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Pee a lot there. Yeah, James Worthy is on there.
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We're gonna talk to Dave next, a lot of fun
sports talking with the June the third anniversary and the
Chris call to David Vasse. All since then it's been
like the tail of two cities. But right now it's
time for the top story of the day, top story
of it.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, since Bob Nightingale got it started, let's keep it going.
The business of sports. Yes, because we talked about this.
We've talked about Roger heading to Congress on the tenth.
Let's talk about the Dodgers spending on players, because there's
going to be one hundred more of these stories between
now and the end of the season as the CBA
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gets lobbed back and forth between the Players Association and
MLB brass spending on players total dollars. Why this thing's
going to turn into a real mess. Now the players
have one hell of a trump card and instead of
running to Arizona to talk to Dave Roberts or setting
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up shop in LA and discussing front office with Andrew
Friedman and how it's ruining baseball the fans, if it
really is is the fans that are up in arms,
all worried that they're going to lose baseball next year.
How about taking a trip down the five. How about
going to talk to the Padres. Because the Dodgers are
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not the outlier.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
They are ahead for sure in terms of salaries, but
for the most part they are in the same neighborhood
as their counterparts. Their market two LA is spending in
line with market one New York. Both teams market five Philadelphia,
what would be market number three? Toronto Market seven, Atlanta,
Chicago Market three. All of those clubs are market eight, dude,
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close enough, Market zero, are close enough to each other.
The lapayroll three hundred and two, the Mets three thirty four,
the Yankees two ninety one, Toronto two eighty three, all good,
They're close. And none of those teams are losing free
agents because they can't afford them. They are trying to
sign them. The players just might not want to sign there,
so that's all. San Diego is the outlier. San Diego
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is the thirtieth ranked DMA. That is designated market area.
I don't care about population as much. California population wise
is crazy. Fresno's got more people than the entire state
of Wyoming. But San Diego is thirtieth in DMA. That
is behind Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Saint Louis, Cleveland, Miami, Denver, Minneapolis, Seattle, Phoenix, Tampa,
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d C, Dallas. DMA is entertainment dollars. That is your
media reach. That is what Nielsen designates as a television market.
How many people you are reaching with your entertainment product.
It is not a random line drawn around a neighborhood.
It is carefully researched. It is targeted for advertisers to
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set rates to get return on their investment. That is
why it is there. It is entertainment opportunity reach. And
even though San Diego has over a million people, for
whatever reason, it has never been a strong retail market,
a strong entertainment market.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Everybody's busy buying burritos and smoking weed with Don Carlos. Right,
it's the it's it's any it's any enter tell you
one retail thing that really moves the needle down in
San Diego, and it's been proven this year.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
And that's the puffy vest.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Now people with that, really, now I want they might
want to look into that is you're you're you're disparaging
San Diego as a market.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yes, well I'm not disparaging it. I'm just telling you
what the numbers are that they're losers. They don't they
don't move bits. List of cities with highest share of
income spent on food and housing number one San Diego,
Meaning discretionary income is hard to find. Disposable income total
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take home pay after taxes, that's what you spent on everything.
Discretionary is what you have left over after taxes and
your essential living expenses, rent, food, utilities. It is your
fun money. No one has less on average per household
than San Diego. Discretionary is baseball tickets, it's baseball caps,
it's baseball subscriptions, it's puffy vests, it's it's what you
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have to spend to watch the game. It is the
money you will give the Padres the only pro team
in town save soccer. Again, the only pro team in town,
and again it's the least average amount of discretionary income
in the United States, and yet their baseball team managed
to figure out how to get enough of that money
from those fans to turn Petco Park into a freaking
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party damn near every home game. It is one of
the highest attendance by percentage of any venue in baseball.
Their total revenue is now in the top ten. Who
has more discretionary income than San Diego? Where in San
Diego forty seven percent of their take on pay has
spent on food and housing. How about Seattle twenty six percent,
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Cleveland twenty seven percent, Minnesota, Denver, Phoenix twenty eight percent.
All of those are markets that have a higher reach
per DMA, have a comparable population, and turns out have
more money available for their baseball product if they knew
how to build a team and how to promote it better. Remember,
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the Padres were not a big spending team until Peter
Sidler got there. The Dodgers were not a big spending
team until Mark Walter got there. And in the case
Dodgers side were broke. Yeah, you know, I wouldn't say
that they're big spending or not big spending. They were
like leveraged up the ass because of the McCourt divorce. Yeah,
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when you think about five figure it out. No, I
mean they never were one of these teams. Everybody complained
about the Yankees. You never heard boo about the Dodgers.
And same thing with the Padres. And sadly in the
case of Sideleer, he passed away. But he decided, if
I spend it, I'm gonna roll the dice and I
think they'll come, uh, Los Angeles. Same thing with Mark Walter.
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Let's find out if fifty five thousand out of eight
million people will show up eighty one times a year,
can we get a couple hundred thousand people that will
pay for our television broadcast out of the pool of
eight million? And Mark Walter decided, if we put a
team worthy, people will pay it. So they made the
trades out for Adrian Gonzalez, then Mookie Betts. Then they
sighed Otani Yamamoto, Freddy, and they invested in their farm system.
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They upgraded the park. People came. Like you said. With McCord,
he went the opposite direction. Spend the bare minimum, just
barely enough to get the fans excited, and we can
turn a profit. In twenty fourteen, the Padres payroll was
eighty five million dollars. That year, the Dodgers payroll was
two hundred and forty two million. In twenty eighteen, they
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bumped it to one hundred million. When Peter Sidler took
over in the twenty twenty season, he jumped the payroll
to one hundred and seventy three million dollars. In twenty
twenty one, it was one hundred and seventy nine million,
twenty twenty two, two hundred and twenty four, twenty three,
two hundred and fifty six million dollars, And sadly he
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passed away before he could see his dream of his
team winning the World Series. I mean, he wasn't just
throwing his money away to win a title. He figured
that if he paid for it, people would come to
watch a winning team, that they would pay to see it.
That in a market like San Diego, again with the
lowest percentage of discretionary income available, they don't want to
spend the money on average or below average just to
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have a day at the ballpark. They will spend it,
and they'll spend a little bit more on greatness. And
look at Cleveland. Is it harder to get people that
want to, you know, professional athletes to live in Cleveland.
Is that it Sanio, Sure, but it's got its advantages,
like it's less expensive. It's like a very popular athlete
that we would love to send back to Cleveland. Indeed,
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now Cleveland's got the twenty ninth ranked payroll, Miami the thirtieth.
That doesn't line up. You can't have the Cavaliers with
the highest tax payroll in the NBA. You can't have
the Jake and their sellout streak for the Indians back
in the nineties and early two thousands where they would
pull the number down every day that that place was
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sold out. No, that is that is that's not a problem.
You can't you can't sell that. That's what's ruining baseball.
Cleveland and DMA market nineteen eleven ahead of San Diego
with twenty one percent more discretionary income per household than
San Diego, and their payrolls at eighty seven million bucks.
Denver's in market eighteen twelve spots higher than San Diego,
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and they spend a third of what the Padres spent.
The Nuggets spent two hundred and sixty four million bucks
on players last year. That was the second highest tax
payroll salary in the NBA. Now they get one hundred
and fifty million bucks from the NBA's national TV deal.
The Rockies get a hundred million bucks. So there's a
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fifty million dollars disparity there. But the Rockies at one
hundred million dollars less than sandye Ago, course Field is
a fent. It's a great ballpark, Guys, that place is amazing.
It's a great ballpark. Who wouldn't want to go to
a game at Course Field?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I mean, this is a big issue in baseball, top
to bottom, right, Like, this is their issue.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
They can't get teams to spend right.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So, like I get that Bob wants to do the
story on Dave Roberts and the Dodgers. And it's more
than just the money. The Padres made five hundred and
thirty million dollars last year. Ten years ago their payroll
was in the bottom five it was eighty five million bucks.
And they recognize that we can spend money, we can
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sign players, and people will spend their money. And their
team just sold for damn near double Because that's what
the that's what the owners are complaining about. Oh, our
franchise values are out of whack. We're we're not growing
like the rest. Well again, they sold for nearly four
billion dollars. Miami's got a great stadium. Pittsburgh has a
great baseball stadium. There was no reason why people wouldn't
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want to go to see a great baseball team. You
talked to Softy today. I said it before. Seattle thirteenth
in DMA, and they spend seventy million dollars less on
players than freaking San Diego, one of the best baseball
stadiums around, a great fan base, and yet seventy million
less than DMA market thirty in San Diego and Seattle
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can't step up. That's where the story is, Bob Nightingale.
It's not with the Dodgers and how much more they're spending.
It's with the cities that aren't spending enough when the
Padres have shown that. That's simply irresponsible. Baseball management.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Very well, said Matt. Although I did not talk to
Softy today, he's at the Mariner game. Had to push
it to tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Hey, it's a day game, Pete.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Can he do it live?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
No, I do it tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
I cannot do it live.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Spend your money.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
We'll be back with David say you.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Will join us with the latest on what is going
on with that baseball team that spends all that money
that Matt was just talking about. And then we'll do
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on till five thirty, and then we're gonna get to
Dave Roberts on the pregame show with Dave, Tim Kats
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Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yes, he's got the desert in his toenails. Joining us
right now live from Phoenix is David Vasse, the.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Home of the Dodgers, all with an inside look at
the Dodgers. This is the Vass Report with David Vase.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Not a day of Dodger baseball you want to miss,
as if you ever want to miss any On AM
five seventy, David Vase has got Dave Roberts on the
pregame show and show, Hey Otani is pitching tonight. David
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night for the people. And he didn't even get milk today,
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Speaker 5 (14:57):
Hi Dave, how are you.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Doing great? Back to back days of tennis in one
hundred and two degree weather here in Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
For your guy, who'd you play tennis with?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Ethier?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
I recruited one of the guys from the sports and
at LA Trucks. He wasn't so good and then another
member of the broadcast support staff, Rick Kritzewski, the statman
doctor Rick as Orleans to call him, showed up and
he was a little bit more savvy and could handle
the racket a little better.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
So you're getting the workout out there on the tennis court, dame,
Is that what's happening?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah? Yeah, I haven't played tennis in twenty five years,
but I still got the backhand. I felt like I
was at the French Open, just dropping them right on
the white lines.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Baby, were you want to play court?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
No, but I imagine that, like I was, ok. Yeah,
now was it what you said? Backhand? Day? What about
your sir? What kind of state is your servant? After
twenty five years?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Surprisingly good? I mean I get it over the net
and I get it in the box where I need
to get it. So yeah, yeah, I'm all good. And
I just got creative with my exercise because they usually
had a basketball court where the team stays, and can
you believe they got rid of the basketball court to
put in more stinking pickleball courts.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I was very upset the indoor one, not all outdoor.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Okay, all right, that's right, you're in Arizona my back.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
The one and only David Vasse is our guest, and
David Vasse knows that on a day like this, maybe
it feels a little bit different when Otani is on
the mound.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Is that the case, Dave? Is it kind of?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I mean, you do this every day and we know
it's a grind, but is it special when Otani's pitching,
especially this year.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
It is tros. It feels like there's a lot more
anticipation and buzz surrounding the game when you have the
best player in the game, not only leading off as
the DH but doing what makes him so unique and
so great and pitching on the mound, being a full
fledged pitcher this season. The one thing that when you
look at Otani's pitching season, he's been phenomenal. Don't get
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me wrong, but the Dodgers and Dave Roberts want to
see him get deeper into games, and Otani wants to
get deeper into games. That's what's going to help get
him maybe a little bit more recognition for the cy
Young because he's going to have to compete with two
really great pitchers in Christopher Sanchez of the Phillies, who's
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pitching tonight, challenging Oral Herscheizer's scoreless inning streak and Jacob Mizarowski.
Those two guys were the finalists for National League Pitcher
of the Month. It was an Otani.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Day.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Speaking of standouts, World Series champions MVPs Freddy Freeman, I
think it's what eleven eleven hits nine ribbies in his
last eight games. You and Freddy very close kind of
what's been the key to the offensive explosion.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
He always talks about his mechanical swing, you know, talking
about not cutting off his swings. So you know, he
simplifies the game so much. He doesn't look at the iPad.
He's always just looking at the picture. He doesn't take
a million swings in the cage. He just really simplifies
things because he is so talented. So it must be
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because his swing is in a good spot. There's really
no no more diagnos this of what Freddy's doing. But
the way you can tell Freddie Freeman's going good is
when he's hitting home runs to left field, when he's
getting extra base hits to left field or center field.
If he's pulling the ball too much or rolling over,
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that's not a sign of he's happy with where he's at.
So you know, early on in the season, I could
count at least eight balls to the left field that
were robbed and kind of affected his on the surface stats.
But he's had a pretty good year, and I know
he tries to play the humble guy, saying that you
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know what, maybe you know I'm getting a little bit older,
maybe I won't be playing.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Four more years.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
But he looks pretty strong here at this point in time,
and days off and night games also helps a thirty
six year old Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
David Massey is our guest talking Dodgers as the Dodgers
are in beautiful Arizona taking on the d Backs tonight.
The Kyle Tucker struggle is real, Dave, and it's getting
crazier and crazier every day, and every day we ask
about it, and it's just it's like a train approaching.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
It's getting real loud.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
What's gonna happen?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Well, for the Dodger's sake, they're hoping that he comes
out of it and starts to look more like Kyle Tucker.
Every time you feel like he is turning the corner,
he starts to take two steps backwards. And the biggest
thing for him is taking walks and being able to
drive the baseball, and we haven't seen that consistently, and
for him, that's something that he wants out of himself.
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And for all those that think he doesn't care, well,
he hit a pop up last night and again slammed
the bat down, So he does care.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
And I think.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Sometimes even takes the offense out with him to right field.
And that's not a good thing either, because a lot
of teams around the league will try to take advantage
of Kyle Tucker in right field and he's got to
be aware of that. But Dave Roberts doesn't seem to
have a lot of answers. He did rule out that
he's on a new team and getting used to a
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new environment. He said, that's out the window at this stage.
He's just got to find himself. And a good indicator
of him finding himself is him not swinging at the
first pitch as much as he has ever in his
career this season.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Dave watching the game last night, I know it can
be a fiery personality. Don't know if you had a
chance to chat with him, but some pretty questionable challenges
by Dalton Rushing. I mean, I get the ball for
to score a run, but that ball was so out
of the strike zone. Just sort of the liberty that
he has to decide when to challenge and if he
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feels like he's got the hang of it, because obviously
it was their last one and you never know if
you need it at the next half inning. Just kind
of where that sits when it's rushing in there instead
of Will Smith.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Yeah, he's not as good as Will at challenging the pitches.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
He's an emotional guy.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
And maybe that takes sometimes takes over him when he's
trying to challenge. I mean to play at the plate
last night in the in the seventh inning that that
was not even close, and he's like screaming at the
dugout to challenge it because he thought he tagged the
runner out.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
He did not. He wasn't close to tagging him out.
He was safe.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
But I think in that situation that you're bringing up,
it was a pivotal moment in the game, and he's
trying to help out a picture that couldn't find the
strike zone with the bases loaded. So I feel like
in that situation he was gambling hoping that it did
clip the strike zone. Because in that situation you don't
want to force in a run. So I feel like
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that one it's more him trying to take a gamble
on a close pitch to try to help his pitcher out.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
The one and only David Vassey live in beautiful Arizona.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
He has everything you need.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
With Dave Roberts on the pregame show, Bob Nightingale was
talking to Dave Roberts yesterday. The USA Today showed up
today with the scoobl talk and Dave Roberts saying, of
course we're in the running for schoobl How much did
that light things up?
Speaker 5 (22:39):
And then Bingalore text.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
You And though he has not text me, I only
think he has the Textoso line. So I was a
little surprised Dave acknowledged that publicly, because you don't usually
see managers or gms talk about players on other teams
and talking about treating for other players in the middle
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of the season. I was surprised by that. But Dave
Roberts is right. The Dodgers do have the prospect and
player capital to pull off a trade for Trek's Schooble.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
And if you go back I said that yesterday, right,
Dave what's that you said that yesterday?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yeah, Yeah, I mean it's it's very obvious the Dodgers
have what it would take to get a school ble.
It's just a matter of whether or not would do it.
But here's the thing. If you go back to the offseason,
what I was told is the Tigers were looking for
major league ready pitching. And that's something that the Dodgers
have that the Yankees don't, that the Brewers don't any
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of these other teams you're hearing about. The Dodgers have
those guys and em It she and Justin Robleski and
River Ryan. Pick any one of those three. Would I
would lean towards Sheehan or River Ryan at this stage.
Pick one of those two and pick one of the
Dodger outfielders, and you've got a trade for Terrek Scooble.
In my mind, Harrison, the Tigers GM is being realistic.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, I would be awfully exciting.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
And like we discussed yesterday, I mean putting him ahead
of Yamamoto or between Yamamoto and Otani as a top
three would be something I saw a little stat as
they were talking about acquiring.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Put between Yamamoto and Snell.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Well, That's where I'm getting, Dave. I saw the staff
that since that guy signed that contract, he's thrown all
of sixty innings, So kind of where where are we
whit guy? Matt Blake Snell like, it's.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Don't just call him a guy, he's a two times
two times let.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Me walk in like a rooster.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Sixty four innings?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
What you aim?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
The Dodgers don't even get to the World Series with
the way he pitched in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I'm simply asking Dave, what do we think the timeline is.
I think it's a fair question. He'll be think it's
a fair question.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
He'll be He'll be back in two months. My understanding
is he's getting to playing catch, maybe as soon as
Friday at Dodgers Stadium. His nanoscope procedure was a little
more involved and took a little bit longer than school buls.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
But he's in a great spot.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
He's throwing playofballs on Sunday before the game. As he
was greeting little leaguers as a great ambassador for the
Dodgers and for Major League Baseball, he was showing me
just how flexible the elbow was. So he's in a
good spot, and I think when he comes back it's
going to be similar to what we saw last year
in the second half of the season, where he takes
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off H's his stride and ditches the Dodgers through October.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
The great David Masse. If that happens, then you'll be
walking in like a roosters. Dave, have a great night,
Dave Roberts on the pregame show. A lot to talk
about and we'll look forward to that interview and hearing
you all night. Dave, have a good one.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Thank you, guys. I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
There he goes David Vsse prowing like a rooster Bjorn Borg.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
There he goes Von Lindall making his way back out
to the desert. You know, I think of him as
a more modern player, you know, like a sinner, uh,
you know, just a real wicked just a wicked return.
I was thinking maybe more of a Boris Becker type.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
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for your smartphone. Matt and I are on from two
to five thirty today, so we'll do one more segment
after this and get you to the pregame with Tim
Kats and the same schedule tomorrow two to five thirty
as the Dodgers wrap up a four game series in
the desert where the sunsets.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Beautiful. All right, but now it's time for the dead
and a live guy. Birthday of the Day, Matt's got
the dead guy.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Yeah, it turns out Rio Speedwagon the band was straight
up named after a car, well a truck. U. The
Rio Speedwab would be like a band today calling themselves
Ford Bronco, Rio.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Speedwab or Nissan Altima.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Or Nissan Altima. We celebrate the birthday of Ransom. Come on,
Mitsubishi Highlander. Wow, that's a good one too. We celebrate
Ransom E. Olds.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
That was his name.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
He would have been one hundred and sixty two. Today
are EO Ransom E. Olds, Ario and Oldsmobile were his
named after him back then. Of course, born in Ohio,
I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
I didn't know Rio as a guy's initials. I did
not either.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I didn't know that Rio Speedwagon was an actual vehicle
that was in production and basically the first sort of
pickups in the history of automobiles. And yet that's what
they decided to call their band. He was born in Geneva, Ohio.
His father was a blacksmith. They moved around a little
bit Cleveland, then settled in Lancing, Michigan. That's where he
went to high school. That is where he dropped out
of high school so he could work at a steam
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engine company repairing locomotives. Good with his hands, had that big,
mechanically inclined brain. So Ransom founds the Olds Motor Vehicle
Company in eighteen ninety seven and two of his first hires,
Horace and John Dodge, to make his transmissions. Ah, those
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rowdy Dodge brothers with that hack right with their hats
olds gave them their start. In nineteenh one, he had
already built eleven prototype vehicles, had at least one of
each power mode steam, electric and gasoline. In In one
same year, the entire factory burns to the ground. Only
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one model survived the fire, what was known as the
little Curved Dash runabout and it ran on gas and
so Ransom said, it made his decision for him what
they wanted to put into mass production. Launched an advertising
Blitz had three hundred orders for the Curve Dash straight away.
He drove one to the New York Autumn Obile Show,
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and during the show he pushed hard to make sales
and made the news, the New York News and the
Big Town and the papers. A dealer offered to purchase
five hundred. He said, I will only sell you one
if you order one thousand, and that became a big headline.
The public was impressed with the idea that a company
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could sell a thousand cars to one dealer. It was signed.
The dealer ended up selling about seven hundred and fifty
of them, but everybody remembered that number in the curve.
Dash became the most popular vehicle in America, sold about
six hundred and oh one three thousand and two and
over four thousand and nineteen oh four. And this was
the first mass produced not Henry Ford's Model T low
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priced American motor vehicle. But of course, with success, the
business types get in and they start pushing the creative
types out. So he had kind of had enough and
started his own company, Reo Motor Cars. Of course Ario
his initials Ransom E. Olds, intended to be an acronym.
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He said he wanted it to be Rio Motor Cars,
but for some reason everybody just called it Rio. And
the speed wagon light delivery truck was the ancestor of
the pickup and success opened other doors. He bought forty
thousand acres in Tampa Bay, really one of the main
developers of that city, still bustling today. Of course, he
organized I.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
We looked at what's happening with the TRUP. They're one
of the best teams in baseball.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I mean, everybody wants to go to the Trump. He
built the Olds Tower, which is the tallest built. You
were just therapy, or you were in East Lancing. Perhaps
you took a look over there at Lancing. It is
still the tallest building in.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I had a hotel in Lancing on Magic Johnson Boulevard,
and I had it changed.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Interesting because he also opened a hotel, the Hotel olds
That is still there today. However it is no longer
a hotel. It is the Governor's office. He died in
nineteen fifty at eighty six years old. Ransom E. Olds Ario.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
All right, Matt, we'll do the Japanese news for the
alive guy here.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Nietzsche Bee No, you know what I end this Japanese
news monkey every day, banana monkey, never news.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
That is a Japanese Japanese polymath and musician mostly Takako
Mini Kawa is fifty seven years old today, born in Tokyo.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Was a child actress, but first started doing music.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Her first real musical production was the musical Lolita, and
then she started making shibuya style music, which is the
Japanese word for like indie pop. She's inspired by craft
work and stereo lab She's got nine albums and five
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extended plays, and she writes. She's written professionally as a
regular columnist for the Japanese edition of Keyboard Magazine, and
she also contributed a serialized novel to the Japanese quarterly Bungji.
She was married to another musician, a guy named Cornelius
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from another Japanese cool indie band, and they got married
in two thousand, but they divorced in twenty twelve. They
do have a son named Milo, like the son of
Cornelius in A Planet of the Eighth, and her and
him collaborated on a lot of product projects. And I
think it's only fair to celebrate Japanese news on a
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day that Otani is pitching, and on a day after
we had that relentless pass rush from the bear outside
of that Fukushima Steelworks plant where that guy thought he
was going to be eaten by that bear and the
bear caught up to him. Really all the first move,
all he wanted to do was tackle him the bear.
The bear got him down to the ground behind the
(34:08):
line of scrimmage and then got up and spread it
back to the huddle, which was a great moment. So
all of that to celebrate happon, and Matt, we do
have a few little different than Korean and very different
from our Philippine friends.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
We do have some titles. Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
I'm ready?
Speaker 5 (34:26):
All right, Pocket Kangaroo calculator.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
I mean, come on, thank you. I don't know why
I can't just be a pocket calculator, but somehow the
kangaroo got thrown into that mix.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
This one TTT turntable tennis.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I'll give you horns, all right, but the hell is
turntable tennis?
Speaker 5 (34:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I mean probably two gen DJ's going back and forth, right,
color me and tree?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Right?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Oh yeah, what do you got?
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Shots? John John soft graffiti.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
I'll go crickets, A right tough call.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
Slow flow mole, Slow flow Mole.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I'm gonna go crickets.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Japan makes you think a little low yeah, and I
don't think. Well, well, come on, Matt, you've got a
big brain for engineering, just like the guy ari e O.
Pop up squirrels.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah, that's a that's a horn. More pop up squirrels,
double horn.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
All right, we'll be back.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
With more petros and money. We'll do the quickeets, we'll
do the fun fact, and we'll get you to the show.
Hail Tani on the Mound performance, which threatens to be
fabulous in the desert right when we're done.
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We're gonna talk to Dave next, a lot of fun
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Chris call to David Vasse. All since then it's been
like the tail of two cities. But right now it's
time for the top story of the day, top story
of it.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, since Bob Nightingale got it started, let's keep it going.
The business of sports. Yes, because we talked about this.
We've talked about Roger heading to Congress on the tenth.
Let's talk about the Dodgers spending on players, because there's
going to be one hundred more of these stories between
now and the end of the season as the CBA
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gets lobbed back and forth between the Players Association and
MLB brass spending on players total dollars. Why this thing's
going to turn into a real mess. Now the players
have one hell of a trump card and instead of
running to Arizona to talk to Dave Roberts or setting
(02:35):
up shop in LA and discussing front office with Andrew
Friedman and how it's ruining baseball the fans, if it
really is is the fans that are up in arms,
all worried that they're going to lose baseball next year.
How about taking a trip down the five. How about
going to talk to the Padres. Because the Dodgers are
(02:57):
not the outlier.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
They are ahead for sure in terms of salaries, but
for the most part they are in the same neighborhood
as their counterparts. Their market two LA is spending in
line with market one New York. Both teams market five Philadelphia,
what would be market number three? Toronto Market seven, Atlanta,
Chicago Market three. All of those clubs are market eight, dude,
(03:22):
close enough, Market zero, are close enough to each other.
The lapayroll three hundred and two, the Mets three thirty four,
the Yankees two ninety one, Toronto two eighty three, all good,
They're close. And none of those teams are losing free
agents because they can't afford them. They are trying to
sign them. The players just might not want to sign there,
so that's all. San Diego is the outlier. San Diego
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is the thirtieth ranked DMA. That is designated market area.
I don't care about population as much. California population wise
is crazy. Fresno's got more people than the entire state
of Wyoming. But San Diego is thirtieth in DMA. That
is behind Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Saint Louis, Cleveland, Miami, Denver, Minneapolis, Seattle, Phoenix, Tampa,
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d C, Dallas. DMA is entertainment dollars. That is your
media reach. That is what Nielsen designates as a television market.
How many people you are reaching with your entertainment product.
It is not a random line drawn around a neighborhood.
It is carefully researched. It is targeted for advertisers to
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set rates to get return on their investment. That is
why it is there. It is entertainment opportunity reach. And
even though San Diego has over a million people, for
whatever reason, it has never been a strong retail market,
a strong entertainment market.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Everybody's busy buying burritos and smoking weed with Don Carlos. Right,
it's the it's it's any it's any enter tell you
one retail thing that really moves the needle down in
San Diego, and it's been proven this year.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
And that's the puffy vest.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Now people with that, really, now I want they might
want to look into that is you're you're you're disparaging
San Diego as a market.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yes, well I'm not disparaging it. I'm just telling you
what the numbers are that they're losers. They don't they
don't move bits. List of cities with highest share of
income spent on food and housing number one San Diego,
Meaning discretionary income is hard to find. Disposable income total
(05:36):
take home pay after taxes, that's what you spent on everything.
Discretionary is what you have left over after taxes and
your essential living expenses, rent, food, utilities. It is your
fun money. No one has less on average per household
than San Diego. Discretionary is baseball tickets, it's baseball caps,
it's baseball subscriptions, it's puffy vests, it's it's what you
(05:59):
have to spend to watch the game. It is the
money you will give the Padres the only pro team
in town save soccer. Again, the only pro team in town,
and again it's the least average amount of discretionary income
in the United States, and yet their baseball team managed
to figure out how to get enough of that money
from those fans to turn Petco Park into a freaking
(06:20):
party damn near every home game. It is one of
the highest attendance by percentage of any venue in baseball.
Their total revenue is now in the top ten. Who
has more discretionary income than San Diego? Where in San
Diego forty seven percent of their take on pay has
spent on food and housing. How about Seattle twenty six percent,
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Cleveland twenty seven percent, Minnesota, Denver, Phoenix twenty eight percent.
All of those are markets that have a higher reach
per DMA, have a comparable population, and turns out have
more money available for their baseball product if they knew
how to build a team and how to promote it better. Remember,
(07:05):
the Padres were not a big spending team until Peter
Sidler got there. The Dodgers were not a big spending
team until Mark Walter got there. And in the case
Dodgers side were broke. Yeah, you know, I wouldn't say
that they're big spending or not big spending. They were
like leveraged up the ass because of the McCourt divorce. Yeah,
(07:29):
when you think about five figure it out. No, I
mean they never were one of these teams. Everybody complained
about the Yankees. You never heard boo about the Dodgers.
And same thing with the Padres. And sadly in the
case of Sideleer, he passed away. But he decided, if
I spend it, I'm gonna roll the dice and I
think they'll come, uh, Los Angeles. Same thing with Mark Walter.
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Let's find out if fifty five thousand out of eight
million people will show up eighty one times a year,
can we get a couple hundred thousand people that will
pay for our television broadcast out of the pool of
eight million? And Mark Walter decided, if we put a
team worthy, people will pay it. So they made the
trades out for Adrian Gonzalez, then Mookie Betts. Then they
sighed Otani Yamamoto, Freddy, and they invested in their farm system.
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They upgraded the park. People came. Like you said. With McCord,
he went the opposite direction. Spend the bare minimum, just
barely enough to get the fans excited, and we can
turn a profit. In twenty fourteen, the Padres payroll was
eighty five million dollars. That year, the Dodgers payroll was
two hundred and forty two million. In twenty eighteen, they
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bumped it to one hundred million. When Peter Sidler took
over in the twenty twenty season, he jumped the payroll
to one hundred and seventy three million dollars. In twenty
twenty one, it was one hundred and seventy nine million,
twenty twenty two, two hundred and twenty four, twenty three,
two hundred and fifty six million dollars, And sadly he
(09:01):
passed away before he could see his dream of his
team winning the World Series. I mean, he wasn't just
throwing his money away to win a title. He figured
that if he paid for it, people would come to
watch a winning team, that they would pay to see it.
That in a market like San Diego, again with the
lowest percentage of discretionary income available, they don't want to
spend the money on average or below average just to
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have a day at the ballpark. They will spend it,
and they'll spend a little bit more on greatness. And
look at Cleveland. Is it harder to get people that
want to, you know, professional athletes to live in Cleveland.
Is that it Sanio, Sure, but it's got its advantages,
like it's less expensive. It's like a very popular athlete
that we would love to send back to Cleveland. Indeed,
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now Cleveland's got the twenty ninth ranked payroll, Miami the thirtieth.
That doesn't line up. You can't have the Cavaliers with
the highest tax payroll in the NBA. You can't have
the Jake and their sellout streak for the Indians back
in the nineties and early two thousands where they would
pull the number down every day that that place was
(10:08):
sold out. No, that is that is that's not a problem.
You can't you can't sell that. That's what's ruining baseball.
Cleveland and DMA market nineteen eleven ahead of San Diego
with twenty one percent more discretionary income per household than
San Diego, and their payrolls at eighty seven million bucks.
Denver's in market eighteen twelve spots higher than San Diego,
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and they spend a third of what the Padres spent.
The Nuggets spent two hundred and sixty four million bucks
on players last year. That was the second highest tax
payroll salary in the NBA. Now they get one hundred
and fifty million bucks from the NBA's national TV deal.
The Rockies get a hundred million bucks. So there's a
(10:53):
fifty million dollars disparity there. But the Rockies at one
hundred million dollars less than sandye Ago, course Field is
a fent. It's a great ballpark, Guys, that place is amazing.
It's a great ballpark. Who wouldn't want to go to
a game at Course Field?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I mean, this is a big issue in baseball, top
to bottom, right, Like, this is their issue.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
They can't get teams to spend right.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So, like I get that Bob wants to do the
story on Dave Roberts and the Dodgers. And it's more
than just the money. The Padres made five hundred and
thirty million dollars last year. Ten years ago their payroll
was in the bottom five it was eighty five million bucks.
And they recognize that we can spend money, we can
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sign players, and people will spend their money. And their
team just sold for damn near double Because that's what
the that's what the owners are complaining about. Oh, our
franchise values are out of whack. We're we're not growing
like the rest. Well again, they sold for nearly four
billion dollars. Miami's got a great stadium. Pittsburgh has a
great baseball stadium. There was no reason why people wouldn't
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want to go to see a great baseball team. You
talked to Softy today. I said it before. Seattle thirteenth
in DMA, and they spend seventy million dollars less on
players than freaking San Diego, one of the best baseball
stadiums around, a great fan base, and yet seventy million
less than DMA market thirty in San Diego and Seattle
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can't step up. That's where the story is, Bob Nightingale.
It's not with the Dodgers and how much more they're spending.
It's with the cities that aren't spending enough when the
Padres have shown that. That's simply irresponsible. Baseball management.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Very well, said Matt. Although I did not talk to
Softy today, he's at the Mariner game. Had to push
it to tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Hey, it's a day game, Pete.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Can he do it live?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
No, I do it tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
I cannot do it live.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Spend your money.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
We'll be back with David say you.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Will join us with the latest on what is going
on with that baseball team that spends all that money
that Matt was just talking about. And then we'll do
the debt and a live guy birthday the day we're
on till five thirty, and then we're gonna get to
Dave Roberts on the pregame show with Dave, Tim Kats
and the Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck and.
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Joe Ail Toddy on the mount.
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Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yes, he's got the desert in his toenails. Joining us
right now live from Phoenix is David Vasse, the.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Home of the Dodgers, all with an inside look at
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Speaker 3 (14:24):
Not a day of Dodger baseball you want to miss,
as if you ever want to miss any On AM
five seventy, David Vase has got Dave Roberts on the
pregame show and show, Hey Otani is pitching tonight. David
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(14:48):
night for the people. And he didn't even get milk today,
so he should be great, good mood. David Vass is
with us on your SoCal Toyota Dealers Celebrity Hotline.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Hi Dave, how are you.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Doing great? Back to back days of tennis in one
hundred and two degree weather here in Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
For your guy, who'd you play tennis with?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Ethier?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
I recruited one of the guys from the sports and
at LA Trucks. He wasn't so good and then another
member of the broadcast support staff, Rick Kritzewski, the statman
doctor Rick as Orleans to call him, showed up and
he was a little bit more savvy and could handle
the racket a little better.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
So you're getting the workout out there on the tennis court, dame,
Is that what's happening?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah? Yeah, I haven't played tennis in twenty five years,
but I still got the backhand. I felt like I
was at the French Open, just dropping them right on
the white lines.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Baby, were you want to play court?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
No, but I imagine that, like I was, ok. Yeah,
now was it what you said? Backhand? Day? What about
your sir? What kind of state is your servant? After
twenty five years?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Surprisingly good? I mean I get it over the net
and I get it in the box where I need
to get it. So yeah, yeah, I'm all good. And
I just got creative with my exercise because they usually
had a basketball court where the team stays, and can
you believe they got rid of the basketball court to
put in more stinking pickleball courts.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I was very upset the indoor one, not all outdoor.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Okay, all right, that's right, you're in Arizona my back.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
The one and only David Vasse is our guest, and
David Vasse knows that on a day like this, maybe
it feels a little bit different when Otani is on
the mound.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Is that the case, Dave? Is it kind of?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I mean, you do this every day and we know
it's a grind, but is it special when Otani's pitching,
especially this year.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
It is tros. It feels like there's a lot more
anticipation and buzz surrounding the game when you have the
best player in the game, not only leading off as
the DH but doing what makes him so unique and
so great and pitching on the mound, being a full
fledged pitcher this season. The one thing that when you
look at Otani's pitching season, he's been phenomenal. Don't get
(17:11):
me wrong, but the Dodgers and Dave Roberts want to
see him get deeper into games, and Otani wants to
get deeper into games. That's what's going to help get
him maybe a little bit more recognition for the cy
Young because he's going to have to compete with two
really great pitchers in Christopher Sanchez of the Phillies, who's
(17:32):
pitching tonight, challenging Oral Herscheizer's scoreless inning streak and Jacob Mizarowski.
Those two guys were the finalists for National League Pitcher
of the Month. It was an Otani.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Day.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Speaking of standouts, World Series champions MVPs Freddy Freeman, I
think it's what eleven eleven hits nine ribbies in his
last eight games. You and Freddy very close kind of
what's been the key to the offensive explosion.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
He always talks about his mechanical swing, you know, talking
about not cutting off his swings. So you know, he
simplifies the game so much. He doesn't look at the iPad.
He's always just looking at the picture. He doesn't take
a million swings in the cage. He just really simplifies
things because he is so talented. So it must be
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because his swing is in a good spot. There's really
no no more diagnos this of what Freddy's doing. But
the way you can tell Freddie Freeman's going good is
when he's hitting home runs to left field, when he's
getting extra base hits to left field or center field.
If he's pulling the ball too much or rolling over,
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that's not a sign of he's happy with where he's at.
So you know, early on in the season, I could
count at least eight balls to the left field that
were robbed and kind of affected his on the surface stats.
But he's had a pretty good year, and I know
he tries to play the humble guy, saying that you
(19:05):
know what, maybe you know I'm getting a little bit older,
maybe I won't be playing.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Four more years.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
But he looks pretty strong here at this point in time,
and days off and night games also helps a thirty
six year old Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
David Massey is our guest talking Dodgers as the Dodgers
are in beautiful Arizona taking on the d Backs tonight.
The Kyle Tucker struggle is real, Dave, and it's getting
crazier and crazier every day, and every day we ask
about it, and it's just it's like a train approaching.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
It's getting real loud.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
What's gonna happen?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Well, for the Dodger's sake, they're hoping that he comes
out of it and starts to look more like Kyle Tucker.
Every time you feel like he is turning the corner,
he starts to take two steps backwards. And the biggest
thing for him is taking walks and being able to
drive the baseball, and we haven't seen that consistently, and
for him, that's something that he wants out of himself.
(20:06):
And for all those that think he doesn't care, well,
he hit a pop up last night and again slammed
the bat down, So he does care.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
And I think.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Sometimes even takes the offense out with him to right field.
And that's not a good thing either, because a lot
of teams around the league will try to take advantage
of Kyle Tucker in right field and he's got to
be aware of that. But Dave Roberts doesn't seem to
have a lot of answers. He did rule out that
he's on a new team and getting used to a
(20:37):
new environment. He said, that's out the window at this stage.
He's just got to find himself. And a good indicator
of him finding himself is him not swinging at the
first pitch as much as he has ever in his
career this season.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Dave watching the game last night, I know it can
be a fiery personality. Don't know if you had a
chance to chat with him, but some pretty questionable challenges
by Dalton Rushing. I mean, I get the ball for
to score a run, but that ball was so out
of the strike zone. Just sort of the liberty that
he has to decide when to challenge and if he
(21:13):
feels like he's got the hang of it, because obviously
it was their last one and you never know if
you need it at the next half inning. Just kind
of where that sits when it's rushing in there instead
of Will Smith.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Yeah, he's not as good as Will at challenging the pitches.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
He's an emotional guy.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
And maybe that takes sometimes takes over him when he's
trying to challenge. I mean to play at the plate
last night in the in the seventh inning that that
was not even close, and he's like screaming at the
dugout to challenge it because he thought he tagged the
runner out.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
He did not. He wasn't close to tagging him out.
He was safe.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
But I think in that situation that you're bringing up,
it was a pivotal moment in the game, and he's
trying to help out a picture that couldn't find the
strike zone with the bases loaded. So I feel like
in that situation he was gambling hoping that it did
clip the strike zone. Because in that situation you don't
want to force in a run. So I feel like
(22:11):
that one it's more him trying to take a gamble
on a close pitch to try to help his pitcher out.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
The one and only David Vassey live in beautiful Arizona.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
He has everything you need.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
With Dave Roberts on the pregame show, Bob Nightingale was
talking to Dave Roberts yesterday. The USA Today showed up
today with the scoobl talk and Dave Roberts saying, of
course we're in the running for schoobl How much did
that light things up?
Speaker 5 (22:39):
And then Bingalore text.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
You And though he has not text me, I only
think he has the Textoso line. So I was a
little surprised Dave acknowledged that publicly, because you don't usually
see managers or gms talk about players on other teams
and talking about treating for other players in the middle
(23:00):
of the season. I was surprised by that. But Dave
Roberts is right. The Dodgers do have the prospect and
player capital to pull off a trade for Trek's Schooble.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
And if you go back I said that yesterday, right,
Dave what's that you said that yesterday?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yeah, Yeah, I mean it's it's very obvious the Dodgers
have what it would take to get a school ble.
It's just a matter of whether or not would do it.
But here's the thing. If you go back to the offseason,
what I was told is the Tigers were looking for
major league ready pitching. And that's something that the Dodgers
have that the Yankees don't, that the Brewers don't any
(23:40):
of these other teams you're hearing about. The Dodgers have
those guys and em It she and Justin Robleski and
River Ryan. Pick any one of those three. Would I
would lean towards Sheehan or River Ryan at this stage.
Pick one of those two and pick one of the
Dodger outfielders, and you've got a trade for Terrek Scooble.
In my mind, Harrison, the Tigers GM is being realistic.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, I would be awfully exciting.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
And like we discussed yesterday, I mean putting him ahead
of Yamamoto or between Yamamoto and Otani as a top
three would be something I saw a little stat as
they were talking about acquiring.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Put between Yamamoto and Snell.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Well, That's where I'm getting, Dave. I saw the staff
that since that guy signed that contract, he's thrown all
of sixty innings, So kind of where where are we
whit guy? Matt Blake Snell like, it's.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Don't just call him a guy, he's a two times
two times let.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Me walk in like a rooster.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Sixty four innings?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
What you aim?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
The Dodgers don't even get to the World Series with
the way he pitched in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I'm simply asking Dave, what do we think the timeline is.
I think it's a fair question. He'll be think it's
a fair question.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
He'll be He'll be back in two months. My understanding
is he's getting to playing catch, maybe as soon as
Friday at Dodgers Stadium. His nanoscope procedure was a little
more involved and took a little bit longer than school buls.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
But he's in a great spot.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
He's throwing playofballs on Sunday before the game. As he
was greeting little leaguers as a great ambassador for the
Dodgers and for Major League Baseball, he was showing me
just how flexible the elbow was. So he's in a
good spot, and I think when he comes back it's
going to be similar to what we saw last year
in the second half of the season, where he takes
(25:35):
off H's his stride and ditches the Dodgers through October.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
The great David Masse. If that happens, then you'll be
walking in like a roosters. Dave, have a great night,
Dave Roberts on the pregame show. A lot to talk
about and we'll look forward to that interview and hearing
you all night. Dave, have a good one.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Thank you, guys. I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
There he goes David Vsse prowing like a rooster Bjorn Borg.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
There he goes Von Lindall making his way back out
to the desert. You know, I think of him as
a more modern player, you know, like a sinner, uh,
you know, just a real wicked just a wicked return.
I was thinking maybe more of a Boris Becker type.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Oh the Hormonger. We'll be back.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
We got the dead and Alive guy, birthday O the day,
and then we'll get you to the fun fact and
the quick It's Petro send money, oh Toddy on the
mound in Arizona tonight. You'll hear it all on a
seventy LA.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Sports, Southern California's most listened to sports talk show.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
This is on demand.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
We just won't be defeated Wednesday, and we will not.
The Dodgers weren't defeated yesterday in Arizona. Dodgers on Deck
starts at five point thirty, first pitch, six forty from
Chase Field, Dodgers versus the slithering, crawling Kingsnakes known as
the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
I back you back, we back, they back the d Backs.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Don't forget to podcast our show on the iHeartRadio app
for your smartphone. Matt and I are on from two
to five thirty today, so we'll do one more segment
after this and get you to the pregame with Tim
Kats and the same schedule tomorrow two to five thirty
as the Dodgers wrap up a four game series in
the desert where the sunsets.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Beautiful. All right, but now it's time for the dead
and a live guy. Birthday of the Day, Matt's got
the dead guy.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Yeah, it turns out Rio Speedwagon the band was straight
up named after a car, well a truck. U. The
Rio Speedwab would be like a band today calling themselves
Ford Bronco, Rio.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Speedwab or Nissan Altima.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Or Nissan Altima. We celebrate the birthday of Ransom. Come on,
Mitsubishi Highlander. Wow, that's a good one too. We celebrate
Ransom E. Olds.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
That was his name.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
He would have been one hundred and sixty two. Today
are EO Ransom E. Olds, Ario and Oldsmobile were his
named after him back then. Of course, born in Ohio,
I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
I didn't know Rio as a guy's initials. I did
not either.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I didn't know that Rio Speedwagon was an actual vehicle
that was in production and basically the first sort of
pickups in the history of automobiles. And yet that's what
they decided to call their band. He was born in Geneva, Ohio.
His father was a blacksmith. They moved around a little
bit Cleveland, then settled in Lancing, Michigan. That's where he
went to high school. That is where he dropped out
of high school so he could work at a steam
(28:55):
engine company repairing locomotives. Good with his hands, had that big,
mechanically inclined brain. So Ransom founds the Olds Motor Vehicle
Company in eighteen ninety seven and two of his first hires,
Horace and John Dodge, to make his transmissions. Ah, those
(29:17):
rowdy Dodge brothers with that hack right with their hats
olds gave them their start. In nineteenh one, he had
already built eleven prototype vehicles, had at least one of
each power mode steam, electric and gasoline. In In one
same year, the entire factory burns to the ground. Only
(29:38):
one model survived the fire, what was known as the
little Curved Dash runabout and it ran on gas and
so Ransom said, it made his decision for him what
they wanted to put into mass production. Launched an advertising
Blitz had three hundred orders for the Curve Dash straight away.
He drove one to the New York Autumn Obile Show,
(30:01):
and during the show he pushed hard to make sales
and made the news, the New York News and the
Big Town and the papers. A dealer offered to purchase
five hundred. He said, I will only sell you one
if you order one thousand, and that became a big headline.
The public was impressed with the idea that a company
(30:21):
could sell a thousand cars to one dealer. It was signed.
The dealer ended up selling about seven hundred and fifty
of them, but everybody remembered that number in the curve.
Dash became the most popular vehicle in America, sold about
six hundred and oh one three thousand and two and
over four thousand and nineteen oh four. And this was
the first mass produced not Henry Ford's Model T low
(30:45):
priced American motor vehicle. But of course, with success, the
business types get in and they start pushing the creative
types out. So he had kind of had enough and
started his own company, Reo Motor Cars. Of course Ario
his initials Ransom E. Olds, intended to be an acronym.
(31:06):
He said he wanted it to be Rio Motor Cars,
but for some reason everybody just called it Rio. And
the speed wagon light delivery truck was the ancestor of
the pickup and success opened other doors. He bought forty
thousand acres in Tampa Bay, really one of the main
developers of that city, still bustling today. Of course, he
organized I.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
We looked at what's happening with the TRUP. They're one
of the best teams in baseball.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I mean, everybody wants to go to the Trump. He
built the Olds Tower, which is the tallest built. You
were just therapy, or you were in East Lancing. Perhaps
you took a look over there at Lancing. It is
still the tallest building in.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I had a hotel in Lancing on Magic Johnson Boulevard,
and I had it changed.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Interesting because he also opened a hotel, the Hotel olds
That is still there today. However it is no longer
a hotel. It is the Governor's office. He died in
nineteen fifty at eighty six years old. Ransom E. Olds Ario.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
All right, Matt, we'll do the Japanese news for the
alive guy here.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Nietzsche Bee No, you know what I end this Japanese
news monkey every day, banana monkey, never news.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
That is a Japanese Japanese polymath and musician mostly Takako
Mini Kawa is fifty seven years old today, born in Tokyo.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Was a child actress, but first started doing music.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Her first real musical production was the musical Lolita, and
then she started making shibuya style music, which is the
Japanese word for like indie pop. She's inspired by craft
work and stereo lab She's got nine albums and five
(33:02):
extended plays, and she writes. She's written professionally as a
regular columnist for the Japanese edition of Keyboard Magazine, and
she also contributed a serialized novel to the Japanese quarterly Bungji.
She was married to another musician, a guy named Cornelius
(33:25):
from another Japanese cool indie band, and they got married
in two thousand, but they divorced in twenty twelve. They
do have a son named Milo, like the son of
Cornelius in A Planet of the Eighth, and her and
him collaborated on a lot of product projects. And I
think it's only fair to celebrate Japanese news on a
(33:47):
day that Otani is pitching, and on a day after
we had that relentless pass rush from the bear outside
of that Fukushima Steelworks plant where that guy thought he
was going to be eaten by that bear and the
bear caught up to him. Really all the first move,
all he wanted to do was tackle him the bear.
The bear got him down to the ground behind the
(34:08):
line of scrimmage and then got up and spread it
back to the huddle, which was a great moment. So
all of that to celebrate happon, and Matt, we do
have a few little different than Korean and very different
from our Philippine friends.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
We do have some titles. Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
I'm ready?
Speaker 5 (34:26):
All right, Pocket Kangaroo calculator.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
I mean, come on, thank you. I don't know why
I can't just be a pocket calculator, but somehow the
kangaroo got thrown into that mix.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
This one TTT turntable tennis.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I'll give you horns, all right, but the hell is
turntable tennis?
Speaker 5 (34:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I mean probably two gen DJ's going back and forth, right,
color me and tree?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Right?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Oh yeah, what do you got?
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Shots? John John soft graffiti.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
I'll go crickets, A right tough call.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
Slow flow mole, Slow flow Mole.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I'm gonna go crickets.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Japan makes you think a little low yeah, and I
don't think. Well, well, come on, Matt, you've got a
big brain for engineering, just like the guy ari e O.
Pop up squirrels.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah, that's a that's a horn. More pop up squirrels,
double horn.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
All right, we'll be back.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
With more petros and money. We'll do the quickeets, we'll
do the fun fact, and we'll get you to the show.
Hail Tani on the Mound performance, which threatens to be
fabulous in the desert right when we're done.
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