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May 8, 2025 41 mins
 A FLEX ALERT before the Dodgers-Diamondbacks game in Arizona. The guys are not happy with Fred Roggin after he left the studio smelling like his stinky cologne. The Dodgers Ben Casparius on being a young pitcher on a team with veterans in the bullpen and a lineup filled with superstar players. Secret Textoso Roundup.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:41):
All right, stop the show, all right?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
This is not not okay, man, it's not okay. I
would rather and I think I would rather it smell
like you didn't know, like where you were pitting, like
when Vick. Think I would than this. This is like
there's the place smell like the locker room. Man. Yeah,
we're used to that, right, Yeah, right, Ronnie. It's way

(01:05):
too much cologne.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Like Fred.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Nobody in here with Fred. He's in here by himself.
We see Fred. The only person we see less than
Fred is Rodney. Yes, that works. For the stake.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Ken Champeau doesn't work here anymore. I see him more than.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Rodney in Flana, San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Uh, the only person we see less than Fred is Rodney.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Fred.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
For whatever reason, some are speculating other things, but for
whatever reason, Uh, Fred is in town this week.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
This is not good.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Fred is literally done one hour two hours off yesterday
and another two hours today.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Light work for Fred, like one full our Monday show.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Oh was he out there? Oh God, I don't want
to look.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
He's out smoothing with the salespeople, like he's here every day.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Keep him out, Fred, do you know? Come in here
and take a whiff. Fred is just put so much cologne,
Like what are we doing? Fred?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Like right right, like you cologne and you love the
colon is a rare, Like it doesn't have.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
To be this way.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
It kind of smells like English leather, that cheap colone
that used to get for Like the door.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Open, brop the door open, because it's disgusting. It's a
communal atmosphere and there's somebody farts up a storm or something.
You know, we all live in the world, you know,
my God, But for Fred to be in here with
his nineteen eighties cocaine cologne. I don't like it. It's wrong.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, and we come in the studio. The studio has
a steel door. It is insulated so no out so
noise comes in because we're broadcasting, so there's no airflow.
And selfishly I have an allergy to colognes do I
And my tongue is now going numb because of Fred's
freaking coloone for who. There's nobody you're not doing the

(03:16):
show with you and I are sharing the studio right now.
There's nobody in the studio does zero.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
How many times would you interact with Fred in person today,
Ronnie once? Yeah, and you had to come in here
and smell the cologne. It's not like he comes in
and talks to anybody.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Fred.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
It smells pretty bad.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
One less pump, maybe three less pumps for the weeks
you come in.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
If it's like this, not the tim Kates spray it
into the air and walk.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
No.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
If it's like which is right on the neck. If
it's like this again tomorrow, I'm gonna move. Okay, I'm
going up to ninety eight seven studio. It's a real
high it's an offensively high level. And Fred's not had
this much cologne in here since Joe McDonald. Padd O'Brien,
Oh yeah, Patt O'Brien was a big cologne guy. Listen, guys,

(04:02):
the eighties are over. Okay, women shave down there now,
stop it. It's been a while now, But that's their time.
That's Fred's time. Fred's time was an unruly jungerly time. Yeah,
am I wrong? No? Am I wrong? Am I wrong?

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Am I wrong? There was a time and place for
cologne where every good girlfriend in high school got her
boys bottle of cologne.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
And see Fred, that's what you did, perfuming his chest
hair with that cologne. And that's fine.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
He's got the blow dryer in one hand for their
eighty am cologne pump in the other.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Couldn't you see him doing that in Soult? Fred's in Soul,
Korea in eighty eight, Harry Cloth, people are gonna see
what a man I am carved wooden buttons. Oh, exactly right,
Fred naked on a bear sk in rug in front
of a fireplace, all perfumed with cologne in his back
and chest hair glistening. There was a time for that.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Would you like a ride in my fierro?

Speaker 6 (05:10):
Right?

Speaker 3 (05:10):
But it's twenty twenty five, Matt. You know Fred smoking it?
Fred smoking a cigarette all cologned and perfumed.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Oh what a combos cigarette and cologne.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Tired of it? Do you want to live like this anymore?
I grew up in a Greek restaurant. It was like
a Turkish bathhouse with all the different colognes, with the
waiters clashy, terrible, and I can't live like this anymore,
and I won't. You guys got to pick a lane either.
You want Fred and studio every day. We do complain
that he's not here it.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
We want him in studio every day without cologne. Yeah,
I'd like it not to smell without cologne. Tender loin
in San Francisco? Is that okay? Can it not smell
like the loin? Like it's one thing to come into
your the studio where you and Ronnie are right now,
after Ronnie arrives and does the whole life al bath.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, Ronnie makes it smell. I just cleaned up in
the mental hospital.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's like Jesus, we having a surgery in here later.
What's going on? But it's life Sol, He's killing germs.
This is exactly there.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Well, you know what friend's killing germs too, I mean
very similar.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
By the way, remember that, remember when we were here
God during COVID during COVID and they have wipe everything
down until they're.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Like, you know, it's not transmittable like that or like
what no, no, no, you know.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
The best part was it They're gonna do a deep
clean over the weekend. Half mad suits they're gonna have.
You're going to recognize it. You guys will be fun,
I promise. Hey, by the way, we have cameras. Don't
take the wipes home. Okay, don't think.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
I know it's it's hard to find wipes right now,
but those wipes are for the station. Don't take any
of those.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
I won't.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
I won't steal the wipes. How deep was that?

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Cleaning?

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Shot dust everywhere.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Shallow up.

Speaker 5 (06:57):
It got so bad we had to grab sharpies and
like label all right, disinfecting white.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
We had to label the disinfectant wipes for eight and
five seven. Hey, I think I think ninety eight seven
took our wipes. I think they did.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
We did, we did. We did claim that they they're
not even up to working. They're automated moon, Why would
they steal wipes? That was a real conversation. Can you
bring in some wipes from home? My wife will kill me?
What I have to do that? Are you kidding? Of course, Matt.
I have a text that says this.

Speaker 7 (07:27):
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Speaker 3 (07:33):
Kates is so lucky after all that blow. He can't
smell a thing cocaine, Kates, it's it's uh, my tongue
is numb, Fred, My tongue is officially numb. Thanks, Fred,
appreciate it. Some say it's not cologne. Some say Fred

(07:55):
has a very heavy hand with the aftershave, and that
could be it aquavella or whatever.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's no way, there's no way.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
What do you think it is? Katy?

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Is he freshly shaved?

Speaker 4 (08:06):
I didn't get a look at him.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
I don't know, Ronnie, I don't think he's freshly shaved. Guys,
that's cologne. That's cologne. Is he still out there? Is
he still canoe? Hi? Karate?

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Is he still out there?

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Is he still out there? Kates? Let me go.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Look he was schmoozing with the salespeople on paddling.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
You know who used to be a heavy colowner was
Don Martin?

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Oh was he?

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, he had a he had a he had a cent.
There's no doubt about that. Yeah, I believe he had
That's right, that's a good call.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
You have no idea what man of power can do?

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Is he still there? He's gone. He's gone, and with
him goes the scent of eighties success. Take a take
as exactly exactly what are we doing here? Do we
get a box fan? Can someone call the front desk
and get us a box fan? Immediately air this thing out? Please?

Speaker 3 (08:59):
All right, start the show.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
I've never had Fred smell that bad though.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Oh the way, he's what weird.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
I'm gonna come back to the station. I'm gonna show
him that I mean business. Three pumps. People are people,
so why should it be you and I should get
along so awfully? Mak mak mang.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
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(09:42):
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Speaker 4 (09:54):
I got a question for both of you, just to
follow up this whole Fred cologne topic. Yes, Petros, you
did the challenge every Sunday night for like seventeen years.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
No.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Never, good question.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
You've sat three feet from him every Sunday night for hours.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Nothing.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Never had This smell is not like a flashback face.

Speaker 6 (10:10):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, I remember the faint smell of Marlborough ultra lights.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
But that's it.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
That is a very faint smell, very faint. The majority
of that cigarette is air and vain.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
And matt for you. You're so allergic to colognes. Did
Pat O'Brien ever get to you. I think he's he smelled.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah. I think it's a recent development in my advanced age.
You know, certain allergies managed to descend upon your senses,
and this is one that's really hit me the last
couple of years.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Here's here's a question. From the five six two two
poignant questions from Kate's and then the one that he's
afraid to ask from the five six two on the
secret text lcle line, which is the secret text.

Speaker 7 (10:47):
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Speaker 3 (10:52):
Does Fred have a big bush? Yes, he does. He's
got the the goatee right now.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
It would have the facial bush. It would be more
strange if he were man escaped. I think in his
Fred was like all clean, Yeah, what are you hair?

Speaker 3 (11:19):
I can see that though I could like swoll greased up.
Jeff Bezos Fred, Yeah, you know, Bezos is all waxed.
Bezos saysn't naturally, it's just gone.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Bezos is like a tad You try to catch Bezels.
He's like a tadpole. It's a sperm its smooth.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
You don't think that's an important question, Kate, You don't
think that's important.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
No, Ronnie and I both just went ill. No, we've
never thought about that.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Never. I always say, but you know what, And I
would say no as well, because he's still got his
proof of chest hair. And I would assume if you're
gonna trim that you're gonna trim your chest hair as well,
you're gonna be like I want to get Yeah, he's
still got the plume going when he wears the poles.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Well, what did Pat O'Brien smell like? Because I don't
really remember because I was working nights then.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
I know you think I'm saying this just to be funny,
but I'm pretty sure it.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Was jupe, jupe and regret.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, yes, both of those things.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
Are those real?

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Coloonnes?

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Are you making that? And so the regret was real too?

Speaker 2 (12:20):
What am I doing here? How today? Look, if Fred
wants to have a bush, I'm hopeful that he still has.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
A hopeful music at noon, hopeful music at new.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
I'm just saying when Fred was going there's a celeb
there was a more free time.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, I mean you were basically, you know, naked to
the waist. You'd have that button dal the way down
to your navel chest hair plufin.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
I could see Fred like Tom Cruise in risky business
with a lot of button down nothing else on.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Like, oh yeah, party time right.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
I could see him in here doing a shell like
that white sox, that smell of cologne, cads. I mean
you know, it makes me feel like we're in Spago
off a sunset back in the day like the old one.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Why now, why today did Fred just douse himself in cologne?
I don't I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Has he been in all week nostalgia?

Speaker 4 (13:34):
He was in a couple of days ago and I
didn't smell I had to get the instant replay machine.
And now I didn't smell him.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Hot laps in a Masta fiada.

Speaker 5 (13:41):
You know, he was not worrying cologne on Monday when
I saw him.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Interesting, I wonder what he's got going on now.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
I saw him in here during one of your breaks,
Ronnie talking to you and Kevin. Was it hard to
have a conversation with him because he just smelled so
much like cologne.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
You know.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
The funny thing is is that he stood way by
the door and didn't venture too far inside, so we
couldn't detect.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
You know what is a super eighties thing as well?
Is uh cologne in the glove box like you would
you would roll around right next you're thirty eight.

Speaker 5 (14:17):
Right unless Fred has one of these tiny little cologne
samples that they used to give back at back in
the day, and he.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Keeps it in the shop. I think I think Fred's
got a big ass bottle sprit. Fred's got a bottle, Yeah,
big ass bottle. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm embarrassed for Fred.
Can you text him and ask him what brand of
Coloney's wearing. It's gonna crush us because you know one
of us is thinking cool after sh it's Christian Dior Fahrenheit.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
What cologne do you wear? Did you wear so much?

Speaker 3 (14:51):
I'm not gonna not be an accusatory good.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
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(15:16):
between now and five thirty. You know what a bitch
ass front runner is? Uh?

Speaker 3 (15:21):
How big of a front runner Fred is? How his
like picture when you text him, he's wearing a lion shirt?

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Oh Detroit? Yeah, interesting choice, Fred? You haven't right there.
I'm not sure I can't remember. Bs, Come on, what
is it? Lies and put why did you doushirt? You've
doused yourself in it today? Can't remember, Kate's what cologne
do you wear?

Speaker 3 (15:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
It's in a well, maybe you can't remember.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
Gosh darted my wife. Don't you put it on every day? Yeah,
it's like a black bottle.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
I can't think of the name of it though, trecarnoir.
No with in a black bottle. I want to say
it's something by polob, He says, he'll tell us tomorrow,
and look at the bottle.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
What a liar?

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Tell him not to wear it? But he is wearing cologne. Yeah,
it's not after shape. It's cologne. It's not axe body spray.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
Oh. I saw a bunch of chicks holding onto the
pipes downstairs.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
We're giving away the eighty minute massagere facial. You can
get yourself something for the mother. It didn't work for
a while. I'm gonna look and smell great. I wouldn't
it be great if he showed up in a freaking
three piece suit, fancy shoes, cologne to the nines, a
freaking dapper dan in his hair. Because he does have

(16:40):
a disheveled look when he rolls in these days. I
mean it's it's a disheveled.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Look very much. So.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, it's in a blue bottle cool water. I mean
it's not cool water. Though I'd recognize this is a scent,
I do not recognize. This is not the work of
a This is unacceptable.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
So that is the situation with Fred.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
I'm sorry. There's a lot to discuss, but we have
a lot of show to do it. I'm sorry that
I think is something that probably many of our listeners
deal with. The person at work that wears too much
perfumer cologne and really ruins the workplace, and people are
too afraid to tell them, please stop wearing cologne. You're
destroying the workplace. Your this is not okay. Your desire

(17:25):
to stand out is ruining our lives. Yeah, not okay.
Your personal scent, though not offensive, is overwhelming and unlike
the girls from our high school, they could be blue
by Chanel. Is that what it is? That sounds pretty
fancy and Fred's a fancy guy he is nowadays these

(17:46):
uh he wears those golden Goose shoes. Yeah, those are
expensive too, thousands of dollars. But they also help to
form his disheveled look because you buy him new, but
they look like they're two years.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Old, wearing rags to make him pretty.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
By this.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
We'll be back with Ben Casparius Casparras Dodger super Reliever,
a man who has saved the pitching staff on more
than one occasion, both in the bullpen and the starters.
Ben Caspirius Dodger Pitcher will join us in the very

(18:22):
next segment.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
I just talked to sales by the way, and I
said it Fred smelt different today to you guys.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
What did they say?

Speaker 4 (18:31):
We didn't get close enough to Fred to notice if
he was smelling good or bad, so.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Neither did we. He left, He left his essence.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Freaking.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Maybe it was a hippie bat.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
Maybe Fred had a late night.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
No, no, no, it was none of those things.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, not the Butchuli.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
We're not we're not suggesting that Fred is unclean. What
we're suggesting is that Fred massaged some cologne into his
massive bush.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
I would assume that would have a negative effect. I
remember that like that was a that was a like
a John Hughes film style, like the dude would do
and then he'd open his pants and go.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Say, I don't think that's gonna go.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Well, that's what all these new things are. That's not
gonna go. Well, everybody spray in their new things with
the new things. You don't want to spray your new sprays,
and we'll be back with more petros and money, new
spray Show of record.

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Speaker 8 (20:01):
Two and Frasier's down swinging Ben Casparius dropped the breaking
ball on him. He has struck out three in a
row five in the game. And if the Dodgers are
looking to kind of patch this rotation together, which is
dealing with some injuries. You might be wondering, moll, why

(20:22):
not just stretch out Ben Casparius.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
Yeah, we would have said that on Dodge Top. Casperis
twenty six year old right under the pride of Westport, Connecticut.
Played at Yukon Let's Go Husky's rose up to the
miners last year. Started the season in Tulsa in their rotation,
then to Triple A OKSE and then to the major

(20:46):
leagues in late August. Was a hero four and oh
this season. Got the win on Monday in Miami, four innings,
six strikeouts to beat the Marlins. On your Southern California
Toyota the other celebrity hotline, it is Dodger pitching here,
Ben Casparius, what's cracking? How are you guys? How are
you great? Having me? We love you Casparius.

Speaker 7 (21:08):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Now, first of all, it's yeah, there we go.

Speaker 6 (21:12):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Now, you're out there on a long road trip. Ben.
What what's it like when you have these long, arduous
road trips as a young man. Do you still appreciate
the grind of it?

Speaker 9 (21:23):
Yeah, no doubt. I mean, we've got a great group
of guys that have been doing this for a long time.
I think this is This is probably the longest trip
I've been on since you know, I've been up here
with the team, and it's still it's still a lot
longer than eleven days or however long it's been so far.
But we're we're grinding through. We're playing good ball right now,
and you know, just looking to finish off a off
a really good long.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
Or you know road trip you Petros mentioned it just
kind of working your way from Tulsa, Oklahoma City, out
to the big leagues. What is it like, because we
we call it the Oklahoma City Express, seems like oftentimes
the Dodgers are shuttling guys back and forth between there. Uh,
what's that life like? Is it a pain in the
ass to go back and forth and back and forth?
What's life like in Oklahoma City? Walk us through it?

Speaker 9 (22:05):
Ben, Yeah, I mean I think it's a little bit
of both. I think it's I mean, obviously, you know,
in my case, I came up from there for the
first time, made my debut in Arizona, actually, so it's
good to be back here for that and obviously feels
a lot different. But no, I think it's it's just
something you have to get accustomed to. I think just
with our org and how much talent we have and

(22:27):
superstar players, we have a lot of the roles as
a you know, a younger guy, just come up with
phill a spot, phill a spot, start whatever it might be,
and just take advantage of those situations and you know,
when your name's called, just go out there and perform.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
One of the things we hear a lot is you
mentioned the organization and just how well they do with
young pictures, developing young pictures. Somebody playing at a high
level like you that is a young picture. Well, how
would you describe it? What is it that the Dodgers
do that that help you, you know, realize your dreams
and making the major leagues?

Speaker 9 (22:59):
Yeah, I think I think for my situation coming in
as a starting pitcher and just you know, being a
little bit in a flexible role where I can give
multiple innings out of the bullpen or whatever that is.
I think I realized that probably two years ago, my
like the time I was in Double A and and
really just being flexible and whatever they ask. I think
that kind of helps you, you know, get on the field.

(23:20):
The same way it is for a position player if
they can kind of cover outfield spots and field spots,
but just giving the team flexibility, and I think that's
a you know, one of the biggest reasons I'm here
and have given some relief to some of our higher
leverage arms in the bullpen, given them a couple extra
days to you know, just feel good. And it's a
long season obviously, so with some of our younger guys,

(23:41):
whatever we can do to kind of step in and
and kind of help and give them relief has been,
you know, huge up to this point.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
You know, it's interesting some of these guys when we're
out at the stadium, you know, if we know they're
starting that day, they just look so angry and they
have a certain focus. You know, what, what is your
approach as a starter. I mean, I'm sure you'll start
again at some point, I'm sure you want to. But
how different is the preparation between coming in to help

(24:08):
out and doing whatever you can and actually being given
the ball to start the game. How different is that,
if at all, because you had the bulk of the
innings the other day.

Speaker 9 (24:17):
Yeah, I think I think my routine's pretty much the
exact same. I just think that obviously, like our relievers,
if you know, we're playing a seven o'clock game. We're
going out to play catch around like four or four thirty,
so we're we're just playing catch a little bit earlier.
But I think from the time we come in from
catch play, everybody's still kind of in the training room
getting stuff done or in the weight room prepping for
the game and this and that. So I think the

(24:39):
only thing that really changes for me is just the
timing of every I'm doing everything, so you know, it
goes from as a reliever catch to you know, get
to relax for a little bit. As a starter. I
feel like it's more, hey, we're you know, I'm gonna
start my prep work stuff I'm going to do in
the training room, and then you go obviously right into
you know, you catch play before the game, right into
a pregame bullpen, and then right into the game. So

(24:59):
I would say it's a little bit more meticulous with
the timing and just making sure you get everything done.
But in terms of what I'm doing on a day
to day basis, it's pretty much it's close to the same,
if not exactly the same.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
It seems like there's some real uh, just some spaz
is out there in the bullpen with Vessia and Yates.
And when we talked to Kirby Yates, he started talking
about Red Bull. He would have thought he was talking
about like, you know, uh Don Pearrignon Champagne or something.
He was like, yeah, I get I get a tingle
in my lips and my lips and my fingers. You know,
he was all riled up. What's it like out there?

(25:33):
It seems like all those guys are tweaked out.

Speaker 9 (25:36):
Yeah, I mean you could throw me into that list too,
especially when I first got When I first got up
here as a reliever, it was the first time in
my career coming out of the bullpen, so I was
kind of I was kind of tweaking all the time, honestly,
just making sure I felt good. I'm you know, I'm
getting up in between innings to throw plio balls every
inning and everyone's like, what is this young guy doing
than that? So, you know, we have a we have

(25:57):
a great group of guys, great personalities obviously, you know,
from Kirby to you know myself, Like the age hep
being twelve years or whatever it is, it's it's it's
a great group. And I think I learned something new
every day or just how to approach things. And it's
been it's been a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Ben Casparius with us. You're home of the Dodgers, the
World Series champion Dodgers AM five seventy LA Sports. A
little bit later today hear the Dodgers Diamondbacks Game six
forty first pitch Dodgers on deck at five point thirty.
We mentioned Connecticut. So out here southern California, you know,
we're used to it with kids playing baseball year round.
It's a little league, travel ball and All Stars and

(26:34):
all that. Are you multi sport when you're in Connecticut?
Can you play year round? Do you head south to
play ball?

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Like?

Speaker 2 (26:40):
How does that all work? Growing up out there?

Speaker 9 (26:42):
Yeah, it's tough. I mean you take advantage of those
days where you can get on you know, get outside
to at least play catch. But for me in the
offseason now, it's really just you know, I can if
I can get outside on October Day, November day, it's great.
Other than that, I'm usually inside for the most part,
and then I kind of tay or some of my
stuff towards whether I get out to Arizona or go

(27:03):
to a facility in Charlotte, North Carolina. But it's tough
and you have to you have to pretty much stay
on top of everything just because you know it's not
you know, you can't get outside every single day.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Now that you're an LA guy, do you wear like
big sunglasses and strut around they act?

Speaker 1 (27:18):
You know, I.

Speaker 9 (27:21):
Think my styles changed a little bag. I'm wearing some
bag of your clothes. It's actually more comfortable there we go.
But yeah, it's no, it's a different pace of life
out there, and it's you know, it's beautiful every single day,
and it's been fun the short time I've been out there,
it's I've had a lot of fun, and you know,
hopefully don't don't need to leave.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Any time forever. Steve Garby shaking hands outside.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Run off to the Senate.

Speaker 9 (27:48):
What do you do about that?

Speaker 2 (27:49):
But we'll see you mentioned eleven day road trip. What
do you do during the day, Like, while you're waiting
to go to the to the ballpark? What are you
doing in the hotel room? Are you walking around? Are
you a stay inside or you would get outside guy?
What do you do?

Speaker 9 (28:02):
Yeah, I think it depends. I think it depends where
we are. Miami was hot, so I tried to stay
inside and honestly too, just with the time change and
everything just back or you know, bouncing back and forth
between East coast West coast time, I was sleeping a
lot as much as I possibly could, obviously with like
all the flights that we're getting onto and just kind

(28:22):
of trying to focus on feeling good every single day.
But I do like to explore a little bit in La,
especially when we're home, Like I'll go go to a
coffee shop or you know, walk around whatever it is.
But yeah, I'll I'll kind of just wait and see
what everybody wants to do and if you know, go
get breakfast, get a coffee, whatever that is. But I
think just this week has been more just fused around

(28:42):
trying to get as much sleep as I possibly can,
as long.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
As everybody doesn't include David Vassay. You know what I'm sayings.

Speaker 9 (28:49):
Exactly, you don't want to do any better?

Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yeah, you don't want to go. Yeah with that freak
you get, you'll end up in a very compromising situations
that they're real weirdo's.

Speaker 9 (29:00):
That's fair, I hear you.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
I tell you that one time Eth your nut hit
and went into his hotel room unannounced. Guy was wearing
nipple tassels. We love you, Ben, hey, and you're doing
so great and it's great to watch you compete. And
it's always fun to watch a young guy come up
and have success and find out that he belongs in
the major leagues. It's it's really gratifying for all the fans.

(29:24):
So thank you so much. Stay healthy and keep playing hard.
God bless you awesome.

Speaker 9 (29:29):
Thank you guys so much. I'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Listen. I love that Casparis.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
You roll up to the bigs and they hand you
number seventy eight and you're like, thanks a lot. The
next thing you know, Bang, I'm gonna make it mine,
Make this mine.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
They couldn't even go with seventy seven, like Mecklenburg the Snowbooze.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
Hey, Ben hout that interview you go with La It
was great. They asked me about nipple tassels.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Well, that's what Dave's famous for, all right. He was
raised to jump clown room. Matt Lauer or the or
the joker and where's the tasks? And Fred perfumes his
mass although we have to say Matt, I mean we're
on on a show the Fred's overwhelming cologne has dissipated considerately. Well,

(30:18):
we had to open the door. We might have to
consider closing the door. And we got a package. Oh,
Sharon Bellio dropped off a package for us.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (30:29):
I don't know, let's take it's already opened.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Kate's, Kate's. That's not your mail man, it's for me.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
Oh what have we got?

Speaker 1 (30:36):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (30:37):
I know what this is?

Speaker 1 (30:37):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (30:38):
It's a hat like a Shriner's fez.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
No, it's a cool hat. It's like a I think
it's like a Portland uh something. Look at that.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Oh that's cool. It's in the font.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
I think it's an Oakland A's.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
It's their affiliate something Sacramento, is it?

Speaker 3 (30:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Oh, there you go?

Speaker 3 (30:58):
How about that? What an I look?

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, that's a good looking cap. Oh and he sent
us some stickers for our door black market barbecue. Uh huh,
very nice. A Frogman card. Put that on the air.
It could be a T shirt in it for you here, Matt,
I think this is yours.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
This is a medium T shirt. Matt.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
There we go, there, there you go. He says, there's
something in here for Matt, like a medium te whatever,
it's a medium, you know, it's for me.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
And I was holding up Fletcher's T shirts the other
day because he also wears an adult medium, and I
was like, this, this would fit mess.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Look at that. It's got a cool front pocket on
this T shirt in the shape.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Black Market barbecue double medium's Matt, look at you take
one home for Ralph. He's still staring at the TV.
Was it just snow?

Speaker 2 (31:46):
What's what is a shirt with the number of the day.
It was a real wild morning at the house. You
were like, stay home, be with your family. I was like,
you know what, I'm gonna come up today, stay home tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
Is just trying to be helpful man.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Beautiful.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, this is a cool hat.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Thank you, listener. Listener, you mister McDavid Connor McDavid sent
you a hat.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Brooks D. Brooks McDavid out of Tucson. Thank you. What
a beautiful hat.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yeah, beautiful. It's got a p and an anchor. Are
they the pirates? Are they the It's a really cool it.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
Might be a city connect connect gang.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Uh A's themed p anchor. Yeah. I think it's just
it's something. I mean, it's right here. It just says,
a's themed p anchor fitted hat at the MLB shop.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
But what does it mean it's their minor league team,
the Stockton Ports.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, thank you Stockton, the Stockton Ports. You love the
port I love Stockton. Who doesn't.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
I'm proud to be drugged free in the San Joaquin Valley.
I don't know about you, guys.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
We'll have more patch us some money on AMPHI seventy
LA sports Neck. Big thank you to Ben Casparius. Join
us in the last segment. Enjoyable conversation with the young
man got the win down in Miami throwing four and
two thirds. David Vass'll be along next hour. Get you

(33:24):
ready for Dodgers Diamondbacks coming up at six forty pm.
And remember we're giving away that eighty minute massage or
facial at Burke Williams. At some point during the show.
We'll do it, let's say, in the next half hour.
We won't make you wait all the way till five thirty.
We'll do it between now and the bottom of the
next forty minutes, bottom of the next hour.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
Happy Asian American Pacific Islander Month. Everybody, we have not forgotten.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
We do that every day.

Speaker 6 (33:52):
Well, I mean we will American Facific Islander Asian or American.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Well, I heard that Tim Kate's a real dynamic duo
at nighttime and a real special friendship Tim Kates and
Colin Yee.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah, they have forged a friend him.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
And his special Asian younger man friend, Colin Yee.

Speaker 6 (34:17):
Asian American Pacificarland.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Happy Asian American Pacific Islander Month, Colin Yee. And uh,
did you guys not do a promotional zen Asian American
Pacific Islander video?

Speaker 4 (34:30):
Yeah, here it is, guys. Check out this all right, Colin,
what do we know for launch?

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Dude?

Speaker 4 (34:34):
We got a long Mexican on Friday night?

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Okay, right, you're right.

Speaker 10 (34:41):
I love some sushi Bingo. There's a Rouse right down
the street. We can go to Zen Sushi right inside
the Ralphs. In fact, you need to go to zench
Sushi inside the Rouse at your local participating ralph store
and scan that QR code to join the.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
Sweet Life Challenge. It's really easy go in to a
participating Ralphs.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
I just want to counter fine.

Speaker 4 (35:05):
It's right next to the deli counter.

Speaker 10 (35:06):
You can't easy to walk in QR code, scan it,
then you fill it out and enter to win a
chance for the sweet life at an upcoming baseball game
in the sweet premium parking. Great food, great drinks, and
while you're signing up for the contest, make sure to pick.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Up some Zench sushi. It is fantastic. Here we go.

Speaker 10 (35:26):
We got the Mother's Day platters.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
This is fantastic.

Speaker 10 (35:29):
You got the crunchy you got the crunchy dragons, you
got the crunchy invitation crab up here.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
This is fantastic.

Speaker 10 (35:37):
These are just for mom Mother's Day platters. They also
got the wolves just sitting there. Got the tuna rolls,
you got the rules. There's a huge selection Zench at
their local Rouse scanning QR code.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Give me some more college.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
They got platters, They got rolls.

Speaker 11 (35:57):
If you're on the go and just need something really quick,
they have these excellent rice balls, the black pepper, beef onigity,
oh uzo, salmon mayo on Oh all right, so pick
those up.

Speaker 9 (36:17):
Salmon.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
I don't think that's how you say it. Let me
trust Colin.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
I don't want to.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Let's get vic on no.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
I think we'll be good with that. Call us half Chinese, dude,
he's half Japanese, but his last name is Ye.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Chinese.

Speaker 11 (36:29):
Really quick. They have these excellent rice balls, the black
pepper beef Oniguity and the Yuzu salmon Mayo.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
I thought you guys were going to be singing Asian
American Pacific Islander. That's what it was sold to me.

Speaker 6 (36:41):
And Sushi spot Vision American Sisi Calander, just the cosion
American Sis Garland.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Well, we have a couple of texts.

Speaker 7 (36:52):
Mad about that, the Secret Texts five brought to you
by your so called Toyota dealers.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
We make it easy to a sir.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
And degree ohnidery.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
What if I'm a redheaded white man who lives in Vancouver,
Happy Asian American Pacific Islander Month.

Speaker 6 (37:13):
Yeah, you're in Asia, sister Islander.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
I think redheads can claim it all.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
I'm half Japanese, yet I look like Whitey on the
Moon with my round green eyes, and I receive no
recognition about my bloodline until it is outwardly stated. And
I take umbrage with these non Asian American Pacific Islanders
asking if they can be included in our month just

(37:44):
for betting and impregnating an Asian woman. I know the
distribution of credit is more the forte of the show
before you, but please be a little more judicious with
who can and cannot celebrate this hallowed month.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yeah, that's a tough lot right there. You know, half Japanese.
You want to celebrate your mother or Japanese. Was like,
what are you talking about, Whitey.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
That's like being Bob Marley's kid, and you're like, I'm
Bob Marley's kid. You're like, yeah, but you're three quarters white.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Welcome to the party.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Listening to the podcast and the Japanese flare of Jackie
chan A a Chinese guy and the Karate Kid was
pretty great, but not as great as when Vic the
Brick boasted of the Last Samurai with Tom Cruise as
being the best representation of Japanese culture ever. It's a
true statement Happy Asian American Pacific Islander Month. I will

(38:49):
say this, there is no Japanese movies that you can watch.
They never made movies in Japan. There's no movie makers
in Japan, there's no actors in Japan, there's no film genre.
So of course the best representation of Japanese culture on

(39:10):
film is Tom Cruise. I mean, they'd never made a
movie in Japan. No, at least I pushed back with
gung ho. Yeah, but those were all you know, we
saved Japanese movies by making that.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Marcel, I've never seen one.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
I've never seen one.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
I don't exist. What do you expect?

Speaker 3 (39:35):
We have a coworker that is perfumed crazy, but we
tolerate it because she has giant ham Fred has big cans.
But I don't care. I'm tired of the cologne.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
He didn't play in your reindeer games when you were
poking and prod and asking what he was wearing. So
just flat out tell him, don't wear the cologne tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
Did you believe that's sexy scene?

Speaker 2 (39:59):
When that it was dressing tom Cruise, very sensual, subtle
but sexy.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
My managed not to get ear warmed by the lebron
Can Shoot threes or the Asian American Pacific Islander clip,
but I did spend the entire weekend shouting, bitch, I'm
a cow. Just as I'm getting over that, I now
have bald heads, Kelly Way, my wife is going to
hate me.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
My wife.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
I gotta tell you. After that ad by Kate's and
Colin Yee, I didn't know that Caliny was half Japanese
until he started pronouncing those words like that on Eagy.
It's not how you say it.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
I'm gonna buy it. I mean I'm gonna buy it.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
Want to run over the row?

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Said no, I meant Collins pronunciation. Did you always Saidchipotle?
He always said tacos, tacos, tacos Chipotle. Yeah, that's a
guy who's been way too much time alone. Yeah, he
looks in the mirror and he's seeing how his lips
of tacos Nigri tacos, no doubt Chipotle on nigrim, Tornado, Tornado, montagna.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Stay with us, We're just getting started. Oh yeah, two
and a half more hours of great sports tiving away
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