A Frogman Friday (Hour 2) 3/28/25

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here arrived. Yesterday we were out there for three hours
noon to three for opening day and moving forward. Oh,
it was an incredible day, incredible people, incredible vibe, incredible

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sweet with incredible food and incredible booze. I don't think
i've seen the beer replenished before first pitch ever before.
Typically there's like six to maybe twelve beers in years past,
and when they're gone, they're gone.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
It's a different dad.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
For now.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
You know, some dads let you get the salad bar
and a meal, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah. The other dads let you get the salad bar
and then you've got to provide said salad bar for
your two brothers and him, and they all pick off
your plate.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
So we were very happy to be there, and we
will be happy be there again. But right now, Matt,
it's time for the word of the day.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
His words the word of the day.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Now. I gotta say I was taken aback. Last night
I watched I watched the Laker game, and of course
marveled at the end of the Laker game and saw
on Twitter how everybody's making fun of Lebron and how
he turned it over and looked all old at the end,
and yeah, yeah, and all that, and I so I

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watched the high lights again on YouTube, which I often
like to do because they do a good job of
cutting up the game like fifteen to twenty minutes, and
you watch it, and I watched when you watch the
YouTube ylights and it's the away team that you're watching,
like the Lakers. In this case, they usually use, as
you know, the home broadcast in Chicago, the Bulls. It's

(02:55):
Adam Amine, a colleague of mine from Fox who's a
great guy. And and Stacy King, the famous Chicago bull
out of the University of Oklahoma who won some championships
with the Jordan teams. And I think he's had that
job Matt for about nineteen.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Years, long time he on the TV, Weddington on the radio,
been doing it for decades.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
And I have never heard anybody so unprofessional as Stacy
King in my life. It was unbelievable. And I'm watching
the game, and I knew that something crazy was going
to happen at the end, but I'm just watching the game.
And Adam Amen is a really, really talented broadcaster and
does a great job. And obviously Stacy King is Stacy King,

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and Adam knows what it's like. They've been working together
a long time. But like every time somebody hit a
three for the Bulls, Stacy King goes, Brett.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Oh three times, Ragnett, that's his thing.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
And well it's one of his many things. And so
I'm like, wow, he says that I saw a couple three.
He's early and you know it's early in the game,
and Stacy King's like, ba oh really yeah. And then
they're like interviewing a Bull's front office guy about some
of the moves they've made. And I know they've made
a lot of moves, right, And they're interviewing a front

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office guy, and even while the front office guy is talking,
a Bull hits a three. Stacy King gets on there
and goes like, just.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Real quick, hey, it's what the people want, right, Well.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
That's what I figured. By the end of it, like
the people must really enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
They like the bank bank bank, you know.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
And then like the game starts going absolutely bonkers to
where you know that call is going to be played
for a long time. And not to show too much
inside baseball about broadcasting, but play by play guys like
Matt money Smith they like to have what you would
call a clean call. You know, if a guy makes

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a shot. You know, if a guy makes a shot
or scores a touchdown, you know that play by play
guy will deal with you going oh, you know, or
like a little sound or something, But you know they don't.
Aren't you trying to talk louder than them or screw
up their call? And that's right. They should be able
to say shot is good, unbelievable, and then they should

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lay out too and go from there. Well yeah, but
whatever it is, that's not what happens on that bulls
brun So I kept thinking, like, oh my god, you know,
what's it going to be like? You know, how's it
going to be at the end when this crazy sequence happens?
You know, is Stacy King going to be able to

(05:32):
hold it together? So not only does he do bang
bang bang, but he does the friend Sandford, I'm coming Elizabeth.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Right, oh lord, and very timely Ross should come from
the seventies, Rob Parker.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Esque, I would say, and I'm a big fan of
Chico and the Man. But you know, so anyway, Matt,
I was really I was not disappointed by the way
that Adam I mean and Stacy King handled the sequence
at the end of the Laker game, which I guess
is mostly Lebron's fault. Do we have it?

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Kate there's a lot of timeouts. Two seconds on Daddy.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
For the wind.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Done.

Speaker 6 (06:16):
I cannot believe this, Elizabeth. I'm telling dam unbelievable, impossible,
magic Kitty, good day.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
More anime me, I'm trying.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
Job crocodile d he's got talking about crocodile that da
well giddy is Australia.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
You may never see a wild are secret and you.

Speaker 7 (06:45):
Just saw in a final ten seconds Josh Kitty's up down.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
I know it's the Lakers that's the hard. This is unbelievable.

Speaker 7 (06:57):
Those days and teams on the sales shot. This is
not the same break some special team a lot. What's
kidding again, that's a shop for agents that will be

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replaced when we're all going.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Not with your call?

Speaker 8 (07:22):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Even before that game that isla esque.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Oh it's unbelievable. Uh even before when uh the guy
I forget who it was that hit the first three
and then Kobe Kobe White hit the second, second three.
So the guy hits the first three, well, the third three,
I guess you would say her many comebacks, but the
first three was the one where Lebron didn't get all
the way out to the baseline to cover that one

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three I don't remember who that guy was. And then
Gideon makes a steal and flips it to Kobe White
and he makes a shot and that was some really
unbelievable Stacy kinging as well. I think that's in there too,
if we have it, but I don't know if it.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
Is said no it the computer automatically deleted it. It
vomited it out. It's like, I can't take it. One's enough.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
I mean, I could pull it in two seconds. But
it is very interesting because poor Adam, I mean, is
just like.

Speaker 6 (08:19):
It's good big DoD Blas, big big DoD Blas.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Kevin Hurder.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
There was a black guy.

Speaker 8 (08:31):
I know.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
I saw that white guy and I looked him up
to It's like, listen.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Wasn't your boy, No, it wasn't.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
But he made it three And you know what, he's
got a Stacy King has a has a signature called
for Vuvich. When he hits a three, he goes cha
three B back.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
That doesn't work. There you go, Patrick Williams, there are
ten point one seconds.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
The guy that used to run the magic h Yeah,
it's time for the number of the day's.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Well, let's pile on the number of the days you
know the aggregators, the curators. Nowadays you get your news
based on what you've watched previously. And I think because
we covered it, and I think I might have might
have done it for a number. We might have done
it as part of a top story. It was the
obviously something we were going to talk about. But my

(09:22):
news curation keeps peppering me with this story and the
furthering of this story. Your number the day is fifty
seven and forty. Those are the ages a combined ninety
seven years old of Lebron and Stephen A Smith. And
this story continues clearly because people are clicking on it,

(09:44):
and it's it still has some legs. And to this
is look, they pedal in hypotheticals, right, the talking head
shows that is what they do. They do hypotheticals. Well,
what would happen if Bron and Kareem played one on
one underwater?

Speaker 4 (10:04):
Yeah, man, let's argue Mini Ditka versus the French Foreign Legion.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Yes, that's that's all.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
This shows off in a dodge ram, a stolen dodge
ram with a big bed and a douleau.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
And even like the legitimate hypotheticals, Well you think Oklahoma
City would win if if if Dallas traded them gofferd Well, yeah,
I think they would win if they were able to
get Gofford at the trade dead. It's just the dumb
assery of what they do daily. But this is without
question the most embarrassing and dumb hypothetical. And I don't

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know how the people sitting at that desk. I don't
know if it was McNutt, if it was perk.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
Is which one's the bald head.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Scollywag don't know. I just know McNutt is there a lot.
And then there's Molly Karum who's got to try to
orchestrate this whole thing and keep it on the rails.
And they all sat silent for fifteen minutes as this
dude felt he had the need to respond to what
was said on the McAfee show, and then because that

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wasn't enough, he then had to do an additional first
person him alone had just non stop vomiting of words
to the camera, again reiterating how this thing could have
played out.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
You want me to act, you want this to be
a reincarnation of Chris Rock and Will Smith. And let
me stay for the record that while we bring up
that let me assure you, it wouldn't have gone down
like that. I would have gotten my ass kick because
had that man put his hands on me, I would
have immediately swung on him immediately that I'm not going

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to tolerate.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
Well, how is this.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
For two days removed and we're still doing this.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
We're still doing I'm.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
A fifty seven year old guy that would have swung
on Lebron James if he had put his hands on
me that I'm not going to tolerate when still going
still getting some legs out of it. Lebron's super awkward,
super cringey hour long F bomb s bomb. I think

(12:17):
he dropped the D word in there a couple of times.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
I think I don't think that interesting.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
This is crazy.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
I don't think that interview with Pat McAfee did what
he thought it was going to do. For Yeah, And
that's the interesting thing. Like Lebron James is a billionaire.
He's got all of these quote unquote smart sports marketing
people around him, like Rich Paul, and yet they can't
hide their underwear with the way they orchestrate media events

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and the ham handed way they go about trying to
fix whatever bad opinion there is out there about him.
It just feels like if you'd think he'd have better advisors, right,
but he doesn't such a quote unquote media mogul. You know,
you'd think.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
He'd know how to navigate the media.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
Well some of this stuff, you know, as opposed to
just trying to like stick a square peg into a
round hole when anybody says anything.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Bad about you.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
Yeah, and I think stephen A's right to a certain
I mean, I think stephen as insufferable, but I think,
you know, it takes a guy like Lebron James to
make stephen A or even Windhorst a sympathetic figure. But
to a certain degree, I think stephen A is right.
Lebron cannot stand when people say Michael Jordan was better
and there's nothing you can do about it, and he

(13:37):
drives him insane. And if you don't bow at that zone,
I don't know, if you don't bow down at the
throne and bend the knee, he's got an issue with you.
He's got a bone to pick with you. He might
he might tweet something that says you can't fight. I
had two rotator cuffs.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
I was that was out?

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah, what the rea the retweeting of the film of
him warming up or sparn or whatever the hell that
was coppercut. I know people may not believe this, but
it's because, you know, they just assume that we hate
everything that is Lakers. I don't. I love watching Austin
Reefs play basketball into that, but I just I really
do hate that Lebron is a Laker. It's one thing

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if he sits with with Pat McAfee and and does
this absolute as nine interview for an hour, and as
you just said that, he can't let the detractors be
detractors because look, Shack had rabbit ears, Kobe had rabbit ears.
They'd get pissed off at people that would say that,
you know, Shack should be so much better and say,

(14:41):
you know, but it wasn't like this, you know. And
we even got calls from time to time for their
people like wow, you know he heard that. That's that's
a real bummer that you guys know, it felt a
little bit more. This is crazy, Yeah, And it's it's
one thing if you're in an Orlando Magic jersey and
you're doing it, but the fact that you play for
one of the most historic franchises in the histor we
have any sport, and you're peddling this bs instead of

(15:04):
just accepting like, wow, you've been with the Lakers for
eight years and you're still doing these stupid things like
this is still happening eight years later in that uniform.
It really sucks. It just really does.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, it's terrible. I mean, everywhere you turn, there's an
insufferable story that you I mean, this week, Matt, I
woke up late for my morning Fox Sports radio interview.
You know, and that's not easy just to get up
and start answering questions, you know, all foggy and stuff.
You know. Usually I like to get up like fifteen
minutes early, you know, drink some water, you know, a

(15:39):
little bit, and you know, I get up, I'm all groggy,
and what happens, you know, Broddy James scoring thirty nine
and a G League? What you gonna say now, I'm just.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Like, you know, I go back to bed. Yeah, what
I'm gonna do?

Speaker 4 (15:51):
Everywhere you turn, everywhere you look, like the full House song,
there's something that sucks, and this is like the number
one thing that's.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yeah, it really does. Like it sucks.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
It sucks, man, It really sucks. Everywhere you move, because.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
I would have swung on him that I'm not gonna tolerate.
And they're gonna keep it going tomorrow. I promise you
they will find a way to keep it going tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
Well they're still talking about They're still talking about Rodney
catching a fly ball and roll it and Rodney everyone.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
I guess play the ads, Nut, Roddie.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
This is the song of the day.

Speaker 9 (16:38):
New Order is an English band from Salford, Manchester with
our song of the day called Ceremony, A great tune
to spin for you on a frog Man Friday where
the Petros and Money show fulfills the weekly quota with
three hours of great eight sports talk before Dodger Baseball
takes over the frequency, where this celebration continues on opening

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weekends the Dodgers Stadium, beginning with the World Series Ring
Ceremony taking place before Game two.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
This evening with the.

Speaker 9 (17:06):
Detroit Tigers and Tim Kats. Will get a going with
your morongo because you know Dodger's on deck program beginning
at six o'clock.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Hey, you running David vesa out at Dodger Stadium. Second
to three games against the Tigers. It is World Series
Ring presentation. That's going to be another exciting ceremony.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
Prior to first pitch, put your hands on anybody. I
would swear if you did that, I would have done that.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
It's a hell of a hypothetic that I'm not gonna tolerate.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
If your stack's coming, that's right in fight you all
right now, right now, we'll just grab address.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
David Dodgers Tigers Game two first pitch just after seven

(18:20):
PM from the Gallpin Motors broadcast booth. Yoshi Yamamoto, Jack
Flaherty is your pitching matchup and tonight World Series Champion
Ring presentation night. I got somebody who's out there.

Speaker 10 (18:33):
David Vase, Home of the Dodgers with an inside look
at the Dodgers. This is the Vassi Report with David Vasse.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
David Vase joining us after holding court and doing that
big Instagram live yesterday at Opening Day and doing a
great postgame Dodger Talk and Dodger Clubhouse show. He's our
jewel on AM five seventy LA Sports. Also worked Spectrum
Sports in net LA and MLB Network, and he's on
the X at the Real Underscore DV on the Southern

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California Toyota Dealer Celebrity Hotline. It is David Masse. Hello, Dave,
how's it going out there on day two?

Speaker 8 (19:15):
A little bit of a hangover, no hangover, A lot
of excitement today because the Dodgers are going to be
receiving their championship rings and benning practice was moved up
earlier than normal for both teams. So the Dodgers have
cleared the field already fifteen minutes ago, and the Tigers
are getting set now, so we're getting ready for the

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festivities out here.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
It wasn't overwhelming media yesterday. Maybe the start time, maybe
the Tigers in town, but when the game started and
Kurt Gibson and Freddie Freeman and all that, you could
tell it was a special day in Chavez Ravine yesterday
and it was a lot of fun. One of the things,
Dave that kind of fell under the radar was that
Key k Hernandez got sick. I don't know if he's

(20:01):
as sick as Mookie, but is keyk okay. That's something
that you guys were talking about a little bit on
the radio, but we didn't talk much about before the game.

Speaker 8 (20:09):
Yeah, he had some stomach virus. Don't know if it
was a twenty four hour bug where if it was
as severe as Mookie's stomach a allmet that made him
lose close to twenty pounds. But Key K Hernandez did
not show up early, but Dave Roberts told us that
he is going to be here a little bit later
than usual and will participate in the ring ceremony. I mean,

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k K, I think he would have taken a paper
bag out there with him to miss this thing. So
I don't know if he's going to be available off
the bench tonight. I believe that's something that Dave Roberts
and KEYK are going to have to monitor as the
night goes on. But he will be out there on
the third base line to receive his ring, which he

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was not here in twenty twenty one, twenty one, he
was out playing in Boston. So he has wanted this
for a while and it would take a lot for
him to miss it.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
Dave just kind of going back to the game yesterday takeaways,
and you know, basically they're three sort of clutch players
right on opening day at Dodger Stadium, sold out crowd,
being the three guys that came through Edmund and you know,
and on a night when Freddy's trying to work back
from the rib thing and Mookie obviously is still dealing

(21:22):
with you know what he had to deal with the
last three weeks. Just kind of how important it was
that those two guys, the Taskar Hernandez the Tommy had
been extended long term. Your idea of how important they
are to this team trying to turn this into a dynasty.

Speaker 8 (21:37):
Oh huge, And it's huge that the Dodgers were even
able to acquire Tommy Edmond. You know, I was talking
to Rick Monday just a few minutes ago about Tommy
Edmund and his value. He's a part of that Cardinal
tradition that you that you used to hear about how
they did things the Cardinals way going back to you know,
the the days of David Eckstein, who was acquired but

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fit into that culture, Skip Schumacher, Nick Punto, Daniel descalso
David Freeze. The list goes on and on about the
players that played the game not just with brute force
and blunt force, but understood the nuances of the game
and had field awareness. And Tommy Edmond's that guy, Teoscar Hernandez.

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There's a reason why everybody that was around the team,
covered the team, and watched the team play last year
with still adamant about the Dodgers needing to bring this
guy back. And it was on full display yesterday as well.
So you could talk all you want about O Tommy
and Freeman and Betts, and yes they're the three best
players on the team, but to have guys like that

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protecting them and driving them in and picking them up
when they're not going to get a hit or driving
a run every time is monumental.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
How did you see smell Zilla day, Dave?

Speaker 8 (22:57):
I enjoyed it. It was a little bit that he
was finally in a Dodger uniform, but I know he
could be a lot better. That was not the best
version of Lake Snell, and he has that unique, unorthodox
ability to create traffic and for the most part get
out of it. Very Houdini like yesterday, ten base runners

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and he only gave up two runs despite four walks.
So he did not have his curveball, his slider, his
change up. I would have liked to have seen him
use it more. I've seen him use it more and
more effectively, but all in all, his fastball command was
what helped him get through yesterday.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
What about the rest of the pitching Dave thoughts on
how Dave Roberts opted to you in the order in
which he used as bullpen.

Speaker 8 (23:45):
No, I mean, the only thing that was surprising was
Tanner Scott in the eighth and Blake Trining in the ninth.
But obviously they have the scanner report on groupings of
hitters that they felt Tanner Scott was better matched up
for in the eighth inning and Trying in the ninth,
and Dave Roberts and Brandon Gomes and Andrew Friedman were
very transparent with Tanner Scott, letting him know that there

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are going to be games where you do not close
them out. We need you earlier in the game, and
apparently yesterday was one of them.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
Dave, some guys on the road back, maybe Gonsolin and
a couple others.

Speaker 8 (24:24):
Anybody any news, Phillips, Yeah, we got big news. We'll
get to the pitching in a second, but we have
breaking news. What Tony Gonsolyn. Tony Gonsolyn has shaved his
head to the scalp. The most popular backup infielder, Miguil Rojas,

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took it upon himself to shave Tony Gonsolin's head and
Anthony Bonda finished it off, and Tony Gonsolyn said, Miguil
Rojas not as experience with the Clippers as he is
with the Gloves, so Bonda, who is a little bit
more experienced with the Clippers. I believe. Anthony told me
that he used to cut his brother's hairs back in

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Corpus Christi, Texas was able to make it look respectable.
So Gonsolin with the beard but no hair now as
he makes his way back from a lower back injury
in the weight room, and Evan Phillips with the minor
league season still not having started yet. You're going to
see these two guys pitch another simulated game before the

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home stand is over, and then Phillips will have to
go out and test pitching back to back games before
the Dodgers say, okay, you're ready to go.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
We'll keep an eye on the Twitter at the real
Underscore DV, keep an eye on the Instagram as it
is World Series Ring presentation day. Davis out there he
will have everything covered. And then of course when Dodgers
on Deck gets started at six o'clock, all of that
will lead into first pitch at seven Dave, we appreciate it.
Enjoy it out there all right.

Speaker 8 (25:58):
And just for the record, Evan Phillips still has all
his hair.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
I bet Gonsolin looks really weird.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
I'm glad that the guy that coaches for old miss
Chris Beard has a beard. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
Has he always had a beard?

Speaker 4 (26:16):
I mean, I know, probably not when he was a baby. Well,
I mean I don't think he came out of the
wolf just with a I.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Was thinking like when he was a tech, was he
Texas Tech?

Speaker 4 (26:24):
I mean, I don't know what.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
I don't know what.

Speaker 4 (26:25):
I don't know what kind of question you're.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Asking asking has he always had the beard? Jeez?

Speaker 4 (26:31):
Trying to work with this guy.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
I mean I still had the mental picture of Tony
Gonsolyn with a shaved head and that beard looking like
a serial killer. This is what I would imagine.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
We'll be back with more great sports talk. Neck.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
That's your some money in five seventy ely Sports Live
everywhere on the iHeart ready at about an hour to go,
and then we'll get you to Dodgers on deck. Dodgers
back in action tonight against the Tigers. It is World
Series Ring Presentation night. Yamamoto versus part of that World
Series championship team. But back on the Tigers, Jack Flaherty
and of course Dodgers on deck at six first pitch
at seven to ten pm.

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Speaker 8 (27:21):
Uh.

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Speaker 2 (27:32):
His knowledge, common knowledge, his local knowledge. He's very knowledgeable on.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
The things that you come up with as far as for.

Speaker 8 (27:40):
With your knowledge.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
Is One thing Matt and I really like to do
is like a bunch of sixth graders sit around and
chop it up about roller coasters and of amusement parks
and be like, bro, we got the we got the
lightning person. Uh, and usually we're super wrong. We really
had a lot of misinformation out there when we were
talking the other day about Disneyland and how much it

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costs to go to Disneyland and what the difference between
a yearly pass was and all these different things, and
a lot of those mouseheads.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Types came after us.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
Yeah, they did a little bit, but this is straight
out of the newspaper. Matt and we are your roller
coaster show. Of record, true, and they are closing at
six Flags in Valencia, one of at least when it
was open, the tallest and fastest roller coasters in the world. Ooh,
Superman Escape from Kryptong. You know the shuttle one that

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touches the sky like Jimmy Hendrick.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
I do I remember when Superman was unveiled. I'm old
enough to remember when that was a huge freaking deal.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
Which you like to guess the year that Superman was unveiled.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
Matt, I'm gonna go nineteen ninety eight.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
Oh god, wow? What ninety seven?

Speaker 10 (28:56):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (28:57):
But I want to say, yeah, pretty close, very close.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Superman Escaped from Krypton. I don't think it was called
that back then. It was just called Superman. The ride, right,
and it goes all the way up to the sky
and it broke. It broke so much that it was
no longer worth fixing. Like a car.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
I'm not gonna fix you again, mother, I'm yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
The Lex Luthor one next door is still gonna go.
But this knocks down Magic Mountains roller coaster count to nineteen,
which is still more than any other amusement park in
the world. So it was a twenty million dollar reverse

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free Fall coaster that debuted in nineteen ninety seven. It
was just called Superman the Escape, but then they redid
it and called it Superman Escape from Krypton one hundred
miles per hour in having seconds and I never went
on it. I don't know if Kate's went on it,

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but it's closed now. All of these world's tallest roller
coasters matt are starting to close, like the death drop
style coasters for one reason or another. Ohio Cedar Point
closed the four hundred and twenty foot tall Thrill Ride

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Top Thrilled Dragster for all of twenty twenty two and
twenty three after a metal piece flew off the ride
and bunked a woman who was waiting.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
In line, who unfortunate.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
And then they reput it up and then it broke
again like a week later.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, we're done with this.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
And New Jersey six Flags Great Adventure demolished the four
hundred and fifty six foot tall Kingda Ka and Zumanjaro Drop.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Of Doom in It's quite a mouthful, marking the.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
Final demise of the world's tallest roller coaster and the
world's tallest drop tower, respectively. So that I mean these
these if you like drop tower style roller coasters, it
feels like you better go and get your ass to
Australia or something, because they still have Escape from Krypton

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Superman in Australia, a three hundred and seventy seven foot
tall Tower of Terror and you can go on that.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Yeah, I remember, I think it was probably the if
I remember right the mid eighties, I think it did
the original six Flag one was just called the Edge
and it was like six stories tall and it did
the you know same thing right, just straight up, you're hanging,
you don't know when it's gonna drop, You drop, your
stomach comes out your mouth, and then you're done. And then,
like you said, that became the style of coaster, right

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that had to show up everywhere. And then they were like, yeah,
this kind of sucks. You stand in line for an
hour and your ride is seven seconds. Not really something
that's all that.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
Appealing, No, and they break all the time. There's that
man something fell off and almost killed a lady in Ohio.
So say goodbye to Escape from Krypton. I'm sure everybody's
got a story about how somebody barfed and then you
went down and ran into the barf on your face or.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Something like that.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
We'll be right back with more great sports talk. There's
some local.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
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Speaker 4 (32:32):
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