A Crunchy Groove Thursday (Hour 2) 5/16/24

Former Dodgers slugged and SNLA Analyst James Loney. Number, Word and Song of the Day. NSR and some more Bronny James media coverage.

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we got Dodgers take it on thereds tonight and that brings us to our
guest joining us right now. Yousee him hanging around geeking into the media,
joining us on the Southern California ToyotaDealers Celebrity Hotline. It is the
one and only James Loney Dodger firstbasement of yesteryear, an old time friend

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of the show. Spent a decadein the big leagues, played with the
Red Sox, the Rais, andthe Mets as well. You see them
on sports net LA now breaking downDodger games pre and post. It is
the lone dog who I believe isworking on his golf game intensely these days.
On the Petrosen Money Show. What'scracking, James? How are you

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ever working on a coffee? Hey? What's up? Got Hey? Great
to hear your voice, your lovelyvoice again. Yeah that I've got an
inside tip that you're out there puttingin big work at the at the in
the golf world. How far areyou trying to take it? Lone dog
inside tip? Huh that? JerryHairston, Yeah, I've been after it.

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You know that. It was aIt was a journey. I show
up to these charity events and peopleexpect me to hit the ball three hundred
yards and it could happen, Butit may be a foul ball, so
that doesn't play in golf. ButI needed to figure it out. Does
uh does baseball help or hurt whenyou try to apply that skill set to
golf? So I think it canbe both because I think there's a lot

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of similarities rotation, you know,squaring up the ball, focus, you
know, things like that. Butyou know there are different angles to take
different clubs. You have the shortgame, so uh, yeah, it
can be can be a little both. They great James Loni an old friend
of the show, joining us rightnow and we're happy to talk to him.

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You see him on sports Net.Like we said, the Dodgers looking
pretty good. I mean it's onlyMay, and where we're used to this.
We we hunkered down for a longseason and we like to overreact to
everything. But how much fun isit to watch? Do you love hitting?
How much fun is it to watchthose first three guys in the lineup?
And and and if they can stayhealthy, what are we looking at

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down the stretch? Yeah? Imean those Yeah, I mean those are
you know, I think the bestthree hitters in the game. That are
all you know, back to back. You know, you got Mooky with
the speed and power obviously show thetremendous power and still speed and then Freddy,
you know, Freddy can do itall. So I just feel like
with those guys, it's hard topitch around that kind of lineup. And
then you have like a Will Smithor Max Munty right behind those guys,

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right, so those you know,our guys are getting they're gonna get better
pitches to hit than they normally would. Where Otani was just in the lineup
by himself with the Angels, andhow impressive that was. He was doing
that in Anaheim. You know,the number two is putting up, so
I think that's why he off twoeven Biga, you know, his best
start of his career is just becauseof our lineup. I don't know if

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you can speak to this, James, because I don't think you were ever
in an extended slump, but let'sjust say you were. What's uh,
what's the best way to it?Was? That was? No? No?
Is there is there a way toget out of it? Would you
do something to you know, Idon't know, clear your mind or stop
trying to do too my Like,what's the way to get out of it?

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Yeah? I mean I think Ialways analyzed what the pitches that were
being thrown to me and where theyare because a lot of times we get
frustrated as a hitter because we're nothitting the ball every time, we're not
getting great hits. And a lotof half of like like half the time,
there were just pictures pitches you know, maybe six inches off the plate
or just you know, a toughpitch inside or outside like whatever. It

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was. So as much as wedon't want to give credit to the pictures,
there were times, you know whereyou just kind of had to tip
your hat. I think the timewhen you kind of analyze it the most
is when you're missing your pitches overthe middle of the plate, when you
really feel like you're supposed to dodamage. And you know, for the
most part, a lot of timesthat came down to either timing or just
you know, my swing. Sothat was that was what I was always

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dissecting. Is it is it mytiming that's messing up my swing or is
it my actual swing in the anglethat I'm taking at the ball? Well,
what how does that translate to theyounger guys like Outman and Pa has
When you're a younger dude, Imean, we still think of you as
a young dude, but you werea grizzled vet. You know, at
a certain point, the lone doghad been through the wars. Uh.

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How hard is it to come outof those slumps when you're young? Yeah,
I mean you're young, right,You're trying to stay in the lineup.
You don't want to go back topeanut Butter and jelly s family just
all the times, right, Soyou know I shouldn't say that Triple A
is actually pretty nice, but yeah, you just didn't want to go back
to that, you know, goback there, right, You want to
you want to keep your place inthe lineup. And you know, I

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think with some of the younger guys, it's it's it's really pitched selection,
right, It's really knowing what pitchesyou can hit, being able to hit
with two strikes and not getting outof your out of the strike zone,
right, not expanding the strike zone, because when the pictures see that,
then they're going to try to,you know, take it farther. You
know, how much more will heexpand? And then that's your role as
the hitter is to really hone downand know know how to control the strike

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zone. What speaking to Gavin Stonethat start the other night. What is
it that that a pitcher does toinduce soft contact or you know, just
kind of lazy fly balls as opposedto like that power picture. What is
it that Gavin Stone's doing out there? So I think he what's that?

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No? No, that we justgo ahead talk about the Stone boner.
Yeah, yeah, I think it'sversus. It starts with confidence, right,
and confidence can only take you sofar. I mean, we could
all be confident out there. Ifwe don't know what we're doing, it's
not going to work. So Ithink it starts with confidence, his mound
presence, his ability to change speeds, you know, which sounds like a

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typical picture, but I think alsohis ability to throw his change up to
left these inn righties, and toboth sides of the plate. You know,
when I first came up a lotof times right handed pictures, didn't
necessarily want to throw left handed bunterschange up inside just in case we hit
it out, we catch out andfront we pull it for a home run.
You know, he's confident that hecan maybe start it off the inside
of the plate, make it lookup, the ball come back over as
a strike, He's also confident.He can make it look like a strike

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on the outside corner and I'm talkingabout a lesti and then make it stay
off the plate. So I thinkwhen you have that kind of combination of
skill and you and like I said, confidence in those pitches, it just
makes him really deadly. And obviouslyhis fastball still plays. He throws hard
enough so he can play that changeup to make it even look slower and
just mix the matter of speeds.Is somebody trying to bub you right now,

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Loney? About getting that o tawnybobblehead? Is somebody on your pulling
at your sleeve right now? Whois it? Who is it bugging you?
Loney? No, I can't.I can't put their name out there
like that. You know, yougot too big of a show. People
show we hear, we could hearsomebody trying to I mean, you're doing
whead. That's what they want?What do they want? Loney? What
are they What are they asking for? Over there? They want everything?

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They want it all? Okay?Do players get interested in in that kind
of thing? I mean people arelined up outside Dodger Stadium like they never
have been before, not even forKershaw. Babblehead night when he was really
hot. What uh do you guysget geeked about O TONI boblehead? Are
you gonna get an O Tonni bablehead? You know I'm not. I'm not

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gonna lie. I wouldn't mind gettingan O Towy biblehead. Wow? Yeah,
I mean I wouldn't mind it.And then I feel like, you
know, overall, you know he'she's a unicorn, right, So that's
the guy. Like if I hadto pick overall the player that I wanted
for a bobblehead, that's my guy. That's my guy. Fair enough.

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How many uh, how many bibbleheadsdid they make of James Loney in your
career? Uh? In my career? I know I had one in the
minor I had one, I hadone in triple I mean I started haling
the big leagues. I can onlythink it's two. Really, Yeah,
I probably need to hit some morehome runs. Maybe I get some more

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bad or some twenty nine bucks oneBay for the Dodger bobblehead. Look at
that, that's pretty good number twentynine. But there's two. There's one
of you hitting Loney and there's oneof you receiving a ball at first base,
and they're all, yeah, yeah, the one, yeah, the
one receiving I believe is from minorleague. That for the arm kind of

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where it come to arm can actuallycome off. For some strange reason,
it was like a screw thing.Yeah, it looks like your topic,
John is gone there. It looksit's all twisted up. Yeah. I
don't know why. I don't knowwhy they Yeah, I don't know.
I never got the memo. Inever got the memo. I was trying
to get out of double A,so I didn't care too much about the

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screw on armed for the babblehead fairenough. I mean, if bobbleheads a
babble ahead, we don't have one. Uh Now, Loney, Freddy Freeman's
pretty good over there at first base. How much fun is he to watch
for a professional guy like you?Yeah, yeah, he's decent, right,
I mean, I just love,you know, think about Freddy.
You know, I think we talkabout it in the baseball world, but

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maybe not always in the you know, in the mainstream and the national news.
Is just he's a he's all aroundbaseball player. He loves being out
there, he loves helping out hisdefense. He loves base running, right,
so he's just doing more than thanyou see as a hitter, and
he takes pride in it. Youknow, he takes pride like you know,
there's there's short hops to a firstbase and sometimes that are those are

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hard plays for us to pick andon TV it may look easy, but
you know if he makes it lookeasy, so you know he takes he
expects to pick those balls, heexpects to make the hard plays. So
I think that's really what Freddie Stansfordand you know he's a great guy all
around. So I just feel like, yeah, he's like he's the modern

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day all around baseball player. Cando it all just maybe one hair shot,
can you? But those two guysare I feel like, are the
most complete players. Last thing foryou, Loney, uh two parts?
Wait wait wait? Oh yeah,and Moki and Mookie plays shorttops, so
hold on, I guess we gotthree complete players. Oh there, you
got me that time, last thingfor your loan two part question as a

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first baseman, just because you saidsomething there about picking those those those uh
you know a little underthrown or whenyou're when you're trying to dig that thing
out, I mean, these guysare throwing the ball like one hundred miles
an hour. Are you getting pepperedin the eye with like little pebbles or
dirt clods? And and when thathappens repeatedly, like if a guy does

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that two or three times in agame, do you talk to him say,
hey, man, come on,hit the freaking glove, like did
you do that? No? No, you know it's funny. I mean,
I actually not that. I wantyou to throw the ball in the
dirt. Hey, I'm getting myTV time. You know, if I
get some scoop out of the bottom, it's a tough play in the hole
right right, So it's like,you know, I mean, hey,

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I can't teach I can't teach himgrowl. A grown man had to throw
a ball to me. So I'lljust I'll take what I can get over
there, and uh, you knowsee what happens. Yeah, I mean,
especially since you got that special trickelbow, he could pick any of
that stuff. Yeah, we appreciateyou, James Spectrum sports Net. Keep

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working on that golf game, andthanks for coming on. Have a great
night, all right, I appreciateit. Thank good luck in that bibblehead
what are you talking to? Youtalking talking to everybody? Who is it
over there? Loney? I'm notgonna say. I have to say Loney's

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improved as an interview, but he'sstill like riding a wild bull, still
riding a wild ass bull. ManLodi can't be tamed to getting longer at
Dodger Stadium. Guys just getting longerand longer some people. And I am
one of these when I when Ido the phone interviews, I don't know

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why, but I stand up andI walk out of the room that I'm
in. I just feel like,you know what I've been in here,
someone could walk in and distract me. So I'm going to stand up and
walk out so it's clear that I'mon the phone. He I think he
was in Pelican band making license plates, though, because every couple of minutes
like that, the thing slammed down, right, Kates, do you have

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any insight into what the lone dogwas doing there? He's a married man
with young kids. I think hejust picked him up from school, so
we ain't take him some time cominghome. Why couldn't he say that and
we could give the kids a shoutout? I love the kids, Paul
Revere Elementary. Where was he?Either that or he's in the back channels
of Dodger stadium sneaking out with somebobbleheads. I don't know. It could
be either or you know, allof these fans, they really fan the

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players really fan out when it comesto well Tommy and they become fanboys.
Oh Tani man, everybody wants apiece. We'll be right back with your
word number. Song of the day. It's Petricks some money show on AMPHI
seventy las parts. We are yourhome of the Dodgers that has show hal
Tonni Boblehead Night, which means theymight as well be given away free money.

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Dodgers back home. Midst of thesethirteen straight games, Galpin Motors broadcast
Booth First Pitch at seven to tenpm on a big deal show hail Tony
Bobblehead Night. We get all thedetails from David Vasse, who will be
live on location in about an hour. What a great day it's been.
We rolled the Lonely Bowl also knownas the Lonely Bowl, a great Herb

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Alpert song, and I think wehad a great We've discovered a great way
to control vic which is just tothrow him in the hole whenever he throws
him into the lock up. Yeah, which is great because it makes Kates
feel like the prison warden that hereally wants he always wanted to be.

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And we talked about the NFL schedulerelease at all of those different thing So
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updates from the stadium, texto soso wise or anything, will take them
because David Vassy told us earlier thatthe block was hot and he's gonna come
on next hour and we'll get moreas as that as a developing situation.
The grabbing hands, Matt, graball they can. Word of the day.

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The word of the day. Well, I grew up here in the
South Bay and specifically in the PalaceVerdes Peninsula, which is very popular for
cyclists. I never took up cycling, but this is like a training area
for cyclists, and you know,southern California, you get a lot of
bicycle types because of the weather.I mean it's not Beijing or Amsterdam,

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but because of the car culture andthe coastal towns, Matt, you live
at the beach and the cyclists,things can get a little hairy, as
we always know. And some hatecyclists. Cyclists hate drivers. Everybody hates
every It's a real push and pull. It's a haul and poll. Yes.

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And the other part of it,Matt, is that the cyclists and
they get in their packs and notto not to take sides, but they
do get in their packs. Andwhen they get in their packs and they
come down my street, which isa very quiet residential street, and they'll
be like fifty of them on aweekend, and they don't pay no attention
to no stop signs like the carshave to. That's that's not cool.

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It's not so. Here's a videoI got from somewhere in California and it's
on Instagram, and it's a copthat has pulled over a whole gaggle.
I don't know what you call agroup of them. It's like a gaggle
works like a pod, I don'tknow of cyclists and a murder of crows,
you know, and uh, he'slecturing them about rolling through a stop

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sign, and one dude tries toargue, and all the other cyclists are
like, stop arguing, Bruce,you know, and getting all mad.
And then you see what happens everybodyelse on this room plane. And yet
you come down in your path,you get your herd mentality, and you
think you can flow through our city. And then then when somebody accidentally honks

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at you, you give them thefinger, and then you call us and
say people are being rude to youas a whole. I'm generalizing, of
course, I'm not singling interview out. But you all did run the stop
sign. You plane is day,including you is day. I never did

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you stop. Anybody vounce for me? I might see him stoping you fand
what you're saying? Were you ridingin this group? I was riding when
I saw okay you're a liar.Okay, you're a liar. Can we
just hear the office? Now he'sgonna get a ticket. Everybody else can

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go? They got Yeah, Itotally stopped. He's gonna get a ticket.
Everybody else, You're out of here. I got a kick out of
that that is great. I toldyou that one time I saw him in
Seal Beach and that cop on themotorcycle cop was just sitting there clipping them
off. Yeah, well they getanother after another, they get the whole

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group, you know. And butlook and cyclists. I'll take these guys
with their balls packed in all dayto the coffee shop. I'll take these
guys to any day. And youknow, I've had an issue for years,
but I'll take any of these cycliststype that are in the big orange
group or any of these I'll takethem over the groups of idiot kids doing

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wheelies on their e bikes like they'reall James Dean and Salminio. Few kids.
Pop your legs, kids, youguys are mid their STAN right.
No, damn it, God,damn it. I thought I had it.

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They're down with Stan. It's timeeverybody else go. You. You're
getting a ticket number of the day. Number the day is four hundred and
fifty to three thousand. I wasdoing the filling in for Gary earlier on
the Gary and Shannon Show, andthey do a tech segment. They had

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this tech guy come on. Ohyeah, what's it? The tech guy?
Yeah, he's uh Mark. Hewrites for everything like USA to Day
and AARP and Consumer Reports and allthat sort of stuff. And he brought
something up and I'm gonna be honest, gave me a little bit of PTSD.
I was not prepared for it.It was a bit of information that

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was shoved in front of me rightbefore the segment started to brush up during
the commercial break and get ready toask him a handful of questions. And
I'm gonna be honest, I thinkI kind of knew these things existed,
but I had never really thought aboutthem. But as a man of a
certain age. And we've talked aboutthe film before, Maximum Overdrive had a

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real impact now, okay, Andit's some of the stuff that we're talking
about now with AI taking over theworld and machines getting a mind of their
own and eliminating the human race,and that all started for me back in
the mid eighties. I think itwas probably somewhere around eighty six Emilio Estevez
vehicle Maximum Overdrive, when the machinesbecame so sufficient, self thinking. And

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there is one particular scene in therewith a kid who was about my age
as I was at the time,riding his BMX bike around town and there's
just all these dead bodies, dudes, Grandma's dogs. How often you see
a dog's throat slit in a film, Like that's just taboo, And they
did it in this film nineteen eightysix and all of us eighty six.
There you go, and all ofa sudden, behind him comes this lawnmower

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covered in blood and he's trying topedal away from it. In this lawnmower's
chasing him down. I remember this, Yeah, remember that scene the lawnmower
came to lie Yes, And thisdude Mark is talking about robot lawnmowers.
This is not a vacuum with abrush like and de suction device. It

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is like a what does it called? One of so? I said,
hey, like when I was akid and we had to rope more our
own law, Like there was alwaysthe story in the neighborhood, like ageerbot.
So also lost a digit or losta foot or lost a couple of
toes because you would have to takethat blade off and sharpen it with a
stone, and that thing was razorfreaking sharp to cut the grass. I
was like telling me, there's arobot now, this just rolling around these

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lawns can cut up to two anda half acres with one of those blades
under it, and it's a computerprogram. He's like, well, yeah,
you know it has a kill switchon it and stuff. But oh
am, I the only one that'slike, this is a terrible idea.
It's all freaking spinning blade running arounda neighborhood. There's a robot. People
want to put a credit card intheir skin as an implant. Terrible idea.

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It's a blade. The hell iswrong with people. He didn't seem
to think it was a problem.He said, Well, then, clearly
you haven't seen Maximum overdrivet. Youdon't know what it's like. Ensued.
I think he's considerably younger than me, because I don't know if he quite
was aware of what I was speaking. Well, did he know about lawnmar
Man when they did the virtual realitysex and it melted that chick's brain?

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This is dangerous. It's funny.I believe he mentioned that, and I
had a very adverse reaction. Iwas like, No, that had nothing
to do with the machines taken overlawnmower man. I'm talking about Maximum overdrive
and an a lawnmower that came tolife and tried to eat a kid in
one of those cool baseball shirts withthe white chest and the colored sleeves that
were three quarters Not okay, thatwas frightening. Yes, A group of

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a bikers is called a peloton?Is that right? I guess that makes
sense. Hence the name A clusterof cyclists, a peloton. Who knew
a pack, a group, afield, or a peloton. I thought
a peloton was a device that causedyou to act like a douche in your
social media posts. Final push,Now, Ronnie, this is a song

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of the day. Today's song ofthe day's a jazzy blues tune from singers,
song writer and musician Johnny Otis withan instrumental called Thursday Night Blues.
A crunchy groove for a Thursday onthe Petrosen Money Show, taking over your
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your appetite before Dodger Baseball with theteam having made their triumphant return to Dodger
Stadium and are looking to give theblues to the Reds as they begin a
three game series with Cincinnati, andTim Kats will get you that good Morongo
Casino Dodgers on Deck show that comesup at six All right, coming up

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next, we got bad news,Matt, bad news. Everybody's gonna have
the blues. Everybody's gonna be ane bike loser. In the next second,
Petro some money, hay Im fiveseventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Going to Dodgers Reds. They're playing four in the midst of
a thirteen straight day with a gamerun for the Dodgers. They come home

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three and three after their series inSan Diego and San Francisco. It is
sho hal Tani Bobblehead Nights'll make sureyou get on out to the park early
because no doubt going to be packedfor the first ever shohe Otani bobblehead giveaway.
Dodgers on Deck coming up at sixpm, followed by the seven to
ten first pitch, Yes, Matt, and I gotta say, I don't

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know if it's the June Gloom orI don't know what it is. Maybe
it's Vic's suspension and having to suspendhim and seeing the PMS photos shot pandit
put a a Vic head on aguy in jail looking all disparaged saying fun
stuff, fun duff and the guy'sbehind bars. You know, maybe maybe

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that's what's got me down, butmaybe just a lot of bad news,
terrible news everywhere. The Dodgers loseafter we unfurled our feathers yesterday and made
fun of the tenderloin and made funof San Francisco, and the Dodgers throw
a bullpen game out there, andthe bullpen performs great, and the bats
are so consado they can't beat thesorry s Giants and they're see through unis

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and that's very depressing. That's badnews. That was terrible. And then
you have the felonious Browny James ballwashing that continues. Utah Jazz is gonna
take this guy now to lure Lebronaway to the Wassatch. There's not a
Blaze Pizza in Salt Lake City,and if there was, he wouldn't show

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up if you thought he was goingto and give you a free pizza.
When he becomes a jazz for thefirst time, we learned that the hard
way on the West Side. Theball washing, Brownni propaganda still is circling
up country and town, and that'sno way to live and We've been living
that life for a week and I'vebeen getting text like, hey, tune,
didn he just ooh who you're talkingabout? Oh? BRONI well what

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you used to want us talk about? The Dodgers are running away with a
division in May? What they're runningaway with a division in May? Heard
what I said, Colin and evenand now this, Matt, this is
the worst and it's a not sportsbut it's terrible. Six tuts and said

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the kids let me go with onthe heels of Tom Brady humiliating himself and
his family and a roast and he'snot gonna do another one. Matt,
what is enough? What? Ithought it was a weekly? I thought
it was like a sitcom where youdo twenty eight episodes, one a week.
Yeah, one of what like theDean Martin roast. You know,
everybody's gonna throw on a tuxedo andjust show up to the forum once a

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week. Terrible to roast Tom Brady? Thank you? Uh? And Ben
Affleck, of course, was sobrilliant on that. And a week after
that, Matt Jlo and Ben Affleckare breaking up. What they are headed
for divorceia divor divorcia, divorce,Ben has been staying alone in a house

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in Brentwood, not in the BenefitLa mansion in Beverly Hills. There's a
report that the marriage is over,that they are headed for divorce. Now
they got married, they weren't justdid they? Elope? Did they have
like a big part? I don'tremember. Are you where have you been?
Wow? Look you've done a lotof this Travis Kelcey Taylor Swift crap

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between. I can only focus onone celebrity couple at a time. I
don't come on the brain power.They are married, they are they are
blended as a family. And nowwell, at first they were engaged and
he left her, not Rory mcelroe'sstyle. After the uh, the invitations
went out, but he left herpretty quick. There were wedding plans and
all that, and he left hermany years ago. Mary Jennifer Garner she

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married Mark Marcus Anthony, the RomanEmperor. Oh yeah, yeah, the
guy that talked like this, Howwas your doing to Migello? That guy
she got She had twins with him, I believe. Uh. So they
have a blended family, and nowI guess it's going to be unblended because
there's a report that the marriage isover. TMZ says, Uh, he's

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been out of the mansion for twoweeks, and uh he was at that
terrible Tom Brady Roast. Well hewas terrible at the Tom Brady Roast.
So that's a terrible story, Matt, but it's a real story. Well
yeah, and that's what we weresold. I mean, we were sold
to Bill of Goods. In themeantime, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey are

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hanging out hand in hand, armin arm in Lake Cuomo, Italy because
of the European tour. Small breakon the Era's tour. Correct, So
that is the latest on everything goingon. And it's all bad news.
Uh, it's it's it's terrible,and that it's terrible to it's terrible to

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try to like unfurl your lats,terrible, terrible and really show your back
out to be a you know whatI mean? Well, and I know
what you mean. I can't empathizewith that, of course I don't do
you know what I mean, Iknow what you mean, like really pop
your lats out, And that's whatI tried to do yesterday, which I
don't often do. Terrible, terrible. I tried to really look down on
the Giants, and then the Batsare Consaldo, j Lo and Benn are

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breaking up. I wake up toBronny's shooting up the draft board like a
rocket. Terrible, terrible, it'sterrible. Good for Bronnie, We're happy
for him. In't this great?Isn't this great? No, it's a
media it's it's it's the most mediacontrived thing I've ever seen. No,
you're not supposed to be able toget a spot on a team this way

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anyway? What Sorry, I wasdistracted, guys. I was reading the
latest column to come out on BronnieJames. I'll read you the I don't
know. I told you, Idon't get it, Kate, So what
do we get tired of the textabout it? Because I heard he works
hard, but he's put in thework. I'll tell you who wrote this.
After my first impression of Bronnie wasthat he was tiny, then I

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spent the combine and trying to seehim as clearly as I could. What
emerged was a picture of a youngman in full with a large name to
carry, yes, but perhaps thecomposure and grit to do it successfully.
Oh and we have to guess whothat is? That yes, yes,
it is a long piece, longpiece. Yes, someone lost the right

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long form. So I'm gonna sayit's probably not in the La Times because
they don't get that many fails.They have to introduce themselves at the start.
That's a whole paragraph. Hi,how you doing? I'm dan Woiki.
This is this is I went toChicago to watch a combine and here's
a story about it. Thanks,it's me. I'm a second grader.
Thanks for giving me that introduction.I'm ponderous. I have a guess.

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You want to go first? Yeah? Who you got? Booh? Okay,
Oh good guess? Is he right? No, I'm gonna get it.
Hey, look at me. Kate'sshelburn No, damn it, No,
son of a bitch. No.I was like, if you want
to five, if you want fivethousand words glorifying the so lebron. This
is somebody who three quarters of theway through his piece tight end Gary Payton,

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his close friend and Gary's son GPtwo Is it me? Is it?
Jason McIntyre? So close, I'mthe big lead. So close?
How would you remember when you hadmy sight flooded in? It shut it
down and I started crying and Icalled you and beg did a stop.
Who's another person that puts books inthe background and post pictures of deep thoughts

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on the beach? That right?Is? It? Really is? No
rider? Yeah, lit rip City, Bill Ryder. I can't tell you
how many like big time interviews I'veturned down. Yeah, like Lebron cbssports
dot Com. Here I am sittingwith Lebron talking about the heat. What
you guys didn't see is the conversationthat we had for ten minutes before the

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camera started rolling. And it's justtwo round ball heads really chopping it up
and talking ball. I love thoseround ball heads inside Bronnie James twenty twenty
four NBA Draft combine and why hecould follow path of another Hall of Famer's
son, Gary Payton the second.Yes, well, good luck to Bronnie.

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I can't wait to read that article. Yeah, I'm gonna run.
I'm gonna run upstairs. It's adamn shame we got. I'm gonna gather
the family and read it to thefamily like like kind of like a presidential
proclamation in the in the nineteenth century, you know, not to engage in
a game of one upsmanship. PThat's that's a great way to consume it.
Oh, how are you gonna consumeit? MA, I'm gonna call

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Kovacs and I'm gonna have him run. Yeah, everybody knows about Kovacs.
So there it was. I sorry, I'm sorry, Tim, I'm sorry.
But you did that. Tim,you did that. You read that,
and you read it in a way, you read it in a certain
kind of way. I had youguys intrigued that for a moment, you

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guys were gonna click on it andactually check it out. No, that
I told you who wrote it,read some more about it. The word
went out. A few hours later, Brownie would be at the table in
the corner, the one there bythe entrance. The reporters swarmed, push
jostled, lights flipped on phones,doubling his cameras, and recorders emerged.
Nervous rookies wrote their questions out ontheir quote unquote notes, app their voices

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later trembling as they asked a nineteenyear old with the famous name the question
they had been labored over. Weatheredsavvy that's carved out their best sports possible,
to wait for the chosen ones killed. Kobac should have read it.
That's terrible. Why do you whatI'm reading what he wrote here. He's

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like a novel, reads like anovel. You didn't read it right.
You took the guts out of whathe said. You can feel the excitement
before you saw him, the rushof energy from people you can't see what
can feel. Then Brawny strolled in, politely, asking through the throng so
they could part and he could pass. He took his seat, ready to
begin his first ever public grilling abouta possible NBA career. Ah, I

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think the Bob brothers starting the NBAwith so much of them after their dad's
taste, talking, talking, talking, without being a top three pig talent.
Bronnie has the bronze name, butnot as talent, and that's gonna
make him a target without the samekind of shield. O. There's this
position been able to use in theirown fence. Dude, this is an
incredibly long article. Actually it's notbecause the page is sliced in half.

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He's got tricks, you know,like college. All right, Well,
thank you guys, thanks for makingthings worse. You know, I come
to you guys with a plea tomake things better, and you only make
it worse. Terrible, terrible,terror You goe storm. Yeah, you
know, nobody knows in the cash. Joining us tomorrow, in this space,
in this space tomorrow, joining uswill be Stuart Kovacs, some guy

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who used to work on a showthat Bill Ryder used to do that Matt
and I would listen to on ourway home because we're depressed and sad and
bitter. Pep, did you hearthat? Did you hear that? Pathetic
review? You a game of throw? He said, I don't like that.
I turned it off, Petro,so I can't take it anymore.
We'll be back. We have awhole other hour of this, Jim Katson's

(36:08):
talk with the Ronggo Casino, Dodgerson Deck, Dodgers at Home, and
O TWI bobbleheads are on everybody's mind.