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their ladle in to the farm barrel this year and
pull out a Korean star his on camp.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I was gonna bring it up in Dodger Talk, but
let me throw it around with you real quick. We
talked about in the number of the day, the eight
City Connect uniforms that were unveiled today. The Dodgers don't
have a new City Connect Jersey this year, but they
do have those awesome blue tops that they debuted over
the weekend, and washing I don't know if they're awesome.
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yes? No, not kidding.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
They're sweet blue tops like spring training. Look, that's spring training.
Come on, I like the gray Los Angeles. Do they
still wear those at all?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
They do?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
They warm a couple times and.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
As long as they don't abandon those completely. And I
don't want to see those blue tops all the time.
Not all the time. But they're mixing it up.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, so they could sell more ching. I'm not a
jersey guy, but that blue jersey is something.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
If you know you will not you'll get your nuts kicked.
It's on the back.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That'd be awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Isn't there a sales guy that runs around in one
of those.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Two of them? Got what if it was in the
suite last week?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Oh god, you should be ashamed of yourself. Podcast the
show on the iHeartRadio app Yonder Alonzo will join us next,
but right now, Tim Katz has promised he said he
got a top story of the act.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Top story of this.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
All right, petros chalk this up to why didn't we
think of that? If your Genie Buss and the Lakers,
I don't know the last twenty five years. After only
a few months of ownership, Mark Walter is quickly putting
his mark on the Lakers. The Lakers earlier today sent
out an email to the media announcing new court side
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Oh absolutely, this is Uncle Lawna. It is beautiful. New
court side seating available is beginning this postseason, offering fans
a rare opportunity to experience the game from its most
covet advantage point. Prior to today, you can almost never get
floor seats because they've been sold out for nearly fifty
years at the Forum and now crypto.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Like even the Diane Cannons and all that.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Can't get them. They're all sold out. Companies basically own
them now, PR companies, right record labels, Jack Nicholson, Yeah,
they all own them now. Just give them out to people.
Court Side reserve is what they're calling them.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Court side reserve different from the seats that were already there.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
They're right behind them, so they've moved them. Well, what
about the people on their mark right behind them their
second row court side seats?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But what about the people that have the court side
Are their seats going to be hindered at all by this?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
No, Now they're just going to have somebody breathing down
their neck right behind They might not like kicking their chair.
See that as a less exclusive deal. Well, these are
highly sought after tickets already the exclusive floor seating offers
immerense immersive experience that you cannot get anywhere else in
the NBA. The new on floor seating features premium hospitality,
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including in seat food service, food and VIP club access.
That's what you get, just like the court side folks.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, you get all the perks of court side. It's
probably not as expensive at court side, but it's a
new revenue stream for the Lakers. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It makes you wonder why the Bus family never thought
of adding a second row of court side reserve seats
for additional revenue over the years.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I don't know why didn't anybody think of it? If
Lon Rosen nude, don't you think you might have mentioned
it to Genie Buss over drinks and MB posts or something.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You think they would have done a finding with Dynamite.
I mean, these tickets are not for the common La
and Hermosa beach. I mean, I'm not sitting there for
a game, Petros, You're not sitting there. Well, maybe you're
sitting there in a game. Why he's not sitting there?
And again, when I go to court side for the Lakers,
off one of your fancy people you know up on
the Hill, give you some tickets. Oh, I got these
court sides who are a big company, we got Maybe
you're going, but common folk like me.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I mean, I've gone to a Laker game with the owner,
Joey Buss, and we didn't sit in the court side seats.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
He said in the second row.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
No, no, no, we sat in a suite and I
sat on one side of the suite and I was
asked to move to the other side. Even they said
there was an invisible line between Joey's guests and Jesse's guests.
No way, Yeah, and look I talked to joe Anne
and you should have never been born. But yeah, they
had an invisible line.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
You see that line right there. I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Some like hip hop looking guy, like bodyguard type, came
up to music. I need you to move over. This
is Jesse's side. I was like, like two chairs and
there's no one around, and you're with Joey. Yeah. I
was like, we were with a bunch of kids.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Now when you go to get food, is there two
different sides, Jesse's side and Joey's.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
No. No, but the seating there was Jesse's side and
Joey's side. So what I'm saying is And I'm not
trying to act bougie. It was just like a kid's thing.
And I know Joey Buss a little bit. He hasn't
invited me anywhere in ten years. I mean, Luke Walton
was the coach.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well, you violated the line, that's why.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, And I've told the story. I've lived to tell
the story on the air. But I mean, the point
I'm trying to me is those seats are so exclusive.
The owner doesn't sit there because they can charge so
much for them. Yeah, that they make sure they do well.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
The common fan is not going to be sitting in
these second row court side reserve seats. So why do
we care, Kate, Well, we care because this is additional revenue.
And just like the Guggenheim Group did for the Dodgers,
they think differently. They think bigger, They think of making money,
which is Mark Walter's way of improving the team. Just
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that car like he did with the Dodge.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
What's that car wash across from the the Sinclair gas
station down the street.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It's a band. It doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
It doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
No, it's all closed off. It's for sale. Twelve million
dollars by the way. I looked it up on Zillo
for the car wash for the property twelve million dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well, how about a changing career. Well gets your Shareiet
We've been washing balls for years and now we can watch.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Car Mark Walter has proven that he pours it back
onto the product on the field and this case, back
onto the court. Petros and before you start text and
p well, we the Kates are an idiot. There's no
salary cap and luxury threatold in the NBA and baseball.
There's limitation. Don't start sending all that stuff to me.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I know.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Revenue allows you to change the infrastructure of your organization,
and that's what the Lakers are going to do. Scouting departments,
what it was going to be like?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
You know what, because there's curtains and all the weird
stuff in the NBA. How could I explain it when
I don't understand it and don't care at all. I
just know there's more. They're limited limits to what you
can and can't pay people in the NBA. So everybody's
wondering what nuances will this Laker ownership group make, What
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moves will they make to change things? Because what they've
done with the Dodgers you can't really do in the NBA,
and this seems like one of the many things that
they have in mind.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, basically, they're going to bring the Lakers up to
code with what other NBA teams are doing here in
twenty twenty six. Have you ever peeled back the layers
of the Dodgers, the amount of advisors in front office
folks and coaches that are supporting Dave Roberts, and the
training staff and the analytical department. What we always joke
about is in the dungeon of Dodger Stadium with guys
on computers and the scouting department. That's global. The Lakers
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are gonna join the rest of the NBA in twenty
twenty six with all the means necessary and one of
the reasons, and it kind of starts with this second
row of court side reserve seats bringing in more money
to Mark Walter and Laker ownership so they can turn
her around and make a better product on the court. Now,
that's great to do it, but then they have to
have big stars on the court. You've got to have
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a reason to keep coming back. I have Luka Doncic,
but they have to get rid of them. I mean,
Laker fans are gonna be griping right now, and I'm
waiting for the text to come in. Willema Susan ticke
it hole that they've already increased to twenty percent for
next season. I got a letter in the mail. Yes,
Laker games aren't cheap, folks.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I think that the Lakers probably at this point have
priced out our entire listener base.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
You could be right, but the three hundred section is
staying strong. I'm still with the three hundred section. Dodger
tickets aren't exactly cheap. Anymot dollars a year just to
be in the three hundred two. That's true. You got
on two houses. The Dodger tickets aren't cheap. But you
know what, four million people still go through the turnstiles
every single year eighty one home games. Why because the
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product on the field is elite with superstars and the
team has a chance to win a championship every single year.
And as long as the fan base feels like you
got a competitive team with superstars like Kobe Bryant or
Shack or going back to the showtime Lakers with Magic
and Kareem, they will pay whatever to go to a game,
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And I think the brain trust of Lon Rosen and
Mark Walter have gotten off to a fantastic start by
adding these second row of court side seats, just a
small way improving.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You know that Tim Kates really gave us credit. He
loved what I was doing. Lon Rosen called me and
said he loved what I was doing.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Think about Dodger Stadium. The stadium was fifty some years old.
How do you improve on a stadium like this? How
do you make it better? The structure and the bones
are already here of the stadium. They figured out a
way to make it.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Better, got it out at the bottom and made it
and made it more accessible.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Look at the clubhouts. It's small and tiny. We have
nowhere to work out. They gutted it all out everything
and brand new stuff in there for the players.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Made it so the players would be attracted.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
State of the art restaurant for those lucky enough to
send the dugout seats the center field plaza. They figured
it out because they're smart people with a lot of money,
and they're gonna do it with the Lakers as well.
And this is the first example. These court side reserve seats,
which somehow nobody thought of going back to the days
of the Forum, back to the early days of Staples
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Center and now Crypto. How do you not think of
this additional ruting.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
They didn't want to upset their corporate partners who were
sitting in the more exclusive front row reserves.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Oh I'm sorry, MGM and paramounts. You're not gonna have
some dude sitting behind you from some fancy Netflix. Yeah,
they're sitting right behind you now, kicking your chair like that.
They're Celtics fans too, hey, like that.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Brenda's song is beyond you now.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Oh, she's gonna go back, get her off the court.
So there you go, petros Mark, Walter Lon Rosen, the
Laker brain trust are already off to a great start
doing things the bus family should have been doing for years.
Adding news seats, adding new venue events.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Hire a real personnel department. Yes, get rid of Rob Polenka, Yes,
hire people that know what they're doing. I mean, what
do we get like, they're gonna hire the NBA equivalent
of Andrew Friedman.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Right, and what have we heard the last ten years?
Oh huh, they don't have that many scouts, the analytic departments.
Just a few people.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
They run like a mom and pop show.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Right, no longer. No longer. Mark Walter is here to
say the Lake there's a reason that Lebron was able
to come in and his acidic in influence was able
to penetrate everywhere and get in all the nooks and
crannies and corrode the Laker leadership because they weren't that
strong in the first place. I mean, I'd liking everything
to USC football, so I'll do this too. I mean,
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you couldn't just walk in and cancel the Notre Dame rivalry.
It took years and years of the leadership being corroded.
Max Nikias, a terrible president, the terrible leadership of Lynn Swan,
Pat Hayden, so on, and so Mike Bone. All of
that culminates into the Notre Dame rivalry being canceled. It
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just doesn't happen overnight. And it didn't happen over the
night with the Lakers. Lebron came in and corroded things
and coroded and corota and coroded, and now their butts exploded.
They've been sold. But you know what has happened overnight,
Mark Walter and this Laker ownership has come in we
got a plan. How about second row seats, additional revenue.
We're gonna make this team a great team once again.
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I may start watching Laker games again.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Good luck to you, Tim.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
When's the next game?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Brian Long loves the Lakers. We'll be right back with
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So joining us right now on your Southern California Toyota
Dealers celebrity hotline to talk some baseball is Yonder Alonso
on the Petro sand Money Show. What's cracking? Yonder? How
are you? Thanks for joining us?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Man? Great? What a great introduction, man, I really appreciate
that big time.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Come on, you got it coming. We're not paying you.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Like you know. Yeah, I felt like even you know,
given the Masters weekend having I felt like I was
getting ready for the first tea with all the accolades.
I really appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
You'd be beloved at the Master's Yonder, there'd be no doubt.
But you gotta work this weekend. What does it The
Angels have gotten started here in town. Of course, everybody's
thinking about the Dodgers most of the time. But but
what excites you about the matchup tomorrow in Cincinnati between
the Angels and the Reds. Other than it's earlier in
the year and everybody's fun to watch, it seems like
this time of year.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Yeah, I think it's good. Look, I always say this,
right like, you're not gonna win a division in April,
but you can certainly lose one. And I think, you know,
you look at both of these teams and and you
know they're off to nice starts. You look at the
Cincinnati Reds, who obviously lost today against the Marlins, but
there's a lot of fun to have. Their their starting
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rotation has been great, Burns is going tomorrow. They got
the young studs with South Stewart, Allie de Lacruz doing
their thing. So, yeah, you know it's been it's been
a lot of fun. Obviously. You look at this Angels team. Now,
you know, the bullpen has been great for them. I
think what they're like top five in e r A
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and I think they're top ten in ops opponents ops,
which is which is awesome to see. And then you've
you know, you've got the bullpen. It's got some guys
that have been proven, right, Romano palmeran suitor, so there's
guys that can that can you know, bridge you to
the ninth inning. And then obviously you got Trout and
Adele and o'hapi and you know, I think my favorite
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player on that Angels roster is Zach Netto. I think
he's so underrated. You know, this guy is uh twenty
twenty guy, a top five short stop in war and
a couple of years ago. Uh, He's clutch and you know,
he hits high end velocity, which is a lot of
fun to see in that matchup against Burns. So I'm
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excited for Zach. You know, obviously Selia, I don't know
when he's gonna figure out the suspension situation, if he's
gonna be available this weekend, but you know he's got
crazy tons of pop. So yeah, I mean I think
I think this uh, this team is a lot of
fun to watch. Joe Odell with the defensive gyms he's
he's had last week, that was crazy.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
You know, this is a guy that went and hit
thirty seven homers last year, So that was that was
wild to see. So yeah, I think it's just gonna
be a fun weekend and it's gonna be a really
fun game.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Tomorrow, Yonder, we're two weeks into the season, two weeks
in to abs. What have you thought about it so far?
It kind of got the feeling the players are getting
used to it, they're navigating their way through it. Pitchers
and catchers, the umpires are certainly adjusting to it as well.
But I think overall it seems to be working pretty well.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah, I like it. I mean I think, uh, you know,
the only the only downside I think is that, you know,
everybody now is so focused on the umpires. But I
think once we figured out that it's not so much
about the umpires, but you know, on a positive notice,
how much these umpires are missing by I mean like
they're missing by inches, right, So it's a human made remember,
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like umpires, catchers, hitters like they don't have the little
box that we see on TV every day. Like this
is all just on the norm. So it's it's very
difficult to call a game and obviously get it right
every single pitch. But look, I think it's great. I
think it's great for the hitters, if anything more than
it is for the pitchers. How many times do we
see an account go from two to one one and
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then the hitter gets a base hit right, or it
goes from two to one to three one, and then
the hitter is and a great advantage. So I think
it's been a lot of fun, you know. I think
my take on it is that we're enjoying this aspect
of it. But if we have this system that it's
one hundred percent, you know, or close to it, right,
ninety nine point whatever it is, why do not I
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do it for every pitch, you know, and then now
you really understand what's happening, and now you know the
umpires don't get scrutinized a little bit. So look, I
think it's a great situation. I think it's great for
the game, and I think it's great for hitting more
than it is for pitching, to be honest with you,
But it would be awesome if it was like every
pitch you just get a little clicker that the umpire
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has and it just vibrates unless you know when it's
a striker ball. I think it would be super cool.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Chris Sale was one of the first guys during spring
training is I want nothing to do with it. I'm
gonna leave it to my catcher to decide because I
think everything's a strike that I throw.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Yeah, well, you know Logan on Hobby has he's leading
the league in success rate, right, so he's been he's
been amazing at it.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Are we gonna see more as we just get going
the catcher being the one to ultimately decide if it's
a ball striking challenging it as opposed to the pitchers,
who again think they throw strikes every single time.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, I think so. Look, I think right now, you
know the catchers or I guess, well A Hobby has
like an eighty three percent sex rate, right, so it's
been great. But I would definitely think that catchers are
the ones that have the full advantage, right they're behind
home plate. They're the ones that see the strikes on
and they know when they catch a ball if it's
a strike or if it's pretty close to challenge. So yeah, definitely,
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I'm in agree Grievance with you. I think that, you know, totally,
the catchers are are the ones that are going to
take full charge as we go on into the season.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yonder Alonso is our guest Apple TV Friday Night base
He's got Angels, Reds tomorrow. I got Apple TV. Don't
miss that game. Always very exciting to see the different
things that they are doing yonder overall, it's been fun
to watch the Dodgers early in the season. But the
rest of the NL West looks like they're all around
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five hundred. Do you think it's going to be like
that all year? Just the runaway thing and we're just
gonna sit here with with nothing to have fun about
in La Just oh, they're up twelve, they're up fifteen
games like that gets kind of tired. Man.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I'll tell you what, it's been so much fun to
watch for the past what six seven years of Dodgers.
I mean, it's the team that everybody wants to thrive for,
is a team that everybody wants to be It's just
so much fun to watch. I mean, you look at
this depth and it's a different guy every single day
winning a game or pitching or you know, the bullpen
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has been fantastic. A lot of credit needs to be
given to Dave Roberts. I think we don't talk enough.
I always tell us to Dave. It's like, is it
that every NL Manager of the Year team that wins
it is usually a surprise team. How about the team
that's supposed to win ninety five games and they win
ninety six or ninety seven games like that needs to
be counted for. He's got to he's got to measure
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and and and balance, you know, all the things that
are happening. You know, last year we saw the injuries
and he was able to still balance that out. And
you know even this year, they're gonna go through the
ups and downs. But I just think this team, man,
they are so much fun to watch. And you look
at the Diamondbacks, the Padres, the Rockies, the Giants, I
mean they're just hovering around five hundred. But you know,
I think this Dodgers team, uh, they lead the league
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and average and slug They're just they're just a lot
of fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Tony Vllo college manager now Giants manager in San Francisco
two weeks into this season. Is this worked? Is it
enough sample size? Do you think it's gonna work with
him in San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I don't think it's enough sample size. I think we
have to you know, I always do more of a
quarter a session of a team, quarter by quarter. You know,
I think we're we're we're not even you know, nearly
there yet. I just think it's too early to kind
of decide what's going to happen. You know. I always
say this too as a player, like April's all cool
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and dandy, you know, and then once May first hit,
you start looking at the scoreboard and you start seeing
what you're hitting, You start seeing the record, you start
seeing how many home runs you have, and then like
the real teammates and the real players show out right,
they're like, are you about the team and the boys
or are you about you know, the selfishness of figuring
out your numbers and what's going to happen. But I
think it's too early to realize. You know, what the
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Giants do have what they have, and obviously they're a manager.
But you know, I think after the All Star Breaker,
right before the alscar break is where you kind of
like analyze, Okay, what's this team about and what's happening
with their manager and what adjustments they need to make. Look,
this was a team that bullpen wise last year, they
were pretty good, and they traded away everybody, So, you know,
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how do you get the lead and then try to
piece together a win right in the seventh, eighth, ninth inning,
which is for me, the three hardest innings to win
a game. So, look, I think this offense is gonna hit.
I think they're going to get on base defensively, is
where where the question mark hits? You know? So I
think question marks are the defense and question marks are
the bullpen. So I think it's just too early to
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tell what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
You got the Angels and Reds tomorrow on Apple TV.
Earlier in the week, the Angels and Braves got into it,
Jorge Silaire and Ronaldo Lopez throwing punches, two big boys
throwing punches at each other. Walt Weiss and managers in
there using his MMA tackling styles to get after both
of those guys. But we did say Lopez. We saw
Lopez throw a punch with a baseball in his right hand.
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What's the craziest thing you've seen in a fight in
your professional base ball ball? I mean holding the baseball,
not a weapon, but just it was still holding on
to it for some reason, throwing punches. What's the craziest
thing you've seen as a professional player.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I think the craziest one was probably like a week
until my rookie year. I was with the Padres and
we were facing the Dodgers, and you know, I remember,
like before BP even started, Carlos Quinton kind of mentioned
to me that he thought Granky was probably going to
hit him that day, and and I was I was
on deck, you know, so I was just I'm this
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rookie and and I don't know what what what's going on?
Right It's Padre Dodgers. I had never experienced the rivalry before,
so it was a Friday night packed house. And sure enough,
man like, first inning comes around and Sprinky smokes Quinton
right on the on the on the left wrist, and
he's looking at his left wrists and I'm on deck
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and I'm going, oh boy, here we go, here we go.
And Carlos charges the mound, and I remember trying to
go get Ellis, who was the catcher at the time.
And I remember being in the middle of that whole situation,
and I kept looking to the first day side where
my parents were at and I'm seeing my dad and
my mom just screaming off the top of the lungs
in this belief of what was happening because it was
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my rookie year and here i am, like first series
against the Dodgers Padres. I'm in the middle of this
whole situation. It's, you know, forty forty five people just
going at each other and you know, not saying where
they were going to go to dinner that night. They
were talking other other in other terms. Yeah, and I'm
just like, Okay, I guess this is what we're gonna
This is the reality of Padres Dodgers, right, this is
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the madness that I've been talked about for for so long,
and and here we are in the middle of it,
my rookie year, and with Carlos Quinton and Zach Granki
and aj Ellis trying to stop the fight from happening.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Pretty good Yonder Alonzo Apple TV Friday Night, last thing
for you. I me remember in the two thousands when
Jeter and a Ron and the whole deal and the
Yankees were the Yankees and everybody loved them, but they
also kind of rolled their eyes at them too. Is
that kind of where the Dodgers are as far as
a national perspective. I know we're headed toward some some
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the CBA stuff and the lockout and perhaps all this
different stuff, and maybe it has to do with the Dodgers,
But what is the national attitude about the Dodgers Yonder.
I mean, obviously they're doing great things, but it comes
with a little bit of a price to the rest
of baseball.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Well, I think they they've acquired the right people that
you know, you can have a twenty five minus roster
full of all stars, doesn't mean you're gonna win a championship,
right Like we saw it in the WBC. You looked
at the Dominican team and you're saying, oh, head over
heels on paper, they should win the whole thing, and
they didn't win. You know, I think the third tier
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team on that which was Venezuela, and I always felt
like it was like Dominican USA and then Venezuela. So
it doesn't necessarily matter, you know, it's more about who
you're getting, who you're getting in that clubhouse, who you're getting,
you know, types of glue guys that you have. Look
I think as an opponent, as a player, you're you're
going in there and you're going in there for three days,
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and you're saying, anything can happen in between those white lines.
You're not concerned about You're not concerned about who they have,
who's available, who's in nile. You're thinking about that seven
o'clock game and trying to win. And I think that's
the beauty of baseball. You can have a team that
is supposed to win one hundred games, and you may
be supposed to be right at five hundred, and you
can take a series from them. I mean, we saw
it against the Guardians just I think like about a
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week and a half ago. You know, they go in
there in the first game and they beat them, and
you're like, how how does this happen? With Yamamoto on
the mountain. So look, I think that it's great. I
think that you know, there's a there's I guess I
would like to say a face for a team that
everybody wants to be and everybody wants to to kind
of be at. But it's lonely at the top. And
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right now they're lonely at the top, and I think
every other team that's how they're trying to take that
spot yonder.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I'm watching the YouTube of the fight with Granky getting
charge and you're a right on a j Ellis's heels
and as soon as they locked hands and arms, you
push that pile right over that eyes, that strength that
you just pushed all three of those guys into a
big piles.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Great, oh it was. It was a push man, and
I uh, you know, I remember talking to Carlos and
I was like, all right, so what do I do?
And he goes, you just go get Ellis and then
the rest, you know, we'll figure it out. And sure enough,
my only priority was I gotta go get the catcher.
And I remember growing up seeing fights and all the time,
and and I would always see somebody always trying to
go get the catcher. So I think my job was
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well taken and I did what I needed to do,
and you know, hope, hope and try to stop the fight,
to protect everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
That was the key of it all.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
But man, it's it gets heated. Man, it's a it's
a big rivalry. And you know, when things like that happen,
obviously are unfortunate, but you know, it is what it is. Right,
somebody's trying to throw one hundred miles an hour out
of your head or you know they can they can
take you out of a whole year. So you know,
I think it's, uh, it's not great for the game
to happen, but you know, sometimes it does happen, and
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it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Well, look a j ellis one of our old friends.
About a six second forty. You caught up to him
real fast. It was good. It's great, Yonder Alonso, he
was a rookie, he was Spriede back then. We appreciate you, Yonder,
and have a great call on Friday night. Thanks for
spend a little time with us anytime.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Man, Thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
A lot of fun. Yonder Alonzo Yosoikubano, and we'll be
back with more Petros and Money on the iHeartRadio app
and on a fiel a sports Quick Hits, Fun, Fact,
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(30:30):
Animal Farm coming out this week new animated feature Think
about Tim Kats's Farm Report.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
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Speaker 3 (30:50):
Thanks for listening, everybody, Petro send money back at it
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Three to set and Tim Kates is gonna do one
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Tim Kates will be paid extra. I hope so. And
now Tim wants to check in because you know it's
his world. He booked Alonzo, he did his Mark Walter
sack splaying, and he's now he now wants to talk
about his alma mater football and basketball team.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Well, it's a big day for Ucla Petro So thanks
to Yander Alonso from MLB Networking.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Why is it big day? What the women's team has
nothing to do with the women's back dozens of people
that showed up at poly Pavilion to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Them, nothing to do with UCLA women's basket?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
What about Corey Close? I find her an attractive lady.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
And everything to do about UCLA men's basketball. Why you
ask why?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I was mad about that earlier, and Matt tried to
push me back on a diemar and I didn't appreciate
that at all.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
By the way, Michigan's already gone out and spent money
on the number one center in the transfer portal, this
big guy out of Tennessee. So Mick Cronin at one
of his media press conferences, fresh off a road trip
where UCLA did not play well, talked about how physical
and tough the Big ten is to play, and how
long the season is and the grind of the road.
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And he made this comment back in February. Petros, maybe
you remember this.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Find me the biggest nastiest vodka drink in Eastern European.
You can't just find some guy used to like Russell
Bears or something.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Oh, you ask and you shall receive mc cronin. According
to On three Sports, UCLA Basketball today has signed.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Sad that in regards to the Illinois team right.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yes, because they have got big white dudes. Today, UCLA
has signed two kids out of the Portal Balkin big
man Philip Jovik and Sergei mccurrah. Okay is an Auburn
transfer who last season had six points and four rebounds
per game in eighteen minutes per game. He's twenty one
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years old, six foot nine. He'll be a sophomore out
of Serbia. Okay is he a bear wrestler. He's a
big dude, and apparently he got better during the season
and was really good for Auburn in the NIT championship run.
They also landed Mississippi State transfer Sergei mccurra, who is
a six nine to twenty one year old sophomore from
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Slovenia who averaged five points in five rebounds in eighteen
minutes per game last year for Mississippi State. Both players
two sec Baltic guys six and twenty pounds bear wrestlers.
Mick Cronin got exactly wanted. He wanted two dudes from
Serbia's KK Mega Basket team, one of the top Serbian
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pro teams.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
This nastiest fot get drinking Eastern European. You can't find
some guy used to like wrestle bears.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Wow, I think it's a good question for both about
the vodka drinking web and Serge did you wrestle bears
growing up over in Serbia?
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Well, how tough are you?
Speaker 1 (34:07):
You know?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Right?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I mean I figured they're gonna be pretty tough coming in.
So Mick Cronin got one he wantted Petros took pretty happy.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
But I don't think it's going to stop Bill Plaski
from running hit pieces against our friend the Leprechawn McCrone.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
It may not stop them, and nobody can stop UCLA
football right now. They're on a roll.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Well wait a waite Okay, let's let's slow our role. Well, look,
I love the fact that UCLA hired Bob Chesney. I
think that it's a great hire. I think he's going
to do really good things. And you wonder, what's the
ceiling for a guy like that at UCLA? And you
ask yourself, well, what the hell was the ceiling at Indiana?
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They were the worst football team in college football history.
They hired this guy Signetti, and now they've won a
title two years later. But Indiana spent a bunch of money.
I mean, the ceiling at UCLA is going to be
the money that Bob Chesney is able to spend, and
that that is a real ceiling. I don't know what
that means as far as all of their success goes
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or a little bit of their like. I don't know
what's going to happen. But I always make fun of
usc for throwing off season parties and UCLA.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I mean, yeah, UCLA's not throwing parties for themselves. I'm
throwing a party for this.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
All right, you know what I'm saying, though, I mean,
we haven't seen the product yet. Obviously, UCLA is in
a better place with Bob Chesney. He knows what he's doing,
much more than Deshaun Foster, of course, and I think
UCLA is in a great place, But I don't really
know what that translates to on the field and how
far they can actually go well, because I make fun
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of USC all the time and they're stupid recruiting stuff
and all their off season fireworks when it doesn't translate
to anything during the season.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
We'll see if this translates or not. But certainly the
message has been sent out that UCLA and Bob Chesney
and his staff are making big impressions with recruits and
high school coaches. Over the weekend, they had dozens of
recruits on campus and there was a buzz afterwards from
a lot of these players and what they had to
say and put out on social media about the great
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time they had at UCLA and Coach Chesney and his staff.
According to on Three in Rivals.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I hope he's not falling in with the wrong people.
I mean, I asked him.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
That class of twenty twenty seven defensive lineman Montana Tiololo
has committed to UCLA sixty three, two hundred and sixty
five pound defensive lineman for modern day, Okay is picking
UCLA over Notre Dame, Oregon, Miami and Washington. Is that
his name toilolo TOI yeah, like that like the old
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Stanford tight end yep. First name Montana and a quote
from him on on three quote the greatest place in
the world to play football. End quote.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Okay, thanks seventeen year old who knows nothing of the world.
I mean, come on, this is a big get, dude.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
The pipeline from modern day to us has been been
Oh my got.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
It has been broke saw a Serbian and a Baltic.
Two Baltic guys for UCLA.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
That's a huge pickup for me.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Polynesian guy from modern day signed with UCLA.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
This is not big news at SC, but it's big
news e cls.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
For USC and all the stupid offseason stroking they do
on themselves. Why are we doing it for you? Eric Mussel,
and all he does is bring in transfers. It's transfer
you over at USC.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Mick has brought in two dudes that he clearly stated
he wanted his staff to go out and get two
guys that drink vodka. Wrestle bears.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Find me the biggest nastiest vocket drinking Chester in European.
You can't find some guy used to wrestle bears.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Shot both of them for you, coach and UCLA football, Yes.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
There is some but right now all the practices are closed,
but no one knows what's going on.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
The recruits are there this weekend. They said it's changed.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
There is a feeling that the adults are back in charge.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
All right, you want some more UCLA USC news. This
is well, this involves a Big Ten Conference for you.
The Big Ten Conference was so good in the men's
and women's basketball tournaments. The conference is a mass nearly
seventy million dollars as a whole from NCAA distributions that
will be paid for team appearances and performances from this
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year's tournament.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
And what should they do with that? Buy the Big
Ten Hotel, a gigantic hotel centered in the middle of
the Big Ten for all of these teams traveling around.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
It's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
That was my idea when the USC and UCLA signed
in the Big Ten. The Big Ten Hotel. So if
you have one of those crazy East Coast road trips,
you can have a hub that you stay in the
Big Ten Hotel. There's one in Chicago, there's one in Madison.
I don't know, you know what I'm saying. This is
a great idea.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Unfortunately, I think for schools like UCLA, it's going to
pay to get him out of debt, or at least
Carver dent into the debt they have.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Yeah, Casey Washerman can't do it right now now when
everybody thinks you're a perv.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Michigan made it all the way and won the National championship.
UCLA Women's went into the National Championship, Illinois went to
the final four. You had Sweet sixteen runs for Big
ten teams, Elite eight runs for Big ten teams. They're
making a lot of money with the Big ten.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Yeah, it's kind of like when the Civil War started
in the North became a gigantic commercial war machine just
south and the South just died on the vine. It is.
We used to do things our old way. We used
to hand people a big stack of cash with a
bright green or orange or red jacket. And now these
Yankees with their corporate money paying our guys. That's what's happening. Yeah,
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it's just like the Civil War.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Well, UCLA's at fault. They went and got two Serbians
from the.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Sec war machine headed up by Abraham Lincoln. We are agricultural.
We'll die there you go, Petrick, We'll die without our
old system.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
The Big ten swimming in money like Scrooge McDuck, and
UCLA's got two new Balkans to play with.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yes to pay their debt. Pay what you owe, all right,
We'll be back with more, Petro said money. Fun fact
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TV at least on Friday. He does MLB Network at
MLB Network, so we got him coming on in the
very next segment. He's calling the Angel game tomorrow, but
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we'll ask him about some overall baseball stuff since it's
an off night for the Dodgers and that brings us
off night Dodger Talk with Tim Kates at seven o'clock
and they're going to have a farm report about the
guys down on the farm and the Dodgers. With Mookie
Betts's early injury, the Oblique have already had to dip
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their ladle in to the farm barrel this year and
pull out a Korean star his on camp.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I was gonna bring it up in Dodger Talk, but
let me throw it around with you real quick. We
talked about in the number of the day, the eight
City Connect uniforms that were unveiled today. The Dodgers don't
have a new City Connect Jersey this year, but they
do have those awesome blue tops that they debuted over
the weekend, and washing I don't know if they're awesome.
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yes? No, not kidding.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
They're sweet blue tops like spring training. Look, that's spring training.
Come on, I like the gray Los Angeles. Do they
still wear those at all?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
They do?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
They warm a couple times and.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
As long as they don't abandon those completely. And I
don't want to see those blue tops all the time.
Not all the time. But they're mixing it up.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, so they could sell more ching. I'm not a
jersey guy, but that blue jersey is something.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
If you know you will not you'll get your nuts kicked.
It's on the back.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That'd be awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Isn't there a sales guy that runs around in one
of those.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Two of them? Got what if it was in the
suite last week?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Oh god, you should be ashamed of yourself. Podcast the
show on the iHeartRadio app Yonder Alonzo will join us next,
but right now, Tim Katz has promised he said he
got a top story of the act.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Top story of this.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
All right, petros chalk this up to why didn't we
think of that? If your Genie Buss and the Lakers,
I don't know the last twenty five years. After only
a few months of ownership, Mark Walter is quickly putting
his mark on the Lakers. The Lakers earlier today sent
out an email to the media announcing new court side
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Oh absolutely, this is Uncle Lawna. It is beautiful. New
court side seating available is beginning this postseason, offering fans
a rare opportunity to experience the game from its most
covet advantage point. Prior to today, you can almost never get
floor seats because they've been sold out for nearly fifty
years at the Forum and now crypto.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Like even the Diane Cannons and all that.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Can't get them. They're all sold out. Companies basically own
them now, PR companies, right record labels, Jack Nicholson, Yeah,
they all own them now. Just give them out to people.
Court Side reserve is what they're calling them.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Court side reserve different from the seats that were already there.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
They're right behind them, so they've moved them. Well, what
about the people on their mark right behind them their
second row court side seats?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But what about the people that have the court side
Are their seats going to be hindered at all by this?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
No, Now they're just going to have somebody breathing down
their neck right behind They might not like kicking their chair.
See that as a less exclusive deal. Well, these are
highly sought after tickets already the exclusive floor seating offers
immerense immersive experience that you cannot get anywhere else in
the NBA. The new on floor seating features premium hospitality,
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including in seat food service, food and VIP club access.
That's what you get, just like the court side folks.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, you get all the perks of court side. It's
probably not as expensive at court side, but it's a
new revenue stream for the Lakers. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It makes you wonder why the Bus family never thought
of adding a second row of court side reserve seats
for additional revenue over the years.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I don't know why didn't anybody think of it? If
Lon Rosen nude, don't you think you might have mentioned
it to Genie Buss over drinks and MB posts or something.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You think they would have done a finding with Dynamite.
I mean, these tickets are not for the common La
and Hermosa beach. I mean, I'm not sitting there for
a game, Petros, You're not sitting there. Well, maybe you're
sitting there in a game. Why he's not sitting there?
And again, when I go to court side for the Lakers,
off one of your fancy people you know up on
the Hill, give you some tickets. Oh, I got these
court sides who are a big company, we got Maybe
you're going, but common folk like me.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I mean, I've gone to a Laker game with the owner,
Joey Buss, and we didn't sit in the court side seats.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
He said in the second row.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
No, no, no, we sat in a suite and I
sat on one side of the suite and I was
asked to move to the other side. Even they said
there was an invisible line between Joey's guests and Jesse's guests.
No way, Yeah, and look I talked to joe Anne
and you should have never been born. But yeah, they
had an invisible line.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
You see that line right there. I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Some like hip hop looking guy, like bodyguard type, came
up to music. I need you to move over. This
is Jesse's side. I was like, like two chairs and
there's no one around, and you're with Joey. Yeah. I
was like, we were with a bunch of kids.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Now when you go to get food, is there two
different sides, Jesse's side and Joey's.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
No. No, but the seating there was Jesse's side and
Joey's side. So what I'm saying is And I'm not
trying to act bougie. It was just like a kid's thing.
And I know Joey Buss a little bit. He hasn't
invited me anywhere in ten years. I mean, Luke Walton
was the coach.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well, you violated the line, that's why.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, And I've told the story. I've lived to tell
the story on the air. But I mean, the point
I'm trying to me is those seats are so exclusive.
The owner doesn't sit there because they can charge so
much for them. Yeah, that they make sure they do well.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
The common fan is not going to be sitting in
these second row court side reserve seats. So why do
we care, Kate, Well, we care because this is additional revenue.
And just like the Guggenheim Group did for the Dodgers,
they think differently. They think bigger, They think of making money,
which is Mark Walter's way of improving the team. Just
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that car like he did with the Dodge.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
What's that car wash across from the the Sinclair gas
station down the street.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It's a band. It doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
It doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
No, it's all closed off. It's for sale. Twelve million
dollars by the way. I looked it up on Zillo
for the car wash for the property twelve million dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well, how about a changing career. Well gets your Shareiet
We've been washing balls for years and now we can watch.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Car Mark Walter has proven that he pours it back
onto the product on the field and this case, back
onto the court. Petros and before you start text and
p well, we the Kates are an idiot. There's no
salary cap and luxury threatold in the NBA and baseball.
There's limitation. Don't start sending all that stuff to me.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I know.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Revenue allows you to change the infrastructure of your organization,
and that's what the Lakers are going to do. Scouting departments,
what it was going to be like?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
You know what, because there's curtains and all the weird
stuff in the NBA. How could I explain it when
I don't understand it and don't care at all. I
just know there's more. They're limited limits to what you
can and can't pay people in the NBA. So everybody's
wondering what nuances will this Laker ownership group make, What
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moves will they make to change things? Because what they've
done with the Dodgers you can't really do in the NBA,
and this seems like one of the many things that
they have in mind.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, basically, they're going to bring the Lakers up to
code with what other NBA teams are doing here in
twenty twenty six. Have you ever peeled back the layers
of the Dodgers, the amount of advisors in front office
folks and coaches that are supporting Dave Roberts, and the
training staff and the analytical department. What we always joke
about is in the dungeon of Dodger Stadium with guys
on computers and the scouting department. That's global. The Lakers
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are gonna join the rest of the NBA in twenty
twenty six with all the means necessary and one of
the reasons, and it kind of starts with this second
row of court side reserve seats bringing in more money
to Mark Walter and Laker ownership so they can turn
her around and make a better product on the court. Now,
that's great to do it, but then they have to
have big stars on the court. You've got to have
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a reason to keep coming back. I have Luka Doncic,
but they have to get rid of them. I mean,
Laker fans are gonna be griping right now, and I'm
waiting for the text to come in. Willema Susan ticke
it hole that they've already increased to twenty percent for
next season. I got a letter in the mail. Yes,
Laker games aren't cheap, folks.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I think that the Lakers probably at this point have
priced out our entire listener base.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
You could be right, but the three hundred section is
staying strong. I'm still with the three hundred section. Dodger
tickets aren't exactly cheap. Anymot dollars a year just to
be in the three hundred two. That's true. You got
on two houses. The Dodger tickets aren't cheap. But you
know what, four million people still go through the turnstiles
every single year eighty one home games. Why because the
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product on the field is elite with superstars and the
team has a chance to win a championship every single year.
And as long as the fan base feels like you
got a competitive team with superstars like Kobe Bryant or
Shack or going back to the showtime Lakers with Magic
and Kareem, they will pay whatever to go to a game,
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And I think the brain trust of Lon Rosen and
Mark Walter have gotten off to a fantastic start by
adding these second row of court side seats, just a
small way improving.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You know that Tim Kates really gave us credit. He
loved what I was doing. Lon Rosen called me and
said he loved what I was doing.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Think about Dodger Stadium. The stadium was fifty some years old.
How do you improve on a stadium like this? How
do you make it better? The structure and the bones
are already here of the stadium. They figured out a
way to make it.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Better, got it out at the bottom and made it
and made it more accessible.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Look at the clubhouts. It's small and tiny. We have
nowhere to work out. They gutted it all out everything
and brand new stuff in there for the players.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Made it so the players would be attracted.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
State of the art restaurant for those lucky enough to
send the dugout seats the center field plaza. They figured
it out because they're smart people with a lot of money,
and they're gonna do it with the Lakers as well.
And this is the first example. These court side reserve seats,
which somehow nobody thought of going back to the days
of the Forum, back to the early days of Staples
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Center and now Crypto. How do you not think of
this additional ruting.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
They didn't want to upset their corporate partners who were
sitting in the more exclusive front row reserves.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Oh I'm sorry, MGM and paramounts. You're not gonna have
some dude sitting behind you from some fancy Netflix. Yeah,
they're sitting right behind you now, kicking your chair like that.
They're Celtics fans too, hey, like that.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Brenda's song is beyond you now.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Oh, she's gonna go back, get her off the court.
So there you go, petros Mark, Walter Lon Rosen, the
Laker brain trust are already off to a great start
doing things the bus family should have been doing for years.
Adding news seats, adding new venue events.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Hire a real personnel department. Yes, get rid of Rob Polenka, Yes,
hire people that know what they're doing. I mean, what
do we get like, they're gonna hire the NBA equivalent
of Andrew Friedman.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Right, and what have we heard the last ten years?
Oh huh, they don't have that many scouts, the analytic departments.
Just a few people.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
They run like a mom and pop show.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Right, no longer. No longer. Mark Walter is here to
say the Lake there's a reason that Lebron was able
to come in and his acidic in influence was able
to penetrate everywhere and get in all the nooks and
crannies and corrode the Laker leadership because they weren't that
strong in the first place. I mean, I'd liking everything
to USC football, so I'll do this too. I mean,
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you couldn't just walk in and cancel the Notre Dame rivalry.
It took years and years of the leadership being corroded.
Max Nikias, a terrible president, the terrible leadership of Lynn Swan,
Pat Hayden, so on, and so Mike Bone. All of
that culminates into the Notre Dame rivalry being canceled. It
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just doesn't happen overnight. And it didn't happen over the
night with the Lakers. Lebron came in and corroded things
and coroded and corota and coroded, and now their butts exploded.
They've been sold. But you know what has happened overnight,
Mark Walter and this Laker ownership has come in we
got a plan. How about second row seats, additional revenue.
We're gonna make this team a great team once again.
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I may start watching Laker games again.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Good luck to you, Tim.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
When's the next game?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Brian Long loves the Lakers. We'll be right back with
Mark Petro sand Money Yonder Alonzo will join us from
Apple TV and MLB Network.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Now, this is Petro Send Money on demand demandmand.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
It's a Petrosen Money show on this Thursday afternoon Dodgers
off of off night Dodger tak coming up at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
We got a farm report, the Dodgers top minor league yourself?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
How are they doing to start the twenty twenty six season.
That's coming up at seven o'clock tonight. The Dodgers back
at it tomorrow as they start a homestand against the
Texas Rangers. Dodgers on Deck starts at six, first pitch
from the gallopin Ford Broadcast Booth. Tomorrow night on Otawani
Bobblehead Nights of All Nights against the Rangers and Corey
Seeger is at seven ten.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
But right now, our guest from Apple TV Friday Night Baseball,
it'll be on the call. Of the Angels, Reds Tomorrow
and Cincinnati, along with the Dad Wayne Ran, Dazzo and
Heidi Watney. Of course, ten years in the big leagues
in the first basement, Reds, Padres, As, Mariners, Indians, White
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Sox and the Rockies.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame too. We love
the you Coral Gables forever.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
So joining us right now on your Southern California Toyota
Dealers celebrity hotline to talk some baseball is Yonder Alonso
on the Petro sand Money Show. What's cracking? Yonder? How
are you? Thanks for joining us?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Man? Great? What a great introduction, man, I really appreciate
that big time.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Come on, you got it coming. We're not paying you.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Like you know. Yeah, I felt like even you know,
given the Masters weekend having I felt like I was
getting ready for the first tea with all the accolades.
I really appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
You'd be beloved at the Master's Yonder, there'd be no doubt.
But you gotta work this weekend. What does it The
Angels have gotten started here in town. Of course, everybody's
thinking about the Dodgers most of the time. But but
what excites you about the matchup tomorrow in Cincinnati between
the Angels and the Reds. Other than it's earlier in
the year and everybody's fun to watch, it seems like
this time of year.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Yeah, I think it's good. Look, I always say this,
right like, you're not gonna win a division in April,
but you can certainly lose one. And I think, you know,
you look at both of these teams and and you
know they're off to nice starts. You look at the
Cincinnati Reds, who obviously lost today against the Marlins, but
there's a lot of fun to have. Their their starting
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rotation has been great, Burns is going tomorrow. They got
the young studs with South Stewart, Allie de Lacruz doing
their thing. So, yeah, you know it's been it's been
a lot of fun. Obviously. You look at this Angels team. Now,
you know, the bullpen has been great for them. I
think what they're like top five in e r A
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and I think they're top ten in ops opponents ops,
which is which is awesome to see. And then you've
you know, you've got the bullpen. It's got some guys
that have been proven, right, Romano palmeran suitor, so there's
guys that can that can you know, bridge you to
the ninth inning. And then obviously you got Trout and
Adele and o'hapi and you know, I think my favorite
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player on that Angels roster is Zach Netto. I think
he's so underrated. You know, this guy is uh twenty
twenty guy, a top five short stop in war and
a couple of years ago. Uh, He's clutch and you know,
he hits high end velocity, which is a lot of
fun to see in that matchup against Burns. So I'm
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excited for Zach. You know, obviously Selia, I don't know
when he's gonna figure out the suspension situation, if he's
gonna be available this weekend, but you know he's got
crazy tons of pop. So yeah, I mean I think
I think this uh, this team is a lot of
fun to watch. Joe Odell with the defensive gyms he's
he's had last week, that was crazy.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
You know, this is a guy that went and hit
thirty seven homers last year, So that was that was
wild to see. So yeah, I think it's just gonna
be a fun weekend and it's gonna be a really
fun game.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Tomorrow, Yonder, we're two weeks into the season, two weeks
in to abs. What have you thought about it so far?
It kind of got the feeling the players are getting
used to it, they're navigating their way through it. Pitchers
and catchers, the umpires are certainly adjusting to it as well.
But I think overall it seems to be working pretty well.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah, I like it. I mean I think, uh, you know,
the only the only downside I think is that, you know,
everybody now is so focused on the umpires. But I
think once we figured out that it's not so much
about the umpires, but you know, on a positive notice,
how much these umpires are missing by I mean like
they're missing by inches, right, So it's a human made remember,
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like umpires, catchers, hitters like they don't have the little
box that we see on TV every day. Like this
is all just on the norm. So it's it's very
difficult to call a game and obviously get it right
every single pitch. But look, I think it's great. I
think it's great for the hitters, if anything more than
it is for the pitchers. How many times do we
see an account go from two to one one and
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then the hitter gets a base hit right, or it
goes from two to one to three one, and then
the hitter is and a great advantage. So I think
it's been a lot of fun, you know. I think
my take on it is that we're enjoying this aspect
of it. But if we have this system that it's
one hundred percent, you know, or close to it, right,
ninety nine point whatever it is, why do not I
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do it for every pitch, you know, and then now
you really understand what's happening, and now you know the
umpires don't get scrutinized a little bit. So look, I
think it's a great situation. I think it's great for
the game, and I think it's great for hitting more
than it is for pitching, to be honest with you,
But it would be awesome if it was like every
pitch you just get a little clicker that the umpire
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has and it just vibrates unless you know when it's
a striker ball. I think it would be super cool.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Chris Sale was one of the first guys during spring
training is I want nothing to do with it. I'm
gonna leave it to my catcher to decide because I
think everything's a strike that I throw.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Yeah, well, you know Logan on Hobby has he's leading
the league in success rate, right, so he's been he's
been amazing at it.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Are we gonna see more as we just get going
the catcher being the one to ultimately decide if it's
a ball striking challenging it as opposed to the pitchers,
who again think they throw strikes every single time.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, I think so. Look, I think right now, you
know the catchers or I guess, well A Hobby has
like an eighty three percent sex rate, right, so it's
been great. But I would definitely think that catchers are
the ones that have the full advantage, right they're behind
home plate. They're the ones that see the strikes on
and they know when they catch a ball if it's
a strike or if it's pretty close to challenge. So yeah, definitely,
(20:48):
I'm in agree Grievance with you. I think that, you know, totally,
the catchers are are the ones that are going to
take full charge as we go on into the season.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yonder Alonso is our guest Apple TV Friday Night base
He's got Angels, Reds tomorrow. I got Apple TV. Don't
miss that game. Always very exciting to see the different
things that they are doing yonder overall, it's been fun
to watch the Dodgers early in the season. But the
rest of the NL West looks like they're all around
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five hundred. Do you think it's going to be like
that all year? Just the runaway thing and we're just
gonna sit here with with nothing to have fun about
in La Just oh, they're up twelve, they're up fifteen
games like that gets kind of tired. Man.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I'll tell you what, it's been so much fun to
watch for the past what six seven years of Dodgers.
I mean, it's the team that everybody wants to thrive for,
is a team that everybody wants to be It's just
so much fun to watch. I mean, you look at
this depth and it's a different guy every single day
winning a game or pitching or you know, the bullpen
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has been fantastic. A lot of credit needs to be
given to Dave Roberts. I think we don't talk enough.
I always tell us to Dave. It's like, is it
that every NL Manager of the Year team that wins
it is usually a surprise team. How about the team
that's supposed to win ninety five games and they win
ninety six or ninety seven games like that needs to
be counted for. He's got to he's got to measure
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and and and balance, you know, all the things that
are happening. You know, last year we saw the injuries
and he was able to still balance that out. And
you know even this year, they're gonna go through the
ups and downs. But I just think this team, man,
they are so much fun to watch. And you look
at the Diamondbacks, the Padres, the Rockies, the Giants, I
mean they're just hovering around five hundred. But you know,
I think this Dodgers team, uh, they lead the league
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and average and slug They're just they're just a lot
of fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Tony Vllo college manager now Giants manager in San Francisco
two weeks into this season. Is this worked? Is it
enough sample size? Do you think it's gonna work with
him in San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I don't think it's enough sample size. I think we
have to you know, I always do more of a
quarter a session of a team, quarter by quarter. You know,
I think we're we're we're not even you know, nearly
there yet. I just think it's too early to kind
of decide what's going to happen. You know. I always
say this too as a player, like April's all cool
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and dandy, you know, and then once May first hit,
you start looking at the scoreboard and you start seeing
what you're hitting, You start seeing the record, you start
seeing how many home runs you have, and then like
the real teammates and the real players show out right,
they're like, are you about the team and the boys
or are you about you know, the selfishness of figuring
out your numbers and what's going to happen. But I
think it's too early to realize. You know, what the
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Giants do have what they have, and obviously they're a manager.
But you know, I think after the All Star Breaker,
right before the alscar break is where you kind of
like analyze, Okay, what's this team about and what's happening
with their manager and what adjustments they need to make. Look,
this was a team that bullpen wise last year, they
were pretty good, and they traded away everybody, So, you know,
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how do you get the lead and then try to
piece together a win right in the seventh, eighth, ninth inning,
which is for me, the three hardest innings to win
a game. So, look, I think this offense is gonna hit.
I think they're going to get on base defensively, is
where where the question mark hits? You know? So I
think question marks are the defense and question marks are
the bullpen. So I think it's just too early to
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tell what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
You got the Angels and Reds tomorrow on Apple TV.
Earlier in the week, the Angels and Braves got into it,
Jorge Silaire and Ronaldo Lopez throwing punches, two big boys
throwing punches at each other. Walt Weiss and managers in
there using his MMA tackling styles to get after both
of those guys. But we did say Lopez. We saw
Lopez throw a punch with a baseball in his right hand.
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What's the craziest thing you've seen in a fight in
your professional base ball ball? I mean holding the baseball,
not a weapon, but just it was still holding on
to it for some reason, throwing punches. What's the craziest
thing you've seen as a professional player.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I think the craziest one was probably like a week
until my rookie year. I was with the Padres and
we were facing the Dodgers, and you know, I remember,
like before BP even started, Carlos Quinton kind of mentioned
to me that he thought Granky was probably going to
hit him that day, and and I was I was
on deck, you know, so I was just I'm this
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rookie and and I don't know what what what's going on?
Right It's Padre Dodgers. I had never experienced the rivalry before,
so it was a Friday night packed house. And sure enough,
man like, first inning comes around and Sprinky smokes Quinton
right on the on the on the left wrist, and
he's looking at his left wrists and I'm on deck
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and I'm going, oh boy, here we go, here we go.
And Carlos charges the mound, and I remember trying to
go get Ellis, who was the catcher at the time.
And I remember being in the middle of that whole situation,
and I kept looking to the first day side where
my parents were at and I'm seeing my dad and
my mom just screaming off the top of the lungs
in this belief of what was happening because it was
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my rookie year and here i am, like first series
against the Dodgers Padres. I'm in the middle of this
whole situation. It's, you know, forty forty five people just
going at each other and you know, not saying where
they were going to go to dinner that night. They
were talking other other in other terms. Yeah, and I'm
just like, Okay, I guess this is what we're gonna
This is the reality of Padres Dodgers, right, this is
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the madness that I've been talked about for for so long,
and and here we are in the middle of it,
my rookie year, and with Carlos Quinton and Zach Granki
and aj Ellis trying to stop the fight from happening.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Pretty good Yonder Alonzo Apple TV Friday Night, last thing
for you. I me remember in the two thousands when
Jeter and a Ron and the whole deal and the
Yankees were the Yankees and everybody loved them, but they
also kind of rolled their eyes at them too. Is
that kind of where the Dodgers are as far as
a national perspective. I know we're headed toward some some
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the CBA stuff and the lockout and perhaps all this
different stuff, and maybe it has to do with the Dodgers,
But what is the national attitude about the Dodgers Yonder.
I mean, obviously they're doing great things, but it comes
with a little bit of a price to the rest
of baseball.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Well, I think they they've acquired the right people that
you know, you can have a twenty five minus roster
full of all stars, doesn't mean you're gonna win a championship,
right Like we saw it in the WBC. You looked
at the Dominican team and you're saying, oh, head over
heels on paper, they should win the whole thing, and
they didn't win. You know, I think the third tier
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team on that which was Venezuela, and I always felt
like it was like Dominican USA and then Venezuela. So
it doesn't necessarily matter, you know, it's more about who
you're getting, who you're getting in that clubhouse, who you're getting,
you know, types of glue guys that you have. Look
I think as an opponent, as a player, you're you're
going in there and you're going in there for three days,
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and you're saying, anything can happen in between those white lines.
You're not concerned about You're not concerned about who they have,
who's available, who's in nile. You're thinking about that seven
o'clock game and trying to win. And I think that's
the beauty of baseball. You can have a team that
is supposed to win one hundred games, and you may
be supposed to be right at five hundred, and you
can take a series from them. I mean, we saw
it against the Guardians just I think like about a
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week and a half ago. You know, they go in
there in the first game and they beat them, and
you're like, how how does this happen? With Yamamoto on
the mountain. So look, I think that it's great. I
think that you know, there's a there's I guess I
would like to say a face for a team that
everybody wants to be and everybody wants to to kind
of be at. But it's lonely at the top. And
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right now they're lonely at the top, and I think
every other team that's how they're trying to take that
spot yonder.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I'm watching the YouTube of the fight with Granky getting
charge and you're a right on a j Ellis's heels
and as soon as they locked hands and arms, you
push that pile right over that eyes, that strength that
you just pushed all three of those guys into a
big piles.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Great, oh it was. It was a push man, and
I uh, you know, I remember talking to Carlos and
I was like, all right, so what do I do?
And he goes, you just go get Ellis and then
the rest, you know, we'll figure it out. And sure enough,
my only priority was I gotta go get the catcher.
And I remember growing up seeing fights and all the time,
and and I would always see somebody always trying to
go get the catcher. So I think my job was
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well taken and I did what I needed to do,
and you know, hope, hope and try to stop the fight,
to protect everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
That was the key of it all.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
But man, it's it gets heated. Man, it's a it's
a big rivalry. And you know, when things like that happen,
obviously are unfortunate, but you know, it is what it is. Right,
somebody's trying to throw one hundred miles an hour out
of your head or you know they can they can
take you out of a whole year. So you know,
I think it's, uh, it's not great for the game
to happen, but you know, sometimes it does happen, and
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it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Well, look a j ellis one of our old friends.
About a six second forty. You caught up to him
real fast. It was good. It's great, Yonder Alonso, he
was a rookie, he was Spriede back then. We appreciate you, Yonder,
and have a great call on Friday night. Thanks for
spend a little time with us anytime.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Man, Thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
A lot of fun. Yonder Alonzo Yosoikubano, and we'll be
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(30:30):
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Speaker 1 (30:43):
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Thanks for listening, everybody, Petro send money back at it
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Three to set and Tim Kates is gonna do one
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(31:11):
Tim Kates will be paid extra. I hope so. And
now Tim wants to check in because you know it's
his world. He booked Alonzo, he did his Mark Walter
sack splaying, and he's now he now wants to talk
about his alma mater football and basketball team.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Well, it's a big day for Ucla Petro So thanks
to Yander Alonso from MLB Networking.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Why is it big day? What the women's team has
nothing to do with the women's back dozens of people
that showed up at poly Pavilion to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Them, nothing to do with UCLA women's basket?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
What about Corey Close? I find her an attractive lady.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
And everything to do about UCLA men's basketball. Why you
ask why?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I was mad about that earlier, and Matt tried to
push me back on a diemar and I didn't appreciate
that at all.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
By the way, Michigan's already gone out and spent money
on the number one center in the transfer portal, this
big guy out of Tennessee. So Mick Cronin at one
of his media press conferences, fresh off a road trip
where UCLA did not play well, talked about how physical
and tough the Big ten is to play, and how
long the season is and the grind of the road.
(32:19):
And he made this comment back in February. Petros, maybe
you remember this.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Find me the biggest nastiest vodka drink in Eastern European.
You can't just find some guy used to like Russell
Bears or something.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Oh, you ask and you shall receive mc cronin. According
to On three Sports, UCLA Basketball today has signed.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Sad that in regards to the Illinois team right.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yes, because they have got big white dudes. Today, UCLA
has signed two kids out of the Portal Balkin big
man Philip Jovik and Sergei mccurrah. Okay is an Auburn
transfer who last season had six points and four rebounds
per game in eighteen minutes per game. He's twenty one
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years old, six foot nine. He'll be a sophomore out
of Serbia. Okay is he a bear wrestler. He's a
big dude, and apparently he got better during the season
and was really good for Auburn in the NIT championship run.
They also landed Mississippi State transfer Sergei mccurra, who is
a six nine to twenty one year old sophomore from
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Slovenia who averaged five points in five rebounds in eighteen
minutes per game last year for Mississippi State. Both players
two sec Baltic guys six and twenty pounds bear wrestlers.
Mick Cronin got exactly wanted. He wanted two dudes from
Serbia's KK Mega Basket team, one of the top Serbian
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pro teams.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
This nastiest fot get drinking Eastern European. You can't find
some guy used to like wrestle bears.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Wow, I think it's a good question for both about
the vodka drinking web and Serge did you wrestle bears
growing up over in Serbia?
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Well, how tough are you?
Speaker 1 (34:07):
You know?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Right?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I mean I figured they're gonna be pretty tough coming in.
So Mick Cronin got one he wantted Petros took pretty happy.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
But I don't think it's going to stop Bill Plaski
from running hit pieces against our friend the Leprechawn McCrone.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
It may not stop them, and nobody can stop UCLA
football right now. They're on a roll.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Well wait a waite Okay, let's let's slow our role. Well, look,
I love the fact that UCLA hired Bob Chesney. I
think that it's a great hire. I think he's going
to do really good things. And you wonder, what's the
ceiling for a guy like that at UCLA? And you
ask yourself, well, what the hell was the ceiling at Indiana?
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They were the worst football team in college football history.
They hired this guy Signetti, and now they've won a
title two years later. But Indiana spent a bunch of money.
I mean, the ceiling at UCLA is going to be
the money that Bob Chesney is able to spend, and
that that is a real ceiling. I don't know what
that means as far as all of their success goes
(35:09):
or a little bit of their like. I don't know
what's going to happen. But I always make fun of
usc for throwing off season parties and UCLA.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I mean, yeah, UCLA's not throwing parties for themselves. I'm
throwing a party for this.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
All right, you know what I'm saying, though, I mean,
we haven't seen the product yet. Obviously, UCLA is in
a better place with Bob Chesney. He knows what he's doing,
much more than Deshaun Foster, of course, and I think
UCLA is in a great place, But I don't really
know what that translates to on the field and how
far they can actually go well, because I make fun
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of USC all the time and they're stupid recruiting stuff
and all their off season fireworks when it doesn't translate
to anything during the season.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
We'll see if this translates or not. But certainly the
message has been sent out that UCLA and Bob Chesney
and his staff are making big impressions with recruits and
high school coaches. Over the weekend, they had dozens of
recruits on campus and there was a buzz afterwards from
a lot of these players and what they had to
say and put out on social media about the great
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time they had at UCLA and Coach Chesney and his staff.
According to on Three in Rivals.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I hope he's not falling in with the wrong people.
I mean, I asked him.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
That class of twenty twenty seven defensive lineman Montana Tiololo
has committed to UCLA sixty three, two hundred and sixty
five pound defensive lineman for modern day, Okay is picking
UCLA over Notre Dame, Oregon, Miami and Washington. Is that
his name toilolo TOI yeah, like that like the old
(36:40):
Stanford tight end yep. First name Montana and a quote
from him on on three quote the greatest place in
the world to play football. End quote.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Okay, thanks seventeen year old who knows nothing of the world.
I mean, come on, this is a big get, dude.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
The pipeline from modern day to us has been been
Oh my got.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
It has been broke saw a Serbian and a Baltic.
Two Baltic guys for UCLA.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
That's a huge pickup for me.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Polynesian guy from modern day signed with UCLA.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
This is not big news at SC, but it's big
news e cls.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
For USC and all the stupid offseason stroking they do
on themselves. Why are we doing it for you? Eric Mussel,
and all he does is bring in transfers. It's transfer
you over at USC.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Mick has brought in two dudes that he clearly stated
he wanted his staff to go out and get two
guys that drink vodka. Wrestle bears.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Find me the biggest nastiest vocket drinking Chester in European.
You can't find some guy used to wrestle bears.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Shot both of them for you, coach and UCLA football, Yes.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
There is some but right now all the practices are closed,
but no one knows what's going on.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
The recruits are there this weekend. They said it's changed.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
There is a feeling that the adults are back in charge.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
All right, you want some more UCLA USC news. This
is well, this involves a Big Ten Conference for you.
The Big Ten Conference was so good in the men's
and women's basketball tournaments. The conference is a mass nearly
seventy million dollars as a whole from NCAA distributions that
will be paid for team appearances and performances from this
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year's tournament.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
And what should they do with that? Buy the Big
Ten Hotel, a gigantic hotel centered in the middle of
the Big Ten for all of these teams traveling around.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
It's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
That was my idea when the USC and UCLA signed
in the Big Ten. The Big Ten Hotel. So if
you have one of those crazy East Coast road trips,
you can have a hub that you stay in the
Big Ten Hotel. There's one in Chicago, there's one in Madison.
I don't know, you know what I'm saying. This is
a great idea.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Unfortunately, I think for schools like UCLA, it's going to
pay to get him out of debt, or at least
Carver dent into the debt they have.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Yeah, Casey Washerman can't do it right now now when
everybody thinks you're a perv.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Michigan made it all the way and won the National championship.
UCLA Women's went into the National Championship, Illinois went to
the final four. You had Sweet sixteen runs for Big
ten teams, Elite eight runs for Big ten teams. They're
making a lot of money with the Big ten.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Yeah, it's kind of like when the Civil War started
in the North became a gigantic commercial war machine just
south and the South just died on the vine. It is.
We used to do things our old way. We used
to hand people a big stack of cash with a
bright green or orange or red jacket. And now these
Yankees with their corporate money paying our guys. That's what's happening. Yeah,
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it's just like the Civil War.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Well, UCLA's at fault. They went and got two Serbians
from the.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Sec war machine headed up by Abraham Lincoln. We are agricultural.
We'll die there you go, Petrick, We'll die without our
old system.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
The Big ten swimming in money like Scrooge McDuck, and
UCLA's got two new Balkans to play with.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yes to pay their debt. Pay what you owe, all right,
We'll be back with more, Petro said money. Fun fact
and quick hits coming up. Bag
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