A Tu Hermano Tuesday (Hour 1) 7/2/24

The guys recap the Bronny James introductory press conference and comments from JJ Redick. Flip Top Story of the Day. DVR with Vassegh and update on Clayton Kershaw.

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show today on this tire to thelyst Tuesday, tolos mendidat del mundo s
mendida la d It is a tireof the liest Tuesday. It's also a
two Edmano Tuesday. I think Vickis going to join us in a little
while on the phone. We don'tneed the barrage right away the telephone,

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Yes, because we're still mentally andemotionally recovering from the Bronni James roster.
Today, the hits keep coming.Man Connect Gang and JJ Reddick press conference.
Did any F bombs fly? Ididn't watch the whole thing. Was
able to rain that in. Theywere able to at least get something to

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help develop in as a coach.Hey, you've never done this before.
Do us a favor. JJ.Don't drop any F bombs at this one.
Okay, let's try to keep theF bombs out. You might upset
Michael Kah. Okay. So firstand foremost, let's just establish the fact
that Brownie James did not receive anythingas a gift. He was not given

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anything. It reminds me of aconversation Matt, that I had many years
ago that you constantly remind me ofwith a young man who now I believe
works at the Chargers broadcast. Heis the producer of the radio broadcast.
Yes, and uh he was anintern for was it Pat O'Brien? Oh

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boy, I think that's it mighthave what Kates do you who was it
was Pad O'Brien featuring Steve Hartman orSteve Hartman featuring Patt O'Brien, which brick
Jay hasn't got it when Vic wasa questioned in a small little room in
a cage. So I remember hegot a job at Fox Sports Radio,

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which many of the younger, moretalented people get jobs for KFI or FSR
or stuff that have come through.Most of them are show not many the
Pat O'Brien featuring prime Time Victor brickwhatever. And he like he's a producer,
right, he produced one of theshows over there, right. And

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I said to him, Hey,they gave you a job, And he
said to me, I'd like tothink I earned it, like the judge.
Like the judge in a few goodmen, you will address the court
as your honor or sir. I'mquite certain that I've earned it. Oh

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yeah, And that kind of remindedme of Rob Polenka being like, listen,
Bronnie's here because he earned it.Bronni's here because he worked hard.
That's why Bronnie's here. Nobody wasgiven anything. And that was a SoundBite
that jumped out to me. Yeahagain JJ with the rabbit ears and the

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f bombs from his press. Againwith the rabbit ears and what the media
is saying about the Lakers drafting ofBronnie, James had to address it with
Bronnie. I just I want toclarify one thing you just said, which
is rob and I did not giveBronnie anything. Bronnie has earned this right.
Bronnie talks about his hard work.Bronnie has earned this through hard work.

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And for us prioritizing player development,we view Bronnie as like case study
one because his base level of feel, athleticism, point of attack, defender,
shooting, passing, there's a lotto like about his game, and
as we sort of build out ourplayer development program holistically, he's going to

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have a great opportunity to become anexcellent NBA player. So the thing about
that statement is that can all betrue, and I hope it is.
As as everyone we've talked to saysthat has come across Bronnie. He's a
great kid. I want him tosucceed. Everybody seems to want him to
succeed. You can say all ofthat without chastising and speaking down to people

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that have read this situation correctly byhe has not been given anything. Just
drop that part. Just say thisis this is case study one for player
development for us, and we areexcited about the raw tools and you're good.
But he can't do that with Bronnie. I just I want to clarify
one thing you just said. Clarifyyou said, Matt, that's what's so

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infuriating about him. What about littledigs that he insists upon putting in HU
with statements? What about the littledigs from Brownie James himself toward the bland
faced and unaccomplished Andy Infield planned faceUSC head coach. The time that I
had off, I feel like Icould have been perfecting my game more.

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Yeah, I just feel like I'veI've been given an opportunity to, you
know, showcase what I can reallydo, because I wasn't given that much
of opportunity. I see. Soyou know, I'm excited for what As
you had a heart attack, theysaved you and then they put you in
and you average four points a game, and you played less and less as

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the season went on, and yourimpact was less and less as the season
went on on a bad team,and you're blaming them. You know,
showcase what I can really do becauseI wasn't given that much of opportunity.
I see, Yeah, God forbid, they play it safe and try to
slow play that thing after a cardiacevent. I don't care. Like,

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this is not something we cover,you know, intensely. Ever, the
Laker draft may I don't know.I mean the Lonzo ball stuff. I
guess maybe the Angelo Russell but maybeit's a week or two of coverage.
I don't know. But it's justupsetting that a guy who is not an
owner does not own the team.Okay, and that's that's a distinction here.

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An owner can hire whoever they want, right, But a guy that's
not an owner, just a verypowerful NBA player can get his BFF podcast
friend hired who has no coaching experience, zero and son drafted, and everybody
just shrugs their shoulders and says,Okay, this is cool. Which is

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Robin and I did not give Fronnieanything. Fronnie has earned this. I
think it rubs a lot of peoplethe wrong way. It really does lecture
us. Yeah, it don't cometo LA and lecture the LA media.
Who the hell do you think youare? You've never coached a game,
and you don't get to lecture BillPlashk you don't get the lecture. Jim
Hill. Well, maybe Jim youmade this point though, Matt. I

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mean, this is not a storythat's gonna go away. We're gonna watch
Browny in the summer League. He'sgonna get like some kind of weird injury
if he doesn't play well, sohe doesn't have to get exposed. JJ
Reddick is too good to coach insuch a way as the smaller story.
We'll talk more about that. Ithas not been shared that this guy is
not coaching the summer league, andthat is a freaking slap to the face

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of every coach in the NBA andevery Laker fan that he's too good to
coach the summer league team. That'sall of that stuff is going to just
continue to pressure. Really infuriated me. Well, the story will matriculate throughout
the summer. I mean, it'snot going away anytime soon. It's part
of being nailed by the king.But it's the part of being nailed by

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the King that you didn't expect.You know. Now you're sitting at the
clinic of the mouhair, you're twoweeks late on your period, and you
really got nailed by the king.Now we're pregnant with his minions, his
child hit his punk ass gel headedfriend JJ Reddick, and I'm tired of
it. And I did not giveBronnie anything. Bronnie has earned this fine,
thank you Jesus. Well, youknow what, JJ, that's changed

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my opinion completely. You know,before I was just listening to all of
the draft experts, the former guysin the front office and now do this
for a living, is draft analystsand guys that coach up players to make
it to the NBA, And everysingle one of them said, yeah,
he's probably not a draftable prospect consideringhis size, skill set and production.

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At this point, he can mature, he's got the athleticism, he certainly
got the jenes. But no,if he's not Lebron James soon, he's
not getting drafted. That's that's thereality of it, which is so and
that again fine, but don't don'tin a condescending tone lecture the assembled media

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for Bronnie's presser with that BS.But that's the thing, it's not fine.
There's nothing about any of this thathas been fine. And from the
firing of Darvin Ham and how thatwent on and everything that's kind of followed
since, and all the arguments thathave happened, this is just the dumbest
Laker era in history because it's likean occupation. It's like a government coup

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and we all just have to sithere and act like it's not really happening
and get lectured by other shows andother analysts that are on the payroll or
the emotional payroll of Lebron James nailingthe city until he's exhausted by it nailed.

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He can't help himself. That's thething is he can't, and it's
it's gonna continue. Who's he jj, Lebron, Broun or j You're not
can't help himself? Oh to talkdown to people now, it's talk down
to people, to preach as thoughhe is the smart You don't, you
couldn't possible and I don't. Idon't have the basketball acumen that he has.

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I'm not even you don't get it. You don't understand the holistic approach.
The holistic approach. Yeah yeah,but you don't get to talk down
to people. We're building out aholistic approach. You don't drafted Bronni because
he's Lebron's kid, and other teamsdid not pass on him. Freaking that
idiot. Florio at Pro Football Talkwrote an article about I wonder if FINFL

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teams are going to start doing,you know, agents are going to start
doing what Rich Paul did, youknow, and and helping Lebron's son drop
to the Lakers by saying you'd goplay in Australia, you idiot, No
one was ever gonna draft him.There's a Lars von Trier movie called Melancholia,
and it's a very weird art movie, but really it's about the Moon

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crashing into the Earth and the endof all mankind and the whole movie,
everybody knows the moon is coming andit just keeps getting closer and closer and
closer and closer closer, and thenfinally it makes contact and it explodes.
I kind of feel like that's what'shappened. Like for a while, we
do they wanted to hire JJ Reddickfor a longer while, more than years,
we've known that they were gonna draftBrownie James and pull the wool over

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you. Right now, obviously weare like the great Cinderella song of yesteryear,
hot bothered about this press conference,Matt and Iron. We're just all
heated and snuffed and snoofed and steamedand beamed about this. Uh. Victor

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Brick is here, and I don'tknow if this is a great idea,
Matt, I just I'm not sure. What do you think? Well,
he certainly is going to have adifferent perspective on the pressure today, perhaps
one hundred and eighty degrees different.I'm assuming he probably celebrated it because Vick's

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got a pure heart and he seeksthe good and positive in everything. But
doesn't the pure hearted see something wrongabout this? Doesn't I'd like to think
so. Doesn't the pure hearted personsee this as a ruse, a cunning
attempt to trick all of us?I took the press conference at face value.
I saw nineteen year old Briannie,twenty three year old connect facing the

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mass media, and I was happyfor the kids. But enlighten me,
you know, forge some clarity fromthis chaos of player development. This seems
to be like a new concept.Holistic player, holistic, holistic player development,

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the whole franchise want to develop there, No, no, here's what
it is now. You asked meto explain it, and I will.
I do. Most franchises, likelet's take the Atlanta Hawks, they usually
only focus on a player's arms.A lot of tries biceps for arms,
wrist movement, they even do fingerexercises. And then you got Toronto that's

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a leg day place lunges, siebecks, machine leg curls, leg extensions,
squats, Romanian dead lifts, thingsof that range. Training. Now the
Lakers, they're going to do thewhole player, head to toe, a

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holistic player approach, the whole body. VIC. I hope that helps you
out. I was a former athlete. I thank you. But didn't Gary
zd when he was the incredible trainerfor the Lakers back in the day.
Didn't Gary take care of every lakeEr body and soul from n to toe.

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This is not a new car.This is not a fresh concept,
is it? Player development? Holisticcoverage, happy words on it, vic
to put lipstick on the pig.No, No, Gary Ved had the
level of like a black medical bagin the fifties. You know, some
glori, some chloroform and a bunchof Bennies and ludes. Right, what

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is JJ Reddick and Palenka they havelike the that tank that they put Luke
Skywalker in and Empire strikes back afterthey pulled him out of the snow on
HAF. I mean, we're talkingabout a much more sophisticated way of doing
this job. Do you understand that, big? I understand this is a
new dawn of player development within theLos Angeles Lakers organization that JJ Reddick's bring

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bringing to the table at least crackthe code. He's figured it out.
No one else has been able to, but he's figured it out with his
no coaching experience in his background.That's what he's dedicated his time to a
holistic approach to player development. Sowe can take someone who's six foot one
outside of shoes, has averaged fourpoints because he was misused as a player

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or wasn't given enough opportunity at USC, and we're going to develop him into
a real NBA Powerhouse. How willwe do that holistic approach, meditation,
self actualization. You'd think you'd wantto do that moment he arrives, right,
you'd think you'd want to do thatfrom the moment he starts playing basketball,

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right, like at the Summer League, coaching him in games at the
summer League. If you're going totake a holistic approach, you'd like to
think that you probably want to startin the first exposure he has to this
level of play. Sorry pick Well. Ro Poliko was very adamant and saying,
you know, these kids just wantto hit the core a sap after
this press conference. Their work ethicis why we drafted them. We love

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their character, we love their workethic. And no one's even talking about
the Connect gang, right, poorconnect connects. Connect is the one who
could actually contribute instantly to the squadbecause he has those skills. Well,
he was given an opportunity. Hedidn't earn it like Bronnie Well. Connect

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comes from you know, small collegein Colorado, man without a without a
d one scholarship. So Connectors reallypaid his doll He didn't like Broni,
he didn't earn it. How dareyou has earned this, VI and Connectors
earned it. That came will bluecollar man is a blue dude. No

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one said that. Hey whatever.Connect went to a junior college, then
Northern Colorado, then Tennessee, wherehe was the SEC Player of the Year
and and log the most exciting gameof the twenty twenty four NCAA tournament.
Again, red carpet path, redcarpet path. That's not earning it.
That's he was handed. He wasfreaking handed the number seventeen pick. That

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was easy, Evan, Come on, I did not. Don't I get
the rich basketball tradition of Tennessee wheremy man Ernie Grunfeld sprang to start him
how to follows those queens. It'sgood to get a good Grunfeld mentioned.
Try. Let's get that in there, Vic, Let's start with that.
Then let's just go from there.Ernie Grunfeld. That's two, ed Mono,
vic Ernie Nevers, one of thegreat running backs of all time.

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Ernie Nevers. I'll go bigger andMcCracken. Oh yeah, I'll go with
Crackhead Bob. Crackhead Bob, that'sto you, Vic. I love the

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crackhead. I'll go with brother Bob. Ninety three, fresh, creative and
free in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,and very pumped for a Japanese heritage night
to Night. In fact, ShawBrother Bob, all right, I'll go

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with my brother's barbecue and Woodland Hillsno longer open. I'll go with oh
brother, where art tho? It'stwo in mon. I will go with
the Chambers brothers. Time come today. I'll go with Tom Chambers. I'll

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go with chamber music. That's toit, Am. I will go with
Are we going to Tom Chambers?He just said chamber music? I said
Tom Chambers. He said chamber music. And now it's you, Vick.

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I'm gonna go Jerry Chambers, JerryChambers. I'll go with a man that
you you upset in the bowels ofthe Staples Center a rather unfortunate line of
questioning. It may have taken twentyfour to forty eight hours off his life,

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Vic Jerry Sloan might have lasted anotherday or two for his family had
you not peppered him with questions postplayoff loss. Regarding Derek Fisher, who
snaked this way out of Utah andonto the Lakers, Jerry Slow I really
lit into Sloan didn't. I,Well, you just asked if his team

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was lacking the warrior spirit Derek Fisherhad left since they traded Derek Fisher away
to l a ridiculous question, andhe was very was between myself and Sloan.
Well, the first thing he saidis who the hell let that guy
in here? Yeah, there wasthere was a grey early vibe for I

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was not intimidated. I was notintimidated. I'll take the loss there on
the Jerry Sloane story. It's agreat moment, his best question ever asked
in the history the media. Afurry Russian hat, right, are you
serious? Guy? He's got alake a puncho on and they say,

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ran away, ran away. Everybodyjoined us in song. I branded the
one who ran. What do youdo if it branded? And you know
you're a man? I think you'reyou're off mic, it's uh name is
for an hour on the second,damn it, I got lost in Jerry

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Sloan. Now we're too upset.We're too upset about the press conference.
Oh, everybody branded, that's theone who branded. And you know you
listen, he's earned this. Letme get clear where you go for the

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rest of your life. You mustprove everybody. Petro and Money show you.
Yeah, Hey, they gave youa job. I'd like to think
I earned it, all right,dude, whatever, Okay, wait it
out, don't let the dooritch inthe ass, get out of my face.

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Punk. We'll continue with some ofthe browny line. I'm not gonna
talk about connect. That guy didn'tearn anything, you know. I want
to make this clear. I wantto elaborate on something you said. We

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have Sam Amy who's gonna join us. They'll have a more measured view of
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Matt, it's time for the FlipTopstory of to day and clip you out.
I will put you out. Thisis the flip top story of the
day. Well. The only thingI could think, Matt, when I
was watching the press conference after wakingup from a nap, so it was
extremely angry. Anyway, is youdid it? You did it, you
son of a bitch. And Iwant you to remember that Lebron James had

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nothing to do with this. It'sall due to Bronnie and his hard work.
Bronnie has earned this. They nevertalked about it with his dad.
They wouldn't even think about breaching thesubject with Bronnie James's dad. Don't you
even think it? Ignore the evidenceof your eyes and ears. Forget about
it. Enjoy this historic moment,Matt, This moment that history is going

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to be made because Bronnie he's goingto be on the team with his contract
and Lebron James is gonna be withhim, and they're gonna holistically build out
and develop players. What a timeto be alive. You're not gonna believe
how they develop. Press conference today, wonderful thing for Laker fans, multi

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year, guaranteed rookie contract with theLakers for Browny, And I'm sure there's
a lot more detail to get intothere with Matt and Sam Amic as we
go on, he will start hiscareer with us. Not on the G
League, Matt, but in thebig building, the crypt we are building

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out holistically, Cold Plunge in SantaBarbara, bird Bank, Infra red Sauna,
Yoga in Torrents, and of coursecottage cheese on your baked potato.
A holistic approach, Matt, Atotal holistic approach, essential oils. Great

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press conference today on Spectrum Sports netLa, Matt. One thing that was
prevalent that I thought that we havenot covered yet was Brownny wearing the number
nine to honor dead fentanyl overdose rapperJuice World. Did you did you catch
this part of it? I did. I saw that he and he and

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Juice World were close, or hewas somewhat of a mentor. Of course,
a tragic story. Young man losthis life. Trdy's been dead for
like five years. Yeah, privatejet flight cops were seizing a ton of
drugs and he overdose. Yeah,but here's a here's Bronnie James on the
nine and the nine nine nine,which is the opposite of the six sixty

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six or upside down on the JuiceWorld front, Yeah, Juice has just
been a big part of, uh, you know, me keeping calm in
some situations that I've been through.So yeah, just just paying homers to
him, especially because he passed,you know, as a really important thing
from it and he has a ninenine nine tattoo on the back of his

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ear and or Bronny. I don'tknow what Juice World has. I do
want you to know this though,when it comes to the nine nine nine,
that is not the original. Itis not the original, even though
Juice World's contributions to EMO and SoundCloudrap are well documented. I'm not going

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to have the nine just thrown outthere like it doesn't mean something to the
rest of us here in Southern California. The original Southern California nine nine nine
is none other than O See ManGod and the father of combat, television,
TV and radio legend, Wally Georgenine nine nine nine nine nine nine

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nine nine man damn It, ninenine nine. I just want to see
if Brian is on the ball andat nine nine nine nine nine nine five
thousand, what's the area code sevenone four because it was before nine four

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nine. All of oc answered thecall to nine nine nine nine nine nine.
Nothing to do, nothing at allto do with SoundCloud, Emo rap
and things that Brownie James has overcomein his life. Nine nine nine five
thousand is ours. Nine nine ninewas yelled at the crowd at his kdoc

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Hot Seat show nine nine nine,which I love so very much. N
I will not have our memory asa city an area bastardized by SoundCloud and
Emo Ratman. When I see ninenine nine on his neck, there is

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only one response. Now, ifBronnie were to get five thousand on the
other side of his neck, thatwould really start something resembling healing with the
riff that's been caused by this nepotismbetween Great Sports Talk, the Lakers and

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Bronnie James and Matt Jennie Buss hasnot returned our calls for the summer tour
this year. We've taken a beengoing a little too hard as possible.
You guys, what are you talkingabout? You you don't want part of
this case. You don't want toYou like the Bronnie, you like it
Bronnie, you liked it. Youlike what JJ said today at the presser.
You like that, you like theway you look after the ninety days,

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you like the way you feel rightnow. No, but it wouldn't
it be cool. I want togo another ninety days. And if he
goes to five thousand points in hiscareer, then he can put five thousand
on the other side. Shut up, how many points you got, Bronnie.
Now, Chris Little of KFI usedto work on that Wally George show.

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So whenever I see him, Iyell in the halls nine nine,
and that is his response, like, and it does sound like three hundred
drunk kids from UC Irvine and saddlebackscreaming five thousand as a true and Orange
Coast College can't forget about those guys. There is only one nine nine.

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I don't want to hear about juiceworld. I'm sorry the young man is
dead. He did not earn it. Yeah, A big part of uh,
you know, me keeping calm insome situations that I've been through.
So yeah, just just paying homersto him, especially because he passed,
you know, as a really importantthing from it. The situations Bronni's been

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through is that he's bullied by mean, angry shows of middle aged bad guys
like Matt and I, guys thatscreamed back five thousand wanna joined Spence?
Why not? I it's fair.I miss Wally, George, I miss
a simpler time when you couldn't getyour best friend, podcast guy hired to

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be the head coach with no experienceand your son drafted though he's not an
NBA prosper. Bronnie has earned this. Don't lecture us. Go coach the
summer league. Clarify one thing youjust said. Clarify one thing you just
said. Bronnie earned this. That'syour opinion. Man. I want to
clarify one thing you just said.That's like your opinion, that is not

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factual. There's nothing factual about thatstatement that he has earned this. Clarify
one thing you just said. Ido have to say this. If Bronnie
James being a Laker brings us nothingother than the revitalization of the Vally George,

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that's enough for me. Yeah,because I love nine nine nine,
five thousand, and it should berevitalized in my very humble opinion. And
Timmy sound like a company man,Yeah, you do, like that's not
an ode feel for one twenty minuteappearance, and God bless her for doing
it every year. We love it. And that's like that you want us
to change who we are? Yeah, you want us to lie? We

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do kidding me. Bronnie has earnedthis right. Bronnie talks about his hard
work. Kate's is like that guyin the freshman dorm where the cops come
in and be like, who's notdrinking? Everybody here is drinking. He's
the one guy that wrote me,but I saw who was I didn't see
anything. It wasn't me. Itwas that guy right there. You've always

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been in nark. Kate's always nark, freaking nark. Get the nark out
of here. But I have tosay, I mean we I after what's
been said on the show this year, I could not imagine Jeannie with a
big weenie coming back. That's atough one. Had they hired Dan Hurley,
she could have pulled it off,because we celebrated her for, you

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know, laying down the law onpo Lincoln saying no, give Hurley whatever
the hell he wants, give mea real coach. She low by Hurley
and she popped the petros and moneyballoon. Yes. Man, if she
does come out, you guys belike, oh, what a pick.
Bronnie was so good. Oh youthink we'll do that? Oh great job.
I could see that. There's noway I could totally see that.

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Oh. You guys are always afamily rent organization. It's great to see
you still doing this. Genie isso great. Uh. That holistic approach,
you guys got to love that holisticapproach. Cold plunge, infrared Sanna
yoga and cottage cheese on the potato. That is the holistic approach. That

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is the petrols and money alistic approach. I want to clarify one thing you
just said, and we're gonna buildthat out for a holistic approach on player
development. But again, the ninenine nine five thousand made it work worth
it for me. God Rest thesoul of Rebecca de Mornay's dad, Wally
George nine nine nine nine nine ninenine nine nine. I don't know if

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I still had a landline, Iwould have seven one four nine nine nine
five thousand speed time. If Ihad a landline. I think I have
a landline. Who's just there's nophone plugged into it. I'm pretty sure
I still paid for it. Everybodythat's convenient. Oh, David Vasse has
got Clayton Kershaw News and sound next. Still two more pairs for Sunday's game

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against the Ruors between now and whenwe sign off at six pm, and
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Enzoocha, Barry's Tickets and Sweet JamesBergener. It's time for David Vasse all
of the Dodge with an inside lookat the Dodgers. This is the Vass
Report with David Vasse. Do theArizona Diamondbacks look like a team that could

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jump up and bite the Dodgers ontheir achilles heel like they did last year
in the playoffs. Well, they'rein town this evening and Marongo Casino Dodgers
on deck with Tim Kates is comingup at six David Vassa will be all
over that he talked to Kershaw.The great David Vassay has got everything that
you need when it comes to theDodgers, who have been well performing in

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an underperforming type of way, aswe discussed yesterday. Of course, he
works at Spectrum Sportsnet, he worksat MLB Network, but he's our guy
here on the Southern California Toyota DealersCelebrity Hotline. Hello, Dave, how
are you. I'm doing great,guys, A very hot day here at
Dodgers Stadium. Not a cloud inthe sky, but yeah. I did

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present to two of the Dodgers earlierthis afternoon, just about thirty minutes ago,
and they were just made to hearme say that they've been playing average,
because that's what the record says they'vebeen doing in the last thirty five
games. They're just three games abovefive hundred. And they thought I was
being negative. I said, hey, you got a seven and a half

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game lead right now in the division. You got to play better than five
hundred if you don't. You know, in other years and divisions around baseball,
this race would be a lot closerthan what it is. Even with
the hot Padres. So you know, I'm just presenting the facts, as
they like to say. Yeah,Dave, you know all the facts.

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You did talk to Kershaw. LetTaylor know too that I've been defending him
and that I humanized him to thepeople of Los Angeles and bought him some
time to get his season on track. What did he say to that?
Thanks a lot, Dave, Yeah, I own on to you. Kershaw

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actually was relieved that his MRI didnot show any new damage, and he
threw off a flat ground earlier.Today he's going to throw his first bullpen
session since getting an anti inflammatory injectionafter being shut down for the last ten
days. He plans on throwing thatbult and by the end of his home

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stand. And here's a little sampleof what Kershot had to say to us.
Well, I keep saying I've neverhad switchers. I don't know,
you know, I think, youknow, I feel like it's been pretty
the upward trajectory has been pretty steady, you know, up to this point.
And I don't really want to callit a setback. I just think
it's just like just getting your feetunderneath you a little bit. And it

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could be part of it. Itcould be just a little hiccup. I
don't know, but you know,I was able to get some shots and
feel better with it, and Ikind of go from there. Dave said
that there was the way he putit was when you had the MRI had
showed no new accident, was thata relief or yeah, definitely, I
mean nothing nothing new, you know, it's just there's some old man shoulder

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a little bit, you know,there's somewhere and tear in there, but
nothing new, So which kind ofmeans you can kind of push through stuff,
you know. So that's what that'swhat I'm gonna do. And you
know, I think having this little, you know, a couple of day
reset should help. And Kershaw alsosaid guys that he doesn't believe this is
a setback. He believes maybe it'sdelayed his return just by a little bit,

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but he's hopeful and optimistic that hewill return at some point in the
second half. Do you think herushed to Dave? Did he come back
to you soon? No? Idon't believe so. Maybe. I mean
that's always a possibility with Kershaw,but no, I don't believe so.
Matt it was time for him tostart ramping up and you only find out

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how the shoulder is going to responduntil you're in game action, even in
a minor league rehab game. Wehaven't asked about him in a while,
and I don't know if we're notsupposed to ask about him, but because
of the indefinite nature of kind ofthe prognosis, Dave, do we have
any idea, just even a smallidea of what Yamamoto's situation might be and

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when we should start asking about him. Well, he's not supposed to return
until August, and looks are talkingabout his rotator cuff. It went from
his tricep to his rotator cuffs.I'm not sure what to believe as far
as what exactly physically is going onwith Yamamoto, but it's not good that

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two months into his major league careerhe's out for three or four months.
So I'm not sure he's a guyyou can count on going down the stretch.
Maybe you know he recovers, butI doesn't feel like the Dodgers are
counting on that. And also,you know, that's part of the reason
why you hear more and more aboutthem pursuing a starting pitcher at the trade

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deadline. I've paid picture of alltime. Now you need somebody at the
trade deadline to replace him. DavidPasse is our guest. Let's go full
infirmary, Dave. Good news,Joe Kelly, bad news. Where the
hell is Monthsye? What's going on? Bad news for Joe Kelly. Bad
news for Joe Kelly because he waseligible to come off the injured list during

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this homestand and Dave Roberts told mein San Francisco not until after the All
Star break. So we'll try tofigure out what went sideways on Joe Kelly.
Max Munsey was out here making lightthrows across the diamond He has started
to swing the bat. He iseligible to come off the injured list during

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the All Star break, so technicallyhe could show up for Game one post
All Star Break against the Red Soxhere at Dodger Stadium. Dave, as
we look at so we're going tobe so we'll talk to you tomorrow the
Diamondbacks are in town. And aswe look at the rotation and just sort

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of the issues. Obviously, Packsonhad a miserable outing up in San Francisco.
But when I look at these nextthree in a row, Bobby Miller
and let's just take Gavin Stone outof it. So let's go Bobby Miller,
Land and Knack those two. Whichdo you think is more important to
have a better outing? Just becauseit almost feels like we got to count
on Land and Knack? Now,yeah, well, Landon Nack has pitched

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well. You know, if youwere to make a power rankings of Dodgers
starters healthy right now, he wouldbe ranked ahead of Bobby Miller the way
Bobby's pitched since coming off the injuredlist. Tonight's a very important start for
Bobby to show the Dodgers that hecan get his season on track and not
let his emotions get the best ofhim. Land and Neck, I mean,

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for a guy that has those birthinghips as you like to say,
Petros, I mean every time hepitches, I think of you in my
head and your voice, I shouldsay, not your body shape. But
he has a lot of confidence.And the reason why he does is because
he has four different pitches. He'sa pitcher, he's got a very good
fastball, and look, he couldhave gone deeper in his last start,

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but the Dodgers chose to take himout early. All right, Dave,
Well, that is fabulous information andwe're going to treasure it big night for
Bobby Ice. He needs to pitchwell tonight and control his emotions. That's
what I've gathered from listening to youspeak about it. Did you watch the
Brownie James presser and you missed that? Didn't you? I watched it.

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I watched it. You feel youfeel bad about a lot of it feels
like an NFL type of press conferencewhere they only choose the softball questionnaires.
Do they do that in the NFL? They they can choose is going to
ask the questions? Oh I didn'tknow that? Jeez, Well shows you
what I know. Oh yeah,that's what I heard today. And then
he got his dad standing in thebackground trying to intimidate the questions. No,

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terrible, that's here safety conjecture.That's the truth, right, Dave.
Well, have a great night.We'll talk to you later. Okay,
thanks a lot, guys. Thanksthat dude. They love that.
In the background at Dodger Stadium,Oh, they're hooting and hollering, hooting
and toting out there. You know, Chris Taylor's walking by him at that

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moment. He's like, yeah,I always defend Chris Taylor on Dodger,
Doug hooting and high falutin so doingout there, high falutin dude, right,
I didn't know Brodny was standing inthe back looking down on everybody.

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And you know that is concerning too, when you don't look down on Trudell.
You're not that tall. Trudell's short, and Tredell's like five to two.
I was saying off the air whenKate sent us the image of him
and Connect, like maybe it's afull NBA conspiracy, and like they added
an inch at the combine because theysaid he measured six one and three quarters

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without shoes. He's at six'two now, I mean, he shouldn't
look that much shorter than don't connect, And he shouldn't look only barely taller
than Trudell, who is shockingly small. Yes, we'll be back with more
great sports talk word number some topstory of the day, Tom Hofarth,

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we got a three hour show today, Mabe