April 15, 2025 • 42 mins
Number, Word and Song of the Day. Reaction to the mess that is the College Football Transfer Portal. DVR with Vassegh. PMS with their annual Jackie Robinson Day Tribute
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Nuggets tip off at twelve thirty on AM eleven fifty
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involved in this year is to night Yeah and all week.
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Long Warriors Griz. What celebration will Ja Morant do?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
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I'm trying to take you to, as you know, idiots,
idiots and freaks. Landon Knack is pitching for the Dodgers tonight,
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the Rockies pitcher I don't recognize. Which means Matt Well
I was gonna say it means Matt doesn't get to
go into his Kyle Freeland dissertation.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Is he pitching tomorrow? I don't want to do it today.
If he's pitching tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I don't think. Is Kyle Freeland still on the Rockies?
He is?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
He pitched on Sunday, So not pitching in this series.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh you're screwed, Matt. I don't know about that. Did
you know?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Kyle Freeland was born in the Shadows Corsefield was win
though the very day of the franchise was born. So
you can imagine his surprise when his name was cold
at the Major League Baseball Draft got up.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Gotta tell you, reck it sounds almost like he was
born to be a.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Rocky by those very same Colorado Rockies, and I'll be
dared if isn't out there starting today on the mound.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Kyle Freeland is not going care for the Rockies and
the rock I don't think they scored a run in
San Diego. They did score some runs last night, but
it was not enough. Though they got close to beat.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
They almost got your You get your your no does
for freaking Dust and May, Thanks banda dust and May
pitched very well. Yeah, he's been a hard luck loser
and he almost got a no though.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Which keeps you up all night long. Like in the
eighties when you were cramming for a test and you
took the Nodos a fetcher an all day baby, those
will keep you up all night long. I have a
splitting headache. What's it feel like? I don't know, like
a car just backed down to my head. Matt, Now
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you know what study habits were like in the eighties. Yeh,
it's time for the word of the day. His words
the word of the day, you know around here speaking
of baseball announcing, we don't make fun of things like
the Hindenburg or the Titanic. Those are terrible things, you know,
just because again, we don't make fun of things like
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the Hinden Burning of the Titanic, because it's terrible things.
Lots of people died, terrible moments.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Are you playing My Heart Will Go On and the
pan flu to your musical accompaniment?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Is there something wrong with a nice? Well? You don't
even know what this story is about, Matt Okay. Today's
word of the day is Titanic. Yesterday was the anniversary
of the day that Titanic hit the Iceberg. It took
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some time for the boat to sink, like the next day.
It's also the day that Lincoln was shot nineteen twelve
and eighteen sixty five, respectively, terribly.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
It's also the day six ladies went up into space.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Thank you Kates. Wow, that was a real kick to
the grin. That was a real balloon popper. That was
a real wet blanket cats, we start over it.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
They're all historical moments.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yesterday was the day the Titanic hit the Iceberg. This
was apparently not lost on Phillies color analyst Ruben Amaro
Junior on the Phillies broadcast after Nick Castianos's home run
last night versus the Giants in Philly, Ruben Tomorrow Junior
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said this here is the call.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Oh, a high flip ball a deep left center field.
That one is gone long run for Castianos.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
It's his third of the year.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
It's his second army eye of the game.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
It's a two run ball game.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
We did not hang one to Price Harper, but he
hung one Leanos. Not exactly what you're supposed to do
with it, just has to win the way that he
swinging the bat.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
That is a Titanic blast.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Too much?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
No, I think you're right on.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
A titanic blast. I mean, I feel like people call
things titanic all the time. He knew, Matt because he
wouldn't have turned to that play by play guy Ruben
Tomorrow and said too much.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
He knew that is a Titanic blast. Too much?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Too much. Now, was there room on that plank of
whatever for Leonardo DiCaprio to be right next to Kate Winslen,
I'd like to think so certainly looked like it. It
just felt like she was a rich chick that went
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slumming with a towny and she didn't want him to
live to tell the tail. And it took her eighty
years to confess to Bill Paxson that he was the
greatest lag she's ever had, and she's had him all
over the world, and then she dropped an eighty thousand
dollars necklace into the sea. Would you have preferred, Ruben
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Tomorrow Junior, to be like he shot that like Wilkes
Booth shot Lincoln in the head. It seems a little detailed.
I mean, is it very different? Though I've offended Matt
he shot him into space like those six women, most
defensive of the three. Think harder next time, Ruben Tomorrow Junior.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well, I think we appreciate. Well, look, he's accessing an
historical moment.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
If you have to turn to your play by play
guy and ask if it's okay, maybe it's not okay, Ruben.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
What if he said, wow, that ball really flew to
space like the fly who flew to space.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Too much? The Latina fly too much? It might it
might be a little too detailed, too much. Somebody texted me,
why do you guys keep calling her the Joker? I
was like, look at her face.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
She looks like Jack Nicholson as the Joker in the original,
while the remake the Tim Burton Batman.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Wait till they get a load of me.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Get a look at the Jack Nicholson Joker. That is
what she looks like after all of her plastic set surgery.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
What a beautiful moment last night to honor the dead
of the Titanic by Reuben Tomorrow Junior.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Too much.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
A Titanic blast? Too much?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
It is a Titanic blast, hm, too much mass?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Do you think they maybe did a Titanic thing in
the pregame? And he must be harkening back to it,
because there's.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Just you know what I mean, I'm not gonna happen like.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That's I just don't know that he's gonna pull that
square out of his ass.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Rob moment. Ralph maguire was a shortstop for the Philadelphia
Phillies who died on the title right. I don't know where. Yeah,
it's possible. I thought about that, Matt. Could it have
been a cross reference for something that had earlier? But
you know, hey, let's all watch our piece and cues guys. Okay,
it's a real sensitive time and Jackie Robinson Day. People
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can get very upset and it is Jackie Robinson Day,
and no one's there to catch Kareem if he falls
off his chair. Matt, You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
There was no thank you you can't say you're welcome
when the man didn't thank you for saving his life.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
What if he said that ball flew to space like
the fly They flew to Space, which is a children's
book written by Lauren Sanchez who's dating Jeff Bezos, who
for Space to the Space.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Katy Perry, by the way, tweeted out There's no place
like home, and one of the first responses on X
girl went to space for eleven minutes, acting like she
just escaped interstellar.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Right, yeah, you girl, What do you think you're gone?
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Girl?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
You ain't going nowhere.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
You're never better tht you going out?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Guys said I've been on the toilet longer you were
in space.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It takes me long to take a dump. Hashtag me too.
This is for the number of the day. Here's my number.
Number of the day.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Number of the day is two, two arm pits. This
story p from the ruan open and we have live audio.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
We'd like to move to another table away with those
two gentlemen. Why have they been disturbing you? No, red Sift,
It's just that well, frankly, they're offensive smelling Did they
smell bad?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Harriet Dart, a brit number sixty two in the world
versus Loisissant number three hundred thirty in the world three
hundreds third in the world. What Sport Tennis WTA tore
the Rual Open all Francis Dart loss six zero six
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y three. But between the first and second set, the
opening set twenty eight minutes is all it took for
Bois Song to lay waste to the much higher ranked Dart.
But between the first and second set, as they switch sides.
During the changeover, Dart could be heard on the broadcast
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asking the official quote, can you ask her to put
on deodorant? She smells really bad? Oh and after the
social media I should have probably looked for that audio,
but I was so excited about playing the Blues Brothers
when I read this story earlier. As soon as the
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folks that were watching the broadcast began to comment on
social media, she realized the mistake that she had made.
She posted an apology on her Instagram acon I wanted
to apologize for what I said. It was a heat
of the moment comment that I truly regret. That's not
how I carry myself. I take full responsibility. I have
a lot of respect for Lois and how she competed today.
I'll learn from this and move forward. Doesn't change the
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fact that Lois was pitting and she has a little
ripe out there.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Well, you know, there's a lot of euros.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Why do you think they call it a French shower
because my combination of armpit and drekar freaking noir kates.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I just sent you the audio. Oh, here we go.
I just texted you the audio of Harriet Dart asking
the umpire to tell her opponent to where diodo she is? This?
Does this? Does everyone swelling? I'm up in the yoga studio,
you know, Matt. Yeah, people be like, you know, that
person smells terrible. You can't let him in here. And
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it's awkward for my sister who has to then deal
with it.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, it's like, dude, I didn't want to smell your pits.
You're a little right. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Do you have the audio? Can you tell her to do?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Well, that's crystal clear. Can you tell and she smells bad?
She smells really bad, you know. And I mean you're
on the other side of the court.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
In the Europe of my youth, and I'm talking about
like nineteen eighty two. I mean, you can't imagine how
bad everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Oh, I can imagine. I can imagine because ten years later,
in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Well, you know I've went in the nineties. I have
to say it's gotten exponentially better every time. Not in
Italy in the freaking months ater in July. Oh, I
know it, Matt. Oh yeah, said in the early eighties, Matt,
where no one was shaving anything, and there were no gyms,
that's a great point. Everybody was still just the dirty
village dog, and everybody was on their own money, and
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there was no you know, global euro vibe. Everybody was
just a just a smelly pig.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, that's you know what it's taking swimming lessons at
the YWCA and then go having to walk through the
gym to get to the pool. I can remember the
pits smell being so bad that it like stung your eyes.
It was so bad it was it was just like
a mold. Oh no, it's.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Time for the song of the day. This is the
song of the day.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Jazz being his Den band leader Buddy Johnson wrote and
recorded our Song of the Day in nineteen forty nine
called did You See Jackie Robinson hit that all a
tribute to number forty two Jackie Robinson, who bravely broke
baseball's color barrier in nineteen forty seven as a member
of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and today Major League Baseball celebrates
the legacy of Jackie Robinson with Jackie Robinson Day, where
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all Major League players and coaches will warn the number
forty two in honor of the great Dodger Hall of Famer,
and Tim Kates will get things going a little bit
later on with your Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck program
that begins at six o'clock Jackie Robinson.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
When Jack comes to bat, thank you running the team through. Well,
this is Jackie Robinson Day across Major League Baseball. Everybody
wearing the number forty two. It'll be Jackie Robinson Day
out at Dodger Stadium. How come they didn't think of this,
like back in the sixties when they were shooting all
the military type navy pilots up into space. How come
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they didn't think, like, hey, let's just send a big
boob of celebrity up into space. That's I think that's
that's what's really to draw the public interest. They figured
that they would die That's how we'll stick it to
the Russians.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You know what, you're right, that would have stuck it
to the Russians, right, they're sending up Yuri.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Look at zero gravity. Marilyn Monroe boobs, how do you
like that? Yuri? What do you think of that? Boris Vladimir?
When Jack comes to that, you like that? Kim Novak
ass in the sky, come out see Jackie Robinson hit
that ball a Titanic hit to space. Other than that,
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Missus Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play? God David
Vas will join us down.
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we are gonna be talking to David Vasse in a
matter of moments. There is some breaking news in the
college football world and it's relevant to us. Volleyball. Well,
the Nico I am a Yava story is a huge story,
and it's relevant to us because he's from Downey and
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all the best or many of the best college football
players that we cover, Jaden Daniels and so on and
so forth, are all from the area, especially quarterbacks. Yeah,
southern California, no doubt about it. This one is not
a quarterback. Jaden Ott at a Norco, played high school
ball at Norco, a little bit in Vegas, but mostly
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at Norco. Superstar Cal running back who mocked the transfer
portal last year, oh staying oh now and making a
big video to say that he was going to stay
at Cal, mocking the way everybody handles the portal. Well,
this morning, Jaden ot entered the transfer portal. He's kind
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of played sparingly. They sort of use him in big situation.
He doesn't really catch a rhythm in the game. He's
had some injury troubles, but I also think they do.
And I don't know if this is the right word
for it. I would never want to use it, but
it's the only thing I can think of, like some
running back kind of load management stuff because he stayed
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at cal but he is transferring to the University of Oklahoma.
Whoa boomer too, Yeah, Boomer sooner? And remember John Mattier,
the engineer, John Matteer, a big time Texas quarterback who
came up big time at Washington State last year. He
and the offensive coordinator Are Buckle, who is an air
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raid guy, have gone down to coach with. He went
down to coach with Venables, brought his quarterback, John Mattire.
And now this is a huge running back transfer in
Jaden Ott if healthy going to the University of Oklahoma,
it could be if he has a great Yet he
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is a home run hitter as a back, not not
estranged to going eighty yards or something like that. So
if he can put together something like that, I mean
I'm not saying get on the California Bullet train to
Vegas that they built so many years ago that we
get there in like an hour. I'm not saying go
there and say jay Nott's gonna win the Heisman. I'm
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just saying I bet Jaye not to win the Heisman
at Oklahoma before any other running back in the country.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Well, just off the top of my end, certainly, I
think Ashton Genty can't win the Heisman after his performance
last year.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Granted it was but he's at Boise. Yeah, at Boise, and.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
In a year in which a guy played both ways
pretty much full time.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
And the media literally took a knee and got out
the chamois to wash. Not that Travis Hunter is not
a spectacular football player. It was an incredible year. It
was an incredible year, but it wasn't better than what
Ashton gent did. In my very humble opinion.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
That the thing about I'm Liava is it's kind of interesting.
Is just watching the pendulum the good for good for Josh, Hype,
good for Tennessee, stand up to these guys, and now
it's swung back to the other side of Well, wait
a minute, isn't this exactly what coaches do when they say, Hey,
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I'm gonna be able to get paid four million bucks
more if I take off from here and go to
this place. Do you want to match that? Or am
I leaving?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
People have said that, I mean, I would gently push
back by saying I've seen coaches leave, like during a
recruiting visit or dinner. Never like, hey, spring ball start
and wears coach, I don't see him in his bike shorts. Yeah,
to leave somebody in the lurch in spring ball is different.
But hey, portal's open, right, So yeah, the rules are
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the rules. The other problem with the play is Cal's
best player and they just lost him, you know, and
it's mid April. I mean, not that they don't have
other backs on the roster, but they just lost their
best player and their quarterback from last year, So you're right.
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I mean, none of it makes sense. And college football
is hypocrisy. I mean, just the whole thing I mean
is hypocrisy. God bless me for being involved in it.
But there's a lot of incongruities, like the fact that
we have all of these institutions of higher education wrapped
up with a billion dollar industry of guys playing football
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and now getting paid and holding out and making all
kinds of demands. And you're right, Matt, fairs fair, but
it is unsavory and it makes the sport a lot
different to watch and cover, and it should calm down
when the games start, but it usually doesn't. There's very
little college left in college football. A lot of football, wow,
(23:53):
very little of the college attention teachers and students. Yeah,
you know, never really a lot of that, but we don't.
They are a lot of like, hey this guy, this
guy's out, he's ineligible. He got a few fs. Speaking
of f's, I think Nico Ayamayaba got three f's at
Long Beach, Polly. That's hard to do during the transfer drama.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Unless you're in the PACE program, which is very challenging
and academically incredible.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
So there is the big news Norco hero Jaden Ott
transferring from cow to Oklahoma. He is going to feel
a little bit of a different vibe. Matt as a
football star on campus at Cal, how do you figure
then he will in Norman, Oklahoma. Like at Cal, you
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just can't even leave your dorm room. You're mobbed by students. Yeah,
every step you take. I felt like that that's why
they had us living out at Clark Kerr, an old
school for the blind, because we were so popular on
campus Oklahoma, nobody really knows you are. My second day
at CAL, I found myself having defend my scholarship to
people on my You guys never watched college football? What's
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your deal?
Speaker 7 (25:05):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Is David Massey that immersed in Jackie Robinson decades?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
He should be calling momentarily Jesus. By the way, Jaye
not one of four running backs at CAL who have
checked out in the transfer portal in the last twenty
four hours.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Four running backs.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You think they're gonna call me up? They might.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
And Joel Klatt was on with Colin Cowhard earlier today
and said.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Defending the Shador Sanders Jersey retirement, I don't know doubt Uh.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
He did mention UCLA and they may have come into
a little bit of more money than people think. So
don't count out and yeah, go down to CLA.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
No, remember the last time they got a big, five
star recruited quarterback. How'd that go? He's starting for Oregon
this year? Is he really? Yeah? Dante, I thought that
dude's career was done. It's done at Ucla. He's the
starting quarterback at Orgon. Well, there you go.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
He went to Oregon last year, then Dylan Gabriel transferred
to He wrote the pod.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Playing one year behind Dylan Gabriel. You know, Matt, it's
attitudes like that. No I thought he was I never
heard from him again. I didn't know he was righting. Man,
don't grow in a program because they hear Matt Smith
just dismiss him. I didn't know he was riding the pine.
Heer's Dave David Vess the Home of the Dodgers Inside,
(26:23):
look at the Dodgers. This is the Vassie Report with
David Vasse. Busy day for David vass Spectrum Sports and
at La MLB Network. Jackie Robinson Day a hero last night,
saved my daughter, brought her the Hello Kitty Squish Blush,
just a god amongst men. On your Southern California Toyota
Dealer Celebrity Hotline. It is David Vass. How's that Jackie
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Robinson day going, Dave, Oh no, oh god, I'm right here.
Speaker 10 (26:53):
I'm all good. We're ready to go. Jackie Robinson Day
out and Michael Kopek. You know, I wanted to talk
to somebody today that never experienced Jackie Robinson day at
Dodger Stadium, wearing that forty two in at Dodger uniform
and just being out there, guys at two thirty this
afternoon around the Jackie Robinson statue at Kareem Abdul Jabbar
(27:13):
out there with the Rockies and Dodgers, and his words
really resonated no matter what background Dodgers or Rockies are from.
And after he was done speaking, I was able to
catch up with the Hall of Famer Kareema.
Speaker 11 (27:27):
What did it mean to be here for this day
and to be able to be asked to speak with
how much Jackie and the Dodgers meanteam?
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Well, it's great to be here on this day, especially
because he was a hero of mine from day one,
you know when I became aware of him, and it
was a good choice for me.
Speaker 11 (27:50):
What did you remember about that moment where you met
Jackie for the first time?
Speaker 7 (27:54):
With Bill Russell, I was totally surprised because it was
about the The dinner was about a rookie of the
year and what was he doing there? And later on
I found out that he lettered in basketball at you
see a basketball baseball track and field in football.
Speaker 12 (28:16):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
By the way, guys, tomorrow is Kareem Abdul Jabbar's birthday.
He was born the day after Jackie Robinson made his
major league debut.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
You've been through a lot of these now, Dave. You know,
it's wonderful that the Major League Baseball does it league wide,
but kind of take us through how much it's changed,
how much more maybe the players know and have learned
about the importance of Jackie Robinson, about his you know,
like Kareem said a letterman in three different sports at UCL,
it feels like every year we hear players, you know,
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just kind of be a little bit more well versed
on all things Jackie Robinson.
Speaker 10 (28:51):
The way it's changed and grown larger is because the
Dodgers built and commissioned that Jackie Robinson's statue. Remember there
was no centerfield plaza when they first unveiled the Jackie
Robinson statue. I can remember going up to the reserve
level down the third base line where the statue was
first place with Matt Kemp and he did a photo
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shoot with John Suho. But now having it out there
in that beautiful new centerfield plaza, it's a meeting place
for a lot of people and for days like Jackie
Robinson Day, where the Dodgers and Dave Roberts came up
with this great idea of meeting out there before the
game with whoever they're playing. And that's what's made it
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even more special because obviously Jackie Robinson Day has been
celebrated at Dodgers Stadium or wherever the Dodgers have been
for quite some time. But now to have that statue,
it's kind of a landmark. It really is something special
that was missing for a lot of years.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Meet me at the statue in an hour. Dustin May's
having a heck of a comeback, Dave. But did the
Dodgers play their best last night?
Speaker 10 (29:57):
I mean, geez, I didn't think so. The five through
nine hitters were a combined one for fifteen last night.
The only good sign was Max Munsey took two walks.
But really outside of the big three, there really wasn't
much outside of the big three in will Smith, the
big three of Otani, Bets and Freeman, which I've only
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been together in the same game a handful of times
this year, was a combined seven for fourteen with a
double and two home runs. One from Mooki, one from Otani.
So the Dodgers need to get more production from the
rest of their lineup. And Dustin May man it is special.
That was his first win, guys since May sixth of
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twenty twenty three. So Kim and Yamamoto have been the
two best starters by a long shot among the rest
of the Dodgers starters.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
He has not pitched more than sixty innings in any season.
Is there going to be like any certain approach here?
Dave Skipping starts like, how do you envision them work
in this thing? With how well he's pitching and how
deep into games he's been going.
Speaker 10 (31:06):
Right, So the Dodgers have a lot of starters and
they don't even have Blake Smell in their rotation right now.
So you get him back, you get Kershaw back here
in the month of May. We'll see where things are
with Dustin May. But you're right, I mean, he has
a connective tissue issue and that's kind of a DNA thing,
So we'll see how far it goes. The Dodgers can
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use Dustin May to come out of the bullpen eventually
if it gets too crowded in the rotation because he's
been open to that idea, even going back to spring
training before Tony Gonsolin got hurt. Because of his new
found perspective on baseball and life after that's scare with
the esophagus surgery. I think whatever the Dodgers need from him,
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he'll do well.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Whatever we need from you, you do, Dave. We know
it's a busy day out there. Get back to work.
And again, thank you last night for saving my v
very volatile daughter.
Speaker 10 (32:02):
It was great to see the reaction. I text you,
I said that made it all worth it to go
all the way down from the press box in the
seventh inning to the field level just to see the
excitement in your daughter's face and the big smile. And
you could just call me the dream maker.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Thanks you, Dave. That is you, Dave. Thank you appreciate it.
Uh more to come. We will have our own Matt.
We have our own Jackie Robinson archive. You know.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Every year we celebrate too, Dave gets to hang out
at a statue. At the statue, I should say, with
Kareem abdul Jabbar, we get to share moments from our past.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, we bring it to the people. We've been around
the block a few times. We know a few fight
songs like Jade and not stay Strong. Everybody look out
for those backstabbers.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
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Speaker 1 (33:27):
And speaking of spectacular, Matt, Today is April fifteenth. That
was on this day, seventy eight years ago that Jackie
Robinson played his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers, broke
the color barrier in Major League Baseball, and every April
fifteenth MLBAN now honors Jackie Robinson, who was born in Georgia,
grew up in Pasadena, went to Mere High School Let's
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Go Mustangs, Passi Dina Junior College, UCLA, where he lettered
in four sports with the Bruins, and not only was
he athlete, but a trailblazer, breaking baseball's color barrier in
nineteen forty seven, now Matt Our dear friend. Don Nucombe
was a great Dodger pitcher who followed Jackie Robinson into
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the major leagues. Just two years after Jackie made his debut,
Don Newcombe, black man from New Jersey and friend of
the show, made his and always well dressed Matt put
Jim Hill to shame.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Nwcomb was the best, our, absolute favorite, absolute favorite, just
seeing him walk around Dodger Stadium when we were doing
all those shows from Latchie or in the outfield and
Newcomb's the ambassador.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Oh the best otis loves us Brooklyn Dodgers. In nineteen
forty nine was when Don made his debut. He would
win NL Rookie of the Year. Don nukeomb would go
on to win the Cy Young and the MVP in
nineteen forty nine. He was the first black pitcher to
start a World Series game. In fifty one, became the
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first black pitcher to win twenty games in a single season.
His his career was put on pause for two years
fifty two and fifty three while he served in the
military during the Korean War. To take your conflict, Don
nukemb would join Jackie Robinson for many years fighting for
civil rights with friends Martin Luther King Jr. In twenty fourteen,
Don nukeomb joined our show and told a story about m.
(35:19):
L K Jr. And Jackie.
Speaker 13 (35:20):
Well, he told me one night at my house in
nineteen sixty eight, this is about oh I get twenty eight,
twenty nine days before he lost his life in Memphis.
He was in my home for dinner. I had traveled
with him that night and that day to do some
fundraising for him here in Los Angeles. And when we
got back to my house, we had dinner, and when
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we finished, we were sitting around just waiting for Martin
to have to lead to go to the airport to
get to Atlanta and then on to Memphis in the
coming weeks. And he said to me, don you and Jackie,
Roy and Larry will never know how easy for me
to do what I've done in civil rights. See what
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you men did on the baseball field. I want you
all to know that, and I mean that from the
bottom of my heart. Don so believe me. And I
of course, when he left and went to the airport,
I called Jackie and tol Roy and also Larry what
Martin said. And Jackie said, well, that's the kind of
guy I told you he was. He knows that we
are doing a great job in baseball and that's what
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we have to can continue doing, and that's.
Speaker 12 (36:28):
What we did.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
So that was don nukem on our show. Unreal. No
one ever erased that sound, no, thank goodness. And in
August of twenty twenty two, of course, we lost the
great Vin Scully, one of the last remaining people who
was there when Jackie Robinson played for the Dodgers. Vin
joined the Dodgers calling games in nineteen fifty. And here
is the great Vin Scully in twenty twenty on Jackie
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Robinson Day, talking about the significance of the number forty
two and every player in the major leagues wearing the
number today, even though it makes it a bit confusing
in Jackie's honor.
Speaker 8 (37:02):
It was back about nineteen fifty, maybe fifty one, not
more more than that, And Jackie, who had received other
threatening letters, apparently received one that was deadly serious and
impressed the authorities. We were in Cincinnati for a weekend
series to play at Crosley Field. The letter intimated the
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deed would be done on Sunday, Sunday morning, when the
team was in the bus going to the dressing room,
it was pretty quiet, and in the dressing room it
was very quiet. This was the most serious pregame atmosphere
probably in the game. Everyone was worried and it was
very quiet. And the Dodgers had a young left fielder
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by the name of Jean Hermanski, and Jean was colorful, bright, blond,
white and fully you know it. And with this quiet
atmosphere in the clubhouse, Jeane suddenly said I've got it,
and everybody looked and they said what he said. We'll
all wear number forty two, and they'll never know which
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one is Jackie Robinson. Now that seems funny at the day.
In nineteen ninety seven, Jackie's number was retired, and in
two thousand and four, Jean Hermanski's words from nineteen fifty
came to fruition. We'll all wear number forty two. So tonight,
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when the Dodgers in Arizona line up on the foul lines,
they'll be wearing forty two. And all across the country,
in every Major League ballpark, every player will be wearing
forty two. And what does the forty two mean. It
doesn't mean that they're all equal. Not in the respect.
Some are taller than others, some are heavier than others.
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Some are left handed, some are right handed. But the
one thing they share in carrying number forty two is
the fact that the man who wore it gave them
the one thing that no one at the time could
ever have done. He gave them equality and he gave
them opportunity. Those were the two things that many of
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those people never had to hold in their hearts when
they first began to play. So, yes, forty two is
a great number. It means a lot for a great man.
But it is a tremendous number when you think of
the men who wore it with such dignity, with such pride,
and with such great discipline. And wasn't it's sweet that
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he had Rachel on his arm? Loiary, thank you.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Great poetic words from Vince Scully and a good reminder
to why everybody does it today. Across Major League Baseball,
the number forty two will be on everybody. And finally,
in the Petrosen Money Archives, Matt we got one more
piece of history. October fifteenth, nineteen seventy two, before Game
two of the World Series between the A's and Red's,
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Jackie Robinson throughout the first pitch and spoke to the
crowd before the game.
Speaker 12 (40:10):
You would just like to say that I was really
just a spoke in the wheel of the success that
we had some twenty five years ago. And personally want
to say thank you to a great captain, a guy
who was the leader of our ball club and who
really set the pace in many many areas Peewee. Thanks
so much for being here today. I would like to
also say that I would be a real, real pleasure
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if mister Rickey could have been here with us today.
But to the members of the family, my entire in
love and gratitude for the things that he's done over
the years. And I also want to say how pleased
I am that my family can be here this afternoon,
and to thank baseball for the tremendous opportunities that it
has presented to me and also for this thrilling afternoon.
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I'm extremely proud and pleased to be here this afternoon.
What must admit, I'm gonna be tremendously more pleased and
more proud. Well, I look at that third base coaching
line one day and see a blackface managing in baseball.
Thank you very much, and.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
That was his last public appearance. He would pass away
nine days later October twenty fourth, nineteen seventy two. So
Jackie Robinson Day, some history from the Petros and Money
Show archives, because Matt nobody cares more about history and
historical perspective than the Petros and Money Show. That's not
even be close your historical perspective show of record. As
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we think about the masses congregating around that glorious Jackie
Robinson's statue at the Dotcher Stadium taking their photos today,
the amount of number forty two's in the stands as
they take on the Rockies tonight. Who's on the mound
for Colorado tonight. It's not Kyle Freeland. I wish it was.
That's just checking. We'll be right back with another hour
a great sports talk.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Freeland born round the Shadows, cores fieldp story day that
the Rockies were founded. The fun fact, quick hits, think
about the serendipity involved in all of that, right Dead
and Alive.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Just feels like it goes beyond coincidence. Yes, thank you,
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Speaker 1 (01:21):
Tuesday, Dalo s Mendida dest del Mundo, Daldo s Mendida Lavenda.
We will talk to David Vasse. On Jackie Robinson Day,
we'll have our petros and Money Jackie Robinson Archives celebration,
which is an annual, and we'll have a top story
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Speaker 2 (02:16):
Long Warriors Griz. What celebration will Ja Morant do?
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They shot into the stratus fare he local, local, local.
I'm trying to take you to, as you know, idiots,
idiots and freaks. Landon Knack is pitching for the Dodgers tonight,
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the Rockies pitcher I don't recognize. Which means Matt Well
I was gonna say it means Matt doesn't get to
go into his Kyle Freeland dissertation.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Is he pitching tomorrow? I don't want to do it today.
If he's pitching tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I don't think. Is Kyle Freeland still on the Rockies?
He is?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
He pitched on Sunday, So not pitching in this series.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh you're screwed, Matt. I don't know about that. Did
you know?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Kyle Freeland was born in the Shadows Corsefield was win
though the very day of the franchise was born. So
you can imagine his surprise when his name was cold
at the Major League Baseball Draft got up.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Gotta tell you, reck it sounds almost like he was
born to be a.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Rocky by those very same Colorado Rockies, and I'll be
dared if isn't out there starting today on the mound.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Kyle Freeland is not going care for the Rockies and
the rock I don't think they scored a run in
San Diego. They did score some runs last night, but
it was not enough. Though they got close to beat.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
They almost got your You get your your no does
for freaking Dust and May, Thanks banda dust and May
pitched very well. Yeah, he's been a hard luck loser
and he almost got a no though.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Which keeps you up all night long. Like in the
eighties when you were cramming for a test and you
took the Nodos a fetcher an all day baby, those
will keep you up all night long. I have a
splitting headache. What's it feel like? I don't know, like
a car just backed down to my head. Matt, Now
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you know what study habits were like in the eighties. Yeh,
it's time for the word of the day. His words
the word of the day, you know around here speaking
of baseball announcing, we don't make fun of things like
the Hindenburg or the Titanic. Those are terrible things, you know,
just because again, we don't make fun of things like
(05:04):
the Hinden Burning of the Titanic, because it's terrible things.
Lots of people died, terrible moments.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Are you playing My Heart Will Go On and the
pan flu to your musical accompaniment?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Is there something wrong with a nice? Well? You don't
even know what this story is about, Matt Okay. Today's
word of the day is Titanic. Yesterday was the anniversary
of the day that Titanic hit the Iceberg. It took
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some time for the boat to sink, like the next day.
It's also the day that Lincoln was shot nineteen twelve
and eighteen sixty five, respectively, terribly.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
It's also the day six ladies went up into space.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Thank you Kates. Wow, that was a real kick to
the grin. That was a real balloon popper. That was
a real wet blanket cats, we start over it.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
They're all historical moments.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yesterday was the day the Titanic hit the Iceberg. This
was apparently not lost on Phillies color analyst Ruben Amaro
Junior on the Phillies broadcast after Nick Castianos's home run
last night versus the Giants in Philly, Ruben Tomorrow Junior
(06:34):
said this here is the call.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Oh, a high flip ball a deep left center field.
That one is gone long run for Castianos.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
It's his third of the year.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
It's his second army eye of the game.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
It's a two run ball game.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
We did not hang one to Price Harper, but he
hung one Leanos. Not exactly what you're supposed to do
with it, just has to win the way that he
swinging the bat.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
That is a Titanic blast.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Too much?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
No, I think you're right on.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
A titanic blast. I mean, I feel like people call
things titanic all the time. He knew, Matt because he
wouldn't have turned to that play by play guy Ruben
Tomorrow and said too much.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
He knew that is a Titanic blast. Too much?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Too much. Now, was there room on that plank of
whatever for Leonardo DiCaprio to be right next to Kate Winslen,
I'd like to think so certainly looked like it. It
just felt like she was a rich chick that went
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slumming with a towny and she didn't want him to
live to tell the tail. And it took her eighty
years to confess to Bill Paxson that he was the
greatest lag she's ever had, and she's had him all
over the world, and then she dropped an eighty thousand
dollars necklace into the sea. Would you have preferred, Ruben
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Tomorrow Junior, to be like he shot that like Wilkes
Booth shot Lincoln in the head. It seems a little detailed.
I mean, is it very different? Though I've offended Matt
he shot him into space like those six women, most
defensive of the three. Think harder next time, Ruben Tomorrow Junior.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well, I think we appreciate. Well, look, he's accessing an
historical moment.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
If you have to turn to your play by play
guy and ask if it's okay, maybe it's not okay, Ruben.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
What if he said, wow, that ball really flew to
space like the fly who flew to space.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Too much? The Latina fly too much? It might it
might be a little too detailed, too much. Somebody texted me,
why do you guys keep calling her the Joker? I
was like, look at her face.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
She looks like Jack Nicholson as the Joker in the original,
while the remake the Tim Burton Batman.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Wait till they get a load of me.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Get a look at the Jack Nicholson Joker. That is
what she looks like after all of her plastic set surgery.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
What a beautiful moment last night to honor the dead
of the Titanic by Reuben Tomorrow Junior.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Too much.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
A Titanic blast? Too much?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
It is a Titanic blast, hm, too much mass?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Do you think they maybe did a Titanic thing in
the pregame? And he must be harkening back to it,
because there's.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Just you know what I mean, I'm not gonna happen like.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That's I just don't know that he's gonna pull that
square out of his ass.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Rob moment. Ralph maguire was a shortstop for the Philadelphia
Phillies who died on the title right. I don't know where. Yeah,
it's possible. I thought about that, Matt. Could it have
been a cross reference for something that had earlier? But
you know, hey, let's all watch our piece and cues guys. Okay,
it's a real sensitive time and Jackie Robinson Day. People
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can get very upset and it is Jackie Robinson Day,
and no one's there to catch Kareem if he falls
off his chair. Matt, You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
There was no thank you you can't say you're welcome
when the man didn't thank you for saving his life.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
What if he said that ball flew to space like
the fly They flew to Space, which is a children's
book written by Lauren Sanchez who's dating Jeff Bezos, who
for Space to the Space.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Katy Perry, by the way, tweeted out There's no place
like home, and one of the first responses on X
girl went to space for eleven minutes, acting like she
just escaped interstellar.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Right, yeah, you girl, What do you think you're gone?
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Girl?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
You ain't going nowhere.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
You're never better tht you going out?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Guys said I've been on the toilet longer you were
in space.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It takes me long to take a dump. Hashtag me too.
This is for the number of the day. Here's my number.
Number of the day.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Number of the day is two, two arm pits. This
story p from the ruan open and we have live audio.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
We'd like to move to another table away with those
two gentlemen. Why have they been disturbing you? No, red Sift,
It's just that well, frankly, they're offensive smelling Did they
smell bad?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Harriet Dart, a brit number sixty two in the world
versus Loisissant number three hundred thirty in the world three
hundreds third in the world. What Sport Tennis WTA tore
the Rual Open all Francis Dart loss six zero six
(12:29):
y three. But between the first and second set, the
opening set twenty eight minutes is all it took for
Bois Song to lay waste to the much higher ranked Dart.
But between the first and second set, as they switch sides.
During the changeover, Dart could be heard on the broadcast
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asking the official quote, can you ask her to put
on deodorant? She smells really bad? Oh and after the
social media I should have probably looked for that audio,
but I was so excited about playing the Blues Brothers
when I read this story earlier. As soon as the
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folks that were watching the broadcast began to comment on
social media, she realized the mistake that she had made.
She posted an apology on her Instagram acon I wanted
to apologize for what I said. It was a heat
of the moment comment that I truly regret. That's not
how I carry myself. I take full responsibility. I have
a lot of respect for Lois and how she competed today.
I'll learn from this and move forward. Doesn't change the
(13:31):
fact that Lois was pitting and she has a little
ripe out there.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Well, you know, there's a lot of euros.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Why do you think they call it a French shower
because my combination of armpit and drekar freaking noir kates.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I just sent you the audio. Oh, here we go.
I just texted you the audio of Harriet Dart asking
the umpire to tell her opponent to where diodo she is? This?
Does this? Does everyone swelling? I'm up in the yoga studio,
you know, Matt. Yeah, people be like, you know, that
person smells terrible. You can't let him in here. And
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it's awkward for my sister who has to then deal
with it.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, it's like, dude, I didn't want to smell your pits.
You're a little right. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Do you have the audio? Can you tell her to do?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Well, that's crystal clear. Can you tell and she smells bad?
She smells really bad, you know. And I mean you're
on the other side of the court.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
In the Europe of my youth, and I'm talking about
like nineteen eighty two. I mean, you can't imagine how
bad everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Oh, I can imagine. I can imagine because ten years later,
in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Well, you know I've went in the nineties. I have
to say it's gotten exponentially better every time. Not in
Italy in the freaking months ater in July. Oh, I
know it, Matt. Oh yeah, said in the early eighties, Matt,
where no one was shaving anything, and there were no gyms,
that's a great point. Everybody was still just the dirty
village dog, and everybody was on their own money, and
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there was no you know, global euro vibe. Everybody was
just a just a smelly pig.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, that's you know what it's taking swimming lessons at
the YWCA and then go having to walk through the
gym to get to the pool. I can remember the
pits smell being so bad that it like stung your eyes.
It was so bad it was it was just like
a mold. Oh no, it's.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Time for the song of the day. This is the
song of the day.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Jazz being his Den band leader Buddy Johnson wrote and
recorded our Song of the Day in nineteen forty nine
called did You See Jackie Robinson hit that all a
tribute to number forty two Jackie Robinson, who bravely broke
baseball's color barrier in nineteen forty seven as a member
of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and today Major League Baseball celebrates
the legacy of Jackie Robinson with Jackie Robinson Day, where
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all Major League players and coaches will warn the number
forty two in honor of the great Dodger Hall of Famer,
and Tim Kates will get things going a little bit
later on with your Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck program
that begins at six o'clock Jackie Robinson.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
When Jack comes to bat, thank you running the team through. Well,
this is Jackie Robinson Day across Major League Baseball. Everybody
wearing the number forty two. It'll be Jackie Robinson Day
out at Dodger Stadium. How come they didn't think of this,
like back in the sixties when they were shooting all
the military type navy pilots up into space. How come
(16:53):
they didn't think, like, hey, let's just send a big
boob of celebrity up into space. That's I think that's
that's what's really to draw the public interest. They figured
that they would die That's how we'll stick it to
the Russians.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You know what, you're right, that would have stuck it
to the Russians, right, they're sending up Yuri.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Look at zero gravity. Marilyn Monroe boobs, how do you
like that? Yuri? What do you think of that? Boris Vladimir?
When Jack comes to that, you like that? Kim Novak
ass in the sky, come out see Jackie Robinson hit
that ball a Titanic hit to space. Other than that,
(17:39):
Missus Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play? God David
Vas will join us down.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
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Speaker 1 (18:45):
So pretty cool there too, SWAIMO, give us some signal
we are gonna be talking to David Vasse in a
matter of moments. There is some breaking news in the
college football world and it's relevant to us. Volleyball. Well,
the Nico I am a Yava story is a huge story,
and it's relevant to us because he's from Downey and
(19:07):
all the best or many of the best college football
players that we cover, Jaden Daniels and so on and
so forth, are all from the area, especially quarterbacks. Yeah,
southern California, no doubt about it. This one is not
a quarterback. Jaden Ott at a Norco, played high school
ball at Norco, a little bit in Vegas, but mostly
(19:28):
at Norco. Superstar Cal running back who mocked the transfer
portal last year, oh staying oh now and making a
big video to say that he was going to stay
at Cal, mocking the way everybody handles the portal. Well,
this morning, Jaden ot entered the transfer portal. He's kind
(19:52):
of played sparingly. They sort of use him in big situation.
He doesn't really catch a rhythm in the game. He's
had some injury troubles, but I also think they do.
And I don't know if this is the right word
for it. I would never want to use it, but
it's the only thing I can think of, like some
running back kind of load management stuff because he stayed
(20:16):
at cal but he is transferring to the University of Oklahoma.
Whoa boomer too, Yeah, Boomer sooner? And remember John Mattier,
the engineer, John Matteer, a big time Texas quarterback who
came up big time at Washington State last year. He
and the offensive coordinator Are Buckle, who is an air
(20:39):
raid guy, have gone down to coach with. He went
down to coach with Venables, brought his quarterback, John Mattire.
And now this is a huge running back transfer in
Jaden Ott if healthy going to the University of Oklahoma,
it could be if he has a great Yet he
(21:00):
is a home run hitter as a back, not not
estranged to going eighty yards or something like that. So
if he can put together something like that, I mean
I'm not saying get on the California Bullet train to
Vegas that they built so many years ago that we
get there in like an hour. I'm not saying go
there and say jay Nott's gonna win the Heisman. I'm
(21:22):
just saying I bet Jaye not to win the Heisman
at Oklahoma before any other running back in the country.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Well, just off the top of my end, certainly, I
think Ashton Genty can't win the Heisman after his performance
last year.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Granted it was but he's at Boise. Yeah, at Boise, and.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
In a year in which a guy played both ways
pretty much full time.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
And the media literally took a knee and got out
the chamois to wash. Not that Travis Hunter is not
a spectacular football player. It was an incredible year. It
was an incredible year, but it wasn't better than what
Ashton gent did. In my very humble opinion.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
That the thing about I'm Liava is it's kind of interesting.
Is just watching the pendulum the good for good for Josh, Hype,
good for Tennessee, stand up to these guys, and now
it's swung back to the other side of Well, wait
a minute, isn't this exactly what coaches do when they say, Hey,
(22:20):
I'm gonna be able to get paid four million bucks
more if I take off from here and go to
this place. Do you want to match that? Or am
I leaving?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
People have said that, I mean, I would gently push
back by saying I've seen coaches leave, like during a
recruiting visit or dinner. Never like, hey, spring ball start
and wears coach, I don't see him in his bike shorts. Yeah,
to leave somebody in the lurch in spring ball is different.
But hey, portal's open, right, So yeah, the rules are
(22:50):
the rules. The other problem with the play is Cal's
best player and they just lost him, you know, and
it's mid April. I mean, not that they don't have
other backs on the roster, but they just lost their
best player and their quarterback from last year, So you're right.
(23:11):
I mean, none of it makes sense. And college football
is hypocrisy. I mean, just the whole thing I mean
is hypocrisy. God bless me for being involved in it.
But there's a lot of incongruities, like the fact that
we have all of these institutions of higher education wrapped
up with a billion dollar industry of guys playing football
(23:32):
and now getting paid and holding out and making all
kinds of demands. And you're right, Matt, fairs fair, but
it is unsavory and it makes the sport a lot
different to watch and cover, and it should calm down
when the games start, but it usually doesn't. There's very
little college left in college football. A lot of football, wow,
(23:53):
very little of the college attention teachers and students. Yeah,
you know, never really a lot of that, but we don't.
They are a lot of like, hey this guy, this
guy's out, he's ineligible. He got a few fs. Speaking
of f's, I think Nico Ayamayaba got three f's at
Long Beach, Polly. That's hard to do during the transfer drama.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Unless you're in the PACE program, which is very challenging
and academically incredible.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
So there is the big news Norco hero Jaden Ott
transferring from cow to Oklahoma. He is going to feel
a little bit of a different vibe. Matt as a
football star on campus at Cal, how do you figure
then he will in Norman, Oklahoma. Like at Cal, you
(24:40):
just can't even leave your dorm room. You're mobbed by students. Yeah,
every step you take. I felt like that that's why
they had us living out at Clark Kerr, an old
school for the blind, because we were so popular on
campus Oklahoma, nobody really knows you are. My second day
at CAL, I found myself having defend my scholarship to
people on my You guys never watched college football? What's
(25:04):
your deal?
Speaker 7 (25:05):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Is David Massey that immersed in Jackie Robinson decades?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
He should be calling momentarily Jesus. By the way, Jaye
not one of four running backs at CAL who have
checked out in the transfer portal in the last twenty
four hours.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Four running backs.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You think they're gonna call me up? They might.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
And Joel Klatt was on with Colin Cowhard earlier today
and said.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Defending the Shador Sanders Jersey retirement, I don't know doubt Uh.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
He did mention UCLA and they may have come into
a little bit of more money than people think. So
don't count out and yeah, go down to CLA.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
No, remember the last time they got a big, five
star recruited quarterback. How'd that go? He's starting for Oregon
this year? Is he really? Yeah? Dante, I thought that
dude's career was done. It's done at Ucla. He's the
starting quarterback at Orgon. Well, there you go.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
He went to Oregon last year, then Dylan Gabriel transferred
to He wrote the pod.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Playing one year behind Dylan Gabriel. You know, Matt, it's
attitudes like that. No I thought he was I never
heard from him again. I didn't know he was righting. Man,
don't grow in a program because they hear Matt Smith
just dismiss him. I didn't know he was riding the pine.
Heer's Dave David Vess the Home of the Dodgers Inside,
(26:23):
look at the Dodgers. This is the Vassie Report with
David Vasse. Busy day for David vass Spectrum Sports and
at La MLB Network. Jackie Robinson Day a hero last night,
saved my daughter, brought her the Hello Kitty Squish Blush,
just a god amongst men. On your Southern California Toyota
Dealer Celebrity Hotline. It is David Vass. How's that Jackie
(26:46):
Robinson day going, Dave, Oh no, oh god, I'm right here.
Speaker 10 (26:53):
I'm all good. We're ready to go. Jackie Robinson Day
out and Michael Kopek. You know, I wanted to talk
to somebody today that never experienced Jackie Robinson day at
Dodger Stadium, wearing that forty two in at Dodger uniform
and just being out there, guys at two thirty this
afternoon around the Jackie Robinson statue at Kareem Abdul Jabbar
(27:13):
out there with the Rockies and Dodgers, and his words
really resonated no matter what background Dodgers or Rockies are from.
And after he was done speaking, I was able to
catch up with the Hall of Famer Kareema.
Speaker 11 (27:27):
What did it mean to be here for this day
and to be able to be asked to speak with
how much Jackie and the Dodgers meanteam?
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Well, it's great to be here on this day, especially
because he was a hero of mine from day one,
you know when I became aware of him, and it
was a good choice for me.
Speaker 11 (27:50):
What did you remember about that moment where you met
Jackie for the first time?
Speaker 7 (27:54):
With Bill Russell, I was totally surprised because it was
about the The dinner was about a rookie of the
year and what was he doing there? And later on
I found out that he lettered in basketball at you
see a basketball baseball track and field in football.
Speaker 12 (28:16):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
By the way, guys, tomorrow is Kareem Abdul Jabbar's birthday.
He was born the day after Jackie Robinson made his
major league debut.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
You've been through a lot of these now, Dave. You know,
it's wonderful that the Major League Baseball does it league wide,
but kind of take us through how much it's changed,
how much more maybe the players know and have learned
about the importance of Jackie Robinson, about his you know,
like Kareem said a letterman in three different sports at UCL,
it feels like every year we hear players, you know,
(28:46):
just kind of be a little bit more well versed
on all things Jackie Robinson.
Speaker 10 (28:51):
The way it's changed and grown larger is because the
Dodgers built and commissioned that Jackie Robinson's statue. Remember there
was no centerfield plaza when they first unveiled the Jackie
Robinson statue. I can remember going up to the reserve
level down the third base line where the statue was
first place with Matt Kemp and he did a photo
(29:12):
shoot with John Suho. But now having it out there
in that beautiful new centerfield plaza, it's a meeting place
for a lot of people and for days like Jackie
Robinson Day, where the Dodgers and Dave Roberts came up
with this great idea of meeting out there before the
game with whoever they're playing. And that's what's made it
(29:33):
even more special because obviously Jackie Robinson Day has been
celebrated at Dodgers Stadium or wherever the Dodgers have been
for quite some time. But now to have that statue,
it's kind of a landmark. It really is something special
that was missing for a lot of years.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Meet me at the statue in an hour. Dustin May's
having a heck of a comeback, Dave. But did the
Dodgers play their best last night?
Speaker 10 (29:57):
I mean, geez, I didn't think so. The five through
nine hitters were a combined one for fifteen last night.
The only good sign was Max Munsey took two walks.
But really outside of the big three, there really wasn't
much outside of the big three in will Smith, the
big three of Otani, Bets and Freeman, which I've only
(30:18):
been together in the same game a handful of times
this year, was a combined seven for fourteen with a
double and two home runs. One from Mooki, one from Otani.
So the Dodgers need to get more production from the
rest of their lineup. And Dustin May man it is special.
That was his first win, guys since May sixth of
(30:38):
twenty twenty three. So Kim and Yamamoto have been the
two best starters by a long shot among the rest
of the Dodgers starters.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
He has not pitched more than sixty innings in any season.
Is there going to be like any certain approach here?
Dave Skipping starts like, how do you envision them work
in this thing? With how well he's pitching and how
deep into games he's been going.
Speaker 10 (31:06):
Right, So the Dodgers have a lot of starters and
they don't even have Blake Smell in their rotation right now.
So you get him back, you get Kershaw back here
in the month of May. We'll see where things are
with Dustin May. But you're right, I mean, he has
a connective tissue issue and that's kind of a DNA thing,
So we'll see how far it goes. The Dodgers can
(31:27):
use Dustin May to come out of the bullpen eventually
if it gets too crowded in the rotation because he's
been open to that idea, even going back to spring
training before Tony Gonsolin got hurt. Because of his new
found perspective on baseball and life after that's scare with
the esophagus surgery. I think whatever the Dodgers need from him,
(31:49):
he'll do well.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Whatever we need from you, you do, Dave. We know
it's a busy day out there. Get back to work.
And again, thank you last night for saving my v
very volatile daughter.
Speaker 10 (32:02):
It was great to see the reaction. I text you,
I said that made it all worth it to go
all the way down from the press box in the
seventh inning to the field level just to see the
excitement in your daughter's face and the big smile. And
you could just call me the dream maker.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Thanks you, Dave. That is you, Dave. Thank you appreciate it.
Uh more to come. We will have our own Matt.
We have our own Jackie Robinson archive. You know.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Every year we celebrate too, Dave gets to hang out
at a statue. At the statue, I should say, with
Kareem abdul Jabbar, we get to share moments from our past.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, we bring it to the people. We've been around
the block a few times. We know a few fight
songs like Jade and not stay Strong. Everybody look out
for those backstabbers.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
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Speaker 1 (33:27):
And speaking of spectacular, Matt, Today is April fifteenth. That
was on this day, seventy eight years ago that Jackie
Robinson played his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers, broke
the color barrier in Major League Baseball, and every April
fifteenth MLBAN now honors Jackie Robinson, who was born in Georgia,
grew up in Pasadena, went to Mere High School Let's
(33:51):
Go Mustangs, Passi Dina Junior College, UCLA, where he lettered
in four sports with the Bruins, and not only was
he athlete, but a trailblazer, breaking baseball's color barrier in
nineteen forty seven, now Matt Our dear friend. Don Nucombe
was a great Dodger pitcher who followed Jackie Robinson into
(34:11):
the major leagues. Just two years after Jackie made his debut,
Don Newcombe, black man from New Jersey and friend of
the show, made his and always well dressed Matt put
Jim Hill to shame.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Nwcomb was the best, our, absolute favorite, absolute favorite, just
seeing him walk around Dodger Stadium when we were doing
all those shows from Latchie or in the outfield and
Newcomb's the ambassador.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Oh the best otis loves us Brooklyn Dodgers. In nineteen
forty nine was when Don made his debut. He would
win NL Rookie of the Year. Don nukeomb would go
on to win the Cy Young and the MVP in
nineteen forty nine. He was the first black pitcher to
start a World Series game. In fifty one, became the
(34:56):
first black pitcher to win twenty games in a single season.
His his career was put on pause for two years
fifty two and fifty three while he served in the
military during the Korean War. To take your conflict, Don
nukemb would join Jackie Robinson for many years fighting for
civil rights with friends Martin Luther King Jr. In twenty fourteen,
Don nukeomb joined our show and told a story about m.
(35:19):
L K Jr. And Jackie.
Speaker 13 (35:20):
Well, he told me one night at my house in
nineteen sixty eight, this is about oh I get twenty eight,
twenty nine days before he lost his life in Memphis.
He was in my home for dinner. I had traveled
with him that night and that day to do some
fundraising for him here in Los Angeles. And when we
got back to my house, we had dinner, and when
(35:41):
we finished, we were sitting around just waiting for Martin
to have to lead to go to the airport to
get to Atlanta and then on to Memphis in the
coming weeks. And he said to me, don you and Jackie,
Roy and Larry will never know how easy for me
to do what I've done in civil rights. See what
(36:03):
you men did on the baseball field. I want you
all to know that, and I mean that from the
bottom of my heart. Don so believe me. And I
of course, when he left and went to the airport,
I called Jackie and tol Roy and also Larry what
Martin said. And Jackie said, well, that's the kind of
guy I told you he was. He knows that we
are doing a great job in baseball and that's what
(36:25):
we have to can continue doing, and that's.
Speaker 12 (36:28):
What we did.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
So that was don nukem on our show. Unreal. No
one ever erased that sound, no, thank goodness. And in
August of twenty twenty two, of course, we lost the
great Vin Scully, one of the last remaining people who
was there when Jackie Robinson played for the Dodgers. Vin
joined the Dodgers calling games in nineteen fifty. And here
is the great Vin Scully in twenty twenty on Jackie
(36:51):
Robinson Day, talking about the significance of the number forty
two and every player in the major leagues wearing the
number today, even though it makes it a bit confusing
in Jackie's honor.
Speaker 8 (37:02):
It was back about nineteen fifty, maybe fifty one, not
more more than that, And Jackie, who had received other
threatening letters, apparently received one that was deadly serious and
impressed the authorities. We were in Cincinnati for a weekend
series to play at Crosley Field. The letter intimated the
(37:24):
deed would be done on Sunday, Sunday morning, when the
team was in the bus going to the dressing room,
it was pretty quiet, and in the dressing room it
was very quiet. This was the most serious pregame atmosphere
probably in the game. Everyone was worried and it was
very quiet. And the Dodgers had a young left fielder
(37:46):
by the name of Jean Hermanski, and Jean was colorful, bright, blond,
white and fully you know it. And with this quiet
atmosphere in the clubhouse, Jeane suddenly said I've got it,
and everybody looked and they said what he said. We'll
all wear number forty two, and they'll never know which
(38:07):
one is Jackie Robinson. Now that seems funny at the day.
In nineteen ninety seven, Jackie's number was retired, and in
two thousand and four, Jean Hermanski's words from nineteen fifty
came to fruition. We'll all wear number forty two. So tonight,
(38:29):
when the Dodgers in Arizona line up on the foul lines,
they'll be wearing forty two. And all across the country,
in every Major League ballpark, every player will be wearing
forty two. And what does the forty two mean. It
doesn't mean that they're all equal. Not in the respect.
Some are taller than others, some are heavier than others.
(38:53):
Some are left handed, some are right handed. But the
one thing they share in carrying number forty two is
the fact that the man who wore it gave them
the one thing that no one at the time could
ever have done. He gave them equality and he gave
them opportunity. Those were the two things that many of
(39:17):
those people never had to hold in their hearts when
they first began to play. So, yes, forty two is
a great number. It means a lot for a great man.
But it is a tremendous number when you think of
the men who wore it with such dignity, with such pride,
and with such great discipline. And wasn't it's sweet that
(39:39):
he had Rachel on his arm? Loiary, thank you.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Great poetic words from Vince Scully and a good reminder
to why everybody does it today. Across Major League Baseball,
the number forty two will be on everybody. And finally,
in the Petrosen Money Archives, Matt we got one more
piece of history. October fifteenth, nineteen seventy two, before Game
two of the World Series between the A's and Red's,
(40:05):
Jackie Robinson throughout the first pitch and spoke to the
crowd before the game.
Speaker 12 (40:10):
You would just like to say that I was really
just a spoke in the wheel of the success that
we had some twenty five years ago. And personally want
to say thank you to a great captain, a guy
who was the leader of our ball club and who
really set the pace in many many areas Peewee. Thanks
so much for being here today. I would like to
also say that I would be a real, real pleasure
(40:34):
if mister Rickey could have been here with us today.
But to the members of the family, my entire in
love and gratitude for the things that he's done over
the years. And I also want to say how pleased
I am that my family can be here this afternoon,
and to thank baseball for the tremendous opportunities that it
has presented to me and also for this thrilling afternoon.
(40:56):
I'm extremely proud and pleased to be here this afternoon.
What must admit, I'm gonna be tremendously more pleased and
more proud. Well, I look at that third base coaching
line one day and see a blackface managing in baseball.
Thank you very much, and.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
That was his last public appearance. He would pass away
nine days later October twenty fourth, nineteen seventy two. So
Jackie Robinson Day, some history from the Petros and Money
Show archives, because Matt nobody cares more about history and
historical perspective than the Petros and Money Show. That's not
even be close your historical perspective show of record. As
(41:35):
we think about the masses congregating around that glorious Jackie
Robinson's statue at the Dotcher Stadium taking their photos today,
the amount of number forty two's in the stands as
they take on the Rockies tonight. Who's on the mound
for Colorado tonight. It's not Kyle Freeland. I wish it was.
That's just checking. We'll be right back with another hour
a great sports talk.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Freeland born round the Shadows, cores fieldp story day that
the Rockies were founded. The fun fact, quick hits, think
about the serendipity involved in all of that, right Dead
and Alive.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Just feels like it goes beyond coincidence. Yes, thank you,
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