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March 31, 2025 • 38 mins
Final Hour Fun Fact. Quick Hits. Former MLB All-Star Bret Boone on the Dodgers, Yankees and Torpedo Bats. Dead and Alive Guy Birthday of the Day.
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Dodger Braves game tonight, O Tani, how about more or
less on his fantasy score nine and a half points.
That's the sort of thing you can do, So get
after that.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Did you do yes?

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Before they became the Atlanta Breaks I mean I.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Was getting after it, Matt. I don't know you wanted
me to do anything else.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
I had to shift from the prize picks over to
the final hour. Fun fact stat here, before they became
the Atlanta Braves, the team mascot had changed seven times.
They started out as they well, they started out as
the Cincinnati Red stock okay. Before they moved to Boston
in eighteen seventy one, it became the Boston Red Stockings.
They then became the Boston Red Cap from seventy six

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to eighteen eighty two. They then became the Boston bean
Eaters I know that one from eighteen eighty three to
nineteen o six, short for the Boston Beanie Men. They
then became for a very short three year stint from
nineteen o seven to nineteen ten the Boston Doves okay,

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and then an even shorter.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Stint that strikes fear in the opponent.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
I think this is the pendulum swinging the other direction
right from Doves in nineteen eleven to the Boston Rustlers
nineteen eleven alone. They then became the Boston Braves from
nineteen twelve to nineteen thirty five, but for whatever reason,
they opted I don't think we want to go with
this Braves thing. And they became the Boston Bees from

(04:51):
nineteen thirty six to nineteen.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Like a like a yellow jacket or like like a bee.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
No, I think like, oh, that's a good question. It's
spelled b E s Okay, yeah, the Bees full bee
and then back to the Braves from forty one to
fifty two before they moved to Milwaukee as the Milwaukee
Braves in fifty three, and then of course to Atlanta.
It's the Atlanta Braves in nineteen sixties.

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Love the screaming guy with the mohawk, that's my favorite guy.
He's just time for quickeads come to you in this
quick hits.

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I'll make it.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Quick, y'all.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh yeah, Dodgers are five and oh they take on
the Braids tonight.

Speaker 7 (05:42):
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and abs nips and as I can cut glass with
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out and see him nips and abbs cut glass.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Hey, I'm gonna wear my I wonder if he'll do
the interview after the game if he wins, and a
mister cartoon.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Mas oh, I hope so with no shirt we did,
of course. Come on good, hey Tyler, Yeah, we're about
to do the interview. Now you can't here.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah, hey, mister Brick, you're gonna put on your stuff.
The interview is about to start. The Lakers are forty
five and twenty nine. They're holding the fourth spot in
the West. There was a little bit of a kerfuffle
on Rogan and Rodney a little Laker. Oh, I got
a little upset about things. Friend said, they have no bigs.
It doesn't matter anyway. Come Lakers host the Houston Rockets tonight.

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The Laker fans have long said the teams magically get
healthy to play the Lakers. Luka Doncicic himself addressed the
theory earlier this month. I didn't believe it before. Hold on,
let me take puff OF's vaipe time small small moment
to vape please. But if they say somebody is all

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for a long time, then they play against the Lakers.
So I didn't believe it at the time. Vape and
bud Cup, but obviously it's the Lakers, So I think
that's normal. This is normal, This is normal. JJ Reddick
took things to step further. Hey, I'm gonna take a
step further.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
He actually had it, this accomplishes nothing.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
He had his analytics department look into it. Why don't
you guys look into how many fouls get called against
you and how many foles get called against your opponents? Anyway,
and much delight of those same fans, it turns out
they might be right. I think it's like eighty six
percent of opposing payroll has been available to play us
this year, which is by far number one of the league,

(07:37):
by far, by far. Got you in any front of
the car. He said this after Saturday's went over Memphis.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
You know we're gonna submit this to the league and
say this, just this, this sort of impression.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Didn't you already submit getting one of the best players
in the league to play and help Lebron to the league?
I mean, can't. Isn't that enough?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
You know, Hey, I know those guys you need do
me a favorite. Can you find out if teams play
more of their better players against us?

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Because it's not fair to have to play their best guys.
I don't like. I don't like having to play their best.
The Clippers are ten over five hundred. They're sitting as
the eighth seed in the West. They don't Matt play
some good ball. They lost to Cleveland. They're in Orlando
as we speak. And yeah, you can say that because
all the Clipper fans are listening on the Big Beak.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Number one seed UCLA has made it to their first
ever Final four. They beat LSU of the weekend, and
old Ken Mulky was in the mood for the feud afterwards,
snipping and snapping into reporter who said, Hey, second straight
year you guys lost in the Elite eight, Jaden Smith
Kalistry Sports coaches. The second straight year you guys could
eliminated in the Elite eight. Just yeh terrible.

Speaker 8 (08:50):
How many final four is you play in?

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (08:54):
None, so it's probably pretty good.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Huh yeah, all.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Right, how many drinks for you today? Nut? All right?

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Hey, Kim, I don't know if you notice, but he's
a reporter. Reporters don't play in the Yeah, in the
round of sixty four and the round of thirty two
and the round of sixteen.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
I was on that day. I was on the Dimingu's
Division two Final fourteen Jaden Smith.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, it's like, hey, how do you want me to answer?
That because if I if you say it's pretty good, right,
and I say yeah, that's pretty good, You're gonna say, well,
then you don't.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
Belong covering arteks.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
We'll play champion Chiefs in USU.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
There's no properly positioned in the mood for the feud,
no matter what you approached her with. They're stupid purple
butterfly terrible.

Speaker 8 (09:38):
How many final four is you play in? Oh, so
it's probably pretty good?

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Huh yeah, all right, you've got it.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Shows pretty good.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
In the Division two NCAA Championship game on Saturday, Nova
Southeastern rallied to beat cal State Tamingus Hills with a
seventy four to seventy three VIC. The women's cal State
Domingus Hills team, the Lady Toros, also lost in the
Division two National Championship game on Friday, terrible day for
Compton and Carson. They lost to Grand Valley State. It

(10:14):
is a Grand Valley So congratulations to cal State Domingus Hills.
Both programs making it to the title game, which is
more than Jaden Smith, who asked Kim Mulky that question,
can say.

Speaker 8 (10:26):
How many final fours you play in?

Speaker 3 (10:29):
None?

Speaker 8 (10:30):
So it's probably pretty good. Huh, yeah, all right.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
It's probably pretty good.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Maryland, probably pretty good. Maryland is looking for a new
coach after Kevin Willard left for Villanova. His departure was
part of a three week long, drawn out drama between
Willard and Maryland, leading Maryland booster Barry Gossett to say
he played us like a drum.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
That's Willard playing gossip.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Huh. Gossip's name adorns the forthcoming fifty two million dollar,
forty four thousand square foot basketball performance center. And he said,
we've been played like a drug, which reminds me of
the Arizona booster that got mad that Jed Fish left
for Washington, and he said, I thought you were my friend.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
No, just side, I would have liked Maryland, who have
made a run. That was one of the better nicknames
we'd heard in a while. The Crab five of their
five freshman starters for the Turps this year, that unfortunately,
and the young man queen who said, yeah, we got
to play hard for coach Willard because he's the guy

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that pays us. So you know, he says, Jef says.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
He's one of the rocks.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
At check was did you say the Crab five Matt
the Crab five. Yeah, I will be back with Brett Boone.
We're looking forward to talking to him. Brett b from
the Brett Boone from the Brett Boone podcast right here
on the iHeartRadio app Baseball Royalty. Aaron Boone's brother will
join us.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Next betro saying money five seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. Just came down the High Speed
Sportswire breaking news and not good news. Freddie Freeman in
the shower ahead of the game against the Braves tonight

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slipped tweaked that same ankle that he had an issue
with that he rolled in the playoffs last year. So
he is out tonight and is listed as day today.
I'm sure Tim Kates David Vasse gonna have the latest
and Dodgers on deck as we get ready for first
pitch against the Dodgers against the Braves at seven to ten.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Matt, we advertise a lot of podcasts here on the
show on the iHeartRadio app. Most of them sound like
some things that you know, we just probably would.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
Not listen, that's true.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
But Brett Boone as a podcast which you could listen
to and download on the iHeartRadio app. We're talking about
Camelot Baseball Royalty. There is still a hole in the
Valencia of Placentia water tower when he played for El
Dorado High and blew a hole right through it. His grandfather,

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Ray was a Major leaguer. His dad Bob major League
player and manager. His brother Aaron, major League player and
now manager of the Yankees. With their cool bats, he
didn't need a torpedo bat to blow a hole through
the water tower. Thirteen years in the Big League's, three
time All Star, full time gor Gold Glover, two times

(13:44):
Silver Slugger, and the podcast. Of course, he joins us
right now on the Southern California Toyo to do their
celebrity hotline. It is the great Brett Boone on the
Petros and Money Show. We're happy to have him. What's cracking, Brett?
How are you fight? On to you sir?

Speaker 9 (14:00):
Fight on?

Speaker 6 (14:01):
Quite an intro. Yeah, I'm doing well, doing well getting
through this first weekend of baseball.

Speaker 9 (14:06):
We had some fireworks.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, no doubt about it. It's like baseball started and
everything's exciting. The Yankees have scored like a hundred runs
in a weekend. We have the Dodger thing. The Padres
are undefeated. But you know, it's not like you don't
know anybody on the Yankees. Is this bat story like
a real story. I mean, Judge has hit the most

(14:28):
and he doesn't even use the torpedo bat, just his
big muscles. What's going on?

Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (14:33):
I think, you know, I think there's you know. I
had Chuck Shupp on my podcast this morning. He was
he was my bat guy when I was playing with
Louisville Slugger. He was the head Louisville Slugger guy, liaison
to all the big league players. You know, he come
in and we give him our specs and he moved on.
Now he's with Chandler Bats. So I said, I wanted

(14:56):
to get behind the scenes on what is this torpedo?
And he said, Brett, this started two years ago. They
came in and you know, everything's progressing and we have
and the technology we have nowadays, he said, they just
started pinging this around. Where you go in and you'd
swing as a player, this is how I understand it.
And they'd hook you up to a machine computer and

(15:18):
all downloaded into the machine and basically where your particular
and it's unique to the individual where your barrel is
and where you hit the ball most, they're going to
put the sweet spot there on your personalized bat. So
after talking to players, talking to Chuck this morning, my

(15:38):
conclusion as a player is we're creature habit. So you're
going to see all the players Aaron Judge, why would
he change his bat? He's like, Hey, I've been hitting
fifty homers a year. I think my bat's just fine.
I don't think you're going to see Otani changing his
bats Freeman bets, but I think it's an experimental thing
for some guys.

Speaker 9 (15:57):
I think it's probably going to be the wave of
the future.

Speaker 6 (16:00):
It's no different than a current PGA tour golfer going
in and hitting balls at the studio and all of
a sudden they're going to make him the perfect driver.
Where does he what's his best sweet spot? How do
we move these weights around in the head of a
driver to fit very uniquely for that individual, You know

(16:20):
that pro I think it's something in the short term
that you're going to see some guys use an experiment with.
But I would say going forward in the future twenty
years from now, I don't think it's going to be
uncommon for every big leaguer to have their own personalized
built for their swing bats delivered to them.

Speaker 9 (16:38):
I think it's going to be I think it's the
way of the future.

Speaker 6 (16:40):
But I think right now you're just seeing the very
beginning of it, and a few guys are using it. Yeah,
the Yankees score all these runtherers. I think there's only
two guys on their team using it, but everybody's going.

Speaker 9 (16:50):
To jump on. Oh, that's why they're hitting the home runs.

Speaker 6 (16:52):
No, I think it's Jazz Chisholm and Bolpay are the
guys that are using the bats, and they've hit a
few home runs early judges hit four.

Speaker 9 (16:59):
He's not using it, so I don't think they're staying
within the rules.

Speaker 6 (17:03):
The specs are all working out for Major League Baseball
as far as the rules go, so I don't see
anything behind it. But I think it's like everything else
in sports, it's really going digital and using the data
and metrics, and that's the way sports is going. It's
been headed that way for six or seven years now,
and I don't think it's going to slow down. I
think it's going to kind of be the way of

(17:23):
the future.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
It's pretty it's kind of I think as it is
to me. I hope people listen and find it as
fascinating as well, Brett. But like, because really not much
has changed, right sort of whether it's Victis or Marucci
or Glomar or your guy now at Chandler, Like they're
all using sort of the old Louisville slug or specs, right,
they're not patented and we haven't really seen much change.

(17:46):
So like, how big of a deal is it that
some players are willing to maybe finally do something that
looks a little weird and maybe they don't want to
swing something that looks like a bowling pin, or like
how far this thing could go? Because I mean, really
have we seen it? Do you even change with that?
Since the whole like maple versus ash thing?

Speaker 6 (18:03):
Well, I think that's a great example for guys of
my generation, and you know, and I think of the
players that were similar ah to me at the Griffis
and Alex Rodriguez and Jeter. We were very resilient and
we didn't want to change. We grew up on ash
bats and maple was starting to get popular, and you

(18:24):
saw some of the younger players using the maple. Some
veteran players were trying it, but for the most part
it was rejected by the veterans in the game. It's like, now,
that doesn't feel right, it sounds different. Nowadays, you can't
go into a big league locker room and find an
ash bat. It's all maple. It's just and that's why
I think this technology and what they're doing now where

(18:45):
they're moving the sweet spot around on the bat. Yeah,
in the short term, I think you're going to see
the players that have been in the league for a
while have had a lot of success. I think they're
going to be hesitant to change and be pretty happy
with their performance so they don't want to mess with it.
But I think on the forward I think it's it's
going to be the same thing. You know, it's different
because you're moving around the bat. It's not the surface

(19:08):
of the bat, the type of wood. It's just a
different metric. But at the same time, I think it's
going to be something that changes. Just like we wouldn't
use the maple, now everybody uses maple. I think you're
going to see a lot of the players they don't
want to use this new technology, but future generations are
going to use it. So I think it's just the
progression of the game and where it's going. I see
a lot of the guys today and how they train

(19:32):
and how they use computer and how they use data points.
It's very similar to how the golfers train. For me,
it's tough for me to get my head around it
because golf is different. The balls on a tee you
have to be able to repeat it and hit it straight.
Hooks and slices in golf for me are doubles down
a right field line and a left field line. So
baseball is completely different than golf. But that's how they're

(19:54):
starting to train. They're starting to get exit velocity and numbers,
and just like you do in a golf simulator, these
pros want to get their spin rates perfect and their
trajectories down. So baseball's kind of going the same way
of golf, and I think other sports are starting to
use metrics more than they ever have. So I think
it's a blip on the radar right now.

Speaker 9 (20:13):
It's a good.

Speaker 6 (20:13):
Talking point, the fans are having a good time with
it on Twitter, but at the end of the day,
I think it's just the beginning of something that you're
going to see in the future. But really doesn't. It's
not like they're using a cheater bat that the ball's
going farther off of No, they're just moving around the
sweet spot and it just so happens.

Speaker 9 (20:32):
A couple guys.

Speaker 6 (20:33):
Using the bat right now hit a couple home runs
early in the season, but I chalked that up as
the Yankees just getting off to a hot start.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Just a little taste of what you're going to get
on the Brett Boone podcast when you subscribe to that.
I think the quote from the Yankees was, it's not
the wand it's the magician. So talk to us about
the magician now that this is his second year with
the Dodgers following another MVP award. When you watch Otani swing,
how unique is it? What makes that swing so special,

(21:03):
so consistent, and how he's able to, you know, do
what he does, especially what seems like already early in
the season, in the game's biggest moments.

Speaker 6 (21:11):
Well, he's just a special, special guy. Man. I never
thought we'd see what we're saying. And I know last
year he missed the whole year on the mound, but
I know it just without knowing him, just looking at
his personality and how much he loves this game and
how much he kind of loves what he's doing. I
think he's pretty humble for the accomplishments that he's been

(21:34):
able to obtain to this point in his career. But
at the same time, he has a drug. He likes
being that kind of unicorn. He likes Yeah, not only
do I hit fifty home runs, but yeah, I steal
bases too. And by the way, I pitch every fifth day.
So you're here in the tako, well, maybe Otani shouldn't pitch.
My read on him and hers. His personality is, oh no,
that's what makes me so unique, and that's why I'm

(21:56):
making history every day. When I'm a pitcher and a hitter.
I think you're going to see him really want to
get back on the mound and freak us all out
because I can't believe you're doing it at the highest
level on both sides of the ball. I thought one
day we might see a guy go two way, but
maybe he'd be a relief pitcher give you a few innings,
But never did. I thought we'd see an MVP on

(22:18):
the offensive side and a cy young candidate on the
other side, both doing it at an elite level.

Speaker 9 (22:24):
It's unbelievable to watch. I mean, just the.

Speaker 6 (22:26):
Fact that he's out there's stealing bases, plays every day,
hits at the top of the lineup, does what he does.

Speaker 9 (22:33):
He's remarkable.

Speaker 6 (22:34):
Him and him and Aaron Judge definitely the pinnacle of
offensive players in the game right now.

Speaker 9 (22:39):
And Sky's the limit.

Speaker 6 (22:41):
I mean when it all, when it's all said and done,
if he can stay healthy and get back to being
a two way player, I think as far as history
of the game goes, there's really going to be no
controversy on who's the greatest to ever do it, because
to do it on.

Speaker 9 (22:55):
Both sides of the ball.

Speaker 6 (22:57):
He has no he has no real peers. Who do
you compare him to? He can go back to Babe Ruth.
I heard he was a pitcher early in his career,
but that's going back a little too far. Modern day baseball.
We've never say anything like it, and it's amazing.

Speaker 9 (23:09):
It's much watch TV the.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Brett Boone podcast, where you can listen and download on
the iHeartRadio app. Good stuff and a colleague of ours
here in the iHeartRadio world is Boonie. You said on
the podcast, of course you're part of the Mariners team
that tied the record. That this Dodger team could break
the record for wins in a regular season. They certainly

(23:32):
look great on paper, and they look great coming out
of the gate. How special are they? And do you
think they'll have a little lull like normal baseball teams do?

Speaker 4 (23:41):
Well?

Speaker 9 (23:41):
I think so.

Speaker 6 (23:42):
I mean, this is basically a traveling All Star team.
And you know, I think the obvious is the Otani's,
the Freeman's, the Mookie Bets, the three big stars on
that team. But you've got a Smith behind the plate
who's a star. You've got a ti Oscar Hernandez who
as a start, he got a month Sie that's capable
of hitting thirty plus home runs every year. So they're

(24:06):
stars up and down the lineup, and then you get
to the rotation.

Speaker 9 (24:09):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 6 (24:10):
I mean, when Gonslin comes back and Kershaw is ready
to pitch, Kershaw is essentially the seventh or eighth starter.
And I know he's thirty seven years old, but he's
one of the greatest. He's one of the greatest pitchers
of all time. He's like a Maddox at the end
of his career. When you knew he wasn't quite the
Maddox of the nineties, but he was still Maddox and

(24:31):
he was still a pretty darn good third starter. I mean,
show is gonna be seventh or eighth if everybody's healthy.
And I think in twenty twenty five, unlike it was
twenty thirty years ago, health is at an absolute premium
in today's game. I think you see guys seem to
just drop like flies, and it's who can stay the
healthiest has a chance to get to the postseason and win.

(24:54):
I look at this Dodger roster and it's just it's
so deep. They've got so much depth compared to everybody else.
If a star goes down, they've got another star to
replace them. I think that's what separates the Dodgers from
every other team in baseball, is just their depth. They're
as deep as any team I've ever seen, and I
was looking at it. Every year, I'll get phone calls

(25:14):
about that two thousand and one Mariner team. To a
team that gets off to a hot start, Hey, do
you think they can break your record? It's kind of
you shrug it off, You roll your eyes and you laugh. No,
no one will ever be one hundred and sixteen. We
had a magic carpet.

Speaker 9 (25:27):
Right.

Speaker 6 (25:27):
It was something I've never seen before, and I don't
think i'll see in my lifetime until this year when
I'm looking at this roster and I'm going, not only
did he have the stars that I mentioned in the
starting rotation with the Snells and the Yamamoto and the
Otani potentially coming back, and the guy pitching a night
in La Glass. Now, not only that, but you've got

(25:51):
that bullpen's unbelievable, and you went out and you added
a Scott and you added a Kirby Yates who was
arguably the best reliever in baseball last year. So not
only is their lineup stack, the depth behind the secondary players,
the starting rotation, but the bullpen's elead as well. So
if any team, I'm not saying they can do it,

(26:12):
you still got to go out and play play one
hundred and sixty two games, and man, it doesn't add
up no matter how good you are to win one
hundred and sixteen plus. But if any team could do it,
this team, on paper is the greatest team I've ever
seen in my lifetime to start a season. From a
talent perspective, last.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Thing for you, Brett, and again subscribe to the Brett
Boon podcast. Great conversation on there today about those torpedo
bats with a man that knows a little something about
bat's got used to roll over there at Louisville Slugger.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Do you like it?

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Do you like the idea that the Dodgers have this
after taxes, five hundred plus million dollar pay roll, that
they spend all their money? You know some teams won't
they spend it?

Speaker 6 (26:53):
Like?

Speaker 4 (26:53):
Is it to you?

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Is it good? Is it entertaining? Is there something wrong
with it? Like as you look at it from the outside.

Speaker 9 (26:59):
In Well, I think they found a loophole.

Speaker 6 (27:01):
I think they found something that no one's ever done
before and they exploited it. Now going forward, will that
be a discussion going forward to close.

Speaker 9 (27:09):
Up that loophole? And Ah, you can't do what the
Dodgers did. But I look over in New York.

Speaker 6 (27:13):
You know it's always been the evil Empire, has always
been the New York Yankees. Well that's changed now with
Cohen in New York and buying the Mets. He told
everybody what he was going to do from the beginning.
Didn't care about money, didn't care how much it cost him.
His goal was to bring a World Series championship to
New York, not the Yankees, the Mets. And with Soto

(27:34):
and the deal he signed this offseason, I think a
lot of people were scratching their head. How did Easter
pass Otani?

Speaker 9 (27:41):
Yeah, we thought he.

Speaker 6 (27:42):
Was going to get, you know, in the four hundred million,
maybe overtake Trout as the highest paid position player. But
I don't think anybody thought what was coming was coming.
And the other owners are like, wait a minute. The
player is probably their first reaction, and I think it's
a catch twenty two was wow, this is great.

Speaker 9 (27:58):
Now all our salaries will go up.

Speaker 6 (28:00):
And at the same time, I think when you have
a guy spending like that, the ownership's going to start
talking salary cap. And at the end of the twenty
sixth season, with the Dodgers and the Mets doing what
they're doing in different fashions, I think you've already started
to hear the whispers of salary cap and a fight
bruin with the Union and Major League Baseball. The last

(28:22):
time that happened I was involved. I was a rep
for the Cincinnati Reds nineteen ninety four. Bud Steely stood
on the podium and canceled the World Series. They've had
peace ever since then, but for the first time, I
think you're starting to hear it because of the Sodo contract.

Speaker 9 (28:36):
And what they did. I think what the Dodgers did,
like I said, it was all fair, it's all legal.
They did it. You know.

Speaker 6 (28:42):
I think at some point you're going to have to
pay the price for what you're doing. But right now,
I mean, man, they've created a real force in LA
that really rivals the Yankee type atmosphere around baseball. Think
everybody wants to be a Dodger. We saw that this

(29:02):
off season down to Sasaki coming over from Tokyo. He
was the big coveted free agent. He was going around
on a world tour and he ended up with the Dodgers,
just like it seemed like everybody else ended up with
the Dodgers. So short term, right now, what they're doing, man,
it's the hot ticket, it's the place to be. It's
the best team in baseball, and it's going to be

(29:23):
really interesting down the road to see what to see
what happens as far as the piece between the Union
and Major League Baseball, but also the game itself and
where it's going to go. What's going to be the
next step it takes to create that revenue that's got
to keep up with the salaries that continue to increase.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
A magic carpet ride of sorts.

Speaker 9 (29:43):
Magic car.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, the great Red Boom. Check out the Boon podcast
on the iHeartRadio app. Just great stuff of fun, baseball
conversation to have with a legend, a lot of great perspective,
just like that magic carpet ride back the day with
the Mariners. Brett, we really appreciate it. Have a great
week and we'll talk to you soon. Stay in touch

(30:07):
and good luck with everything.

Speaker 9 (30:09):
All right, guys, thanks for having me on.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
All right you.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
Brett Boom, Poddetell your colleague.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
Stand on the same platform. Matt's right chest out the
sound of Brett Boom, Take you away, give us some signal.
It's a Modello meets a lot on Monday on the
Petro Send Money Show. Not a real meach if it's

(30:42):
not made with Mondello. A reward for those with the
fighting spirit. Modello the mark of a fighter. We got
the braves in town tonight. That's why I tweeted out
a picture of Sharky's Machine. Matt At start with the
Dead Guy. Birthday of the day.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Kenneth Norville, age name Red Norvo, Red Norvo, Red Norvo,
nickname mister Swing. I'm a sucker for a vibraphone.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
Come on, man, I mean every single day you talk
about Benny Goodman whenever we go to Britain, right.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
And Benny will be involved in this Dead Guy without
Red Norvo, don't know if we have the vibraphone action
that we have today. He was the man who introduced
the instrument in the swinging style way of playing it
to jazz and to swing. He was born in Beardstown, Illinois.
I don't think the babies come out of the womb
with a beard.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
I mean, do you ever think that aside this guy
did'd have a beard? Well, yeah, mad, but he was
a baby.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
He moved to Chicago when he was sixteen to chase
his musical dreams.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
Everybody in beards Down as a beard.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
I don't know if that baby was conceived here in
beard Town. It does not have a beard. His band,
the Collegians, when he was eighteen and nineteen twenty five,
gained a reputation as a Bandit seehoy in the Second City,
why his marimba. He was quickly booked on the vaudeville circuit,
playing four as you mentioned, Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnett, Woody Herman,

(32:14):
he married Mildred Bayley. The pair of them recorder under
the title mister and Missus swing, Listen to that thing and.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Goes that has a little bit of a different conony.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
That's a piano.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
Well, yeah, it's a little bit of a different connotation, Matt,
mister and missus swing.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
In twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Five, Yes, he was incredibly close with Billie Holliday, Dinas Shore,
Frank Sinatra. As a matter of fact, thanks to his
relationship with Frank on screen and Ocean's eleven accompany Dean
Martin while he's saying, ain't that a kick in the
head session player providing his vibraphone on the call. But
one day, when the studio director, Jack Cap was out
of town, Novo reached out to a few friends to

(32:53):
record some of his music. He covered Bick Spider Becks
in a Myth, and his own Dance of the Octopus,
accompanied by Benny Goodman in a rare performance on bass clarinet.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
That's very famous dance of the octopus.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
Number one song nineteen thirty six.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
See Matt, you see his song's brilliant, not just quidly Didley.
They can play the vibraphone.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
No, now it's not octopuses guard but it's pretty impressive.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
It's better in my opinion.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
The producer Jackcap freaked out and fired Norvo on the spot,
which turned out to be a good thing, because Columbia
snatched him.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
I'll listen to that thing.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
He recorded a bunch of songs for Columbia, a bunch
more for Decca.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Said what do you do for work?

Speaker 2 (33:49):
He put his own string orchestra together with his wife
on Vox. They pumped out number ones.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
Please be kind, I play one hundred year old music
and sounded like Benny Boop over it.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
What do you do?

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Says?

Speaker 2 (34:00):
My heart was number one for four weeks. Benny loved
him regularly had him unturn in the studio. But how
about this nineteen forty ninety forms a trio with his vibes,
a guitar, and a bass, and he finds tel Farlow
on guitar would become one of the most significant guitarist
of his generation and an unknown at the time, Charles

(34:21):
Mingus on bass.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
Oh how about that?

Speaker 2 (34:26):
So the Norvo as he was called, Farlow and Mingus
recorded two albums for Savoy Records, both considered to be
seminal releases. The grip well received. Musicians loved that they
play with Sinatra regularly. Several appearances on The Dinah Shore
Show in the late fifties and sixties still torked through
the eighties.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
No, no, no risk of Dinah ended up in bed
with those guys. No indeed, beat it out the high
knees the Jamaican dancing style of Jamaican dance All Star
Anthony B, a reggae staple, is the guy behind the

(35:02):
Powerpuff Girls. Craig McCracken.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
Girls were born using their ultra superpowers Blossom Bubbles and
Mother Nule has dedicated their lives the fighting crime and
the horses of evil.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Yeah, let's get at kraging beautiful with Craig McCracken. Fifty
four years old today, born in Pennsylvania. Now he has
a beard, but I don't think he was born in Beardstown,
but he was raised here in southern California. And I
was just at this campus the other day with my

(35:38):
son California High School in Whittier, Let's Go Condors. And
then he went to cal Arts where he met a
very important person, Jendy Tartakovski, a guy we've celebrated here.
In his first year, and in his first year, not
only that, he created the character No Neck Joe, which

(35:58):
was immediately picked up Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation.
And at cal Arts he made a short which was
called wolf Ass stew which is what became the basis
for Bubbles, Buttercup and Blossom, The Powerpuff Girl and Mojo Jojo.

(36:21):
He worked at Hannah Barbara on Two Stupid Dogs. Some
People drugged their dog to makem Stewart.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
I what did not direct to say?

Speaker 3 (36:30):
I said some people two stupid Dogs. Though Matt is
also the name of the Edelman Grunk podcast. Is he
a dude or a dog? Then he worked on Gend's
Dexter's Lab, which was his first in a long collaboration
with the cartoon network.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
Oh you love the Dexter's Lab?

Speaker 3 (36:53):
I do. And then he did The Powerpuffs six season,
seventy eight episodes and a movie that received positive reviews
but was a box office hit. He's done other shows
Wander Over Yonder Uncle Grandpa, but it's the Powerpuff Girls
that make him a legend. Says he drops things really

(37:16):
simply when he does character creation to help with production costs,
which makes sense, which is, you know, kind of why
we goyeep peeple along with the one hundred year old Vibran.
He was inspired by Chuck Showles and the great Bill
Watterson from Calvin and Hobbes, which I think is why
people of our generation like the Powerpuffs. Matt married to

(37:39):
an animator, another one Lauren Faust, who he met on
that show and works on all his shows ever since.
And they have a daughter, Craig McCracken of the Powerpuffs
Beauty and you could podcast this beauty of a show
on the iHeartRadio app for your smartphone your phone is

(38:00):
smart enough. I want to meet you a lot of Monday,
brought to you by Modello, to relive the whole show
or stream it live when we're on the same show
tomorrow three to six on a two Edemano Tuesday. Stay cool, everybody.
Tim Katz is coming up, as Matt said, one of
the great workers and sports personalities in Los Angeles his

(38:24):
work back tomorrow now
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