A Walk Your Bike Wednesday (Hour 1) 7/15/26

No Petros or Money today, so it's a special edition of "Hart-Knox" today with Steve Hartman and Jonas Knox. MLB columnist for USA Today Bob Nightengale joins the program to talk about the MLB All-Star weekend. Will there be MLB players in the 2028 Summer Olympics?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Do not adjust your donar.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Petros and Money are taking a well deserved time off.
Can we hear the obligatory gone? Please, mister Jonas Knocks, can.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
You redo that opening statement so I can do it properly?

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Okay, hold on a second.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Here, Welcome to the Petros and Money Show.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Thank Bogging. I'm Steve Hartman. Jonas Knox is with me.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
In fact, listen today you'll hear us again Tomorrow's right,
great honor to be here for PMS.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Over these next couple of days.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
As the guy's taking some time off at a time
when well, pretty much the sports world is taken off,
although the World Cup obviously the finals now that we're
going to get to that a little bit later on,
but an opportunity for Jonas and I to work together.
I'm trying to think back, Jonas, because I can remember
you when you first joined Fox Sports Radio, as I

(01:13):
recall about the lowest level you can actually join Fox Sports.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Correct, Yeah it was I did. I was up by
the way.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
I did.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Want to point this out, and I don't want to
give credit to Dave Weize because Dave Weies and I
have a complicated relationship. It's just I'm still waiting on
that call back. I called the guy back two days ago.
He's been telling me ever since he'll call me back.
He doesn't every time I go buy him, but pretends
like he's on the phone and he's talking to somebody else.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
He's a real ballbuster.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
But Dave Weize kind of accidentally, I think he came
up with this when I got here. He said, Hey,
heart knocks, So how about that for a name?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Hout knocks, and I actually thought of the same thing.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
All right, so here we go.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
It's hard knocks.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Can we call it that?

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Let's go, well, well go heart knocks. Welcome to heart Knocks.
It does make a lot of sense here. It's exciting
to get to hang out with you, Jonas. It's obviously
exciting for us to hang out here on the Petros
and Money show up for the next couple of days.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
I did want to ask you because back in the
early days, you know, you know, working with Sam Boni,
Sam Potsh you know, I was walked into the studio.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
I told Petros's story, and.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
I believe you were in the studio when I walked
in and Pat O'Brien asked me to go get him
a cup of ice, and you can imagine, knowing my personality,
how that went. He did not get the cup of ice. No,
I said, listen, man, I'm not an intern like I
just you know, I was doing on air stuff, all right,
I get the station shut down, I came over. I
just I wanted to be a part of anything. One

(02:41):
foot in is better than two feet out. It was
always been my philosophy. But I'm definitely not, you know,
going to be somebody who's going to be an errand
boy to go get you a cup of ice.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, I've had some extreme hours over the course of
my long career. You are definitely working overtime, my friend.
I mean this is let's say you're on from locally
three to six am am. I right, three to six am.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, one am when I'm looking at it right now,
fresh as the day. That's listen, this is what we do.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
But one am wake up calls.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
You live on naps. You gotta work out in first
thing in the morning, get the blood flowing. And you're
talking sports. And let's be honest here, especially this time
of year, a lot of grab ass, all right, there's
a lot of grab ass going on. So we are here.
We're having a good time. You've also established yourself as
the dominant brand on this show. Heart Knox, You've already

(03:31):
established yourself. Steve is in the big chair, all right,
I'm in the other chair. I started to make my
way over there, and Steve said, sit back down over there, bitch,
And so I was offended by that and insulted that
you would that you would be little me like that.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
All right, well right, this is the show started. You know.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
I found this out when I filled in for Rodney
recently on The Rogan Rodney Show. They have new studios.
That was the first I was here, by the way,
and I don't know if it's exactly how they wanted it,
but it's it's a brand new it.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
It looks really really good.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Look the very first show that was ever done from
this studio, I.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Hosted that list.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
I could see to you legend way back in the
day when it.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Was like wow, because we had left Koreatown, which was
our old studios.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
I mean we were literally working in a closet.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
I mean, like I'm not exaggerating, like a like a
side room closet where I had to sit next to
the person I was co hosting with.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
See before before there were simulcasts and video of radio,
you could really kind of throw anybody anywhere.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
It wouldn't matter.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
We know what, Steve Hartman, you bring back such great
memories of that that hole down in Koreatown that used
to be our home for such a long time.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Do you remember it well?

Speaker 2 (04:45):
I remember studio, so we were in like essentially was
a side room. It was just a straight table and
like when Michael eventually joined me, Michael Thompson, he would
sit next to me, and then we could see Vic
the brick on the other side to the window doing
the updates.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
And I remember, I remember, Steve, there was a time where.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
We tried to put Vic inside the inside the same
little closet studio with you, but that didn't work.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
That that obviously didn't work for.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
So we had this rotation to the co host and
I we had Tommy Losorta in the co host with
me one day, and I had gotten pretty close to Tommy,
and of course he walks in.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
The first thing, you want to what's need? What? What
do you have? Any foods?

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Aloss of wine?

Speaker 2 (05:28):
So I'm like, come on, guys, go get him some
of the those a little Italian place around the corner.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
He just wanted some pizza.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
So we're about to get on the air, and all
of a sudden, I hear this and I look over.
Tommy's like choking on a piece of pizza. I'm like,
am I gonna have to do Heimlich right now?

Speaker 1 (05:42):
On Tommy Lasorda. I don't know how you feel about it.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
I'm not.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
I'm not an eater on the air.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
You known't. I can't. I can't do it. I never
leave my seat. You know. People are like, do you
ever have to go to the bathroom?

Speaker 3 (05:53):
I go.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
No, I usually go before the show.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
That's the idea, so you don't have to. I have
had co hosts over the years that literally eat through
the entire shop. I have one on Sundays right now
during the entire show. You've just seen Rich Hornberger.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Down in Sandy. Yeah, that guy ate through the entire
year show.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
It's uh yeah. They listen to each their own. Man,
But we are here again. I just and I'm Ronnie.
I don't know how you felt about it, but but
Steve saying, get back over there, bitch to me this.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Ronnie knows I would never send a line from from
the great Steve Hartman. Yeah, you know what that does
sound out a character.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
For taking very much right. I know I would never
do that to my beloved Jonas Knox. All right, Jonas,
Uh did you watch.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
The All Star Game? Lest course? Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Look, I thought that the the star of the All
Star Game was sort of the events that took place.
I thought because Petros and I were on the air
when they did the Declaration of Independence with the starting,
I thought that was pretty cool, great touch. I thought
it was a great touch, really creative.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
I would love to see the signatures, though, because today's
autographs aren't what they used to be.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yeah, we look, we were talking about that earlier. Today
most a lot of people don't know how to write
cursive anymore.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
No, they don't. It's a scribble.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Just to remember when Tom Brady got so much crap
for his scribble and like, what's this?

Speaker 1 (07:05):
I pay?

Speaker 3 (07:05):
You know, a thousand dollars or this? Ahead of his time, man,
he knew where the world was trending. So I thought
that was a good a good look. I also, I
want to get a feather pen. That's my new thing
that I'm looking out for. I think that's a classic look.
The colonial vibe to it all was awesome. You know,
the Sandlot, you know, thing that they did where they
incorporated at I mean it felt a little bit for uced,

(07:26):
but I liked the idea. They really went for it.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
The game sucked. I just you know, you Sanchez, who had.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Well, you have like forty seven consecutive scoreless innings like
batting practice, and it just Cody Bellinger obviously the big
blow and you know, three nothing first inning, all right,
you know, top of the I was sort of happy, okay,
because you looked at the America League lineup and compared
to the National League lineup, you like, wow. I mean
there are guys, this is honestly the problem for there

(07:55):
were years Jonas when I used to go to the
All Star Games and cover the All Star Games.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
I remember in two thousand and four, I was in Houston.
Was the first year. I remember we were at the
home run Durby the day before.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
All the players on the field, I'm looking around and
I realized half of these guys I don't even know.
I mean at that point I stopped calling it the
All Star Game and called it the some Star Game.
I mean Summer Stars. There are other guys than the
so and there's just the rosters are so massive. The
introductions just went on and it seemed like every team
had four or five guys representing their teams.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
So Buster Only was talking about this on ESPN, and
he was, you know, making the point that he's worried
about the future of the All Star Game just based
on how many opt outs there were. And you know,
he said, well, you know, the most of the crowd
left after you know, the eighth inning, and it's like, well,
what do you want to do?

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Stick it out? Because they paid for the ticket. When
the game.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Sucks, of course they want to get out of there,
go get a drink. And it was dragging on and
on and on, and I look at it and I'm
not as concerned about the Major League Baseball All Star
Game as I would have been for the Pro Bowl
or the NBA All Star Game, because I still think
that while it is a star driven sport, like every
sport is, you can replicate a baseball game in the

(09:10):
All Star format better than you can any other league
that's trying to do it to where in the NBA
it sucks. I mean, the All Star Game sucks, the NFL,
the Pro Bowl competition whatever they were doing up in
San Francisco while they were dodging drug addicts on the
street to try and put on some flag football double
dares set up and see the whole thing was a disaster.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
At least with baseball, you can.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Replicate that guys are still gonna throw ninety eight to
one hundred and two. They're still gonna and to me,
that's why I'm not as worried about it. I just
think this is probably what we're gonna see based on
how the schedules work for most of these guys going
into the b It is.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Strictly an exhibition game.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
It's a lot different than the old days when it
was nationallygue American League, where the leagues were literally separate leagues,
and the only time that you can see the best
of the best of the two leagues was that the
All Star Game the World Series.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
That was the only time. I know, those days are
long gone.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Here's one of the couple of things I've talked about
with the All Star Game. One of the problems I
have of the All Star Game now Showhy obviously did
not play because he's getta his knee drained, and the
Dodgers are making the right move.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
They need him on the field.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
I know Major League Baseball wasn't happy about it because
their biggest star warn't at the game. But here's what
I don't understand. Like, you know, when Cody Bellinger got
his MVP, he still had his Yankee uniform on.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
He actually because he came out of the game.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
And most of these guys, they come out of the game,
they get back in their street clothes.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
They don't stay in their uniform.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
And they said, no, no, no, Stave, you might get the MVP,
like he had the two run single, you might get MVP.
So he was kidding about the fact that he was
still in his uniform except his award.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
But here's one thing.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
I would do with the All Star Game. Understand that
is purely an exhibition game. Let's say show, hey, Otani
is your starting lineup, right, he gets a couple of
bats from the leadoff spot or in this case.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Kyles Schwerber, you know who was a local guy. He
gets a couple of bats.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
If the game's on the line late in the game,
bring him back. Yeah, like you you can bring one
or two guys back in as a pinch hitter. Or whatever,
so that you could have your biggest stars, the starters,
the guys are the because by the end of the game,
you got a bunch of guys that are like, who
are these people? I don't even know who these people are,
But you would have that option limited to bring somebody back,

(11:21):
like in a situation where the games on the line
were a big name could have that opportunity to be
a hero.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Do you think though, that those guys would want to
do that, Well, of course they probably would because I
think about remember last year at the All Star Game.
It was they had a home runoff to where they
they didn't want to go. The game was tied, and
then schwarbrad to hit home runs and the reason why
they they picked the guys that they picked, and I
think Dave Roberts was trying to explain why he picked
the guy.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
It's because a lot of the other guys had already left.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, They're going, hey, why do you have so and
so in or Aaron Judge, what why are these guys
doing It's like, oh, well, we felt like, you know,
this was an opportunity, Like no, they already left, like
they went whatever party they were going to or the americanly.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Used eleven pitchers in nine innies. It's like eleven pictures.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
So yeah, I look, I think it is. It's an
exhibition game, but at least it's not like the other ones.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
And well, the other ones don't exist anymore.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
The NBA All Star Game is no longer obviously, the
Pro Bowl's gone. NHL has been using some weird All
Star format for years.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
This is the last legitimate All Star game.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
I mean, it was a nice night for ex Dodgers.
I mean, Bellinger wins MVP, Miguel Vargas hit a tank,
I'm a large game. I just that's why. And we
talk about this all the time, but it bears repeating
whenever stuff like this pops up, to where even on
the biggest stage, the ex Dodgers are still starring to

(12:48):
where you like, you look at what's happened with Kyle Tucker.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
It's just not working.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
It's not working. Yeah, clearly doesn't working.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
You know that he is scheduled to make over eighty
million dollars next year. I mean, I mean a lot
of it's deferred, but that's actual salary.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
You know, the guy that they wanted out. Uh, because
I've talked to Fred about this, because Fred fred any
opportunity he gets to take a shot at Michael Confordo
because it didn't work out here with Michael Confordo. Michael
Confordo's having a better year part time than Kyle Tucker is,
who's a starter, Like what's Edwin dian is doing? So
But like you see that even the former guys who

(13:21):
they walked away from are are starring other places, are
having great careers or or season you know, career years
and other places. And it just like it tells you
when people from a national perspective or when people talk
about well they just go out and they buy everybody
and they do this. They're spending all this money. Sure

(13:42):
they also find talent, develop talent, and have a way
that they operate that is better than anybody else. And
it's not really even close to where anybody else in
the league is doing what they're doing.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
What's why everybody hates LA except for us, of course,
we really don't care.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
And this gets back to the decision to have show
set out. People are like whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
whoa whoa whoa. Even though he didn't pitch down, he
was still DH.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
He hit a home run to lead off the game
the other day, how and he was picked to the
All Star Game as a DH.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Why is he not out there as the DH.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
And the Dodgers are like, no, screw you, I mean
we we need his arm. Okay, you might have missed it.
Snell's been out, Glasnow's been out. You know, we got
a bunch of guys that were not originally in our
plans to be in our starting rotation hanging on right now.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Eric Lawer's in our rotation at this point. So we
need we need him healthy.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
So if we can give him a few days off,
drain this knee and get him back, We're gonna do that.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
And he's in his thirties and he's already dealt with
injuries through the course of year. You've got to manage
this the right way. You've got to manage this properly.
So I don't begrudge Dave Roberts or the Dodgers for
doing that. I get it that. You know, some fan
in Philadelphia might have paid top dollar because they wanted
to see all the stars show out. I don't know

(15:01):
what to tell you, man, Like tell the Phillies to
get better. I don't know, like, don't start off the
season on a twelve game losing streak like he did.
If you're really relying on Dave Roberts to make sure
your baseball dreams come true, that's your problem. They're handling
this exactly the way that they should. And I also
don't when players are opting out man a lot of
like Zach Wheeler for the Phillies. He's like, oh, I

(15:22):
don't want to be the fifth option, so I turned
down the invitation to the All Star Game. It's like,
all right, you've already been to three. What was that?
It just what was that about? Like, if you want
to have a I would understand having more of a
problem with that than somebody like Otani who didn't take
part because they're worried about the second half of the season.
This guy literally was given an opportunity and rejected it.

(15:43):
Had it been his first I think he probably would
have accepted it. But he's already been there a couple
of times. Players are going to make and this isn't
like this is a new fad or a new trend.
I remember hearing a story when the Pro Bowl was
in Honolulu one of the years that the Cowboys won
because back then the Pro Bowl was the weekend after
the Super Bowl, and part of Roger Goodell's big selling

(16:04):
point on moving the Pro Bowl earlier was well, we
don't want the last game of the year to be
an exhibition game, which I guess I kind of get.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
He wants it to be the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
All that's fine, But Troy Aikman, one of the years
that the Cowboys won the Super Bowl and went to
the Pro Bowl, he left the game at halftime. He
literally caught a flight home from Honolulu at halftime because
he wanted to start his offseason. So it's not like
this is a new thing where stars aren't showing or
don't want to be a part of it. I think

(16:32):
they've always recognized it's an exhibition. If there's an opportunity
to start your break or your offseason sooner, you're going
to take advantage of it. With baseball, I just don't
think it impacts the game as much as maybe some
people think.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
I think Mickey Mannal told the story in nineteen sixty seven,
is next to the last season, and he's really struggling
physically at that point.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
It was a fifteen inning game in Anaheim.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Okay, so he came up as a pinch hitter at
some point of the game and he hit the local bar.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
I mean he was long.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
So it's not again, it's not like this is new.
I mean we you know back in those days, you
know where.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Was the local bar was?

Speaker 3 (17:06):
It was it brewery X across the street?

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Was it?

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Like what are we talking about.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
I actually had a chance to meet him one time.
He was great. I mean he never he might have
met bones about the way he just operated, you know,
he just he admitted like you know, they would say like,
well I didn't really you know, I would drink in
the evening, Like yeah, that was the thing when they
would you drink at lunch. He goes, not like wine
or something, you know, well that's actually alcohol.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
No, that's not alcohol that he's serious about it. It's like,
well I don't count that, you know, as a lunch thing.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
I mean, this it's a long years, a long year.
He was have a couple of throat burners. He was
in a lot of pain of those things.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
All right.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
So bottom line here is if the if the Baseball
All Star Game Jonas were to just disappear, would you
miss it?

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yes, yeah, I enjoy it. I do enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
NBA no Pro Bowl. Uh, don't even get me started
on you know how much I miss a Loha Stadium
and all that. I love the Pro Bowl, I love
I love being out there, but yeah, I would miss it.
I like the All Star Game, and so you're gonna
get second tier stars to be a part of it.
They're still playing actual baseball because you can replicate it.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
One quick note, the great Steve Garvey still burns me
inside that he's not in the Hall of Fame. His
first All Star Game nineteen seventy four was down in
San Diego. He gets voted in as a write in.
So Garvey just exploded on the scene. Not only does
he as the MVP of that All Star Game, he
played the entire game.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
That's tremendous.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
He played.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Willy Mays, he would play that way. You're gonna pull
Willie Mays out of the line. No, your stars played
nine innies. Yeah, you got a couple of guys on
the bench.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Sit there. You know you're not gonna come in. We're
not gonna put Willy Mays on the bench.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
That's why I get back to bringing guys back into
the game, the stars, the big names that were put in.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
If they're there and they're into it, yeah, why not.
I just wonder how many of those guys are gonna
bail early because they want to start their other break.
So yeah, well, uh, we got to talk to somebody
that can break this all day?

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, you ready to talk to Bob and I'm ready?

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Oh Sweet Night and game Yeah, Sweet nine and Gale,
Bob Night Andale of USA. Danny is going to join.
It's not only were going to talk about the All
Star Game and maybe a few things that can be
tinkered with with the All Star Game to make it
even more appealing. But looming, of course, is what's going
to happen after this All Star break, and that is
collective bargaining Agreements A is going to be expiring at

(19:27):
the end of the year. Can the owners and the
players get on the same page and get a deal done?
Steve Harbin, Jonas Knox and for Petros and money. This
is a in five seventy LA Sports.

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Speaker 2 (20:10):
You are listening to the Petros and Money show ams,
but pms, Petros Money aren't here right now.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yours, truly, Steve Harbor, along with a great.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
Jonas Knox, we are hanging out not only today, but
we're gonna hang out tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
Now. I know that you talked to Pee quite a bit.
Do you have any clue what the guys are doing
over the next couple.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Of days as far as what do you mean are
they hanging out or are they just taking day?

Speaker 4 (20:35):
So?

Speaker 1 (20:35):
I mean, what what do they do on their day sauce?

Speaker 3 (20:37):
So, like I've heard rumblings about you know, money uh
maybe being in Hawaii. I think Petros is at the
Mountain West Media days in Vegas. I think he went
to Vegas for that, so he's, uh, you know, going
to catch up with guys like luminaries like Timmy Chang,
you know, and and a couple of new members of
the uh of the Mountain West. So I mean, look,

(20:59):
this is hey. People spend their off time in different places.
You know, they like to like to bounce it around,
and Matt's out surfing and Petrous's you know, grinding in Vegas,
you know, in smoke filled casinos.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
So more power to them.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Are we all ready to bring on the great Bob
Nightingale because joining us right now is a man that
has covered baseball for.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
A long time.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
I've talked about many times over these many many years, Jonas,
and it's great to have on the man from USA today.
Of course, he's worked for everyone, including the LA Times
back in the day, the great Bob Knight and Gale. Bob,
Steve Harvin here along with Jonas knocks. How you doing today, Bob?

Speaker 4 (21:37):
Yeah, I'm doing great. Good to your boys again.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
And it's great to hear you as well, Bob.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
All right, So before we get to the future of
Major League Baseball, Jonas and I were talking about the
All Star Game, and you know, I thought they did
a pretty good job in Philadelphia.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
We like the signing routine, you know, but that was
sort of cool.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
And but you know, Bob, you and I go back
to a time one you know, it was Nationally versus
America League. There was clear divisions between the two leagues.
That in the World Series, but the only time you
got to see the best of the best of the
two leagues on the same field at the same time.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
We've seen the end of the Pro Bowl.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
We've seen the end of the NBA All Star Game,
the NHL All Star Game died years ago. Would you
do anything to help save the Baseball All Star Game?
Or are you convinced that the way it's formated right
now is good enough to hang on for the next
twenty thirty fifty years.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
Well, you'd wish the players wouldn't back out of it,
you know. I know some managers and I think dam
Roberts him alluded to it, like, hey, if you don't
play an end, if you don't show up.

Speaker 6 (22:41):
You shouldn't get your All Star bonus.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
You know, you should you get a thing in your
resume that you made the All Star team, you know,
that sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
I think that's why.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
Rob Manford in the Commissioner's office said, Okay, if you
guys want to do Olympics, that's fine, but you back out.
You know you're not gonna play for three weeks, give
me us a spinning list for Major League Baseball, you know,
and that sort of thing. So that's a part. Too
many players.

Speaker 6 (23:04):
Back out, and it's you know, it's not the same.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
I don't think we've ever had the same We're not
going to have the days of you know, Pete Rose
not going to over Ray Fosse that that sort of thing,
and not having the big speeches by former ALE and
n All players say hey, we got to win this
win for pride. You don't think people have really, you know,
even realize. Okay, you know who won the last few
All Star Games West streak. You know, nobody really cares.

(23:30):
It's just all kind of blended together.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
Bob, we were talking about just sort of the differences
between the MLB All Star Game and say, you know,
the NFL and the Pro Bowl or the NBA All
Star Game, And in my mind, it's the best all
star game. Major League Baseball's All Star Game is the
best of the bunch because you can replicate an exhibition
baseball game. You can't really replicate an exhibition NFL game,

(23:52):
and the intensity of the NBA All Star Game just
isn't there. But have you noticed any sort of a
maybe there's a disinterest just from when you started covering baseball,
started going and covering the event to now that would
make you concerned about what the future could look like
for it.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
Yeah, I mean, like you said, it's so by far
the best one, you know in the NFL, it was
kind of abandoned it. You know, Hockey is you know,
done completely different, you know, even the NBA with their
different things with the quarters and stuff like that. So
I'm not sure you know what you could do unless
you just say, you know what, may what the winning
players get, you know, two hundred thousand dollars, losing player

(24:34):
gets nothing, you know, that sort.

Speaker 6 (24:36):
Of thing, you know, And I think it did kind
of you know.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
People made fun of it. This game shouldn't count when
when whoever you know, won the All Star Game at
the siding home field a bandage, you know, at least
that was something. So yeah, they're just so little incentive
or really no incentive to win these All Star games,
you know. Bob.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
I was sharing the story with Jonas Steve Garvey's first
All Star game in Sandy in seventy four, he was
a writing candidate. Not only was the MVP of the game,
he played all nine innings. Bob and so, one of
the suggestions I've had, and I don't know if the
players would ever go for this, but the idea of
bringing somebody back into the game, like let's use Show
Hey as an example.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
Let's say Show he had played in this game.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
He's batting lead off, gets a couple of bats in,
and then he's done for the day. Maybe he gets
out of his clothes. But I would like to reserve
the possibility maybe one player, two players. Where the game's
now in the ninth inning, games on the line, it's
a one run game, and we have an option to
bring somebody back into the game. Okay, I know you
can't do this in a regular game, but it is

(25:39):
an exhibition game.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
A would you.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Buy into something like that? Be do you think any
player would go along with that? Because I think Cody
Bellinger said it best when he got the MVP where
you're still in his Yankee uniform and they said, you know,
there's a chance he could be the MVP. Maybe stay
in your uniform instead of getting back in your street clothes.
But something like that. Would that appeal to you or
that's just two outrageous.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
No, I just a good idea, I really do. I mean,
why not they because you kind of want to let
everybody play. But say it's the key moments to the
games tied in the ninth or tenth inning. Well, you know,
now they have a home run derby, but instead of
doing that, you know, let's let the stars come back.
That would prevent actually a lot of players from leaving.
So you know, I'm not sure they go. You know,

(26:24):
when you win that clubhouse after the games, you don't
have to half the teams are gone. So but no,
that that would be cool do something like that. I mean,
as it is, you know, the the two managers have
to designate a few hitters in case there is a
home run derby to decide it, you know, like like
last year. So uh, but yeah, I mean I think
two with Bellinger what he said, it also shows you,

(26:46):
you know howped All that game was yesterday in the
sense where he gets a two run two runs single
the first inning and the a hold on you might
be the m v P. It was that kind of night.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
Bob Knight and Gil joining us here on a five
seventy l A Sports Steve Hartman Jonas knocks in for
Petro some money, So you know, obviously we're gonna Steve
and I will get into this a little bit later on,
but what are your vibes or your feelings in talking
with people around the league about whether or not we're
going to have a season next year, whether or not
it's going to start on time. With all the stuff

(27:16):
out there, whether it's the owners, the players association, from
people you've talked with, what's sort of the expectation for
how this thing.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Is going to go?

Speaker 4 (27:27):
Well, well, I think we'll definitely have a season. It's
just a question, you know, how long is it.

Speaker 6 (27:33):
I still think it will be a minimum of one hundred.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
And forty games. I want to be shocked with one
sixty two. But you know, the last time was a
nine nine day lockout in twenty twenty one and just
you know, barely you know, barely got in these and
double hitters and things like that started late. I think
you know, one thing, as you talked to both sides,
is okay, it's going to probably take one missed paycheck,

(27:57):
find the players to see how they react. Is it
going to be pay are think stays wrong? And then
the owner says said, okay, they're not budging you, and
then maybe they'll move off the salary cap. But the
censor's weakness, you know, it may go on for a
little while, but I think you know, nothing big is
going to happen unless there's a serious threat. If not

(28:17):
an actual miss paycheck, you know, in which you don't
you get paid every two weeks, so you're talking about
two weeks after the season starts.

Speaker 6 (28:24):
You know that would be laid by that, and then
of course you get this pre training.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Well, for those of us that were around Bob back
in nineteen ninety four and I was down in San
Diego doing our show when they shut down the season.
Tony Gwyn of course was hitting three ninety four at
the time. We were talking about a possible four hundred season.
And what people may forget is the season the next
season nineteen ninety five, missed eighteen games and they still
didn't have this thing resolved to even start the next

(28:50):
season on time. The idea of a salary cap is
is a deal breaker. I mean, the players will never
go this, Bob, you know as well as I do.
Not only is the MLB Players Union the strongest union
in sports, this is the strongest union in America.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
They never break rank ever.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
And so you know, I think the owners are gonna
have to figure out an alternative here. And part of
it is just figuring out some kind of revenue share
because we know that you know, we have spectrum here.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
We got Yes Network with the Yankees.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
There are certain teams that are bringing a whole lot
more as far as their television deals are concerned than
some other teams that have no television deals at all.
But there, if you're sitting there at the players that
are like, you know, this is this is really a
problem amongst you owners to figure out how you can
you know, share some of the wealth that you have
amongst you. Yes, somebody are more rich, Well, you have
to share it, just like the NFL agreed, you know,

(29:43):
many many years ago.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
With Pete Roselle to share all the television.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Network money equally, so everyone's on an equal playing field.
And I guess from the player standpoint, I think that's
what they're looking at.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Say, don't look at us. I mean, I know you're
trying to paint us out to be the.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Bad guys here, but you need to get your house
and order before you come back to us with some
kind of proposal.

Speaker 4 (30:04):
Well yeah, I mean it's something that's been going on forever.
I mean, look at the owner's latest proposal. That proposal
has every team sharing the TV money equally, So the
Dodgers are.

Speaker 6 (30:15):
Sharing their three hundred thirty million dollars.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
With the Brewers who are getting about twenty twenty five million.
Now that's only if the players, you know, take a
salary cap. If you know, no salary cap. The owners
aren't sharing. So you know, you can understand both sides.
I can understand why the small market teams will let
to get one of that TV money. But then the
large market teams are saying, wait a minute. Now, you

(30:37):
know we just paid you know, two billion dollars for
our team. You spent you know, two hundred million dollars
for by years. You know they shouldn't be equal. You know,
the Yankees and Dodgers shouldn't have to have equal value
as Milwaukee Brewers. You know, it's not It's not the NFL,
you know, with the Packers, you know, the nb AS,
big as uh, you know, the Rams or something else.
You know, it's just you know that horses on the barn.

(31:00):
So yeah, I know you're saying, Steve, and I think
the owners are trying to jump on what happened in
twenty one. In twenty one, member the executive committee of
the eight guys said hey, we're not returning to play.
We wanted to keep negotiating. Then they went to rank
and file went to all thirty teams and the teams
go to twenty six to four way manue now we're
playing so I team. They're kind of trying to feed

(31:22):
off that said, Okay, if that kind of worked in
twenty one, maybe it'll work now. I think they realized
this is our probably their best and last chance for
a salary cap and say, if it works, And that's
why I think they're going to, you know, right now,
at the minimum salary you know, is seven hundred eight thousand,
I think they're going to jump that thing up to
at least one point two million. At one point two five,

(31:45):
I think the arbitration guys will be a bigger pool.
I think pre agency will drop down to five years
instead of six if you're a thirty year older. So
I think they're going to try to get the lower
class in the middle class to agree with them. Bruce
Meyers said the other day in this meeting, it's that,
you know, that's what you know owners do, not just

(32:05):
baseball but all sports, is you know, kind of dibide
and try to trying to pit the the young guys
and middle class against the rich players.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Bob Nightingale joining us here from USA today on AM
five seventy LA Sports, Steve Hartman Jonas Knox in for
Petro some money. So I want to ask you because
obviously there was a trade that went down in Major
League Baseball earlier to where you had Lance McCullers go
from Houston to Milwaukee. Not the biggest blockbuster trade there is,
but we are getting to the point in the year

(32:36):
where now teams are trying to figure out where they stand.
And I'm just wondering how much has the wild card
impacted what teams are going to do at this deadline
because obviously out here the Dodgers there's been trek Skuble,
but now Detroit's, you know, maybe a little bit back
into the mix. Where what are you hearing from people

(32:57):
in and around the league about how active this summer
could be a trade standpoint?

Speaker 6 (33:02):
Well, yeah, I mean just say, you know, what's going
to happen the next three weeks. They're really going to
decide everything. The trouble is, you get about you know,
twenty three, twenty four teams still in this thing, in
all about two teams in the American League. So if
you're a nationally team, if you want to be realistic,
you know, instead just trying to get in the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
So you got to think, Okay, do we have enough,
you know, should we go for it? Do we have
enough to beat up the Dodgers, the Ahillies or Atlanta
you know, you know, three three huge teams obviously lived
by the Dodgers in the American League. You say, you
know what, we just get in the dance. We're okay
because there's no there's not one super team in the
American League. You know, then they don't have a Dodgers

(33:41):
in the American League. So, uh, I think it's all
going to come down to what happens here, you know,
in these you know, these next two three weeks. I
think it's gonna be tough. You'll take a Trek Schooble.
If you're the Tigers and you're within like three games
of wild card spot, I don't know how the world
you can trade r at Schooble. You got to go
for this thing. Uh, you know, you know that, you know,

(34:04):
people bring up that Angels, but the Angels want about
four games back and you know in that wild card race,
and it didn't make sense at the time. So but
I think in the entires case, you know, you look
at a week to Al centralist and how weak to
AL is in general. Why you know, why not why
not go for it?

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Well, I tell you what I think we can all
agree on this, Bob.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
Baseball is in a good spot right now in terms
of the popularity of the sport.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
You know, I'm old school, but the pitch clock has
been genius.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
I mean, to cut the games down from three hours
plus the two and a half hours has been great
for the sport.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
It's a TikTok sport.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Young people are into baseball, and to screw this whole
thing up, you got to come to some result from
the player's side, from the owner's side. Figure this out,
don't screw it up, because right now things are great
in baseball. Things always good with Bob Nightingale. Bob, it's
great to catch up with again. Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
Sure my pleasure.

Speaker 6 (34:56):
Thank you guys. Take care.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
That's Bob Nightingale USA today.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
So we can only hope Jonahs that they can figure
this thing out because we do not want to. I mean,
obviously greater things are great here in Dodgers Lamb, but
just in general, baseball is in a good spot.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
I don't know, I mean, look, we're gonna get into
it later, but a lot more optimistic than I am.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
I'm keeping my fingers crossed right now, all right, much
more coming up Steve Harbin, Jonas Knox in for Petras
some Money. This is AM five to seventy l A
Sports Lost Time.

Speaker 5 (35:42):
The Petrols and Money Show, podcasted at A five seventy
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Speaker 3 (36:00):
Night.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Please don't talk about see, please don't talk about true.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
It's a Petros and Money show here and five to
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Speaker 1 (36:17):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
He's Steve Hartman, I'm Jonas Knox in for the guys.
By the way, coming up here a little over ten
minutes from now. We've got ourselves a little bit of
a hostage situation in the world of sports that we
are very familiar with, all of us. So we will
get into that for you again a little over ten
minutes from now.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
All right.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
So apparently there's some support, all right, some support at least,
I know a lot of conversations about what's going on
between the MLB, the owners and the players, but apparently
there's been some support from owners to allow the Big
League players to participate in the Olympics for the first time.

(36:56):
There's disagreements with the MLB Players Association, according to ES
over hotel rooms, tickets, and mandatory participation agreement have complicated
their involvement in the twenty twenty eight Los Angeles game.
Sources said, but it does feel like there's that stuff
can be figured out. It feels like that stuff can

(37:18):
be figured out, and we might get to a point
where we're going to be seeing some of these stars
at the Olympics here.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Well why not?

Speaker 2 (37:23):
I mean, you know, it's funny you talked about the
accommodations there, Jonas, So when the Dream Team went to Barcelona,
Barcelona back in nineteen ninety two, did you think they
were going to stay at the Olympic village, you know,
bunking up with other Olympians.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
It was never going to happen.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
They're handing out like, you know, five hundred thousand condoms,
you know, that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
No, they were not going to do that. They had
to have their own, separate accommodations. You know, every other
sport is allowed in the Olympics. You know, we have tennis,
we have golf, you know, the NHL obviously participates in
the Olympic Games NBA not I mean Major League Baseball players.
If that's a dream of yours to you know, compete

(38:04):
for a gold medal, it's not going to change your legacy.
That's That's the one thing that sort of gets to
me as a guy that can swallowed the Olympics forever
and ever and ever. To me, the Olympics are still
about summer games, or about track and fields, about swimming, gymnastic,
you know, sports where you make your name based on
what you do at the Olympics. You know, the Michael
Phelps of the world, the Saying Bolts of the world,

(38:25):
they make their name by what they do at the
Olympic Games. No one thinks back and say, hey, you know,
Carmelo Anthony was a three time gold medalist. You know
now it's like a guy never won an NBA championship,
scored a lot of points, he won a championship in Syracuse.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
We don't think about that. You know, no one looks
at golf.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
For tennis, it's either you win a Grand Slam tournament,
you win a major. That's how your career is judge.
Same thing as far as baseball, but part of it is.
And you mentioned this jonas the success of the World
Baseball Classic.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
You know, I wasn't so convinced that it would actually
have legs.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
But we're seeing more more of the top players in
the United States when you participate in the World Baseball Classic.
Our buddy John Paul Morosi, I mean, you know, he's
fall on into this full thing.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
He loves at WBC.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
And so I think that it's trending in that direction,
where you know, with so many of the international stars
now excelling at the major league level, when you have
a show, hey Otani, I mean just between Otani and Yamamoto,
let's see two years with the Dodgers, two backpack championships,
seven and zero postseason series. That tells you a lot
about their impact on the Dodgers organization.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
So now I certainly have no problem with it makes
a lot of sense.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
And also I think that baseball lends to something like
an Olympics or a World Baseball Classic for being successful
because you do have so many players internationally, they're already
stars in the US. And you know, if you want to,
you know, talk about the World Cup and the start,
there's a lot of people who are just now finding
out about who Holland is, who some of these other

(39:56):
you know, legendary players are, how great Messy is with
what he did earlier. Today, there's a lot of people
that are just now new to this where if you've
been following baseball and you've been watching this, you know
about the Japanese popularity, you know about them starting the
year in Japan last year. So they've really leaned into
this because I think there is an opportunity to where, look,

(40:17):
we could have some really really competitive games at events.
When the Dream Team first came round, it was basically
just a showcase of America to.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Where everybody, well, we had lost the gold medal in
the eighty eight games.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
We didn't want to lose. We didn't want to lose
the gold medal. So we said, well, screw this.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
We're not gonna have these professionals from these other countries against.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Our college players. We're gonna put our best on the court.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
Do you remember there was some pushback to where people thought, man,
why is Christian Ladner getting the spot and not Shaquille O'Neil,
because that's really gonna stop them from winning the gold,
Like that'll be what really It's like, what are we
talking to you?

Speaker 1 (40:51):
And I could have been the twelfth Man.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
We would be good walking around with gold medals. So
I look at it and I think to myself, all right,
so you have all of these international stars that are
already here. You get the USA against Japan, against Venezuela,
who won the World Baseball Classic, against Mexico Italy. Like,

(41:14):
to me, this is another one of these no brainers.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
Would you do this with the All Star Game?

Speaker 2 (41:19):
I mean they're doing it with the NBA All Star Game,
right with the international stars versus the American stars?

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Would you do something like that with baseball? No?

Speaker 3 (41:29):
No. I still like the ALNL Like I still like that.
I know that interleague plays kind of, you know, diminished
some of the appeal to get to see these guys
play each other one time a year, But I still
like the ALNL approach to it all. And I also think,
you know, every team gets represented, which is something you
know you can see your favorite team player from every team.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
By the way, this has been around since the beginning
of time, the idea that every team has to be
I remember, I'll never aget. The Dodgers had a ninety
nine loss season in the early nineties. It was the
worst year of Tommy Lasorda's run, and the Dodgers represented
it was the Lake great Mike Sharperson.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
He wasn't even literally a starting player.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
He was sort of a utility guy for the Dodgers,
and so when he got in it as a Dodger
fan my whole life, I'm watching this having watched All
Star Games, and it was like the fact that no
knock on Mike Sharperson, but it was sort of a
reminder like your team sucks, but you still.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Have to have a guy.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
It's like, yeah, yeah, that's That's always been a little
goofy to me because there's just so many you know,
we want to make sure every team is represented.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
It's like, well you don't have to, Like that's really
not necessary.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
Really's not It's like, trust me, if you are represented
by one of those bad teams and you having a
bad year and they just have to pick somebody on
your team, it's almost a reminder like, yeah, we suck.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
Yeah we're awful, and he's he's the best we've got
that could make the roster. But I look, the World
Baseball Classic has gotten better every time around. I would
be open minded to the idea of them doing that
even more.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
I think it was every three years.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Now it had even on a consistent schedule, it's like
three years, four years.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Yeah, So I think if there's a chance that we
can get this, Like, look, they're arguing about hotel rooms, Okay,
Like if it was players are like, well let us
use peds or else we're not going to participate. Then
I can understand there being a disagreement. But we're talking
about hotel rooms and and just particular.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Yeah, but if you're in the Olympic village, Jonahs, unlimited condoms,
that is true, unlimited.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
So if you're into making balloon animals and do what
you need to do with with somebody you find attractive
or maybe not attractive, you just had a few, two
many that night, there's something for you.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
It's also.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
If we're talking about the Olympics at like how far
are we spreading out, you know, to host some of
these events, Like how far how far are some of
these athletes going to be staying away from LA When
it comes to that, I mean, well.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
You also have to figure out the break in the season, right,
that's the whole point. If you have the Olympics. Is
that a year where you canceled the All Star Game.
That's what they did with the NHL All Star Game.
You know where you you you would have to find
a spot during the summer, during the season for them
to be gone for a week or more to participate

(44:18):
in the Olympic Games, and you would most likely do
it during the All Star break, so it would be
in an extended All Star Bay. But in the meantime,
you canceled the All Star Game for that year only
when you have the Olympic Games.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
So we would get no All Star Game.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
No All Star Game in an Olympic year. All right,
I'll tell you what, I'll split the difference. You want
to get rid of the All Star Game, that's fine.
Can we do Olympic style home run Derby?

Speaker 1 (44:39):
All right?

Speaker 3 (44:39):
Like, let's we're talking gas up the four best from
you know whatever you want to go, continent you want
to go?

Speaker 1 (44:45):
Like, let's are you still into the home Runner? I
love the home run Derby?

Speaker 3 (44:49):
How do you not like the home run Derby?

Speaker 2 (44:50):
Actually it was great to watch the Philly fans boom
watching their boys Schoreber go down and flames.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Bryce Harper brought up the point, why don't we them
to use metal bats? Now, it's dangerous if you spent
any time going to a sporting good store recently and
you walk in there to see the aluminum bats section.
These things are gassed up to hit tanks. So we're
talking six hundred foot bombs some of these guys.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
I was covering All Star games.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
I was in Seattle and oh one, I was in
Chicago in three uh when guys were juiced out of
their gore.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
Those home run derbys were.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Freaking al So the one in Boston, if I'm not mistaken,
didn't they do something with the baseball to.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Make it fly? Forest? I think that was. I think
that was fort the bats man.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Just look, get Sammy So's out there, cork those bats.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
You already had Mark McGuire pissing hot, and so you decided,
let's go ahead and do something with the baseball so
we can make it fly. Oh three in Chicago pooh holes.
We all have our theories about pooh hooles. In Saint Louis,
we never forgive. We didn't look the same when you
put that angel, but he was. I'm telling it. It

(46:03):
was unreal.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
I mean everything. Five to fifty plus. Oh, I mean
five to fifty plus. It's awesome. I was in the stratosphere.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
If you think about the dunk contest, there's something about
the home run derby that's still to me. I find entertaining.
The dunk contest, we've seen virtually every dunk. We've seen
virtually every dunk. We don't know who a lot of
these guys are, but at least with the home run derby, hey,
these are.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
The guys that are hitting bombs now.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
Some of the guys have actually turned down the opportunity
to be a part of the home run Derby. I
know Dodger fan favorite Pete crow Armstrong, he turned it down.
They've asked him and he just said, I don't think
my swing and my body type is meant for a
home Some guys throw their swings.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Off by going for the home run.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
Yea, absolutely so there there is that problem. But get
it figured out. Line up some hotels, stay with Steve
in Westlake Village and make it work. It is a
hard knocks Steve Hartman, Jonas Knox and for pet throw
some money here on AM five seventy LA Sports. You
are being held hostage again.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
We'll explain next