September 29, 2025 • 38 mins
Final Hour FUn Fact. Quick Hits. Top Story of the Day on the Dodgers playoffs hopes. Dead and Alive Guy Birthday of the Day.
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have got NFL football tonight Bengals at Broncos and we
will have that kick just after five pm tomorrow. Though
we do have Dodgers Reds Game one of the wild
Card series. Still have one more pair of tickets to
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give away. You know what, probably do that here in
this segment at some point, as we have given away
two pair already, one more today for game one tomorrow,
and again you'll have another opportunity tomorrow morning on scam
with Tim Pere.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
You got the balls to do it, Matt, let's do
it right now. I mean, if you've got the sack.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Tomorrow Dodgers on deck at five first pitch at six
oh eight pm from the Galvin Motors Broadcast booth, our
final pair of tickets today eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy. Tim Kates will have another pair
tomorrow along with Steve Sacks. A scam gets rolling at
six a m.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Sacks. Well he's got the sack, he's got more.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
You know what I'm saying. That's what you say, like
you know from now on. I don't know. I don't
think you got it. Well, what do you mean? I
don't think yeh what? I don't think you have the
sack to give away those tickets right now?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Second?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
You won't do it. You won't give away the.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Tickets caller ten right now. If you haven't, Oh you
did it, Oh you did it.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Everywhere there it is age six six nine eighty seven
two five seventy and check in with Tim and Saxy tomorrow.
Scam tomorrow morning, SAX and Kate's in the AA between
six and nine. Win your tickets will be out there
broadcasting live tomorrow and Wednesday, hopefully not Thursday, and then
likely be back out there for the divisional round as
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our credentials have in fact been approved. Who would have
ever thunk it? Our credentials have been approved for the
divisional series as well.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, I did hear that. I heard that that rumor.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
There's a little pushback, as there always is. Those guys
didn't even come out, Yes they did. Everybody knows them,
so they don't ask them to key in their their IDs.
They've been going there for fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, everybody knows us, so it's.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Like, you know, just like the girl with the cam
quarter from Peru, but it kind of knows her.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Let's get to the fun fat Hopefully it's not that
weird of an inside joke fun effect.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah, we're three, it's an inside joke, uh final hour
fun fact.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
It's definitely inside Joe.
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edu slash Coaching. Well with our Cincinnati friends coming to town.
Did you know the color red has the longest wavelength
of light in the visible spectrum. It is the most
visible color. It is the easiest to be noticed by
the human eye, and it is the first color that
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babies can distinguish.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I did know that one pops up whatever the men
of the Queen City arrive in Los Angeles. It really
red something you know. This is the original franchise in
the history of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It catches your eye. A red uniform.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
That's why they're the Reds, because it's the first thing
you would think of. The Dodgers, of course, are blue.
That's another fun fact. If you didn't know, quick hits
everybodys quickets, I'll make it quick, y'all. Yeah, Dodgers Reds.
Game one of the Wild Card Round is tomorrow. First
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pitch at six oh eight, both teams going through a
workout at Dodger Stadium. Dodgers right now, the Reds with
that distinctive color. All the babies will be out to
see him a little later on. The managerial carousel has
begun to spin in the baseball carousel spins slowly and
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in a grisly white way. Rocco Baladelli is out in Minnesota.
Bob Melvin is out in San Francisco. Carlos Mendoza is
staying in New York with the Mets because they didn't
fall apart.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Oh, they were only twenty one games over five hundred,
a lock to either win the NL West or the
number one wild card slot. Only to watch the Miami
Marlins celebrate their Game one sixty two victory like they
won the World Series.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
This is their World Series.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
This was incredibly upsetting their broadcast team, and I found
that to be incredibly entertaining.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
This is their World Series.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
This is disgusting.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Don Kelly keeps on the Pirate hat and the patch.
He's staying in Pittsburgh with the Pirates. And speaking of
the New York Mets, Matt the second highest payroll in
baseball set spent seven hundred million on Juan Soto did
not make the playoffs. Owner Steve Cohen went on X
Today and posted this, Matt, would you kindly read the
text with your I mean you. You just came from
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New York, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Mets fans everywhere. I owe you an apology. You did
yours part by showing up and supporting the team. We
didn't do ours part. We will do a post mortem
and figure out the obvious and less obvious reasons why
the team didn't perform up to your and my expectations.
We are all feeling raw emotions today.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Raw.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I know how much time and effort you have put
into this team. The result was unacceptable. Your emotions tell
me how much you care and continues to motivate the
organization to do better. Thank you to the best fans
in sports.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
We're the Jets and we're gonna beat those shocks.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
We have Monday Night football tonight.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
B Yeah, Bengals and Broncos. Bengals don't have.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
A quarterback, No Browning? Who you know? I think you
probably called a couple of his games.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I know, Jake the Snake, Yeah, more than a couple.
Kickoff is after five. We'll be here. The Chargers are
three and one home Sunday against the Commanders, and we'll
have tickets later in the week to give away for
that game. The Rams are three and one and they
host the forty on Thursday night at SOFI Kickoff Week five.
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The Rams are a four and a half point home Favarito.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh Media DAP.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
There was a time when the Petrosen Money Show was
invited out to Laker media days when we were broadcasting
Laker games, and man, did people love us doing the
radio show out there.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
They did not appreciate what we were doing for whatever reason,
and I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
They were very upset by our.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Programming at SOFI Stadium and they filled it. Clippers Media Day.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh, it was packed to the nines.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Man Ramona Shell asked Kawhi Leonard about the Clippers Aspiration investigation.
His answer was the stuff of no the stuff of
Roman legend math. Yes, Jim, bear with the audio guys.
Apparently it's a five billion dollars stadium in Arena, but
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we can't get good audio.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
I understand that full contract and the services that I
had to do. Like I said, I don't deal with
the conspiracies or the click date of what and atleast
list and that's going on. So that's that's what it is.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
I think the allegation was that they didn't perform any services.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
But is that accurate?
Speaker 7 (08:46):
It's accurate, but it's old. This is all new to
you guys. That comyn Mayer a while ago, so we
already knew that.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
This was MAP.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
So you were named the just creditoring that in the
fancy val.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Did you actually get the money that was owed to
you in the contractor?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Oh no?
Speaker 7 (09:08):
But then company went up. It was it was Friday.
You guys, everybody know if you want any more questions
or ask more details about that company, asked the owner
or Columbier US is involved in the fraud went on?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Just ask gonk Well, you know, that's the most he's
answered anything in a long time.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That's the most I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Kawhi Leonard's voice in one sound colibait journey.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
It doesn't seem like clickbait journalism. It seems like a
real journalist asking real questions.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Yeah, the owner acknowledged that there was a contract for
twenty eight million there, Kawhi just you know.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Whatever we got sound from the El Segundo and Lakers
media day. Let's hear here's Luca saying he's better in
his mind, and you could imagine that that he was
last year.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Whatever, man, get that guy.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Obviously it's way easy or now.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Obviously I went through a lot less year and it
wasn't easy to adjust. So, like I said before, this
is a first start, fresh mind for me. So, uh,
you know, I'm in a better place for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
All right, I can packn cigarettes go a long way there.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Lebron was asked about retirement.
Speaker 10 (10:21):
Yeah, I don't I don't know when the end is,
but I know it's a lot sooner than later. So
you know, just you know, being super appreciative of the
fact that I could come up here, do another media
day and talk to you guys and do all this
stuff around here.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Nan, he's the best, isn't he the best man?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
He's the best man. He's such a good guy.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
And then he was asked about wanting to play with
his son Bryce.
Speaker 10 (10:44):
No, I don't know what his time. I don't know
what his timeline is. He's his own young man. Now
like he's down in twusion. We see what happens this year,
next year, you know, but he has his own timeline.
I got my timeline, and I don't know if they
quite match up.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
All right, Well, what about the last part p the
last question, because I don't know if you saw, but
Broni's already like a single digit handicap and he and
his pops are all excited about the game of golf.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
I didn't know nothing about the bug is real. I
didn't know nothing about it. People said, if you ever
get into the game and the bug grab you, it
is over it. And uh, I definitely have it.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Man. I started.
Speaker 10 (11:22):
I literally started playing in July for the first time
in my life. And I love everything about I think
the best thing that I've gotten out of it, besides
like the how competitive and hard it is and the
mental challenge, which I love. Anything that's mentally challenging I love.
But how just you just get away from the world.
You out there on the green, no phones, no phones.
My phone stays in the cart the whole time. I
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check it from time to time. But it's just like
I play my music. I'm out there with my guys,
you out there and just in the world, and I
can say into.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
The game you can't find you, then.
Speaker 10 (11:56):
Yeah, can find they can't find absolutely.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Or media can't find you, Lebron. Media can't find you, Lebron.
Media can't find you, Lebron.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It gives us one a year. It gives us one
a year.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
That's better than the other one.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
It is that makes me come back. That is better
than that make me come back.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Oh, there it is.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
And we'll be right back. Hop Story of the Day
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of the Dodgers, Dodgers start tomorrow. We'll start it too.
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Speaker 4 (13:01):
Thanks for listening, everybody. We got Monday night football coming up.
That's why we're off early, but we were on early.
It will be on early tomorrow. Dodgers Reds Game one
of the National League Wildcard Series. Dodgers on deck at five,
first pitch at six oh eight from the Gallpin Motors
Broadcast booth, and of course Tim Kaits and Steve Sacks
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with scam tomorrow morning that Matt named scam. Sacks and
Kate's in the am. Why is it a scam only
because it's such a great show, but it has a
limited amount of time on the sort of like the
McRib very popular, but only on for a short amount
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of time because Dan Patrick and the Dodgers. He can't
be in the playoffs all year long.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
No, it's dependent. It is entirely dependent on the playoff
performance of a particular team. Dodgers play well, you know,
Sax and Kate's making some money. Now Dodgers, you know,
get this thing wrong in the wild card and well,
Scam's going to feel like a scam right.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Well that you know, that's a kind of a that's
sort of a microcosm of how the entire station goes
as far as the Dodger playoff and the money to
be made. But you know, we have not been well.
Last year was a little tricky. In this year. You know,
we have a new boss. So you just don't know
if we're going to be sent out on the Santa
Monica Boulevard as we have in the past.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I don't feel like he's going to make us parade
our privates around town like Archie.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Maybe more of a call girl type of deal. All right,
it's time to the top story of the day, class
story of it.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Well, here we are p of course, I think the
way that many might look at it, this is how
it works out. You got a four hundred million dollar payroll.
The playoffs show up, and while some got excited about
the Phillies and all of their muscley hitters, if you
will in that bandbox of.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
A stadium to be muscular when they're playing.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Baseball, you do. You got to swing that swing that lumber.
The Brewers, many have called the most complete of all
the teams in the postseason, despite dealing with some late
season injuries to padres who have caught fire. Not quite
sure there's anything in his past that would lend you
to think that Fernando Tatis is doing something differently here
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this last month of the year. But he certainly looks like,
I would say, a different player than we had seen
for I don't know three months.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
You've you've implicated uh, two teams in just a few
sentences in a in a sort of a muscly kind
of uh.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Just you know, you look at the way these guys
are built. And sometimes, you know, you see a baseball
player that looks like he could have just come off
the couch, and other times you're like.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Oh, what do you know?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
That guy didn't hit seven home runs between June and September,
and he's got seven this month.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
What do you know? Just in time for the postseason.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
But but pye with all of that, the Cubs, by
the way, playing a little bit better here to make
sure they locked up home field at Rigley for this
Wildcard series against those aforementioned Padres. But then you shove
all that aside and you say, right on time to
the point that Dave Assay made about a month ago,
and we talked to him earlier. If you missed that preview,
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you'll want to check it out there on the Petros
Money podcast via the iHeartRadio app. But a point that
he made a month ago, and this thing was falling
apart and it was peak Panic Brothers, and he simply said,
you know, maybe it's better they played the wild Card.
Maybe for this particular team, the way they're built, what
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they need. A week off might not be the best
thing for them. And you are, remember they came out
a little flat against the Padres last year. And yes,
the losses to the Giants and Diamondbacks back to back
a couple of weeks ago, or of the gut punch variety,
the poland of Emmett Sheen immediately given that back, same
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thing in Arizona. It sucked. They sucked in those two.
But this is a team that has won nine of
their last eleven, fifteen of their last twenty. That is
a seven to fifty clip. Not hard to do that.
Math did that one right off the top of my head.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
That's good.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Yeah, you know, every now and then I can figure
that one out. Their starters for the first time, and
I'm going to say a half decade if not more,
are entering the playoffs healthy, something that is an unthinkable
when it comes to the Dodgers and starting pitching. That
their rotation is one hundred percent healthy, arguably stronger than
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it has been all regular season in twenty twenty five,
and not arguably, in fact, the best starting rotation they
have ever entered into the postseason on this stretch, even
when it was Granky and Kershaw on this stretch of
twelve and l West titles in thirteen years. Blake Snell
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has given up exactly one earned run over his last
three starts. That's nineteen innings. He will start Game one.
Yama Moto is freaking lights out. He should be getting
cy Young votes, probably second place cy Young votes, but
his Dodger team let him down all year with no
run support and bullpens blowing what should have been that
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could have pushed him to eighteen, maybe even twenty victories.
His last five for yama Moto thirty four innings, one
earned run three times, zero earned runs two times, and
over those thirty four he has allowed eleven hits and
struck out forty four.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
He ended up being pretty damn good. He had a
lull or two, but he ended up putting together a
very great season.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
He might be I think, and I don't want to,
you know, I don't know if Kate's doesn't want to
crack a mic because he's got to save everything for
scam tomorrow morning. But I think you might be able
to make a case that Yamamoto is the best pitcher.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I know.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Trek scoobl is pretty damn impressive, and it's hard to
push back against that, but you could make a case
that Yamamoto is the best pitcher entering the postseason right now,
the way he is pitching right now, the way he
has pitched all season. Of course, Paul Skin's not in the.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Playoffs because no, no, he's going home.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Or an abomination.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Otani's last four starts one earned run total over nineteen
and a half or nineteen and two thirds. His last
outing six innings of shutout baseball, ninety one pitches, throwing
ninety nine miles an hour in the sixth inning. I
almost don't want to mention Tyler Glass now because he
had an ugly force spot that he gave up to
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the Giants. His other three won twice, allowed one earned
run twice, and zero earned runs once, and that short
downing against the Mariners. But again, if they decide to
deploy Glass now as a fourth starter, however they decide
to use him, it is a true embarrassment of riches
that we have never before seen. It's a completely foreign
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territory headed into the postseason. And I do think as
many of the Dodger fans I would assume we're discussing
this yesterday, just incredible drama, drama that you don't see
in the National Basketball Association. They couldn't possibly concoct something
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so compelling like what major League Baseball had yesterday with
the Reds and the Mets, the Guardians and the Tigers,
the Red Sox and the Yankees and Blue Jays all
trying to figure out how this thing was going to slot,
And people want, Hey, is it the Mets? We discussed
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this last week. Pee, Do you want the god awful
pitching of the Mets but potentially have to contend with
the Pete Alonso, Juan Soto, Brandon Nimo, Francisco Lindor top
of the lineup? Or do you want to deal with
the Reds team that cannot hit lefties, of which the
Dodgers have quite a few, but do have a Hunter Green,
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Lidolo Abbot trio at the top of the rotation that
may not be as impressive as Snell, Yamamoto and Otani,
but certainly better than what a lot of other teams
are putting out there. And I think the answer to
that is they just played them. The Dodgers just played
the Reds at Dodger Stadium, and they won those three
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games seven to nothing, six to three, and five to one.
A combined four runs over the three games. Hunter Green
by the way, was on the wrong side of that
seven zero win when he tangled with em At Sheehan.
And he's added to the bullpen having given up three
earned runs and six hits over his last four outings.
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That's twenty and two thirds. And we say it every year.
There is say so much every year we do. But
there is a universal analogy, a universal callback that is
made every year. And I don't think it's limited to
just these parts where we sit and where we rest,
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because we witnessed it first hand locally in two thousand
and two. But every year there is a player that
has not pitched a whole lot in the regular season.
It's a young player, and for whatever reason, they find
themselves on a playoff roster. And we have to harken
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back to the clear Oakley blame aides of k Rod.
Francisco Rodriguez.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Wow, I haven't heard that in a long time.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Hey could be this year's Krod. You know, September call up,
next thing, you know, most important arm in the bullpen.
And here comes Roki Sasaki p and those long levers
and that lanky frame. He threw his splitter six times
on Friday one for a ball one week ground out
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to the pitcher and four swinging miss pitches on that splitter.
His fastball hit one hundred against Arizona. It was unhittable.
He threw it six times all at ninety nine, save
one at ninety eight, and those six pitches were strike looking,
strike looking, strike swinging, strike looking, strike looking, strike swinging.
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When the season, the postseason was on the line for
the Diamondbacks, they had no answer for the Sasaki riddle.
And it hearkens yet again to two thousand and two
and that majestic year where somewhere Gene Autry is smiling
in the sky.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Matt wore an angel's hat, felt good about himself.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Oh I felt so good, felt so good. Where that
angel's read back?
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Then fighting the Morning Show wars against.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
D's exactly the salad days. And that may be the
case here that when all seemed lost, when there was
no answer to how are you going to take the
ball from Yamamoto, even if you're taking it from him
in the eighth, as we witness, even if you're taking
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it from him in the ninth with just one out
to get?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Would this bullpen be the device? Now?
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Perhaps it will be, But we certainly feel a lot
better about it now with Emmitt Shean and Roki Sasaki
back there, and maybe even I wouldn't be surprised in
the least Tyler Glass now out there as well, Van
Kirby Yates and his relaxed to Loha attitude, Tanner Scott
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and his fat beard face, Blake Trining, he's thirty eight,
thirty seven, thirty eight, thirty seven, thirty eight, right in
that range. A hell a hell of a postseason last year.
Maybe he found that magic again with those three strikeouts
over the weekend and that won any But you feel
a lot better now, Pee, especially when you consider the
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matchup with the left handers on the mound, with the
Reds record on the road compared to their home record,
recall all three games. It's not a one to one
and one in the wild Card. It is all three
games at Dodgers Stadium Tomorrow Wednesday, will be out there
if it is needed Thursday, and he reads thirty eight
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and forty three on the road. The Dodgers a commanding
fifty two and twenty nine at home, second best record
in a home ballpark in the National League. Meanwhile, the
Padres got to go to Chicago with their thirty eight
and forty three road record compared to their dominant home record,
while the Cubs fifty and thirty one at home, so
no easy task for them. Point being, yes, the Panic
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Brothers panic was proper. It was right to panic.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
It's always proper, Matt, it is. I mean, look who
you're talking to. I'm in a panic right now.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
It was right to panic. But headed into the playoffs
with Scam set to debut tomorrow, the Panic Brothers, I believe,
are right to have a sliver of positivity headed into
this postseason, knowing there are many a positive things to
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point to when it comes to the potential that this
Dodger's team could once again make it to the World Series,
gain victory and that piece of metal called the Commissioner's Trophy,
and produce another parade for the ages for this fine
city that waited so long between nineteen eighty eight and
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twenty twenty four to get after it in public take
the Day off Work Act. The Fool celebrate accordingly. Of
all the National League teams, it does appear, as they
win eight of their last ten, going in that they
are the hottest team in baseball despite all of the
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issues that plagued them over the final pre playoff month
of September. I know everybody's going to hate that. I
am this positive. I am going to hate it.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Yeah, I know they are. You make a stance and
then that stance is whatever it is until it's not
that stance anymore. And I appreciate it, you know, I
appreciate your ability and willingness to make a stand. All
of our ducks have to be an order because they're
going out to talk to stadiums.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Right because we'll be back. Those ducks are going to
be on Beach Boulevard here very soon.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Well, who knows, we'll see what happens. You said they're
going to the World Series.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Come on, that's right.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
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Ninety four years old today, Matt would have been Colin
Dexter Norman Colin Dexter from Stamford, Lincolnshire, Orshire. His dad
was a small taxi company owner. He himself was a
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rugby player. He went to Cambridge, had a teaching career
after he started going deaf, but not totally deaf. He
started teaching at Oxford.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Mostly deaf, yeah he could still kind are you deaf?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Mostly at What's at First he started writing general studies textbooks,
but on a family holiday he started writing mysteries and
he created Inspector Morse, a bit of a similar story
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to himself and background. Instead of being a writer or teacher, though,
Inspector Morse a police detective in Oxfordshire, Thames Valley, which
is where Oxford is. So academic murders. There are thirteen
Morse books in the Lady Britt Box. Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
In the late eighties, Yes Morse. Inspector Morse was played
by the great British actor John Though and that series
which came out made the books very popular, so he
made more again, thirteen and all. Morse loves the opera
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crossword puzzles, in which Dexter was a legendary expert and
wrote the one at the Oxford Newspaper for years. Morse
also an Ale and Scotch enthusiast. Dexter appears in every
episode in the background of Morse like a Al Hitchcock.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
He consulted on the spinoff Inspector Lewis and the prequel,
starring Sean Evans as a young Morse endeavor, and that
one lasted eleven years. Big success with Morse. Dexter also
did cross words. Like I said for the Oxford Times,
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I have Morse talking to Lewis, and Morse, who's an
expert on everything and constantly waves his Oxford education over
everybody's head, gets clowned about bird watching here.
Speaker 9 (31:58):
Again new hobbies it Oh, I have a lot of
time on my hands when I retire lovely little chap.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Now where is he class? It's never too late to
develop a new.
Speaker 9 (32:17):
Interests, something rewarding, absorbing. It's a little girl, actually immature
female of the species.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
You've impressed me, loose, good species, passive domesticus.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Is it.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Exoticism in an Oxford garden? And all for a few nuts.
It's a common house sparrows. Ah, there you go?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Have you Lewis? All right, it's my shell.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
It became Lewis's show.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
You're a lot guy.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Birthday at the day, p I'm just so anxious to
get to it. Rarely do we have what we have
such royalty, grace, the petros and money alive guy, birthday
of the day. It is a happy seventy seventh to
Mark Farner, Flint, Michigan. I am guessing a number of
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folks listening if they are of a certain age, and
even if they aren't. It's a rock and roll name
that is odd enough that people have all heard it,
Grand Funk Railroad. Oh yes, but do they know what
Grand Funk Railroad did well? It is the product of
Mark Farner. At twenty one. He forms Grand Funk Railroad
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with his two pals, Don Brewer, who had been playing
with him in Terry Knight and the Pack, and mel Schad,
who was playing drums with Mark and the Mysterians. The
front man of Terry Knight and the Pack, was like,
h you guys are a lot better than me, So
how about I just be your manager and we'll dissolve
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Terry Knight in the Pack and start this grand And
it was called Grand Trunk Railroad, which was the name
of one of the major train lines in Michigan. But
just like Chicago, was originally the Chicago Transit Authority, but
the Public Transportation Outlet objected they became Chicago, so too
did the railroad, so Grand Trunk Railroad became Grand Funk Railroad.
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They took off right away. They formed in sixty nine.
They played where they begged to be put on the
nineteen sixty nine Atlanta International Pop Festival, said don't pass,
we just want a spot on stage, and it was
pretty much worth millions. Capitol Records happened to be there
and signed them on the spot. By August, four months later,
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they already had a record released. The album on Time
went gold, then platinum, their second album, over five hundred
thousand copies sold within two months of release. That was
just six months later. They were jam band, kind of
Midwest ass rock, a little bit of everything. So they
put out their first album in August of sixty nine,
their second album in February of seventy, and then in
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June of nineteen seventy they dropped this single, Captain becomes
one of the biggest songs of the year. In nineteen
seventy one, two years after they formed, Grand Funk Railroad
would sell out Shay Stadium in seventy two hours.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
No way and that nuts.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Like Billy Joel and the Clash and the Beatles.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Like they said it was the only band that had
sold out faster at that point was the Beatles. Seventy
two hours. Grand Funk Railroad sold out Shay Stadium. I
guess turns out Night knew what he was doing managing them,
marketing them, but then the band realized that there were
some money things that were shady, so they fired him.
Night sues for breach. He wins. He gets all the publishing,
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owned all the songs from sixty nine to seventy two.
Paul Farner and the band got was the name Grand
Funk Railroad instead of being all pissed off. They hired
Todd Runggren to produce their next record, and on Farner's
twenty fifth birthday September of seventy three, as we celebrate
them today, in September twenty twenty five, they had their
first number one song or an American band. They also
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had a very famous cover of some kind of Wonderful
That one number one as well. Zappa was into him
produced their next release. It was critically acclaimed as you
would assume because it's Zappa, did not sell much as
you would assume it.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Was Zappa, so they broke up.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Farner went solo, put out two records, did not do much,
hopped down with Ringo Stars All Stars.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Payson, Love Peays and Love on Me that day.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Grand Funk got back together a couple different times, but
Farner kept leaving like he has as of late, he
is out there doing Mark Farner's American Band. He just
put out another solo record in twenty four called Closer
to My Home Captain.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
It's a partner all right. Now we just have football.
It's a call before the playoffs start. That's right line
from Dodger Stadium tomorrow at two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Like that's the field is your office.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Okay, there is no tatcis you your head sets in
your microphone?
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Speaker 4 (37:20):
Just a press car Ron.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
That's right, checked out, the wildcard round to you and shaking.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Stair down set up down there to you and shaking
in a staredown.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
It's coming tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
You're looking at shaking. You gotta get
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Roger Stadium, that's what you want.
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the Eye Hard Radio app going until five o'clock. We
have got NFL football tonight Bengals at Broncos and we
will have that kick just after five pm tomorrow. Though
we do have Dodgers Reds Game one of the wild
Card series. Still have one more pair of tickets to
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give away. You know what, probably do that here in
this segment at some point, as we have given away
two pair already, one more today for game one tomorrow,
and again you'll have another opportunity tomorrow morning on scam
with Tim Pere.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
You got the balls to do it, Matt, let's do
it right now. I mean, if you've got the sack.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Tomorrow Dodgers on deck at five first pitch at six
oh eight pm from the Galvin Motors Broadcast booth, our
final pair of tickets today eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy. Tim Kates will have another pair
tomorrow along with Steve Sacks. A scam gets rolling at
six a m.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Sacks. Well he's got the sack, he's got more.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
You know what I'm saying. That's what you say, like
you know from now on. I don't know. I don't
think you got it. Well, what do you mean? I
don't think yeh what? I don't think you have the
sack to give away those tickets right now?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Second?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
You won't do it. You won't give away the.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Tickets caller ten right now. If you haven't, Oh you
did it, Oh you did it.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Everywhere there it is age six six nine eighty seven
two five seventy and check in with Tim and Saxy tomorrow.
Scam tomorrow morning, SAX and Kate's in the AA between
six and nine. Win your tickets will be out there
broadcasting live tomorrow and Wednesday, hopefully not Thursday, and then
likely be back out there for the divisional round as
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our credentials have in fact been approved. Who would have
ever thunk it? Our credentials have been approved for the
divisional series as well.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, I did hear that. I heard that that rumor.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
There's a little pushback, as there always is. Those guys
didn't even come out, Yes they did. Everybody knows them,
so they don't ask them to key in their their IDs.
They've been going there for fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, everybody knows us, so it's.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Like, you know, just like the girl with the cam
quarter from Peru, but it kind of knows her.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Let's get to the fun fat Hopefully it's not that
weird of an inside joke fun effect.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah, we're three, it's an inside joke, uh final hour
fun fact.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
It's definitely inside Joe.
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Did you know the color red has the longest wavelength
of light in the visible spectrum. It is the most
visible color. It is the easiest to be noticed by
the human eye, and it is the first color that
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babies can distinguish.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I did know that one pops up whatever the men
of the Queen City arrive in Los Angeles. It really
red something you know. This is the original franchise in
the history of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It catches your eye. A red uniform.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
That's why they're the Reds, because it's the first thing
you would think of. The Dodgers, of course, are blue.
That's another fun fact. If you didn't know, quick hits
everybodys quickets, I'll make it quick, y'all. Yeah, Dodgers Reds.
Game one of the Wild Card Round is tomorrow. First
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pitch at six oh eight, both teams going through a
workout at Dodger Stadium. Dodgers right now, the Reds with
that distinctive color. All the babies will be out to
see him a little later on. The managerial carousel has
begun to spin in the baseball carousel spins slowly and
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in a grisly white way. Rocco Baladelli is out in Minnesota.
Bob Melvin is out in San Francisco. Carlos Mendoza is
staying in New York with the Mets because they didn't
fall apart.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Oh, they were only twenty one games over five hundred,
a lock to either win the NL West or the
number one wild card slot. Only to watch the Miami
Marlins celebrate their Game one sixty two victory like they
won the World Series.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
This is their World Series.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
This was incredibly upsetting their broadcast team, and I found
that to be incredibly entertaining.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
This is their World Series.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
This is disgusting.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Don Kelly keeps on the Pirate hat and the patch.
He's staying in Pittsburgh with the Pirates. And speaking of
the New York Mets, Matt the second highest payroll in
baseball set spent seven hundred million on Juan Soto did
not make the playoffs. Owner Steve Cohen went on X
Today and posted this, Matt, would you kindly read the
text with your I mean you. You just came from
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New York, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Mets fans everywhere. I owe you an apology. You did
yours part by showing up and supporting the team. We
didn't do ours part. We will do a post mortem
and figure out the obvious and less obvious reasons why
the team didn't perform up to your and my expectations.
We are all feeling raw emotions today.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Raw.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I know how much time and effort you have put
into this team. The result was unacceptable. Your emotions tell
me how much you care and continues to motivate the
organization to do better. Thank you to the best fans
in sports.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
We're the Jets and we're gonna beat those shocks.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
We have Monday Night football tonight.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
B Yeah, Bengals and Broncos. Bengals don't have.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
A quarterback, No Browning? Who you know? I think you
probably called a couple of his games.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I know, Jake the Snake, Yeah, more than a couple.
Kickoff is after five. We'll be here. The Chargers are
three and one home Sunday against the Commanders, and we'll
have tickets later in the week to give away for
that game. The Rams are three and one and they
host the forty on Thursday night at SOFI Kickoff Week five.
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The Rams are a four and a half point home Favarito.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh Media DAP.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
There was a time when the Petrosen Money Show was
invited out to Laker media days when we were broadcasting
Laker games, and man, did people love us doing the
radio show out there.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
They did not appreciate what we were doing for whatever reason,
and I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
They were very upset by our.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Programming at SOFI Stadium and they filled it. Clippers Media Day.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh, it was packed to the nines.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Man Ramona Shell asked Kawhi Leonard about the Clippers Aspiration investigation.
His answer was the stuff of no the stuff of
Roman legend math. Yes, Jim, bear with the audio guys.
Apparently it's a five billion dollars stadium in Arena, but
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we can't get good audio.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
I understand that full contract and the services that I
had to do. Like I said, I don't deal with
the conspiracies or the click date of what and atleast
list and that's going on. So that's that's what it is.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
I think the allegation was that they didn't perform any services.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
But is that accurate?
Speaker 7 (08:46):
It's accurate, but it's old. This is all new to
you guys. That comyn Mayer a while ago, so we
already knew that.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
This was MAP.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
So you were named the just creditoring that in the
fancy val.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Did you actually get the money that was owed to
you in the contractor?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Oh no?
Speaker 7 (09:08):
But then company went up. It was it was Friday.
You guys, everybody know if you want any more questions
or ask more details about that company, asked the owner
or Columbier US is involved in the fraud went on?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Just ask gonk Well, you know, that's the most he's
answered anything in a long time.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That's the most I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Kawhi Leonard's voice in one sound colibait journey.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
It doesn't seem like clickbait journalism. It seems like a
real journalist asking real questions.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Yeah, the owner acknowledged that there was a contract for
twenty eight million there, Kawhi just you know.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Whatever we got sound from the El Segundo and Lakers
media day. Let's hear here's Luca saying he's better in
his mind, and you could imagine that that he was
last year.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Whatever, man, get that guy.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Obviously it's way easy or now.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Obviously I went through a lot less year and it
wasn't easy to adjust. So, like I said before, this
is a first start, fresh mind for me. So, uh,
you know, I'm in a better place for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
All right, I can packn cigarettes go a long way there.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Lebron was asked about retirement.
Speaker 10 (10:21):
Yeah, I don't I don't know when the end is,
but I know it's a lot sooner than later. So
you know, just you know, being super appreciative of the
fact that I could come up here, do another media
day and talk to you guys and do all this
stuff around here.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Nan, he's the best, isn't he the best man?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
He's the best man. He's such a good guy.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
And then he was asked about wanting to play with
his son Bryce.
Speaker 10 (10:44):
No, I don't know what his time. I don't know
what his timeline is. He's his own young man. Now
like he's down in twusion. We see what happens this year,
next year, you know, but he has his own timeline.
I got my timeline, and I don't know if they
quite match up.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
All right, Well, what about the last part p the
last question, because I don't know if you saw, but
Broni's already like a single digit handicap and he and
his pops are all excited about the game of golf.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
I didn't know nothing about the bug is real. I
didn't know nothing about it. People said, if you ever
get into the game and the bug grab you, it
is over it. And uh, I definitely have it.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Man. I started.
Speaker 10 (11:22):
I literally started playing in July for the first time
in my life. And I love everything about I think
the best thing that I've gotten out of it, besides
like the how competitive and hard it is and the
mental challenge, which I love. Anything that's mentally challenging I love.
But how just you just get away from the world.
You out there on the green, no phones, no phones.
My phone stays in the cart the whole time. I
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check it from time to time. But it's just like
I play my music. I'm out there with my guys,
you out there and just in the world, and I
can say into.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
The game you can't find you, then.
Speaker 10 (11:56):
Yeah, can find they can't find absolutely.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Or media can't find you, Lebron. Media can't find you, Lebron.
Media can't find you, Lebron.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It gives us one a year. It gives us one
a year.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
That's better than the other one.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
It is that makes me come back. That is better
than that make me come back.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Oh, there it is.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
And we'll be right back. Hop Story of the Day
Petterson Money Show on amphi seventy LA Sports her home
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We got Monday Out football tonight.
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Speaker 4 (13:01):
Thanks for listening, everybody. We got Monday night football coming up.
That's why we're off early, but we were on early.
It will be on early tomorrow. Dodgers Reds Game one
of the National League Wildcard Series. Dodgers on deck at five,
first pitch at six oh eight from the Gallpin Motors
Broadcast booth, and of course Tim Kaits and Steve Sacks
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with scam tomorrow morning that Matt named scam. Sacks and
Kate's in the am. Why is it a scam only
because it's such a great show, but it has a
limited amount of time on the sort of like the
McRib very popular, but only on for a short amount
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of time because Dan Patrick and the Dodgers. He can't
be in the playoffs all year long.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
No, it's dependent. It is entirely dependent on the playoff
performance of a particular team. Dodgers play well, you know,
Sax and Kate's making some money. Now Dodgers, you know,
get this thing wrong in the wild card and well,
Scam's going to feel like a scam right.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Well that you know, that's a kind of a that's
sort of a microcosm of how the entire station goes
as far as the Dodger playoff and the money to
be made. But you know, we have not been well.
Last year was a little tricky. In this year. You know,
we have a new boss. So you just don't know
if we're going to be sent out on the Santa
Monica Boulevard as we have in the past.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I don't feel like he's going to make us parade
our privates around town like Archie.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Maybe more of a call girl type of deal. All right,
it's time to the top story of the day, class
story of it.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Well, here we are p of course, I think the
way that many might look at it, this is how
it works out. You got a four hundred million dollar payroll.
The playoffs show up, and while some got excited about
the Phillies and all of their muscley hitters, if you
will in that bandbox of.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
A stadium to be muscular when they're playing.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Baseball, you do. You got to swing that swing that lumber.
The Brewers, many have called the most complete of all
the teams in the postseason, despite dealing with some late
season injuries to padres who have caught fire. Not quite
sure there's anything in his past that would lend you
to think that Fernando Tatis is doing something differently here
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this last month of the year. But he certainly looks like,
I would say, a different player than we had seen
for I don't know three months.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
You've you've implicated uh, two teams in just a few
sentences in a in a sort of a muscly kind
of uh.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Just you know, you look at the way these guys
are built. And sometimes, you know, you see a baseball
player that looks like he could have just come off
the couch, and other times you're like.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Oh, what do you know?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
That guy didn't hit seven home runs between June and September,
and he's got seven this month.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
What do you know? Just in time for the postseason.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
But but pye with all of that, the Cubs, by
the way, playing a little bit better here to make
sure they locked up home field at Rigley for this
Wildcard series against those aforementioned Padres. But then you shove
all that aside and you say, right on time to
the point that Dave Assay made about a month ago,
and we talked to him earlier. If you missed that preview,
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you'll want to check it out there on the Petros
Money podcast via the iHeartRadio app. But a point that
he made a month ago, and this thing was falling
apart and it was peak Panic Brothers, and he simply said,
you know, maybe it's better they played the wild Card.
Maybe for this particular team, the way they're built, what
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they need. A week off might not be the best
thing for them. And you are, remember they came out
a little flat against the Padres last year. And yes,
the losses to the Giants and Diamondbacks back to back
a couple of weeks ago, or of the gut punch variety,
the poland of Emmett Sheen immediately given that back, same
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thing in Arizona. It sucked. They sucked in those two.
But this is a team that has won nine of
their last eleven, fifteen of their last twenty. That is
a seven to fifty clip. Not hard to do that.
Math did that one right off the top of my head.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
That's good.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Yeah, you know, every now and then I can figure
that one out. Their starters for the first time, and
I'm going to say a half decade if not more,
are entering the playoffs healthy, something that is an unthinkable
when it comes to the Dodgers and starting pitching. That
their rotation is one hundred percent healthy, arguably stronger than
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it has been all regular season in twenty twenty five,
and not arguably, in fact, the best starting rotation they
have ever entered into the postseason on this stretch, even
when it was Granky and Kershaw on this stretch of
twelve and l West titles in thirteen years. Blake Snell
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has given up exactly one earned run over his last
three starts. That's nineteen innings. He will start Game one.
Yama Moto is freaking lights out. He should be getting
cy Young votes, probably second place cy Young votes, but
his Dodger team let him down all year with no
run support and bullpens blowing what should have been that
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could have pushed him to eighteen, maybe even twenty victories.
His last five for yama Moto thirty four innings, one
earned run three times, zero earned runs two times, and
over those thirty four he has allowed eleven hits and
struck out forty four.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
He ended up being pretty damn good. He had a
lull or two, but he ended up putting together a
very great season.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
He might be I think, and I don't want to,
you know, I don't know if Kate's doesn't want to
crack a mic because he's got to save everything for
scam tomorrow morning. But I think you might be able
to make a case that Yamamoto is the best pitcher.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I know.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Trek scoobl is pretty damn impressive, and it's hard to
push back against that, but you could make a case
that Yamamoto is the best pitcher entering the postseason right now,
the way he is pitching right now, the way he
has pitched all season. Of course, Paul Skin's not in the.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Playoffs because no, no, he's going home.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Or an abomination.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Otani's last four starts one earned run total over nineteen
and a half or nineteen and two thirds. His last
outing six innings of shutout baseball, ninety one pitches, throwing
ninety nine miles an hour in the sixth inning. I
almost don't want to mention Tyler Glass now because he
had an ugly force spot that he gave up to
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the Giants. His other three won twice, allowed one earned
run twice, and zero earned runs once, and that short
downing against the Mariners. But again, if they decide to
deploy Glass now as a fourth starter, however they decide
to use him, it is a true embarrassment of riches
that we have never before seen. It's a completely foreign
(20:28):
territory headed into the postseason. And I do think as
many of the Dodger fans I would assume we're discussing
this yesterday, just incredible drama, drama that you don't see
in the National Basketball Association. They couldn't possibly concoct something
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so compelling like what major League Baseball had yesterday with
the Reds and the Mets, the Guardians and the Tigers,
the Red Sox and the Yankees and Blue Jays all
trying to figure out how this thing was going to slot,
And people want, Hey, is it the Mets? We discussed
(21:11):
this last week. Pee, Do you want the god awful
pitching of the Mets but potentially have to contend with
the Pete Alonso, Juan Soto, Brandon Nimo, Francisco Lindor top
of the lineup? Or do you want to deal with
the Reds team that cannot hit lefties, of which the
Dodgers have quite a few, but do have a Hunter Green,
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Lidolo Abbot trio at the top of the rotation that
may not be as impressive as Snell, Yamamoto and Otani,
but certainly better than what a lot of other teams
are putting out there. And I think the answer to
that is they just played them. The Dodgers just played
the Reds at Dodger Stadium, and they won those three
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games seven to nothing, six to three, and five to one.
A combined four runs over the three games. Hunter Green
by the way, was on the wrong side of that
seven zero win when he tangled with em At Sheehan.
And he's added to the bullpen having given up three
earned runs and six hits over his last four outings.
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That's twenty and two thirds. And we say it every year.
There is say so much every year we do. But
there is a universal analogy, a universal callback that is
made every year. And I don't think it's limited to
just these parts where we sit and where we rest,
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because we witnessed it first hand locally in two thousand
and two. But every year there is a player that
has not pitched a whole lot in the regular season.
It's a young player, and for whatever reason, they find
themselves on a playoff roster. And we have to harken
(22:57):
back to the clear Oakley blame aides of k Rod.
Francisco Rodriguez.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Wow, I haven't heard that in a long time.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Hey could be this year's Krod. You know, September call up,
next thing, you know, most important arm in the bullpen.
And here comes Roki Sasaki p and those long levers
and that lanky frame. He threw his splitter six times
on Friday one for a ball one week ground out
(23:28):
to the pitcher and four swinging miss pitches on that splitter.
His fastball hit one hundred against Arizona. It was unhittable.
He threw it six times all at ninety nine, save
one at ninety eight, and those six pitches were strike looking,
strike looking, strike swinging, strike looking, strike looking, strike swinging.
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When the season, the postseason was on the line for
the Diamondbacks, they had no answer for the Sasaki riddle.
And it hearkens yet again to two thousand and two
and that majestic year where somewhere Gene Autry is smiling
in the sky.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Matt wore an angel's hat, felt good about himself.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Oh I felt so good, felt so good. Where that
angel's read back?
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Then fighting the Morning Show wars against.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
D's exactly the salad days. And that may be the
case here that when all seemed lost, when there was
no answer to how are you going to take the
ball from Yamamoto, even if you're taking it from him
in the eighth, as we witness, even if you're taking
(24:44):
it from him in the ninth with just one out
to get?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Would this bullpen be the device? Now?
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Perhaps it will be, But we certainly feel a lot
better about it now with Emmitt Shean and Roki Sasaki
back there, and maybe even I wouldn't be surprised in
the least Tyler Glass now out there as well, Van
Kirby Yates and his relaxed to Loha attitude, Tanner Scott
(25:11):
and his fat beard face, Blake Trining, he's thirty eight,
thirty seven, thirty eight, thirty seven, thirty eight, right in
that range. A hell a hell of a postseason last year.
Maybe he found that magic again with those three strikeouts
over the weekend and that won any But you feel
a lot better now, Pee, especially when you consider the
(25:33):
matchup with the left handers on the mound, with the
Reds record on the road compared to their home record,
recall all three games. It's not a one to one
and one in the wild Card. It is all three
games at Dodgers Stadium Tomorrow Wednesday, will be out there
if it is needed Thursday, and he reads thirty eight
(25:54):
and forty three on the road. The Dodgers a commanding
fifty two and twenty nine at home, second best record
in a home ballpark in the National League. Meanwhile, the
Padres got to go to Chicago with their thirty eight
and forty three road record compared to their dominant home record,
while the Cubs fifty and thirty one at home, so
no easy task for them. Point being, yes, the Panic
(26:19):
Brothers panic was proper. It was right to panic.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
It's always proper, Matt, it is. I mean, look who
you're talking to. I'm in a panic right now.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
It was right to panic. But headed into the playoffs
with Scam set to debut tomorrow, the Panic Brothers, I believe,
are right to have a sliver of positivity headed into
this postseason, knowing there are many a positive things to
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point to when it comes to the potential that this
Dodger's team could once again make it to the World Series,
gain victory and that piece of metal called the Commissioner's Trophy,
and produce another parade for the ages for this fine
city that waited so long between nineteen eighty eight and
(27:18):
twenty twenty four to get after it in public take
the Day off Work Act. The Fool celebrate accordingly. Of
all the National League teams, it does appear, as they
win eight of their last ten, going in that they
are the hottest team in baseball despite all of the
(27:38):
issues that plagued them over the final pre playoff month
of September. I know everybody's going to hate that. I
am this positive. I am going to hate it.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Yeah, I know they are. You make a stance and
then that stance is whatever it is until it's not
that stance anymore. And I appreciate it, you know, I
appreciate your ability and willingness to make a stand. All
of our ducks have to be an order because they're
going out to talk to stadiums.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Right because we'll be back. Those ducks are going to
be on Beach Boulevard here very soon.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Well, who knows, we'll see what happens. You said they're
going to the World Series.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Come on, that's right.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
We'll be right back with your dead and alive guy Birt.
The other day, the Dodgers are alive.
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Speaker 2 (29:11):
It's time for British News. Cheerio Sight get out.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Ninety four years old today, Matt would have been Colin
Dexter Norman Colin Dexter from Stamford, Lincolnshire, Orshire. His dad
was a small taxi company owner. He himself was a
(29:38):
rugby player. He went to Cambridge, had a teaching career
after he started going deaf, but not totally deaf. He
started teaching at Oxford.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Mostly deaf, yeah he could still kind are you deaf?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Mostly at What's at First he started writing general studies textbooks,
but on a family holiday he started writing mysteries and
he created Inspector Morse, a bit of a similar story
(30:17):
to himself and background. Instead of being a writer or teacher, though,
Inspector Morse a police detective in Oxfordshire, Thames Valley, which
is where Oxford is. So academic murders. There are thirteen
Morse books in the Lady Britt Box. Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
In the late eighties, Yes Morse. Inspector Morse was played
by the great British actor John Though and that series
which came out made the books very popular, so he
made more again, thirteen and all. Morse loves the opera
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crossword puzzles, in which Dexter was a legendary expert and
wrote the one at the Oxford Newspaper for years. Morse
also an Ale and Scotch enthusiast. Dexter appears in every
episode in the background of Morse like a Al Hitchcock.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
He consulted on the spinoff Inspector Lewis and the prequel,
starring Sean Evans as a young Morse endeavor, and that
one lasted eleven years. Big success with Morse. Dexter also
did cross words. Like I said for the Oxford Times,
(31:46):
I have Morse talking to Lewis, and Morse, who's an
expert on everything and constantly waves his Oxford education over
everybody's head, gets clowned about bird watching here.
Speaker 9 (31:58):
Again new hobbies it Oh, I have a lot of
time on my hands when I retire lovely little chap.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Now where is he class? It's never too late to
develop a new.
Speaker 9 (32:17):
Interests, something rewarding, absorbing. It's a little girl, actually immature
female of the species.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
You've impressed me, loose, good species, passive domesticus.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Is it.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Exoticism in an Oxford garden? And all for a few nuts.
It's a common house sparrows. Ah, there you go?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Have you Lewis? All right, it's my shell.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
It became Lewis's show.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
You're a lot guy.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Birthday at the day, p I'm just so anxious to
get to it. Rarely do we have what we have
such royalty, grace, the petros and money alive guy, birthday
of the day. It is a happy seventy seventh to
Mark Farner, Flint, Michigan. I am guessing a number of
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folks listening if they are of a certain age, and
even if they aren't. It's a rock and roll name
that is odd enough that people have all heard it,
Grand Funk Railroad. Oh yes, but do they know what
Grand Funk Railroad did well? It is the product of
Mark Farner. At twenty one. He forms Grand Funk Railroad
(33:45):
with his two pals, Don Brewer, who had been playing
with him in Terry Knight and the Pack, and mel Schad,
who was playing drums with Mark and the Mysterians. The
front man of Terry Knight and the Pack, was like,
h you guys are a lot better than me, So
how about I just be your manager and we'll dissolve
(34:07):
Terry Knight in the Pack and start this grand And
it was called Grand Trunk Railroad, which was the name
of one of the major train lines in Michigan. But
just like Chicago, was originally the Chicago Transit Authority, but
the Public Transportation Outlet objected they became Chicago, so too
did the railroad, so Grand Trunk Railroad became Grand Funk Railroad.
(34:30):
They took off right away. They formed in sixty nine.
They played where they begged to be put on the
nineteen sixty nine Atlanta International Pop Festival, said don't pass,
we just want a spot on stage, and it was
pretty much worth millions. Capitol Records happened to be there
and signed them on the spot. By August, four months later,
(34:51):
they already had a record released. The album on Time
went gold, then platinum, their second album, over five hundred
thousand copies sold within two months of release. That was
just six months later. They were jam band, kind of
Midwest ass rock, a little bit of everything. So they
put out their first album in August of sixty nine,
their second album in February of seventy, and then in
(35:13):
June of nineteen seventy they dropped this single, Captain becomes
one of the biggest songs of the year. In nineteen
seventy one, two years after they formed, Grand Funk Railroad
would sell out Shay Stadium in seventy two hours.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
No way and that nuts.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Like Billy Joel and the Clash and the Beatles.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Like they said it was the only band that had
sold out faster at that point was the Beatles. Seventy
two hours. Grand Funk Railroad sold out Shay Stadium. I
guess turns out Night knew what he was doing managing them,
marketing them, but then the band realized that there were
some money things that were shady, so they fired him.
Night sues for breach. He wins. He gets all the publishing,
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owned all the songs from sixty nine to seventy two.
Paul Farner and the band got was the name Grand
Funk Railroad instead of being all pissed off. They hired
Todd Runggren to produce their next record, and on Farner's
twenty fifth birthday September of seventy three, as we celebrate
them today, in September twenty twenty five, they had their
first number one song or an American band. They also
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had a very famous cover of some kind of Wonderful
That one number one as well. Zappa was into him
produced their next release. It was critically acclaimed as you
would assume because it's Zappa, did not sell much as
you would assume it.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Was Zappa, so they broke up.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Farner went solo, put out two records, did not do much,
hopped down with Ringo Stars All Stars.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Payson, Love Peays and Love on Me that day.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Grand Funk got back together a couple different times, but
Farner kept leaving like he has as of late, he
is out there doing Mark Farner's American Band. He just
put out another solo record in twenty four called Closer
to My Home Captain.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
It's a partner all right. Now we just have football.
It's a call before the playoffs start. That's right line
from Dodger Stadium tomorrow at two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Like that's the field is your office.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Okay, there is no tatcis you your head sets in
your microphone?
Speaker 1 (37:20):
That was that?
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Just a press car Ron.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
That's right, checked out, the wildcard round to you and shaking.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Stair down set up down there to you and shaking
in a staredown.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
It's coming tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
You're looking at shaking. You gotta get
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Roger Stadium, that's what you want.
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