out, like no, it's donehearing the announcers talking
about when they're bringing infreddie freeman, because I
didn't, I didn't know, you know,I didn't know he was hurt, you
know.
And they're saying that you knowthey don't feel to be able to
play because his ankles are bad.
And this is not whatever.
And I was like dude, it's likethey just, they just hit me.
(35:14):
I'm like this is not like 88again.
Lano (35:17):
You know, it's like he's gonna be coming up because in my
mind, like I didn't compare himuntil after the fact people
were talking about then I waslike, oh yeah, like, like, I'll
walk off, like like and thatthat was what.
Mig (35:28):
That was one of the that was one of the things.
I was screaming too is like Ididn't even hear it on the tv or
anything, but I was likescreaming, like yeah, I was like
just like gibson.
Lano (35:38):
You know fireworks are going instantly.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yeah.
Lano (35:40):
Cause I was out of town.
Now Is that Like normal Cause?
Like they walked Bets beforebut they didn't even Like throw
four pitches, they just likeGive them the baseball, is that?
Mig (35:52):
No, that's.
That's new rules that came inLast year or the year before,
cause I was like weird and I waslike what happened?
Lano (36:00):
And I was like, oh, I guess they don't want to bother.
Mig (36:02):
No, it's a time saving thing.
Lano (36:03):
Uh huh.
Mig (36:04):
And, um, they just say they're going to walk them.
They just give them the bass.
They just give them the bass.
Yeah.
Lano (36:10):
Because, remember, with Barry Bonds, they would just
like Give them the bass, I therotation, just to I guess it's,
it's a thing, so they don't.
Mig (36:20):
I guess they felt they would um, throw their rhythm off
or whatever if they had to likepitch out four times.
It's all it's.
Lano (36:30):
It's garbage and then um crap, that reliever.
Do you know much about him?
Is he like?
Like a closer for them?
Or is he good like I?
I don't even know.
Mig (36:38):
He's supposed to be.
He's their closer.
Lano (36:39):
Yeah, their number one.
Mig (36:40):
Yeah, he was supposed to be , so they did everything, right
man?
Lano (36:47):
So that's the thing Like championships, like when there's
like a magical moment like that, then normally like it's kind
of like done Because it was likewell, I was thinking, yeah, I
told my wife, I was like this isit.
We got the series Like that'sso demoralizing for the other
team.
I was like they're not comingback.
No, they gave them a chance, man, and then they did everything
(37:09):
they could and let them back init, and then I don't know if
this was Major League Baseballwho set it up or the Dodgers set
it up, but like Game 2 with IceCube coming out Like and then
Fat Joe for Game 3.
Like I don't know, like if FatJoe was whack, if Fat Joe was
just like a response to Cube, orwas that all like pre-planned
(37:31):
through, like you know?
Mig (37:32):
entertainment at MLB or whatever.
Lano (37:32):
I don't think it was pre-planned, dude, I don't think
it was pre-, because Cube cameout, dude, and when I saw that
Dude, that shit was fire man, Iwas just like game over.
I was like we're done, cube,that was like.
I didn't even need to watch thegame that got me more pumped
Because I was watching it.
That got me more pumped.
Were you watching it live?
No, yeah, I was watching itlive, and then I don't know how
(38:02):
many people heard it, but Iheard the know towards the
yankees.
I was like, oh, I heard it too Ihad to show it to my wife I was
like listen to this, like nice,and then freaking cube man from
the outfield like a stroll yeah, home plate that was badass and
then the, the second song.
We're in um like he said likehe said um, because normally
it's a mr run got a triple,triple-double.
Mig (38:18):
Yeah.
Lano (38:18):
He said that missed run, he hit a double or something
like that.
He flipped it for baseball,yeah.
And then just to finish it offat home play to do the swing.
And then the Freddie Freemanpost with this hand up.
I was like dude, forget it.
Mig (38:31):
It's over.
It's over.
Dude Like I was watching that,Like I got goosebumps I was
thinking you guys, that's whythe next game I wanted to get
home early and watch it so bad,because I wanted to see what the
response was going to be andwho they were going to bring out
.
And then I didn't get home ontime or whatever.
But then, like the next day, Ilook at all the social medias
and everything and they're justYankee fans, just pissed dude.
Lano (38:54):
Yeah, they're.
Mig (38:55):
Yankee fans.
Lano (38:55):
They're like cool Kate, fat Joe, you know it's like he
was terrible and they shouldhave left him at home, because I
was like, who are they gonnalike respond with for cube?
I thought they're gonna be likelike krs1, something like like
legendary, like like I mean infact I mean, yeah, I guess fat
joe's east coast, new york but Ido like that east coast, west
coast and the rap, but like LikeI don't know, fat Juice is like
(39:20):
he's not in Ice Cube's likelevel or anything Nah.
It's like his whole, even thesongs like they didn't get me
like pumped or anything Hiswhole opening sucked dude.
Mig (39:31):
It was like yo yo yo, what up New York?
He's like what up Yankees.
Like what up Georgia?
What up dude?
He's like up this, what up that?
Lano (39:39):
I'm like and he came out of the dugout now, like he
didn't do the walk like you andthen you suck and it kind of
felt like he ran out of stuff todo like he didn't know.
Mig (39:47):
Yeah, you know, and then that's that's what I'm saying.
Lano (39:50):
You know, it's like that's why the songs weren't even like
big hits, like like, I meanmusic's music.
Mig (39:55):
If you like the song, like you like it, like I thought,
like that's something, I don'tknow, that's why I've always
said that when it comes to likehip hop and the rap game, you
just have rappers which Justknow how to you know maybe write
lyrics and it takes them a longtime to write them and get
something good.
And then you got like the MC'sthat these dudes Can just flow
(40:22):
and just put it together and putsomething together good, like
on the fly.
You know like dudes that likewould do rap battles and stuff.
Lano (40:33):
But I just recently saw this interview with with snoop
and dre because their newalbum's coming out and, um, like
, dre produced his whole albumfor snoop the whole album and
Dre was saying that, like hewanted, his condition was he
wants to do the whole album andhe says he doesn't like when an
album comes out and there's like10 different producers.
(40:54):
He's like it should be only oneproducer because they need to
have that whole album flow, notjust like 10 different people.
And then Snoop came in and said, well, like they're not
producers, they're just likebeat makers.
A guy makes a beat here, like,put your lyrics on the song, is
this guy making beats?
So?
So each song has a differentguy who made the beat, but
they're not producers producing,so that they just different
(41:16):
beat makers.
You know, like, put in theirbeats, the guys put their lyrics
on and then, like you know,they get 10 of them, they have
an album or whatever, but he'slike they're not producers.
Like the way you're a producer,dre, who listens to every lyric
, cut, redo the song, redo this,redo this.
They're just beat makers andthat's the difference.
Mig (41:36):
Now it's easy to make a beat.
Is that what all thesesupposedly hip-hop dudes are
doing now?
Lano (41:41):
It's all computer software .
It's easy to make a beat where,like before, like before, you
had to produce the music youknow, get the instruments, do
all the stuff.
Mig (41:50):
So that's why it's lazy, it's shortcuts, you do shortcuts
and you do lazy work and theit's gonna show in the final
product yeah.
Lano (41:58):
so I was like, oh surprised, like that's why, and
like and yeah, I don't know, fatJoe just is in a whole
different league.
I'm trying to think who's atIce Cube's level, like even if
they could have brought Ice-Tout or something.
I mean, I don't know exactlywhere he's from, but someone on
a New.
Mig (42:15):
York guy, ice-t, I think.
I mean I know he's Hollywoodnow, but he was east coast, but
he, he moved over to the westcoast At a young age and I don't
know if you know this, but hewas in the army.
Yeah, he went to the army and,um, when he got back from the
(42:35):
army is when he started doingHis whole rap game and
everything, cause he got backand still like the neighborhood
Was crap, you know, and hestarted getting mixed up With
the wrong crowd and everything,because he got back and still
like the neighborhood was crap,you know, and he got started
getting mixed up with the wrongcrowd and everything and became
a pimp and all that so, uh, soafter that, I mean we won game
(42:55):
two and three, so it wasbasically over um game.
Lano (42:59):
Game four they, they got us and Game four.
Mig (43:03):
I knew that was going to happen because the pitching
there was no starting pitchinggoing out there.
They had said you know,whenever you have a bullpen game
, which is you don't have anystarters and you're just
throwing guys out there from thebullpen, it's not going to go
good.
I mean, it went good for themagainst the Mets, I believe it
(43:25):
was, but that's because theybrought out their top bullpen
guys, you know.
So I pretty much figured gamefour was going to be a throwaway
, which made me nervous becauseI didn't and you can't stay hot
forever, yeah, well, the thingis it made me nervous because I
and you can't stay hot forever.
Yeah, Well, the thing is, itmade me nervous because I didn't
want the Yankees to get thisfalse sense of Like they got
(43:50):
over the hump, you know.
Lano (43:51):
Yeah.
Mig (43:54):
And that's what started happening, dude.
When Game 5 started unfoldingthe way it did, I was like oh,
oh.
I'm like it's going to happen,dude.
Lano (44:02):
I mean I kind of knew like back in la they're gonna take
it.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
I don't know the win game game fight was making me
nervous is the way they werehitting and everything and and
our pitching was alreadystarting to get bad.
Mig (44:15):
You know, it's like it was you know, and then, so we slowly
creep up yeah, then the yankeeswheels fall apart, fall off the
wagon.
Lano (44:28):
So and their big superstar aaron.
He didn't do nothing on aaronjudd.
Mig (44:34):
He disappeared no, and that's what's funny, the two big
faces of the world series bothdisappeared sho, shohei and—
Aaron Judge and Shohei.
Lano (44:44):
I mean Shohei.
He had a home run, the firstgame right.
Mig (44:47):
I think so.
Lano (44:48):
Yeah, and then he hurt his arm, which was like oh man, he
hurt his arm, Is he going tocome back, or this and that
Little Hollywood drama.
He got hurt, but—.
Mig (44:58):
Yeah, when he hurt himself, I was like is it really a big
loss?
I'm like Is it really a bigloss?
I'm like he hasn't been Doinganything.
Lano (45:04):
I thought it was a big loss.
I was just like why was hetrying to steal, like we had the
lead and all that stuff, likewhy was he trying To go for it?
But Freddie Freeman Camethrough with Was it three or
four home runs, dude?
Mig (45:15):
he hit, going back to the last time he was in.
Lano (45:18):
Atlanta or something um the World Series.
Mig (45:20):
In the playoffs, in the World Series, he had, I think,
six games in a row with homeruns.
Lano (45:26):
Yeah going back to when he played with Atlanta he got MVP
right from the got MVP.
Yeah, does it really?
So?
No, I mean for him to like, Imean all I mean after that, that
first game, we I mean that'slike you know, enough to keep
hitting the home run after, likeall the way up to game four,
game four, right.
Yeah, game two and three andfour.
(45:47):
That's crazy.
Mig (45:51):
But it was so sweet man for them to win at this time,
because you get so tired ofhearing everybody talk crap that
the 2021 didn't count becauseit was half a season.
Yeah.
Lano (46:01):
You know the COVID one and no one in the crowd.
Mig (46:03):
Asterix and all that stuff, so you could take your asterix
and shove it in unaware.
Lano (46:09):
So then we have that was Wednesday, right the final game,
or Tuesday, because then wehave the parade on Friday.
The parade was on Friday, whichwas I thought it was going to
be like on a Saturday orsomething.
Yeah, I think it was on friday,which was I thought it was
gonna be like on a saturday,yeah, I think it was on a
wednesday, but it the paradecame fast, yeah, and um, so
you're working, did you go?
(46:30):
did you go?
No, I had planned on goingbecause, um, I had to be 11 and
then, um, the route was gonnaswing by my work, so I was gonna
go at work, park at my work Iwas already off that week so
like I didn't have to worryabout work, but I was in parking
my works parking lot and thengo to the parade.
But, um, I asked my, my girl,um, the old is like, well, you
want to see the parade?
(46:50):
And she said no, she was alltired from halloween.
Halloween was, I think,thursday, right thursday
thursday or wednesday.
It was on a thursday, thursday.
So she was like she said shejust wanted to stay home.
I was like you want to go tothe parade, we're going to go to
the parade, and she's like no,so we just watched it on TV,
which was nice.
But I mean it was nice watchingthat parade.
(47:10):
I mean it would have been ahassle to go just because all
the people that's why I didn'tgo.
That's why I don't.
I wanted to go and the plan wasto go, but my, we all were like
under the weather after that.
We all the girls were sickfirst and then we got sick and
then, um, I think they went thewrong route in the parade
because they're supposed tostart off um, like coming
(47:32):
through.
I think they're gonna end atcity hall.
But they went to city hallfirst like they went backwards,
and then they're gonna like, um,like do some speaking at city
hall and then go to DodgerStadium.
But they went to City Hallfirst and then they didn't do no
speaking, they just picked upthe mayor and then took off
because people were waiting atGrand Park.
So I was like, oh man, allthose people are waiting for a
(47:52):
speech or something.
Nothing, see some player.
Mig (47:55):
Well, you're right, I think it was supposed to start at
Grand Park.
Lano (47:57):
Yeah, and then nothing happened.
And then in that city, hall.
So.
But when it hit Dodger Stadiumwe got a special encore
performance of Cube again, whichwas nice.
And then it happened to be onFernando's birthday, which was
nice, so I was paying tribute toFernando.
(48:18):
And then Kiki Hernandez you sawthat right, you said when he
started talking about ice cubeand in federal he made a comment
, he says um, freddy handledgame one, he was looking for ice
cube.
He's like special thanks forice cube.
He's like after thatperformance, like we didn't have
to play, the game was alreadyover, and then he's all.
(48:40):
Then some guy came out from newyork.
He's like he used to be fat.
I think his name is joe orsomething like that.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
And then he's like after his performance, we didn't
need a play the game wasalready over I just thought that
was like so so funny like yeah,it was funny, you know, I was
like man new york's gonna bepissed, who cares?
Mig (48:57):
man.
Lano (48:59):
Uh, they think the whole world revolves around them
before um, um, did you see whatyou think about that when
they're trying to like open upum, mookie betts glove to take
that ball out?
Mig (49:14):
I was I was actually still at work when that was happening
yeah, I didn't see it live Imean we were, we were watching
the game.
Um, my brother had his phoneout while I was driving back to
the shop and I was kind of likelooking over, I was like trying
not to crash and I was like whatthe hell?
Lano (49:34):
You and Ricky do that, watching YouTube while driving.
You understand.
Mig (49:40):
But you know.
So then you had the phone onand everything and I was just
hearing it, you know, and I'mlike I'm hearing it, I'm like
and I, what the hell did thatdude do?
He's like, yeah, he's trying totake it out of his hand, you
know.
And I, but it's an hour, right?
He's like, yeah, it's an hour.
And then, like, when we finallycame to a stop sign and I said
they do the replay and I waslooking at it, I was like dude,
(50:01):
what the hell, man, this dudecould have messed up his wrist
or something making a like hegot mugged out there.
Lano (50:06):
Yeah, he could have hurt him bad.
He could have like messed uphis wrist, the guy was actually
like prying it open with twohands while grabbing the ball.
Some other guy was like, Ithink, holding his arm, like
they could.
Like I felt like I mean I'm notbeing like a sports, but like
like Mookie Betts could havelike pressed charges or
something Like he got, like youknow, like manhandled up there
with with the, with the, youknow what.
Mig (50:30):
That idiot got punished enough because I'm sure he paid
a grip for those tickets and heonly got to see one out of the
game.
Lano (50:40):
It was right at the beginning, it was at the
beginning, there was a first out.
No, I heard, I mean it wasright at the beginning, it was
at the beginning, there was afirst out.
No, I heard, I mean what I read, I mean I don't know it's true,
but I read that that guy was aseason ticket holder and they
just banned him from the nextgame, but that's it he was.
He was back.
I guess the following theybanned him for, like that, was
game two or three well they saidthey banned him for the next
game or he's not welcome therest of the series or something,
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but he's going to be back nextyear, this and that.
But I just thought that wasjust kind of rude.
But then I think it was gameone when, like, we had another
idiot in LA who caught that ball.
That was like a double orsomething.
You saw that.
Mig (51:16):
Oh yeah, he reached out, he reached down.
Lano (51:19):
I was like what an idiot Like reached down.
And I was like what an idiotlike this guy was, like he
reached down and got it and thenlike I don't know if they
kicked him out, but like he juststarted packing up his bags and
he was like that's the thing,dude.
Mig (51:28):
It's like you get these.
I mean it.
Just that's another thing thatupsets me about going to games
is like, I know it's a funexperience and everything, and
people that don't know anythinghave a good time, but they
shouldn't be allowed to sitwhere they're going to interfere
with play.
Yeah, because if that's mesitting there and I see that
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that ball's coming up short,dude, I'm holding everybody back
.
Lano (51:58):
Yeah, because it was against our team, especially if
it's one of our outfielderstrying to get the catch.
Mig (52:03):
I'm going to be holding everybody back.
Man Like hey, let them makethis catch.
Lano (52:06):
Yeah, because that's what got me mad, because I was like
dude he's on, like what an idiot, like he had a Dodgers jersey,
but I'm like it was against us.
Mig (52:22):
I mean I do enjoy like the foul balls, like them diving
into the crowd and, like youknow, catching a ball or
whatever, but like that double,even at just a regular game.
I always pay attention towhat's going on, because you
hear so many stories of peoplegetting hit by foul balls
because they're looking at theirphone, because they're looking
away, because they're like, ohman, it's like, do all that shit
in between innings.
No, I'm always like when I wastaking my wife out, like, oh man
, it's like, do all that shit inbetween innings.
Lano (52:43):
No, I'm always like you know, when I was taking my wife
out, like I'm always aware,because I know, like she's not
focused on it.
So I'm always like you know,looking for her.
Like you know, the balls can bein this and that, One eye on
the home plate and this and that.
And when I used to go as a kid,my grandma had season tickets
at third base, like field level,which is a yellow, and we would
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get a bunch of foul balls, Foulballs all the time.
And we would see people just gethit all the time just not
paying attention.
She always had a.
It was a weird angle.
You had to like, look to theright to watch home plate.
But, like I mean, you just hadto do it or else you're going to
get hit, but yeah, it lookslike a good year.
We, but yeah, it looks like agood year.
Mig (53:25):
We got the redemption now.
We had our parade.
Can't take it away from usanymore.
Can't put no asterisks on it.
Can't qualify it.
Lano (53:32):
It was just Good old fashioned ass whooping and it
looks like we're going to havesome more With our team.
I mean the show he comes backto, he starts pitching, I mean
yeah yeah I mean I I mean I knowpeople were like, oh, like his
whole contract every year, butno, I think we'll get at least I
(53:53):
mean, I'll tell you this threemore three through two or three
more me.
Mig (53:57):
Me and rick are the biggest dave roberts haters and all
those other past seasons wherethey've been bounced before the
World Series and everything.
I put all the blame squarely onhim and the way he's managed
the teams and managed thepitchers and everything.
And this is the first yearwhere I think he threw all of
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his stupid analytics crap outthe window and just went on.
Feel the way I say he's alwaysshould be doing.
I mean.
Speaker 2 (54:31):
I don't know.
Lano (54:32):
Because all that analytics crap is good during the season,
because you have a big pool ofdata to grab from, to grab from,
but everybody knows, dude, onceyou hit the playoffs, it's a
completely new game, it's adifferent game, it's a
completely different animal, andthat one you gotta play by,
(54:54):
feel and and I don't know likeabout strategy and and all that
stuff, but like, from watchingthe interviews, they said that
like that he was just likechecking up on players, like
emotionally, like how are youfeeling, like are you good to go
, or, like you know, they saidhe was more like and I don't
know if that's his style all thetime but he was keeping like
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the mood up, like you know, whenplayers are down, like you know
, pick him up, like he was justlike.
Yeah, Like I don't know X's andO's but like he was more like
I'm talking more like how hemanaged the pitchers Mm-hmm.
Mig (55:28):
Because during the season he's so strict on you know he
threw 50 pitches already.
Let's get him out, even thoughthe dude was dealing.
You know, even though he haslike seven strikeouts, you know,
and no walks, and he can stillkeep on going and give your
bullpen a rest.
It's like he still wants topull them out.
He wants to yank them.
Speaker 2 (55:50):
You know, it's like.
Mig (55:51):
I hate that dude.
It's like if the guy's on fireand he's being unhittable, let
him go, let him yeah, you knowuntil they finally start hitting
on them.
Lano (56:00):
Yeah, because then, like you, might see something special
happen, yeah, and then theypull him early, and then you
know and this series.
Mig (56:11):
I saw he did that a little bit better.
What was that pitcher?
Was it Buehler, Buehler?
No it wasn't Buehler, it wasYamamoto.
Uh-huh, I forgot who it wasthat was doing really good and
just went Went like six innings.
Lano (56:30):
Might have been Yamamoto, because I know they were pulling
him early.
Mig (56:32):
It was probably both Buehler and Yamamoto, I think,
because they both did good andwent like deep into the sixth
inning.
Lano (56:41):
I think next year, because we got a lot of pitchers
injured this year.
Mig (56:45):
Yeah.
Lano (56:45):
And I think next year, when they're healthy, we're
going to have like a strongbullpen or whatever staff.
But even like he made somedecisions just on the World
Series roster, like he broughtin some other guy, that Grittar
I don't know who he was, but hecame in and got some key outs
like some fastball broussard,broussard, uh, gadderall
(57:06):
gadderall, yeah, yeah, and hethrew some fire and and like he
had some energy, but yeah, butit was kind of wild.
I think this um shohei era, likeout of a seven-year contract, I
think maybe we get three more,or I mean three total, like yeah
, so now, and then like two more, and even that's a success.
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They're saying, um that now, umthe manager that like like he's
a hall of famer, because Iguess all the hall of famers
have two world series so they'recalling him how long?
um, how long has he been inthere?
Dave roberts?
At least?
Like 10 years, 10 years, yeah,so he's been a while.
They're calling him how longhas he been in there, dave
Roberts?
At least?
Like 10 years, 10 years, yeah,so he's been there a while.
They're calling him A Hall ofFame Manager now.
(57:48):
But, yeah, we'll just keep itgoing.
Next week I have some tequila Iwant you to try.
Speaker 2 (57:54):
Oh, my goodness.
Lano (57:55):
This is.
I want to share it Because Ithink it's good stuff and I want
you to taste it because I thinkit's good stuff and I want you
to taste it before you look inbecause I know you like you have
your rates and your charts andyour rating system and it's not
no website.
Mig (58:09):
No, no, no, no cheeto flavored.
Lano (58:12):
No, this is tequila, that that I heard about and that okay
, it's all about the flavor andthe smoothness.
I tried it and I liked it, butI want you to taste it before
you look on your ratings and allthat stuff.
Speaker 2 (58:22):
You might know about it.
Lano (58:24):
And then I have a record story to tell about a record I
bought.
I'm adding to my recordcollection.
Speaker 2 (58:31):
So that'll be Vinyl.
Lano (58:32):
Vinyl, vinyl.
So next week, when Rick's here,we'll do that and then
hopefully Rick has some stories.
Mig (58:38):
Hopefully.
So I hope we did, did okaypeople coming back from the
little mini break that we had.
So hope you didn't uh mind toomuch.
All the political talk went upon a little tangent there, but
yeah, and then just educateyourself, I think.
Lano (58:58):
I think it's good once in a while, yeah, it's like.
Mig (59:03):
I said before, do your research, vote according to what
you believe.
That's it.
Can't get mad at that.
Lano (59:11):
And then look at the holiday calendar.
Our recording day is onChristmas.
Christmas is on a Wednesday, somaybe recording I don't know if
we'll record Christmas Eve orMonday or something.
Mig (59:22):
We will cross that bridge when we come to it.
Keep drifting yo, peace.
Welcome back to the Drifting on Arroyo podcast.
This is Mig, this is Lano andthat's it.
People, I was going to say youget a half-assed show this week,
but since there's three asseson this show, it's actually the
two-thirds ass show.
So just trying to bemathematically correct?
Lano (00:30):
yeah, sorry for no show.
Last week I was out.
I got um sick from halloween soI wasn't up to recording that
night but seems like you guysare ready.
Mig (00:39):
Why'd you eat so?
Lano (00:40):
much candy fool, was it as the kids?
And then it was election nightand I kind of wanted to watch
that.
It was a bunch going on.
And then this week Rick'sworking evenings huh.
Mig (00:50):
Yeah, but a lot has happened since we were last on
Spoiler alert.
The Dodgers are world championsagain, right, right, right, in
case you didn't know, uh-oh what?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Wrong button.
Mig (01:05):
What world champions again right, right, right, in case you
didn't know what's wrong withyou, man.
And then, uh, we have elected anew president, which I 100
endorse and um?
Lano (01:18):
did they finalize um?
I saw that we won the or the,the house.
And then what was the?
Mig (01:24):
is that finalized?
Lano (01:25):
Well, I don't know, that's what I was asking.
Mig (01:27):
Because last I heard there had to be a certain amount of
seats won and the Republicansdid have more seats, but I don't
know if they had enough to havethe majority.
I think it was something like230 or something like that, and
(01:47):
last count they were like at 218.
I believe, or something likethat.
I'm not sure.
Lano (01:53):
So I guess I brought up the Google.
So the final on the electoralwas 313 Trump and then 226
Harris, and then where's theHouse at?
And then I don't know.
I got to look for the otherstuff.
(02:13):
Let's see.
Mig (02:16):
Yeah, it's just too bad you got sick man, because it would
have been fun doing like anelection watch show.
Lano (02:23):
Oh, and then.
So the Senate was 53 to 47.
And then, what are all theseblack ones?
They're still counting.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I don't know.
Lano (02:31):
Are they reported or it's not finalized?
And then the House was 214 to206.
But I don't know what thatnumber is to get the majority.
Yeah, you see 218 for majority.
Mig (02:44):
Because once you hit that 218 number, there's a certain
number of seats Right.
So once you hit the 218.
Then they're likemathematically.
Then yeah, they're.
Mathematically, whatever sidegets 218 is going to have the
advantage as far as when votingtime comes.
Lano (03:01):
And then I mean, he's already making changes already,
right.
Mig (03:07):
Changes are being made a lot of stuff is happening
already.
Lano (03:08):
But didn't he say like if something on the break, if you
don't go for his um, hisselections or whatever, then uh,
something during the recessthey like like he's just putting
you on on warning or somethinglike that, because I guess to
appoint someone that could likeup to a couple years.
So he told everybody like hey,you guys better go with my picks
(03:32):
before it starts, or recess, orsomething like that.
I saw him make an announcement.
Mig (03:37):
Oh, it probably is some kind of ploy or something that
they have to like avoid votingSomething.
Lano (03:47):
Yeah, you know to delay and filibuster and all that yeah
, I'm curious because um nowricky gave us that story how um
his business or his formeremployer was like thriving right
during during the, the previousum I mean well, not not the the
(04:08):
previous previous, like beforebiden.
And then when, with the thebiden regime, they kind of like
started struggling in terms ofum I don't know, it could be
both sides of the people umhaving money to spend on
plumbers or or just taxes on thebusinesses or whatever, so they
shut down so I'm curious nowthat he's uh like an owner of
his own business, how under thisadministration, how it affects
(04:30):
him?
Mig (04:31):
You know, I don't think it's as much the administration
as it is our localadministration, but the thing is
, with having the administrationon your side the presidency
you're able to wield a waybigger sword.
(04:52):
Just recently I don't know ifpeople know out there, but here
in California pretty much callit Commie-fornia because we're
being run like communists,pretty much called it
Commie-fornia because we'rebeing run like communists it's
like you drive what we tell youto drive and you eat what we
tell you to eat.
You wear what you tell you towear and you speak the way we
(05:12):
tell you to speak.
Pretty much how it is inCalifornia, and Newsom decided
to gather a meeting with theCARB, california Air Resources
Board, after the elections, sothat way no one looks bad.
Lano (05:33):
Oh, this is that gas tax you're talking about.
Mig (05:35):
Yes, everyone holds their seats where they have their
seats, and so nobody makes astink about it because nobody
knows what's going on.
So what he did, and the problemis that with CARB it's pretty
(05:57):
much an organization ofbureaucrats, so they don't get
held responsible likelegislators or Congress or
Senate or anybody that's elected.
Lano (06:09):
They just they're not that liability is not there.
So this 100% In CARB isCalifornia Air Resources Board.
Air Resources Board.
Mig (06:14):
It's an organization with 14 board members, 12 of which
were personally appointed byGavin Newsom.
So this is 100% on Newsom.
So if you ever hear him sayingthat he doesn't know about it or
he has no influence over it oranything like that, he's
straight up lying, which he hasdone before, and even before
(06:37):
when he ran for office and beingelected the first time around,
he straight out lied because hesaid that and I remember it
clearly on his campaign trail hesays that whatever the people
vote in on propositions, he'sgoing to go with it, he's not
going to go against it.
(06:57):
And that was a bold-faced lie,because propositions that went
in that he didn't like, hevetoed and they ended up dying
and he ended up doing whateverhe wanted either way.
Mm-hmm, you know.
And the problem you know,everybody like people want to
complain and everything.
That's why I say it's soimportant when it comes to
(07:18):
elections, it's so important topay attention to what's going on
locally, I mean the presidencyand everything.
California really is irrelevantbecause California is always
going to like for the past 20years or so, 25 years has gone
Democrat, so like as aconservative or Republican here
(07:39):
in California, really your voteskind of like doesn't count, but
it does Because it's importantfor them to see and we see with
this past election how much morethe conservatives or the red
wave is coming out, because nowit's showing just the coast.
You know the cities along thecoastline, I saw that map and
(08:02):
who lives along the coast, thecoastlines, all the saw that map
somewhere.
And who lives along the coast,the coastlines, all the
millionaires and all the elites.
And how do they vote?
They all vote Democrat.
So they're saying so.
I'm just saying you know,everybody wants to say that the
Republicans are this and thatand they're the rich and you
know all the tax breaks andeverything for them.
(08:23):
It's like why they're the richand you know all the tax breaks
and everything for them.
It's like why they're not theones living in these
million-dollar mansions alongthe coast on the beach.
You know it's all the techmillionaires, it's all the
celebrities, and we all know howthey vote and how they lean.
So you just do simple math, putthat together and you'll see
(08:46):
who's who and who's for what.
Lano (08:47):
But um, they said.
Well, now they're saying likewe're a purple state, I guess
that's like um, is that like uh?
Mig (08:52):
well, because a lot, a lot of the people that would like
sit out and just say like ah,you're like, like, like I said,
you know, they say it doesn'tmatter, my vote doesn't matter.
Well, those people startedcoming out yeah so our numbers
got a lot bigger that's what'skind of like election night.
Lano (09:08):
We're like me and my wife are watching it and then like
all the focus is on the swingstate, like it's not on
california because it's like ourwell, I mean if, because with I
mean just in, in all the peoplethat left after COVID, after
the lockdowns.
Mig (09:26):
It's like how many people left California?
I think it was somewhere aroundlike the 100,000 number.
You know, if all those peopleleft, how would they have voted?
Lano (09:37):
Right.
Mig (09:37):
You know.
So that's that many more votesthat we possibly lost.
Lano (09:42):
Because they went to red states right as a Republican,
yeah they all went to likeFlorida and Texas.
Texas and stuff.
You know, so but and that'swhat I don't like is this like
our votes already like accountedfor, Like it's just like we
don't.
Mig (09:56):
Yeah, but that's what I'm saying.
How long has it been like thathere?
Yeah, it's a long time, dude.
I mean for as long as I've beenpaying attention to politics
and that's like I didn't reallystart paying attention until
obama jumped in oh, because Ireally thought obama was going
to be a difference maker.
And I mean, I'll be the firstone to admit it, dude, I was
(10:20):
buying into that obama kool-aid.
I was drinking it, you know,because I thought that's what
this country needed.
You know, it needed to beshooken up and everything.
But once I started seeing moreand more what this dude was
about, I was like no, you know,this guy doesn't like to love
the country man, he hates it.
It's like, how do you go up toan event and when the Pledge of
(10:44):
Allegiance is going on, you juststand there with your hands in
your pockets.
You know you're running for thepresidency, dude, right, put
your damn hand over your heart,you know, and show the respect
that the flag deserves, you know?
And if he's just sitting therewith his hands in his pockets,
dude, you don't know how muchthat rubbed me the wrong way
(11:06):
when I saw that.
And this is before the wholescandal of him not being born
here and him not being a citizenand everything.
This was way before that dude.
I mean, I'm talking about whenthey just first brought him in.
I saw that dude and just thatlittle act.
Right, there is what rubbed meso wrong.
I'm like this dude does notcare about the country.
(11:30):
I'm like he's going to be outfor himself and you know, look
at, the proof is in the history.
The dude went in with nothingand he came out a
multimillionaire.
How does that happen?
Lano (11:46):
So the last Republican governor of California was
Schwarzenegger, which I don'tknow, if you consider that that
dude was not a Republican.
Because I mean he's like acelebrity, he's not like a.
Mig (11:56):
Republican politician.
That dude was not a Republican,but that was 2003,.
Lano (12:00):
So that was over 20 years ago.
Mig (12:04):
I think the last one before him was probably.
Lano (12:05):
Pete Wilson no, yeah, yeah .
Mig (12:08):
Well, anyways, getting back to Newsome, so what they did is
they got together and the boarddid this vote where they want
the refineries to start makinglike an and I'm doing an air
quotes an ultra low carbon fuel,you know, so it doesn't emit,
(12:31):
um, so the gas burn cleaner,whatever bullshit they claim,
which is all crap, becausethere's there's other experts
that say it's not really goingto make any difference
whatsoever, you know, but it'sjust all it's going to do is
(12:56):
inconvenience the refineries tochange equipment, you know,
change a refining process andjust cost us more.
Where they're trying to play itoff, telling you it's only
going to be like eight to sevencents tax more per gallon, where
really it's going to beanywhere between 47 cents and
about 65 cents more.
Lano (13:12):
Yeah, google news is showing, um, they don't like.
A lot of articles are saying 65cents and then a lot of people
they're not even sure how muchis going to go up because, um,
they think it might be more than65 cents.
Mig (13:24):
And then it's like, whenever he gets called on it,
his excuse is always that oh,the oil company is gouging.
Oil company is gouging, I'mlike.
So if the oil company isgouging, why is it only gouging
California?
Why isn't the rest of thecountry, all the other states,
being gouged?
I mean, all you got to do is asimple Google search of national
(13:48):
gas prices, go state by state,and there's like over 30 states
where the gas is under $3.30.
Lano (13:57):
And they freak out when it's like at $2.50 or something
$2.35, they're freaking out.
Yeah, Now gas.
Gas Does that affect?
Is that diesel too, or noEverything?
Mig (14:07):
Everything gets.
Lano (14:08):
Yeah.
Mig (14:09):
You see, and the thing is, what people don't realize Is
that, like you, lano, I mean, Iknow, you realize it, but people
, you know, they don't reallypay attention.
They're like, oh, I got anelectric vehicle, so it doesn't
matter to me.
I'm like, yes, it does matter,because everything that's
shipped to the stores,everything that's shipped to
restaurants, any product that'smoved around or anything is
(14:32):
moved by trucks.
Lano (14:35):
Produce goes up, this nation runs on trucks.
Mig (14:40):
It's bloodline is trucks and we need that diesel fuel.
It's bloodline is trucks and weneed that diesel fuel.
And if it goes up, the bottomline is the corporations and the
businesses do not lose.
All they do is they pass thaton to the consumer and at the
end we're the ones that lose,we're the ones that have to pay
more.
You work on diesel trucks.
Lano (15:03):
I work on diesel trucks.
Yeah, how, how big are thosegas tanks, the tanks?
Mig (15:06):
are easy.
Each tank is 100 gallons eachtank 100, so like how much so
you're?
talking about they're filling uptheir tanks for like 500
dollars, oh yeah of a tank, yeahyou know.
And then you, you add to thatanother, another, what 60
dollars?
Yeah, so it's going to bealmost $600, dude, I mean.
And then throughout the yearit's like they're.
(15:30):
They're estimating thatthroughout the year that's going
to tax on, that's going to taxFamilies or individuals,
anywhere between $600 to $1,000more a year that you got to come
up with To drive your car.
Lano (15:43):
Because when was it?
When, the, when, the?
There was a period Like when,the?
Um, there was a period likewhen I bought a bicycle because,
like, gas was just getting tooexpensive.
Yeah, it was, um, I don't wantlike 15 years ago, 20 years ago,
something had happened wherethe gas had gone up and it was
like six bucks and and we, westarted riding bikes again, I
started taking public transit,because everything was just
(16:04):
going up.
Well, I don't remember what thereason was then, but everything
had gotten super expensive.
Yeah, I don't remember.
Mig (16:14):
But that was the last time where, like milk went up,
groceries went up.
It could have been during adesert storm or something, you
know when, maybe?
Lano (16:18):
But like prices never went below that, like we got used to
, you know, paying the $3 or $4and stuff yeah.
And then we got used to paying,you know, for the milk, the $5.
Like prices never went downagain.
Mig (16:33):
Like, after gas went down, the coffee never went back down.
I mean, and that's what they do, because why should they?
If people are going to pay it,they're going to keep on.
And that's what we as consumershave to do is like like if
there's something we don't like,then just stop buying the
(16:53):
product.
You know it's like they theywant to talk about.
You know the other, the otherbig argument that they have is
like oh well, the oil industrymade up billions in profit.
You know it's like okay, well,you know, if this particular
company is making billions inprofit and they have like four
other competitors, go to thecompetitors that are going to
undercut them and once theystart losing, they're going to
have no choice but to bring downtheir prices.
You know it's simple economyman.
(17:15):
It's a simple formula.
You know that checks andbalances itself.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Right.
Mig (17:24):
You know, but when it gets all this interference and all
this involvement, I mean, andthis tax, it goes through and
it's going to be permanent.
Don't think it's going to goaway and come down.
Yeah, because if you look rightnow at the price of gas, say on
(17:45):
average, anywhere it's about, Isee average maybe about $4.49,
maybe $4.30, around there.
Almost like $2.15 of that isgoing to be nothing but taxes.
It has nothing to do with therefineries.
(18:05):
It has nothing to do with therefineries.
It has nothing to do with theoil company.
It's all taxes.
Lano (18:12):
Yeah.
Mig (18:13):
And where does all that tax money go?
Lano (18:16):
That's the thing, like if they're going to tax us, I want
to see like results.
You know what I mean.
Mig (18:21):
It sure as hell doesn't go to fix the roads.
Lano (18:23):
I know that's what I'm saying, because the roads are
horrible, the streets aside,like those potholes picked up
and all that stuff Like thefreeway, whatever expansions I
want it done faster, like youknow what I mean.
All that stuff like they takedecades to fix, if you look at
history, like we built the wholerailroad, like you know, and I
don't know how long, but to addanother lane to a freeway it's
(18:43):
going to take like 10 years orsomething like that.
Mig (18:51):
It's just.
I think the problem withgovernment now is that people
hold positions for too long, youknow.
It's like you really got to putshort-term limits on there,
because I think if you leavethem in there for too long a
time, they start buildingrelationships and they start
making it easy to be corruptedand like bought off and bribed
and everything.
So if you just don't give themthat time to be in a certain
(19:12):
position you know to be able tohave enough influence for you to
be bribed or paid off orwhatever it is, then all this
gets solved or whatever it is.
Lano (19:25):
Then all this gets solved.
I mean, I had a Volkswagen inhigh school and I remember to
fill up it was under $10.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah $10.
Lano (19:34):
I remember when the lowest I can remember is maybe $0.98.
Whatever a gallon was, that wasa dollar or something like that
.
If I'm putting in 10 gallons,I'm putting in $10.
If I'm putting in $8, I'mputting in 10 bucks.
If I'm putting in 8 bucks, I'mputting in 8 gallons.
Mig (19:51):
What's the lowest?
You remember gas being Lowest Iremember is maybe about 75
cents.
75 cents, yeah.
Lano (19:58):
I know back in the day it was a quarter and all that stuff
, but now it's close to $5.
How many times has thatincreased?
Yeah, I mean.
And close to five dollars, likehow many times has that
increased?
Yeah, I mean.
And then like results, likegrowing up, I remember seeing
smog, I remember playing outsideand my chest hurting so like I
know, like the air is a lotcleaner now it is a lot cleaner,
but that's this technologygetting better
exactly in terms of, likeengines and, like you know, the
(20:18):
cadillac converter, all thatstuff on the car is getting more
efficient and it's notnecessarily like and it's I mean
the thing.
Mig (20:25):
The thing is dude.
It's like these people want topunish us for what, for
pollution is going on halfwayaround the world, you know.
It's like why do we have tosuffer and pay for people that
(20:47):
don't care and are not doing itand are not taxed or whatever,
halfway around the world?
Yeah, you know they can polluteall they want, you know, but
we're the ones that have to payfor it.
That's why it's all.
I think it's all a scam.
It's, I mean, it's all justmoney making for these people
(21:11):
like Newsom and everything else,just so they could have their
backroom deals or they havetheir interest people buying
stocks for them.
You know it's crooked as NancyPelosi.
You know all the inside tradingthat she's done.
Hope she goes to jail for that.
Lano (21:30):
You know concert tickets, how they're so expensive.
Mig (21:33):
Yeah.
Lano (21:34):
And like all that stuff's like generators, like powering
all those TVs and you know audioequipment.
You know all those are gasgenerators.
Mig (21:42):
Yeah.
Lano (21:42):
Gardeners.
You know they're lawnmowers.
That's all like gasoline thatthey're buying.
So gardeners, like their wages,are going to go up, or take a
grass, everything's just goingto go up.
Mig (21:52):
I mean, look, I know I talk a lot of shit about electric
vehicles and everything, and thething is you know what?
I'm fine with them If you'redoing it to save gas.
That's a perfectly legitimateReason for having the electric
vehicles.
The part that I have a problemwith it Is these people that are
(22:13):
under the illusion that theythink they're saving the planet
or saving the climate by drivingthese things Right, Because
you're not.
I mean if you see by drivingthese things Right Because
you're not, I mean if you seehow much land is being destroyed
in the mining of lithium tocreate these batteries, and then
(22:35):
what do you think happens tothese batteries after they're no
good and they're done?
It's like if they tell you youcan't even throw away batteries
and double A battery in yourtrash.
I know they want you toproperly dispose of that
batteries and the AA battery inyour trash.
I know they want you to properlydispose of that.
What the hell are they going todo with these car ones, right?
So don't tell me they're savingthe environment because it's
(22:56):
not.
Lano (22:56):
I just got a new TV and I have to look for a place to
throw away the old TV.
I have to go to some e-wastecenter and spend my Saturday.
I have to go to some e-wastecenter and spend my Saturday.
But I mean me like I'm a techperson and like the Tesla to me
is like the most like high-techcar.
Mig (23:12):
No, I know, but you're not under the illusion that you're
saving the planet driving it.
The thing is, is because you'rea techie, you like all the
technology that it has and youlike the fact that you save on
gas.
Lano (23:25):
Yeah.
Mig (23:31):
You know, but you're not like preaching to me, like oh,
you should get one too, you know, because all the emissions that
your truck spits out andeverything it's like this and
that or whatever it's going tocome down, you know, I'm like no
, dude, it's bullshit, it's allbullshit, dude.
Because, dude, if I pretendwe're in a movie, Right.
Okay, pretend we're like in aJames Bond 007 spy thriller
(23:54):
movie.
You're the bad guy.
You want to destroy the planetWith one push of a button.
You want to destroy the climateor whatever and everything.
One push of the button, becausethat's the panic that all these
people Want to make you havethat we're just like one button
(24:15):
push away From the climateCompletely being destroyed and,
you know, just making the planetunlivable.
What is that?
One thing that has to happenthat's going to make that happen
Instantly.
Lano (24:34):
Like a threat from someone , right?
Is that what you're talkingabout?
Mig (24:36):
Yeah, Because all these people are like all doom and
gloom, right, right, is thatwhat you're talking about?
Yeah, yeah, because all thesepeople are like all doom and
gloom, right, and like, oh, in10 years, you know, and the, the
waters are gonna rise andthey're gonna flood and the
deserts are gonna overheat andand blah, blah, blah.
You know all this panic andeverything and it's all bullshit
, dude, and it's like what it'scycles like it's cycles there's
(24:57):
ice ages every thousand yearsthere's, like you, like you know
, ice spells every whatever.
Lano (25:01):
That's what I'm saying it cycles.
It's in the Bible.
Those floods are there.
You know it's in fossils.
Mig (25:08):
I mean you get one heat wave where it's like 105 for
like a week straight.
Oh, this used to happen before.
You know it's like the climateis, is is rising and you know
this is all due to greenhousegas.
Lano (25:25):
I'm like come on, man, I mean before life, and there's
all these different.
You know civilizations thatcame and been extinct and came
and gone back, and you know allthat stuff it's all.
Mig (25:35):
It's all garbage but all right.
Lano (25:38):
well, next I want to talk about Dodgers, anyways that's
where we try not to do politicalSorry people.
I do want to get through thisphone call and then we'll talk
about Dodgers.
Mig (25:49):
Let me see if I have the computer set up no yours, no
yours, no yours, no yours, noyours.
Lano (25:55):
Let me see.
Mig (25:59):
I'm sure your dad's going to call next week, dude.
After he hears my rant.
Lano (26:04):
I'm going to get you out.
The more calls the better.
I mean we'll go back and forth.
All right, here's the phonecall.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Hello, this is Mike, the original OG, just calling to
remind you guys.
At the last podcast, vano askedthe question do you think we
missed something this yearbecause we weren't paying
attention to the Dodgers andthey had Shantay Ohtani and the
question was what did you miss?
(26:30):
Well, you guys, you missed theWorld Series.
You haven't been in the WorldSeries since 2020.
No parade 1988, I was there.
1988, I was there.
1981, I was there and Nano.
They were both within yourlifetime and you missed them.
Who knows if the girls aregoing to get a chance to ever
(26:52):
see a World Series, but you guyscould have had a lot of
conversations this year and alot to talk about.
Go Dodgers.
Mig (27:03):
Well, actually, Mike, we did miss the World Series
because we just missed theseason.
That's really what we werereferring to.
Lano (27:12):
And it was me talking about Shohei's 50-50.
Mig (27:17):
It wasn't so much that we missed the World Series, because
we all watched the playoffsWith a lot of intent, but the
thing is we just didn't Watchevery game and it's hard to
watch every game.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
You have to have the packages.
Mig (27:34):
The whole Shohei 50-50, it's like.
It's not like back when Maguireand Sosa were having the home
run chase, you know, and that'swhen you wanted to tune in and
see every game and see if it wasgoing to happen or not, or
anything, it's like.
But, trust me, the World Series, we were watching Every game,
(27:57):
game one After Freeman hit thatgrand slam.
I was screaming like a maniacand I scared the hell out of my
sister.
She thought she thought someonewas being murdered, you know.
But but no, I mean, I, I get.
I get what you're saying now,you know but that's my dad.
Lano (28:18):
So my dad being the super fan, you want to know how many
games he went to this year asmany as I did zero, even zero
games just as much as we went.
So I think he missed it too.
Yeah, I mean, but but it wasn'ttill after the 50 50, he told
me.
He told me he's like you know,I'm gonna start watching these
dodgers play.
I'm gonna watch every singleplayoff game in the world series
(28:39):
, and, and and we all did I meanonce they made the playoffs and
stuff.
Mig (28:42):
We all watched every single game and I mean I was on
vacation watching it at thehotel I'll admit I didn't watch
a lot of the padre seriesbecause I kind of felt that
they're gonna and that's thething.
Lano (28:54):
Like I get anxiety when those close games, like I get
frustrated, I get upset and likeI won't watch it just for that,
like let me, let me get out ofthis like series, and then I'll
start watching it because,because I don't want to get my
blood pressure high yelling atthe tv, and, yeah, because, I
didn't, I wasn't sure.
Mig (29:11):
I mean, for for that reason , you know mike says, you know
we didn't watch the season orwhatever.
So I didn't realize how hotthey went into the postseason or
anything and I thought theywere going to just get it handed
to them by the Padres.
You know, because the Padreswere coming in so cocky and
everything, and I saw some ofthe games that they lost and I
(29:33):
didn't think they were going topull it off, but they did so
after they beat the Padres.
That's when I was like, okay, Ican't miss any games, and I
started watching all of them.
Lano (29:44):
But then, like once they hit the playoffs.
That's when, to me, it becomesmore accessible, because they
start showing it on channelswhere they're not premium
channels.
You have to pay, they're not.
Yeah, that too they're free TV,like we know the schedule, yeah,
like that's when it becomes andthat's when I'm able to watch.
(30:05):
It's not like when, in the olddays, you're watching it on TV.
And 88, I do remember watchingit on TV.
I remember my dad said he wasgoing to the game but he didn't
take me.
But I do remember that WorldSeries, the 81, I don't remember
the 81.
But I do remember watching thatGibson home run.
Now, when Freeman hit that yourtime of you screaming and your
sister getting startled orwhatever did you, is that bigger
(30:34):
than Gibson?
I mean I didn't know the wholestory about him being like.
I mean Gibson, I knew he washurt.
Like you know he could barelywalk Freeman, like I didn't.
Really I didn't know thebackground on that.
Mig (30:44):
I mean, the thing with Gibson is that because the A's
were such heavy favorites, wewere the underdogs.
Eckersley was unhittable dude.
Yeah, he was like a legend, Imean he was like a legend.
I mean he was lights out likewhat Mariano Rivera was, you
(31:05):
know, you're just not going tohit on him.
And for Gibson to go up therehobbling, I mean like hobbling
dude, I mean he was really like,and honestly, even now when I
go back and I see that highlightof that home run, it doesn't
look like he hit it that hard,no, like it's all arms but it
just, it went, it just went andit went out, you know.
(31:30):
That's why, like the Freeman,home run is different, cause you
knew instantly as soon as hehit the bat.
As soon as the ball hit the bat, instantly knew it was gone.
You know, but um, the onlything that would have made the
as soon as the ball hit bat andinstantly knew it was gone, you
know, but the only thing thatwould have made the Freeman one
more special is if Vince Cullywas still here to make that call
(31:51):
.
That's what I miss and that'swhat I remember about 88.
Lano (31:55):
That's like the thing I miss the most and that's why
Because now Vince Cully he wasthe TV miss the most, and that's
why Because now is it VinceCully he was the TV and the
radio.
Mig (32:03):
Yeah.
Lano (32:03):
We're here.
I don't know if the TV guy doesthe radio or it's two different
people.
They're different.
They're different Because onthe radio.
Mig (32:10):
it's Rick Monday and someone else.
I don't know who does it withthem, but Rick Monday does a
really good job.
I enjoy listening to RickMonday.
Did you hear that?
Lano (32:18):
call no, I was watching it on TV.
I was watching it on TV too butis there a version out there.
We can find it with the RickMonday call.
I'm sure there is I want to seewhat he says.
Mig (32:27):
Yeah, because on TV it was Smoltz and it was whoever the
national guys were.
But that's a big reason, Mike,why I kind of don't follow him
all season long anymore, becauseI was so used to hearing it on
the radio, being at work andeverything and just not having
(32:51):
Vince Scully there.
It's not the same Now, thatgame one, it's just not the same
.
Lano (32:58):
There was rumors some people might know would go to
the same.
There was rumors Some peoplemight know go to the game.
Did that ever happen?
No, what about Mark?
Because he had sent some texts.
I didn't believe it, but he hadsaid that he got some.
I don't know If he went or not,because he had sent a text that
he got some tickets.
Mig (33:17):
But I thought he was BSing, I don't know Now.
Lano (33:20):
I don't even know.
Was it like were we the otherdogs or the Yankees were the
other dogs?
Like who had the better record?
I just know it was East andWest and the biggest teams were
the Yankees and Dodgers.
Mig (33:29):
Yeah, I think they were.
I didn't pay attention to whatthe gambling, what the lines
were, but I do remember themsaying there was two top teams
of both leagues, like two numberone seeds, that played yeah,
and then 88 we were like Justunderdogs Because we beat the
(33:49):
mighty Mets.
Lano (33:52):
The Mets were the former champions, and then Oakland was
just dominant.
Mig (33:55):
I'm sure if back then Well no, they wouldn't they still
made it though you know how theyhave wild card rounds now here.
Yeah sure if back then?
Well, no, there wouldn't theywould, they still made it though
, because if you know how theyhave wild card rounds, now here
yeah, yeah, you know, I wasgonna say I'm sure back then
they would have probably had toplay through a wild card round.
But no, that's, that's not true, because they they had to win
their division in order to getin.
So next.
Lano (34:14):
I always remember it was like a short, a short round at
the beginning yeah, because Imean best of five you win.
Mig (34:19):
You win division best of five, and then the best of seven
and best of seven.
Lano (34:25):
And then I remember we played the Mets and I don't know
who we played before, but thenwe played I don't know.
So, like me watching it, like Iwas like oh man, because like
we're down, and then, like youknow, we got the bases loaded.
And then know we got the basesloaded and then like I'm, we're
at the hotel, because I was outof town, right, we were in san
jose and me and my wife werelike we're watching it and I'm
just like, oh, like like basesare loaded, let's see what
(34:47):
happens.
And then, like he hits it outlike we just won.
I just told her, like we justwon the game.
Mig (34:52):
She's like, well, like yeah , like we just won you know what
honestly dude I was, like it'sover she's like the one more out
, more out, like no, it's donehearing the announcers talking
about when they're bringing infreddie freeman, because I
didn't, I didn't know, you know,I didn't know he was hurt, you
know.
And they're saying that you knowthey don't feel to be able to
play because his ankles are bad.
And this is not whatever.
And I was like dude, it's likethey just, they just hit me.
(35:14):
I'm like this is not like 88again.
Lano (35:17):
You know, it's like he's gonna be coming up because in my
mind, like I didn't compare himuntil after the fact people
were talking about then I waslike, oh yeah, like, like, I'll
walk off, like like and thatthat was what.
Mig (35:28):
That was one of the that was one of the things.
I was screaming too is like Ididn't even hear it on the tv or
anything, but I was likescreaming, like yeah, I was like
just like gibson.
Lano (35:38):
You know fireworks are going instantly.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yeah.
Lano (35:40):
Cause I was out of town.
Now Is that Like normal Cause?
Like they walked Bets beforebut they didn't even Like throw
four pitches, they just likeGive them the baseball, is that?
Mig (35:52):
No, that's.
That's new rules that came inLast year or the year before,
cause I was like weird and I waslike what happened?
Lano (36:00):
And I was like, oh, I guess they don't want to bother.
Mig (36:02):
No, it's a time saving thing.
Lano (36:03):
Uh huh.
Mig (36:04):
And, um, they just say they're going to walk them.
They just give them the bass.
They just give them the bass.
Yeah.
Lano (36:10):
Because, remember, with Barry Bonds, they would just
like Give them the bass, I therotation, just to I guess it's,
it's a thing, so they don't.
Mig (36:20):
I guess they felt they would um, throw their rhythm off
or whatever if they had to likepitch out four times.
It's all it's.
Lano (36:30):
It's garbage and then um crap, that reliever.
Do you know much about him?
Is he like?
Like a closer for them?
Or is he good like I?
I don't even know.
Mig (36:38):
He's supposed to be.
He's their closer.
Lano (36:39):
Yeah, their number one.
Mig (36:40):
Yeah, he was supposed to be , so they did everything, right
man?
Lano (36:47):
So that's the thing Like championships, like when there's
like a magical moment like that, then normally like it's kind
of like done Because it was likewell, I was thinking, yeah, I
told my wife, I was like this isit.
We got the series Like that'sso demoralizing for the other
team.
I was like they're not comingback.
No, they gave them a chance, man, and then they did everything
(37:09):
they could and let them back init, and then I don't know if
this was Major League Baseballwho set it up or the Dodgers set
it up, but like Game 2 with IceCube coming out Like and then
Fat Joe for Game 3.
Like I don't know, like if FatJoe was whack, if Fat Joe was
just like a response to Cube, orwas that all like pre-planned
(37:31):
through, like you know?
Mig (37:32):
entertainment at MLB or whatever.
Lano (37:32):
I don't think it was pre-planned, dude, I don't think
it was pre-, because Cube cameout, dude, and when I saw that
Dude, that shit was fire man, Iwas just like game over.
I was like we're done, cube,that was like.
I didn't even need to watch thegame that got me more pumped
Because I was watching it.
That got me more pumped.
Were you watching it live?
No, yeah, I was watching itlive, and then I don't know how
(38:02):
many people heard it, but Iheard the know towards the
yankees.
I was like, oh, I heard it too Ihad to show it to my wife I was
like listen to this, like nice,and then freaking cube man from
the outfield like a stroll yeah, home plate that was badass and
then the, the second song.
We're in um like he said likehe said um, because normally
it's a mr run got a triple,triple-double.
Mig (38:18):
Yeah.
Lano (38:18):
He said that missed run, he hit a double or something
like that.
He flipped it for baseball,yeah.
And then just to finish it offat home play to do the swing.
And then the Freddie Freemanpost with this hand up.
I was like dude, forget it.
Mig (38:31):
It's over.
It's over.
Dude Like I was watching that,Like I got goosebumps I was
thinking you guys, that's whythe next game I wanted to get
home early and watch it so bad,because I wanted to see what the
response was going to be andwho they were going to bring out
.
And then I didn't get home ontime or whatever.
But then, like the next day, Ilook at all the social medias
and everything and they're justYankee fans, just pissed dude.
Lano (38:54):
Yeah, they're.
Mig (38:55):
Yankee fans.
Lano (38:55):
They're like cool Kate, fat Joe, you know it's like he
was terrible and they shouldhave left him at home, because I
was like, who are they gonnalike respond with for cube?
I thought they're gonna be likelike krs1, something like like
legendary, like like I mean infact I mean, yeah, I guess fat
joe's east coast, new york but Ido like that east coast, west
coast and the rap, but like LikeI don't know, fat Juice is like
(39:20):
he's not in Ice Cube's likelevel or anything Nah.
It's like his whole, even thesongs like they didn't get me
like pumped or anything Hiswhole opening sucked dude.
Mig (39:31):
It was like yo yo yo, what up New York?
He's like what up Yankees.
Like what up Georgia?
What up dude?
He's like up this, what up that?
Lano (39:39):
I'm like and he came out of the dugout now, like he
didn't do the walk like you andthen you suck and it kind of
felt like he ran out of stuff todo like he didn't know.
Mig (39:47):
Yeah, you know, and then that's that's what I'm saying.
Lano (39:50):
You know, it's like that's why the songs weren't even like
big hits, like like, I meanmusic's music.
Mig (39:55):
If you like the song, like you like it, like I thought,
like that's something, I don'tknow, that's why I've always
said that when it comes to likehip hop and the rap game, you
just have rappers which Justknow how to you know maybe write
lyrics and it takes them a longtime to write them and get
something good.
And then you got like the MC'sthat these dudes Can just flow
(40:22):
and just put it together and putsomething together good, like
on the fly.
You know like dudes that likewould do rap battles and stuff.
Lano (40:33):
But I just recently saw this interview with with snoop
and dre because their newalbum's coming out and, um, like
, dre produced his whole albumfor snoop the whole album and
Dre was saying that, like hewanted, his condition was he
wants to do the whole album andhe says he doesn't like when an
album comes out and there's like10 different producers.
(40:54):
He's like it should be only oneproducer because they need to
have that whole album flow, notjust like 10 different people.
And then Snoop came in and said, well, like they're not
producers, they're just likebeat makers.
A guy makes a beat here, like,put your lyrics on the song, is
this guy making beats?
So?
So each song has a differentguy who made the beat, but
they're not producers producing,so that they just different
(41:16):
beat makers.
You know, like, put in theirbeats, the guys put their lyrics
on and then, like you know,they get 10 of them, they have
an album or whatever, but he'slike they're not producers.
Like the way you're a producer,dre, who listens to every lyric
, cut, redo the song, redo this,redo this.
They're just beat makers andthat's the difference.
Mig (41:36):
Now it's easy to make a beat.
Is that what all thesesupposedly hip-hop dudes are
doing now?
Lano (41:41):
It's all computer software .
It's easy to make a beat where,like before, like before, you
had to produce the music youknow, get the instruments, do
all the stuff.
Mig (41:50):
So that's why it's lazy, it's shortcuts, you do shortcuts
and you do lazy work and theit's gonna show in the final
product yeah.
Lano (41:58):
so I was like, oh surprised, like that's why, and
like and yeah, I don't know, fatJoe just is in a whole
different league.
I'm trying to think who's atIce Cube's level, like even if
they could have brought Ice-Tout or something.
I mean, I don't know exactlywhere he's from, but someone on
a New.
Mig (42:15):
York guy, ice-t, I think.
I mean I know he's Hollywoodnow, but he was east coast, but
he, he moved over to the westcoast At a young age and I don't
know if you know this, but hewas in the army.
Yeah, he went to the army and,um, when he got back from the
(42:35):
army is when he started doingHis whole rap game and
everything, cause he got backand still like the neighborhood
Was crap, you know, and hestarted getting mixed up With
the wrong crowd and everything,because he got back and still
like the neighborhood was crap,you know, and he got started
getting mixed up with the wrongcrowd and everything and became
a pimp and all that so, uh, soafter that, I mean we won game
(42:55):
two and three, so it wasbasically over um game.
Lano (42:59):
Game four they, they got us and Game four.
Mig (43:03):
I knew that was going to happen because the pitching
there was no starting pitchinggoing out there.
They had said you know,whenever you have a bullpen game
, which is you don't have anystarters and you're just
throwing guys out there from thebullpen, it's not going to go
good.
I mean, it went good for themagainst the Mets, I believe it
(43:25):
was, but that's because theybrought out their top bullpen
guys, you know.
So I pretty much figured gamefour was going to be a throwaway
, which made me nervous becauseI didn't and you can't stay hot
forever, yeah, well, the thingis it made me nervous because I
and you can't stay hot forever.
Yeah, Well, the thing is, itmade me nervous because I didn't
want the Yankees to get thisfalse sense of Like they got
(43:50):
over the hump, you know.
Lano (43:51):
Yeah.
Mig (43:54):
And that's what started happening, dude.
When Game 5 started unfoldingthe way it did, I was like oh,
oh.
I'm like it's going to happen,dude.
Lano (44:02):
I mean I kind of knew like back in la they're gonna take
it.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
I don't know the win game game fight was making me
nervous is the way they werehitting and everything and and
our pitching was alreadystarting to get bad.
Mig (44:15):
You know, it's like it was you know, and then, so we slowly
creep up yeah, then the yankeeswheels fall apart, fall off the
wagon.
Lano (44:28):
So and their big superstar aaron.
He didn't do nothing on aaronjudd.
Mig (44:34):
He disappeared no, and that's what's funny, the two big
faces of the world series bothdisappeared sho, shohei and—
Aaron Judge and Shohei.
Lano (44:44):
I mean Shohei.
He had a home run, the firstgame right.
Mig (44:47):
I think so.
Lano (44:48):
Yeah, and then he hurt his arm, which was like oh man, he
hurt his arm, Is he going tocome back, or this and that
Little Hollywood drama.
He got hurt, but—.
Mig (44:58):
Yeah, when he hurt himself, I was like is it really a big
loss?
I'm like Is it really a bigloss?
I'm like he hasn't been Doinganything.
Lano (45:04):
I thought it was a big loss.
I was just like why was hetrying to steal, like we had the
lead and all that stuff, likewhy was he trying To go for it?
But Freddie Freeman Camethrough with Was it three or
four home runs, dude?
Mig (45:15):
he hit, going back to the last time he was in.
Lano (45:18):
Atlanta or something um the World Series.
Mig (45:20):
In the playoffs, in the World Series, he had, I think,
six games in a row with homeruns.
Lano (45:26):
Yeah going back to when he played with Atlanta he got MVP
right from the got MVP.
Yeah, does it really?
So?
No, I mean for him to like, Imean all I mean after that, that
first game, we I mean that'slike you know, enough to keep
hitting the home run after, likeall the way up to game four,
game four, right.
Yeah, game two and three andfour.
(45:47):
That's crazy.
Mig (45:51):
But it was so sweet man for them to win at this time,
because you get so tired ofhearing everybody talk crap that
the 2021 didn't count becauseit was half a season.
Yeah.
Lano (46:01):
You know the COVID one and no one in the crowd.
Mig (46:03):
Asterix and all that stuff, so you could take your asterix
and shove it in unaware.
Lano (46:09):
So then we have that was Wednesday, right the final game,
or Tuesday, because then wehave the parade on Friday.
The parade was on Friday, whichwas I thought it was going to
be like on a Saturday orsomething.
Yeah, I think it was on friday,which was I thought it was
gonna be like on a saturday,yeah, I think it was on a
wednesday, but it the paradecame fast, yeah, and um, so
you're working, did you go?
(46:30):
did you go?
No, I had planned on goingbecause, um, I had to be 11 and
then, um, the route was gonnaswing by my work, so I was gonna
go at work, park at my work Iwas already off that week so
like I didn't have to worryabout work, but I was in parking
my works parking lot and thengo to the parade.
But, um, I asked my, my girl,um, the old is like, well, you
want to see the parade?
(46:50):
And she said no, she was alltired from halloween.
Halloween was, I think,thursday, right thursday
thursday or wednesday.
It was on a thursday, thursday.
So she was like she said shejust wanted to stay home.
I was like you want to go tothe parade, we're going to go to
the parade, and she's like no,so we just watched it on TV,
which was nice.
But I mean it was nice watchingthat parade.
(47:10):
I mean it would have been ahassle to go just because all
the people that's why I didn'tgo.
That's why I don't.
I wanted to go and the plan wasto go, but my, we all were like
under the weather after that.
We all the girls were sickfirst and then we got sick and
then, um, I think they went thewrong route in the parade
because they're supposed tostart off um, like coming
(47:32):
through.
I think they're gonna end atcity hall.
But they went to city hallfirst like they went backwards,
and then they're gonna like, um,like do some speaking at city
hall and then go to DodgerStadium.
But they went to City Hallfirst and then they didn't do no
speaking, they just picked upthe mayor and then took off
because people were waiting atGrand Park.
So I was like, oh man, allthose people are waiting for a
(47:52):
speech or something.
Nothing, see some player.
Mig (47:55):
Well, you're right, I think it was supposed to start at
Grand Park.
Lano (47:57):
Yeah, and then nothing happened.
And then in that city, hall.
So.
But when it hit Dodger Stadiumwe got a special encore
performance of Cube again, whichwas nice.
And then it happened to be onFernando's birthday, which was
nice, so I was paying tribute toFernando.
(48:18):
And then Kiki Hernandez you sawthat right, you said when he
started talking about ice cubeand in federal he made a comment
, he says um, freddy handledgame one, he was looking for ice
cube.
He's like special thanks forice cube.
He's like after thatperformance, like we didn't have
to play, the game was alreadyover, and then he's all.
(48:40):
Then some guy came out from newyork.
He's like he used to be fat.
I think his name is joe orsomething like that.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
And then he's like after his performance, we didn't
need a play the game wasalready over I just thought that
was like so so funny like yeah,it was funny, you know, I was
like man new york's gonna bepissed, who cares?
Mig (48:57):
man.
Lano (48:59):
Uh, they think the whole world revolves around them
before um, um, did you see whatyou think about that when
they're trying to like open upum, mookie betts glove to take
that ball out?
Mig (49:14):
I was I was actually still at work when that was happening
yeah, I didn't see it live Imean we were, we were watching
the game.
Um, my brother had his phoneout while I was driving back to
the shop and I was kind of likelooking over, I was like trying
not to crash and I was like whatthe hell?
Lano (49:34):
You and Ricky do that, watching YouTube while driving.
You understand.
Mig (49:40):
But you know.
So then you had the phone onand everything and I was just
hearing it, you know, and I'mlike I'm hearing it, I'm like
and I, what the hell did thatdude do?
He's like, yeah, he's trying totake it out of his hand, you
know.
And I, but it's an hour, right?
He's like, yeah, it's an hour.
And then, like, when we finallycame to a stop sign and I said
they do the replay and I waslooking at it, I was like dude,
(50:01):
what the hell, man, this dudecould have messed up his wrist
or something making a like hegot mugged out there.
Lano (50:06):
Yeah, he could have hurt him bad.
He could have like messed uphis wrist, the guy was actually
like prying it open with twohands while grabbing the ball.
Some other guy was like, Ithink, holding his arm, like
they could.
Like I felt like I mean I'm notbeing like a sports, but like
like Mookie Betts could havelike pressed charges or
something Like he got, like youknow, like manhandled up there
with with the, with the, youknow what.
Mig (50:30):
That idiot got punished enough because I'm sure he paid
a grip for those tickets and heonly got to see one out of the
game.
Lano (50:40):
It was right at the beginning, it was at the
beginning, there was a first out.
No, I heard, I mean it wasright at the beginning, it was
at the beginning, there was afirst out.
No, I heard, I mean what I read, I mean I don't know it's true,
but I read that that guy was aseason ticket holder and they
just banned him from the nextgame, but that's it he was.
He was back.
I guess the following theybanned him for, like that, was
game two or three well they saidthey banned him for the next
game or he's not welcome therest of the series or something,
(51:02):
but he's going to be back nextyear, this and that.
But I just thought that wasjust kind of rude.
But then I think it was gameone when, like, we had another
idiot in LA who caught that ball.
That was like a double orsomething.
You saw that.
Mig (51:16):
Oh yeah, he reached out, he reached down.
Lano (51:19):
I was like what an idiot Like reached down.
And I was like what an idiotlike this guy was, like he
reached down and got it and thenlike I don't know if they
kicked him out, but like he juststarted packing up his bags and
he was like that's the thing,dude.
Mig (51:28):
It's like you get these.
I mean it.
Just that's another thing thatupsets me about going to games
is like, I know it's a funexperience and everything, and
people that don't know anythinghave a good time, but they
shouldn't be allowed to sitwhere they're going to interfere
with play.
Yeah, because if that's mesitting there and I see that
(51:54):
that ball's coming up short,dude, I'm holding everybody back
.
Lano (51:58):
Yeah, because it was against our team, especially if
it's one of our outfielderstrying to get the catch.
Mig (52:03):
I'm going to be holding everybody back.
Man Like hey, let them makethis catch.
Lano (52:06):
Yeah, because that's what got me mad, because I was like
dude he's on, like what an idiot, like he had a Dodgers jersey,
but I'm like it was against us.
Mig (52:22):
I mean I do enjoy like the foul balls, like them diving
into the crowd and, like youknow, catching a ball or
whatever, but like that double,even at just a regular game.
I always pay attention towhat's going on, because you
hear so many stories of peoplegetting hit by foul balls
because they're looking at theirphone, because they're looking
away, because they're like, ohman, it's like, do all that shit
in between innings.
No, I'm always like when I wastaking my wife out, like, oh man
, it's like, do all that shit inbetween innings.
Lano (52:43):
No, I'm always like you know, when I was taking my wife
out, like I'm always aware,because I know, like she's not
focused on it.
So I'm always like you know,looking for her.
Like you know, the balls can bein this and that, One eye on
the home plate and this and that.
And when I used to go as a kid,my grandma had season tickets
at third base, like field level,which is a yellow, and we would
(53:04):
get a bunch of foul balls, Foulballs all the time.
And we would see people just gethit all the time just not
paying attention.
She always had a.
It was a weird angle.
You had to like, look to theright to watch home plate.
But, like I mean, you just hadto do it or else you're going to
get hit, but yeah, it lookslike a good year.
We, but yeah, it looks like agood year.
Mig (53:25):
We got the redemption now.
We had our parade.
Can't take it away from usanymore.
Can't put no asterisks on it.
Can't qualify it.
Lano (53:32):
It was just Good old fashioned ass whooping and it
looks like we're going to havesome more With our team.
I mean the show he comes backto, he starts pitching, I mean
yeah yeah I mean I I mean I knowpeople were like, oh, like his
whole contract every year, butno, I think we'll get at least I
(53:53):
mean, I'll tell you this threemore three through two or three
more me.
Mig (53:57):
Me and rick are the biggest dave roberts haters and all
those other past seasons wherethey've been bounced before the
World Series and everything.
I put all the blame squarely onhim and the way he's managed
the teams and managed thepitchers and everything.
And this is the first yearwhere I think he threw all of
(54:21):
his stupid analytics crap outthe window and just went on.
Feel the way I say he's alwaysshould be doing.
I mean.
Speaker 2 (54:31):
I don't know.
Lano (54:32):
Because all that analytics crap is good during the season,
because you have a big pool ofdata to grab from, to grab from,
but everybody knows, dude, onceyou hit the playoffs, it's a
completely new game, it's adifferent game, it's a
completely different animal, andthat one you gotta play by,
(54:54):
feel and and I don't know likeabout strategy and and all that
stuff, but like, from watchingthe interviews, they said that
like that he was just likechecking up on players, like
emotionally, like how are youfeeling, like are you good to go
, or, like you know, they saidhe was more like and I don't
know if that's his style all thetime but he was keeping like
(55:15):
the mood up, like you know, whenplayers are down, like you know
, pick him up, like he was justlike.
Yeah, Like I don't know X's andO's but like he was more like
I'm talking more like how hemanaged the pitchers Mm-hmm.
Mig (55:28):
Because during the season he's so strict on you know he
threw 50 pitches already.
Let's get him out, even thoughthe dude was dealing.
You know, even though he haslike seven strikeouts, you know,
and no walks, and he can stillkeep on going and give your
bullpen a rest.
It's like he still wants topull them out.
He wants to yank them.
Speaker 2 (55:50):
You know, it's like.
Mig (55:51):
I hate that dude.
It's like if the guy's on fireand he's being unhittable, let
him go, let him yeah, you knowuntil they finally start hitting
on them.
Lano (56:00):
Yeah, because then, like you, might see something special
happen, yeah, and then theypull him early, and then you
know and this series.
Mig (56:11):
I saw he did that a little bit better.
What was that pitcher?
Was it Buehler, Buehler?
No it wasn't Buehler, it wasYamamoto.
Uh-huh, I forgot who it wasthat was doing really good and
just went Went like six innings.
Lano (56:30):
Might have been Yamamoto, because I know they were pulling
him early.
Mig (56:32):
It was probably both Buehler and Yamamoto, I think,
because they both did good andwent like deep into the sixth
inning.
Lano (56:41):
I think next year, because we got a lot of pitchers
injured this year.
Mig (56:45):
Yeah.
Lano (56:45):
And I think next year, when they're healthy, we're
going to have like a strongbullpen or whatever staff.
But even like he made somedecisions just on the World
Series roster, like he broughtin some other guy, that Grittar
I don't know who he was, but hecame in and got some key outs
like some fastball broussard,broussard, uh, gadderall
(57:06):
gadderall, yeah, yeah, and hethrew some fire and and like he
had some energy, but yeah, butit was kind of wild.
I think this um shohei era, likeout of a seven-year contract, I
think maybe we get three more,or I mean three total, like yeah
, so now, and then like two more, and even that's a success.
(57:26):
They're saying, um that now, umthe manager that like like he's
a hall of famer, because Iguess all the hall of famers
have two world series so they'recalling him how long?
um, how long has he been inthere?
Dave roberts?
At least?
Like 10 years, 10 years, yeah,so he's been a while.
They're calling him how longhas he been in there, dave
Roberts?
At least?
Like 10 years, 10 years, yeah,so he's been there a while.
They're calling him A Hall ofFame Manager now.
(57:48):
But, yeah, we'll just keep itgoing.
Next week I have some tequila Iwant you to try.
Speaker 2 (57:54):
Oh, my goodness.
Lano (57:55):
This is.
I want to share it Because Ithink it's good stuff and I want
you to taste it because I thinkit's good stuff and I want you
to taste it before you look inbecause I know you like you have
your rates and your charts andyour rating system and it's not
no website.
Mig (58:09):
No, no, no, no cheeto flavored.
Lano (58:12):
No, this is tequila, that that I heard about and that okay
, it's all about the flavor andthe smoothness.
I tried it and I liked it, butI want you to taste it before
you look on your ratings and allthat stuff.
Speaker 2 (58:22):
You might know about it.
Lano (58:24):
And then I have a record story to tell about a record I
bought.
I'm adding to my recordcollection.
Speaker 2 (58:31):
So that'll be Vinyl.
Lano (58:32):
Vinyl, vinyl.
So next week, when Rick's here,we'll do that and then
hopefully Rick has some stories.
Mig (58:38):
Hopefully.
So I hope we did, did okaypeople coming back from the
little mini break that we had.
So hope you didn't uh mind toomuch.
All the political talk went upon a little tangent there, but
yeah, and then just educateyourself, I think.
Lano (58:58):
I think it's good once in a while, yeah, it's like.
Mig (59:03):
I said before, do your research, vote according to what
you believe.
That's it.
Can't get mad at that.
Lano (59:11):
And then look at the holiday calendar.
Our recording day is onChristmas.
Christmas is on a Wednesday, somaybe recording I don't know if
we'll record Christmas Eve orMonday or something.
Mig (59:22):
We will cross that bridge when we come to it.
Keep drifting yo, peace.
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