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That's right, Matt. There's a lot going on, and we
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far as that goes, we have three things Thursday today,
which means we have is it going to be hoops talk? Matt?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, Well, you had the last game for the Lakers
last night certainly did not end the unofficial first half
of the season. Pretty good too, nine points on a
three or four, you know, plus ten right there?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
How aboutkay?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Well, so yeah, we'll do some NBA as the Clippers
WI wrap it up tonight, and then we will focus
on two other teams in particular that have not had
the first halves they might have wanted and how that
could have looked for our city were to reflect kind
of the problems they're going through.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well, I'm hopeful that hopeful music at news it is entertaining.
As the tease man, I really.
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Am won't be one, but I felt really good about
the tea.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I wanted to want it. We're also got hopeful music
and noon going because, as Matt said, we're flex back
today and tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Don McClain, our bff, is preferring to join us today
as opposed to the very early show tomorrow, which is fine.
So he got big ten bal tomorrow. I believe his schedule.
It's better for today and Matt. We have a baseball
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guy coming on a little later, a baseball list man,
a baseball host man from the MLB Network, not the
Flaming pentecostal head of Brian Kinney boxing expert, but a
long and strong Greg Amsinger is joining us in our
final hour. This is a Tim Kates promotion.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Kate's very excited about Amsinger. He's a high energy guy.
He is now their lead host. As you know of Ascursion,
would probably be their lead host, but more of a
part time guy with all the play by play stuff
he does. And Kenny, as you mentioned, despite the efforts
to keep the gray out of his hair, which has
in turn resulted in a.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
A pentecostal flame. Yes, is his head has been touched
by the Holy Spirit and it's uh when the when
the lights go on him, you know uh, And I'm Matt.
We all understand an effort to uh to reverse the
process of ad well, we all want to stave it off.
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But you know, Lee Majors look good with gray hair, right,
Why can't you? Brian Kinney Anyway, that's not the guy
we're talking to.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
No, Greg Amsinger is their lead host, typically on the
desk with our dear friend Harold Reynolds and brother Hal
another usually another rotating analyst that will sit in there,
Cliff Floyd, Kitty Cat, a number of different people that
have appeared on the show before, but this will be
the first time we've had Greg Gott does a great
job over there, and they've got their top one hundred list.
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You would assume there's gonna be quite a few Dodgers
in that top ten, considering they won the World Series
last year. And they have show Heo Tony So who
come on to preview that and talk a little bit
about the twenty twenty five campaign.
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That's right. And the NBA All Star Break, like we said,
is upon us because of the fire game that got postponed.
The Lakers will play on Wednesday, so the NBA will
come back Wednesday, but the Clippers come back on Thursday,
and we'll probably have a short show then. But don't
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days a year where great sports talk, great sports talk
coincides almost like a cold front and a warm front
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running into each other up in the skies, up in
the skies, up in the skies, where we run into
a real rain day blizzard watch three. Well, it's not
a blizzard, Tim, it's a it's raining ski it's raining,
it's raining pretty heavily. Do we have voices for this
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and we just have blizzard watch?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
This is a live sound from outside.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Oh wow, if it might be coming down, And on
halfway up to work, I was like, maybe it made
a terrible air. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea.
You know, there's a lot of flooding out of here.
People are driving real slow on the freeway. A lot
of water, you know, a lot of standing water. You know.
(07:30):
I thought about being like Vick the brick and maybe
taking them the side streets. We're doing something like that,
take them three and a half hours to get to work.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well, me, it could benefit you though, because it's really
starting to come down a little bit here and I'm
watching the trees from my window here where I have
the studio set up, really start whipping around, undoubtedly, palm
trees beautiful. Yeah, you know, I could have a power outage,
you could and laughing, you know you're gonna be solid
there and bird bank in the comfortable confines of our
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sixth story building, whereas I am.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Perhaps you're exposed to the elements, as tsunami could sweep
you away at anymore. Very well, slammed you. Who gets
the rocks of the breakwater like a like a little crab,
like a little sand crab. That could happen. On my
way up to work, I got diverted to the two
off of the five. Is that right? Yeah? Is that bad?
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The five was so boofed and boffed and the two
wasn't great, and the one thirty four wasn't great, but
it wasn't that bad. But as I as I got
off the freeway, Matt, I was hit with a lightning
bolt of inspiration. Oh, not a literal lightning bolt. No,
thank goodness, I don't think it's Have you guys heard
any lightning? I mean, I hear that thunder, but I
didn't hear anyone I was outside that microphone. Yeah I didn't.
(08:49):
I'm just hearing that thunder right now from the uh,
from the microphone we have outside, And I don't remember
it being like that.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
No, No, mad I was hit with an inspiration. All
I'm trying to say. Uh, And I'm I'm tired of
being so close to the La River and having the
likes of Conan Nolan or Robert Kavask or any of
these people, these foot soldiers around town, the late Uh
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and great, what's that guy's name that died? No, how
fishman was a was a was a desk guy. No,
I'm I'm talking about the foot soldiers. Rory Marcus. He
was a great foot soldier, the old Angel. Yeah he
was the old uh Rory Marcus the Old Angels play
by play guy that got along so well with Gooby.
(09:46):
He was a real o g foot soldier I think
for ABC or for Fox, and you know what they do,
and all of their studios are around here, you know, NBC, ABC,
they're all right here in the Burbank area. You know
KTLA's over there in Hollywood. That's why I used to
be able to see brother Jim chowing down at the
old spaghetti factory there.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
What was my guy's name, the foot soldier, stupid truck
with all the equipment.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Chuck Henry. But he'd becomes how dare you what tay
that about the great Chuck And he became a very
heavy desk man after Paul Moyer hunt it up. But
Chuck Henry one of the legendary LA foot soldiers, There's
no doubt about it. And they are out in force
right now. And you know who tries to foot soldier
it from time to time is Tim Conway Junior. You
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know what I mean, because he lives in the area
right And these guys, all they have to do is
just stumble out of the Yeah, if that I mean
the NBC studio where I used to work with Punk
Ass Fred, it's I mean, that's the closest the La
River is to anything that I know of. Like, you're
right over the heast right there too. Yeah, yeah, I
mean they're right on it. So all they do is
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just walk outside, turn around, and the camera's right there
and they have their shot. And it's lazy and I'm
tired of it. And I wanted to show today that
you don't have to be Tim Conway Junior with your
ding dongs and you're slapping of the puzza to have
success as a foot soldier. Uh. You don't have to
be like uh, like any of the people we see
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out there right now, you know what I mean, Matt,
who've done what you mean, They've done great work. But
you don't have to. You could do it yourself. You know.
You could pull over like I did right by Forest
Lawn on on the dead end part of Bob Hope Drive, Matt,
and I just I stood in the back of my
truck to be in the high ground the back of
the Toyota Tacoma.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
So you pull off the one thirty four west at
Bob Hope right.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Buna Vista, Yeah, Bob Hope right, yeah, Yeah, make a
left on Bob Hope. And now I'm in that little
that little could dow Sac where we shoot a lot
of the summer tour stuff with the Toyota Tacoma. In fact,
all of it COVID. It's the same shot every time,
with the boneyard in the background and the Jewish bonyard
a little further away in the in the in the background,
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I guess you would say, the other boneyard is in
the foreground. I guess the river's in the fort. Look
at there's a shot right now Southern California storm shot
storm watch k Cow and there. But Matt I was
way ahead of them on the La River. I stopped,
I turned around and I did my local news due diligence,
what the UNI show. What I'm saying, you listen, listen,
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and you tell me you know you ain't got the doppler,
But neither does. Neither does Robert Cavalceek when he's standing
out there in the rain. The doppler's back in studio.
So theoretically, like Conway or you or somebody would throw
it to me and I'd be like, yeah, man, that's
out here rain, and then I throw it back. And
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that's how we do. So you take a listen and
see if we're on the right track. All right, it's
and I'm tired of the local news stealing all the
thunder when they've lost their fastball. We're in our prime
and they always get to do the cool La River
live shot when it's raining. Well, it's raining real hard
and I'm right in front of the La River. Look
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at that. Look at it flow live shot. That's quick
moving water. You gotta be safe and careful there you go,
stay in the high ground like the back of your
truck with a yoga mat. Be safe out there, everybody,
stay tuned to the Petrosen Money Show. Promotion K five.
There you go for all your weather updates. Well, I
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think it's great.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
You hit everything you needed right promotion cheep sense of
urgency right, like be safe, like you let people know
there's pending danger.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Because if you go out there and you're just like
that's raining, you know, hey, it's everything's gonna be okay.
But if you go you're writing real hard, you know,
that's you know, call to action. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You're right, that's what. Well, yeah, and you say you
have to stay safe. The other thing water quick water. Yeah,
what you're looking at right here could kill you. And
I wanted to sell that.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I wanted to endear myself to the news types by
showing k if I love and not mentioned in like, hey,
there might be some hobo bodies flowing in the river.
I didn't want to say anything like that because that'd
be untoured, right, A word that you would you would, uh.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
And I think also you might tune some folks out, like, hey,
I don't need to hear about death. Okay, I'm fine
with potential danger, but let's not hear about death, okay.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
And like we could bring on like a fire chief,
like say, do you guys save the hoboes when they're
going in the quick water? Or do you wait until
the rain some sides and then pick the hoboes out? Yes, Kate,
we all love the swift water rescues exactly right. So
I thought, you know, I I look, I think that
this is a new venue for us, Matt, if we
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can see stuff on our way to work and pull
over and turn the phone around and be citizen journalists.
And we're not even that, I mean, we're already great
sports talk journalist, great sports talk And I mean, people
trust us in the city. We're always out and about
well in our very long commute. You know, I think
I think that Tim Conway is going to feel the
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heat for me when he sees that that we put
that feel feel feel feel feel my heat.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
If you guys walk, I could send out an email
to all the different news outlets and say, instead of
sending somebody out yourself, I got somebody at the water
at the beating. I mean, I've just got somebody by
the La River ready and available at any time for
live show.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
What's the difference between my iPhone camera and some dude
with a tripod anymore? Just just a union and all.
That's all.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I think one station logo to gear. Well that but
we can get that. And I know, but I'm just saying,
you know that if we're going to jump in with
both feet pardon the pun, and you don't want to
do that with fast moving water, we're gonna need some
sort of station logo gear for a sense of authority.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
We got like we got mic flags right in the
other room.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah, you gotta get a mic flag and you got
you know, you can't look like a guy that was
just out there with a metal detector trying to dig
some wedding rings out of the ground. You know, you
got to you gotta have the appearance of an authority.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Excuse me? Are you saying that I look like some
kind of eccentric digging for gold on the beach. Excuse me,
I'm just saying, there's the presentation. I don't know. I mean,
I might not look like Stan Chambers out there, but
you know, remember Vice News it's cool to.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Wear a T shirt. You know where'd that get them?
BK bankruptcy? That was pretty cool till it wasn't. I
guess you're right, but I have to say I appreciate
the effort. You know, it yourself in harm's way. You
expose yourself to the elements. I could have just driven straight,
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you know, and stay what I would have done.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I made a left, I got out of my truck.
I stood in the back of the truck. I configured
my phone. You know that's extra work. There's a lot
of rain out there. Three point four inches in sand
Burdu the Malibu Hills two point oh two, Fullerton one
point forty nine, Ontario ninety seven. Because there as dry
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as a bone out there. The inlet Empire, but stay safe.
Apparently Tim Conway was really pumping it up, like, guess
when the rain's gonna be worse, ding Dong, It's gonna
be worse when right when I hit the air and
stay tuned, ding Dong, Ti Conway Junior.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
At three o'clock, we'll get you all your road closures,
We'll get you all your flood zones, all your evacuation
alerts voluntary or mandatory cats four o'clock.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I'm just thinking of how you guys can be different
with these live shots.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
And I just thought of it. Well, I was in
the back of a truck right there.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
They can go out to you live at the La
River in Griffith Park, Burbank, Glendale area, and when you're
doing your live shot, patrols get a penny out and
say this river is really a moving look out fast.
It's going to throw the penny into the water and
the camera watches the penny just goes.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
He kind of camera do we have like a fifty
thousand dollars camera that's gonna track a penny and fast
moving water the La River?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Does the penny have like an inner tube so we
can see it floating because it's probably we're just gonna
drop to the bottom.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Right is Penny, the name of the local labradoodle that
we're throwing into the La River, Like, what do you.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Mean, Penny? We can now look if a hobo's in
there suffering, no one will save it. If you throw
a labradoodle in it, I mean five or six people
would jump in and then you get the helicopter. Absolutely,
and then the helicopter would pull them up in the stretcher.
The stretcher would start spinning around. Give it a vertigo.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Oh, it'll be just a descended upon by every network.
There's a labradoodle in the water, we don't save it.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Now. I'm not breaking any news here, but I'm pretty
sure that the hobos that get stuck in the swift
water that are told to stay away from the water,
I don't think the fire department goes down and like
drops grappling hooks for those hobos. I think they wait
till the water subsides and then they pick the hobos
out of the of the off of the fence that
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leads to your surf spot.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
There, like they have to have enough. Yeah, it's it's
really bad. It's disgusting. The number of containers that are
year and filled has been at an all time high
these last couple of days. So those those hobos down there, well,
they like to do the rope right where they stretch
the road. They head up river there they stretch the
rope and then they get the one dude just kind
of hanging off and he's gonna scoop the person up.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, but they a lot of hoboes die, yes, but
people risk their lives if a labradoodle, Penny, the labradoodle
gets thrown in there to follow our camera shot to
show how swift the swift water of the La River.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
So you guys are saying, is if it's a labradoodle,
they're making the full effort, But if it's a they're
throwing the rope like a foot Like, oh no, I'm.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Just trying to point out it's the laziest story in
the world. Every local news outlet is based here in Burbank,
right on the La River. It starts to rain hard.
All you have to do is literally turn around in
front of the La River and you got a freaking story.
Look at that swift water. Stand the high ground careful, everybody,
and tune into KFI and the petrols and money show
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for the latest. It's not that hard Kvasik.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Well, I think Kavasik would critique your production. Oh good,
lightly produce a few pointers. Good luck for you to
improve upon.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
What is he? Nightcrawler? Yes, he's chilling Hall esque. He's
a monster. You think. I throw it back to Anne Martin.
She'd be tickled with that, with that report you just did,
she'd be tickled. Yeah, you know what, Maybe it does, Colleen.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
It provides a little bit of a stars just like
us vibe too, Like, Hey, I don't have the station
raincoat on, I don't have the giant golf umbrella. I'm
just a dude in a baseball cap wearing my company lanyard,
and I'm here to give you a report.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Alicia devis texting me saying it's a lot harder than
it looks Essay, she just tells you you're not that
good at it. Tulo. Oh no, Alicia says. The firefighters
do go in to save the hobos. You're right, Alicia,
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I bad if they saw hobo. I'm sure they just
get in there.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Well, it depends. Is it on like the county line
or is it on the city line.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
It's like you let it just go. I'm just saying,
it's not like a river runs through it. Reach.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Well it's not, Sorito's just problem anymore.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
We'll see you have low sal can pick them up. Guys,
you got a feel coming your way. Yeah, it looks
like it made it through out a little sally as long.
We's gonna have to figure this one out. Pat it
down to shoot. Okay, we'll be back with more Petrosen money.
We got the three Things Thursday on hoops coming up next,
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A penny Penny Welcome back to everybody. It's a pet
of money show. Be safe out there in the rain.
We have pets and money rain watch happening now, which
is very important. But know this. We have Don McClain
still to come, we have Greg Amsinger who's going to
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talk about baseball, and we have the Superpower Posse in
the house. But right now it's time for three Things
thirsday it three thingsters.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Are three things today are going to focus on something
that is rarely focused on and should probably be done
away with, and that is the Pacific Division of the
Western Conference of the National Basketball Association. The idea that
you got a problem with the Matt, I do, yeah,
divisions are stupid. It's pretty much a balanced schedule now
for everybody for the most part, and eventually we'll get
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to one through thirty and just have the top twenty
teams with eight of them being playing teams make the
playoffs as opposed to West versus East. But as it
stands right now, it was ugly. It was sloppy. The
Lakers' effort last night was devoid of defense, chuck full
of mistakes, certainly not the way the Lakers wanted to
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go into the All Star Break. But I look at
it this way in the context of the Pacific Division,
the division in which they play. They have a forty
year old Lebron James in his twenty second season. They
have a first year head coach that was not necessarily
welcomed by the national media. By the legends of the game,
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I was thought he was ushered into the big chair
courtesy of a podcast he did with the aforementioned forty
year old Lebron James. And during the swoon earlier this season,
people started teeing off on them, and that could have
got sideways on the Lakers. Prior to the season, they
were picked to finish anywhere between seventh and ninth in
the Western Conference and now have Luka Doncic on the roster,
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one of the best three players in the NBA. So
what's the takeaway following a miserable loss yesterday at the
All Star Break. I'll start with this, as I look
at the Pacific Division, at least they're not the Warriors
or the Suns. Lebron will forever be tied to Kevin Durant.
It was a Lebron versus Kevin Durant league for the
first Warriors big ten years before the staff arrival ushered
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in the era of Golden State. But it was Katie
versus Lebron, which one you got? And about a week
ago the Suns tried to trade Durant for Jimmy Butler.
If you are to believe the stories that are out there.
Phoenix is currently two games under five hundred. That is
with Durant and Devin Booker, two of the fifteen best
players in the league, a team that was in the
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NBA Finals four years ago, and as it stands today
at their All Star break, they are even in the
play in They are eleventh in the Western Conference. Durant,
they are in dead last in their division. Durant playing
at an incredibly high level twenty seven points, fifty three
percent shooting, six rebounds, four assists, almost a block and
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a half in a steal per game. Is it peak Durant, No,
but it's close enough. He's missed seven games. Not great,
but not terrible. Puts him on pace to play seventy
of the eighty two. Booker is putting up Booker numbers
twenty six per game, forty five percent shooting in Bradley
Beal's probably what he should be, maybe a little below
what the hope was when they traded for him. Seventeen
points four and four on fifty percent shooting. And they stink.
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I mean the Suns absolutely stink to high hell. They
are a minus one point eight in point differential and
since the start of February they are one in six.
They lost back to back games to the Blazers. Are
not Suns in six one and six one and six
did their last seven. They needed overtime to beat Utah
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for their lone win this month, and that was thanks
to Booker needing to pour forty seven points in Duran's
been back for the last two hasn't mattered. They lost
to the Grizzlies at home. They were handled easily by
the Rockets last night, and Houston heading into the All
Star Break and again last in their division. And the
West is stacked this year. Making the playing is going
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to be hard. And when you're talking about six teams
right now that are fighting for the play in spots.
Minnesota was in the Conference finals last year, Dallas was
in the NBA Finals last year. Sacramento had a top
three record in the NBA two years ago, and Golden
State more on them in a moment, Phoenix and San Antonio.
The Suns might be last on that list. And it
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never fails, or usually it never fails. These big money
I love basketball, sit court side, made all my money
in mortgages or hedge funds, and I need to be
in the middle of all of our basketball decisions. These
owners are a mess. Matt Eshpia bought the Suns in
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December of twenty twenty two for four billion dollars. It
was widely celebrated four billion because they all hated Robert Sarver,
the weirdo tight jeans club shirt wearing dude that sat
court sided and terrorized his staff. But when he bought
it from Sarvar. They were a year and a half
removed from making the NBA Finals. By the way, remember
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when the Dodgers were sold for two billion. That's a
team in Los Angeles. They play one hundred and sixty
two games a year, eighty one of them at Dodger Stadium,
and the Suns right up the street from Marley's. That'll
give you bubble guts if you ever eat there. Sold
for double what the Dodgers sold for some fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, they were coming off a sixty four win season,
a tough seven game loss after leading two zero to
Luka Doncic Mavericks, which of course followed their run to
the NBA Finals in twenty one, where they also had
a two zero lead lie on the Bucks, only to
lose the next four straight and give Giannis his NBA championship.
Since then, lost in the second round of easba's first
season of ownership last year, humiliated by the Timberwolves in
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the first round swept, and now they're an eleventh place team.
With Booker Beale and Kevin Durant, the Warriors are barely
olden onto the final playings, Warriors big tenth in the West,
tenth last year, they got hammered in the play in
by Sacramento, humiliated, lost by twenty five. Year before, it
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took them seven games to knock off the Kings, and
it was billed when they faced the Lakers to be
one of the better series. It wasn't really. The Lakers
beat them in six and four of the games or blowouts.
But they still have Steph Curry, arguably the greatest player
of his generation. Drey Mond decided they didn't need clay.
They had lottery picks they blew like James Weisman, number
two overall, could have had LaMelo Ball, but they passed
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on him. Everybody I don't know, oh right. And a
Warriors team now that still has Steph still shooting forty
percent from three, pushed all their chips to the center
of the table. Now with a Jimmy Butler trade and
extension another thirty seven year old and solid role players
like Pajemski, they've been five hundred all season twelve and
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three start, turned in twelve and eight, then sixteen and
sixteen at the end of twenty twenty four, and since
then they have never been more than a game over
and never below a game under five hundred. They are
twenty seven and twenty seven and just lost to a
Mavericks team last night that is down. Almost everybody falling apart,
and the city is a flame following the Luca trade.
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But it's the Warriors. They beat a good Milwaukee team
in Milwaukee on Monday. They lost to the god awful
Jazz and Suns and beat the best in the West.
They are Oklahoma City Thunder. And that's just the last
two weeks. That's perspective because the Lakers and Clippers are
cruising along. Lakers in fifth, just a game back and
the lost column from third, and just two games back
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in the lost column from second. The Clippers, after their
win last night over the second place Grizzlies, are in sixth.
This season was supposed to be sort of questionable when
it started. No Paul George, remember he walked, and by
the way, he is on the league's most disappointing team, Philadelphia,
another eleventh place team. Get it out of here, moscof
with MAXI with Paul George a complete disaster. Thank god
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he's gone. He's missed nineteen games. His team is twenty
and thirty four fourteen games under five hundred and a
hobbled Kawhi Leonard Clipper team when it started flyers on
a number of cast offs, Cokenos Jones, that woman beater,
the one that beats up his wife, Porter Junior.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
In front of his kids. You like that.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Usually one of the top spending teams. This was the
year off for the Clips one hundred and seventy four
million payroll, eighteenth in the NBA, no tax payers, Lakers
two hundred million, fourth most salary, the Warriors one hundred
and ninety eight million, the Suns. The aforementioned Suns two
hundred twenty eight million dollars of salary for eleventh place
and a tax bill of one hundred and fifty two
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million dollars, meaning they are paying three hundred and sixty
six million bucks for any eleventh place team that tried
to trade Kevin Durant to the Warriors at the deadline
to take on Jimmy Butler u the Clippers again out
of the tax and it's paying off, I mean point
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being at the break. Sure the Lakers stubbed their toe
last night. They were down twenty five in the third
quarter twenty late in the fourth before some garbage time
from Brownie and you should be a sham. Jazz Bronnie
scored career high nine on three or four in eight
minutes off the bench.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Way to Go.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Bronnie tied for a team best plus ten and the
plus minus with Marquis Morris, who checked in with you
for those final eight minutes. Luke only played twenty three
was a minus nineteen for a sixs. Marquith was back
on the Greyhound. That's where he's more comfortable. Right, that's
pretty said commentary on us and JJ Reddick in your
post game. You don't have to walk around the fact
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that Luca's fat. He's fat, he's fat, he looks slow,
he's barely moving. He's gonna need to get back into basket.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
I mean, I will say this. I mean for all
the hey, he's fat, he's drunk, and yeah, he clearly
looks you know a word pretty big. We love to
use this word. He used to refer to Matt Stafford
when he was in Georgia as the fleshy Matt Stafford. Yes,
and he looks very fleshy, There's no doubt. But I
think one thing that that is escaped by most people
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thinking about it or what escapes most of us, I
should say, is he's running up and down the court
in an NBA game. I mean, you have to be
in a certain amount of pretty good shape in order
just in order to do that, in order just to
be out there and go up and down with those guys.
Even if you're fat, Ollie Miller, you're still in shape, right,
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He's still you know, it's not like he's you know,
you know, got his hands on his and it's like,
you know, the guy who like when Vass couldn't do
a push up and everybody freaked out about it. You know,
it's not like that.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
That's almost no no, which is why it's okay for
JJ to just say, yeah, hey, look, Luca's probably got
to drop a few pounds. He's he's he's got are
out there. He's been injured and he's been out for
six weeks. It's going to take him a minute, you know.
And that's fine. We knew that was going to be
the case. But they're a considerably They got Jackson Hayes
who got hurt in the first quarter, and the big
white Alex lenn looked even slower and heavier footed than
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Luke out there. He had the log twenty two minutes
was abused by Walker Kessler, another big white, you know,
and you're not going to get a lot of that,
all right, You're not going to get a lot of that.
So no worries about that, Alex Lynn, It's okay.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
It was like a war in the White City.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
The Clippers. Meanwhile, hey, look and that's a white white
Walker Kesseler. Okay, Alex Lann, that's a blockhout and they're
fighting it out at Utah.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Clippers were up thirty in the third quarter over the
second place Grizzlies. All five starters in double figures, scoring
double doubles for Harden and our Man, Zubs and bog Don.
Bogdanovich got out there along with Messieur Beauchamp for a
three minute stint. Those things are great. At the break,
we'll see whether or not the Clips can polish off
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the jet to night. But at the break, one team
is fifth, the other is sixth, and both of them
are still in contention for a home playoff series to
start the playoffs, while rich Ass, Matt Eshbia, Kevin Durant,
Devin Booker, and Bradley Beal are in eleventh and the
brand new seven billion dollar Chase Stadium Arena Hobo Haven
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in San Francisco is flirting with being in eleventh place
at twenty seven and twenty seven and tenth excellent, exactly right, Wow,
that's good for LA right, Clippers, it's great. People want
to take shots and oh, fifth and six? Then now
do you lose to that? What a bad way to
go into the All Star Breaking? No bad way to
go in the All Star Break is eleventh with a
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three hundred and twenty million dollar overall tab for this
season roster in the Suns and tenth place in the
Twilight years of Steph Curry and a desperation is a
stinky cologne type trade for Jimmy Butler who's thirty seven
years old and a perennial malcontent that stinks.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Well, I feel pretty good about it, right, I feel
good about the break, and I feel good that UCLA
is there to help us out with the schedule and
not make it too hard on us. How do you
know that, I looked at the schedule. We're very schedule oriented, maw.
We have to be. That's what we do.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
We're a show about a show, well, I mean in
a show about the schedule of show.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
If we don't have the schedule right, how will we
know how to be here and when to be here?
So we'll be right back. We'll have some reaction to
the hot NBA talk that matches delivered to you in
three things. Thursday, Don McClain will join us talk about hoops.
We'll have your word number song of the day, some
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baseball talk in our final hour. It's a crunch and
groove on Thursday on the Petroson Money Show on LA Sports.
I love that new intro. It's great until Ronnie and
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play it twice an hour. I ever rejoined.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Let's go, especially when you're on a flex alert taking
an hour away from the folks in front of him.
Alert till me that because you got an early tip
from the clips early tip from the clip. Tomorrow we'll
also have a flex alert.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Alert. You see La versus indieanner tip off at five
right here on AM five seventy LA Sports. But thank
you for being us. We're going till five o'clock tonight,
but a standard three hour show, kind of like during
the baseball season, and we will have a baseball guy
on to pump us up with some national perspective. Greg Amsinger,
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who's supposed to be a really good interview and an
interesting guy from the MLB Network. We will talk to
him in our final hour, and we're going to talk
to Don McClain in the very next hour. But Matt,
it's not the top of the hour. I got some
taxs manx us up.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Fine's brought to you by your so kel Toyota dealers.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
We make it easy. Oh what a shock. Money's gonna
thank the Whites for the Lakers' success. Yep, you guys
should be on your knees praising the King and his
prince son gracing you with his Rookie of the Year
season that he's having. You better respect the King since sarcasm.
(37:54):
I don't know, I don't know. I don't know, Matt,
I don't know. I can't I don't want to make assumption.
These are texts. Some guy tried to text me, The
guy that wore the F bomb tried to text me
back today and he was in the mood for the
feud again.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Oh he was trying to make good like.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
No, he wasn't. The guy from the five six two
is like, you're you're out of touch. You really dropped
the ball on Disneyland, and I won't forget it. The
city's passed you by. You're a shut in you and
matter old, No we're not. We go to Knots. Yeah,
I love And I told him, don't get in an
ink fight with an octopus. And he said something else
like you're tired, You're you're done, And I said, and
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I said, uh something, fuddy, Maybe you should get your
own show and you can do whatever you want, and
you'd be the best at it. He goes, I'd be
better than number twelve. And I wrote, good look, I wrote,
good luck to you, sir, fine and brought to you
by your so called Toyota dealers. We make it easy.
Shocking that Kate's doesn't enjoy Knots and the famous log
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ride and the homemade fudge. He seems like the kind
of dude that would upgrade to the Express Pass for
jamming logs and packing foot What are you doing today?
Jam and logs and packing fist? Same thing we do
every day. I do every day. Yesterday's first segment is
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exactly how great sports talk radio. Great sports Talk should begin.
That said Cocono's Kates needs to stay off the Boger
sugar knots his hand just down the best amusement park
anywhere ever, period, aside from the time I begged my
mom to take me to Universal to see Kit from
Night Rider, a seminal moment in my nineteen eighties childhood.
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Brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
We make it.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Easy, Petros, don't be embarrassed about Humpty hump and shock g.
I thought the Ramones were really brothers until a couple
of years ago. Well that's fair.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
I mean they go by Joey and Johnny and look
the same. Don't be a shaped by that. Petro's not
knowing that Shakhi and Hupti were the same as embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
How dare you? I guess that's why the culture has passed.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Me by exactly right, don't you know, Disney's what all
the kids are talking about.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Now, you bitches are really going to start to belly
ache about another work lunch. We had a Valentine's Day
lunch here yesterday, when you hose are hardly ever in
that bitch, You trick ass hose Hey out of here
right now. I was there yesterday. Yeah, you're you're the
trick ass hole, trick ass all right, I'm glad I
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got that out there.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Surprise you doubled down on a Disney did not expect that.
You don't get that a lot. You know, Normally it
comes from the suits upstairs that come down to slap
us around for saying anything bad about them.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Wait, the Ramones aren't all brothers. What the F I'm
blown away right now. That's what we do, guys. That's
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