April 1, 2025 • 42 mins
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That's right, and perhaps on another championship level broadcast track
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Speaker 4 (01:51):
Well, they are undefeated.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Hey are they gonna go one hundred and sixty two?
And oh maybe, I you know, you know, maybe again.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I gotta push back.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I mean it's possible.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I'm pushing back.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It's definitely possible.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Bill Plashki keeps tweeting it out every hundred and fifty to.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Do it out.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Thank you, Bill. I think it can happen. King of Overreaction.
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honor of Chris Saale taking them Mount Tonight for the braves,
the phrase son of a gun comes from sailing, well
sort of. There were no motors back then when the
phrase was incorporated on a ship. It was a different time,
a time when women would be smuggled on board ships.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah, well they're bad luck.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, everybody knows that the women with their periods would
sometimes get pregnant and if the passage took longer than
expected and that woman needed to give birth right then
and there on the boat, it would usually happen between
the cannons on the gun deck, and if the child
was not claimed by or recognized as the offspring of
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a male passenger or sailor perhaps the first mate, it
was entered into the ship's log as bean the son
of a gun, You son.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Of a gun. Quick hits, everybody, come to the MS,
quick hits.
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I'll make it quick yall.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Oh yeah, I gotta be honest, aloysious. I did not
see that gun as able to procreate. But here we are.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Nobody's claiming them. Though nobody's claiming that.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Kid, You're gonna claim him with the Winchester Howitzer. The
Dodgers are six and a. They take on the Braves tonight.
Dusted days on the mound. No lettuce on the menu, lawyers,
just for precautionary reasons. Doyers first pitch at seven ten.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It's a meat and starch night. It's interesting Keto night,
Meet and starch.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
The Lakers are forty six and twenty nine. They're holding
the four spot in the West. Lakers host the Golden
State Warriors on Thursday. That should be exciting, just for
you know, Lebron versus Kendrick have a baby on air.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I'm going out to the game, Colin, I got tickets.
I'm gonna go see stuff versus the Lebron.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
It's gonna be amazing. Everybody's gonna give birth Warriors big
to a son of a gun?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Is that the new thing?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Now?
Speaker 5 (05:14):
You think now that Nick Wright got to slap hands
with Lebron James court side of the game, that you know,
calling in his sidekicker.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
But isn't that kind of weird? Like we're one member
of the media you're hugging and the other one you're threatening.
Isn't that kind of odd?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Like?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
What isn't that it was a Lakers Grizzlies game in
Memphis with last week, I think it was a couple
days ago. Uh, and coming off the court, Lebron saw
it right from Fox Sports one and he tells.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
The hand of his garment like Jesus, he takes the
hem of his garment and.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
He is the baron of Lebron Boot Liquors.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Oh, and he had his long ironed out hair all
beautiful for him.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It was really a weird looking guy.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Man, leave Squidward alone. For those of us that look weird.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
F you, Betty, I can say with great certainty, great
certainty I would rather have the public view me getting
verbally accosted by Lebron then embraced and celebrated by Lebron.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Wow, but then you have Bronni roase to you for
your upper cut when you had two torn rotator cuffs.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Man, Well, you know Bronni's got He's got the high ground,
clearly he's when it comes to basketball. Nobody occupies the
high ground like Bronnie's.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Better than steven A. Okay, the Clippers are forty three
and thirty two. They're sitting as the eighth seed in
the West. They've won eight in the last ten. They're
home tomorrow versus the Pelicans seven thirty tip it's on
the beak am eleven fifty the beak of the Eagle.
UCLA takes on number two Yukon in the Final four
Friday night in Tampa. The Lady Bruins are a seven
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and a half point underdog. Oh no, we might put
ben Bolcha on to talk about Beckers versus Corey Close.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
I love her.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Well, he did say that he would get the call
for the Sweet sixteen or wasn't just a final four?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
So he did go to.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Speaking well, he went to Spokeanne stayed in the Davenport
So you know how I knew the Clippers one last night.
By the way, a thread, Yeah, Adam Auslin does a
thread at follow out of as following.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
I know it's a thread because he does a little
emoji of the threat.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah the thread.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
UCLA announced that guard Donovan Dent will play for Mick
Cronin and the Bruins. He was a big get for
UCLA and the Transfer Portal. Former California state player the
year Corona Centennial High, was a stud at New Mexico
the last three seasons for Richard Patino. Patino's gone now
so is Dent. On the flip side, it looks like
we're losing our spaniard a Day Mara, who was the
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most fun player to watch last year. Yes, yes, and
deep breath. It's terrible to feel.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Does Donovan Dent? Is that why you said flip side?
Because he carries a two headed coin?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Oh like Harvey Dent? Like two faces you said On
the flip side, I hear that he is a two
way player, much like Harvey Dent. And sometimes he does
good for you and sometimes you're evil. He's flip a coin,
a two headed coin one's all screwed up though, like
the side of his face, like a The league is
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going to have a Christmas Day triple header in the
old NFL, two games on Netflix, the traditional Thursday night
game on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yay.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
And there's some new rules.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, the owners today voted, and the big one is
that you are going to have a possession regardless of
score in the regular season overtime period. So even if
the team that wins the coin toss scores a touchdown,
the opposing team will still get a position possession. The
only thing they changed there was the submission was for
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a fifteen minute overtime. They kept it ten minutes, so
if you get that opening possession, you can still milk
the clock and leave next to nothing for your opponent
and they would be out of luck. They also are
going to do away with the first down chains, no
more chain gang. Instead, they will in fact use Sony's
Hawkeye technology. Now they'll still be out there in case,
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you know, and just in case the technology goes awry,
you will have the analog measure.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Okay, I mean, you know, just like a almost like
a traditional sort of figurehead kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
And then they tabled the brotherly shove the tush push
until they meet again. They didn't rule out ruling it out,
but they said they don't want to rule it out
at this particular moment.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Lionel Messi's bodyguard you have seen Choco, has been banned
from protecting the Argentinian forward from uh the fans during
the Inter Miami Games in the MLS. He'll be permitted
only in the locker room and mixed zones. Well, the
MLS says they handle security on the field themselves. They
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don't allow me to be on the field anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
God the bodyguard told un that you pulled this song.
He loves Costo. He has just got.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Only Adam Carolla loves more than Castats.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And yet he can't get him booked for our freaking
summer tour stop in Fuller teen.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I was in Europe for seven years working at League
One and the Champions League, and only six people invaded
the pitch. I came to the USA and in just
twenty months, sixteen people have already done. So there's a
huge problem here. I'm not the problem. Let me help Messi,
That's what he said. He will continue to work with
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Messi as his personal security man and team part of
his team outside the stadiums seems like MLS has a
problem protecting MESSI sounds like it. And you know, there
was a fight at the San Diego FC versus the
LAFC the other night, a real kerfuffle down in the
snap Dragon.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
And it wasn't just dudes flopping, no, no, there was.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Like a fight outside with the fans, the Burrito Heads
versus the one, two, three, four, five.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Oh look out, Yeah, that was really give me the
Burrito Heads.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
That's the San Diego team. Do We'll be back. Ryan Spillboards,
Santa Barbara High standout, serious exam Apple TV in the
Rocky Games, great guys in Philly. He's gonna do the
Dodger Philly game on Friday. He'll join us New.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Petro sand Monday, AM five seventy LA Sports. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Dodgers Brave, Second of three
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Champion Dodgers AM five seventy LA Sports. Big One Tonight,
p Is Dustin May makes his return to the mound
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after a number of separate setbacks over the last year
and a half.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Matt, we get to talk to a baseball star in
the world of television color analysis. He is the best.
Everybody loves Spilly, Ryan Spilboorg's former Santa Barbara High School standout,
the king of the eight oh five, a star at
you see Santa Barbara and the Foresters. There are a
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lot of Spanish influence up there. He has drafted by
the Rockies, played seven years in Colorado. You see him
on it AT and T Sportsnet, Rocky Mountain on the
Rockies games. That's changed a few times since he started.
You hear him on sirius xm MLB Radio. He's got
a full slate and you'll see him on Friday Night
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with our old friend Alex Faust on the Call for
Dodgers Phillies on Apple TV. It is Spilly on the
Petroso Money Show on am FI, seventy LA Sports on
your Southern California Toyota Neither celebrity Hotline. Ryan, how are
you welcome to the show that he.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Was my guy money. It's great to be on. Yeah,
I appreciate that. What an interview, and you're right, you
know I've been now with the Rockies, and we have
gone through we are Roots Sports, then we were EIGHTE
and T sports Net, and now we're Rockies Dot TV
because we're like under the MLB networking bre. So it
has been crazy to see how much regional sports has
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changed in the last five.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Years, No doubt dramatically. Here it's been constant Spectrum sports
Net pumping a lot of money into the Dodgers coffers
year in and year out. Just kind of your thoughts
on the improvements they made in the off season on
their first ever six and zero starts, And I don't
know how much stock do we put into this after
knocking off the Tigers and now one from the Braves.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Well, I mean historically, there's been I think three teams
after they won the World Series to begin the year undefeated.
The nineteen thirty three Yankees did it. They ended up
being seven to zero. You have the eighty five Troy Tigers.
Now you have of the Dodgers, and I think the
Dodgers after the eighty one season they began u the
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year undefeated, but they've never gone seven and no. And
so what I'm seeing right now with this Dodgers team,
you know, we've we've spent all off season looking in
dissecting what the Dodgers have done, and we appreciate it,
you know, like if you're if you're a player, you
love it. I mean because they're they're they're adding players
on top of players, and they've done it in a
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way like regardless of how the industry you know, there's there,
it's more ownership driven. You know, there's there are some
owners that are you know, out of the thirty that
just they don't like it right this is They're like,
that's not fair.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
You mentioned the big TV rights deal that that is
one of the big you know, driving factors for which
allows the Dodgers to spend so much. But there's just
so much more to it than just spending. I think
you can look at the Rokie Susaki, you know, trying
to get him part of the Dodgers on the Dodgers,
and that was really like a it didn't feel like
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a lottery, right Like it felt like Sasak was picking
the organization that for the last I don't know twenty
years has developed players as well as anybody. You go, like,
I'll give you an example. If you go and you
look at the Dodgers drafting. You know, there's so much
of the criticism of the Dodgers as their free agents spending,
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and I always like, poopoo it, and I go, that's
not it. You know, they are, you know, bringing in
players that are discards from other organizations and they bring
them in and they do a medical reevaluation and coaching
reevaluation and they get the best out of them. There's
so many examples of relievers. But if you go to
the draft specifically and the Dodgers, you know, like the
highest draft pick that they've had in the last I
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think twelve years was Clayton Kershaw and you know that
was I think he was like the ninth or tenth
overall pick. So like anybody else could have got Clayton Kershaw,
but it was the Dodgers that drafted him, and he's
going to be a future Hall of Famer. You can
go back and look at the year where Will Smith
was drafted, and I think Will Smith might have been
like thirtieth pick that year. He's the highest ones above
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replacement player of that draft. In fact, if you added
him and I think it's Gavin Lux. Those two players
combined are basically more than all the other teams combined
with their players from their drafts. So you like, the
Dodgers have really built this thing from the way that
you're supposed to, like the way a small market would,
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which would be homegrown talent, draft develop and then finding
opportunities from players that are coming off of other organizations
that maybe didn't find success, but then repurposing them in
your organization. So the Dodgers are just doing it. They're
doing it better than anybody else.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I know.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
There's been you know, clamoring for a cap, which doesn't
really make sense because from from that standpoint, like from
a player standpoint, cap you know kind of you know,
the worry is about free agency, but it also means
elevating the floor, so more guys would make a lot
more money. But the cap doesn't solve the Dodgers because
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the Dodgers think tank in how they go about their business.
They're still better. Like, it's not going to help a
team at the bottom that doesn't have forward thinking if
all of a sudden you tap the Dodgers, because they're
still going to outthink you. So I think what the
Dodgers have done has been you know, well earned. They
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deserve the credit Spilly.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Is the rumor true that you're going to hold a
torpedo bat and threaten Alex Faust or at least just
intimidate him with it in the open of the game
coming up? Or or is that speculative? And if it is,
what what are you What are your feelings about that?
What everybody's talking about the torpedo bat.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Well, I turned out to threaten Alex fous but he
you know, he's he loves hockey, so he might throw
down his gloves. You know, he might say we're going
to go, and I guess we'll throw down. I'm not
afraid to throw down if I have to. The torpedo
bat is is kind of another fad. I think part
of this thing. You know, a lot of people fail
to recognize this that's been around now for two years.
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It's not like all of a sudden this bat just
showed up. But I'll give you like a little bat
one on one. So in the last ten years, we've
seen a couple of innovations to bats. We've seen the
axe handle and so the axe handle. You know, there
was a time where a bunch of guys start using
the axe handle. The axe handle is Basically, at the
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bottom of the bat, where the knob is, they put
an axe handle and the thought process is your left
hand can help drive the barrel down, you know, almost
like you're using an axe and chopping out a piece
of wood. And the reason why you want to do
that is just to control the barrel through the zone
keep it more flat, which actually helps you create backspin
when you hit. The next innovation that we saw that
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that kind of took shape was this puck, so a
counterbalance of weight at the bottom where the knob is.
They extended and looks like a hockey puck. What that
does is it just makes the bat a little bit
more balanced, so for you know, for a hitter, if
you're swinging at thirty four to thirty two, with the counterbalance,
the bat feels a lot lighter, so you feel like
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you're able to whip the bat through the zone. And
then there's you know, there's physics involved too with having
you know, a center of mass on the knob. The
barrel actually spins around it, so it's physics so that
you actually can increase bat speed by using this knob
bat and some guys like Paul Goldschmid Nolan Arnatto, Stephen Kwan.
These are guys that are famously using the puck bat
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in Major League Baseball right now. But the torpedo bat
is another way to just distribute the center of mass
to a different spot of the barrel. So like when
I was hitting, I use a thirty four to thirty
two so thirty four inches thirty two ounces. I did
not have a cup at the end of the bat.
So what what players have used for a long time
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is you could cup. So at the end of the
bat there's a cup, and by removing the weight there,
you change the distribution of the center of mass, so
you can actually lower the barrel. So the part where
we try to make contact, you can lower that by
having a cup. I didn't want that I because I
have long arms and I've wanted pitches away from me.
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I didn't want a cup that. I wanted my center
of mass closer to the end of the of the
bat where I did contact. So with this new torpedo bat,
it's well within regulation. You're allowed two point six one
inches in diameter. That's exactly what the torpedo is. But
the center of mass now is closer towards the label
versus towards the middle or end of the bat, So
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that's basically all it's doing. So for some hitters that
maybe stand on top of the plate or that you know,
tend to hit a little bit closer to the label,
this actually works really well for you. But if you
if you were a hitter like me, the pitches away
from myself because of my long arms, this torpedo bat
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might not be best suited for my swing. So as
much as it's a fad, it's also gonna you know,
have to deal with the player you know there, you
know the length of their arm, where they stand on
the plate. So it's not like all of a sudden
this batuh makes you into a great hitter. You know,
ultimately you still have to make contact. It's like you
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guys have been around Little League baseball, right, You've seen
these kids with these hype fire bats that are six
hundred bucks. Yeah, if you think, if he's thinking he's
slinging a miss, what does the hype fire bat do
for your kid? You're just still walking back to the
dugout and putting it on the batrack. So it doesn't
matter what your bad is. If you're not making contact, what.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Is it spilly. What does it tell you? Like, I
guess mentally, right, you think about golf clubs and you
feel I don't know, you just felt better when you
got that big Bertha for the first time and you
saw that giant head on the dry and you felt
like you were going to make better contact and maybe
you did. How much of it is mental?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
You know?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I think it was Max Munsey who was talking about
giving one a try. I mean, he's the only Dodger
that's not really hitting right now. He's two for twenty one.
Like is that a huge part of it? Just confidence
and how you feel or do all bats kind of
feel the same when you step into the box.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Not all bats feel the same. You know, there's in
some bats, like and there's there's so many different models
of bats, Like guys have you know, thin handled bats,
bigger barrel bats, smaller barrel bats, I mean, different weighted bats.
You know, Like there's if you remember the name Lance Johnson.
Lance Johnson was like a five foot six leadoff hitter,
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but he swung a thirty six thirty six like that
bat is just ridiculous. You know, there's there's stories of
Babe Ruth swinging a forty inch bat dirt exhibitions, like
you can have a bat up to forty two inches long.
No one's ever done that. But confidence is a real thing.
Confidence is a real thing. Like if you have confidence
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in your ability to hit, Like that's probably the most
important part for any hitter, is just like walking up
to the plate feeling like you're gonna do damage and
then you know, trusting your skill set because once you
if you have confidence for whatever reason, you don't think
about mechanics, you don't think about situation, you don't think
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about oh man, that's chrysale on the mound. You're like, oh,
I'm going to mess up chrysale today. Like, if you
have confidence, So if a bat does that, sometimes it shoes.
Sometimes it's you know, your your wife's in town, gives
you some confidence. Like there's all kinds of ways that
players find confidence in stuff. So yes, bats have you know,
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a small minute, you know feel for a player, but ultimately,
like it's a mental state that you know, that flows
state for a hitter to go up feeling confident versus
anything else.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Friday Night with Alex Boust on the Call, Dodgers Philly's
on Apple TV, Ryan Spilbo is our guest, a great
guy and a great talker, especially about baseball. It's been
alleged that some of that bat talk is over my
head and I'm too stupid to understand it, and perhaps
it's true, but I do understand falling on the shower,
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as we're all susceptible. It looks like Freddie Freeman hurt
his ankle in the shower. Spilly, have you ever hurt
yourself in a weird way or any of the other rockies,
like a light fall on somebody's head or something like
in a Scooby Doo movie. What happened?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I mean, there's I don't know what happened to Freddy
Freeman specifically, but we've had some crazy ones. I think
there's was it Andrew been attended a couple of years ago.
Cut of the south of the shower shaving, which is
kind of like a faux paw, like you're not supposed
to shave in the shower, like it's a communal shower.
We don't have like our own stalls. So this one's
got a little bit weird. You know some famous weird injuries.
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There's Joel Zamaya Detroit Tigers, here's a reliever like a
long time ago, heard his elbow playing guitar hero. For
anybody that played guitar Hero, there's a there's a famous
Clint Barmes story with the Rockies about how he tripped
carrying venison meat up the stairs. So there's all kinds
of there's all kinds of weird ones out there. I mean,
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some of it I feel like is true. Some of
it I feel like that maybe they're they're they're hiding
something because that's what happens in cobouses. But I don't know.
Freddie Freeman getting hurt in the shower, I feel for
that guy. That's that's one of the nicest guys in baseball.
He is a future Hall of Famer. The dude's a
stud and and for him to just get healthy would
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be great.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Last one for you, Spilly does it in a lot
of places, Serious XM every day on MLB Network Radio
with CJ. Nikowski doing it on Apple TV on Friday,
and of course all season long with the Rockies. Great
things for the Dodgers. Right, they're six and zero, they're
in first place, they're playing well. If there's one thing
to look at, it's it's kind of this interesting st
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art for Roki Sasaki and and you know, four innings
and nine walks and in a very emotional Roki Sasaki,
you know, following is his debut at Dodger Stadium. Like
what's the what's the right way to go about trying
to figure that thing out and take care of him?
Is do you leave it to Yamamoto and Otani? Like
is it a Dave Roberts thing? Do you send him down?
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Like what do you do here? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Good question. I think there's there's emotional parts. I'm a
player that you know, every player is different. I will
tell you after spending a year in Japan, their culture
is totally different baseball wise. They're they're you know, this
isn't like a wet blanket, but there there's a little
bit more emotion that comes out of Japanese players, and
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I think we're accustomed to so, like, you know, seeing
tears from a from a Japanese player, I saw it
with Tanaka, same thing happened to him. I will also
point out too, because it's it's fair, the Japanese baseball
is different than the ball Major League baseball. The Japanese
baseball has natural tack to it, so it's it's a
little bit stickier, a little bit easier to control. And
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there's such a wide example of Japanese pitchers coming over
from the MPB that struggle, you know, two or three
starts into their career with the baseball because it's a
little bit slicker the Major League baseball some guys. That's why,
you know, a couple of years ago we had the
sticky stuff situation. Part of it was to increase spin rate,
but the other part is just to grab the ball.
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And so rookie, he's gonna have to figure out, you know,
for him, you know what the best scenario is for
him to like feel confident throwing strikes. The problem if
you set him down, which I don't think it's always
a problem is the competition of Triple A from the
big leagues is probably the biggest discrepancy we've ever seen.
Like it's not even close. It's night and day between
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being in Triple A and the big league. So if
he goes to the minor leagues, he's just gonna shove
and so he's not going to learn anything. You kind
of want him to take his lump, You want him
to figure this thing out. At the big league level
against big league competition, because his stuff plays like the
stuff is real. He has a spinry on his spoot finger,
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which is like second to Matt Waldron's knuckleball. He's just
throwing like such a unique pitch. I think a lot
of this just has to do with him getting comfortable
with pitching with the major league baseball. I mean, the
reality of it is like there's fact to it. So
I wouldn't send him down yet, I would give him
a chance, let him work this thing out. The emotions
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are natural when it comes to Japanese players, So you know,
I know Tommyanks says no crime in baseball, but there's
a lot more crying in Japanese baseball than he'd be
than they're aware of.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Well, what a great conversation, Always a great time, and
always very enlightening. Ryan, Thank you so much, Santa Barbara forever,
and we'll be watching on Friday and listening throughout the year,
and of course paying attention to the Colorado Rockies. Appreciate
your brother Hollo boys. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, there you go. Ryan Spilboorg's that game Friday on
Apple TV. He will be part of the broadcast along
with Alex Faust, Katie Nolan yes, no, no, no, Katie
Nolan this time.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
No, no, she's long ago.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Just you know she signed at last year, year before
maybe or maybe a year before that.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I've been paid a lot of money not to work
in a lot of places. Well, enjoy your night, everybody.
We'll have one more segment than in a live guy
that will flip with the Tim Kaids. Tim Kaids does
a lot of work. Well, thank you for listening. The
Petrosen Money Show is here tomorrow, Matt. Schedule wise, there
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will be a flex alert. We'll start early so the
Braves can get.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Out of town.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Alert. Incredibly kind, benevolent of the Dodgers to schedule an
early start so the Braves who began their season in
San Diego.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
I believe this. I believe this is the latest, latest
possible time. If the Dodgers were gonna be cool about it,
they probably do it a couple hours earlier.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I mean, wheels up at like I don't know, one
thirty two thirty am Atlanta time. Not good for the Braves.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Well, you know they aren't East coast to the team
there there. But yeah, you know, whatever our narrative is
we can lean on.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Hey wait, no, Dgers, good looking out those now gone.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Us from pantonal belief. Yeah, you need to leave Alex alone.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
He's a good guy.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Never never uh So flexiler tomorrow and the schedule is
packed packed with baseball.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Your studio bullies is what you are. Well, Dodgers braves
Tonight it's the debut of Dustin me. Very exciting obviously,
coming back from an Arduis arm injury followed by an
unforeseen larynx esophagus emergence. See back on the mound, his return,
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the electric stuff, the flowing red locks all out there
with the first pitch at seven to ten pm. Very
excited to see him back out there.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
We all are Matt and we will be monitoring it
from afar as we've not been welcomed back to Dodger
Stadium since opening day, but that could change. I mean,
the season is very young, very very young.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
We did not do a whole lot of damage to
the to the spread. It was one one half of
one wrap, a couple sticks of celery and one modello
is all we accounted for. Well, I had I had
a hot nun and you had a hot talk.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Now I did take the spicy angle.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
You set the spicy and who knows what Kate's consumed.
He was there for hours.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I think he had an entire tray of cookies somewhere
in There's.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
No way that those cookies are brownies.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
That is a lie.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
I had one brownie and one cook I had one wrap,
and I had about three of those Korean barbecued chickens.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
But see that that wasn't on us. Those were brought
in as a promotional push.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
I had a couple of barbecue cough. That's myself.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I mean that we were expected to eat that.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
We were because we were it's a critique, critique.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
I had two of them until I was reaching to
get a third with a new fork, and I saw
a couple of people putting their hands in the front.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
It's not that's totally fun.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Well, you know, it's a baseballos their inhibitions. After a while,
you know, you'll start picking up half eaten hot dogs.
It's a baseball game.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
What I like to do is put my hand in
the onion dish and just kind of toss those onions
up in the air and catch them in the mouth.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Yeah, look at my salty saltwater hands. I'm Matt Smith.
All right, Matt, your dead guy. Birthday of the Day today,
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This will be the story of a lunger, a female lunger.
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from Kalamata, the home of the Kalamata olive, the eyes
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the Mati deep in the Pelopon. Her father was a
philologist whatever that is, and her mother was an early feminist.
She had a brief love affair that she's very famous
for with a poet named Costas Kadiotakis. More on that
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in a moment, but this was at the University of Athens,
where she was publishing some poems, even at the age
of fourteen. Now cost Us had syphilis, and he was
very honest about this. Did he lose his nose? No, well,
he was going to. But you know, he's in his
late twenties and he has the syphilis and She still
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wanted to marry him, but he was too proud, and
she just thought he used that as an excuse the
pride to get away from her, and he left. Now
she got engaged to a lawyer. Cost Us famously killed
himself in nineteen twenty eight after trying to drown himself
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for ten hours, but being an avid swimmer, he was
unable to drown himself, so he went under a eucalyptus
tree with a revolver and shot himself.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Well that'll do it, well, he was frustrated.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Now Maria was kind of a deadbeat. She broke off
her and gave moved to Paris to become a dressmaker,
but as everybody does in France, she got sick. She
contracted tuberculosis, came back to Athens, put out multiple poetry collections,
left an untitled novel attacking the conservatism and hypocrisy of
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the time.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
As she saw.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
She died after a series of morphine injections in nineteen thirty.
Now they said she died at tuberculosis, But it seems
like a series of morphine injections that you die right after.
That might have something to do.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Now, that'll do it.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Her poems have been set to music by multiple Greek artists,
from the classical range to rock to progressive. In two
thousand and nine, she was portrayed in a Greek TV
series about cost Us, the guy that shot himself under
(35:59):
the Yuca her syphaltic X. She's kind of like a
Greek Sylvia Platt without the head in the oven thing
Matt Maria Polydouty. Her poetry is translated into English.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
If you are in, I got a prep for a
Greek trip, so you know, I like talking. How many
poems are we talking? Would it? Would it cover the
thirteen hour flight? Or should I just do it before
we go?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Like?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
How do you want to do it?
Speaker 4 (36:29):
I don't want to do it at all? All right,
you're a live guy.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Uh, Ding John either Hui or John HUEI I heard
it pronounced both ways. I fell down a rabbit hole
of Ding Jun Way or Ding John Hui videos Happy
thirty eighth to Dung or Ding Dung. I'm sorry, Ding.
(36:55):
We do not do athletes a lot, but this story
is too good not to share.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
First, let's get a clip of him being interviewed at
his Dean Jun Huie Snooker Academy in Sheffield, UK. It's
one of the craziest accents you will ever hear. At
the start you can tell he's Chinese, but in the
final ten seconds, because he moved to the UK when
he was ten, it sounds like he's a native brit
(37:24):
He must be special for.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
The futureization to see players like you, players like not On,
players like Jamie Clark, or training here all succeeding.
Speaker 6 (37:33):
There's not many a place he can put all the
players together and he can play at each other. Sometimes
the player says, okay playing this club, but most one
or two different players here. He can have a mini
different players can you can? You can play each oda.
It's not boring so snooker. Sometimes if he's lucky yourself
(37:54):
in the room practice all day, it's going to be
boring and boring again.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
But in this he never got a baring yet snooker
was kind of bellering boring. It's a great story parents
supporting a child born in Yixing, Jiangsu. His father loved
to play pool as a hobby and he would take
young Ding along with him from time to time, and
when Ding was just eight, his dad was rolling around
(38:22):
with a couple of local pool experts and when he
went to emergency toilet, Ding grabbed the que, played with
the best player in the room and won the game
before his father returned. His dad was like, holy crap,
sell everything, my son is a prodigy. At nine, he
was taken to the Chinese national snooker team tryout near Shanghai.
Fared so well that in fact dad and mom did
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that they sold their home. They sold their grocery business
to fund Young Ding's snooker career. He left school at eleven.
He moved to Guangdong and committed to practicing snooker every
day for over eight hours per day. It's very popular
in that part of the world, very popular. At fifteen,
he won the Asian Under twenty one Championship and the
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International Billiards and Snooker Federation title after that, making him
the youngest ever to hold the championship, which led to
his number one ranking in the entire country of China.
That got him awarded a wild card entry to the
world's premier event, the UK Masters, one of three majors
the Snooker Tour. He won his first match against the
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world number sixteen, but lost in the next round. Was
invited back the following year in two thousand and five,
at just eighteen years old.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Even a notch above darts is snooker. Oh yeah, the UK.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yes, he knocked off and darts a bit huge and
you can smoke. He knocked off the best players in
the world. Drink and it's required required. You will be
hackled if you don't.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
He knocked off the best players in the world in
O five, all in the top ten Jimmy White, Paul Hunter,
Steve Davis, at the time the world number one, in
the final to become the first player ever from outside
the UK to win the event. One hundred and ten
million people in China watched the broadcast. At the time,
he was ranked sixty second in the world. Now, much
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like Roki Sasaki, learning to navigate a new culture and
high expectations. A little step back after that, the a
holes that would populate the audience constantly jeering and heckling
him in a sport where like golf, etiquette in silence
and respect is what we should experience during the matches,
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but a dash of racism crept in. Matt Yes in
the UK, who would have guessed Ding was reduced to tears.
Like Sasaki, on multiple occasions.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
Sasaki was criming and he had all the support.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Of the world, but thankfully professionals, led by the Great
Ronnie O'Sullivan, pushed back, yelled at the peace people in
the house and said there'd be a boycott of snooker
if people didn't start behaving properly. The next year, he
bounced back. He made the final sixteen in every event
he entered a couple semi finals, and by the eight
to nine season was back to winning titles. Won his
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first World Championship in twenty ten, the Masters in both
ten and eleven, the Tour Championship in twelve and thirteen,
and the thirteen fourteen season one of the greatest ever
by any snooker player, winning the China and Indian Opens,
the Shanghai and German Masters, and the International Championship, something
he won last year for the first time since twenty fourteen,
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married one daughter, and the coolest thing ever. In twenty ten,
a twenty six episode cartoon series titled dragon Ball Number
One tells the story of Ding's growth twenty shy episode
twenty six episodes into the number one snooker star in
the world.
Speaker 4 (41:55):
Exciting stuff that's snooker, and we'll have Dodgers Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Also confusing, Yeah, very confusing. It's not something we're raised
with like cricket exactly.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
Not hard to hard to follow, but either way, we're
happy to be with you and happy to be gone,
and he'll be back on tomorrow at two o'clock. Enjoy
the game and enjoy your flight home tomorrow, Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Benevolence sacrifice not how I would put it, starts early.
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That's right, and perhaps on another championship level broadcast track
for the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Well, they are undefeated.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Hey are they gonna go one hundred and sixty two?
And oh maybe, I you know, you know, maybe again.
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I gotta push back.
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I mean it's possible.
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I'm pushing back.
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It's definitely possible.
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I don't know.
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Thank you, Bill. I think it can happen. King of Overreaction.
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honor of Chris Saale taking them Mount Tonight for the braves,
the phrase son of a gun comes from sailing, well
sort of. There were no motors back then when the
phrase was incorporated on a ship. It was a different time,
a time when women would be smuggled on board ships.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah, well they're bad luck.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, everybody knows that the women with their periods would
sometimes get pregnant and if the passage took longer than
expected and that woman needed to give birth right then
and there on the boat, it would usually happen between
the cannons on the gun deck, and if the child
was not claimed by or recognized as the offspring of
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a male passenger or sailor perhaps the first mate, it
was entered into the ship's log as bean the son
of a gun, You son.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Of a gun. Quick hits, everybody, come to the MS,
quick hits.
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I'll make it quick yall.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Oh yeah, I gotta be honest, aloysious. I did not
see that gun as able to procreate. But here we are.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Nobody's claiming them. Though nobody's claiming that.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Kid, You're gonna claim him with the Winchester Howitzer. The
Dodgers are six and a. They take on the Braves tonight.
Dusted days on the mound. No lettuce on the menu, lawyers,
just for precautionary reasons. Doyers first pitch at seven ten.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It's a meat and starch night. It's interesting Keto night,
Meet and starch.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
The Lakers are forty six and twenty nine. They're holding
the four spot in the West. Lakers host the Golden
State Warriors on Thursday. That should be exciting, just for
you know, Lebron versus Kendrick have a baby on air.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I'm going out to the game, Colin, I got tickets.
I'm gonna go see stuff versus the Lebron.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
It's gonna be amazing. Everybody's gonna give birth Warriors big
to a son of a gun?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Is that the new thing?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Now?
Speaker 5 (05:14):
You think now that Nick Wright got to slap hands
with Lebron James court side of the game, that you know,
calling in his sidekicker.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
But isn't that kind of weird? Like we're one member
of the media you're hugging and the other one you're threatening.
Isn't that kind of odd?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Like?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
What isn't that it was a Lakers Grizzlies game in
Memphis with last week, I think it was a couple
days ago. Uh, and coming off the court, Lebron saw
it right from Fox Sports one and he tells.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
The hand of his garment like Jesus, he takes the
hem of his garment and.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
He is the baron of Lebron Boot Liquors.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Oh, and he had his long ironed out hair all
beautiful for him.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It was really a weird looking guy.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Man, leave Squidward alone. For those of us that look weird.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
F you, Betty, I can say with great certainty, great
certainty I would rather have the public view me getting
verbally accosted by Lebron then embraced and celebrated by Lebron.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Wow, but then you have Bronni roase to you for
your upper cut when you had two torn rotator cuffs.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Man, Well, you know Bronni's got He's got the high ground,
clearly he's when it comes to basketball. Nobody occupies the
high ground like Bronnie's.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Better than steven A. Okay, the Clippers are forty three
and thirty two. They're sitting as the eighth seed in
the West. They've won eight in the last ten. They're
home tomorrow versus the Pelicans seven thirty tip it's on
the beak am eleven fifty the beak of the Eagle.
UCLA takes on number two Yukon in the Final four
Friday night in Tampa. The Lady Bruins are a seven
(06:42):
and a half point underdog. Oh no, we might put
ben Bolcha on to talk about Beckers versus Corey Close.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
I love her.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Well, he did say that he would get the call
for the Sweet sixteen or wasn't just a final four?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
So he did go to.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Speaking well, he went to Spokeanne stayed in the Davenport
So you know how I knew the Clippers one last night.
By the way, a thread, Yeah, Adam Auslin does a
thread at follow out of as following.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
I know it's a thread because he does a little
emoji of the threat.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah the thread.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
UCLA announced that guard Donovan Dent will play for Mick
Cronin and the Bruins. He was a big get for
UCLA and the Transfer Portal. Former California state player the
year Corona Centennial High, was a stud at New Mexico
the last three seasons for Richard Patino. Patino's gone now
so is Dent. On the flip side, it looks like
we're losing our spaniard a Day Mara, who was the
(07:35):
most fun player to watch last year. Yes, yes, and
deep breath. It's terrible to feel.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Does Donovan Dent? Is that why you said flip side?
Because he carries a two headed coin?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Oh like Harvey Dent? Like two faces you said On
the flip side, I hear that he is a two
way player, much like Harvey Dent. And sometimes he does
good for you and sometimes you're evil. He's flip a coin,
a two headed coin one's all screwed up though, like
the side of his face, like a The league is
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going to have a Christmas Day triple header in the
old NFL, two games on Netflix, the traditional Thursday night
game on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yay.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
And there's some new rules.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, the owners today voted, and the big one is
that you are going to have a possession regardless of
score in the regular season overtime period. So even if
the team that wins the coin toss scores a touchdown,
the opposing team will still get a position possession. The
only thing they changed there was the submission was for
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a fifteen minute overtime. They kept it ten minutes, so
if you get that opening possession, you can still milk
the clock and leave next to nothing for your opponent
and they would be out of luck. They also are
going to do away with the first down chains, no
more chain gang. Instead, they will in fact use Sony's
Hawkeye technology. Now they'll still be out there in case,
(09:01):
you know, and just in case the technology goes awry,
you will have the analog measure.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Okay, I mean, you know, just like a almost like
a traditional sort of figurehead kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
And then they tabled the brotherly shove the tush push
until they meet again. They didn't rule out ruling it out,
but they said they don't want to rule it out
at this particular moment.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Lionel Messi's bodyguard you have seen Choco, has been banned
from protecting the Argentinian forward from uh the fans during
the Inter Miami Games in the MLS. He'll be permitted
only in the locker room and mixed zones. Well, the
MLS says they handle security on the field themselves. They
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don't allow me to be on the field anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
God the bodyguard told un that you pulled this song.
He loves Costo. He has just got.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Only Adam Carolla loves more than Castats.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And yet he can't get him booked for our freaking
summer tour stop in Fuller teen.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I was in Europe for seven years working at League
One and the Champions League, and only six people invaded
the pitch. I came to the USA and in just
twenty months, sixteen people have already done. So there's a
huge problem here. I'm not the problem. Let me help Messi,
That's what he said. He will continue to work with
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Messi as his personal security man and team part of
his team outside the stadiums seems like MLS has a
problem protecting MESSI sounds like it. And you know, there
was a fight at the San Diego FC versus the
LAFC the other night, a real kerfuffle down in the
snap Dragon.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
And it wasn't just dudes flopping, no, no, there was.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Like a fight outside with the fans, the Burrito Heads
versus the one, two, three, four, five.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Oh look out, Yeah, that was really give me the
Burrito Heads.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
That's the San Diego team. Do We'll be back. Ryan Spillboards,
Santa Barbara High standout, serious exam Apple TV in the
Rocky Games, great guys in Philly. He's gonna do the
Dodger Philly game on Friday. He'll join us New.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Petro sand Monday, AM five seventy LA Sports. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Dodgers Brave, Second of three
coming up six pm, Dodgers on Deck, First Pitch seven,
ten pm. Here on your home of the World Series
Champion Dodgers AM five seventy LA Sports. Big One Tonight,
p Is Dustin May makes his return to the mound
(11:45):
after a number of separate setbacks over the last year
and a half.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Matt, we get to talk to a baseball star in
the world of television color analysis. He is the best.
Everybody loves Spilly, Ryan Spilboorg's former Santa Barbara High School standout,
the king of the eight oh five, a star at
you see Santa Barbara and the Foresters. There are a
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lot of Spanish influence up there. He has drafted by
the Rockies, played seven years in Colorado. You see him
on it AT and T Sportsnet, Rocky Mountain on the
Rockies games. That's changed a few times since he started.
You hear him on sirius xm MLB Radio. He's got
a full slate and you'll see him on Friday Night
(12:38):
with our old friend Alex Faust on the Call for
Dodgers Phillies on Apple TV. It is Spilly on the
Petroso Money Show on am FI, seventy LA Sports on
your Southern California Toyota Neither celebrity Hotline. Ryan, how are
you welcome to the show that he.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Was my guy money. It's great to be on. Yeah,
I appreciate that. What an interview, and you're right, you
know I've been now with the Rockies, and we have
gone through we are Roots Sports, then we were EIGHTE
and T sports Net, and now we're Rockies Dot TV
because we're like under the MLB networking bre. So it
has been crazy to see how much regional sports has
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changed in the last five.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Years, No doubt dramatically. Here it's been constant Spectrum sports
Net pumping a lot of money into the Dodgers coffers
year in and year out. Just kind of your thoughts
on the improvements they made in the off season on
their first ever six and zero starts, And I don't
know how much stock do we put into this after
knocking off the Tigers and now one from the Braves.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Well, I mean historically, there's been I think three teams
after they won the World Series to begin the year undefeated.
The nineteen thirty three Yankees did it. They ended up
being seven to zero. You have the eighty five Troy Tigers.
Now you have of the Dodgers, and I think the
Dodgers after the eighty one season they began u the
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year undefeated, but they've never gone seven and no. And
so what I'm seeing right now with this Dodgers team,
you know, we've we've spent all off season looking in
dissecting what the Dodgers have done, and we appreciate it,
you know, like if you're if you're a player, you
love it. I mean because they're they're they're adding players
on top of players, and they've done it in a
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way like regardless of how the industry you know, there's there,
it's more ownership driven. You know, there's there are some
owners that are you know, out of the thirty that
just they don't like it right this is They're like,
that's not fair.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
You mentioned the big TV rights deal that that is
one of the big you know, driving factors for which
allows the Dodgers to spend so much. But there's just
so much more to it than just spending. I think
you can look at the Rokie Susaki, you know, trying
to get him part of the Dodgers on the Dodgers,
and that was really like a it didn't feel like
(15:00):
a lottery, right Like it felt like Sasak was picking
the organization that for the last I don't know twenty
years has developed players as well as anybody. You go, like,
I'll give you an example. If you go and you
look at the Dodgers drafting. You know, there's so much
of the criticism of the Dodgers as their free agents spending,
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and I always like, poopoo it, and I go, that's
not it. You know, they are, you know, bringing in
players that are discards from other organizations and they bring
them in and they do a medical reevaluation and coaching
reevaluation and they get the best out of them. There's
so many examples of relievers. But if you go to
the draft specifically and the Dodgers, you know, like the
highest draft pick that they've had in the last I
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think twelve years was Clayton Kershaw and you know that
was I think he was like the ninth or tenth
overall pick. So like anybody else could have got Clayton Kershaw,
but it was the Dodgers that drafted him, and he's
going to be a future Hall of Famer. You can
go back and look at the year where Will Smith
was drafted, and I think Will Smith might have been
like thirtieth pick that year. He's the highest ones above
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replacement player of that draft. In fact, if you added
him and I think it's Gavin Lux. Those two players
combined are basically more than all the other teams combined
with their players from their drafts. So you like, the
Dodgers have really built this thing from the way that
you're supposed to, like the way a small market would,
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which would be homegrown talent, draft develop and then finding
opportunities from players that are coming off of other organizations
that maybe didn't find success, but then repurposing them in
your organization. So the Dodgers are just doing it. They're
doing it better than anybody else.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I know.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
There's been you know, clamoring for a cap, which doesn't
really make sense because from from that standpoint, like from
a player standpoint, cap you know kind of you know,
the worry is about free agency, but it also means
elevating the floor, so more guys would make a lot
more money. But the cap doesn't solve the Dodgers because
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the Dodgers think tank in how they go about their business.
They're still better. Like, it's not going to help a
team at the bottom that doesn't have forward thinking if
all of a sudden you tap the Dodgers, because they're
still going to outthink you. So I think what the
Dodgers have done has been you know, well earned. They
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deserve the credit Spilly.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Is the rumor true that you're going to hold a
torpedo bat and threaten Alex Faust or at least just
intimidate him with it in the open of the game
coming up? Or or is that speculative? And if it is,
what what are you What are your feelings about that?
What everybody's talking about the torpedo bat.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Well, I turned out to threaten Alex fous but he
you know, he's he loves hockey, so he might throw
down his gloves. You know, he might say we're going
to go, and I guess we'll throw down. I'm not
afraid to throw down if I have to. The torpedo
bat is is kind of another fad. I think part
of this thing. You know, a lot of people fail
to recognize this that's been around now for two years.
(18:14):
It's not like all of a sudden this bat just
showed up. But I'll give you like a little bat
one on one. So in the last ten years, we've
seen a couple of innovations to bats. We've seen the
axe handle and so the axe handle. You know, there
was a time where a bunch of guys start using
the axe handle. The axe handle is Basically, at the
(18:34):
bottom of the bat, where the knob is, they put
an axe handle and the thought process is your left
hand can help drive the barrel down, you know, almost
like you're using an axe and chopping out a piece
of wood. And the reason why you want to do
that is just to control the barrel through the zone
keep it more flat, which actually helps you create backspin
when you hit. The next innovation that we saw that
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that kind of took shape was this puck, so a
counterbalance of weight at the bottom where the knob is.
They extended and looks like a hockey puck. What that
does is it just makes the bat a little bit
more balanced, so for you know, for a hitter, if
you're swinging at thirty four to thirty two, with the counterbalance,
the bat feels a lot lighter, so you feel like
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you're able to whip the bat through the zone. And
then there's you know, there's physics involved too with having
you know, a center of mass on the knob. The
barrel actually spins around it, so it's physics so that
you actually can increase bat speed by using this knob
bat and some guys like Paul Goldschmid Nolan Arnatto, Stephen Kwan.
These are guys that are famously using the puck bat
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in Major League Baseball right now. But the torpedo bat
is another way to just distribute the center of mass
to a different spot of the barrel. So like when
I was hitting, I use a thirty four to thirty
two so thirty four inches thirty two ounces. I did
not have a cup at the end of the bat.
So what what players have used for a long time
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is you could cup. So at the end of the
bat there's a cup, and by removing the weight there,
you change the distribution of the center of mass, so
you can actually lower the barrel. So the part where
we try to make contact, you can lower that by
having a cup. I didn't want that I because I
have long arms and I've wanted pitches away from me.
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I didn't want a cup that. I wanted my center
of mass closer to the end of the of the
bat where I did contact. So with this new torpedo bat,
it's well within regulation. You're allowed two point six one
inches in diameter. That's exactly what the torpedo is. But
the center of mass now is closer towards the label
versus towards the middle or end of the bat, So
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that's basically all it's doing. So for some hitters that
maybe stand on top of the plate or that you know,
tend to hit a little bit closer to the label,
this actually works really well for you. But if you
if you were a hitter like me, the pitches away
from myself because of my long arms, this torpedo bat
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might not be best suited for my swing. So as
much as it's a fad, it's also gonna you know,
have to deal with the player you know there, you
know the length of their arm, where they stand on
the plate. So it's not like all of a sudden
this batuh makes you into a great hitter. You know,
ultimately you still have to make contact. It's like you
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guys have been around Little League baseball, right, You've seen
these kids with these hype fire bats that are six
hundred bucks. Yeah, if you think, if he's thinking he's
slinging a miss, what does the hype fire bat do
for your kid? You're just still walking back to the
dugout and putting it on the batrack. So it doesn't
matter what your bad is. If you're not making contact, what.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Is it spilly. What does it tell you? Like, I
guess mentally, right, you think about golf clubs and you
feel I don't know, you just felt better when you
got that big Bertha for the first time and you
saw that giant head on the dry and you felt
like you were going to make better contact and maybe
you did. How much of it is mental?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
You know?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I think it was Max Munsey who was talking about
giving one a try. I mean, he's the only Dodger
that's not really hitting right now. He's two for twenty one.
Like is that a huge part of it? Just confidence
and how you feel or do all bats kind of
feel the same when you step into the box.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Not all bats feel the same. You know, there's in
some bats, like and there's there's so many different models
of bats, Like guys have you know, thin handled bats,
bigger barrel bats, smaller barrel bats, I mean, different weighted bats.
You know, Like there's if you remember the name Lance Johnson.
Lance Johnson was like a five foot six leadoff hitter,
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but he swung a thirty six thirty six like that
bat is just ridiculous. You know, there's there's stories of
Babe Ruth swinging a forty inch bat dirt exhibitions, like
you can have a bat up to forty two inches long.
No one's ever done that. But confidence is a real thing.
Confidence is a real thing. Like if you have confidence
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in your ability to hit, Like that's probably the most
important part for any hitter, is just like walking up
to the plate feeling like you're gonna do damage and
then you know, trusting your skill set because once you
if you have confidence for whatever reason, you don't think
about mechanics, you don't think about situation, you don't think
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about oh man, that's chrysale on the mound. You're like, oh,
I'm going to mess up chrysale today. Like, if you
have confidence, So if a bat does that, sometimes it shoes.
Sometimes it's you know, your your wife's in town, gives
you some confidence. Like there's all kinds of ways that
players find confidence in stuff. So yes, bats have you know,
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a small minute, you know feel for a player, but ultimately,
like it's a mental state that you know, that flows
state for a hitter to go up feeling confident versus
anything else.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Friday Night with Alex Boust on the Call, Dodgers Philly's
on Apple TV, Ryan Spilbo is our guest, a great
guy and a great talker, especially about baseball. It's been
alleged that some of that bat talk is over my
head and I'm too stupid to understand it, and perhaps
it's true, but I do understand falling on the shower,
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as we're all susceptible. It looks like Freddie Freeman hurt
his ankle in the shower. Spilly, have you ever hurt
yourself in a weird way or any of the other rockies,
like a light fall on somebody's head or something like
in a Scooby Doo movie. What happened?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I mean, there's I don't know what happened to Freddy
Freeman specifically, but we've had some crazy ones. I think
there's was it Andrew been attended a couple of years ago.
Cut of the south of the shower shaving, which is
kind of like a faux paw, like you're not supposed
to shave in the shower, like it's a communal shower.
We don't have like our own stalls. So this one's
got a little bit weird. You know some famous weird injuries.
(24:53):
There's Joel Zamaya Detroit Tigers, here's a reliever like a
long time ago, heard his elbow playing guitar hero. For
anybody that played guitar Hero, there's a there's a famous
Clint Barmes story with the Rockies about how he tripped
carrying venison meat up the stairs. So there's all kinds
of there's all kinds of weird ones out there. I mean,
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some of it I feel like is true. Some of
it I feel like that maybe they're they're they're hiding
something because that's what happens in cobouses. But I don't know.
Freddie Freeman getting hurt in the shower, I feel for
that guy. That's that's one of the nicest guys in baseball.
He is a future Hall of Famer. The dude's a
stud and and for him to just get healthy would
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be great.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Last one for you, Spilly does it in a lot
of places, Serious XM every day on MLB Network Radio
with CJ. Nikowski doing it on Apple TV on Friday,
and of course all season long with the Rockies. Great
things for the Dodgers. Right, they're six and zero, they're
in first place, they're playing well. If there's one thing
to look at, it's it's kind of this interesting st
(26:00):
art for Roki Sasaki and and you know, four innings
and nine walks and in a very emotional Roki Sasaki,
you know, following is his debut at Dodger Stadium. Like
what's the what's the right way to go about trying
to figure that thing out and take care of him?
Is do you leave it to Yamamoto and Otani? Like
is it a Dave Roberts thing? Do you send him down?
(26:20):
Like what do you do here? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Good question. I think there's there's emotional parts. I'm a
player that you know, every player is different. I will
tell you after spending a year in Japan, their culture
is totally different baseball wise. They're they're you know, this
isn't like a wet blanket, but there there's a little
bit more emotion that comes out of Japanese players, and
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I think we're accustomed to so, like, you know, seeing
tears from a from a Japanese player, I saw it
with Tanaka, same thing happened to him. I will also
point out too, because it's it's fair, the Japanese baseball
is different than the ball Major League baseball. The Japanese
baseball has natural tack to it, so it's it's a
little bit stickier, a little bit easier to control. And
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there's such a wide example of Japanese pitchers coming over
from the MPB that struggle, you know, two or three
starts into their career with the baseball because it's a
little bit slicker the Major League baseball some guys. That's why,
you know, a couple of years ago we had the
sticky stuff situation. Part of it was to increase spin rate,
but the other part is just to grab the ball.
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And so rookie, he's gonna have to figure out, you know,
for him, you know what the best scenario is for
him to like feel confident throwing strikes. The problem if
you set him down, which I don't think it's always
a problem is the competition of Triple A from the
big leagues is probably the biggest discrepancy we've ever seen.
Like it's not even close. It's night and day between
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being in Triple A and the big league. So if
he goes to the minor leagues, he's just gonna shove
and so he's not going to learn anything. You kind
of want him to take his lump, You want him
to figure this thing out. At the big league level
against big league competition, because his stuff plays like the
stuff is real. He has a spinry on his spoot finger,
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which is like second to Matt Waldron's knuckleball. He's just
throwing like such a unique pitch. I think a lot
of this just has to do with him getting comfortable
with pitching with the major league baseball. I mean, the
reality of it is like there's fact to it. So
I wouldn't send him down yet, I would give him
a chance, let him work this thing out. The emotions
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are natural when it comes to Japanese players, So you know,
I know Tommyanks says no crime in baseball, but there's
a lot more crying in Japanese baseball than he'd be
than they're aware of.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Well, what a great conversation, Always a great time, and
always very enlightening. Ryan, Thank you so much, Santa Barbara forever,
and we'll be watching on Friday and listening throughout the year,
and of course paying attention to the Colorado Rockies. Appreciate
your brother Hollo boys. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, there you go. Ryan Spilboorg's that game Friday on
Apple TV. He will be part of the broadcast along
with Alex Faust, Katie Nolan yes, no, no, no, Katie
Nolan this time.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
No, no, she's long ago.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Just you know she signed at last year, year before
maybe or maybe a year before that.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I've been paid a lot of money not to work
in a lot of places. Well, enjoy your night, everybody.
We'll have one more segment than in a live guy
that will flip with the Tim Kaids. Tim Kaids does
a lot of work. Well, thank you for listening. The
Petrosen Money Show is here tomorrow, Matt. Schedule wise, there
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will be a flex alert. We'll start early so the
Braves can get.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Out of town.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Alert. Incredibly kind, benevolent of the Dodgers to schedule an
early start so the Braves who began their season in
San Diego.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
I believe this. I believe this is the latest, latest
possible time. If the Dodgers were gonna be cool about it,
they probably do it a couple hours earlier.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I mean, wheels up at like I don't know, one
thirty two thirty am Atlanta time. Not good for the Braves.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Well, you know they aren't East coast to the team
there there. But yeah, you know, whatever our narrative is
we can lean on.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Hey wait, no, Dgers, good looking out those now gone.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Us from pantonal belief. Yeah, you need to leave Alex alone.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
He's a good guy.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Never never uh So flexiler tomorrow and the schedule is
packed packed with baseball.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Your studio bullies is what you are. Well, Dodgers braves
Tonight it's the debut of Dustin me. Very exciting obviously,
coming back from an Arduis arm injury followed by an
unforeseen larynx esophagus emergence. See back on the mound, his return,
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the electric stuff, the flowing red locks all out there
with the first pitch at seven to ten pm. Very
excited to see him back out there.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
We all are Matt and we will be monitoring it
from afar as we've not been welcomed back to Dodger
Stadium since opening day, but that could change. I mean,
the season is very young, very very young.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
We did not do a whole lot of damage to
the to the spread. It was one one half of
one wrap, a couple sticks of celery and one modello
is all we accounted for. Well, I had I had
a hot nun and you had a hot talk.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Now I did take the spicy angle.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
You set the spicy and who knows what Kate's consumed.
He was there for hours.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I think he had an entire tray of cookies somewhere
in There's.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
No way that those cookies are brownies.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
That is a lie.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
I had one brownie and one cook I had one wrap,
and I had about three of those Korean barbecued chickens.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
But see that that wasn't on us. Those were brought
in as a promotional push.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
I had a couple of barbecue cough. That's myself.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I mean that we were expected to eat that.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
We were because we were it's a critique, critique.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
I had two of them until I was reaching to
get a third with a new fork, and I saw
a couple of people putting their hands in the front.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
It's not that's totally fun.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Well, you know, it's a baseballos their inhibitions. After a while,
you know, you'll start picking up half eaten hot dogs.
It's a baseball game.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
What I like to do is put my hand in
the onion dish and just kind of toss those onions
up in the air and catch them in the mouth.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Yeah, look at my salty saltwater hands. I'm Matt Smith.
All right, Matt, your dead guy. Birthday of the Day today,
beating out lawn Cheney. Oh Is Charger sponsored Greek News.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Greek News news that is Greek invented dereci and were
the first people who you know we seek now here's Petrus,
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Speaker 4 (33:17):
This will be the story of a lunger, a female lunger.
Cut A lunger would have been around one hundred and
twenty three today. Maria poly duty neo romantic poetic star
from Kalamata, the home of the Kalamata olive, the eyes
(33:38):
the Mati deep in the Pelopon. Her father was a
philologist whatever that is, and her mother was an early feminist.
She had a brief love affair that she's very famous
for with a poet named Costas Kadiotakis. More on that
(33:59):
in a moment, but this was at the University of Athens,
where she was publishing some poems, even at the age
of fourteen. Now cost Us had syphilis, and he was
very honest about this. Did he lose his nose? No, well,
he was going to. But you know, he's in his
late twenties and he has the syphilis and She still
(34:21):
wanted to marry him, but he was too proud, and
she just thought he used that as an excuse the
pride to get away from her, and he left. Now
she got engaged to a lawyer. Cost Us famously killed
himself in nineteen twenty eight after trying to drown himself
(34:42):
for ten hours, but being an avid swimmer, he was
unable to drown himself, so he went under a eucalyptus
tree with a revolver and shot himself.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Well that'll do it, well, he was frustrated.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Now Maria was kind of a deadbeat. She broke off
her and gave moved to Paris to become a dressmaker,
but as everybody does in France, she got sick. She
contracted tuberculosis, came back to Athens, put out multiple poetry collections,
left an untitled novel attacking the conservatism and hypocrisy of
(35:21):
the time.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
As she saw.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
She died after a series of morphine injections in nineteen thirty.
Now they said she died at tuberculosis, But it seems
like a series of morphine injections that you die right after.
That might have something to do.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Now, that'll do it.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Her poems have been set to music by multiple Greek artists,
from the classical range to rock to progressive. In two
thousand and nine, she was portrayed in a Greek TV
series about cost Us, the guy that shot himself under
(35:59):
the Yuca her syphaltic X. She's kind of like a
Greek Sylvia Platt without the head in the oven thing
Matt Maria Polydouty. Her poetry is translated into English.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
If you are in, I got a prep for a
Greek trip, so you know, I like talking. How many
poems are we talking? Would it? Would it cover the
thirteen hour flight? Or should I just do it before
we go?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Like?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
How do you want to do it?
Speaker 4 (36:29):
I don't want to do it at all? All right,
you're a live guy.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Uh, Ding John either Hui or John HUEI I heard
it pronounced both ways. I fell down a rabbit hole
of Ding Jun Way or Ding John Hui videos Happy
thirty eighth to Dung or Ding Dung. I'm sorry, Ding.
(36:55):
We do not do athletes a lot, but this story
is too good not to share.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
First, let's get a clip of him being interviewed at
his Dean Jun Huie Snooker Academy in Sheffield, UK. It's
one of the craziest accents you will ever hear. At
the start you can tell he's Chinese, but in the
final ten seconds, because he moved to the UK when
he was ten, it sounds like he's a native brit
(37:24):
He must be special for.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
The futureization to see players like you, players like not On,
players like Jamie Clark, or training here all succeeding.
Speaker 6 (37:33):
There's not many a place he can put all the
players together and he can play at each other. Sometimes
the player says, okay playing this club, but most one
or two different players here. He can have a mini
different players can you can? You can play each oda.
It's not boring so snooker. Sometimes if he's lucky yourself
(37:54):
in the room practice all day, it's going to be
boring and boring again.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
But in this he never got a baring yet snooker
was kind of bellering boring. It's a great story parents
supporting a child born in Yixing, Jiangsu. His father loved
to play pool as a hobby and he would take
young Ding along with him from time to time, and
when Ding was just eight, his dad was rolling around
(38:22):
with a couple of local pool experts and when he
went to emergency toilet, Ding grabbed the que, played with
the best player in the room and won the game
before his father returned. His dad was like, holy crap,
sell everything, my son is a prodigy. At nine, he
was taken to the Chinese national snooker team tryout near Shanghai.
Fared so well that in fact dad and mom did
(38:45):
that they sold their home. They sold their grocery business
to fund Young Ding's snooker career. He left school at eleven.
He moved to Guangdong and committed to practicing snooker every
day for over eight hours per day. It's very popular
in that part of the world, very popular. At fifteen,
he won the Asian Under twenty one Championship and the
(39:08):
International Billiards and Snooker Federation title after that, making him
the youngest ever to hold the championship, which led to
his number one ranking in the entire country of China.
That got him awarded a wild card entry to the
world's premier event, the UK Masters, one of three majors
the Snooker Tour. He won his first match against the
(39:29):
world number sixteen, but lost in the next round. Was
invited back the following year in two thousand and five,
at just eighteen years old.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Even a notch above darts is snooker. Oh yeah, the UK.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yes, he knocked off and darts a bit huge and
you can smoke. He knocked off the best players in
the world. Drink and it's required required. You will be
hackled if you don't.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
He knocked off the best players in the world in
O five, all in the top ten Jimmy White, Paul Hunter,
Steve Davis, at the time the world number one, in
the final to become the first player ever from outside
the UK to win the event. One hundred and ten
million people in China watched the broadcast. At the time,
he was ranked sixty second in the world. Now, much
(40:13):
like Roki Sasaki, learning to navigate a new culture and
high expectations. A little step back after that, the a
holes that would populate the audience constantly jeering and heckling
him in a sport where like golf, etiquette in silence
and respect is what we should experience during the matches,
(40:37):
but a dash of racism crept in. Matt Yes in
the UK, who would have guessed Ding was reduced to tears.
Like Sasaki, on multiple occasions.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
Sasaki was criming and he had all the support.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Of the world, but thankfully professionals, led by the Great
Ronnie O'Sullivan, pushed back, yelled at the peace people in
the house and said there'd be a boycott of snooker
if people didn't start behaving properly. The next year, he
bounced back. He made the final sixteen in every event
he entered a couple semi finals, and by the eight
to nine season was back to winning titles. Won his
(41:15):
first World Championship in twenty ten, the Masters in both
ten and eleven, the Tour Championship in twelve and thirteen,
and the thirteen fourteen season one of the greatest ever
by any snooker player, winning the China and Indian Opens,
the Shanghai and German Masters, and the International Championship, something
he won last year for the first time since twenty fourteen,
(41:36):
married one daughter, and the coolest thing ever. In twenty ten,
a twenty six episode cartoon series titled dragon Ball Number
One tells the story of Ding's growth twenty shy episode
twenty six episodes into the number one snooker star in
the world.
Speaker 4 (41:55):
Exciting stuff that's snooker, and we'll have Dodgers Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Also confusing, Yeah, very confusing. It's not something we're raised
with like cricket exactly.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
Not hard to hard to follow, but either way, we're
happy to be with you and happy to be gone,
and he'll be back on tomorrow at two o'clock. Enjoy
the game and enjoy your flight home tomorrow, Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Benevolence sacrifice not how I would put it, starts early.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
Yes Friday checked out this configure
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