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three fun fact. Well, the golf event in Augusta, the
Masters is going on right now. A lot of people
upset that Travis Kelsey's running around and Kevin Hart is
yelling at everybody the par three thing. It seems like
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people are over it, and the golf purists are unhappy.
I'm sure Matt Smith will come back tomorrow and say
something about the golf and the sunlight and the timeless
Augusta National. But here is a fun fact about Augusta National.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Oh I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Well, I BET's about Augusta, Georgia, because I think if
this guy walked on to Augusta National when he was
alive there, he'd have been shot. James Brown, yes, the
Godfather of Soul, had a personal friend of our old
colleague Pat O'Brien. James Brown's been dead for twenty years,
but twenty years Day six been that long. Wow died
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in six born not in Augusta, born in South Carolina,
the famous cocaine singer of the Godfather of Soul. But
he lived in Augusta and grew there. He moved there
from the time he was four or five into one
of his aunt's brothels because his mother left town went
to New York City. He performed for the troops at
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Camp Gordon, and he boxed in Augusta. And if you've
ever been to Augusta, Georgia, which I have not, but
it was twice the capital of the state of Georgia.
No longer, but it was. The statue of James Brown
in the middle of downtown has been removed, seriously. Yeah,
not because he was a woman beater or because of
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the cocaine, just because they're building a park around it.
They removed it and it's in like a garage somewhere
for safekeeping, and they're going to bring it back so
everybody can look at the Godfather of Saul once more.
But I love James Brown. He is a great artist,
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and he has a depth and breadth of his work
that is extremely impressive. And just because he was a
psycho screaming cocaine guy with a haircut like a sixty
year old black woman should not deter people from.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
The fact that he was brilliant.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
How about when that park gets finished and the statue
goes back up. We're supposed to be there in Augusta.
We make a little trip out there, Mac and go golf.
You can't golf, no one's No one's getting on in Augusta.
If anybody can get on Augusta, your radio partner can
get on.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
We can look at the park. Do you want to
do that?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I mean what it takes longer to golf than it
doesn't look at a statue.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
A couple of labs around the park.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
It's more like a median. He'll go to the bar
James Brown, Augusta, Georgia, not Augusta, Nashville, where he would
most likely be arrested if a lot. But now it's
time with a quick hitch.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Some to get mess.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Quick hitch, come make it quick, y'all? Yeah, Dodgers or
nine to three and they're off tonight, but that won't
stop Tim Kates. They're back at home tomorrow, starting versus
the Texas Rangers over the weekend. If you are going
to the game tomorrow, this is huge. Show Aotani greatest
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game bobblehead knife, so first of two, by the way,
not just greatness in one bobblehead, but two bobbleheads. This
one's going to feature his three home runs in the
postseason game. It's as if the Dodgers know that these
Otani bobbleheads commemorating his great feats are a big attraction. Well,
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when you caught one of the greatest feats of all
time because he pitched and hit and did it so
well in that game four of the NLCS. It deserves
two bobbleheads and this is the first of two, brought
to you by Syncron, of course, the official hydration beverage
of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Look for that synchron pre
impost workout drink at your local roufs. So we talked
about this at the beginning of the show. There's fifty
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six thousand people the Dodger Stadium holds. They're giving away
fifty four thousand.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Woo.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You got to be a real idiot to not get one.
You really be in the minority. But still it's not everyone.
We talked to Yonder Alonso. He's got the Angel game tomorrow.
The Angels hit the road. They are in Cincinnati tomorrow.
Don't you know. Pump it up. You've got to pump
it up, don't you know? Pump it up. Weekend series
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versus the Reds outfielder Jorge Solaire and Braves pitcher Ray
Rinaldo Lopez each suspended seven games for the Big fight
last night, which was fun to watch. Each player's appealing
and can play pending a hearing, and Yonder did discuss
that very raucous baseball brew haha from yat last night.
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I mean you remember the one he was talking about
that he was a van That was Zach Rank hurting
his shoulder after that. I do remember that that was
a big deal back then. Do you have the call
on that. I would like to hear it. I'd like
to hear Yonder Alonso tackling A j Ellis in the moment,
and he did look like a Cuban miss going right
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after the big fat wi concert Catcher's ass of our
friend A j Ellis three and two and it hit him,
wouldn't you know? Now he has something to say and
look out here.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
A j Ellis got out there just as Drankie and
Quinton got together. Quinton continues to amaze as he consistently
gets hit by pitches. It looks like the majority of
the players are trying to be peacemakers. The trio of
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Granki along with aj Ellis and Carlos Quinton, the Dodger
bullpen Hinton gent Quinton being led away.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Off to the left.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
And Matt kemp Is, I rate don't touch me, I
think he said to Bud Black, don't touch me. Matt
Kemp keeps saying the Bud Blackick Well Quinton hit again
and very hot. Matt Keff remember very early in the
game the pitch that went over Matt Kemp's head to
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the backstop. I don't know whether that was the retaliation
by Granky, but that's why Matt Kemp is very much
involved in this. Garry Harston keeping him away je Hare
and that.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
You cannot state enough how good Vin Scully was, just
how how perfectly he announced that, and he was old,
what a star did he ever do boxing? I should
know this, but I mean it probably did everything. Yeah,
he'd be great at talking boxing. Describe what the Lakers
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are fifty and twenty nine. They've lost three in a row.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Bill Plashki said they should just pulled up the ten.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, the okay, Bill Dodgers should too, Right.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
He says, leave Luca in Spain or wherever he's at.
Getting that present.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
The die Marra story still STIGs me. The Lakers are
fighting to hang on to the four seed. They're currently
tied with the Rockets with three games to play. They're
at Golden State tonight and then at home and Home
versus the suns on Friday and at home versus the
Yazz on Sunday. Good luck to everybody involved. The Clippers
are heading to Portland. Kates, you are our Clipper correspondent.
(10:24):
Oh yeah, Clippers forty one and thirty nine right behind
them and the Portland Trailblazers at forty and forty. Tomorrow's
game huge, so crucial with a one game lead over
the Blazers for that final eighth spot. That if the
Clippers win, they'll finish with the eighth spot. The Trailblazers
will get the ninth spot, and that's huge in the
play in Tournament p If the Clippers lose, they would
need to win their season finalees Sunday at home against
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Golden State, and the Blazers then to lose their final
home game against Sacramento. Otherwise the Clippers would finish ninth.
Not confusing at all, eight seventh ninth win here, lose there.
This team's tanking there. It's just the exciting point of
the NBA season. The final week. The nc Double A
is exploring a significant change to their eligibility rules. The
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proposal creates an age based standard. What about Chris Wank Nope,
he'd be done. Athletes would have five years of eligibility
from their nineteenth birthday or high school graduation. The clock starts, go,
I'm fifteen, but I'm in eighth grade. The proposal, which
mirror's language written into the executive order issued by President
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Trump last week, would not grant extra years for red
shirts or waivers like this, except for small groups of
outliers maternity leave, military service, religious missions. More members of
the NCUBLEA Division one Cabinet are set, like Nick Saban,
are set to reveal this proposal at their meeting next week,
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with potential for implementation as soon as this coming academic year.
You like this, clock starts, you got five years. Go
whatever you do with those five years, it's up to you.
But if you want a red shirt, you're costing yourself
a year. The only thing you can get out of
it is a medical issue he torri r acl or something.
You'll get an extra year. It sounds like, or you
go on your Mormon mission.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I like this. It's like how it used to be
pretty much, but now there's literally a clock starty.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, but it used to, I mean they used to.
It used to be really hard to get more than
one red shirt. Now they hand him out like they
hand out aspirins. Yeah, now we're going to court over
this stuff. Fernando Mendoza And what I think is a
great decision, really yeah, is not going to the draft. Instead,
he'll be in Miami with his family and we'll find
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out the list of players who are going to Pittsburgh
for the draft in a few days. Why do you
think it's a good thing. He's going to be the
face of the NFL, the number one pick in the draft.
He needs to be on stage. Right. Why he's already
the number one pick. They're gonna talk like, I don't know,
like you go out. He seems like some guys are
built for that, right, And he's great with the media.
First of all, his mother's not very mobile.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
True.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Now, he made a lot of try She made a
lot of trips during the football season, no doubt. But
maybe it has something to do with that because and
maybe her condition's different. So there's that we know about
the family story in that regard. The other I think
is just what do you do if you're the number
one pick or if you're one of the guys they
have you at the draft? You wear a bunch of suits.
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They give you every opportunity to make an idiot out
of yourself. You're doing your posing for every like Instagram,
slow camera going around you, thing made for TV production, right.
I mean they just sit there and exploit you for
three days and run you around. I mean, you're already
the number one pick. Everybody already knows who you are.
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It's giving the effort. It's telling the NFLFU you're not
going to be able to market me this week. And
maybe that bothers the NFL. But here's a young guy
who seems like he's very religious, really comfortable in his
own skin. He's got a mother that's not mobile to
me good. I mean, it just gives you every opportunity
to look like an a hole sitting there celebrating yourself,
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running around, and your future teammates are gonna look at
you and be like, okay, you know, I mean, I
don't know. I mean some guys are built for it.
Some guys are self promoters and they love to go
out there and do it. And that's not bad. Football
takes all kinds. But I think Ferdy Mendoza is going
to be talked about and exploited enough just being the
number one pick on the draft. Either way, he's going
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to be on a plane that night, a PJ private
jet flying to Vegas to be introduced to the Vegas
media at the Raider Compounds out. They should just family
should be at the Mandalay, not like that.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
That would be the smart move. That would be the
smart move.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
This is a huge hit though, to the NFL because
they bring him in a few days before they do
the whole circuit. They do the red carpet and then
they do the big picture on the He's not happy
about it, but I personally I kind of like it
all right. What happened to the Masters opening routed Augusta
Sam Burr at five under, one of your co leaders
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along with Rory McElroy also finished at sixty seven today,
five under par for his opening round. He of course,
you're defending Masters champion and they're going after Tiger's drug doctors. Yeah,
Federal prosecutors in Florida say they're planning subpoenas for the
pharmacy located by Tiger Woods where he gets his medications.
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Prosecutors want the times of the prescriptions when they were filled,
the number of pills, the dosage amount and any instructions
that accompany the pills, such as warnings about drivings while
taking them, according to documents filed online in a court,
So they're trying to line up the fact that, yes,
he wasn't drunk on alcohol, but we got him on pills.
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Was that ever going to be a question? No, how
about some hockey p Thanks for talking Puck. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
It's the final week of the season.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
A huge game tonight the Pond between the Ducks and
the San Jose Shark, so big. I couldn't get tickets
for Sadie. She wanted to go watch the shark. Oh
wow because of that guy. Yeah, the two guys, Will
Smith and the other man crushed Sadie. The Ducks have
lost six in a row and are in danger of
not making the playoffs. Now they need their old flying
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v They're holding on to the seven seed, but barely
with four games to play.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
So thanks for talking pay.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You shouldn't have gone out with the Icelandic trainer. Gordon
Bombay saw you eating ice cream with the Icelandic trainer.
That changed everything. Change our attitude about you as a coach, Bombay,
gem yours.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I start down that's where you're going.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
See you in the ice Bombay. Good luck tonight, Ducks.
We'll be right back with more great sports SoC on
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Money Show. What's cracking, James? How are you?
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Hello? Hello?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Man?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Hey, you're right. Things change, boy, Things looking good for
a little while and then boom injuries. But hey, still
gotta play, gotta play.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
It's got to be tough because things for for weeks
were really headed in the right direction. And I guess
it didn't. I don't know, Maybe I'm wrong. It didn't
feel like their success was as fragile as it ended
up being. Am I Am I wrong to say that?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
No? I think I think you're right. I mean, you know,
they started to to prove that they could beat some
you know, some some decent teams, you know, beating Denver
and do what they did with the Knicks, and you know,
going on the road and have in that record. But
there's a big difference, you know, beating five hundred teams
and then you know, going up against the defending champion.
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So that that first game against them, the one that
both Luca and Austin Reeves were injured in, they ran
up against the champions, and you know, the Lakers had
did a good job to get up to third, but yeah,
the injuries just you know, dissolved any momentum they.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Had with three games to go.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
James, what is JJ Reddick's message to the guys that
aren't hurt, ended or out there and Lebron who is
supposed to play tonight against Golden State, Because you got
Bill Plashki right in the LA time saying shut everybody down,
Let's look ahead to next year, forget about it. What
are postseason run they go on in the playing tournament?
What is JJ Redis message to the team the final
three games before the playing tournament?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Well, you know, if anything, I think they might be
trying to hang on to you know, hang on a
force spot. You know, see if they can win these
last couple of games and you know, if they can
keep home court advantage. He's got to keep a positive
attitude with the team, you know, guys like Jacobradia ay
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and gets a chance to prove, you know, himself, and
you know Lebron coming back. You know, you just got
to hope that these guys can beat the Warriors and
the Phoenix and then trying to have some you know,
some safe faith. Uh. They're not gonna get you know,
Austin or or or or Luca back anytime soon, but
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they gotta, they gotta, they gotta try to win with
what they have.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
James Worthy, we always win with what we have because
we have James Worthy, and the wins or losses don't
affect us. We have to talk about it either way,
as does James Worthy joining us right now on the
Petros and Money Show. We appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Well.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Last week when you were on, I think my radio
partner Matt Smith was saying, well, what's going on now,
James here, they got to keep Lebron for another year,
like this is gonna this is gonna change everything and
all that, and you said, well, let's wait to see
what happens, and uh and and and something did happen
very shortly after that. How much does that affect do
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you think the way this season is ending? How much
do you think that affects not that we know exactly
how it's gonna end, but how much do you think
that affects the future?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Well, you know, it's hard to say, because I think
Lebron was really thinking that, hey, this team had come
a long way and and it you know, you could
just get in the in the playoffs and you know,
maybe upset somebody. That's I think that's what he was thinking.
But I think now, you know, I don't know, he's
he's he's playing pretty good. He seems to be happy
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with what's going on with the team right now. As
far as the future is concern man, I think he's
just gonna have to wait and figure out, you know,
what's what's what's the nice cost. There's so much going
on right now. We all know whether how long this
season is going to last, and so I think he's
right now just deliberating and just kind of waiting to
see what happens.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
With that being said, James, I'm gonna stay positive with Lebron.
Three games to go and then the postseason. We'll see
what happens in the postseason tournament. But at forty one
and the fact that he hasn't had been used a lot,
and the minutes havn't been just crazy the last month.
There could be a lot left in the tank here
for Lebron James at this point of the season, more
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so than any other year because of the minutes and
the game restrictions. This could be Lebron having a big
moment here. Could you see him carrying this team for
the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Well, he's going to have to. He didn't have any choice,
and you know the plan was with Luca and Austin.
He had really settled into like playing off ball, you know,
going in the post, like abusing people, really getting physical.
He's finding a whole new game where he could be
just as impactful get triple doubles.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Now.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
I think maybe handling the ball a little bit more
is going to put a little bit more wear and
tear on him, and he's going to have to make
a lot of decisions with the ball in his hands.
I hope that the Lakers can find somebody maybe I
don't know if Marcus Swart's available, who can at least
take some of the pressure off him from handling the ball.
But as far as having fuel in the tank, yeah,
he's got something in there. You know, it's got diving
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on balls at forty one years old, and I can't
believe the elevation that he's getting. I remember being thirty
three and not able to get that kind of elevation
on any dump. I was almost done and he's still.
But you know, you look at how he's kept himself
in shape and his formula for longevity. It's working.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Tuesday night, a little back and forth verbally between JJ
Reddick and Jared Vanderbilt. Is that maybe just frustration of
everything that's happened and the way the JJC and his
team kind of fall apart here because of injuries here
in the final weeks.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I think it's just frustration, you know. I think it happens.
I think and you see that a lot of times.
You know, it's like, oh, what's happening, But in a
lot of cases, that's the way they've been communicating. I mean,
I think JJ is really honest. He doesn't you know,
he doesn't hold back. We've seen it with Luca, We've
seen it with Van Dervelt. He's you know, and I
think it's just something that players are used to, and
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I think they probably discuss it the next day or
right after the game. I don't really see anything you
know that that's wrong with that. That's just the way
they communicate.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
James Worthy is our guest. We're happy to have him
on when I mean, obviously the Lakers are not in
a great position right now, better than some teams. But
when you guys were the way you were with showtime,
and it was around this time of year kind of
headed into the playoffs, what was the mentality Because you know,
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what you've been playing for all years is right on
your right on your doorstep, but you still have to
take care of the kind of arbitrary business of finishing
the season with you guys and all of your great
leadership and coaching. How did you handle it?
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Well, you know, we usually had clinched, you know, we
usually have clinched to playoffs, you know, way before you know, April,
we probably haven't had it done. But Ralphs did not
allow us to take any time off. In fact, this
is the time of the year where you know, he
kind of wrapped things up and made sure that we
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didn't you know, take any pauses, you know, to lapse.
I think we did it one year in eighty six,
nineteen eighty six, we were looking forward to plan the
Celtics after we beat them in nineteen eighty five, and
we overlooked the Houston Rockets and we you know, we
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just want focused. I don't think we were, you know,
monitoring one another, and we we kind of left that
with slide bodies.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Jaye's gotten this conversation about current NBA and the players
people want to see the most right now that if
you can get a ticket to the game and you
want to go see that player, who would have been
and Wimby and the Spurs seem to be, you know,
the trendy thought the Oklahoma City Thunder because of how
explosive they are collectively and you know how good they are.
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What would James Worthy buy a ticket for in the
NBA right now? Who's who's that guy or that team
that you buy a ticket? You know you're not buy
a ticket. Who would James Worthy pay to go see
in the current NBA.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Well, you know, I have to say, I'm on the
record radio show. I'm gonna have to say the Lakers.
But I was at the game the other night and
I was sitting on the baseline on the floor, and
I was watching Oklahoma and I was watching Halgrim and
hernes Stein and Green and McCain. They're ten d They
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got two starting fives on that team. Yeah, I take
money to see how they play. They spread the floor,
They know exactly where the next pass is. You could
you should see Shaye directing traffic. You know, he makes
a pass and he those where the next pass is going. Uh,
they're physical. They kind of remind me a little bit
of a blend of how the Celtics used to play
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physical and then they could run with you as well,
like the Lakers. McCain outstanding Williams. They they are really
deep and uh, they're gonna be deep for a while.
I pay to see them because I like the way
they play. They know how to, you know, create momentum.
They know when they're in trouble, they take a time out,
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they don't panic and uh so yeah, they're they're throwback
championship team.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
In my opinion, I'm assuming that Spectrum sent you guys
out there to Crypto the other night before they knew
that the whole team was injured and not going to
play in that game.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
It's gonna be a big knight. It was gonna be
a big knight for us. Ended up being a real
tiny knight ended up being a real tiny moment.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And I was watching I was I was watching for
the Desert, and I was watching TV, and you and
Geeter were up there doing it looking all good and
punk ass. Billy Mack was just walking around in the
background on the shot with his hands in his pocket,
his stupid tennis shoes on, looking up at the sky.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
We were all excited, but then the burbo, the bubble burst,
and it was just another telecast.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
We love you, James, Hey, James real quick. Michael Cooper
gets a job at cal State in LA. How excited
are you a for that?
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Did you sent swets so excited? I am so excited
for Cooper. I won't wear a sweatsuit. I'm a U
and SEE guy, but I'll pull for him. He deserves it.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I mean, you can't wear an eagle sweatsuit. Nobody's gonna
know one time, one time for Coop Vision three.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
We love you the Great Jeames Worthy is gonna know.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
There he goes James Worthy. Great stuff from our friend
James Worthy, and always great to talk to. James. Even
if the chips are down for the Lakers, not down
for us, though not down for you. You're gonna have
Off Night Dodger Talking seven with Tim k and coming
up next your Dead and the Live Guy Birthday of
the Day.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
This is Petrone on Demand.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Thanks for listening everybody, and a big thank you to
our producer and co hosts today at Tim Kits on
Twitter or x and the host of Marongo Casino Dodgers
on Deck.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
He'll be.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Coming up next throwing it to himself. Oh, put another
head on a different one with Dodger Talk coming up
at seven o'clock. Off Night Dodger Talk going down on
the farm, Petros update, first of the year, How the
Dodger Tom Prospects doing pretty exciting stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Whost wait to Paul is killing him?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Where where does Zaire Hope go? Does he just stand Glendale? No,
He's in Tulsa, Oklahoma? Him and host Wait the Paula
Driller The Drillers. We are your home in the back
to back World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers Dodgers versus
Texas Rangers. Coming up tomorrow. We'll be on from three
to six. Matt'll be back. First pitch will be at
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seven to ten tomorrow. We also have a Clipper game
on the schedule. This has been scheduled Talk Clippers versus
Portland tip off at seven on eleven fifty schedule time.
And don't you forget to podcast the show on the
iHeartRadio app for your smartphone. It's always there, or you
could stream it live. Wallet's on. And a big thank
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you to our engineer Ronnie Fossio, who posts the playlist
every day on x at Ronnie Fascia.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Is weekends.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
So with all that said, and looking forward to tomorrow
beating out Richard Condon, the guy who wrote the Manchurian Candidate,
and beating out Paul Robeson, turn it up Man, Paul Robeson,
by the way, the communists who sang old man River,
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all right, that's too high. Today we celebrate William Henry Johnson.
I don't really know how old he would have been today,
because no one is really sure what year he was born,
but he would be known as forever Zip the Pinhead.
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Born in Brooklyn, one of six children poor African American family.
As he grew up, his body developed normally, but his
head remained small. His tapered dome and heavy jaw made
him attractive to the circus, to the circus. Yes, he
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was not mentally incapable. There is some debate about that,
but people aren't really sure if he was affected in
that way like some small headed people are.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
So his looks made him perfect for the circus.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
His parents agreed to let him perform for money. He
was brought out in the cage and displayed as a
missing link from Africa. Oh, come, I'm sorry, that's just
the truth. And it was very popular.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
We haven't erased this part of history.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
And he would shake the bars and screech even though
he could speak. And P. T. Barnum saw this and
his popularity and said no more, No, I'm buying this out,
my god. But he did change his act a little bit. Oh,
he gave him a furry suit. He shaped his hair
into a tiny point on top of his head and
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called him Zip the Pinhead. He started with the circus
at eighteen. In his career lasted sixty years. Wow, talk
about all the benefits now, God, some deeply sad racial
undertones as well, you think. In later years his act
became more civilized and he took the stage with others
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like Jim Tarvar the Texas Giant and Cuckoo.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
The Bird Girl and Mikey the Midget no.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Jack Earl, the tallest man on Earth. He got tired
of travel though, and just started working primarily in Coney Island,
and in nineteen twenty five he saved a girl from
drowning in the Atlantic. Olly was performing in Coney Island.
Zip the Pinhead was performing a stage play called Sonny
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Sonny Yeah, where he caught bronchitis, mad with the play,
got sick and died at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.
In his sixty seven years in show business, it is
said that Zip the Pinhead performed for over one hundred
million people. He was photographed by the famous Civil War
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photographer Matthew Brady with Prince Albert of Wales who King Edward.
And he was the second most popular freak of the
nineteenth century.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
The second most.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Tom Thumb the little Tiny Guy was the most popular.
And they were both popular because they did not upset people.
They just looked weird, but they didn't upset people like
the bearded lady.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah, that's gross, I get you know. So sixty years
in the circus.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Traveling around in the circuit, well not just Ronkitas got
him from jump in the river, Zip the pin head. No, no, no,
he didn't jump in and it's not from jumping in
the river. He got bronchitis when he was performing and died.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Oh I thought you save somebody's life.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Well that was a year later he died. I don't
know if the rescue in the Atlantic gotcha bronchitis were related.
But what life could see? How you could draw those parallels?
Zip the pinhead from the freak shows of yesteryear.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Good stuff, Petross, My alive guy.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Need your approval? Well, I'm giving it to you, Da,
I don't need it. My a live guy. Birthday of
the Day, Happy forty ninth birthday to Gerard Way born
in New Jersey, grew up with a passion for art
and started telling you that the music wool rational art.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
In New York City.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Initially pursued a career in animation and comic creation. Those
guy's a Catholic boy. However, his life took a dramatic
turn witness the September eleventh attacks and experience that inspired
him to pursue music more seriously and channel his emotions
into songwriting instead of the comic books, at.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Least for a while. In two thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Gerard Way co founded My Chemical Romance, a band that
quickly became one of the defining acts of the two
thousands EMO, an alternative rock scene known for their theatrical
style and emotionally charged of music. They had two iconic albums,
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge and The Black Parade. Gerard
Away's distinctive voice, imaginative lyrics, and the commanding stage presence
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helped the band get a global fan base. They were
widely popular, not just on K rock. In My Chemical
Romance broke up. At that point, Gerard Way launched a
solo career. He changed his style had more of a
Brett Pop inspired sound. At that point, he picked up
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comic book writing again. He never really stopped. In two
thousand and one, he created a cartoon called The Breakfast Monkey.
They pitched to Cartoon Network, but the network said, we
like it, but it's too similar to Aquitine Hunger Force O.
He later created True Lives of Fabulous kill Joys and
then a very popular comic book that they turned into
(37:15):
a Netflix series, The Umbrella Academy. Oh Yeah, that is
the thing.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Critically acclaimed.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
He got kind of fat, didn't and his voice draws.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
His hired voice went higher.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
What he got fatter?
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Yeah, and it's really weird.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Here's voice like twenty years ago, it's really deep now.
In twenty fourteen, he made his debut at the Marvel
Universe comic by writing a Spider Man series called Edge
of Spider Verse. His story introduced Penny Parker, a Japanese
American student who pilots a biomechanical suit. Yeah, there's way
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too many Spider Man's now. In twenty twenty four he
liked Spider Ham Peter Porker, But to me, that's as
far as that you go. When he's twenty four, he
introduced a new comic book series called Paranoid Gardens about
a person named Lou oh Loo, a nurse at a bizarre,
self aware care center for supernatural beings like aliens and ghosts.
(38:15):
He reunited with my Chemical Romance in twenty nineteen. They've
been on tour the last two years. He's married with
the daughter, and they live right here in southern California.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
So where just as Los Angeles, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
So if you're driving around listening right now, Gerard Way,
maybe you're a Dodger fan.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Maybe you're a PMS fan. You're certainly a fan of
his comics, right.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Some of what I shouldn't have said that he got fat?
I know. I don't worry. I've got him. B Gerard
gets back. It's buddy. Happy forty ninth birthday to Gerard Way,
my chemical romance and comic book writer. Are you a
bit of a my Chemical Romance type? Nope, feels like
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you are just the you know, my black because of
the Kings, That's how I first heard it. Yeah, and
could you stop this terrible instrumental music. I'd like the
series on Netflix, by the way, the Umbrella Academy.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
It's it's a clever series.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
I don't know how true it is to the comic books,
you know, they sometimes change things. It sounds totally stupid.
It sounds like a knockoff of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Well, that's probably what it is.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Much like the Monkey Thing was a knockoff of Aquatine
Hunger for It. That's right, get it, get your own ideas.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
Way.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Is anybody original anymore? No?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
No, I'd like to think I have. I'd like to
think that I am coming up next a very original
Dodger off my Dodger Talk with Tim k. Stay tuned
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three fun fact. Well, the golf event in Augusta, the
Masters is going on right now. A lot of people
upset that Travis Kelsey's running around and Kevin Hart is
yelling at everybody the par three thing. It seems like
(02:50):
people are over it, and the golf purists are unhappy.
I'm sure Matt Smith will come back tomorrow and say
something about the golf and the sunlight and the timeless
Augusta National. But here is a fun fact about Augusta National.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Oh I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Well, I BET's about Augusta, Georgia, because I think if
this guy walked on to Augusta National when he was
alive there, he'd have been shot. James Brown, yes, the
Godfather of Soul, had a personal friend of our old
colleague Pat O'Brien. James Brown's been dead for twenty years,
but twenty years Day six been that long. Wow died
(03:30):
in six born not in Augusta, born in South Carolina,
the famous cocaine singer of the Godfather of Soul. But
he lived in Augusta and grew there. He moved there
from the time he was four or five into one
of his aunt's brothels because his mother left town went
to New York City. He performed for the troops at
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Camp Gordon, and he boxed in Augusta. And if you've
ever been to Augusta, Georgia, which I have not, but
it was twice the capital of the state of Georgia.
No longer, but it was. The statue of James Brown
in the middle of downtown has been removed, seriously. Yeah,
not because he was a woman beater or because of
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the cocaine, just because they're building a park around it.
They removed it and it's in like a garage somewhere
for safekeeping, and they're going to bring it back so
everybody can look at the Godfather of Saul once more.
But I love James Brown. He is a great artist,
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and he has a depth and breadth of his work
that is extremely impressive. And just because he was a
psycho screaming cocaine guy with a haircut like a sixty
year old black woman should not deter people from.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
The fact that he was brilliant.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
How about when that park gets finished and the statue
goes back up. We're supposed to be there in Augusta.
We make a little trip out there, Mac and go golf.
You can't golf, no one's No one's getting on in Augusta.
If anybody can get on Augusta, your radio partner can
get on.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
We can look at the park. Do you want to
do that?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I mean what it takes longer to golf than it
doesn't look at a statue.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
A couple of labs around the park.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
It's more like a median. He'll go to the bar
James Brown, Augusta, Georgia, not Augusta, Nashville, where he would
most likely be arrested if a lot. But now it's
time with a quick hitch.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Some to get mess.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Quick hitch, come make it quick, y'all? Yeah, Dodgers or
nine to three and they're off tonight, but that won't
stop Tim Kates. They're back at home tomorrow, starting versus
the Texas Rangers over the weekend. If you are going
to the game tomorrow, this is huge. Show Aotani greatest
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game bobblehead knife, so first of two, by the way,
not just greatness in one bobblehead, but two bobbleheads. This
one's going to feature his three home runs in the
postseason game. It's as if the Dodgers know that these
Otani bobbleheads commemorating his great feats are a big attraction. Well,
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when you caught one of the greatest feats of all
time because he pitched and hit and did it so
well in that game four of the NLCS. It deserves
two bobbleheads and this is the first of two, brought
to you by Syncron, of course, the official hydration beverage
of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Look for that synchron pre
impost workout drink at your local roufs. So we talked
about this at the beginning of the show. There's fifty
(06:47):
six thousand people the Dodger Stadium holds. They're giving away
fifty four thousand.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Woo.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You got to be a real idiot to not get one.
You really be in the minority. But still it's not everyone.
We talked to Yonder Alonso. He's got the Angel game tomorrow.
The Angels hit the road. They are in Cincinnati tomorrow.
Don't you know. Pump it up. You've got to pump
it up, don't you know? Pump it up. Weekend series
(07:16):
versus the Reds outfielder Jorge Solaire and Braves pitcher Ray
Rinaldo Lopez each suspended seven games for the Big fight
last night, which was fun to watch. Each player's appealing
and can play pending a hearing, and Yonder did discuss
that very raucous baseball brew haha from yat last night.
(07:40):
I mean you remember the one he was talking about
that he was a van That was Zach Rank hurting
his shoulder after that. I do remember that that was
a big deal back then. Do you have the call
on that. I would like to hear it. I'd like
to hear Yonder Alonso tackling A j Ellis in the moment,
and he did look like a Cuban miss going right
(08:01):
after the big fat wi concert Catcher's ass of our
friend A j Ellis three and two and it hit him,
wouldn't you know? Now he has something to say and
look out here.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
A j Ellis got out there just as Drankie and
Quinton got together. Quinton continues to amaze as he consistently
gets hit by pitches. It looks like the majority of
the players are trying to be peacemakers. The trio of
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Granki along with aj Ellis and Carlos Quinton, the Dodger
bullpen Hinton gent Quinton being led away.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Off to the left.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
And Matt kemp Is, I rate don't touch me, I
think he said to Bud Black, don't touch me. Matt
Kemp keeps saying the Bud Blackick Well Quinton hit again
and very hot. Matt Keff remember very early in the
game the pitch that went over Matt Kemp's head to
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the backstop. I don't know whether that was the retaliation
by Granky, but that's why Matt Kemp is very much
involved in this. Garry Harston keeping him away je Hare
and that.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
You cannot state enough how good Vin Scully was, just
how how perfectly he announced that, and he was old,
what a star did he ever do boxing? I should
know this, but I mean it probably did everything. Yeah,
he'd be great at talking boxing. Describe what the Lakers
(09:50):
are fifty and twenty nine. They've lost three in a row.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Bill Plashki said they should just pulled up the ten.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, the okay, Bill Dodgers should too, Right.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
He says, leave Luca in Spain or wherever he's at.
Getting that present.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
The die Marra story still STIGs me. The Lakers are
fighting to hang on to the four seed. They're currently
tied with the Rockets with three games to play. They're
at Golden State tonight and then at home and Home
versus the suns on Friday and at home versus the
Yazz on Sunday. Good luck to everybody involved. The Clippers
are heading to Portland. Kates, you are our Clipper correspondent.
(10:24):
Oh yeah, Clippers forty one and thirty nine right behind
them and the Portland Trailblazers at forty and forty. Tomorrow's
game huge, so crucial with a one game lead over
the Blazers for that final eighth spot. That if the
Clippers win, they'll finish with the eighth spot. The Trailblazers
will get the ninth spot, and that's huge in the
play in Tournament p If the Clippers lose, they would
need to win their season finalees Sunday at home against
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Golden State, and the Blazers then to lose their final
home game against Sacramento. Otherwise the Clippers would finish ninth.
Not confusing at all, eight seventh ninth win here, lose there.
This team's tanking there. It's just the exciting point of
the NBA season. The final week. The nc Double A
is exploring a significant change to their eligibility rules. The
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proposal creates an age based standard. What about Chris Wank Nope,
he'd be done. Athletes would have five years of eligibility
from their nineteenth birthday or high school graduation. The clock starts, go,
I'm fifteen, but I'm in eighth grade. The proposal, which
mirror's language written into the executive order issued by President
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Trump last week, would not grant extra years for red
shirts or waivers like this, except for small groups of
outliers maternity leave, military service, religious missions. More members of
the NCUBLEA Division one Cabinet are set, like Nick Saban,
are set to reveal this proposal at their meeting next week,
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with potential for implementation as soon as this coming academic year.
You like this, clock starts, you got five years. Go
whatever you do with those five years, it's up to you.
But if you want a red shirt, you're costing yourself
a year. The only thing you can get out of
it is a medical issue he torri r acl or something.
You'll get an extra year. It sounds like, or you
go on your Mormon mission.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I like this. It's like how it used to be
pretty much, but now there's literally a clock starty.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, but it used to, I mean they used to.
It used to be really hard to get more than
one red shirt. Now they hand him out like they
hand out aspirins. Yeah, now we're going to court over
this stuff. Fernando Mendoza And what I think is a
great decision, really yeah, is not going to the draft. Instead,
he'll be in Miami with his family and we'll find
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out the list of players who are going to Pittsburgh
for the draft in a few days. Why do you
think it's a good thing. He's going to be the
face of the NFL, the number one pick in the draft.
He needs to be on stage. Right. Why he's already
the number one pick. They're gonna talk like, I don't know,
like you go out. He seems like some guys are
built for that, right, And he's great with the media.
First of all, his mother's not very mobile.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
True.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Now, he made a lot of try She made a
lot of trips during the football season, no doubt. But
maybe it has something to do with that because and
maybe her condition's different. So there's that we know about
the family story in that regard. The other I think
is just what do you do if you're the number
one pick or if you're one of the guys they
have you at the draft? You wear a bunch of suits.
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They give you every opportunity to make an idiot out
of yourself. You're doing your posing for every like Instagram,
slow camera going around you, thing made for TV production, right.
I mean they just sit there and exploit you for
three days and run you around. I mean, you're already
the number one pick. Everybody already knows who you are.
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It's giving the effort. It's telling the NFLFU you're not
going to be able to market me this week. And
maybe that bothers the NFL. But here's a young guy
who seems like he's very religious, really comfortable in his
own skin. He's got a mother that's not mobile to
me good. I mean, it just gives you every opportunity
to look like an a hole sitting there celebrating yourself,
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running around, and your future teammates are gonna look at
you and be like, okay, you know, I mean, I
don't know. I mean some guys are built for it.
Some guys are self promoters and they love to go
out there and do it. And that's not bad. Football
takes all kinds. But I think Ferdy Mendoza is going
to be talked about and exploited enough just being the
number one pick on the draft. Either way, he's going
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to be on a plane that night, a PJ private
jet flying to Vegas to be introduced to the Vegas
media at the Raider Compounds out. They should just family
should be at the Mandalay, not like that.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
That would be the smart move. That would be the
smart move.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
This is a huge hit though, to the NFL because
they bring him in a few days before they do
the whole circuit. They do the red carpet and then
they do the big picture on the He's not happy
about it, but I personally I kind of like it
all right. What happened to the Masters opening routed Augusta
Sam Burr at five under, one of your co leaders
(15:03):
along with Rory McElroy also finished at sixty seven today,
five under par for his opening round. He of course,
you're defending Masters champion and they're going after Tiger's drug doctors. Yeah,
Federal prosecutors in Florida say they're planning subpoenas for the
pharmacy located by Tiger Woods where he gets his medications.
(15:26):
Prosecutors want the times of the prescriptions when they were filled,
the number of pills, the dosage amount and any instructions
that accompany the pills, such as warnings about drivings while
taking them, according to documents filed online in a court,
So they're trying to line up the fact that, yes,
he wasn't drunk on alcohol, but we got him on pills.
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Was that ever going to be a question? No, how
about some hockey p Thanks for talking Puck. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
It's the final week of the season.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
A huge game tonight the Pond between the Ducks and
the San Jose Shark, so big. I couldn't get tickets
for Sadie. She wanted to go watch the shark. Oh
wow because of that guy. Yeah, the two guys, Will
Smith and the other man crushed Sadie. The Ducks have
lost six in a row and are in danger of
not making the playoffs. Now they need their old flying
(16:15):
v They're holding on to the seven seed, but barely
with four games to play.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
So thanks for talking pay.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You shouldn't have gone out with the Icelandic trainer. Gordon
Bombay saw you eating ice cream with the Icelandic trainer.
That changed everything. Change our attitude about you as a coach, Bombay,
gem yours.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I start down that's where you're going.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
See you in the ice Bombay. Good luck tonight, Ducks.
We'll be right back with more great sports SoC on
M five seventy LA Sports, NBA Hoops Talk with James Worthy, forthcoming.
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at a Thursday. No Dodgers today, Dodge You talk tonight though.
Dodger's back at it tomorrow against the Texas Rangers on
Otwani Bobblehead Night, the first to two to celebrate his
great game in the NLCS first pitch at seven ten
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James Worthy, the best of the best in good times
and bad, and good can become bad and vice versa
quite quickly in the modern Nbah, He's a Hall of
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famer and he knows all about it. Multiple championships, a
great attitude, and a perfect gentleman. Emmy Award winner on
Spectrum Sports that it's James Worthy on the Petro sand
Money Show. What's cracking, James? How are you?
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Hello? Hello?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Man?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Hey, you're right. Things change, boy, Things looking good for
a little while and then boom injuries. But hey, still
gotta play, gotta play.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
It's got to be tough because things for for weeks
were really headed in the right direction. And I guess
it didn't. I don't know, Maybe I'm wrong. It didn't
feel like their success was as fragile as it ended
up being. Am I Am I wrong to say that?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
No? I think I think you're right. I mean, you know,
they started to to prove that they could beat some
you know, some some decent teams, you know, beating Denver
and do what they did with the Knicks, and you know,
going on the road and have in that record. But
there's a big difference, you know, beating five hundred teams
and then you know, going up against the defending champion.
(19:08):
So that that first game against them, the one that
both Luca and Austin Reeves were injured in, they ran
up against the champions, and you know, the Lakers had
did a good job to get up to third, but yeah,
the injuries just you know, dissolved any momentum they.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Had with three games to go.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
James, what is JJ Reddick's message to the guys that
aren't hurt, ended or out there and Lebron who is
supposed to play tonight against Golden State, Because you got
Bill Plashki right in the LA time saying shut everybody down,
Let's look ahead to next year, forget about it. What
are postseason run they go on in the playing tournament?
What is JJ Redis message to the team the final
three games before the playing tournament?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Well, you know, if anything, I think they might be
trying to hang on to you know, hang on a
force spot. You know, see if they can win these
last couple of games and you know, if they can
keep home court advantage. He's got to keep a positive
attitude with the team, you know, guys like Jacobradia ay
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and gets a chance to prove, you know, himself, and
you know Lebron coming back. You know, you just got
to hope that these guys can beat the Warriors and
the Phoenix and then trying to have some you know,
some safe faith. Uh. They're not gonna get you know,
Austin or or or or Luca back anytime soon, but
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they gotta, they gotta, they gotta try to win with
what they have.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
James Worthy, we always win with what we have because
we have James Worthy, and the wins or losses don't
affect us. We have to talk about it either way,
as does James Worthy joining us right now on the
Petros and Money Show. We appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Well.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Last week when you were on, I think my radio
partner Matt Smith was saying, well, what's going on now,
James here, they got to keep Lebron for another year,
like this is gonna this is gonna change everything and
all that, and you said, well, let's wait to see
what happens, and uh and and and something did happen
very shortly after that. How much does that affect do
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you think the way this season is ending? How much
do you think that affects not that we know exactly
how it's gonna end, but how much do you think
that affects the future?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Well, you know, it's hard to say, because I think
Lebron was really thinking that, hey, this team had come
a long way and and it you know, you could
just get in the in the playoffs and you know,
maybe upset somebody. That's I think that's what he was thinking.
But I think now, you know, I don't know, he's
he's he's playing pretty good. He seems to be happy
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with what's going on with the team right now. As
far as the future is concern man, I think he's
just gonna have to wait and figure out, you know,
what's what's what's the nice cost. There's so much going
on right now. We all know whether how long this
season is going to last, and so I think he's
right now just deliberating and just kind of waiting to
see what happens.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
With that being said, James, I'm gonna stay positive with Lebron.
Three games to go and then the postseason. We'll see
what happens in the postseason tournament. But at forty one
and the fact that he hasn't had been used a lot,
and the minutes havn't been just crazy the last month.
There could be a lot left in the tank here
for Lebron James at this point of the season, more
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so than any other year because of the minutes and
the game restrictions. This could be Lebron having a big
moment here. Could you see him carrying this team for
the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Well, he's going to have to. He didn't have any choice,
and you know the plan was with Luca and Austin.
He had really settled into like playing off ball, you know,
going in the post, like abusing people, really getting physical.
He's finding a whole new game where he could be
just as impactful get triple doubles.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Now.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
I think maybe handling the ball a little bit more
is going to put a little bit more wear and
tear on him, and he's going to have to make
a lot of decisions with the ball in his hands.
I hope that the Lakers can find somebody maybe I
don't know if Marcus Swart's available, who can at least
take some of the pressure off him from handling the ball.
But as far as having fuel in the tank, yeah,
he's got something in there. You know, it's got diving
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on balls at forty one years old, and I can't
believe the elevation that he's getting. I remember being thirty
three and not able to get that kind of elevation
on any dump. I was almost done and he's still.
But you know, you look at how he's kept himself
in shape and his formula for longevity. It's working.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Tuesday night, a little back and forth verbally between JJ
Reddick and Jared Vanderbilt. Is that maybe just frustration of
everything that's happened and the way the JJC and his
team kind of fall apart here because of injuries here
in the final weeks.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I think it's just frustration, you know. I think it happens.
I think and you see that a lot of times.
You know, it's like, oh, what's happening, But in a
lot of cases, that's the way they've been communicating. I mean,
I think JJ is really honest. He doesn't you know,
he doesn't hold back. We've seen it with Luca, We've
seen it with Van Dervelt. He's you know, and I
think it's just something that players are used to, and
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I think they probably discuss it the next day or
right after the game. I don't really see anything you
know that that's wrong with that. That's just the way
they communicate.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
James Worthy is our guest. We're happy to have him
on when I mean, obviously the Lakers are not in
a great position right now, better than some teams. But
when you guys were the way you were with showtime,
and it was around this time of year kind of
headed into the playoffs, what was the mentality Because you know,
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what you've been playing for all years is right on
your right on your doorstep, but you still have to
take care of the kind of arbitrary business of finishing
the season with you guys and all of your great
leadership and coaching. How did you handle it?
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Well, you know, we usually had clinched, you know, we
usually have clinched to playoffs, you know, way before you know, April,
we probably haven't had it done. But Ralphs did not
allow us to take any time off. In fact, this
is the time of the year where you know, he
kind of wrapped things up and made sure that we
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didn't you know, take any pauses, you know, to lapse.
I think we did it one year in eighty six,
nineteen eighty six, we were looking forward to plan the
Celtics after we beat them in nineteen eighty five, and
we overlooked the Houston Rockets and we you know, we
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just want focused. I don't think we were, you know,
monitoring one another, and we we kind of left that
with slide bodies.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Jaye's gotten this conversation about current NBA and the players
people want to see the most right now that if
you can get a ticket to the game and you
want to go see that player, who would have been
and Wimby and the Spurs seem to be, you know,
the trendy thought the Oklahoma City Thunder because of how
explosive they are collectively and you know how good they are.
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What would James Worthy buy a ticket for in the
NBA right now? Who's who's that guy or that team
that you buy a ticket? You know you're not buy
a ticket. Who would James Worthy pay to go see
in the current NBA.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Well, you know, I have to say, I'm on the
record radio show. I'm gonna have to say the Lakers.
But I was at the game the other night and
I was sitting on the baseline on the floor, and
I was watching Oklahoma and I was watching Halgrim and
hernes Stein and Green and McCain. They're ten d They
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got two starting fives on that team. Yeah, I take
money to see how they play. They spread the floor,
They know exactly where the next pass is. You could
you should see Shaye directing traffic. You know, he makes
a pass and he those where the next pass is going. Uh,
they're physical. They kind of remind me a little bit
of a blend of how the Celtics used to play
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physical and then they could run with you as well,
like the Lakers. McCain outstanding Williams. They they are really
deep and uh, they're gonna be deep for a while.
I pay to see them because I like the way
they play. They know how to, you know, create momentum.
They know when they're in trouble, they take a time out,
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they don't panic and uh so yeah, they're they're throwback
championship team.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
In my opinion, I'm assuming that Spectrum sent you guys
out there to Crypto the other night before they knew
that the whole team was injured and not going to
play in that game.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
It's gonna be a big knight. It was gonna be
a big knight for us. Ended up being a real
tiny knight ended up being a real tiny moment.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And I was watching I was I was watching for
the Desert, and I was watching TV, and you and
Geeter were up there doing it looking all good and
punk ass. Billy Mack was just walking around in the
background on the shot with his hands in his pocket,
his stupid tennis shoes on, looking up at the sky.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
We were all excited, but then the burbo, the bubble burst,
and it was just another telecast.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
We love you, James, Hey, James real quick. Michael Cooper
gets a job at cal State in LA. How excited
are you a for that?
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Did you sent swets so excited? I am so excited
for Cooper. I won't wear a sweatsuit. I'm a U
and SEE guy, but I'll pull for him. He deserves it.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I mean, you can't wear an eagle sweatsuit. Nobody's gonna
know one time, one time for Coop Vision three.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
We love you the Great Jeames Worthy is gonna know.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
There he goes James Worthy. Great stuff from our friend
James Worthy, and always great to talk to. James. Even
if the chips are down for the Lakers, not down
for us, though not down for you. You're gonna have
Off Night Dodger Talking seven with Tim k and coming
up next your Dead and the Live Guy Birthday of
the Day.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
This is Petrone on Demand.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Thanks for listening everybody, and a big thank you to
our producer and co hosts today at Tim Kits on
Twitter or x and the host of Marongo Casino Dodgers
on Deck.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
He'll be.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Coming up next throwing it to himself. Oh, put another
head on a different one with Dodger Talk coming up
at seven o'clock. Off Night Dodger Talk going down on
the farm, Petros update, first of the year, How the
Dodger Tom Prospects doing pretty exciting stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Whost wait to Paul is killing him?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Where where does Zaire Hope go? Does he just stand Glendale? No,
He's in Tulsa, Oklahoma? Him and host Wait the Paula
Driller The Drillers. We are your home in the back
to back World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers Dodgers versus
Texas Rangers. Coming up tomorrow. We'll be on from three
to six. Matt'll be back. First pitch will be at
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seven to ten tomorrow. We also have a Clipper game
on the schedule. This has been scheduled Talk Clippers versus
Portland tip off at seven on eleven fifty schedule time.
And don't you forget to podcast the show on the
iHeartRadio app for your smartphone. It's always there, or you
could stream it live. Wallet's on. And a big thank
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you to our engineer Ronnie Fossio, who posts the playlist
every day on x at Ronnie Fascia.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Is weekends.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
So with all that said, and looking forward to tomorrow
beating out Richard Condon, the guy who wrote the Manchurian Candidate,
and beating out Paul Robeson, turn it up Man, Paul Robeson,
by the way, the communists who sang old man River,
(31:18):
all right, that's too high. Today we celebrate William Henry Johnson.
I don't really know how old he would have been today,
because no one is really sure what year he was born,
but he would be known as forever Zip the Pinhead.
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Born in Brooklyn, one of six children poor African American family.
As he grew up, his body developed normally, but his
head remained small. His tapered dome and heavy jaw made
him attractive to the circus, to the circus. Yes, he
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was not mentally incapable. There is some debate about that,
but people aren't really sure if he was affected in
that way like some small headed people are.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
So his looks made him perfect for the circus.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
His parents agreed to let him perform for money. He
was brought out in the cage and displayed as a
missing link from Africa. Oh, come, I'm sorry, that's just
the truth. And it was very popular.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
We haven't erased this part of history.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
And he would shake the bars and screech even though
he could speak. And P. T. Barnum saw this and
his popularity and said no more, No, I'm buying this out,
my god. But he did change his act a little bit. Oh,
he gave him a furry suit. He shaped his hair
into a tiny point on top of his head and
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called him Zip the Pinhead. He started with the circus
at eighteen. In his career lasted sixty years. Wow, talk
about all the benefits now, God, some deeply sad racial
undertones as well, you think. In later years his act
became more civilized and he took the stage with others
(33:23):
like Jim Tarvar the Texas Giant and Cuckoo.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
The Bird Girl and Mikey the Midget no.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Jack Earl, the tallest man on Earth. He got tired
of travel though, and just started working primarily in Coney Island,
and in nineteen twenty five he saved a girl from
drowning in the Atlantic. Olly was performing in Coney Island.
Zip the Pinhead was performing a stage play called Sonny
(33:56):
Sonny Yeah, where he caught bronchitis, mad with the play,
got sick and died at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.
In his sixty seven years in show business, it is
said that Zip the Pinhead performed for over one hundred
million people. He was photographed by the famous Civil War
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photographer Matthew Brady with Prince Albert of Wales who King Edward.
And he was the second most popular freak of the
nineteenth century.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
The second most.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Tom Thumb the little Tiny Guy was the most popular.
And they were both popular because they did not upset people.
They just looked weird, but they didn't upset people like
the bearded lady.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah, that's gross, I get you know. So sixty years
in the circus.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Traveling around in the circuit, well not just Ronkitas got
him from jump in the river, Zip the pin head. No, no, no,
he didn't jump in and it's not from jumping in
the river. He got bronchitis when he was performing and died.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Oh I thought you save somebody's life.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Well that was a year later he died. I don't
know if the rescue in the Atlantic gotcha bronchitis were related.
But what life could see? How you could draw those parallels?
Zip the pinhead from the freak shows of yesteryear.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Good stuff, Petross, My alive guy.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Need your approval? Well, I'm giving it to you, Da,
I don't need it. My a live guy. Birthday of
the Day, Happy forty ninth birthday to Gerard Way born
in New Jersey, grew up with a passion for art
and started telling you that the music wool rational art.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
In New York City.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Initially pursued a career in animation and comic creation. Those
guy's a Catholic boy. However, his life took a dramatic
turn witness the September eleventh attacks and experience that inspired
him to pursue music more seriously and channel his emotions
into songwriting instead of the comic books, at.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Least for a while. In two thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Gerard Way co founded My Chemical Romance, a band that
quickly became one of the defining acts of the two
thousands EMO, an alternative rock scene known for their theatrical
style and emotionally charged of music. They had two iconic albums,
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge and The Black Parade. Gerard
Away's distinctive voice, imaginative lyrics, and the commanding stage presence
(36:30):
helped the band get a global fan base. They were
widely popular, not just on K rock. In My Chemical
Romance broke up. At that point, Gerard Way launched a
solo career. He changed his style had more of a
Brett Pop inspired sound. At that point, he picked up
(36:52):
comic book writing again. He never really stopped. In two
thousand and one, he created a cartoon called The Breakfast Monkey.
They pitched to Cartoon Network, but the network said, we
like it, but it's too similar to Aquitine Hunger Force O.
He later created True Lives of Fabulous kill Joys and
then a very popular comic book that they turned into
(37:15):
a Netflix series, The Umbrella Academy. Oh Yeah, that is
the thing.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Critically acclaimed.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
He got kind of fat, didn't and his voice draws.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
His hired voice went higher.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
What he got fatter?
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Yeah, and it's really weird.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Here's voice like twenty years ago, it's really deep now.
In twenty fourteen, he made his debut at the Marvel
Universe comic by writing a Spider Man series called Edge
of Spider Verse. His story introduced Penny Parker, a Japanese
American student who pilots a biomechanical suit. Yeah, there's way
(37:52):
too many Spider Man's now. In twenty twenty four he
liked Spider Ham Peter Porker, But to me, that's as
far as that you go. When he's twenty four, he
introduced a new comic book series called Paranoid Gardens about
a person named Lou oh Loo, a nurse at a bizarre,
self aware care center for supernatural beings like aliens and ghosts.
(38:15):
He reunited with my Chemical Romance in twenty nineteen. They've
been on tour the last two years. He's married with
the daughter, and they live right here in southern California.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
So where just as Los Angeles, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
So if you're driving around listening right now, Gerard Way,
maybe you're a Dodger fan.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Maybe you're a PMS fan. You're certainly a fan of
his comics, right.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Some of what I shouldn't have said that he got fat?
I know. I don't worry. I've got him. B Gerard
gets back. It's buddy. Happy forty ninth birthday to Gerard Way,
my chemical romance and comic book writer. Are you a
bit of a my Chemical Romance type? Nope, feels like
(38:53):
you are just the you know, my black because of
the Kings, That's how I first heard it. Yeah, and
could you stop this terrible instrumental music. I'd like the
series on Netflix, by the way, the Umbrella Academy.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
It's it's a clever series.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
I don't know how true it is to the comic books,
you know, they sometimes change things. It sounds totally stupid.
It sounds like a knockoff of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Well, that's probably what it is.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Much like the Monkey Thing was a knockoff of Aquatine
Hunger for It. That's right, get it, get your own ideas.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
Way.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Is anybody original anymore? No?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
No, I'd like to think I have. I'd like to
think that I am coming up next a very original
Dodger off my Dodger Talk with Tim k. Stay tuned
and we'll be back out to borrow three the pic
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