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Glass and Clayton Kershaw tomorrow and Sunday. As the Dodger's
still in the midst of those thirteen consecutive days of games.
It's going to be a busy August and the Dodger's
coming off the split series with the Brewers likely trying
to get out of this road trip with at worst
taking two of three from the Cardinals this weekend. They'll
try to get to it tonight as we continue our
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two to four shows all week long save yesterday. Yeah,
we're hopeful.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I mean, if the Dodgers could take two of I mean, geez,
I hope so at worst, at worst two of three. Yeah,
that last time I heard somebody that, oh they'll sweep them.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Oh no, Look of that guy's mustache that's pitching to out.
He looks like a fool.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
We are hopeful that the show finds you in a
good frame of mind, and we hope you have a
great weekend. There's a lot to get to. Vassay is
going to join us from I believe Saint Louis, and
he's proud.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, just text, just text with Dave, trying to make
sure that works. He's uh got some stuff coming up
here and doing TV and his interview. He's trying to juggle.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So, how's the week of Kate's going.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Week of Kate's is going great? Thanks for asking, Petros.
I've been along a long a lot of long days.
Yesterday a ten hour day here at the studio, uh
here with Colin Yan's about nine or nine thirty every night.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So it's going good though, Rough Gocates. It's not just
the Dodgers that are tired, Tim Kates.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
You know what, man, there's no Iel here though. You
can't put me on the IL with like a hip
Flix or nothing like that. No, no, unless they got
to call up somebody from the OKC. And I thought
Brian Finley is on his he's ready to go, he's
on his honeymoon. Were actually crouching right over here on
the sidewa you.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
With a knife O metro like one of the guys
on the ghost train.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
If Kate's went on the d L, we would have
to take his employee ID and put it over on
that side of the bulletin board. Oh yeah, Dodger Studio.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
You guys should put one of Charlie Steiner up there
on the IL idea. Yeah, you should get a Charlie
Steiner Carter, at least a picture of him, because he's
got a bad back, back back, and put that up
there next to River Ryan and Dustin May and people
like that. So everybody's looking forward to Tim Kates on
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Morongo casino, Dodgers on deck Saint Louis. David Vassa is
out there. The Week of Kate's continues. Small respite tomorrow
on the Week of Kate's because Tim does not have
postgame Dodger stuff, because it's a national game tomorrow, Dodgers
in Saint Louis. It's either on espin or Fox Fox,
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so Dave will do the postgame normal stuff. You think
Tim just has to work an hour, but no, no,
it's very.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Fortunate, very fortunate those two things lined up for you.
That's an expensive cross stream right there.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
The streams have crossed before, Matta across all the time.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
But Kates is like Catherine Zena Jones in that movie,
avoiding all the laser beams.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And sliddering around suit.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, that's Kate's whenever the Raiders and the Dodgers are
on at the same time. But we are looking forward
to a great weekend. Enjoy your sports weekend. But today
it's not really the weekend yet. It's still a frog
Man Friday. A boat is safe in the harbor, but
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that is not what boats are for. On a frog
Man Friday. The Petrosen Money Show Loves and embraces the
scene poison and dry as it is, unlike Mike Tarico
and his sausage fingers. We know the difference between Venice
Beach and Long Beach Porch shay. We also know that
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the lifeguards and coastguards protect us from the cold grip
of death that is waiting in the Pacific Ocean. We
also celebrate the great Mike Nelson, wonderful character of adventure
played by the one and only Lloyd Bridges, who named
some communist names in his time.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
The Greatest show just got off my back, now, would you?
Sea Hunts? Well, come on, get something out of help.
It'll be dark soon.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
You want to sit out here in this raft all night?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
No, but we might have to. Well not if you
do something.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
You want to listen to me for a minute. During
the war, I was a new DT. I've been stranded
in these rafts before.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
All right, then tell us what to do.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Well, let's not sit here and wait.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Let's do something.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
So let's strength first. Huh, that's the first law of survival.
I gotta save our strength. We might meet it.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
The Dodgers meet it. Todd Lights thirteen to five. What
are you nuts? Yes, we still gotta take that Florida man.
You know what that's like. These days.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
You got the Navy everywhere, you got frogmen, you got
the EC two's with the satellite tracking, you got the
spell to nine of salt choppers up the ass.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
We're losing one out of every nine loads. That's no
dunk walk anymore. Let me tell you, forget about money.
What do you suggest that's reasonable.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Well, the only thing that's reason on is to hear
from the greatest organist, the greatest hype man, the greatest musician,
the man with the timing better than a brain surgeon died.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
A rule all right, the water. That's how this polock
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can pitch a yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Nah.
(07:13):
It's funny. You mentioned that I had to do a
little online archaeology here, and I thought I remembered it
lining up peak Catherine Zada Jones, peak cz J.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
She was slithering around in that Sean Connery movie Entrapman
with Connery right not to come, not to be confused
with the other one where Demi mor Has got Michael
Douglas's puzzo on her face.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh yeah, that Grisham vehicle for disclosure. Yeah, so it
was almost like one worded movie Zada Jones peak. Right
late ninety nine, that movie's released, Zada Jones cat Suit
super Hot. Less than a year, like months later, mere months.
She is married to Michael Douglas, eight pregnant with Dylan
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smoking on that balcony. Yeah, like right when your peak
sex symbol bang, huge jelly balcony cigarette.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Huge pregnant, European giant, one hundred in mouth, Yes, in
a villa grainy nineties paparazzi photo.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And less than it was like six months apart.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Next thing, you know, you're doing America's Sweethearts with Billy
Crystal at Cusack saying what happened?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Bad I do?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
But she was slithering on that floor. But you know
what peak, Zeta Jones. She was like a little bit
older than like your Cammie Diaz or some other sorts
when their career blew up.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Zita Jones. She'd been around awhile, she'd she'd she's toiled,
she has toiled.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
She ran some hard road before. Now, if you remember, Matt,
there's the movie where Disclosure, where Douglas has the puzzo
in the mouth of to me more and then his
wife gets all upset. And then there's the movie with
Britney Murphy where Douglas is trying to She's in a
looney bin and Douglas is trying to get information out
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of her. And I never saw the movie, but I
just remember the trailer and all she says over and
over again.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Is oh.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Remember that. I do? I remember. I don't remember the movie.
I never got Damn, where are they? Never?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Rest in peace?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
BM rest in priece to Brittany Murphy because she was
in one of Kate's classes.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Spanish one and two two classes, Yep, do you ever
talk to her? I wanted to, but I was too
afraid she would.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Never talk to Kate's Kates went over to the wall,
Yo s she.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Was a year older than me and was there like
the fall semester and then the spring semester. I guess
she got caught onto some ABC show at the time
and was there like half the time and then she disappeared.
I'll never tell what year was that with my freshman
and sophomore year, So that was like me, that was like, yeah,
you help me out with.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
The round there that's clueless. So she is clueless? Is
ninety five? Sister sister. Just what she Yeah, she got
plucked for sister sister.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
She looked she looked like the chick that was hooking
up with Travis Berkinstock. Yeah not not the chick from Oh.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Never ten She had her plane weight on her then, yeah,
got it. Yeah she was still a guard.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
No, come on, what I like her? I mean she's
gone now. It's not smoking with a baby in your belly.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
But it'll do seed to Jones and of course the
oral sex throat cancer of Michael Douglas. Right, but that
being said, Michael Douglas and not before or after. Really
has anybody played the irritated eighties a hole on cocaine
filled with rage better than Michael Douglas or really at all?
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I mean just rip off.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Your G string triple horn, Oh yeah, basic instinct, just
going in every movie Yeah yeah, oh yeah close in
Free Fa Attraction, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Totally twacked. What about the one where Andy Garcia gets
his head cut off?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Black Rain, Black Rain? Correct? Personally, I thought he was
a tour to force in Liberacci personally.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
By the way, I met Michael Douglas like ten years
ago and his dad Kirk before he passed away.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Like, what were the circumstances are undercarents. He does everybody else.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
No, the the Douglas Foundation donated a lot of money
to Children's hospital in la and years ago when Sadie
was young, the same department neurology got this machine and
so they paid for a new one. So we were
there for a presentation and Sadie got to meet Kirk
Douglas Michael Douglas and then we got to shake their
hands as the family.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Pretty cool, very cool.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
There was Zita Jones walking out back, pregnant, smoking out right.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah, she was in the hallway smoking. Did you go
home and do the double feature romancy in the stone
Jewel of the Nile to celebrate the ocasion? I wish
we did.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I wish manson the stone never leave me alone alone
every night.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Then, dev let's get out to Saint Louis, the home
of the Dodgers, with an inside look at the Dodgers.
This is the Vass Report with David Vasse.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Pivoting from movie star boner Tim Kats. Let's go to
flaccid Dodger boots. So David Veasse the Dodgers splitting in
Saint Louis, lewis losing the last two. He's underneath the
shadow of the slide no more. Now he's in Saint
Louis with his toasted Ravioli's his favorite place. David Vasse,
Spectrum Sports Net, doing a great job all week and
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of course right here on MPI seventy at MLB Network,
Dave Howse, Saint Louis.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Very steamy, very steamy. It's gonna be a very hot
series here in uh Saint Louis. Temperatures on the field
are getting close to one hundred degrees during batting practice,
So as usual in the summer here in the lou
very hot. And Yamamoto was actually pitching in the today
during a simulated game that saw him throw just seventeen pitches.
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Dave Roberts said yesterday he wanted Yamamoto to do two
up and downs, meaning go to the dugout once, go
back to the dugout twice after simulating an inning. It
was Nick Ahmed and Kevin Kiermeier facing him. But he
only threw seventeen innings after or seventeen pitches after throwing
forty four pitches in a bullpen session back in LA.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So should we take that as a setback? Dave as
what they wanted for the schedule, because seems like we've
been waiting a while for this guy.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Yeah, no setbacks, Matt, I look at some notes here,
no setbacks. He's fine. The way I looked at him,
the way he was received by Brandon Gomes, the GM,
the pitching coaches, seems to be fine. It's just their plan.
And I think the biggest thing was that he was
able to simulate two innings, two quick innings. And we'll
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find out more from Dave Roberts if the next step
is to go out on a rehab assignment, because if
he's coming back in September, they got to start that
process pretty soon to make sure that he's back for
not only the end of September, but from what I
was hearing the first week of September.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
David Vasse is our guest on your Southern California Toyota
Dealer Celebrity Hotline. He's in Saint Louis at Bush Stadium.
It sounds like he's in an elevator. Dave was the
team in a sour, salty mood after the way they
lost the last two games in Minnie on Milwaukee.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Very frustrated in that clubhouse, yesterday with the way that
eighth inning went. You know, obviously they're talking about the
bad luck of two baseball's going off the foot and
glove of Daniel Hudson, but really what started the inning
to go off the rails was Hudson not being able
to put away hitters. He gave up a leadoff double
in the eighth inning and also a walk to runners
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at first and second with nobody out. He could have
got out of it with a double play if not
for the ball hitting his glove and cleats a couple
of times. But nonetheless, the lack of strikeout in that
inning really hurt him. And that's why so many are saying,
where was Michael Kopek? Why was Michael Kopek facing the
same groupings of hitters in the sixth inning rather than
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the eighth inning, And hopefully the Dodgers re examined that,
because you need a guy like Kopek, who has been
the best relief pitcher since being acquired by the Dodgers,
to be there in those high leverage groupings of hitters
late in the game.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Dave, we had Ryan Dempster on yesterday and we brought
it up with him and he seemed obviously he pitched
it a different time, but still closer to this era
maybe than the Nolan Ryan Jack Morris era. And we
asked whether or not this bullpen is getting worn down
year after year after year going to the playoffs because
there's just too quick of a hook. Do you view
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the Dodger is treating their starting pitchers and their pitch
counts differently than the rest of the league or is
this simply a league wide thing now where guys just
aren't allowed to throw one hundred pitches in a game anymore.
Like I thought they should have sent Flaherty back out there.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Blake Snell threw one hundred and fourteen pitches two starts
ago or a couple of days ago when he was
going up against Chris Sale in his last start. So
the Dodgers have taken every precaution with Tyler Glass now
giving him extra day's rest, giving Yamamoto extra day's rest.
The Dodgers have no answers and have been very candid
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with the fact that they have to possibly re examine
how they build up these pitchers. So I'm not I'm
not going to pretend I have the answers, but yeah,
it feels like eighty pitches ninety pitches has not done
much to prevent arm injuries. From the Dodgers side of things.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
The bullpit has gassed. I don't think that's news to you. Well,
how deep do they need this Robleski guy to go?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Dan? Does he got to go the whole way and
empty the tank tonight? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Well, I mean he's pitched really well. The Cardinals are
struggling an offensive team that is really not on track
right now. They just got swept in the four game series.
And I actually ran into a World Series winning catcher
for the Cardinals and Angel, Benji Mollina, in the hallway,
and he was telling me the Dodgers are catching the
Cardinals at a really good time because they are not
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swinging the bats.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Well.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
They don't have a great track record against rookies like Robleski,
who they have never seen before and don't really have
a great scanner report on. So the Dodgers have a
golden opportunity here to really take advantage of a slumping
Cardinals team, and they need to do so.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Dave, you know we are I assume you are. You
have to for your job, But do you think the
players are aware of their standing now of how not
just the record, but like how well the Diamondbacks and
the Padres are playing, how much better they're playing in
the rest of the league right now.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Oh, without a doubt. I just finished talking to Austin Barnes,
who's seen a lot of different seasons that go in
large leads, small leads, come down to the final day
or a game won sixty three, and he acknowledged the
fact that they've got to have that urgency with those
two teams trailing the Dodgers. Dave Roberts has talked about it.
I asked him yesterday whether or not his team, even
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though they always say they have to worry about themselves,
are aware of the standings, and he absolutely said they are,
and everybody references it. So they are aware that try
out time trying to feel their way through a season,
or feel their way through the end of a season,
that's completely out the window right now. But I will
say this, Clayton Kershaw told us after his start, and
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he usually has a good pulse on the team, that
he feels like they're about to go on a run
and really hit their stride. So I'll take his word
for it.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Did Walper Bueller do okay?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
No, he did not do okay. It was a disappointing start.
Now the other question is, and we'll get to it
as we get closer to his next start, is how
long is his leash? How long can the Dodgers allow
him to go out there to see whether or not
he can find that magic again. In my opinion, guys,
I would say there's one more chance for him to
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try to get things on track. The Dodgers just cannot
afford to have a pitcher be out there and only
go three or four innings. At this juncture of the season.
Their bullpen has gased, They've been used a lot. Because
a Bueller started like we saw a couple of days ago,
doesn't just affect the bullpen that day. It affects what
Dave Roberts is going to do the day before, two
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days after. So they just cannot continue to do that.
If he's not going to get into the fifth.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Inning, well we leave it to the poll. May he
pitch deep in this contest after his call up? It
is justin Robleski on the mound. Three games two is
the absolute least they got to get out of this
thing with considering how well the Diamondbacks padres and the
gap that they have closed between them and the Dodgers
at the top of the division. Looking forward to watching
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on the TV. There, Dave, thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Thanks guys, have a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
There. He goes from the Loure and is proud. Oh,
what a great place to be this time of year.
Saint Louis glorious. Let me in now, Let me in now,
bell game, not a trouble.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Let me in now, spen now, I got money to
lem a friend now. Oh, Dave's gonna be in the
East with Jackie Joiner Cursey running from a crazed wild
pack of dogs and East Saint Louis that I wish
I was there all weekend. Right, Well, thank you for listening, everybody.
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We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Have a top story of the day. More on this,
more on the Dodgers and how desperate their situation is. Oh,
it's desperate, just desperate. Is smoking a Virginia Slims one
twenty while you're eight months pregnant on a balcony. I
don't give a damn Let them take their photos. I
need myke nicotine.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Catherine Zita Joe, Well, you know she's from Wales. Yeah,
these are different people and it was a different time then, Matt.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
It was the Smoking two thousands is what we called it.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Yeah, it's kind of like Lolita at the end he
shows up, She's all knocked up and beat up. It's like, God,
just last week you were like slithering around on the floor.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
You're sad, trapman, what is this?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
We'll be right back with Bore. Thank you for listening.
On a frog Man Friday, Happy Frogman Friday. We're live
the Petrosen Money Show flexed back today. We got Dodgers, Cardinals,
Dodgers on deck with Tim Kats and four six days
a week from the summer tour next Thursday, August twenty second,
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Van's Headquarters and Coast to Mesa. Crazy prizes, NFL tickets,
Dodger tickets, MGM Trip, Hawaii Trip.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I mean, it's just stupid.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
We talked to David Veasse and the last segment about Dodgers,
it's an amount.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Of prizes so stupid, it's idiotic.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
And you know what, Matt, You get the best record
in the NL and you hear the snakes licking your
ass with their forked tongue and the priest brushing his
scratchy robe against your undercarriage.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Oh no, I just came into refill the wine and
the goblet.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah, I came here to clean the candle. It is
that your rope belt or your hanging boots?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Sorry, my son, child, It's like twenty twenty one all
over again. Yes, we continue to look back instead of ford.
It's what we do here. The numbers will not be
as bafo. Wait do you hear about facts alive? That's
is that coming? Oh yeah, oh yeah, the numbers will
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not be as to uh well, continue with the theme
stupid idiotic as they were. The Giants one hundred and
seven wins to the Dodgers one hundred six wins, the
next best record in the National League being eleven wins
worth worse, and the team that ultimately went to the
World Series for the senior circuit a bullless Russian style
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eighty eight wins is what the Braves had that year.
Dodgers one oh six, Giants one hundred and seven, and
the Braves end up in the World Series with eighty
eight nineteen less than the MLB best Giants. Because of
here we go, it's time the ridiculous archaic rules about
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division winners versus wild card teams that Major League Baseball
continues to deploy. They even manage to reduce the unbalanced
schedule to give less credence to division winners, line them
up in order. Top two teams get the buys, the
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other four will play another in the wild card round,
and you reshuffle, so after playing one hundred and sixty
two games, you are rewarded. This is why every time
we have someone come on, be it Eric Carrosir, Ryan
Dempster or Kitty cot they all have the exact same
position on the postseason and nice and your basketball Matt,
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every single one of them, and they all say, well,
playoffs just a crapshoot the playoff. Everybody knows crazy has
happens in Major League Baseball playoffs.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
And then after the Dodgers lose the NLDS, Andrew Friedman
comes on and say his final final interview of the
year is exit Interview and says, YO, playoffs just scrapshoot.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Guys, what are you gonna do? That's not it? Yeah,
that's what it is. Well, let's fix that. Instead of
just saying it's crapshoot, let's fix it. Should have fixed
it after twenty twenty one. That should have been the
tipping point. That the Giants and Dodgers had to play
each other in a five game series, That the Dodgers
had to play a wildcard round with one hundred and
six wins compared to the Brewers, who got a buy
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with ninety five wins, was already acidine enough. That should
have been the moment, much like the NFL did with
replay and the Rams and the challenges in New Orleans
when that dude got blown up and the Saints ended
up going to the super Bowl or the NFC Champions,
whatever the hell it was, and the Rams go home
and everybody's pissed off, and they changed things. That's what
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Major League Baseball needs to do. Because right now, the
top two teams get a bye, the highest division winner
plays the lowest wildcard, the two wildcard teams play one.
Join the rest of the sporting leagues in twenty twenty four,
as they have adjusted. The Padres are an obscene nineteen
and three since the All Star Break, two games back
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of the Dodgers. Diamondbacks nineteen and five since the All
Star break, also two games back of the Dodgers. We
just talked to David Vasse. They're in Saint Louis team
that is struggling right now, two games under five hundred.
But the Padres get the worst in Baseball Rockies or
close to worst in Baseball Rockies for three second time
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in a couple of weeks, which means they're likely going
to cash in keep winning. Just reminding us how crippling,
completely crippling and punitive the measures are if you do
not have one of the top two records in the
league this season, and even maybe if you do, because
all of these teams are bunched up as you look
at the standings right now. I'm not crazy about the
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playoff odds, but I think when you're at this point
of the season and you have this few games left
and this manageable, too very hard to overcome. Lead. Actually,
in the lost column, the Dodgers are at ninety nine
point six percent, Diamondbacks ninety four percent, Padres ninety five
and a half percent, Phillies at ninety nine percent, Brewers
at ninety five point eight, so basically five spots are set.
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The Brewers have a nine game lead in their division,
Phillies seven game lead in their division, and the Dodgers, Diamondbacks,
and Padres are all six games clear. Well, the Dodgers
are six games clear of the Braves and the Mets.
So what I'm saying is, we know what the basically,
we know all but one team of what the postseason
is going to look like already on August sixteenth. It's
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going to be those five teams we just listed Phillies, Brewers, Dodgers, Diamondbacks, Padres,
maybe the Braves, maybe the Mets. But that's what it is.
And as you look at it right now, the way
it stacks up right now, Phillies, Dodgers, Diamondbacks, Padres top
four spots. Uh, And we're going to have a very
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similar path to the World Series twenty twenty one. And
I am preparing it now. People are going to start
their bitching and moaning and pitching a fit because the Padres.
Then we're doing here's what we're doing right now. We're
beginning the process of bitching and moaning and pitching a
fit exactly right because of what's gonna happen with the Brewers,
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as the Dodgers, Diamondbacks and Padres are going to get
absolutely strayed and ultimately probably the Phillies are going to
get screwed in all of this because of the way
the playoffs layout, and either the Padres are going to
play the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers are going to play the Padres,
or the Diamondbacks are going to play the Dodgers in
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the wild card round. Two of the best teams in
baseball are going to end up in the wild card round,
while the Brewers are going to end up getting a
wild card, way way way behind wild card participant behind
the Diamondbacks, Padres are Dodgers. Whichever one of those teams
win the division, the other two get the wild card,
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and they're gonna say, well, what the hell's team's not
as good as we are? They get the easier path
to the World Series. And to understand, like how precarious
their position is right now.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Well, as you know, the playoffs are crapshoots, so very
curios the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
The Diamondbacks right now, as it stands to put into
perspective how incredibly hot they are. The Diamondbacks since July first,
have scored two hundred and fifty runs, that is six
point six runs per game over a month, thirty eight games.
That is thirty eight games. That number covers that they
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are averaging nearly seven runs per game. And to put
that in context, the Dodgers have played thirty seven games,
so one last Now, whether or not they could have
put up, you know, seventy eight runs in that one game,
I can't say. Maybe they could put up seventy eight
and end up with two fifty as well, but they
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have scored one hundred and seventy two runs over the
same span, nearly eighty runs less. That is how potent
this Arizona offense has become. And it goes back a
quarter of the season. And if you want to play
the oh, no Mookie, no Moncy padres, we mentioned how
hot they are nineteen and three. Since the All Star break,
they've scored one hundred and seventy runs eighty less. That's
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what we're talking about. In the postseason that's going to
be described as a crap shoot. As the Dodgers continue
to boot balls off their feet, have a bullpen that's
totally gassed because their pitchers don't average more than four
and a third innings per start in the minor leagues.
As they're coming up and getting ready to pitch in
the majors, and they yank guys when they're at eighty
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five and eighty eight pitches and next thing, you know, so.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Right off, right about what Vass said, Kershaw feels that
there's a good thing that's a coming. He sees the
skies opening up for the Dodgers. Feels like they're about
to go on a run. I wis are going to change.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
You know what. I hope he's right May May his position.
I hope he's be prophetic p because I'd like to
point out Tyler Glass now skipping a day supposed to
be starting tonight. This this is what you would call
regular rest, which has been regular rest in the sport
of baseball for one hundred and fifty years. Yet somehow
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this team thinks they figured it out, and you've got
to give him extra rest because the guy's never thrown
more than one hundred and ten innings and he's already
surpassed that, so we got to go him the extra
day off. And yet how many pitchers ten twelve they
got on the injured list this season? Check the wall. Yeah,
Dustin May's career, how's that going? Walker Buehler, Second, Tommy
John River, Ryan, Tommy John Bobby Miller saw him for
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a blink of an eye, and now he's gone, how's
it going? How is what they're doing? Poland guys at
the eight last two days, it was it yesterday, no Wednesday.
Jack Flaherty guy threw one hundred and ten pitches against
Pittsburgh in a start for the Dodgers, and yet they
pull them in the sixth and what had not a
must win? But I mean, my god, you win that game,
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you win the first three, or you're guaranteed. I should
say you're guaranteed to win in the Series three and one.
Let them pitch one morning and they won't do it.
And now you're looking at a Diamondbacks team that has
the best record in baseball since June one. And I'm
pointing out as we wrap this thing up, it is
a rough stretch. We've talked about August. They're eight and four,
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not horrible, not great Cardinals. This weekend Mariners still want
to figure out what your bet is with Softy. That's
going to be hilarious. The Rays, the Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I think we're going to do one of them Bachelor dates,
you know, either the fish throwing or the.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Hot air balloon. That's a oh hot air balloon. You know,
maybe tap the Golden Bachelor for something. They had great
ideas on that show. The Dodgers, who like their starters
to go somewhere between sixty five and eighty pitches and
work the hell out of their bullpen. They get all
of Tim Kate's going a test to this because I
think he's worked them all. Oh see, he does work
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them all. Two days off between August eighth and September fourth.
This team gets two off days for nearly a month,
August eighth and September fourth, and these next nine the Cardinals,
the Ms, the Rays. You better make some hay, because
then you got seven straight with the Orioles at home
and the Diamondbacks in Arizona. And that's what very well
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could end up determining whether or not they're going to
win this division or be in a wild card round
with the freaking Padres the Diamondbacks, or who knows if
one of those other two teams catches heat the mint
the mets of the Braves. How bad this thing could get?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Yes, Tim, fingers crossed, nobody gets hurt between now and then, too, right, right?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Oh geez? Two days off oh and a few people
are pointing out Matt. Of course, you know it's a
Nick cal Robi from the Rams that bolowed.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
The Saints receiver. That's what it was. Rams ended up
in the old Super Bowl, That's what it was. I
had to hardwards, Drew Brees had to go home sadly,
and that was that. But well, I kind of had
the general idea, right, a team in the Super Bowl.
And yeah, you're calling for the lague. Change the rules,
change egregious rules. Exactly, Saints got screwed out of a
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Super Bowl. NFL changed the rule, Dodgers Giants one hundred
and seven and one hundred and six wins had to
play each other on the wild card round. Changed the rule,
and an eighty eight win team went to the World Series.
And one of these you know, you make these guys
lose every single weekend of their lives between April and October,
and the least you could do was reward him for it. Hey,
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way to go, way to win those one hundred and
six games. We're going to make sure the two of
you have every opportunity to meet in the NLCS. Let's
figure out how to do that in a postseason bracket.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Smoother than Jose. Jose, what a commentary, and we'll be
back with sports talk. It was the Saints. Yeah, and
the Rams went and Steve Mason went and rode the train.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
And that was the one they lost to the Patriots
after scoring like three points. I hope so I wish
they had lost the other one too. Yeah, you and
me both.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
It's Ham five seventy LA Sports You're Home of the
Dodgers podcast, a show on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Network streaming live. Wouldn't have had that sweet parade though.
You know, the parade was very meaningful. It's incredible. Less
than a week away Thursday. It is the finale of
the twenty twenty four PMS Summer Tour campaign. Our dear
friend Steve van Dorn joined us yesterday gave away a
pair the signature Vans said they're going to be in
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enough a bunch of bans to give away one of
the grand prizes a year of Vans, one pair a month,
twelve total pairs, thousand dollars, a Living Spaces gift card,
a sixty five inch Westinghouse TV, two nights Day in
Vegas at an MGM resort property with a hundred bucks
in food and drink credits and one hundred dollars gas card,
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four pack to our private Christmas Party at Disney California Adventure.
Like you're an employee at iHeartRadio five nights, wish? Oh
you so wish? Can't I hire somebody new every day?
You might be tomorrow right, and then you can pass
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them on to a friend because you're an employee and
they ain't, but they could be to day after that.
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Hilton Hawaiian Village five sparkling pools and Wykiki's longest water slide.
Which is what you should be looking for in Hawaii? Well,
isn't there a one with a train? What has a train?
(36:42):
Not ours? Okay? But that one's that one sucks? Well,
the train sucks.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Man that anything that that might that might have given
us like a couple of weeks off doing uh interviews for.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Them with marketing directors Yeah, you know, it's just there
is that on that train. Yeah, that's that's the Marriotte. Yeah,
that is our competition. That though that place sucked.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Yeah, train was dirty. It was like the Metro guy
crouched down with a knife.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
All right, Matt, brought to you by your so called
Toyota dealers. We make it easy, Kates.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
The bullpen has gassed quote unquote, Oh for real, who
could have seen this coming?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:29):
What about that, mister Moto, Kates, master of the obvious.
Everybody knows the bullpen has gas.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
But why hey, mister Moto, everybody knows mister Moto means
master the obvious. All right, don't be so Moto when you.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Talk, kindly removed bottle boy cold kindly remove them yourself,
mister Moto. How are we gonna make money this October?
My Mia, I'm gonna have to fire Ronnie.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
You just keep letting things off. Fire that along goes off,
you know, it's all Ronnie, He's going to get fired.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
If you hear a faint rattling sound behind you during
the show today, it's probably coming from the Diamondbacks camp
because they're only.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Two games back. Feel the rattle of the d Rattlesnakes
were something when you were a kid that really scared
the piece of terrible, terrifying. I mean before Anti Conda
swallowed up John Voice. Yeah, before like BoA's became a
thing where, yeah, you're sleeping in that Boa that lives
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in the apartment above.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
The Rattlesnake was to the Snakes what the Doberman was
of the eighties, exactly.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Doberman's gonna bite your balls, seventies Cobra. The Cobra was seventies. Yeah,
fan that neck out.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
I'm sipping Jim Beam and listening to Vic and is
he I love this country. Yesterday was a great launch
pad if you want to podcast it, It's up there
on the iHeartRadio app. Tim's been on it. He's been
working hard all week. Jesus, enough of the crying over
the end of achieving Dodgers yet again, cry baby, bitch,
show a record and it's not even close.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Well, you know, it's hard to push back on that.
It does sound like we did say, it is bitching
and mooning and pitching a fit, but it's also a message.
I like to think the bitching is is coupled with
a message to the Dodgers front office and manager of Hey,
leave the starters in, they get lit up in the seventh.
Don't care, just for once, let the guy pitch into
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a hundred to one hundred or more.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
This says Kate's is a guy at a funeral that says, wow,
he's gone looking at the casket.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
A little more of it on a Friday. But we'll
tell you.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Zorro movie too, well, she's a Spaniard playing Mexicans.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Anthony Anthony Hopkins.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
That's true. Zita Jones, that is true. And Tonio Vindaris,
he's your spaniard. The RAMS parade was still better than
hosted a draft party at the mall. Suck it, you bitch, Hey,
shut up. That was a great draft party. And it
was in West LA, which is impossible to get to.
And Brandon Staley was in a suit and designer shoes.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Nothing was awesome. We had like the Cinnamon TJ. Cinnamons
right above us. It was amazing.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
It says Money's the guy on D Day telling everyone
on the boat that they're gonna done.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
That's true. I am now. I hope you guys are
ready for this rug and get it's blowing off. You
know what's gonna happen here. Look at those guns. We're
all dead. Look you know what you're looking at right now?
A corpse your eyes on right now? Dead man, That's
what I am. Look around, there's two hundred of us
in here. Only two of us are getting out of it.
Which two is it gonna be? Eh?
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Tell Fred to please stay in his lane. He's talking
about adult performers needing to wear condoms. Excuse me, nobody
wants to hear Fred talking about male porn stars or
female porn stars for that matter.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
What else he talking about? Issue? Man? Fred lost his
mind today? About what I think?
Speaker 1 (41:11):
He just came out of the bathroom with only his
puzza in his hand. There was no gun behind the
old timey pull toilet, oh boy, and he didn't have anything.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
So he just decided to go in on an issue
for him that that was on the books like twelve
years ago.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
That may have been confirmed by Ronnie in my ear
right now that Fred brought a squirt gun to the
gunfight to the But thank you for listening, everybody. We
sure appreciate you. On this frog Man Friday, we.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Bring a bazouki to the gunfight every week. A Bazuki
is right.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
He's right up there side, and you could take that
cookie and put it up put it up here.