October 16, 2024 • 32 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Games three and four of the NLCS at five o
eight pm with a Dodgers on Deck at four live
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from City Field in New York. David Vase already joined
us earlier on location in the Big Town. Walker Buehler
getting the start. Tim Kates coming up in less than
an hour with his cast of characters to prep you
and get ready for the Dodgers to hopefully take another
series lead by regaining home field advantage here in Game
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three Walker Buehler versus Luis Severino in Game three at
City Field of the NLCS. As it stands right now,
I believe our Christmas party is still on.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
P Yeah, and that's bs I mean, because this is
I mean, this is already gonna go five games no
matter what. We're getting at least ten and that you know,
five more, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I mean, so we're guaranteed at least ten total playoff games,
which is a lot, a hell of a lot more
than three last year and four the year before.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And that should be enough. Honestly, that should be enough.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I like to think it will be.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I even took this to National Radio this morning because
I think this is a lot of games that we're getting.
And I was asked the question, honestly on a text
after the interview, like do you really need the games
that bad as the station? In true.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
No, it's not about the station. It's about us.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Our boss likes to wave his boots, okay, and it
will only be zippered. I guess if the Dodgers win
this series, which to me, Matt is a little ambitious.
I thought that just winning that game against the padres
and the guarantee of at least four more. The other
night when he said that to me, I didn't want
to say anything, but I sasay, week, yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Know, you know I'm right, No, you are, and I
think it's Look, it's my fault. I'm the one that
planted the seed.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
What did you say? Well?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I said, hey, are we really going to have to
do this Christmas party?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Again? Said, you know, it just kind of depends how
things playoffs?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Not sure?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
And I said, well, you know, Dodgers make a run here.
How about we say no Christmas party?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Oh you didn't, but you didn't define run?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Well maybe I did.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You did it?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Well, maybe I did. We should God, you screwed us, Matt.
I don't think I did.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Though he would have taken a lower offer. I don't
know he would have dropped down like Walker like uh,
like Will Smith has dropped down in the lineup. He
would have dropped down.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I don't know if he would have.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
He would have taken a half million, and you offered
him for a half he would have taken it.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I still think if in fact this look we're already
getting ten, if we get twelve games, we.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Should be good.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But that's what I'm saying that we should And what's
he gonna say. Well, he was all make sad World Series.
I mean, you know everybody touted that Subway series, Mets Yankees.
All Right, we don't make anything out of that.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
They're gonna make the World Series. This whole conversation is
gonna be the doctors are gonna stock the World Series.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Many of our conversations are moot, Matt, because we don't
know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I know what's gonna happen, Uciel. He's gonna play in
Piscataway on Saturday. That's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
That is happening. Enjoy the game. It's time for the
word of the day. His words the word of the day, Matt,
the World Cup. Today's word of the day is poster.
Because the World Cup twenty twenty six host Committee has
announced that they are seeking local artists and designers to
create the official poster for the FIFA World Cup twenty
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twenty six Los Angeles. The winning poster will be showcased
throughout Los Angeles in the Southern California area leading up
to the opening soccer matches in twenty twenty six. The
artist or designer that is selected Matt, and this is
way better than the iHeartRadio Christmas bonus. You create their
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design for them and they're willing to part with twenty
thousand dollars. WHOA contest is open to residents of La County.
You got to be eighteen years old to enter. To
incentivive submissions and to support new and emerging artists, the
winner will be awarded twenty thousand dollars. Spot three finalists
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each Matt will get twenty five hundred, okay, and twelve
other selected submissions will get five hundred dollars, So good
luck to you. For information, go to LAFWC twenty six
dot com.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I mean, if I had to guess, probably cost close
to twenty grand to put out a couple of those
hobo fires on the five freeway, right, exactly right.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I mean my poster should be worth more than that.
It's going to be an advertisement for the world.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
What about all the free needles for the weirdos down
at the.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Skid row exactly right?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
That costs twenty way more than twenty grand. And don't
don't even start talking about that brown tar h anyway,
La is going to host a matches. They'll scoop up
the hobos around those places.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
We saw it in Super Bowl and they have.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
The men's national team opening match June twelfth, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You know what, we just stepped in it. P Hey,
you artist types out there here, it is your idea,
just bias beers. You keep the twenty grand, get your
mind's eye going. Here's your visual earth Mover scooping a
bunch of hoboes into a soccer goal.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You're not even getting in the last twelve submissions with that, Matt, earth.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Mover notice scooping a bunch of hoboes into a soccer goal.
And then there's a dude on the side with like
a Mexico flag just screaming goal.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
It's cool, Ltree. I'll take it a step further, Matt.
If you really want to win, just paint a picture
of a pregnant man kicking your goal and the LA City,
the LA City will open its Hey, the Dodgers might
hire you, all right, it's not with the number of
the day. Here's my numbers, number.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Of the days sixteen.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I knew it was coming. Now does this mean it's coming?
Not necessarily, we have talked about it since the league
expanded to seventeen games. The idea was, you still maintain
your eight home, eight away, and then each team, all
thirty two, get an international game, and you do sixteen
international games per season, every team scattered across the globe
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under the guise of growing the game.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
That was my vision. Yeah, this makes sense. Little did
I know, Well, you are a visionary matt MANA well.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Instead of those four chicks that they hired after the
Ray Rice beating, they should have hired you.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Hence my Earth Mover hobos into a goal. That's a
winning that's a winning submission. Little did I know there
was something considerably bigger than what my imagination held, and
that was simply to play the game internationally, to expand
the fan base for NFL football internationally. No shout out
to Michael McCarthy from Front Office Sports who share this story. Today,
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ten billion dollars per year very well is about to
become eleven billion dollars per year if the league follows
through with this. Projections from an unnamed insider source say
that they will sell the international package for over a
billion dollars a year for the early window, so figure
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five games in London, one or two in Ireland, two
in Germany, scatter two or three throughout France, Spain, Italy,
and you will sell that package for a billion dollars.
No more NFL network that gets the broadcast window, it
will go to Netflix, It'll go to Apple TV, it'll
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go to Amazon Prime, and the other five or six
would stay with traditional partners. As the time slots will
be in Mexico, South America. I don't really see how
Asia works, but you could probably pull off a primetime
slot for figure something out exactly. So idea is massive
window for the East coast starts at nine am, and
your Sunday goes all the way through midnight's.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I don't want it unless Rich Eyesen is connected out.
He's got to call all of those games. He's so
good at it.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Well, I'm sure he'll he'll uh, he'll push himself upon
the folks at Amazon Prime or Netflix or Apple as
the voice of the international game. You know, just keep
it consistent, you know, let the people feel like there's
some consistency in this. No, no, we're not going to
do that because you're a terrible play by play guy.
Hire somebody else like Chris Myers. All right, Chris could
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do it better. Absolutely, It's time for the song of
the day.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
The song of the day.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Dodgers Matt tonight. In a matter of moments, we will
get there, Matt. Now'll do the Dead and a Live
Guy Birthday of the Day next and then marongdo Casino
Dodgers on Deck like we keep saying, We'll be back
on tomorrow at two o'clock. And Tim Kaits not only
has the pregame show, but he also does the morning
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show with Steve Sachs that starts at six am tomorrow.
Dodger content everywhere and on your iHeartRadio app not to
mention the Petros and Money Show. Matt has a little
something to say about the boys in Blue. It's time
for the top story of the day. I'm sorry of.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
This, all right.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Let's share with the people something you say anytime we
bring up Walker Buehler these days. Peek courtesy of a
Spectrum Sports and at camera during a celebration where Big
Nip kershaw an old back tattoo, Walker Buehler decided to
disrobe and show off their torsos. We say, Walker Buller
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and you scream.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
One guy, you look at the front, the other you
look at the back. Saint Christopher protect Us.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Saint Christopher protect Us, Oh guidance, we need it. It's
one thing to wear the Saint Christopher pendant that was
presented to you upon your confirmation, your first communion, or
from your devout Catholic Christian whatever it may be, aunt, uncle, grandparent, parent.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Pretty pretty pretty universally Catholic thing.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Okay, so Catholic, which is why everyone in my family,
in the White's family, has a Saint Christopher protect Us
pendant presented to them upon one of their achievements to
the ranks.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Like the kids say, you know, like the kids say,
for some people, Catholic school hits harder than others.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
It's certainly it hard for our man, Walker Buehler. And
why that is the headline, literally, Saint Christopher protect Us,
as it stretches between his shoulder blades across his back.
I overlooked, I guess because it's screams let's scream Saint
Christopher protect Us. I overlooked what was below it. And
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while it does not qualify as irony, save had it
been Walker Bueller walking off the mound and pointing to
the reptile instead of a different picture. It certainly is
quite a coincidence that we learn of Walker Bueller's back tattoo,
which who knows how long he's had it for in
the celebration, and after that we see a snake slithering
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across the steps at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, where's Saint Patrick, Only.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Only for me to realize that in a very Bobby
Miller like fashion with a line and a tiger going
at it on his chest.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, that's what's going on with that bird, right.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
That bird is getting after that snake.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah, it's like the Mexican.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
It's like the Mexican flag.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
It almost I think it actually might be the exact
emblem in the center of the Mexican flag, the eagle
scooping up the snake. And so there it is right there,
illustrated on his back, and you had Walker Buehler was
not the individual that came to scoop up that snake
to preserve health and longevity for the rest of his
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Dodger teammates coaches.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Let's say he gets bit on the hand or something,
hand swells up and now he's got a big mid hand.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
You know, they don't be the eagle that scoops up
the snake.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Well, they got a beak. It's a whole different deal.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
They got talons, they got a beak.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Oh, I got these nubby little fingers that are betrayed
me right now. But Saint Christopher protect us eagle snake
on the mountain. Ip And when you dig through Walker
Buehler's stats, many people will point to his post season accomplishments.
Maxim was lauding his heartbeat, his ability to overcome the
moment and not be any different than he would be
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in Game fifty four in the middle of April, orb
in the middle of June at that point either at
Dodger Stadium and somewhere or somewhere on the road that
it does not affect him. And certainly when you go
twenty twenty. From twenty eighteen to twenty twenty, yes, that
all holds. Walker Bueller exceptional big game pitcher, helped the
Dodgers win the World Series. In the Bubble, he was
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nails in the Bubble, nails against Milwaukee, nails against the Padres,
against Atlanta and against Tampa, throwing in each of those
games effectively. Since then, injuries and things got a little
bit derailed. Of course, he was exceptional in the twenty
twenty one NLDS against the Giants that went five games
that never should have been played between a one hundred
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and seven win team and a one hundred and six
win team. But ten and two thirds there allows four
and runs over those two outings. And now what do
we make What do we make of Game three against
the Patres. We dug into it a little bit yesterday,
but this is the conclusion I came to pee as
we look at game two and why the Mets currently
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feel as though momentum is on their side having stolen
home field away. Yet is very hard for me to
envision the Mets winning three in a row against this
Dodger team with Yamamoto going tomorrow and this lineup. Here's
what I would say, how about helping your guy out?
How about helping your guy out? Sho he Otani zero
for three, Mookie Bets zero for four, TiO Scar zero
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for three, Freddie Freeman zero for five, Will Smith zero
for four, zero for nineteen. Those five dudes did not
help out their man. Brazier did not help out their
man Landed Nac did not help out any of those relievers.
By chipping into that lead. Instead, they go over nineteen
and as I dug a little deeper. Luis Severino was
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a Yankee last year. He did not face the Dodgers
this year, which is why I'm going two years ago,
pee he threw against the Dodgers. He only lasted four innings,
and he's been their workhorse. He has been their workhorse,
and he looks like a horse. He looks like a
work horse.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
The horse.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Kates doesn't like him. Likes to wear that hat high
in his head Dominican style. Kates don't like it. Two
years ago against the Dodgers, only lasted four innings, nine hits,
gave up seven earned runs three doggers, technically four, but
will count three because one of them was to his
teammate JD. Martinez. Right now, Mooki goes four for four
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against Severino, two doggers, Max Muncy Dogger. How about it, guys,
clearly you like the way the ball comes out of
that hand. Mookie four for four, two doggers, four Ribbies.
See if you can relive that, And digging even a
little further, he faced show he Altani and the Angels
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ars Ago three for four two Ribbi's Donner how about that.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
So he's vulnerable to give up home runs.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
To the guys that are hitting number one and number
two in this lineup. And of course at City Field
it'll be sold out. You knows how we do it.
In Queens, it'll be electric. All those idiot New Yorkers
in forty degree temperatures screaming about how these Cali guys.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
These CALLI dudes, they're not built for the cold.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah they are. Walker Buehler already told us he threw
many a times at Vandy and forty degree temperatures and
he's very comfortable in it. How about setting the tone,
how about Otani? How about bets who played all those
years in Boston showing the cold does not affect them.
Stake your guy to a lead, man, Steak your guy
Walker Bueller to a lead Let him breathe a little bit.
I was moved by what are man Spillboorgs told us
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yesterday when he said, listen, we said, you believe in
Walker Buley. He might have to pitch game seven of
this NLCS if it comes to that. This way, the
way this thing is shaken out with the Almamodo pitching
game three, And he said, don't forget about those three
innings after he gave up the six in the second
following two errors. Three shutdown innings allowed that bullpen to rest,
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which is why they had the bullpen game the next day,
why they shut out the padres right.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Into the actual etymology of the snake and the eagle,
symbolizing the conflict between virtue and adversity. There it is,
which is not most people that have a Saint Christopher
tattoo just have Saint Christopher carrying a little kid under it.
But Walker Buehler has mixed mythological genres. I like that,
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and he's got the Mexican flag eagle and the snake.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
May that be a metaphor for the way he mixes
up his pitches today? A little morepspeed, little fewer fastballs
as you're outpitch. The overall point, with all the stats
and the digging that I did, there is this We're
all going to be point at Walker Buehler. Everybody points
to pitching in the postseason, right, But how about having
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an offense that can stake you to a lead like
the Mets stake their man Mania to a lead by
Clayton six guys through two innings and Help your dude out,
Help Buehler out, Let him, Let him believe that Saint
Christopher is protecting him through the work of the wooden
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splinter that you hold in your hand. May that be
your weapon that protects Walker Buehler on that mound, and
may he throw five.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Strong wooden splinter very biblical.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
You know me.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
So there you go, not necessarily the deepest of dives,
but Mookie bats four for four, two dogers, monthsI Donger
against Severino Sho hail Tani three for four, bubble and
a dogger and two ribbies. As Severino put it to
work in the playoffs. Put it to work. Stake your
guy to a lead, Let him breathe easy, Let him
believe Saint Christopher's Saint Christopher's presence will protect him and
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ride this guy to a victory, because I do believe
Walker Bueler can do it. I believe in that soft
chin and that back tattoo.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
All right, well, you've insulted him top to bottom. I
hope he can go out there and persevere. Much like
the eagle and the snake. We'll be back with your
dead and a live guy birthday of the day, and
then we will get into the Zenxi Sushi pregame, and
then we'll be off into the wild blue yonder of
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Dodger Baseball. While we're getting there, Dodgers Mets coming up
a matchup for the ages. Don't miss a pitch. We
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Speaker 4 (21:51):
You're dead guy.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Oh, Patty, I don't believe we have Irish news. We've
got British news.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
We do have a Phillip Peno news that we're not reviewed.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yet, not yet. We have school, but it's in there,
so Philippino's in there. Yeah, Irish news is.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Now there is no Irish but we can work on that.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Let's just fire off the Shane McGowan and get to
our man, Brendan Amon Fergus Finucin World War two Royal
Air Force flying.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Ace Finukin Finukin.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I spelled it out phonetically because it must be Gaelic
or something. It doesn't look anything like that, but World
War two Royal Air Force flying Ace. Born during the
Early Troubles Catholic Irish Civil War. So the family gets
the hell out of Dodge sets up shop in England.
When he was a wee lad, he and his brother
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they loved the air shows, of course, and when he
was around ten he said he knew he wanted to
be a pilot.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
So one day, as he's.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Walking to work seventeen years old, he decides to pop
into the Air Ministry and fill out an application.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
About six weekly.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Six weeks later he was contacted that his application was reviewed,
had an interview and he was accepted into training for
the Royal Air Force. He trained on supermarine spitfires and
a couple years later, in July of nineteen forty, he
was thrown right into the s They needed pilots, them
dutes getting killed and that meat grinder. So at nineteen
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years old, he's thrown into the number sixty five squadron
at Hornchurch. Scores his first victory. Less than a month
later during the Battle of Britain two destroyed, one damaged.
Promoted to Flight lieutenant and they stick him into the
Circus offensive and he wreck shop destroys twenty German aircraft.
Promoted to squadron leader in January of forty two. Many wondered,
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really this kidder Lanukin Finucin not just another six victories
tally hits twenty eight, and in June of that year
he becomes the youngest wing commander in the Royal Air
Force history at just twenty one, completed one hundred and
eight fighter operations over France by the fourth week of
June nineteen forty two, and he was to lead the
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horn Church Wing for the remainder of the war. In
his short time as wing commander, Finucin made few alterations.
Finukin not chin, Finukin, see I didn't do it phonetically
there almost well.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I mean he is the inspiration later because of the
quick strikeability for are you good?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
The most notable alteration he made was to titan flying discipline,
loosen formation flying and increase low level navigation skills. But sadly, Pee,
you know how these stories sowed?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Oh no, what happened.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Less than a month after his appointment. Fifteenth July nineteen
forty two, Finukin, leading the Hornschurch Wing and a Fighter
Ramrod ground attack operation targeting a Germy Army camp in Etaple, France,
took off with his squadron at eleven fifty. The attack
was time to hit the Germans at lunch.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
I'm on me break. It's a good German accent there.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Crossing the French ghost in France, Crossing the franch coast
at Les Touquet. They targeted machine gun positions, but Finucan
was hit in the.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Radiator But but but but but but but but but
but but.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
His wingman, Alan Aikman, don't know if he's related to
Troit or not, notified him beer eight beer of the
white plume of smoke, and Finucan acknowledged it with a
thumbs up. Standard regulations insist the wing carry on the
mission even if the leader is in trouble, so radio
silence must be maintained, ensuring enemy radio interception services would
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not know a person of importance was hit. So Finucan
flies slowly out to see, talking calmly to only Akman
as he glides along in his ailing spitfire and talk
about balls.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
About eight miles.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Off, Aikman was telling him some great stories about the
way Aaron Rodgers handles the pass rash.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Oh yeah, redline, just got to stick to it.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
About eight miles off late Ok. He breaks radio silence
and sends his last message to Aikman. He saw Fanukan
pull back the canopy, took off his helmet, and Finukin said,
this is it. Butch he executed, According to Aikman, a
it was a well executed landing, but the waves were
too big and his nose struck the water disappeared in
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a wall of spray, and.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
That was that.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
About twenty five hundred people attended his memorial at Westminster Cathedral.
A street in Bushy is named Finukin Rice, and there
is a small estate Finucan Court with a plaque dedicated
to him. In London Happy. It would have been one hundred
and fourth.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Patty Finucan guy flies so hard you know, out of
his Fanukan mind. That's exactly right, all right, Matt Well,
you might not have Irish news, but we do have
British news.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
It's time for a pm as British News, United Kingdom,
English News.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
It's time for British News. Cheerio.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Before we get to the Zenschi sushi pregame, we will
celebrate Prinsley Ford seventy one today, British guy whose parents
hailed from Africa Guyanese to be exact, Guiana in France.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
No all.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
He was a child actor in a British kids show
called Here Come the Double Deckers, a drama about kids
that rode a double decker bus nineteen seventy one. He
was in some movies too, played the Houseboy and Diamonds
Are Forever James Bond movie hook At That, Quite a
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Slave in another movie and a sort of another project.
But Brinsley is even better known as one of the
founding members of the cheesy British reggae band Oswad also
known as ass Wads Aswad I saw Oswad. In nineteen
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ninety two at the Reggae Sun Splash compilation show at
the Greek Theater. They headlined and they had no business headline,
not with Lucky Dubey out there in Barrington, Levy. Come on.
Oswad was made up of a bunch of British immigrant kids.
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None of the founding members are still in the band,
but there's still a thing. Oswad got big in the
reggae world by backing Burning Spear when he toured around
Europe a few times. They were inspired by R and
B and soul. They wrote about the UK, not Jamaica.
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They had a cover Don't Turn Around, which I believe
is a Tina Turner B side originally, which was an
number one in the UK in nineteen eighty eight. Their
Give a Little Love was the number eleven.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Lots of cheesy British reggae covers and songs that charted
many hits abroad. They played live shows from Japan to Israel,
to Wembley to the Royal Albert hall Ford left the
band for spiritual reasons quote unquote in nineteen ninety six
brief reunion in two thousand and nine he was their
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guitarist and they kind of sang together, but the drummer's
elite singer.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Oh tasty licks.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Can you name another band with the drummer's e leite singer.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
I'll give it a game, what you do?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
And let's not forget about the Eagles, right?
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Henley and the Corpenters appreciate that though.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
And the Carps don't say it though.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Matt, I'll just say it ended.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Unfortunately, in twenty fifteen he was appointed a Member the
Order of the British Empire. How about that Prieviously, Ford.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
And I have one more for you, by the way,
I thought it was, but I had to double check. Romantics.
Jimmy Morinos played the drums and sings lead on what
I Like about You?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Oh come on, Matt, I can't beat.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
That, cannot I appreciate the Carpenters, the Eagles and Genesis,
but the freaking Romantics.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
They're a great band.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
They are great American rock band.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
You know. Even the aforementioned Lucky Dubet used to get
behind the steel drums during the shows.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
There we'll go.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
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Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, and I'll say, you know, as I've mentioned before,
and somehow was your weekends, I do pop over to
the Long Beach Ralphs. They got a nice little zen
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better at this than I am. But the the spam
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some of that from the Zen she the other day.
Spam asubie exactly right, tickle my fancy the.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Spam, spam, spam and spam, very popular dish here at
the house. My daughter and wife make it. Uh, that's it.
Dodgers coming up, Oh yeah, Walker, tim kaits scam tomorrow.
Will it be a cavalcade of depression and sad callers
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and of course reunions with great Dodgers and Steve Sachs
on the air, very emotional reunions with Mike Marshall and stuff.
Or will it be a celebration for the agents. We'll
find out tonight. Don't leave your radio, and we'll be
back on tomorrow and too, like the song, said Friday.
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It now Dick, Petros and Money AM five seventy LA
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Games three and four of the NLCS at five o
eight pm with a Dodgers on Deck at four live
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from City Field in New York. David Vase already joined
us earlier on location in the Big Town. Walker Buehler
getting the start. Tim Kates coming up in less than
an hour with his cast of characters to prep you
and get ready for the Dodgers to hopefully take another
series lead by regaining home field advantage here in Game
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three Walker Buehler versus Luis Severino in Game three at
City Field of the NLCS. As it stands right now,
I believe our Christmas party is still on.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
P Yeah, and that's bs I mean, because this is
I mean, this is already gonna go five games no
matter what. We're getting at least ten and that you know,
five more, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I mean, so we're guaranteed at least ten total playoff games,
which is a lot, a hell of a lot more
than three last year and four the year before.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And that should be enough. Honestly, that should be enough.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I like to think it will be.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I even took this to National Radio this morning because
I think this is a lot of games that we're getting.
And I was asked the question, honestly on a text
after the interview, like do you really need the games
that bad as the station? In true.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
No, it's not about the station. It's about us.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Our boss likes to wave his boots, okay, and it
will only be zippered. I guess if the Dodgers win
this series, which to me, Matt is a little ambitious.
I thought that just winning that game against the padres
and the guarantee of at least four more. The other
night when he said that to me, I didn't want
to say anything, but I sasay, week, yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Know, you know I'm right, No, you are, and I
think it's Look, it's my fault. I'm the one that
planted the seed.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
What did you say? Well?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I said, hey, are we really going to have to
do this Christmas party?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Again? Said, you know, it just kind of depends how
things playoffs?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Not sure?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
And I said, well, you know, Dodgers make a run here.
How about we say no Christmas party?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Oh you didn't, but you didn't define run?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Well maybe I did.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You did it?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Well, maybe I did. We should God, you screwed us, Matt.
I don't think I did.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Though he would have taken a lower offer. I don't
know he would have dropped down like Walker like uh,
like Will Smith has dropped down in the lineup. He
would have dropped down.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I don't know if he would have.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
He would have taken a half million, and you offered
him for a half he would have taken it.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I still think if in fact this look we're already
getting ten, if we get twelve games, we.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Should be good.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But that's what I'm saying that we should And what's
he gonna say. Well, he was all make sad World Series.
I mean, you know everybody touted that Subway series, Mets Yankees.
All Right, we don't make anything out of that.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
They're gonna make the World Series. This whole conversation is
gonna be the doctors are gonna stock the World Series.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Many of our conversations are moot, Matt, because we don't
know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I know what's gonna happen, Uciel. He's gonna play in
Piscataway on Saturday. That's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
That is happening. Enjoy the game. It's time for the
word of the day. His words the word of the day, Matt,
the World Cup. Today's word of the day is poster.
Because the World Cup twenty twenty six host Committee has
announced that they are seeking local artists and designers to
create the official poster for the FIFA World Cup twenty
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twenty six Los Angeles. The winning poster will be showcased
throughout Los Angeles in the Southern California area leading up
to the opening soccer matches in twenty twenty six. The
artist or designer that is selected Matt, and this is
way better than the iHeartRadio Christmas bonus. You create their
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design for them and they're willing to part with twenty
thousand dollars. WHOA contest is open to residents of La County.
You got to be eighteen years old to enter. To
incentivive submissions and to support new and emerging artists, the
winner will be awarded twenty thousand dollars. Spot three finalists
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each Matt will get twenty five hundred, okay, and twelve
other selected submissions will get five hundred dollars, So good
luck to you. For information, go to LAFWC twenty six
dot com.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I mean, if I had to guess, probably cost close
to twenty grand to put out a couple of those
hobo fires on the five freeway, right, exactly right.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I mean my poster should be worth more than that.
It's going to be an advertisement for the world.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
What about all the free needles for the weirdos down
at the.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Skid row exactly right?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
That costs twenty way more than twenty grand. And don't
don't even start talking about that brown tar h anyway,
La is going to host a matches. They'll scoop up
the hobos around those places.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
We saw it in Super Bowl and they have.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
The men's national team opening match June twelfth, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You know what, we just stepped in it. P Hey,
you artist types out there here, it is your idea,
just bias beers. You keep the twenty grand, get your
mind's eye going. Here's your visual earth Mover scooping a
bunch of hoboes into a soccer goal.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You're not even getting in the last twelve submissions with that, Matt, earth.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Mover notice scooping a bunch of hoboes into a soccer goal.
And then there's a dude on the side with like
a Mexico flag just screaming goal.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
It's cool, Ltree. I'll take it a step further, Matt.
If you really want to win, just paint a picture
of a pregnant man kicking your goal and the LA City,
the LA City will open its Hey, the Dodgers might
hire you, all right, it's not with the number of
the day. Here's my numbers, number.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Of the days sixteen.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I knew it was coming. Now does this mean it's coming?
Not necessarily, we have talked about it since the league
expanded to seventeen games. The idea was, you still maintain
your eight home, eight away, and then each team, all
thirty two, get an international game, and you do sixteen
international games per season, every team scattered across the globe
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under the guise of growing the game.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
That was my vision. Yeah, this makes sense. Little did
I know, Well, you are a visionary matt MANA well.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Instead of those four chicks that they hired after the
Ray Rice beating, they should have hired you.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Hence my Earth Mover hobos into a goal. That's a
winning that's a winning submission. Little did I know there
was something considerably bigger than what my imagination held, and
that was simply to play the game internationally, to expand
the fan base for NFL football internationally. No shout out
to Michael McCarthy from Front Office Sports who share this story. Today,
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ten billion dollars per year very well is about to
become eleven billion dollars per year if the league follows
through with this. Projections from an unnamed insider source say
that they will sell the international package for over a
billion dollars a year for the early window, so figure
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five games in London, one or two in Ireland, two
in Germany, scatter two or three throughout France, Spain, Italy,
and you will sell that package for a billion dollars.
No more NFL network that gets the broadcast window, it
will go to Netflix, It'll go to Apple TV, it'll
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go to Amazon Prime, and the other five or six
would stay with traditional partners. As the time slots will
be in Mexico, South America. I don't really see how
Asia works, but you could probably pull off a primetime
slot for figure something out exactly. So idea is massive
window for the East coast starts at nine am, and
your Sunday goes all the way through midnight's.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I don't want it unless Rich Eyesen is connected out.
He's got to call all of those games. He's so
good at it.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Well, I'm sure he'll he'll uh, he'll push himself upon
the folks at Amazon Prime or Netflix or Apple as
the voice of the international game. You know, just keep
it consistent, you know, let the people feel like there's
some consistency in this. No, no, we're not going to
do that because you're a terrible play by play guy.
Hire somebody else like Chris Myers. All right, Chris could
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do it better. Absolutely, It's time for the song of
the day.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
The song of the day.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Dodgers Matt tonight. In a matter of moments, we will
get there, Matt. Now'll do the Dead and a Live
Guy Birthday of the Day next and then marongdo Casino
Dodgers on Deck like we keep saying, We'll be back
on tomorrow at two o'clock. And Tim Kaits not only
has the pregame show, but he also does the morning
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show with Steve Sachs that starts at six am tomorrow.
Dodger content everywhere and on your iHeartRadio app not to
mention the Petros and Money Show. Matt has a little
something to say about the boys in Blue. It's time
for the top story of the day. I'm sorry of.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
This, all right.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Let's share with the people something you say anytime we
bring up Walker Buehler these days. Peek courtesy of a
Spectrum Sports and at camera during a celebration where Big
Nip kershaw an old back tattoo, Walker Buehler decided to
disrobe and show off their torsos. We say, Walker Buller
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and you scream.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
One guy, you look at the front, the other you
look at the back. Saint Christopher protect Us.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Saint Christopher protect Us, Oh guidance, we need it. It's
one thing to wear the Saint Christopher pendant that was
presented to you upon your confirmation, your first communion, or
from your devout Catholic Christian whatever it may be, aunt, uncle, grandparent, parent.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Pretty pretty pretty universally Catholic thing.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Okay, so Catholic, which is why everyone in my family,
in the White's family, has a Saint Christopher protect Us
pendant presented to them upon one of their achievements to
the ranks.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Like the kids say, you know, like the kids say,
for some people, Catholic school hits harder than others.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
It's certainly it hard for our man, Walker Buehler. And
why that is the headline, literally, Saint Christopher protect Us,
as it stretches between his shoulder blades across his back.
I overlooked, I guess because it's screams let's scream Saint
Christopher protect Us. I overlooked what was below it. And
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while it does not qualify as irony, save had it
been Walker Bueller walking off the mound and pointing to
the reptile instead of a different picture. It certainly is
quite a coincidence that we learn of Walker Bueller's back tattoo,
which who knows how long he's had it for in
the celebration, and after that we see a snake slithering
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across the steps at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, where's Saint Patrick, Only.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Only for me to realize that in a very Bobby
Miller like fashion with a line and a tiger going
at it on his chest.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, that's what's going on with that bird, right.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
That bird is getting after that snake.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah, it's like the Mexican.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
It's like the Mexican flag.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
It almost I think it actually might be the exact
emblem in the center of the Mexican flag, the eagle
scooping up the snake. And so there it is right there,
illustrated on his back, and you had Walker Buehler was
not the individual that came to scoop up that snake
to preserve health and longevity for the rest of his
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Dodger teammates coaches.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Let's say he gets bit on the hand or something,
hand swells up and now he's got a big mid hand.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
You know, they don't be the eagle that scoops up
the snake.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Well, they got a beak. It's a whole different deal.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
They got talons, they got a beak.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Oh, I got these nubby little fingers that are betrayed
me right now. But Saint Christopher protect us eagle snake
on the mountain. Ip And when you dig through Walker
Buehler's stats, many people will point to his post season accomplishments.
Maxim was lauding his heartbeat, his ability to overcome the
moment and not be any different than he would be
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in Game fifty four in the middle of April, orb
in the middle of June at that point either at
Dodger Stadium and somewhere or somewhere on the road that
it does not affect him. And certainly when you go
twenty twenty. From twenty eighteen to twenty twenty, yes, that
all holds. Walker Bueller exceptional big game pitcher, helped the
Dodgers win the World Series. In the Bubble, he was
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nails in the Bubble, nails against Milwaukee, nails against the Padres,
against Atlanta and against Tampa, throwing in each of those
games effectively. Since then, injuries and things got a little
bit derailed. Of course, he was exceptional in the twenty
twenty one NLDS against the Giants that went five games
that never should have been played between a one hundred
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and seven win team and a one hundred and six
win team. But ten and two thirds there allows four
and runs over those two outings. And now what do
we make What do we make of Game three against
the Patres. We dug into it a little bit yesterday,
but this is the conclusion I came to pee as
we look at game two and why the Mets currently
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feel as though momentum is on their side having stolen
home field away. Yet is very hard for me to
envision the Mets winning three in a row against this
Dodger team with Yamamoto going tomorrow and this lineup. Here's
what I would say, how about helping your guy out?
How about helping your guy out? Sho he Otani zero
for three, Mookie Bets zero for four, TiO Scar zero
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for three, Freddie Freeman zero for five, Will Smith zero
for four, zero for nineteen. Those five dudes did not
help out their man. Brazier did not help out their
man Landed Nac did not help out any of those relievers.
By chipping into that lead. Instead, they go over nineteen
and as I dug a little deeper. Luis Severino was
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a Yankee last year. He did not face the Dodgers
this year, which is why I'm going two years ago,
pee he threw against the Dodgers. He only lasted four innings,
and he's been their workhorse. He has been their workhorse,
and he looks like a horse. He looks like a
work horse.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
The horse.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Kates doesn't like him. Likes to wear that hat high
in his head Dominican style. Kates don't like it. Two
years ago against the Dodgers, only lasted four innings, nine hits,
gave up seven earned runs three doggers, technically four, but
will count three because one of them was to his
teammate JD. Martinez. Right now, Mooki goes four for four
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against Severino, two doggers, Max Muncy Dogger. How about it, guys,
clearly you like the way the ball comes out of
that hand. Mookie four for four, two doggers, four Ribbies.
See if you can relive that, And digging even a
little further, he faced show he Altani and the Angels
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ars Ago three for four two Ribbi's Donner how about that.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
So he's vulnerable to give up home runs.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
To the guys that are hitting number one and number
two in this lineup. And of course at City Field
it'll be sold out. You knows how we do it.
In Queens, it'll be electric. All those idiot New Yorkers
in forty degree temperatures screaming about how these Cali guys.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
These CALLI dudes, they're not built for the cold.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah they are. Walker Buehler already told us he threw
many a times at Vandy and forty degree temperatures and
he's very comfortable in it. How about setting the tone,
how about Otani? How about bets who played all those
years in Boston showing the cold does not affect them.
Stake your guy to a lead, man, Steak your guy
Walker Bueller to a lead Let him breathe a little bit.
I was moved by what are man Spillboorgs told us
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yesterday when he said, listen, we said, you believe in
Walker Buley. He might have to pitch game seven of
this NLCS if it comes to that. This way, the
way this thing is shaken out with the Almamodo pitching
game three, And he said, don't forget about those three
innings after he gave up the six in the second
following two errors. Three shutdown innings allowed that bullpen to rest,
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which is why they had the bullpen game the next day,
why they shut out the padres right.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Into the actual etymology of the snake and the eagle,
symbolizing the conflict between virtue and adversity. There it is,
which is not most people that have a Saint Christopher
tattoo just have Saint Christopher carrying a little kid under it.
But Walker Buehler has mixed mythological genres. I like that,
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and he's got the Mexican flag eagle and the snake.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
May that be a metaphor for the way he mixes
up his pitches today? A little morepspeed, little fewer fastballs
as you're outpitch. The overall point, with all the stats
and the digging that I did, there is this We're
all going to be point at Walker Buehler. Everybody points
to pitching in the postseason, right, But how about having
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an offense that can stake you to a lead like
the Mets stake their man Mania to a lead by
Clayton six guys through two innings and Help your dude out,
Help Buehler out, Let him, Let him believe that Saint
Christopher is protecting him through the work of the wooden
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splinter that you hold in your hand. May that be
your weapon that protects Walker Buehler on that mound, and
may he throw five.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Strong wooden splinter very biblical.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
You know me.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
So there you go, not necessarily the deepest of dives,
but Mookie bats four for four, two dogers, monthsI Donger
against Severino Sho hail Tani three for four, bubble and
a dogger and two ribbies. As Severino put it to
work in the playoffs. Put it to work. Stake your
guy to a lead, Let him breathe easy, Let him
believe Saint Christopher's Saint Christopher's presence will protect him and
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ride this guy to a victory, because I do believe
Walker Bueler can do it. I believe in that soft
chin and that back tattoo.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
All right, well, you've insulted him top to bottom. I
hope he can go out there and persevere. Much like
the eagle and the snake. We'll be back with your
dead and a live guy birthday of the day, and
then we will get into the Zenxi Sushi pregame, and
then we'll be off into the wild blue yonder of
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Dodger Baseball. While we're getting there, Dodgers Mets coming up
a matchup for the ages. Don't miss a pitch. We
have all of it here and you won't be disappointed. No, no, no, no,
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You'll gotta love it. I promise it's gonna be a
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Speaker 4 (21:51):
You're dead guy.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Oh, Patty, I don't believe we have Irish news. We've
got British news.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
We do have a Phillip Peno news that we're not reviewed.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yet, not yet. We have school, but it's in there,
so Philippino's in there. Yeah, Irish news is.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Now there is no Irish but we can work on that.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Let's just fire off the Shane McGowan and get to
our man, Brendan Amon Fergus Finucin World War two Royal
Air Force flying.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Ace Finukin Finukin.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I spelled it out phonetically because it must be Gaelic
or something. It doesn't look anything like that, but World
War two Royal Air Force flying Ace. Born during the
Early Troubles Catholic Irish Civil War. So the family gets
the hell out of Dodge sets up shop in England.
When he was a wee lad, he and his brother
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they loved the air shows, of course, and when he
was around ten he said he knew he wanted to
be a pilot.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
So one day, as he's.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Walking to work seventeen years old, he decides to pop
into the Air Ministry and fill out an application.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
About six weekly.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Six weeks later he was contacted that his application was reviewed,
had an interview and he was accepted into training for
the Royal Air Force. He trained on supermarine spitfires and
a couple years later, in July of nineteen forty, he
was thrown right into the s They needed pilots, them
dutes getting killed and that meat grinder. So at nineteen
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years old, he's thrown into the number sixty five squadron
at Hornchurch. Scores his first victory. Less than a month
later during the Battle of Britain two destroyed, one damaged.
Promoted to Flight lieutenant and they stick him into the
Circus offensive and he wreck shop destroys twenty German aircraft.
Promoted to squadron leader in January of forty two. Many wondered,
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really this kidder Lanukin Finucin not just another six victories
tally hits twenty eight, and in June of that year
he becomes the youngest wing commander in the Royal Air
Force history at just twenty one, completed one hundred and
eight fighter operations over France by the fourth week of
June nineteen forty two, and he was to lead the
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horn Church Wing for the remainder of the war. In
his short time as wing commander, Finucin made few alterations.
Finukin not chin, Finukin, see I didn't do it phonetically
there almost well.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I mean he is the inspiration later because of the
quick strikeability for are you good?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
The most notable alteration he made was to titan flying discipline,
loosen formation flying and increase low level navigation skills. But sadly, Pee,
you know how these stories sowed?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Oh no, what happened.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Less than a month after his appointment. Fifteenth July nineteen
forty two, Finukin, leading the Hornschurch Wing and a Fighter
Ramrod ground attack operation targeting a Germy Army camp in Etaple, France,
took off with his squadron at eleven fifty. The attack
was time to hit the Germans at lunch.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
I'm on me break. It's a good German accent there.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Crossing the French ghost in France, Crossing the franch coast
at Les Touquet. They targeted machine gun positions, but Finucan
was hit in the.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Radiator But but but but but but but but but
but but.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
His wingman, Alan Aikman, don't know if he's related to
Troit or not, notified him beer eight beer of the
white plume of smoke, and Finucan acknowledged it with a
thumbs up. Standard regulations insist the wing carry on the
mission even if the leader is in trouble, so radio
silence must be maintained, ensuring enemy radio interception services would
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not know a person of importance was hit. So Finucan
flies slowly out to see, talking calmly to only Akman
as he glides along in his ailing spitfire and talk
about balls.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
About eight miles.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Off, Aikman was telling him some great stories about the
way Aaron Rodgers handles the pass rash.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Oh yeah, redline, just got to stick to it.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
About eight miles off late Ok. He breaks radio silence
and sends his last message to Aikman. He saw Fanukan
pull back the canopy, took off his helmet, and Finukin said,
this is it. Butch he executed, According to Aikman, a
it was a well executed landing, but the waves were
too big and his nose struck the water disappeared in
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a wall of spray, and.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
That was that.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
About twenty five hundred people attended his memorial at Westminster Cathedral.
A street in Bushy is named Finukin Rice, and there
is a small estate Finucan Court with a plaque dedicated
to him. In London Happy. It would have been one hundred
and fourth.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Patty Finucan guy flies so hard you know, out of
his Fanukan mind. That's exactly right, all right, Matt Well,
you might not have Irish news, but we do have
British news.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
It's time for a pm as British News, United Kingdom,
English News.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
It's time for British News. Cheerio.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Before we get to the Zenschi sushi pregame, we will
celebrate Prinsley Ford seventy one today, British guy whose parents
hailed from Africa Guyanese to be exact, Guiana in France.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
No all.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
He was a child actor in a British kids show
called Here Come the Double Deckers, a drama about kids
that rode a double decker bus nineteen seventy one. He
was in some movies too, played the Houseboy and Diamonds
Are Forever James Bond movie hook At That, Quite a
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Slave in another movie and a sort of another project.
But Brinsley is even better known as one of the
founding members of the cheesy British reggae band Oswad also
known as ass Wads Aswad I saw Oswad. In nineteen
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ninety two at the Reggae Sun Splash compilation show at
the Greek Theater. They headlined and they had no business headline,
not with Lucky Dubey out there in Barrington, Levy. Come on.
Oswad was made up of a bunch of British immigrant kids.
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None of the founding members are still in the band,
but there's still a thing. Oswad got big in the
reggae world by backing Burning Spear when he toured around
Europe a few times. They were inspired by R and
B and soul. They wrote about the UK, not Jamaica.
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They had a cover Don't Turn Around, which I believe
is a Tina Turner B side originally, which was an
number one in the UK in nineteen eighty eight. Their
Give a Little Love was the number eleven.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Lots of cheesy British reggae covers and songs that charted
many hits abroad. They played live shows from Japan to Israel,
to Wembley to the Royal Albert hall Ford left the
band for spiritual reasons quote unquote in nineteen ninety six
brief reunion in two thousand and nine he was their
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guitarist and they kind of sang together, but the drummer's
elite singer.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Oh tasty licks.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Can you name another band with the drummer's e leite singer.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
I'll give it a game, what you do?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
And let's not forget about the Eagles, right?
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Henley and the Corpenters appreciate that though.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
And the Carps don't say it though.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Matt, I'll just say it ended.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Unfortunately, in twenty fifteen he was appointed a Member the
Order of the British Empire. How about that Prieviously, Ford.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
And I have one more for you, by the way,
I thought it was, but I had to double check. Romantics.
Jimmy Morinos played the drums and sings lead on what
I Like about You?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Oh come on, Matt, I can't beat.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
That, cannot I appreciate the Carpenters, the Eagles and Genesis,
but the freaking Romantics.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
They're a great band.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
They are great American rock band.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
You know. Even the aforementioned Lucky Dubet used to get
behind the steel drums during the shows.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
There we'll go.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Time for the Zench PMS pregame presented by Zenchi Sushi, Fast,
Fresh and easy.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
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Speaker 2 (31:08):
And really the difference this year has been Zench sushi
for the Dodgers on the field and for Tim Kats
carrying such a heavy load off the field, really keeping
Kate's healthy and strong.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, and I'll say, you know, as I've mentioned before,
and somehow was your weekends, I do pop over to
the Long Beach Ralphs. They got a nice little zen
she counter there when you walk in the front door
to your left, and I ended up picking up the
can't remember what they call it. You may remember you're
better at this than I am. But the the spam
with the rice and the seaweed wrapped around it and
(31:42):
some of that from the Zen she the other day.
Spam asubie exactly right, tickle my fancy the.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Spam, spam, spam and spam, very popular dish here at
the house. My daughter and wife make it. Uh, that's it.
Dodgers coming up, Oh yeah, Walker, tim kaits scam tomorrow.
Will it be a cavalcade of depression and sad callers
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and of course reunions with great Dodgers and Steve Sachs
on the air, very emotional reunions with Mike Marshall and stuff.
Or will it be a celebration for the agents. We'll
find out tonight. Don't leave your radio, and we'll be
back on tomorrow and too, like the song, said Friday.
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