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Can't get enough of it.
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It has been a signature petros In Money show Today
the day after the NBA's All Star weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Now we dealt with it in the open. We took
some some texts about it. We talked to Mark Medina,
and we have the top store.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Let's keep going. Cue the uproar.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
That's three stories in four hours. Man, we're well balanced,
well ballanced, we're well balanced. Yang.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
We deliver what the people want. The All Star Game sucks.
The players suck, say basketball, Well, then what is it?
It sucks, sucks, It sucks sucks. If the players don't care,
then we don't care. We do it every year. We've
been making fun of the NBA for three or four
weeks now thanks to They're desperate. Hail Mary in desperation
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is a stinky cologne of bringing in Caitlin Clark to
save the weekend. The idea that last year is Steph
Curry versus Sabrina Ayanascue three point shootout. You know that
Sabrina the teenage which used to date Ryan Reynolds, but
did not know that I that that could even be
consideration as the highlight of last year's All Star Weekend,
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only to be challenged by a short, white guy from
the G League that essentially has a bat phone that
he picks up every year prior to the All Star Game,
and it's Adam Silver saying we need you, Mac, we
need you. Nobody wants to do the slam Dunk contest
and the three guys we got that are doing it
are in their second year and nobody has any idea
who they are. My work will never try it up,
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but they know this is your annual. It's your time
to shine, Mac, we won't allow you to play in
the league, but thank god you're still on that Orlando
Magic G League roster because somehow we can squeeze this
one through and everybody doesn't seem to have a problem
with it. The players don't want lay five games in
four years in the NBA, and has won three consecutive
dunk contests. That is more than Michael Jordan won. He
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won back to back. Couldn't do it three times in
a row, though, But Mac kidding me, he goes by
one name now, he ain't even Mac mclung anymore. He's
just macf you Jordan, what can you do? The players
don't want to play. There's nothing you can do about it.
Part of me understands kind of at least fifty percent
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of what seemed to be a thoughtful approach of explaining
why the All Star Game sucks from old man Damian Lillard,
who did his best to share why it's not ideal,
and he said, the All Star Game's too late, that
they've already played fifty five, fifty six games. It's well
past the halfway point. Everybody's dealing with injuries now and
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nagging this and this hurts and I'm getting rest for that.
And with the play in tournament, you got ten teams
instead of eight, and more and more players have their
eyes on competing in the tournament at the end of
the year. That it's a sprint and the exhibition being
two thirds of the way through isn't great. And then
he went a step too far. He suggested that players
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today take more of a pounding than the guys that
busted their ass out there when the All Star Game
was halfway through. Excuse me, yes, and apparently I don't
see Charles Oakley under the rim these days. Lillard suggested
the up and down nature of the game that the
nineties and the eighties, that we all revel in. This
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up and down nature is putting more wear and tear
and leads to more pounding on their bodies because they're
getting up and down the court more often than those
physical teams that would stretch the twenty four shot clock
instead of playing in a seven seconds or less era.
That's horse crap. If you'd like to go back to
Jerry West's nineteen seventy two championship Laker team. Prior to
modern medicine, that year, every single team in the league
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all seventeen of them averaged over one hundred five points
per game, over half of them over one hundred and
ten points per game. Every single one of those teams
allowed over one hundred and three points per game. The
Lakers knocked off the Knicks that year, and did so
with Wilt Chamberlain at age thirty five, playing eighty two
games and averaging forty three minutes per game. Thirty three
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year old Jerry West averaged thirty nine minutes per game,
and a twenty eight year old Gail Goodrich thirty eight
minutes per game. The young in Jim McMillan thirty eight
minutes per game. I'm sorry, dame. They flew commercial. They
didn't have personal trainers, they didn't have a nutritionists, they
didn't have a massage therapist, they didn't have all the
preventative maintenance available to players today. Stretch guy, no stretch
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guy in the flyle guy guy a high tempo, incredibly
physical brand of basketball. Their shoes were essentially palm fronds
tied to their feet.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Line. I was with you there, I was with you
til the palm fron.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Players today take more of a pounding than Wilt Chamberlain
did in the nineteen seventies, or Jerry's or Jerry West
is an absolute joke. Jannis did a good job of
walking the line. He did not try to celebrate himself.
He simply pointed out, I look forward to the All
Star Game every year. I approach it like it's a
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regular season game. I have the same pregame ritual, I
have the same pregame meal, I have the same pregame treatment,
much like a regular season game. I do not go
out the night before to party because I want to
measure myself against the best players in the rest of
the league like I do any given night. He then added,
I do not begrudge anyone that chooses to approach it differently,
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adding these are grown men who make a lot of money.
They are set in their ways, and whatever way they
choose is fine by me. That thing that he said there, though,
is what's stuck with me. The idea that playing one
more game competitively. If you were to play every single game,
let's say eighty two, like Wilt did, like Jerry did
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in the seventy two season when they won a championship,
and you had to add an eighty third game, you
know we're playing eighty two that's that.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Breaks that best. That's the moment the Blues Brothers car
explodes right with their park somehow.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Adding an eighty third game, it's not football, which we
all can understand. Adding games is a serious undertaking by players,
because every game is a car crash. But adding an
eighty third game, and by the way, in that eighty
third game, you play maybe half the minutes that you're
accustomed to, that is not a serious undertaking. So let's
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call it a half game. You're adding one half game
of competitive basketball to play your ass off in the
All Star Game. And those making the excuse of All
Stars earning between thirty and seventy million dollars a year
and not being capable of wanting to try hard with
absolutely nothing on the line. That just serves a nationally
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televised exhibition entertainment for the twenty thousand people that paid
the premium to be in the arena, the idiots that
they are, and however, many millions more or watching the broadcasts. Ultimately,
what this comes down to, and look, when Michael Jordan
and Charles Barkley and Magic Johnson and James Worthy and
Larry Bird and Doctor j were making less than a
million dollars a year in salary. They had to. They
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had to perform at the All Star Game for their sponsors,
for their endorsements, for Nike, for McDonald's, for Burger King,
for Converse.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
You think that would still be the case.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Right for Chevy, for Ford, for Hugo Boss or Calvin
Klein Ballpark, Franks Ballpark. They had to get out there
for that.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Get that stuff out of here.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
For Madison Avenue. Yeah, there was a little bit of
West versus East Pride on the line, but it was
nowhere near them needing to impress Madison Avenue and to
scratching out a check with seven figures to get you
to wear their clothes, their shoes, to eat their food
in a thirty second commercial. There is nothing you can
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do monetarily to motivate these guys. They make too much money.
They've been conditioned, on top of that to think that
they're overworked with the load management bs that's come up
the last eight to ten years.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I can't even pay my stylist what I want to
pay her to put me in these terrible clothes that
embarrassed me.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Right, They've got a stylist unretainer for a million dollars
a year. That's how much money they make someone to
tell them how to dress. So when they shoot their
tunnel walk for the nationally televised game, they get talked about.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
That's how stupid Rob Polenka is. He fell for that
grift too, Otherwise you would have now worn that stupid
ass jacket when they introduced Luca.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Look at these double zippers. There is a flip side
of this, though, and that is who does the All
Star Game serve anyway? You know, basically the network that
wrote the check TNT, that's who it's on now.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
But they need to sell advertising.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Exactly, and it's their fault forbidding for their NBA package
to include All Star Weekend in the All Star Game. Now,
do I miss a Larry Bird three point shootout, a
Michael Jordan versus Dominique Wilkins slam dunk contest two years
in a row, an All Star Game with Magic Johnson
out of the league but comes back and puts on
a show. Of course we do.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Hell, Kobe used to compete exactly right.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
But I can say with great certainty we have not
had an All Star Game memory in the last ten years,
not a single one except for a white guy from
the G League who jumps over cars and has inordinate
hops considering his diminutive stature, All Star Weekend was must watch,
and that's why TNT made sure it was included for
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an extra who knows how many millions of dollars when
they would bid for their NBA package, I would assume
in the last round of negotiations NBC, Amazon, and ESPN,
we're not fighting over who got All Stars Saturday Night,
and yet each of them still scratched out tens of
billions of dollars to the league for the rights to
air their games over the course of a regular season
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and the playoffs. So, if you're like us and you
want to bitch and moan about why this is annoying,
about why aren't there more players like Giannis who are
willing to go out and play hard for twenty minutes
in in eighty third game instead of going out and
playing hard for thirty four minutes in eighty two games.
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The only answer really is to abandon the product, and
it's starting to happen. But you can't pay for Amazon Prime,
you can't pay for your bundle with ESPN and TNT
because they already scratched out those checks and they haven't
even kicked in yet, and it's not gonna be a
la carte and you're not going to be able to
step away from all of this moving forward because they've
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already figured out how to take your money for a
stream when that was an option three years ago. Now
that's been blown out of the water. They always figure
out a way to make us wear it. So are
we really going to get freaked out over an All
Star game?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yes, we were talking about it all day.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
So for spending Saturday night at home over watching a
Sunday afternoon exhibition that is a complete and totally embarrassment
with twenty minutes between games to forty because that makes
sense with a Kevin Hart comedy routine.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Give me free bird. In the NHL, I don't understand
that either, but at least they're going hard.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I think it's important for us to quickly recognize it's
a league where Jalen Brown is the highest paid player
at fifty seven million dollars and there is not one
single NBA fan on a planet that says, hey, you know,
Jalen Brown's coming to town on February thirteenth. We got
to make sure we get tickets to that game. So
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we go see fifty seven million dollar man Jalen Brown.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I disagree, cal Bear contingent shows up for that guy. Hey,
nobody travels like the Berkeley Bears. Fred van Vliet makes
forty two million dollars a year. You know the Rockets
are coming to town on March eleventh, and Fred van
Vliet's coming with him. Get your van vlietz in?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
What world do you want to spend your five days
off flying to a city to do a grin and
grip with a bunch of corporate sponsors that can't pay
you money to endorse their products when you're already making
thirty two million dollars before. Uh, Jeremy Grant, Hey, Jeremy Grant,
how you doing. I'm sow and So from Pudding Pops.
(14:12):
We'd like you to endorse our product. Not really into it.
Nobody knows who I am and I make thirty two
million dollars a year. The NBA is wonderful, sucks exactly
right on a scale of one to ten. How do
you think things are going?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Zeerald suck?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
This ain't basketball?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Oh NBA All Star Weekend. The lamentation continues weeping and
moaning and gnashing of teeth. But that's not happening at
Camelback Ranch.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
People are laughing like clowns out there. David Massey, mister
clute Law, mister Clooney, the clown will join us next.
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Glenn Dale, camel Background. Dave, what's cracking? What's the buzz
in camp today? How's it going out there?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
It's going on, great guys, great to be here. It
was great to see a nice welcome when I arrived
at camel Back Range today. And the day's not over,
it's just getting started. As you mentioned, Dodger Talk tonight,
Blake Trnin's going to be our guest, but also the
seventh annual Buffalo Wink eating Contest is taking place tonight here,
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hosted by Mookie Beds. The winner will be awarded cash
prize from Mookie Beds himself, So I'll be out there
to witness that my family's with me. Little Joseph loves
watching grown men make fools of themselves.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Well, you're his father, so understandable. I mean, can'ts respect
their fathers?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Dave?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Are you are you allowed to enter the wing eating contest?
And if you were allowed to enter, would you be
a viable competitor or who would be the favorite?
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Well, the Dodgers Minor League pitching coordinator Rob Hill has
been the repeat champion a few different times, and quite honestly,
seven years ago he was not as large as he
is now, so obviously he's training for this year round,
but he's the favorite to win again, and I would
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not enter, Matt, don't know if you know this about me.
I'm not a big buffalo wing eater. I like bonus
wings and chicken tenders. Yea, yes, exactly exactly. If there
was a nacho eating contest, I'd be up for that,
all right.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
To the bay. There's no nacho and you know what,
nacho God.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
This works perfectly, Dave, because if there were a nachod
otherwise I would have won. If there were a nacho
eating contest, you'd have to be careful of those tortillas
going down your your your throat.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You're eating real fast. A nacho can spear the roof
of your right.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
That happened to me, So what about what about the
revelation that it was a it was a shard of
lettuce that did all the damage to Dustin. May have
you had a chance to talk to him and how's
he doing.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I have not spoken to him. I had heard different things.
So if he's going with the sharp lettuce, I mean, okay.
But it's funny you brought him up because he was
the buzz of camp today. It was the first time
he had thrown the hitters this spring. And the way
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you start to feel the buzz is not only front
office people coming over to watch, but his teammates stuck
around field one to watch him throw to hit or
and basically the entire team was there. Blake Snell, Alex Vesia,
his former roommate Tony gonsoln basically among others, were there
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to watch what he had and the swings that were
being taken from key Y Hernandez and Max Munsey. They
did not look like comfortable at that. So, you know,
Dustin May throwing the hitters today was the buzzer camp,
and it feels like everybody was really impressed by what
he was able to do.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Is he considered to be one of the young pitchers, Dave.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I would say, so, I guess you would put him
in that class. I mean him and Tony Gonsolin were
the class ahead of guys like Bobby Miller and Ryan
Pepio and Landon Knack. So yeah, I guess I would
put him in there.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
So where did all these young guys fit? I mean,
it's not like it used to be where they need
one of these young guys to get out there and
be part of the rotation right away. There's so many
of these guys, how do they fit?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Also, you know other media members out there and even
just talking to some of the coaches throughout the organization.
That's what everybody says. The majority of these guys, Bobby Miller,
Tony Gonflin, Dustin May, Landon Nack, among others, would be
buying for jobs and maybe even making major league rosters.
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The Dodgers, on the surface, on paper, look like they
have not only a starting five for their own team,
but also another starting five. They could steal two starting rotations,
So you know it's going to be interesting to see
how it's all sorted out. But I will say this again,
to start the season, at least with the question marks
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surrounding Roki Sazaki, with question mark surrounding Tyler Glass now
who seems to be one hundred percent healthy and participants,
there are innings to be had at the beginning of
the year, and I feel like it's going to be
a competition between guys like Bobby Miller, Justin May and
Tony Go to pitch those innings.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Dave, could you we always talk about the six man rotation,
but what about Dustin May and Bobby Miller and Land
and Neck and these guys is as long men, you know,
they can throw two or three innings, so these starters
are only going four or five. Could you see that
being an approach that they take to try to figure
out how to mitigate all these damn arm injuries they
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deal with every year.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
That could be a way to do it. But I
was talking to Chris Archer, who is a roving instructor now,
and he said, it's not that easy for pitchers just
to automatically convert to being a long man or being
a relief pitcher after spending their whole lives as starters.
You know, the bigger they are, the tougher it is
to warm up and look. Maybe the best guy to
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fill that role is Land and Nak. Another guy that
I think we all forget about what he did in
the World Series was Ben Caspirius, who also threw the
hitters on field two today. That guy seems to have
his stuff, as they say, trend upwards when he was
coming out of the bullpen last year, rather than being
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a starter. So I could see Ben Casparius being a
candidate for all that.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
How does it work, Dave with because you know, like
Petro said, these are young guys, but I mean Dustin
ma Is twenty seven. You know you got Tyler Glass
now for three more years. You got Blake Snell for
four years. Obviously, Otani, you expect to pay like these
guys are locked in. For these guys getting past age thirty,
and I would assume they want to get out there
is there like, is it all good with these guys
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and the Dodgers. You've always talked about them being chips
at the trade deadline or to get other major leaguers.
There's teams so deep though, like, how does this whole
thing work out?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
In your opinion?
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Right now, they're all fighting as if they were going
to have a spot in the rotation. But that is
the reality, Matt. At the end of camp, a lot
of these guys that are major league ready may have
to start the year in Oklahoma City and then we'll
see how those feel are going at that point. But
right now, it's so early in camp that there's still
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that positive mindset that hey, I'm competing for a job.
I have a chance to have a role on this roster.
But you know, it's a long camp. Guys can get hurt.
So that's the reason why that mentality is there. But
if they do start the season in Oklahoma City, I
think it goes back to what major league players say
all the time. You're not just performing for the team
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that you're on, You're performing for other teams, And I
think that's the mentality they have.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
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Speaker 5 (23:51):
Yeah, you're right Petros about that. I mean, it is
a scene. You have the defending world champions and you
have four international high profile players. There's it's tough to
get time with a lot of these players.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You had a lot of time with Freddy Freeman right
before this started. A couple weeks back. He was at
fan Fest and you guys had a long, honest conversation
about his rehab and his ankle. Where is that right now?
How does Freddy look?
Speaker 5 (24:18):
He's supposed to start running this week. And I was
surprised when I arrived today and saw the first workouts
that Freddy was actually fielding his position. And I know
the Dodgers have tried to slow him down, but the
more they try to slow him down, he is intent
on playing close to one hundred and sixty games this year.
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So it's it's on a fast track right now for
him to be ready for opening day in Tokyo. I
don't believe you're going to see him play in many
Cactus League games, He's gonna get a lot of at
bats on the backfields and do things that way as
the DH but I thought it was a huge sign
that he was even being able to or allowed to
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field today during infield drill.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Dave, two guys that you have a great relationship with,
one long term, one recent. Will you find yourself experiencing
a tinge of jealousy? Should the article written in the
La Times today or yesterday describing the relationship between Blake
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Snell and Bobby Miller, should that bud and develop into
something special? Will you feel as though each of them
is in the way of your relationship with Bobby Miller
and Blake Snell.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
I don't believe so, Matt. I think Blake Snell gave
us the information and the story on how this organically
happened during Dodger Fest. So I appreciate the La Times
podcasting that show to be able to come up with
this story.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Those bastards. I'm glad you were able to out them, Dave.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Yeah, so we beat them on that story already. And
Blake Snell and Bobby Miller are both fast at guys,
and I think it's a beautiful relationship.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Did you bring them together.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
No, Blake saw something in Bobby. The way Blake explained
it to us first on Dodger Fest is him being
out at Arizona for about two weeks before it was
official report date. He said he saw something in Bobby
Miller that reminded himself, reminded him of himself when he
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was at that stage of his career. And Bobby's open
to it, and Blake really has taken him under his wing,
so it's a good thing. And look, Bobby Miller, he's
in great condition, better than what I saw him last year,
and his knees are probably feeling a lot better than
they were a year ago. So I expect a better
year from Bobby Miller just because he's healthy.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Still got that cat fight going on on his chest though.
That can't be easy.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Ya he does, Yeah, he does. He showed me another
video on Instagram of like me being a used car salesman.
He I thought he was going to show me the
same one you sent me, Petro. There's another one that.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yeah, they didn't even have kirston. I don't even think
she was represented well. Mark Goobaza and I. He invited
me onto one of his car commercials and I guess
it's airing now, but it's made its way onto social
media and they are mocking me again in a different way.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
All right, well town needs to kill you all, everybody.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
It's on Bobby Miller's radar.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Everybody's got the green light. The Great David Masse will
be waiting for tonight. What do you got tonight?
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Dave Blake Trining is going to entertain a great interview
with him, and he tries to hold me accountable. I
try to hold him accountable, and in between he tells
great stories about one of the most famous moments of
the World series with Dave Roberts going out there and
(28:00):
trusting him to get those final outs of the eighth inning.
So wait, trying to really put on a show for
us tonight. Beautiful And you'll hear that at seven point thirty.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Well, I'll look forward to hearing it on the La Times,
Doctor Podner, I'll read it in two weeks. Yeah, I'm
not worried about it. David Passe, our guests the Beast
seven o'clock will be Dodger talking. We'll talk to him tomorrow.
He's in Arizona doing his job before he goes to Tokyo.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Bye, Dave, have fun, Thank you for having me. Guys.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
We'll be right back with some secret Textoso Rodeo round up.
Don't forget Dave's coming back at seven. We got a
final hour fun fact quick hit, some local knowledge and
dead and a live guy birth there of the day
all the way till seven, and don't miss Tim Kits
on Spectrum Sports and at LA It's Kate's week run
into the Wall.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Petro Some Money in five seventy Eli Sports. Big thank
you to David Massey again. If you miss that, relive
it through the iHeartRadio app and the Petros Money podcast
and be sure to check in at seven. Dodger Talk,
first installment from Camelback Ranch in spring training. Blake Trining
going to be his guest. Is David vasse detail in
the last segment here all about the World Series, that
eighth inning and the conversation he had with the skipper
(29:16):
Dave Roberts in a full hour of Spring Training Dodger Talk,
and then, of course we can't say it enough, Dodger's
Cubs Spring training baseball arrives on Thursday at noon.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
All right, everybody, we're happy to be with you. We
do have a little bit of a reaction on the
text Still Soaps.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
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Speaker 1 (29:35):
We make it easy, this says hi Pee, tell money
that we talked on Thursday, Matt. I was on my
way home on Thursday from the show and Isabelle called me, okay,
and I talked to her, and I was supposed to
tell you that Isabelle is lobbying hard for the return
(29:58):
of the launch pad, and had I want to put Victor.
I mean, I don't see why we can't put Vic
on to do the launch pad on the telephone unless
there is some kind.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Of does he have an exclusive with PJ.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I don't know, Like that's what I want to figure out.
If Paul Cormino comes down here and cementso well, you
do is cements our feet and throws us into the
La River. He is the opponent. He knows how to
fight exactly. So I don't want to be that right
bold like Darth Vader or like a man in the
Toyota Dia Como. No, you could be so bold. I
don't know, but and I do. We think we can
(30:31):
launch without Vic. We've done that in the past as well, so.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Well, it's the interaction on the phone of Vic and
is he that really kind of lens to the magic
of radio when you can hear those two engaging each other.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Are you saying that the launch the launch is canceled? No?
Is that what you're trying to have? You canceling the law.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
We're not going to scrub the lawns.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
A lot of people waiting at Kate Canavero for that
law understandable.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
A lot of those big ass lenses that are worth
like ten g's across the Lake of Tranquility. I don't know,
we'll have to see. I mean, the launch pat is,
but she was not something that's really scheduled. It just
kind of shows O.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
But you look at the Dodgers' schedule when it comes here,
and let's say the Dodgers get done a little early.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Let's say so they're done A lot.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Friend's over in Rancho Mirage drinking a mohito at the
ritz Off Frank Sinatra and Rodney. You don't want to
come in ever. I mean, what are we gonna do?
We got seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
To kill and that's when we say, let's launch, right,
But but we can't promise that to Iszye who might
set her schedule, and then we scrub the launch and
then she's upset. She calls you because I blocked her
number and you get an ear for.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
And she did ask what is Matt's number? And I said, well,
tell me what you got and I'll tell you if
you got the right one, knowing in the back of
my head that she like a punt from Ricky White's
the great U and LV wide receiver has most likely
been blocked yes and not able to read the line
of scrimmage, sometimes resulting in a touchdo for the part
(32:01):
return team. I gotta say she has the right number.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
She does. It was like a Sunday at nine thirty pm,
and I was like, Okay, we can't.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Do this just because you're gonna better early. Shouldn't ruin
friendship with Isabelle. I don't want it to ruin the
front kinds. She was kind of ruining. You admitted it
happens on my watch all the time, and I'm like,
got my sleep mask on. I try to turn it
off with the hose part. Anyway, is He called me
(32:36):
she wants to bring back the launch pad. We'll take
any suggestions after listening to that Yoko Ono performance, I
never wanted a classic Tim Kate's YouTube interruption ad more
during any show ever, Matt the well, I mean, wait, wait, wait,
you were.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Off right on Friday Flying.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Which means I have to deal with the final hour
fun fact, which is the fact that it was the
ninety second birthday in effects. Yeah, we're three names, Yoko
Ono's ninety second birthday, and we have a connection to
her through Pad O'Brien, and she was friends with Pad O'Brien.
And I found literally something better than they. I literally
(33:19):
found Yoko Ono's what is considered to be her finest performance.
And I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
She's someone where Chuck Berry's looking at her, going what I.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Wanted to play that one? I wanted to play that one,
But that's not her best performance. And do you know
that they cut her mic and the second song of
that performance, this one people stood enthralled because it's that good.
Let's try to see how long we can go. Yeah,
(34:05):
I'm done. Oh, come on, I'm done. We got like
ninety more second time is left?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
N ninety seconds.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
You're not gonna marry her? No, what a premium?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Call me Paul McCartney. I'm just gonna stare at her
smoking my cigarette and my sensitive sweater going. Can you
stop bringing her to the freaking studio already?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Once it was away?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
To get back home again?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
What do you got, Ringo, I'm got a song called
Octopus is Gone.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Oh you know Jesse, Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
You know, in previous years I would have said, Fau,
this is garbage, but let's go.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Birthday And finally, Matt, you bit better than stock you
on my birthday? You bitches better put it at least
twenty percent more effort than the show before you did.
Let Matt bitch about working like a real American talk
about your puzzo. Let Kate's talk about how he sinned
all weekend. It didn't go to church yesterday. I want
(34:58):
to hear about Ronnie taking back curtain rods to the
Joanna's Fabrics, Joe Fabric, Rogan and Rocky set the bar
lower every week and we're ripping all the benefits.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
If Ronnie ever shared it and then hit up the
Joanne Fabrics, the wife taking up being a seamstress.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Curtain runs, We've got We're a little short, so had
to get back and get the three and a half
yard curtain runs.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
The wife wanted a pattern for a new summer dress
and it.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Was a little floral, and we decided to show us something.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
More dope Joe Anne Fabrics.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
They set the bar low so we can go Hi.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
It's the truth.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Thank you everybody. We'll be right now. We had a
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Speaker 3 (01:52):
Day, Top story of it.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Can't get enough of it.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It has been a signature petros In Money show Today
the day after the NBA's All Star weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Now we dealt with it in the open. We took
some some texts about it. We talked to Mark Medina,
and we have the top store.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Let's keep going. Cue the uproar.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
That's three stories in four hours. Man, we're well balanced,
well ballanced, we're well balanced. Yang.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
We deliver what the people want. The All Star Game sucks.
The players suck, say basketball, Well, then what is it?
It sucks, sucks, It sucks sucks. If the players don't care,
then we don't care. We do it every year. We've
been making fun of the NBA for three or four
weeks now thanks to They're desperate. Hail Mary in desperation
(02:40):
is a stinky cologne of bringing in Caitlin Clark to
save the weekend. The idea that last year is Steph
Curry versus Sabrina Ayanascue three point shootout. You know that
Sabrina the teenage which used to date Ryan Reynolds, but
did not know that I that that could even be
consideration as the highlight of last year's All Star Weekend,
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only to be challenged by a short, white guy from
the G League that essentially has a bat phone that
he picks up every year prior to the All Star Game,
and it's Adam Silver saying we need you, Mac, we
need you. Nobody wants to do the slam Dunk contest
and the three guys we got that are doing it
are in their second year and nobody has any idea
who they are. My work will never try it up,
(03:26):
but they know this is your annual. It's your time
to shine, Mac, we won't allow you to play in
the league, but thank god you're still on that Orlando
Magic G League roster because somehow we can squeeze this
one through and everybody doesn't seem to have a problem
with it. The players don't want lay five games in
four years in the NBA, and has won three consecutive
dunk contests. That is more than Michael Jordan won. He
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won back to back. Couldn't do it three times in
a row, though, But Mac kidding me, he goes by
one name now, he ain't even Mac mclung anymore. He's
just macf you Jordan, what can you do? The players
don't want to play. There's nothing you can do about it.
Part of me understands kind of at least fifty percent
(04:11):
of what seemed to be a thoughtful approach of explaining
why the All Star Game sucks from old man Damian Lillard,
who did his best to share why it's not ideal,
and he said, the All Star Game's too late, that
they've already played fifty five, fifty six games. It's well
past the halfway point. Everybody's dealing with injuries now and
(04:33):
nagging this and this hurts and I'm getting rest for that.
And with the play in tournament, you got ten teams
instead of eight, and more and more players have their
eyes on competing in the tournament at the end of
the year. That it's a sprint and the exhibition being
two thirds of the way through isn't great. And then
he went a step too far. He suggested that players
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today take more of a pounding than the guys that
busted their ass out there when the All Star Game
was halfway through. Excuse me, yes, and apparently I don't
see Charles Oakley under the rim these days. Lillard suggested
the up and down nature of the game that the
nineties and the eighties, that we all revel in. This
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up and down nature is putting more wear and tear
and leads to more pounding on their bodies because they're
getting up and down the court more often than those
physical teams that would stretch the twenty four shot clock
instead of playing in a seven seconds or less era.
That's horse crap. If you'd like to go back to
Jerry West's nineteen seventy two championship Laker team. Prior to
modern medicine, that year, every single team in the league
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all seventeen of them averaged over one hundred five points
per game, over half of them over one hundred and
ten points per game. Every single one of those teams
allowed over one hundred and three points per game. The
Lakers knocked off the Knicks that year, and did so
with Wilt Chamberlain at age thirty five, playing eighty two
games and averaging forty three minutes per game. Thirty three
(06:01):
year old Jerry West averaged thirty nine minutes per game,
and a twenty eight year old Gail Goodrich thirty eight
minutes per game. The young in Jim McMillan thirty eight
minutes per game. I'm sorry, dame. They flew commercial. They
didn't have personal trainers, they didn't have a nutritionists, they
didn't have a massage therapist, they didn't have all the
preventative maintenance available to players today. Stretch guy, no stretch
(06:25):
guy in the flyle guy guy a high tempo, incredibly
physical brand of basketball. Their shoes were essentially palm fronds
tied to their feet.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Line. I was with you there, I was with you
til the palm fron.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Players today take more of a pounding than Wilt Chamberlain
did in the nineteen seventies, or Jerry's or Jerry West
is an absolute joke. Jannis did a good job of
walking the line. He did not try to celebrate himself.
He simply pointed out, I look forward to the All
Star Game every year. I approach it like it's a
(07:03):
regular season game. I have the same pregame ritual, I
have the same pregame meal, I have the same pregame treatment,
much like a regular season game. I do not go
out the night before to party because I want to
measure myself against the best players in the rest of
the league like I do any given night. He then added,
I do not begrudge anyone that chooses to approach it differently,
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adding these are grown men who make a lot of money.
They are set in their ways, and whatever way they
choose is fine by me. That thing that he said there, though,
is what's stuck with me. The idea that playing one
more game competitively. If you were to play every single game,
let's say eighty two, like Wilt did, like Jerry did
(07:49):
in the seventy two season when they won a championship,
and you had to add an eighty third game, you
know we're playing eighty two that's that.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Breaks that best. That's the moment the Blues Brothers car
explodes right with their park somehow.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Adding an eighty third game, it's not football, which we
all can understand. Adding games is a serious undertaking by players,
because every game is a car crash. But adding an
eighty third game, and by the way, in that eighty
third game, you play maybe half the minutes that you're
accustomed to, that is not a serious undertaking. So let's
(08:27):
call it a half game. You're adding one half game
of competitive basketball to play your ass off in the
All Star Game. And those making the excuse of All
Stars earning between thirty and seventy million dollars a year
and not being capable of wanting to try hard with
absolutely nothing on the line. That just serves a nationally
(08:50):
televised exhibition entertainment for the twenty thousand people that paid
the premium to be in the arena, the idiots that
they are, and however, many millions more or watching the broadcasts. Ultimately,
what this comes down to, and look, when Michael Jordan
and Charles Barkley and Magic Johnson and James Worthy and
Larry Bird and Doctor j were making less than a
million dollars a year in salary. They had to. They
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had to perform at the All Star Game for their sponsors,
for their endorsements, for Nike, for McDonald's, for Burger King,
for Converse.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
You think that would still be the case.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Right for Chevy, for Ford, for Hugo Boss or Calvin
Klein Ballpark, Franks Ballpark. They had to get out there
for that.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Get that stuff out of here.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
For Madison Avenue. Yeah, there was a little bit of
West versus East Pride on the line, but it was
nowhere near them needing to impress Madison Avenue and to
scratching out a check with seven figures to get you
to wear their clothes, their shoes, to eat their food
in a thirty second commercial. There is nothing you can
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do monetarily to motivate these guys. They make too much money.
They've been conditioned, on top of that to think that
they're overworked with the load management bs that's come up
the last eight to ten years.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I can't even pay my stylist what I want to
pay her to put me in these terrible clothes that
embarrassed me.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Right, They've got a stylist unretainer for a million dollars
a year. That's how much money they make someone to
tell them how to dress. So when they shoot their
tunnel walk for the nationally televised game, they get talked about.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
That's how stupid Rob Polenka is. He fell for that
grift too, Otherwise you would have now worn that stupid
ass jacket when they introduced Luca.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Look at these double zippers. There is a flip side
of this, though, and that is who does the All
Star Game serve anyway? You know, basically the network that
wrote the check TNT, that's who it's on now.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
But they need to sell advertising.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Exactly, and it's their fault forbidding for their NBA package
to include All Star Weekend in the All Star Game. Now,
do I miss a Larry Bird three point shootout, a
Michael Jordan versus Dominique Wilkins slam dunk contest two years
in a row, an All Star Game with Magic Johnson
out of the league but comes back and puts on
a show. Of course we do.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Hell, Kobe used to compete exactly right.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
But I can say with great certainty we have not
had an All Star Game memory in the last ten years,
not a single one except for a white guy from
the G League who jumps over cars and has inordinate
hops considering his diminutive stature, All Star Weekend was must watch,
and that's why TNT made sure it was included for
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an extra who knows how many millions of dollars when
they would bid for their NBA package, I would assume
in the last round of negotiations NBC, Amazon, and ESPN,
we're not fighting over who got All Stars Saturday Night,
and yet each of them still scratched out tens of
billions of dollars to the league for the rights to
air their games over the course of a regular season
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and the playoffs. So, if you're like us and you
want to bitch and moan about why this is annoying,
about why aren't there more players like Giannis who are
willing to go out and play hard for twenty minutes
in in eighty third game instead of going out and
playing hard for thirty four minutes in eighty two games.
(12:16):
The only answer really is to abandon the product, and
it's starting to happen. But you can't pay for Amazon Prime,
you can't pay for your bundle with ESPN and TNT
because they already scratched out those checks and they haven't
even kicked in yet, and it's not gonna be a
la carte and you're not going to be able to
step away from all of this moving forward because they've
(12:36):
already figured out how to take your money for a
stream when that was an option three years ago. Now
that's been blown out of the water. They always figure
out a way to make us wear it. So are
we really going to get freaked out over an All
Star game?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yes, we were talking about it all day.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
So for spending Saturday night at home over watching a
Sunday afternoon exhibition that is a complete and totally embarrassment
with twenty minutes between games to forty because that makes
sense with a Kevin Hart comedy routine.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Give me free bird. In the NHL, I don't understand
that either, but at least they're going hard.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I think it's important for us to quickly recognize it's
a league where Jalen Brown is the highest paid player
at fifty seven million dollars and there is not one
single NBA fan on a planet that says, hey, you know,
Jalen Brown's coming to town on February thirteenth. We got
to make sure we get tickets to that game. So
(13:32):
we go see fifty seven million dollar man Jalen Brown.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I disagree, cal Bear contingent shows up for that guy. Hey,
nobody travels like the Berkeley Bears. Fred van Vliet makes
forty two million dollars a year. You know the Rockets
are coming to town on March eleventh, and Fred van
Vliet's coming with him. Get your van vlietz in?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
What world do you want to spend your five days
off flying to a city to do a grin and
grip with a bunch of corporate sponsors that can't pay
you money to endorse their products when you're already making
thirty two million dollars before. Uh, Jeremy Grant, Hey, Jeremy Grant,
how you doing. I'm sow and So from Pudding Pops.
(14:12):
We'd like you to endorse our product. Not really into it.
Nobody knows who I am and I make thirty two
million dollars a year. The NBA is wonderful, sucks exactly
right on a scale of one to ten. How do
you think things are going?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Zeerald suck?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
This ain't basketball?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Oh NBA All Star Weekend. The lamentation continues weeping and
moaning and gnashing of teeth. But that's not happening at
Camelback Ranch.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
People are laughing like clowns out there. David Massey, mister
clute Law, mister Clooney, the clown will join us next.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
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(15:17):
a nooner Dodgers v. Cubs five after twelve pm, right
here on your Home of the Dodgers A five seventy
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Dodgers Cubs, the first spring training game of the spring training.
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Season, the Home of the Dodgers.
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Off day.
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in camp today? How's it going out there?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
It's going on, great guys, great to be here. It
was great to see a nice welcome when I arrived
at camel Back Range today. And the day's not over,
it's just getting started. As you mentioned, Dodger Talk tonight,
Blake Trnin's going to be our guest, but also the
seventh annual Buffalo Wink eating Contest is taking place tonight here,
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hosted by Mookie Beds. The winner will be awarded cash
prize from Mookie Beds himself, So I'll be out there
to witness that my family's with me. Little Joseph loves
watching grown men make fools of themselves.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Well, you're his father, so understandable. I mean, can'ts respect
their fathers?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Dave?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Are you are you allowed to enter the wing eating contest?
And if you were allowed to enter, would you be
a viable competitor or who would be the favorite?
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Well, the Dodgers Minor League pitching coordinator Rob Hill has
been the repeat champion a few different times, and quite honestly,
seven years ago he was not as large as he
is now, so obviously he's training for this year round,
but he's the favorite to win again, and I would
(17:42):
not enter, Matt, don't know if you know this about me.
I'm not a big buffalo wing eater. I like bonus
wings and chicken tenders. Yea, yes, exactly exactly. If there
was a nacho eating contest, I'd be up for that,
all right.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
To the bay. There's no nacho and you know what,
nacho God.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
This works perfectly, Dave, because if there were a nachod
otherwise I would have won. If there were a nacho
eating contest, you'd have to be careful of those tortillas
going down your your your throat.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You're eating real fast. A nacho can spear the roof
of your right.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
That happened to me, So what about what about the
revelation that it was a it was a shard of
lettuce that did all the damage to Dustin. May have
you had a chance to talk to him and how's
he doing.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I have not spoken to him. I had heard different things.
So if he's going with the sharp lettuce, I mean, okay.
But it's funny you brought him up because he was
the buzz of camp today. It was the first time
he had thrown the hitters this spring. And the way
(18:49):
you start to feel the buzz is not only front
office people coming over to watch, but his teammates stuck
around field one to watch him throw to hit or
and basically the entire team was there. Blake Snell, Alex Vesia,
his former roommate Tony gonsoln basically among others, were there
(19:10):
to watch what he had and the swings that were
being taken from key Y Hernandez and Max Munsey. They
did not look like comfortable at that. So, you know,
Dustin May throwing the hitters today was the buzzer camp,
and it feels like everybody was really impressed by what
he was able to do.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Is he considered to be one of the young pitchers, Dave.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I would say, so, I guess you would put him
in that class. I mean him and Tony Gonsolin were
the class ahead of guys like Bobby Miller and Ryan
Pepio and Landon Knack. So yeah, I guess I would
put him in there.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
So where did all these young guys fit? I mean,
it's not like it used to be where they need
one of these young guys to get out there and
be part of the rotation right away. There's so many
of these guys, how do they fit?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Also, you know other media members out there and even
just talking to some of the coaches throughout the organization.
That's what everybody says. The majority of these guys, Bobby Miller,
Tony Gonflin, Dustin May, Landon Nack, among others, would be
buying for jobs and maybe even making major league rosters.
(20:20):
The Dodgers, on the surface, on paper, look like they
have not only a starting five for their own team,
but also another starting five. They could steal two starting rotations,
So you know it's going to be interesting to see
how it's all sorted out. But I will say this again,
to start the season, at least with the question marks
(20:40):
surrounding Roki Sazaki, with question mark surrounding Tyler Glass now
who seems to be one hundred percent healthy and participants,
there are innings to be had at the beginning of
the year, and I feel like it's going to be
a competition between guys like Bobby Miller, Justin May and
Tony Go to pitch those innings.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Dave, could you we always talk about the six man rotation,
but what about Dustin May and Bobby Miller and Land
and Neck and these guys is as long men, you know,
they can throw two or three innings, so these starters
are only going four or five. Could you see that
being an approach that they take to try to figure
out how to mitigate all these damn arm injuries they
(21:24):
deal with every year.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
That could be a way to do it. But I
was talking to Chris Archer, who is a roving instructor now,
and he said, it's not that easy for pitchers just
to automatically convert to being a long man or being
a relief pitcher after spending their whole lives as starters.
You know, the bigger they are, the tougher it is
to warm up and look. Maybe the best guy to
(21:48):
fill that role is Land and Nak. Another guy that
I think we all forget about what he did in
the World Series was Ben Caspirius, who also threw the
hitters on field two today. That guy seems to have
his stuff, as they say, trend upwards when he was
coming out of the bullpen last year, rather than being
(22:09):
a starter. So I could see Ben Casparius being a
candidate for all that.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
How does it work, Dave with because you know, like
Petro said, these are young guys, but I mean Dustin
ma Is twenty seven. You know you got Tyler Glass
now for three more years. You got Blake Snell for
four years. Obviously, Otani, you expect to pay like these
guys are locked in. For these guys getting past age thirty,
and I would assume they want to get out there
is there like, is it all good with these guys
(22:34):
and the Dodgers. You've always talked about them being chips
at the trade deadline or to get other major leaguers.
There's teams so deep though, like, how does this whole
thing work out?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
In your opinion?
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Right now, they're all fighting as if they were going
to have a spot in the rotation. But that is
the reality, Matt. At the end of camp, a lot
of these guys that are major league ready may have
to start the year in Oklahoma City and then we'll
see how those feel are going at that point. But
right now, it's so early in camp that there's still
(23:05):
that positive mindset that hey, I'm competing for a job.
I have a chance to have a role on this roster.
But you know, it's a long camp. Guys can get hurt.
So that's the reason why that mentality is there. But
if they do start the season in Oklahoma City, I
think it goes back to what major league players say
all the time. You're not just performing for the team
(23:26):
that you're on, You're performing for other teams, And I
think that's the mentality they have.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
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Don't miss anything from camel Back Ranch Dave is all
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Speaker 5 (23:51):
Yeah, you're right Petros about that. I mean, it is
a scene. You have the defending world champions and you
have four international high profile players. There's it's tough to
get time with a lot of these players.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You had a lot of time with Freddy Freeman right
before this started. A couple weeks back. He was at
fan Fest and you guys had a long, honest conversation
about his rehab and his ankle. Where is that right now?
How does Freddy look?
Speaker 5 (24:18):
He's supposed to start running this week. And I was
surprised when I arrived today and saw the first workouts
that Freddy was actually fielding his position. And I know
the Dodgers have tried to slow him down, but the
more they try to slow him down, he is intent
on playing close to one hundred and sixty games this year.
(24:38):
So it's it's on a fast track right now for
him to be ready for opening day in Tokyo. I
don't believe you're going to see him play in many
Cactus League games, He's gonna get a lot of at
bats on the backfields and do things that way as
the DH but I thought it was a huge sign
that he was even being able to or allowed to
(24:59):
field today during infield drill.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Dave, two guys that you have a great relationship with,
one long term, one recent. Will you find yourself experiencing
a tinge of jealousy? Should the article written in the
La Times today or yesterday describing the relationship between Blake
(25:23):
Snell and Bobby Miller, should that bud and develop into
something special? Will you feel as though each of them
is in the way of your relationship with Bobby Miller
and Blake Snell.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
I don't believe so, Matt. I think Blake Snell gave
us the information and the story on how this organically
happened during Dodger Fest. So I appreciate the La Times
podcasting that show to be able to come up with
this story.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Those bastards. I'm glad you were able to out them, Dave.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Yeah, so we beat them on that story already. And
Blake Snell and Bobby Miller are both fast at guys,
and I think it's a beautiful relationship.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Did you bring them together.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
No, Blake saw something in Bobby. The way Blake explained
it to us first on Dodger Fest is him being
out at Arizona for about two weeks before it was
official report date. He said he saw something in Bobby
Miller that reminded himself, reminded him of himself when he
(26:28):
was at that stage of his career. And Bobby's open
to it, and Blake really has taken him under his wing,
so it's a good thing. And look, Bobby Miller, he's
in great condition, better than what I saw him last year,
and his knees are probably feeling a lot better than
they were a year ago. So I expect a better
year from Bobby Miller just because he's healthy.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Still got that cat fight going on on his chest though.
That can't be easy.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Ya he does, Yeah, he does. He showed me another
video on Instagram of like me being a used car salesman.
He I thought he was going to show me the
same one you sent me, Petro. There's another one that.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yeah, they didn't even have kirston. I don't even think
she was represented well. Mark Goobaza and I. He invited
me onto one of his car commercials and I guess
it's airing now, but it's made its way onto social
media and they are mocking me again in a different way.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
All right, well town needs to kill you all, everybody.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
It's on Bobby Miller's radar.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Everybody's got the green light. The Great David Masse will
be waiting for tonight. What do you got tonight?
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Dave Blake Trining is going to entertain a great interview
with him, and he tries to hold me accountable. I
try to hold him accountable, and in between he tells
great stories about one of the most famous moments of
the World series with Dave Roberts going out there and
(28:00):
trusting him to get those final outs of the eighth inning.
So wait, trying to really put on a show for
us tonight. Beautiful And you'll hear that at seven point thirty.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Well, I'll look forward to hearing it on the La Times,
Doctor Podner, I'll read it in two weeks. Yeah, I'm
not worried about it. David Passe, our guests the Beast
seven o'clock will be Dodger talking. We'll talk to him tomorrow.
He's in Arizona doing his job before he goes to Tokyo.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Bye, Dave, have fun, Thank you for having me. Guys.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
We'll be right back with some secret Textoso Rodeo round up.
Don't forget Dave's coming back at seven. We got a
final hour fun fact quick hit, some local knowledge and
dead and a live guy birth there of the day
all the way till seven, and don't miss Tim Kits
on Spectrum Sports and at LA It's Kate's week run
into the Wall.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Petro Some Money in five seventy Eli Sports. Big thank
you to David Massey again. If you miss that, relive
it through the iHeartRadio app and the Petros Money podcast
and be sure to check in at seven. Dodger Talk,
first installment from Camelback Ranch in spring training. Blake Trining
going to be his guest. Is David vasse detail in
the last segment here all about the World Series, that
eighth inning and the conversation he had with the skipper
(29:16):
Dave Roberts in a full hour of Spring Training Dodger Talk,
and then, of course we can't say it enough, Dodger's
Cubs Spring training baseball arrives on Thursday at noon.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
All right, everybody, we're happy to be with you. We
do have a little bit of a reaction on the
text Still Soaps.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Brought to you by your sokel Toyota Dealers.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
We make it easy, this says hi Pee, tell money
that we talked on Thursday, Matt. I was on my
way home on Thursday from the show and Isabelle called me, okay,
and I talked to her, and I was supposed to
tell you that Isabelle is lobbying hard for the return
(29:58):
of the launch pad, and had I want to put Victor.
I mean, I don't see why we can't put Vic
on to do the launch pad on the telephone unless
there is some kind.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Of does he have an exclusive with PJ.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I don't know, Like that's what I want to figure out.
If Paul Cormino comes down here and cementso well, you
do is cements our feet and throws us into the
La River. He is the opponent. He knows how to
fight exactly. So I don't want to be that right
bold like Darth Vader or like a man in the
Toyota Dia Como. No, you could be so bold. I
don't know, but and I do. We think we can
(30:31):
launch without Vic. We've done that in the past as well, so.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Well, it's the interaction on the phone of Vic and
is he that really kind of lens to the magic
of radio when you can hear those two engaging each other.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Are you saying that the launch the launch is canceled? No?
Is that what you're trying to have? You canceling the law.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
We're not going to scrub the lawns.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
A lot of people waiting at Kate Canavero for that
law understandable.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
A lot of those big ass lenses that are worth
like ten g's across the Lake of Tranquility. I don't know,
we'll have to see. I mean, the launch pat is,
but she was not something that's really scheduled. It just
kind of shows O.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
But you look at the Dodgers' schedule when it comes here,
and let's say the Dodgers get done a little early.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Let's say so they're done A lot.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Friend's over in Rancho Mirage drinking a mohito at the
ritz Off Frank Sinatra and Rodney. You don't want to
come in ever. I mean, what are we gonna do?
We got seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
To kill and that's when we say, let's launch, right,
But but we can't promise that to Iszye who might
set her schedule, and then we scrub the launch and
then she's upset. She calls you because I blocked her
number and you get an ear for.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
And she did ask what is Matt's number? And I said, well,
tell me what you got and I'll tell you if
you got the right one, knowing in the back of
my head that she like a punt from Ricky White's
the great U and LV wide receiver has most likely
been blocked yes and not able to read the line
of scrimmage, sometimes resulting in a touchdo for the part
(32:01):
return team. I gotta say she has the right number.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
She does. It was like a Sunday at nine thirty pm,
and I was like, Okay, we can't.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Do this just because you're gonna better early. Shouldn't ruin
friendship with Isabelle. I don't want it to ruin the
front kinds. She was kind of ruining. You admitted it
happens on my watch all the time, and I'm like,
got my sleep mask on. I try to turn it
off with the hose part. Anyway, is He called me
(32:36):
she wants to bring back the launch pad. We'll take
any suggestions after listening to that Yoko Ono performance, I
never wanted a classic Tim Kate's YouTube interruption ad more
during any show ever, Matt the well, I mean, wait, wait, wait,
you were.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Off right on Friday Flying.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Which means I have to deal with the final hour
fun fact, which is the fact that it was the
ninety second birthday in effects. Yeah, we're three names, Yoko
Ono's ninety second birthday, and we have a connection to
her through Pad O'Brien, and she was friends with Pad O'Brien.
And I found literally something better than they. I literally
(33:19):
found Yoko Ono's what is considered to be her finest performance.
And I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
She's someone where Chuck Berry's looking at her, going what I.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Wanted to play that one? I wanted to play that one,
But that's not her best performance. And do you know
that they cut her mic and the second song of
that performance, this one people stood enthralled because it's that good.
Let's try to see how long we can go. Yeah,
(34:05):
I'm done. Oh, come on, I'm done. We got like
ninety more second time is left?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
N ninety seconds.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
You're not gonna marry her? No, what a premium?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Call me Paul McCartney. I'm just gonna stare at her
smoking my cigarette and my sensitive sweater going. Can you
stop bringing her to the freaking studio already?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Once it was away?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
To get back home again?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
What do you got, Ringo, I'm got a song called
Octopus is Gone.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Oh you know Jesse, Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
You know, in previous years I would have said, Fau,
this is garbage, but let's go.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Birthday And finally, Matt, you bit better than stock you
on my birthday? You bitches better put it at least
twenty percent more effort than the show before you did.
Let Matt bitch about working like a real American talk
about your puzzo. Let Kate's talk about how he sinned
all weekend. It didn't go to church yesterday. I want
(34:58):
to hear about Ronnie taking back curtain rods to the
Joanna's Fabrics, Joe Fabric, Rogan and Rocky set the bar
lower every week and we're ripping all the benefits.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
If Ronnie ever shared it and then hit up the
Joanne Fabrics, the wife taking up being a seamstress.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Curtain runs, We've got We're a little short, so had
to get back and get the three and a half
yard curtain runs.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
The wife wanted a pattern for a new summer dress
and it.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Was a little floral, and we decided to show us something.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
More dope Joe Anne Fabrics.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
They set the bar low so we can go Hi.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
It's the truth.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Thank you everybody. We'll be right now. We had a
whole other hour, a great sports talk final, our fun factory. Quick,
it's coming up, man,
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