A Tu Hermano Tuesday (Hour 2) 5/21/24

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We'll have first pitch tonight between Dodgersand Diamondbacks at seven ten pm. Dodgers
on deck at six. David Vassiwill join us this hour. Next hour,
Mark Pryor, Dodgers pitching coach,will check in. Always have a
great time whenever he visits with Petrosand Money shows. He's a good talker,
great guy, and obviously the pitchingstaff has been exceptional this season,
So very much looking forward to thatconversation. Rogan and Rodney. No Rodney

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today was Jonas Knox. So Roganand Jonas, my prayers were answered.
Gave away the trip to Las Vegasand the font and Blue Las Vegas sixty
seven story luxury resort at two Night'sDay tomorrow. We'll be giving that away
between three and six pm, Sobe sure to keep listening, yes,

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and make sure that you follow uson social media so you can get all
the latest cool stuff from the show. You know, social media. We
had a social media dissertation today.Matt and I were at work very early
and we learned a lot. Suckingdown at nine we learned a lot today
about social media and how to handleit. Storytelling. You know, a

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story's got to have a beginning,a middle, and problem, okay,
and when the problem comes up,there's a guide that helps guide you to
the solution. Be the guide.Be the guide, be a story,
You're the guide. Be a policeman. Be a policeman. Be a policeman
exactly right. Follow Matt money Smiththe Twitter Police at Matt money Smith or

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on Instagram and see those sweet shreddingvideos, or at Tim Kates on Twitter.
If you want to top your coffeeoff, do not let a death
get in the way. All right, I know that person's dead, but
you need to top that car sitinside joke. You know, you might
think it's cool because Kate's is overthere on the other side of the window
laughing. But there's a bunch ofconfusion out on the roadway there is.

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But inside this room there's a lotof yucks. Is there a volkswagon?
Maybe you can help me out withhim in the Peoria area. As a
matter of fact, give paddacall he'sawesome. Make sure that you follow up
pots off on the iHeartRadio app foryour smartphone, and aos are fired.
I hope you guys, thank you. Can we get one of those Fountain
Blue trips on the way out wellpost it on our social It's very natural,

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very natural to make mistakes. Godknows we'd make them around here.
And pardon me, mister perfect,I guess I'm the first person to never
make a mistake. But yet wewere there, we were required to be
there, and then we were toldwe weren't there, which was incredibly uncomfortable.
Well, yeah, that was thepart. I was just going to
show up for the food, showup for the food. I just I

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do want to say that that wasthe part. We were there the whole
lot. We got there five minutesbefore the thing started. What was it,
Matt? What was the thing?It was a whole staff how to
be better at what you do andbe a better partner. Meeting UH with
with every station here in the UHin the Los Angeles building. So it's

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a packed room. Think of itas the spirit airlines of conference rooms.
That is how tight we were.I was right next to the traffic girl
from a Angel Angel. The resultsare the results, Okay, Matt Night
put in the world. We satin the meeting for an hour and then
we took copious notes. We noddedour heads like seals, and then we
go back out. Did we audiblyacknowledge jokes and achievements? No, well

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I did. We did not.When we clapped for people, Yeah,
we clapped for social math. Idid my obligatory inward whistle. I did
my one finger. Yeah, Idid my I did my here, Phil
Jackson, Yeah I did do myobligatory whistle. I did it. You
know you didn't do the figure out? Yeah you clapp I did my obligatory

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I make sure I was the lastone clapping. And then we go back
up to get food because the foodwas late, and our boss, the
contender or the opponent was there,and he was like, oh, you
guys just show up for the food. It's like, no, I was
here the whole time time. That'swhy we're here because you told us to
come. Too busy kissing FM assto notice the AM guys in the back
of the room. Right, hewas standing a lot of people too,

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above you, Petros, you werein the back row. He literally was
breathing on he was reading my textthat say this is brutal. Somebody says
I'm not there, and I wasterrified when I heard him. I thought
he had left, and I couldnot stop laughing. If they do,
they did the commercial read right aftersaying and his radio partner died on Friday,
and he's telling me about coffee Toper, and I couldn't control myself.

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I was laughing uncontrolled. We shouldn'tgo to meetings, No, we can't.
We're we're not mature enough for thecorporate lifestyle. The bottom line,
well, I mean, if you'rejust gonna do FM stuff and ignore us
and then just say we're up therebefore the who had the Worst Fart Contest
and he was then say that wedidn't even go to the meeting. We
were there. See, I gotit on both ends too, because I

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saw him earlier down here when Ifirst got to work, and he's in
a suit and he looks at meand he's like, just gonna work out
in I was like, this iswhat I wear to work. I'm sorry,
sweatpants, And yeah, I felt, all right, this was their
dress code for this meeting. Ijust got the meetings. Corporate meetings here
are rough. Can you guys bequiet? Big boys sleeping right now?

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And the guy behind us the wholetime was going we had some nasal drip
issues on with this guy. Andwhen you do when you do a seminar
and it's based on morning FM radioshows and you're an afternoon am radio show,
it's just hard to relate. Yes, it's hard to get up.
We're terrible. To shoe your wholeday, deal with traffic, the fast

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tracks, like thirty Bucks at thattime of the day on the one dead
North, and then to get hereand be told you weren't here. Yeah,
that's the saying that's just gonna comeget the free food. Yeah,
I'm like, ral, we're batand I are like Ralph Ellison with the
Invisible Mans. No, you seethose sixty people, they're coming to get
the free food because they weren't inthe meeting for the last hour. My

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homie here had to run across fourlane. Yet there's sixty people in here
when there were thirty people in there, packed like it's the back of a
Spirit Airlines flight. My kneecaps weretouching the guy's butt crack. Steve Gregory
and I touched hands. It wasreally uncomfortable. It's a little spark.

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How many times I said, hey, Matt, I can't read the slide.
This guy's head is so big.What does the house whisperer? What
does it say? It says Sebastianwet It's the best shell you could put
in your hair. I'll let youtalk about anybody, but when you talk
about my whisper and Frank, Imean, you guys really are just everybody
hates you, you know that,right, Like everybody hates you. Look

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at your face and they see howstupid you look, and you're not laughing
at anyone's jokes. Don't invite usto anything, then don't invite us.
It's time. It's time for theword of the day, God with his
words. The word of the day. Today's word of the day is body
slam an orca. Let's take itto New Zealand. Matt oh crikey Kiwi

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had New Zealand fifty year old manfind six hundred American dollars for body slamming
your killer whale off the coast ofNew Zealand. Thea was swimming with its
calf when a man said uh.He jumped off the boat and said I

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touched it. According to the Departmentof Conservation, the man could have been
killed. Did you think orca areimmensely powerful animals? And this really could
have ended horrible and violent, witheither the startled whale, startled whale being
injured or the man responsibly being harmedby the aggravated animal, they said.
The Auckland man was fined six hundreddollars after a video of his slamming the

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whale with his body was distributed online. What he said afterwards was totally worth
it. Chance of a lifetime.And you didn't even get out. Touch

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them all to a frame, touchhim like Rudy Gobert, touch all the
microphones. Look at me, Yeah, who is the Colorado State coach that
laid with the shark naked, thatidiot Florida coach and Colorado State now at
Central Michigan. Mcilhane, mclwayne mcilwainey. Yeah, he had secked with the

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shark. Yes, hey, lookat me, I'm naked sex with the
dead shark, which honestly is well. I mean, if I wrestle that
thing out of the water, I'mpretty riled up. I might do that.
I might take off all your clothes. Yeah, hey, I'm already
crazy. I've already lost my pie. I've already a shark out of the
ocean. How much is how muchis in the pot? Six? All

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right? Out, come on,body slam ala. Unfortunately for every Orca
you body slam out there in thePacific or Indian Ocean. Uh, an
Orca sinks a boat out by Portugaleats a yacht. Yeah, the orct
by Portugal. They've had it andthey are taking yachts down. And that's
the repercussion for this dear, whichyou would bring me another glass of bubbly.

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Oh, Saint Trope will never bethe same. Shout a little Saint
Germaine. It's time for the numberof the day. Here's my number number
of the day. Oh, thenumber of the day is ten. Inspired

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by your I believe the man wasin Florida. I feel like these are
Florida stories. Who was told hehad to put up a gate on his
driveway because his boat that was parkedin his driveway was for whatever reason I
guess, displeasing to the neighbors andthe city and cars that drove by,
even though it was deep in hisdriveway. So he put up a fence

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and then painted a picture of hisboat in perfect detail as though there was
no gate sitting right there. Thatwas a Florida guy right stand by seaside
California. Oh is that right?Yeah? I was a California store.
Okay, well to the other coast. Then I thought, there's a California

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store. Yeah. Another story ofspite, which I love story. I
love spending money, throwing an incredibleamount of money because of spite and displeasure.
I knew a guy that was tryingto build a tennis court in an
area that you're like like literally buildinglike an eighty million dollar house. They're

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like, you can't do it.They can't have a tennis court here.
In this private community is like,oh, I can't. I'm gonna build
it around. So now he's gotlike an underground tennis court that costs like
fifty million dollars to build, butit was worth it. Jacksonville Beach,
Florida. He's it this great.I played tennis in a cavern. This

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is an old beach town. Okay, but it is. It's a nice
neighborhood. The houses are north ofa million bucks, which out here we
picture like a two bedroom, onebath house, But out in Jacksonville Beach
that gets you a nice spread witha pool and a nice home. A
builder noticed that there was a lotthat was unoccupied. It's in a very

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strange shape, and one of thehomeowners adjacent to it was using it as
a garden. When he acquired ifthe lot was for sale, he was
told yes. He decided to purchasethe lot. He let the man know
that while he appreciated his gardening,he was going to use the lot and
likely build on it. And theman said, well, it's only fifteen

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feet wide. What are you gonnabuild on it? He said, dah,
you know what. I bought it. I noticed that it was available,
I bought it. I'll figure itout. And the guy ends up
going to the city council and he'slike, hey, Injunction, you can't
build anything on this the lot's toosmall. I'm Garcie was motivated by his
garden. So the gentleman decided tobuild on this little lot a ten foot

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wide skinny house. That is soI'm showing you the pictures. One hundred
and forty feet deep. Oh,look at that is like the greatest trailer
that you've ever seen. Look itwas awesome. It is one hundred and
forty feet deep. And just topiss off this guy who was using this
land as a garden when he wasn'tsure if he was going to build anything

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out it anyway, he was like, ah, yeah, I was trying
to figure it out. But thisguy showed up to the city council meeting
and circulated a petition to the neighborsto not allow me to build. So
I decide to build this wacky tenfoot wide house fifteen feet by seven and
a half and it is one hundredand forty foot deep. He said,
it's like a it's like a motorhome where the sides pop out, so

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you can build like little seats init in beds, and it is now
up for sale for six hundred andnineteen thousand dollars six hundred and nineteen thousand
dollars. So that skinny ass houseor that skinny needleede house that was built
out of spite because some dude islike, I want to plant my tomatoes
there. Doesn't that make the restof your life uncomfortable? Like every time

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you leave the house, there's juststink eyes everywhere. You'd like to think,
like everybody hates everybody. I guessthat's why he's not moving in.
He's selling it. So the nextperson that moves in is like, hey,
bygones, man, I had notto do with it. I just
I love your neighborhood. It's stillgonna be a lot of there, a
lot of residual hatred. Trust me. It's the skinniest, deepest house you've
ever seen. I mean, areal pencil vy. Do you ever watch

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the Tiny House Hunters? Yes,never understood that. You know what I'm
looking for in a house? What'sthat a place will be so cramped and
uncomfortable that we want to leave everymoment possible. I want to be like
the Asian guy in Ocean's eleven.That's how I want to get in it
out of my house. Okay,Ronnie, we got the song of the
day. This is a song ofthe day. Yeah, Today's song of

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that interaction and right now it's goodto interact with the listeners. Make it
personal. It's time for the topstory of the day. I'm gonna do

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some NaN's. Today had a coupleinteresting stories around the NFL that I believe
not necessarily about the teams in town. No Rams, Chargers, they're doing
OTA's. Matt Stafford's not happy theRams are moving to Rams are moving to
LMU. Matt Stafford's wife was upsetat Butker too. She threw her hat
and that and that she you know, I could see that she's got a

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podcast. You know, she wantsto get some content out there. Hey,
here's what I think of that sheworks on that podcast. I don't
like that guy. I don't likewhat he had to say. You know
what, Kelly, I don't either. I don't like that guy very much
at all thinks he is hitting thosetwo sixty yarders at Sofi Stadium, send
it in overtime and then beat theChargers on a game end. Or I
don't like that guy much at alleither. That's like you knows to say.

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You know what they should do?They should cut him. Only a
misogynist could kick it that far.That's right. They should cut him and
replace him with Kathy Ireland. Nota bad idea from necessary roughness and all
about that. But that being said, the Rams have moved their OTAs and
their training camp to Lmu les MoU. Yes, the Wetlands, one of
the proudest football programs in the Southland. You think anybody's gonna blow more yak

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at the fur Rama than Sean mcvayh, you're crazy, exactly right. He's
gonna yack it up at the Furamaand then he's gonna hop across the street
to the fireside and hit on someCochu. Here's your first nan. I
don't know if Godly cohens, justlike Butker Kat, if people will find
this is as I do. Butfor some reason, I don't know,
my mind's eye just works this sceneout as such. The person who accused

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chiefs Wide receiver Rashi Rice of assaultinghim at a Dallas night spot earlier this
month. I remember say, thesame guy was in a bad car accident.
Right, So Rashi Rice, yeah, is racing a Corvette against a
Lamborghini SUV on the main freeway,Right, what's a sports card? The
others at SUV wants a bigger name. Exactly, what are you gonna do

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one hundred and fifteen miles an hour. They don't know how to drive,
They wreck, people are injured,and they just walk away like it's all
nonchalant, just don't care. Sohe's gonna get suspended a few who knows
how many games because of that.On top of that, about two weeks
later, he gets arrested or accusedby a photographer at a Dallas night spot

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that said he got punched and thepolice report shouldn't laugh. It's not okay.
Assault is not okay. Said thatRice sent him a text to come
back to the club. And whenhe comes back to the club, and
I am reading directly from the articlein the DMN, the Dallas Morning got

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to come back to the club thephotographer. Why is he mad at the
photographer? I don't know, butapparently they know each other or somehow he
gets the photographer's number and he sendshim a text text to the complainant to
get him to return to the club, and then punched him in a face.
Hey man, I think you forgotsomething. I need you to come

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back and I'll get you square.Okay, But why Hey, I got
your text? You wanted me tocome back to walk right into that?
Just walk right into it. Wasit one of those clubs that has like
one floor's country, that third flooris topless, fourth floors toplesst fifth floor.
Punch in a face. It's notlike you just get into an altercation

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and the guy bunges you. Youleave the club, he texts you to
come back, come on back.I got something something for you. What
you got with me right in theeye. So he's gonna he's not gonna
go to jail on that one.He is not. The report suggests the
man said it was a quote misunderstandingand that he wants any charges against Rice

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dropped. Now Rice is gonna getbooted, as you detailed from the car
race. So he's gonna get suspendedfor that for the dumb assor that goes
with walking away from an accident ina rented three hundred and fifty thousand dollars
car and six other cars are involvedand you just take it off the side
of the road walking. I wishI didn't know that. I knew a

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lot of NFL players before social mediaand the renting and the crashing of the
car. Not not new, prettypretty standard, pretty much expected standard operating.
Hey, guys, to yourself afavor by yourself, like a nice
used ninety two Chevy Cavalier, andthen let's just crash that. And once
you get that out of your system, then we're gonna go out at the

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McLaren and you get the McLaren,you buy your best friend the Durango Super
Turbo Hellcat, and you guys cango terrorize the streets in your suburbian neighborhood.
The problem with Rice is as prettymuch is the case in I don't
know anything in life. You don'twant people to start sniffing around if you're

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a bad guy. So this wasout there before. There's a reason why
a guy who's as big as heis, who is as fast as he
is, and was as productive ashe was at SMU slides to the second
round and really beyond that. Whyhe gets drafted by the Chiefs because the
Chiefs do not give a rip aboutyour past or character issues. They will

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feel the questions for a week andthen they know it will die down and
you'll be a great player and wewill all move on. That has been
their mo for a long time.When the NFL starts sniffing around, they
discover that Rice was taken off anumber of teams boards because he thought one
of the SMU basketball players was hookingup with his girlfriend, so he went
to the said player, allegedly saidplayer's car in a parking lot and decided

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to fire a bunch of bullets intoit as a bit of a message.
Was the car occupied? No?Okay, so very much like that to
bring him in there? Yeah,hey, we'll take him second round.
You kidding me? Bring that guy? Shut up the car. Remember a
roll This chapman shot up that mattressin the garage. Yeah, big deal.
Still throwing one hundred five miles anhour, So perhaps this would have

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been a third strike, and somespeculating that Rashi may have Hey by guns,
mister photographer guy that I texted tocome back to the club and then
punched in the face. Here's you'resaying, the Hunt family showed up and
gave him a little package about acouple of thirty forty grand What do you
say, Here's a new uh,here's a raw t bone, here's a
new Manolta exactly right, and JimmyConnor's autographed the box. It's all yours.

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That is story one, Story two. I find this wildly entertaining.
The NFL, of course, wellnot, of course, maybe people don't
know this. I assume they do. They have no guaranteed contracts. You
get paid a big sum of money, lumps some money guaranteed money, but
not guaranteed exactly, not like baseballor Basketballright, every cent that you signed
for is not the money that you'regoing to get. You're going to get

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likely a very large percentage of it, but some on the back end.
Is it better than it used tobe? Considerably? Yeah. And the
way that you have leverage is tohold out. And what's going on right
now. Organized team activities are voluntary, and if you're not happy with your
contract, you typically don't show upat OTAs you talk to the media about

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how unfair the contract is you're playingon and you're not showing up, and
you won't be at voluntaries, andyou probably won't even come to mandatory mini
camp because they can just find youthe fifteen grand per day. You don't
care because your contract's not fair,and on and on and on, and
there's a couple of those out thereright now. Matt Stafford is a little
bit of a squeaky wheel. What'sa little bit of an extension. That's

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fine. He's a quarterback, playedreally well last year. You got t
Higgins franchised by the Cincinnati Bengals,really important part of their offense. Says
he's not showing up. They're notgoing to give him an extension. They're
just going to ride that thing out. In Justin Jefferson, who by most
accounts is the best receiver in theleague, wants a record setting deal.
He saw him on Ross Saint Brownget one hundred and twenty million bucks over

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four years, and he'll probably wantabout one hundred and sixty five or something
like that. So he's not showingup. But how about this one.
Panthers kicker Eddie Pinero is not atOTAs okay. When asked where Eddie Pinero
is new head coach. Dave Canalissaid, I have not talked to him.
I am glad we have Harrison MeVishere so that we can actually go

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through our field goal field goal blockperiod. I'm sure Eddie's got a plan
for this whole thing. Apparently,Eddie Pinero is on the second year of
a two year deal. He istwenty nine. He is holding out for
a new contract after having converted twentyfive of twenty nine kicks. That is
an eighty six percent clip, goodfor eighteenth in the league. Uh.

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He also finished thirty seventh and extrapoint percentage converted eighty five percent of those.
To put that in perspective, that'snot good. Nine kickers made all
of their extra points and he isone of only four kickers to convert less
than ninety percent of his extra points. That's not good. So why is
he holding out? That's a greatquestion. He's a kicker, and he

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is holding out for a new contractafter kicking for the team with the worst
record in the league last year,that is still in the midst of a
rebuild and probably not going to bepushing for a playoff position this season.
He must not think that much ofmeves exactly right. Good luck with memes.
You're gonna you're gonna be crying forPinero. What'ce you get to look?
He got no chance to knock meon. He is for Miami.

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So good luck to Eddie Pinero andhis holdout after connecting on eighty six percent
of his kicks and eighty five percentof his extra points. And our final
if the lebron Brownny thing is isjust intolerable to you and boils your blood
every time a new story comes up, I think this is the one for
me. Now. Don't get mewrong. The Bronny is infuriating, certainly,

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but we have now got another day. And it's because he opened his
mouth again, because he's at OTA'sand he's meeting with the media and people
keep bringing up the Aaron Rodgers couldhave walked away from football to be the
VEEP candidate with our FK, Junie. That's pretty stupid and he was never
going to be the veep. Hewas never asked to be the veep.

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It was just something floated so somebodywould have something to talk about, keep
our FK's name in the media.And Aaron Rodgers exactly, and you know
it was mutually beneficial to either ofthem, and it's something they can talk
about all summer. You know,I'm just not ready to retire. Still
got a lot to do out herein New York. It's like, what
quote, the Bobby thing was areal thing. It got out there,

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I don't know, it wasn't forme. Once the season starts, it's
all about football. Hey, tomme, I faver ask me about the
RFKG. Hey, listen, man, here's a real thing. How it
got out there? I don't know, but it wasn't for me. And
once the season starts, I'm allabout football. That's it. Now.
Am I going to go on thePat McAfee show and spew my conspiracy theories

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and challenge government officials to debates?Sure, but that's kind of about football
if you think about it. Oh, totally. The Jets, they said,
did not know what Rogers was planningto do. That he was keeping
them in limbo, suggesting if infact he accepted the VEEP nod, that
he would in fact have to retirefrom football, and he's not quite ready

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to do that. Thank you,Thanks Aaron. Let's not ask him about
the Veep thing anymore. Well,you know, Bobby I answer that,
Lebron, you think you'll think you'llever be a Laker again? I don't
not comfortable and it's not going toanswer that. But you told me to
ask you like minutes ago, justliterally said, hey, ask me about

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the talk Rich Paul gave me.I mean it was PowerPoint. I got
the slide. You want to seeit, I'll email it to you.
So over zealous kicker in Carolina.Yes, criminal getting a break in Kansas
City after he text a photographer tocome back to the club so we could
punch him in the eye. AndAaron Rodgers was never gonna run for vice
president. Look how it got outthere. I don't I don't know.

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It wasn't for me. The Bobbything. It was a real thing.
That was a real thing. Nowdid he instead tab Surgey Brinzax's wife who's
worth a half a billion dollars andshe's been funding the camping. Sure?
And I bet it was real thatyou were going to retire from football too,
right, Aaron? I remember whatthe Green Bay Thnahston, you're gonna
walk away, Darkness, You're gonnawalk away? Yeah, sure, that

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was real. That was a realthing. We'll be back with Mark Great
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now live from Dodgers Stadium as theDodgers are on a roll and he is
rolling just like Doc Holliday and TombstoneWyatt, I am rolling Lawyers David Vasse

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the home of the Dodgers with aninside look at the Dodgers. This is
the Vass Report with David Vasse.The one and only David Vase is our
guest at the real underscore DV,Spectrum Sports Net and MLB Network, but
right here on AM five seventy LASports is where he applies his trade.

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He's got Clayton Kershaw for the pregameshow tonight to night and he joins us
now on the so Cal Toyota Dinacelebrity hotline. Hello, Dave, how
are you? I'm doing great,guys, having a good time out here
at Dodgers Stadium every night. TheDodgers make it easy with the way they're
playing, and the stars are alwayscoming out. They're not just showing up

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at Knicks games. Ted Lasso starDanny Rojas showed up in the press box
yesterday. How about that way?All right? I only know the one
guy on ted Lasso and then thebut hey, whatever, how bad did
Freddie Freeman need that grand slam?David felt like he needed it real bad,
real bad man. He was reallystruggling. Yeah, he uh.

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He admitted that after the game,Petros that he's been basically treading water all
season long, and getting that bighit in a in that type of situation
certainly can maybe change the feelings atthe plate. It's not like he's hitting,
you know, one ninety seven likeFrancisco, lindor New York. But
Freddie as high expectations and treading waterfor him is sitting two eighty eight,

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two ninety, so he really takespride and driving in runs and hitting over
three hundred and it's just not upto his standards so far. What is
it, Dave? I know you'reclose with him. A lot of times
they kind of have an idea ofwhat they're doing or if it's patience,
if it's an angle. I meanyou mentioned it is a guy who not
only it's over three hundred, butalmost never strikes out. I mean he

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is a contact guy and a lotof that's been missing too. Yeah,
And when we talked to him onFriday on the pregame show, we talked
about the fact that he has nowincorporated a new layer to his pregame preparation
where it's all based on the factthat the Dodgers' strength, strength and conditioning
coach Brandon McDaniel and the Dodgers' sportsscience staff recognized his movements. We're not

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losing the same and he's thirty fourgoing on thirty five, and these are
the things that you have to doto maintain and be able to have the
same body movements and be able toproduce like you did when you were twenty
eight. So it's an evolution.As he put it to me, where
are we at something we haven't askedin a while, Dave, With the

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fielding of Gavin Locks. I knowhe's made some nice plays. I don't
know if you call him web gemsor anything, but I saw him get
a ball stuck in the mid theother night, and you read the lips
and how disappointed he was in himselfwith that that allowed the base runners.
Is he kind of considered to beback Is it still a work in progress?
Like where are we at with that? No, Defensively, he's been
really good. He has not madean error all season long. It's the

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hitting that needs to catch up again, because in spring training the hitting was
there, but the defense wasn't thereat shortstops. Now the hitting isn't there,
and he's playing better second base,so he's got to find a way
to put it together. And opposingevaluators have told me he appears to be
a guy that is so intent ontrying to hit home runs that he's hitting

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ground balls to the right side.When he's at his best is when he's
using the big part of the field. And I'm not sure sure if he
has come to that realization yet.The great David Vass comes to a lot
of realizations every day because he's outthere collecting information. He's got Clayton Kershaw
on the pregame show tonight and speakingto pitchers who have not tried to come

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back or coming back. Is ittrue that Austin Barnes, I guess there's
a good reason to keep him around. Is the guy that helped Walker Bueller
make all those adjustments. Yeah.Walker Buehler does not hand out compliments and
does not conceive things. He's avery stubborn guy. And I guess Austin
Barnes has been telling him for thelast couple of years that he's got to

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move his feet where he stands onthe pitching rubber Buehller, I guess so.
The way he described it in ourinterview yesterday is where he kept his
toes touching the rubber, and Barneshas been telling him he can tunnel his
pitches much better if he put bothfeet on the rubber. And that's what

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Bueller did in his last start againstthe Reds, and he got six shutout
innings and seven strikeouts. And he'sgoing to try it again on Friday in
Cincinnati, so we'll see if theresults are the same. Hey, Dave,
of all the kids, it seemslike every day I read a different
article about how great they are.Michael Grove is essential. Obviously, we

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know about Gavin Stone, someone you'vebeen celebrating for a while. Landon Nat
goes out there and throws pretty well. Do you know, like in terms
of, you know, in BaseballAmerica type perspective, which one of them
is considered the best prospect or wasconsidered the best prospect before this year,
it was Bobby Miller, and nobodywas talking much about Gavin Stone or Landing

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Neck. So a lot of peopleI've talked to believe that Gavin Stone might
have more staying power just by theway he pitches. Bobby Miller. He's
a guy, you know, hewas a guy that was passed over by
a lot of teams in the firstround of the draft, and he carries
that chip with him. Bobby Millerwas far and above the guy that everybody

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talked about. Dustin May also andGavin Stone was an afterthought. And that's
why you know, he's burst ontothe scene the last two years, and
not many casual observers really had heardabout him. But he was coming with
a fastball and the change up,and he has showed his competitiveness by how

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many more pitches he worked on duringthe off season, and that's the reason
why he's been so good. Andhe was the best pitcher in spring training,
the one and only David Vasse.So you think he's like the best
one of all the young dudes.Yes, top rookie. I believe he's
top rookie. I predicted he wouldfinish in the top three of National League

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Rookie of the Year voting. Sothat's how much people that I've spoken to
that know more about baseball than Ido believe in him. So I'm on
that train, and so far he'smade a lot of people. Look right,
you got Kershaw in the pregame.What can we expect there? I
don't know. Depends on his mood. Yesterday he was a little grumpy,
but he did see Jock Peterson andgave him a big hug, interrupted my

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conversation with Jock Peterson. So we'llsee what mood he's in today. He's
out there right now throwing. Iwould expect him to throw another bullpen session
because he's got his full batting practiceuniform on. So we'll we'll see what
we get from Kershaw. The GreatDavid Masse, a hero to the people

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have a great night tonight Clayton Kershawon Marongo Casino Dodgers on Deck featuring that
interview coming up at six o'clock.Thank you, Dave, Thank you guys.
All right there he goes Gavin Stone, going tonight top rookie. According
to David vassa Forelos Julliers, Mattand I will be right back. We
got the final hour. Fun fact, we will have Mark Pryor, Dodger

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pitching coach, joins us about oncea year and we'll talk to him and
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