A Walk Your Bike Wednesday (Hour 4) 7/16/25

Matt Money Smith and Don MacLean have your fun fact, Quick Hits and Dead/Alive Guy

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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We can't say it enough. It's been hot dog day

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here at AM five seventy LA Sports. The Steamer came out.
It was a big hit around the office. As it
always is, only mustard, onions, and relish available for condiments,
No man, no ketchup. You either eat it plain, you
eat it with mustard, You eat it with mustard and onions,
you eat it with relish, with all three, but not

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with ketchup. No, exactly right. And National Hot Dog Day
means our friends at the doghouse are gonna take care
of you one hundred percent angus beef hot dog with
the house rewards. After that has spelled ha us, get
on over there. They put them on those Hawaiian rolls
that they grill up or they heat up on the griddle,
and oh toasted delicious, whatever iteration you want. On Monday,

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I had just mustard and onions only, but I saw
a lot of people getting the chili cheese dogs. That
was just a little bit much for me to take on.
At about one o'clock in the afternoon, I was like,
I'm just gonna mustard an onion this thing right down
the mide.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I haven't had a chili cheese dog since nom.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well and nom, Look the chips were down. You know,
you don't know if you're gonna wake up the next day.
So who gives a damn about your guts. I'm gonna
go ahead and eat it. Yeah, we're three. Fun fact,
speaking of pumping good nutrition into your body. Did you
know Japan known for vending machines. There are so many

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that it averages one vending machine for every forty people.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Forty forty, No way.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
One for every forty And Tokyo is the most populated
city in the world. That's a lot of vending machines.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
I've been to Tokyo, and this must be I went
to Tokyo probably thirty years ago at the NBA. Yeah,
I don't remember seeing any vending machines, so this must
be a new thing.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Were you of a certain maturity at the time where
you were like, you know what, I'm just going to
eat whatever they're gonna get of me, and I'm going
to throw it in my gullet and I'm gonna see
what it's pretty much. I think I was twenty three, okay,
twenty four. So you did the sushi, you did all
the local stuff, I think.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
So I don't remember. Yeah, I don't remember yesterday, man alone,
thirty years ago.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
What's your okay? So what's the most about.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
But when you think of Japan, like vending machines is
number one hundred and ninety five on the list.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
I think we've learned so much now, Like I think
of you know, seven eleven's are huge over there, and
I think maybe that plays into it. It's almost like
a vending machine setup where they have all the different
machines and you pull out your u onigres and all
that sort of stuff, and like it's all just self
service over Sirvi's kind of so I think, you know,
we're thinking a lot.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Where you pull the thing in the cigarettes exactly.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
You know, here's my Merit Ultra lights coming out for
my six quarters and I'm ready to go smoke for
a dollar fifty. What is your most vivid memory from
your trip to Tokyo thirty years.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Ago without it, Dwell, two things. Number one Japanese baseball game.
It is incredible really And yeah, in the the they
I don't I forget what they call them, but they
have these things in their end. They're jumping up and
down the entire game. It's non stop, the entire game.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Oh yeah, they have like cheerleaders on the dugouts. Yeah, no, but.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's just the people, and then the subways, the trains,
just how they shove people in there, and how crouded
it is in there.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
I think the good thing I would imagine for someone
like you in Japan is you really blend in. Yeah,
if you really just kind of blend in hard to
recognize there's something different about this one.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
The good news is I was with other basketball players,
so I wasn't the only one.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Did you feel like you were three feet taller than
everybody there?

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yes, because I was.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
All right, let's get to your quick hits, quick hits.
Let me make it quick, y'all. Yeah. We have talked
about it throughout the course of the show Big News Today.
I guess we could call it the second wave of
free agency dumb, but you already kind of helped us
break it down make sense of it. But this is

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a perennial All Star, three time NBA All Star, Bradley Beal,
twenty point per game guy his whole career, gets the
buy out with the Suns, and what everybody said was
gonna happen happened. He joins the Clippers, not a one
but a two year, eleven million dollar deal. It'll be
a player option on the back end. So if it's
a two year deal, he's probably not playing all that well.
But there were a lot of people that wanted Bradley

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Bial and the Clippers are the ones that landed him.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Well and to get a player of that caliber. Now,
he hasn't played a lot of games the last few years,
but Phoenix was a nast show. Everybody knows it, and
it didn't work out. And so we're hoping, and we
talked about it earlier, we're hoping that this galvanizes Bradley Bial,
that he's playing with hard and he's playing with Kawhi
wood Zoo, and that they really now have a chance
to win. And I have a feeling in a great organization,

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a great culture in the locker room, you're gonna get
five years ago Bradley Bill, or at least you hope to.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, And we discussed it. This is a guy that
you know in that Game seven of the Conference Semis
against Boston gave him everything they could handle, and damn
the got that win for the Wizards back in twenty seventeen.
And just to kind of I know, we got into
it a little bit earlier, but we're a lot later
in the show. Here just when you talk about culture,
and it's something that's kind of dogged him a little

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bit his whole career, the idea that Kevin Durant was
not able to set that culture in Phoenix after that trade,
with all that talent, with Booker and with beal that
it just it got so sideways.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, you and I have talked so much about this
over the years, with p just that it starts at
the top. It does. So I don't care how good
of a coach you are, I don't care how good
of guys you have in the locker room. It starts
at the top in only organization, in any sport, and
it just seems like, and maybe it'll turn around now
with Matt there, but it just it starts at the top. Yeah,

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and so it hasn't been good. They swung for the fence.
It didn't work out. And like I said, we're hoping
that Bradley beal Is is re energized, refreshed, and that
we get his best.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
It's gonna be fun, no doubt about that. No real
update by the way on expansion. This is just something
that Bill Simmons put out there about a month or
six weeks ago that he had heard that owners do
not want to expand they want to keep all their
money and they don't want to split it. Two more ways,
even with the expansion fees that a team would have
to pay it to come in that they're pretty happy

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with thirty.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
I'm surprised by that because you do get the expansion fees,
but you want to keep growing the game.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Right well, and you got good markets that will place
these teams.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
It's still a shame, and I know everyone talks about it,
but it's still a shame that Seattle doesn't have a team. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
I mean, first and there's no question to be Seattle,
and then you figure out is it Vegas or is
it Nashville. It's probably one of those two. They're two
of the fastest growing cities in America, and both teams
seem to be doing great in Vegas and teams seem
to be doing great in Nashville. But yeah, Adam Silver
in Vegas for the Summer League, saying that nobody has

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really pushed this thing forward, that there is no timeline,
so he said the team, he said, the expansion conversation
is quote curious. So there you go. WNBA and their
CBA is going to expire after the current season, and
the players reportedly and the owners could be headed toward
a labor stoppage. While to think that for the twenty

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twenty six season, higher salaries better benefits revenue sharing, I.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Mean, of all the times to have a work stoppage
for the WNBA, like, they have so much momentum going
right now, which they.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
So much not had in thirty years, exactly the first time.
So here's my say.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
It is what it is. And look, the players want more,
obviously the owners want more. That's how it always is.
I went through two of them in the NBA, but
just the wrong time. Yeah, they have so much momentum
going right now.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
If I were presenting the CBA, I would say, here's
the way we're gonna do this. Caitlin Clark's going to
get eighty percent of everything, and then the rest of
us owners and players, we're just going to split the
remaining twenty percent. That's how if you want it to
be fair, and if it's a true meritocracy, good luck
with that. That's how we're gonna split up this PI
to baseball, as we mentioned, Dodgers Angels off all Star
break till Friday, Dodgers headed it into they hit the

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All Star break, I should say, with that five and
a half game lead in the NL West, they will
take on the Brewers on Friday to start a three
game series. Then they'll play the Twins Brewers of One
seven in a row, Twins of one, three straight series,
and then the Red Sox ten in a row. Now,
those ten in a row came against the Reds, the Gnats,
and the Rockies, but it's still ten in a row.

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So that's what they'll start their second half with the
Angels struggling nine games back in the West and four
games back in the wild Card. And remember, the trade
deadline is at the end of the month, so we're
kidding a yeah, they pushed it back, remember, because they want,
with the added playoff spots, more teams to feel like

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they're in contention as long as possible. We keep saying
it like you think that that would make the trade
deadline a little bit of a bummer and a non event.
But dudes keep moving and teams keep adding, so we'll
see what the Dodgers and the Angels decide to do.
I'll be out in El Segundo tomorrow. Training camp open
today for the Chargers, but it'll be open to the

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media tomorrow. General manager Joe Ortiz said that Naji Harris
will begin training camp on the NFI. That is the
basically not the pup list. It's sort of the you
got hurt doing something that you weren't supposed to be doing,
so you're inactive. That is the superficial eye injury. His
agent explained. Harris will be at the BOLT and has

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been receiving treatment and this is probably not a good
sign from doctors. It's Stanford University, even though that's where
his family is now. He's from northern California, so maybe
you could say that's local. But that leads me to
think like, hey, where are the best doctors.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Let's just throw some solution in the eye and hopefully
it gets better. Doesn't sound like you know what we
say here?

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Kids lead the fireworks to profession because safety is no
accident to the college ranks done in the PAC twelve.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, you knew this was coming. Remember all these Mountain
West schools left to join the PAC twelve, which will
happen after next year. They could not reach a resolution
on one hundred and fifty million dollars in exit fees,
and so now they made a joint filing Tuesday with
the court and it appears the leagues are headed to trial,
which I wouldn't suspect it will get to a trial

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that they'll figure something out.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Before that, but find a number.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
We kind of knew this was coming.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Well, you know, as as we've discussed the Mountain West
is like, hey, guys, we'll take care of you. Oregon
State wash it. We'll give you a bunch of games.
You know, play the Mountain West. Maybe you guys come
over here and join us and we'll be great. And
what you did? What Now they've rated them for all
of their teams, So I don't know how they hell

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the thing ends. It's uh. Petros was talking about it
that it's just so unsavory of an offseason for college football.
Like everything else, people get excited. They're excited about new
free agents, they're excited about trades, they're excited about training
camp and mini camp and football is lawsuits and they
promised me this much money and they screwed me, and

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now I'm going here and I'm taking this guy there.
It's just it's a coach.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
And coaches complaining about it along the way. It's like, right,
there's no joy in college football right.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Now, and coach is leaving to take other kids can't leave,
but I'm leaving to take an extra five million here,
And yeah it is. It's unfortunate because it's a hell
of a sport and it's fun to watch the games,
but the offseason sure does suck. The ncaah's former Memphis
academic advisor with a ten year show cause for academic
integrity violations with the basketball program, but Penny Hardaway is

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able to skate. Leslie brooks Is who had to wear
it paid two softball student athletes to complete coursework for
and test and quiz answers for the men's basketball student athletes.
I didn't know there were any more student athletes. I
did not know that grades were a thing anymore. They
still go to school, That's what I'm saying, Like, that's

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what's so wild about this is guys don't go to
school anymore. They get paid, they play, and then they
leave immediately. They're on campus for the season and then
they're gone. Three student athletes competed in twenty contests while ineligible,
so two years probation, thirty thousand dollars fine one percent
of the combined men's basketball and softball budgets. And this

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Leslie Brooks ten years of show cause for helping the
kids cheat in their coursework.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Unbelievable. And Penny Hardaway got nothing.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Nothing, No, he knew about it. I mean, you know
he knew about it. My guy's flunking, make him not flung.
That's something the coaches seem to be tuned into. Our guy,
Wyndam Clark got a little sideways at the US Open
when he missed the cut on the eighteenth hole.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
This thing kind of bugs me, Matt, because look, it's
a country club. I don't know where Wyndam Clark lives,
but I'm sure it's not like he's going to go
play Oakbawn all the time. And I get that they
suspended him from there, but give me a break with
the undergoes counseling and anger management. You're a freaking country club,
you're telling this guy. I'm sure Wyndham Clark was like
middle finger, like that, you guys thinks I don't want

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to come play your stupid club.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Hey, I came in, I was pissed. I tore up
the locker room. I'll pay for it.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
I'll pay for the damages, but don't tell me I
have to go to Anger management if I want to
course again.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
It's so stupid delivered perfectly. Don if you I'm not
going to Anger management. Yeah, like yes, Uh. He missed
it on the eighteenth ole Bogie, the eighteenth that the
US Open was pissed, came in, threw a few things around.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
You guys think you are Oakmont?

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Oakmont?

Speaker 1 (14:40):
What do you guys police anger management? What do you judge?

Speaker 2 (14:43):
No Oakmon.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
So Wyndham Clark pretty much said double middle fingers when
he was asked about it. This is like about a
month ago. It was right after the US Open. He
was talking about it and he said, yeah, look I overreacted.
I'm sorry. I threw some things around. I broke some stuff.
It wasn't cool. It's a bad look for me. I
squared it away with them. I paid it and hopefully
we're good. And then you got to come a couple

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months later, right before the British Open. By the way,
whinhim Clark's good golfer? Yeah, Winham Clark like you could
find himself in the top twenty at the British Open.
And now he's got to deal with this hanging over
his head.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Well in seven years when they host a major again,
Oakmond Hill's go on vacation.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
High way exactly right. So congratulations Oakemond. You've come off
as the douche country club location that everybody suspected you were.
But anger management therapy. Way to go, all right, that's
quick hits when we come back, Tono. Evil. Dodger's third
base coach is Don mclin's in for p here on
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home of the World Series champion Dodgers. As the Dodgers
taking a couple of days off here the All Star
break much needed for players, manager coaches alike. They'll get
back at it on Friday when they will host the
Milwaukee Brewers. And joining us now somebody that is kind
enough to grace us with his time repeated, even though

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he's in the middle of putting it big work out
on the field prior to games start last night. Huge night,
What a huge week, Just an incredible week for one
of our absolute favorites. Third base coach for the Dodgers,
Dino Ebel joining us now and coach. I'll start with
a huge congratulations. What a special day for you and
the family on Sunday. I heard you got to get

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out of San Francisco a little bit early and enjoy
the celebration. A first round pick in the family. That's
pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
Oh yes, yes, thank you again for having me on.
It's been a fun week here for the Evil family.
So now we just landed early this morning, around four,
and I'm getting ready to throw to my two sons,
Brady and Trey. So it's NonStop here to try to
get him better. But yeah, very excited, you know for

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my son Brady being the thirty second pick for the
Brewers and this is what he's you know, been helping
force through his young career and now it's step one
of the process. So yeah, looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah, congrats on that, Dino. I want to go back
to last night though, because it seemed maybe I'm completely off,
but was last night talked about if it goes to
extra innings, you're going to be throwing to the guys
and who is going to be hitting or was it
kind of like this is what we're doing in the moment.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
I think Dave had to turn in like a BP thrower.
So I think it was predetermined, like before the before
the game started, if it ended up in the tie
that day, put my name down on the list. So yes,
I think. You know when a score there was with
two outs and two strikes on Kwan and I'm looking
down there and I'm I'm thinking, Okay, if we get

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this guy out of game's over, but if we go
into extra innings. I look down in their pen, I
saw Chapman. I said, there's a good chance we're going
to go extra inning here. So I started to get
a little loose. I said, I better be ready for this,
and and then the moment came up and Shober, you know,
won that thing for us. So yeah, Dave had to
put my name down, and it was before yesterday's game.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Was there any conversation the second part, Dino like, if
you know who you're throwing to, did you talk to
them about where they wanted it, how they wanted it,
any anything like that before it happened.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Absolutely not. When the game was, you know, and that
we made the last out, I started seeing I didn't
even know who they selected. I didn't know where their
sweet spots was I said. First, I threw about ten
throws to just get loose and didn't even know the rules.
I didn't know how it worked. They just said, hey,
do you know, get ready, you're throwing, and as you're

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going through it, just follow us and we'll tell you.
So it was a spur of the moment and that's
how it happened last night in the extra anything there
wu out.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, I did. And you got to have incredible command.
You got dudes that wanted in different spots. So like,
how different I know that that Pete Alonzo didn't get
a chance to get in there because you already had
it wrapped up. But how different is the sweet spot
in BP because you throw it all the time. You
just won the whole run derby last year with Tao
for for each of these guys in terms of you

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know what they want for that that power zone.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Yeah, it's it's kind of like you know, with the
right e's they like it middle in and with left
east they like it middle down and in. So it's
kind of been a thing for all the years I've
been throwing batting practice. I got a chance to throw
to Kyle. You know, Schwarber and the WBC two years ago,
so I kind of knew where he was going. But uh,
and Alonso was the same way in the WBC. But

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to start it out with uh, you know, uh, I
just asked, I said, Hey, where you want it? Throw
it down the middle. The impressive thing for me, and
I said this after the game was Schwarberg. I said, Schwarb,
what do you want? He said, just throw it right
down the middle. You know, I'm gonna look left center
to center. And that's a left handed hitter with a
great approach. And what he did do his first ball

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he hit center field and the next two we pulled.
So the approach and the process was the right thinking
the way. He was ready for the moment. So guy's
got a lot of power. I know who he is.
And when I was throwing the ball down and in
and he lifted that line drive to right field, I
knew we were in good shape.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Do you know. I'm sure you've been asked this question
a million times, but I'm just curious, you know, with
show hey in his greatness and everybody sees it. You
see the numbers, you see what he's done. Now he's
back pitching again, tell us something that isn't obvious about
what makes him so great and going to be arguably
the greatest player of all time.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
I think it's behind the scenes, the way he you know,
his preps for each and every day. Guy gets there early.
He's got to do both. He's got to do the
throwing program and all the you know, the hard work
that he puts in of training in the weight room
with all our guys, and then he gets out there,
he's in the cage, he's hitting. So this guy's NonStop.

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And I saw it in twenty eighteen when I first
signed with the Angels and we spent that year together.
I'm like, oh my god, there's nobody in baseball that
goes through this. And now seeing it again to the
you know, all of last year, in parts of this
season up to the first half, is just incredible. I've
never seen anybody do what he has done because he
has to be prepared for both. And now we're starting

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to get a chance to see him on the mound.
And this guy by far. In my thirty eight years
of baseball, in twenty years in the major leagues, and
I've been around a lot of elite players and they're
all good. This guy is separate from all of them.
He is going to be the best player in the
game forever.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
For me, when you say thirty eight years, kind of
think about the last I'll say, I don't know last,
let's say ten years, right, the Manfred Man on second base?
The swing off in the All Star Game, now we got,
you know, challenges and I think that's probably going to
show up next year. Seem like it worked pretty well
last night. It was quick and efficient. Kind of where
you at as someone who's been through a lot in

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Major League Baseball and how they're trying to modernize the game.
Do you like did you like the swing off last night?
It certainly seemed like the players were super into it.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Absolutely that extra inning. You know, you know, everybody knows
an extra things you put in runner at second base,
you know that, you know, with no outs and you know,
try to score as quick as you can. But what
what do you witnessed last night? And I was a
part of it? Was absolutely in the in the clubhouse
after the game, all the players, coaches, front office people,
MLB front office people is like, that was the most

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exciting thing, uh, they've seen in a while. So I'm sure,
that's going to be a pro. Maybe in the next
home run derby they're going to try to shorten it up,
and which you know they did last year for me
with Tayo. They got the clock running and you only
get like forty baseballs, which I thought that was pretty
good because puts a lot of heat on the VP
thrower that you got to be kind of right because
if you're wrong, you know, you lose that swing so

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or that baseball. And I think after last night witnessing
three swings, I mean.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
You got it.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
These guys got to be ready now. You know, you
take a pitch here and there, and then when you're
ready to go. Because everybody was taking pitches, it wasn't
like you had to swing at every pitch. So I
think what happened last night, you're going to see more
of it in the future of Major League Baseball.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Well, Matt mentioned changes, I think, and I don't talk
to a lot of baseball people, but a few, and
it seems like the first change that the recent change
that's come up that everybody seems to agree on is
the pitch clock. And I think that's more for fans
because it's short in the game, but where do you
come out on the pitch clock?

Speaker 3 (23:17):
One thousand percent. I think it's great for the game.
It speeds it up. There's none to step out of
the box as a hitter and walk around and take
your time with your batting gloves or the pitchers walking
around the mound. I think that has absolutely been the key,
which I like the most out of all of the
rules that have been changing. You can't slide take a
guy out anymore, or a guy receiving a ball he

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blocks the base and then you know the guy who's
awarded the bag. So there's some of that stuff that
you know, I need to adjust to a little bit better.
But definitely is the pitch clock that has really helped
the game out. It speeds the game up. So yes,
I'm a true believer in the pitch clock.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Hero of the All Star Game last night, Kyle Schweber
said he should be credited with a win, but a
w next to Dino Eviles name third base coach for
the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
For people that don't know, and I'm you know what,
I'll include myself in this. I'm I'm an idiot when
it comes to this. How hard are you throwing? Are
you throwing as hard as you can, are you taking
some off? How do you keep the speed consistent in
that you know, swing off.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yeah, it's kind of a rhythm type thing, and it's
not throwing my hard snow. I could have thrown a
lot harder last night, or you know the guys that
throw it a little bit softer. I kind of get
that medium range where it's that nice steady batting practice speed,
where the rhythm of the hitter is, you know, the
timing of it. I think, you know, a good VP
and probably during the season, I'm probably saying in the

(24:40):
sixties and then last night I'm like, probably high fifties.
But it's just try to you just try to get
the good rhythm for the hitter, and you know when
he's ready and he's you know, you get you just
I've done it for so many years, so long that
just the rhythm of a good thrower, good VP, right speed,
right timing, nowhere to throw it and then hit the spot.
So that's kind of been my approach all the years

(25:02):
I've been throwing.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Now we hear we hear the sounds in the background.
I don't know if that's metal, if that's composite, but
she gotta you gotta be Brady went who went thirty
second to the Brewers first round pick. You got Trey
coming through the height. You know he's gonna be a
senior this year at Corona. What what are the kids used?
Are they using, you know, metal and all of that
the whole time or how often are you mixing in

(25:23):
wood to get them ready for the next level? What
are you doing with their bats?

Speaker 3 (25:27):
All three the last three years, maybe four, it's been
all wood bats when they're working with dad, so, uh,
you know, they're just and then they're hitting with wood.
Now it sounds kind of like it's an aluminum bed,
but it's not. So they couldn't get They couldn't wait
to get off that plane this morning. They got about
a couple hours sleep. They're still riding high from the
all the All Star Game and all the you know,

(25:48):
with Brady getting drafted. He said, I can't wait to
get back and start hitting. I said, well, let's go.
So we're we're down here, we're hitting, and uh, he's
gonna report tomorrow. I think uh to Arizona a Merriville
with the Brewers camp. I think he's gonna go through
all the physical stuff, but there's a chance you might
see him Saturday night at at Dodger Stadium that the
Brewers may be I'm not saying this and I don't

(26:08):
know for sure. They're trying to set up where he
can work out with the big club at the stadium.
So hopefully that goes through and I can see my
son before he takes off and he's gone for a
few months.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
That'd be awesome. What is that for Brady Dito? Like
after he goes and does the physical stuff and where
where does he go after that?

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Like?

Speaker 1 (26:24):
How what is the progression of when you get drafted?

Speaker 3 (26:28):
You're going to go down to the to the complex
at Meriville is about fifteen twenty minutes from where we
you know in spring training for US a camel back,
So you know, all the rookies get there, they're going
to you know, put them all together and it's going
to start from scratch, you know, from the from the
weight rooms to the hitting labs to ground ball work.
So they're going to get everybody together, the new the

(26:49):
new guys that have joined the organization, they're going to
be doing a lot of testing, you know. The main
focus for Brady is maybe, you know, with his body
size and you know, gaining strength. And I told him,
I said, you can put on a good ten pounds
of muscle and still weigh one hundred and ninety five pounds.
But those balls that you were hitting to the warning track,
they're going to be gone. And I keep reminding myself,
he's seventeen years old, and what's he going to look

(27:10):
like when he's twenty three through twenty eight in his
prime year. So I think the game is very been
very great to my two sons being around major league players.
And I was asked, Sadino, as a father a coach,
when did you start coaching your sons? And I always
say this, and it's the fact that really I haven't
really coached my sons. They've been around the big league players,

(27:31):
the elite guys their whole lives. The players were their coaches,
and they've learned. They listen, they come home, they practice it.
And now for Brady, you know, dream came through a
first round or now it's it's trasing next next year.
So looking forward to it.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
We'll finishing up with this, you know, and we appreciate
the time. We know it's valuable. You got a couple
of days off here, which is rare in a baseball season.
But we talked to coach Wise to Andy Wise a
little bit earlier this week, and he was talking about
how important you were and how great the boys are,
and you had to make a choice, you know, to
send those you know, your boys there after they I
think Brady had already started his high school career. You

(28:06):
moved them over to Corona just kind of share with
us a program that made history having three guys go
in the first round, first time high school's ever been
able to do that. You know, your relationship with coach
Wise and and why Corona's kind of turned into this
very special place for young men.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
All you know, Brady was at ed I won to
high school and he played one played two years there, freshman,
sophomore year. He's player of the year, MVP of the
League's which kind of hard for me to you know,
change it over. But then he played one year with
his brothers. Trey was a freshman and Brady was a sophomore.
But you know, Joe Kelly's the one that kind of
started it for me, is like, hey, if you ever
think about transferring any to other schools and then maybe

(28:42):
you won't, but if you do, you've got to go
cut you know, talk to coach Wise. Joe Kelly played
there for him, a great program, And when I went
over and just watched the practice one day, it was
everything that I've you know, kind of like wanted for
my boys. They're doing all the fundamentals. Coach Wise is
great parent and getting players ready for the next level,
all the fundamentals, you know, the base running, the cutoff relays,

(29:06):
the bun play. He did it every day. I think
they called it to Big eight. They did eight fundamentals
per day, hitting machines, everything. So I said, you know what,
I know, it's tough for me to pull them out
from Etawan to high school, but I knew. And then
I heard Seth. You know, Seth and Brady went to
school down here at em where we're hitting, and they,
you know, Seth said, hey, I'm going to go to

(29:27):
Corona and then that kind of kicked it off where
we knew Billy Carlson was there. But this thing turned
into a monster house of a high school where you know,
and then this guys started transferring in and they had
four guys drafted off this year's team and next year
is a going to be about four more guys, so
great program. You know, the credit goes to Andy Wise
by teaching the fundamentals of the game and the talent

(29:48):
will take over. So that was kind of the big decision.
Why why I made that move with them.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Well it is not given. It was earned. A heck
of a week for the Eble family. Brady drafted in
the first round on Sunday, and last night, you know
we a wile become in a bit of a superstar
throwing VP in the swing off to Kyle Schweber for
those three home runs. Congratulations, you know, we really appreciate
it and thanks for joining us always.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Thank you for always having me on. I love talking
ball with you guys. And we'll get after a Friday
night against.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
The brus Awesome conversation, awesome evening, Great week for the
Eble family, and a big thank you to Dino Ebel.
One more segment to go with Don McLain, will do
Your Dead and a live guy Birthday of the Day
before we hand it over to Fox Sports Tonight, Petrow
somebody a five seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the
iHeartRadio Final segment. A big thank you to Don McLain.
Always appreciate it, Don, when you come in. Pe is
out in Vegas for what may be the last gasp

(30:40):
of a media day for the Mountain West. Last year
it was the PAC twelve. This year it is the
Mountain West. But hey, you get an opportunity to show
up at Circa and hang out in those sweet hot
tubs watching a Wow. There's no sports going on, so
I guess that kind of.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
I will never. I will never Matt forget media day
at PAC twelve last year the finality though. Yeah, everybody's
just walking around like this is it and felt bad
for a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, and that's obviously what the Mountain West is staring
at now with you know, eight of their teams or
seven of their teams making their way over to what
is going to be. Hey, next year's PAC twelve media
day is going to be something. Let me tell you
off the top of the hour tomorrow. George Reister gonna
be in on Thursday, opening day of training camp for
the Chargers. I'll be out there at the Bolt before
making my way in here. So opportunity to get into

(31:29):
a whole lot of college and NFL football conversation. Remember
the Dodgers back in action on Friday from the Gallpin
Motors broadcast booth. First pitch at seven to ten pm.
Dodgers on deck at six and it was a hot
dog day here don We got this steamer going. We
enjoyed our Hoffees. But if it weren't for that, we
certainly would have made our way over to the doghouse

(31:50):
right up the road here in Burbank. They brought us
dogs on Monday for our inside the locker room with
Ben Casparius. We appreciate that. And you can get a
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Download that app. Doghouse dogs are freaking incredible? Can they are?
Recommend that enough? You have our dead guy Birthday of

(32:10):
the day?

Speaker 1 (32:11):
I do, and it's somebody I know, unfortunately, And I
say unfortunately because you'll find out in a second what
he did. But we honored doctor Frank Joe, who would
have been one hundred years old today. Born and raised
in Greensboro, North Carolina. Graduated from high school. He enlisted
in the Army during.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
World War two Greatest Generation.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
That's right, served as a medical staff sergeant in the
Army's one hundred and first Airborne Division.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Nudek.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
He would hank glide into Normandy. Oh God about that.
He was later briefly captured by the Germans in the
Battle of the Bulge before escaping. After the war, Frank
was awarded the Bronze Star. He utilized the GI bill
and graduated from college, then graduated med school from Loma
Linda University.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
See, people, you don't have to have Harvard Med School
next to your name. You graduate top of the class
out of Loma Linda and you can become a legendary
orthopedic surgeon.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
For those in the sports world, they know the name
Joe because of what I'm going to tell you here
in a second. But he became a widely popular ortho
surgeon here in LA. In nineteen sixty four, he began
to consult with the Dodgers on their players' injuries. Teamed
with Robert Curlin, specialized in developing field of sports medicine.
The duo co founded their own practice, working with sports

(33:34):
teams Dodgers, Angels, Lakers, Rams, and Ducks. He's also a
consultant for the PGA Tour. But this is why everybody
knows doctor Frank Joe September twenty fifth, nineteen seventy four.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
I mean, that's the most popular surgeon game in terms
of our great sports talk.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
No. In nineteen seventy four, performed the first reconstruction of
the ulnar collateral ligament of the elbow in the UCL
using a revolutionary procedure he had devised. That procedure was
done on Dodgers picture Tommy John and later went on
as everyone knows to be referred to as a Tommy

(34:16):
John surgery. To this day, it's still the Tommy John surgery.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
We've had Tommy John on and we've asked him how
he feels about that, and he says, great, Yeah, he
says it's gay. And he talked about the Testament to
doctor Joe. He's like, it's a testament to him.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
But the interesting part is there's so many of them now,
guys have multiple now yeah, and Walker Bule, there's so
many that it's never going to not be the Tommy
John surgery because everybody just says, oh, yeah, I had
Tommy John. Anyways, he authored over one hundred and forty
medical publications, numerous books, and is believed to have performed

(34:52):
over a thousand Tommy John surgery, I would say more.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Than that seems low.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Yeah, Like the guy that did my hip curling, Joe,
he does six of those every Friday.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
So I don't know do the math on thousand. I
mean you're talking about four. Yeah, that's a fair boy,
it seems like that would be more. Yeah, maybe got
tired of it, just flipped it off, you do it,
tired of this? Tommy John Doctor Frank Job.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame as a contributor.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
That's a good take what he did to help the.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Game of baseball with this surgery. I mean, if you
pitched it in the big leagues long enough, you probably
had it the surgery.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
I think if you pitch, if like when I say,
I mean like if you're pitching travel ball, high school,
you hit that, you know you you break the ninety
mile an hour threshold. The way kids are freaking dusting
their arms today, you're gonna have it. Well.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
I read something where it's to the point now where
you just get it out of the way early. You
hope you need it early so then you don't have
to get it later, like even before you get to.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
The big league, right that's just get it out of
the way. A friend that's going through that right now
ended up getting at his junior year and he's like, well,
I was planning on getting drafted after this year. Instead
blew his arm out in like his third start, and
he's like agent says, teams are kind of more happy
because I'll now be healed and I'll probably get drafted

(36:11):
higher because my arm will not be getting taken care
of about their time.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
You read that article on scooball the other day on school, Yeah, yeah,
and like he had one offer Seattle. Now the guy's
arguably the best pitcher in the game. Everyone's path is different.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Well, a hell of an a live guy, Well done, Don,
I should say a hell of a dead guy exactly.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I have.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
You're a live guy. Birthday of the day, and here
we go happy. Hard to believe he's this old if
you are of a certain age, because he was the
child actor of record in our youth. He is fifty
four to day. Happy birthday, Corey Scott Feldman. Oh yeah,
born right here in our backyard, Don Resita, California, Pops, Bob, mom, Sheila,

(36:59):
and is where he got his artistic gene from. She
was a musician also a cocktail waitress, he said Feldman,
because he was a child star, beginning at the age
of three when he landed his first McDonald's commercial. Unfortunately
that you know as a child actor. Maybe the parents

(37:21):
were looking forward to kind of cashing in a little
bit and they worked him quite hard. He was in
over a hundred television commercials, what fifty television series when
he was just like a toddler and a kid. Morgan
mindy eight is enough one day at a time cheers
like all those before you got to know him as

(37:45):
one of not the brat pack. He was kind of
right behind the brat pack in terms of age. So
Gremlin's eighty four and then of course announces his arrival
in the Goonies as the bilingual friend of the lunch
down here, it's our time up there, it's their time.
After the Goonies, stand By Me came the next year

(38:07):
when he really showed off his acting shops with River Phoenix,
Will Wheaton. And remember the fat kid was Jerry O'Connell,
not fat anymore. Back then he was the fat kid.
And then you know, he and Corey Ham teamed up
to be the Cory's and The Lost Boys is what
kind of punched his ticket into teenage tiger beat heart

(38:29):
throb level stardom. The Lost Boys was the one. Then
he and Corey went on to du dream a little
dream and licensed to drive, and then unfortunately things got
a li little bit sideways, as tends to happen. He
got into music. He and Michael Jackson, if you remember,
would roll around together. He was mate when he made

(38:49):
it big in Goonies. Michael Jackson and he were kind
of a pair before Michael Jackson and Macaulay Culkin became
a pair. So he got into music, was trying to
do a little bit of the punk and did not
go great, but didn't go terribly. Did a reality show,
of course, because that's what you do about his issues
with the drugs and the spiral, and you know, said

(39:14):
that when he was granted emancipation at fifteen, he was
already worth about a million bucks and that's it, that
was it. And not only that, don when he went
to his bank account, had realized the parents had spent
it all and all he had was forty grand to
his name. So, you know, the drugs, the alcohol. His
friend Corey of course, also on a bit of a

(39:37):
rough go. But Corey Feldman one of the actors of
record from our childhood and the Goonies just celebrated their
fortieth anniversary last year. As a matter of fact, I
remember we got into that with his story.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
I didn't realize I'm a year older than him than
Corey Feldon. I thought, because he's on TV, you think
they're older.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Right or yeah for me, I mean he's barely older
than me. But yeah, it felt like, oh man, I
want to be like that. When I got back, it's
like that pretty much the same age. It's already passed
you by, dude, figure something else out. Happy fifty fourth
Corey Feldman, and that's gonna do it for us. Back
tomorrow another four hours and then Thursday, the Dodgers are
back in action again. Set it. At the start of

(40:19):
the segment. We'll remind you one last time. Get over
to the Doghouse gets you free hot dog on National
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thank you, Adam Oslin. Good to have Ronnie back in
the studio today. We'll be back tomorrow starting at three
with George Wister. Thanks Don, We're coming back on tomorrow. Friday,