October 25, 2017 • 39 mins
Doug tells you why game 1 of the World Series was the perfect length and why pace of play matters in sports. He discusses former NBA commissioner David Stern's comments on marijuana and whether it's a good idea to let athletes use it. Plus, pitcher Brandon Morrow from the Dodgers stops by to talk about their game 1 win over the Astros.
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This is the best of the dog Got Leap Show
on Fox Sports Radio. Boom Up America, Doug Gottlieb Show,
Fox Sports Radio, coming to you from the red hot
City of Angels, where the Dodgers opped out to a
one game to un lead, where a Lonzo balls in
the crosshairs of John Wall and the Wizards, and we
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got two viable playoff teams in the NFL. But we're
here to talk about all of your teams and frankly,
all of your problems, America. That's what we do here.
We'll talk about weed in the NBA should why I
do not believe it should be on legal Uh, even
though every event I've been to now in southern California,
as soon as the event is over, my children asked me,
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what's that smell? Before I said that get, I have
to say that that is uh. Somebody may have broken
wind anyway. Uh. We'll talk about Marquel Foltz jump shot
being uh boobard a little bit. And we gotta talk
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with Travis Benjamin from the l A Chargers who took
one to the house. We'll ask him what it's been
like to play this first season in Los Angeles. He's
basically their home run hitter. He's there, justin Turner, which
brings us to last night where I took my son.
As you guys know, if you listen to the entire show,
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my son Hays Gotlib joined us on the way. My
thanks to my boy BC Brendan Cotter, who picked up
my son and took him to the Dodger game. I'll
let me just kind of quick summation. If you haven't
been a Dodger Stadium, I think it's the best place
to watch a sporting event in the United States. I do,
I do um. I love the Rose Bowl. But when
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the Rose Bowl does not host that many events and
it hasn't been even though it's been modernized several times,
it hasn't been as modernised as well, And it's just
I don't know. Maybe there's more you can do in
Dodger Stadium. Maybe it's the proximity to downtown Los Angeles.
I'm not really sure. Like everything about Dodger Stadium is perfection,
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Like they it's a perfect baseball stadium. You got the
parking structures all around, you have you come in to
a certain interest for your level only so they don't
have riff raff if you have good seats, and if
you have bad seats, it's really hard to trapes down
to the good seats. Like actually kind of like that.
I love the fact that they kept all of the
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same stylings of the nineteen fifties, so it feels it
feels like nineteen fifties Vegas or nineteen fifties Palm Springs,
which is what nineteen fifties Los Angeles looked like. When
in the nineteen fifties they built Dodger Stadium, all the
while the Jumbo Tron they'll been redone is still in
the same place. So it's not like Wriggly I'm sure,
and I've been to Wriggley and I love Wriggley, but
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it's almost a little bit too old Fenway. Here's why
Fenway sucks. It's so uncomfortable to sit there, and seats
aren't all pointed towards home plate that it's just not
It's one of those places looks really cool, check it
off the check A box. But it's not like I'd
love to go watch a game there. The sight lines
are are clean. Um, you have the background of the
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mountains and the sunset and the palm trees. I really
like it. It does take like an hour and a
half to get there from the freeway, when if there
was no traffic it would take five minutes. But I
love to understatement and a great night with my son,
who's eight years old, went to his first World Series
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game and he loved it. And he loved it. As
we point out, he joined us yesterday. He's a kershaw guy,
he's a lefty. They share the same birthday, they all.
He also pitches, so all those things check check check.
The dude had a great time and even better, yet
it was over in two and a half hours, Like
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are you kidding me? And for baseball you can tell me,
and you're right. Baseball does not have a time limit.
That doesn't necessarily mean it's a good thing. That doesn't
mean it should go long. Like this is like a movie, right,
movies they have you don't want to cut out the really,
really good stuff, But you gotta have some editorial discipline,
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hive like you'r you may win some awards when you
have this three hour epic, but you're not gonna win
at the box office too often when you have three
three and a half hour movies. I get it. To
an hour and a half hour and forty especially especially um,
I don't know if you if you have children, you
know this when a new movie comes out or you're
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trying to figure out what to go see. The two things,
the two or three things you'll check on right first
is parental rating. Second of all, is uh, what time
is it showing? And the third thing is what ramos
the length of the movie? Blank to the movie? If
it says ninety minutes, You're like, I'm in anything less sure?
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How bad could it be? Like I took my kids
wants to see uh uh one of the Cats and
Dogs movies. They had like a series of cats and
dogs movies and it was awful. But it was like
seventy five minutes long. Done, Take all my money alright,
loaded up with popcorn, candy, sugar high, come home, sugarlow, collapse, Night,
Night by Bye, two hours and twenty eight minutes of
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pure glory. Now, some of it was kaikel and and
Kershaw we're dealing. Some of it is this is how
baseball has played. Strikeout, strikeout, strikeout, some walks and home runs.
All all of the scoring was done by home run.
Last night at Dodger Stadium, but some of it also
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was homeplate umpiring. Hey, you want to think of speed
things along, ha ha ha, sit down, and that's what
we had. Like we can get to these subtle nuances
of baseball. Like I I actually impersonally of the belief
that it was a mistake to pitch Kenley Jansen. Last night.
Brendan Morrow came in, got a one two three inning.
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They did foul. They did foul one off and one
was a flair was hit the right field. They caught too.
But I'm a I'm a believer that the less time,
especially when you're American national, they don't see Kenny Jansen.
They haven't seen Kenley Jansen this year, and I know
it's a cutter, but the less you see him, the
harder it is to pick up late in this series.
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And so I especially when you have a game tonight,
I don't want to say I don't want to see him.
And sure only three batters saw him, so there's not
that much damage done. But it was the middle of
the order. When you got a two run lead, you
can bring in Kenley Jansen after give putting one runner on.
You're allowed to do that. You know, moral's pitching, Well
leave him out there and hide Kenley Jansen because you
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haven't seen his stuff and it's still the secret stuff. Right.
The way I the way I relate to not showing
Kenley Jansen stuff is if you've ever been to a
restaurant when you're really really hungry. Ever been a restaurant
you're really really hungry, and you're like, man, that was amazing,
And then you go back a week later you're not
that hungry, but you set up the date and you
sit down and you order the exact same thing, Like
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it wasn't really that good, right, because you've kind of
adjusted your whole mentality to it. But I'd make the
case that's one of the things that led to the
Cubs bullpen struggling last year in the World Series and
at times in the playoffs, right that Joe Madden only
used the same three guys over and over again, and
at some point you're like, okay, I know what's coming,
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and once you've so much of it's about how many
times I've seen a guy. In addition to the more
you use them, the less they're likely to locate. But
I mean, like, look, the longest games in World Series
history Red Sox Rockies was four hours nineteen Even this
year the Cubs Gnats had a four our thirty seven
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minute marathon. The Indians and Yankees Game five, which was
a great game and a and a deciding game, was
three hours and thirty eight minutes. Like they're just long,
so you can be you can be one of these
guys that says a baseball still has to hold true
to its virtues. Baseball can't have a timeline. Baseball can't
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have like that's great. Look they still saying God bless
America and had the seventh inning stretch and they did
both verses of take me out to the ball game.
You know some places only do one verse. They did.
They do both verses. They had time for the national anthem,
they had time for the jet flyover, They had time
they had they did not have any I think they
had one mid inning pitching change. Kaikel was brought out
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in the middle of the game. Outside of that, which
to me, I don't I don't need a warm up guy.
All right, you want to cut down on time. Two
things you can do is if you're gonna make a switch,
you don't have to go. And if you go to them.
If you go to the mound, you're making a pitching change.
You can't go to the man. Does the manager go
out there and go like, uh, imagine Tyron Loeu going
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out in the middle of the game, going, how you feeling,
Lebron feel like coming out? Now? I feel good? All right,
catch your breath for a second. I'm just contending, like
I'm talking to you. Okay, all right, here we go.
We got two outs, two on Oh no, it's basketball.
We're down five. There's a minute thirty to go. Catch
your breath, you guys ready, okay, good? You know we're
running and you go back in. If you want to
speed it up even greater, you make a pitching change.
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Just point, just like the just like what we're doing
with uh intentional intentional walk you know. Point you you're out,
bring a guy in from the from the bullpen, and
when he comes in from the bullpen, he's pitching immediately.
They do have mounds in the bullpen, correct, They are
warmed up in the bullpen right then. They don't need
anything else. Let's go. But the biggest change was he
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had a homeplate umpire that was doing this ha and
it was great. I got three home runs. I got
outstanding pitching. I got eleven strike out some Kershaw. I
still got to see the Dodgers. I still had some
great energy and everyone was home before o'clock coming out
of Dodger Stadium. No matter how far away you lived,
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I got it all. Here's Dave Roberts on Clayton Kershaw.
Tonight was one of those nights. I think the first
time in a while that we've really seen all three
of his pitches syncd up um. He just was repeating
the delivery, held the velocity, was still in the baseball
where he needed to where he wanted to very talented
team over there, and for him to get ahead, keep
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him off balance, work in front, to back up and
down to all quadrants. I mean, this was a special
night for Clayton. Now. It was. It was that was.
It was a big night for Clayton Kershaw. And he
got through the seventh inning, even after Corey Seger bobbled
what should have been a surefire double playball to get
him out of the seventh inning, to which anybody who's
watched baseball was like, oh WHOA. You know, almost always
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an error is what precede a home run. It's the
two things that usually happened in baseball is there's an
error or a picture thinks they get strike three and
they get squeezed by the home plate umpire and they
roll their eyes or they shake their head and the
crowd goes uh. And then the next bitch it's a tater, right,
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and Kerkshaw kept it together, had incredible rhythm. I'll say
this about the heat. It was hot. It was It
was really really hot. Now, it wasn't Southern heat, wasn't
Midwestern heat. It wasn't summer heat in other parts of
the country where it's super humid. But it was hot.
It was a hundred degrees at game time. And that
that's hot for any place. But I would also point
out that that's more like baseball weather then freezing cold
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October weather in Yankee Stadium or at Progressive Field or
wherever the hell Minnesota plays in that outdoor stadium right
like all of those places. That's these guys are actually
more used to playing in the heat because baseball is,
in fact a summer sport. Has always been a summer sport. Uh.
So big for Kershaw, big for the Dodgers, does not,
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by any chance mean this series is over because he
got Verlander going tonight for the Astros, which is their
strongest likelihood for an outstanding pitching performance and a win.
You got the Justin Turner story. The best thing about
the Justin Turner thing is he's the he's the guy
that all the kids love. So when you're sitting there
next to an eight year old and we tried to
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start to wave twice, that didn't work. We just did
we try to start to wave. We got hats. There's
like one foul ball like that that was how well
pitched a game that was I think there were less
than ten foul balls the entire day. Um. But in
an effort to keep his attention, like Justin Turner comes
up and everybody pays attention. Of course, he hits the
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game winning home run. A guy who was d f
A designated for assignment by the New York Mets is
so far the most prodigious hitter we've seen in the
postseason in the modern era of baseball. Wow. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Doug gott Leaps Show
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to quote the great poet Laureate Snoop Snoop Dogg when
he said, and I'm paraphrased, man I unquote a direct
quote is his daddy put him in a lion's debb
with some pork chop drawers on it, with some pork
chop drawers on That's a great line. It's a great line.
Only Stoop can say that on National TV on T
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n T and go like, yeah, that that actually is
incredible basketball analysis. It was so his order. Here's the
white guy translation. Can I give you the white guy translation?
His dad's writing checks that his body can't cash. Oh
we went top gun. He went top gun. Thank you,
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thank you very much, thank you very much. Um. So,
part of it is it's it's important to remember that
Alonzo's nineteen. It's important remember Alonzo is not fully healthy
right now. And I do agree with Scott Brooks. You
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guys here what Scott Brooks said yesterday. Scott Brooks, who
was a friend of mine, friend of the show, may
get him on today, may get him on later on
here in the season. We'll see. I mean, he's got
a ton of people because he went to UC Irvine.
He lived in southern California in the off season, even
late in his career as the Oklahoma City thunder coach.
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So when he comes back, family, friends, everybody around here.
He doesn't have a ton of time. But he did,
he did say that, like, look his dad, he said, Like,
my dad left when I was two. My dad left
when I was two. Essentially, So the fact that we're
getting on him for getting on LaVar for what he's
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saying and what he's doing for a Lonzo ball, you know,
he has a he has a completely different sensibility in
terms of fathers, you know, whether they're being helicopter parents
or whatever. Um And I understand that, but like, let's
not pretend like the var is perfect. Alonzo does not
have good defensive fundamentals. Frankly does not have good shot fundamentals,
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and his body he is not ready to play in
the NBA. Like there's a there's a reason that guys
are better in their second year. It's not just because
uh it's it's not just because they've seen everything. That's
part of it. Adjusting to pitching, Adjusting to the speed
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of pitching will help you if you're a hitter. Adjusting
to the speed of uh of the NBA game or
the NFL game will help you as a player in
the NBA NFL. It's also because it gives you a
year to build your body, to change your body. You
need that year where you don't have games that just
wear you down. And he hasn't had that opportunity. He
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got done playing in college. Then he started prepping again
with his dad for the NBA draft. But they're not
gonna fix his shot, then not gonna fix his body.
Then then he gets drafted, and he goes to summer league.
From summerleague right to training camp, Like it's you're kind
of on a rocket ship and you really need the
time away. You need the time to build your body.
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Look no further than Ben Simmons. Like his jump shots
still not there, but his body is better. He grew
two inches. Like playing that first year is really hard.
You really kind of needed a red shirt year. And
that's what these guys have all done. Um, but his
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dad is not doing him any favors. Calling out the
John Walls of the world, calling out the Steph Curries
of the world. Because one the guys he doesn't call
out like a pet check Beverley, They've always taken it
personal They're always gonna take it out on you. They're
always gonna come coming for you, coming for you. But
in the NBA, there's nowhere to hide. That's a position
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to which you can't hide. If you're if you're not ready.
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The New York Giants are they're not good now. Part
of it is they just have injuries. Sterling Shepherd's been
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hurt obviously, Odell Beckham Jr. Is out for the year.
R Marshall's hurt. Those are your top three wide receivers.
But Brandon Marshall wasn't good before he was ever hurt,
right he was. He looked over the hill before he
ever got injured. Sterling Shepherds had some drops, and Odell
Beckham Jr. Was hurt to start the year, get got back,
and as talented as O. B J is, he occasionally
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will have a little bit of drops. They hadn't been
aambled the football. They haven't been able to protect Eli
and though their defense was rebuilt last year and made
the playoffs, there's some flaws to this roster. But there's
something that people do now, um, and I think we
see through it a little bit. It's called martyrdom, right,
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It's called martyrdom. And here's what I mean about martyrdom.
Jerry Reach is the general manager of the New York Giants.
He said this in regards to their roster. This is
the National Football League. If you can't take criticism, you
should quit. You know, if you if you're if you
a general manager of a football team, or if you're
a player, or you're a quarterback or you played any position,
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if you can't take criticism, you should quit. This is
the roster that I put together on the reason we're
one and six, but we do have to play better
as a team. Again, we lose together, we win together.
I believe everybody is accountable here for what goes on.
Our coaches are accountable, our players are accountable. We're one
and six together. But you can put it all on me, right,
because he's Hey, we're doing this together, but you can
put it all on me. Martyrdom is a display of
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feigned or exaggerated suffering to obtain the sympathy or admiration
of others. You haven't hadn been in your life. It
does that, right. I mean I just my boss and
parking and traffic and not make enough money and taxes
and my mom's driving me crazy. My wife's driving me crazy,
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and my dad's sick, and my dog is I gotta
put my dog down or like, Uh, you know, I've
just had a really rough rough go of things, and
this is Look, I understand that the business isn't doing well,
but you can put it all on me because I
haven't been doing a good enough job of managing my
I know, I know Jimmy hasn't met his sales now,
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but you can put that on me. I know Billy,
you know Billy was Billy had his fly down and
had too minutes to drinks around. Uh that client we
were trying to reel in and kind of made an
ass of himself. But you can put it on me
because Billy's under my watch. That's what Jerry Reese is doing. Right. Look,
we win as a team, we lose the team. Put
it on me. I know we're we're one in six.
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I mentioned we're one in six with one and six. Hey,
that's bad. I can take criticism, criticize me all you want.
He's doing the martyrdom thing, which works, usually works, but
at some point we're like, yeah, you know what, it
is your fault. You did build an off a bad
offensive life. You did build an offensive life. The martyrdom
thing is it's it's hard to see if it's self
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deprecation or if it's you know, if it's or if
it's really just or if it's taking the bullets for others,
or if it's martyrdom trying to feign or exaggerate, suffering
to obtain sympathy. I feel bad for Jerry Reese right,
done such a good job, rebuilt a defense. George Jenkins
been awesome. Wasn't healthy Odell Beckham Jr. You know he's
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the one who drafted Beeldeld Beckham Jr. People wondered, but
he missed the first four games. Conflin was mad. And
then when he Alway's totally worth it. And you know what, Uh,
they made the change with coordinators, you know, taking the
play calling out of the head coach's hands, and and
they won a game. And if they were healthy, and
and I feel bad for Jerry's He's done so many
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the right things, and the injuries have just decimated them.
We should give him another year see if the Giants
buy it. Be sure to catch live editions of the
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Radio app. He's Travis Benjamin, He's from the U. He
hits home runs, give him the ball, scores touchdowns right
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at one touch, at one touch at wide receiver touchdown,
and takes a kick to the house as well. How
are you I'm doing good? Man? Hey listen. I I
saw some video when you played against the Giants and
Philip Rivers said, run somewhere fast and get open right.
Is that essentially the game plan for you on a
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right on the field. He would tell me it would
speed and just gets open here. And I put about that.
What's what's changed with you, guys? The last couple oh
and four to start a couple of games, probably three
of which you you should have one to start the season.
That that's the story historically the last couple of years
with the Chargers, games you should win, you find a
way to lose. What's changed the last couple of weeks.
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Just get tired of losing? Man? When you when you
get at a certain point of the scene where and
then we were tired of losing them this way, We're
tired of science happening in his way. So if we
put four or five best effort and continues to push
and considers those times we need. Yeah, but how do
you how do you do that? Like, look, you've you've
run into a bad stretchy right, Like you were with
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the Browns and they would lose games, and then you're
with the Charges and like you're losing game. How do
you get out of that mindset? Because you know and
maybe you don't have it. I mean, athletes don't have
as much as fans where it gets close and the
expectation is something's gonna go wrong instead of the expectation
something's gonna go right. How do you how does that change?
Just keep pushing knowing that we all professional in this
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league and they pay us to win. So once you
have them mentally in the mindset to go out there
and just keep pushing and take a play by play
and somehow, some way the winds come on our side.
Stull gotlieve show. That's the voice of Travis Benjamin home
run hitter. Essentially for the l A Charges, they go
on the road take on the New England Patriots. Uh
this upcoming Sunday, that's a ten o'clock West Coast start time.
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A couple of things quickly on last week, Uh, Philip
Rivers said, Hey, we talked about the fact that sometimes
we don't have that that good at home crowd, Like
we gotta play through what what was actually said about
the crowd and how to play through the fact that
there were so many, for example, Bronco fans this past week.
There's always our man said, knowing that we need to
do every and facility and high things goes that there's
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always gonna be the other team got more fans in us.
But we just go out and take eating every game
as a home as an a weekend. Don't matter how
how loud they kid, just go out there and play. Okay,
Now you've got the Patriots this week, and up until
Sunday night, the Patriots hadn't stopped anybody. Now, all of
a sudden they've taken on the Atlanta Falcons, who they
got Julio, they got a ton of talent. And yet
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all of a sudden that the Patriots starts stopping people,
what are they doing? What do you see that the
Patriots have done differently to be more successful defensively of
late as opposed to earlier in the season. Apparently a
pretty good team. And you know the way Bill Belichick
are good at a justice to the teams that and
run information and plays that they want to see. But
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we just gotta go up there, continues to compete and
continue to play hard and hopefully come out with to win.
Isn't it weird though? How this division is? Like you
start the year Chiefs or five and oh and you guys,
I mean you guys probably didn't turn the ball over,
probably could have beaten the Chiefs. Now of a sudden,
they've lost too in a row. Not really sure what
to make the Raiders, not really sure what to make
a Denver as you guys could have beaten Denver up there,
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did beat him at your place. And now you guys
have quietly kind of won three games in a row.
What do you make of the f C West? It's
a tough division, man, even every week, if don't matter
who in division plays each other, it's gonna go to
the y and hopefully if we keep the winning streak
going on and hopefully we'll be on the top of end. Okay,
you're the a f C Special Teams Player of the Week.
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What do you get with that? Just to play it
on the back end? Go forward and we can do
it again. You know what you need? You need one
of those um, what's it to you? Has? Now? The
turnover chain? You need? Yeah? You need you need like
one of those chains like when you make up make
a special teams play where you can put on like
a special team's chain. What do you think about that? Oh,
that'll be great. Man. Hopefully we can get a couple
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more than I can invent and we can make up
something that hopefully we can get special Team Player of
the Week award. I like that, Like you score touch,
you take one to the house. You should have that
same like turnover chain, something with the U on or
maybe with the lightning a charger's lightning bolt on it
and put it on, like whoever makes a good play
gets taken from Now. Do you know who came up
with the turnover chain? At to you? Um? I think
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that as the coordinator came up throughout earlier in the
year and they just rode with it. Man hasn't been
a grateful college football so far? Yeah, so you approved
as a member of the U fraternity. You approve of it? Yeah,
I approve and I love it. Man, even never I've
wanted to they come. Yeah. Nothing says Miami more than
a gold chat. Hey listen, congrats the winning player of
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the week. Thanks so much for joining us. Safe travels
to New England. Appreciate being our guest on Fox Sports Radio.
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Let's talk about weed, um, and I guess our sensibilities
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about weed obviously have changed as a country, haven't they.
Like I remember just being I just I don't know,
Like my parents never smoked weed. It was never round
my house, so I didn't I didn't even know like
the smell of meryl on until maybe maybe late in
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high school. More college and it wasn't even my first
year wasn't even a year. Notre Dame is more in between.
Notre Dame in Oklahoma State has spent a year junior
college and my girlfriend the time went to U see
Santa Barbara and some weed up there, right, Um, So
I don't know, I just I wasn't in the crowd
in high school that smoke weeds around weed. I just
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I was. I was in that athlete crowd. But I
do know that we had this completely different sense of
what marijuana was reef madness, going back to the sixties
and seventies, and it was thought to be a gateway drug,
which to anybody who says it's a gateway drug, asked,
how many people do you know that have tried marijuana?
How many people then have dropped acid? Or like, just's
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just there's no correlation between smoking weed and doing all
those things. Should be pointed out that weed is stronger now,
The strands are stronger now than they were ten, fifteen,
twenty years ago, and the laws against them are weaker now. Um,
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we're decriminalizing marijuana, if not making legal across the United States.
That something's gonna happen, and some of it is are
changing sensibilities, and some of it is governments need to
create more revenue. Right. It's the same reason that lotteries
exist in all these states which like no, no, no,
can't do lottery, can't can't do gambling. We'll let you
do lotteries because it helps fund schools. Can't do weed.
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Wait a second, Colorado made how much off of weed sales?
Nevada has made how much off of weed sales? Okay,
we can do eat um and and and look. Uh.
The NFL, the NBA, Major League Baseball, they're lessening the
punishment for testing positive for marijuana. But I told you
(28:53):
before that the NFL's marijuana policy is not a drug test.
It is very important. Yes, you can get suspended for
smoking testing positive for marijuana. Okay, it's an intelligence test.
You have one weed test in the off season, and
if you pass it, they don't test you the rest
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of the year. In other words, you have to be
an idiot to smoke weed before that test. They're not
even saying you can't smoke weed. They're saying, look, if
we told you you couldn't smoke weed for this period
of time and you can't do without it, then you
one are dumb and to probably have a problem. The NBA, uh, similarly,
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has decriminalized marijuana. Guys aren't getting suspended left and right
for marijuana use. David Stern, who of course put marijuana
on the bands substance list back in the nineties, was
on the Uninterrupted with Al Harrington, former NBA player, and
had this to say, I think we gotta change to
collect the boarding agreement and let you do what's legal
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in your state. I don't think if marijuana is now
in the process of being legalized, I would think you
should be allowed to do what's legal in your state.
I'm now at the point where personally, I think it
probably should be removed from the band list. I think
there's universal agreement that marijuana for medical purposes should be
completely illegal. I agree for medical purposes like I just do.
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Like my dad when he was dying of cancer. I
remember sitting down at the kitchen table like hey, and
my my dad was one. He's like he didn't even
take advil, Like hey, man, you're in pain, Like I said, Dad,
why don't you get medical marijuana? And No, I wasn't thinking,
you know, so I could borrow some. I was thinking
it just alleviates pain. I'm all for, even for the NFL, Like,
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it's much better than using it for than bike it
in or oxy things that, you know, things are much
stronger addictive. What are they called? H uh? Opioids? Did devoid? Like?
The major problem the problem with outright legalization is that
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you're still running a business and regardless of whether it's
legal to the joe on the street one, there's a
personal self discipline element to it, but too even more
important like remember in the NBA you have guaranteed contracts. Okay,
so let's say you like smoking weed and you sign
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a four year guaranteed contract. Now, do I think that
marijuana is highly addictive? No? I think I think that
has some addictive qualities to it. Smoking is highly addictive.
There's other things. Alcohol is highly addictive. I think it's addictive.
I don't think it's the problem with it is like
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do you become a pothead and it's legally just smoke?
Like it's going to hurt your performance as much as
you can say, well you know, then it's performance based business.
You can just no, no, no, it's not like the NFL.
You have if you're having performance issues. In the NBA,
you have performance issues, you've got a guaranteed contract. What
are they supposed to do? So? Can you use it
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to alleviate pain? Yeah? But I believe in the collective
Artner Agreement you can get a doctor's note and have
medical marijuana's just like in the NFL. I'm all for
in terms of managing pain. Should absolutely you should do.
You should mirror what what states have done, which is
kind of decriminalize it right like it's frowned upon. We
don't want you to do it. You get a doctor's note,
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will let you do it. You've got chronic knee pain,
you got chronic back pain, and this helps. Fine, We're
not gonna chase you all over. On the other hand,
we don't want to make it outright legal because we
don't want we don't want dudes waking and bacon every
day and then going to shoot around, coming home, collapse
and eating Funians, eating Cheetos and just showing up at
work like that's not what we want in our business.
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Much like at your place of work. We could be
legal in your state, that doesn't mean you can show
up to work having smoked weed. Be sure to catch
live editions of The Doug gott Leap Show weekdays at
three p m. Easter noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio
and the I Heart Radio app. Welcome in Brendamorrow. Who
got the hold? Uh? Ten pitches, seven strikes, A couple
(33:20):
of snares to left field? Uh that key k went
and caught and he joins us now on the Doug
Gottlip Show on Fox Sports Radio. But how are you good?
Thanks for having me? Okay, seventh inning, you're watching and
you know how baseball works, right like when especially starting pitchers.
Those guys are curious creatures. It feels like that Kershaw
is finally going to get out of the seventh and
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Corey bobbles that ball at short trying to turn double play.
What were you thinking? Um, you know, I was already
tossing a little bit at the time, so I didn't see, um,
the player exactly what happened. So I was just trying to,
you know, focus in on the time. But you know,
knowing Curse, he's not gonna let that affect him. He's
he's was dialed in all game, and was you know,
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obviously continued to be dominant after that, and then you know,
eight three pitches they decided to go to you. Was
it was it planned out previously? Was it the you know,
the seventh inning stretches long, and then of course the
bottom of the seventh was long, and so you worry
about tighten up the back. Take me through what happened
to allow you to come in in that Eighthenning, Well,
(34:25):
I mean, there's no conversation with me about it. We're
we're down there ready to go when the phone rings. Um,
But I knew I was coming in because you can
see on TV. Uh, they were congratulating cursing in the
dugout and I had already been tossing. So it was
a pretty good chance that I was going to be
into the next So I knew. I knew right away
as far as that's concerned, I mean as far as
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game planning and stuff, now they don't. They don't let
us know ahead of time to hey, you're gonna go
into eighth or or whatever. All right, So you're out
there and like, look, this is every kid's dream, right
world series. Plus you have you have a lead. It's
not like a one run lead. It's not like you
come in when the house is on fire. It's a
three to one lead. But you have a very very
dangerous lineup and you're pitching, I believe, against the middle
of the lineup. What's it like just when you're warming up,
(35:08):
trying to get three outs, trying to get to Kenley. Um, sure, yeah,
you know you're you're trying to you know, dial it
in down there, and and for me, I'm trying to
get loose without um, you know, building up too much anxiety. Um,
you know, trying to keep my heart right down. And
that's what I'm trying to have been doing the whole postseason.
You know, it's my first time in the playoffs, and
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obviously I thought a lot about it in the past,
and and just trying to keep those emotions under control
and just remembering that you know, obviously a two run
leads a lot better than one run lead, and you
can go out and attack guys, and if you give
up a you know, solo home run, um, you're still
gonna be okay. So what you can't do is, you know,
give guys free bases, and um, you know, our both
(35:51):
has done an unbelievable job of that all postseason, of
limiting walks and obviously limiting damage, and um you know,
I Reybody's done a great job of that. Brand tomorrow
joining us in the Dugoutlice Show. Yeah, that's the what Like,
that's the worst right when the when, the when, the
when the middle reliever comes in and walks the first
batter after the starter was pitching a gem. Everybody goes
(36:11):
are we go, Um, And but I will tell you this,
having been at the game and watched your reaction when
Gonzalez flied out to left field, Kik had to make
he made it, He had to make up. He had
to make a good run to catch it. I mean
it was it wasn't I mean, it was a snare.
It was you know, it wasn't hit hard or anything. Um,
But when he catches the ball, like there was both
of those balls that were hit to left, you didn't
(36:33):
kind of react. You were just you were very business like.
Is there a thought process that goes to your mind
in order to not overreact and to go to go
yes on the catch or is that just how you
normally are? Well, I think that's normally how I am.
But but yeah, especially you know at this point, you're
not You're not going to be relieved to just get
one out. You know, I'm out there to get three
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and obviously the first out is huge. That takes a
lot of pressure off you, Um and Kiki coming and
making a good play on that on on a ball
that was probably tough to read aball that could have
you know, easily fallen in Um and to get the
first out takes a lot of pressure on you continue
you can continue to be aggressive after that. Um, and
like we said, like you don't want to, you don't
want to give those guys a chance. You don't want to.
(37:15):
You want to start the energy, and they're dug out
giving him, you know, especially the leadoff guy on but
to morrow joining us on the Doug Gottlieb Show. Um,
you can tweet at j d r F. J d
RF is the leading global funder of type one diabetes research.
And of course everybody knows that you're a role model
for people with type one diabetes. My dad had type
(37:36):
two diabetes and I saw that Ken Rosenthal showing off
as bow tie that was on your verified Twitter account. Um,
to represent a you know, a group of people that
have have fought through this. Uh, it feels like it's
it's an even greater accomplishment, isn't it to to do
do as well as you did last night carrying this Uh?
I don't know, you want to say burden, but carrying
(37:57):
the banner of type one diabetes. Sure, yeah, I mean
it's it's an honor for you know, people to look
up to you and and to be that role model
for for kids and parents with with diabetes, and especially
when you're going out there and having success and and
you know, showing them that you can still achieve your
dreams with you know, with diabetes, it's not a death
(38:19):
sentence and and you know you can do whatever you want.
By the way, I always I get caught. I get
confused between the Walter Brimley diabetes and the normal diabetes thing. Right,
did they did they tell you what's the proper pronunciation?
I go with diabetes, but I like I like the
diabetes too. I think that's I just think it's a
funny way to pronounce it. Everything you thought you hoped
(38:41):
and dreamed World Series would be like, yeah, yeah, I
mean it's it's an incredible experience. And you know, I
owe the Dodgers a lot for believing me and bring
me in and spring training and allowing me to compete
for a job and make my way up and continue
to you know, have success here and um continue you know,
(39:02):
to have them put me in situations to have success
and um yeah, I mean it's been it's been a
dream come true. Of course. Listen, the best thing about
your success is it's earned, right, It's earned, And that's
why you got out there last night, and that's why
we'll probably see you tonight if it's close and you
get that opportunity. Wish you the best of luck and
thanks so much for joining us on Fox Sports Radio.
Yeah I hope so, thank you all right spending morrow
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joining us at Tomorrow twenty three is the Twitter account
and uh of course huge Golden State Warriors fan as
well
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We'll talk about weed in the NBA should why I
do not believe it should be on legal Uh, even
though every event I've been to now in southern California,
as soon as the event is over, my children asked me,
(00:46):
what's that smell? Before I said that get, I have
to say that that is uh. Somebody may have broken
wind anyway. Uh. We'll talk about Marquel Foltz jump shot
being uh boobard a little bit. And we gotta talk
(01:08):
with Travis Benjamin from the l A Chargers who took
one to the house. We'll ask him what it's been
like to play this first season in Los Angeles. He's
basically their home run hitter. He's there, justin Turner, which
brings us to last night where I took my son.
As you guys know, if you listen to the entire show,
(01:29):
my son Hays Gotlib joined us on the way. My
thanks to my boy BC Brendan Cotter, who picked up
my son and took him to the Dodger game. I'll
let me just kind of quick summation. If you haven't
been a Dodger Stadium, I think it's the best place
to watch a sporting event in the United States. I do,
I do um. I love the Rose Bowl. But when
(01:52):
the Rose Bowl does not host that many events and
it hasn't been even though it's been modernized several times,
it hasn't been as modernised as well, And it's just
I don't know. Maybe there's more you can do in
Dodger Stadium. Maybe it's the proximity to downtown Los Angeles.
I'm not really sure. Like everything about Dodger Stadium is perfection,
(02:12):
Like they it's a perfect baseball stadium. You got the
parking structures all around, you have you come in to
a certain interest for your level only so they don't
have riff raff if you have good seats, and if
you have bad seats, it's really hard to trapes down
to the good seats. Like actually kind of like that.
I love the fact that they kept all of the
(02:32):
same stylings of the nineteen fifties, so it feels it
feels like nineteen fifties Vegas or nineteen fifties Palm Springs,
which is what nineteen fifties Los Angeles looked like. When
in the nineteen fifties they built Dodger Stadium, all the
while the Jumbo Tron they'll been redone is still in
the same place. So it's not like Wriggly I'm sure,
and I've been to Wriggley and I love Wriggley, but
(02:54):
it's almost a little bit too old Fenway. Here's why
Fenway sucks. It's so uncomfortable to sit there, and seats
aren't all pointed towards home plate that it's just not
It's one of those places looks really cool, check it
off the check A box. But it's not like I'd
love to go watch a game there. The sight lines
are are clean. Um, you have the background of the
(03:15):
mountains and the sunset and the palm trees. I really
like it. It does take like an hour and a
half to get there from the freeway, when if there
was no traffic it would take five minutes. But I
love to understatement and a great night with my son,
who's eight years old, went to his first World Series
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game and he loved it. And he loved it. As
we point out, he joined us yesterday. He's a kershaw guy,
he's a lefty. They share the same birthday, they all.
He also pitches, so all those things check check check.
The dude had a great time and even better, yet
it was over in two and a half hours, Like
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are you kidding me? And for baseball you can tell me,
and you're right. Baseball does not have a time limit.
That doesn't necessarily mean it's a good thing. That doesn't
mean it should go long. Like this is like a movie, right,
movies they have you don't want to cut out the really,
really good stuff, But you gotta have some editorial discipline,
(04:24):
hive like you'r you may win some awards when you
have this three hour epic, but you're not gonna win
at the box office too often when you have three
three and a half hour movies. I get it. To
an hour and a half hour and forty especially especially um,
I don't know if you if you have children, you
know this when a new movie comes out or you're
(04:47):
trying to figure out what to go see. The two things,
the two or three things you'll check on right first
is parental rating. Second of all, is uh, what time
is it showing? And the third thing is what ramos
the length of the movie? Blank to the movie? If
it says ninety minutes, You're like, I'm in anything less sure?
(05:08):
How bad could it be? Like I took my kids
wants to see uh uh one of the Cats and
Dogs movies. They had like a series of cats and
dogs movies and it was awful. But it was like
seventy five minutes long. Done, Take all my money alright,
loaded up with popcorn, candy, sugar high, come home, sugarlow, collapse, Night,
Night by Bye, two hours and twenty eight minutes of
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pure glory. Now, some of it was kaikel and and
Kershaw we're dealing. Some of it is this is how
baseball has played. Strikeout, strikeout, strikeout, some walks and home runs.
All all of the scoring was done by home run.
Last night at Dodger Stadium, but some of it also
(05:52):
was homeplate umpiring. Hey, you want to think of speed
things along, ha ha ha, sit down, and that's what
we had. Like we can get to these subtle nuances
of baseball. Like I I actually impersonally of the belief
that it was a mistake to pitch Kenley Jansen. Last night.
Brendan Morrow came in, got a one two three inning.
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They did foul. They did foul one off and one
was a flair was hit the right field. They caught too.
But I'm a I'm a believer that the less time,
especially when you're American national, they don't see Kenny Jansen.
They haven't seen Kenley Jansen this year, and I know
it's a cutter, but the less you see him, the
harder it is to pick up late in this series.
(06:34):
And so I especially when you have a game tonight,
I don't want to say I don't want to see him.
And sure only three batters saw him, so there's not
that much damage done. But it was the middle of
the order. When you got a two run lead, you
can bring in Kenley Jansen after give putting one runner on.
You're allowed to do that. You know, moral's pitching, Well
leave him out there and hide Kenley Jansen because you
(06:55):
haven't seen his stuff and it's still the secret stuff. Right.
The way I the way I relate to not showing
Kenley Jansen stuff is if you've ever been to a
restaurant when you're really really hungry. Ever been a restaurant
you're really really hungry, and you're like, man, that was amazing,
And then you go back a week later you're not
that hungry, but you set up the date and you
sit down and you order the exact same thing, Like
(07:15):
it wasn't really that good, right, because you've kind of
adjusted your whole mentality to it. But I'd make the
case that's one of the things that led to the
Cubs bullpen struggling last year in the World Series and
at times in the playoffs, right that Joe Madden only
used the same three guys over and over again, and
at some point you're like, okay, I know what's coming,
(07:37):
and once you've so much of it's about how many
times I've seen a guy. In addition to the more
you use them, the less they're likely to locate. But
I mean, like, look, the longest games in World Series
history Red Sox Rockies was four hours nineteen Even this
year the Cubs Gnats had a four our thirty seven
(08:00):
minute marathon. The Indians and Yankees Game five, which was
a great game and a and a deciding game, was
three hours and thirty eight minutes. Like they're just long,
so you can be you can be one of these
guys that says a baseball still has to hold true
to its virtues. Baseball can't have a timeline. Baseball can't
(08:20):
have like that's great. Look they still saying God bless
America and had the seventh inning stretch and they did
both verses of take me out to the ball game.
You know some places only do one verse. They did.
They do both verses. They had time for the national anthem,
they had time for the jet flyover, They had time
they had they did not have any I think they
had one mid inning pitching change. Kaikel was brought out
(08:43):
in the middle of the game. Outside of that, which
to me, I don't I don't need a warm up guy.
All right, you want to cut down on time. Two
things you can do is if you're gonna make a switch,
you don't have to go. And if you go to them.
If you go to the mound, you're making a pitching change.
You can't go to the man. Does the manager go
out there and go like, uh, imagine Tyron Loeu going
(09:03):
out in the middle of the game, going, how you feeling,
Lebron feel like coming out? Now? I feel good? All right,
catch your breath for a second. I'm just contending, like
I'm talking to you. Okay, all right, here we go.
We got two outs, two on Oh no, it's basketball.
We're down five. There's a minute thirty to go. Catch
your breath, you guys ready, okay, good? You know we're
running and you go back in. If you want to
speed it up even greater, you make a pitching change.
(09:24):
Just point, just like the just like what we're doing
with uh intentional intentional walk you know. Point you you're out,
bring a guy in from the from the bullpen, and
when he comes in from the bullpen, he's pitching immediately.
They do have mounds in the bullpen, correct, They are
warmed up in the bullpen right then. They don't need
anything else. Let's go. But the biggest change was he
(09:48):
had a homeplate umpire that was doing this ha and
it was great. I got three home runs. I got
outstanding pitching. I got eleven strike out some Kershaw. I
still got to see the Dodgers. I still had some
great energy and everyone was home before o'clock coming out
of Dodger Stadium. No matter how far away you lived,
(10:12):
I got it all. Here's Dave Roberts on Clayton Kershaw.
Tonight was one of those nights. I think the first
time in a while that we've really seen all three
of his pitches syncd up um. He just was repeating
the delivery, held the velocity, was still in the baseball
where he needed to where he wanted to very talented
team over there, and for him to get ahead, keep
(10:35):
him off balance, work in front, to back up and
down to all quadrants. I mean, this was a special
night for Clayton. Now. It was. It was that was.
It was a big night for Clayton Kershaw. And he
got through the seventh inning, even after Corey Seger bobbled
what should have been a surefire double playball to get
him out of the seventh inning, to which anybody who's
watched baseball was like, oh WHOA. You know, almost always
(10:57):
an error is what precede a home run. It's the
two things that usually happened in baseball is there's an
error or a picture thinks they get strike three and
they get squeezed by the home plate umpire and they
roll their eyes or they shake their head and the
crowd goes uh. And then the next bitch it's a tater, right,
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and Kerkshaw kept it together, had incredible rhythm. I'll say
this about the heat. It was hot. It was It
was really really hot. Now, it wasn't Southern heat, wasn't
Midwestern heat. It wasn't summer heat in other parts of
the country where it's super humid. But it was hot.
It was a hundred degrees at game time. And that
that's hot for any place. But I would also point
out that that's more like baseball weather then freezing cold
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October weather in Yankee Stadium or at Progressive Field or
wherever the hell Minnesota plays in that outdoor stadium right
like all of those places. That's these guys are actually
more used to playing in the heat because baseball is,
in fact a summer sport. Has always been a summer sport. Uh.
So big for Kershaw, big for the Dodgers, does not,
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by any chance mean this series is over because he
got Verlander going tonight for the Astros, which is their
strongest likelihood for an outstanding pitching performance and a win.
You got the Justin Turner story. The best thing about
the Justin Turner thing is he's the he's the guy
that all the kids love. So when you're sitting there
next to an eight year old and we tried to
(12:27):
start to wave twice, that didn't work. We just did
we try to start to wave. We got hats. There's
like one foul ball like that that was how well
pitched a game that was I think there were less
than ten foul balls the entire day. Um. But in
an effort to keep his attention, like Justin Turner comes
up and everybody pays attention. Of course, he hits the
(12:49):
game winning home run. A guy who was d f
A designated for assignment by the New York Mets is
so far the most prodigious hitter we've seen in the
postseason in the modern era of baseball. Wow. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Doug gott Leaps Show
weekdays at three p m. Easter noon Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. I want
(13:11):
to quote the great poet Laureate Snoop Snoop Dogg when
he said, and I'm paraphrased, man I unquote a direct
quote is his daddy put him in a lion's debb
with some pork chop drawers on it, with some pork
chop drawers on That's a great line. It's a great line.
Only Stoop can say that on National TV on T
(13:32):
n T and go like, yeah, that that actually is
incredible basketball analysis. It was so his order. Here's the
white guy translation. Can I give you the white guy translation?
His dad's writing checks that his body can't cash. Oh
we went top gun. He went top gun. Thank you,
(13:57):
thank you very much, thank you very much. Um. So,
part of it is it's it's important to remember that
Alonzo's nineteen. It's important remember Alonzo is not fully healthy
right now. And I do agree with Scott Brooks. You
(14:17):
guys here what Scott Brooks said yesterday. Scott Brooks, who
was a friend of mine, friend of the show, may
get him on today, may get him on later on
here in the season. We'll see. I mean, he's got
a ton of people because he went to UC Irvine.
He lived in southern California in the off season, even
late in his career as the Oklahoma City thunder coach.
(14:38):
So when he comes back, family, friends, everybody around here.
He doesn't have a ton of time. But he did,
he did say that, like, look his dad, he said, Like,
my dad left when I was two. My dad left
when I was two. Essentially, So the fact that we're
getting on him for getting on LaVar for what he's
(15:00):
saying and what he's doing for a Lonzo ball, you know,
he has a he has a completely different sensibility in
terms of fathers, you know, whether they're being helicopter parents
or whatever. Um And I understand that, but like, let's
not pretend like the var is perfect. Alonzo does not
have good defensive fundamentals. Frankly does not have good shot fundamentals,
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and his body he is not ready to play in
the NBA. Like there's a there's a reason that guys
are better in their second year. It's not just because
uh it's it's not just because they've seen everything. That's
part of it. Adjusting to pitching, Adjusting to the speed
(15:44):
of pitching will help you if you're a hitter. Adjusting
to the speed of uh of the NBA game or
the NFL game will help you as a player in
the NBA NFL. It's also because it gives you a
year to build your body, to change your body. You
need that year where you don't have games that just
wear you down. And he hasn't had that opportunity. He
(16:05):
got done playing in college. Then he started prepping again
with his dad for the NBA draft. But they're not
gonna fix his shot, then not gonna fix his body.
Then then he gets drafted, and he goes to summer league.
From summerleague right to training camp, Like it's you're kind
of on a rocket ship and you really need the
time away. You need the time to build your body.
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Look no further than Ben Simmons. Like his jump shots
still not there, but his body is better. He grew
two inches. Like playing that first year is really hard.
You really kind of needed a red shirt year. And
that's what these guys have all done. Um, but his
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dad is not doing him any favors. Calling out the
John Walls of the world, calling out the Steph Curries
of the world. Because one the guys he doesn't call
out like a pet check Beverley, They've always taken it
personal They're always gonna take it out on you. They're
always gonna come coming for you, coming for you. But
in the NBA, there's nowhere to hide. That's a position
(17:11):
to which you can't hide. If you're if you're not ready.
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The New York Giants are they're not good now. Part
of it is they just have injuries. Sterling Shepherd's been
(17:35):
hurt obviously, Odell Beckham Jr. Is out for the year.
R Marshall's hurt. Those are your top three wide receivers.
But Brandon Marshall wasn't good before he was ever hurt,
right he was. He looked over the hill before he
ever got injured. Sterling Shepherds had some drops, and Odell
Beckham Jr. Was hurt to start the year, get got back,
and as talented as O. B J is, he occasionally
(17:57):
will have a little bit of drops. They hadn't been
aambled the football. They haven't been able to protect Eli
and though their defense was rebuilt last year and made
the playoffs, there's some flaws to this roster. But there's
something that people do now, um, and I think we
see through it a little bit. It's called martyrdom, right,
(18:21):
It's called martyrdom. And here's what I mean about martyrdom.
Jerry Reach is the general manager of the New York Giants.
He said this in regards to their roster. This is
the National Football League. If you can't take criticism, you
should quit. You know, if you if you're if you
a general manager of a football team, or if you're
a player, or you're a quarterback or you played any position,
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if you can't take criticism, you should quit. This is
the roster that I put together on the reason we're
one and six, but we do have to play better
as a team. Again, we lose together, we win together.
I believe everybody is accountable here for what goes on.
Our coaches are accountable, our players are accountable. We're one
and six together. But you can put it all on me, right,
because he's Hey, we're doing this together, but you can
put it all on me. Martyrdom is a display of
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feigned or exaggerated suffering to obtain the sympathy or admiration
of others. You haven't hadn been in your life. It
does that, right. I mean I just my boss and
parking and traffic and not make enough money and taxes
and my mom's driving me crazy. My wife's driving me crazy,
(19:25):
and my dad's sick, and my dog is I gotta
put my dog down or like, Uh, you know, I've
just had a really rough rough go of things, and
this is Look, I understand that the business isn't doing well,
but you can put it all on me because I
haven't been doing a good enough job of managing my
I know, I know Jimmy hasn't met his sales now,
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but you can put that on me. I know Billy,
you know Billy was Billy had his fly down and
had too minutes to drinks around. Uh that client we
were trying to reel in and kind of made an
ass of himself. But you can put it on me
because Billy's under my watch. That's what Jerry Reese is doing. Right. Look,
we win as a team, we lose the team. Put
it on me. I know we're we're one in six.
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I mentioned we're one in six with one and six. Hey,
that's bad. I can take criticism, criticize me all you want.
He's doing the martyrdom thing, which works, usually works, but
at some point we're like, yeah, you know what, it
is your fault. You did build an off a bad
offensive life. You did build an offensive life. The martyrdom
thing is it's it's hard to see if it's self
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deprecation or if it's you know, if it's or if
it's really just or if it's taking the bullets for others,
or if it's martyrdom trying to feign or exaggerate, suffering
to obtain sympathy. I feel bad for Jerry Reese right,
done such a good job, rebuilt a defense. George Jenkins
been awesome. Wasn't healthy Odell Beckham Jr. You know he's
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the one who drafted Beeldeld Beckham Jr. People wondered, but
he missed the first four games. Conflin was mad. And
then when he Alway's totally worth it. And you know what, Uh,
they made the change with coordinators, you know, taking the
play calling out of the head coach's hands, and and
they won a game. And if they were healthy, and
and I feel bad for Jerry's He's done so many
(21:12):
the right things, and the injuries have just decimated them.
We should give him another year see if the Giants
buy it. Be sure to catch live editions of the
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noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart
Radio app. He's Travis Benjamin, He's from the U. He
hits home runs, give him the ball, scores touchdowns right
(21:32):
at one touch, at one touch at wide receiver touchdown,
and takes a kick to the house as well. How
are you I'm doing good? Man? Hey listen. I I
saw some video when you played against the Giants and
Philip Rivers said, run somewhere fast and get open right.
Is that essentially the game plan for you on a
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right on the field. He would tell me it would
speed and just gets open here. And I put about that.
What's what's changed with you, guys? The last couple oh
and four to start a couple of games, probably three
of which you you should have one to start the season.
That that's the story historically the last couple of years
with the Chargers, games you should win, you find a
way to lose. What's changed the last couple of weeks.
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Just get tired of losing? Man? When you when you
get at a certain point of the scene where and
then we were tired of losing them this way, We're
tired of science happening in his way. So if we
put four or five best effort and continues to push
and considers those times we need. Yeah, but how do
you how do you do that? Like, look, you've you've
run into a bad stretchy right, Like you were with
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the Browns and they would lose games, and then you're
with the Charges and like you're losing game. How do
you get out of that mindset? Because you know and
maybe you don't have it. I mean, athletes don't have
as much as fans where it gets close and the
expectation is something's gonna go wrong instead of the expectation
something's gonna go right. How do you how does that change?
Just keep pushing knowing that we all professional in this
(23:03):
league and they pay us to win. So once you
have them mentally in the mindset to go out there
and just keep pushing and take a play by play
and somehow, some way the winds come on our side.
Stull gotlieve show. That's the voice of Travis Benjamin home
run hitter. Essentially for the l A Charges, they go
on the road take on the New England Patriots. Uh
this upcoming Sunday, that's a ten o'clock West Coast start time.
(23:27):
A couple of things quickly on last week, Uh, Philip
Rivers said, Hey, we talked about the fact that sometimes
we don't have that that good at home crowd, Like
we gotta play through what what was actually said about
the crowd and how to play through the fact that
there were so many, for example, Bronco fans this past week.
There's always our man said, knowing that we need to
do every and facility and high things goes that there's
(23:50):
always gonna be the other team got more fans in us.
But we just go out and take eating every game
as a home as an a weekend. Don't matter how
how loud they kid, just go out there and play. Okay,
Now you've got the Patriots this week, and up until
Sunday night, the Patriots hadn't stopped anybody. Now, all of
a sudden they've taken on the Atlanta Falcons, who they
got Julio, they got a ton of talent. And yet
(24:13):
all of a sudden that the Patriots starts stopping people,
what are they doing? What do you see that the
Patriots have done differently to be more successful defensively of
late as opposed to earlier in the season. Apparently a
pretty good team. And you know the way Bill Belichick
are good at a justice to the teams that and
run information and plays that they want to see. But
(24:34):
we just gotta go up there, continues to compete and
continue to play hard and hopefully come out with to win.
Isn't it weird though? How this division is? Like you
start the year Chiefs or five and oh and you guys,
I mean you guys probably didn't turn the ball over,
probably could have beaten the Chiefs. Now of a sudden,
they've lost too in a row. Not really sure what
to make the Raiders, not really sure what to make
a Denver as you guys could have beaten Denver up there,
(24:54):
did beat him at your place. And now you guys
have quietly kind of won three games in a row.
What do you make of the f C West? It's
a tough division, man, even every week, if don't matter
who in division plays each other, it's gonna go to
the y and hopefully if we keep the winning streak
going on and hopefully we'll be on the top of end. Okay,
you're the a f C Special Teams Player of the Week.
(25:14):
What do you get with that? Just to play it
on the back end? Go forward and we can do
it again. You know what you need? You need one
of those um, what's it to you? Has? Now? The
turnover chain? You need? Yeah? You need you need like
one of those chains like when you make up make
a special teams play where you can put on like
a special team's chain. What do you think about that? Oh,
that'll be great. Man. Hopefully we can get a couple
(25:35):
more than I can invent and we can make up
something that hopefully we can get special Team Player of
the Week award. I like that, Like you score touch,
you take one to the house. You should have that
same like turnover chain, something with the U on or
maybe with the lightning a charger's lightning bolt on it
and put it on, like whoever makes a good play
gets taken from Now. Do you know who came up
with the turnover chain? At to you? Um? I think
(25:57):
that as the coordinator came up throughout earlier in the
year and they just rode with it. Man hasn't been
a grateful college football so far? Yeah, so you approved
as a member of the U fraternity. You approve of it? Yeah,
I approve and I love it. Man, even never I've
wanted to they come. Yeah. Nothing says Miami more than
a gold chat. Hey listen, congrats the winning player of
(26:19):
the week. Thanks so much for joining us. Safe travels
to New England. Appreciate being our guest on Fox Sports Radio.
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Let's talk about weed, um, and I guess our sensibilities
(26:41):
about weed obviously have changed as a country, haven't they.
Like I remember just being I just I don't know,
Like my parents never smoked weed. It was never round
my house, so I didn't I didn't even know like
the smell of meryl on until maybe maybe late in
(27:02):
high school. More college and it wasn't even my first
year wasn't even a year. Notre Dame is more in between.
Notre Dame in Oklahoma State has spent a year junior
college and my girlfriend the time went to U see
Santa Barbara and some weed up there, right, Um, So
I don't know, I just I wasn't in the crowd
in high school that smoke weeds around weed. I just
(27:24):
I was. I was in that athlete crowd. But I
do know that we had this completely different sense of
what marijuana was reef madness, going back to the sixties
and seventies, and it was thought to be a gateway drug,
which to anybody who says it's a gateway drug, asked,
how many people do you know that have tried marijuana?
How many people then have dropped acid? Or like, just's
(27:46):
just there's no correlation between smoking weed and doing all
those things. Should be pointed out that weed is stronger now,
The strands are stronger now than they were ten, fifteen,
twenty years ago, and the laws against them are weaker now. Um,
(28:06):
we're decriminalizing marijuana, if not making legal across the United States.
That something's gonna happen, and some of it is are
changing sensibilities, and some of it is governments need to
create more revenue. Right. It's the same reason that lotteries
exist in all these states which like no, no, no,
can't do lottery, can't can't do gambling. We'll let you
do lotteries because it helps fund schools. Can't do weed.
(28:28):
Wait a second, Colorado made how much off of weed sales?
Nevada has made how much off of weed sales? Okay,
we can do eat um and and and look. Uh.
The NFL, the NBA, Major League Baseball, they're lessening the
punishment for testing positive for marijuana. But I told you
(28:53):
before that the NFL's marijuana policy is not a drug test.
It is very important. Yes, you can get suspended for
smoking testing positive for marijuana. Okay, it's an intelligence test.
You have one weed test in the off season, and
if you pass it, they don't test you the rest
(29:15):
of the year. In other words, you have to be
an idiot to smoke weed before that test. They're not
even saying you can't smoke weed. They're saying, look, if
we told you you couldn't smoke weed for this period
of time and you can't do without it, then you
one are dumb and to probably have a problem. The NBA, uh, similarly,
(29:39):
has decriminalized marijuana. Guys aren't getting suspended left and right
for marijuana use. David Stern, who of course put marijuana
on the bands substance list back in the nineties, was
on the Uninterrupted with Al Harrington, former NBA player, and
had this to say, I think we gotta change to
collect the boarding agreement and let you do what's legal
(30:01):
in your state. I don't think if marijuana is now
in the process of being legalized, I would think you
should be allowed to do what's legal in your state.
I'm now at the point where personally, I think it
probably should be removed from the band list. I think
there's universal agreement that marijuana for medical purposes should be
completely illegal. I agree for medical purposes like I just do.
(30:27):
Like my dad when he was dying of cancer. I
remember sitting down at the kitchen table like hey, and
my my dad was one. He's like he didn't even
take advil, Like hey, man, you're in pain, Like I said, Dad,
why don't you get medical marijuana? And No, I wasn't thinking,
you know, so I could borrow some. I was thinking
it just alleviates pain. I'm all for, even for the NFL, Like,
(30:49):
it's much better than using it for than bike it
in or oxy things that, you know, things are much
stronger addictive. What are they called? H uh? Opioids? Did devoid? Like?
The major problem the problem with outright legalization is that
(31:11):
you're still running a business and regardless of whether it's
legal to the joe on the street one, there's a
personal self discipline element to it, but too even more
important like remember in the NBA you have guaranteed contracts. Okay,
so let's say you like smoking weed and you sign
(31:32):
a four year guaranteed contract. Now, do I think that
marijuana is highly addictive? No? I think I think that
has some addictive qualities to it. Smoking is highly addictive.
There's other things. Alcohol is highly addictive. I think it's addictive.
I don't think it's the problem with it is like
(31:53):
do you become a pothead and it's legally just smoke?
Like it's going to hurt your performance as much as
you can say, well you know, then it's performance based business.
You can just no, no, no, it's not like the NFL.
You have if you're having performance issues. In the NBA,
you have performance issues, you've got a guaranteed contract. What
are they supposed to do? So? Can you use it
(32:14):
to alleviate pain? Yeah? But I believe in the collective
Artner Agreement you can get a doctor's note and have
medical marijuana's just like in the NFL. I'm all for
in terms of managing pain. Should absolutely you should do.
You should mirror what what states have done, which is
kind of decriminalize it right like it's frowned upon. We
don't want you to do it. You get a doctor's note,
(32:35):
will let you do it. You've got chronic knee pain,
you got chronic back pain, and this helps. Fine, We're
not gonna chase you all over. On the other hand,
we don't want to make it outright legal because we
don't want we don't want dudes waking and bacon every
day and then going to shoot around, coming home, collapse
and eating Funians, eating Cheetos and just showing up at
work like that's not what we want in our business.
(32:57):
Much like at your place of work. We could be
legal in your state, that doesn't mean you can show
up to work having smoked weed. Be sure to catch
live editions of The Doug gott Leap Show weekdays at
three p m. Easter noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio
and the I Heart Radio app. Welcome in Brendamorrow. Who
got the hold? Uh? Ten pitches, seven strikes, A couple
(33:20):
of snares to left field? Uh that key k went
and caught and he joins us now on the Doug
Gottlip Show on Fox Sports Radio. But how are you good?
Thanks for having me? Okay, seventh inning, you're watching and
you know how baseball works, right like when especially starting pitchers.
Those guys are curious creatures. It feels like that Kershaw
is finally going to get out of the seventh and
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Corey bobbles that ball at short trying to turn double play.
What were you thinking? Um, you know, I was already
tossing a little bit at the time, so I didn't see, um,
the player exactly what happened. So I was just trying to,
you know, focus in on the time. But you know,
knowing Curse, he's not gonna let that affect him. He's
he's was dialed in all game, and was you know,
(34:04):
obviously continued to be dominant after that, and then you know,
eight three pitches they decided to go to you. Was
it was it planned out previously? Was it the you know,
the seventh inning stretches long, and then of course the
bottom of the seventh was long, and so you worry
about tighten up the back. Take me through what happened
to allow you to come in in that Eighthenning, Well,
(34:25):
I mean, there's no conversation with me about it. We're
we're down there ready to go when the phone rings. Um,
But I knew I was coming in because you can
see on TV. Uh, they were congratulating cursing in the
dugout and I had already been tossing. So it was
a pretty good chance that I was going to be
into the next So I knew. I knew right away
as far as that's concerned, I mean as far as
(34:45):
game planning and stuff, now they don't. They don't let
us know ahead of time to hey, you're gonna go
into eighth or or whatever. All right, So you're out
there and like, look, this is every kid's dream, right
world series. Plus you have you have a lead. It's
not like a one run lead. It's not like you
come in when the house is on fire. It's a
three to one lead. But you have a very very
dangerous lineup and you're pitching, I believe, against the middle
of the lineup. What's it like just when you're warming up,
(35:08):
trying to get three outs, trying to get to Kenley. Um, sure, yeah,
you know you're you're trying to you know, dial it
in down there, and and for me, I'm trying to
get loose without um, you know, building up too much anxiety. Um,
you know, trying to keep my heart right down. And
that's what I'm trying to have been doing the whole postseason.
You know, it's my first time in the playoffs, and
(35:29):
obviously I thought a lot about it in the past,
and and just trying to keep those emotions under control
and just remembering that you know, obviously a two run
leads a lot better than one run lead, and you
can go out and attack guys, and if you give
up a you know, solo home run, um, you're still
gonna be okay. So what you can't do is, you know,
give guys free bases, and um, you know, our both
(35:51):
has done an unbelievable job of that all postseason, of
limiting walks and obviously limiting damage, and um you know,
I Reybody's done a great job of that. Brand tomorrow
joining us in the Dugoutlice Show. Yeah, that's the what Like,
that's the worst right when the when, the when, the
when the middle reliever comes in and walks the first
batter after the starter was pitching a gem. Everybody goes
(36:11):
are we go, Um, And but I will tell you this,
having been at the game and watched your reaction when
Gonzalez flied out to left field, Kik had to make
he made it, He had to make up. He had
to make a good run to catch it. I mean
it was it wasn't I mean, it was a snare.
It was you know, it wasn't hit hard or anything. Um,
But when he catches the ball, like there was both
of those balls that were hit to left, you didn't
(36:33):
kind of react. You were just you were very business like.
Is there a thought process that goes to your mind
in order to not overreact and to go to go
yes on the catch or is that just how you
normally are? Well, I think that's normally how I am.
But but yeah, especially you know at this point, you're
not You're not going to be relieved to just get
one out. You know, I'm out there to get three
(36:54):
and obviously the first out is huge. That takes a
lot of pressure off you, Um and Kiki coming and
making a good play on that on on a ball
that was probably tough to read aball that could have
you know, easily fallen in Um and to get the
first out takes a lot of pressure on you continue
you can continue to be aggressive after that. Um, and
like we said, like you don't want to, you don't
want to give those guys a chance. You don't want to.
(37:15):
You want to start the energy, and they're dug out
giving him, you know, especially the leadoff guy on but
to morrow joining us on the Doug Gottlieb Show. Um,
you can tweet at j d r F. J d
RF is the leading global funder of type one diabetes research.
And of course everybody knows that you're a role model
for people with type one diabetes. My dad had type
(37:36):
two diabetes and I saw that Ken Rosenthal showing off
as bow tie that was on your verified Twitter account. Um,
to represent a you know, a group of people that
have have fought through this. Uh, it feels like it's
it's an even greater accomplishment, isn't it to to do
do as well as you did last night carrying this Uh?
I don't know, you want to say burden, but carrying
(37:57):
the banner of type one diabetes. Sure, yeah, I mean
it's it's an honor for you know, people to look
up to you and and to be that role model
for for kids and parents with with diabetes, and especially
when you're going out there and having success and and
you know, showing them that you can still achieve your
dreams with you know, with diabetes, it's not a death
(38:19):
sentence and and you know you can do whatever you want.
By the way, I always I get caught. I get
confused between the Walter Brimley diabetes and the normal diabetes thing. Right,
did they did they tell you what's the proper pronunciation?
I go with diabetes, but I like I like the
diabetes too. I think that's I just think it's a
funny way to pronounce it. Everything you thought you hoped
(38:41):
and dreamed World Series would be like, yeah, yeah, I
mean it's it's an incredible experience. And you know, I
owe the Dodgers a lot for believing me and bring
me in and spring training and allowing me to compete
for a job and make my way up and continue
to you know, have success here and um continue you know,
(39:02):
to have them put me in situations to have success
and um yeah, I mean it's been it's been a
dream come true. Of course. Listen, the best thing about
your success is it's earned, right, It's earned, And that's
why you got out there last night, and that's why
we'll probably see you tonight if it's close and you
get that opportunity. Wish you the best of luck and
thanks so much for joining us on Fox Sports Radio.
Yeah I hope so, thank you all right spending morrow
(39:22):
joining us at Tomorrow twenty three is the Twitter account
and uh of course huge Golden State Warriors fan as
well
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