September 3, 2025 • 43 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How's the stream stream commencing broadcasting on AM five to
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
This is Petros in Money, Thank You, Thank You, hosted
by Petros Papadaecas terrible person, He's the worst.
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And Matt money Smith. The pipes, the pipes, the pipe.
Don't miss an episode. We're with you.
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
But me, I expected it to happen. I knew he'd
lost control when he built a fire on Main Street
and shot it full of holes. Tracking everybody and welcome
it is. We just won't be defeated. Wednesday on this
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The Petros and Money Show on AM five seventy LA Sports,
your home of Dodger Baseball. The Dodgers doing the unthinkable
last night and losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates, the lowly Pirates,
unthinkable in PNC Park, Beautiful Park wasn't even Skeens. Skeens
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is against smell Zilla Tomorrow. Otani pitches date, but we
are happy to be here. On the Petrosen Money Show,
we are on very very early. Matt money Smith is
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on his way to Brazil, and we are hopeful, hopeful
that Matt survives this endeavor. Matt has left town with
Daniel Jeremiah, Shannon Farron and the whole Chargers contingency. Not
to mention, I'm sure lots of luminaries from the National
Football League. Yes, Travis Kelce, the Chiefs, Pat Mahomes, everybody
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down there and Sal Powlo. Matt has had a lot
of wind in his jaws about not wanting to be
sequestered in the hotel and not wanting to be told
that he cannot explore what is one of the most
dangerous cities on Earth. Su Poolo and were watch Matt.
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You got to leave your Richard Neil in the room. Yes,
And Matt has expressed a desire on the radio show
to rent a surfboard, rent a car, hook up with
a friend of a friend by the name of Tiago Splitter. No,
(02:56):
I wish I think everybody in Brazil, every dude is
in Thiago and or Ronaldo or Renaldino and he's got
to go down there and I guess meet up with
this guy Tiago and surf the waves of Brazil.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I would say this, Pete. I think once he gets
to the water, he'll be fine. It's getting to and
from the wall.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, she did say that he was going to avoid
the borders, because that's the real dangerous part of Brazil.
But isn't the water the most dangerous border of them all?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Maybe not that far in, you know where the waves are,
You're not that far out.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You mean, like the twelve mile limit, like the international
water limit. Yeah, I don't know, but I do wish
Matt the best, and we hope that he's okay. I
think he will come back with myriad stories about how
awesome it was, how awesome the people were, how awesome
he was in his decision making, how smart he was,
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and just generally how superior he is.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
As long as he brings comes back with gifts for
you and Tim and Ronnie.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Has that ever happened, guys.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Matt brings gifts. I remember when he went to London
and brought back the I remember when he went no
Mexico City. Remember went to Mexico City.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
What's the number. What's the number in Vegas? Did he
that he shows up back for his first day of
the show in a Pele jersey?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Not much.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
No, it'll be like some Brazilian surf brand that none
of us have heard of. That a guy in the
water that listens to the pod noticed, recognized him and
gave him the special Brazilian ball hugging board.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Shorts Brazilian surf wax sex wax.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Mister, guys, I predict Matt coming back here trying to
drop a little Portuguese on everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Oh you, I love it. For sure that's gonna happen.
So that's the situation with Matt Smith. You could see
him on Instagram and all that. I'm sure that he
is having the time of his life.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I'm surprised he didn't text me to check in. I mean,
they've landed this morning, they've gone through a walk through.
I'm sure he's either made his way to where he's
going or is on his way now.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
There's no cell service in the ocean, there's not I
don't think so.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Well. You've heard the voice of our special co host
on the Celebrity Toyota Dealers Hotline. Even more than Kelly Stafford.
He understands the ups and downs of growing up in
the eight oh five, more ups and downs, more strikes
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than gutters. Yes, his statue is immortalized. A Lemon Park
is one of the greatest scores in the history of
college basketball, the leading scorer in the history of UCLA,
which is the greatest college basketball program of all time.
If you didn't know that, you see him on the
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Big Ten Network. He works at CAA. You hear him
here on the Petros and Money Show all the time.
He is our bff, the snake Killer, the baron of
Box Canyon. The next person he addresses because he wants
to will be the first show.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I actually did it the other night.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You talked to somebody.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah, like a Labor Day party. What happened a couple
of guys is we're at this table eating is like
a person's house, and they made barbecue.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So you were a guest in somebody's house.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yeah. But I sat down to eat and two guys
sat down next to me that I'd never talked to before,
and I actually talked to him.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Did they initiate the conversation?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
What did they say?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I forget? So what do you do I'd had a
few already, so what did you say? We started chopping
it up. I've lived in Westlake for twenty eight years
and those two were kind of new to the area.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Oh and did you say, what are you new? Pretty much? Well,
we were walking in and oh, here is an announcement,
by the way, and this isn't because Matt's gone, but
it's all it's also not because Matt isn't gone. Right, Oh,
I think that's fair to say.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Right, yeah, but uh, I don't know what you're going
to say.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But do you know what I'm saying, Kate's I don't. Well,
it's not because Matt's gone, but I don't want to say.
I don't want to say it's not because Matt isn't gone.
But for the first time in a long time, because
of the short show and yes, because man is gone,
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we did it before the show.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Podcast, so you don't do them very often.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
No, No, it's hard to motivate the Voice of the
Bolts to do a podcast because he has to do
other podcasts. He has his Believe podcast with Lorenzo O'Neil,
one of the greatest fullbacks that ever lived. Fresno State alum.
He has the chargers pad? Am I right about that? Kate?
Are those the two pods?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Those are the two additional podcasts?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
So he's got those. That's got two podcasts? Yeah? Wow,
who knew? So we did Kate's and I you want to.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Know the last time, and you did it before the
show podcast? Yeah, January sixth of this year, all right.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
And before that seven months? Yeah, that long.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Before that May twenty fourth.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Actually that's nine months.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
May twenty fourth, twenty twenty three. Okay, so yeah, over
the last two years. But you're the producer of this show.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Cats.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
We're doing one Friday, so I can say I did
two in one week, believe it.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, you might even do three. Whoa, Like, we're gonna
We're gonna do it this week. We're gonna dust that
thing off. And you know what, Kate's from now on,
if Matt doesn't want to do it, you and I
are going to do it anyway. Let's do it. Why
because the people deserve content. That's why.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Let's ef and do it.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Give me a comrax. I'll do it really.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Done, even when I'm not coming in all right, Well,
we might be able to arrange my man. I cannot
buy him I'm a comrade. We'll just give you VIX.
So there is a before the Show podcast up there,
and what we discuss on the before the show podcast
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is the real the real ups and downs, the real dangers,
the overall trepidation one might have to raise their kids
in the tough ass eighth five area, as Jonas Knox
refers to it, the HATO five where you have Kelly
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and Matt Stafford navigating one of the most difficult situations at.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
The private school, to navigating private school.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
To be the starting cornerback of the Rams wife a
guy who's made over one hundred million dollars, I'm pretty sure,
easily playing cornerback in the NFL and his eight year
old kids to be that guy and to go through
what they go.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Through, I don't know how they wake up every morning.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I don't either, So Don and I are going to
discuss that. And as far as schedule talk goes, we
are not on tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Wait what, We're off.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No time. There's never any time. I don't have time
to study. I'll never get this schedule talk. So we're
off tomorrow because the Rogan and Rodney Show is at
the BJS and Irvine the one down at the Marketplace,
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I believe, where we've done a whole bunch of shows.
So Rogan and Rodney. I don't know who they have
showing up, maybe Michael Jordan, but Rogan and Rodney are
going to be down and that's the whole show, right,
They're gonna be down there from twelve to two thirty
or something. And Jordan went from Chapel Hill straight to Irvine. No,
but usually somebody pays some guests to come down or
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they have some sweet prizes to give away. Do you
have anything on this catse do you know anything about this?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
I think Jordan is not actually showing up tomorrow. Could
be Scottie Pippen. We'll seek Yeah, they'll have tons of prizes,
including Chargers tickets.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Okay, yeah, well, so get on down to Irvine tomorrow
in the Marketplace. You oc types if you're fans of
AM five seventy LA Sports and go see Rogan and Rodney.
I believe that show is twelve to two thirty and
then we will get to Marango Casino Dodgers on Deck
with Tim Kats. That's right, So we are off tomorrow.
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We will do it before the show podcast at some
time and we'll put that up. But we are off.
There will be no show tomorrow and we'll be back
again on a flex alert on Friday stage. We do
have some breaking Dodger news as the Dodgers just lost
in Pittsburgh last night, could not fight their way back.
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Kirshaw got his boobs scooped and heckled to death because
there was like one guy in the park screaming at
him the whole time. What is the Dodger news.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Well, Dave, we'll have more on this in ten minutes.
But the Dodgers announced it. Image is going to start
tonight against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Machian's gonna start. I thought
it was Otani too, It was supposed to be Otani instead.
Otani will still serve as the designated hitter, but he
will not pitch tonight. So any reason given, I'm not
seeing any reason given right now. Don Dave Roberts has
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not spoken to the media quite yet, but David Vasse,
I'm sure with you guys. In about ten minutes, we'll
have more on this. But no Otani on the mound.
He'll serve only as a DH tonight.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
This pertains to the Dodgers and they're pitching rotation schedule
Stedel short. I believe we have a prize to give away, Tim,
but I don't quite understand it.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
A big prize to give away between now in two thirty.
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Oh cocktail, I'm in. It's a man spa. Where is it?
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one opening up in Studio City. There's one in Santa Monica,
and we got a gift card to one. Lucky pms
listen to go out and try it out. All right,
let's get one in Westlake and I'll go.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
We'll give it away this hour. You can't get the
studio city down.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
No, it's too far.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Thank you. Tim produce a lot of shows. I'll see
im faceba everybody. So we'll give that away this hour
to somebody that calls. Don't forget that. The Marongo Casino.
Dodgers on deck is coming right in your face at two,
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and we will have Dodger action tonight. Emmitt Sheehan, he's
pitching instead of show. Heyo Tani. If I'm a Pittsburgher
and I bought tickets tonight to watch Otani pitch, I
think I'd be pretty bent out of shape. Withell that
he just got scratched. Do you think that devalues the
ticket at PNC Park. We'll talk to David Vassei.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
If he hits a home run, they'll forget about it.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
That's a great point, Don, That is a very good point.
If he hits a home run, they'll forget about it. Yeah,
just like if Mac gets kidnapped. But the Chargers win
and they beat the Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
The get in price for today's game is about fifty bucks,
way more than it is for tomorrow's game. The finale
of the three game series with schemes and snow pitching.
So yes, it looks like there is a bump in
the price, assuming o Tani was gonna pitch, but now
that has changed.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Wow, that's this. That's uh yeah, fifty bucks sounds high
for Pittsburgh. I don't want to say dishonest. We don't
know what happened, but it certainly is discouraging if you're
a Pirates fan and fifty bucks seems high. But you
got the Dodgers in town, the defending champs. I mean,
that's a pretty exciting those games. Yeah, and it's sad
because it's a great ballpark. It's just the team has
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not been very competitive and the team seems to have
disillusioned the fan base with the ownership, which only happened
once in my lifetime as we've been covering the Dodgers,
and that would be the Frank McCourt era. If you
remember that, people kind of stopped going to Dodger Stadium.
It was the weirdest thing in the world. And that
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was still Yeah, oh for sure. And he wants to
own the gondola too, so I'm not exactly sure how
that's playing out. They they repainted the gondola. They have
a gondola model out there and the parking lot at
Dodger Stadium saying, hey, check out the gondola. That's never
going to get built because we can't get the zoning
for it. But they have. You know, notice that that
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they repainted the gondola. They made it look like more friendly.
They painted like a cartoon city scape on it. I
didn't notice that the last time we were at Dodger
Stadium interviewing people and doing our thing. Well, we have
a lot to talk about as far as our time goes.
It takes up their time.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
We have the story about the Clippers and Kawhi Leonard's tree.
I'm not sure how much you want to get into that, Dawn.
Let's talk about it well, I mean, you know, there's
something to discuss there. I don't know if that's something
that happens all the time and out and.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
We just have to put a disclaimer that this is
all alleged.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It is alleged. Yeah, it's not true, but that guy,
Pablo Tory worked for Sports Illustrated for a dozen years.
It's not like he's just some podcast.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
He does have a background and investigative journalist.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Sounds like, yes, sources and information.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It does, which which begs the question how often does
this happen? If ever in the NBA? Is this the first?
This can't be the first. If it's true, it can't
be the first. And what would you do?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
So? What I find fascinating we'll talk more about it
is all these guys that come out and say we'll
take a pay cut. Well, are you really taking a
pay cut? Yeah, you took lesson salary, but did you
make it up elsewhere?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Well? I used to say that about Pete Carroll when
he was having so much success at USC because they
were like, well, this is his salary, but it's not
really public because it's a private school. And since it's
a private school, people can give them whatever kind of
money they want under the table or figure something out.
I mean, I'm not that smart about hiding money, but
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I know people that are. I'm not gay, but there's
a lot of people that are. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
there's the Dodger woes to discuss. There's a pitcher in
Houston that threw it ride at his catcher's nutsack because
he got mad at him. We could talk about college football. Yeah,
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as UCLA heads to Allegiate Stadium.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Good games last weekend. I actually watched a good bit
of them.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Did you watch anything of mine?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I did?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Oh really?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
What what did you see? Michigan State?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Oh yeah, thanks, Don Close. I mean, you know, there
was a it could have been worse, could have David
Vassey is going to join us next. We're going to
talk about everything going on with the Dodgers, including while
Tony as a scratched pitcher, but he's still dhing tonight
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and we will have that game tonight as we are
your Dodgers to night source for every pitch, every hit.
Rick Monday got pissed off last night. He did, Yeah,
some guy struck out a couple of Dodgers and then
went off the mound doing the money sign, like show
me the money Manziel. Yeah, kind of like that. And
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Rick Monday was like, that was a hot dog move.
Don't think the Dodgers didn't see that hot dog move?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Well, they certainly didn't do anything about it last night.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Copy that right. I was like, oh, here they call them,
they're pissed. Monday says they're pissed and it was nothing.
It was a long, slow, wet fart. Yes, David vess.
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Speaker 3 (20:43):
No more of that for you, pe.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I mean, it's not like I'm a stranger to foreign substance,
you know. But uh yeah, I took a couple of
melatonin last night to get to bed early because I
had to get up and get yelled at by Brady
Quinn about how arch Manning didn't look as bad as
I thought. I'm not a quarterback, so what do I know? Yeah,
but uh but yeah, I've been a little groggy all day.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I gave that stuff up a while in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Of a fog, even through yoga class at Keffe Yoga
and Crenshaw, my sister's yoga studio.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I find that red wine at night works much better.
I'm a bourbon drinker, as you know. Yeah, STI for.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
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may barry the tickets at PNC Park when Otani pitches
are at least seventeen percent more expensive. Yet he's been scratched.
What happened, Dave?
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Maybe he had too much melatonin last.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Come on? What happened? Why? Why is he not pitching?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Well, he's not pitching, but he is the DH. I
guess he doesn't feel well enough to pitch. My understanding is,
is he caught whatever is going around the Dodgers' clubhouse.
If you guys have gotten sick but have been able
to continue to keep going and keep working, so obviously
not feeling well enough to pitch today. But being a
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guy that's a DH doesn't have to play the field
well enough to be able to take four at that
So that's the reason why.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
So this isn't the kind of This isn't like what
you talked about with a yesterday with Vessia, how he
wasn't feeling good. So he came and told him that
he wasn't feeling good. This is a difference.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Well, this is a viral, bacterial type of illness that's
been going around. You might even catch it at your
yoga studio. So that's that's what's happening. A lot of
people getting sick, and he caught it and not well
enough to pitch today.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
He did look a little under the weather yesterday in
the face, did he? I thought so?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Well?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
He hit his one hundredth home run as a Dodger
and he helped rally in the ninth inning, So I
couldn't tell that. And by the way, Otani second fastest
to reach one hundred home runs in that many games
two hundred and change since Mark McGuire. Mark mcguires the
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fastest to reach one hundred home runs with one team
two hundred and fifty games with the Cardinals, Big Mac
at one hundred home runs, Otani's second fastest to do it.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Dave, speaking of pitching. I was thinking about this on
the way in and I asked him about it. I
won't tell you what he said, but you know, I
know that the Dodgers pitching staff that's been in and out,
guys been banged up. But I was thinking about this.
Forget salary, and let's assume everybody's on the same rest.
Who would start a game seven tomorrow for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Yeah, that's a great question. I would put my money
on Blake Snell or Yamamoto. One of those two guys
would start a Game seven for me. And that's kind
of how it's going to line up. And my estimation
don Yamamoto and Snell are likely to start one of
the first two games. There's a chance Yamamoto starts the
first game on the road, But right now, those would
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be my two choices. That's how good both those guys
have been. That's how good both those guys have shown
mound presence in big playoff type atmospheres. I would love
to venture to say Kershaw, but Kershaw has been great.
But he's hit a ball these days, so I don't
want to short change him. But he understands at this
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stage of his career, his role is a little bit
different as well.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
The one and only David Vasse is our guest. The
Dodger starters down the stretch have been more reliable, at
least more reliable than the bullpen. How much concern over
this bullpen, Dave is a really lack consistency.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Yeah, I'm with you, Petros. It's easy to change the
pieces in the outfield. You can move to Oscar Hernandez
to left field, you can have Alex call out there
like they have today. But these are the Dodger relievers.
The Dodgers decided these were the guys they were going
to bet on. They did not go out to get
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an impact reliever at the trade deadline. The guy they
did get has been hurt and there's doubt whether or
not he'll be able to return in brock Stewart, So
they were counting an insistent. These group of relievers were
better than anything they could go out and trade for,
and so far we haven't seen it. Trin in coming off,
you know, a significant injury coming off, pitching a lot
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of miles last year, a lot of innings in the
postseason has not looked as consistent as we saw him
last year. Michael Kopek just came off the il so
and Tanner, Scott and Kirby Ates have been shaky all year,
so I would say there's great for as much attention
as Tae, Oscar Hernandez poor Tale, the guy that helped
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the Dodgers win the World Series last year, is getting.
There seems to be a lack of thought about the
decisions Dave Roberts will have to make in a postseason
game with these group of relievers. If you had to
ask me who the three guys that I trust the
most in that bullpen, it would be Alex Vesia, it
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would be Jack Dryer, and I guess yes, I would
say Blake Trining. Those would be the three I trust
the most.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I'm sure you guys have talked about this day, but
I haven't heard it how much because it seems like
there's a correlation. How much of the Dodgers miss Max Munsey.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Oh tremendously. They were hoping to get him back at
the end of this road trip in Baltimore, but he
caught whatever has been going around. And o'tani obviously is
feeling a little under the weather, but he means, you know,
don I don't know if you could relate to this
with any guys you played with at UCLA or in
the NBA. But Max Monthly to me is the poster
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child for the Dodgers team. You don't know what you
have until you don't have it anymore, because the first
two months of the season he wasn't hitting on all cylinders,
and everybody from Westlake Village to Downey wanted Max Mounsey's
head on a platter and shipped out of here all
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of a sudden. All of a sudden, Now everybody's clamoring
for Max Monthly to return. Even when he's not going
at his best, his function in the lineup is huge,
takes a lot of pitches, takes walks, works really good
at bets in between hitters that a lot of times
are swinging at the first pitch. And then when you
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you know, add on on a thousand ops and he's
hitting thirty home runs, there's nobody like him in the
Dodger lineup at that part of the lineup as well,
hitting sixth fifth, there's nobody that that does that for
the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
You kind of addressed the reconfiguration of the outfield, Dave,
but is there a fix there? Because They looked kind
of like a circus last night out there.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Yeah, I mean Taoskar. You can't tell me Taoscar Hernandez
a year older, is all of a sudden good enough
to play right field. It just hasn't looked right all
season long. He's out there again today. Alex call is
in left field. But Dave Roberts keeps on hinting at
a change when Tommy Edmund returns, and who made his
(29:13):
first rehab to start for Oklahoma City yesterday, but he's
been hinting when Tommy Edmund returns, all will be well.
Tommy will play a lot of center field. There could
be a change. Ta Oscar might go to left field.
But right now we're still seeing day after day an
outfield that just isn't good enough defensively, and you know,
(29:34):
cost runs in the first inning, cost runs, and your
pitcher pitches, whether it's Kershaw, whether it's your relievers. There's
a residual effect when you don't catch fly balls that
are at a ninety percent catch probability rate. And that's
what we saw again last night. And we'll see how
it goes tonight. At least the left field's a little
(29:56):
bit more short up, So right field, isn't it big?
In Pittsburgh? Ta Oscar just unfortunately took a bad route
on a fly ball last night in the first inning,
But tonight's the lineup looks a little bit better in
the outfield.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Last thing, Dave, if the Dodgers can't avoid number two,
they can't avoid not getting up to number two as
far as the seating goes. How bad of a situation
is that because they're not I mean, I know Matt
usually asked the playoff questions, but they're not in a
great position right now. They're not playing very consistent baseball.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
No, and they would if they were the third division
winner and the number three set. The silver lining would
be that they would play all three games at Dodgers Stadium,
and with the shakiness of the bullpen, it still allows
the offense to have the last at bat. So there's
that silver lining. But there are two games behind the Phillies,
(30:55):
and the Dodgers have two more home stands. The second
one is the last one of the season and it
starts with the Phillies. That's going to be a huge
three game series to determine whether or not the Dodgers
are a even the division winner or b the number
two or number three seed. But yeah, it's all we've
heard since this new playoff format from Andrew Friedman and
(31:18):
Dave Roberts is the importance of having a bye and
not having to plan that wildcard series. So I wouldn't
see their outlook on things being any different now that
you know, it's the first time in a while that
it's been a little tenuous.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
All Right, Dave, have a great night and we'll be listening.
Marongo Casino, Dodgers on Deck, Dodger Clubhouse, Dodger Talk. Thank
you so much, Dave.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
All right, d Mac anything for you.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Wells, brother, whatever. See, if you want me just to
do the interview solo next time, I can do it
like Friday. I could just do it myself.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Okay, fine with me. I'm not jealous. We'll be back. Oh, listen,
I Gotlliam Shatner. Listen, turn it up.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
This is William Shatner.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
That's what I'm gonna start doing, spoken word, Bob Dylan songs.
I think I could make it work.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
We'll be right back. We're gonna talk clippers and tree service.
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Hi everybody, it's Petros and money on it. We just
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We'll be done at two thirty because the Dodgers are
in Pittsburgh. But we did it before the show podcast
that's up on the iHeartRadio app and it's like ten
(33:07):
twelve minutes. It's a good extra segment for everybody to enjoy.
You're welcome. But today our celebrity guest host, brought to
you by Toyota, is Don McClain, the Snake Killer, and
we do have a basketball story for you, Don. I
guess we can ye, yeah, I mean it just broke
(33:31):
the top story of it.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
In other words, the tree just fell.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Yes, timber Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers might have some
explaining to do. According to evidence obtained by Pablo Tory,
which he presented in the latest episode of his Pablo
Tory Finds Out podcast. Leonard signed a twenty eight million
dollar endorsement deal with a now bankrupt tree planting company.
(33:59):
They bankrupt, that's why it became public knowledge, huh, with
a tree planting company based in la in April of
twenty twenty two. The company, under the name Aspiration, Inc.
Filed for bankruptcy in March of twenty twenty five after
its co founder, Joe Sandberg was arrested on fraud charges.
Here's Pablo, and this is a guy with an investigative past.
(34:23):
He worked for twelve years at Sports Illustrated when it
was a real magazine. So you have to give him
the benefit of the doubt there. But of course, as
Don said earlier, these things are alleged. But here's Pablo
or Pablito. I believe he's a Filipino gentleman in his
own words.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
You may recall how in twenty nineteen, the NBA investigated
the signing of Kawhi Leonard by the Clippers. This was
the Uncle Dennis story, him asking for all the sweeteners,
the side deals. This was the Lakers. The raptor is
very mad. Lots of teams very mad. NBA investigates says
this is a cardinal sin, salary caps or convention, but
they find not thing. Today. We have given something. I
(35:02):
dare say to anybody who cares about this stuff, and
the stuff here is kind of wild. This is a
story that started because of a company called Aspiration, which
no one really remembers in fairness, but they had signed
some of the most famous people in the world to
be endorsers. Leonardo DiCaprio, Drake, Robert Downey Junior, Cindy Crawford,
(35:24):
Cindy Crawford's daughter, all people who endorsed this climate change
company that planted trees to zero out your carbon footprint,
like good guys, Only for those same good guys to
have sin stoped been embroiled.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Stop stops somebody would use something as sacred as climate
change to enrich themselves. No, I sound like it.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Please continue, those same good guys to have since been
embroiled in what has been a concurrent Department of Justice
and SEC investigations that have resulted in guilty please by
one of the co founders of the company, a prominent
Democratic politician and donor named Joe Sandberg, who happens to
have also been buddy of Steve Bober and Steve.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Bomber Democrats climate change.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
A buddy of Steve Bomber and Steve Bomber. In this story,
we establish and report, using over three thousand documents and
seven sources from inside the company, put in fifty million
dollars of his own money into Aspiration. Very long lined up.
I apologize for taking so long. Here's the punchline. The
endorsement deal that was the biggest that Aspiration signed, given
all those A List avengers, happened to be Kawhi Leonard
(36:37):
twenty eight million dollars, more than four times the rest
of the celebrity roster combined. And the kicker, you might argue,
is that he didn't do anything. It was a no
show job, did nothing, wasn't obligating.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Wait, in all fairness, Kawhi really doesn't do that much anyway.
Speaker 6 (36:55):
It was a no show job, did nothing, was an
obligated to do anything, which you can explain if you want,
but the point being, it was a secret deal that
no one knew about until now.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Well, certainly very interesting stuff from Pablito, and he seems
to have done his homework and it does seem to
line up the way you would think it would line up.
But Steve Balmer, very prominent man, knows a lot of
prominent politicians, is one of, if not the richest NBA
owner all owners. Yeah, does the NBA want to do
(37:30):
and they have said we're aware of this, we are
launching an investigation, just like the one Pablo talked about
that happened a few years back. Does the NBA, even
if they have this guy red handed, want to embarrass
their most prominent owner, a guy who built the new
(37:50):
stadium or the new arena that is the blueprint for
how the new arenas are supposed to be, all that stuff.
It's this is a bit of a minefield.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Yeah, it is, And you're right to say that. Again,
this is all alleged. We don't know for sure. But
I think the interesting part about this is, you know,
has it happened before with other teams? Have other teams
done something like this? But the fact that they already
investigated any circumvention when he signed, Obviously they didn't know
(38:20):
about this obviously. But to what you just said about
does the NBA want this? Absolutely not. But is there
going to be overwhelming evidence to where they have to
do something.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Now the other owners say, hey, why do we come on?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Yeah? Like like the I think back in the show
Hey thing, the gambling thing, you know, we don't know
all the information. Was there overwhelming evidence? I guess not
because nothing really happened to show Hey or the Dodgers.
But this is this is different because it sounds like
in Pablo, like you said, he's a respectable journalist. If
(38:56):
it's all sitting there smoking gun? What do you do
if you're out of silver? Like, you have to do
something at that point, don't you.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
You have to do something? Yeah, And everybody's going to
be looking at you saying what are you going to do?
Right to this multi hundred billionaire.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
And what really is? And again we don't know what
the again alleged, but if they do find something here,
what are the penalties for this? And to me, in
having covered the Clippers for as long as I have
twenty plus years, this is the year where you finally
think they have a real chance to win the whole
thing and now this pops up.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
What would the penalty be? Draft picks?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I think, but they don't have any draft picks. That's
a problem. Monetary fine which the lomer doesn't care about that.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
So what do you do? I don't know, suspend Kawhi
Leonard postseason ban, put his uncle in jail, the jail
and the bubble.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Yeah, I don't know what the precedence is for something
like this. Has anybody ever been caught red handed circumventing
the salary cap to this degree? I mean twenty eight
million And it's not like it's a couple million. Twenty
eight million extra on top of what they were already
paying him in salary.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
That's egregious. Yes, what do you think will happen?
Speaker 3 (40:12):
I don't know. That's a great question. Not much, not
munche because again to your point, Adam Silver wants this to.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Go, even if he works for the owners.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Yeah, but if he has to do something, he's going
to want to be be swift with it and just
get it out of there. So if you say postseason
ban here, the Clippers have this great regular season, they
win sixty five games, and now they can't play in
the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
You can't have a postseason ban for a professional team,
can you. It's not like college where you don't get
to play in the Alamo Bowl.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
But to use your word, this is a great if true,
this is egregious, Like I've never heard anything like this.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
What a trip. Yeah, you know, it's not that it's
a real parallel. Maybe it is to you. I don't
know you have experience with this kind of thing as
I do. But I remember arriving at USC and even CAL,
you know, being on scholarship, and being like, wait a minute,
we can't have a job, we can't work. They're like, yeah,
well why not, Well because they used to pay Marcus
(41:12):
Allen thirty five thousand dollars an hour to mow this
guy's lawn and how many times did he mow the lawn? Never,
so that that kind of thing, and this seems like
that too. Okay, we can't pay you this way, so
we will make sure you get paid that way.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Well I vaguely remember, and we'd have to go look
it up, and I didn't. Maybe I will. After the show,
there was some dialogue about Kawhi Leonard taking a little
bit less than Max to come to the Clippers so
that they could sign a guy like Paul George. So
so do I take a little less on my salary?
(41:48):
But then I'm making it up this.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Way, not taking really a haircut at all. Right, And
the other interesting part about it is, like Steve Bomber
is a shrewd and savvy business man, maybe one of
the most savvy in modern time right now, why would
he give money to these guys? I mean, these guys
are now bankrupt or whatever. They're frauds. They've admitted this.
There's federal investigations, all this different stuff is going on.
(42:13):
You're Steve Bomer, You're supposed to be a lot smarter
than that, like Bush. I didn't expect Reggie Bush to
be smarter.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Unless, allegedly it was done for this reason to get
Kawhi Leonard more money. Maybe he knew the company was
going to go up and smoke, but this was a
vehicle to get Kawhi Leonard his full value allegedly.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
I don't think aspirations original aspirations were to be discredited
publicly and globally. But yet here we are. Yeah, planting
trees never seem so complicated. We'll be right back. We've
got word number song final our fun fact. A lot
still going on here on the Petrosen Money Show on
(42:58):
AI SEVENLA Sports, your Home of the Dodgers. Nothing to
see here, that ol TAWI investigation was wrapped up in
five days. It was nothing. Don nothing there, bite your
tongue gambling. I'm shocked, shocked that there's gambling going on here.
(43:18):
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The Petros and Money Show on AM five seventy LA Sports,
your home of Dodger Baseball. The Dodgers doing the unthinkable
last night and losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates, the lowly Pirates,
unthinkable in PNC Park, Beautiful Park wasn't even Skeens. Skeens
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is against smell Zilla Tomorrow. Otani pitches date, but we
are happy to be here. On the Petrosen Money Show,
we are on very very early. Matt money Smith is
(01:47):
on his way to Brazil, and we are hopeful, hopeful
that Matt survives this endeavor. Matt has left town with
Daniel Jeremiah, Shannon Farron and the whole Chargers contingency. Not
to mention, I'm sure lots of luminaries from the National
Football League. Yes, Travis Kelce, the Chiefs, Pat Mahomes, everybody
(02:11):
down there and Sal Powlo. Matt has had a lot
of wind in his jaws about not wanting to be
sequestered in the hotel and not wanting to be told
that he cannot explore what is one of the most
dangerous cities on Earth. Su Poolo and were watch Matt.
(02:35):
You got to leave your Richard Neil in the room. Yes,
And Matt has expressed a desire on the radio show
to rent a surfboard, rent a car, hook up with
a friend of a friend by the name of Tiago Splitter. No,
(02:56):
I wish I think everybody in Brazil, every dude is
in Thiago and or Ronaldo or Renaldino and he's got
to go down there and I guess meet up with
this guy Tiago and surf the waves of Brazil.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I would say this, Pete. I think once he gets
to the water, he'll be fine. It's getting to and
from the wall.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, she did say that he was going to avoid
the borders, because that's the real dangerous part of Brazil.
But isn't the water the most dangerous border of them all?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Maybe not that far in, you know where the waves are,
You're not that far out.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You mean, like the twelve mile limit, like the international
water limit. Yeah, I don't know, but I do wish
Matt the best, and we hope that he's okay. I
think he will come back with myriad stories about how
awesome it was, how awesome the people were, how awesome
he was in his decision making, how smart he was,
(04:01):
and just generally how superior he is.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
As long as he brings comes back with gifts for
you and Tim and Ronnie.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Has that ever happened, guys.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Matt brings gifts. I remember when he went to London
and brought back the I remember when he went no
Mexico City. Remember went to Mexico City.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
What's the number. What's the number in Vegas? Did he
that he shows up back for his first day of
the show in a Pele jersey?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Not much.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
No, it'll be like some Brazilian surf brand that none
of us have heard of. That a guy in the
water that listens to the pod noticed, recognized him and
gave him the special Brazilian ball hugging board.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Shorts Brazilian surf wax sex wax.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Mister, guys, I predict Matt coming back here trying to
drop a little Portuguese on everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Oh you, I love it. For sure that's gonna happen.
So that's the situation with Matt Smith. You could see
him on Instagram and all that. I'm sure that he
is having the time of his life.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I'm surprised he didn't text me to check in. I mean,
they've landed this morning, they've gone through a walk through.
I'm sure he's either made his way to where he's
going or is on his way now.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
There's no cell service in the ocean, there's not I
don't think so.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
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If you didn't know that, you see him on the
(06:21):
Big Ten Network. He works at CAA. You hear him
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He is our bff, the snake Killer, the baron of
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to will be the first show.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I actually did it the other night.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You talked to somebody.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah, like a Labor Day party. What happened a couple
of guys is we're at this table eating is like
a person's house, and they made barbecue.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So you were a guest in somebody's house.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yeah. But I sat down to eat and two guys
sat down next to me that I'd never talked to before,
and I actually talked to him.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Did they initiate the conversation?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
What did they say?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I forget? So what do you do I'd had a
few already, so what did you say? We started chopping
it up. I've lived in Westlake for twenty eight years
and those two were kind of new to the area.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Oh and did you say, what are you new? Pretty much? Well,
we were walking in and oh, here is an announcement,
by the way, and this isn't because Matt's gone, but
it's all it's also not because Matt isn't gone. Right, Oh,
I think that's fair to say.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Right, yeah, but uh, I don't know what you're going
to say.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But do you know what I'm saying, Kate's I don't. Well,
it's not because Matt's gone, but I don't want to say.
I don't want to say it's not because Matt isn't gone.
But for the first time in a long time, because
of the short show and yes, because man is gone,
(08:10):
we did it before the show.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Podcast, so you don't do them very often.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
No, No, it's hard to motivate the Voice of the
Bolts to do a podcast because he has to do
other podcasts. He has his Believe podcast with Lorenzo O'Neil,
one of the greatest fullbacks that ever lived. Fresno State alum.
He has the chargers pad? Am I right about that? Kate?
Are those the two pods?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Those are the two additional podcasts?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
So he's got those. That's got two podcasts? Yeah? Wow,
who knew? So we did Kate's and I you want to.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Know the last time, and you did it before the
show podcast? Yeah, January sixth of this year, all right.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
And before that seven months? Yeah, that long.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Before that May twenty fourth.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Actually that's nine months.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
May twenty fourth, twenty twenty three. Okay, so yeah, over
the last two years. But you're the producer of this show.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Cats.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
We're doing one Friday, so I can say I did
two in one week, believe it.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, you might even do three. Whoa, Like, we're gonna
We're gonna do it this week. We're gonna dust that
thing off. And you know what, Kate's from now on,
if Matt doesn't want to do it, you and I
are going to do it anyway. Let's do it. Why
because the people deserve content. That's why.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Let's ef and do it.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Give me a comrax. I'll do it really.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Done, even when I'm not coming in all right, Well,
we might be able to arrange my man. I cannot
buy him I'm a comrade. We'll just give you VIX.
So there is a before the Show podcast up there,
and what we discuss on the before the show podcast
(10:07):
is the real the real ups and downs, the real dangers,
the overall trepidation one might have to raise their kids
in the tough ass eighth five area, as Jonas Knox
refers to it, the HATO five where you have Kelly
(10:28):
and Matt Stafford navigating one of the most difficult situations at.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
The private school, to navigating private school.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
To be the starting cornerback of the Rams wife a
guy who's made over one hundred million dollars, I'm pretty sure,
easily playing cornerback in the NFL and his eight year
old kids to be that guy and to go through
what they go.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Through, I don't know how they wake up every morning.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I don't either, So Don and I are going to
discuss that. And as far as schedule talk goes, we
are not on tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Wait what, We're off.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No time. There's never any time. I don't have time
to study. I'll never get this schedule talk. So we're
off tomorrow because the Rogan and Rodney Show is at
the BJS and Irvine the one down at the Marketplace,
(11:28):
I believe, where we've done a whole bunch of shows.
So Rogan and Rodney. I don't know who they have
showing up, maybe Michael Jordan, but Rogan and Rodney are
going to be down and that's the whole show, right,
They're gonna be down there from twelve to two thirty
or something. And Jordan went from Chapel Hill straight to Irvine. No,
but usually somebody pays some guests to come down or
(11:50):
they have some sweet prizes to give away. Do you
have anything on this catse do you know anything about this?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
I think Jordan is not actually showing up tomorrow. Could
be Scottie Pippen. We'll seek Yeah, they'll have tons of prizes,
including Chargers tickets.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Okay, yeah, well, so get on down to Irvine tomorrow
in the Marketplace. You oc types if you're fans of
AM five seventy LA Sports and go see Rogan and Rodney.
I believe that show is twelve to two thirty and
then we will get to Marango Casino Dodgers on Deck
with Tim Kats. That's right, So we are off tomorrow.
(12:25):
We will do it before the show podcast at some
time and we'll put that up. But we are off.
There will be no show tomorrow and we'll be back
again on a flex alert on Friday stage. We do
have some breaking Dodger news as the Dodgers just lost
in Pittsburgh last night, could not fight their way back.
(12:47):
Kirshaw got his boobs scooped and heckled to death because
there was like one guy in the park screaming at
him the whole time. What is the Dodger news.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Well, Dave, we'll have more on this in ten minutes.
But the Dodgers announced it. Image is going to start
tonight against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Machian's gonna start. I thought
it was Otani too, It was supposed to be Otani instead.
Otani will still serve as the designated hitter, but he
will not pitch tonight. So any reason given, I'm not
seeing any reason given right now. Don Dave Roberts has
(13:17):
not spoken to the media quite yet, but David Vasse,
I'm sure with you guys. In about ten minutes, we'll
have more on this. But no Otani on the mound.
He'll serve only as a DH tonight.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
This pertains to the Dodgers and they're pitching rotation schedule
Stedel short. I believe we have a prize to give away, Tim,
but I don't quite understand it.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
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Oh cocktail, I'm in. It's a man spa. Where is it?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
There's there's dozens of them throughout southern California. A new
one opening up in Studio City. There's one in Santa Monica,
and we got a gift card to one. Lucky pms
listen to go out and try it out. All right,
let's get one in Westlake and I'll go.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
We'll give it away this hour. You can't get the
studio city down.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
No, it's too far.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Thank you. Tim produce a lot of shows. I'll see
im faceba everybody. So we'll give that away this hour
to somebody that calls. Don't forget that. The Marongo Casino.
Dodgers on deck is coming right in your face at two,
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and we will have Dodger action tonight. Emmitt Sheehan, he's
pitching instead of show. Heyo Tani. If I'm a Pittsburgher
and I bought tickets tonight to watch Otani pitch, I
think I'd be pretty bent out of shape. Withell that
he just got scratched. Do you think that devalues the
ticket at PNC Park. We'll talk to David Vassei.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
If he hits a home run, they'll forget about it.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
That's a great point, Don, That is a very good point.
If he hits a home run, they'll forget about it. Yeah,
just like if Mac gets kidnapped. But the Chargers win
and they beat the Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
The get in price for today's game is about fifty bucks,
way more than it is for tomorrow's game. The finale
of the three game series with schemes and snow pitching.
So yes, it looks like there is a bump in
the price, assuming o Tani was gonna pitch, but now
that has changed.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Wow, that's this. That's uh yeah, fifty bucks sounds high
for Pittsburgh. I don't want to say dishonest. We don't
know what happened, but it certainly is discouraging if you're
a Pirates fan and fifty bucks seems high. But you
got the Dodgers in town, the defending champs. I mean,
that's a pretty exciting those games. Yeah, and it's sad
because it's a great ballpark. It's just the team has
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not been very competitive and the team seems to have
disillusioned the fan base with the ownership, which only happened
once in my lifetime as we've been covering the Dodgers,
and that would be the Frank McCourt era. If you
remember that, people kind of stopped going to Dodger Stadium.
It was the weirdest thing in the world. And that
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was still Yeah, oh for sure. And he wants to
own the gondola too, so I'm not exactly sure how
that's playing out. They they repainted the gondola. They have
a gondola model out there and the parking lot at
Dodger Stadium saying, hey, check out the gondola. That's never
going to get built because we can't get the zoning
for it. But they have. You know, notice that that
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they repainted the gondola. They made it look like more friendly.
They painted like a cartoon city scape on it. I
didn't notice that the last time we were at Dodger
Stadium interviewing people and doing our thing. Well, we have
a lot to talk about as far as our time goes.
It takes up their time.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
We have the story about the Clippers and Kawhi Leonard's tree.
I'm not sure how much you want to get into that, Dawn.
Let's talk about it well, I mean, you know, there's
something to discuss there. I don't know if that's something
that happens all the time and out and.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
We just have to put a disclaimer that this is
all alleged.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It is alleged. Yeah, it's not true, but that guy,
Pablo Tory worked for Sports Illustrated for a dozen years.
It's not like he's just some podcast.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
He does have a background and investigative journalist.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Sounds like, yes, sources and information.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It does, which which begs the question how often does
this happen? If ever in the NBA? Is this the first?
This can't be the first. If it's true, it can't
be the first. And what would you do?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
So? What I find fascinating we'll talk more about it
is all these guys that come out and say we'll
take a pay cut. Well, are you really taking a
pay cut? Yeah, you took lesson salary, but did you
make it up elsewhere?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Well? I used to say that about Pete Carroll when
he was having so much success at USC because they
were like, well, this is his salary, but it's not
really public because it's a private school. And since it's
a private school, people can give them whatever kind of
money they want under the table or figure something out.
I mean, I'm not that smart about hiding money, but
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I know people that are. I'm not gay, but there's
a lot of people that are. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
there's the Dodger woes to discuss. There's a pitcher in
Houston that threw it ride at his catcher's nutsack because
he got mad at him. We could talk about college football. Yeah,
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as UCLA heads to Allegiate Stadium.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Good games last weekend. I actually watched a good bit
of them.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Did you watch anything of mine?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I did?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Oh really?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
What what did you see? Michigan State?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Oh yeah, thanks, Don Close. I mean, you know, there
was a it could have been worse, could have David
Vassey is going to join us next. We're going to
talk about everything going on with the Dodgers, including while
Tony as a scratched pitcher, but he's still dhing tonight
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and we will have that game tonight as we are
your Dodgers to night source for every pitch, every hit.
Rick Monday got pissed off last night. He did, Yeah,
some guy struck out a couple of Dodgers and then
went off the mound doing the money sign, like show
me the money Manziel. Yeah, kind of like that. And
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Rick Monday was like, that was a hot dog move.
Don't think the Dodgers didn't see that hot dog move?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Well, they certainly didn't do anything about it last night.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Copy that right. I was like, oh, here they call them,
they're pissed. Monday says they're pissed and it was nothing.
It was a long, slow, wet fart. Yes, David vess.
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Speaker 3 (20:43):
No more of that for you, pe.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I mean, it's not like I'm a stranger to foreign substance,
you know. But uh yeah, I took a couple of
melatonin last night to get to bed early because I
had to get up and get yelled at by Brady
Quinn about how arch Manning didn't look as bad as
I thought. I'm not a quarterback, so what do I know? Yeah,
but uh but yeah, I've been a little groggy all day.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I gave that stuff up a while in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Of a fog, even through yoga class at Keffe Yoga
and Crenshaw, my sister's yoga studio.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I find that red wine at night works much better.
I'm a bourbon drinker, as you know. Yeah, STI for.
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may barry the tickets at PNC Park when Otani pitches
are at least seventeen percent more expensive. Yet he's been scratched.
What happened, Dave?
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Maybe he had too much melatonin last.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Come on? What happened? Why? Why is he not pitching?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Well, he's not pitching, but he is the DH. I
guess he doesn't feel well enough to pitch. My understanding is,
is he caught whatever is going around the Dodgers' clubhouse.
If you guys have gotten sick but have been able
to continue to keep going and keep working, so obviously
not feeling well enough to pitch today. But being a
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guy that's a DH doesn't have to play the field
well enough to be able to take four at that
So that's the reason why.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
So this isn't the kind of This isn't like what
you talked about with a yesterday with Vessia, how he
wasn't feeling good. So he came and told him that
he wasn't feeling good. This is a difference.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Well, this is a viral, bacterial type of illness that's
been going around. You might even catch it at your
yoga studio. So that's that's what's happening. A lot of
people getting sick, and he caught it and not well
enough to pitch today.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
He did look a little under the weather yesterday in
the face, did he? I thought so?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Well?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
He hit his one hundredth home run as a Dodger
and he helped rally in the ninth inning, So I
couldn't tell that. And by the way, Otani second fastest
to reach one hundred home runs in that many games
two hundred and change since Mark McGuire. Mark mcguires the
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fastest to reach one hundred home runs with one team
two hundred and fifty games with the Cardinals, Big Mac
at one hundred home runs, Otani's second fastest to do it.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Dave, speaking of pitching. I was thinking about this on
the way in and I asked him about it. I
won't tell you what he said, but you know, I
know that the Dodgers pitching staff that's been in and out,
guys been banged up. But I was thinking about this.
Forget salary, and let's assume everybody's on the same rest.
Who would start a game seven tomorrow for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Yeah, that's a great question. I would put my money
on Blake Snell or Yamamoto. One of those two guys
would start a Game seven for me. And that's kind
of how it's going to line up. And my estimation
don Yamamoto and Snell are likely to start one of
the first two games. There's a chance Yamamoto starts the
first game on the road, But right now, those would
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be my two choices. That's how good both those guys
have been. That's how good both those guys have shown
mound presence in big playoff type atmospheres. I would love
to venture to say Kershaw, but Kershaw has been great.
But he's hit a ball these days, so I don't
want to short change him. But he understands at this
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stage of his career, his role is a little bit
different as well.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
The one and only David Vasse is our guest. The
Dodger starters down the stretch have been more reliable, at
least more reliable than the bullpen. How much concern over
this bullpen, Dave is a really lack consistency.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Yeah, I'm with you, Petros. It's easy to change the
pieces in the outfield. You can move to Oscar Hernandez
to left field, you can have Alex call out there
like they have today. But these are the Dodger relievers.
The Dodgers decided these were the guys they were going
to bet on. They did not go out to get
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an impact reliever at the trade deadline. The guy they
did get has been hurt and there's doubt whether or
not he'll be able to return in brock Stewart, So
they were counting an insistent. These group of relievers were
better than anything they could go out and trade for,
and so far we haven't seen it. Trin in coming off,
you know, a significant injury coming off, pitching a lot
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of miles last year, a lot of innings in the
postseason has not looked as consistent as we saw him
last year. Michael Kopek just came off the il so
and Tanner, Scott and Kirby Ates have been shaky all year,
so I would say there's great for as much attention
as Tae, Oscar Hernandez poor Tale, the guy that helped
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the Dodgers win the World Series last year, is getting.
There seems to be a lack of thought about the
decisions Dave Roberts will have to make in a postseason
game with these group of relievers. If you had to
ask me who the three guys that I trust the
most in that bullpen, it would be Alex Vesia, it
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would be Jack Dryer, and I guess yes, I would
say Blake Trining. Those would be the three I trust
the most.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I'm sure you guys have talked about this day, but
I haven't heard it how much because it seems like
there's a correlation. How much of the Dodgers miss Max Munsey.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Oh tremendously. They were hoping to get him back at
the end of this road trip in Baltimore, but he
caught whatever has been going around. And o'tani obviously is
feeling a little under the weather, but he means, you know,
don I don't know if you could relate to this
with any guys you played with at UCLA or in
the NBA. But Max Monthly to me is the poster
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child for the Dodgers team. You don't know what you
have until you don't have it anymore, because the first
two months of the season he wasn't hitting on all cylinders,
and everybody from Westlake Village to Downey wanted Max Mounsey's
head on a platter and shipped out of here all
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of a sudden. All of a sudden, Now everybody's clamoring
for Max Monthly to return. Even when he's not going
at his best, his function in the lineup is huge,
takes a lot of pitches, takes walks, works really good
at bets in between hitters that a lot of times
are swinging at the first pitch. And then when you
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you know, add on on a thousand ops and he's
hitting thirty home runs, there's nobody like him in the
Dodger lineup at that part of the lineup as well,
hitting sixth fifth, there's nobody that that does that for
the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
You kind of addressed the reconfiguration of the outfield, Dave,
but is there a fix there? Because They looked kind
of like a circus last night out there.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Yeah, I mean Taoskar. You can't tell me Taoscar Hernandez
a year older, is all of a sudden good enough
to play right field. It just hasn't looked right all
season long. He's out there again today. Alex call is
in left field. But Dave Roberts keeps on hinting at
a change when Tommy Edmund returns, and who made his
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first rehab to start for Oklahoma City yesterday, but he's
been hinting when Tommy Edmund returns, all will be well.
Tommy will play a lot of center field. There could
be a change. Ta Oscar might go to left field.
But right now we're still seeing day after day an
outfield that just isn't good enough defensively, and you know,
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cost runs in the first inning, cost runs, and your
pitcher pitches, whether it's Kershaw, whether it's your relievers. There's
a residual effect when you don't catch fly balls that
are at a ninety percent catch probability rate. And that's
what we saw again last night. And we'll see how
it goes tonight. At least the left field's a little
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bit more short up, So right field, isn't it big?
In Pittsburgh? Ta Oscar just unfortunately took a bad route
on a fly ball last night in the first inning,
But tonight's the lineup looks a little bit better in
the outfield.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Last thing, Dave, if the Dodgers can't avoid number two,
they can't avoid not getting up to number two as
far as the seating goes. How bad of a situation
is that because they're not I mean, I know Matt
usually asked the playoff questions, but they're not in a
great position right now. They're not playing very consistent baseball.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
No, and they would if they were the third division
winner and the number three set. The silver lining would
be that they would play all three games at Dodgers Stadium,
and with the shakiness of the bullpen, it still allows
the offense to have the last at bat. So there's
that silver lining. But there are two games behind the Phillies,
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and the Dodgers have two more home stands. The second
one is the last one of the season and it
starts with the Phillies. That's going to be a huge
three game series to determine whether or not the Dodgers
are a even the division winner or b the number
two or number three seed. But yeah, it's all we've
heard since this new playoff format from Andrew Friedman and
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Dave Roberts is the importance of having a bye and
not having to plan that wildcard series. So I wouldn't
see their outlook on things being any different now that
you know, it's the first time in a while that
it's been a little tenuous.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
All Right, Dave, have a great night and we'll be listening.
Marongo Casino, Dodgers on Deck, Dodger Clubhouse, Dodger Talk. Thank
you so much, Dave.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
All right, d Mac anything for you.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Wells, brother, whatever. See, if you want me just to
do the interview solo next time, I can do it
like Friday. I could just do it myself.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Okay, fine with me. I'm not jealous. We'll be back. Oh, listen,
I Gotlliam Shatner. Listen, turn it up.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
This is William Shatner.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
That's what I'm gonna start doing, spoken word, Bob Dylan songs.
I think I could make it work.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
We'll be right back. We're gonna talk clippers and tree service.
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We'll be done at two thirty because the Dodgers are
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You're welcome. But today our celebrity guest host, brought to
you by Toyota, is Don McClain, the Snake Killer, and
we do have a basketball story for you, Don. I
guess we can ye, yeah, I mean it just broke
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the top story of it.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
In other words, the tree just fell.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Yes, timber Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers might have some
explaining to do. According to evidence obtained by Pablo Tory,
which he presented in the latest episode of his Pablo
Tory Finds Out podcast. Leonard signed a twenty eight million
dollar endorsement deal with a now bankrupt tree planting company.
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They bankrupt, that's why it became public knowledge, huh, with
a tree planting company based in la in April of
twenty twenty two. The company, under the name Aspiration, Inc.
Filed for bankruptcy in March of twenty twenty five after
its co founder, Joe Sandberg was arrested on fraud charges.
Here's Pablo, and this is a guy with an investigative past.
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He worked for twelve years at Sports Illustrated when it
was a real magazine. So you have to give him
the benefit of the doubt there. But of course, as
Don said earlier, these things are alleged. But here's Pablo
or Pablito. I believe he's a Filipino gentleman in his
own words.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
You may recall how in twenty nineteen, the NBA investigated
the signing of Kawhi Leonard by the Clippers. This was
the Uncle Dennis story, him asking for all the sweeteners,
the side deals. This was the Lakers. The raptor is
very mad. Lots of teams very mad. NBA investigates says
this is a cardinal sin, salary caps or convention, but
they find not thing. Today. We have given something. I
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dare say to anybody who cares about this stuff, and
the stuff here is kind of wild. This is a
story that started because of a company called Aspiration, which
no one really remembers in fairness, but they had signed
some of the most famous people in the world to
be endorsers. Leonardo DiCaprio, Drake, Robert Downey Junior, Cindy Crawford,
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Cindy Crawford's daughter, all people who endorsed this climate change
company that planted trees to zero out your carbon footprint,
like good guys, Only for those same good guys to
have sin stoped been embroiled.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Stop stops somebody would use something as sacred as climate
change to enrich themselves. No, I sound like it.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Please continue, those same good guys to have since been
embroiled in what has been a concurrent Department of Justice
and SEC investigations that have resulted in guilty please by
one of the co founders of the company, a prominent
Democratic politician and donor named Joe Sandberg, who happens to
have also been buddy of Steve Bober and Steve.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Bomber Democrats climate change.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
A buddy of Steve Bomber and Steve Bomber. In this story,
we establish and report, using over three thousand documents and
seven sources from inside the company, put in fifty million
dollars of his own money into Aspiration. Very long lined up.
I apologize for taking so long. Here's the punchline. The
endorsement deal that was the biggest that Aspiration signed, given
all those A List avengers, happened to be Kawhi Leonard
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twenty eight million dollars, more than four times the rest
of the celebrity roster combined. And the kicker, you might argue,
is that he didn't do anything. It was a no
show job, did nothing, wasn't obligating.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Wait, in all fairness, Kawhi really doesn't do that much anyway.
Speaker 6 (36:55):
It was a no show job, did nothing, was an
obligated to do anything, which you can explain if you want,
but the point being, it was a secret deal that
no one knew about until now.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Well, certainly very interesting stuff from Pablito, and he seems
to have done his homework and it does seem to
line up the way you would think it would line up.
But Steve Balmer, very prominent man, knows a lot of
prominent politicians, is one of, if not the richest NBA
owner all owners. Yeah, does the NBA want to do
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and they have said we're aware of this, we are
launching an investigation, just like the one Pablo talked about
that happened a few years back. Does the NBA, even
if they have this guy red handed, want to embarrass
their most prominent owner, a guy who built the new
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stadium or the new arena that is the blueprint for
how the new arenas are supposed to be, all that stuff.
It's this is a bit of a minefield.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Yeah, it is, And you're right to say that. Again,
this is all alleged. We don't know for sure. But
I think the interesting part about this is, you know,
has it happened before with other teams? Have other teams
done something like this? But the fact that they already
investigated any circumvention when he signed, Obviously they didn't know
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about this obviously. But to what you just said about
does the NBA want this? Absolutely not. But is there
going to be overwhelming evidence to where they have to
do something.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Now the other owners say, hey, why do we come on?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Yeah? Like like the I think back in the show
Hey thing, the gambling thing, you know, we don't know
all the information. Was there overwhelming evidence? I guess not
because nothing really happened to show Hey or the Dodgers.
But this is this is different because it sounds like
in Pablo, like you said, he's a respectable journalist. If
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it's all sitting there smoking gun? What do you do
if you're out of silver? Like, you have to do
something at that point, don't you.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
You have to do something? Yeah, And everybody's going to
be looking at you saying what are you going to do?
Right to this multi hundred billionaire.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
And what really is? And again we don't know what
the again alleged, but if they do find something here,
what are the penalties for this? And to me, in
having covered the Clippers for as long as I have
twenty plus years, this is the year where you finally
think they have a real chance to win the whole
thing and now this pops up.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
What would the penalty be? Draft picks?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I think, but they don't have any draft picks. That's
a problem. Monetary fine which the lomer doesn't care about that.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
So what do you do? I don't know, suspend Kawhi
Leonard postseason ban, put his uncle in jail, the jail
and the bubble.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Yeah, I don't know what the precedence is for something
like this. Has anybody ever been caught red handed circumventing
the salary cap to this degree? I mean twenty eight
million And it's not like it's a couple million. Twenty
eight million extra on top of what they were already
paying him in salary.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
That's egregious. Yes, what do you think will happen?
Speaker 3 (40:12):
I don't know. That's a great question. Not much, not
munche because again to your point, Adam Silver wants this to.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Go, even if he works for the owners.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Yeah, but if he has to do something, he's going
to want to be be swift with it and just
get it out of there. So if you say postseason
ban here, the Clippers have this great regular season, they
win sixty five games, and now they can't play in
the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
You can't have a postseason ban for a professional team,
can you. It's not like college where you don't get
to play in the Alamo Bowl.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
But to use your word, this is a great if true,
this is egregious, Like I've never heard anything like this.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
What a trip. Yeah, you know, it's not that it's
a real parallel. Maybe it is to you. I don't
know you have experience with this kind of thing as
I do. But I remember arriving at USC and even CAL,
you know, being on scholarship, and being like, wait a minute,
we can't have a job, we can't work. They're like, yeah,
well why not, Well because they used to pay Marcus
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Allen thirty five thousand dollars an hour to mow this
guy's lawn and how many times did he mow the lawn? Never,
so that that kind of thing, and this seems like
that too. Okay, we can't pay you this way, so
we will make sure you get paid that way.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Well I vaguely remember, and we'd have to go look
it up, and I didn't. Maybe I will. After the show,
there was some dialogue about Kawhi Leonard taking a little
bit less than Max to come to the Clippers so
that they could sign a guy like Paul George. So
so do I take a little less on my salary?
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But then I'm making it up this.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Way, not taking really a haircut at all. Right, And
the other interesting part about it is, like Steve Bomber
is a shrewd and savvy business man, maybe one of
the most savvy in modern time right now, why would
he give money to these guys? I mean, these guys
are now bankrupt or whatever. They're frauds. They've admitted this.
There's federal investigations, all this different stuff is going on.
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You're Steve Bomer, You're supposed to be a lot smarter
than that, like Bush. I didn't expect Reggie Bush to
be smarter.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Unless, allegedly it was done for this reason to get
Kawhi Leonard more money. Maybe he knew the company was
going to go up and smoke, but this was a
vehicle to get Kawhi Leonard his full value allegedly.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
I don't think aspirations original aspirations were to be discredited
publicly and globally. But yet here we are. Yeah, planting
trees never seem so complicated. We'll be right back. We've
got word number song final our fun fact. A lot
still going on here on the Petrosen Money Show on
(42:58):
AI SEVENLA Sports, your Home of the Dodgers. Nothing to
see here, that ol TAWI investigation was wrapped up in
five days. It was nothing. Don nothing there, bite your
tongue gambling. I'm shocked, shocked that there's gambling going on here.
(43:18):
You're winning, sir oh, Thank you very much
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