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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
That's that's not cool. That's that's not cool.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
You see the march, it couldn't be anything else.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
The coven in San Diego. We were giving the midget
but real workout. Bill was developing it to sell of
the Navy.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
He done a good job.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Screw you, Melon, Screw you, Melon, Screw you Melon. I
read long time for this. That's pretty said commentary on us.
Just keep it moving, Fred, I smell blood and an
era of evil prominent men. Jesus, Let's try again. All right,
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try it again, Hold on and do a couple more
of these. Okay, sucking down in nine, Okay, sucking down
in nine. I Smell Blood and an era of prominent
mad men. Cragging everybody, Welcome back, the third hour, and
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we go for about another hour and twenty of the
Petro Send Money Show on AM five seventy LA Sports,
your home of the Los Angeles Dodgers. We're talking about
one of the biggest series in the history of the
world tonight night Tonight, the Dodgers will take on the
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d Backs. Clayton Kershaw is on the Mound Dodgers on
dec At five thirty with Tim Kats. David Vassey's got
Freddie Freeman. Who's in the line up for your pre
and post? Max Munsey's in the lineup? Like you said,
Dawn hitting seventh. Those guys were rested and held back
while the Dodgers won the series against the Baltimore Orioles
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during the week and here for the weekend, they are
in Arizona. One hundred and seventy thousand tickets sold in
Arizona for the four game series. Everybody, it's a four
game series, right, everybody? Yes, absolutely freaking out And it's
hard to get a handle on my emotions. As you
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could tell, I'm all over the place. I just we
did an F one report. We will have a college
football whip around in the very next segment. Right after
we talked to Dave. Don't forget the tomorrow. We also
have college football action UCLA at Hawaii. Pregame is at
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two Kickoffice at four point thirty on AM eleven fifty.
I don't believe Tim Kates is involved anymore in the
use CLA broadcast down. You do not you divorced yourself
from the UCLA radio Maybe what six?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Eight? Well, okay, all right, and Kate's when did you
divorce yourself from UCLA radio?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Well, I still do the UCLA basketball postgame show.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
But oh, that's right, you're still in it.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Last year is my first year not doing it. It's
a good lord. It was a good long run.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
But that's like a twenty three year old run. Pretty long, Yeah,
pretty long. I mean you ran with the Bruins for
quit their kids. Uh So that is coming up this week,
and obviously college football started last night for Week one.
More games tonight and games all day Saturday. I'm probably
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doing the last one in the country on Saturday night,
which is my that's usually my custom ten thirties coast.
That's why me and the guys on the Twitter feed,
the college football sickos are like that real close, thickest
thieves after taking a stroll in the gentrified art district downtown.
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David Hassey is in place at the stadium ready to
rock and roll huge series. There's a lot of buzz
in the desert that we were just talking about. David
Vase from MLB Network, Spectrum Sportsnet, our wonderful radio station,
Anti seventy LA Sports, and of course at the Real
Underscore DV A hero to the people in Arizona on
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the so called Dealers Toyota Dealers Celebrity Hotline. Hello, Dave,
how are you?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I'm doing great. The Diamondbacks are out here taking batting
practice and even better news for the Dodgers, Freddie Freeman
is back in the starting lineup and we'll join us
on the pregame show.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, we heard about that. So what you were alleging
when you talked to Dave Roberts and a couple others
and talked to us yesterday that Freeman was being saved
and rested for this series and maybe even Max Munsey
and some others that kind of came to fruition. Am
I incorrect?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
No, one hundred percent, Petros. The Dodgers can say whatever
they want, but the mere fact is these four games
are bigger in the standings than those three against the Orioles.
And I will say this talking to Freddie, who also
spoke to reporters about an hour ago, the pain and
the control of throwing the baseball just wasn't good enough
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for him to perform, and he wasn't able to go
through his pregame routine, so that also factored in the equation.
So the Dodgers and Freddie agreed that it would be
the right move to rest it for those three games
against the Orioles and hopefully have it in a better
spot than it was four or five days ago. I
will tell you this. Freddy Freeman did reveal that he
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has been playing with a splint on his right middle
finger and it has been affecting his throws. He told
me that there was one play at Dodger Stadium where
he almost threw it into left field trying to throw
at a second base to start a double play, and
that was somewhat concerning to him. So the pain is
still there to a certain extent. He could play with pain,
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but he is not going to play with a splint
tonight on that right middle finger. So he's able to
control the throws better, and that was somewhat surprising to
him because he felt like gripping a bat was going
to be more difficult. But it's actually the throws that
were affected by playing with that splint.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
That's what I was going to ask you, Dave. So
it doesn't affect his hitting at all. Has he talked
about that?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well, it was. It was affecting his hitting because the
results weren't there. He was three for twenty three since
the microfracture in that right finger, so it was and
the pain was becoming a problem. Dealing with the finger
was becoming a problem. And these three days, he said,
have helped him be able to pair for games by
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going through his pregame routine, not just fielding, but taking
VP in the cage before games. He wasn't able to
do that and he felt like that affected him in games.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Dave, You're no stranger to baseball in that part of
the world. You've covered a whole bunch of spring trainings there,
and of course the d Backs are the hometown team.
They've sold a bunch of tickets. They're feeling good about
their team, they feel great about what happened last year
in the playoffs. What's the buzz locally there in Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
A lot of excitement over this team and over this series. Petros,
I'm curious to see how many Dodger fans are going
to overtake Chase Field because this has been notoriously one
of those road cities that Dodger fans make the drive,
and it is an extended holiday weekend, so you would
imagine that a lot of Dodger fans are going to
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make the trip, especially for tomorrow night's game, which is
the hottest ticket in town. It's a little bit east
here to get tickets to Sunday afternoon and Monday afternoon,
but Tomorrow night is supposed to be the biggest crowd.
And for the Dodgers, you know, talking to people around
the team, they would like to see this team really
show that savage type of attitude that we grew accustomed
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to seeing when they were really building their championship run
in twenty sixteen and twenty six seventeen, and it really
went to the world championship level in twenty twenty. So
that's what everybody's looking for, not the nice Dodgers. Everybody's
looking for the savage Dodgers to really make a statement
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and let the Diamondbacks know that, Yeah, big brother is back.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Do you get the sense, Dave, being around the team
that that's the caates like from the players that you
talked to, that they're ready for this and that they're
they understand the importance of this series.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Well, the Dodgers aren't really talking too much about it,
don and honestly, everybody around the team is looking to
see how they perform tonight. If you could talk all
you want about it, but everybody doesn't know how it's
going to look. And that's the one thing everybody around
the team that isn't playing in the game is anticipating.
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How are these guys going to react to a team
that not only is just four games back in the
NL West this year and the hottest team in baseball,
but certainly where was the team that swept them out
of the postseason last year unceremoniously in the first round.
Are they going to remember that? Are they going to
take that personal? You can't have Travis Smith, the Dodgers
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strength coach, have the most energy and the savage attitude
in the dugout and not have the players in uniform
have that as well. So everybody's looking to see if
it's no more mister nice guy in Arizona.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Oh yeah, Alice Cooper just to have a restaurant out
there too. No more mister clean all right, Dave? What
is the tail of the tape?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Though?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Between the two teams, who should win?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
The Dodgers should handle the Diamondbacks in this series. Obviously
it's going to be tough against Zach Gallen. But keep
in mind, I know we always focus on Dodger injuries,
but the Diamondbacks are not at full strength with some
key players. Dodger killer Christian Walker has been out for
a number of weeks with an oblique strain. He is
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not playing. They got Josh Bell at first base tonight,
who we were watching throw the baseball. You want to
test that guy and his throwing ability. They are without
MVP candidate to tell Marte, and also their catcher who
made his name well known in La Gabrielle Moreno, he
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is not in the starting lineup tonight either. He's out
with an injury. So they're missing three big pieces to
their lineup. So if you're looking at the tail of
the tape, the Dodgers have their lineup fully intact. While
the Diamondbacks are without some three big players.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
What do you expect out of Kershaw tonight, Dave.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Well, this is a place, even at Kershaw's height of
powers made him human. This has not been a friendly
place to Clayton Kershaw. We'll have to see how his
command is and how is the feel for his curveball is,
because that's been the biggest key to his success this year,
is being able to get that curveball over not only
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for strike three, but also for strike one. So this
is not a place that has been a house of
horrors for Kershaw, but like I said, it's made him
human even when he was at his best.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
David Vasse is our guest. He is on the scene
all weekend long and in his ground zero for big
time baseball being played. Dodgers first to eighty victories, but
still in a crazy pennant race with the Dads and
the pesky Arizona Diamondbacks, and that is what's happening a
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four game series in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. Well, Dave, let's
say the Dodgers don't perform great. How do they make
that not derail and deflate them for the rest of
the season. I mean, this is very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, this is somewhat of a statement series. As far
as the Dodgers themselves, how are they going to react
to a team that punked them in the playoffs last
year and has a winning record against them this year?
The Dodgers only have a losing record against two teams
in the division, and it's the two teams that have
knocked them out of the first round each of the
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last two years, these Diamondbacks and also the Padres. And
right now, the way it's set up, Petros and Don
if the Dodgers maintained the best record in the National League,
they would play the winner of a best of three
between the Padres and Diamondbacks. So there's a very good
chance the Dodge c Arizona again in the NLBS. And
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if you get this team some confidence going into a
playoff series against you, that could be dangerous. And that's
what a lot of people that have been around this
team since twenty sixteen are looking for. I'm looking at
Max Munsey right now as the Dodgers are coming out
for their stretch. He has the scowl that the Dodgers
need in this series. No more mister Knight's guy. I
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keep saying that, But Petros, we did the show together.
I stress that you can't be a nice team and
win in the postseason.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Well, speaking of that, Dave, as you know, it's been
well documented on this show that I have a history
of exterminating Rattlesnake. No doubt has there been any talk
of if tonight doesn't go well, of bringing me in.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
PK Hernandez, What he's talking to somebody walking by? Just
he just punched my ass really hard. There's a savage
that knows how to play. Sorry. I know about your
Rattlesnake extermination. Don, what's the analogy?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Well, if things don't go well tonight, do you bring
me in for the last three games of the series.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Oh, without a doubt, I'm into Arizona.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Okay, just want to make sure.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
That's nay kill us.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I just got a vision of the Michael Jordan Sports
Illustrated cover of him straighten, all tall with the bat like.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
A Seriously, guys, I know, I know Chris Taylor has
gotten a lot of uh has had a bad year,
right he k Hernandez has had his ups and downs.
But it reminds me and Don, you will appreciate this
when the Dodge when the Lakers were facing elimination against
the Pistons. To know four. Not sure if you remember
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this story, but guys that had been there and won
the three peat, Fisher, Rick Fox, Robert Ry. They went
to Phil Jackson and said, let us start. We are
your guys, and Chris Taylor, Key k Hernandez. Those are
Dave Roberts guys. Those are the guys that even last
year in Game three showed up to try to will
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the Dodgers to extend the series. These are the same
guys that understand what it takes to win not only
a series here in the regular season, but in the postseason.
And they understand what it takes to and I hate
to use this because this is the word that was
said to me about three hours ago by a member
of the Dodgers coaching staff in seventeen. You have to
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have that savage attitude and Mooki had it in twenty.
Those two guys have it, and that's what they're going
to need even in this four game series.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
All Right, Dave, fabulous stuff. Have a great night. Freddy
Freeman on the pregame. Very exciting series. Don't get your
puzzo stuck to a cactus.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh, I'm fired up. I had a large coal brew.
I'm ready to go.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Did you go to the gentrified area?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Of course I did, and I walked in one hundred
and eight degree heat, just to send a message to
the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Savage, Savage, Dave. We'll be right back with more. What happened?
Did you just cut him off?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Cut him off? It's not a good sign. Well, he'd
be back with Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I'm savage, Don, That's why.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You just punched him in the ass harder than Keik
ever cut Stay with us. The Petro send Money Show continues.
College Football Whip Around coming up next, Welcome back. It
is a frog Man Friday on the Petro sand Money
Show on Amphi se La Sports. You're home of the
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Dodgers Rougman Dodgers d Backs, one of the biggest series
in the history of series. Coming up in a matter
of moments. Tim Kates with Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck
at five thirty. But right now, Don, it's time get
ready to jot down some notes. Yep. The college football
whipper Around? All right, Don, here it is, let's whipping around.
Fluck Black Wack Fish a week one. College football is
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upon us complete overhaul since our last playoff Bowl Whip
in January. The latest step of conference realignment is by
far the most massive we've ever seen, and there's more
to come. Of course, the other ten Pac twelve schools
have populated the College Whip for two decades have left
for the Big ten Big twelve in the ACC for
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direct Unfortunately, yes, yeah, the Pac twelve brand is dormant,
with Oregon State and Wazoo operating on their own hoping
the league can rebuild the next couple of years. The
most absurd twist in the Pac twelve aftermath is that
the Pacific Coast schools Cal and Stanford now reside in
the ACC. The twelve team championship for matt is now
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closer to an NFL type playoff than ever before, except
that college football lacks the schedule, uniformity and integrity of
the NFL, and that means idiotic college football playoff committees.
The committee will still be choosing half of the twelve
playoff teams. My guess is there eventually will be enough
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team money from Fox and ESPN so the top fifty
schools can play elite level of football and come up
with the uniformed scheduling that I just referenced. The leveled
scheduling would allow for a fair set of tie breakers
that would decide a twelve or sixteen playoff format, and
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then that would kill off the bogus committee committees are
bad though. Yeah, that concur So this era is upon us,
and it's going to take time for us to figure
out how it all works, but we will eventually understand it.
With the PAC twelve gone, the Whip will spend the
first month of the season figuring out how to change
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with the times. If nothing else, the Whip has learned
over the years how to be productive and a time
to change. When Michigan crushed Washington in last season's final game,
the Whip finished an even five hundred for the season.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah? So, without further delay, here are this week's picks
in the unaffiliated College Football Win number eight Penn State
at West Virginia nine AM Fox Nidney Lions eight and
a half point favorite. From nineteen forty till ninety two,
Penn State in West Virginia played every year except missing
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one during World War Two, but the series literally hit
the Skins when Penn State left for the Big Ten
after nineteen ninety two, and then after thirty one years.
The series resumed in Happy Valley last year with a
thirty eight to fourteen Penn State win. The last time
West Virginia beat the Nidney Lions was nineteen eighty eight
with Major Harris at the controls. Remember him. West Virginia
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has some experience, some weapons. Quarterback Garrett Green is slippery
and effective. I like him, but I like Penn State
to win the game. Drew Aller is improving at quarterback,
strong running game, balanced offense. Bailback Nick Singleton might rank
with the all time Penn State's greats like Curtis Enis,
the Penis, Frank o'harris, and Key Johnna Carter. By the
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end of the season, good news for all my friends
in Morgantown. I am taking West Virginia plus the eight
and a half. Keep climbing.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Forgive me, p I forget. It's been a long time.
Penn State left in ninety two to go to the
Big Ten. Where did they go? From?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Independent? Independent Black Joe pot didn't need no affiliation? Fresno
State at Michigan NBC four thirty Michigan twenty and a
half point favorites. If Jim Harbaugh was the coach, spread
would be forty. But the Sharon Moore era is now
fully operational. Remember more coach six games while Harbaugh served
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a variety of spent suspensions last season. The only great
player left at Michigan that I'm aware of is former
servite star Mason Graham, defensive lineman who wrecked the Alabama
offense Rose Bowl last year on his way to MVP honors. Sadly,
our friend Jeff ted for Francco state head coach stepped
down right in the summer due to health concerns, and
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the Bulldog interim coach is Tim Skipper. In twenty twenty four,
neither David or Derek Carr will be walking through that door.
But I do like mikey Keen, their quarterback. But I
am going to take Big Blue to cover the twenty
and a half UCLA at Hawaii. Hawhy is want to
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know CBS four thirty pulling for Deshaun Foster and the
Bruins to get off to a clean start on the
main island tomorrow and Awahu. We've had a few good
laughs about Foster's opening remarks at the Big Ten Media Day.
But now it is just about football. It is game time.
UCLA has one of the better proven quarterbacks in the
Big Ten, Ethan Arber. Garber's big athletic fifty year guys
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should be able to move the ball against the Rainbows
on every possesson. Last year's starting tailback Carson Steele, left
a year early and was running the rock for the
k C Chiefs in the preseason and made the team.
UCLA's run game now begins with Inglewood Highs TJ. Harden
and he'll have a big game at Hawaii and then
they have a bye week your Bruins before hosting the
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official Big Ten league game, very first one against the
Indiana Hoosiers and the Rose Ball. Will you be there
dawn for that historic day. I will not looking for
an easy cover for the Bruins in Honolulu. I'm taking
UCLA minus fourteen and a half what Notre Dame Texas
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number seven, number twenty, ABC four thirty aggies three and
a half point favorites. I love Notre Dame in this game.
I think the wrong team is favored. It's year three
for Marcus Freeman as head coach of the Irish they
snatched the Duke quarterback Riley Leonard. A weird twist here
is that Aggie's head coach Mike Elko was Riley Leonard's
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head coach at Duke last two seasons. Huh A lot
of that.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Connor Wegman is the Aggie's most experienced quarterback, but Jalen Henderson,
a junior transfer from Presno State, has got more upside.
He played high school a shamanad in the Valley. I
like him, hie Ky. I'm not sure A and M
can win the game. So how can they cover the
three and a half point spread? Taking the Irish in
the points, I'm expecting an outright Notre Dame win. Wake
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up the ecs W.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Two ways to win pe When you take the dog, that's.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Right, both pay the same but all right? Twenty three
sc thirteen LSU Sunday four thirty Tigers four and a
half point favorites. Coming off a seven and five season,
my Alma Manter went through an overhaul in the off season.
The reigning Heisman winner Kayleb Williams front and center, Trojans
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and Lincoln Riley late in eight What made it worse?
They were two snaps away from being five and seven
at the end of the game Cal game in Arizona,
But nonetheless, Riley spoke about the Trojans like they were
an eleven to one a team, but they were seven
and five, not eleven and one. Seven and five. Now
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that Miller Moss is a quarterback, I believe Lincoln Riley's
offense will be less spectacular but more efficient. LSU's coach,
Brian Kelly, is also replacing a Heisman winning quarterback. Garrett
Nussmeyer takes over for Jayden Daniels. This game isn't being
played at the coliseum or in Baton Rouge. It's in Vegas,
and the crowd will be mostly LSU. They are going
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to travel a lot better than USC.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Yeah, why do you say that because it's ls cancer,
Yeah it is. It'll just truck, Okay, I mean we'll
listen and we'll see. Twenty twenty two PAC twelve title game,
Utah filled Allegiate Stadium and drowned out the smattering of
Trojan fans. Both teams score big. I'm taking LSU thirty
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seven to thirty one. Back my game this week Big
twelve action with Wyoming at Arizona State on FS one
Sun Devil's six and a half point favorites. Chris Myers
and I opened the season together, but I'm not sure
how many we'll be doing. It's year two for Kenny
Dillingham and Tempe. This game will be as good of
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a test as any to see how his plan to
reactivate the Valley of the Sun is progressing. Wyoming's no
joke have a six, five hundred and fifty pound quarterback
Evans Filoda two fifty. Yeah, and he's wearing Josh Allen's
number albe at Allen is faster, He's pretty big. This
game is in no way a lock for Arizona State
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to win. Devil's three and nine last season, lost a
game twenty nine to nothing to Fresno that I called
and remember. Wyoming at ASU FS one seven thirty tomorrow
night with Chris Myers yah So West Virginia plus eight
against the visiting Nitney Lyons Michigan minus twenty and a
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half versus A Fresno Nos Ucla minus fourteen and a
half in Hawaii Notre Dame plus three and a half
at College Station. The Trojan game opened with LSU favored
my seven, and I feel like I'm getting a gift
with LSU minus the four and a half over USC.
This was mostly a Western United States style, went for
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week one, mostly west of the Mississippi River, and we'll
see how that develops over the first month here. We
picked every game on the half point, so there will
be no pushes, and we'll try to keep track of
wins and losses each week.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Despruit and los cuegos. Everyone enjoy the game.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Did you write those down down?
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Yeah? I was gonna send them to some people see
if they can't win some money.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
You know, Plaski does that. Anytime Plaski's in here and
there's a whip, he bets it. He writes down the
bets and then puts him in.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Why would I if he went five hundred last year,
why would I bet him?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Push Push. We'll be back with your dead and a
live guy. Birthday of the Day. It's the Petrol Send
Money Show on AMPHI seventy l A Sports, your home
of the Dodgers. It's frog Man Friday. Everybody in the
Petro Send Money Show is mercifully coming to an end.
(27:21):
Little We will be back on Monday, set A three
to six on Monday, Kates, what are we looking at
with the Dodgers coming around.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Well, I'll be working pre and post on Monday since
its Labor Day.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah, we will not be laboring. We'll be back on Tuesday.
So have a great and safe Labor Day weekend. We
got another big segment after this and then we'll get
to the biggest series in the history.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Of Dodger What don he's on operations shutdown right now?
It's Friday. He's got a big game tomorrow. What you
got here earlier? You know there's nobody here in the bill.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I've been content all day.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I mean shut down over here. You guys suck tonight.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Getting older.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
He's got to save his energy for the game to monit.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I'm going to sleep all day like a vampire. Pregame
meal with h four pm. Pop out of bed at
five UCLA, Hawaii tomorrow. That kickoff is at four point
thirty on AM eleven fifty. All right, dawn, today you
have the dead guy. Birthday of the day, I do.
It's a good one.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Bruce McLaren would have been ninety seven today, born bringing
it back.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Born in nineteen thirty seven in New Zealand. Bruce love
cars growing up, age of fourteen, entered entered his first
race in one. At age twenty, was runner up in
the New Zealand Championship Racing Series age of twenty one,
won the New Zealand Grand Prix and became known on
the F one Racing circuit. You know a little something
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about the F one racing circuit, pitch, So do you?
Because of the F one report? Don I know? But
you know more than I do. You do it weekly.
At the age of twenty six, he founded his own
auto company called McLaren. Pretty creative in the naming of
the car company simpler times. Yeah, she us your last
name beautiful papaya color.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
He was designing, building and racing his own F one cars.
Two years later he formed his own Formula one racing team,
McLaren Racing. Again pretty creative with the naming.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Hey you want to come race for me?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
All right? Well McLaren.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Yeah, what's the name of the team.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
It's me Uh it's the Golden Gate Bridge.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Yeah, it's over there. During the nineteen sixties, McLaren Racing
dominant dominated Formula one racing. McLaren himself won the driver's
title in sixty seven and sixty nine. He scored twenty
seven podium finishes. It's that top three fish yeah yeah,
like the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Crack.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yeah, pretty good for a decade of racing, right there.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Yeah, and shared winning the title at the nineteen sixty
six twenty four Hours of Lemon's Race, which many believe
that's tough race, to be the toughest car race in.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
The wind, that's what they say.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Yeah. Unfortunately, p He died tragically on June second, nineteen
seventy at the age of thirty two. Oh really, yeah,
I didn't know that either. He was testing a new
car on England's Goodwood Circuit course when the rear body
work detached from the vehicle at high speed, sending the
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car a drift. That means like up in the air,
right yeah, really high up in the air, just kind
of pretty high.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Pretty high. There's a photo of his dad.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
He crashed into pole and was killed instantly. Bruce is
considered by many to be a legend in F one racing.
His car designing was way ahead of its time and
led to many of the technological designs used today on
F one cars. His McLaren Racing team is global with
cars racing in F one F two in Indie car racing.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Wow, I didn't know he died at thirty two. The
McLaren is still around, Oh yeah, oh yeah, they got
an F one car and everything. They're kicking ass Lando Norris,
Oscar Piastre.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah, and the CEO is a Valley guy, Zach Bryan.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
That's right, twenty years after McLaren's death, Sena and have
a claren of course, all right, beating out Drake May
the quarterback and the great Robert Parrish the Chief, the Chief.
You ever come across the Chief?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, just I wasn't. I wasn't defensively good
enough to challenge the Chief in the pain he used
the Chief big hey, you know they call him the Chief.
If you marijuana bus for Robert Parrish in his day,
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he'd be good. If he was playing today, Hell yeah
you would. We got Greek news, Greek news news that
is Greek invented demon Creci and there were the first
people who.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
You know, we think now here's Petrus Papa Donkeys fifty
five years old today, quite simply the world's greatest pianist.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Demitrius Scrgos.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Is he really or are you just saying now?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
He is Greek classical pianist or pianist chicks loved the pianist.
Oh yeah for Athens, no notable record or familial musical
talent at all. Uh, nobody people know him well, nobody
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in his family was like a musical genius, which is
I mean, we're talking about somebody who started piano at
six and by seven was giving public performances, and by
eight years old was in the Athens Conservatory and at
twelve made his Carnegie Hall debut, which is the pinnacle
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of musical performance on Earth with the National Symphony Orchestra.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Find Out a fascinating notion pee that somebody just fly
out of the wall at a young age. They pick
something that they have natural ability at. Obviously, there's so
many kids that choose to do something they don't really
have a lot of natural ability, but they love it
and they play or whatever. But sounds like this guy
chose the right thing he was supposed to choose.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Well, yeah, it's I guess a once in a billion
type of people talent. You know, when you're six years
old and mathematically look at a piano and you can
just do it. He's probably the best pianist in the world.
World or among them, as Arthur Rubinstein remarked, and Rubinstein
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was widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of
all time. Rubinstein remarked that Skurgos had produced the best
playing that he had ever heard. Besides his musical talents,
he has undertaken post graduate studies in mathematics. Why at
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the University of Oxford.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
If I'm the best piano player in the world, why
am I taking math classes?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Maybe there's something connected for him. Performances around the world
have included concerts in Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Cyprus, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, probably South never come
to the US, New Zealand, well, Carnegie all, oh, yeah, Russia,
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South Africa, Spain, Turkey. I also went to the University
of Maryland for a little while and studied there.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Let's go Turps.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Since eighty eight, there are three festivals dedicated to him,
one in Hamburg annually, one in Singapore and one in
uh Slovenia. I can't pronounce the name of that.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
I can't play any instruments, Pete, but if I got
to pick one that I could play. It would be
the piano.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Oh, you sit down at the My older brother, I
mean he's known Dimitri's schools. But my older brother Tasso
a bit of a pianist in his time and a
good looking guy. And it was a real closer when
you sit down at that piano, close a deal like.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Gear and pretty woman.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Yeah, send at the piano. Yeah, when you clap her
hands in the jewelry box.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Yes, Kate, I used to play the piano for three years.
You still play? I can still chops. No, I used
to be able to do the entertainer, the song from
the movie The Sting. Really, what do you you? What
are you scoffing over there?
Speaker 4 (36:07):
So let me ask you, standing up the face. Did
your parents make you take it for three years? Copy that? Yeah,
my mom tried to get me in the cup Scouts.
I said, the hell with that. Oh we below, we below,
no same thing.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Let's take all the badges you would have earned. No,
little Donnie're gonna get.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
In the fourth grade angriest getting back the first day
I I had to wear the uniform, I came home
literally that day and said, I'm out.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
The lack of defensive effort mat Shaky's Dodgers and d
Bags first pitches six forty Clayton Kershaw's on the mound.
Dodger fans, get your game. Dave me a lot of
Shakey's Pizza Partner, What are your Shaky's Pizza checking emojos?
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Right now? Shakey's dot com? And you could be enjoying
it before first pitch of this perhaps the most significant
Dodger game of all Todder series tonight, This game most
significant of all night. But why is this one more
significant than the next three? What are you a lawyer?
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
That's that's not cool. That's that's not cool.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
You see the march, it couldn't be anything else.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
The coven in San Diego. We were giving the midget
but real workout. Bill was developing it to sell of
the Navy.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
He done a good job.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Screw you, Melon, Screw you, Melon, Screw you Melon. I
read long time for this. That's pretty said commentary on us.
Just keep it moving, Fred, I smell blood and an
era of evil prominent men. Jesus, Let's try again. All right,
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try it again, Hold on and do a couple more
of these. Okay, sucking down in nine, Okay, sucking down
in nine. I Smell Blood and an era of prominent
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we go for about another hour and twenty of the
Petro Send Money Show on AM five seventy LA Sports,
your home of the Los Angeles Dodgers. We're talking about
one of the biggest series in the history of the
world tonight night Tonight, the Dodgers will take on the
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d Backs. Clayton Kershaw is on the Mound Dodgers on
dec At five thirty with Tim Kats. David Vassey's got
Freddie Freeman. Who's in the line up for your pre
and post? Max Munsey's in the lineup? Like you said,
Dawn hitting seventh. Those guys were rested and held back
while the Dodgers won the series against the Baltimore Orioles
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during the week and here for the weekend, they are
in Arizona. One hundred and seventy thousand tickets sold in
Arizona for the four game series. Everybody, it's a four
game series, right, everybody? Yes, absolutely freaking out And it's
hard to get a handle on my emotions. As you
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could tell, I'm all over the place. I just we
did an F one report. We will have a college
football whip around in the very next segment. Right after
we talked to Dave. Don't forget the tomorrow. We also
have college football action UCLA at Hawaii. Pregame is at
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two Kickoffice at four point thirty on AM eleven fifty.
I don't believe Tim Kates is involved anymore in the
use CLA broadcast down. You do not you divorced yourself
from the UCLA radio Maybe what six?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Eight? Well, okay, all right, and Kate's when did you
divorce yourself from UCLA radio?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Well, I still do the UCLA basketball postgame show.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
But oh, that's right, you're still in it.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Last year is my first year not doing it. It's
a good lord. It was a good long run.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
But that's like a twenty three year old run. Pretty long, Yeah,
pretty long. I mean you ran with the Bruins for
quit their kids. Uh So that is coming up this week,
and obviously college football started last night for Week one.
More games tonight and games all day Saturday. I'm probably
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doing the last one in the country on Saturday night,
which is my that's usually my custom ten thirties coast.
That's why me and the guys on the Twitter feed,
the college football sickos are like that real close, thickest
thieves after taking a stroll in the gentrified art district downtown.
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David Hassey is in place at the stadium ready to
rock and roll huge series. There's a lot of buzz
in the desert that we were just talking about. David
Vase from MLB Network, Spectrum Sportsnet, our wonderful radio station,
Anti seventy LA Sports, and of course at the Real
Underscore DV A hero to the people in Arizona on
(04:31):
the so called Dealers Toyota Dealers Celebrity Hotline. Hello, Dave,
how are you?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I'm doing great. The Diamondbacks are out here taking batting
practice and even better news for the Dodgers, Freddie Freeman
is back in the starting lineup and we'll join us
on the pregame show.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, we heard about that. So what you were alleging
when you talked to Dave Roberts and a couple others
and talked to us yesterday that Freeman was being saved
and rested for this series and maybe even Max Munsey
and some others that kind of came to fruition. Am
I incorrect?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
No, one hundred percent, Petros. The Dodgers can say whatever
they want, but the mere fact is these four games
are bigger in the standings than those three against the Orioles.
And I will say this talking to Freddie, who also
spoke to reporters about an hour ago, the pain and
the control of throwing the baseball just wasn't good enough
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for him to perform, and he wasn't able to go
through his pregame routine, so that also factored in the equation.
So the Dodgers and Freddie agreed that it would be
the right move to rest it for those three games
against the Orioles and hopefully have it in a better
spot than it was four or five days ago. I
will tell you this. Freddy Freeman did reveal that he
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has been playing with a splint on his right middle
finger and it has been affecting his throws. He told
me that there was one play at Dodger Stadium where
he almost threw it into left field trying to throw
at a second base to start a double play, and
that was somewhat concerning to him. So the pain is
still there to a certain extent. He could play with pain,
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but he is not going to play with a splint
tonight on that right middle finger. So he's able to
control the throws better, and that was somewhat surprising to
him because he felt like gripping a bat was going
to be more difficult. But it's actually the throws that
were affected by playing with that splint.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
That's what I was going to ask you, Dave. So
it doesn't affect his hitting at all. Has he talked
about that?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well, it was. It was affecting his hitting because the
results weren't there. He was three for twenty three since
the microfracture in that right finger, so it was and
the pain was becoming a problem. Dealing with the finger
was becoming a problem. And these three days, he said,
have helped him be able to pair for games by
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going through his pregame routine, not just fielding, but taking
VP in the cage before games. He wasn't able to
do that and he felt like that affected him in games.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Dave, You're no stranger to baseball in that part of
the world. You've covered a whole bunch of spring trainings there,
and of course the d Backs are the hometown team.
They've sold a bunch of tickets. They're feeling good about
their team, they feel great about what happened last year
in the playoffs. What's the buzz locally there in Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
A lot of excitement over this team and over this series. Petros,
I'm curious to see how many Dodger fans are going
to overtake Chase Field because this has been notoriously one
of those road cities that Dodger fans make the drive,
and it is an extended holiday weekend, so you would
imagine that a lot of Dodger fans are going to
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make the trip, especially for tomorrow night's game, which is
the hottest ticket in town. It's a little bit east
here to get tickets to Sunday afternoon and Monday afternoon,
but Tomorrow night is supposed to be the biggest crowd.
And for the Dodgers, you know, talking to people around
the team, they would like to see this team really
show that savage type of attitude that we grew accustomed
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to seeing when they were really building their championship run
in twenty sixteen and twenty six seventeen, and it really
went to the world championship level in twenty twenty. So
that's what everybody's looking for, not the nice Dodgers. Everybody's
looking for the savage Dodgers to really make a statement
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and let the Diamondbacks know that, Yeah, big brother is back.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Do you get the sense, Dave, being around the team
that that's the caates like from the players that you
talked to, that they're ready for this and that they're
they understand the importance of this series.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Well, the Dodgers aren't really talking too much about it,
don and honestly, everybody around the team is looking to
see how they perform tonight. If you could talk all
you want about it, but everybody doesn't know how it's
going to look. And that's the one thing everybody around
the team that isn't playing in the game is anticipating.
(09:13):
How are these guys going to react to a team
that not only is just four games back in the
NL West this year and the hottest team in baseball,
but certainly where was the team that swept them out
of the postseason last year unceremoniously in the first round.
Are they going to remember that? Are they going to
take that personal? You can't have Travis Smith, the Dodgers
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strength coach, have the most energy and the savage attitude
in the dugout and not have the players in uniform
have that as well. So everybody's looking to see if
it's no more mister nice guy in Arizona.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Oh yeah, Alice Cooper just to have a restaurant out
there too. No more mister clean all right, Dave? What
is the tail of the tape?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Though?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Between the two teams, who should win?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
The Dodgers should handle the Diamondbacks in this series. Obviously
it's going to be tough against Zach Gallen. But keep
in mind, I know we always focus on Dodger injuries,
but the Diamondbacks are not at full strength with some
key players. Dodger killer Christian Walker has been out for
a number of weeks with an oblique strain. He is
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not playing. They got Josh Bell at first base tonight,
who we were watching throw the baseball. You want to
test that guy and his throwing ability. They are without
MVP candidate to tell Marte, and also their catcher who
made his name well known in La Gabrielle Moreno, he
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is not in the starting lineup tonight either. He's out
with an injury. So they're missing three big pieces to
their lineup. So if you're looking at the tail of
the tape, the Dodgers have their lineup fully intact. While
the Diamondbacks are without some three big players.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
What do you expect out of Kershaw tonight, Dave.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Well, this is a place, even at Kershaw's height of
powers made him human. This has not been a friendly
place to Clayton Kershaw. We'll have to see how his
command is and how is the feel for his curveball is,
because that's been the biggest key to his success this year,
is being able to get that curveball over not only
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for strike three, but also for strike one. So this
is not a place that has been a house of
horrors for Kershaw, but like I said, it's made him
human even when he was at his best.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
David Vasse is our guest. He is on the scene
all weekend long and in his ground zero for big
time baseball being played. Dodgers first to eighty victories, but
still in a crazy pennant race with the Dads and
the pesky Arizona Diamondbacks, and that is what's happening a
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four game series in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. Well, Dave, let's
say the Dodgers don't perform great. How do they make
that not derail and deflate them for the rest of
the season. I mean, this is very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, this is somewhat of a statement series. As far
as the Dodgers themselves, how are they going to react
to a team that punked them in the playoffs last
year and has a winning record against them this year?
The Dodgers only have a losing record against two teams
in the division, and it's the two teams that have
knocked them out of the first round each of the
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last two years, these Diamondbacks and also the Padres. And
right now, the way it's set up, Petros and Don
if the Dodgers maintained the best record in the National League,
they would play the winner of a best of three
between the Padres and Diamondbacks. So there's a very good
chance the Dodge c Arizona again in the NLBS. And
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if you get this team some confidence going into a
playoff series against you, that could be dangerous. And that's
what a lot of people that have been around this
team since twenty sixteen are looking for. I'm looking at
Max Munsey right now as the Dodgers are coming out
for their stretch. He has the scowl that the Dodgers
need in this series. No more mister Knight's guy. I
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keep saying that, But Petros, we did the show together.
I stress that you can't be a nice team and
win in the postseason.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Well, speaking of that, Dave, as you know, it's been
well documented on this show that I have a history
of exterminating Rattlesnake. No doubt has there been any talk
of if tonight doesn't go well, of bringing me in.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
PK Hernandez, What he's talking to somebody walking by? Just
he just punched my ass really hard. There's a savage
that knows how to play. Sorry. I know about your
Rattlesnake extermination. Don, what's the analogy?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Well, if things don't go well tonight, do you bring
me in for the last three games of the series.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Oh, without a doubt, I'm into Arizona.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Okay, just want to make sure.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
That's nay kill us.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I just got a vision of the Michael Jordan Sports
Illustrated cover of him straighten, all tall with the bat like.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
A Seriously, guys, I know, I know Chris Taylor has
gotten a lot of uh has had a bad year,
right he k Hernandez has had his ups and downs.
But it reminds me and Don, you will appreciate this
when the Dodge when the Lakers were facing elimination against
the Pistons. To know four. Not sure if you remember
(14:34):
this story, but guys that had been there and won
the three peat, Fisher, Rick Fox, Robert Ry. They went
to Phil Jackson and said, let us start. We are
your guys, and Chris Taylor, Key k Hernandez. Those are
Dave Roberts guys. Those are the guys that even last
year in Game three showed up to try to will
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the Dodgers to extend the series. These are the same
guys that understand what it takes to win not only
a series here in the regular season, but in the postseason.
And they understand what it takes to and I hate
to use this because this is the word that was
said to me about three hours ago by a member
of the Dodgers coaching staff in seventeen. You have to
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have that savage attitude and Mooki had it in twenty.
Those two guys have it, and that's what they're going
to need even in this four game series.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
All Right, Dave, fabulous stuff. Have a great night. Freddy
Freeman on the pregame. Very exciting series. Don't get your
puzzo stuck to a cactus.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh, I'm fired up. I had a large coal brew.
I'm ready to go.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Did you go to the gentrified area?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Of course I did, and I walked in one hundred
and eight degree heat, just to send a message to
the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Savage, Savage, Dave. We'll be right back with more. What happened?
Did you just cut him off?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Cut him off? It's not a good sign. Well, he'd
be back with Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I'm savage, Don, That's why.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You just punched him in the ass harder than Keik
ever cut Stay with us. The Petro send Money Show continues.
College Football Whip Around coming up next, Welcome back. It
is a frog Man Friday on the Petro sand Money
Show on Amphi se La Sports. You're home of the
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Dodgers Rougman Dodgers d Backs, one of the biggest series
in the history of series. Coming up in a matter
of moments. Tim Kates with Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck
at five thirty. But right now, Don, it's time get
ready to jot down some notes. Yep. The college football
whipper Around? All right, Don, here it is, let's whipping around.
Fluck Black Wack Fish a week one. College football is
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upon us complete overhaul since our last playoff Bowl Whip
in January. The latest step of conference realignment is by
far the most massive we've ever seen, and there's more
to come. Of course, the other ten Pac twelve schools
have populated the College Whip for two decades have left
for the Big ten Big twelve in the ACC for
(17:17):
direct Unfortunately, yes, yeah, the Pac twelve brand is dormant,
with Oregon State and Wazoo operating on their own hoping
the league can rebuild the next couple of years. The
most absurd twist in the Pac twelve aftermath is that
the Pacific Coast schools Cal and Stanford now reside in
the ACC. The twelve team championship for matt is now
(17:38):
closer to an NFL type playoff than ever before, except
that college football lacks the schedule, uniformity and integrity of
the NFL, and that means idiotic college football playoff committees.
The committee will still be choosing half of the twelve
playoff teams. My guess is there eventually will be enough
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team money from Fox and ESPN so the top fifty
schools can play elite level of football and come up
with the uniformed scheduling that I just referenced. The leveled
scheduling would allow for a fair set of tie breakers
that would decide a twelve or sixteen playoff format, and
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then that would kill off the bogus committee committees are
bad though. Yeah, that concur So this era is upon us,
and it's going to take time for us to figure
out how it all works, but we will eventually understand it.
With the PAC twelve gone, the Whip will spend the
first month of the season figuring out how to change
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with the times. If nothing else, the Whip has learned
over the years how to be productive and a time
to change. When Michigan crushed Washington in last season's final game,
the Whip finished an even five hundred for the season.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah? So, without further delay, here are this week's picks
in the unaffiliated College Football Win number eight Penn State
at West Virginia nine AM Fox Nidney Lions eight and
a half point favorite. From nineteen forty till ninety two,
Penn State in West Virginia played every year except missing
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one during World War Two, but the series literally hit
the Skins when Penn State left for the Big Ten
after nineteen ninety two, and then after thirty one years.
The series resumed in Happy Valley last year with a
thirty eight to fourteen Penn State win. The last time
West Virginia beat the Nidney Lions was nineteen eighty eight
with Major Harris at the controls. Remember him. West Virginia
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has some experience, some weapons. Quarterback Garrett Green is slippery
and effective. I like him, but I like Penn State
to win the game. Drew Aller is improving at quarterback,
strong running game, balanced offense. Bailback Nick Singleton might rank
with the all time Penn State's greats like Curtis Enis,
the Penis, Frank o'harris, and Key Johnna Carter. By the
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end of the season, good news for all my friends
in Morgantown. I am taking West Virginia plus the eight
and a half. Keep climbing.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Forgive me, p I forget. It's been a long time.
Penn State left in ninety two to go to the
Big Ten. Where did they go? From?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Independent? Independent Black Joe pot didn't need no affiliation? Fresno
State at Michigan NBC four thirty Michigan twenty and a
half point favorites. If Jim Harbaugh was the coach, spread
would be forty. But the Sharon Moore era is now
fully operational. Remember more coach six games while Harbaugh served
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a variety of spent suspensions last season. The only great
player left at Michigan that I'm aware of is former
servite star Mason Graham, defensive lineman who wrecked the Alabama
offense Rose Bowl last year on his way to MVP honors. Sadly,
our friend Jeff ted for Francco state head coach stepped
down right in the summer due to health concerns, and
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the Bulldog interim coach is Tim Skipper. In twenty twenty four,
neither David or Derek Carr will be walking through that door.
But I do like mikey Keen, their quarterback. But I
am going to take Big Blue to cover the twenty
and a half UCLA at Hawaii. Hawhy is want to
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know CBS four thirty pulling for Deshaun Foster and the
Bruins to get off to a clean start on the
main island tomorrow and Awahu. We've had a few good
laughs about Foster's opening remarks at the Big Ten Media Day.
But now it is just about football. It is game time.
UCLA has one of the better proven quarterbacks in the
Big Ten, Ethan Arber. Garber's big athletic fifty year guys
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should be able to move the ball against the Rainbows
on every possesson. Last year's starting tailback Carson Steele, left
a year early and was running the rock for the
k C Chiefs in the preseason and made the team.
UCLA's run game now begins with Inglewood Highs TJ. Harden
and he'll have a big game at Hawaii and then
they have a bye week your Bruins before hosting the
(22:19):
official Big Ten league game, very first one against the
Indiana Hoosiers and the Rose Ball. Will you be there
dawn for that historic day. I will not looking for
an easy cover for the Bruins in Honolulu. I'm taking
UCLA minus fourteen and a half what Notre Dame Texas
(22:39):
number seven, number twenty, ABC four thirty aggies three and
a half point favorites. I love Notre Dame in this game.
I think the wrong team is favored. It's year three
for Marcus Freeman as head coach of the Irish they
snatched the Duke quarterback Riley Leonard. A weird twist here
is that Aggie's head coach Mike Elko was Riley Leonard's
(22:59):
head coach at Duke last two seasons. Huh A lot
of that.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Connor Wegman is the Aggie's most experienced quarterback, but Jalen Henderson,
a junior transfer from Presno State, has got more upside.
He played high school a shamanad in the Valley. I
like him, hie Ky. I'm not sure A and M
can win the game. So how can they cover the
three and a half point spread? Taking the Irish in
the points, I'm expecting an outright Notre Dame win. Wake
(23:26):
up the ecs W.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Two ways to win pe When you take the dog, that's.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Right, both pay the same but all right? Twenty three
sc thirteen LSU Sunday four thirty Tigers four and a
half point favorites. Coming off a seven and five season,
my Alma Manter went through an overhaul in the off season.
The reigning Heisman winner Kayleb Williams front and center, Trojans
(23:52):
and Lincoln Riley late in eight What made it worse?
They were two snaps away from being five and seven
at the end of the game Cal game in Arizona,
But nonetheless, Riley spoke about the Trojans like they were
an eleven to one a team, but they were seven
and five, not eleven and one. Seven and five. Now
(24:13):
that Miller Moss is a quarterback, I believe Lincoln Riley's
offense will be less spectacular but more efficient. LSU's coach,
Brian Kelly, is also replacing a Heisman winning quarterback. Garrett
Nussmeyer takes over for Jayden Daniels. This game isn't being
played at the coliseum or in Baton Rouge. It's in Vegas,
and the crowd will be mostly LSU. They are going
(24:34):
to travel a lot better than USC.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Yeah, why do you say that because it's ls cancer,
Yeah it is. It'll just truck, Okay, I mean we'll
listen and we'll see. Twenty twenty two PAC twelve title game,
Utah filled Allegiate Stadium and drowned out the smattering of
Trojan fans. Both teams score big. I'm taking LSU thirty
(24:58):
seven to thirty one. Back my game this week Big
twelve action with Wyoming at Arizona State on FS one
Sun Devil's six and a half point favorites. Chris Myers
and I opened the season together, but I'm not sure
how many we'll be doing. It's year two for Kenny
Dillingham and Tempe. This game will be as good of
(25:20):
a test as any to see how his plan to
reactivate the Valley of the Sun is progressing. Wyoming's no
joke have a six, five hundred and fifty pound quarterback
Evans Filoda two fifty. Yeah, and he's wearing Josh Allen's
number albe at Allen is faster, He's pretty big. This
game is in no way a lock for Arizona State
(25:41):
to win. Devil's three and nine last season, lost a
game twenty nine to nothing to Fresno that I called
and remember. Wyoming at ASU FS one seven thirty tomorrow
night with Chris Myers yah So West Virginia plus eight
against the visiting Nitney Lyons Michigan minus twenty and a
(26:02):
half versus A Fresno Nos Ucla minus fourteen and a
half in Hawaii Notre Dame plus three and a half
at College Station. The Trojan game opened with LSU favored
my seven, and I feel like I'm getting a gift
with LSU minus the four and a half over USC.
This was mostly a Western United States style, went for
(26:24):
week one, mostly west of the Mississippi River, and we'll
see how that develops over the first month here. We
picked every game on the half point, so there will
be no pushes, and we'll try to keep track of
wins and losses each week.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Despruit and los cuegos. Everyone enjoy the game.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Did you write those down down?
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Yeah? I was gonna send them to some people see
if they can't win some money.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
You know, Plaski does that. Anytime Plaski's in here and
there's a whip, he bets it. He writes down the
bets and then puts him in.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Why would I if he went five hundred last year,
why would I bet him?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Push Push. We'll be back with your dead and a
live guy. Birthday of the Day. It's the Petrol Send
Money Show on AMPHI seventy l A Sports, your home
of the Dodgers. It's frog Man Friday. Everybody in the
Petro Send Money Show is mercifully coming to an end.
(27:21):
Little We will be back on Monday, set A three
to six on Monday, Kates, what are we looking at
with the Dodgers coming around.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Well, I'll be working pre and post on Monday since
its Labor Day.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah, we will not be laboring. We'll be back on Tuesday.
So have a great and safe Labor Day weekend. We
got another big segment after this and then we'll get
to the biggest series in the history.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Of Dodger What don he's on operations shutdown right now?
It's Friday. He's got a big game tomorrow. What you
got here earlier? You know there's nobody here in the bill.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I've been content all day.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I mean shut down over here. You guys suck tonight.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Getting older.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
He's got to save his energy for the game to monit.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I'm going to sleep all day like a vampire. Pregame
meal with h four pm. Pop out of bed at
five UCLA, Hawaii tomorrow. That kickoff is at four point
thirty on AM eleven fifty. All right, dawn, today you
have the dead guy. Birthday of the day, I do.
It's a good one.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Bruce McLaren would have been ninety seven today, born bringing
it back.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Born in nineteen thirty seven in New Zealand. Bruce love
cars growing up, age of fourteen, entered entered his first
race in one. At age twenty, was runner up in
the New Zealand Championship Racing Series age of twenty one,
won the New Zealand Grand Prix and became known on
the F one Racing circuit. You know a little something
(29:00):
about the F one racing circuit, pitch, So do you?
Because of the F one report? Don I know? But
you know more than I do. You do it weekly.
At the age of twenty six, he founded his own
auto company called McLaren. Pretty creative in the naming of
the car company simpler times. Yeah, she us your last
name beautiful papaya color.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
He was designing, building and racing his own F one cars.
Two years later he formed his own Formula one racing team,
McLaren Racing. Again pretty creative with the naming.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Hey you want to come race for me?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
All right? Well McLaren.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Yeah, what's the name of the team.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
It's me Uh it's the Golden Gate Bridge.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Yeah, it's over there. During the nineteen sixties, McLaren Racing
dominant dominated Formula one racing. McLaren himself won the driver's
title in sixty seven and sixty nine. He scored twenty
seven podium finishes. It's that top three fish yeah yeah,
like the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Crack.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yeah, pretty good for a decade of racing, right there.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Yeah, and shared winning the title at the nineteen sixty
six twenty four Hours of Lemon's Race, which many believe
that's tough race, to be the toughest car race in.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
The wind, that's what they say.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Yeah. Unfortunately, p He died tragically on June second, nineteen
seventy at the age of thirty two. Oh really, yeah,
I didn't know that either. He was testing a new
car on England's Goodwood Circuit course when the rear body
work detached from the vehicle at high speed, sending the
(30:38):
car a drift. That means like up in the air,
right yeah, really high up in the air, just kind
of pretty high.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Pretty high. There's a photo of his dad.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
He crashed into pole and was killed instantly. Bruce is
considered by many to be a legend in F one racing.
His car designing was way ahead of its time and
led to many of the technological designs used today on
F one cars. His McLaren Racing team is global with
cars racing in F one F two in Indie car racing.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Wow, I didn't know he died at thirty two. The
McLaren is still around, Oh yeah, oh yeah, they got
an F one car and everything. They're kicking ass Lando Norris,
Oscar Piastre.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah, and the CEO is a Valley guy, Zach Bryan.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
That's right, twenty years after McLaren's death, Sena and have
a claren of course, all right, beating out Drake May
the quarterback and the great Robert Parrish the Chief, the Chief.
You ever come across the Chief?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, just I wasn't. I wasn't defensively good
enough to challenge the Chief in the pain he used
the Chief big hey, you know they call him the Chief.
If you marijuana bus for Robert Parrish in his day,
(32:04):
he'd be good. If he was playing today, Hell yeah
you would. We got Greek news, Greek news news that
is Greek invented demon Creci and there were the first
people who.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
You know, we think now here's Petrus Papa Donkeys fifty
five years old today, quite simply the world's greatest pianist.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Demitrius Scrgos.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Is he really or are you just saying now?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
He is Greek classical pianist or pianist chicks loved the pianist.
Oh yeah for Athens, no notable record or familial musical
talent at all. Uh, nobody people know him well, nobody
(32:58):
in his family was like a musical genius, which is
I mean, we're talking about somebody who started piano at
six and by seven was giving public performances, and by
eight years old was in the Athens Conservatory and at
twelve made his Carnegie Hall debut, which is the pinnacle
(33:19):
of musical performance on Earth with the National Symphony Orchestra.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Find Out a fascinating notion pee that somebody just fly
out of the wall at a young age. They pick
something that they have natural ability at. Obviously, there's so
many kids that choose to do something they don't really
have a lot of natural ability, but they love it
and they play or whatever. But sounds like this guy
chose the right thing he was supposed to choose.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Well, yeah, it's I guess a once in a billion
type of people talent. You know, when you're six years
old and mathematically look at a piano and you can
just do it. He's probably the best pianist in the world.
World or among them, as Arthur Rubinstein remarked, and Rubinstein
(34:05):
was widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of
all time. Rubinstein remarked that Skurgos had produced the best
playing that he had ever heard. Besides his musical talents,
he has undertaken post graduate studies in mathematics. Why at
(34:27):
the University of Oxford.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
If I'm the best piano player in the world, why
am I taking math classes?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Maybe there's something connected for him. Performances around the world
have included concerts in Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Cyprus, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, probably South never come
to the US, New Zealand, well, Carnegie all, oh, yeah, Russia,
(34:57):
South Africa, Spain, Turkey. I also went to the University
of Maryland for a little while and studied there.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Let's go Turps.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Since eighty eight, there are three festivals dedicated to him,
one in Hamburg annually, one in Singapore and one in
uh Slovenia. I can't pronounce the name of that.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
I can't play any instruments, Pete, but if I got
to pick one that I could play. It would be
the piano.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Oh, you sit down at the My older brother, I
mean he's known Dimitri's schools. But my older brother Tasso
a bit of a pianist in his time and a
good looking guy. And it was a real closer when
you sit down at that piano, close a deal like.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Gear and pretty woman.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Yeah, send at the piano. Yeah, when you clap her
hands in the jewelry box.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Yes, Kate, I used to play the piano for three years.
You still play? I can still chops. No, I used
to be able to do the entertainer, the song from
the movie The Sting. Really, what do you you? What
are you scoffing over there?
Speaker 4 (36:07):
So let me ask you, standing up the face. Did
your parents make you take it for three years? Copy that? Yeah,
my mom tried to get me in the cup Scouts.
I said, the hell with that. Oh we below, we below,
no same thing.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Let's take all the badges you would have earned. No,
little Donnie're gonna get.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
In the fourth grade angriest getting back the first day
I I had to wear the uniform, I came home
literally that day and said, I'm out.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
The lack of defensive effort mat Shaky's Dodgers and d
Bags first pitches six forty Clayton Kershaw's on the mound.
Dodger fans, get your game. Dave me a lot of
Shakey's Pizza Partner, What are your Shaky's Pizza checking emojos?
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Right now? Shakey's dot com? And you could be enjoying
it before first pitch of this perhaps the most significant
Dodger game of all Todder series tonight, This game most
significant of all night. But why is this one more
significant than the next three? What are you a lawyer?
(37:13):
We'll be right back with the crick hits in the
final arm. Fun fact Patrick somebody showing a five to
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