October 22, 2024 • 42 mins
LA Times columnist, Bill Plaschke, joins us to talk about the Dodgers-Yankees World Series. Fred, Rodney and a few listeners share their tips to get in and out of Dodger Stadium. Is 3 minutes too long for a hug?
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
And we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Pete at five
to seventy LA Sports. Don't forget. Here's the deal. We
want you to go to the World Series and you'll
have a chance. First chance, go to Hollywood Park for
the show Tomorrow starts at noon. Hollywood Park is sin Own, Inglewood.
If you go, you're registered, and then we will select
on Thursday morning a name of one of the people
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that went to the show. You're going to the game
Friday night, that's the only way you can go. Then Thursday,
if you're in a different part of town, will be
BJ's Restaurant in brew House and Rancho Cucamonga. If you
go to that show, you're immediately registered to go to
the game on Saturday, and we'll select the winter Friday
morning with Saxon CAD's. So the deal is we've got
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tickets for Game one and Game two. If you'll want
a chance to go to Game one, go to Hollywood
Park tomorrow. You cannot call in, you can't do it
on x Instagram. There's one way you've got to be there.
Go tomorrow and you'll be registered. That will give you
a chance to go to Game one. For Game two,
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go to BJ's in Rancho Kukamonga on Thursday. Register that
gives you the chance to go to Game two, which
is Saturday night. That's it. We've got tickets for both games.
We want you to win, but you have got to
go to the shows and register. And we're the only
people giving away World Series tap only on only ones.
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That's because we what do you say we're doing for fretting? Please?
Everybody knows it. Rodney from La to the Valley, Fred
killing it. We are just demolishing it. Okay, coming up
in a little bit, and I want you to think
about this. If you're a good neighbor and we do
a segment out here called good Neighbor, what we want
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you to do is give people your tips to navigate
the parking situation at Dodger Stadium. Once a year, I
tell you the number one parking place at Dodger Stadium.
It is the place you want to be. It gets
you out of the stadium quickly, no matter when you leave,
and it's not difficult for you to get in. It
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is the number one spot and I will tell you
what that is. But you then must turn around and
be guaranteeing it. Oh, I guarantee it. You guarantee it.
You've been saying this. I've yet to try your your
your technique, and I need to start. Oh that had
a tough time getting in the other day. All right,
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well we'll talk more about it. Now. Let's bring out
our good friend, the esteemed voice of the people, voice
of the people, conscious of the paper. It's Bill Plaisky
from the La Times. Bill. That's my bad. I didn't
know you were sitting there. I'm sorry. I would have
got you on sooner.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Going on, Bill, that's fine. What's happening?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
All right? Well, I just want to start with this Bill.
What's going on? Billy Pete? You said you said they
would beat the Mets. Done, and by the way, I
agreed with you. You also suggest that they have to
beat the Yankees. Are you ready to call it, right
here and right now, that they will beat the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I'm not gonna call it yet. If I call it'll
be in the paper. I can't. I gotta see it first.
I'm thinking they're gonna beat it. No, I'm thinking they
I'm thinking they're gonna be a favorite. And rightly so.
The Yankees they have in my mind, they have two
chances to win. That's the times Gary Cole pitches. Other
than that, the Dodgers have a deeper team, a better team.
I don't think the Yankees are much better than the Mets. Frankly,
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there's all the traditions and all the star power, but
I just don't. I think the Dodgers are a better team.
But I got to see him Blake first. They got
to see how it shakes down. But it feels. It
feels right now that a Dodger vigor to me. And
but I can't call it.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I'm calling it. What do you call it? I'm calling
calling it? What are you calling it? Five? Six? We
call it it, I'm calling it. I think you know what.
I'm gonna say six to be safe, I think they
could do it in five. Actually, Bill, I think the
Dodgers are a better team. I think the Dodgers this year.
And look, nobody, nobody knows this more than you do
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in past years when it all looked rosy and you
thought this is the year. I think the adversity and
everything they went through this year, and the lack of
pitching and the way they have to use the bullpen
is the reason they will win it this year.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, they have a lot of heart this year. They
have a lot of intensity, They have a lot of guts.
They they play hard, they play for each other. They
are real, They're there. They are a little team this year.
I mean they're really you can see it. I think
the whole thing was started out with with when when
Mookie best who went to shortstop in screen training and
everybody went crazy and I went crazy, and the Dodgers
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are out of their minds, mook Yara go nuts and
Mookie Mookie accepted it and handled it as the ultimate
team player until they've got smartly moved back to right field.
That was one of the many moves they made that
the players had to suck up their egos. And they
all did. I mean they all, they all did you
know they they moved moved out of the leadoffs spot.
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He didn't complain. They had, you know, all the relievers.
They had eight different three pictures injured. They were running
guys in and out of the minor leagues all year long,
and nobody complaining. People want out of a bullpen all
year long. Nobody complained, they really And then I thought
the key was so he had a real team atmosphere
and then they added the ultimate team player and Tommy Edens.
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And that was, by the way, and Andrew Freeman. I
christized him a lot in the past. He said it
a Hall of Fame season. I mean, he's he's going
to look at one person. I looked at Dave Roberts
and sold all this together. Doctor has been tremendous. Andrew
Freeman has been right there. I mean, look look at
the look at at the trade deadline, Copeck, clarity and Edmund.
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That's like a trifecta. That's unbelievable. Well, what he's done.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
But did you know then, Bill, did you know then
it would have been as effective as it has been.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
No, In fact, I actually criticized him for Tommy Edmund
because he hadn't played all year. He tradeformed a guy
been hurt all year. Corpek was a wild man. Now,
I didn't say flirty was the key. I thought flirty
was his ace and the whole. I thought Flirty say
thee say that the trade headline for I thought Flirty
was the was the shining light of the deadline. But
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I don't think anything of Edmund, and I don't the
ane of Copek. But he knew I mean he knew better.
How about Theoptra and Andez He's had a tough NLCS.
He's just so great this year and pre even got
him for nothing in the off season. So it's all
just all kind of come together in the ways that
hasn't come together in the past. They they they set
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a record for most walks in the NLCS. They're watching pictures,
they're not through analysts, right zone, You're not trying to
be heroes if you're playing you know, within themselves. All
the cliches, that's the Dodgers. I mean, for one, there
cliche and a good cliche at that.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, there's this uh you speak of Andrew Freeman. I
agree with you that this this was a masterful job
of of really understanding and studying personnel and what what
guys because you know Flaherty or Edmund or even Kopec,
they don't necessarily fit just plugging them in in any
other team, but they fit with this team. And there
might have been a guy out there or two guys
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out there, and you know, people would have said, oh,
he could have dead better, he had better stats, Oh
he wasn't hurt all last year. But they they stuck
to their guns and and and said, these guys fit
for us, and and it's not always easy to do that.
And that being said, I agree with you, Andrew Freeman,
but also Dave Roberts. You know, all the heat that
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he has taken, this was one of his best seasons
as managing this club, and all the injuries, and like
you said, guys buying in Mookie playing shortstop, and then
when Mookie comes back after injury, you know, having to
tell him, hey, you're not gonna play shortstop number one,
and also you're not gonna lead off anymore, and and
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everybody buying into that. That's big for me. And I
think Dave Roberts did an unbelievable job.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Doccas had the best first two rounds of any manager
in recent baseball history. And you know something, and the
Dodgers win this thing. Gots scored in the Hall of Fame.
He has the best manager will started a manager of history.
This will give him two World Cheries championships in nine years.
And he's been the way he's handled a bullpen in
these bullpen games has been flawless. He's known when to
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take guys out, when to bring guys in. He's made
all the right moves, made all the right line of moves.
He's kept him calmed, he's kept the team calm, he's
kept him focused. Yeah, I mean he's been. He's unbelievable.
And again he has had the Hall of Fame. He's
that good. And they got they better give him a
big contract. You know, his contracts up nation right, he
needs to get a long term deal. He's the next
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Tomulus order, I can call that right now. He's he's
like Tommy.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
He needs to be for ten years or whatever it
is that he's to be.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, but they gotta, they gotta take care of it,
and I'm sure they will. But he's he's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, paid manager in baseball right.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Now, Dave should they should be. He's not great. Yeah,
he should go bout far as he was Bay manager. Yeah,
he's he's really the way he will, Yeah, the way
he's handled these things is unbelievable. It's so funny. Everybody
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talk included me that this was a team of flawed
a flawed team of analytics driven players. Well turns out
they were winning because they're all gutsy players. There's no
analytics on this team. This is a team of guts
and fire and fight, and Friedman knew that, which we
didn't think, and Roberts ran that, and together they've been
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unbelievably that It's it's really it's a it's a sight
to see. I mean, I knew when when he beat
Pottery they win the World Series.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Even in baseball, YEP, agree one hundred percent with you.
I thought the exact same thing. I didn't think anything
would be as difficult as that series.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, and the mess wasn't it wasn't closed. The mess
wasn't wasn't ever closed. And we'll see after the first
two games of this series how it looks. But I'm
guessing the Dogs are gonna win it. But I don't
want to say yet because I got to see it,
see him on the field. I mean, I mean, my guy, Yankees,
you have Aaron Judge and Juan Soto and Jim Carlos Stanton.
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They do it. Studs.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Have we seen a lot? Have we seen? Have we
send the m VP on in the American League and
nationally go up ahead to head in the World Series like.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
This, Well, there's five gonna be on the field, a
little bit of on a field. I don't think we've
seen that before. We've never seen a star studied Matt
huts before, We've never seen it two of the three
hot Pa payroll teams before. We haven't seen the teams
in the two minutes of markets before since nineteen eighty one.
So it's it's it's it's legend, it's legend. It's just
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it's historic. It's gonna be aspiring. I me, it really is.
I just came away and as La fans deserve it.
The La fans are so good, so loud. You know,
you saw the met fans. The Med fans would leave early.
They get quiet. Doctor fans never get quiet. It's crazy.
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It's crazy out there the whole The press box shakes.
Every big hit, the press box shakes. It's really it's
really an event, and it's really great for the city.
I'm so happy for the City's happy for the fans.
And yeah, and it's just all all it takes now
and four more wins, and I don't see any way
they're not going to get it.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I just think it's start there for him, all right, Bill,
So here's the argument for around the country. Uh, well,
what do you expect? They spent the most money. I
don't win now. I debunked that in the first segment.
But you hear that, Well, what do you expect. They
spent the most money they're supposed to win.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
What do you say, how much is Tommy ed been making?
How much is Michael Colpek making? How much is Shoskar
Henanda is making? They have othough, yes they have. They
have a lot of money, but they made the right
moves with this money, and a lot of their best
players are role players. How much is Mats Monty making?
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How much is Miguel Rojas making? Yeah, first speak before
we champion celebration. How much is he making? They have
high paid players that they filled them in with brilliant
world players, So no, you can't tell me that. And
every every manager, every owner in baseball it's a billionaire.
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There's no there's no salary caps. They could all do
what the dogs are doing, except nobody will do it
because theyn't have the smarts to go with a bank account.
So no, this is a victiy for smarts as much
as money, or more so than money. Yeah, you got
the money for show. Hay, Okay, I got that. You
have the money for rookie. You have the money for
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yallam Moto, But the rest of them all are all
just regular paid guys. So I'm not buying the argument
at all. There's been too many different winners in baseball
the past twenty years to about the every the highest
big teams always want the doctors. What are one million
times a boy now? So no, it's a lot more
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than that.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, Bill, there, you know you said no, you said,
you said on Monday, and I said, what is Bill doing?
You said on Monday? They better win it? You put
it out there right away without giving me a chance
to really celebrate Sunday night. Bill, I was. I was
a little upset with you. But but in terms of
what this does for for the Dodgers going forward to
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mention it, four World Series and nine years went in
two and nine years, this this organization, and he ran
down the list of guys that are that are being
paid and the guys that are not getting paid. But
just this this series globally as well. I got a
son in Japan and that's all they're talking about over there.
This is what everybody wanted. Now, what what would be
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the pitfalls for the dog you mentioned the Yankees gotta
have you gotta win both games with Garrett Cole. What
did the Dodgers got to do to win?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
They need Clarity to act like Clarity is not like
you did in the last game. He's got to pitch well, yeah,
I'm always got beat. Well, they can't count these eight
pitcher bullpen games every game. They can't do it. It's
it's gonna wear worthy arms out. They need good performances
from Moto and Clarity, and they need Jasper Dannis to
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hit better. And they could use Freddy getting healthy. Yeah,
I thought, is you don't play if Freddy King is
not unhealthy than he was with Zach Baddles and the NLCS,
I don't think you can play them. I agree, I
think they're a better team without him. Yeah, you can't swing,
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so they need to manage that well. So there are
still several pitfalls, and it would be I mean, as
positive as I am and as I've been, everybody knows there,
it would be if they don't win this, the season
is a failure. Because they have the best team. They
have the best manager, you have the best front office,
they have the best fans. They've dominated baseball this year.
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They should win this and it would be a major
crater in it. If for some reason they don't.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, but you're making the point here. But you're making
a point Bill. If they don't want it's a failure. Well,
they got knocked in the first round, knocked out, it
was a failure. So what you're saying is if they
don't win the World Series period, it's a failure. Yeah,
it is.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It is every year it should be for this team.
They choose those expectations. It's in La Man sendy champions
Dodger Man. Oh, it's the same with the Lakers. I
think they and I think it would be a failure
if they don't win. I think that's all the only
way you can categorize it. I don't think when they
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were in the World Series against the Houston Astros and
they lost, they didn't feel as much like a failure
because it was the first time they'd been here in
a long time. If they've been there, they've done that.
The Raids take this last step and they got to
take it. I mean, that's the I'm sure that's the
way that they view it too. That's the way they
want us to view it. You come to this town
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to win championships. You're getting in the Championship and you
get in the finals, you damn well better win it.
I get. That's just that's what the attitude this town has.
That's the attitude. That's what the Dodgers have.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Hey Bill, Bill, before we let you go, we kicked
this around a little bit yesterday, Bill, what do you
think they're doing and feeling down there in Anaheim with
the Angels and watching o Tany do this with the
Dodgers and go here go to the World Series in
his first year with the Dodgers, just up the road.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
They gotta think, already he's got to sell the team.
You know already could have had him. You know, they're right,
he could have. He could he would have stayed if
already had matched the money, and already wouldn't do it,
so already forced him out. They gotta feel their Anaheim
has never been more invisible than it is now.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
It's like people Dodger fans think this guy felt from
the heavens to to Dodgers Stadium when he when people
forget he was you say he was out for six years, Yeah,
and we never knew it. They ever played a post's game,
and Angel fans have to be the most straw fans
in the history of sun California sports.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
They have to be right.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
They had the best player in history on their team
and their owner let them get away. Now they have nothing.
They have nothing, They're invisible. It's really really weird. It's
really started. They're only thirty miles away. You know, it'll
be a good story. We saw somebody to go on
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Game one of the World Series, go to the Big
A and see what's going on down there.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Maybe they're getting ready for monster trucks or something.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, I just I was gonna say, I bet monster trucks.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Oh my god, you guys. All right, Bell, you guys
are cruel. I got ru We'll talk to everything, all right, man,
Thanks for We'll see out at the stadium. There was
Bill Plashki for the La Times, not ready to call it,
not ready to call it, you know why, because he
got burned. I think last year he got burned. He
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got burned, and he said, I'm never going to do
that again. M given everything he said, he called it.
He called it last year. He wrote a call last year.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
I think I don't know if it was before the
season started or write after. And he called it and
said the Doctors are going to win the World Series.
Call it now, and then he came on our show
and said, like, yeah, I'm never doing that again. That
was stupid on my part.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
That's why I tried to get him to do it.
But I don't care. I called it. We'll call it
right now. And you know what, Rodney, I said, six games, Yeah,
to try to couch myself a little bit. Yeah, I
think it could be a gentleman's sweep. Wow. And it's
the same format two three to two for the World Series, right, yeah. Yeah.
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The Garrett Cole factor he's on is definitely a factor
and he's going to go twice for them, so and
if they, you know, play it right, he might even
go short rest at some point. But it all depends
on game one, it really does. I mean it's hard
to do that. I understand people want to call it
and say this is that, But if we can get
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him out of the game, you know, round the fifth,
sixth inning, that will be a big story because they
need him to go deep. Yeah. Yeah. And the thing
I've said before every series and in the Padre series,
that happened and in that series, didn't just stay ahead,
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you know, stay ahead. When the first game, okay, you
lose the second, when the third game, stay ahead. That's
the key. I think game one is really important. Like
I said, is it a must win? Yeah, if you win,
it is. If you don't win, well then you've got
that one. But I think I think game one's very important.
I think you got to jump ahead in these series
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critical because just psychologically. Yeah, even when even when they're
throwing their guy their ace, they're they're three hundred four
hundred million dollar guy whatever they paid him, assuming that
they you know they're going to get the win with
our guy, you still believe it's a must win for
the Dodgers. I think they need to win game one.
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And listen, we love Garrett Cole. He was on the
show He Loves You, Fred, Fred Rogan local kid. Yeah, yeah,
I went to u C. L A.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Maybe you'll do you a solid Fred and tank the
game for you since he loves you so much.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I don't think you do that. Thank you love La
enough to stay here. He was always a Yankee fan
even when he was growing up, though not s all right,
he took the money. Good for him. Yeah, that was
the only time we ever got to do afternoons and
we we were told we did a really good job,
remember Rodney. Yeah, so we never did it again, Kevin,
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why is that anytime we do something and they go,
you know what, you guys really great, we never do
it again.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
That's a good question, Fred, I don't know. Yeah, you know,
idea I'm asking me.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
It's it's a matter. Hey, you guys are great on
that play and going over to spring training, best we've
ever had? Good? Are we going next year?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Not you guys, No, you guys are out everything. Oh
my god? All right now eight six six nine eight seven.
If you want to be a good neighbor, a good fan,
you've got to give us your tips for in and
out of Dodger Stadium because you know it's going to
be a complete zoo, a total and complete zoo. But
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you may have some tips, You may have some ideas,
something that works for you, something that may help others. Uh.
You know, I don't think getting it is as important
as where your park so you can get out. So
what might those tips be? Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven,
two five seventy and yes, the once a year reveal
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of the very best spot to park It Okay, I
do it once a year. Okay, once a year. Trade
secrets from Fred Rogan right now. Maybe other people have
great suggestions, but I will give you mine when we
come back. Oh yeah, let's keep it moving. Come on now,
it's Tuesday. Oh I can't wait till Friday. Can't wait
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till Friday? Did you get this world series kicked off
and started? Freddy and waiting a year for this? Rodney
Pete Fred Rogan on a Tuesday. Let's go, all right,
let's get people's suggestions on parking before I give you
the secret location. All right, Edgar on the six oh five? Edgar,
what is your suggestion suggestion for those people going to
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Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Hi, guys, well, there is no evil way.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
My suggestion is are away from the stadium, either ruber
or walk up the hills to the stadium, hang back
as long as you can.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
After the game, go buy some merch so that revenue
goes directly towards the team and doesn't need to be shared.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Then you walk down to the shortstop and enjoy yourself
an adult beverage. Because it's Friday, and with everything that's
going on in the LA area, with all this.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Or the conscience and everything.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
You might as well just hang out, have a drink
somewhere and.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Enjoy the w All right, here's the concern. Thanks, askar,
appreciate it. That park away and walk and then or
park away guy getting an uber lyft to get up
to the stadium and then do that? Is that what
we do about? Yeah? He said that. I said, to
the shortstop and start drinking to alleviate traffic. Here's the
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problem though, and I don't have the answer. He said,
buy some merch, right, buy some merch. Don't rush. But
the longer you'll wait, you know, oh, the longer you're
in there, you know what I mean, The longer you wait,
the longer you're in there, you've either got to be
out immediately or you're stuck. So if you're gonna hang around,
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it's only I don't know, like they could rather sit
in the traffic then wait, because in the traffic at
least you've got a chance to get out. I usually
don't have much trouble getting out. All right, where do
you park? You know what? Lot either D or F
somewhere around there. Okay, solid, all right, we'll do that,
all right, okay, good, good, we'll talk about that in
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a second. Okay, all right, because that's that's part of
it right there. Okay, let's go to uh Mark and Monrovia. Mark,
what is the key to success? Hi?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Brad Hie Rodney. Hey, all right, guys, I'm not going
to give my secret away, but before we get into that,
I just want to echo that you guys are killing it.
Let's go reason. That's why you're reason that you're one
and done. Man, and it says man, they take him
out on a high note. Man, they killed that. Joe
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can't do this anymore. You guys are going out a
high note because you're killing it. As far as getting
in and out, I'm not going to give the secret away.
I'm just going to say that you walk into the
right field pavilion and you leave out of that same areas.
So you're gonna have to use your phone or you're
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going to have to use UH Thomas guide. You can
figure it out, but make sure you end up in
the right field pavilion to walk in. That's the greatest spot.
And if that doesn't work where you can always take
the gondola next year.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
All right, Mark? Thanks? And you know what I like
a Thomas Guide reference Thomas guy. This means he's a
man of a certain eight right right field pavilion. He says,
make sure you end up there going in and out.
You know what that means. All right, let's go. We'll
get to our advice in a minute. But this is
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what the good neighbors say, Boyd and Los Felis. All right, Boyd,
what is the advice?
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Hey, fellas, go Dodgers. Pleasure to be on.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Let's see.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
I hope this isn't cheating, But to me, the move
is to if you're able ride your bicycle, you ride
right up to the ticket gates. They got locked for
your bikes right there. You're the fastest one in, you're
the fastest one out. It's free. Save that money, get
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yourself a hat in the stadium, enjoy the game. That's
my tip.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Well, all right, no, I like it. I like it,
but here's the concern I have about it. That bike
Bence Scully all the way through the parking lot the gates.
Here's my concern, and it goes with anybody riding their
bikes on the street. And if you ride your bike,
I know that you pay your taxes. You have the
right to ride your bike because the streets are yours too.
I just don't want to be in a game where
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everybody's in a tank and I'm in a bike. I
think that is a recipe for disaster. And I get
there are cyclists and we like to ride everywhere, and
you should and please by all means, but you understand
you're tempting fate when you're riding your bike in the
street with cars. You're tempting fate when you are riding
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your bike into Dodger Stadium with that traffic, and certainly
I think, boyd, you would be tempting fate when you
ride out of Dodger Stadium with that traffic when it's dark.
You know, when it's darker and the lots are lit.
But when it's darker, no, everybody's not. You've been there,
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you know, get th dicey. Sometimes everybody's not what read
on their p's and q's. I think that's fair. I
think that's fair. All right, go ahead, now, Rodney, you
talk about your tip, and then I will do the
one year really have a tip, But I just don't
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find it like that. You know, getting in is difficult,
Getting in is difficult, and you know coming off the
five from where I come from in the valley and
then uh, trying to get Stadium Way. That's dicey. That's dicey.
Or you go all the way around, you stay on
the one ten and go get off of one ten
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and keep going around and get off Stadium Way and
get get through the back way that way. That's dicey too,
because you don't know, I mean there's still traffic that way.
Do you off? We're going to Stadium Way? Wait when
you go off Stadium Way right and you go down
off the five, Yeah, you got I know exactly where
you're at by the park. Yep, you've got your first
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there's a point where you can go left, left or
right and then left right. If you go right, then
you're gonna end sculling and go left. If you go
left right there you go right to the gate. Which
one do you do? I've done both. I've done both too,
But which do you do? More? Unfortunately I do the
right and then left through the park and do but
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I stopped doing that. Yeah, no, I assume I stopped
doing it because it doesn't get you there faster. Right,
and you think that it's open and it's going to
be quicker because it's taking you to but it doesn't
go if you go left and go right to the gates,
and it's much quicker. Actually, yes, yes, And then you
go to lot D R F. Yeah, okay, here it
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is here, it is so you and I are basically
of the same opinion, by the way, okay, because those
are the key lots, that's correct. Yeah, D and F
F is the number one lot to get out. I
will now reveal the place I do it once a year. Okay,
(31:01):
so listen carefully. There is one specific parking place, and
as I describe it, you will know it. But you
talk about getting there and twelve minutes, oh yeah, from
to Little Lake or yeah, from our studio in Burbank. Yeah,
getting there in twelve minutes regardless of traffic. Well, a
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Friday afternoon, like it'll be this Friday, you know, it'll
be a little tighter, probably be twenty twenty five. But no,
it's twelve minutes. It's twelve minutes. It's twelve minutes to
Dodger Stadium. It's eight minutes to Burbank Airport. Okay, so
you're talking getting out now right Lot F. Okay, all right,
here's the key. So you're coming that gate we talked about.
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You're driving down. You make a right to go to
Lot F. You go in, you go right to go
on Lot F. You with me, Yeah, right, this is it.
When you get into Lot F, you've made the right.
You will see and it will be right there. A
light pole. You will see a light pole all right. Now,
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if you park next to the light pole, this one
light pole, many lights, the first light pole you will see.
You cannot miss the light pole on the right. Okay,
if you park next to that light pole, there is
no place for a car to park next to you.
There's no space. There's no space. You can't park next
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to this one spot. So what you do is you
drive in, you pull in. So now you're you pulled
in in a manner where when the game is over,
you just drive right out right you're facing that direction.
Park in the spotlight to get to that spot next
to the light pole or something that people don't really
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know that that's an actual spot. Oh no, I go
the day before. I got the day before to get
that spot. You know that spot. That spot goes quickly.
I'm just telling you I can't. That doesn't help that's it.
Nobody going to day before for the Friday game, park
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your car and then you I've already I've already parked
my car there. Oh but that is the spot. I'm
telling you. That's the spot by the light post that
will get you out so fast you don't even then.
Where do you go out? How do you go out? Oh?
You're just right out that same way you went in. Boom,
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just pound right out that where you came in, boom
out and left. Okay, but when do you okay, where
do you go when you go? When you when you're
leaving to Luca Lake or Burbank, how do you get
there in twelve minutes? You take an alternate route and
then stadium way and then go exact same way you
left instead of right. But yeah, still there's traffic getting
off of stadium the same way. Well, no, I go
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two hours before the game. Oh okay, because I like
to get there and eat and do stuff. Yeah, okay.
So the remedy is get there early, is what you're saying.
That's that's the only quick way to get it's not
really giving me any Well, that's another way to look
at it. But I'm telling you too much much. All right,
(34:26):
just put it like this because now I'm sorry I
even told you the secret spot, because I don't I
don't like your attitude about the say five o'clock on Friday,
we're gonna get off the air until three o'clock, and
so you can't get there two hours early. You're gonna
leave at three fifteen if you're going right from from
from work and burd Bank and so, yeah, I'll be
there three you stuck in at that traffic, I'll be
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there three if I left the station at three fifteen
on Friday. Yeah, the latest that would be there is
three fifty in traffic, the latest, really, yeah, because you
know what you do, Rodney, Because if you get in
trouble on the five, you cut off and you take riverside. Yeah,
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you just go riverside on the way. You can go riverside.
Yeah right, yeah, No you can't. You can't. I just
thought you had it just a secret ways of ways
to get there and getting there two hours before the game.
I'm sorry I even told you. Now I like your attitude. Yeah,
(35:34):
trying to help everybody looking forward to that. I had
my pen ready and everything. I was recording you and
getting ready to jot this down now. You gave me nothing,
absolutely nothing. On top of the hour, you had the
(35:55):
Lakers start tonight. Surprise. I can't remember a year where
the Lakers are going to tip off the season and
we've talked about him less. I cannot remember, right, I mean,
the Dodgers are the story period the end. Yeah, can't
even He're not even excited about it yet. No, I
couldn't even tell you what they did in the preseason. No,
(36:16):
I couldn't either, right, So, but Dan wiki will Hill
join us at the top of the hour. Come on,
come on, Freddy, let's go Roddy Pte bred Brogan Rodney.
I just saw something on TikTok. Oh you see this
thing with Lebron and Bronnie. Oh no, I did not.
Lebron pouring like seventeen thousand boxes of cheery or froot
(36:40):
loops into his car and then Bronni walks out, opens
and all the fruit loops run out, fall out and
process to him. Heyrook don't be late, treating him like
a rookie. Hey, don't be late. It was pretty funny.
I gotta give him that. I want to talk about
this real quick. If you've gone too lax Burbank Long Beach,
John Wayne in Orange County. You know, it's very difficult
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when you pull up to drop somebody off or pick
somebody up, because it's always congested, uh and people are
moving as quickly as they can. And one of the
things that takes so much time if you're pulling up
to drop someone off, because when somebody ahead of you
gets dropped off, what happens. They come out and they
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you know, you give them a hug, have a safe flight. Yeah,
don't you stop, get out hug them, they get bye bye. Right. Well,
apparently it's a real problem in New Zealand, so they
have a new rule. They have somebody monitoring hugs can
last no longer than three minutes. Now, for me, three
minutes is a lifetime. I mean, if I do anything
for three minutes, I've had a hell of it outing
(37:44):
uh huh uh huh. So three minutes and at the
end of three minutes, back in the car and you're
out of here, or you get a ticket. What happens, Yeah,
you're it doesn't You're going to be sighted. You cannot
hug anyone longer than three minutes. That it should be enough.
That should be enough. If you're driving somebody to the airport,
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you're talking along the way, you've gotten everything out, you
pull up, it's time for them to get out, to
get your bag out of the bag. If you have
a couple of bags out of the trunk, it shouldn't
take you longer than three minutes to get those bags
out and takes the hug. You don't need to have
another conversation once you're out of the car. Well, I'm
thinking they're just doing it for the embrace. You can't
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embrace for longer than three minutes. When's the last time
you hugged somebody for three minutes? Yeah, for three minutes.
Think about it. You get somebody a hug and then
that's it. Yeah, three minutes, three minutes. When you're hugging someone,
that's a long time. What are you doing? Maybe that's
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the issue. Maybe the problem there is not the hug,
but what it's leading to that three minutes, Because if
you're hugging somebody, you're not holding them tight like that
for three minutes. You're just not They should begging them
not to go, nus, you're begging them not to go, right,
but they're already going. Yeah, I just found that really interesting.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
If there's an embrace lasting long three minutes or up
to three minutes, somebody in that embrace is very uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Yes, I look at it. Somebody's uncomfortable, or or Kevin,
or it's two people that that just started dating or
just met. Oh, they never let go. They never let
go go first. You let go first. Yeah, in that
that early stage, just after a while, it's like they
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don't even get out of the car anymore. Stop the car.
They barely stopped the car. Okay, see you later, call
me when you get there. Just keep it moving. Your
car didn't even get out of drive. How long does
that first uh, that first phase last, Rodney that I
never want I don't want you to go, Please don't go.
(40:02):
I can't bear not to be with you. How long
is that phase of dating last? Oh? I think it
varies varies between you know, who you're dating. There's been
some history where it lasted a day and then after
the third day you're like, you know and bye, shaking hands.
(40:24):
There's been other ones where you wanted it to last
a little bit longer. But yeah, there's been some other ones.
Just getting out the car girl.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Go.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Oh man, I wonder how long people would consider the
proper amount of time for an embrace. Yeah, how long
would that be? Ronnie, you've been married a while, how
long do you think it should be? Thirty seconds? Thirty seconds? Yeah,
and maybe that's even too long.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
At thirty seconds is pretty long.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
It is long. Holly and I have this twenty second
hug thing that we do, and we started doing it
years ago, and it is ah And it's usually because
I'm the one in the doghouse most of the time.
So if one or the other request they hug, you
got to hug that a person for twenty seconds. And actually,
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what happens we experimented with this, but what happens is
after about twelve seconds, you kind of start to forget
why you were mad at that other person, and you
start to remember why you're together, and so it takes
all the the tension off of whatever was going on.
(41:45):
So you can call a twenty second time out and
say I need that twenty second hug, and after a
while it kind of just alleviates some of the stress
that it's going on. So yeah, and with that twenty seconds,
you do get to about ten twelve seconds where you're like, man,
this is long. This is long, and it keeps going.
So three minutes, three minutes extremely long for someone to
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brace at an airport Rodney. How often do you have
to call the twenty second time? I often, Fred. Unfortunately
I called all right, Lakers open tonight. Yeah, surprise, they're
(42:31):
back at it. And uh, we'll have Dan White you
joined the show next and we'll set up the season
And we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Pete at five
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(01:34):
That's because we what do you say we're doing for fretting? Please?
Everybody knows it. Rodney from La to the Valley, Fred
killing it. We are just demolishing it. Okay, coming up
in a little bit, and I want you to think
about this. If you're a good neighbor and we do
a segment out here called good Neighbor, what we want
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you to do is give people your tips to navigate
the parking situation at Dodger Stadium. Once a year, I
tell you the number one parking place at Dodger Stadium.
It is the place you want to be. It gets
you out of the stadium quickly, no matter when you leave,
and it's not difficult for you to get in. It
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is the number one spot and I will tell you
what that is. But you then must turn around and
be guaranteeing it. Oh, I guarantee it. You guarantee it.
You've been saying this. I've yet to try your your
your technique, and I need to start. Oh that had
a tough time getting in the other day. All right,
(02:38):
well we'll talk more about it. Now. Let's bring out
our good friend, the esteemed voice of the people, voice
of the people, conscious of the paper. It's Bill Plaisky
from the La Times. Bill. That's my bad. I didn't
know you were sitting there. I'm sorry. I would have
got you on sooner.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Going on, Bill, that's fine. What's happening?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
All right? Well, I just want to start with this Bill.
What's going on? Billy Pete? You said you said they
would beat the Mets. Done, and by the way, I
agreed with you. You also suggest that they have to
beat the Yankees. Are you ready to call it, right
here and right now, that they will beat the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I'm not gonna call it yet. If I call it'll
be in the paper. I can't. I gotta see it first.
I'm thinking they're gonna beat it. No, I'm thinking they
I'm thinking they're gonna be a favorite. And rightly so.
The Yankees they have in my mind, they have two
chances to win. That's the times Gary Cole pitches. Other
than that, the Dodgers have a deeper team, a better team.
I don't think the Yankees are much better than the Mets. Frankly,
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there's all the traditions and all the star power, but
I just don't. I think the Dodgers are a better team.
But I got to see him Blake first. They got
to see how it shakes down. But it feels. It
feels right now that a Dodger vigor to me. And
but I can't call it.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I'm calling it. What do you call it? I'm calling
calling it? What are you calling it? Five? Six? We
call it it, I'm calling it. I think you know what.
I'm gonna say six to be safe, I think they
could do it in five. Actually, Bill, I think the
Dodgers are a better team. I think the Dodgers this year.
And look, nobody, nobody knows this more than you do
(04:16):
in past years when it all looked rosy and you
thought this is the year. I think the adversity and
everything they went through this year, and the lack of
pitching and the way they have to use the bullpen
is the reason they will win it this year.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, they have a lot of heart this year. They
have a lot of intensity, They have a lot of guts.
They they play hard, they play for each other. They
are real, They're there. They are a little team this year.
I mean they're really you can see it. I think
the whole thing was started out with with when when
Mookie best who went to shortstop in screen training and
everybody went crazy and I went crazy, and the Dodgers
(04:51):
are out of their minds, mook Yara go nuts and
Mookie Mookie accepted it and handled it as the ultimate
team player until they've got smartly moved back to right field.
That was one of the many moves they made that
the players had to suck up their egos. And they
all did. I mean they all, they all did you
know they they moved moved out of the leadoffs spot.
(05:12):
He didn't complain. They had, you know, all the relievers.
They had eight different three pictures injured. They were running
guys in and out of the minor leagues all year long,
and nobody complaining. People want out of a bullpen all
year long. Nobody complained, they really And then I thought
the key was so he had a real team atmosphere
and then they added the ultimate team player and Tommy Edens.
(05:38):
And that was, by the way, and Andrew Freeman. I
christized him a lot in the past. He said it
a Hall of Fame season. I mean, he's he's going
to look at one person. I looked at Dave Roberts
and sold all this together. Doctor has been tremendous. Andrew
Freeman has been right there. I mean, look look at
the look at at the trade deadline, Copeck, clarity and Edmund.
(06:02):
That's like a trifecta. That's unbelievable. Well, what he's done.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
But did you know then, Bill, did you know then
it would have been as effective as it has been.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
No, In fact, I actually criticized him for Tommy Edmund
because he hadn't played all year. He tradeformed a guy
been hurt all year. Corpek was a wild man. Now,
I didn't say flirty was the key. I thought flirty
was his ace and the whole. I thought Flirty say
thee say that the trade headline for I thought Flirty
was the was the shining light of the deadline. But
(06:33):
I don't think anything of Edmund, and I don't the
ane of Copek. But he knew I mean he knew better.
How about Theoptra and Andez He's had a tough NLCS.
He's just so great this year and pre even got
him for nothing in the off season. So it's all
just all kind of come together in the ways that
hasn't come together in the past. They they they set
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a record for most walks in the NLCS. They're watching pictures,
they're not through analysts, right zone, You're not trying to
be heroes if you're playing you know, within themselves. All
the cliches, that's the Dodgers. I mean, for one, there
cliche and a good cliche at that.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, there's this uh you speak of Andrew Freeman. I
agree with you that this this was a masterful job
of of really understanding and studying personnel and what what
guys because you know Flaherty or Edmund or even Kopec,
they don't necessarily fit just plugging them in in any
other team, but they fit with this team. And there
might have been a guy out there or two guys
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out there, and you know, people would have said, oh,
he could have dead better, he had better stats, Oh
he wasn't hurt all last year. But they they stuck
to their guns and and and said, these guys fit
for us, and and it's not always easy to do that.
And that being said, I agree with you, Andrew Freeman,
but also Dave Roberts. You know, all the heat that
(07:56):
he has taken, this was one of his best seasons
as managing this club, and all the injuries, and like
you said, guys buying in Mookie playing shortstop, and then
when Mookie comes back after injury, you know, having to
tell him, hey, you're not gonna play shortstop number one,
and also you're not gonna lead off anymore, and and
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everybody buying into that. That's big for me. And I
think Dave Roberts did an unbelievable job.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Doccas had the best first two rounds of any manager
in recent baseball history. And you know something, and the
Dodgers win this thing. Gots scored in the Hall of Fame.
He has the best manager will started a manager of history.
This will give him two World Cheries championships in nine years.
And he's been the way he's handled a bullpen in
these bullpen games has been flawless. He's known when to
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take guys out, when to bring guys in. He's made
all the right moves, made all the right line of moves.
He's kept him calmed, he's kept the team calm, he's
kept him focused. Yeah, I mean he's been. He's unbelievable.
And again he has had the Hall of Fame. He's
that good. And they got they better give him a
big contract. You know, his contracts up nation right, he
needs to get a long term deal. He's the next
(09:09):
Tomulus order, I can call that right now. He's he's
like Tommy.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
He needs to be for ten years or whatever it
is that he's to be.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, but they gotta, they gotta take care of it,
and I'm sure they will. But he's he's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, paid manager in baseball right.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Now, Dave should they should be. He's not great. Yeah,
he should go bout far as he was Bay manager. Yeah,
he's he's really the way he will, Yeah, the way
he's handled these things is unbelievable. It's so funny. Everybody
(09:56):
talk included me that this was a team of flawed
a flawed team of analytics driven players. Well turns out
they were winning because they're all gutsy players. There's no
analytics on this team. This is a team of guts
and fire and fight, and Friedman knew that, which we
didn't think, and Roberts ran that, and together they've been
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unbelievably that It's it's really it's a it's a sight
to see. I mean, I knew when when he beat
Pottery they win the World Series.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Even in baseball, YEP, agree one hundred percent with you.
I thought the exact same thing. I didn't think anything
would be as difficult as that series.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, and the mess wasn't it wasn't closed. The mess
wasn't wasn't ever closed. And we'll see after the first
two games of this series how it looks. But I'm
guessing the Dogs are gonna win it. But I don't
want to say yet because I got to see it,
see him on the field. I mean, I mean, my guy, Yankees,
you have Aaron Judge and Juan Soto and Jim Carlos Stanton.
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They do it. Studs.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Have we seen a lot? Have we seen? Have we
send the m VP on in the American League and
nationally go up ahead to head in the World Series like.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
This, Well, there's five gonna be on the field, a
little bit of on a field. I don't think we've
seen that before. We've never seen a star studied Matt
huts before, We've never seen it two of the three
hot Pa payroll teams before. We haven't seen the teams
in the two minutes of markets before since nineteen eighty one.
So it's it's it's it's legend, it's legend. It's just
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it's historic. It's gonna be aspiring. I me, it really is.
I just came away and as La fans deserve it.
The La fans are so good, so loud. You know,
you saw the met fans. The Med fans would leave early.
They get quiet. Doctor fans never get quiet. It's crazy.
(11:51):
It's crazy out there the whole The press box shakes.
Every big hit, the press box shakes. It's really it's
really an event, and it's really great for the city.
I'm so happy for the City's happy for the fans.
And yeah, and it's just all all it takes now
and four more wins, and I don't see any way
they're not going to get it.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I just think it's start there for him, all right, Bill,
So here's the argument for around the country. Uh, well,
what do you expect? They spent the most money. I
don't win now. I debunked that in the first segment.
But you hear that, Well, what do you expect. They
spent the most money they're supposed to win.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
What do you say, how much is Tommy ed been making?
How much is Michael Colpek making? How much is Shoskar
Henanda is making? They have othough, yes they have. They
have a lot of money, but they made the right
moves with this money, and a lot of their best
players are role players. How much is Mats Monty making?
(12:47):
How much is Miguel Rojas making? Yeah, first speak before
we champion celebration. How much is he making? They have
high paid players that they filled them in with brilliant
world players, So no, you can't tell me that. And
every every manager, every owner in baseball it's a billionaire.
(13:08):
There's no there's no salary caps. They could all do
what the dogs are doing, except nobody will do it
because theyn't have the smarts to go with a bank account.
So no, this is a victiy for smarts as much
as money, or more so than money. Yeah, you got
the money for show. Hay, Okay, I got that. You
have the money for rookie. You have the money for
(13:30):
yallam Moto, But the rest of them all are all
just regular paid guys. So I'm not buying the argument
at all. There's been too many different winners in baseball
the past twenty years to about the every the highest
big teams always want the doctors. What are one million
times a boy now? So no, it's a lot more
(13:53):
than that.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, Bill, there, you know you said no, you said,
you said on Monday, and I said, what is Bill doing?
You said on Monday? They better win it? You put
it out there right away without giving me a chance
to really celebrate Sunday night. Bill, I was. I was
a little upset with you. But but in terms of
what this does for for the Dodgers going forward to
(14:19):
mention it, four World Series and nine years went in
two and nine years, this this organization, and he ran
down the list of guys that are that are being
paid and the guys that are not getting paid. But
just this this series globally as well. I got a
son in Japan and that's all they're talking about over there.
This is what everybody wanted. Now, what what would be
(14:43):
the pitfalls for the dog you mentioned the Yankees gotta
have you gotta win both games with Garrett Cole. What
did the Dodgers got to do to win?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
They need Clarity to act like Clarity is not like
you did in the last game. He's got to pitch well, yeah,
I'm always got beat. Well, they can't count these eight
pitcher bullpen games every game. They can't do it. It's
it's gonna wear worthy arms out. They need good performances
from Moto and Clarity, and they need Jasper Dannis to
(15:14):
hit better. And they could use Freddy getting healthy. Yeah,
I thought, is you don't play if Freddy King is
not unhealthy than he was with Zach Baddles and the NLCS,
I don't think you can play them. I agree, I
think they're a better team without him. Yeah, you can't swing,
(15:37):
so they need to manage that well. So there are
still several pitfalls, and it would be I mean, as
positive as I am and as I've been, everybody knows there,
it would be if they don't win this, the season
is a failure. Because they have the best team. They
have the best manager, you have the best front office,
they have the best fans. They've dominated baseball this year.
(16:00):
They should win this and it would be a major
crater in it. If for some reason they don't.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, but you're making the point here. But you're making
a point Bill. If they don't want it's a failure. Well,
they got knocked in the first round, knocked out, it
was a failure. So what you're saying is if they
don't win the World Series period, it's a failure. Yeah,
it is.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It is every year it should be for this team.
They choose those expectations. It's in La Man sendy champions
Dodger Man. Oh, it's the same with the Lakers. I
think they and I think it would be a failure
if they don't win. I think that's all the only
way you can categorize it. I don't think when they
(16:42):
were in the World Series against the Houston Astros and
they lost, they didn't feel as much like a failure
because it was the first time they'd been here in
a long time. If they've been there, they've done that.
The Raids take this last step and they got to
take it. I mean, that's the I'm sure that's the
way that they view it too. That's the way they
want us to view it. You come to this town
(17:03):
to win championships. You're getting in the Championship and you
get in the finals, you damn well better win it.
I get. That's just that's what the attitude this town has.
That's the attitude. That's what the Dodgers have.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Hey Bill, Bill, before we let you go, we kicked
this around a little bit yesterday, Bill, what do you
think they're doing and feeling down there in Anaheim with
the Angels and watching o Tany do this with the
Dodgers and go here go to the World Series in
his first year with the Dodgers, just up the road.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
They gotta think, already he's got to sell the team.
You know already could have had him. You know, they're right,
he could have. He could he would have stayed if
already had matched the money, and already wouldn't do it,
so already forced him out. They gotta feel their Anaheim
has never been more invisible than it is now.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
It's like people Dodger fans think this guy felt from
the heavens to to Dodgers Stadium when he when people
forget he was you say he was out for six years, Yeah,
and we never knew it. They ever played a post's game,
and Angel fans have to be the most straw fans
in the history of sun California sports.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
They have to be right.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
They had the best player in history on their team
and their owner let them get away. Now they have nothing.
They have nothing, They're invisible. It's really really weird. It's
really started. They're only thirty miles away. You know, it'll
be a good story. We saw somebody to go on
(18:36):
Game one of the World Series, go to the Big
A and see what's going on down there.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Maybe they're getting ready for monster trucks or something.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, I just I was gonna say, I bet monster trucks.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Oh my god, you guys. All right, Bell, you guys
are cruel. I got ru We'll talk to everything, all right, man,
Thanks for We'll see out at the stadium. There was
Bill Plashki for the La Times, not ready to call it,
not ready to call it, you know why, because he
got burned. I think last year he got burned. He
(19:13):
got burned, and he said, I'm never going to do
that again. M given everything he said, he called it.
He called it last year. He wrote a call last year.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
I think I don't know if it was before the
season started or write after. And he called it and
said the Doctors are going to win the World Series.
Call it now, and then he came on our show
and said, like, yeah, I'm never doing that again. That
was stupid on my part.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
That's why I tried to get him to do it.
But I don't care. I called it. We'll call it
right now. And you know what, Rodney, I said, six games, Yeah,
to try to couch myself a little bit. Yeah, I
think it could be a gentleman's sweep. Wow. And it's
the same format two three to two for the World Series, right, yeah. Yeah.
(20:00):
The Garrett Cole factor he's on is definitely a factor
and he's going to go twice for them, so and
if they, you know, play it right, he might even
go short rest at some point. But it all depends
on game one, it really does. I mean it's hard
to do that. I understand people want to call it
and say this is that, But if we can get
(20:23):
him out of the game, you know, round the fifth,
sixth inning, that will be a big story because they
need him to go deep. Yeah. Yeah. And the thing
I've said before every series and in the Padre series,
that happened and in that series, didn't just stay ahead,
(20:45):
you know, stay ahead. When the first game, okay, you
lose the second, when the third game, stay ahead. That's
the key. I think game one is really important. Like
I said, is it a must win? Yeah, if you win,
it is. If you don't win, well then you've got
that one. But I think I think game one's very important.
I think you got to jump ahead in these series
(21:06):
critical because just psychologically. Yeah, even when even when they're
throwing their guy their ace, they're they're three hundred four
hundred million dollar guy whatever they paid him, assuming that
they you know they're going to get the win with
our guy, you still believe it's a must win for
the Dodgers. I think they need to win game one.
(21:28):
And listen, we love Garrett Cole. He was on the
show He Loves You, Fred, Fred Rogan local kid. Yeah, yeah,
I went to u C. L A.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Maybe you'll do you a solid Fred and tank the
game for you since he loves you so much.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I don't think you do that. Thank you love La
enough to stay here. He was always a Yankee fan
even when he was growing up, though not s all right,
he took the money. Good for him. Yeah, that was
the only time we ever got to do afternoons and
we we were told we did a really good job,
remember Rodney. Yeah, so we never did it again, Kevin,
(22:02):
why is that anytime we do something and they go,
you know what, you guys really great, we never do
it again.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
That's a good question, Fred, I don't know. Yeah, you know,
idea I'm asking me.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
It's it's a matter. Hey, you guys are great on
that play and going over to spring training, best we've
ever had? Good? Are we going next year?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Not you guys, No, you guys are out everything. Oh
my god? All right now eight six six nine eight seven.
If you want to be a good neighbor, a good fan,
you've got to give us your tips for in and
out of Dodger Stadium because you know it's going to
be a complete zoo, a total and complete zoo. But
(22:46):
you may have some tips, You may have some ideas,
something that works for you, something that may help others. Uh.
You know, I don't think getting it is as important
as where your park so you can get out. So
what might those tips be? Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven,
two five seventy and yes, the once a year reveal
(23:11):
of the very best spot to park It Okay, I
do it once a year. Okay, once a year. Trade
secrets from Fred Rogan right now. Maybe other people have
great suggestions, but I will give you mine when we
come back. Oh yeah, let's keep it moving. Come on now,
it's Tuesday. Oh I can't wait till Friday. Can't wait
(23:32):
till Friday? Did you get this world series kicked off
and started? Freddy and waiting a year for this? Rodney
Pete Fred Rogan on a Tuesday. Let's go, all right,
let's get people's suggestions on parking before I give you
the secret location. All right, Edgar on the six oh five? Edgar,
what is your suggestion suggestion for those people going to
(23:54):
Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Hi, guys, well, there is no evil way.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
My suggestion is are away from the stadium, either ruber
or walk up the hills to the stadium, hang back
as long as you can.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
After the game, go buy some merch so that revenue
goes directly towards the team and doesn't need to be shared.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Then you walk down to the shortstop and enjoy yourself
an adult beverage. Because it's Friday, and with everything that's
going on in the LA area, with all this.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Or the conscience and everything.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
You might as well just hang out, have a drink
somewhere and.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Enjoy the w All right, here's the concern. Thanks, askar,
appreciate it. That park away and walk and then or
park away guy getting an uber lyft to get up
to the stadium and then do that? Is that what
we do about? Yeah? He said that. I said, to
the shortstop and start drinking to alleviate traffic. Here's the
(24:50):
problem though, and I don't have the answer. He said,
buy some merch, right, buy some merch. Don't rush. But
the longer you'll wait, you know, oh, the longer you're
in there, you know what I mean, The longer you wait,
the longer you're in there, you've either got to be
out immediately or you're stuck. So if you're gonna hang around,
(25:16):
it's only I don't know, like they could rather sit
in the traffic then wait, because in the traffic at
least you've got a chance to get out. I usually
don't have much trouble getting out. All right, where do
you park? You know what? Lot either D or F
somewhere around there. Okay, solid, all right, we'll do that,
all right, okay, good, good, we'll talk about that in
(25:39):
a second. Okay, all right, because that's that's part of
it right there. Okay, let's go to uh Mark and Monrovia. Mark,
what is the key to success? Hi?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Brad Hie Rodney. Hey, all right, guys, I'm not going
to give my secret away, but before we get into that,
I just want to echo that you guys are killing it.
Let's go reason. That's why you're reason that you're one
and done. Man, and it says man, they take him
out on a high note. Man, they killed that. Joe
(26:11):
can't do this anymore. You guys are going out a
high note because you're killing it. As far as getting
in and out, I'm not going to give the secret away.
I'm just going to say that you walk into the
right field pavilion and you leave out of that same areas.
So you're gonna have to use your phone or you're
(26:31):
going to have to use UH Thomas guide. You can
figure it out, but make sure you end up in
the right field pavilion to walk in. That's the greatest spot.
And if that doesn't work where you can always take
the gondola next year.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
All right, Mark? Thanks? And you know what I like
a Thomas Guide reference Thomas guy. This means he's a
man of a certain eight right right field pavilion. He says,
make sure you end up there going in and out.
You know what that means. All right, let's go. We'll
get to our advice in a minute. But this is
(27:08):
what the good neighbors say, Boyd and Los Felis. All right, Boyd,
what is the advice?
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Hey, fellas, go Dodgers. Pleasure to be on.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Let's see.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
I hope this isn't cheating, But to me, the move
is to if you're able ride your bicycle, you ride
right up to the ticket gates. They got locked for
your bikes right there. You're the fastest one in, you're
the fastest one out. It's free. Save that money, get
(27:41):
yourself a hat in the stadium, enjoy the game. That's
my tip.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Well, all right, no, I like it. I like it,
but here's the concern I have about it. That bike
Bence Scully all the way through the parking lot the gates.
Here's my concern, and it goes with anybody riding their
bikes on the street. And if you ride your bike,
I know that you pay your taxes. You have the
right to ride your bike because the streets are yours too.
I just don't want to be in a game where
(28:07):
everybody's in a tank and I'm in a bike. I
think that is a recipe for disaster. And I get
there are cyclists and we like to ride everywhere, and
you should and please by all means, but you understand
you're tempting fate when you're riding your bike in the
street with cars. You're tempting fate when you are riding
(28:28):
your bike into Dodger Stadium with that traffic, and certainly
I think, boyd, you would be tempting fate when you
ride out of Dodger Stadium with that traffic when it's dark.
You know, when it's darker and the lots are lit.
But when it's darker, no, everybody's not. You've been there,
(28:52):
you know, get th dicey. Sometimes everybody's not what read
on their p's and q's. I think that's fair. I
think that's fair. All right, go ahead, now, Rodney, you
talk about your tip, and then I will do the
one year really have a tip, But I just don't
(29:15):
find it like that. You know, getting in is difficult,
Getting in is difficult, and you know coming off the
five from where I come from in the valley and
then uh, trying to get Stadium Way. That's dicey. That's dicey.
Or you go all the way around, you stay on
the one ten and go get off of one ten
(29:36):
and keep going around and get off Stadium Way and
get get through the back way that way. That's dicey too,
because you don't know, I mean there's still traffic that way.
Do you off? We're going to Stadium Way? Wait when
you go off Stadium Way right and you go down
off the five, Yeah, you got I know exactly where
you're at by the park. Yep, you've got your first
(29:58):
there's a point where you can go left, left or
right and then left right. If you go right, then
you're gonna end sculling and go left. If you go
left right there you go right to the gate. Which
one do you do? I've done both. I've done both too,
But which do you do? More? Unfortunately I do the
right and then left through the park and do but
(30:18):
I stopped doing that. Yeah, no, I assume I stopped
doing it because it doesn't get you there faster. Right,
and you think that it's open and it's going to
be quicker because it's taking you to but it doesn't
go if you go left and go right to the gates,
and it's much quicker. Actually, yes, yes, And then you
go to lot D R F. Yeah, okay, here it
(30:39):
is here, it is so you and I are basically
of the same opinion, by the way, okay, because those
are the key lots, that's correct. Yeah, D and F
F is the number one lot to get out. I
will now reveal the place I do it once a year. Okay,
(31:01):
so listen carefully. There is one specific parking place, and
as I describe it, you will know it. But you
talk about getting there and twelve minutes, oh yeah, from
to Little Lake or yeah, from our studio in Burbank. Yeah,
getting there in twelve minutes regardless of traffic. Well, a
(31:25):
Friday afternoon, like it'll be this Friday, you know, it'll
be a little tighter, probably be twenty twenty five. But no,
it's twelve minutes. It's twelve minutes. It's twelve minutes to
Dodger Stadium. It's eight minutes to Burbank Airport. Okay, so
you're talking getting out now right Lot F. Okay, all right,
here's the key. So you're coming that gate we talked about.
(31:47):
You're driving down. You make a right to go to
Lot F. You go in, you go right to go
on Lot F. You with me, Yeah, right, this is it.
When you get into Lot F, you've made the right.
You will see and it will be right there. A
light pole. You will see a light pole all right. Now,
(32:13):
if you park next to the light pole, this one
light pole, many lights, the first light pole you will see.
You cannot miss the light pole on the right. Okay,
if you park next to that light pole, there is
no place for a car to park next to you.
There's no space. There's no space. You can't park next
(32:36):
to this one spot. So what you do is you
drive in, you pull in. So now you're you pulled
in in a manner where when the game is over,
you just drive right out right you're facing that direction.
Park in the spotlight to get to that spot next
to the light pole or something that people don't really
(32:57):
know that that's an actual spot. Oh no, I go
the day before. I got the day before to get
that spot. You know that spot. That spot goes quickly.
I'm just telling you I can't. That doesn't help that's it.
Nobody going to day before for the Friday game, park
(33:17):
your car and then you I've already I've already parked
my car there. Oh but that is the spot. I'm
telling you. That's the spot by the light post that
will get you out so fast you don't even then.
Where do you go out? How do you go out? Oh?
You're just right out that same way you went in. Boom,
(33:40):
just pound right out that where you came in, boom
out and left. Okay, but when do you okay, where
do you go when you go? When you when you're
leaving to Luca Lake or Burbank, how do you get
there in twelve minutes? You take an alternate route and
then stadium way and then go exact same way you
left instead of right. But yeah, still there's traffic getting
off of stadium the same way. Well, no, I go
(34:01):
two hours before the game. Oh okay, because I like
to get there and eat and do stuff. Yeah, okay.
So the remedy is get there early, is what you're saying.
That's that's the only quick way to get it's not
really giving me any Well, that's another way to look
at it. But I'm telling you too much much. All right,
(34:26):
just put it like this because now I'm sorry I
even told you the secret spot, because I don't I
don't like your attitude about the say five o'clock on Friday,
we're gonna get off the air until three o'clock, and
so you can't get there two hours early. You're gonna
leave at three fifteen if you're going right from from
from work and burd Bank and so, yeah, I'll be
there three you stuck in at that traffic, I'll be
(34:49):
there three if I left the station at three fifteen
on Friday. Yeah, the latest that would be there is
three fifty in traffic, the latest, really, yeah, because you
know what you do, Rodney, Because if you get in
trouble on the five, you cut off and you take riverside. Yeah,
(35:10):
you just go riverside on the way. You can go riverside.
Yeah right, yeah, No you can't. You can't. I just
thought you had it just a secret ways of ways
to get there and getting there two hours before the game.
I'm sorry I even told you. Now I like your attitude. Yeah,
(35:34):
trying to help everybody looking forward to that. I had
my pen ready and everything. I was recording you and
getting ready to jot this down now. You gave me nothing,
absolutely nothing. On top of the hour, you had the
(35:55):
Lakers start tonight. Surprise. I can't remember a year where
the Lakers are going to tip off the season and
we've talked about him less. I cannot remember, right, I mean,
the Dodgers are the story period the end. Yeah, can't
even He're not even excited about it yet. No, I
couldn't even tell you what they did in the preseason. No,
(36:16):
I couldn't either, right, So, but Dan wiki will Hill
join us at the top of the hour. Come on,
come on, Freddy, let's go Roddy Pte bred Brogan Rodney.
I just saw something on TikTok. Oh you see this
thing with Lebron and Bronnie. Oh no, I did not.
Lebron pouring like seventeen thousand boxes of cheery or froot
(36:40):
loops into his car and then Bronni walks out, opens
and all the fruit loops run out, fall out and
process to him. Heyrook don't be late, treating him like
a rookie. Hey, don't be late. It was pretty funny.
I gotta give him that. I want to talk about
this real quick. If you've gone too lax Burbank Long Beach,
John Wayne in Orange County. You know, it's very difficult
(37:01):
when you pull up to drop somebody off or pick
somebody up, because it's always congested, uh and people are
moving as quickly as they can. And one of the
things that takes so much time if you're pulling up
to drop someone off, because when somebody ahead of you
gets dropped off, what happens. They come out and they
(37:23):
you know, you give them a hug, have a safe flight. Yeah,
don't you stop, get out hug them, they get bye bye. Right. Well,
apparently it's a real problem in New Zealand, so they
have a new rule. They have somebody monitoring hugs can
last no longer than three minutes. Now, for me, three
minutes is a lifetime. I mean, if I do anything
for three minutes, I've had a hell of it outing
(37:44):
uh huh uh huh. So three minutes and at the
end of three minutes, back in the car and you're
out of here, or you get a ticket. What happens, Yeah,
you're it doesn't You're going to be sighted. You cannot
hug anyone longer than three minutes. That it should be enough.
That should be enough. If you're driving somebody to the airport,
(38:05):
you're talking along the way, you've gotten everything out, you
pull up, it's time for them to get out, to
get your bag out of the bag. If you have
a couple of bags out of the trunk, it shouldn't
take you longer than three minutes to get those bags
out and takes the hug. You don't need to have
another conversation once you're out of the car. Well, I'm
thinking they're just doing it for the embrace. You can't
(38:29):
embrace for longer than three minutes. When's the last time
you hugged somebody for three minutes? Yeah, for three minutes.
Think about it. You get somebody a hug and then
that's it. Yeah, three minutes, three minutes. When you're hugging someone,
that's a long time. What are you doing? Maybe that's
(38:49):
the issue. Maybe the problem there is not the hug,
but what it's leading to that three minutes, Because if
you're hugging somebody, you're not holding them tight like that
for three minutes. You're just not They should begging them
not to go, nus, you're begging them not to go, right,
but they're already going. Yeah, I just found that really interesting.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
If there's an embrace lasting long three minutes or up
to three minutes, somebody in that embrace is very uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Yes, I look at it. Somebody's uncomfortable, or or Kevin,
or it's two people that that just started dating or
just met. Oh, they never let go. They never let
go go first. You let go first. Yeah, in that
that early stage, just after a while, it's like they
(39:39):
don't even get out of the car anymore. Stop the car.
They barely stopped the car. Okay, see you later, call
me when you get there. Just keep it moving. Your
car didn't even get out of drive. How long does
that first uh, that first phase last, Rodney that I
never want I don't want you to go, Please don't go.
(40:02):
I can't bear not to be with you. How long
is that phase of dating last? Oh? I think it
varies varies between you know, who you're dating. There's been
some history where it lasted a day and then after
the third day you're like, you know and bye, shaking hands.
(40:24):
There's been other ones where you wanted it to last
a little bit longer. But yeah, there's been some other ones.
Just getting out the car girl.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Go.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Oh man, I wonder how long people would consider the
proper amount of time for an embrace. Yeah, how long
would that be? Ronnie, you've been married a while, how
long do you think it should be? Thirty seconds? Thirty seconds? Yeah,
and maybe that's even too long.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
At thirty seconds is pretty long.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
It is long. Holly and I have this twenty second
hug thing that we do, and we started doing it
years ago, and it is ah And it's usually because
I'm the one in the doghouse most of the time.
So if one or the other request they hug, you
got to hug that a person for twenty seconds. And actually,
(41:23):
what happens we experimented with this, but what happens is
after about twelve seconds, you kind of start to forget
why you were mad at that other person, and you
start to remember why you're together, and so it takes
all the the tension off of whatever was going on.
(41:45):
So you can call a twenty second time out and
say I need that twenty second hug, and after a
while it kind of just alleviates some of the stress
that it's going on. So yeah, and with that twenty seconds,
you do get to about ten twelve seconds where you're like, man,
this is long. This is long, and it keeps going.
So three minutes, three minutes extremely long for someone to
(42:09):
brace at an airport Rodney. How often do you have
to call the twenty second time? I often, Fred. Unfortunately
I called all right, Lakers open tonight. Yeah, surprise, they're
(42:31):
back at it. And uh, we'll have Dan White you
joined the show next and we'll set up the season
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Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about the weekly slate of games and share their INSIDE perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. They also endlessly rag on each other as brothers do, chat the latest in pop culture and welcome some very popular and well-known friends to chat with them. Check out new episodes every Wednesday. Follow New Heights on the Wondery App, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free, and get exclusive content on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And join our new membership for a unique fan experience by going to the New Heights YouTube channel now!