October 8, 2025 • 30 mins
David Vassegh joins us ahead of Game 3 of the NLDS between the Dodgers and Phllies. Also, as the collective bargaining talks between the MLB and the players union will heat up soon, we talk about MLBs idea to distrubute all of its games (local and otherwise) on one medium and how that could affect teams like the Dodgers and Yankees.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, let's go we continue on Fred Rugan Rodney
peaked game day on a five seventy LA Sports Rodney.
Let's just bring the man of the hour on. Let's
not full a round? Yeah, come on, let you bring
on David Bassey's we get ready for Game three?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Dave, Good afternoon, Hey guys, looking forward to tonight's game,
looking forward to the Dodgers advanced thing to the NLCS
tonight as well.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Hey, before we get started, can I just mention something
real quick?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I see, of course.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yet Clayton Kershaw on Dodger Talk last night, right.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, he called in at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
That's right, Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
If anybody missed that or wasn't aware of it, go
back and listen to the podcast. I mean, Dave is
sitting there doing his show and Clayton Kershaw calls in
and they have a conversation. So please, if you did
not hear that and that was great Dave, please go
back and listen to it.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
I just had to mention that off the top, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And I did not want to get reflective in that
interview with him because he still has the rest of
October to go, so I feel like we could do
that after after the season is over and.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
You had no idea who's calling in, Dave, Right, I
mean it, It just goes to show you not not
everybody around I don't know anybody around the league that's
in your position like that and has your you know,
the show that a player just voluntarily is listening and
calls in like that. So hats off to you, man,
in the relationship you have in that in that clubhouse,
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and just being able to be real with guys tough, good,
bad and different. You are straight up and honest, and
I think that's why you get so much respect in
that clubhouse.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Maybe RJ handed him the phone.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
This all right, Dave, let's talk a lot a lot
to cover here, and I know you don't have a
lot of time, so I'm gonna start with a bullpen.
Are we going to see Blake trying it again?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yes, you will see Blake trying to again. Will you
see him in a safe situation in the ninth inning
unless the multiple relievers are down. I don't believe you'll
see that again the rest of the postseason. But they're
going to need Blake trying it. They're going to need
Tanner Scott to get out when they play in best
of seven series, the further the Dodgers go and the
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two series, the NLCS and the World Series. As you
guys know, best of seven much different than a best
of three and a best of five. The Dodgers will
still be able to maximize glass Now and she Hen
and Kershaw and Sasaki. But the Dodgers being in a
best of seven series, you're going to have to at
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some point use and deploy some of these relief pitchers
that Dave Roberts has tried to stay away from.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, and you mentioned Tanner Scott, so we will. We
will at some point, I agree with you. In the
game a seven game series, it's much different that you're
gonna need as many arms as you can have. But
we're still you still believe we're going to see Tara
Scott in these playoffs at some.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Point, without a doubt. He's on the roster. Do I
believe you're going to see him in the ninth inning
either or in the eighth inning in a closed game?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I could see him coming in in the seventh inning
if there's you know, two of the three hitters being
left handed hitters. I could see that happening with a
comfortable lead, But I don't see him coming in and
closing out a game either, unless there are extreme circumstances
and something else to keep in mind, guys. You know,
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obviously everybody wants the Dodgers to win, and everybody believes
they're going to win one of these next two games.
But it would be a huge advantage for the Dodgers
to get rid of the Phillies tonight and be able
to go into the first game of the NLCS with
Tyler Glass now being available out of the Bowl, because
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you likely wouldn't see him pitch until the NLCS came
back to Dodgers Stadium. So again, it's so vital for
the Dodgers to win tonight, not just about advancing and
wrapping this up tonight and not giving the Phillies life,
but it's so vital to them to continue to be
able to maximize their starters as starting pitchers and also
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relief pitchers, and to be able to line up Blake
Snell for a Game one and sho Hao Tani for
a game two.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
All Right, So that being said, Yamamoto goes out and
he let's say he goes seven tonight, okay, and the
game is still roll. Dodgers are ahead, but it's it's close,
and he's pitched a hell of a game is tonight
at Clayton Kershaw bullpen night.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The way he sounded last night is you know, it
felt like he's ready to go. He wants him on
this game tonight at some point, whether or not it
happens remains to be seen. But you know, alie Vessi
has been used so much during the regular season and
already so much in the postseason. How many times can
you go to him? Do you go to and Anthony
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Banda in the eighth inning? He's proven it in the
postseason before. I would feel very comfortable with Kershaw. The
only hesitancy is the fact that Kershaw, in his starts
this season, had an ERA of seven and a half.
I don't know if that plays into the Dodgers thinking
as well, A little concern if it's a one or
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two run game that you know you're asking a guy
that's thirty six years old to crank it up right away.
I still feel like they're waiting for the right opportunity
to bring him in. But there's some other you know,
guys down there that you can trust in those type
of situations.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well, given that day too, with the uncertainty of the
bullpen and new guys entering being starters, going into the
bullpen and playing that role, if you're in a situation
tonight or even you know, going forward with the way
the starting pitching has has gone and been a strength
for the Dodgers, yea, I'm Amoto's rolling through eight and
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they're ahead, say three to one. Do you let him
finish it off? Or do you and he's right hovering
around one hundred pitches or so, do you let him
finish it off? Or are you going to the pen
in the night?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I'm letting him finish it off. I think it's that
type of situation. And you know, I wouldn't be surprised guys,
And I know the Dodgers can't say that right now
because they don't want to tip their hands, but you know,
Dave Roberts has been asked repeatedly about whether or not
O'tani would pitch and relief at some point in the postseason.
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He said he wouldn't rule it out. And I know
the Dodgers were going into this series holding Otani for
a Game five after pitching Game one. But would it
be crazy to believe the Dodgers in the dugout would
consider deploying Otani if they have a one or two
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run lead going into the eighth inning for him to
close it out get the last six outs a lah
Clayton kershop back in his prime, or Julio Urias in
twenty twenty, or Walker Bueller getting the last three outs
in New York. We've seen the Dodgers do that what
in close out games. Why wouldn't we believe they would
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consider that tonight in the heat of the battle.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Has he had enough rust to be able to pull
that off? Dave?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I mean, he's he's superhuman, So I would say yes,
And then you would he would have enough time to
be able to bounce back for a game too. It
would be similar to glassnow pitching out of the bullpen
and uh being a guy that that that's his throw day.
So that would be I don't believe Otani through his
bullpen yesterday. So well, you know, it's something that I
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still believe, even though the Dodgers will not say it.
I believe it has to be on the table tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Yeah, I do too, I do too.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I like you said it before day, I think tonight's
game is such an important game that gives the Dodgers
so much rest as they as they head into the NLCS.
If they're able to do away with the Phillies, it
gives everybody an opportunity to rest, and then it becomes
everybody's available to start that series. So I feel like
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this is I don't know it obviously not a must win,
but the urgency factor for this win tonight has got
to be very high, right.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You would think, so higher than most teams in a
two games to nothing lead in the NLDS, just because
of the pitching situation where the Dodgers are trying to
thread a needle here with their starters and be able
to maximize eight or nine guys without having to go
too deep into the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Dave final final bit that I don't want to know
who's on the pre game, but final bit.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I think they get Aaron Nola tonight. I'm I guess
they're starting him for a reason. I think they're going
to hit Aaron Nola. Am I nuts?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Fred?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
No, Aaron Nola's gonna shut him down? I think no,
I think they're gonna get him early, Dave.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Oh, he's had an awful season. Nobody in Philadelphia can
understand why Aaron Nola is starting this game instead of
Rangers Suarez. And I guess the Phillies are going off
with just his last start. That's the way they explained
it yesterday at the workout. As Rick Monday likes to say, Guys,
I believe it's going to be Rockets Red Glare against
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Aaron Nola tonight.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
All right, who's on the pregame, Dave, Alex Call.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Alex Call is gonna join us. He's a he's a
guy that may factor into tonight's game when Ranger Suarez
comes in.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
All right, thanks for jumping on. Hopefully it gets done tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, that would be good. And I see no reason
to believe that it won't.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Talk to Dave.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Thanks, guys.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
There you go, Rodney, it's gonna be Rockets, Red Glare,
Rockets Red Glair.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Okay, Okay, I'm waiting. I'm here for it, Frett.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
This shows the level of desperation the Phillies are in.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Aaron.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I actually thought when I saw he was starting, that
we had made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
He could not be starting. Aaron Nola could not be
starting for the Phillies tonight. There's no way.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And they well they said the workout yesterday they based
it off his last performance. So the guy's been just shelled,
but he had one good game.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Okay, you're in. That's like when we had Lancemi get it.
It's like, you know, they the big deal about the lefty,
lefty lefties. They're throwing a bunch of three lefties at
you right to change it up because and I heard,
you know, those guys on the Fox pregame show Big Popping.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Those guys say they licked their chops. So if you
know you got.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Three lefties going at you, you're by the second one,
in the middle of the second one, you know you're
you're dialed into the lefty side.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
So maybe this is a change up. Maybe they're trying
to deep the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I don't know, but he is a guy that has
performed for them in the past, has been clutched for
them in the past, and so you know, I know
everybody's shocked by it, but I'm not.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
And and also.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
He's not gonna have a long lease to go if
he's in any kind of trouble early they're yanking him
all right, okay, all right, well there you have it.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
There you have it. We'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
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back here, real quick, Rodney. A local team opened at
season last night, so I think we should mention that
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Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, come on back, Rodney, Pete Fred Rogan on game Day.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
It is a Wednesday, October eighth, the day the Dodgers
sweep the Phillies.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Yeah, Fred said it. I said it. Let's go Freddie No, please,
They'll get him tonight.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
They're gonna right, you go, Well, what do you think
they're gonna do against Aaron Nola?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
No, I'm saying They're gonna get to him. That's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Do you know if they get to Aaron Nola early
in this game tonight, Let's say they do, so they
jump on a pretty quick Do you know what heat
the Phillies are gonna take for starting this guy?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Now? Maybe he comes out and blows everybody down and
mowsing away. I don't know, but boy, when I saw that,
I was like, this is the greatest news ever. This
is fantastic news to me. That would be like starting
Tanner Scott. This is great if you're the other team.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
So we will see. Now.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I do want to mention and I got something on
Instagram because you know, occasionally I don't speak of it often.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Somebody wants to slide into my DM. Right, Oh, okay, okay,
you know how that is? Okay, you know, since I'm
really cool, a lot of people want to slide into
the DM and they slid.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
In with this and I missed it yesterday.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
But it came yesterday and I said, are you going
to talk about the Kings opening their season? And I thought,
you know what, yesterday I thought maybe we should touch
on it a little bit. I mean, we're right in
the midst of the playoffs here, but the King's opened
and we didn't mention it. Let me tell you something,
I'm glad we didn't mention it. Oh they opened last night.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
They opened it.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
If that was a show on Broadway, they would have
closed already.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
And that was Game one.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Give them time, give them time, give them you know,
it's going to take a while here. But that was
not what we would call an impressive start to the season.
Colorado beat them last night. And this is a big
year for the Kings. Game one, it's opening, right, Chacob
had a lot of game left.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Oh, look at it like this. They lose one game,
then go seventy nine and one. Yeah, come on going
around opening day and laugh. Remember that opening day we
we blanked the bed. Well that those days are over.
We're in the playoffs now, that's why you look at it, right.
I like their jerseys. They were last night though. Those
were pretty cool. Yeah, I like I like the new
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crown on the King's black jersey. That was pretty cool,
all right, yeah, yeah, go ahead, go ahead. No, I
was just saying on top of real quick at jerseys,
we I was had a debate with a bunch of
you know, I'm gonna a string with my former teammates
at USC, and we just go back and forth from
different eras and and it's pretty cool. There's about twenty
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five of us on the text string, and you know,
everybody says their own opinions and have all that kind
of stuff. And we were debating whether it's time for
USC to have some alternate uniforms, you know, come out
and say all black, or have black jerseys, or you know,
you know, go all white on the road instead of
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cardinal pants traditional Cardinal pants, white white jerseys.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
And I was like, yeah, it's it's time. It's time.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I mean, every other school has done it except for really,
except for USC maybe, And I think Alabama hasn't deviated.
Notre Dame, which you thought would never deviate from their uniforms,
they went crazy with it.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Remember that.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I think they wore pinstripes at the Yankee Stadium one
time they played there. But they've gone different uniform. Michigan
has gone different kind of uniforms. Ohio State's got alternative ones.
All those traditional schools have done it except for USC,
and I think it's time. You gotta, you know, you
got to start putting away those those old, old, old traditions.
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Fred I like that, and I'm glad you bring that up. Yeah,
I'm dead serious. I'm glad you bring that up because
you know what, with all due respect to all Trojans
and to the family of those who attended Troy, those
uniforms are boring now and they need to be tweaked.
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It's not nineteen fifty two.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
You're right.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
You went to school there. You brought it up there.
I said it. They need to do some time. It's time.
It's time. Wrong, I still like it. You know, you
can still wear the traditional card on goal for most
of the games, but every now and then change it up.
I even like, even when UCLA goes to the all
dark blue uniforms, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I agree, Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
So it's you know, you can get stuck way too
far into tradition, and you know, nowadays with all the
things and trying to really keep up and bring in
the new younger audiences. You got to do things like that. Well,
it was sort of like what the Yankees. You couldn't
have facial hair forever, right, Yeah, yeah, you couldn't have
facial hair. We're the Yankees. Who gives a rats ass?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Right?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
This is twenty twenty five, yes, and then they just
did it right.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Last year was first year or or the year before
whatever it was, but just last year.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
You can have well groomed beards now.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Well groomed beards and mustache. So you still can't go
out there.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Look, you still can't go out there looking like a
caveman for well, some of the mustaches for Kevin is
just some of them are just ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah, but yeah, come on, facial hair as it's in,
particularly with men with beards now, it's just ridiculous that
you have a organization with grown men in their twenties
and thirties, some of their forties, that you can't have
facial hair. Yeah, you can't dictate that anymore. No, So
work on that uniform thing for us to get.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Back at it. I'm on it, I'm on it.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Okay, you've got some pull over there. In a little
bit you know some people that much. I know some people. Yeah,
just talk to your people. I will all right.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Well, so you know, Baseball's collect a bargaining agreement will
be up, and there's some concern that there might be
a lockout. No one really knows. But the contentious part
of it will be the owners want a salary cap.
They want some cost certainty in all of this. That's
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going to be the big thing. Now, will it happen, Well,
the players' union swears it'll never happen. We'll see, We'll
see how it goes. But that is a key part
of baseball's overall strategy, something that even Stan cast and says, yeah,
as the Dodgers will look at and that is how
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these games are going to be broadcast. So you understand
that the Dodgers as owners or part owners of sports
and at LA, they make a lot of money from
their local TV deal.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
So to the Yankees, so the Mets, so do the Cubs.
Your major market teams do pretty well. The Angels are
part of the now fan duel Sinclair group that filed
for bankruptcy and then fought their way back. They don't
get the same kind of rights fees and the argument becomes,
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when you have an entity that is paying you all
of this money for rights, you have more money to spend.
Only makes sense. So they're rich, get richer.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So what Baseball wants to do and Rob Manfred, who
will step down as commissioner in twenty twenty nine, what
he wants to do is basically centralize and nationalize Major
League Baseball. And his objective would be, we're not going
to have regional sports networks anymore. His goal would be
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everything is on MLBtv or on a streaming partner, and
those streaming partners pay Major League Baseball rights and then
they split it with all the teams. Now, a team
like Milwaukee might get thirty five million dollars for their
local television rights, where a team like the Dodgers I
get two hundred and fifty million. You see the disparity.
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The rich get richer. Now that's the advantage of being
in a big market and spending the money for that team.
In any event, what they want to do is create
this central place where you can get every game, you
pay for the rights, they sell the advertising baseball, and
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then the money is split amongst all the teams. So
what does that mean? Well, if we forecast down the road,
Milwaukee would get more than thirty five million dollars, but
the Dodgers would get far less than what they get now.
And owners they're saying, well, that'll make the playing field
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more more even you don't have as much, you don't
get as much, you can't spend as much. Therefore we
get more, we'll get better. That's the rationale behind it,
and Rob Manfred steps down at twenty twenty nine. He
wants to have this in place by then. Rodney, I
believe that part of his plan will happen. I believe
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there will be a one stop shop that fans will
pay for, sort of like MLB TV. Right now, I
have it, I pay for it. But you can't get
the Dodger games are blacked out. You can't get your
local team right, they're blacked out. Your local teams you
can't get. I think there will be a way where
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you will get every team. I believe somehow something will
be worked out where the blackout will be lifted. I
just don't know how that's going to happen. If you're
the Dodgers or the Yankees, I don't think you're gonna
walk away from the kind of money that you deserve
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and get. So I don't know how it plays out.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah, it's got to be some what close, right, I
Like you said, if the Dodgers are making Milwaukee's getting
thirty five million and the Dodgers are getting to fifty
right now, and say Milwaukee gets a bump to seventy
five million, but yet the Dodgers they're they're two fifty.
Goes from two fifty to seventy five million. I mean
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that's a that's a drastic drop off. And if you're
the Dodgers, the Yankees, the Cubs, as you mentioned, they
got these big, big network deals Atlanta. Uh, they're gonna
fight at tooth and nail, aren't they, right, unless they
figure out a way that Okay, there is something extra
for those larger market teams that we took this money
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away from, and then how do you determine that. So
it's gonna be difficult to really get that, get that
through and pass through the larger market teams because they're
they're they're or you're gonna have to compensate them in
a different way. Otherwise it's going to be a fight,
I mean a fight to the end. And what do
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you think about the salary cap part of it, Fred,
do you think that there should be a should be
a salary cap in baseball?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Well, the salary cap applies to this conversation because if
there is a salary cap and a ceiling of what
everybody can spend, the argument would be made, well, the
Dodgers don't need as much money because they can't spend
as much money anymore. By the way, when you hear that,
you should immediately erase it from your mind. No one
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should ever tell you in your life you have enough money.
Only you know what you have, only you know what
you want, and others should not determine that. Do I
think there'll be some sort of salary I think they
need to institute some sort of cost efficiency. Now there
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are penalties, you know, and the Dodgers certainly pay them.
Because what the Dodgers do is they invest back into
the product. So, yeah, they make a lot, but they
spend a lot for the product. It's not like Magic
and Mark Walter and Todd Bowley are sitting around in
the back room playing poker for two hundred million dollars each.
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I mean they're investing back into the product. Some teams
don't do that, by the way, some teams don't Dodgers do.
I think there needs to be some system in place,
because you cannot have Pittsburgh spending whatever it spends for
all of their roster and three Dodger guys are worth
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more than the whole Pittsburgh roster.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
You can't do that.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
That makes no sense, right, I mean, you can't have
guys spending forty two million dollars on their roster or
whatever they spend. Fifty million dollars. Two Dodger guys cost more.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Than that, right.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Who do you think is going to win?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
The team that spends fifty million dollars for the whole
team or the team that spends fifty million dollars on
two guys. That team is going to win. It's kind
of like college football. Who's going to win? Let me
tell you the biggest, strongest guys are going to win.
It's going to happen. That's why Ohio State is Ohio State,
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and we don't need to go over the litany of everybody.
So there needs to be something in place, And maybe
what they would do is teams must spend a minimum
of X. Everybody spends one hundred million dollars minimum. In return,
we'll set a cap at the top of X, but
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the camp will be high. You see what I'm saying.
Like the Dodgers, Okay, the most you can spend on
your payroll is four hundred million dollars. Well, no one's
really gonna do that, but at least gives the teams
with money the chance to continue to spend it.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
And right teams that don't spend it.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
You're forced to not be cheap and get invested back
into your into your ball club.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
So there's a there's a floor that you have to spend.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Like you said, one hundred million dollars, You've got every
team's got to spend one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, so I think, I mean, who knows how it
plays out, but maybe something.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Like that would work two hours for us today. So
we're back to wrap it up.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
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Speaker 3 (27:53):
Oh yes, home Stretch Ready, Seattle Mariners, up on the detail,
Troy Tigers.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
It looks like it might be a wrap. It's breaking
my heart. I'm not gonna lie to you, Rodney, breaking
my heart.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
That game is actually tight now by the way, oh wait.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
My heart is not broken on the line. Now it's
time break out the fibilliary for you. There, Fred is
a time three to three in the bottom of the
fifth right now. It brought out the paddles and yelled
clear my goodness and threatening I forgot Wow, let's go Tigers.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Man on second one out.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
See, that's what we need, that's what we need. We
need the Tigers to win.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
I know how good was that Yankee game last night? Though?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
So Rodney, I finished the TV show. Okay, I'm done.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
At seven, the.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yankee game is on. We go out a Grabbershelle, and
we go out to I don't say where, but it's
the place we have downstairs by the station, right that restaurant.
All right, So we go there, we're gonna sit at
the bar, we're gonna watch the Kings. As we leave,
we're going, well, that's it for the Yankees. And in
the car we're talking about Yeah they think are so good. Yeah,
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everybody thinks the Yankees it's all about and I'm going
on this RAMT. We sit down and I look at
the TV and the Yankees were ahead, and went, oh
my god, Oh no, I thought they were dead. Six
to one, they're down, but it was still really early
that they were down. It was like third inning. They
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were down six to one, like they got a lot
of game left. But the Yankees have looked horrible and
they can't do anything, and all of a sudden, the
big MVP went went nuts. I mean he hit that
that home run he hit off the foul pole. It
might have been as impressive as a home run that
I've seen in a long long time. To be able
to get to that pitch inside and keep it fair
(29:46):
and hit it that deep. Not not many people could
do that. No, but he Yeah. So they're still alive, yeap.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Hopefully tonight for the reasons you said early and the
reasons David Vassa said, take care of business, a couple
of very important reasons, pitching the majority of them. But
hopefully they take care of it tonight. The games at
six eight. Yamamoto for the Dodgers, Aaron Nola rockets Red
Glare for the Phillies. All right, Ronnie, thank you, great job.
(30:20):
Kevin appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Here's the deal.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
If somehow Someway and Kevin you can correct me if
I'm wrong.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
If somehow Someway the Dodgers do not win, we're on
early tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
That is correct, yes, okay.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
If the Dodgers win, so Rodney and I will be
prepared to start at.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Noon, that is also correct.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
All right, we'll talk to everybody tomorrow
All right, let's go we continue on Fred Rugan Rodney
peaked game day on a five seventy LA Sports Rodney.
Let's just bring the man of the hour on. Let's
not full a round? Yeah, come on, let you bring
on David Bassey's we get ready for Game three?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Dave, Good afternoon, Hey guys, looking forward to tonight's game,
looking forward to the Dodgers advanced thing to the NLCS
tonight as well.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Hey, before we get started, can I just mention something
real quick?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I see, of course.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yet Clayton Kershaw on Dodger Talk last night, right.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, he called in at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
That's right, Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
If anybody missed that or wasn't aware of it, go
back and listen to the podcast. I mean, Dave is
sitting there doing his show and Clayton Kershaw calls in
and they have a conversation. So please, if you did
not hear that and that was great Dave, please go
back and listen to it.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
I just had to mention that off the top, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And I did not want to get reflective in that
interview with him because he still has the rest of
October to go, so I feel like we could do
that after after the season is over and.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
You had no idea who's calling in, Dave, Right, I
mean it, It just goes to show you not not
everybody around I don't know anybody around the league that's
in your position like that and has your you know,
the show that a player just voluntarily is listening and
calls in like that. So hats off to you, man,
in the relationship you have in that in that clubhouse,
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and just being able to be real with guys tough, good,
bad and different. You are straight up and honest, and
I think that's why you get so much respect in
that clubhouse.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Maybe RJ handed him the phone.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
This all right, Dave, let's talk a lot a lot
to cover here, and I know you don't have a
lot of time, so I'm gonna start with a bullpen.
Are we going to see Blake trying it again?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yes, you will see Blake trying to again. Will you
see him in a safe situation in the ninth inning
unless the multiple relievers are down. I don't believe you'll
see that again the rest of the postseason. But they're
going to need Blake trying it. They're going to need
Tanner Scott to get out when they play in best
of seven series, the further the Dodgers go and the
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two series, the NLCS and the World Series. As you
guys know, best of seven much different than a best
of three and a best of five. The Dodgers will
still be able to maximize glass Now and she Hen
and Kershaw and Sasaki. But the Dodgers being in a
best of seven series, you're going to have to at
(02:44):
some point use and deploy some of these relief pitchers
that Dave Roberts has tried to stay away from.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, and you mentioned Tanner Scott, so we will. We
will at some point, I agree with you. In the
game a seven game series, it's much different that you're
gonna need as many arms as you can have. But
we're still you still believe we're going to see Tara
Scott in these playoffs at some.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Point, without a doubt. He's on the roster. Do I
believe you're going to see him in the ninth inning
either or in the eighth inning in a closed game?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I could see him coming in in the seventh inning
if there's you know, two of the three hitters being
left handed hitters. I could see that happening with a
comfortable lead, But I don't see him coming in and
closing out a game either, unless there are extreme circumstances
and something else to keep in mind, guys. You know,
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obviously everybody wants the Dodgers to win, and everybody believes
they're going to win one of these next two games.
But it would be a huge advantage for the Dodgers
to get rid of the Phillies tonight and be able
to go into the first game of the NLCS with
Tyler Glass now being available out of the Bowl, because
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you likely wouldn't see him pitch until the NLCS came
back to Dodgers Stadium. So again, it's so vital for
the Dodgers to win tonight, not just about advancing and
wrapping this up tonight and not giving the Phillies life,
but it's so vital to them to continue to be
able to maximize their starters as starting pitchers and also
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relief pitchers, and to be able to line up Blake
Snell for a Game one and sho Hao Tani for
a game two.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
All Right, So that being said, Yamamoto goes out and
he let's say he goes seven tonight, okay, and the
game is still roll. Dodgers are ahead, but it's it's close,
and he's pitched a hell of a game is tonight
at Clayton Kershaw bullpen night.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The way he sounded last night is you know, it
felt like he's ready to go. He wants him on
this game tonight at some point, whether or not it
happens remains to be seen. But you know, alie Vessi
has been used so much during the regular season and
already so much in the postseason. How many times can
you go to him? Do you go to and Anthony
(05:11):
Banda in the eighth inning? He's proven it in the
postseason before. I would feel very comfortable with Kershaw. The
only hesitancy is the fact that Kershaw, in his starts
this season, had an ERA of seven and a half.
I don't know if that plays into the Dodgers thinking
as well, A little concern if it's a one or
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two run game that you know you're asking a guy
that's thirty six years old to crank it up right away.
I still feel like they're waiting for the right opportunity
to bring him in. But there's some other you know,
guys down there that you can trust in those type
of situations.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well, given that day too, with the uncertainty of the
bullpen and new guys entering being starters, going into the
bullpen and playing that role, if you're in a situation
tonight or even you know, going forward with the way
the starting pitching has has gone and been a strength
for the Dodgers, yea, I'm Amoto's rolling through eight and
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they're ahead, say three to one. Do you let him
finish it off? Or do you and he's right hovering
around one hundred pitches or so, do you let him
finish it off? Or are you going to the pen
in the night?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I'm letting him finish it off. I think it's that
type of situation. And you know, I wouldn't be surprised guys,
And I know the Dodgers can't say that right now
because they don't want to tip their hands, but you know,
Dave Roberts has been asked repeatedly about whether or not
O'tani would pitch and relief at some point in the postseason.
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He said he wouldn't rule it out. And I know
the Dodgers were going into this series holding Otani for
a Game five after pitching Game one. But would it
be crazy to believe the Dodgers in the dugout would
consider deploying Otani if they have a one or two
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run lead going into the eighth inning for him to
close it out get the last six outs a lah
Clayton kershop back in his prime, or Julio Urias in
twenty twenty, or Walker Bueller getting the last three outs
in New York. We've seen the Dodgers do that what
in close out games. Why wouldn't we believe they would
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consider that tonight in the heat of the battle.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Has he had enough rust to be able to pull
that off? Dave?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I mean, he's he's superhuman, So I would say yes,
And then you would he would have enough time to
be able to bounce back for a game too. It
would be similar to glassnow pitching out of the bullpen
and uh being a guy that that that's his throw day.
So that would be I don't believe Otani through his
bullpen yesterday. So well, you know, it's something that I
(08:03):
still believe, even though the Dodgers will not say it.
I believe it has to be on the table tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Yeah, I do too, I do too.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I like you said it before day, I think tonight's
game is such an important game that gives the Dodgers
so much rest as they as they head into the NLCS.
If they're able to do away with the Phillies, it
gives everybody an opportunity to rest, and then it becomes
everybody's available to start that series. So I feel like
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this is I don't know it obviously not a must win,
but the urgency factor for this win tonight has got
to be very high, right.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You would think, so higher than most teams in a
two games to nothing lead in the NLDS, just because
of the pitching situation where the Dodgers are trying to
thread a needle here with their starters and be able
to maximize eight or nine guys without having to go
too deep into the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Dave final final bit that I don't want to know
who's on the pre game, but final bit.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I think they get Aaron Nola tonight. I'm I guess
they're starting him for a reason. I think they're going
to hit Aaron Nola. Am I nuts?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Fred?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
No, Aaron Nola's gonna shut him down? I think no,
I think they're gonna get him early, Dave.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Oh, he's had an awful season. Nobody in Philadelphia can
understand why Aaron Nola is starting this game instead of
Rangers Suarez. And I guess the Phillies are going off
with just his last start. That's the way they explained
it yesterday at the workout. As Rick Monday likes to say, Guys,
I believe it's going to be Rockets Red Glare against
(09:43):
Aaron Nola tonight.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
All right, who's on the pregame, Dave, Alex Call.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Alex Call is gonna join us. He's a he's a
guy that may factor into tonight's game when Ranger Suarez
comes in.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
All right, thanks for jumping on. Hopefully it gets done tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, that would be good. And I see no reason
to believe that it won't.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Talk to Dave.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Thanks, guys.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
There you go, Rodney, it's gonna be Rockets, Red Glare,
Rockets Red Glair.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Okay, Okay, I'm waiting. I'm here for it, Frett.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
This shows the level of desperation the Phillies are in.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Aaron.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I actually thought when I saw he was starting, that
we had made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
He could not be starting. Aaron Nola could not be
starting for the Phillies tonight. There's no way.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And they well they said the workout yesterday they based
it off his last performance. So the guy's been just shelled,
but he had one good game.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Okay, you're in. That's like when we had Lancemi get it.
It's like, you know, they the big deal about the lefty,
lefty lefties. They're throwing a bunch of three lefties at
you right to change it up because and I heard,
you know, those guys on the Fox pregame show Big Popping.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Those guys say they licked their chops. So if you
know you got.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Three lefties going at you, you're by the second one,
in the middle of the second one, you know you're
you're dialed into the lefty side.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
So maybe this is a change up. Maybe they're trying
to deep the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I don't know, but he is a guy that has
performed for them in the past, has been clutched for
them in the past, and so you know, I know
everybody's shocked by it, but I'm not.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
And and also.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
He's not gonna have a long lease to go if
he's in any kind of trouble early they're yanking him
all right, okay, all right, well there you have it.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
There you have it. We'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
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back here, real quick, Rodney. A local team opened at
season last night, so I think we should mention that
real quick.
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Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, come on back, Rodney, Pete Fred Rogan on game Day.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
It is a Wednesday, October eighth, the day the Dodgers
sweep the Phillies.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Yeah, Fred said it. I said it. Let's go Freddie No, please,
They'll get him tonight.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
They're gonna right, you go, Well, what do you think
they're gonna do against Aaron Nola?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
No, I'm saying They're gonna get to him. That's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Do you know if they get to Aaron Nola early
in this game tonight, Let's say they do, so they
jump on a pretty quick Do you know what heat
the Phillies are gonna take for starting this guy?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Now? Maybe he comes out and blows everybody down and
mowsing away. I don't know, but boy, when I saw that,
I was like, this is the greatest news ever. This
is fantastic news to me. That would be like starting
Tanner Scott. This is great if you're the other team.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
So we will see. Now.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I do want to mention and I got something on
Instagram because you know, occasionally I don't speak of it often.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Somebody wants to slide into my DM. Right, Oh, okay, okay,
you know how that is? Okay, you know, since I'm
really cool, a lot of people want to slide into
the DM and they slid.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
In with this and I missed it yesterday.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
But it came yesterday and I said, are you going
to talk about the Kings opening their season? And I thought,
you know what, yesterday I thought maybe we should touch
on it a little bit. I mean, we're right in
the midst of the playoffs here, but the King's opened
and we didn't mention it. Let me tell you something,
I'm glad we didn't mention it. Oh they opened last night.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
They opened it.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
If that was a show on Broadway, they would have
closed already.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
And that was Game one.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Give them time, give them time, give them you know,
it's going to take a while here. But that was
not what we would call an impressive start to the season.
Colorado beat them last night. And this is a big
year for the Kings. Game one, it's opening, right, Chacob
had a lot of game left.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Oh, look at it like this. They lose one game,
then go seventy nine and one. Yeah, come on going
around opening day and laugh. Remember that opening day we
we blanked the bed. Well that those days are over.
We're in the playoffs now, that's why you look at it, right.
I like their jerseys. They were last night though. Those
were pretty cool. Yeah, I like I like the new
(15:17):
crown on the King's black jersey. That was pretty cool,
all right, yeah, yeah, go ahead, go ahead. No, I
was just saying on top of real quick at jerseys,
we I was had a debate with a bunch of
you know, I'm gonna a string with my former teammates
at USC, and we just go back and forth from
different eras and and it's pretty cool. There's about twenty
(15:39):
five of us on the text string, and you know,
everybody says their own opinions and have all that kind
of stuff. And we were debating whether it's time for
USC to have some alternate uniforms, you know, come out
and say all black, or have black jerseys, or you know,
you know, go all white on the road instead of
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cardinal pants traditional Cardinal pants, white white jerseys.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
And I was like, yeah, it's it's time. It's time.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I mean, every other school has done it except for really,
except for USC maybe, And I think Alabama hasn't deviated.
Notre Dame, which you thought would never deviate from their uniforms,
they went crazy with it.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Remember that.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I think they wore pinstripes at the Yankee Stadium one
time they played there. But they've gone different uniform. Michigan
has gone different kind of uniforms. Ohio State's got alternative ones.
All those traditional schools have done it except for USC,
and I think it's time. You gotta, you know, you
got to start putting away those those old, old, old traditions.
(16:41):
Fred I like that, and I'm glad you bring that up. Yeah,
I'm dead serious. I'm glad you bring that up because
you know what, with all due respect to all Trojans
and to the family of those who attended Troy, those
uniforms are boring now and they need to be tweaked.
(17:02):
It's not nineteen fifty two.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
You're right.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
You went to school there. You brought it up there.
I said it. They need to do some time. It's time.
It's time. Wrong, I still like it. You know, you
can still wear the traditional card on goal for most
of the games, but every now and then change it up.
I even like, even when UCLA goes to the all
dark blue uniforms, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I agree, Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
So it's you know, you can get stuck way too
far into tradition, and you know, nowadays with all the
things and trying to really keep up and bring in
the new younger audiences. You got to do things like that. Well,
it was sort of like what the Yankees. You couldn't
have facial hair forever, right, Yeah, yeah, you couldn't have
facial hair. We're the Yankees. Who gives a rats ass?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Right?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
This is twenty twenty five, yes, and then they just
did it right.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Last year was first year or or the year before
whatever it was, but just last year.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
You can have well groomed beards now.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Well groomed beards and mustache. So you still can't go
out there.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Look, you still can't go out there looking like a
caveman for well, some of the mustaches for Kevin is
just some of them are just ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah, but yeah, come on, facial hair as it's in,
particularly with men with beards now, it's just ridiculous that
you have a organization with grown men in their twenties
and thirties, some of their forties, that you can't have
facial hair. Yeah, you can't dictate that anymore. No, So
work on that uniform thing for us to get.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Back at it. I'm on it, I'm on it.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Okay, you've got some pull over there. In a little
bit you know some people that much. I know some people. Yeah,
just talk to your people. I will all right.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Well, so you know, Baseball's collect a bargaining agreement will
be up, and there's some concern that there might be
a lockout. No one really knows. But the contentious part
of it will be the owners want a salary cap.
They want some cost certainty in all of this. That's
(19:11):
going to be the big thing. Now, will it happen, Well,
the players' union swears it'll never happen. We'll see, We'll
see how it goes. But that is a key part
of baseball's overall strategy, something that even Stan cast and says, yeah,
as the Dodgers will look at and that is how
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these games are going to be broadcast. So you understand
that the Dodgers as owners or part owners of sports
and at LA, they make a lot of money from
their local TV deal.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
So to the Yankees, so the Mets, so do the Cubs.
Your major market teams do pretty well. The Angels are
part of the now fan duel Sinclair group that filed
for bankruptcy and then fought their way back. They don't
get the same kind of rights fees and the argument becomes,
(20:08):
when you have an entity that is paying you all
of this money for rights, you have more money to spend.
Only makes sense. So they're rich, get richer.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So what Baseball wants to do and Rob Manfred, who
will step down as commissioner in twenty twenty nine, what
he wants to do is basically centralize and nationalize Major
League Baseball. And his objective would be, we're not going
to have regional sports networks anymore. His goal would be
(20:41):
everything is on MLBtv or on a streaming partner, and
those streaming partners pay Major League Baseball rights and then
they split it with all the teams. Now, a team
like Milwaukee might get thirty five million dollars for their
local television rights, where a team like the Dodgers I
get two hundred and fifty million. You see the disparity.
(21:04):
The rich get richer. Now that's the advantage of being
in a big market and spending the money for that team.
In any event, what they want to do is create
this central place where you can get every game, you
pay for the rights, they sell the advertising baseball, and
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then the money is split amongst all the teams. So
what does that mean? Well, if we forecast down the road,
Milwaukee would get more than thirty five million dollars, but
the Dodgers would get far less than what they get now.
And owners they're saying, well, that'll make the playing field
(21:46):
more more even you don't have as much, you don't
get as much, you can't spend as much. Therefore we
get more, we'll get better. That's the rationale behind it,
and Rob Manfred steps down at twenty twenty nine. He
wants to have this in place by then. Rodney, I
believe that part of his plan will happen. I believe
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there will be a one stop shop that fans will
pay for, sort of like MLB TV. Right now, I
have it, I pay for it. But you can't get
the Dodger games are blacked out. You can't get your
local team right, they're blacked out. Your local teams you
can't get. I think there will be a way where
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you will get every team. I believe somehow something will
be worked out where the blackout will be lifted. I
just don't know how that's going to happen. If you're
the Dodgers or the Yankees, I don't think you're gonna
walk away from the kind of money that you deserve
(22:52):
and get. So I don't know how it plays out.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah, it's got to be some what close, right, I
Like you said, if the Dodgers are making Milwaukee's getting
thirty five million and the Dodgers are getting to fifty
right now, and say Milwaukee gets a bump to seventy
five million, but yet the Dodgers they're they're two fifty.
Goes from two fifty to seventy five million. I mean
(23:21):
that's a that's a drastic drop off. And if you're
the Dodgers, the Yankees, the Cubs, as you mentioned, they
got these big, big network deals Atlanta. Uh, they're gonna
fight at tooth and nail, aren't they, right, unless they
figure out a way that Okay, there is something extra
for those larger market teams that we took this money
(23:43):
away from, and then how do you determine that. So
it's gonna be difficult to really get that, get that
through and pass through the larger market teams because they're
they're they're or you're gonna have to compensate them in
a different way. Otherwise it's going to be a fight,
I mean a fight to the end. And what do
(24:05):
you think about the salary cap part of it, Fred,
do you think that there should be a should be
a salary cap in baseball?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Well, the salary cap applies to this conversation because if
there is a salary cap and a ceiling of what
everybody can spend, the argument would be made, well, the
Dodgers don't need as much money because they can't spend
as much money anymore. By the way, when you hear that,
you should immediately erase it from your mind. No one
(24:35):
should ever tell you in your life you have enough money.
Only you know what you have, only you know what
you want, and others should not determine that. Do I
think there'll be some sort of salary I think they
need to institute some sort of cost efficiency. Now there
(24:57):
are penalties, you know, and the Dodgers certainly pay them.
Because what the Dodgers do is they invest back into
the product. So, yeah, they make a lot, but they
spend a lot for the product. It's not like Magic
and Mark Walter and Todd Bowley are sitting around in
the back room playing poker for two hundred million dollars each.
(25:19):
I mean they're investing back into the product. Some teams
don't do that, by the way, some teams don't Dodgers do.
I think there needs to be some system in place,
because you cannot have Pittsburgh spending whatever it spends for
all of their roster and three Dodger guys are worth
(25:41):
more than the whole Pittsburgh roster.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
You can't do that.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
That makes no sense, right, I mean, you can't have
guys spending forty two million dollars on their roster or
whatever they spend. Fifty million dollars. Two Dodger guys cost more.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Than that, right.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Who do you think is going to win?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
The team that spends fifty million dollars for the whole
team or the team that spends fifty million dollars on
two guys. That team is going to win. It's kind
of like college football. Who's going to win? Let me
tell you the biggest, strongest guys are going to win.
It's going to happen. That's why Ohio State is Ohio State,
(26:24):
and we don't need to go over the litany of everybody.
So there needs to be something in place, And maybe
what they would do is teams must spend a minimum
of X. Everybody spends one hundred million dollars minimum. In return,
we'll set a cap at the top of X, but
(26:47):
the camp will be high. You see what I'm saying.
Like the Dodgers, Okay, the most you can spend on
your payroll is four hundred million dollars. Well, no one's
really gonna do that, but at least gives the teams
with money the chance to continue to spend it.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
And right teams that don't spend it.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
You're forced to not be cheap and get invested back
into your into your ball club.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
So there's a there's a floor that you have to spend.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Like you said, one hundred million dollars, You've got every
team's got to spend one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, so I think, I mean, who knows how it
plays out, but maybe something.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Like that would work two hours for us today. So
we're back to wrap it up.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
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Speaker 3 (27:53):
Oh yes, home Stretch Ready, Seattle Mariners, up on the detail,
Troy Tigers.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
It looks like it might be a wrap. It's breaking
my heart. I'm not gonna lie to you, Rodney, breaking
my heart.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
That game is actually tight now by the way, oh wait.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
My heart is not broken on the line. Now it's
time break out the fibilliary for you. There, Fred is
a time three to three in the bottom of the
fifth right now. It brought out the paddles and yelled
clear my goodness and threatening I forgot Wow, let's go Tigers.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Man on second one out.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
See, that's what we need, that's what we need. We
need the Tigers to win.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
I know how good was that Yankee game last night? Though?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
So Rodney, I finished the TV show. Okay, I'm done.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
At seven, the.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yankee game is on. We go out a Grabbershelle, and
we go out to I don't say where, but it's
the place we have downstairs by the station, right that restaurant.
All right, So we go there, we're gonna sit at
the bar, we're gonna watch the Kings. As we leave,
we're going, well, that's it for the Yankees. And in
the car we're talking about Yeah they think are so good. Yeah,
(29:01):
everybody thinks the Yankees it's all about and I'm going
on this RAMT. We sit down and I look at
the TV and the Yankees were ahead, and went, oh
my god, Oh no, I thought they were dead. Six
to one, they're down, but it was still really early
that they were down. It was like third inning. They
(29:21):
were down six to one, like they got a lot
of game left. But the Yankees have looked horrible and
they can't do anything, and all of a sudden, the
big MVP went went nuts. I mean he hit that
that home run he hit off the foul pole. It
might have been as impressive as a home run that
I've seen in a long long time. To be able
to get to that pitch inside and keep it fair
(29:46):
and hit it that deep. Not not many people could
do that. No, but he Yeah. So they're still alive, yeap.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Hopefully tonight for the reasons you said early and the
reasons David Vassa said, take care of business, a couple
of very important reasons, pitching the majority of them. But
hopefully they take care of it tonight. The games at
six eight. Yamamoto for the Dodgers, Aaron Nola rockets Red
Glare for the Phillies. All right, Ronnie, thank you, great job.
(30:20):
Kevin appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Here's the deal.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
If somehow Someway and Kevin you can correct me if
I'm wrong.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
If somehow Someway the Dodgers do not win, we're on
early tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
That is correct, yes, okay.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
If the Dodgers win, so Rodney and I will be
prepared to start at.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Noon, that is also correct.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
All right, we'll talk to everybody tomorrow
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