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Dodgers in Think and down the Green.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Petrosin Money, Trosen Money, Rosen Money. Yeah, okay, shucking down
and not unbelievable. I don't crack ease you in.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I don't crack eas you in. I don't crack ease
the under pressure.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I don't crack. He's the under pressure.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
PRIs Puss Puss really really really really really I can't
tell you how many like big time interviews I've turned down.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Really really, I double up Beijing, be.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Sitting here during the breaks, trying to find somewhere to eat.
He wants to go to Carls Junior and I told
him that's a walk up in burd Bank Gates.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah, there's a Panda Express.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Uh do you want to go?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I don't think I can do that. I forgot I
had my physical today, so I fasted. I didn't even
have breakfast this morning. You're freaking out right now. I
cannot put Panda Express in my body in an empty stomach.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
That can hour and.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
A half commute home.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Oh you'll be fun.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
That is terribly That's a stop at the Commerce casino.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It's gonna stay. It's gonna get you all rocked up.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So I ain't gonna get me rocked up like the rock.
Going to old Foods is getting to Marguerite pizza? Is
that what you're gonna do? Something? Come on, Matt, I
got nothing in my stomach.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh you've been you know what? You get all these
wind in your jaws doing all these freaking faster there's
nowhere to go every day. Fast food story, Bang, fast
food story Bang. I like fast Green, Burrito, Carls Junior, Bank,
Dell Taco, number one bank.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I looked bank, AFC Pizza Hut. You know, I looked
at each bank. I found the Carls Junior. And then
you said, no drive through. I'll take an island park.
There's one right there. We're waiting for you, right there
in Frogtown. Say there's one right off the five of
Atlant What about it Reeks.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
There is a Carls Junior that's got to drive through
in Burbank, just one run by Tommy's. It's the green
Burrito in Carls Junior. It's gotta drive through. I'm gonna
give this.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
What I like to do is I get the big
half bar burrito and then I get those zucchinis. That's
not the one on Hollywood Way.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
No, no, no, this is the one that's up on
the hill by in and Out.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
How far from the five freeways. It's right fifteen minutes away.
Oh yeah, I see that can't happen. There is a.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Panda that's on Pass Avenue about half a mile the pandas.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
No, there's a.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Panda Express in Pasadena that wraps it up in a
How does that help me? Yeah, Counties Pasadena help me.
But it's wrapped up like a burrito, so you know,
in a tortilla, you know.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
No green brito. That doesn't help me. It's a commune
take in a two ten home train. Something new, Thank
you cheese.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Oh, there's a raising caves right down all of here.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You can't go to cans yes, but when they have
security and a traffic cop you know you're in for
a launch.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Trying to send Matt to the subway that looks like
a photo Matt, and he was like, no, I go
to the other one by the Little Caesars.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
That's depressing people coming out of the Little Caesars. You
want to see some people.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
What's wrong with pizza? Pizza?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
What's wrong with a Little Caesars. I'm just saying, like,
when I go to that subway, man, it's like.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yoshi Noya is the fast food of the poor. That
Little Caesars is the pizza of the pool.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Like I just see people coming out with the hot
and ready and the pizza bytes. Yeah, and they just
look like, yeah, man, I get it. I just spend
five bucks on my lunch. And that's this is what
I've got a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Of Instagram feeds celebrate what Pizza Hut used to be
with those salad bar, salad bar, those sweet plastic cups,
the red Hucks, you know, just the whole vibe.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
But they had the like the pool table light you
know that you would see everywhere blast over the alid bar.
It was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Tiffany lamps, yes, and and just the gorgeous breadsticks with
the cheese fantastic. Those was a different time. It was
pizza hut was class and now pizza huts like you
have to order like a weird dresser drawers of Hey.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
We've got many hot dogs in the crust.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, why don't you open the drawer? Yeah, what's the cardboard?
Is there a dresser of food? Are we that fat?
I mean?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
My god? Yeah? Anyway, we put hot dogs and cheese
steaks in our crusty.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And Katie wants you to wrap a burrito around you whatever,
wrap my pandas Yeah, okay, yeah, thanks Katie. Be a
long week, kay, you're telling me.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And enjoying my staycasion.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Hey, why don't you go to Pasadena for a for
a fast food place?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And there's story between here and there?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
God, yeah, Katie, geez, it's like playing with my brothers kids.
It's time for the flip top story that I will
look you out. This is the flip top story of
the day. Oh college football Week zero, Matt, it was
a real to do. I don't know if you saw
those guys drinking the guinness in Ireland. I did.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
We did watch the game from the booth, so I did.
That was the one game I was able to watch
Georgia Tech. We were rooting for the Go Jackets.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, everybody's saying there that Mike Norvell blew the game,
and it's like they got physically beat up. Seemed like
DJ took a lot of incoming online dj Uwei and
Galle is kind of the slow playing dude that he
has been at Clemson and Oregon State.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Just not spectacular. They were like, this dude was rated
over CJ.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Stroud, CJ Stroud and Bryce Young too, right, I mean,
and all those guys are in their second year starting
in the NFL, and DJ had to take big money
from Florida State because that's where the money is for
him right now. I'm not saying he doesn't have an
NFL future, but she's the sneeze. But it wasn't even him.
I mean, they got beat up. They couldn't stop Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It's kind of fun watching him run.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
They couldn't stop Georgia Tech running the ball. Georgia Tech
needed to drive to win the game. The game was tied,
they drove to win the game. That's how they played
the whole game.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Mat You being that kicker on a flight home from
Ireland if you miss a game winning forty four yard er. Instead,
you're on a flight home from Ireland as a dude
that booted the game winner.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
The spear is going to have a long trip home.
That's flaming spears. That's a long trip home. My New
Mexico team blew it, even though they had the Blue
FCS Montana State by the balls. My Nevada team blew
it even though they had SMU and their acc debut
by the balls. And I stayed up late Saturday one.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I have New Mexico versus Nevada in week one? What
do you have? Nevada?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
New Mexico in week One's ruined it for me. But
I do like the bottom of my Mountain West. I'd
like to see him get some wins. You know, I
was impressed with that Nevada coach when I met him.
Choated and you know I'm always rooting for New Mexico. Matt.
I love the Kirk ever since Bob Davey was there,
well ever since I was at the pit. But I
stayed up Rocky Long, Bob Davy, Rocky Long. That let
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the chick kick. That was awesome. I stayed up late
Saturday watching Hawaii football play the lonesome, weary traveling Delaware
State team, the HBCU Delaware.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
State Hornets not from Delaware.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Delaware State. They are from Delaware, OK. And they missed
their flight and it took them three and they get
stuck in the bathroom extra days. Then late Shuttle missed
their flight to JFK's. They got back into Hawaii a
day later, and the game kicked at midnight Eastern time
for them.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
So it's tough too. It was only on Spectrum Sportsnet.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
However, I found an app that carried it and I
did not have to pay, So that's money in my pocket, congratulations.
I watched on a betting channel where the guy said
this is how I watch Hawaii games, and I followed
the instructions and it was those two guys that sit
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in Vegas that look like they haven't seen the sun
in forever.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
It's funny because obviously, when you're chasing it, you're betting Hawaii.
It's the last game of the night. You've had a
terrible day and now you're loading up on the Hawaii game,
so all the betters watch Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Timmy Chang tweeted out a picture of the Circa Sports
Bar and said last game of the day, and he's
the head coach in Hawaiian Here we are, but Hawaii
did look pretty sloppy as far as this weekend against
UCLA Gos. Ucla matt will be bigger, they'll be stronger,
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they will be faster than the Rainbow Warriors. But Hawaii
has an identity. They run the run and shoot with
Timmy Chang, and they have their quarterback.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I hope Timmy Chang hasn't said anything bad about the
Sean Foster.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
It's going to be bad. But that's the thing. Hawaii's
got a good quarterback, really good guy named Brayden Schegar.
He's from a little place called and let's see if
you have any kind of memory, it'll play. In Dallas, Texas,
the area known as Highland.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Park, surrounded by Squalor. Highland Park is an oasis in
the Dallas metroplex area.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It's also the same high school that two of the
greats of all time.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I don't know if you're aware of it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I'm not. I'd like to be told.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Clayton Kershawn Matthew Stafford played football together.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
No, but this dude, Shangar had thirty five hundred yards
last year. He's a good player at Hawaii. Yeah, okay,
and he's got great feet, arm talent. He runs six
three two twenty. I was impressed with him. I mean
he's running around with Delaware State guys chasing him around.
But he had a good year last year and looks
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pretty good, so he'll be a challenge for the Bruins.
Also interesting, Hawaii's defensive coordinator Dennis Thurman from Santa Monica
High School. Is that All American at USC All Pro
with the Dallas Cowboys. I think you wont a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
There, Star of Hard Knocks when he was with the Jets. Yeah,
Dt was run on that season a hard knock.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
He recruited me at USC and was one of the
closest football people I had to me for many years.
So it's fun to see him.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Seemed like he was very well liked.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah. Well, you know, you bring a twelve to play
dominoes into the dorm room at.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Night, and that's my guy.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
That's you see coach out at the club and he's
got a cigar, and he catches you, and you catch him,
and you both kind of turn away, quarter turn away.
We understand each other. UCLA should man handle Hawaii. But
Hawaii has a new identity. I mean, Hawaii has an identity,
and UCLA's identity is all new.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
They have new coach. Don't talk about him. You're going
to beat you. Wo's gonna be bad'll be bad.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
They have a new coordinator on offense and defense to
the Bruins. So who knows.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Anyway, I scout at Hawaii on an app for you.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
And noticed you watch it on your phone, watch it
on my phone on your phone with my head on
the bed landscape style, laying like on the side, and
I watched Hawaii's stilted white running back do almost nothing.
Reminded me very much of myself.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Who had a big speaking of white running backs.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
So there's a ninety five yard run from a white
running back in Montana State against that won the game.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Against Oh and your guy Carson Steele had a weak
Bowl over. I know, it's like the second time to
keep bringing people back. Yeah, Carson Steele's getting a real
puzzo grease. And because he's a because he's a chief, right,
he had good he had a good app And.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
You know one of the headlines were the Chiefs. Matt.
We're going to talk to Eric Sondheimer this hour you
can kill the Hawaiian music. Eric Sondheimer the La Times
Our Friend, and Steve Fryar the OC Register, and Trek
Fatel from Sports Illustrated the holy trinity of high school
coverage here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
California, Houston. That was incredibly unfortunate or interesting.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Well, there's a few things.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
First of all, players have been warned that if they're
going to go out there with their dirty knees with
no knee pads, out there trying to look all stylish,
pulling their pants up over their knees, which has happened
for many years, and not wearing their mouthpieces, They're gonna
be in trouble.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
We're just here to protect you.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Double secret probation for you guys not wearing your knee
pads and not wearing your mouthpieces and keep your teeth.
I mean, in the mission Viejo Santa Margarita game, three
players from Santa Margarita were sent to the sideline because
their knees were out. And this is like nineteen thirties.
We want to see those female knees.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
No knees.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Another story to come out of the first weekend of
high school football. Is what happened to the press box
during the modern day Corona PA announcer at sant Ana Stadium.
Monarch Mike, I believe is his name, was on a
hot mic being critical of the Monarch's defensive player on
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the school's live feed with colorful language. Nearly one thousand
people watching. That is not the sound, but we do it.
Took us a while to have it. Oh, we got
this the archdiocese. You know, they bury it. They carry
the sound.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Tar for tel got it for us.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Thank you, tark Ftel founded for us. He's a friend
of the show, isn't he? Thank you tark Here it
is the modern day PA guy Monarch Mike Monarch Mike
on the mic getting loose.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Yeah, pass intended for number eleven Tyler, George incomplete, cuddly
markers down, turn around, your dumb ass read it his eyes.
I don't know why I'm calling a sixteen year old
a dumb ass. It's kind of kind of redundant. May
there's more ass hat.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
That was a.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
So the other part of that, I'm sure you saw it.
It was a bootleg feed to the illegal feed. They
modern day can't be running their own. It goes against
the CIF thing.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
They gotta find six hundred dollars they think they are, huh,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
It's more ass hat.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That was a you're evens fine to run the NHWS
network out there, Kylin. He's out calling games and you're
trying to run a backdoor feed. So we can't hear
Colin call Modern Day v Centennial.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Yeah, yeah, pass intended for number eleven Tyler George incompletely
markers down, turn around, you dumb ass his eyes.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
A sixteen year old, the dumb ass.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
What I don't understand is this guy's calling this game live.
Did he think he closed his mic there? Or is
he just like having like a fun alternative broad down.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
He's just an idiot. I think he didn't realize. Oh wait,
I'm doing I'm doing the boot leg feed eat as
well for all of our Oh so he was doubling up.
He was doubling up, I think the PA and they've
got him on the feed. So somebody over at Modern
Day overthought it. Yeah, dumb ass. Actually more like an
ass hat.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Hey, I think that kids got his knees.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Out, kind of kind of redundant. Here's more ass hat.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
That was a Yeah, Yeah, that kid's an ass hat.
Yeah what do you do?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
High school?
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Pa Tool Turronia, dumb ass read his eyes?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
You turn around, dumb ass. You think that guy's getting
back in the booth this week?
Speaker 5 (15:37):
I don't know why I'm calling it six.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh yeah, he probably got a raise.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You know what, though, they are going to play bodies
with him.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Okay, thank you, Tark Turronia, dumb ass reading his eyes.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
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the top story of the day, top story of it.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Well, both sides of the coin is what we're doing
in the top story of the day. Here the good,
the bad, the ugly. So I guess that would be
three sides. Yeah, it's side, and then I guess it's
the edge of the coin as well, because you get
a quarter or something else. Oh, it's like stand out
on its Met DiCaprio movie before Allen Page became a dude, Right,
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Braves have to go twenty and twelve to hit ninety
wins the Mets twenty two to nine for the Mets.
That is a seven to ten win percentage not happening.
The break by the name six twenty five not as bad,
but about one hundred points higher than their current five
thirty eight win percentage over the course of the season.
And the Dodgers have to winning another series this past weekend.
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According to the playoff Predictor, which we know might as
well be gospel in the world of baseball, come on,
greater than ninety nine point nine percent is what it
sits at to make the postseason.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Oh well, they'd better make the postseason otherwise we're going
to get a new painting at Don Martin.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
They will. I don't know that one looks very s
thirty time Press sing. All they would have to do
is go twelve to nineteen to hit ninety wins, which,
as I just detailed, looks like we'll get you in
as the third wild Cards. So they're in winning the division,
though could take a little bit of work, especially at
the end of this week, starting Friday with that four
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game series against the Diamondbacks, who apparently don't lose, or
when they do lose, like getting swept in Tampa to
start their nine game road trip. They win six in
a row, bouncing back from that mess to sweep both
the Marlins and Red Sox to close the road ye
on the East Coast in the Eastern time zone that
started so disastrously.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Underestimating the Snakes has not been a good thing. No,
the Dodgers this calendar year and the last Snakes are dangerous.
Snakes will get you, and you gotta watch out. You
gotta wear your high tops and your socks and shoes.
You can't just be walking around all cavalier barefoot through
the tulips, right tiptoeing and laughing.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
There's a reason why there's signs up that say, don't
chase your golf ball into the brush. There are snakes here.
They will bite you and you'll die. It is beginning
to feel well, I shouldn't say feel It doesn't feel
like twenty twenty one, because both teams were on track
to win the most games in the history of their franchises,
the Giants and the Dodgers. Feels like the first time,
but it does look similar. It is similarly beginning to
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play out like twenty twenty one. Should this hold and
neither the Dodgers nor the Diamondbacks lose, they very well
will finish with the best record in the National League
and the second best record in the National League. One
of them will get a bye into the divisional round,
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and the other one will end up having to play
the second best wild card team, which right now looks
like the Padres, also an incredibly good team that has
played great baseball as of late, and is now getting
healthy with the return of Joe Musgrove and the return
of you Darvish and the return of Fernando Tatis. And
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that's how this could all shake out. So here's the issue.
I don't like it, Mike.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
What don't you like Matt? What can we do.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Here's because let's not forget some of the stuff that
we had been talking about over the last month, the disappointment,
the in injuries, The hell is going on with this
training staff? What is going on with the front office
when they construct the pitching staff. Why can't they sign
guys that don't get hurt? Why are they putting guys
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through their minor league system, calling them up and every
single one of them get hurt? What is derailing this
Dodgers organization from finding a path to health success? We
talk about the absence of Max months. How is this
guy that strained his oblique all of a sudden getting
some sort of magic backcracking to reappear having been gone
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for four months, and now all of a sudden, he's
gonna come back in the middle of August and everything's
gonna be fine, and he's just gonna slip right back
into the lineup and start jacking home runs from day one.
It's been an odd year, it has, But unfortunately the
odd year is now back to being a standard Dodger
regular season year where you've got in the conversation. Even
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though he went through a slump for the majority of August,
up to this point one of the most and I
think if you talk to super seam headed seamheaders, the
show Aotani getting forty forty before the end of August
is truly one of the most incredible accomplishments in the
history of baseball. It's one thing to be just one
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of six players that have ever done it in an
entire season, but the fact that this guy has done
it before the end of August, hell before the twenty
fifth of August, that he was able to post those
numbers that took Ronald Kunya to the damn last game
of the season nearly in order to become the fifth.
He's done it before the start of the final month
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of the season, in over thirty games left on the schedule.
That is going to be a lock for the MVP,
and as they continue to get healthy. I was being
sarcastic about the Max monthly thing because he came back
immediately started hitting. Mookie Betts missed a month and a
half two months, came back, immediately started hitting. The Dodgers
are going to finish out the regular season and yet
again have the expectations to win a World Series because
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they will finish the National League regular season with the
best record a by the number one seed, and they
are likely to go into the postseason without their two
best pitchers, at least being stretched out and totally ineffective.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
You don't seem to be worried about the Snakes breathing
and licking the back of their legs.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I think it's best case scenario if they do pee.
I think best case is that they don't win the division,
that they go. As crazy as it may sound, these
last two years I believe have crippled the psyche of
the Dodgers. Posting the best record, getting a buye into
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the second round, losing in humiliating fashion three straight to
the Padres, getting swept without even winning a game, including
the humiliation of Clayton Kershaw against the Diamondbacks last year,
have seriously cut the legs out from under these Dodgers
going into the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I have the hard ground on.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Again, I don't have the answer. I don't know whether
or not it's better to skip around, whether it's better
to sneak in the back door as a wild card,
but certainly we have seen wild card teams win World Series.
The Diamondbacks just humiliated the Dodgers last year as a
wild card team and made the World Series. The Phillies
did it the year before against the Astros, So whatever,
it just feels like the expectations in a year in
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which four fifths of their starting rotation has been gone
for the majority of the season. At one point the
Oos tell exactly right. I mean, we knew that you'd
have to say it. I don't know what you're talking about.
So that's look. You got show hay incredible, the best record.
Now you're on the hook with the Snakes right there
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with you, feeling like twenty twenty one all over again.
We'll finish with this the Freddie Freeman comments about Jason
Hayward what he's meant to the young guys, and this
is where the red flag is raised. It's not all numbers, man.
There's heart beats in that clubhouse. It's not just obp's
and exit vlos. It's chemistry, man. It's not righty versus
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lefty off the bench. And I would like to point
out yesterday to popouts and a ground in a double play. Yeah,
good thing. You got him called up right away. God
forbid you wait till September one to get that. Got
to make sure you have it. On August twenty fifth,
let's get the two popouts, not flyouts, popouts and they
grounded into double play. Now, I was flying on Saturday,
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so I was following along with the dots and dashes
and shroops inside the green box because I could not
get the stream to work. I did see Chris Taylor's
name in the box score, but I was not able
to dig up what he did. Did he have an
official at bat? Did they call him up? Put him
in the on deck circle? And then when the race switched,
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pitchers were like, Nope, come on back down, because it
looks as though he didn't watch. I saw him standing
over there a couple of times. That's the only thing
I can think of is that maybe he was placed
in the on deck circle and then was pulled back
after the Rays made a pitching change. But so far
since they have a showed Jason Hayward for Chris Taylor
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zero for three, two popouts and they grounded into double play. Well,
that kind of scrutiny's not going to help el Ratton
get better. It is not because there's not a single
specific situation you could submit that would suggest it was
something that screamed, pushed the button. Hey, hey, Kit Taylor
here now. We can't wait. It hasened until September. First,
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get him here now. Hasn't felt that way in years now.
It's been years since people were like, hey Chris Taylor. Yeah,
you know it's been it's been a while. Yeah. It
was a four year, sixty million dollars deal in twenty
twenty two, following his age thirty one season, taking him
through his age thirty five season doing Andrew. They were
so high on Taylor, what are we doing? They even
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added a team option that would make it a five
year deal. Why we brought this up on Thursday? I
hate to do the Sherman, mister Peabody way back machine,
but again, mister Dodger Corey Seeger, drafted in the first
round out of high school eighteenth overall, developed through their
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incomparable farm system, dominates the minor leagues, shows up as
a twenty one year old September call up. Again, God
forbid you add Chris Taylor in September when you can
expand rosters as a September call up and breaks Bill
Russell's record by reaching base safely in his first sixteen
starts as a twenty one year old September call up.
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It's three thirty seven four dollars seventeen ribies and is
the youngest position player to start a playoff game in
Dodger history.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Wake me up, win September end.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
And after that all he does is win an NLCSMVP,
a World Series MVP, and they offer him off the
twenty twenty one season, eight years, two hundred and fifty
million bucks thirty one point two five million per season,
a monster contract his home, well not his hometown, but
Texas comes in with ten years, three twenty five and
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all that's going to cost the Dodgers is two extra
years and an extra seventy five million. If only there
was a way to find seventy five million more dollars
to give. Oh wait, huh, that's the Chris Taylor min
How what do you know the sixty eight million bucks
they decided to give Chris Taylor would have probably done it,
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and they blew.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
But then you don't get what you're getting from Chris Taylor.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Two pop ups and to grounded into double play at
an unofficial at bat because I think he got through
the undecked circle, and they were like nope, called him
back into the dugout. I would like to point out
the season that he was coming off. He hit two
fifty four with twenty homers, and he led the Dodgers
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with one hundred and fifty seven strikeouts that led the
team by forty seven. He had forty seven more strikeouts
that season Druggle than Max Munsey, your son's favorite player.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
And that ended up giving them on seventy million dollars
for the Taylor family.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
No Corey Seeger and seventy million bucks for the Taylor family.
And to call up on August twenty second, I feel
like instead of September first.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Looking back, maybe not the best decision.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Well since then, in the two plus seasons he signed
that deal, he's hit two twenty one, two thirty seven
in this season, won sixty uh. His war from his
best in the high fours twenty seventeen season, when Andrew
Friedman was lauded for finding this nugget for digging the
ct out when they traded for him. Has gone from
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in the force to two point seven in the contract year,
to point five to one point three to this year's
unthinkable negative point nine. The stat that most people read
more than others war wins above replacement. A replacement level
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player is one win better than Chris Taylor is this season.
If you put a replacement level the other twenty fifth
man on your roster is worth one more win than
Chris Taylor has been worth this year. And there he
was yesterday announcing his return. Proudly, defiantly won more of
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those and then a double play ground out grounded into
double play two popouts. I guess they know more than
we do. Apparently, maybe he just needs to get back
into the rhythm of the season, and they would prefer
his bat off the bench to Jason Haywards, who has
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a pinchhit Grand Slam and a pinchit walk off home
run as well this season.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Why you don't need that kind of stuff in the
postseason and inspiration? No, maybe you don't need that. You
don't need someone that Freddie Freeman says, you cannot place
a value on the impact that Jason Hayward has had
on the young guys on this roster.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
We have this very expensive rodent that we're going to
carry it. We must bring Elvertone back.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
We need him.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
We can't wait till September. First, We've got to call
him up immediately so we can get his legs back
under him over these eight days, of which he started
one game of the three this weekend. So way to go.
May the matchups present themselves in the perfect way for
you to legitimize this incredibly interesting decision.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Well, there is your top story of the day. We'll
be right back with Eric Sondheimer talk about the world
of high school football in town modern and Bosco.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Who will challenge cat you some money? A five to
seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. No
Dodger game tonight, start a series with the Orioles tomorrow,
but David Vessey will be along at seven pm for
off day Dodger Talk. Mike Soosha will be one of
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his guests. As a matter of fact, we'll stick around
for that.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
We have one man to check in with when it
comes to the high school football world in southern California.
Tet his finger all the way on the pulse for
the La Times Prep Rider forty years, four decades covering
Friday night lights and beyond the one and only Eric Sondheimer,
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our hero from the La Times on.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
X at LA. T Sondheimer, he.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Follows us and he joins us right now in your
Southern California Toyota Dealer celebrity hotline.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Where is he?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Where was he?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Where's he going? What's cracking?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Eric? How's it going?
Speaker 7 (32:19):
It's going great. Had a great first week of high
school football, went to three games and was exhausted, but
it was invigorating.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Do you like this early start? I mean we used
to go after Labor Day and then start like normal people.
Do you enjoy this early start? And why do we
start so early now? Is it so teams can travel
to Florida? What are we doing?
Speaker 7 (32:38):
It's a good point. All the schools have kind of
moved it up based on the academics and ending it
before June. So that's kind of the way it's been.
You know, we really don't find out about the teams
until September. I agree with you, so, but it's fun.
They practice year round anyway, so it doesn't really matter
when they start. They're ready to go, and it's this
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good chance to see some of the freshmen get out
there and play immediately. But we'll learn more about these
teams as the season goes on.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Definitely, what three games did you go to?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Eric?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
And what did you see?
Speaker 7 (33:12):
Yeah, I started out with Centennial and modern Day. You know,
these two teams are always great. And the offense of
the defensive line play, you can just notice it's separate.
It separates them from everybody else Division one. If you
don't have lineman, you can't compete in Division one. The
battle on the trenches is amazing. Some of these lots
of these kids are going to go on to play
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college football. But modern Day is Modern Day. Under the
new coach, Royal Laura, they ran the ball well with
Jordan Davison, the new quarterback from Chaparral is going to
be a good player. And they have some huge people
there that They have a defensive lineman I can't pronounce
his name, number fifty two Samoan, who's a junior. He
should be in the NFL, for God's He's so big
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you can't even run by him. But then then I
went to Guardinas Tarren, Orange Lutherans Orange loosing quarterback TJ.
Latif didn't know about picking up a penalty. When you
try to hurtle somebody. He hurdles a guy that he
got a penalty. They want to missing. You can't do
that in high school you can still do that in college.
And then finally Missing Viejo and Santa Margherita. Missing Vieo
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has the best skilled positions of anybody, and if they
can get the linemen to go well, then they'll be successful.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Who is that receiver on Mission Viejo. I've heard someone
say he's the best. He might be the best football
player in Southern California. Marty Tadman, Well, they have two
good ones. Philip Bell.
Speaker 7 (34:34):
Yeah right, Philip Bell is down to Ohio State and USC.
He had a couple of touchdown receptions. But also, like
the junior Van Stafford, he's one of the fastest players
out there.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
So they are so.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
Loaded at Skoll people, two good quarterbacks, a great running back,
and their secondary is very good.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
You mentioned Orange Lutheran. Of course, it's Moscow and Modern
Day and that's been the matchup over a decade. It's
of been those guys, and no one can really challenge
a Minute's harder and harder for those teams to find
local teams to play outside of the Trinity League. You
mentioned Olu. Is there anybody out there that can give
Modern Day or Bosco a run for their money locally?
Speaker 7 (35:16):
I would just think that it's going to be Centennial.
I mean, they hung in there with Modern Day even
though they're starting quarterback who saw on longstreak who's committed
to Texas A and M did not play. The backup
quarterback did a fabulous jaw. Hanging in there, and they're
missing some players because of transfers and also injuries. So
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I would think that Centennial will be the one team
and then we'll see about Orange Luther And they still
have to keep improving. Their linemen are good, but they
need to get some other Their running back got hurt
and that's kind of the key. But I saw Bosco
on TV Saturday night. They were playing in Florida, and boys,
they played ten tenth graders and won that game with
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two freshmen also in the lineup. They are on the
way up. And as you said, it's nothing going to change.
Bosco and Modern Day are staying pretty pretty good.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
One thing that's pretty interesting is what's going on in
Newbury Park? Is this the most exciting newbury Park team
since the Wayne Cook days? Eric?
Speaker 2 (36:15):
What's going on up there?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
And why?
Speaker 7 (36:17):
Right? They seem to be good at quarterbacks Wayne Cook,
Keith Smith among others, and their quarterback is only a junior,
Brady Smigo, and they just have good skill position players.
But if you put them against you know, an Oaks Christian,
they would not be able to win. But for their level,
they're outstanding. And he's going to he's a committed to
Florida State. Just a really good athlete and he's starting
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to run this season exciting. If you can get a
chance to go out and see you we're a park
play I would because this guy is really exciting, can
throw the ball and they have some really good receivers too.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
I'm a concern about the city schools like you are.
We always are enrollment for Crenshaw High guys coming out
for the football team. You've been really good monitoring that
on your Twitter and in the paper. I know city
football is not as healthy as the cif not even close.
But are we going to be able to have a
productive season?
Speaker 7 (37:13):
Yes, we will. And what's interesting is they are focusing
on educating based high school sports. They are focusing on
getting these kids out of school and took college and
being adults. I'll give you one example. Hamilton this year,
they were desperate for a coach. The coach left the
last minute they hired Eliza Fonte, who you know well.
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He coached at Carson, he coached at Jordan, he coached
the Saint Paul one time. He went back to back
games against against Modern Day and he's out there teaching
them the fundamentals, how to tie a tie, how to tackle.
And they only scored a touchdown last week. But this
is a team that's going to go on the rise
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because they're learning so many life lessons and I think
that's with a lot of the coaches are doing in
the city sets, and it really is sacrificed. They don't
they don't have the talent of some of these other schools,
but they're getting better and Crenshaw will play on Friday
against Guardina. They've got enough players and so that's encouraging.
But the days of narbond Is dominating everybody outside those
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are gone. Now you just have to compete within your
own section.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
It's a great follow High school football is back at
La T. Sondheimer. So when the HgI M E R.
We always appreciate the updates checking in and you can
keep tabs on everything through social media. Eric, we certainly
appreciate all the work and we always appreciate you coming up.
Speaker 7 (38:38):
Yeah, thank you very much. I hope you had a
good surfing day.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
I did, Thank you, Eric. It's always a good surfing day.
But what did you talk about? Something important? Peninsula beat
out to Loma for God's sakes, fourteen.
Speaker 7 (38:50):
We could have a big palace Burdis versus Peninsula coming up.
That will be good.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Why don't you go see them there. We haven't won.
You should take it together, Pete.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
We haven't won that game since my little brother was
on the team and he's now he's got two kids.
Thank you, Eric, There he goes, Eric Sondheimer. We'll be
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