October 2, 2025 • 47 mins
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Speaker 3 (00:40):
They blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night,
and they blew up his house too.
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play again until Saturday, and we do not have Thursday
Night football tonight, so it'll be a full four hour
Petros and Money Show between now and seven pm. Same
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schedule tomorrow. Sho hal Tani on the mound for Game one.
We suspect Game two and three will be Blake Snell
followed by Yoshi Yamamoto. We will have a Dodger centric
show today. P As you would imagine, after the big
celebration the sweep, the Detroit Tigers have just knocked off
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the Guardians, so they advance as a visiting team. The
Cubs and the Padres are playing right now. The Yankees
and Red Sox will do battle later, but the Dodgers
able to take care of business and get the rest
they needed and have Sho hal Tani start Game one
of the Divisional round.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
It is a very exciting time for Dodger fans as
the focus moves to Philadelphia. They had a big party
last night within today. The Dodgers went down early in
the first inning. Yamamoto gave up a couple runs.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, Yamamoto didn't give up the runs. He was not
charged the two runs because I was told repeatedly that
Taoscar Hernandez gave up those two runs.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Well, yeah, but you know what I mean. He's yeah,
I mean, are we gonna split hairs?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Well, I think I think someone would take an issue
with that. You know, someone would say, well, now wait
a minute here, those were not his runs. That was
the third out, and so technically, you know they should
be attached to the guy responsible for those two runs.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
The Dodgers went down early, it's fair to say, yes.
And because they went down early, a lot of people
got very nervous, very quickly and started saying, David Vasa
talking about gassing up the jet yesterday, David Vassay strutting
like a rooster on Matt Muddy Smith, let me.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Walk in like a rooster.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I am stylin seven innings, nine strikeouts, winning game one.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Whoa, that's right, snail Zilla baby.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It is all moot. As the Dodgers were able to win,
able to push through, able to dominate, even though the
bullpen is still an adventure, which will be an even
more adventurous adventure in Philadelphia and back back in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It is funny that I would imagine, because of the
TEXTOSO you certainly have to wear it a lot more
than anyone else. When people freak out and they're like,
Dave's such an idiot gassing up the jet and all
this celebration and you guys talking about and it's okay,
But then when they win, and I would wouldn't imagine
you want them to come back your way, but to say, hey, yeah,
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it turns out you can't just gas up the jet.
And they made pretty easy work of the Reds and
they're was never really a threat there. Even when things
got a little bit hairier there, fell behind by two. Eventually,
this is a team that put eight on the board.
So yeah, wait to go, Dave, gass up the jet
and let's get the Philly.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I can read you a few of the texts from
from last night when it was happening.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
The secret text doesn't fine brought to you by your
so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
We make it easy.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
This one says, playoff keyk is a real thing.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
There we go. That's some positivity. See that helps balance
out the text.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Do so, when Max Munsey had to run to first,
this one says, better check out Max Munsey after that run?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Ah right, because of the portly built.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
This says, are we going to see magic every time
the Dodgers score? At least he doesn't have a punkass
glove like Rodney. Uh, there was a lot of magic
cutaways early. He did not have a glove. But then
there was a whole bunch of Bateman cut away.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Not a Bateman, and I like the magic better because
magic and I listen, I get it, it gets, it
gets old and tiresome. But at least he's behaving like
a real fan. He's not too cool for school. He's
standing up, he's waving the towel, he's freaking out. I'd
rather have that than like super cool guy sitting behind
the the you know, the the plate, not showing any emotion.
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You know. Magic's a little more indicative of what the
rest of the fifty five thousand people are doing there.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Right, Yeah, I guess this one said, you're right, You're right.
My bitterness is real. Uh, this one says, of course,
after Money gives a dissertation on why she hand should
anchor the bullpen in the playoffs, look what happens. The
curse of pms continue.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Ugly. It was real ugly, our man, she and I
I started to feel like he was a child out there, like, well,
someone come get this poor kid. Can we can we
get this poor child out of the game. This isn't
fair to him, This is.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And and of course a twenty three year old comes
in the ninth inning and most the three batters down,
he faces and you're like, oh, yeah, he's a child too. Yeah,
here we are.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Here's somebody about to feel stupid from the three to
one zero? What's what that stupid wave thing the Dodgers
do when they get a hit, it's so gay? Well
you know what being gay is, Okay, first of all, sir,
and second of all more importantly, even they're doing it
because it's the Freddie Freeman dance, all right, that's long
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been documented here on the Petrosen Money Show.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It's been two years while they added and then they
added the show hey commercial cosmetic commercial thing.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
With the yeah that's when you're round third though.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Right, So they're all inside jokes, right. They're making fun
of Freddy for the way he danced at a charity event,
and then they're making fun of show Hay for his
cosmetic commercial when they get the third.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
My favorite text of the when the Dodgers went down
and everybody started to freak out, is this very ailed
World War II reference. Admiral Yamamoto was one of the
most powerful war admirals of the twentieth century. Japanese admiral
who did battle with the US Navy, of course, and
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when Yamamoto had that error, well error inflicted on him
by team tried to screw him again exactly. This says
my battleship.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Pretty good.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
That put a smile on life. But most people probably
don't get it. But anyway, it is a very very
special time. We have this time every time of year.
The city's angst, the city's celebration, let me walk in
like a rooster, the city's hopes and dreams. Broadcasters trying
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to one up each other as far as who they're
friends with on the Dodgers and who's going to play
better than the other guy. And it's all coming together
on the Petros and Money Show. And I don't know
what I expected, because I don't remember what's happened in
the past when the Dodgers win the wildcard round or
the format or whatever it is. But there was an
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explosion last night in the in the clubhouse. I guess
it wasn't even in the clubhouse. The Dodgers. Yeah, they
tarped off the batting cage and threw a party there
and it really blew up. That's Blake trying to scream,
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screaming like he's in the Cobra Kai watching Daniel LaRusso
hit his legs swept sprang David Mass which what seems
to be like a fire hydrant knocked off.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I mean it was. It was cartoonish. It was Looney
Tune's esque Woody woodpecker bugs Bunny taking the soda bottles
spray to the face where Dave is just trying to
gather himself to find you know, what the hell is
going on as he is being sprayed with so much
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I mean so much force. I don't know what kind
of bottle of champagne. How hard Blake trying to manage
to shake that thing up. You can hear it like
it really like you can actually hear in this sound bite. No, no, no,
don't do the fake spray. Ronnie. Listen, you can actually
hear the spray. Listen to that. You can hear it.
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That's how hard Dave is wearing it in the face,
which is ironic because Ronnie just used the fake spray.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Right. We used to use the Seltzer bottle, like the
old timey Seltzer bottle back when Dave first started traveling
with the Dodgers. You know, we would ask Dave a
question like, gosh, you know, what do you think of
doing this? It seems like that he'd be like, you're
totally rude.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And that would be like yeah, and there's the sound effect, yes,
the soda bottle to the face. And yet Dave was
the one.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
You were exclusive. That's Blake trying and just blowing Dave up.
This text says I'm gay and I wouldn't be caught
dead doing that dance. I'm not on the Dodgers though. Yeah,
that's the thing, my gay friend, if you were on
the Dodgers and you hit.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
A double, you're gonna do the dance.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You're gonna do a dance because they're all on the
dugout expecting you to do the dance. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I mean, shoey Otani is doing the dance. Shoel Tani
does the dance. You, our gay listener, are doing the dance.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Like I just saw Jackson Merrill get a double and
he painted his goatee with his pinkies. That's what he
did when he looked at the dugout. I don't know
what that is if there's an inside joke there for
the padres, but every team seems to have some sort
of communication with the dugout after you get a hit,
and typically it's something that I guess is meant for
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that particular group of individuals and not for us.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah, it's an inside joke for the team by the team.
Whether you're gay or straight, whether you're gay or straight,
you're gonna be expected to do it. Yeah. And the
other thing is the lot of the Instagram live fanfare
that has come about from David vass yesterday Matt Muney Smith.
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I mean, he wasn't really inflammatory, but he wasn't as
as confident in Blake Snell as Vassay was in Game one.
And after Blake Snell shoved like he did in Game
one or dealt like he did in Game one, David Vassy, well,
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he really put himself on display.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Let me walk in like a rooster.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I am stylin seven innings, nine strikeouts, winning Game one.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
WHOA, that's right, snell Zilla baby.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Which I think like the thing that is out about
it is. Yeah, that's the result that we all wanted.
They were all none of us are are are bemoaning
the fact that Blake Snell pitched great, Like, oh man,
what a terrible outcome. Blake Snell was fantastic for seven
innings and pitched the Dodgers to a dominant victory in
Game one.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
The stage was set, you know, the stage was set
for Dave stry and strut he did. He didn't quite
look like Travolta at the end of Staying Alive, but
pretty close. This says what's worse, David Vasse trying to
do a Rick Flair impression and strutting on money like
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he's the cock of the Walk or cocaine Kates doing
his peaky blinders and pretch. Now they gave us the
worst jobs to me, Tony. Uh, The truth is I
asked for Tim Kates last week with Don McClain is
going to join us next because.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Now Dave's traveling. Dave's traveling, We got Spilly coming on
from MLB Radio and Apple TV. He's always great with us,
so he'll do the baseball look. Don McClain is a
championship coach pitch pitcher, so he knows a little something
about the seams as well.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
But this is what I asked for, and Kate's never found.
I mean, Kate's is very busy right now and he's
got a Spectrum Sports Net tonight, so damn tomorrow at
six am. But there was a moment last week on
Friday where Kate's broke in with his Irish English peaky
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blinders accent and McClain went to please, And I feel
like that is a great moment. I don't know if
it's as great as you want an exclusive Dave with
trying and doing.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
That, or I mean, it's every It's the Alpha betas
in Revenge of the Nerds, It's Bobby and Karate Kid,
it's whatever Ray in Better Off Dead. It is a
quintessential nineteen eighties. But shit in Weird Science Record, Dave
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the reporter, the guy in a polo and slacks with
a microphone and here comes the jock just humiliating him
with a fire hose of champagne, screaming in his face.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Now, some people say it was just the Reds. Calm down,
and I'm watching the rest of these wildcard series and
they're all huge nutcutters and everybody losing their minds, and
it seems like they're very competitive.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
The Yeah, the Dodgers beat the Reds three to two,
then you can do the calm down. It's just the Reds.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
The Reds didn't it didn't look like the chance like
it was, but they were scrappy.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, but I mean the Dodgers still scored eighteen runs
in two games. It was like, yeah, they were supposed
to beat the snot out of the Reds and they
did and in the eighth inning. The Dodgers' bullpen had
issues in both games, but outside of that, it was like,
I know, the Textoso freaked out when when the Air
led to two runs and they were in a two
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to nothing hole for the first four innings or two
to one and after the third, but you know, it
just never felt like that was really an issue. Like
it never felt when they were up eight two and
she's having a meltdown on the mound. It's more like, damn,
what the hell with this bullpen? Like they can't find
anyone than holy crap, he's gonna blow this game and
they're gonna screw this whole thing up, and Otani's gonna
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have to pick you know what I mean, Like it's yeah,
whereas all of these Last night, I was listening to
the Yankee game on the way home, and I mean
their play by play guy is losing his freaking mind
on every pitch, like cannot control himself, can't contain himself,
like it's the World Series.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I guess it might as well be. And Matt. There's
been some pushback as well. This is hey, pe I've
known Vassie for years, family friends since grammar school, but
I no longer like him. After the rooster sounds for shame,
Dave's a douchebag, like a rooster. I don't think that's fair, No,
I really don't.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, because it's that behavior, you know, if he doesn't
gass up the jet that if that doesn't happen, we
don't get this. It's because he behaves like that that
the players come back, you know, by throwing their wet
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shirt on his head after clinching the division and spraying
him with a fire hose of champagne after they win
the wildcard.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
That was a great three hours of scam. This morning
I heard Jay Hare on there with Tim Kats and
Steve Sachs. Scam. We'll be back tomorrow at six. We
have Spilly today, we have Don McClain today, we have
three things Thursday. Today. We have a Petrosen money film
to our corner today. So a lot of stuff. This
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text says, Hey, Pete, I like Dave. He gives great
dodger insight. But what I seen that clip of him
strutting in I don't know how Matt had the restraint
not to just punch him in the face. Now that
come on, now, that would be terrible. It would be terrible.
I mean, that would set a terrible tone.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I got a handful of that on the direct message
of f that guy. I can't believe he did that.
I liked it. I love Dave, We love Dave, the
players love Dave. We are so fortunate to have this
freaking goof as our embedded reporter, for the players to
treat like a little bit of a whipping boy while
at the same time a friend, and also give him
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exclusive access that I don't think any other embedded reporter
gets from their team. They are not getting that with Clayton.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
You could talk about Alana Rizzo eating lunch with the
Philly fanatic all you want, but it's not the same.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
No, it's not close. And so I'm happy to wear
it every now and have Dave do a Rick Flair
wu in my face and give me the Snillzilla hello,
because you get the benefit of him being you know, willing,
and he is willing to wear it. That's the one
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thing about Dave is he will he'll wear it. He'll
let Blake try and freaking blow him down with a
fire hose of champagne. While you know, when Jossi Elpwig
dumps a bucket of cold water on Bill, it's a
completely different.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Deal that ended up being a bad situation. Yeah, it's
a bad deal. So I guess overall, everybody feels great
about last night. Everybody feels great about the fact that
the Dodgers got it cleaned up in two games and
are headed out to Philly with a chance to.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Did you talk to your dad this morning?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
My dad last night was upset that t Oscar was
getting so much blame for dropping that ball. My father
blamed the twilight sky right and the odd start time
of the game. And of course, you know, we're in
the midst of succumbing to daylight savings here in southern California.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Get ready for darkness, imprisoning us all that we see,
absolute darkness.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I mean, I hate to read this text, but because
it's wrong. You know, David Vasse creates half our content
when it comes to the Dodgers. Yeah, we need it.
This is smell is an amazing talent. I'm glad he's
in LA so we don't have to face him. But
Dave is a useless He's crab hanging out of a
dog's ass. I hate that. F and guy F Dave F,
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Dave F DAVEF Dave F Dave F.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Day.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
You get where I'm coming from. Yeah, and you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, you could not be more wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Dave creates the personality. Listen, and I'm being dead serious.
I was listening last night to because it's must listen
when the Dodgers clinched something or win a series, let
alone the World Series by God last year. But when
David Vasse is in there during a celebration, the personality
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of the players comes out, and the personality even of
the front office comes out. Like last night, he was
talking to Will Smith and his last question to Will
Smith was do you need me to be a throwing
partner with you to work on that that hairline fracture
in your hand out in Philadelphia? And Will Smith's answer
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was no, You're not the guy. And then that was
the end of the inner. And it goes back to
Rick Monday and Steven Nelson, who are like forty years
apart in age and they're both laughing, gutturally laughing and
enjoying the moment, and the same thing with Andrew Friedman.
Dave said, hey, do you want to hug it out?
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And Andrew Friedman said no, I'm good, and they go
right back and they're laughing. They're having a great time.
It's a long night. It's a long season of these
people around each other all the time. I mean, we
do football and you work. You know, I don't even
work once a week, but you work once a week
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with the same group of people, and sometime around October
it gets to be a real grind, you know, everybody
gets tired of each other. Imagine baseball every day and
what it's like. What David Vasse brings out in people
with his attitude, with his overall ability to be the
butt of a joke and a joker at the same time.
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It really is a special thing.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
And it's nothing against I'm not trying to take a
shot here.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
But by anybody else doing the job. I just can't
do it like that.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Kirston will do a fine interview, it's not David Vesse
because they'll pingpong Dave and Kirsten back and forth with
different players right, and it's just a completely different experience.
I mean, he's got Clayton Kershaw saying he barely wants
to have pants on. It's Clayton, a first ballot best
Player pitcher, I should say of his era in the
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moment of a celebration, saying, no, Dave, I don't want
my shirt back. I barely want to wear pants.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, and his unathletic ass as you pointed out, Matt
broke his arm off for this team, right, so everybody
could have a laugh for content. I mean, he really
did an amazing job last night. Now. Is Dave able
to clean up the bullpen?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
No, no, but don't take that out of him. No,
that has and the bullpen and the issues in the
bullpen are likely a big reason why someone's got to
blow off a little bit of steam. That's what happens,
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you know. The bullpen had a rough go against the Reds.
Everything else was great. Mookie looks like a freaking world beater.
Otani two home runs, Tailed two home runs, The starters
were both exceptional, Yamamoto and Snell. And what's the one
thing that people are saying after the series, like, uh,
freaking bullpen again? And so here's Dave talking to Max
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Munsey and up comes someone from the but the basically
the father of the bullpen, Blake trying in World Series
zero last year, blowing off a little steam for the
bullpen by spraying Dave down with a whole bottle of cooks.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Champage's not cooking. It really was what the job Dave
does his very spec and that really, honestly, there's nothing
comparable in sports. And that really is true. I mean
it really, for all the fun we have and all
the joking and all that stuff, if we didn't have
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Dave covering the Dodgers, we wouldn't cover the Dodgers like
we cover the Dodgers. And I think we cover the
Dodgers pretty damn well in our way. I hate to
be so serious, but there was a real, a real
indicator last night that we're not getting half the stuff
that we get. If it wasn't for that fleshy goofy
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half Persian, half Italian from the Valley gas up the
jet veal.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Let me walk in like a rooster.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
I am stylin seven innings, nine strikeouts.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Winning Game one.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
WHOA, that's right, snail zilla baby.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
And I did see it's like, you can't make this show.
I watched that like five times. Yeah, and I shouldn't.
I mean I shouldn't. I was there right. It's the
way he struts. There is something about it that I
can't get enough of. But I'd like to point out, like,
you can't make it up. We make fun of Dave
and and Blake Snell and his I am if you
want me to be Dog? And then the Dodgers post
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him and Sonny from you know, Tottenham now LAFC and
he walks up and he's like, what's up, my dog.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
It's like, really, that's that's how you're doing this.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
We wouldn't know the personality of these players half as
much as we do. No, if if it really, if
it was not for Dave help him, if you want
to be Dog, helping them to show their personality to
the city, and that goes a long way. I mean,
Joe Kelly threw out the first pitch the other day.
Joe Kelly is an ex reliever on this team. He
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made a face at a Houston Astro player. I mean
it's not like he closed down a World Series game
or anything like that for the Dodgers. If anything, he
was one of their mother hated opponents when he was
a starter. But Joe Kelly is a beloved figure why
because of the personality he showed to the fan base.
Why here in the city, And David Vassey does nothing
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but help facilitate that with every single person. So we
will talk to Don McLain next. We will have a
top story which is three Things Thursday, A film to
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Speaker 3 (27:27):
It's time to talk to our bff, the one and
only Don McLain. He was here last Friday, did a
great job filling it like he always does. Basketball is
getting fired up, and there is news in the NCAA
as well, not just the Clippers and Lakers and everybody
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else getting started. He is the leading scorer in the
history of the PAC twelve. You see him on the
Big Ten Network at FS one. He also works at
ce AA. There is only one Don McClain. The next
ass he kisses will be the first the baron of
Box Canyon, a decorated NBA player and once again the
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best friend of the Petros. Somebody show on You're Southern
California Toyota Dealer celebrity Hotline. What's cracking? Don? How are
you here?
Speaker 9 (28:19):
We go with the Thursdays again.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I'm sorry, dog, tomorrow we needed you today. Tomorrow is
a baseball prep.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
Yeah, I know, and I wonder. I'm wondering pee and
you and I talked about it off the air if
people have noticed that you've forgot, not forgot, but not
including one of the titles I used to have, And
I guess we should address it now that I'm no
longer doing the Clipper shows. Unfortunately contract was renewed, and
yes they're moving in a different direction. But I just
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want to say, you know, I work with so many
great people on that show. I did it for over
twenty years, starting with half John Hefner, who who all
your listeners know, Micah King, and those guys in the
front office, if you will, but a lot of camera people,
people on air that I worked with, a lot of
people behind the scenes. We did really good work for
a long time. And as you guys know, the business
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is changing and the Clipper shows have changed hands a
couple of times already, and so not surprising that they're
going in a different direction. But I just wanted to
make sure that I thanked all those people that I
work with for so long, especially Darryl Lewis, who produced
that show for almost as long as I was on it,
did a great job and still continues to do a
great job on Angels and other stuff he does. But yeah,
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we're moving on. I won't miss the drive, but I'll
miss a lot of the people.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah, well out of yeah, I was gonna say, you know,
that drive down the one line.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
It was one of the reasons to watch. It was
really the main reason to watch Clipper basketball.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Yeah, to watch Don mcclas and his insights before and
middle and after the game, and especially back when there
was different left leadership and Don used to do the
fourth order or do a different quarter with Ralph Lawler.
A lot of stuff. What is your I mean, We're
going to continue to talk and ask about the Clippers
and the Lakers and all that here on the show.
(30:10):
But what what what do you think is the most
impactful thing you'll remember about working there or working with
all these different people, ownership changes, the whole crazy story.
Speaker 9 (30:21):
You know, I've thought about it, Pee, and I think
that that that one sticks out the most. Was the
ownership change in that whole ordeal with Donald Sterling and
what happened and led to him being bounced out of
the NBA and Steve Baldman coming in. I think I'll
remember that the most. I feel like those were you know,
we used to goof around a lot on that show
(30:41):
in the early days because the Clippers weren't very good,
and so yeah, we used to have free reign to
do whatever we want. And it seemed like once Steve
Balmer got involved, he got serious because he was spending
money and bringing in good players, and they had Chris
Paul and Lob City and all that stuff, and so
it turned into more of a real basketball at that point.
But doesn't mean it was better or worse. It just
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meant that it was more serious because the Clippers were contenders. Unfortunately,
they haven't gotten over the hump all these years, but
it looks like they have a chance this year. I
remember a lot of that stuff, you know, from the
playoff games, and but really that that's the one time
that really stands out if I think back over twenty years.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
So it's an interesting moment for them, don and you know,
you're I don't know how this thing is going to
get resolved. If it's going to get resolved, they don't
want to talk about it. Yet everybody continues to ask
the questions, do you think the league will come out
and make some sort of definitive statement. Do you think
they'll try to just ignore it and hope it goes away? Ultimately?
(31:47):
How do you think it ends with the Clippers and
Kawhi and this Pablo Tory is not given up. Man,
He's now tying charity checks of one point eight million
to the Sandberg guy who ran the company's charity fund,
tied directly to Kwili. Like, it's getting gnarly now.
Speaker 9 (32:03):
It is mad, But I just have this weird feeling
that it just goes away. I mean, maybe there's enough
evidence that Adam Silver gets put in a bind and
he's got to come down with some with some punishment.
But here's what I wonder, and we don't know because
no one's really spoke on except for Cuban, but he's
not an owner anymore. Is Adam Silver getting pressure from
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the other teams? That's the question, you know, is he
getting pressure from all these teams say, wait a second,
if they circumvented the cap, there has to be punishment
or else we're going to do it. So that's the
hard part in all this is what are all the
other teams thinking and saying to the NBA in Adam Silver, like,
you have to there's enough evidence out there that you
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have to punish them. But we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Maybe Steve Bomba gives them somebody too, that would work.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
He's got enough of it. You know, maybe he could
give the w NBA some money and then that way,
you know, it's just kind of his three way deal.
Speaker 9 (32:57):
That works out exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
We were playing some sound from Laker Media Day last week.
I don't know, it was earlier this week. Actually it
was DeAndre Ayton and he was talking about I don't
know if you were listening to the show at the time,
but the clip was basically ate and talking about the offense,
and he said, well, you know, it's a two man game.
It's it's me and Luca, And then he talked about
how they were in the same draft and how lucas
the face of the league and how his job is
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to make it easy for Luca. Do you think there's
any that there could be any issue with Lebron? And
because Maxi Kleeber then came in and gave that same
sort of thing and tried to circle back and bring
up Lebron as well. Do you think that in his
twenty third season, Lebron is the kind of person that
would say, yeah, I'm forty years old, it's you know,
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this is the guy or do you think that could
be an issue for the Lakers.
Speaker 9 (33:46):
I don't think he's the kind. I don't think he's
at the point in his career mat well he'll come
out and say anything. The question is in the locker
room what's being said. But I do think this. I
think Lebron, I mean, twenty three years is incredible for
any guy in any sport to still be playing. I
think what Lebron really wants, and he's a smart guy.
(34:06):
What he wants is this to transition into Lucas team.
But he wants to win going out. And I do
think for all the and I've said this, and you
guys have said it for years, how polarizing Lebron is.
But I do think that, you know, listening to him
all these years, I do I would bet that that
is his stance that, look, yeah, I'm not the main guy,
Luke is, but let's win this thing before I retire.
(34:29):
That that has to be kind of his stance on
all this.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
You've mentioned it. Don don McLean joining us right now
on Petrosen money. The Clippers do look pretty good, like
they do all the time going into the season. We
talk about the Lakers ad nauseam everybody does. Which team
looks better going into the season right now.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
I think the Clippers are, assuming everyone's healthy and ready
to go. They're so deep, But what they did in
the offseason with Beal and Brook Lopez and John Collins,
I mean they are deep one through fifteen pretty much,
and so we know things go wrong. We know guys
get hurt, we know guys' rest, we know all that.
And if you have a really deep team, your margin
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for air becomes much bigger. And I just think the
Clippers have a really big margin for air with the
roster that they've built in the improvement Touba about how
the good he's gotten hardened kind of not resurrected, but
had a monster year last year, and so I just
think they got all the pieces. But the biggest thing
to me is the depth that they have across the board.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
The it's not depth, but it's I guess it's a
collection of either Well, we're looking at past accomplishments right
with the Lakers when because to me, I look at it,
I'm like, yeah, that they really needed Marcus Smart. So
is Marcus Smart still the player that I think he is?
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Done?
Speaker 2 (35:51):
A former Defensive Player of the year because they need
that so desperately since nobody else is playing any defense
on the perimeter. And I mean, like we talked about
before when they signed a and I was like, man,
I remember that Ayton, and that can be really good
if he gets his head on right. Yeah, more likely
or less likely that those are the guys we're going
to see.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
See.
Speaker 9 (36:10):
Here's the thing, man, there's guys that are good defenders
that aren't talked about as being really good defenders. Why
because they're in a culture of non defense. And I'm
not saying that's the Lakers right now, but my point
is if your culture across the board in that locker room,
starting with the head coach, is we are going to guard.
We're going to be a good defensive team, then you
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get the best out of guys on the defensive end,
even guys that aren't known as good defenders. If everyone
else is guarding and you're the only one that isn't, well,
either you're not going to play or you're going to
really guard. And so I think it's important for JJ
Reddick to set the tone that, look, we got enough
offense with all these guys, we have to be really
good defensively. And if that's the case, I think a
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guy like Marcus Smart could raise back to the level
that he was at at one point as a defender.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Don McLain with us see believe it or not. While
we are in the midst of the Dodgers march to
a World Series championship, basketball is back. The Lakers are
doing their standard barnstorming tour, the Desert, Vegas, Santa Barbara,
all that sort of thing. The Clippers will get going
in about a week. Is it the usual? Is it
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the Celtics in the East, Is it the thunder in
the West? Or do you think it's a little more
wide open? And it's not that simple.
Speaker 9 (37:28):
I think the East is wide open. I mean wide
open because no Jason Tatum, he's saying it may come
back this year, but it ain't going to be like
before the All Star Break. I wouldn't imagine. So I
think Cleveland's got a really good chance. I think Orlando
improved themselves this offseason. The West is hard. I mean
you have to say that the thunder of the favorite.
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But like the Clippers got better, the Lakers got better,
teams have gotten better, the Warriors even got better. And
so yes, yes, the thunder of the favorite right now.
But I think the West is going to be incredibly competitive,
and I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't the thunder
the number one seed in the West.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Down by the time you stop calling college basketball games,
the tournament's going to have more teams than are playing
in Division one. In they're expanding the tournament. It looks
like they're talking about expanding the tournament even more. I
don't know if these neutral site arenas are going to
attract fans for you know, the fortieth seed. But what
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do you make I mean, obviously there's money to be
made with postseason college sports. We see it with the
football playoff, and the tournament is a huge money maker,
But is this watering it down too much?
Speaker 9 (38:45):
Well, you just said it. Pe. They don't care. They
don't care if it waters it down or not. They're
going to make money off the TV deal. Even if
ten people show up to these regional sites, They're still
getting the TV money and that's all they care about.
And so it's unfortunate that that's what it's come to
all of college sports, that we don't care what the
product really is as long as we can make more money,
but the tournament as perfect as it is. You know,
(39:08):
I think that the first four in games are fine,
but now you're stretching it to even more of those.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
A separate tournament for the tournament.
Speaker 9 (39:17):
Yeah, yeah, like it doesn't make any sense. We all
know why they're doing it, but you know, what's the fallout?
Are people not going to watch it? Probably not? So
why not we go ahead and do it? Make more
TV money? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:31):
I think you know, the way that it's being described
is that it would be twelve games, Like the opening
round isn't four, it's twelve. So it's a full on,
two day, six games a day affair. And I guess
the one is I'm trying to sort of I don't know
if you want to call it putting liftstick on a
pig or glasses half full. I do feel don and
(39:52):
I don't know if you would agree. I feel like
college basketball is better. You know, the money that these
guys are getting paid, some guys are staying back. It
feels like we got more team teams that are a
little bit better. I really thought the tournament was incredibly
compelling this last year. Do you think that's fair? Like, hey,
maybe more games because I feel like it's a better
product than we had when these guys were all one
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and done and it was just yeah.
Speaker 9 (40:16):
But this is like an hour conversation, Matt, you know
what I mean. It's like there's so many different angles
and ways to look at it. Is it better that
college basketball players are making over a million dollars a year?
Some would say yes, some would say no. I do
think you're right in the sense that it's more competitive.
Teams are better because you're playing with twenty two and
twenty three year olds. You're not playing with eighteen year olds.
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So their experience, no matter how many schools they've already
been at, they understand college basketball because they've been in
it for four or five years, and so that seems
like it's going to continue. They're talking about having this
new five years no matter what, so you don't have
to have a grad year. There's no more COVID year.
So now if you get five years, like, everybody's going
(40:57):
to be old, especial if you're making money. And so
I think from that, just what you said, Matt, that standpoint,
I think the product is better because you have guys
who have been in college for longer.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Great stuff. The product's always better when Don McClain joins
the show, especially on a Thursday. Well, I don't know
if it feels that way. Don enjoyed the playoffs and
we'll talk next week. Thanks a lot for doing it.
Speaker 9 (41:20):
Okay, guys see it.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Classy stuff on the Clippers too.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Indeed, you know me, I wouldn't have been classy. I'd
have been petty.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
That's a true statement.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
I haven't handled the challenge thing that well.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Yeah, I would have thought you'd have been a little
more gracious. They are celebrating twenty years, you know.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Yeah, where's my where's my gratitude?
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Just to ask Mario, he'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
We'll be right back with some reaction. We got a
lot of show. We got three things Thursday, Next Hour,
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out after the Yankees and Red Sox play right now,
Cubs on top of the padres in the bottom of
(42:46):
the six two to nothing winner will advance to face
the Brewers and Matt.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
We had a great conversation with McLean Spillboorg still coming
up three things Thursday, coming up. Happy to have a
full show today. Make sure you check out Tim Kats
tonight on Spectrum Sports net LA. We have a couple
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Speaker 2 (43:14):
The Secret text does a fine brought to you by
your so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 7 (43:19):
We make it easy.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
This was from a little earlier. This says, hey pee,
anyway we could get Chris and Nate's crunchy groove songs today.
It's been a rough week and all those jingles always
set the mood. Appreciate you well. We hope you're week improved,
Sir and and Matt is under control as always, and
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reggae Chris, which is in there, so I know it is.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
I'm just trying to find it. Come on, maybe it's
just under Chris.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
There we go, Pea, Hello, Kitty back back then always happy,
smiley faces, He's mess listen, Hall of Things, raking back
at a more innocent time, for great sports time. Let
(44:20):
me walk in like a rooster. You mean, let me
walk in like a d head. David is so cringe.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
Let me walk in like a rooster.
Speaker 5 (44:29):
I am styling seven innings, nine strikeouts.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
Winning game one.
Speaker 6 (44:35):
Whoa, that's right, snail zilla baby.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
A pitch the seven?
Speaker 3 (44:43):
You would right. Well, actually, I've never seen anybody have
a pitching performance and then act like that a day late.
That's fairy, you know, that's not that's not acting like
a professional.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
No, and but none of us are professionals here.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
So not not an athlete though I was there yesterday,
the sky was not an issue. Tao just prematurely squeezed
his glove. And that's not a euphanism. The guy next
to me, who played semi pro ball, looked up after
the error and said, Nope.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
That is a pretty good euphemism, though, squeezed the glove
too early? What have made the catch? Squeezed it too early?
Speaker 3 (45:23):
I'm going to Game three, so just need to know
if I need a he lock? Listen why he lock?
Because he asked pe in Dodger dollars? How many hundreds
of thousands of michellatas have you drank for free while
at the suite? What's the postseason price right now? One
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hundred and fifty without tahen two hundred fifth.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
I think meetches are close to thirty bucks now, aren't they?
Speaker 4 (45:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (45:51):
Yeah, I don't know what they are in the dugout
club three hundred.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Yeah, maybe a little more.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
We'll be right back. We have more great sports talk.
We have great sports talk whole another three hours that
you're not gonna want to miss.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
Yes, Spilly at five point thirty MLB Radio and Apple TV.
It's their lead analyst. He'll get into the Dodgers or
three things will be shifted from football to baseball. Bottom
of next top. Actually, you know about thirty minutes. So
a lot of Dodgers as they are victorious last night
and the city is celebrating their advancing, a.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
Lot of people still worried about that bullpen.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
Matt, Yeah, understandably. We'll try to ease their concerns or
will be I don't know. I don't know, Matt, I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
I don't know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
No, I don't think any of us do, but I
like to pretend I do. Well, that's the whole you know.
There you go of great sports talk. Baby, that's a fact.
Speaker 3 (47:04):
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They blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night,
and they blew up his house too.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Looking to us. Petros in Money AM five seventy LA
Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. No Dodger game
today from the Gallpin Motors broadcast booth. They will not
play again until Saturday, and we do not have Thursday
Night football tonight, so it'll be a full four hour
Petros and Money Show between now and seven pm. Same
(01:11):
schedule tomorrow. Sho hal Tani on the mound for Game one.
We suspect Game two and three will be Blake Snell
followed by Yoshi Yamamoto. We will have a Dodger centric
show today. P As you would imagine, after the big
celebration the sweep, the Detroit Tigers have just knocked off
(01:32):
the Guardians, so they advance as a visiting team. The
Cubs and the Padres are playing right now. The Yankees
and Red Sox will do battle later, but the Dodgers
able to take care of business and get the rest
they needed and have Sho hal Tani start Game one
of the Divisional round.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
It is a very exciting time for Dodger fans as
the focus moves to Philadelphia. They had a big party
last night within today. The Dodgers went down early in
the first inning. Yamamoto gave up a couple runs.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, Yamamoto didn't give up the runs. He was not
charged the two runs because I was told repeatedly that
Taoscar Hernandez gave up those two runs.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Well, yeah, but you know what I mean. He's yeah,
I mean, are we gonna split hairs?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Well, I think I think someone would take an issue
with that. You know, someone would say, well, now wait
a minute here, those were not his runs. That was
the third out, and so technically, you know they should
be attached to the guy responsible for those two runs.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
The Dodgers went down early, it's fair to say, yes.
And because they went down early, a lot of people
got very nervous, very quickly and started saying, David Vasa
talking about gassing up the jet yesterday, David Vassay strutting
like a rooster on Matt Muddy Smith, let me.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Walk in like a rooster.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I am stylin seven innings, nine strikeouts, winning game one.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Whoa, that's right, snail Zilla baby.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It is all moot. As the Dodgers were able to win,
able to push through, able to dominate, even though the
bullpen is still an adventure, which will be an even
more adventurous adventure in Philadelphia and back back in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It is funny that I would imagine, because of the
TEXTOSO you certainly have to wear it a lot more
than anyone else. When people freak out and they're like,
Dave's such an idiot gassing up the jet and all
this celebration and you guys talking about and it's okay,
But then when they win, and I would wouldn't imagine
you want them to come back your way, but to say, hey, yeah,
(03:55):
it turns out you can't just gas up the jet.
And they made pretty easy work of the Reds and
they're was never really a threat there. Even when things
got a little bit hairier there, fell behind by two. Eventually,
this is a team that put eight on the board.
So yeah, wait to go, Dave, gass up the jet
and let's get the Philly.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I can read you a few of the texts from
from last night when it was happening.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
The secret text doesn't fine brought to you by your
so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
We make it easy.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
This one says, playoff keyk is a real thing.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
There we go. That's some positivity. See that helps balance
out the text.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Do so, when Max Munsey had to run to first,
this one says, better check out Max Munsey after that run?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Ah right, because of the portly built.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
This says, are we going to see magic every time
the Dodgers score? At least he doesn't have a punkass
glove like Rodney. Uh, there was a lot of magic
cutaways early. He did not have a glove. But then
there was a whole bunch of Bateman cut away.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Not a Bateman, and I like the magic better because
magic and I listen, I get it, it gets, it
gets old and tiresome. But at least he's behaving like
a real fan. He's not too cool for school. He's
standing up, he's waving the towel, he's freaking out. I'd
rather have that than like super cool guy sitting behind
the the you know, the the plate, not showing any emotion.
(05:23):
You know. Magic's a little more indicative of what the
rest of the fifty five thousand people are doing there.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Right, Yeah, I guess this one said, you're right, You're right.
My bitterness is real. Uh, this one says, of course,
after Money gives a dissertation on why she hand should
anchor the bullpen in the playoffs, look what happens. The
curse of pms continue.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Ugly. It was real ugly, our man, she and I
I started to feel like he was a child out there, like, well,
someone come get this poor kid. Can we can we
get this poor child out of the game. This isn't
fair to him, This is.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And and of course a twenty three year old comes
in the ninth inning and most the three batters down,
he faces and you're like, oh, yeah, he's a child too. Yeah,
here we are.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Here's somebody about to feel stupid from the three to
one zero? What's what that stupid wave thing the Dodgers
do when they get a hit, it's so gay? Well
you know what being gay is, Okay, first of all, sir,
and second of all more importantly, even they're doing it
because it's the Freddie Freeman dance, all right, that's long
(06:29):
been documented here on the Petrosen Money Show.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It's been two years while they added and then they
added the show hey commercial cosmetic commercial thing.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
With the yeah that's when you're round third though.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Right, So they're all inside jokes, right. They're making fun
of Freddy for the way he danced at a charity event,
and then they're making fun of show Hay for his
cosmetic commercial when they get the third.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
My favorite text of the when the Dodgers went down
and everybody started to freak out, is this very ailed
World War II reference. Admiral Yamamoto was one of the
most powerful war admirals of the twentieth century. Japanese admiral
who did battle with the US Navy, of course, and
(07:13):
when Yamamoto had that error, well error inflicted on him
by team tried to screw him again exactly. This says
my battleship.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Pretty good.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
That put a smile on life. But most people probably
don't get it. But anyway, it is a very very
special time. We have this time every time of year.
The city's angst, the city's celebration, let me walk in
like a rooster, the city's hopes and dreams. Broadcasters trying
(07:51):
to one up each other as far as who they're
friends with on the Dodgers and who's going to play
better than the other guy. And it's all coming together
on the Petros and Money Show. And I don't know
what I expected, because I don't remember what's happened in
the past when the Dodgers win the wildcard round or
the format or whatever it is. But there was an
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explosion last night in the in the clubhouse. I guess
it wasn't even in the clubhouse. The Dodgers. Yeah, they
tarped off the batting cage and threw a party there
and it really blew up. That's Blake trying to scream,
(08:42):
screaming like he's in the Cobra Kai watching Daniel LaRusso
hit his legs swept sprang David Mass which what seems
to be like a fire hydrant knocked off.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I mean it was. It was cartoonish. It was Looney
Tune's esque Woody woodpecker bugs Bunny taking the soda bottles
spray to the face where Dave is just trying to
gather himself to find you know, what the hell is
going on as he is being sprayed with so much
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I mean so much force. I don't know what kind
of bottle of champagne. How hard Blake trying to manage
to shake that thing up. You can hear it like
it really like you can actually hear in this sound bite. No, no, no,
don't do the fake spray. Ronnie. Listen, you can actually
hear the spray. Listen to that. You can hear it.
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That's how hard Dave is wearing it in the face,
which is ironic because Ronnie just used the fake spray.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Right. We used to use the Seltzer bottle, like the
old timey Seltzer bottle back when Dave first started traveling
with the Dodgers. You know, we would ask Dave a
question like, gosh, you know, what do you think of
doing this? It seems like that he'd be like, you're
totally rude.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And that would be like yeah, and there's the sound effect, yes,
the soda bottle to the face. And yet Dave was
the one.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
You were exclusive. That's Blake trying and just blowing Dave up.
This text says I'm gay and I wouldn't be caught
dead doing that dance. I'm not on the Dodgers though. Yeah,
that's the thing, my gay friend, if you were on
the Dodgers and you hit.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
A double, you're gonna do the dance.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You're gonna do a dance because they're all on the
dugout expecting you to do the dance. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I mean, shoey Otani is doing the dance. Shoel Tani
does the dance. You, our gay listener, are doing the dance.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Like I just saw Jackson Merrill get a double and
he painted his goatee with his pinkies. That's what he
did when he looked at the dugout. I don't know
what that is if there's an inside joke there for
the padres, but every team seems to have some sort
of communication with the dugout after you get a hit,
and typically it's something that I guess is meant for
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that particular group of individuals and not for us.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah, it's an inside joke for the team by the team.
Whether you're gay or straight, whether you're gay or straight,
you're gonna be expected to do it. Yeah. And the
other thing is the lot of the Instagram live fanfare
that has come about from David vass yesterday Matt Muney Smith.
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I mean, he wasn't really inflammatory, but he wasn't as
as confident in Blake Snell as Vassay was in Game one.
And after Blake Snell shoved like he did in Game
one or dealt like he did in Game one, David Vassy, well,
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he really put himself on display.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Let me walk in like a rooster.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I am stylin seven innings, nine strikeouts, winning Game one.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
WHOA, that's right, snell Zilla baby.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Which I think like the thing that is out about
it is. Yeah, that's the result that we all wanted.
They were all none of us are are are bemoaning
the fact that Blake Snell pitched great, Like, oh man,
what a terrible outcome. Blake Snell was fantastic for seven
innings and pitched the Dodgers to a dominant victory in
Game one.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
The stage was set, you know, the stage was set
for Dave stry and strut he did. He didn't quite
look like Travolta at the end of Staying Alive, but
pretty close. This says what's worse, David Vasse trying to
do a Rick Flair impression and strutting on money like
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he's the cock of the Walk or cocaine Kates doing
his peaky blinders and pretch. Now they gave us the
worst jobs to me, Tony. Uh, The truth is I
asked for Tim Kates last week with Don McClain is
going to join us next because.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Now Dave's traveling. Dave's traveling, We got Spilly coming on
from MLB Radio and Apple TV. He's always great with us,
so he'll do the baseball look. Don McClain is a
championship coach pitch pitcher, so he knows a little something
about the seams as well.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
But this is what I asked for, and Kate's never found.
I mean, Kate's is very busy right now and he's
got a Spectrum Sports Net tonight, so damn tomorrow at
six am. But there was a moment last week on
Friday where Kate's broke in with his Irish English peaky
(13:46):
blinders accent and McClain went to please, And I feel
like that is a great moment. I don't know if
it's as great as you want an exclusive Dave with
trying and doing.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
That, or I mean, it's every It's the Alpha betas
in Revenge of the Nerds, It's Bobby and Karate Kid,
it's whatever Ray in Better Off Dead. It is a
quintessential nineteen eighties. But shit in Weird Science Record, Dave
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the reporter, the guy in a polo and slacks with
a microphone and here comes the jock just humiliating him
with a fire hose of champagne, screaming in his face.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Now, some people say it was just the Reds. Calm down,
and I'm watching the rest of these wildcard series and
they're all huge nutcutters and everybody losing their minds, and
it seems like they're very competitive.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
The Yeah, the Dodgers beat the Reds three to two,
then you can do the calm down. It's just the Reds.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
The Reds didn't it didn't look like the chance like
it was, but they were scrappy.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, but I mean the Dodgers still scored eighteen runs
in two games. It was like, yeah, they were supposed
to beat the snot out of the Reds and they
did and in the eighth inning. The Dodgers' bullpen had
issues in both games, but outside of that, it was like,
I know, the Textoso freaked out when when the Air
led to two runs and they were in a two
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to nothing hole for the first four innings or two
to one and after the third, but you know, it
just never felt like that was really an issue. Like
it never felt when they were up eight two and
she's having a meltdown on the mound. It's more like, damn,
what the hell with this bullpen? Like they can't find
anyone than holy crap, he's gonna blow this game and
they're gonna screw this whole thing up, and Otani's gonna
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have to pick you know what I mean, Like it's yeah,
whereas all of these Last night, I was listening to
the Yankee game on the way home, and I mean
their play by play guy is losing his freaking mind
on every pitch, like cannot control himself, can't contain himself,
like it's the World Series.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I guess it might as well be. And Matt. There's
been some pushback as well. This is hey, pe I've
known Vassie for years, family friends since grammar school, but
I no longer like him. After the rooster sounds for shame,
Dave's a douchebag, like a rooster. I don't think that's fair, No,
I really don't.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, because it's that behavior, you know, if he doesn't
gass up the jet that if that doesn't happen, we
don't get this. It's because he behaves like that that
the players come back, you know, by throwing their wet
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shirt on his head after clinching the division and spraying
him with a fire hose of champagne after they win
the wildcard.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
That was a great three hours of scam. This morning
I heard Jay Hare on there with Tim Kats and
Steve Sachs. Scam. We'll be back tomorrow at six. We
have Spilly today, we have Don McClain today, we have
three things Thursday. Today. We have a Petrosen money film
to our corner today. So a lot of stuff. This
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text says, Hey, Pete, I like Dave. He gives great
dodger insight. But what I seen that clip of him
strutting in I don't know how Matt had the restraint
not to just punch him in the face. Now that
come on, now, that would be terrible. It would be terrible.
I mean, that would set a terrible tone.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I got a handful of that on the direct message
of f that guy. I can't believe he did that.
I liked it. I love Dave, We love Dave, the
players love Dave. We are so fortunate to have this
freaking goof as our embedded reporter, for the players to
treat like a little bit of a whipping boy while
at the same time a friend, and also give him
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exclusive access that I don't think any other embedded reporter
gets from their team. They are not getting that with Clayton.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
You could talk about Alana Rizzo eating lunch with the
Philly fanatic all you want, but it's not the same.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
No, it's not close. And so I'm happy to wear
it every now and have Dave do a Rick Flair
wu in my face and give me the Snillzilla hello,
because you get the benefit of him being you know, willing,
and he is willing to wear it. That's the one
(18:43):
thing about Dave is he will he'll wear it. He'll
let Blake try and freaking blow him down with a
fire hose of champagne. While you know, when Jossi Elpwig
dumps a bucket of cold water on Bill, it's a
completely different.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Deal that ended up being a bad situation. Yeah, it's
a bad deal. So I guess overall, everybody feels great
about last night. Everybody feels great about the fact that
the Dodgers got it cleaned up in two games and
are headed out to Philly with a chance to.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Did you talk to your dad this morning?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
My dad last night was upset that t Oscar was
getting so much blame for dropping that ball. My father
blamed the twilight sky right and the odd start time
of the game. And of course, you know, we're in
the midst of succumbing to daylight savings here in southern California.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Get ready for darkness, imprisoning us all that we see,
absolute darkness.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I mean, I hate to read this text, but because
it's wrong. You know, David Vasse creates half our content
when it comes to the Dodgers. Yeah, we need it.
This is smell is an amazing talent. I'm glad he's
in LA so we don't have to face him. But
Dave is a useless He's crab hanging out of a
dog's ass. I hate that. F and guy F Dave F,
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Dave F DAVEF Dave F Dave F.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Day.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
You get where I'm coming from. Yeah, and you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, you could not be more wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Dave creates the personality. Listen, and I'm being dead serious.
I was listening last night to because it's must listen
when the Dodgers clinched something or win a series, let
alone the World Series by God last year. But when
David Vasse is in there during a celebration, the personality
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of the players comes out, and the personality even of
the front office comes out. Like last night, he was
talking to Will Smith and his last question to Will
Smith was do you need me to be a throwing
partner with you to work on that that hairline fracture
in your hand out in Philadelphia? And Will Smith's answer
(20:55):
was no, You're not the guy. And then that was
the end of the inner. And it goes back to
Rick Monday and Steven Nelson, who are like forty years
apart in age and they're both laughing, gutturally laughing and
enjoying the moment, and the same thing with Andrew Friedman.
Dave said, hey, do you want to hug it out?
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And Andrew Friedman said no, I'm good, and they go
right back and they're laughing. They're having a great time.
It's a long night. It's a long season of these
people around each other all the time. I mean, we
do football and you work. You know, I don't even
work once a week, but you work once a week
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with the same group of people, and sometime around October
it gets to be a real grind, you know, everybody
gets tired of each other. Imagine baseball every day and
what it's like. What David Vasse brings out in people
with his attitude, with his overall ability to be the
butt of a joke and a joker at the same time.
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It really is a special thing.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
And it's nothing against I'm not trying to take a
shot here.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
But by anybody else doing the job. I just can't
do it like that.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Kirston will do a fine interview, it's not David Vesse
because they'll pingpong Dave and Kirsten back and forth with
different players right, and it's just a completely different experience.
I mean, he's got Clayton Kershaw saying he barely wants
to have pants on. It's Clayton, a first ballot best
Player pitcher, I should say of his era in the
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moment of a celebration, saying, no, Dave, I don't want
my shirt back. I barely want to wear pants.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, and his unathletic ass as you pointed out, Matt
broke his arm off for this team, right, so everybody
could have a laugh for content. I mean, he really
did an amazing job last night. Now. Is Dave able
to clean up the bullpen?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
No, no, but don't take that out of him. No,
that has and the bullpen and the issues in the
bullpen are likely a big reason why someone's got to
blow off a little bit of steam. That's what happens,
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you know. The bullpen had a rough go against the Reds.
Everything else was great. Mookie looks like a freaking world beater.
Otani two home runs, Tailed two home runs, The starters
were both exceptional, Yamamoto and Snell. And what's the one
thing that people are saying after the series, like, uh,
freaking bullpen again? And so here's Dave talking to Max
(23:41):
Munsey and up comes someone from the but the basically
the father of the bullpen, Blake trying in World Series
zero last year, blowing off a little steam for the
bullpen by spraying Dave down with a whole bottle of cooks.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Champage's not cooking. It really was what the job Dave
does his very spec and that really, honestly, there's nothing
comparable in sports. And that really is true. I mean
it really, for all the fun we have and all
the joking and all that stuff, if we didn't have
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Dave covering the Dodgers, we wouldn't cover the Dodgers like
we cover the Dodgers. And I think we cover the
Dodgers pretty damn well in our way. I hate to
be so serious, but there was a real, a real
indicator last night that we're not getting half the stuff
that we get. If it wasn't for that fleshy goofy
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half Persian, half Italian from the Valley gas up the
jet veal.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Let me walk in like a rooster.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
I am stylin seven innings, nine strikeouts.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Winning Game one.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
WHOA, that's right, snail zilla baby.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
And I did see it's like, you can't make this show.
I watched that like five times. Yeah, and I shouldn't.
I mean I shouldn't. I was there right. It's the
way he struts. There is something about it that I
can't get enough of. But I'd like to point out, like,
you can't make it up. We make fun of Dave
and and Blake Snell and his I am if you
want me to be Dog? And then the Dodgers post
(25:18):
him and Sonny from you know, Tottenham now LAFC and
he walks up and he's like, what's up, my dog.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
It's like, really, that's that's how you're doing this.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
We wouldn't know the personality of these players half as
much as we do. No, if if it really, if
it was not for Dave help him, if you want
to be Dog, helping them to show their personality to
the city, and that goes a long way. I mean,
Joe Kelly threw out the first pitch the other day.
Joe Kelly is an ex reliever on this team. He
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made a face at a Houston Astro player. I mean
it's not like he closed down a World Series game
or anything like that for the Dodgers. If anything, he
was one of their mother hated opponents when he was
a starter. But Joe Kelly is a beloved figure why
because of the personality he showed to the fan base.
Why here in the city, And David Vassey does nothing
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but help facilitate that with every single person. So we
will talk to Don McLain next. We will have a
top story which is three Things Thursday, A film to
our Corner, A conversation with Ryan Spilborg's from Apple. Happy
(26:36):
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Speaker 3 (27:27):
It's time to talk to our bff, the one and
only Don McLain. He was here last Friday, did a
great job filling it like he always does. Basketball is
getting fired up, and there is news in the NCAA
as well, not just the Clippers and Lakers and everybody
(27:50):
else getting started. He is the leading scorer in the
history of the PAC twelve. You see him on the
Big Ten Network at FS one. He also works at
ce AA. There is only one Don McClain. The next
ass he kisses will be the first the baron of
Box Canyon, a decorated NBA player and once again the
(28:12):
best friend of the Petros. Somebody show on You're Southern
California Toyota Dealer celebrity Hotline. What's cracking? Don? How are
you here?
Speaker 9 (28:19):
We go with the Thursdays again.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I'm sorry, dog, tomorrow we needed you today. Tomorrow is
a baseball prep.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
Yeah, I know, and I wonder. I'm wondering pee and
you and I talked about it off the air if
people have noticed that you've forgot, not forgot, but not
including one of the titles I used to have, And
I guess we should address it now that I'm no
longer doing the Clipper shows. Unfortunately contract was renewed, and
yes they're moving in a different direction. But I just
(28:53):
want to say, you know, I work with so many
great people on that show. I did it for over
twenty years, starting with half John Hefner, who who all
your listeners know, Micah King, and those guys in the
front office, if you will, but a lot of camera people,
people on air that I worked with, a lot of
people behind the scenes. We did really good work for
a long time. And as you guys know, the business
(29:14):
is changing and the Clipper shows have changed hands a
couple of times already, and so not surprising that they're
going in a different direction. But I just wanted to
make sure that I thanked all those people that I
work with for so long, especially Darryl Lewis, who produced
that show for almost as long as I was on it,
did a great job and still continues to do a
great job on Angels and other stuff he does. But yeah,
(29:37):
we're moving on. I won't miss the drive, but I'll
miss a lot of the people.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah, well out of yeah, I was gonna say, you know,
that drive down the one line.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
It was one of the reasons to watch. It was
really the main reason to watch Clipper basketball.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Yeah, to watch Don mcclas and his insights before and
middle and after the game, and especially back when there
was different left leadership and Don used to do the
fourth order or do a different quarter with Ralph Lawler.
A lot of stuff. What is your I mean, We're
going to continue to talk and ask about the Clippers
and the Lakers and all that here on the show.
(30:10):
But what what what do you think is the most
impactful thing you'll remember about working there or working with
all these different people, ownership changes, the whole crazy story.
Speaker 9 (30:21):
You know, I've thought about it, Pee, and I think
that that that one sticks out the most. Was the
ownership change in that whole ordeal with Donald Sterling and
what happened and led to him being bounced out of
the NBA and Steve Baldman coming in. I think I'll
remember that the most. I feel like those were you know,
we used to goof around a lot on that show
(30:41):
in the early days because the Clippers weren't very good,
and so yeah, we used to have free reign to
do whatever we want. And it seemed like once Steve
Balmer got involved, he got serious because he was spending
money and bringing in good players, and they had Chris
Paul and Lob City and all that stuff, and so
it turned into more of a real basketball at that point.
But doesn't mean it was better or worse. It just
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meant that it was more serious because the Clippers were contenders. Unfortunately,
they haven't gotten over the hump all these years, but
it looks like they have a chance this year. I
remember a lot of that stuff, you know, from the
playoff games, and but really that that's the one time
that really stands out if I think back over twenty years.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
So it's an interesting moment for them, don and you know,
you're I don't know how this thing is going to
get resolved. If it's going to get resolved, they don't
want to talk about it. Yet everybody continues to ask
the questions, do you think the league will come out
and make some sort of definitive statement. Do you think
they'll try to just ignore it and hope it goes away? Ultimately?
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How do you think it ends with the Clippers and
Kawhi and this Pablo Tory is not given up. Man,
He's now tying charity checks of one point eight million
to the Sandberg guy who ran the company's charity fund,
tied directly to Kwili. Like, it's getting gnarly now.
Speaker 9 (32:03):
It is mad, But I just have this weird feeling
that it just goes away. I mean, maybe there's enough
evidence that Adam Silver gets put in a bind and
he's got to come down with some with some punishment.
But here's what I wonder, and we don't know because
no one's really spoke on except for Cuban, but he's
not an owner anymore. Is Adam Silver getting pressure from
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the other teams? That's the question, you know, is he
getting pressure from all these teams say, wait a second,
if they circumvented the cap, there has to be punishment
or else we're going to do it. So that's the
hard part in all this is what are all the
other teams thinking and saying to the NBA in Adam Silver, like,
you have to there's enough evidence out there that you
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have to punish them. But we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Maybe Steve Bomba gives them somebody too, that would work.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
He's got enough of it. You know, maybe he could
give the w NBA some money and then that way,
you know, it's just kind of his three way deal.
Speaker 9 (32:57):
That works out exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
We were playing some sound from Laker Media Day last week.
I don't know, it was earlier this week. Actually it
was DeAndre Ayton and he was talking about I don't
know if you were listening to the show at the time,
but the clip was basically ate and talking about the offense,
and he said, well, you know, it's a two man game.
It's it's me and Luca, And then he talked about
how they were in the same draft and how lucas
the face of the league and how his job is
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to make it easy for Luca. Do you think there's
any that there could be any issue with Lebron? And
because Maxi Kleeber then came in and gave that same
sort of thing and tried to circle back and bring
up Lebron as well. Do you think that in his
twenty third season, Lebron is the kind of person that
would say, yeah, I'm forty years old, it's you know,
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this is the guy or do you think that could
be an issue for the Lakers.
Speaker 9 (33:46):
I don't think he's the kind. I don't think he's
at the point in his career mat well he'll come
out and say anything. The question is in the locker
room what's being said. But I do think this. I
think Lebron, I mean, twenty three years is incredible for
any guy in any sport to still be playing. I
think what Lebron really wants, and he's a smart guy.
(34:06):
What he wants is this to transition into Lucas team.
But he wants to win going out. And I do
think for all the and I've said this, and you
guys have said it for years, how polarizing Lebron is.
But I do think that, you know, listening to him
all these years, I do I would bet that that
is his stance that, look, yeah, I'm not the main guy,
Luke is, but let's win this thing before I retire.
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That that has to be kind of his stance on
all this.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
You've mentioned it. Don don McLean joining us right now
on Petrosen money. The Clippers do look pretty good, like
they do all the time going into the season. We
talk about the Lakers ad nauseam everybody does. Which team
looks better going into the season right now.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
I think the Clippers are, assuming everyone's healthy and ready
to go. They're so deep, But what they did in
the offseason with Beal and Brook Lopez and John Collins,
I mean they are deep one through fifteen pretty much,
and so we know things go wrong. We know guys
get hurt, we know guys' rest, we know all that.
And if you have a really deep team, your margin
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for air becomes much bigger. And I just think the
Clippers have a really big margin for air with the
roster that they've built in the improvement Touba about how
the good he's gotten hardened kind of not resurrected, but
had a monster year last year, and so I just
think they got all the pieces. But the biggest thing
to me is the depth that they have across the board.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
The it's not depth, but it's I guess it's a
collection of either Well, we're looking at past accomplishments right
with the Lakers when because to me, I look at it,
I'm like, yeah, that they really needed Marcus Smart. So
is Marcus Smart still the player that I think he is?
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Done?
Speaker 2 (35:51):
A former Defensive Player of the year because they need
that so desperately since nobody else is playing any defense
on the perimeter. And I mean, like we talked about
before when they signed a and I was like, man,
I remember that Ayton, and that can be really good
if he gets his head on right. Yeah, more likely
or less likely that those are the guys we're going
to see.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
See.
Speaker 9 (36:10):
Here's the thing, man, there's guys that are good defenders
that aren't talked about as being really good defenders. Why
because they're in a culture of non defense. And I'm
not saying that's the Lakers right now, but my point
is if your culture across the board in that locker room,
starting with the head coach, is we are going to guard.
We're going to be a good defensive team, then you
(36:32):
get the best out of guys on the defensive end,
even guys that aren't known as good defenders. If everyone
else is guarding and you're the only one that isn't, well,
either you're not going to play or you're going to
really guard. And so I think it's important for JJ
Reddick to set the tone that, look, we got enough
offense with all these guys, we have to be really
good defensively. And if that's the case, I think a
(36:53):
guy like Marcus Smart could raise back to the level
that he was at at one point as a defender.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Don McLain with us see believe it or not. While
we are in the midst of the Dodgers march to
a World Series championship, basketball is back. The Lakers are
doing their standard barnstorming tour, the Desert, Vegas, Santa Barbara,
all that sort of thing. The Clippers will get going
in about a week. Is it the usual? Is it
(37:20):
the Celtics in the East, Is it the thunder in
the West? Or do you think it's a little more
wide open? And it's not that simple.
Speaker 9 (37:28):
I think the East is wide open. I mean wide
open because no Jason Tatum, he's saying it may come
back this year, but it ain't going to be like
before the All Star Break. I wouldn't imagine. So I
think Cleveland's got a really good chance. I think Orlando
improved themselves this offseason. The West is hard. I mean
you have to say that the thunder of the favorite.
(37:48):
But like the Clippers got better, the Lakers got better,
teams have gotten better, the Warriors even got better. And
so yes, yes, the thunder of the favorite right now.
But I think the West is going to be incredibly competitive,
and I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't the thunder
the number one seed in the West.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Down by the time you stop calling college basketball games,
the tournament's going to have more teams than are playing
in Division one. In they're expanding the tournament. It looks
like they're talking about expanding the tournament even more. I
don't know if these neutral site arenas are going to
attract fans for you know, the fortieth seed. But what
(38:33):
do you make I mean, obviously there's money to be
made with postseason college sports. We see it with the
football playoff, and the tournament is a huge money maker,
But is this watering it down too much?
Speaker 9 (38:45):
Well, you just said it. Pe. They don't care. They
don't care if it waters it down or not. They're
going to make money off the TV deal. Even if
ten people show up to these regional sites, They're still
getting the TV money and that's all they care about.
And so it's unfortunate that that's what it's come to
all of college sports, that we don't care what the
product really is as long as we can make more money,
but the tournament as perfect as it is. You know,
(39:08):
I think that the first four in games are fine,
but now you're stretching it to even more of those.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
A separate tournament for the tournament.
Speaker 9 (39:17):
Yeah, yeah, like it doesn't make any sense. We all
know why they're doing it, but you know, what's the fallout?
Are people not going to watch it? Probably not? So
why not we go ahead and do it? Make more
TV money? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:31):
I think you know, the way that it's being described
is that it would be twelve games, Like the opening
round isn't four, it's twelve. So it's a full on,
two day, six games a day affair. And I guess
the one is I'm trying to sort of I don't know
if you want to call it putting liftstick on a
pig or glasses half full. I do feel don and
(39:52):
I don't know if you would agree. I feel like
college basketball is better. You know, the money that these
guys are getting paid, some guys are staying back. It
feels like we got more team teams that are a
little bit better. I really thought the tournament was incredibly
compelling this last year. Do you think that's fair? Like, hey,
maybe more games because I feel like it's a better
product than we had when these guys were all one
(40:13):
and done and it was just yeah.
Speaker 9 (40:16):
But this is like an hour conversation, Matt, you know
what I mean. It's like there's so many different angles
and ways to look at it. Is it better that
college basketball players are making over a million dollars a year?
Some would say yes, some would say no. I do
think you're right in the sense that it's more competitive.
Teams are better because you're playing with twenty two and
twenty three year olds. You're not playing with eighteen year olds.
(40:36):
So their experience, no matter how many schools they've already
been at, they understand college basketball because they've been in
it for four or five years, and so that seems
like it's going to continue. They're talking about having this
new five years no matter what, so you don't have
to have a grad year. There's no more COVID year.
So now if you get five years, like, everybody's going
(40:57):
to be old, especial if you're making money. And so
I think from that, just what you said, Matt, that standpoint,
I think the product is better because you have guys
who have been in college for longer.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Great stuff. The product's always better when Don McClain joins
the show, especially on a Thursday. Well, I don't know
if it feels that way. Don enjoyed the playoffs and
we'll talk next week. Thanks a lot for doing it.
Speaker 9 (41:20):
Okay, guys see it.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Classy stuff on the Clippers too.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Indeed, you know me, I wouldn't have been classy. I'd
have been petty.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
That's a true statement.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
I haven't handled the challenge thing that well.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Yeah, I would have thought you'd have been a little
more gracious. They are celebrating twenty years, you know.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Yeah, where's my where's my gratitude?
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Just to ask Mario, he'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
We'll be right back with some reaction. We got a
lot of show. We got three things Thursday, Next Hour,
Petro some money on m FI seventy l A Sports, Hello,
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Speaker 2 (42:24):
App way to seven o'clock, full four hour show. No
Dodger game today or tomorrow. That's back on Saturday. It'll
be either three or three thirty six or six thirty
pm Philadelphia time. Don't know just yet, Probably figure that
out after the Yankees and Red Sox play right now,
Cubs on top of the padres in the bottom of
(42:46):
the six two to nothing winner will advance to face
the Brewers and Matt.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
We had a great conversation with McLean Spillboorg still coming
up three things Thursday, coming up. Happy to have a
full show today. Make sure you check out Tim Kats
tonight on Spectrum Sports net LA. We have a couple
requests as we're a little over on the secret textos line.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
The Secret text does a fine brought to you by
your so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 7 (43:19):
We make it easy.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
This was from a little earlier. This says, hey pee,
anyway we could get Chris and Nate's crunchy groove songs today.
It's been a rough week and all those jingles always
set the mood. Appreciate you well. We hope you're week improved,
Sir and and Matt is under control as always, and
(43:51):
reggae Chris, which is in there, so I know it is.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
I'm just trying to find it. Come on, maybe it's
just under Chris.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
There we go, Pea, Hello, Kitty back back then always happy,
smiley faces, He's mess listen, Hall of Things, raking back
at a more innocent time, for great sports time. Let
(44:20):
me walk in like a rooster. You mean, let me
walk in like a d head. David is so cringe.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
Let me walk in like a rooster.
Speaker 5 (44:29):
I am styling seven innings, nine strikeouts.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
Winning game one.
Speaker 6 (44:35):
Whoa, that's right, snail zilla baby.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
A pitch the seven?
Speaker 3 (44:43):
You would right. Well, actually, I've never seen anybody have
a pitching performance and then act like that a day late.
That's fairy, you know, that's not that's not acting like
a professional.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
No, and but none of us are professionals here.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
So not not an athlete though I was there yesterday,
the sky was not an issue. Tao just prematurely squeezed
his glove. And that's not a euphanism. The guy next
to me, who played semi pro ball, looked up after
the error and said, Nope.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
That is a pretty good euphemism, though, squeezed the glove
too early? What have made the catch? Squeezed it too early?
Speaker 3 (45:23):
I'm going to Game three, so just need to know
if I need a he lock? Listen why he lock?
Because he asked pe in Dodger dollars? How many hundreds
of thousands of michellatas have you drank for free while
at the suite? What's the postseason price right now? One
(45:44):
hundred and fifty without tahen two hundred fifth.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
I think meetches are close to thirty bucks now, aren't they?
Speaker 4 (45:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (45:51):
Yeah, I don't know what they are in the dugout
club three hundred.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Yeah, maybe a little more.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
We'll be right back. We have more great sports talk.
We have great sports talk whole another three hours that
you're not gonna want to miss.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
Yes, Spilly at five point thirty MLB Radio and Apple TV.
It's their lead analyst. He'll get into the Dodgers or
three things will be shifted from football to baseball. Bottom
of next top. Actually, you know about thirty minutes. So
a lot of Dodgers as they are victorious last night
and the city is celebrating their advancing, a.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
Lot of people still worried about that bullpen.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
Matt, Yeah, understandably. We'll try to ease their concerns or
will be I don't know. I don't know, Matt, I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
I don't know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
No, I don't think any of us do, but I
like to pretend I do. Well, that's the whole you know.
There you go of great sports talk. Baby, that's a fact.
Speaker 3 (47:04):
Stay with us, everybody. We got more great sports talk
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