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go to the NFL. By theway, uh, some stories out of
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the NFL. We have a podcast. Perhaps people will see this as sour
grapes that we are taking shots atour competition. It is not. I
do not believe the Pivot podcast withChanning Crowder, Fred Taylor and Ryan Clark
is necessarily a podcast that we arecompeting with. For ears meet when you
say we have a podcast, Petrosand Money Show podcast. We want you
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to dominate subscribe. I didn't wantto go in confusing this with your Lorenzo
Neil Chargers endeavors. Right. No, I think in terms of the Petros
and Money this as a podcasted show, yes, but also live over the
air, and however you want toconsume it. We appreciate you as long
as you consume it. We arequite versatile. We can Hey, they
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can't do this. Okay, wecan do this. They can't. Maybe
there, I don't know. Maybepeople do like the Petros and Money Show
and the Pivot podcast with Channing Crowder, Fred Taylor and Ryan Clark. I
don't know who listens to these podcasts, and it might be that a lot
of people do it. I'm justold. Yes, I believe I fall
into that same category. There isanother podcast I will mention here All Facts
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No Breaks, hosted by Keyshawn Johnsonnow Pivot eight hundred and sixty five thousand
subscribers on YouTube, wildly successful,A big deal. All Facts No Breaks
not so much. It's got thirtyfour reviews on iTunes. Okay, so
kind of I don't know. Idon't know either, So why do I
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bring mup? Not like its seeds. You know, I can't get to
the bottom of it's either. Whydo I bring it up? Well,
listen, there's a reason why NFLteams have a PR department, Why they've
got a veep of communications while they'vegot five bodies in those departments, because
when you run a billion dollar business. Now they didn't used to and they
didn't used to care, but nowthey do. But you got to have
your messages. There's money, yes, be on point. Your great head
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coach has to be that kind ofguy, exactly right. They're going to
have communication with that department. Goneare the days of Chuck Knox. Your
greatest assets are individuals that typically arefar more skilled at athletic achievements than the
art of conversation, especially when they'reyoung. Probably want to make sure that
you get them some media training andthat it sticks. Here's what you want
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to say, Here's how you wantto say it. Here's the traps the
reporters are going to set. Iwant to make sure you don't fall into
them. Be on the lookout forthis. Here's how to avoid it.
Malik Neighbors LSU receiver drafted by theGiants, number six overall goes on the
pivot. He's having a great time, grab an ass, celebrating being drafted
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by the Giants, and he sharesthis nugget, we got a bet goal
for Rookie of the year, right, whoever, whoever Lewis gotta pay.
I think it's ten thousand cans.Yeah, it's that's like, it's so,
did y'all make it? Did y'allmake that bet before the draft?
Yeah? You can only make thatbet when you know you're going top eight,
because you make that bet like thedraft. Ha, that's funny,
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really, ten chez man all right, Yesterday, Jaydon Daniels goes on the
Keishawn Johnson thing there. Okay,and uh, and this is the way
he was presented with that information.Man, he wasn't supposed to tell nobody.
It's supposed to be we got wegot a little something to bet though,
is it money? How much?Rookie of the year? That's nothing
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for y'all, now, you guys, y'll he put it out there,
so it's like, really, Ican't say he capped, so okay,
yeah, look, uh he's notcapping, not cappin. Jayden Daniels signs
a thirty seven million dollar deal twentyfour million, the moment the ink drives
Malik Neighbors twenty nine million bucks eighteenmillion, the moment he makes his signature
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official. What if neither is theRookie of the Year again, something that
did not get explored in the followup. That's how you want to spend
your money? Great, Hey,Malik Neighbors, you want to show up
to the Pivot podcast with a necklacethat's got a pendant that says leak and
it is eight inches wide by fourinches tall and diamond encrusted. That's how
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you want to spend your money.By God, you spend it that way.
Don't care, But for God's sakes, in a league that suspends guys
like Calvin Ridley the entire season forgambling, don't volunteer the information that you
have a ten thousand dollars bet writingon something involved with a football season.
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The Pivot does not care. Keishundo not care. This is news for
them. This is stuff that madeits way into the news cycle today,
and it is a reminder through therules of the NFL that quote, all
NFL personnel are prohibited from placing,soliciting, or facilitating any bet, whether
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directly or through a third party onany NFL game, practice, or other
event eg. Drafter combine, includingcommercial gambling, whether for profit, charity,
or anything else that involves third partiesi e. Bookies, dealers the
house, as well as private wagersbetween teammates. Just go to OTAs,
Just go to OTAs. Don't showyour head until you start playing in the
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games. My god, how much? Ten? Ten? It's nothing for
y'all. Ten. Look, maybepeople don't care anymore, and I will
play the other side of this coin. If the NFL wants to run gambling
commercials every single break, yes signedESPN bet you want to run, then
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find the players should be able aslong as they are not running into compromising
the outcome of the game. Thisisn't new, no, you know,
every fistfight that ever happened on anNFL team off the field is usually because
of a bet that somebody doesn't wantto pay, or a video game thing
or Domino's games. So this isnot new at all. But the podcast
guy's all giggling about it and tryingto get these young guys in trouble.
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A little bit new. You doyourself as a favor, Listen to your
pr department. Let them coach youup a little bit and let you know
the things you have to avoid.Second two parts to this story. Second
part is even crazier. Here isTerry and Arnold talking with the Next Round,
an Alabama radio show on how weended up with the Lions and was
almost a Raider and actually the raiderscoach. They called me after the drift.
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They were like, you know,we actually had a coin to one
between you and brought Bowers and manit on him. I was like,
oh wow, Now they say,maybe he's a young man. He doesn't
understand a metaphorical coin, not aliteral one. But then assistant general manager
Champ Kelly met with the media andof course was asked about the wild claim
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by Arnold that there was a coinflip and that it landed on brock Bowers
and that's why he was the numberthirteen pick. Here's the quote from the
assistant GM. Yeah, I can'tconfirm that at all. Okay, you
would like to think the answer wouldbe no. Of course, we didn't
flip a coin. It was justclose, and that's what we were saying.
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It is just very close. Butthe coin flip it was it was
a coin. Yeah, I can'tconfirm whether or not a coin was actually
tossed. May have been, itmay not have been. Couldn't deny it,
though I can't confirm it. Ihope it's not true. A lot
of speculation that the Raiders were hotfor Pennix or bo Nix expected one of
them to be there at thirteen.I don't know if that was in fact
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the case. Maybe it was,maybe it wasn't. Uh, they took
the tight end and they call hima weapon and he is now a raider.
Was it a quarter, was ita nickel? Was it a fifty
cent piece? Don't know, butwhether or not it was an actual coin,
I guess we'll have to dig alittle deeper. Finally, Third,
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I cannot confirm. Third, onehundred million dollars. That is what the
NFL wants for the Christmas Day games. There will be two. They will
be played on a Wednesday, Wednesday, NFL Football Christmas Day. They want
one hundred million dollars for the rightsto broadcast those two games, the same
as the Black Friday game fetched lastyear from Amazon Pros. So it's up
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for auction. Up for auction,somebody can buy it rumor is it might
end up on the CW. Isthat what you're saying, CW? I
have not seen mentioned Interestingly enough,however, Netflix reportedly could be the destination
for the two Christmas Day games.Last year, Raiders Chiefs pulled in thirty
million viewers. It's Eagles twenty ninemillion, Niners Ravens twenty eight million.
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I would assume Christmas Day no longerbelongs solely to the NBA, and the
NFL is going to make its placethere permanently, especially if they can get
one hundred million dollars for that pairand those are your three things. It
seems like a lot of money.Well, it's what the Amazon Black Friday
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game got, one hundred million dollarsone game. Not very good Netflix football,
Well, it's Ron Thuhlan still available. Kind of big Tho. I
mean, they do we get bigTho up there, dude in the in
the in the in the booth.Maybe they get Nicky Glasser after her incredible
performance on the Tom Brady Rose Yeah, was there? Netflix? Right,
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So big Thu in the booth?There you go Thuhlan, Staffer and Glasser.
Do we double sideline Matt? They'regonna throw a lot of money at
it. You want somebody else onthe other side, leeffree Ross, what
about it? He's champing at thebit. Sorry, no room for you,
Isaac on YouTube portnoy beat it,but we'll give you a few cutaways.
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Oh my agent negotiated three cutaways withNetflix and they gave me Nikki the
day after and Susie was on theretoo, So we're pretty happy about him.
Very happy. Thank you for listening, everybody. The Petro Somebody Show
continues. Coming up next Andy McCulloughand his sweet Clayton Kershaw book That show
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Some Money. AM five seventy LASports Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
No Dodger game tonight, instead,it is Dodger Talk from seven to eight,
as the Dodgers will play the Padrestomorrow and as they are riding a
seven game win streak twelve of theirlast fourteen, the widest margin between first
and second place of any division inMajor League Baseball. Early on in this
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season, Pee gives us an opportunityon a national perspective. Yes, but
he knows the beat. Much likeour old friend Howard Beck. This guy
wears a nice leather jacket graduated fromthe local beat in a big city to
the national outlook with The Athletic.Former Dodger beat rider now covers the MLB
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for The Athletic. The new bookout this week, The Last of His
Kind Like that Jason isbel song,but this time it's about Clayton Kershaw,
and it says the Last of hisKind. Clayton Kershaw and The Burden of
Greatness available at Amazon dot Com andBarnes and Noble. Duck a published author
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and a man of baseball, areal seamhead. We welcome in on the
Southern California Toyota Dealer Celebrity Hotline,Andy McCullough. What's cracking, Andy?
How are you still fit into thatleather jacket? It's, you know,
getting old. It is hard tomanage your metabolism. You look all right,
Andy, you look good and thosebut over there the is athletic guys.
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You got you know, you can'tgo Ray Ratto. You know you
got to stay fit. They don'tlike that. To work for him,
Yeah, but they don't like itwhen you go into spread formation. I'm
just saying, uh, no onedoes now, Andy. Uh. Kershaw
is a wild figure here in LosAngeles because he's been around for decades,
and it's it's almost like he's beenaround so long that his appearance or just
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his existence is taken for granted.Uh, did you make take that approach
a little bit with this? Imean, this is a big undertaking to
write about this guy, because there'sa lot there. Yeah, I mean
I wanted the book to kind ofserve as like the definitive account of his
time in LA you know, understandingthat when I started this and you know,
May of twenty twenty two, thathe might you know, sign elsewhere
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or might choose to finish his careerelsewhere. But at the very least,
you know, the bulk of itwas that, you know, would be
kind of just documenting kind of whathe's done as a Dodger and the kind
of how his childhood shapes him andled him to be the pitcher he is
and had the career he's had.And but the bulk of the book was
always going to be, you know, kind of that eight year crucible from
twenty thirteen to twenty twenty of himkind of you know, trying as hard
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as he could to you know,end the championship drought. And that's kind
of the main thrust of it,I think, is he viewed now that
you you know, you did iton the beat in LA and now you
do it nationally for the athletic ishe viewed? I assume he's not viewed
the exact same way nationally as heis locally. But how how wide is
that gap? How different are sortof the perspectives on where Clayton Kershaw's places
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through this era of Major League baseball? Well, it just depends on you
know, who you're talking to.Like, I don't think it's necessarily a
local versus national thing. I thinkit's you know, it depends on people
who you know, fixate on thedelta between the you know, the regular
season numbers and the postseason numbers,and the people who sort of understand what
went into those postseason numbers and theway he was used, you know,
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in terms of you know, gettingto those postseason numbers, and also just
how significant you know, the reasonthat the delta is so significant is because
he is literally the best pitcher everwhen it comes to run prorection. He
has the lowest dra ever, thelowest dra plus ever, and so you
know, people who understand baseball tendto understand exactly who he is and where
he stands within the pantheon. Butyeah, he talks to fans from other
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teams. They like to make funof him, and that's you know,
that's the way sports works. Youknow, doctor Dodgers, Sands make fun
of you know, Tim Lintingham probablyhaving three good seasons, that type of
stuff. Do you like, whatwhat do you think motivated him to come
back? How big of a dealdo you think that that game was last
year against the Diamondbacks to his returnthis year, Yeah, it was definitely
part of it. I mean Iasked him at one point, you know,
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kind of maybe a month or soafter that game, if he could
have been okay with that being thelast time he ever pitched, and the
way he framed it was like,yeah, I would have been okay with
that, but it doesn't have tobe. So, you know, he
felt like essentially his body, youknow, despite meeting surgery, he's still
relatively you know, he's a youngman, and he's a relatively young man
when it comes to baseball age.He was thirty five then, he's thirty
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six now, and so you know, he's used this as his life's work.
He've used this as the thing thathe was put here to do professionally,
and he's trying, you know,trying to honor that gift for as
long as he can, and ifthat requires, you know, major surgery,
which he's never done before this offseason, he was willing to do it
and give it a try and seeif he could, you know, extend
his career. And so I don'tthink it was the sort of thing where
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he said he's like, I can'tlet that be my last game. It
was more like that was part ofthe calculus into coming back. If that
makes sense. It does. AndyMcCullough's made sense for a long time.
That's why he's graduated to the nationalranks with the big boys at the athletic.
He's got a book out about ClaytonKershaw's called The Last of his Kind,
Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness, available everywhere Amazon, Barnes and
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Noble and all that. You metwith Kershaw, and he was supportive of
you writing this book. You know, he softened a little bit over the
years toward the media. He wasn'talways as warm and fuzzy. He wasn't
really that difficult. He just reallywasn't that interested in being celebrated media wise.
What were your experiences like with him, and how do you think from
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your perspective he's changed in that regardover the years. Well, I think,
you know, winning the title intwenty twenty lightened the burden he felt
in terms of just the constant,year long stress of feeling like you'd never
actually want a title. And Ithink after that happened, you know,
he just was a slightly different person. He was a bit looser, a
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bit more open, a bit youknow, sort of less closed off to
teammates, to you know, meand things like that. And I think,
you know, as you get older, you deal with injuries, you
get your career, you realize you'reon the back nine of your career.
He's become a little bit more reflectiveand more you know, open to thinking
about kind of the decisions he madealong the way. You know, when
you're in the thick of it,you know, the way he was in
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like fifteen sixteen seventeen, you know, you're just not a lot of time
for reflection and more just thinking abouthow, you know, what you can
do to end the draft. Andso I think he's gotten to the other
side of that, he's just becomea bit more open. Uh. Just
beyond the book Andy, the Dodgersin general, you were the point person
at the Athletic through the whole OtaniEpe situation, and I would assume you
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got pretty close to that, likewhat you know now that it's it feels
like there's closure. You know,he pays pled guilty, He's going to
go away for you know, decadeplus somewhere around there, Will is the
new interpreter for Otani. What didyou kind of learn through that? And
how much different is it now thatOtani doesn't have this kind of weird barrier
between him and everybody else. Yeah, I mean definitely one of It has
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to be the strangest story I've evercovered in Major League Baseball. You know,
I just if there's a stranger one, I'd love to deal with it.
I'd love to, you know,remember what it was, because it's
just on the surface, it justsounds so far best, right, the
guy was just able to steal seventeenmillion dollars by impersonating Otani over the phone
and just having access to his bankaccounts. But you know, based on
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what the you know, the uhyou know Misuhara has played he'll be too.
Based on the charging document, allthe evidence that appears to be what
happens. So I think it providessome insight into you know, just how
sort of I don't want to sayone dimensional, but just sort of like
focused on baseball a TONI clearly wasduring his time with the Angels. I
think the Dodgers are you know,they viewed they have come to view Mizuhara
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as something of a barrier, asyou said, as someone who was a
bit more of a gatekeeper than willIriton is. You know, we've got
other stuff to do, like hehas another job on the on the Dodgers,
and so you know, they're theyfound that it's maybe a little bit
more open. I don't know,it's you know, we're still I think
in the early stages of figuring outlike how this will change, you know,
Asani's sort of behavior in the clubhouseand things like that. It's really
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only been you know, a monthor so, but uh yeah, I
would say just it's it really islike the craziest stories that I can remember
in you know, recent baseball history, is there how fast these things usually
happen? Andy, Like if it'sa FED I don't know a federal investigation
of this kind. Did they usuallyfigure it out in three weeks what to
charge a guy or as part ofthat. Because Otani's involved in this and
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he was, it looks as ifhe was so bamboozled by this guy and
they want to clear his name asquickly as possible. Is there anything in
there in that in that way?Do you think? Well, I can't.
I can't speak to you know howit compares to different sort of federal
cases. I mean, I justdon't have the background. We were idiots,
We're depending on you. Yeah,I mean, I think it's just
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it's one of those things that whenOtani's camp put out that statement basically saying
like ife stole money from me,Da da Da da da. His people
around him, you know, hiscrisis manage the team, they were saying
things like, look, we'll beable to prove this pretty conclusively. And
the proof was just kind of intoyou know, the wire transfers and all
that stuff. When it became clearlike oh, actually, you know you
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say had changed the passwords and thingslike that, you know, are going
to charging document. So yeah,I don't I think that's the investigation.
Maybe it's expedited a little bit justbecause of the star factor in it.
But I think probably the expediting thingis that you have a defended willing to
plead guilty. Where are We're prettyused to the Dodgers being very successful in
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the regular season, Andy, doesdoes this team feel different to you?
The Obviously it's a much different approachthey took this offseason than they ever had
over these twelve years, But doesit give you a different feeling to watch
this particular run of success even thoughit's early as we think about October,
you know it is early. Imean, look, they're going to be
They're really good. I mean it'sit's clear right, they're really good.
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They're going to just bludge in teamsto death all summer long. The lineup
is just is so good and it'sfishing. You know, the starting pitch
has been okay, the bullpen obviouslyhas been Shaky's at the top of the
lineup is just going to grind teamsinto dust. Now, you know,
they've had really good teams before though, Like it's it's the seventeen teams,
the nineteen team, the twenty team, the twenty two teams. You know,
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I think the difference is that Otaniis such an outlier in terms of
his offensive potential and the way thathe just continues to seem to get better
that even having a player like FreddieFreeman, who I always just say,
like, if there was a runnerat second base and two outs and I
needed someone to get a hit withmy life on the line, I would
have Freddie Freeman in that spot,right. Even compared to him, Otani
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is a better hitter, a moredangerous hitter, or more complete hitter.
And so they have that there's alreadysort of juggernaut with you know, the
closest recent approximation of Barry Bonds.Offensively, it's really formidable. What was
the biggest surprise about Kersha and Andyfrom covering this story and writing about it.
Something you thought you knew that youdidn't. He flipped his car one
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time in the minors. I didn'tknow he did that. Well, yeah,
yeah, it's scary the book,Chris. It was a what was
it? It was a Ford somesort of truck calls the dream car that
he bought from the draft, andhe flipped it driving fell asleep at the
wheel early in the morning, drivingsleep at the switch match. How about
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that? That's good information. Andy. We will there absolutely forward to it.
You don't get to sit down withKershaw if you're just some hack like
Joe books. The great Andy McCullough. He's got a new book out about
Clayton Kershaw called the last of hiskind. Thank you so much, Andy,
and have a great week and enjoywriting for the Athletic. You're doing
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a great job. Thank you,guy Graving me, I appreciate it.
There he goes, sounded like hewas in a big town, you know,
Matt, those athletic guys. Now, that's a little different than Tim
Kates calling some minor league as kickerout in the Midland. That's all.
That's all. You're not going tohear that in the background. No,
when Higgins hops on to talk Tulsadrillers, that's say Higgs, can you
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help me hitch this wagon? Yeah? Secret Textoso coming up there. That
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to you by your so Cal Toyotadealers. We make it easy. Big
thank you to Andy McCullough who joinedus in the very last segment. Check
out his book about Clayton Kershaw flippedhis truck lawyers, about that nugget rifle
flew out of the gunrack. Crazyfun fact, quick hits Dead and a
live guy. And then Tim Kateswith that highly anticipated off night Dodger talk
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at seven that we keep mentioning farm. The voice of the farm voice is
of the farms, exactly, childrenof the corn. It's time for some
texts. All right, Matt,This says Kate, sounds like Fred give
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me credit. That's not what we'redoing here. I was trying to give
Kate's credit. It was my faultby way of belittling the accomplishments of the
play by play voices of the TulsaDrillers and Rancho Cucamogga quakes. You know,
to steal a line from you,Matt, a real cop out,
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I would say, I was justa guy asking questions. I said,
did those guys get super excited?What you call? That's not what you
said? Yeah, I said,Hey, you know those guys, Oh
they freaking they were still. Yeah, that's what you said, and that's
what happened. Hey, Love,would you reach out any time? We're
here for it? P I'm catchingup on the podcast. If that lightly
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attended restaurant in the Lifetime movie youguys were watching on Monday was located in
the Canejo Valley, you know,Don mcclan would be its most regular regular.
Don McClain will join us again inour final hour. That was from
a last week where Don McClain mentionedthat, you know, Don McClain is
a man of solitude and does liketo very much be alone, and so
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he finds restaurants that are not wellattended and then they closed, and then
he's surprised that, you know,though that place don't really like closed.
It's like, well, yeah,no one was there. You're the only
guy. You're a big guy,but you couldn't sustain the whole place is
that you wilt. Ten thousand andone, my dad spent some time in
Guam. We talked to Vick outGuam in the first hours where he started
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his sports broadcasting career. As wewent, we were talking about beating the
bushes and coming up like these poorminers guys that are coming out with Kansas.
My dad spent some time in Guamrebuilding the island after a hurricane.
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of text mojo. It's the taintBooby Miles Permian. Guys, If we
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ran it in twenty seventeen and wasporn rain that year. I wonder if
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I tilted my head and grabbed somerain water with my mouth, would I
be disqualified since I wasn't from anofficial hydration station. Fair question. That
sounds like something we would have tocall the officials of the OC Marathon and
ask, and you know what theywould say. You know what they would
say, Come on, be serious. This is a serious race. Yes,
(30:30):
it's a sanctioned race. You winit, you qualify for the Boston
Esteban Prado versus Jason Yang neither verylikable. One of them is a winner.
One of them is a winner bydisqualification, YOPI think of all the
slumpbuster those minor league played by playdudes must bang at the nearest Motel six.
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Exactly right, guys, it doesn'tsound that bad to me. If
you're alone in Midland, you haveno life. Cheeseburgers, fat chicks,
baseball all night. It's a simplerlife. I mean, call me crazy,
especially the fat chicks part. Youtell me I get a slump buster
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in a Motel six with a cheeseburger. I might like that a little more
than a than a gold digger atthe Ritz or sitting at following a dinner
at Morton's acting like your friends withLawn Rosen right at the at the Hamamori,
No thank you, exactly. Oh, that's so funny, Lawn.
So you're the voice of the drillers. Yes, I am, sweetheart,
(31:34):
And you know why they call usthe drillers. Don't share there, nayd.
I would like to find out.You like getting nailed by the voice
of the drillers. Let's go drilling. Don McClain needs to start a TikTok
snack account review. He can giveup the whole basketball thing. Very authoritative.
That's a good call down. Isnot a man of great passion about
(31:56):
really anything, you know. That'swhy we talked to him about basketball.
Uh. But when it comes towines, which we don't discuss because that's
a little high brow, that's alittle lebron jj ras way ahead of that
though, that's the sad part,way ahead of it. But I'll tell
you what, when it comes tosnack foods that he pairs with the wines.
Very passionate. I mean, yeah, you can't step to him.
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Passionate the Christ passionate. He tellsyou what he loves. Word is bond
man. I would love to havemy own Brinks truck. Yeah, but
it doesn't come with money. Somebodybe cool to kind of just drive around
and get threatened by people. Backit up in your house, Azukas,
what are you gonna do? Iwant to back it up into my house,
five or six domes. What areyou gonna do? Okay, we'll
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go to the NFL. By theway, uh, some stories out of
(03:25):
the NFL. We have a podcast. Perhaps people will see this as sour
grapes that we are taking shots atour competition. It is not. I
do not believe the Pivot podcast withChanning Crowder, Fred Taylor and Ryan Clark
is necessarily a podcast that we arecompeting with. For ears meet when you
say we have a podcast, Petrosand Money Show podcast. We want you
(03:47):
to dominate subscribe. I didn't wantto go in confusing this with your Lorenzo
Neil Chargers endeavors. Right. No, I think in terms of the Petros
and Money this as a podcasted show, yes, but also live over the
air, and however you want toconsume it. We appreciate you as long
as you consume it. We arequite versatile. We can Hey, they
(04:08):
can't do this. Okay, wecan do this. They can't. Maybe
there, I don't know. Maybepeople do like the Petros and Money Show
and the Pivot podcast with Channing Crowder, Fred Taylor and Ryan Clark. I
don't know who listens to these podcasts, and it might be that a lot
of people do it. I'm justold. Yes, I believe I fall
into that same category. There isanother podcast I will mention here All Facts
(04:28):
No Breaks, hosted by Keyshawn Johnsonnow Pivot eight hundred and sixty five thousand
subscribers on YouTube, wildly successful,A big deal. All Facts No Breaks
not so much. It's got thirtyfour reviews on iTunes. Okay, so
kind of I don't know. Idon't know either, So why do I
(04:50):
bring mup? Not like its seeds. You know, I can't get to
the bottom of it's either. Whydo I bring it up? Well,
listen, there's a reason why NFLteams have a PR department, Why they've
got a veep of communications while they'vegot five bodies in those departments, because
when you run a billion dollar business. Now they didn't used to and they
didn't used to care, but nowthey do. But you got to have
your messages. There's money, yes, be on point. Your great head
(05:12):
coach has to be that kind ofguy, exactly right. They're going to
have communication with that department. Goneare the days of Chuck Knox. Your
greatest assets are individuals that typically arefar more skilled at athletic achievements than the
art of conversation, especially when they'reyoung. Probably want to make sure that
you get them some media training andthat it sticks. Here's what you want
(05:34):
to say, Here's how you wantto say it. Here's the traps the
reporters are going to set. Iwant to make sure you don't fall into
them. Be on the lookout forthis. Here's how to avoid it.
Malik Neighbors LSU receiver drafted by theGiants, number six overall goes on the
pivot. He's having a great time, grab an ass, celebrating being drafted
(05:58):
by the Giants, and he sharesthis nugget, we got a bet goal
for Rookie of the year, right, whoever, whoever Lewis gotta pay.
I think it's ten thousand cans.Yeah, it's that's like, it's so,
did y'all make it? Did y'allmake that bet before the draft?
Yeah? You can only make thatbet when you know you're going top eight,
because you make that bet like thedraft. Ha, that's funny,
(06:26):
really, ten chez man all right, Yesterday, Jaydon Daniels goes on the
Keishawn Johnson thing there. Okay,and uh, and this is the way
he was presented with that information.Man, he wasn't supposed to tell nobody.
It's supposed to be we got wegot a little something to bet though,
is it money? How much?Rookie of the year? That's nothing
(06:51):
for y'all, now, you guys, y'll he put it out there,
so it's like, really, Ican't say he capped, so okay,
yeah, look, uh he's notcapping, not cappin. Jayden Daniels signs
a thirty seven million dollar deal twentyfour million, the moment the ink drives
Malik Neighbors twenty nine million bucks eighteenmillion, the moment he makes his signature
(07:11):
official. What if neither is theRookie of the Year again, something that
did not get explored in the followup. That's how you want to spend
your money? Great, Hey,Malik Neighbors, you want to show up
to the Pivot podcast with a necklacethat's got a pendant that says leak and
it is eight inches wide by fourinches tall and diamond encrusted. That's how
(07:33):
you want to spend your money.By God, you spend it that way.
Don't care, But for God's sakes, in a league that suspends guys
like Calvin Ridley the entire season forgambling, don't volunteer the information that you
have a ten thousand dollars bet writingon something involved with a football season.
(07:57):
The Pivot does not care. Keishundo not care. This is news for
them. This is stuff that madeits way into the news cycle today,
and it is a reminder through therules of the NFL that quote, all
NFL personnel are prohibited from placing,soliciting, or facilitating any bet, whether
(08:20):
directly or through a third party onany NFL game, practice, or other
event eg. Drafter combine, includingcommercial gambling, whether for profit, charity,
or anything else that involves third partiesi e. Bookies, dealers the
house, as well as private wagersbetween teammates. Just go to OTAs,
Just go to OTAs. Don't showyour head until you start playing in the
(08:41):
games. My god, how much? Ten? Ten? It's nothing for
y'all. Ten. Look, maybepeople don't care anymore, and I will
play the other side of this coin. If the NFL wants to run gambling
commercials every single break, yes signedESPN bet you want to run, then
(09:01):
find the players should be able aslong as they are not running into compromising
the outcome of the game. Thisisn't new, no, you know,
every fistfight that ever happened on anNFL team off the field is usually because
of a bet that somebody doesn't wantto pay, or a video game thing
or Domino's games. So this isnot new at all. But the podcast
guy's all giggling about it and tryingto get these young guys in trouble.
(09:24):
A little bit new. You doyourself as a favor, Listen to your
pr department. Let them coach youup a little bit and let you know
the things you have to avoid.Second two parts to this story. Second
part is even crazier. Here isTerry and Arnold talking with the Next Round,
an Alabama radio show on how weended up with the Lions and was
almost a Raider and actually the raiderscoach. They called me after the drift.
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They were like, you know,we actually had a coin to one
between you and brought Bowers and manit on him. I was like,
oh wow, Now they say,maybe he's a young man. He doesn't
understand a metaphorical coin, not aliteral one. But then assistant general manager
Champ Kelly met with the media andof course was asked about the wild claim
(10:09):
by Arnold that there was a coinflip and that it landed on brock Bowers
and that's why he was the numberthirteen pick. Here's the quote from the
assistant GM. Yeah, I can'tconfirm that at all. Okay, you
would like to think the answer wouldbe no. Of course, we didn't
flip a coin. It was justclose, and that's what we were saying.
(10:31):
It is just very close. Butthe coin flip it was it was
a coin. Yeah, I can'tconfirm whether or not a coin was actually
tossed. May have been, itmay not have been. Couldn't deny it,
though I can't confirm it. Ihope it's not true. A lot
of speculation that the Raiders were hotfor Pennix or bo Nix expected one of
them to be there at thirteen.I don't know if that was in fact
(10:52):
the case. Maybe it was,maybe it wasn't. Uh, they took
the tight end and they call hima weapon and he is now a raider.
Was it a quarter, was ita nickel? Was it a fifty
cent piece? Don't know, butwhether or not it was an actual coin,
I guess we'll have to dig alittle deeper. Finally, Third,
(11:15):
I cannot confirm. Third, onehundred million dollars. That is what the
NFL wants for the Christmas Day games. There will be two. They will
be played on a Wednesday, Wednesday, NFL Football Christmas Day. They want
one hundred million dollars for the rightsto broadcast those two games, the same
as the Black Friday game fetched lastyear from Amazon Pros. So it's up
(11:39):
for auction. Up for auction,somebody can buy it rumor is it might
end up on the CW. Isthat what you're saying, CW? I
have not seen mentioned Interestingly enough,however, Netflix reportedly could be the destination
for the two Christmas Day games.Last year, Raiders Chiefs pulled in thirty
million viewers. It's Eagles twenty ninemillion, Niners Ravens twenty eight million.
(12:03):
I would assume Christmas Day no longerbelongs solely to the NBA, and the
NFL is going to make its placethere permanently, especially if they can get
one hundred million dollars for that pairand those are your three things. It
seems like a lot of money.Well, it's what the Amazon Black Friday
(12:26):
game got, one hundred million dollarsone game. Not very good Netflix football,
Well, it's Ron Thuhlan still available. Kind of big Tho. I
mean, they do we get bigTho up there, dude in the in
the in the in the booth.Maybe they get Nicky Glasser after her incredible
performance on the Tom Brady Rose Yeah, was there? Netflix? Right,
(12:48):
So big Thu in the booth?There you go Thuhlan, Staffer and Glasser.
Do we double sideline Matt? They'regonna throw a lot of money at
it. You want somebody else onthe other side, leeffree Ross, what
about it? He's champing at thebit. Sorry, no room for you,
Isaac on YouTube portnoy beat it,but we'll give you a few cutaways.
(13:09):
Oh my agent negotiated three cutaways withNetflix and they gave me Nikki the
day after and Susie was on theretoo, So we're pretty happy about him.
Very happy. Thank you for listening, everybody. The Petro Somebody Show
continues. Coming up next Andy McCulloughand his sweet Clayton Kershaw book That show
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Some Money. AM five seventy LASports Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
No Dodger game tonight, instead,it is Dodger Talk from seven to eight,
as the Dodgers will play the Padrestomorrow and as they are riding a
seven game win streak twelve of theirlast fourteen, the widest margin between first
and second place of any division inMajor League Baseball. Early on in this
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season, Pee gives us an opportunityon a national perspective. Yes, but
he knows the beat. Much likeour old friend Howard Beck. This guy
wears a nice leather jacket graduated fromthe local beat in a big city to
the national outlook with The Athletic.Former Dodger beat rider now covers the MLB
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for The Athletic. The new bookout this week, The Last of His
Kind Like that Jason isbel song,but this time it's about Clayton Kershaw,
and it says the Last of hisKind. Clayton Kershaw and The Burden of
Greatness available at Amazon dot Com andBarnes and Noble. Duck a published author
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and a man of baseball, areal seamhead. We welcome in on the
Southern California Toyota Dealer Celebrity Hotline,Andy McCullough. What's cracking, Andy?
How are you still fit into thatleather jacket? It's, you know,
getting old. It is hard tomanage your metabolism. You look all right,
Andy, you look good and thosebut over there the is athletic guys.
(15:00):
You got you know, you can'tgo Ray Ratto. You know you
got to stay fit. They don'tlike that. To work for him,
Yeah, but they don't like itwhen you go into spread formation. I'm
just saying, uh, no onedoes now, Andy. Uh. Kershaw
is a wild figure here in LosAngeles because he's been around for decades,
and it's it's almost like he's beenaround so long that his appearance or just
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his existence is taken for granted.Uh, did you make take that approach
a little bit with this? Imean, this is a big undertaking to
write about this guy, because there'sa lot there. Yeah, I mean
I wanted the book to kind ofserve as like the definitive account of his
time in LA you know, understandingthat when I started this and you know,
May of twenty twenty two, thathe might you know, sign elsewhere
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or might choose to finish his careerelsewhere. But at the very least,
you know, the bulk of itwas that, you know, would be
kind of just documenting kind of whathe's done as a Dodger and the kind
of how his childhood shapes him andled him to be the pitcher he is
and had the career he's had.And but the bulk of the book was
always going to be, you know, kind of that eight year crucible from
twenty thirteen to twenty twenty of himkind of you know, trying as hard
(16:10):
as he could to you know,end the championship drought. And that's kind
of the main thrust of it,I think, is he viewed now that
you you know, you did iton the beat in LA and now you
do it nationally for the athletic ishe viewed? I assume he's not viewed
the exact same way nationally as heis locally. But how how wide is
that gap? How different are sortof the perspectives on where Clayton Kershaw's places
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through this era of Major League baseball? Well, it just depends on you
know, who you're talking to.Like, I don't think it's necessarily a
local versus national thing. I thinkit's you know, it depends on people
who you know, fixate on thedelta between the you know, the regular
season numbers and the postseason numbers,and the people who sort of understand what
went into those postseason numbers and theway he was used, you know,
(16:56):
in terms of you know, gettingto those postseason numbers, and also just
how significant you know, the reasonthat the delta is so significant is because
he is literally the best pitcher everwhen it comes to run prorection. He
has the lowest dra ever, thelowest dra plus ever, and so you
know, people who understand baseball tendto understand exactly who he is and where
he stands within the pantheon. Butyeah, he talks to fans from other
(17:17):
teams. They like to make funof him, and that's you know,
that's the way sports works. Youknow, doctor Dodgers, Sands make fun
of you know, Tim Lintingham probablyhaving three good seasons, that type of
stuff. Do you like, whatwhat do you think motivated him to come
back? How big of a dealdo you think that that game was last
year against the Diamondbacks to his returnthis year, Yeah, it was definitely
part of it. I mean Iasked him at one point, you know,
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kind of maybe a month or soafter that game, if he could
have been okay with that being thelast time he ever pitched, and the
way he framed it was like,yeah, I would have been okay with
that, but it doesn't have tobe. So, you know, he
felt like essentially his body, youknow, despite meeting surgery, he's still
relatively you know, he's a youngman, and he's a relatively young man
when it comes to baseball age.He was thirty five then, he's thirty
(18:00):
six now, and so you know, he's used this as his life's work.
He've used this as the thing thathe was put here to do professionally,
and he's trying, you know,trying to honor that gift for as
long as he can, and ifthat requires, you know, major surgery,
which he's never done before this offseason, he was willing to do it
and give it a try and seeif he could, you know, extend
his career. And so I don'tthink it was the sort of thing where
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he said he's like, I can'tlet that be my last game. It
was more like that was part ofthe calculus into coming back. If that
makes sense. It does. AndyMcCullough's made sense for a long time.
That's why he's graduated to the nationalranks with the big boys at the athletic.
He's got a book out about ClaytonKershaw's called The Last of his Kind,
Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness, available everywhere Amazon, Barnes and
(18:45):
Noble and all that. You metwith Kershaw, and he was supportive of
you writing this book. You know, he softened a little bit over the
years toward the media. He wasn'talways as warm and fuzzy. He wasn't
really that difficult. He just reallywasn't that interested in being celebrated media wise.
What were your experiences like with him, and how do you think from
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your perspective he's changed in that regardover the years. Well, I think,
you know, winning the title intwenty twenty lightened the burden he felt
in terms of just the constant,year long stress of feeling like you'd never
actually want a title. And Ithink after that happened, you know,
he just was a slightly different person. He was a bit looser, a
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bit more open, a bit youknow, sort of less closed off to
teammates, to you know, meand things like that. And I think,
you know, as you get older, you deal with injuries, you
get your career, you realize you'reon the back nine of your career.
He's become a little bit more reflectiveand more you know, open to thinking
about kind of the decisions he madealong the way. You know, when
you're in the thick of it,you know, the way he was in
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like fifteen sixteen seventeen, you know, you're just not a lot of time
for reflection and more just thinking abouthow, you know, what you can
do to end the draft. Andso I think he's gotten to the other
side of that, he's just becomea bit more open. Uh. Just
beyond the book Andy, the Dodgersin general, you were the point person
at the Athletic through the whole OtaniEpe situation, and I would assume you
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got pretty close to that, likewhat you know now that it's it feels
like there's closure. You know,he pays pled guilty, He's going to
go away for you know, decadeplus somewhere around there, Will is the
new interpreter for Otani. What didyou kind of learn through that? And
how much different is it now thatOtani doesn't have this kind of weird barrier
between him and everybody else. Yeah, I mean definitely one of It has
(20:38):
to be the strangest story I've evercovered in Major League Baseball. You know,
I just if there's a stranger one, I'd love to deal with it.
I'd love to, you know,remember what it was, because it's
just on the surface, it justsounds so far best, right, the
guy was just able to steal seventeenmillion dollars by impersonating Otani over the phone
and just having access to his bankaccounts. But you know, based on
(21:00):
what the you know, the uhyou know Misuhara has played he'll be too.
Based on the charging document, allthe evidence that appears to be what
happens. So I think it providessome insight into you know, just how
sort of I don't want to sayone dimensional, but just sort of like
focused on baseball a TONI clearly wasduring his time with the Angels. I
think the Dodgers are you know,they viewed they have come to view Mizuhara
(21:25):
as something of a barrier, asyou said, as someone who was a
bit more of a gatekeeper than willIriton is. You know, we've got
other stuff to do, like hehas another job on the on the Dodgers,
and so you know, they're theyfound that it's maybe a little bit
more open. I don't know,it's you know, we're still I think
in the early stages of figuring outlike how this will change, you know,
Asani's sort of behavior in the clubhouseand things like that. It's really
(21:48):
only been you know, a monthor so, but uh yeah, I
would say just it's it really islike the craziest stories that I can remember
in you know, recent baseball history, is there how fast these things usually
happen? Andy, Like if it'sa FED I don't know a federal investigation
of this kind. Did they usuallyfigure it out in three weeks what to
charge a guy or as part ofthat. Because Otani's involved in this and
(22:11):
he was, it looks as ifhe was so bamboozled by this guy and
they want to clear his name asquickly as possible. Is there anything in
there in that in that way?Do you think? Well, I can't.
I can't speak to you know howit compares to different sort of federal
cases. I mean, I justdon't have the background. We were idiots,
We're depending on you. Yeah,I mean, I think it's just
(22:36):
it's one of those things that whenOtani's camp put out that statement basically saying
like ife stole money from me,Da da Da da da. His people
around him, you know, hiscrisis manage the team, they were saying
things like, look, we'll beable to prove this pretty conclusively. And
the proof was just kind of intoyou know, the wire transfers and all
that stuff. When it became clearlike oh, actually, you know you
(22:56):
say had changed the passwords and thingslike that, you know, are going
to charging document. So yeah,I don't I think that's the investigation.
Maybe it's expedited a little bit justbecause of the star factor in it.
But I think probably the expediting thingis that you have a defended willing to
plead guilty. Where are We're prettyused to the Dodgers being very successful in
(23:18):
the regular season, Andy, doesdoes this team feel different to you?
The Obviously it's a much different approachthey took this offseason than they ever had
over these twelve years, But doesit give you a different feeling to watch
this particular run of success even thoughit's early as we think about October,
you know it is early. Imean, look, they're going to be
They're really good. I mean it'sit's clear right, they're really good.
(23:41):
They're going to just bludge in teamsto death all summer long. The lineup
is just is so good and it'sfishing. You know, the starting pitch
has been okay, the bullpen obviouslyhas been Shaky's at the top of the
lineup is just going to grind teamsinto dust. Now, you know,
they've had really good teams before though, Like it's it's the seventeen teams,
the nineteen team, the twenty team, the twenty two teams. You know,
(24:03):
I think the difference is that Otaniis such an outlier in terms of
his offensive potential and the way thathe just continues to seem to get better
that even having a player like FreddieFreeman, who I always just say,
like, if there was a runnerat second base and two outs and I
needed someone to get a hit withmy life on the line, I would
have Freddie Freeman in that spot,right. Even compared to him, Otani
(24:27):
is a better hitter, a moredangerous hitter, or more complete hitter.
And so they have that there's alreadysort of juggernaut with you know, the
closest recent approximation of Barry Bonds.Offensively, it's really formidable. What was
the biggest surprise about Kersha and Andyfrom covering this story and writing about it.
Something you thought you knew that youdidn't. He flipped his car one
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time in the minors. I didn'tknow he did that. Well, yeah,
yeah, it's scary the book,Chris. It was a what was
it? It was a Ford somesort of truck calls the dream car that
he bought from the draft, andhe flipped it driving fell asleep at the
wheel early in the morning, drivingsleep at the switch match. How about
(25:12):
that? That's good information. Andy. We will there absolutely forward to it.
You don't get to sit down withKershaw if you're just some hack like
Joe books. The great Andy McCullough. He's got a new book out about
Clayton Kershaw called the last of hiskind. Thank you so much, Andy,
and have a great week and enjoywriting for the Athletic. You're doing
(25:33):
a great job. Thank you,guy Graving me, I appreciate it.
There he goes, sounded like hewas in a big town, you know,
Matt, those athletic guys. Now, that's a little different than Tim
Kates calling some minor league as kickerout in the Midland. That's all.
That's all. You're not going tohear that in the background. No,
when Higgins hops on to talk Tulsadrillers, that's say Higgs, can you
(26:04):
help me hitch this wagon? Yeah? Secret Textoso coming up there. That
shows some money. Hey, imfive seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app giving away Burke Williams Mother'sDay gift cards and a huge thank you
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to Burke Williams. Eighty minute massageor facial at Burke Williams PMS AM five
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for details. All right, Matt, we have a few text line brought
(26:49):
to you by your so Cal Toyotadealers. We make it easy. Big
thank you to Andy McCullough who joinedus in the very last segment. Check
out his book about Clayton Kershaw flippedhis truck lawyers, about that nugget rifle
flew out of the gunrack. Crazyfun fact, quick hits Dead and a
live guy. And then Tim Kateswith that highly anticipated off night Dodger talk
(27:12):
at seven that we keep mentioning farm. The voice of the farm voice is
of the farms, exactly, childrenof the corn. It's time for some
texts. All right, Matt,This says Kate, sounds like Fred give
(27:34):
me credit. That's not what we'redoing here. I was trying to give
Kate's credit. It was my faultby way of belittling the accomplishments of the
play by play voices of the TulsaDrillers and Rancho Cucamogga quakes. You know,
to steal a line from you,Matt, a real cop out,
(27:55):
I would say, I was justa guy asking questions. I said,
did those guys get super excited?What you call? That's not what you
said? Yeah, I said,Hey, you know those guys, Oh
they freaking they were still. Yeah, that's what you said, and that's
what happened. Hey, Love,would you reach out any time? We're
here for it? P I'm catchingup on the podcast. If that lightly
(28:15):
attended restaurant in the Lifetime movie youguys were watching on Monday was located in
the Canejo Valley, you know,Don mcclan would be its most regular regular.
Don McClain will join us again inour final hour. That was from
a last week where Don McClain mentionedthat, you know, Don McClain is
a man of solitude and does liketo very much be alone, and so
(28:37):
he finds restaurants that are not wellattended and then they closed, and then
he's surprised that, you know,though that place don't really like closed.
It's like, well, yeah,no one was there. You're the only
guy. You're a big guy,but you couldn't sustain the whole place is
that you wilt. Ten thousand andone, my dad spent some time in
Guam. We talked to Vick outGuam in the first hours where he started
(29:02):
his sports broadcasting career. As wewent, we were talking about beating the
bushes and coming up like these poorminers guys that are coming out with Kansas.
My dad spent some time in Guamrebuilding the island after a hurricane.
He described the women as refrigerators withfeet, like like one of those drawings
(29:22):
in the Star Wars. And didVic just mention the permium basin in Texas
a lah the taint of Texas?He no, he said, Permian.
No, Ma's perum basin. That'swhat it is. Odessa is the taint
(29:45):
of text mojo. It's the taintBooby Miles Permian. Guys, If we
have any Permium listeners in Texas,please give us a call. We'd love
to hear from the Premium. Loveyour coverage of the OC Marathon. I
ran it in twenty seventeen and wasporn rain that year. I wonder if
(30:07):
I tilted my head and grabbed somerain water with my mouth, would I
be disqualified since I wasn't from anofficial hydration station. Fair question. That
sounds like something we would have tocall the officials of the OC Marathon and
ask, and you know what theywould say. You know what they would
say, Come on, be serious. This is a serious race. Yes,
(30:30):
it's a sanctioned race. You winit, you qualify for the Boston
Esteban Prado versus Jason Yang neither verylikable. One of them is a winner.
One of them is a winner bydisqualification, YOPI think of all the
slumpbuster those minor league played by playdudes must bang at the nearest Motel six.
(30:52):
Exactly right, guys, it doesn'tsound that bad to me. If
you're alone in Midland, you haveno life. Cheeseburgers, fat chicks,
baseball all night. It's a simplerlife. I mean, call me crazy,
especially the fat chicks part. Youtell me I get a slump buster
(31:12):
in a Motel six with a cheeseburger. I might like that a little more
than a than a gold digger atthe Ritz or sitting at following a dinner
at Morton's acting like your friends withLawn Rosen right at the at the Hamamori,
No thank you, exactly. Oh, that's so funny, Lawn.
So you're the voice of the drillers. Yes, I am, sweetheart,
(31:34):
And you know why they call usthe drillers. Don't share there, nayd.
I would like to find out.You like getting nailed by the voice
of the drillers. Let's go drilling. Don McClain needs to start a TikTok
snack account review. He can giveup the whole basketball thing. Very authoritative.
That's a good call down. Isnot a man of great passion about
(31:56):
really anything, you know. That'swhy we talked to him about basketball.
Uh. But when it comes towines, which we don't discuss because that's
a little high brow, that's alittle lebron jj ras way ahead of that
though, that's the sad part,way ahead of it. But I'll tell
you what, when it comes tosnack foods that he pairs with the wines.
Very passionate. I mean, yeah, you can't step to him.
(32:19):
Passionate the Christ passionate. He tellsyou what he loves. Word is bond
man. I would love to havemy own Brinks truck. Yeah, but
it doesn't come with money. Somebodybe cool to kind of just drive around
and get threatened by people. Backit up in your house, Azukas,
what are you gonna do? Iwant to back it up into my house,
five or six domes. What areyou gonna do? Okay, we'll
(32:40):
be back. We'll have more greatsports brought to you by your so called
Toyota dealers. One more hour andthen Tim Kate's off night Dodger Talk,
Voice of the Drillers, Voice ofthe Quakes, and you Linscog the Dodger
fan, they're coming. Oh,it's all, it's happening. M
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