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July 9, 2025 39 mins
Number, Word, Song of the Day. BFF Don Maclean talks Lakers and Clippers free agency. 
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And he had a glove.

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Speaker 6 (01:00):
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Speaker 2 (01:37):
Kook, I'll tell you who is Joe Kelly? From three
to three thirty.

Speaker 7 (01:42):
Isn't that the time when you like set up to
show it everything?

Speaker 6 (01:45):
Though? At three o'clock it is, so how's that gonna work?
I don't know, you know, I don't know. That's neither
relevant to this conversation and I don't know it. Tim
Kates booked him right at three because it's Joe Kelly.
Bobblehead died at the quakes, so apparently I'm the one
that has to adjust me. He used to pitch for
the quakes the whole host of the show, and Vassay

(02:06):
was like saying, earlier, hell.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
You like that, Joe Kelly just falling in your lap?

Speaker 6 (02:11):
I was like, what am I supposed to do? Drive
to his house and ask him to come on. I went,
what was my level of responsibility for that Tim, Like,
what's he trying to say?

Speaker 3 (02:18):
I don't know what day he's trying to say.

Speaker 8 (02:19):
He's like, see Dave Wipe's the pick fights right now
with anybody in the hallway on air off.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
I mean he's picking fights. The Dodgers literally have been
swept twice. Uh, first time ever swept in Milwaukee. They
were swept by Milwaukee here, but first time ever they
were swept twice. But the only if you criticize the Dodgers,
like if you're like, oh, I.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Don't like the way they're playing or does some look no.

Speaker 6 (02:44):
Dud like, you can't criticize Only David Vassay can criticize
the Dodgers. If you try, you have no idea what
you're saying, because you're not you're not qualified, Am I wrong?

Speaker 7 (02:59):
Percent? Right?

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Pat right?

Speaker 7 (03:00):
Any But he's the only one that's qualified.

Speaker 6 (03:03):
Apparently, because anything Kate's tried to say yesterday, Kate's is
like Bookie beats at shortstop.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
God these throws, you know, Freddy saves him half the time.
But everyone.

Speaker 7 (03:16):
Tim, did Dave play baseball?

Speaker 8 (03:19):
That's not part of the conversation and doesn't really matter, right.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
Writing shotgun for the next couple of Days.

Speaker 7 (03:27):
Wait, Ronnie, how is the state allowed to have two
official songs?

Speaker 5 (03:31):
I don't know, don That's that's what I read. What's
the other one? I don't know and didn't care. It's
the material for this particular segment.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Of the show, immateial.

Speaker 7 (03:42):
It's still funny after all this time.

Speaker 6 (03:46):
Well, what can you do? We all get denied from
time to But yeah, David Massey is the only guy
that can you can talk about no one else. Okay,
second down to.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Nine, Okay, sucking down at nine.

Speaker 6 (03:59):
But Dave is pretty salty. He took a flamethrower to
our time slot yesterday and tried to act all hard.
He tried to step the cads and they attacked my
favorite deli and Redondo Beach to the heaven Egg Deli.
It's like he's never even been there. Just because I
send a few selfies on Instagram. You know, I could
make fun of Dave too, but I don't remember.

Speaker 7 (04:19):
Remember way back when, Pete, when we used to make
fun of Dave and you just sit there and take it.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yes, and now he's lashing out.

Speaker 7 (04:26):
Yeah, he's the one instigating.

Speaker 9 (04:29):
He is.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
I saw him kick a child walking up.

Speaker 6 (04:34):
He walked right over a little girl holding a giant
lollipop stepped right on her chest.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
He was contexted with Tommy Edmard, get out of the way.
Randy Jonson came on my show.

Speaker 9 (04:46):
You shut up.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
A freaking guy. I mean, it's too much. It is,
it's too much.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
God forbid. He's in a conversation with snell Zilla and around.

Speaker 6 (04:57):
Oh my god, who never end uh. David Vassa though
not doing Dodger talk tonight. They already did it and
he's off tomorrow. We'll be back back on the air
with the Dodgers on Friday, and we'll be in Rancho
Kook right before the Dodgers will be in San Francisco.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's gonna be a big game. It's gonna be a
big show. Joe Kelly's on.

Speaker 6 (05:23):
But you're right, don uh, I'm gonna have to do
the intro later or something. Okay, Well, how am I
supposed to figure out? How am I supposed to do
the cold open? If Joe Kelly's sitting right there looking
at giving me that look that he gave out Tuvey or.

Speaker 7 (05:35):
Whatever, Joe, just hang on for a few whiles set
up the show.

Speaker 6 (05:38):
Yeah say that, mel Blanc, Yeah, Rancho coup Kamonga.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
People will love that, right like people will pay attention
to me.

Speaker 8 (05:46):
Listen, you know, Haven Avenue was uh named after Bill
Haven who had the biggest farm this side of the Mississippi.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
How about that, everybody?

Speaker 2 (05:56):
How about that?

Speaker 7 (05:57):
You don't go Bill Walton? Do you on the start?
God rest his soul?

Speaker 6 (06:01):
No, I don't know Bill Walton. I don't know like
Bill Walton. Tim I try. I try to celebrate where
we are. Okay, don is that so? Is that so bad?

Speaker 1 (06:10):
No?

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Well, you made a sound kind of manut it sounds
like it was.

Speaker 7 (06:15):
Is there a Haven Avenue? Believe it?

Speaker 2 (06:21):
His words? The word of the day.

Speaker 6 (06:24):
Today's word of the day is Milwaukee. We have been
mitiated upon. Like they drank twenty mgds. That was my
grandfather's favorite beer, Miller Genuine Draft, Genuine Draft. They drank
twenty mgds and just emptied out their lizard right on
us as Dodgers and Dodger fans sweeping the Dodgers for

(06:45):
the first time ever, not at Miller Park, ever in
the city of Milwaukee. So I hate to continue to
celebrate Milwaukee, but I feel like I have to the
Band of the Millennium like between two thousand and twenty ten.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Probably the Killers. Yeah yeah, big.

Speaker 6 (07:05):
Band out of a Las Vegas and eighties indie band
in Milwaukee.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
The Violent Fems. I'm sure you're familiar down.

Speaker 7 (07:16):
I know the name, not really Familiarlister and the Sun,
The Violent Femmes.

Speaker 6 (07:21):
Now that's a Milwaukee band, added up, Gone Daddy, gone
American music.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
The Violent Fems.

Speaker 6 (07:28):
Anyway, at one of those festivals which would become so big,
you know, the festival culture has become very significant. This
one was called Summerfest in Milwaukee, and it's like nine
days with six hundred bands. What on Lake Michigan. Yeah,
everything from Benson Boone to Death Leopard to Tesla. Oh yeah,

(07:51):
sign sign never went a sign frocking up the scene,
every baking my mind.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Do this, don't do that picture Read sign three eleven.
Who sucks? Richard Marx a favorite of Don mcclan.

Speaker 6 (08:05):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
I heard Don on the coast late at night in
high school. I want to send this out to Isabella Usquez,
wherever you go. Whatever I do.

Speaker 6 (08:16):
By Richard Mark, Richard Mark, Cake, Offset Devo. Everybody plays
this thing. I've never heard of it. Milwaukee's killing us
And at the Milwaukee Festival, The Killers and the Violent Films.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Two bands.

Speaker 6 (08:36):
We don't even have bands anymore. We just have guys
hitting buttons and it sucks. Two bands come together to
sing the Laverne and Shirley theme.

Speaker 9 (08:45):
Song away.

Speaker 6 (09:20):
Anyway, Gordon Gaino and Brandon Flowers. Thank you, Ron, Yeah right, yeah, like,
And I was sending to calling, like during the game today,
I mean, how did they think of it?

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (09:33):
Like, I mean Happy Days they could also done, because
that's a Milwaukee thing. Yeah, yeah, Well Lavernon Shirley was
a Happy Day spinof with Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams.
And you remember Penny Marshall from all our days at
the Clipper Games. Yeah, hanging out in the the God
Rest Your Soul, hanging out in the chick hern Trench

(09:56):
press room. But yeah, I thought that was pretty cool.
And I was texting Calling day like, hey, play the
Laverne and Shirley song man, He's like, and I was like.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Just not a joke. People will love it.

Speaker 6 (10:07):
And then I made him play the Happy Days and
I made him play Gone Daddy Gone by the Violent Fems.
So you're welcome. Colin does a great job with the music.
But every once in a while, you know, I have
to put my elbow in there. You are the commission. Well,
he's got a lot of breaks, you know. He needs
a little help. Everybody needs a little help. Laverne and
Shirley ran from seventy six to eighty three.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
It's a hell of a run, Hey, Petros, isn't there
a Henry Winkler Phonsie statue in the Milwaukee as well?

Speaker 2 (10:31):
David Vasse visits it annually.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
I think he took a photo in front of him.

Speaker 6 (10:35):
Well, now, Dave just ducks the slide. He doesn't even
go on the trip. He's scared of the slide. I
forgot about this. Hell yeah, he gets a panic. Attacks
was the slide heard around the world. But I thought
that was cool. The Killers and the Fems together, Yeah,
singing Laverne and Shirley so an eighties band, eighties nineties band,

(10:56):
the Fems, new millennial band in Millwalkee coming together to
sing a seventy sitcom theme song.

Speaker 7 (11:05):
Yeah, good stuff, synergy.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
All right, here's my number number of the day.

Speaker 7 (11:11):
All right, pee, this is right up your alley. There
is currently one number of the days one, so there
is currently one missing championship trophy at the CIF City
Section office offices.

Speaker 6 (11:24):
Oh really, yeah, where are the city Section offices? Are
they in one of those zombie buildings Petros?

Speaker 7 (11:30):
And that doesn't.

Speaker 6 (11:36):
Somewhere in the city right, Yeah, that's what I read.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
What's the other one?

Speaker 5 (11:42):
I don't know and didn't care. That's in material for
this particular segment of the show.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
I don't know, Don, that's what I read. I don't know, Don,
That's that's what I read.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
I can't take it. I hate myself so much. All right,
So who took the trophy?

Speaker 7 (12:02):
So Narbonn High School email won the city championship last
fall and see the trophy. However, the school was asked
to give the trophy back this past May after narbon
had to vacate the title because of rules violations.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Did you know that? Yes?

Speaker 7 (12:20):
According to City Section Commissioner Vicky Lagos, the trophy is
nowhere to be found and the school doesn't know where
it went. It has apparently just disappeared.

Speaker 6 (12:30):
Oh, somebody from Narbonn one of those gotchas.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, what the bolos? Yeah.

Speaker 7 (12:36):
Now, this isn't the first time narbon has misplaced the
City Section championship trophy.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Really. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (12:44):
In twenty eighteen, narbon won the city section title. Birmingham
won it in twenty nineteen, but when it was time
to give Birmingham the trophy, Narbonn said they couldn't find it.
He went missing for three years. How about this until

(13:08):
twenty twenty one when it was randomly found sticking out
of a dumpster in Torrents.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Nice.

Speaker 6 (13:15):
Well, you know, Narbonn's right up against Western Avenue. I mean,
you don't have to go too far north to be
in Torrents or Lomita.

Speaker 7 (13:20):
Well, this Lagos is laying the hammer down, she said.
If the trophy can't be found this time, Narbonn will
be sent a bill to replace it.

Speaker 6 (13:30):
Oh my god, the gaucho cared pay. He's only got
those bolos.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
You know.

Speaker 6 (13:37):
It reminds me of a time when we were younger,
and that were and you were one of those guys
in basketball that helped put Cif basketball on the map,
you know when you were playing. But it was really
about the city. Yeah, when we were kids, the number
one football game in the city was not modern day Moscow,

(13:57):
not even close. It was Carson versus Banning, and both
of those teams had Narmon on their schedule every year,
and San Pedro and Crenshaw and Fremont and all that,
Dorsey and so on and so forth, and basketball was
the same way. I mean, it wasn't Carson Banning, but
the path went through the city.

Speaker 7 (14:16):
Burbhum day was Cif though. Yeah they were long beach
Polly Cif. Yeah, all right, thanks for blowing up my point.
Don appreciate it, Ronnie.

Speaker 9 (14:28):
This is the song of the day Polly.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Played at Manuel Art.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
Beating around the Bush is the title of our song
of the Day for Australian rock band with Scottish roots
ac DC, remembering the birthday of Wild Charismatic front man
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(14:54):
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Speaker 2 (14:57):
Great sports dog.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
We'll take you through the rest of the the afternoon
and right into the evening hours where the Jason Smith
Show on Fox Sports Radio will take over at seven.

Speaker 6 (15:07):
Here'ronnie, I gotta say, as I'm getting a little older,
I've been more into priest and another thing coming and
Bond Scott, this guy from ac DC, the guy that
sings It's a long way to the top if you
want to rock and rolling and pulls out his bagpipes.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
I have to say I've.

Speaker 6 (15:27):
Been a little more into that, just full shredding, and
I think about buying a leather vest.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Really, I'm not another lizard.

Speaker 7 (15:34):
Really Wait yeah, wait, you don't already, but you don't
already have a leather vest.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
No.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
I have some.

Speaker 6 (15:42):
Tactical bests from Travis Matthew, white guy stuff. All right,
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Speaker 2 (15:52):
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Speaker 6 (15:54):
We're gonna have some hoops talk coming up next, Lakers
and Clippers futures.

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Stream it live and it sounds better great sports talk
on the app, There is no doubt about it. We
got Don McClain in the house today, sir. We're always
happy to have Don McClain, especially when there's NBA stuff
to talk about and the NBA. You know, I was
making this point the other day. We'll call this, of course.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Top story of the day.

Speaker 6 (16:52):
Somebody asked me about something in college football, and you know,
all these media days are happening. I got to go
out to one next week. And if of course the coaches,
if you ask him, they have a lot to complain
about in modern times, and the off season of the
sport you and I cover most closely, college football and
college basketball, has become intolerable. I mean, the off season

(17:14):
it's not always been great. You know, it's never fun
to follow recruiting and some twelve year old who's committed
to a school that he'll never end up at or
something like that. But it's even worse now with the
NIL and now we have a lawsuit between Wisconsin and
Miami and all this stuff, and it's such an unsavory

(17:34):
thing that you're I mean, we're always really, really anxious
for the games to start, but it's almost like you
can barely be the off seat is barely edible to
get to the party that the season brings in college
football or college basketball. Agreed, But one thing that the

(17:54):
NBA has done really well in the Adam Silver era,
and there's been a lot of things to say that
they haven't done well maybe, but one thing that they've
done very well is they've made the off season pretty intriguing.
There's no games going on, and yet sometimes what happens
off the court is a bigger story than what's happening

(18:15):
on the court. The daun Chics trade right after the
All Star Game and everybody was so down on the
NBA is a pretty good example of that. And there's
always interesting stuff to talk about in the off season.
Was it always that way.

Speaker 7 (18:28):
Dom, No, Here's what's changed in you know, some would
argue it's to the benefit of the owner. Some would
say it's better for the players. I'm not exactly sure.
I haven't put that much thought to it. But what's changed,
Pee is the rules put in the Collective Bargaining Agreement
as it pertains to salarycap, second second and Apron luxury tax.

(18:50):
All that stuff has created what more movement, more player movement,
and so now the off season becomes more interesting because
there's so many guys that are moving around. All these
star players. You know, there's a few that sign their
five year rookie max like Holmgrid did today yesterday. But
it's more about these two year contracts, two years, two years,

(19:11):
eighty million, two years whatever. That keeps recycling every offseason,
all this player movement, and so these teams like the
Oklahoma City Thunder, you're sitting there saying, well, wow, they
gave Shay Gildess Alexander two hundred and eighty million. Now
they just gave Holmgrid two fifty. Well that all cycles
even more than that. This is the OKC Thunder's window.

(19:34):
They just want it right. They have another three or
four years that they'll pay the luxury tax going to
the second apron because they have a core group that
they know they can win with because they just did.
Then guess what, Then they dismantle the team and the
cycle starts over again. And so I think what keeps
everyone's attention is the fact that, aside from ok Seed,

(19:55):
there is so much movement and free agency and guys signing,
guys trying to team up together. Has created an offseason
that's pretty interesting every year.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
Now, why do we talk about Lebron maybe moving when
it doesn't seem like that's likely at all.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Why is that a story. Is it just because the
face and the name gets a.

Speaker 7 (20:14):
Click because everybody thinks that Lebron, whether you like Lebron
or not, does he deserve a chance to win it
all before he retires. Because this Laker team more than
likely is not going to win at all. So that's
why people are saying that, get Lebron to a contender,
let him go out a winner or maybe a winner.

(20:34):
I'm pretty sure that's why they're saying that.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
But doesn't Lebron go going anywhere automatically cripple that team
and make it so they can't win?

Speaker 7 (20:41):
Depends? I mean depends. I mean he's proven he can win, obviously.
I just think it's because they look at you, look
at the Lakers roster and say, can they beat okay Se,
Can they beat Denver? Now who's improved? Can they beat Cleveland?
You know it doesn't seem likely. But you know, Pee,

(21:02):
you and I have talked to in Matt have talked
about this for years and years. You know, Lebron might
be the most polarizing superstar athlete that's ever lived.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (21:09):
Really, well, because he's you know, a lot of people
blame him for what happened fifteen years ago, this modern
player movement, even though they created the Celtic Super Team
with Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen and Paul Pierce. Long
before that it was Lebron and I'm taking my talents
to South Beach and the way that he's manipulated rosters
ever since, or been alleged to manipulate rosters, and it

(21:30):
rubs a lot of people the wrong way. But a
lot of people on Twitter think that the DeAndre Ayton
edition is going to make a big difference for the Lakers.
You know this player quite well, Yeah, from covering him
at U of A and beyond, well, what do.

Speaker 7 (21:44):
You think I think he's going to help them? They
It was obvious to anybody that knows basketball at all
that the Lakers were too small last year down the
home stretch and just they needed a bigger guy that
could play. So he definitely helps them. But does he
put him over the top to where they're a championship contender?
I don't think so. But the other thing is this

(22:04):
Pete people don't really understand, you know, how hard it
is to move a player like Lebron in his contract right,
It's it's almost impossible. And why do we talk about
it because people don't know. Because people want things.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's it.

Speaker 7 (22:15):
That's the world we live in now. There's no accountability
for what you say. So if you want something, you
just say it, like you know, that's that's not even attainable. Literally, yeah,
you're right. I think Lebron should go to ok see, Okay,
well who you trading them for? I'd like to see
Lebron in Dallas, Yeah, exactly, San Antonio. So it's just

(22:36):
people that want that. Are Lebron fans that want to
see him finish his career winning a championship, or Laker.

Speaker 6 (22:42):
Fans that would like to see what the Lakers are
without Lebron James point too, And this Lebron James era,
are the Lakers somehow set up for next year and
the new ownership coming in and all the Apron world
and all that stuff you talk about.

Speaker 7 (22:55):
I mean, what does that mean? Well, they're going to
have more money. This Mark Walter has got money. And
so whether you know, like Steve Balmer, immediately things changed
when he came to the Clippers. He was willing to
spend money, and all of a sudden, the Clippers were relevant,
like literally right when he showed up. I have a
feeling it's going to be the same with this Mark
Walter guy. But I do think they are set up.

(23:16):
It looks like they're setting up for either next summer
or the summer after to put somebody with Luca. But
that's all contingent on how long is Lebron gonna play.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
So he's basically kind of got the Lakers.

Speaker 7 (23:28):
He's got them hostage a little bit, because it all
depends on how much like that for a while to
be Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
So who would be the target Yanni's joke.

Speaker 7 (23:39):
I'm thinking of young young star players, Donovan Mitchell, somebody
like that. I don't know who, but that is the plan,
and that's what the Clippers are doing too. They're clearing
their decks. I think next year of the year at
Hardens on two years, and I think Kawhi's two years,
So I think the summer of twenty seven, the Clippers
will be clean and have a ton of cap space

(24:01):
to kind of rebuild and reload.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Will you miss Norman Powell? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (24:05):
I like Norman Powell. Good player, really good player, and
uh they needed to do it. They couldn't pay him
because they're paying Kawhi and Harden and other guys, So
that's why there was a trade. But John Collins is
an upgrade for them. They needed a bigger athletic power forward.
Derrick Jones Junior Kawhi sometimes played the four. John Collins

(24:27):
is a true athletic at the rim, energy athleticism guy,
so it was a perfect fit for what the Clippers needed.
So sad to see Norm go, but they they couldn't
pay him.

Speaker 6 (24:43):
Do you think that we'll ever see a true fruitful
bounty from the Kawhi James Harden thing? Obviously, Paul Pierce
has moved on in his career, has taken some turns
and he can't be healthy, and the same can be
said for Kawhi.

Speaker 7 (25:00):
But the only thing that concerns me, Pe is this,
and you know me, We've known each other for years.
I am objective to a fault when doing this either
on this show, on the Clippers show, anywhere. I really
thought that last year, the way they played from Christmas
on incorporating Kawhi, I really thought they were at minimum

(25:22):
going to get to the conference finals. I did so
when they lose.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
They've done that.

Speaker 7 (25:27):
Before one time, Yeah, but I didn't think I don't
think it every year is what I'm saying. There's years
where I'm like you, I have to get it out
of the first round, it would be But last year
I really thought that going into the playoffs and the
fact that they lost in the first round to Denver,
you just wonder they're basically running it back now without
pal adding John Collins, what's going to change this year

(25:51):
versus last year? Was Denver just a bad matchup? Yeah,
it's a bad matchup, always has been with Denver. But
I just think they're good. They're gonna be really good.
And am I going to be saying the same thing
probably that before the playoffs start. This team's got a
chance to get to at least the conference finals. But
it's really about being competitive now and then seeing what

(26:13):
this team looks like in a year or two with
all that cap space that they're gonna have.

Speaker 6 (26:17):
Feels a little like the Lakers and the Clippers are
with the same boat. With that their boats like it
pretty good. They have a couple of superstars each regardless
of the age. We'll make the playoffs, yeah, but beyond that,
we'll see. Do you think back to the Lakers that
Luka Doncic can be like Kobe in this town can

(26:37):
be like magic to a certain degree in this time,
win can be like that superstar. Could he do that
with Lebron still on the team.

Speaker 7 (26:45):
He No, he can't do it with Lebron on the team.
But you don't become Kobe and those kind of guys
unless you win, right, You gotta win a championship period
and he'll always be really good and be a fan favorite.
Everybody will love them, but you don't get to that
datus unless you start winning championship.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
And they're probably not going to be able to do
that with Lebron on the team.

Speaker 7 (27:05):
I don't think so. You know, you never say never,
but it just doesn't seem like it. But we'll see
if in one Lebron retires. I mean, it's you know,
I've said this a million times. Pee it's incredible what
he's doing at his age, it really is. But how

(27:25):
much longer is he going to do it? His next
year's last year? Two more years, god forbid, three more years,
because I don't think you're ever going to get over
the hump with this roster that it is right now,
like get to the finals and maybe win it. I
don't think so.

Speaker 6 (27:42):
Interesting stuff about local basketball and beyond. As both the
Lakers and the Clippers are setting up for maybe a
great Greek festival in the summer of twenty twenty six.
Could you envision Giannis and Tenton Coombo come here to
Clippers and the.

Speaker 7 (28:01):
Lakers Luca and Giannis. That would be interesting to see.
What about the Clippers, Well, who's with them? Jannis and
who Socrates Skorts? Your D's baby Shack is coming out
of retirement. We'll be back with more great sports talk.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Oh, I have a story about great sports talk.

Speaker 6 (28:22):
New York City and an old timeye baseball star, one
of the greatest stars of all time and a big rejection.
We all know what rejection is like and we'll feel
it again next. The Dodgers were rejected in Milwaukee. They're
off tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
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Sports has a wide range of LA sports podcasts.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
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Speaker 1 (28:55):
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They're gonna be a warren of streets. Panic brothers out
in force. How are we gonna celebrate the Dodgers. I'll

(29:18):
tell you how, very big moment in Rancho Cucamonga. The
second stop of the twelfth annual Petro Some Monday Summer
Tour this.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Friday, July eleventh, down.

Speaker 7 (29:27):
Yeah, from three to six still TVD.

Speaker 6 (29:31):
We have a space for you, I know, but we
also have Joe Kelly, great Dodger pitcher, a beloved man.
It's gonna be there from three to three thirty. I
guess after that I'll do the intro and talk about
Rancho Cucamonga. Tim, Sure, Well, you know, I think that's
an important part of the show, and you just it
just it appears like you just kind of glossed over

(29:54):
that and booked Joe Kelly in my spot.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
That's my spot.

Speaker 8 (29:58):
Well, your spot's gonna get flexed, little little bit, little
gumby style.

Speaker 7 (30:01):
Yeah, you tell them, Tim, that's not cool.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Tim.

Speaker 6 (30:10):
That's when I set the scene and talk about Rancho Kucamonga.

Speaker 8 (30:13):
You can still set the scene when Joe's walking out
the Mariachi band. You can be like, hey, all eyes
on me, right now, but with history lesson.

Speaker 6 (30:20):
The mel blank statue of bugs Bunny. No, seriously, I
can't believe you did this to me. Well anyway, I
don't know why people would still want to go. But
Joe Kelly's gould be there at three September's tap room
is awesome. They got Dodger tickets. We've got him to

(30:40):
give away Rancho Cucamonga Quakes tickets for that night at
lonemark Field, which is Joe kelly bablehead night. Hence the
early appearance. Yeah to night get away to the MGM
Resort in Las Vegas, one of them fifty five inch
Westinghouse HDTV. Thank you to Toyota's a Sweet, James Surfside

(31:01):
Vodka and iced ty Berry's tickets, loan Mark West Tickerhouse
TV's living spaces in Modello because you know it's not
a real meach A lot of it's not made with modello.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
That's a mark of a fighter. Pee.

Speaker 7 (31:15):
I think your show's doing really well with all those sponsors.

Speaker 6 (31:17):
Huh, you'd think, But I still got robbed over the week,
you'd think.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
But everybody around here still treats me like crap. You know,
everybody makes fun of me. Talks bad about me and
to my face that's just fast.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
Say, don't lump us all in.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
But you just did that to me. You just yeah,
you just killed my intro.

Speaker 6 (31:38):
How are we going to start the show without all
the fun facts about Roan Joe Cocomona?

Speaker 7 (31:42):
How quick can you get through it? I'm not gonna
sit down ride at three o'clock?

Speaker 2 (31:45):
How quick can you get through it? What kind of
way to talk to your performer is.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
That Fred Rodney get off early? Which they never do
on show?

Speaker 6 (31:52):
Is that what they say to sinatrafter Steve and Edy
open up? How quick can you get through your set?

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Frank?

Speaker 3 (31:57):
You got ninety seconds to talk about mel Blanc?

Speaker 6 (32:01):
Oh have you buddy? I do have a story for
you that is baseball related, but old timey baseball. Okay,
well it's kind of the old clashing.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
With the new.

Speaker 7 (32:13):
All right?

Speaker 6 (32:15):
Are you familiar with the gymnast and social media influencer
the girlfriend of the Schemes character, Yeah, Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Livy dunh Yeah, yep, Olivia Dunn, Paul Skeens girl. She
was set to buy her first home.

Speaker 7 (32:32):
I like that Schemes guy, by the way.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Yeah, he's great.

Speaker 7 (32:35):
You knows backstory Air Force all yes, yeah, and.

Speaker 6 (32:38):
Now he's got this hot chick from LSU that he
scooped up when he was there, and she might be
other than that enormous breasted Sydney Sweeney, the hottest chick
out there these days. Maybe well, she was gonna buy
and this does seem it must be really small, because
this actually seems really cheap. A one point six million

(33:00):
dollar apartment in Manhattan on the Upper West Side that
was owned by Babe Ruth himself, really one of the
most iconic athletes that ever lived.

Speaker 7 (33:13):
I'm sure it's been upgraded since THENDA We'll go out.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
But she was all set to buy it was getting
the keys, gave it a million six and cash straight up,
no contingencies. But she will not be moving there because
the co op for the building rejected her application. Denied

(33:41):
why they didn't tell her, but I would imagine it's
because she's a hot chick that's going to have and
people in New York, you know, they don't they don't
want to deal with that. I don't want to deal
with Livy Dunn. And how would they have to deal
with her bouncing ass doing back can springs all through

(34:01):
the lobby and you're trying to get in the building.
You know, Barbara Streisand's trying to get in the building,
and you got Libby Dunn doing a front flip right
over your face. And a video posted on TikTok On Tuesday,
Libby Dunn, who has eight million followers, said that she
was so upset after coming close to residing in the
seventh floor apartment where Babe Ruth used to live. She wrote,

(34:24):
it was Babe Bruce's apartment or she said she grew
up in New Jersey. She said, I was gonna buy it.
I was gonna pay with cash. I wanted his apartment bad.
She even showed Paul Skemes what it looked like in there,
got an interior designer, and they rejected her. Why, she said,

(34:45):
for all I know, it could have been Alabama fans.
And I went to LSU. Trust me in a building
in Manhattan, they're not Alabama.

Speaker 7 (34:55):
Fans, not a ton anyway, I have no clue.

Speaker 6 (34:58):
Maybe they didn't want a public figure. You're living there,
but I literally was supposed to get the keys and
that week they denied me. She wrote, long story short,
don't try to live in a co op. You might
get denied and you won't get baby.

Speaker 7 (35:16):
They didn't even give her a reason why she was denied.

Speaker 6 (35:18):
They don't have to. I mean, don you're a public figure.
Have you ever tried to do something? They're like, no,
it's too much attention. I don't know about too much attention.
But I will say, and I'm not gonna name names.
Years ago, I tried to join a certain country club.
All all, okay, and I was denied, okay, denied.

Speaker 7 (35:45):
And this is like nineteen ninety eight, So this twenty
seven years ago.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Ninety eight was a good year for me.

Speaker 7 (35:51):
So I ended up And this is right when I
moved to where I live now. And over the years
I've gotten to know people around town and people that
are members of that club. And a guy finally told
me this was like I don't know, ten fifteen years
that had Harold Minor was the no close There was
a group of sc guys, a couple of members of

(36:11):
the club that said they didn't want me in the club.
How about that?

Speaker 2 (36:15):
Come on? Yeah, isn't that taking it? Like?

Speaker 6 (36:17):
Yeah, come on, isn't the fact that a UCLA guy
and that's what it was. It's the same as having
a USC guy around, it's something to talk about sc
and Ucla.

Speaker 7 (36:26):
And it wasn't because I was famous. Like remember at
La Country Club, it used to be if you were famous,
you couldn't get in.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Vince Scully was the only famous guy they ever had there.

Speaker 7 (36:34):
Yeah, And so it wasn't that, it was just that
I was the UCLA guy. Are you freaking kidding?

Speaker 6 (36:39):
All the famous a holes had to go to Riviera
or Lakeside here or bell Air. That was for the
famous a holes and the rich dudes like Pat Hayden
and Richard Reardon. They're at La country Club. Right at
La Country Club when they had that big event, the
PGA event, the US Open was right the US Open.
They would not that they give out a lot of

(37:00):
credentials because they didn't want thirty feet walking around on
their sacred.

Speaker 7 (37:05):
Grounds have to wear pants at the count.

Speaker 6 (37:07):
So you found out that it was like a contingency
of USC trojans and kept you out like who like
Ricky Irvins, like who was.

Speaker 7 (37:15):
But it was like eight of them. So they went
to the board and said, hey, you know, we don't
want this guy. And the GM called me. I'd already
put a deposit and everything GM called. He's like, sorry,
you were denied, dudes, do losers so to the GM
after you send my deposit back and hung up.

Speaker 9 (37:36):
Good night.

Speaker 6 (37:37):
Yeah, don I don't want to go to Lost Hills anyway. Overall,
we have a listener who is a very very rich man,
I believe, and he's just misguided.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
You know. He likes to show.

Speaker 6 (37:49):
We call him hedge fund Ryan because he runs like
a hedge fund and he is like the president of
like some really boogie golf club in Orange County. And
years ago Joel Clatt applied to join this golf club
because it's only for the boogiest of the boogie down there.
And he asked me, like, what should I do about Clatt?

(38:10):
And I was so I just was so tempted, so tempted, denied,
so tempted, do not denied, deny and then call Clatt.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
From like a burner phone and be like it was me.
I kept you from the shady That was me Joel you.

Speaker 6 (38:31):
But I didn't, I said, I said, let her have it.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Said you know, that was like ten years ago. I
could have.

Speaker 6 (38:40):
Yeah, I could have done it, Joel. I would have
played with me. I had the power. I had the
high Ground, Joel, every time you tea off, I want
you to think of me and what I could have
done taking my kids.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
To the moon. This is what happens.

Speaker 6 (39:05):
Terrible, terrible, So just know that I could have done that.
And if any of you other people try to apply
to that club, I might block you. I'll try at least.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
Hey, Donald, can I ask you a question?

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Have you tried to play the course since then?

Speaker 7 (39:20):
I've played it a million times. Okay, I've played it
a million times. But in a lot of my good
friends out there are members there, and just out of spite,
I never joined. I joined a different club for a
lot of years. I don't play golf anymore, but there's
zero chance I would ever reapply again.

Speaker 6 (39:37):
We'll be right back. We have another hour of great
sports talk on seventy on your favorite station in La.
Dodgers swept again. Geez, They're off tomorrow.
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