A Tu Hermano Tuesday (Hour 3) 10/7/25

Local Knowledge. Top Story of the Day on the Dodgers and the 9th inning defensive players made in Game 2. Secret Textoso Roundup

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That's not the original.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
On the telephone OSDD get you over?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Which is that our misery.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
As a Southern American?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
You said something that got up underneath my skin? Do
you like skin products? You see the march? It couldn't
be anything else. Swing it at trash, swinging at vomit.

Speaker 5 (01:09):
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Dodgers Baseball tomorrow. It's Game three of the NLDS. Dodgers
up to nothing. First pitch from the Galpamotors broadcast booth
six oh eight pm. That means a FLEX alert from
US live from the stadium. We'll go two to five pm.
Tim Case will have Dodgers on deck at three, Hey,

(01:29):
I should say at five, first pitch at six Yamamoto
versus Nola. And we still have our pair of tickets.
We're at the halfway point of the show. We have
not given away the tickets to the game tomorrow. We
only have one pair. However, we won't make you wait

(01:50):
until the end of the show. We'll do it this hour.
How about that. We'll do it at some point this
hour's five o'clock hour. This five o'clock hour, we will
give away the tickets to Game three of the NLDS tomorrow,
Yamamoto versus No.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
I mean I want to do. I want to go
there watching Phillies swing at trash.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Swinging at trash, swing that vomit.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
I mean, is that how they are in Detroit when
they lose to the Mariners. I don't think. So. There
you go, kid, Hey, that's right here, Gad, I wait to.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Go, Bud.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
I'm very condescending. I don't think that's how they are
in New York. Well they're joyless. Yeah, I mean as
annoying and joyless as they can be in yankeedom. I
don't think it's like that. I don't think their post
game show is screaming or four old guys at each
other's throats, clapping at one another.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
You can't pitch what eighth disgrace? So the Phillies have
a chance, Well, you know they could win three in
a row. I don't.

Speaker 5 (02:56):
I think only three of like eighty teams have ever
done it, or three of sixty teams or something like that.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Best of five.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah, when you lose the first two home games, yeah,
I think it's three times they've been able to dig
out of that hole.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Very rare. We'll see how it goes. But an amazing
turn of events last night, and it will continue tomorrow.
Will be out at Dodger Stadium, very excited to be
out there for all the fanfare. Dodgers versus Phillies Game
three were the first two games dramatic enough for you.

(03:28):
I guess they were for that guy.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Give it up and down. All the momentum in the world.
It was crashing down. It was crashing down all the Dodgers.

Speaker 6 (03:40):
They were legged slip I were giving you a golden
opportunity to get back in the share.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Rash would I thought I was on the end of
my rope. I don't know how you can do it.
I don't know how you can operate that way. For
that's what is that ca It's a two minute clip,
three minute clip. That's a fot for five minutes to
scream like that, that's impressive. I mean, that's not sending
Sam Kennison right back to school talking about the.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Move Rhino Nick Costianos over to third and give up there.
It's dumb baseball. So you countered Dave Roberts's dumb baseball.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
With something dumb, good lord, and the guy's wearing a headband.
He's got like a WWF vibe to.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
A little well yeah, two sleeves, yes, sleeved up, tattoos
up tattoos. So I don't know, enjoy that winning baseball,
ain't I right? Boba great stuff?

Speaker 5 (04:43):
Okay, guys trying to make something happen. He takes a swing,
he's you know, two oho and account and he sees
something he thinks he canna hit.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Well, that guy's a pro baseball player.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
Yeah, I'm gonna trust that he's gonna take a swing
at something that's just like a screaming you can hit.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Fanshy All right, this is a little diversionary, but something
to think about. Local knowledge is know in common knowledge
is local knowledge. He's very knowledgeable on the things that
you come up with. As far as for with your
knowledge is now. Surely no one listening needs to be

(05:17):
reminded of all the international attention not talking about Philadelphia
that is coming to Southern California and Los Angeles to
be specific. We're all excited for the twenty twenty six
World Cup Soccer. There will be eight matches played at
SOFI in next June on grass and July. In February

(05:38):
twenty twenty seven, they're going to roll in the grass,
which is nice. February twenty twenty seven the first Super Bowl. Sorry,
in February twenty twenty seven, the Super Bowl and its
global audience will be played at SOFI Stadium as well,
not the first, but another super Bowl coming. And then

(05:58):
in twenty twenty eighth, the Summer Olympics will be spread
across all of Southern California. What a time to be alive.
Back to back to back, so our fair city will
be getting more than our fair share of attention over
the next few years. And I know you think I'm
going to talk about the zombie towers downtown, those three

(06:19):
Chinese owned guess, but somebody's got to do something about it.
I would agree, I mean, do something about them. They
looks like the Carter I told you mirrors. You just
wrap them in mirrors. That's going to cause terrible accidents.
Think that's the solution. And that's not even acknowledging that
the summer twenty twenty eight, the Dodgers could still play
in up to three more World Series. We could see

(06:42):
that NBA Finals twenty six, twenty seven to twenty eight,
those could be played in La.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
Get rid of dead weight, Lebron and Luca takes over.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
But I set all that up to share a story
that crept into my inbox this morning that was a
little bit of a surprise. With the Olympic and Paralympic
track and field events being held at the La Coliseum,
the floor of the La Colisseum will need to be
widened to accommodate eight lanes, plus some extra room around

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the sides. The football field, as you know, is fifty
three yards wide, and you add another forty five feet
on each sideline to the stands, and that's like thirty
more yards, so let's call it eighty five yards wide. Now,
a regulation Olympic sized track needs to be at least
one hundred and two yards wide, so there's significant work

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to do to create a temporary track. You remember the
La Colisseum for my whole childhood, you know, had the
track and then they took the track out. That renovation
can begin as soon as December twenty twenty seven and
will have to be completed by early July of twenty
twenty eight. So that's doable, and ideally the Colisseum could

(07:57):
be finished in time to host the Track and Field
Olympic Trials in June twenty twenty eight. Usually those go
up to Eugene, Right, But what about the back end
of the process. Remember the coliseum is being used for
the Olympics and the Paralympic Games. The Paralic Olympic Games
end on August twenty seventh. Will the coliseum be ready
for USC to play home games in twenty twenty eight or.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
Will they go to the Great Park like the USC
baseball team has been for two years.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
USC baseball, as great as it is, is not quite
the same as USC football. I know Lincoln Riley enjoys
playing those two early cupcakes at home. Rich Pearlman, a
long time Olympics aficionado with loads of Olympic administration experience,
wrote Monday and The Sports Examiner that he believes the

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temporary Olympic track in the Coliseum will surely send USC's
football team elsewhere to start the season in twenty twenty eight.
They're going to have to go road road to start,
huh I at least, And that's the first I've heard,
and Rich, which makes total sense in this article and
we'll post it on Twitter. USC twenty twenty eight football
schedule shows the Trojans hosting Fresno on September ninth. So

(09:10):
right now USC football fans have their minds focused on
this Saturday's game against the Michiganders at the LA Coliseum.
But you're at the game or you're watching the game
on Saturday. When you're there, imagine how far they will
have to lower the field to fit that Olympic track
into that space. And then imagine if USC might end

(09:34):
up playing some twenty twenty eight games at the Great
Park and Irvine, which I doubt SOFI. So FI makes sense,
the Rose Bowl, maybe even Dodger Stadium, Dignity Hell Sports Park.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
Okay, I don't know so far works for USC. It's
not far It's not like UCLA get into SOFI.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Just a very interesting article about the Olympics coming and
what the Olympic Committee and USC are facing come late
fall of twenty twenty seven. And this is not that
far away. And how come Jen cohen Er Casey Wasserman
isn't the one delivering the information about the potential conflict.
Why do I have to look at Rich Pearlman stuff

(10:16):
in the Sports Examiner and read the article. Kind of
an interesting situation here.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
They're not allowed to take shots at the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Well maybe they're not taking shots at the Olympics, or
maybe they could just say, hey, we've got to figure
this out. Hey, here's something we need to figure out. Hey,
we're aware that this situation two weeks before we kick
off our season and we're on time and then you
mess up the whole field and you get Fresno out
there and you blow out a few acls. Interesting situation

(10:46):
to think about. I mean, it's not quite Philly blowing
it last night and all the people getting upset like
they didn't. And we will talk Dodgers in the very
next segment with the top story of the day.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
Much more positive. But then again, Dodgers are the team
that won our gentlemen in the sleeves, tattooed sleeves and headband.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
I mean, I hope I'm still here, you know in
twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight, Matt,
so we can cover the World Cup and the Olympics
and the Super Bowl and all the things coming here
with the we are your Olympic show of record, the
sharp tongues that we have, but there's a little local
knowledge about the USC Trojans and what they might have

(11:26):
to do when the Olympics come to town. The Olympics
come to town, a lot of us might have to adjust,
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(12:15):
Phillies Game three of the NLDS. First pitcher is at
six oh eight, Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound. Noah, Aaron
Nola is his opponent. And you want to give away
those tickets matter?

Speaker 1 (12:34):
You know?

Speaker 5 (12:34):
No five point thirty you know, still give you ninety
minutes left in the show. It's not like we may
just stretch it out for four hours or three hours
and forty five minutes. Was there something for the early people? Yeah,
bon Joe about job.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (12:51):
We still have a couple of those, or at least
a pair of those left, So everything's fine, everything's fine.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
All right. It is time for the top story.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
We're gonna get we gonna give away right now. Yeah, okay,
I thought we did this. We got to say what
Colin stuff you what do you want to do?

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Colin? Number three? It's Game three, eight, sixty six, ninety seven,
seventy eight, six six nine eight seven two five seventy. Alright,
it's time for the top story of the day. Top.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Sorry of it?

Speaker 5 (13:20):
Well, let's uh, let's go positive to start. I think
in all the years that we have had the Dodgers
as a partner on our show, Pee, it has been
quite obvious that we enjoy the pitching thanks to our
one half of a battery and Tim Kates being all
cif back in the mid nineties, late nineties. We'll give

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him a couple of years.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
We appreciate great pitching, we appreciate defense, we appreciate dedication
to the craft, and we appreciate a tall drink of
water hitting the field at about three o'clock every single
day for a seven o'clock start in a pair of
sweatpants with a T shirt tucked in and making sure

(14:06):
no ball is going to get by him if it
is within let's say a ten foot radius for that
giant wing span to scoop up and secure victory. So
we don't just start by celebrating Freddie Freeman, as Tim
Kates did on Scam earlier today, pointing out what a
great baseball crime it is that he has but one

(14:28):
gold glove, and yet he has saved and covered so
many asses out there on the field.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Let's take it to this.

Speaker 5 (14:37):
He covered Hanes, Yes he has Freddie any interest in
doing an endorsement for Haynes. I'm a jockey man, I
could see that. Tell Michael Jordan, I said no, I'll
get Jockie on the phone. Jim Palmer's got nothing on you.
You know that Big Poos was up on some.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
That's all we talk about here.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
Defensive Player of the Year Pee. We don't just love pitching,
we love defense, and so much went into it. In
the ninth inning that Tim Kates, incredible producer that he is,
all of the experience he has had in the many
shows that he has produced, was able to cobble together.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
He's covered a lot of asses too, he has.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
But he's into those weird old man boxer shorts, you know,
with the flap and sometimes shitpoots comes out.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
For the loo.

Speaker 5 (15:34):
Kates was able to cobble together the wheel play, the reaction,
and the post game.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
The wheel play that Dave Roberts used his mind to
communicate without even speaking about it. So we have it all.

Speaker 5 (15:51):
We've got Dave Kates. I'm staring at you. Tell me
if I'm right. We got Dave, we got Freddie, we
got Mookie, and we got Max. We got all four
and the play itself. So let us celebrate in an
era of baseball where defense is rarely celebrated, and defense
against the bunt because nobody bunts anymore, is even more

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rarely celebrated. And what was a pivotal moment in the
bottom of the ninth inning with the game on the line.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
If you're Stot or the Dodger defense, this is an
interesting dance. He's trying to get Costianos to third and
orders he bunch the bulkers.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
They're crashing in both Munsi a third, I mean his
events is going over to third from a short stop position.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Bessie A kicks and.

Speaker 5 (16:35):
Fire Stott gets the bunt down to third, picked up
on Munsie, he goes to.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Third and Castianos is gonna be out.

Speaker 5 (16:43):
They execute the play to perfection.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
Rick Mundane salute, gutsy play by Max Munsey. They had
his body and position to begin with. I think the
Phillies gonna challenge this. They have really nothing to lose
to challenge it. And Mookie Betts stood his ground because
Vents he got knocked over on that tag, but for
much he the good throw to Bets. Bets got there
in time, and what an athletic catching tag by Mookie Bets.

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Terrific play on the fundamentals of the game in the night.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
Then it was an impromptu play that I just told MOOKI,
you know, you know, Stot's gonna.

Speaker 7 (17:19):
Bunt Memuke and Tommy immediately started talking about, Hey, we
gotta we gotta try something different here. We can't just
play standard bump play. And when when Thot came out
made the pitching change, we talked to him about it
and he was all on board, and yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
I'm gonna credit Mook. It was his idea. We got
to go.

Speaker 7 (17:32):
You know he's saying, we gotta go Wheelay, we got
to wheel play, and so we talked about how we're
gonna do it.

Speaker 8 (17:35):
The whole conversation during was that, obviously, and then if
we run the wheel play, that means there's gonna be
no one at second base. So that's when I chimed in.
I said, if he punched the third base, Max, you
throw the MOOKI, Tommy's going to first all sprint the
second base if it's not coming to me. That's why
you saw me running the second So Nick, obviously there's
not Trey Turner running, so we had a better chance

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of that.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
So that's why we were gun ho on that wheel
play that credit too, Miggi rosas we and we did.

Speaker 8 (18:02):
We did it earlier in the year in uh Anahei,
and I remember asking him when's a good time to
do it.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
He said, in a door die situation. He's really been
him and Wody.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
It really helped me a lot, just learning situations, and
I had never been in that situation in a game
like this, so I just trusted it and made a
decision and they worked.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
You know, we executed it to perfection.

Speaker 8 (18:25):
I mean, everything was just perfect on that plan.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Those guys executed it to perfection.

Speaker 5 (18:30):
So the beauty of that play and then the beauty
of all those sound bites. You got Dave Roberts, a
manager who made his bones as a late inning defensive replacement,
as a pinch runner that's asked to execute the other
side of those bunts, to be the speed that can
get you that extra base that maybe nobody else can get.
You've got Mookie Betts, one of the most athletic players

(18:53):
on any infield anywhere. And you've got old guys. You
got Max Munsey thirty two, thirty two, Freddy thirty six,
Rick Monday in the booth. When's the last time we
heard Rick Monday that excited about a play. We hear
him get excited about Homer's But that was a legitimate

(19:14):
forty five second breakdown of what he just witnessed. Like
he stood up out of my seat.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
He loved it.

Speaker 9 (19:22):
Terrific play on the fundamentals of the game in the
ninth and Rick terrific play on the fundamentals of the
game in the ninth inning.

Speaker 5 (19:33):
And I believe him when they say, and Doc said
it in his presser, and Max said it as well. No,
we don't practice it, because why the hell would you.
Who bunts anymore, There's no reason to practice that play.
All you gotta do is practice field in your position,
watching the guy strike out, he takes a walk, or
the ball goes over your head.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
You practice watching the guy strike out.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
I'm gonna watch this guy strike out here, and I'm
gonna watch this guy take a walk, and I'm gonna
watch this ball go over my head and be a
home run. Yet, as Jim Harbaugh likes to say, when
their best was demanded, their best was delivered, and it
really was the highlight of the game. Who would have
ever thought executing a wheel play on a bunt because

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it's certainly changed the entire makeup of that inning. Instead
of runner on third, one out and one run deficit
four to three, it's runner on first, one out, and
they were able to wiggle their way out of it.
The Dodgers are up to nothing. Don't want to be
too negative, but they dodged pardon the pun, a huge

(20:35):
one last night. Not just one game. You could argue
the entire series they were able to dodge, maybe letting
it slip away. Eight of twenty teams that have lost
the first two games at home in a divisional round
have forced a game four, Just eight of twenty just
another game. Only three of them have actually won the series.

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It is less than one percent of the teams that
have fallen behind two zero at home have managed to
win the series. So one to one versus two to
zero is a massive, massive gap. Blake Snell, who has
had managers sabotage multiple postseason starts, almost got burned after
one hit of six shutout inning. You were happy with him, Matt,

(21:21):
He was incredible a pitching clinic, I think is how
you would in. I think it's, you know, you kind
of recognize the beauty of Blake Snell, and that is
he gets guys to chase pitches that aren't strikes, and
that's why he walks a lot of guys, and that's
why the pitch count gets high. But I don't think
we've seen a pitcher in this era throw more balls

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that are swung at and missed than what Snell does.
And he had that thing working, and now you're home
to nothing. You got two opportunities to close this thing
out at Dodger Stadium as opposed to having to win
both in order to avoid going back to Philadelphia for
Game five and a really tough ballpark off his Citizens Bank.
What did the Dodgers just accomplished. The Phillies had the

(22:03):
best home record in baseball, They had the best run
differential at home in baseball, and this season, of the
twenty sixth series they played at that ballpark, they won
or split twenty three of them. They only lost three
series all season long. So having that lead making sure

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you got out of the win with the win was imperative.
It was debilitating to the Phillies prospects moving forward, which
is why Blake Trining had no business, absolutely zero business
being put into that situation.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
But why Mitch and Murray paid good money get their
names to sell them. You can't close the leads you're given.
You can't close.

Speaker 6 (22:51):
You are hit the bricks, pal and beat it because
you are going out.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
The leads are week. The leads are week, leads a week,
you a week. I've been in this business fifteen years.
What's your name?

Speaker 1 (23:06):
You?

Speaker 2 (23:06):
That's my name.

Speaker 5 (23:08):
The leads weren't weak trying to the lead was strong.
It was a ford of one lead and he couldn't close.
And I think that there's like he was, He's not
a closer he was in twenty twenty four. I guess
he's not in twenty twenty five. And that's part of it.
I think, going all the way back to twenty twenty

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when ken Lee Jansen faltered and Dave Roberts had to
shift to ureus, to last year when it was a
committee approach, sometimes copek, other times trying. There's just scar
tissue there for Dave Roberts. He has a closer. He
has filthy stuff that is damn near unhittable. Just watch
the adbats. I don't care about the sample size. I

(23:50):
don't care about his age. I don't care about two
times in three days closers close.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
You either know how to do it or you don't.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
And in postseasons asked the Dodgers teams were outliers, the
ones that they were successful, it was a baseball miracle
last year, one starter, Yamamoto, no closer this year. My god,
how things are different. And he's embraced one half of it.
Dave Roberts has starters and leaving them in and trusting

(24:20):
their guys when their stuff is trustworthy. Over the last month,
per Jason Stark, of the athletic Dodger starters in the
last month have made nine starts in which they went
at least five innings, gave up two hits twice, one
hit five times, and no hits twice. Dave Roberts now

(24:42):
trusts his starters, just like he did with Tyler Glass
knew sending them back out there for the eighth, just
like he did with them at Shechhan Last night, I
got a little Wonky got a little bit walky, little
bit nervous, but the stuff was still good. And that's
the difference in trining. The stuff is not good. It's
over the middle of the plate, or it's out of
the strike zone. It's flat, it's hittable. Vessi's stuff. He's

(25:06):
a maniac. He's out of control. It's five feet out
of the strike zone when a guy's just trying to bunt.
So Roki is not that. It is pinpoint control combined
with a devastating whatever the hell you want to call it,
splitter knuckle, split knuckle.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (25:25):
It is unhittable. And I think you may not have
the trust from trying of trying in Rvesia, but you
certainly have it from Roki at this point and any
ninth inning situation moving forward for the rest of the playoffs.
He's a young dude who had some serious challenges earlier.

(25:45):
Give him a roll. This is what you're doing. You
don't have to think twice about it. If we get
to the ninth inning and it's a tight game, then
you're gonna be up getting ready and you're gonna come
into the game and you're gonna save it. That is
a hell of a lot better than the guy say,
and they're wondering why he's not out there, and then
in a moment of desperation, all right, get up, get loose.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
This is not good.

Speaker 5 (26:07):
We need you to come get us the final out.
And he did it with ease, a soft grinder to
Tommy Edmund that, of course Freddy saved the game. And
I would say the other side of that, too is
starting pitching. And you think about Andrew Friedman and tip
your cap, because he was a staunch advocate early in
his time here. He brought that raised mentality with him
of no long term contracts to starting pitchers. He wasn't

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willing to make gigantic offers to players, the Bryce Harper
deal short term, high annual salary, four years, one hundred
and eighty million, but he ends up taking thirteen years,
three hundred and thirty with the Phillies, and I think
Friedman immediately regretted it. He let you Darvish walk, he
let Manny Machado leave. Both would go on to multiple

(26:50):
All Star appearances, getting burned by the Bryce Harper deal.
I think unlocked something. And there's no other way to
explain his willingness to offer Garrett Cole three hundred million
bucks the following up off season to trade for Mooki
when Garrett turned it down. And now, look, it's a
completely different Andrew Friedman, and this is a completely different
Dodger team than we have seen in any other postseason past.

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Twelve years for Mookie Betts, five years for a thirty
two year old Freddy Freem, six years for a thirty
two year old Freddy Freeman, five years for Glass, now
thirty year old Tommy Edmund. Five years Andrew Freeman is recognized. Okay,
we've got a window, and turns out we make a
lot of money, so I don't need to do the

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How cool am I for trading for Max Muncy? And
you see the little nugget I picked up and plucked
from the Mariners and Chris Taylor, those days are long gone.
Instead it is whatever I guess I'll hand a reliever
seventy five million bucks. And even though it didn't work
out with Tanner Scott, he still did it. Yet it's
a good point. There's still three more years was taror

(27:55):
Scott's to be here forever? But remember how protective he
was of his draft picks keeber Uez. Yes, now Dustin
May for a reliever that's not even going to play
in the playoffs. Brock Stewart like, at least he's made
that shift. And this is what it looks like. They
come back to LA and it'll be Aaron Nola, who
is zero and six on the road this season with

(28:17):
a six point nine to seven era, making a start
against the guy that's probably gonna finish second in the
cy Young voting, in Yoshi Yamamoto. It is set up
for not just success here, but success moving forward for
a while. A lot of moving parts and a lot
to be excited about before we get out there tomorrow.

(28:38):
Mayotani get out of his funk. One for nine, you know,
you go three for four tomorrow, you finish the series
four for thirteen. You feel pretty good about it moving
into the NLCS.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Well, Matt, that's some real good positivity. I hope you
feel good tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
I'm gonna feel great tomorrow when we're out at Dodger
Stadium on Yoshio Yamamoto's going, You're gonna be eye and
Bill shape. He's gonna be hying you. It's gonna be packed.
Unlike the Red series have good luck when I stay
up in the suite, so I will remain say I
say we run with risk versus reward. There's a little
bit of risk there, messing with the juju, but the

(29:15):
reward the welcoming nature of having the whole show down
there and who we could secure on that third microphone.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yeah, I'm gonna stay up, but we'll be right back
with more great sports talk on M five seventy Smart Talk.
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Let's do it?

Speaker 5 (30:08):
Give away a pair of tickets to bon Jovi. You
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bon Jovi will be here. It is happening Thursday. I
want to bon Jovi talk today the iHeartRadio Theater here
in Burbank. You would never think we'd get so excited
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Speaker 2 (30:43):
All right, I got a few text ussles with the people,
some reaction unless you want to talk about Lebron and
his cool Hennessy deal. Matt, We're gonna do that for
another eight minutes. I don't know. It's up to you.
Bone uh yeah, bone yeah to you by your so
called Toyota dealers. We make it easy. Oh this is

(31:03):
about Philly. I think so and Ilse swinging to that
one on the outside way to go bummer. If you
two weaklings had to walk through Kensington to get your
station commissary, you'd be wound up. Also, is that like
a bad neighborhood in Philly? That's some kind of Philly
reference that we don't get all the Doggers. They were
letting it slip.

Speaker 6 (31:23):
They were giving you a golden opportunity to get back
in the share.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Rash screaming Philly baseball guy has me appreciating Rogan and
Rodney vomit.

Speaker 6 (31:36):
Swinging at trash, swinging at vomit.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
These Philly guys are not great sports talk. That's not
the original, but I do think that's the original anger.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
Yeah, Philly sports talk is very similar to what we
think of as Boston and New It's just Eastern Seaboard
sports talk. W IP is the fan is what is
an EP or whatever it is up there in Boston. Yeah,
they're all similar.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Small baseball. Here you go again, clapping. I love the
Philly fan that was interviewed at the end of the
game that said, first Penn State loses, then Penn State
loses again, then the Phillies lose, then the Eagles lose,
and then the Phillies lose again. I am miserable and

(32:25):
that's fair. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (32:27):
Well, and as Daves they told us earlier, they have
now what is it one and nine? He said something
like that, and their their last few playoff series a
team that was you know, two World Series Championships with
Chase Sutley and.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Howard and those dude yeah, and now nine in a
rower and one and nine. It's not good. Philly should
be on suicide watch between the Eagles and the Phillies
and Penn State. What else does that city have? Well,
I thought that that show Shameless was from there, but
it's not. It's from Chicago, also.

Speaker 5 (32:58):
A city that's searching for some positives these days. You know,
Cubs are down, oh two, but I got that great mayor.
Oh and governor. You know he's got great mayor, great governor.
If you look, if California is looking for a rival,
go ahead, peak at Illinois. You got I mean, it's
a it's a real it's a real chicken fight.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
But then you get down there to Champagne Bannon and
you're like, hey, look at that wide open we got
big noon two out of three weeks here, Champagne Banna,
this is great. Hey, Bi Lama, how's it going? Brother? Uh?
Speaking of brothers, Hey, Pete, I'm a brother, so I'm
okay to say this, Henny. Don't need Lebron to endorse
that syrup. All of us drink. Hennessee. It was around

(33:41):
before him, and I'm sure I'm gonna drink it after him.

Speaker 5 (33:44):
That you know what, that as a very very white
individual is a compelling position because I would think that
a lot of the market's like, it's kind don't know
anythingbout Hennessy kidding me drinking Hennessy Lebron, you know what
I mean. Like, it just doesn't seem like it's a
natural fit for him. He's a guy that has advertised

(34:04):
his appreciation for vintage wines, and now he's trying to push.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Well, Hennessy's a fine liquor, Matt fine liquor.

Speaker 5 (34:13):
Now, Hannasvsop may be, but it's the gentleman there described
it as Henny.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Well, this says this text says Vsop varier superior, very superior,
old pale. It's not just a description of Matt's attitude
and complexion, but a grain of konyak, but an accurate
description of me as well. Yeah vs. Matt Smith Vsop
very superior old Pale. I think Matt Mouney Smith has

(34:43):
finally gone to the wayside, and you could be Matt
Vsop Smith. I like it, why because my vintage is
so strong, it's so old, it's so pale. It's so superior,
no question, secret text does a fine brought to you
by your so call Toyota dealers. We make it easy.
Rob Thomas, not Rob Thompson. Do your homework, idiot. And

(35:07):
I was like, okay, I'm sorry, it's Rob Thompson, not
Rob Tomas. I know, I said Rob Thomas, right, And
the guy corrected me and he wrote.

Speaker 5 (35:16):
That he's probably a Philly guy. He's very upset, that's
all that is.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
I wrote back, Sorry, You've made up for it, more
than made up for it with your bon Jovi knowledge.
I don't know if my bon Jovi knowledge is that high.

Speaker 5 (35:31):
Well, I think a working knowledge of seven or eight
songs suggests that I'm not just a living on a prayer,
you know at the football stadium guy.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
This says, pimping bon Jovi must suck every ounce of
what is left of your soul out like a hoover
on overdrive. That sounds mean. Look it's better than peddling
Sadzeki sauce at Daphney's. Look, you know, I work at
a big radio station, a corporation, and if we have
something to give to our listeners that they might want
to go to which.

Speaker 5 (36:00):
Clearly they do, because every time we asked for the calls,
it packs the lines.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah, and that's you know, I mean, it's good for them.
I'm happy to do it. Okay, let's be rational, guys.
You know what that guy's love is like bad medicine,
and that's not what I need. No, who shake it up.
It's luck, bad medicine, come out of it. No, Stacey

(36:26):
Q tickets, I'd prefer those if we had them.

Speaker 5 (36:30):
I think you could just walk into the Burbank Convention Center.
You didn't have to really buy tickets. I felt like
that was just available to the public.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
That's not right. I I need you. I still think
that Tim Skipper got jobbed on credit for the win.
Instead they kept showing young Willem Dafoe yeah, or Reese
Witherspoon or whatever people are calling that. Jerry Newheisel. We
talked about this yesterday. Tim Skipper I said when he

(36:59):
got the job as the interim, that he was going
to be better as the interim, that the team would
respond to him, that he knew what he was doing.
You could just tell that a lot of the pall
or whatever it was, was lifted off of the program.
That being said, Tim Skipper's dad was not an ex
UCLA quarterback. Tim Skipper was not carried off the field

(37:20):
beating Texas. Tim Skipper did not have his dad sitting
in the studio crying New York of the game that
they were broadcasting. So yes, it was. I'm sure Tim
Skipper seems to be funny. He's great, does it? Is
it a little weird? Yeah, that people came up to

(37:40):
me and saying, Jerry Newisl's a new coach at UCLA.
Yeah he is not, but he is there can keep
the job. What a great gig for him. He's their
play caller for the foreseeable future. So good luck to
everybody involved. We've got another hour of great sports talk,
quick Hits, fun fact check with Dodgers, and then Dead
Alive Guy Birthday the Day, and then we'll get you

(38:01):
to David Massay with Dodger Talk where Wall the Wall
Boys in Blue scam starts tomorrow at six am.