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Well me us Petrosen Money a five seventy early sports
libe everywhere on the iHeartRadio app on a couple minutes
late because the Dodgers got worked over by the Giants.
None of the regulars were out there in the lineup
at Yoshiyamamoto did throw three innings, his final appearance in
spring training before he leaves for the World Baseball Classic.
We'll have two more Dodger games this weekend, Cubs tomorrow,
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Angels on Sunday. Both will be first pitch, twelve five
pm contests.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Very exciting scheduled talk as we hurl forward, we will
talk to David Vase live from camel Back Ranch. He's
got Dave Roberts and J. D. Martinez tonight. We will
do that in the very next segment. But right now,
it is what you been waiting for. While you're watching
the Lakers stare at each other in disdain on the bench,
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you're thinking what I'm thinking? What would Matt Smith, the
voice of the Bolts have to say about this? What
would Matt Smith do? W WD And we don't have
to ask that question any longer. We no longer have
to wonder. Now we will know. It's time for the
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top story of the well.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
As discussed a little bit a half hour ago, I
would submit it's over. It is completely and totally over,
which really is a wild thing to think, because for
people like Lon Rosen and Andrew Friedman and Tony Bennett
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and Mark Walter to really drill down into this Lakers
team this offseason, they likely will recognize that a central
component of its failure is too much clutch sports, too
much jabron lames, too much bad energy, bad juju, bad karma,
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bad basketball, coursing through the concourses, and the foundation.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Like a stanch matt in the bowels of.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
The arena that you can't get rid of no matter
what you tried, no matter how many arm and hammer
baking soda boxes you open, the stench stays. What is
the foundation of this ten billion dollar franchise? And many
people when you hear the B word after a number
ten billion dollar, try to compare corporate culture to team
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performance is as nine ten billion dollars is nothing. Nadi, Apple,
Google are in the three to four trillion dollar range.
As a matter of fact, I saw, yeah, yeah, yeah,
how about this pe if the people are really interested,
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which I'm guessing they're not, but I decided to take
two minutes to look it up. Where it coward With
exactly ten billion dollars of market cap, the Lakers are
the equivalent of Avans, a French fleet managing operational car
leasing company ranked two thousand and fiftieth in the corporate
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market cap counting rankings.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Hey, that's a proud rental company.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Okay, you know what, pe It is not to compare
the Lakers to Ivans, because they've got three and a
half million vehicles, fourteen thousand employees, and they are the
number one fleet leasing company in Europe. Tim Albertson, their CEO,
probably has a solid work culture foundation, probably has fourteen
thousand bodies pulling the rope in the same direction, and
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that has led to their impressive run, growing from a
six billion dollar market cap in twenty nineteen to its
current twenty twenty six ten billion dollar number. Are the
Lakers growing No? Are they sinking?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
The Lakers are stagnant. They are the same team they
have been for the last six years. And in corporate culture,
that is death.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
What's the common denominator there, Matt.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It's a great question, Pee, because if we look through cliches,
the types that you'll see on corporate culture posters and
the pisser. The motivational quotes include, you're not getting better,
you're getting worse. You're either at the table or you're
on the menu. If you're not growing, you're dying. And
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the Lakers are violating every last one of them. This
teamp with Lebron James over those six years has been
exactly this. What they are today is what they have
been since their run to their Mickey Mouse Championship Mickey Mouse.
Whoa because it was in Orlando at Disney World.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah you heard, Sam Amy. I was there, give them
the flowers. I was there. I'm sam Amck. I was there. Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
The one run to the conference finals in twenty twenty
three would have felt more like a breakout from their
stagnation had they not been swept by the Nuggets, who
went on to win the NBA Finals. And as much well,
I guess and much like you regularly point to the
struggles of USC football. If Oregon can be a perennial contender,
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if Indiana can win the freaking conference in the National Championship,
if Penn State, if Michigan, if Ohio State, if Washington
can all make playoff runs in the time that you
has made zero, something stinks at the top. Last year
Oklahoma City Thunder, year before Dallas Mavericks, year before Denver Nuggets,
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year before Golden State Warriors, year before Phoenix Suns. That
is five different teams one third of the Western Conference
has represented the Western Conference in the NBA Finals, while
the Lakers have managed to win exactly two playoff series
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over that time frame. Two playoff series wins. In twenty
twenty one, the Phoenix Suns had one All NBA player,
Chris Paul on the second team. In twenty twenty two,
the Nuggets had one All NBA player, Nikola Jokic second team.
In twenty twenty four, the Mavericks had one All NBA
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player Luca first team, and last year, the Oklahoma City
Thunder had two All NBA players Shaye the MVP and
Jalen Williams third team. Oh the Warriors had one Steph Curry,
All NBA player. Cared to wonder what the Lakers had
happening over that same stretch. It's a rhetorical question. It's
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the question you're gonna tell me, you asked, asked earlier. Yes,
Jabron Lanes from twenty twenty one through last season was
an All NBA player second Team, third Team, third Team,
third team, second team, and in twenty twenty four they
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had two. Anthony Davis was a second team All NBA player,
meaning they either had as many superstars as every other
team that went to the finals, and in one year
they even had two.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But now they got Johnny Brahms, Zach.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh, look out of it, Johnny brains. They had one
of the ten or fifteen best players in the league
and could not win a single playoff series. Now that
is a failure somewhere based on the other evidence we
have sitting in front of us, and that is five
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different teams managed to make the NBA Finals in that
same timeframe with the exact same number of all NBA players.
So I guess to spin it back to corporate culture.
The stock price is stagnant, if it's sliding, someone's getting fired,
new blood is being brought in. You are searching relentlessly
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for what the central cause of concern might be. And
there could be a number of people you could point to.
So if we put it on the Lakers, is it
all the way at the top? Is it the CEO?
Is it Genie Buss for being two hands off from
letting Lebron or Rob Polinka an underlean run this thing
into the ground. Is it on Rob Polinka for constructing
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a roster devoid of consistent competitors, of killers of stat chasers.
Is it on JJ Reddick at the management level because
he doesn't have the gravity to rally the employees the
jobs to push a talent like Lebron or Luca. But
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no surprise, p We're gonna come back to Jabron Lames.
What about Johnny Johnny Brames, he's just hanging out in
the castodioid. He's cleaying the floors. Uh, it's not.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Close, you know, it doesn't seem like it's.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
It's there is one constant, and it's a constant that
will have to depart next year and likely will depart
next year. And you just look at that final play
last night. Lebron, who plays zero defense, is pointing out
defensive assignments to Austin Reeves to stay with roy O'Neil,
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and he doesn't. He gets sucked in to Grayson Allen,
who beat Luka Bandancic like a drum off the dribble.
Reeves has zero chance to help on that play, yet
he still leaves his man. But the only reason Roys
O'Neil got the pass was because the guy who was
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barking out defensive assignments, the guy with four titles, the
guy with multiple MVP trophies, got sucked in even worse
and left Colin Gillespie, who could have taken a wide
open corner three himself and had a wide open look
for the win. And Reeves just followed suit with what
Lebron was doing, collapsing to make it four defenders on
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one guy who had no chance at either a making
that layup or the defenders had no chance in the
case of Lebron, James and Austrievez of making an impact
defensively on the play. Now there are a mountain of
hater feeds out there. I enjoy them.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
They are my basketball shirpa to the lameness of Gabron Lambs.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
And some people might point out that they chance.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So you watch Jabron Lambs, the more he lame, he
is right.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And people will say, well, they're cherry picking some of
Jabron's worst moments, which is true. But when your worst
moments are literally cherry picking for baskets and you're not
getting back on defense for over fifteen seconds.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
But every once in a while he gets a cheap
deuce though, Matt yes, and you don't see his teammates
celebrating at all.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
They just seems when you're floating in the lane for
cheap rebounds to pass stats. When you're pointing out somebody
else's defensive assignment while totally blowing yours, it is deflating.
It is truly deflating, and it is so much weight
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on top of a team that it feels like it's
damn near impossible to climb out from under. Luca led
a Dallas Mavericks team to the NBA Finals by playing
some of the most incredible, inspired, magical basketball in the
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twenty twenty four playoffs, and he led a team with
another future Hall of Famer, Kyrie, who was also great.
But the rest of that team, if you include their
starters and their rotation players in the playoffs, PJ Washington,
Derek Jones, Junior Daniel Gafford. Their sixth man was a
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nineteen year old center, Derek Lively, and their other two
rotation players were Josh Green and Maxi Kleeber. The team
went to the NBA Finals because Luca was so freaking good,
And that's what happens in the NBA. Individuals can carry
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you if they are that.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Special, well, they've they'd make other people better. Yeah, but
that's not what happens with your brother, Jabron Lambs.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
This current team has that same Luka, Doncic again, Luca Kyrie, PJ. Washington,
Derek Jones, Daniel Gafford, nineteen year old Derek Lively, Josh Green,
Maxi Kleeber. This team has Lebron, James, Luka, Doncic, Austin Reeves, Ruyachimura,
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DeAndre Ayton, Marcus Smart, Jake Laavia. Uh, it should be
good enough.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Well, maybe it's a poke ball with a bad ingredient.
Matt not to put a new analogy on your corporate
stock analogy that you just but it does seem like
everybody was. I mean, I know you can't judge the
beginning of the season, which is a different time than
later in the season, and durability and maturity and all
those things come into play, but it felt like these
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guys knew how to play with a lot more joy
and chemistry and got a lot more out of everybody
when Lebron had sciatica.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, it is a poisonous pill that is put into
the mix. And I'm not saying they got to make
the NBA Finals and damn near win it like the
Mavericks did win a playoff series. It has been the
same song every year, and it's a crappy song, get
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into the playoffs, flirt with the play in, maybe win
a play in. Maybe you're the sixth seed and you
don't have to crappy like that Songic.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
If you could only see the way that.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
She loves me, Yeah, I would like that crappy.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I think it's ass. I think it's studio ass rock esque.
You know, take your pick, seven Mary three, Tonic, Little
Black Backpack. This is the story of a girl, Wait,
crowd to river, drown the whole world. It's one of
those you know, it's the Tony's possum kingdom.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Wait, no, no, don't know. Now you're starting to you're
starting to disparent some things that's getting up underneath the
skit um.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Uh, whatever it may be. When you start hearing these
additions that Mark Walter is making, that Andrew Friedman and
Farhan Ziety are digging their fingers into this thing. That
Tony Bennett's gonna come and help with the draft, but
he's not gonna have any say, He's just coming into consult. Uh.
You gotta believe with Lon Rosen, who, of course most
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notable Magic Johnson's agent slash business partner. And then we
know Magic left because he and Rob Polinka butted heads
and that's why he just walked out the door. It
just bodes for massive changes this offseason and the idea
that Lebron James would be back, or even as far
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as I can tell that Rob Polinka is going to
be back, I just I can't envision it. Not after
six years of stagnation, zero growth, nothing different fighting for
a six or a five seed. Just despondent and uninteresting
play from your players from February through April and it
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just being too late once the postseason rolls around.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Tony Bennett did have a quote toward Rob Polenka when
they hired him, and he said, I want to be
around to pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
He's gonna get fired immediately. Yeah, right when we hit
the offseason.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, it feels like the Lakers are not run as
well as the teams that are on the top. That's true.
And we'll be back with David Vasse live from Camelback.
He's got Dave Roberts tonight and JD. Martinez. Everybody's excited
about the Dodger prospects. There are some complications with the
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World Baseball Classic but fingers crossed. Stay with us on
a frog mad Friday.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
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But tomorrow another opportunity to kick around the Cubs at
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Sunday also at noon and tonight, Pete the people are gonna.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Have Dodger talk, that's right, and a great Dodger talk
with JD. Martinez, America's DHS. Vass likes to refer to
him and the skipper of it all, holding it all
together without the biggest star in sports show Heyo Tani
in camp and the World Baseball Classic which complicates everybody's
lives whenever it's around in the spring upon us it
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is David Maassey on Petroson Money Live from the Spring Training,
the Home of the Dodge Off with an inside look
at the Dodgers. This is the Vass Report with David Vasse,
the one and only David Masse, making the most of
his time in the desert and having the time of
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his life at Camelback Ranch. The Dodgers lose today, but
what does it matter. He's got a great show tonight
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Sports Net LA And right here on a five seventy,
it is David Vassay on the Petrosen Money Show. What's cracking? Dave?
How are you?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I'm doing good? Guys made the trip to Scottsdale. It
was a sellout crowd at Scottsdale Stadium, but the Dodgers
didn't really send any of their regulars to play, so
really the headline act was Yoshi Yamamoto making his final
Cactus League start before he joins Team Japan, and he
pitched well, three scoreless innings, four strikeouts, did not walk
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a batter, so it seems like he's trending in the
right direction for Japan and for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Dave, you mentioned they didn't bring any of their regulars,
but I saw peace want to give credit where credit
is due. I think it was Jack Harris that wrote
about it in the California Post because of the injury
to keyk that we should keep our eye on Santiago
espiinal Is that just kind of share with us who
he is why he might have an opportunity to break
camp with this roster and what his role would be.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yeah, I mentioned that to Petro whoever he was filling
in for you, Matt last week.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
My apology.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Antiago Espinal is a guy that has a real chance
to make this team because he's a right handed hitting
third baseman. The Dodgers believe they can get his defense
back to where it was a couple of years ago,
and with Tommy Edman and keyk Hernandez starting the year
on the injured list, he has a real chance to
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spell maximuncy against test the tough left East. And yeah,
I mean he's teammates with ta Oscar Hernandez in Toronto.
So that's the function of Espinal being a real possibility
to be on the opening day roster.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Now that you mentioned Yamamoto through well today he's leaving.
We're not going to see him for a little while
the party, I guess. Parting thoughts on any conversation that
Dodgers have had with you with the media with Yamamoto,
what he said on his way out the door about
what his role might be, how he might be used,
and how concerned Dodger fans should.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Be I don't think Dodger fans should be concerned because
Yamamoto has done a lot of preparation to get bigger
and stronger and put on close to fifteen pounds in
the lower half the legs to stay connected and strong
to the ground. He continues to be at the top
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of the training of all pitchers in camp that even
Muki Betts is trying to take some of his pitching
techniques out to shortstop. But Yamamoto said on the way
out today, because he is on his way to Japan
now that the Dodgers and him have had extensive conversations
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about what his pitching limits should be. So obviously he's
very aware of his responsibility with the Dodgers, but he's
probably going to have some guardrails pitching for Team Japan
because of what he alluded to as far as the
conversations he's had and through his interpret or he said,
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they were very complicated conversations, so we didn't really get
much details. But I guess Dodger fans should be at
ease that he has been receptive to those conversations about
what his limits should be out there.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
David Vasse is our guest. He's part of the show
actually as our Dodger reporter on your Southern California Toyota
Dealers Celebrity Hotline. The Yamamoto Mookie thing is that connected
with the photos online a Yamamoto and his sense on
Mooki's shoulders or something.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yeah, I had heard about this and then I guess
a fan started to snap it and put it on Reddit. Yeah.
Sinse YadA, who is Yamamoto's trainer, was on the shoulders
of Mooki bets two days ago at Camelback Ranch and then.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Mooki beholders like a rock concert, right.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Literally on his shoulders like a rock concert. Mooki told
me that he weighs one hundred and thirty pounds, So
it's basically trying to strengthen the core, understand the lower
half and how it's connected to the core to help,
you know, just the throws, which is the longest throw
in the infield from shortstop. And then Mooki started to
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take up throwing the javelin, so he said he's going
to continue to use the javelin training to help him
get better. He when I asked him exactly how this
is going to help him, he said it was too
complicated to explain to me, so obviously way over my head.
So at least he's trying to find different ways at
this stage of his career to just be inquisitive and
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curious about other ways to help him be better, to
try to achieve winning a Gold Glove at shortstop.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Dave, you talked about Hayesan Kim and perhaps potential, you know,
fight to make the roster. Seems like he's hit pretty
well in spring. Kind of where do you stand on that?
As he is, like you said, all these people are
leaving for the World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yeah, he left a pretty good impression on Dave robertson
the Dodgers yesterday because his last hit before we left
for Team Korea was a home run. He's had an
incredible spring. He looks more like a big league hitter.
I would say that he's a version of Gavin Lux
for the Dodgers from a couple of years ago. That
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brings that extra dimension of speed. So if he can
continue to hit the way he has hit early in spring,
the Dodgers are going to have a pretty good dynamic
at second base to start the year, and he can
also play the outfield. He made he looked more comfortable
in center field a couple of games ago, so he
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seems to be a real option for them to start
the year.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
The one and only David Vasse is our guest, always
with the latest information. He's got Dave Roberts and JD. Martinez.
Tonight we'll ask him about it. What's what's Tucker? I mean,
I know it's not easy to to to notice Tucker.
He seems like a guy likes to fly under the radar,
and we've talked a lot about that, But what's he
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been like this spring? One of your interactions been like
with the quiet man.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Yeah, I mean everything that you just describe Petros is
what I've observed. He's a guy that wants to go
under the radar. He's not really at his locker all
that much when the media is in there. When you
see him go from field to field, he's not a
guy that you know, you notice out of the other
superstars the Dodgers have. But when he takes his at
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bat during these games, you can understand how he is
going to really help this Dodger lineup by getting on base,
by bringing a professional approach and a guy that can
do some damage hitting behind o'tawny. So he's a guy
that doesn't want the attention. And it's starting to make
more and more sense. Why, all things being equal, whether
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it was a long term contract in Toronto, you know,
a difference of five million dollars annually with the Mets,
why this was so attractive to him Because he's just
one of many guys and doesn't need to shoulder the
burden of being the guy front and center. So he
does want to go under the radar and he just
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wants to play baseball. But yeah, very very under the
radar type personality.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Dave, What are we to take away from our dear
friend John Hayman writing that if they were to institute
a salary cap, it would look something like a floor
of one hundred forty million and a ceiling of two
hundred sixty million. What do we take away from that?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I think all of this salary cap just goes back
to owners wanting to, you know, improve the perconercentage of
valuations of their franchise and get it closer to where
the NBA and the NFL is the one thing that
everybody ignores when it comes to the Dodgers' spending power
is the fact that the salary cap is not going
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to stop the Dodgers from continuing to be on the
cutting edge of technology and infrastructure that they have built
for their players at the major league level and also
in the minor league level. That's where the money that
the Dodgers have, the wherewithal they have that has made
a huge difference even before they signed Otani, and a
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salary cap is not going to stop that.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
David Messe everybody, what can we look forward to tonight,
Dave with Dave Roberts and JD Martinez? Is there a
preview you can give us of.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Some kind I can I can? Last year, JD Martinez
helped Mookie Betts get his season back on track in
September when we were in Florida, and you might be
surprised by what JD had to say about how much
he helped Mooky and how many times he helped MOOKI.
And also he's out here on the West Coast. He's
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going to be participating in a celebrity pickleball tournament out
there in Lakinta on Monday. That's why it worked time
wise to have him on the show tonight. And also
Dave Roberts talks about, you know the mentality of this
team that's not really shying away when you say the
phrase three feet, they're actually embracing it. So looking forward
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to having Dave on Dodger Talk for the first time
basically since last year.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Wonderful stuff. Dave, thank you for your contribution and we'll
be looking forward to it. At about an hour and
fifteen minutes, Dodger Talk with David Vassa beautiful indeed. Tony Bruno,
thank you, Dave.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Have a great night, have a great weekend, guys.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
YouTube brother. We got all the games on the station
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Speaker 1 (30:37):
All right, Matt, I did promise everybody that I would
do this story again because you're here, because it's very
prevalent to you. I don't think we would have I mean,
Rogan and Rodney did the story, which disappointed. Oh no, well,
what I mean. You know sometimes stories overlap, some form
of it. Some form of those stories do overlap. Do
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you think we'll ever had Soonica, No or any form
of it. No, okay, Uh, you've probably seen the story, Matt,
because it's a day old. But you must address it.
People are starting to text me and ask me about
addressing it. The Atlanta Hawks on Monday in Atlanta, which
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is of course where they are for their home game
against the Orlando Magic, are unveiling the very first NBA
collaboration with a strip club. That strip club is Magic City,
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famous on the Petrosen Money Show, because Matt money Smith
of course, went there allegedly thinking that famous kitch. It's alleged,
that's alleged, thinking that the famous kitchen in Atlanta at
the Magic City, the famous the eleven Pepper Wings, was
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a separate entity than the actual strip club, or they
had like a separate place for food, which of course
they do not and never have.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
But now they give you your wings right there in
the strip club.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
You have to go in, and that went in and
he stayed in like a roach Motel I was with
other people. Yeah, exactly right. So it's a likely story
that if Pat O'Brien still worked here would be ide
what you do. I'm gonna call you what. But they're
gonna do a Magic City Monday in a strip club
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NBA team collaboration. There's gonna be Magic City sweatshirts, Atlanta Hawks,
Magic City collaboration with the peach on it for an ass. Yeah,
there's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Seems like the NBA would shut this down.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Ti the rapper playing halftime. Also, the Atlanta as F
podcast is going to go. And of course the wings.
I mean, Matt, this is your opportunity to get those
wings without the strippers, the Lemon Pepper, Sweet Lou Williams wings.
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Who was there when you were there.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Without he was at the end of the bar.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
The strippers. Now, I imagine when TI performs, there's gonna be
some chicks with big asses wiggling around. But you will oh,
a little bit, but they will. They'll have clothes on.
I mean, there's always dancers. You don't think the Atlanta
Hawks have the dancers.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
I'm just shying. Do you think they'll be doing strip
club like dancing?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Don't they? Anyway, I guess they do. Have you seen
the Clipper Spirit anytime recently? I have not. Okay, well,
they look like the chicks dancing and the freaking expendable
or the replacements. But anyway, Matt, I thought you would
be excited about this. It's a great opportunity to get
out in the community at Atlanta, one of your favorite cities, Buckhead, Bankhead,
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the Old deal In and outside the perimeter and enjoy
Magic City Monday. And yeah, apparently Adam Silver is six
feet underground in his coffin and does not know. I
do not know how this got through, but through it is,
(34:29):
and it's popping off. Matt. It's lit, as the kids
would say, and we're.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Going to take advantage of this. What an opportunity. Kevin Stefanski,
white guy, head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, you know,
oh yeah, to show everybody how black he Oh great,
call is a white guy here? I am looking at
the eating these lemon pepper wings and I'm gonna creep
up on the backside of this lady Dan.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah yeah, rub myself on a chick like like Dave
Roberts an ice cube.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Check me out.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Dave Roberts is gonna be on Dodgy Talk tonight. Still
has an addressed rubbing his ass and I cubes thigh.
I'm too scared to ask.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Yeah I did it. Uh yeah, I rub my ass
on his thigh. So anyway, I hope Magic City Monday
pops off. I will monitor it on social media and
looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Is it like every magic Is it every Monday game?
Movie forward at home?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
No? No, it's like a one time. Just like they're gonna
have bar elegance Thursday at the Clipper game and they're
giving out T shirts with c section scarlk. You don't
like like Kanye's go team.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
It's got the little scar right.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Yeah, it's gonna be sweet. Some stretch marks too in
the hip are just real low on the shut. Okay,
thank you. That's the same segment as we did with
Don McClay, but we did have to learn Matt somebody
who actually loves Magic City's wings so much.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I've been to Magic City. I did not consume the wing.
You know what else you like in the back that
it wasn't a kitchen takeout whin.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Though, enormous black ass. That's what he also want.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Everybody knows that.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Tell him something they don't know.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Man, everybody knows that I'm into enormous black ass.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
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libe everywhere on the iHeartRadio app on a couple minutes
late because the Dodgers got worked over by the Giants.
None of the regulars were out there in the lineup
at Yoshiyamamoto did throw three innings, his final appearance in
spring training before he leaves for the World Baseball Classic.
We'll have two more Dodger games this weekend, Cubs tomorrow,
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Angels on Sunday. Both will be first pitch, twelve five
pm contests.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Very exciting scheduled talk as we hurl forward, we will
talk to David Vase live from camel Back Ranch. He's
got Dave Roberts and J. D. Martinez tonight. We will
do that in the very next segment. But right now,
it is what you been waiting for. While you're watching
the Lakers stare at each other in disdain on the bench,
(02:07):
you're thinking what I'm thinking? What would Matt Smith, the
voice of the Bolts have to say about this? What
would Matt Smith do? W WD And we don't have
to ask that question any longer. We no longer have
to wonder. Now we will know. It's time for the
(02:31):
top story of the well.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
As discussed a little bit a half hour ago, I
would submit it's over. It is completely and totally over,
which really is a wild thing to think, because for
people like Lon Rosen and Andrew Friedman and Tony Bennett
(02:58):
and Mark Walter to really drill down into this Lakers
team this offseason, they likely will recognize that a central
component of its failure is too much clutch sports, too
much jabron lames, too much bad energy, bad juju, bad karma,
(03:19):
bad basketball, coursing through the concourses, and the foundation.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Like a stanch matt in the bowels of.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
The arena that you can't get rid of no matter
what you tried, no matter how many arm and hammer
baking soda boxes you open, the stench stays. What is
the foundation of this ten billion dollar franchise? And many
people when you hear the B word after a number
ten billion dollar, try to compare corporate culture to team
(03:52):
performance is as nine ten billion dollars is nothing. Nadi, Apple,
Google are in the three to four trillion dollar range.
As a matter of fact, I saw, yeah, yeah, yeah,
how about this pe if the people are really interested,
(04:13):
which I'm guessing they're not, but I decided to take
two minutes to look it up. Where it coward With
exactly ten billion dollars of market cap, the Lakers are
the equivalent of Avans, a French fleet managing operational car
leasing company ranked two thousand and fiftieth in the corporate
(04:34):
market cap counting rankings.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Hey, that's a proud rental company.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Okay, you know what, pe It is not to compare
the Lakers to Ivans, because they've got three and a
half million vehicles, fourteen thousand employees, and they are the
number one fleet leasing company in Europe. Tim Albertson, their CEO,
probably has a solid work culture foundation, probably has fourteen
thousand bodies pulling the rope in the same direction, and
(04:59):
that has led to their impressive run, growing from a
six billion dollar market cap in twenty nineteen to its
current twenty twenty six ten billion dollar number. Are the
Lakers growing No? Are they sinking?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
The Lakers are stagnant. They are the same team they
have been for the last six years. And in corporate culture,
that is death.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
What's the common denominator there, Matt.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It's a great question, Pee, because if we look through cliches,
the types that you'll see on corporate culture posters and
the pisser. The motivational quotes include, you're not getting better,
you're getting worse. You're either at the table or you're
on the menu. If you're not growing, you're dying. And
(05:56):
the Lakers are violating every last one of them. This
teamp with Lebron James over those six years has been
exactly this. What they are today is what they have
been since their run to their Mickey Mouse Championship Mickey Mouse.
Whoa because it was in Orlando at Disney World.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah you heard, Sam Amy. I was there, give them
the flowers. I was there. I'm sam Amck. I was there. Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
The one run to the conference finals in twenty twenty
three would have felt more like a breakout from their
stagnation had they not been swept by the Nuggets, who
went on to win the NBA Finals. And as much well,
I guess and much like you regularly point to the
struggles of USC football. If Oregon can be a perennial contender,
(06:48):
if Indiana can win the freaking conference in the National Championship,
if Penn State, if Michigan, if Ohio State, if Washington
can all make playoff runs in the time that you
has made zero, something stinks at the top. Last year
Oklahoma City Thunder, year before Dallas Mavericks, year before Denver Nuggets,
(07:13):
year before Golden State Warriors, year before Phoenix Suns. That
is five different teams one third of the Western Conference
has represented the Western Conference in the NBA Finals, while
the Lakers have managed to win exactly two playoff series
(07:36):
over that time frame. Two playoff series wins. In twenty
twenty one, the Phoenix Suns had one All NBA player,
Chris Paul on the second team. In twenty twenty two,
the Nuggets had one All NBA player, Nikola Jokic second team.
In twenty twenty four, the Mavericks had one All NBA
(07:59):
player Luca first team, and last year, the Oklahoma City
Thunder had two All NBA players Shaye the MVP and
Jalen Williams third team. Oh the Warriors had one Steph Curry,
All NBA player. Cared to wonder what the Lakers had
happening over that same stretch. It's a rhetorical question. It's
(08:21):
the question you're gonna tell me, you asked, asked earlier. Yes,
Jabron Lanes from twenty twenty one through last season was
an All NBA player second Team, third Team, third Team,
third team, second team, and in twenty twenty four they
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had two. Anthony Davis was a second team All NBA player,
meaning they either had as many superstars as every other
team that went to the finals, and in one year
they even had two.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But now they got Johnny Brahms, Zach.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh, look out of it, Johnny brains. They had one
of the ten or fifteen best players in the league
and could not win a single playoff series. Now that
is a failure somewhere based on the other evidence we
have sitting in front of us, and that is five
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different teams managed to make the NBA Finals in that
same timeframe with the exact same number of all NBA players.
So I guess to spin it back to corporate culture.
The stock price is stagnant, if it's sliding, someone's getting fired,
new blood is being brought in. You are searching relentlessly
(09:44):
for what the central cause of concern might be. And
there could be a number of people you could point to.
So if we put it on the Lakers, is it
all the way at the top? Is it the CEO?
Is it Genie Buss for being two hands off from
letting Lebron or Rob Polinka an underlean run this thing
into the ground. Is it on Rob Polinka for constructing
(10:08):
a roster devoid of consistent competitors, of killers of stat chasers.
Is it on JJ Reddick at the management level because
he doesn't have the gravity to rally the employees the
jobs to push a talent like Lebron or Luca. But
(10:29):
no surprise, p We're gonna come back to Jabron Lames.
What about Johnny Johnny Brames, he's just hanging out in
the castodioid. He's cleaying the floors. Uh, it's not.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Close, you know, it doesn't seem like it's.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
It's there is one constant, and it's a constant that
will have to depart next year and likely will depart
next year. And you just look at that final play
last night. Lebron, who plays zero defense, is pointing out
defensive assignments to Austin Reeves to stay with roy O'Neil,
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and he doesn't. He gets sucked in to Grayson Allen,
who beat Luka Bandancic like a drum off the dribble.
Reeves has zero chance to help on that play, yet
he still leaves his man. But the only reason Roys
O'Neil got the pass was because the guy who was
(11:27):
barking out defensive assignments, the guy with four titles, the
guy with multiple MVP trophies, got sucked in even worse
and left Colin Gillespie, who could have taken a wide
open corner three himself and had a wide open look
for the win. And Reeves just followed suit with what
Lebron was doing, collapsing to make it four defenders on
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one guy who had no chance at either a making
that layup or the defenders had no chance in the
case of Lebron, James and Austrievez of making an impact
defensively on the play. Now there are a mountain of
hater feeds out there. I enjoy them.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
They are my basketball shirpa to the lameness of Gabron Lambs.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
And some people might point out that they chance.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So you watch Jabron Lambs, the more he lame, he
is right.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And people will say, well, they're cherry picking some of
Jabron's worst moments, which is true. But when your worst
moments are literally cherry picking for baskets and you're not
getting back on defense for over fifteen seconds.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
But every once in a while he gets a cheap
deuce though, Matt yes, and you don't see his teammates
celebrating at all.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
They just seems when you're floating in the lane for
cheap rebounds to pass stats. When you're pointing out somebody
else's defensive assignment while totally blowing yours, it is deflating.
It is truly deflating, and it is so much weight
(13:08):
on top of a team that it feels like it's
damn near impossible to climb out from under. Luca led
a Dallas Mavericks team to the NBA Finals by playing
some of the most incredible, inspired, magical basketball in the
(13:29):
twenty twenty four playoffs, and he led a team with
another future Hall of Famer, Kyrie, who was also great.
But the rest of that team, if you include their
starters and their rotation players in the playoffs, PJ Washington,
Derek Jones, Junior Daniel Gafford. Their sixth man was a
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nineteen year old center, Derek Lively, and their other two
rotation players were Josh Green and Maxi Kleeber. The team
went to the NBA Finals because Luca was so freaking good,
And that's what happens in the NBA. Individuals can carry
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you if they are that.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Special, well, they've they'd make other people better. Yeah, but
that's not what happens with your brother, Jabron Lambs.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
This current team has that same Luka, Doncic again, Luca Kyrie, PJ. Washington,
Derek Jones, Daniel Gafford, nineteen year old Derek Lively, Josh Green,
Maxi Kleeber. This team has Lebron, James, Luka, Doncic, Austin Reeves, Ruyachimura,
(14:51):
DeAndre Ayton, Marcus Smart, Jake Laavia. Uh, it should be
good enough.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Well, maybe it's a poke ball with a bad ingredient.
Matt not to put a new analogy on your corporate
stock analogy that you just but it does seem like
everybody was. I mean, I know you can't judge the
beginning of the season, which is a different time than
later in the season, and durability and maturity and all
those things come into play, but it felt like these
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guys knew how to play with a lot more joy
and chemistry and got a lot more out of everybody
when Lebron had sciatica.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, it is a poisonous pill that is put into
the mix. And I'm not saying they got to make
the NBA Finals and damn near win it like the
Mavericks did win a playoff series. It has been the
same song every year, and it's a crappy song, get
(15:51):
into the playoffs, flirt with the play in, maybe win
a play in. Maybe you're the sixth seed and you
don't have to crappy like that Songic.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
If you could only see the way that.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
She loves me, Yeah, I would like that crappy.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I think it's ass. I think it's studio ass rock esque.
You know, take your pick, seven Mary three, Tonic, Little
Black Backpack. This is the story of a girl, Wait,
crowd to river, drown the whole world. It's one of
those you know, it's the Tony's possum kingdom.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Wait, no, no, don't know. Now you're starting to you're
starting to disparent some things that's getting up underneath the
skit um.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Uh, whatever it may be. When you start hearing these
additions that Mark Walter is making, that Andrew Friedman and
Farhan Ziety are digging their fingers into this thing. That
Tony Bennett's gonna come and help with the draft, but
he's not gonna have any say, He's just coming into consult. Uh.
You gotta believe with Lon Rosen, who, of course most
(16:59):
notable Magic Johnson's agent slash business partner. And then we
know Magic left because he and Rob Polinka butted heads
and that's why he just walked out the door. It
just bodes for massive changes this offseason and the idea
that Lebron James would be back, or even as far
(17:20):
as I can tell that Rob Polinka is going to
be back, I just I can't envision it. Not after
six years of stagnation, zero growth, nothing different fighting for
a six or a five seed. Just despondent and uninteresting
play from your players from February through April and it
(17:41):
just being too late once the postseason rolls around.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Tony Bennett did have a quote toward Rob Polenka when
they hired him, and he said, I want to be
around to pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
He's gonna get fired immediately. Yeah, right when we hit
the offseason.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, it feels like the Lakers are not run as
well as the teams that are on the top. That's true.
And we'll be back with David Vasse live from Camelback.
He's got Dave Roberts tonight and JD. Martinez. Everybody's excited
about the Dodger prospects. There are some complications with the
(18:24):
World Baseball Classic but fingers crossed. Stay with us on
a frog mad Friday.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
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everywhere on the iHeartRadio app got Dodger Baseball all weekend long,
just like we had today got handled by the Giants,
But tomorrow another opportunity to kick around the Cubs at
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Sunday also at noon and tonight, Pete the people are gonna.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Have Dodger talk, that's right, and a great Dodger talk
with JD. Martinez, America's DHS. Vass likes to refer to
him and the skipper of it all, holding it all
together without the biggest star in sports show Heyo Tani
in camp and the World Baseball Classic which complicates everybody's
lives whenever it's around in the spring upon us it
(19:14):
is David Maassey on Petroson Money Live from the Spring Training,
the Home of the Dodge Off with an inside look
at the Dodgers. This is the Vass Report with David Vasse,
the one and only David Masse, making the most of
his time in the desert and having the time of
(19:38):
his life at Camelback Ranch. The Dodgers lose today, but
what does it matter. He's got a great show tonight
and he's laughing at all of US MLB network, Spectrum
Sports Net LA And right here on a five seventy,
it is David Vassay on the Petrosen Money Show. What's cracking? Dave?
How are you?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I'm doing good? Guys made the trip to Scottsdale. It
was a sellout crowd at Scottsdale Stadium, but the Dodgers
didn't really send any of their regulars to play, so
really the headline act was Yoshi Yamamoto making his final
Cactus League start before he joins Team Japan, and he
pitched well, three scoreless innings, four strikeouts, did not walk
(20:21):
a batter, so it seems like he's trending in the
right direction for Japan and for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Dave, you mentioned they didn't bring any of their regulars,
but I saw peace want to give credit where credit
is due. I think it was Jack Harris that wrote
about it in the California Post because of the injury
to keyk that we should keep our eye on Santiago
espiinal Is that just kind of share with us who
he is why he might have an opportunity to break
camp with this roster and what his role would be.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yeah, I mentioned that to Petro whoever he was filling
in for you, Matt last week.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
My apology.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Antiago Espinal is a guy that has a real chance
to make this team because he's a right handed hitting
third baseman. The Dodgers believe they can get his defense
back to where it was a couple of years ago,
and with Tommy Edman and keyk Hernandez starting the year
on the injured list, he has a real chance to
(21:17):
spell maximuncy against test the tough left East. And yeah,
I mean he's teammates with ta Oscar Hernandez in Toronto.
So that's the function of Espinal being a real possibility
to be on the opening day roster.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Now that you mentioned Yamamoto through well today he's leaving.
We're not going to see him for a little while
the party, I guess. Parting thoughts on any conversation that
Dodgers have had with you with the media with Yamamoto,
what he said on his way out the door about
what his role might be, how he might be used,
and how concerned Dodger fans should.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Be I don't think Dodger fans should be concerned because
Yamamoto has done a lot of preparation to get bigger
and stronger and put on close to fifteen pounds in
the lower half the legs to stay connected and strong
to the ground. He continues to be at the top
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of the training of all pitchers in camp that even
Muki Betts is trying to take some of his pitching
techniques out to shortstop. But Yamamoto said on the way
out today, because he is on his way to Japan
now that the Dodgers and him have had extensive conversations
(22:40):
about what his pitching limits should be. So obviously he's
very aware of his responsibility with the Dodgers, but he's
probably going to have some guardrails pitching for Team Japan
because of what he alluded to as far as the
conversations he's had and through his interpret or he said,
(23:00):
they were very complicated conversations, so we didn't really get
much details. But I guess Dodger fans should be at
ease that he has been receptive to those conversations about
what his limits should be out there.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
David Vasse is our guest. He's part of the show
actually as our Dodger reporter on your Southern California Toyota
Dealers Celebrity Hotline. The Yamamoto Mookie thing is that connected
with the photos online a Yamamoto and his sense on
Mooki's shoulders or something.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yeah, I had heard about this and then I guess
a fan started to snap it and put it on Reddit. Yeah.
Sinse YadA, who is Yamamoto's trainer, was on the shoulders
of Mooki bets two days ago at Camelback Ranch and then.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Mooki beholders like a rock concert, right.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Literally on his shoulders like a rock concert. Mooki told
me that he weighs one hundred and thirty pounds, So
it's basically trying to strengthen the core, understand the lower
half and how it's connected to the core to help,
you know, just the throws, which is the longest throw
in the infield from shortstop. And then Mooki started to
(24:21):
take up throwing the javelin, so he said he's going
to continue to use the javelin training to help him
get better. He when I asked him exactly how this
is going to help him, he said it was too
complicated to explain to me, so obviously way over my head.
So at least he's trying to find different ways at
this stage of his career to just be inquisitive and
(24:45):
curious about other ways to help him be better, to
try to achieve winning a Gold Glove at shortstop.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Dave, you talked about Hayesan Kim and perhaps potential, you know,
fight to make the roster. Seems like he's hit pretty
well in spring. Kind of where do you stand on that?
As he is, like you said, all these people are
leaving for the World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yeah, he left a pretty good impression on Dave robertson
the Dodgers yesterday because his last hit before we left
for Team Korea was a home run. He's had an
incredible spring. He looks more like a big league hitter.
I would say that he's a version of Gavin Lux
for the Dodgers from a couple of years ago. That
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brings that extra dimension of speed. So if he can
continue to hit the way he has hit early in spring,
the Dodgers are going to have a pretty good dynamic
at second base to start the year, and he can
also play the outfield. He made he looked more comfortable
in center field a couple of games ago, so he
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seems to be a real option for them to start
the year.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
The one and only David Vasse is our guest, always
with the latest information. He's got Dave Roberts and JD. Martinez.
Tonight we'll ask him about it. What's what's Tucker? I mean,
I know it's not easy to to to notice Tucker.
He seems like a guy likes to fly under the radar,
and we've talked a lot about that, But what's he
(26:14):
been like this spring? One of your interactions been like
with the quiet man.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Yeah, I mean everything that you just describe Petros is
what I've observed. He's a guy that wants to go
under the radar. He's not really at his locker all
that much when the media is in there. When you
see him go from field to field, he's not a
guy that you know, you notice out of the other
superstars the Dodgers have. But when he takes his at
(26:43):
bat during these games, you can understand how he is
going to really help this Dodger lineup by getting on base,
by bringing a professional approach and a guy that can
do some damage hitting behind o'tawny. So he's a guy
that doesn't want the attention. And it's starting to make
more and more sense. Why, all things being equal, whether
(27:06):
it was a long term contract in Toronto, you know,
a difference of five million dollars annually with the Mets,
why this was so attractive to him Because he's just
one of many guys and doesn't need to shoulder the
burden of being the guy front and center. So he
does want to go under the radar and he just
(27:26):
wants to play baseball. But yeah, very very under the
radar type personality.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Dave, What are we to take away from our dear
friend John Hayman writing that if they were to institute
a salary cap, it would look something like a floor
of one hundred forty million and a ceiling of two
hundred sixty million. What do we take away from that?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I think all of this salary cap just goes back
to owners wanting to, you know, improve the perconercentage of
valuations of their franchise and get it closer to where
the NBA and the NFL is the one thing that
everybody ignores when it comes to the Dodgers' spending power
is the fact that the salary cap is not going
(28:14):
to stop the Dodgers from continuing to be on the
cutting edge of technology and infrastructure that they have built
for their players at the major league level and also
in the minor league level. That's where the money that
the Dodgers have, the wherewithal they have that has made
a huge difference even before they signed Otani, and a
(28:35):
salary cap is not going to stop that.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
David Messe everybody, what can we look forward to tonight,
Dave with Dave Roberts and JD Martinez? Is there a
preview you can give us of.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Some kind I can I can? Last year, JD Martinez
helped Mookie Betts get his season back on track in
September when we were in Florida, and you might be
surprised by what JD had to say about how much
he helped Mooky and how many times he helped MOOKI.
And also he's out here on the West Coast. He's
(29:08):
going to be participating in a celebrity pickleball tournament out
there in Lakinta on Monday. That's why it worked time
wise to have him on the show tonight. And also
Dave Roberts talks about, you know the mentality of this
team that's not really shying away when you say the
phrase three feet, they're actually embracing it. So looking forward
(29:31):
to having Dave on Dodger Talk for the first time
basically since last year.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Wonderful stuff. Dave, thank you for your contribution and we'll
be looking forward to it. At about an hour and
fifteen minutes, Dodger Talk with David Vassa beautiful indeed. Tony Bruno,
thank you, Dave.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Have a great night, have a great weekend, guys.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
YouTube brother. We got all the games on the station
this weekend. Clipper, Pelicans and the lawyers all over the
Cactus League. Stay with us and we'll be right back
with more. Petro send money on AM five seventy LA.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
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Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You're home of the
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First pitch Sunday, We'll have a double header of play
by play Clippers Pelicans, scintillating NBA action tipping off at
(30:33):
six pm. Audam Auslin with the pregame at five.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
All right, Matt, I did promise everybody that I would
do this story again because you're here, because it's very
prevalent to you. I don't think we would have I mean,
Rogan and Rodney did the story, which disappointed. Oh no, well,
what I mean. You know sometimes stories overlap, some form
of it. Some form of those stories do overlap. Do
(30:59):
you think we'll ever had Soonica, No or any form
of it. No, okay, Uh, you've probably seen the story, Matt,
because it's a day old. But you must address it.
People are starting to text me and ask me about
addressing it. The Atlanta Hawks on Monday in Atlanta, which
(31:23):
is of course where they are for their home game
against the Orlando Magic, are unveiling the very first NBA
collaboration with a strip club. That strip club is Magic City,
(31:44):
famous on the Petrosen Money Show, because Matt money Smith
of course, went there allegedly thinking that famous kitch. It's alleged,
that's alleged, thinking that the famous kitchen in Atlanta at
the Magic City, the famous the eleven Pepper Wings, was
(32:06):
a separate entity than the actual strip club, or they
had like a separate place for food, which of course
they do not and never have.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
But now they give you your wings right there in
the strip club.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
You have to go in, and that went in and
he stayed in like a roach Motel I was with
other people. Yeah, exactly right. So it's a likely story
that if Pat O'Brien still worked here would be ide
what you do. I'm gonna call you what. But they're
gonna do a Magic City Monday in a strip club
(32:42):
NBA team collaboration. There's gonna be Magic City sweatshirts, Atlanta Hawks,
Magic City collaboration with the peach on it for an ass. Yeah,
there's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Seems like the NBA would shut this down.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Ti the rapper playing halftime. Also, the Atlanta as F
podcast is going to go. And of course the wings.
I mean, Matt, this is your opportunity to get those
wings without the strippers, the Lemon Pepper, Sweet Lou Williams wings.
(33:21):
Who was there when you were there.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Without he was at the end of the bar.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
The strippers. Now, I imagine when TI performs, there's gonna be
some chicks with big asses wiggling around. But you will oh,
a little bit, but they will. They'll have clothes on.
I mean, there's always dancers. You don't think the Atlanta
Hawks have the dancers.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
I'm just shying. Do you think they'll be doing strip
club like dancing?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Don't they? Anyway, I guess they do. Have you seen
the Clipper Spirit anytime recently? I have not. Okay, well,
they look like the chicks dancing and the freaking expendable
or the replacements. But anyway, Matt, I thought you would
be excited about this. It's a great opportunity to get
out in the community at Atlanta, one of your favorite cities, Buckhead, Bankhead,
(34:08):
the Old deal In and outside the perimeter and enjoy
Magic City Monday. And yeah, apparently Adam Silver is six
feet underground in his coffin and does not know. I
do not know how this got through, but through it is,
(34:29):
and it's popping off. Matt. It's lit, as the kids
would say, and we're.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Going to take advantage of this. What an opportunity. Kevin Stefanski,
white guy, head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, you know,
oh yeah, to show everybody how black he Oh great,
call is a white guy here? I am looking at
the eating these lemon pepper wings and I'm gonna creep
up on the backside of this lady Dan.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah yeah, rub myself on a chick like like Dave
Roberts an ice cube.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Check me out.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Dave Roberts is gonna be on Dodgy Talk tonight. Still
has an addressed rubbing his ass and I cubes thigh.
I'm too scared to ask.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Yeah I did it. Uh yeah, I rub my ass
on his thigh. So anyway, I hope Magic City Monday
pops off. I will monitor it on social media and
looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Is it like every magic Is it every Monday game?
Movie forward at home?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
No? No, it's like a one time. Just like they're gonna
have bar elegance Thursday at the Clipper game and they're
giving out T shirts with c section scarlk. You don't
like like Kanye's go team.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
It's got the little scar right.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Yeah, it's gonna be sweet. Some stretch marks too in
the hip are just real low on the shut. Okay,
thank you. That's the same segment as we did with
Don McClay, but we did have to learn Matt somebody
who actually loves Magic City's wings so much.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I've been to Magic City. I did not consume the wing.
You know what else you like in the back that
it wasn't a kitchen takeout whin.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Though, enormous black ass. That's what he also want.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Everybody knows that.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Tell him something they don't know.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Man, everybody knows that I'm into enormous black ass.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
We're at the ass end of the show. One more
hour for the week. We have a quick hits and
the final arm fun fact coming up. Neck
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