April 30, 2025 • 38 mins
Number, Word and Song of the Day. Top Story of the Day on the postseason struggles of the LA sports teams. DVR with Vassegh after the Dodgers sweep the Marlins and now hit the road for 10 games.
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it's time for the word of the day, the word
his words, the word of the day. That guy's no
Miles Davis. Today's word of the day is beach Matt.
There's a lot of beaching going on this weekend. This
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is the Beach Life Weekend. Toyota, our friends at your
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Beach Boy, you got Sublime with Bradley Knowles's kids singing.
So it's a great experience. Jackson Brown is playing, and
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of course Matt. Nobody's more excited about anything more than
Big Head Todd and the monsters. But tonight I'm hosting
a gala kind of thing which I usually do for
Beach Life that he puts on the week of the
show for the local cops and firemen and stuff. And
Rick Springfield is at that one, so he's playing tonight
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as well. So all very exciting stuff. But down at
the beach, I noticed this story in Hermosa Beach. You know,
we just had Tony Peas closing last week in Marina
del Rey, ending an unbelievable run of flight attendants being
taken home in the nineties by an unsuspecting guy who
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lives in an apartment and or a condo somewhere in
Plaia or Marina del Rey. I heard recently that there's
a lot of RV's park there. I don't know. Yeah,
is that just mat is that?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
No, I would call it a parade of hobo RV's.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
But speaking of the South Bay and the beach area.
I don't know if you remember this, Matt, but speaking
of Miles Davis who used to always play at the Lighthouse,
which used when it was a jazz club in Hermosa Beach,
there was a hotel a couple doors down right there
on the strand in Hermosa Beach, which was a perfect
place to check in an overdose on pills and die. Perfect. Oh,
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I mean it would look it wasn't. It was a
place of sadness. And it was in Hermosa Beach, right
on the beach, and it was called the Sea Sprite Hotel.
We've all seen the Sea Sprite. You can't be a
Southern Californian and not have walked by the Sea Sprite
and been like, Wow, that place looks really depressing. Am
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I wrong?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
No, You're absolutely right. It does look like a spot to.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Score, so you know what I'm talking about, right? Oh yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Oh, or a bag you can kee stir in a
clean And I'm not.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Proud to say I've been in a couple different rooms
in the Seasprite. I'm not saying I slept there, but
I'm saying I've been in some rooms in the Sea
Sprite and it felt like you were in a desperate
noir movie. Right on the edge, Right on the edge.
The Sea Sprite Hotel in Hermosa Beach. Much to my surprise, Matt,
the Sea Sprite Hotel has been renovated since twenty nineteen.
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They've been renovating it and now they are opening a
restaurant in it called the Surfer Girl Restaurant. The first
eatery in the Sea Sprite's long time existence. People used
to just eat their their sleeping bills to die there.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
That was the main course, or the barrel of a gun. Yes,
oh God Jesus.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But now they have a restaurant called the Surfer Girl Restaurant.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
They're still calling it the Sea Spride or did they
rebrand it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
The Sea Sprite Beach Club. I think, okay, so the
Sea Sprite is back. They brought out like the giant
scissors for a rib nice. I wonder like if anybody
was like any of the like the local burnouts is
like my friend, you know, this is where my friend
oh deed, you know, I mean that's and he pointed
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to the sky, the old Sea Sprite. You know, I
don't know if they should have kept that name.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That's what I mean. Like when they was was the
spot here that they redid when they the Tangerine? Wasn't
that a rebranding or was it always the Tangerine? Yeah,
because the sea sprite's like that vibe. It's like a
motoring kind of.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
But it's me. It's on the beach.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, that's the different space.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
It's like, yeah, the sea sprite is where something goes down.
Let's just put it like that.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
That's exciting, it's very.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So they're rebranding it, but it's still the Seaspride. Well,
look at this. The Seaspride always had a great selection
of toots available as well. Yes, nice put that in
the trip Advisor review. It's time for the number of
the toots go.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Number of the day, number of the day, number of
the day is two. Look are they overtaking the Dodgers?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Are they overtaking the Lakers?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
All we're looking for is growth, at least positive growth.
And as I was leaving the water earlier this morning,
got out around eight eight fifteen ish, loading up the
bike to make my way back home. Gentleman's driving by.
Joe is his name, and he says money, and he
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makes a circle and he comes over and he stops
and he unclips his his snap in shoes from his
cycling adventure, and he says, I listened to Petros and
Money every day. I've listened to you every day for
over a decade. It brings me sanity on my commute.
I love you, guys. I can't thank you enough. I
just wanted to stop, I saw you and say that.
And we always appreciate when people do that. It means
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a lot to know that we can help your afternoon
commute go by a little bit easier as you make
your way from your place of work to your homestead.
He lives in the Los Alamitos neighborhood there. And then
as he was pulling away, he bends back and he says, oh,
what'd you think of the Chargers draft? And we start chatting, Oh,
of course, and then you know, so now we're chopping
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it up about football and Amari and Hampton and how
much we like Jamari Caldwell the defensive tackle and what
having Trey Harris And behind me, gentlemen, walking the dog,
because I do tend to speak a little loud overhere's
the conversation and unsolicited said, hey.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Perhaps you didn't hear that. I'm the voice of the ball.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
This gentleman walking his dog says, hey, I like that
fifth round tight end. I like that guy out of Syracuse.
He's good. I saw a game. I saw one of
their games. That guy's good. I was like, look at
this unsolicited guy walking by talking Charger football. I think
he's going to be great for Herbert. Now we got
three guys talking Chargers football. I talk about growing it. Man,
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The brand is growing, one cyclist and one dog walker
at a time, taking over the south Land by storm
with the Rendez Gadsden and and Jamari Caldwell the defensive tackle.
Very exciting times to be rooting for the Los Angeles Chargers.
So thank you to Joe. And I feel terrible because
I see, you know, the gentleman joined us and I
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forgot his name. Who was walking his dog. I'm terribly sorry,
but he's a petro some money show listener to I think,
so I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Ch that's it.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
That's exactly what it was, Chargers, Charles. It was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
You know what, Matt tomorrow, you know how many it's
going to be? Three?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Right, you know, and guys are waiting for Number of
the Day.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Four.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Hey I heard, I heard. We can talk Chargers right
here man in the mornings.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Well tomorrow Charger GM, so we can. I'll tell him
that you're growing the brand very exciting. You don't want
to tell him yourself. It sounds too self indulgent to
tell him yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Oh yeah, that's true. I appreciate them before. Uh, you
know what this guy's doing. He's spreading the word. Man.
I was thinking about it while you were doing the
Word of the Day there after you said it.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
We're talking about the sea Sprite.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I don't think people know that, like Rick Springfield's got hits, man,
it ain't just Jesse's girl like Rick Springfield that freaking
hits in the Yeah, but he had like human Touch
that was a number one is a great song, don't
talk to strangers. That was a number one song like that.
Dude was not just a one hit wonder like Rick
was a freaking rock star.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I didn't, I didn't. I didn't attack him at all.
I don't like no.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I was just thinking, like I think most people here
Rick Springfield are like, oh yeah, whatever, Jesse's girl. It's
like No, dude, Rick had hits man.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Rick was a stud and you know, I'm thinking a
lot of people don't know Chumbawamba had a lot of
albums before they broke.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
How dare you about Jemmawamba? During a Rick Springfield conversation.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I'm gonna be like, hey, Rick, what is that a
thirty inch waist? Done? Here there?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Looking good?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But I'll be going over to the uh the California
Surf Club.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I'm a little jealous a live Rick Springfield show.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Well, you know, I'm gonna be on stage at seven.
Look at that me and Jim Lindbergh.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Does Jim is he like doing a warm up set?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
No, we're giving We're giving speeches and awards out man fun.
We're gonna We're gonna do a mutual masturbation of beach
life tonight. That's true. This is a song of the Day.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Weird Fishes is the title of our song of the
Day from the band radio Head, off the excellent two
thousand and seven record in Rainbows, Suitable for today on
the Petros and Money Show. Following Dodger Baseball, who have
had their way with a Florida Marlins, the Miami Marlins
as well, flaying those weird fish in a three game
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sweep earlier this afternoon at the stadium, which means that
you get a short but impactful version of great sports
talk that allevi at the doorstep of the Jason Smith
Show on Fox Sports Radio. That'll be at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Thank you, Ronnie Rick.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Springfield does some acting as well.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, our old friend, uh Mike Murriano way, and don't
forget about affair of the heart. We had rich Springfield
fans out here.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I mean, I'm not here to argue. I don't know
why I've painted. I've been painted is some kind I.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Haven't I'm speaking to the audience.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Paint me is some kind of ingrate towards Springfield.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I'm Springfield all day, all night.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
In the Pentecostal season when Christians are supposed to spread
the good news of Christ, Matt Muddy Smith is on
the esplanade, spread of the good word about the bults.
And tomorrow it's gonna be a.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Bigger gathering Gospel of Ortiz.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I could see you standing out there on the breakwater
and be like, I will make you a surfer of lightning.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Everybody else want to talk Chargers I see that you're.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Surfing, but I will make you a surfer of electricity.
Come with me. We'll be back with the top story
of today. Thanks for being with us. Petrosen. Money Show
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knows that Rick Springfield's more than just a one hit wonder.
You're right, Matt. Some guy was like, this is gonna
do Jesse's girl first time. Lest some guy said that
to me the other day. That's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
It's like, heyf you man.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You can't do what Springfield does. He can do what
you do. It's right, I can do what you do,
all right, Madi. Time of the tough story of the
day to story of the day, what.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's partially?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I mean, I don't be like Adam Oslin and start
breathing all over. We gotta follow up.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Eighty one point three it was a number of the day,
and here we are eighty one point three percent of
the time. The team that wins Game five wins the series,
and I follow up headed in the wrong direction. A
disastrous outing last night in the postseason for two teams
representing Los Angeles on the playoffs stage. Clippers got blown
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out from the jump. We were wondering if we were
gonna get it. Oh yeah, we got it.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Oh take your lap, Take your lap.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Matt James Harden the other disappearance game, Lap it dropped.
The shoe dropped eleven points, three of nine shooting and
a team worst minus sixteen. The Kings managed to keep
it close, trailing two to one before an empty netter
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made it three to one, third straight loss after taking
a commanding two zero lead in the series. That game
was not that close. The entire second period. The Oilers
were on their half of the ice. They were lucky
they weren't down five to one by the start of
the third period. Not to rehash the games last night,
what fun is that they were both absolutely miserable. Instead,
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I asked this question, pe, why do our teams in
town struggles so mightily outside of the regular season, out
right here in our town? Why does it happen a
great run by the.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Docks, the World Series champion Dodger.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That's what I'm saying. I'm saying last season the Dodgers
able to dispatch of that commentary to exercise those ghosts.
It was close, though, to being a disaster again. When
they trailed the Padres two to one, used a bullpen
game to vault themselves into what was the most memorable
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run at a championship. But outside of that, playoffs have
been incredibly disappointing here in town for the last decade.
And it's not about who's favored and who isn't. Most
of these teams in the playoffs are separated by a
game or three games, so being a six seed instead
of a two or a seven, or a nine or
a four five.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
A lot of hustle on the floor.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Playoffs are parody, man, all teams are good. Clippers won
fifty games. The Lakers won fifty games, absolutely blue. Game
one of the series coughed up Game four that would
have been a three to one lead, even a freaking sweep.
The same franchise that in past years had not been
able to make two separate three to one advantages hold
up once against the Nuggets, another time against the Rockets,
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and have been absolutely at times miserable in Game sevens.
It is a franchise that has never made it easy.
They have won only one playoff series in five games
or less two thousand and six, versus the Nuggets in
the first round Game sevens. I guess there's a small
silver lining. They're three and one in game sevens in
the first round. But that speaks to their inability to
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close out teams when they tend to be the favorite
team in five games or four games and sweep them
and get out of the next round with some rest. Instead,
they've played four game sevens in the first round. They're
three and one in those. They are zero and four
in game seven's in the second round. Oh no, their
playoff history is nothing short of sad and sickening. The
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games they have two stands.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Once the Clippers had made it to the Western Conference Final,
that's it. Yeah, now the kids got this like they
were floating around in space for like ten minutes, like
Gail King. I think he's getting back now.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I mean, remember how great this was?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I don't remember how great it was was someone was hurt,
someone wasn't. Uh, But damn the Kings in these two
Stanley Cups last one and fourteen, These freaking Oilers. I
hate him. I hate him with the intensity of one
of those uh as seen on TV ten thousand candlewatt
power flashlights right in your eyes. Twenty twenty two, up
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one nothing on the Oilers, up three to two on
the Oilers lose Game six at all, lose Game seven
in Edmonton twenty twenty three, up one nothing, up to one,
Loose three straight, including Game six at home.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Last year.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
They got smoked this year, up to nothing, up three
to two with twenty eight seconds left, and that became
a loss. Could have gone up three to one instead.
Another mess last night, up one nothing in the second
and then the Oilers just poured it. It was a
mess from there. They have won a playoff series. The
Kings have not won a playoff series since their Stanley
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Cup Final victory in twenty fourteen summer.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Blaming Patrick O'Neill traveling with the team.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I think that's a fair I think that's a fair place.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
To point, as good as anywhere else, right. I love
the others. I see all this stuff about their coach,
but I don't know. I know O'Neill.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I like Hiller. I'll climb a hill with Hitler. Eleven
years since they have advanced a single round. You mentioned it, Pete.
The Clipper's been in the conference finals once. Lakers since
twenty thirteen have made two runs since twenty thirteen, won
the Mickey Mouse title in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Hey Wow, way to go the Clippers out of mental meltdown.
What's the matter?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Paul? Twenty twenty three to the Conference finals, where they
lost by virtue of the most competitive sweep in the
history of basketball.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
That was a great competitive sweep.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Twelve years.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
My favorite thing about the Bubble, Matt, you know, other
than the rumors about Jimmy Butler, my favorite thing about
the Bubble was that Rajon Rondo's brother was in charge
of hair braiding.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yes, I remember that they brought him in, like they
had the special clearance he could.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Leave of bringing in different hair braiders for the guys
with the corn rows, that's right, and priorities during COVID.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Remember there was Jimmy Butler's coffee shop too, where he
like just pulled his cure rig out into the hallway
and would hang out and talk shop while drinking coffee
with people. Two runs for the Lakers, twelve years. That's it.
They have won outside of the Mickey Mouse Championship, two
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playoff series in twelve years.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
WHOA what about us? What about me?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yes, they made a Bubble run and they had those
weird virtual fans on screens and it was really awkward
and none of us want to remember it because we
can't believe we lived like that.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Give them, just like sam Amos said, give them their flowers.
I was there.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I'll give you your virtual flowers. Here's a photo of
some flowers.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Shit, yeah, Matt, Yeah, there you go. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
The Rams have been solid since moving back. They've made
two Super Bowl runs in the last nine years. They
won a Super Bowl title. They won a wild card
game in two other postseasons before losing in the divisional round.
The Chargers have made the playoff three times since they've
moved back, two to one and done's one single playoff victory,
a wild card win on the road in Baltimore. The
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Angels nothing, nothing but twenty one years.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I don't think the people of Los Angeles are deprived.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Man, No, No, that's a great point. The Dodgers are
or utterly dominant in the regular season, dominant, and that
is wildly enjoyable. Last twelve years, four World Series appearances,
one Bubble title, Globe Life Field Arlington, Texas, one regular
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one hundred and sixty two game season title last year.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I think they have lost. And Turner didn't wear a mask. Gosh,
I can't believe he even can show his face in
the city.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Way to go, You're gonna get all of us sick.
But the Dodgers have also lost in the divisional run
with home field advantage five times. Yes, yes, almost half
of their trips to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Have celebration Matt, But there's also been great expectation, and
along with that has come from great disappointment.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
So here's what I did, just to help ease our paint, right,
because misery loves company. I tried to figure out is
La and outlier? Are all the playoffs are? Are or our?
Or are the playoff That's what I'm trying to say.
Or are the playoffs just the playoffs? And parody exists
and they're just tough and losing early is a big
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part of it if you go there all the time.
Yankees have made the playoffs in six of the last
seven years. Outside of twenty twenty two, they've won at
least one round. The Knicks though a mess, but they
did win a round in each of the last two years.
And of course, the Giants and Jets have been two
of the worst teams in football over the last decade.
Giants have one single wild card win a couple of
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years ago that got Daniel Jones a monster contract. So
they sort of lost by winning on that one. And
the Jets, of course, are the only team in football.
I don't believe they have made the playoffs this century.
And I don't think I'm exaggerating. I don't think that's
the case. That's New York. What about San Cheit though,
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great point this decade, this decade, there we go, this decade.
When do you think San Chico? When do you think
he made that run the odds?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Not in the twenty tens.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Oh, I think it's maybe maybe twenty ten, twenty twelve,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, but hey, they suck. It's been a while, It's
been a while.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
The Rangers have made the conference finals in two of
the last three years. Chicago's a disaster all around. I mean,
all their teams suck. Philly's pretty good Eagles won the
Super Bowl playoffs, trip to the Super Bowl. Sixers have
been to the playoffs. They usually went around or two.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
The Cubs had that that World series that made them
almost overnight unlikable, right like happened to the Red so
love team to the most unlikable. Yeah, happened to the
Red Sox a while back.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yes, exactly, and they suck. And Philadelphia, yeah, they're all right.
Phillies made a run at the World Series. Like we said,
the Sixers tend to win a round her to Philly
won a Super Bowl, but the Flyer suck. Yeah, I'm
doing the top five markets. Dallas Rangers won the World
Series two years ago. MAVs made the NBA Finals last year. Cowboys, Uh,
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I think the Cowboys have never won in the divisional
round since nineteen ninety five. That one I am sure of.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, that's a hell of a drought.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I mean, that's crazy right there, that's a drought right there.
Stars have been pretty good. They've made a couple conference finals,
but that's it. And then if you go and stay
to the other big market forty nine Ers, a couple
of Super Bowl trips last five years. Warriors pretty good, right,
mixed bag missed the playoffs and three of the last five.
But of course they've won four titles with this stuff run,
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So I guess what I'm getting at. And the Giants
haven't won a World Series since the Wildcard in twenty sixteen,
and they have very little success in the postseason. So
what I'm saying p par for the course. If you're
feeling sad, just know it's really no different than any
other major market with a bunch of sports teams. Enjoy
the regular season and recognize the playoffs or a real bitch,
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a real whore, And that's just the way the world works.
So may the Clippers, Lakers, and Kings all pull out
of it. May this five and one homestand be an
indicator of great things to come for the Dodgers, And
may these glorious draft picks pode well for each of
our NFL teams, both of which were in the playoffs
last year, and maybe find playoff success moving forward.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Why couldn't you just make the Angels and the Ducks
and Orange County thing?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I guess I could have done that. I mean, I
felt like taking a shot at the Angels.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I get it. I'm not trying to pick nits here.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
You no, I know. I just felt like taking a
shot at the Angels because people get upset.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
A lot of what any mention kids a city and
it's like, well, they're not not a major market. Yeah,
I guess that's the para.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Gonna have a basketball team, don't have a hockey team.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I can't argue with that. That's right, losers. We'll be back.
David Massey will join us before that big road trip
that the Dodgers will embark on tomorrow. Thanks for being
with us in great sports talk on this week. Just
won't be defeated. Wednesday, morn Coom will be on till seven.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
That Trust Some Money AM five seventy l A Sports
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app going till seven to
night following the Dodgers game two wins since we were
last on the air. They win a big one last night,
easy win for Man. Today as well, they sweep the Marlins.
They go five to one on the home stamp and
they get ready for this long ten game road trip
that begins on Friday.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Well, he did a great job on Spectrum Sports Net.
He'll be working there throughout the weekend on the long
road trip where the Dodgers have room to improve on
the road as a road team in the Grays. Joining
us right now is the one and only David Vase,
the Dodgers with an inside look at the Dodgers. This
(28:39):
is the Vassi Report with David Vase. David Vase, Spectrum Sportsnet,
LA MLB Network, and of course right here on M
seventy LA sports a leaving Dodgers Stadium. Now as the
game is over, the circus is falling down on its
knees and the homestand has been good to the Dodgers.
Is that a of how good the Dodgers are, Dave
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or the opponents being a little hapless?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I would say it's a combination of both. Certainly, against
the Marlins that was the case, and after they saw
Paul Skeenes their offense got back on track against the Pirates.
But today, really the theme in the clubhouse was how
happy everybody was for Max Monthly to finally get that
(29:27):
first home run of the season. Taioscar Hernandez not only
had a handful of sunflower seats for Monthly when he
came back to the dugout, he had a whole bag
for Monthly, just because everybody knew how much it was
weighing on him.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Dave, other big theme I would guess is how Tony
Gonsolin looked. I mean, the guy ends up going six strong.
Kind of your takeaway there, and what a big boon
that could be considering that the current state of health
in their starting rotation.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah, without a doubt, Matt. You know, Joe Davis mentioned this,
and I think we lose sight of the fact that
when Tony Gonsolin was last healthy, he was sixteen and
one with an ERA under three and he was an
All Star. So, you know, say what you will about
his postseason track record, you can't dispute how good he's
been for the Dodgers in the regular season. And again
(30:14):
today showed no emotions. I mean, I try to get
something out of the guy. He had no emotions on all.
Maybe a flutter of butterflies while he was warming up,
but he was unflappable today and he was the same
old Tony Gonsolin when he's on he's getting quick outs.
And he said his splitters like riding a bike. His
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split fingered fastball, there's no feel to it. He said,
I've been doing this for so long that it's really
second nature for me to throw that pitch. So that
worked well, and he did credit Austin Barnes for being
behind the plate and being able to be so familiar
with him and be able to present those strikes at
the bottom of the strike zone.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
And a very interesting kind of dynamic. Dave you're all
with this team, and these guys like Gonsolin, they go away,
Dustin May, you know, they go away for a long
time and then they come back and start contributing again.
Right now, Kershaw's out and we all know about Matt's
(31:17):
tall friend from Hart Eye. It's a very difficult situation
for these guys to come back into it, and they
all seem to handle it very differently. How detached do
you think they are when they're not pitching?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
That's the one constant, Petros. All these guys tell me
when they're not with the team and coming back from
these arm injuries, they just feel so detached. Leaving spring
training this year, Kyle Hurt and Gavin Stone they were depressed.
They're gonna They're in Camelback Ranch right now, grinding out
rehab and bullpen sessions respectively, with nobody else around. They
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just see their faces each and every day and not
much else. So, yeah, you do feel really when you're
not in that clubhouse and when you're not participating. And
speaking of being detached, Dave Roberts said before the game today,
Tyler Glasnell is not joining the Dodgers on this road
trip and he's not going to throw a baseball for
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the next two weeks, but snel Villa will be on
this road trip. And Dave told me he's been a
great teammate and he should be starting his throwing program
during these ten days.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Good deal there. You know who could take Tyler Glasnow's
place after a beautiful night, Dady last night is kik Hernandez.
How much fun was that?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Dave? Hey?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
How about this? I got a phone call from the
director of medical from Major League Baseball today, Gary Green,
and he told me he was in spring training this
year after Bobby Miller got hit in the forehead, and
he said that's usual protocol whenever a pitcher takes a
line drive off his face or his head, he shows
(32:57):
up with that same type of hell. That pseudo helmet
that keyk Hernandez was wearing yesterday when he was pitching.
He actually told me he brought it for Bobby Miller.
Bobby passed on it, and Key k grabbed it from
the good doctor and used it during batting practice. He
wore it on the backfields and he used it last night.
But it's actually for a pitcher, and the big part
(33:20):
of that helmet is on the strong side. Whether you're
a right hander or left hander. They've seen injuries come
on the follow through. So there's some backstory to the
wackiness of Kei k yesterday.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Was he payoffsoing up there, Dave.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Well, this goes back to twenty seventeen. No, I did
not think he was doing that. He was not at
Piaso yesterday because the Dodgers were ahead in the game.
They were not the ones losing eleven nothings. So when
you're ahead, you could be a little bit of a piasto,
no doubt about it. But that's his identity. He's not
trying to be anybody. That's him. And also Chase Utley
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and Rich Hill told him when the Dodgers were in
Philadelphia during the twenty seventeen season, don't blow out your arm.
Throw it up there nice and easy. It doesn't matter.
And he's carried that forward whenever Dave roberts Is asked
him pitching games.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Dave, road trip, you talked about it yesterday as we
kind of brought up the starters, just sort of concern
some things we might look for, maybe a couple players
that we could see get on that Oklahoma City Express
or claimed off waivers, that they may need to cover
these next ten games, all on the road, no days off.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Well, at least the first three games are taking care of.
You got the college starters on Friday night, Yamamoto Sazaki
on Saturday, and then Dustin May on Sunday. What the
Dodgers do in Miami still remains to be seen. Dave
Roberts after today's game even indicated that he may not
start Freddie Freeman in one or two of those games
(34:53):
because this was the first stretch of games where Freddie
has played six consecutive since injuring his right ankle slipping
in the shower. So it's hard to believe the Dodgers
are going to ask Freddie to play ten games in
ten days. Dave Roberts identified that Marlin series, so there
is going to be a bullpen game inserted, likely in Miami.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
How worried are you about this team on the road,
like a mental block type of deal, or is there's
way too early to.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Say, well, it's all it's you can't just lump it
all together. The Dodgers are going into Atlanta to face
a Braves team that is desperate and is actually playing
much better than the way they started. So I always
remember Don manningly talking about that it doesn't matter what
the team's record is, it's when you're catching them. So
(35:44):
the Dodgers are going to be catching a hot Braves
team the rest of the road trip Miami. They should
sweep there, and then they got four games against the
team that was the last one to knock them out
of the postseason in the Arizona Diamondback. So that's the
one series I'm so ciring out of these three cities.
I want to see how the Diamondbacks and Dodgers tail
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of the tape match up against each other.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Last one for me, Dave, we had ya on, may
have you on all the time, but before the season
you mentioned you were asked to make your predictions and
maybe the one hot take yet you had was the
Mets not making it, but the Podres instead just kind
of looking at this start, they're off to the best
record in all of baseball at twenty one and nine.
(36:29):
I don't know how much attention you've been playing paying
to the New York Mets and how they're playing, Just
kind of thoughts on how the National League looks after
a month.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Yeah, I would say, if you had to swap out
one of my hot takes, it would be the Braves
are out and the Mets are in. Nobody saw this
with the Braves except for a select few I would imagine,
but the Mets pitching staff has been much better than
I ever envisioned it. So Yeah, if you had to
say one of my predictions is out of the postseason,
(36:59):
it would be the Es and the Mets are in.
And I'm still a big believer in the Padres, and
I still believe there's a very good chance you could
have four teams from the NL West at least three
in the postseason. I'm a firm believer it's going to
be the Dodgers, the Padres, and the Diamondbacks. I'm not
a buyer into the Giants. I'm sorry. I just don't
(37:20):
believe their offense or their starting pitching is deep enough
to get through a whole season.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
He used to love the city of San Francisco. Dave,
what happened? Poop and Needles? The great David Masse, that's possible,
A real champion for being on with us on a
day that he's been working so hard on television. He'll
have the travel day tomorrow and we'll talk to him
on Friday as he's on the road working Spectrum Sports
on net all weekend. Tim Kates with all Dodger radio duties.
(37:49):
We'll talk to you soon, Dave. Have a great trip, Yeah, Sue,
Thank you guys. Thanks for doing it, Dave, and we'll
be right back another hour of great sports talk. Matt,
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Marlins sweep the series. Take five out of six on
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make their way on the road over the next eleven days,
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it's time for the word of the day, the word
his words, the word of the day. That guy's no
Miles Davis. Today's word of the day is beach Matt.
There's a lot of beaching going on this weekend. This
(03:47):
is the Beach Life Weekend. Toyota, our friends at your
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an automotive sponsor. You got Lenny Kravitz, you got the
Beach Boy, you got Sublime with Bradley Knowles's kids singing.
So it's a great experience. Jackson Brown is playing, and
(04:08):
of course Matt. Nobody's more excited about anything more than
Big Head Todd and the monsters. But tonight I'm hosting
a gala kind of thing which I usually do for
Beach Life that he puts on the week of the
show for the local cops and firemen and stuff. And
Rick Springfield is at that one, so he's playing tonight
(04:32):
as well. So all very exciting stuff. But down at
the beach, I noticed this story in Hermosa Beach. You know,
we just had Tony Peas closing last week in Marina
del Rey, ending an unbelievable run of flight attendants being
taken home in the nineties by an unsuspecting guy who
(04:55):
lives in an apartment and or a condo somewhere in
Plaia or Marina del Rey. I heard recently that there's
a lot of RV's park there. I don't know. Yeah,
is that just mat is that?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
No, I would call it a parade of hobo RV's.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
But speaking of the South Bay and the beach area.
I don't know if you remember this, Matt, but speaking
of Miles Davis who used to always play at the Lighthouse,
which used when it was a jazz club in Hermosa Beach,
there was a hotel a couple doors down right there
on the strand in Hermosa Beach, which was a perfect
place to check in an overdose on pills and die. Perfect. Oh,
(05:38):
I mean it would look it wasn't. It was a
place of sadness. And it was in Hermosa Beach, right
on the beach, and it was called the Sea Sprite Hotel.
We've all seen the Sea Sprite. You can't be a
Southern Californian and not have walked by the Sea Sprite
and been like, Wow, that place looks really depressing. Am
(06:01):
I wrong?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
No, You're absolutely right. It does look like a spot to.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Score, so you know what I'm talking about, right? Oh yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Oh, or a bag you can kee stir in a
clean And I'm not.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Proud to say I've been in a couple different rooms
in the Seasprite. I'm not saying I slept there, but
I'm saying I've been in some rooms in the Sea
Sprite and it felt like you were in a desperate
noir movie. Right on the edge, Right on the edge.
The Sea Sprite Hotel in Hermosa Beach. Much to my surprise, Matt,
the Sea Sprite Hotel has been renovated since twenty nineteen.
(06:36):
They've been renovating it and now they are opening a
restaurant in it called the Surfer Girl Restaurant. The first
eatery in the Sea Sprite's long time existence. People used
to just eat their their sleeping bills to die there.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
That was the main course, or the barrel of a gun. Yes,
oh God Jesus.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But now they have a restaurant called the Surfer Girl Restaurant.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
They're still calling it the Sea Spride or did they
rebrand it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
The Sea Sprite Beach Club. I think, okay, so the
Sea Sprite is back. They brought out like the giant
scissors for a rib nice. I wonder like if anybody
was like any of the like the local burnouts is
like my friend, you know, this is where my friend
oh deed, you know, I mean that's and he pointed
(07:27):
to the sky, the old Sea Sprite. You know, I
don't know if they should have kept that name.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That's what I mean. Like when they was was the
spot here that they redid when they the Tangerine? Wasn't
that a rebranding or was it always the Tangerine? Yeah,
because the sea sprite's like that vibe. It's like a
motoring kind of.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
But it's me. It's on the beach.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, that's the different space.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
It's like, yeah, the sea sprite is where something goes down.
Let's just put it like that.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
That's exciting, it's very.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So they're rebranding it, but it's still the Seaspride. Well,
look at this. The Seaspride always had a great selection
of toots available as well. Yes, nice put that in
the trip Advisor review. It's time for the number of
the toots go.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Number of the day, number of the day, number of
the day is two. Look are they overtaking the Dodgers?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Are they overtaking the Lakers?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
All we're looking for is growth, at least positive growth.
And as I was leaving the water earlier this morning,
got out around eight eight fifteen ish, loading up the
bike to make my way back home. Gentleman's driving by.
Joe is his name, and he says money, and he
(08:58):
makes a circle and he comes over and he stops
and he unclips his his snap in shoes from his
cycling adventure, and he says, I listened to Petros and
Money every day. I've listened to you every day for
over a decade. It brings me sanity on my commute.
I love you, guys. I can't thank you enough. I
just wanted to stop, I saw you and say that.
And we always appreciate when people do that. It means
(09:20):
a lot to know that we can help your afternoon
commute go by a little bit easier as you make
your way from your place of work to your homestead.
He lives in the Los Alamitos neighborhood there. And then
as he was pulling away, he bends back and he says, oh,
what'd you think of the Chargers draft? And we start chatting, Oh,
of course, and then you know, so now we're chopping
(09:41):
it up about football and Amari and Hampton and how
much we like Jamari Caldwell the defensive tackle and what
having Trey Harris And behind me, gentlemen, walking the dog,
because I do tend to speak a little loud overhere's
the conversation and unsolicited said, hey.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Perhaps you didn't hear that. I'm the voice of the ball.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
This gentleman walking his dog says, hey, I like that
fifth round tight end. I like that guy out of Syracuse.
He's good. I saw a game. I saw one of
their games. That guy's good. I was like, look at
this unsolicited guy walking by talking Charger football. I think
he's going to be great for Herbert. Now we got
three guys talking Chargers football. I talk about growing it. Man,
(10:27):
The brand is growing, one cyclist and one dog walker
at a time, taking over the south Land by storm
with the Rendez Gadsden and and Jamari Caldwell the defensive tackle.
Very exciting times to be rooting for the Los Angeles Chargers.
So thank you to Joe. And I feel terrible because
I see, you know, the gentleman joined us and I
(10:48):
forgot his name. Who was walking his dog. I'm terribly sorry,
but he's a petro some money show listener to I think,
so I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Ch that's it.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
That's exactly what it was, Chargers, Charles. It was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
You know what, Matt tomorrow, you know how many it's
going to be? Three?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Right, you know, and guys are waiting for Number of
the Day.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Four.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Hey I heard, I heard. We can talk Chargers right
here man in the mornings.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Well tomorrow Charger GM, so we can. I'll tell him
that you're growing the brand very exciting. You don't want
to tell him yourself. It sounds too self indulgent to
tell him yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Oh yeah, that's true. I appreciate them before. Uh, you
know what this guy's doing. He's spreading the word. Man.
I was thinking about it while you were doing the
Word of the Day there after you said it.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
We're talking about the sea Sprite.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I don't think people know that, like Rick Springfield's got hits, man,
it ain't just Jesse's girl like Rick Springfield that freaking
hits in the Yeah, but he had like human Touch
that was a number one is a great song, don't
talk to strangers. That was a number one song like that.
Dude was not just a one hit wonder like Rick
was a freaking rock star.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I didn't, I didn't. I didn't attack him at all.
I don't like no.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I was just thinking, like I think most people here
Rick Springfield are like, oh yeah, whatever, Jesse's girl. It's
like No, dude, Rick had hits man.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Rick was a stud and you know, I'm thinking a
lot of people don't know Chumbawamba had a lot of
albums before they broke.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
How dare you about Jemmawamba? During a Rick Springfield conversation.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I'm gonna be like, hey, Rick, what is that a
thirty inch waist? Done? Here there?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Looking good?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But I'll be going over to the uh the California
Surf Club.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I'm a little jealous a live Rick Springfield show.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Well, you know, I'm gonna be on stage at seven.
Look at that me and Jim Lindbergh.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Does Jim is he like doing a warm up set?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
No, we're giving We're giving speeches and awards out man fun.
We're gonna We're gonna do a mutual masturbation of beach
life tonight. That's true. This is a song of the Day.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Weird Fishes is the title of our song of the
Day from the band radio Head, off the excellent two
thousand and seven record in Rainbows, Suitable for today on
the Petros and Money Show. Following Dodger Baseball, who have
had their way with a Florida Marlins, the Miami Marlins
as well, flaying those weird fish in a three game
(13:27):
sweep earlier this afternoon at the stadium, which means that
you get a short but impactful version of great sports
talk that allevi at the doorstep of the Jason Smith
Show on Fox Sports Radio. That'll be at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Thank you, Ronnie Rick.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Springfield does some acting as well.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, our old friend, uh Mike Murriano way, and don't
forget about affair of the heart. We had rich Springfield
fans out here.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I mean, I'm not here to argue. I don't know
why I've painted. I've been painted is some kind I.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Haven't I'm speaking to the audience.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Paint me is some kind of ingrate towards Springfield.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I'm Springfield all day, all night.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
In the Pentecostal season when Christians are supposed to spread
the good news of Christ, Matt Muddy Smith is on
the esplanade, spread of the good word about the bults.
And tomorrow it's gonna be a.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Bigger gathering Gospel of Ortiz.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I could see you standing out there on the breakwater
and be like, I will make you a surfer of lightning.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Everybody else want to talk Chargers I see that you're.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Surfing, but I will make you a surfer of electricity.
Come with me. We'll be back with the top story
of today. Thanks for being with us. Petrosen. Money Show
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knows that Rick Springfield's more than just a one hit wonder.
You're right, Matt. Some guy was like, this is gonna
do Jesse's girl first time. Lest some guy said that
to me the other day. That's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
It's like, heyf you man.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You can't do what Springfield does. He can do what
you do. It's right, I can do what you do,
all right, Madi. Time of the tough story of the
day to story of the day, what.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's partially?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I mean, I don't be like Adam Oslin and start
breathing all over. We gotta follow up.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Eighty one point three it was a number of the day,
and here we are eighty one point three percent of
the time. The team that wins Game five wins the series,
and I follow up headed in the wrong direction. A
disastrous outing last night in the postseason for two teams
representing Los Angeles on the playoffs stage. Clippers got blown
(16:04):
out from the jump. We were wondering if we were
gonna get it. Oh yeah, we got it.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Oh take your lap, Take your lap.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Matt James Harden the other disappearance game, Lap it dropped.
The shoe dropped eleven points, three of nine shooting and
a team worst minus sixteen. The Kings managed to keep
it close, trailing two to one before an empty netter
(16:32):
made it three to one, third straight loss after taking
a commanding two zero lead in the series. That game
was not that close. The entire second period. The Oilers
were on their half of the ice. They were lucky
they weren't down five to one by the start of
the third period. Not to rehash the games last night,
what fun is that they were both absolutely miserable. Instead,
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I asked this question, pe, why do our teams in
town struggles so mightily outside of the regular season, out
right here in our town? Why does it happen a
great run by the.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Docks, the World Series champion Dodger.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That's what I'm saying. I'm saying last season the Dodgers
able to dispatch of that commentary to exercise those ghosts.
It was close, though, to being a disaster again. When
they trailed the Padres two to one, used a bullpen
game to vault themselves into what was the most memorable
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run at a championship. But outside of that, playoffs have
been incredibly disappointing here in town for the last decade.
And it's not about who's favored and who isn't. Most
of these teams in the playoffs are separated by a
game or three games, so being a six seed instead
of a two or a seven, or a nine or
a four five.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
A lot of hustle on the floor.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Playoffs are parody, man, all teams are good. Clippers won
fifty games. The Lakers won fifty games, absolutely blue. Game
one of the series coughed up Game four that would
have been a three to one lead, even a freaking sweep.
The same franchise that in past years had not been
able to make two separate three to one advantages hold
up once against the Nuggets, another time against the Rockets,
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and have been absolutely at times miserable in Game sevens.
It is a franchise that has never made it easy.
They have won only one playoff series in five games
or less two thousand and six, versus the Nuggets in
the first round Game sevens. I guess there's a small
silver lining. They're three and one in game sevens in
the first round. But that speaks to their inability to
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close out teams when they tend to be the favorite
team in five games or four games and sweep them
and get out of the next round with some rest. Instead,
they've played four game sevens in the first round. They're
three and one in those. They are zero and four
in game seven's in the second round. Oh no, their
playoff history is nothing short of sad and sickening. The
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games they have two stands.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Once the Clippers had made it to the Western Conference Final,
that's it. Yeah, now the kids got this like they
were floating around in space for like ten minutes, like
Gail King. I think he's getting back now.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I mean, remember how great this was?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I don't remember how great it was was someone was hurt,
someone wasn't. Uh, But damn the Kings in these two
Stanley Cups last one and fourteen, These freaking Oilers. I
hate him. I hate him with the intensity of one
of those uh as seen on TV ten thousand candlewatt
power flashlights right in your eyes. Twenty twenty two, up
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one nothing on the Oilers, up three to two on
the Oilers lose Game six at all, lose Game seven
in Edmonton twenty twenty three, up one nothing, up to one,
Loose three straight, including Game six at home.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Last year.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
They got smoked this year, up to nothing, up three
to two with twenty eight seconds left, and that became
a loss. Could have gone up three to one instead.
Another mess last night, up one nothing in the second
and then the Oilers just poured it. It was a
mess from there. They have won a playoff series. The
Kings have not won a playoff series since their Stanley
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Cup Final victory in twenty fourteen summer.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Blaming Patrick O'Neill traveling with the team.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I think that's a fair I think that's a fair place.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
To point, as good as anywhere else, right. I love
the others. I see all this stuff about their coach,
but I don't know. I know O'Neill.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I like Hiller. I'll climb a hill with Hitler. Eleven
years since they have advanced a single round. You mentioned it, Pete.
The Clipper's been in the conference finals once. Lakers since
twenty thirteen have made two runs since twenty thirteen, won
the Mickey Mouse title in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Hey Wow, way to go the Clippers out of mental meltdown.
What's the matter?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Paul? Twenty twenty three to the Conference finals, where they
lost by virtue of the most competitive sweep in the
history of basketball.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
That was a great competitive sweep.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Twelve years.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
My favorite thing about the Bubble, Matt, you know, other
than the rumors about Jimmy Butler, my favorite thing about
the Bubble was that Rajon Rondo's brother was in charge
of hair braiding.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yes, I remember that they brought him in, like they
had the special clearance he could.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Leave of bringing in different hair braiders for the guys
with the corn rows, that's right, and priorities during COVID.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Remember there was Jimmy Butler's coffee shop too, where he
like just pulled his cure rig out into the hallway
and would hang out and talk shop while drinking coffee
with people. Two runs for the Lakers, twelve years. That's it.
They have won outside of the Mickey Mouse Championship, two
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playoff series in twelve years.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
WHOA what about us? What about me?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yes, they made a Bubble run and they had those
weird virtual fans on screens and it was really awkward
and none of us want to remember it because we
can't believe we lived like that.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Give them, just like sam Amos said, give them their flowers.
I was there.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I'll give you your virtual flowers. Here's a photo of
some flowers.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Shit, yeah, Matt, Yeah, there you go. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
The Rams have been solid since moving back. They've made
two Super Bowl runs in the last nine years. They
won a Super Bowl title. They won a wild card
game in two other postseasons before losing in the divisional round.
The Chargers have made the playoff three times since they've
moved back, two to one and done's one single playoff victory,
a wild card win on the road in Baltimore. The
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Angels nothing, nothing but twenty one years.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I don't think the people of Los Angeles are deprived.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Man, No, No, that's a great point. The Dodgers are
or utterly dominant in the regular season, dominant, and that
is wildly enjoyable. Last twelve years, four World Series appearances,
one Bubble title, Globe Life Field Arlington, Texas, one regular
(23:17):
one hundred and sixty two game season title last year.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I think they have lost. And Turner didn't wear a mask. Gosh,
I can't believe he even can show his face in
the city.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Way to go, You're gonna get all of us sick.
But the Dodgers have also lost in the divisional run
with home field advantage five times. Yes, yes, almost half
of their trips to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Have celebration Matt, But there's also been great expectation, and
along with that has come from great disappointment.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
So here's what I did, just to help ease our paint, right,
because misery loves company. I tried to figure out is
La and outlier? Are all the playoffs are? Are or our?
Or are the playoff That's what I'm trying to say.
Or are the playoffs just the playoffs? And parody exists
and they're just tough and losing early is a big
(24:07):
part of it if you go there all the time.
Yankees have made the playoffs in six of the last
seven years. Outside of twenty twenty two, they've won at
least one round. The Knicks though a mess, but they
did win a round in each of the last two years.
And of course, the Giants and Jets have been two
of the worst teams in football over the last decade.
Giants have one single wild card win a couple of
(24:27):
years ago that got Daniel Jones a monster contract. So
they sort of lost by winning on that one. And
the Jets, of course, are the only team in football.
I don't believe they have made the playoffs this century.
And I don't think I'm exaggerating. I don't think that's
the case. That's New York. What about San Cheit though,
(24:48):
great point this decade, this decade, there we go, this decade.
When do you think San Chico? When do you think
he made that run the odds?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Not in the twenty tens.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Oh, I think it's maybe maybe twenty ten, twenty twelve,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, but hey, they suck. It's been a while, It's
been a while.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
The Rangers have made the conference finals in two of
the last three years. Chicago's a disaster all around. I mean,
all their teams suck. Philly's pretty good Eagles won the
Super Bowl playoffs, trip to the Super Bowl. Sixers have
been to the playoffs. They usually went around or two.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
The Cubs had that that World series that made them
almost overnight unlikable, right like happened to the Red so
love team to the most unlikable. Yeah, happened to the
Red Sox a while back.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yes, exactly, and they suck. And Philadelphia, yeah, they're all right.
Phillies made a run at the World Series. Like we said,
the Sixers tend to win a round her to Philly
won a Super Bowl, but the Flyer suck. Yeah, I'm
doing the top five markets. Dallas Rangers won the World
Series two years ago. MAVs made the NBA Finals last year. Cowboys, Uh,
(25:57):
I think the Cowboys have never won in the divisional
round since nineteen ninety five. That one I am sure of.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, that's a hell of a drought.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I mean, that's crazy right there, that's a drought right there.
Stars have been pretty good. They've made a couple conference finals,
but that's it. And then if you go and stay
to the other big market forty nine Ers, a couple
of Super Bowl trips last five years. Warriors pretty good, right,
mixed bag missed the playoffs and three of the last five.
But of course they've won four titles with this stuff run,
(26:24):
So I guess what I'm getting at. And the Giants
haven't won a World Series since the Wildcard in twenty sixteen,
and they have very little success in the postseason. So
what I'm saying p par for the course. If you're
feeling sad, just know it's really no different than any
other major market with a bunch of sports teams. Enjoy
the regular season and recognize the playoffs or a real bitch,
(26:45):
a real whore, And that's just the way the world works.
So may the Clippers, Lakers, and Kings all pull out
of it. May this five and one homestand be an
indicator of great things to come for the Dodgers, And
may these glorious draft picks pode well for each of
our NFL teams, both of which were in the playoffs
last year, and maybe find playoff success moving forward.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Why couldn't you just make the Angels and the Ducks
and Orange County thing?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I guess I could have done that. I mean, I
felt like taking a shot at the Angels.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I get it. I'm not trying to pick nits here.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
You no, I know. I just felt like taking a
shot at the Angels because people get upset.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
A lot of what any mention kids a city and
it's like, well, they're not not a major market. Yeah,
I guess that's the para.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Gonna have a basketball team, don't have a hockey team.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I can't argue with that. That's right, losers. We'll be back.
David Massey will join us before that big road trip
that the Dodgers will embark on tomorrow. Thanks for being
with us in great sports talk on this week. Just
won't be defeated. Wednesday, morn Coom will be on till seven.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
That Trust Some Money AM five seventy l A Sports
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app going till seven to
night following the Dodgers game two wins since we were
last on the air. They win a big one last night,
easy win for Man. Today as well, they sweep the Marlins.
They go five to one on the home stamp and
they get ready for this long ten game road trip
that begins on Friday.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Well, he did a great job on Spectrum Sports Net.
He'll be working there throughout the weekend on the long
road trip where the Dodgers have room to improve on
the road as a road team in the Grays. Joining
us right now is the one and only David Vase,
the Dodgers with an inside look at the Dodgers. This
(28:39):
is the Vassi Report with David Vase. David Vase, Spectrum Sportsnet,
LA MLB Network, and of course right here on M
seventy LA sports a leaving Dodgers Stadium. Now as the
game is over, the circus is falling down on its
knees and the homestand has been good to the Dodgers.
Is that a of how good the Dodgers are, Dave
(29:02):
or the opponents being a little hapless?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I would say it's a combination of both. Certainly, against
the Marlins that was the case, and after they saw
Paul Skeenes their offense got back on track against the Pirates.
But today, really the theme in the clubhouse was how
happy everybody was for Max Monthly to finally get that
(29:27):
first home run of the season. Taioscar Hernandez not only
had a handful of sunflower seats for Monthly when he
came back to the dugout, he had a whole bag
for Monthly, just because everybody knew how much it was
weighing on him.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Dave, other big theme I would guess is how Tony
Gonsolin looked. I mean, the guy ends up going six strong.
Kind of your takeaway there, and what a big boon
that could be considering that the current state of health
in their starting rotation.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah, without a doubt, Matt. You know, Joe Davis mentioned this,
and I think we lose sight of the fact that
when Tony Gonsolin was last healthy, he was sixteen and
one with an ERA under three and he was an
All Star. So, you know, say what you will about
his postseason track record, you can't dispute how good he's
been for the Dodgers in the regular season. And again
(30:14):
today showed no emotions. I mean, I try to get
something out of the guy. He had no emotions on all.
Maybe a flutter of butterflies while he was warming up,
but he was unflappable today and he was the same
old Tony Gonsolin when he's on he's getting quick outs.
And he said his splitters like riding a bike. His
(30:34):
split fingered fastball, there's no feel to it. He said,
I've been doing this for so long that it's really
second nature for me to throw that pitch. So that
worked well, and he did credit Austin Barnes for being
behind the plate and being able to be so familiar
with him and be able to present those strikes at
the bottom of the strike zone.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
And a very interesting kind of dynamic. Dave you're all
with this team, and these guys like Gonsolin, they go away,
Dustin May, you know, they go away for a long
time and then they come back and start contributing again.
Right now, Kershaw's out and we all know about Matt's
(31:17):
tall friend from Hart Eye. It's a very difficult situation
for these guys to come back into it, and they
all seem to handle it very differently. How detached do
you think they are when they're not pitching?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
That's the one constant, Petros. All these guys tell me
when they're not with the team and coming back from
these arm injuries, they just feel so detached. Leaving spring
training this year, Kyle Hurt and Gavin Stone they were depressed.
They're gonna They're in Camelback Ranch right now, grinding out
rehab and bullpen sessions respectively, with nobody else around. They
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just see their faces each and every day and not
much else. So, yeah, you do feel really when you're
not in that clubhouse and when you're not participating. And
speaking of being detached, Dave Roberts said before the game today,
Tyler Glasnell is not joining the Dodgers on this road
trip and he's not going to throw a baseball for
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the next two weeks, but snel Villa will be on
this road trip. And Dave told me he's been a
great teammate and he should be starting his throwing program
during these ten days.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Good deal there. You know who could take Tyler Glasnow's
place after a beautiful night, Dady last night is kik Hernandez.
How much fun was that?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Dave? Hey?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
How about this? I got a phone call from the
director of medical from Major League Baseball today, Gary Green,
and he told me he was in spring training this
year after Bobby Miller got hit in the forehead, and
he said that's usual protocol whenever a pitcher takes a
line drive off his face or his head, he shows
(32:57):
up with that same type of hell. That pseudo helmet
that keyk Hernandez was wearing yesterday when he was pitching.
He actually told me he brought it for Bobby Miller.
Bobby passed on it, and Key k grabbed it from
the good doctor and used it during batting practice. He
wore it on the backfields and he used it last night.
But it's actually for a pitcher, and the big part
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of that helmet is on the strong side. Whether you're
a right hander or left hander. They've seen injuries come
on the follow through. So there's some backstory to the
wackiness of Kei k yesterday.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Was he payoffsoing up there, Dave.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Well, this goes back to twenty seventeen. No, I did
not think he was doing that. He was not at
Piaso yesterday because the Dodgers were ahead in the game.
They were not the ones losing eleven nothings. So when
you're ahead, you could be a little bit of a piasto,
no doubt about it. But that's his identity. He's not
trying to be anybody. That's him. And also Chase Utley
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and Rich Hill told him when the Dodgers were in
Philadelphia during the twenty seventeen season, don't blow out your arm.
Throw it up there nice and easy. It doesn't matter.
And he's carried that forward whenever Dave roberts Is asked
him pitching games.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Dave, road trip, you talked about it yesterday as we
kind of brought up the starters, just sort of concern
some things we might look for, maybe a couple players
that we could see get on that Oklahoma City Express
or claimed off waivers, that they may need to cover
these next ten games, all on the road, no days off.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Well, at least the first three games are taking care of.
You got the college starters on Friday night, Yamamoto Sazaki
on Saturday, and then Dustin May on Sunday. What the
Dodgers do in Miami still remains to be seen. Dave
Roberts after today's game even indicated that he may not
start Freddie Freeman in one or two of those games
(34:53):
because this was the first stretch of games where Freddie
has played six consecutive since injuring his right ankle slipping
in the shower. So it's hard to believe the Dodgers
are going to ask Freddie to play ten games in
ten days. Dave Roberts identified that Marlin series, so there
is going to be a bullpen game inserted, likely in Miami.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
How worried are you about this team on the road,
like a mental block type of deal, or is there's
way too early to.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Say, well, it's all it's you can't just lump it
all together. The Dodgers are going into Atlanta to face
a Braves team that is desperate and is actually playing
much better than the way they started. So I always
remember Don manningly talking about that it doesn't matter what
the team's record is, it's when you're catching them. So
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the Dodgers are going to be catching a hot Braves
team the rest of the road trip Miami. They should
sweep there, and then they got four games against the
team that was the last one to knock them out
of the postseason in the Arizona Diamondback. So that's the
one series I'm so ciring out of these three cities.
I want to see how the Diamondbacks and Dodgers tail
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of the tape match up against each other.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Last one for me, Dave, we had ya on, may
have you on all the time, but before the season
you mentioned you were asked to make your predictions and
maybe the one hot take yet you had was the
Mets not making it, but the Podres instead just kind
of looking at this start, they're off to the best
record in all of baseball at twenty one and nine.
(36:29):
I don't know how much attention you've been playing paying
to the New York Mets and how they're playing, Just
kind of thoughts on how the National League looks after
a month.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Yeah, I would say, if you had to swap out
one of my hot takes, it would be the Braves
are out and the Mets are in. Nobody saw this
with the Braves except for a select few I would imagine,
but the Mets pitching staff has been much better than
I ever envisioned it. So Yeah, if you had to
say one of my predictions is out of the postseason,
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it would be the Es and the Mets are in.
And I'm still a big believer in the Padres, and
I still believe there's a very good chance you could
have four teams from the NL West at least three
in the postseason. I'm a firm believer it's going to
be the Dodgers, the Padres, and the Diamondbacks. I'm not
a buyer into the Giants. I'm sorry. I just don't
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believe their offense or their starting pitching is deep enough
to get through a whole season.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
He used to love the city of San Francisco. Dave,
what happened? Poop and Needles? The great David Masse, that's possible,
A real champion for being on with us on a
day that he's been working so hard on television. He'll
have the travel day tomorrow and we'll talk to him
on Friday as he's on the road working Spectrum Sports
on net all weekend. Tim Kates with all Dodger radio duties.
(37:49):
We'll talk to you soon, Dave. Have a great trip, Yeah, Sue,
Thank you guys. Thanks for doing it, Dave, and we'll
be right back another hour of great sports talk. Matt,
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