November 25, 2025 • 43 mins
We talk about the amount of money that the Miguel Rojas, Shohei Ohtani and Will Smith home run balls from the 2025 World Series went for at auction. Ohtani will compete in the WBC - but will he pitch? Should Lincoln Riley be on the hot seat at USC after losing to Oregon this past weekend?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
No, all right, here we go, Fred Rogan, Rodney, Pete,
ont Am five to seventy LA Sports. This is the
day where everybody I think is wandering down Rodney. Not
sure how many people are working tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh man, we are. Oh yeah, we're working. We're not
going anywhere. We ain't going nowhere working now.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Listen, even though we're not going to be on Thanksgiving
Day because we have football here on the radio station,
even though we're not, because we care so much about
you and doing this every day, I can speak for myself.
I will come into the station and do a show
for absolutely no one.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Do it, do it?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, because I don't want to miss one day. I
will be here. I will do a show. If you
want to hear it, stand out on the street. I
will yell really loud. That's how we're going to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's going over the literal airwaves, not just the radio
airwaves because we have football thread so station's not gonna
cover you. You're gonna go out and yell. That's right. I
will see like old Boy and Network, go out to
your window right now.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Howard Beale, Howard Beale, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I may stand
on a street corner and yell a three hour show.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'll tell you that that's dedication.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Fred Well, because when we're serious about our job. Anyway,
But we are here today and as you are winding down,
please be safe on the streets. Net COLLETI will be
here at one o'clock today and Bennie bon Signior will
be here too.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Well you think about Vinnie. You
think about Vinnie when you know Vinnie's been on with
us for a number of years now. He's our NFL insider,
and you know it, it's been with the Raiders since
they moved to Las Vegas. And you think about Vinnie.
The conversations we had. I bet if Kevin pulled them
how optimistic he was and how excited they were in
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Las Vegas about this team and Gino Smith coming in
and Pete Carroll bringing that energy and bringing his quarterback
and that's the only thing they were missing, was a steady,
solid quarterback for this team to go forward. Chip Kelly
comes in and everybody's excited. Just won a national title
with Ohio State. He's the perfect offensive coordinator for the
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Raiders and look at us now, look at us now.
There was so much optimism for the Raiders this year
and with Dente and all of that. I do remember
those conversations before the season and in the off season.
Vinnie was extremely excited and man, how did it go
so south? So bad? And how many people were just
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off when it came to the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Well, now it's finger pointing time. That's the issue. And
you know, you talk about Pete Carroll. Eric was on
the other day and he goes, well, that he's seventy
three years old. That's not the issue here. I gotta
be honest with you, that is not the issue. Pete
Carroll's age. They're just bad. Gino Smith has had a
terrible year. Now, to be fair, he's not had a
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lot of protection, so he's kind of been running for
his life. But the offensive line hasn't been great, but
he's been even worse. And he was the guy. See
the thing about the Raiders in the past is they
didn't have a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Oh yeah, no quarterback.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So Pete gets there and he goes, all right, I
got the guy. We're going to fix this right now.
I'll bring Genos Smith in. He won for me in Seattle.
He'll be great here. And he's just laid an egg.
It's awful. It's really sad, because Mark Davis is truly
one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet in your life.
He really and truly is a very good person, and
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he cares and he cares about people. I told the
story about how when the NFL was voting on what
stadium site should be in Los Angeles, the Carson site
or the Inglewood site. Now, the Carson site had the
Chargers and the Raiders obviously, the Inglewood site was the
Rams plus one whoever that would be, and the owners voted.
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Mark Davis had a relationship with the mayor of Inglewood,
James he Butts, from the very beginning. And when the
vo came down, Mark Davis did not vote for his
own site. He voted for Inglewood because of his relationship
with the mayor. That's pretty cool. Didn't matter, it wasn't
gonna work anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
He knew he knew it wasn't gonna work because it
didn't really matter end of the day, he wasn't gonna happen.
But it was a nice gesture.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, but still in all I thought that was classy.
So Mark Davis is a good guy. Mark Davis will
stop and say hello to you. He just can't figure
it out.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
He can't, he really can't. And you look up and
you go and look. Everybody has their opinion on Derek Carr,
and you know, should he have gone? Should he have
not gone? Was he good? Or was he that? He
was consistent? He was a consistent quarterback for them. He
couldn't get him over the hump, but every year they
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would put up some incredible numbers. And I don't think
it was just because of and they shipped him out
of town in a hurry. And soon after Devanta Adams
got there's his college buddy and best friend and the
weddings together and all that kind of stuff. And then
the next year Derek Carr's gone. But I think it's
sometimes it's like with coaches and Ned Kletti's coming on
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with us, and he says this all the time. You
better have somebody better coming through the door. You're gonna
get rid of somebody. You better have somebody's lined up
better coming through the door. And maybe they thought that,
But I thought Derek Carr, for his ups and downs,
I thought he was consistent. He put up numbers, threw
a lot of touchdown oftentimes it wasn't because the offense.
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It wasn't because the offense. They were losing. They were
putting up thirty points a game, and it wasn't all
his fault, but he took the blame. And now look,
you know, after he's left, they've run through. It feels
like thirty quarterbacks now. And there were sitting with Gino
who's regrets to his New York Jets days just bad,
really bad. Feel bad for him.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, so then it'll be on to lament the situation
coming up at two o'clock. All right, So now let's
talk Dodgers for a couple of minutes. Off the top.
I don't think I would do this. I don't know
if if you would do it, or if you're listening,
you would do it. I think if I caught a
home run ball or or a ball that meant something historic,
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I think I would hold on to it. I don't
think I would sell it, and I'm that passing judgment.
I think I would hold on to it as a momento,
pass it down to my kids. If I wasn't here,
they would do what they wanted with it. But to me,
that means something. So there were three big home runs
in the.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Wait so you would hold on to it. You just
gave that one or two options, sell it or hold on.
So the thought in your mind never came to, let
me give it back to the guy that hit it.
Oh okay, No, that never entered my mind, because no,
it didn't. That's funny. I'm watching, you know, because we
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can't get enough baseball, so I'm flipping and watching the
MLB Network. And you know Bob Costas, who's a friend
of the show, been on with us, and just a
great guy, one of the best to ever ever do it.
He has this show forty two or from Studio or
forty two where he goes back and really profiles a
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big name player, an instrumental player in the history of baseball.
And the other day he had you know, he's had
Willie Mays and Mickey Manno, when he was alive, He's
had so many guys that he sat down and interviewed,
but he had Hank Aaron on the other day. They
replayed the clip and he was talking about the home
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run ball, the seven fifteen that he hit against the Dodgers,
and he was saying, thank God that he wasn't Aaron
Judge you hit, you know, four hundred and fifty blasts
that went up into the upper deck in the outfield.
He was laughing and joking, said, most of my home
runs were scraping the back of the fence. You know,
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I didn't hit bombs. But thank God for that because
my ball went into the bullpen. It went into the
Atlanta Braves bullpen, and I think it was Atlanta or
maybe Dodger whoever was went into the bullpen anyway, and
immediately immediately that guy god I can't remember his name
who caught it, met Hank Aaron at home plate and
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gave him the baseball. Oh that's cool. Yeah, yeah, So
that devian to your point bring that up. It's like,
you know, certain things matter, and I'm sure you know,
if it's a milestone like that and the guy really
wants it, you got to find a way to get
it to him. But there are people out there. Hell no,
I'm making a million dollars on this ball. I'm I'm
gonna sell that bad boy. That's exactly right now. To
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be fair.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
If in fact, you know, Hank Karon hit the home
run and I caught it and they said, hey wants
the ball, I probably to be to be fair, would say, sure,
let me meet him, and he's gonna give me, you know,
some stuff whatever.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, and you would you would imagine and hope that,
you know, a guy like Han't Karen, would would take
care of you. I don't know how much monetarily take
care of you, but he would take care of you.
Would seats, paraphernalia, maybe give you a few bucks, who knows,
but you would think he would take care of you.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Know.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Ty Cobb would tell you to go to hell, right,
he would. So there are guys like that. Yeah, but
I think in today's world what happens as you catch
it and you sell it. I would not do that.
I know I would not do that. I think my
most prized possession in my home came from the old
Bush Stadium in Saint Louis. My wife got me the
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sign that led into the Diamond Suites there. You know,
it's like it's like a Dodger stadium. Yeah, and it
is fluorescent. It came right out of Bush Stadium and
it's hanging on my wall in the house. I will
never sell that. She got it in an auction years ago.
Every time we've moved, she goes where we're going to
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put it, I said, right where everybody can see it,
and I don't care what the house looks like.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Do you think people are speaking of that? And you're right,
it's an iconic place. Do you think people outside of
Saint Louis or that are not real baseball folks understand
the history of Saint Louis baseball. No, in Bush Stadium
and no, the history of the Cardinals and all the
people that came through there.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
They really don't do that. No, not at all, not
at all. It was a palace, a palace, all right.
So anyway, today people sell the balls. I wouldn't, but that's,
you know, to each their own. So three big home runs,
I would say, during the Dodgers postseason, a lot of
home runs hit, but here are the ones that people
are going to remember. Will Smith's homer, Mickey Rojas homer,
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and that Gargante and shot by Otani that hit the
top of the roof. Those were the three Will.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Smith Game seven omer because he hit a couple of
them Game seven, right, Okay, so those are the ones.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Okay, people caught those balls and boom, they sold them
right away, they auctioned them off. So the question becomes
what do you think each ball went for? What do
you think?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
So nobody with the Freddie home run in eighteen innings?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
H that's not on here. These are the three I got. Yeah,
these are the ones that just sold. So let's start
with Mickey Rojas. Yeah, let's start with Mickey Rojas's blast
that sent the game into extra innings.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
What do you think that? No idea? I don't even
know where to start with that, right, so guess, uh,
two hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Dollars, sorry, two hundred thousand dollars, Ronnie, do you have
a guess on what that ball went for?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Is he in there, Kevin?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Ronnie just stepped out?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
All right? Do you have a guest, Kevin? Which ball
is this? Will Smith's No, we're starting with Mickey Rojas.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
MIGGI rose okay to tie the game?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Uh? Two hundred grand? Two hundred grand? Yeah, all right?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You and Rodney said two hundred grand. It went for
one hundred and fifty six thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Ooh, not far off, not far off?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, but on the price is right? You would have
lost because you're over the actual retail price. It over right?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
You went on with this maybe because you know we're
Dodgers and we're you know, wishful thinking and thinking it Tiger,
then probably it's probably worth to the rest of the
country and the rest of the world. But for for Dodgers. Yeah,
two hundred grand seems like reasonable. Okay, So one fifty
fifty six okay. Will Smith homer which provided the Dodgers
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the winning run, how much did it go for?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I would say that'd be less than Mickey Roe. So
I'm gonna go one thousand dollars, one hundred and ten.
Can't you want to guess?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Or I'll go higher than that. I'll say one seventy.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You going seventy? Ronnie's back, Ronnie, you want to guess
on what Will Smith's ball went for.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I'm going to go and even one hundred. Okay, Kevin,
you're the closest one sixty eight.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Still at a lost prices, right though.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, you're still at a lost prices, right. There'll be
no double showcase for you, right?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Will Smith go ahead game seven or seventh INNY? Game seven?
Not seven? Any eleventh inning, Game seven run went for
more than Mickey Rose.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, And you know what I would have thought, Mickey
Rose would have gone for more I would have too. Okay,
all right, now, let's talk about the third one. And
I think it was the shot heard around the world.
You couldn't miss this one. Otani's enormous blast against Milwaukee
that hit the roof, almost hit it out of the
entire stadium. That ball was sold at the same auction.
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What do you think that ball sold for?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Oh, that's got to be the highest one. I think
that's gotta be three fifty. You go three fifty, ken't
you want to jump in or that.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Was gonna be my guest. I'll say three forty five.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Okay, Ronnie, you got a shot, three twenty five, seventy,
two seventy. We're all over seventy. So here's the question.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
One went for one sixty eight, One went for one
fifty six, one went for two seventy. Are any of
those a bargain?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I Of of the three, I would say the Otani
one is the bargain really, first of all, because of
the old he said. Otani went for two seventy. Because
first of all, it's Otani, and he's gonna go down
as when the best ever or at least he's in
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the top two or three. And we're gonna see a
lot from him. But also I believe there's only been
what three or four people hit the ball out of
Dodger Stadium or on that roof or beyond. Yeah, and
so he's in a small small list of people. Will
he stard to will believe who else was it that
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was Schwarbers get out of the stadium too? He might
be the next one that that was incredible. That might
have been the latest one that before Otani that got
out of the stadium. But I know before that there
was only like two guys that hit it out at
the stadium like that that deep and Stargear was one
of them. But yeah, I think going down knowing that
there's only five balls tops that ever went out that
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far at Dodger Stadium, I think Otani is the bargain.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Okay, So I asked you if it was a bargain.
Now here's the question. Would any of you spend that
kind of money.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
In a ball? No? No, negative?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Okay, that's three that didn't take long. That didn't take long,
nor would I. But if you did, do you think
it would appreciate over the years. So, in other words,
it's an investment. I'm gonna spend two seventy on Otani's
ball because in ten years it'll be worth four hundred.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Do you think that way? Yeah? Again, I think and
uh listen, I think Otani's will maintain its strength and
probably appreciate. The one. I don't know if we'll appreciate
it is Will Smith. I think the miggi Row people
remember that one forever. It was so iconic and it
was so unbelievable and from you know, from a guy
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that you don't expected coming from. I think it will
live and Dodger Laurels forever. And so for that reason,
I think it's it's a good investment on the migi
Row one. I just wouldn't do it. That's not my
cup of tea. I would not know. I wouldn't do it.
But yes, if you know either one of these is
a good investment or it was gonna hold its value
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or you know, retain its value, what do you think,
Kevin and Ronnie?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I don't know if like. And also I think it
depends on what happens going forward, you know, if they
don't end up winning another World Series in this old
Tani era, I think there's a chance of an appreciating appreciating.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
A little bit more.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
So, I do think it just depends on what happens
in the future with the team. But I do agree
with the fact that I think Miguel Rojas's will appreciate
the most because most people might not even remember what
the go ahead run was for the Dodgers, but they
remember that they were basically dead before Miguel Rohass hit
that ball to tie the game up. So I agree
with that notion for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I agree with you. I think that was the key one.
I mean, good for Will Smith. Obviously you won the
World Series for the Dodgers with that home run. But
I think the Meggie home run. I think the Meggie
home run will go down in Los Angeles sports lore.
It's not Kirk Gibson and it's not Freddie's Grand Slam
against the Yankees, But you know what, that one is
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going to be on the top ten list.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Where do you think Freddy's ranks? Freddy's Grand Slam against
the Yankees ranks? Oh, that's up there, that's up there.
And how much do you think it goes for or
would have gone for if it did go or when
it goes.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I don't know if it would have gone for as
much as Otani's. I don't know if anything goes for
as much as otani m I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
That's interesting because you said Otani was two seventy Yeah, yeah, man,
that's that that one god, and that one's hard to beat.
Otani's was early in the game. The game was, you know,
it was a lot of game left. Freddy was to
walk it off the Grand Slam.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Freddy's went for one and a half million dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Oh did oh you almost had to h you know,
you almost had to dump me again for the second day.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
In a row. Oh my goodness. Yeah, wow, okay, yeah,
all right. Well and it was against the Yankees too, Yeah,
against the Yankees. How long How long after Kevin did
that go? That didn't take for that to sell?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
That was in December of last.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Year, so soon after the World.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Pretty soon after.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, it went for one and a half I want
and I wonder if the quicker you sell it, the
more you make, right, so they win the world serr,
he sell the ball immediately. Don't hold on to one
for two years. You think you make more money to go? Yeah,
thinking you're gonna make more money. I don't think so.
This is while it's fresh in everybody's mind. That's probably
when they're gonna pay the most.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
So just to like size it up with what we're
up against as far as like auctions. So, Freddy's ball
was the third most expensive ball ever sold. Show hayes
fifty fifty home run ball went for four point three
McGuire's seventieth home run ball went for three million. So
Otani's is the most.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So you were right about that, Rodney just Otani period. Yeah,
the ol Tani factor. Man can't get it around it.
So it's fiftieth home run yep. To to make it,
did he get did he get fifty bases before he
got the fifty home runs? I think he did? Didn't
he didn't he get fifty bases before fifty home runs?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I don't recall.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I think so, which means I could be wrong, but
I think so.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Because you have to remember, I think he got fifty
in Miami. Wasn't it that crazy game where he went
like four for five and hit three home runs or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
That's where he got the fifty home runs? I think so.
So then it comes down to did he have the
stolen bases? First? I think he did. But rightift matter
you think the fifty to put him over the top
drive the price up, or it doesn't matter that it
was like if he already had fifty stolen bases, the
thing that you're waiting on is the fiftieth home run,
and that becomes the anticipation. Is that more so than
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he's already got fifty three home runs where he's sitting
on forty nine stolen bases, So you know when he
gets that stolen base to be in the fifty to
fifty club, it's the opposite.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, it's the opposite. Yeah, you're right, You're right, it's
the home run you're waiting for. Right on the topic
of Otani, the WBC is coming up again. It's always
a lot of fun. Otani's going to be in the
WBC roster. Okay, you didn't like it, Fred, Right, you
don't like the WBC. I hate the WBC, But I
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like the crazy fans.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I do. I love the energy in the stadiums of
those games are incredible, incredible. You've got a chance to go,
you gotta go because it's a whole thing that we
don't see in this country. It's like Fred, you talk
about it's it's English premierly with baseball right right, and
it's uh, it's uh, it's a lot of pride with
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the countries.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
It's it's really a great atmosphere. So Otani's gonna pitch
for Japan. By the way, Yama are gonna play play
for Japan. Yamamoto and Sazaki will have that chance as well.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Did they say they're gonna play.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
No, but they'll have a chance. I mean they're not
gonna ding those guys if they want to be there,
So let's say they do. So the question becomes for
the Dodgers do you want Otani to pitch in the WBC?
But if he pitches, now, those are gonna be innings.
You know, the Dodgers just count innings. There are so
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many innings in a season, and everybody has to pitch
so many of them and stay healthy. That's how they
do pitching. So as they factor in, those innings are
gonna count against Otani. And on top of it, Otani
would be pitching, and.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Well, I don't think the question do you want him?
Because I don't think there's a Dodger out there, Dodger
fan or Dodger exec Dodger coach, manager, whatever, trainer, Dad
wants Otani to pitch, if there's anybody who wants a
Tani to pitch. So the question is what do the
Dodgers do about it? Can they do anything about it? Right?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
That's exactly right, that's exactly right. What can they do
about it? I mean, what could they do about Yamamoto
or Suzaki? Obviously Sazaki's in a different spot. He's not
Yamamoto or Otani. Nobody's Otani. So if Otani goes to
them and says, guys, I'm pitching. I gotta do it,
gotta represent my country. He's gonna pitch, right, gonna stop him?
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They're not gonna say, don't do that. I'm not so sure.
They couldn't block Suzaki Ki No, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, they could probably block Sazaki. Yeah, young fella, Hey,
young fella, you go, You're gonna have a few more
opportunities at this young fella. So, uh, you know, we
need to get you right. You didn't. You didn't, you
didn't overwhelm everybody, you were exciting, You had a lull,
you struggled. Let's work on that as you come back
for spring training in twenty six. But WBC you pitching fella.
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Uh no, young guy, No, no, no, So.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
They could probably block him strongly urge you not to
pitch right, and you know when you get to strongly urge,
you're not doing it all right, So that'll be it
for him. Now, what about Yamamoto.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
That's a tough one. That's a tough one. Yeah, you know,
because he you know a lot of people. Everybody remembers
the old Tawany Mike Trout match up in the WBC
from last time where O Tani struck out Mike Trout
and Japan won it, but it was Yamamoto who was
their ace yo. Yeah, Yama Moto was their guy that
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they trotted out there when they needed to win. And
so you know, it could go two ways because it's
it's like I already did it. I already won one
of these things, and I don't need to necessarily do
it again. Or is it okay? Now the stakes are
even higher. I'm playing for the Dodgers, and you know
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I'm I'm going to represent my country as I still
play for the Dodgers. Well, they look at me as
because now I'm a Dodger officially a Dodger. Then I'm
I'm selling out my country or I'm not backing my country.
I mean, there's gonna be a lot of things that
come into play and say, oh, he's only he's not
pitching because the Dodgers don't want him pitch, and it's
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picking the Dodgers over his country. Shame on Yamamoto, Shame
on him. People will look at it that way, and
is one winning one enough for him to go, Hey,
I got one of these things. I'm good. I don't
need to pitch.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
So now the bottom line is this, The Dodgers cannot
block Otani. He'll do whatever he wants. He'll just if
he wants a pitch, he's gonna pitch. Okay, no one's
gonna stop him. Now, I'm gonna say, they're not gonna
block Yamamoto if he wants a pitch, If he wants
a pitch, he's gonna pitch. Sazaki, they'll say, sit on,
you're not pitching. Yeah, I think that's how it's gonna
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play out.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, and Yamamoto, you feel is the same thing. Whatever
you want to do, mm hm, yes, oh my god.
He'll he's just gonna do what he wants to do.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Now, he's very respectful, by the way, He's very all
the Japanese players are. And I guess if Andrew Friedman
called him and said, come on, Yoshi now, he'd still pitch.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Am I wrong? Like Andrew, I love you, appreciate you,
thank you for all that money. But no, I still
got to do this.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yeah, I gotta go. I'm gonna do it, and I'll
tan you do whatever he wants.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Roki. I think they'll they can convince him not to
do it. Yeah. Yeah. Do you think Yamamoto would and
wants to even if they were like God, do we
wish you wouldn't yo? She We wish you wouldn't you
think he goes and does it? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Okay, did you see the guy that pitched for the
Dodgers in the World Series.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
We watched and we saw him, right, Yes, we did.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
We saw the guy pitch throughout the playoffs, correct we
did you think that guy's gonna say, I'm not gonna
do it.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
You think that guy is gonna turn around and go
you know what? You're right? He go out and pitch
right now if he could? True? Yeah, he's he's you know,
he's got a killer instinct.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I will say this too, and Jack Harrison, Dillar Hernandez
have Bo brought this up that in Japan we can
argue whether it's right or not. They hold the WBC
and higher esteem than they do the Major League Baseball season.
This is extremely important to them.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Oh yeah, so against the World.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Yeah, even more so than the World Series. Some people
have have said and written. So this is a big
deal to Susaki, Yamamoto and Otani. So it's not just like, ah,
we'd rather you're not pitch, We'd rather you're not It
is a big deal to them.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, so they'll be there. But that's okay because the
Dodgers at least going into the season and have ninety
seven healthy pitchers.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Well there's that.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
You can also play some strict You can request to
the national team that they put restrictions on them, like
what a certain amount of innings, certain amount of pitches,
certain amount of days. So that stuff can be negotiated too,
So there is a middle ground when it comes to that.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
What do you mean negotiated and call Mark de Rosive
right and just say Mark, yeah, man, come on, let's
keep that pitch count, you know, down to sixty pitches
for Yamamoto, that's not overworking, and Mark, we'll go yeah,
I get that.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
So there's no score, there's no score in the seventh
inning of the semi finals, and Yamamoto's gone sixty pitches.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Oh that's a different story.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Okay, Well, I don't think we're going to keep it down.
I think once those games start, correct me if I'm wrong.
But as a professional athlete, when the game starts, you
want to win. Yes, these are This is not the
NBA All Star Game. These guys want to win, and
they're gonna do whatever it takes to win in the
heat of the moment. So it's nice to say, you know,
we have an agreement. He's gonna go sixty pitches until
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he's throwing a no hitter in the sixth inning, until
we're in the seventh inning of the semi final, until
we're in the seventh inning of the quarter final, until
we're in the seventh inning of a game that will
determinedly be.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
And until there's always going to be a scenario that
you can justify leaving him in the game. Maybe they're
gonna have to create something on his body, his arm
or whatever, his legs, you know, those shopping carts. If
you get too far away from them. The store exactly
shut down him. Yeah, yeah, do something for him like that.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Ned COLLETTI will join us during the one o'clock hour.
We'll continue this conversation when we come back. We didn't
talk about it yesterday. Lincoln Riley, Well, is he back
in the hot seat?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
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Speaker 2 (29:42):
Oh yes, with all the rain, it's a beautiful sunshiny
Tuesday afternoon, Rodney, Pete, Fred Rogan, thank you for joining
us on this Thanksgiving week and make sure you are
being safe out there and no traveling could be crazy.
This year's probably more so than ever with the shutdown
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a few weeks ago. Just opening. So just I think
you're gonna have to be patient, Fred, be patient at
the airports, be patient with people, because I think there's
gonna be a lot of tempers flaring today and tomorrow
and then coming back if you're traveling by plane and
have to go to these airports.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
All right, So I've never been a big fan of
Lincoln Riley, no secret, no secret, no secret, Never been
a huge fan. Don't like the way. I just think
he was overmatched in the market. And I'm not saying
as a coach. I'm saying as a person wasn't ready
for a big market. He had that Norman Oklahoma mentality,
I'm the man, stay away from me, don't question me,
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and he said some stupid things. Okay, so I'm on
the record. I'm on the record. So USC loses to Oregon.
They got to be forty two to twenty seven, and
that basically eliminates them from the college football playoff contention.
Bill Plaski wrote that Lincoln Riley should be in the
hot seat because USC's zero and five against top ten teams.
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Ryan Carcy wrote, can this season even be considered a success?
I gotta be honest with you. I'm the guy that
openly admits I'm not a huge fan. I don't think
this season was bad. I'm the only guy that feels
that way. I think they have improved dramatically this season.
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I think they look like an entirely different program, and
now for the first time since they're in the Big Ten,
despite the fact Oregon spanked them, I think the future
looks pretty bright.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Have I lost my mind? Rodney? No, No, No, It's
just the expectations of USC are high, and you have
a chance, and oftentimes when it comes down and you know,
to winning a game or two here down the stretch
(31:56):
or whenever you got to win a big game, people
are used to USC winning that big game, and they
haven't done that lately, and certainly haven't done it with
Lincoln Rally. You can you can go back to, you know,
some of those late games are you know, Pack twelve
championship game and when they did have Caleb and they
weren't able to get over the Utah hump, you know,
(32:18):
the the Notre Dame games where it's critical this this
past year, you know, played them tough for a minute,
but then let the game get away. Same thing with Oregon.
That game was it was relatively in striking distance for
USC for for a lot of it, and then they
let it get away and just couldn't couldn't really hold up.
But I think because of the expectations spread, people are
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looking at this and the way it came late in
the season where everything was riding on the on the
Oregon game, like you make the playoffs if you're in
and if you win, and if you don't, you don't
and it's a big letdown if you don't the way
the playoff systems are nowadays, and so everybody the win
got taken out, everybody's sales with that loss to or again.
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So it's a feeling like where do we go from here?
Because now you know, even though the bowl situation is
not what it used to be, it used to be, Oh,
you're going to a big time bowl game anyway, Right,
you get to go to the Orange Bowl and you
play on New Year's Day and you know you didn't
win your conference and you're not playing for a national title.
But you're playing in one of those big bowls. Now,
(33:21):
those bowl games don't really matter. It doesn't really matter.
It is like a consolation prize unless you're like, you know,
obviously one of those bowl games is for the semi
finals or whatever. But the pageantry of those specific bowls
is not about the bulls anymore. It's about where you
are placed in the playoff picture.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah, but here's the thing, and maybe it is expectation.
Maybe you're a hundred percent right. Here's the deal. Given
how they were playing, I think the season has been
a magnificent success.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
And again and go magnificent.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
No, given the way they were playing, they look a
thousand times back.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I agree. I agree, because the question was what can
they play smash mouth, big tough yrdos, physical football, and
I think they showed that they could. Right, they showed
that they could. And now here's the question, because this
is this is going to be the question for anybody
in college football going forward. Now, can you keep a
team together? Can you keep and build any kind of momentum?
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In college sports? Because so many people leave transfer, portal things,
guys go to the draft, all that kind of thing.
I mean, we're looking at USC and and you know
the king running running back for USC is everybody you
know loves it. Where did this guy come from? Where
he came? Because their guys got hurt, two guys hit him,
(34:41):
got hurt, and so they have been injured. But you know,
to win and beating Michigan I think was a big
deal call. It granted, Michigan may not be in one
of their top years, but there still are Michigan, a
physical team that everybody knows. Beating Michigan, I think, beating
Eye when those conditions, even though it was here at
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the Coliseum, was big and they won some big games.
I think the Illinois game, Fred, was the one that
kind of that was a game that they had to have.
That was a game they had to have, and they
let that one get away from it from them. And
I think, you know, people were concerned about that game
because of the start time and you know, being so
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early in the morning for USC, but they let that game.
That Illinois game was a pivotal game in the in
the season for see, because it gave them no room
for air after that.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
All right, top of the hour, Ned Kaletti, the Man
of the Big Chair, joins the program.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
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Speaker 2 (36:01):
That's right, it's beautiful Tuesday. We are we are back
Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan on a full show for us
today as we head into Thanksgiving week, where Freddie is
cooking for everybody. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. I'm cooking
for everybody, all right. And now.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
From the court to the court room with Jacob em Ronni.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Our good friend, Jacob em Ronnie. Now, Jacob, are you
cooking for everybody for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Oh? Yes, you know, I think. I think Thanksgiving is
such a great time. You know, you get a chance
to spend time with family. You know, it's one of
the very few times during the year that you really
can't shut down because you know, I guess in some senses,
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the offices aren't closed, but you know, we're always on.
You know, we're always on with our clients. But you know,
Thanksgiving is really, you know, a special time I think
where you get a chance to really be thankful for
what you have and you know what you have around you.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Well, I'll tell you what, Even on Thanksgiving, if somebody
gets into an accident, you'll have somebody working at eight
hundred three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine, Right, somebody
calls that number, your office is going to respond.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Yeah, we don't we don't have holidays. We're always available.
We always have you know, a team that's available to
talk to people because I think you know, when you're
in an accident, it's a traumatic time, and you know,
it's not a time where you want to call somebody
and you get a voicemail. You want to call people
that are going to be there for you. And we're
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always there for our clients, at least to give them,
you know, some hope that you know everything will be okay.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Jacob, what what what keeps you going? Keeps you so
passionate after twenty eight years in the business helping people,
helping your clients? What is it that keeps you going man,
and make you be one of the most trusted names
out there when it comes to personal injury.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Well, you know, I appreciate that, Rodney. I think what
keeps me going is really the people. It's the you know,
one of the reasons I love doing personal injury law
is because you get a chance to meet individuals who
have been harmed by you know, the fault of somebody else,
not necessarily intentionally, but you know, the negligence of another person,
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and you get a chance to help them out. You know,
you get a chance to help them out at some
of their toughest times. In their life. And you know,
most people, unless you've been involved in an accident, they
envision somebody getting hit, not a big deal, maybe a
little bit of pain and everything's fine. But that's far
from it. I mean, people's lives are affected. You know,
(38:59):
people be having financial problems. Now they get involved in
an accident. Now they can't go to work, so you
know there's pressure there. The car gets damaged, the other
party doesn't want to fix it, so now they're without
a car for a month, they can't get the kids
to school. There's a lot of you know, little things
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that happened that unless you've gone through it, you can't
really appreciate. And I think my team and I get
a chance to see that every day, and those are
just the basic type of accidents. You know. Then we
get a phone call, you know, just this week, got
a phone call from this incredible lady who had called
us because her daughter had been involved in an accident
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in Lancaster, had gotten hit by a big rick trailer
and had passed away on the spot. And you know,
having to console her, you know, for the first conversation
is not easy. And then she tells me twenty one
years ago she had lost her son to an autom accident.
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You know, there's a lot of stories that you know,
we here and we get involved in. And that's what
drives me because if I can just get you know,
as much just as as I can for that mom,
for that you know, dad, for that brother or sister,
then you know it's been a good day because I
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can't change the facts of what occurs, but I can
help them at least, you know, get better and you know,
move on. It's difficult, guys. We see a lot of
difficult things.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
So and Jacob, when somebody goes through something like that,
they never get over it, right, they just learn how
to deal with it.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Yeah, And you know the problem is I always tell
our clients who've maybe lost somebody in an accident, and guys,
a lot of accidents occur where there's fatalities. You have
people who are involved in major, major accidents. We're dealing
with a client who is a wide share drive whose
car ended up blowing a tire and he pulled over
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with his passenger to the side of the street and
as he was fixing, you know, the tire, he gets
hit by a vehicle and unfortunately has to amputate his
right leg due to how bad that accident was. And
they're in the hospital and the wife calls us. They have,
you know, five kids. They don't know where the money's
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going to come from. And you're right, coping is an
important part. But we always like to tell our clients
they need to heal while we deal with the legal
side of it. And trust me, no insurance company on
the other side is going to say, oh, you know,
your husband, you know is bad the injuries, let us
take care of you. Their job is trying to pay
as little as possible, and our job is to make
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sure that they don't get away with, you know, with
their responsibility.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Well, Jacob, it's good to know that you are out
there for the people of southern California. And if you
don't know it, I mean we tell you every day,
but it's really important to remember. Jacob has a new
phone number you can go to call Jacob dot com
online at any point. But eight hundred three four five
sixty seven eight nine, eight hundred three four five six
seven eight nine, Jacob, you and the family have a
(42:19):
terrific Thanksgiving. Thank you for your friendship, and we'll talk
to you next week.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
And guys, I want to say during this pre Thanksgiving
how thankful I am for all their years of relationship
that I have with you guys and everybody at the station.
And I really do appreciate that we get as tends
to you know, talk every single week and share information.
And I am thankful to call you guys my friends.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
So happy Thanksgiving one hundred percent. Jacob, thank you so much,
and you are one of our friends as well. Man,
thank you for being who you are. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Okay, maybe we have found out what's wrong with the
Raiders now that'll be coming up. That'll be coming up
next hour. But when we come back, the man in
the Big Chair, Net Coletti joins the show
No, all right, here we go, Fred Rogan, Rodney, Pete,
ont Am five to seventy LA Sports. This is the
day where everybody I think is wandering down Rodney. Not
sure how many people are working tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh man, we are. Oh yeah, we're working. We're not
going anywhere. We ain't going nowhere working now.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Listen, even though we're not going to be on Thanksgiving
Day because we have football here on the radio station,
even though we're not, because we care so much about
you and doing this every day, I can speak for myself.
I will come into the station and do a show
for absolutely no one.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Do it, do it?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, because I don't want to miss one day. I
will be here. I will do a show. If you
want to hear it, stand out on the street. I
will yell really loud. That's how we're going to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's going over the literal airwaves, not just the radio
airwaves because we have football thread so station's not gonna
cover you. You're gonna go out and yell. That's right. I
will see like old Boy and Network, go out to
your window right now.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Howard Beale, Howard Beale, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I may stand
on a street corner and yell a three hour show.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'll tell you that that's dedication.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Fred Well, because when we're serious about our job. Anyway,
But we are here today and as you are winding down,
please be safe on the streets. Net COLLETI will be
here at one o'clock today and Bennie bon Signior will
be here too.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Well you think about Vinnie. You
think about Vinnie when you know Vinnie's been on with
us for a number of years now. He's our NFL insider,
and you know it, it's been with the Raiders since
they moved to Las Vegas. And you think about Vinnie.
The conversations we had. I bet if Kevin pulled them
how optimistic he was and how excited they were in
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Las Vegas about this team and Gino Smith coming in
and Pete Carroll bringing that energy and bringing his quarterback
and that's the only thing they were missing, was a steady,
solid quarterback for this team to go forward. Chip Kelly
comes in and everybody's excited. Just won a national title
with Ohio State. He's the perfect offensive coordinator for the
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Raiders and look at us now, look at us now.
There was so much optimism for the Raiders this year
and with Dente and all of that. I do remember
those conversations before the season and in the off season.
Vinnie was extremely excited and man, how did it go
so south? So bad? And how many people were just
(02:30):
off when it came to the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Well, now it's finger pointing time. That's the issue. And
you know, you talk about Pete Carroll. Eric was on
the other day and he goes, well, that he's seventy
three years old. That's not the issue here. I gotta
be honest with you, that is not the issue. Pete
Carroll's age. They're just bad. Gino Smith has had a
terrible year. Now, to be fair, he's not had a
(02:52):
lot of protection, so he's kind of been running for
his life. But the offensive line hasn't been great, but
he's been even worse. And he was the guy. See
the thing about the Raiders in the past is they
didn't have a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Oh yeah, no quarterback.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So Pete gets there and he goes, all right, I
got the guy. We're going to fix this right now.
I'll bring Genos Smith in. He won for me in Seattle.
He'll be great here. And he's just laid an egg.
It's awful. It's really sad, because Mark Davis is truly
one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet in your life.
He really and truly is a very good person, and
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he cares and he cares about people. I told the
story about how when the NFL was voting on what
stadium site should be in Los Angeles, the Carson site
or the Inglewood site. Now, the Carson site had the
Chargers and the Raiders obviously, the Inglewood site was the
Rams plus one whoever that would be, and the owners voted.
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Mark Davis had a relationship with the mayor of Inglewood,
James he Butts, from the very beginning. And when the
vo came down, Mark Davis did not vote for his
own site. He voted for Inglewood because of his relationship
with the mayor. That's pretty cool. Didn't matter, it wasn't
gonna work anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
He knew he knew it wasn't gonna work because it
didn't really matter end of the day, he wasn't gonna happen.
But it was a nice gesture.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, but still in all I thought that was classy.
So Mark Davis is a good guy. Mark Davis will
stop and say hello to you. He just can't figure
it out.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
He can't, he really can't. And you look up and
you go and look. Everybody has their opinion on Derek Carr,
and you know, should he have gone? Should he have
not gone? Was he good? Or was he that? He
was consistent? He was a consistent quarterback for them. He
couldn't get him over the hump, but every year they
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would put up some incredible numbers. And I don't think
it was just because of and they shipped him out
of town in a hurry. And soon after Devanta Adams
got there's his college buddy and best friend and the
weddings together and all that kind of stuff. And then
the next year Derek Carr's gone. But I think it's
sometimes it's like with coaches and Ned Kletti's coming on
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with us, and he says this all the time. You
better have somebody better coming through the door. You're gonna
get rid of somebody. You better have somebody's lined up
better coming through the door. And maybe they thought that,
But I thought Derek Carr, for his ups and downs,
I thought he was consistent. He put up numbers, threw
a lot of touchdown oftentimes it wasn't because the offense.
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It wasn't because the offense. They were losing. They were
putting up thirty points a game, and it wasn't all
his fault, but he took the blame. And now look,
you know, after he's left, they've run through. It feels
like thirty quarterbacks now. And there were sitting with Gino
who's regrets to his New York Jets days just bad,
really bad. Feel bad for him.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, so then it'll be on to lament the situation
coming up at two o'clock. All right, So now let's
talk Dodgers for a couple of minutes. Off the top.
I don't think I would do this. I don't know
if if you would do it, or if you're listening,
you would do it. I think if I caught a
home run ball or or a ball that meant something historic,
(06:23):
I think I would hold on to it. I don't
think I would sell it, and I'm that passing judgment.
I think I would hold on to it as a momento,
pass it down to my kids. If I wasn't here,
they would do what they wanted with it. But to me,
that means something. So there were three big home runs
in the.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Wait so you would hold on to it. You just
gave that one or two options, sell it or hold on.
So the thought in your mind never came to, let
me give it back to the guy that hit it.
Oh okay, No, that never entered my mind, because no,
it didn't. That's funny. I'm watching, you know, because we
(07:06):
can't get enough baseball, so I'm flipping and watching the
MLB Network. And you know Bob Costas, who's a friend
of the show, been on with us, and just a
great guy, one of the best to ever ever do it.
He has this show forty two or from Studio or
forty two where he goes back and really profiles a
(07:27):
big name player, an instrumental player in the history of baseball.
And the other day he had you know, he's had
Willie Mays and Mickey Manno, when he was alive, He's
had so many guys that he sat down and interviewed,
but he had Hank Aaron on the other day. They
replayed the clip and he was talking about the home
(07:48):
run ball, the seven fifteen that he hit against the Dodgers,
and he was saying, thank God that he wasn't Aaron
Judge you hit, you know, four hundred and fifty blasts
that went up into the upper deck in the outfield.
He was laughing and joking, said, most of my home
runs were scraping the back of the fence. You know,
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I didn't hit bombs. But thank God for that because
my ball went into the bullpen. It went into the
Atlanta Braves bullpen, and I think it was Atlanta or
maybe Dodger whoever was went into the bullpen anyway, and
immediately immediately that guy god I can't remember his name
who caught it, met Hank Aaron at home plate and
(08:31):
gave him the baseball. Oh that's cool. Yeah, yeah, So
that devian to your point bring that up. It's like,
you know, certain things matter, and I'm sure you know,
if it's a milestone like that and the guy really
wants it, you got to find a way to get
it to him. But there are people out there. Hell no,
I'm making a million dollars on this ball. I'm I'm
gonna sell that bad boy. That's exactly right now. To
(08:54):
be fair.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
If in fact, you know, Hank Karon hit the home
run and I caught it and they said, hey wants
the ball, I probably to be to be fair, would say, sure,
let me meet him, and he's gonna give me, you know,
some stuff whatever.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, and you would you would imagine and hope that,
you know, a guy like Han't Karen, would would take
care of you. I don't know how much monetarily take
care of you, but he would take care of you.
Would seats, paraphernalia, maybe give you a few bucks, who knows,
but you would think he would take care of you.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Know.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Ty Cobb would tell you to go to hell, right,
he would. So there are guys like that. Yeah, but
I think in today's world what happens as you catch
it and you sell it. I would not do that.
I know I would not do that. I think my
most prized possession in my home came from the old
Bush Stadium in Saint Louis. My wife got me the
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sign that led into the Diamond Suites there. You know,
it's like it's like a Dodger stadium. Yeah, and it
is fluorescent. It came right out of Bush Stadium and
it's hanging on my wall in the house. I will
never sell that. She got it in an auction years ago.
Every time we've moved, she goes where we're going to
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put it, I said, right where everybody can see it,
and I don't care what the house looks like.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Do you think people are speaking of that? And you're right,
it's an iconic place. Do you think people outside of
Saint Louis or that are not real baseball folks understand
the history of Saint Louis baseball. No, in Bush Stadium
and no, the history of the Cardinals and all the
people that came through there.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
They really don't do that. No, not at all, not
at all. It was a palace, a palace, all right.
So anyway, today people sell the balls. I wouldn't, but that's,
you know, to each their own. So three big home runs,
I would say, during the Dodgers postseason, a lot of
home runs hit, but here are the ones that people
are going to remember. Will Smith's homer, Mickey Rojas homer,
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and that Gargante and shot by Otani that hit the
top of the roof. Those were the three Will.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Smith Game seven omer because he hit a couple of
them Game seven, right, Okay, so those are the ones.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Okay, people caught those balls and boom, they sold them
right away, they auctioned them off. So the question becomes
what do you think each ball went for? What do
you think?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
So nobody with the Freddie home run in eighteen innings?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
H that's not on here. These are the three I got. Yeah,
these are the ones that just sold. So let's start
with Mickey Rojas. Yeah, let's start with Mickey Rojas's blast
that sent the game into extra innings.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
What do you think that? No idea? I don't even
know where to start with that, right, so guess, uh,
two hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Dollars, sorry, two hundred thousand dollars, Ronnie, do you have
a guess on what that ball went for?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Is he in there, Kevin?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Ronnie just stepped out?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
All right? Do you have a guest, Kevin? Which ball
is this? Will Smith's No, we're starting with Mickey Rojas.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
MIGGI rose okay to tie the game?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Uh? Two hundred grand? Two hundred grand? Yeah, all right?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You and Rodney said two hundred grand. It went for
one hundred and fifty six thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Ooh, not far off, not far off?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, but on the price is right? You would have
lost because you're over the actual retail price. It over right?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
You went on with this maybe because you know we're
Dodgers and we're you know, wishful thinking and thinking it Tiger,
then probably it's probably worth to the rest of the
country and the rest of the world. But for for Dodgers. Yeah,
two hundred grand seems like reasonable. Okay, So one fifty
fifty six okay. Will Smith homer which provided the Dodgers
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the winning run, how much did it go for?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I would say that'd be less than Mickey Roe. So
I'm gonna go one thousand dollars, one hundred and ten.
Can't you want to guess?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Or I'll go higher than that. I'll say one seventy.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You going seventy? Ronnie's back, Ronnie, you want to guess
on what Will Smith's ball went for.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I'm going to go and even one hundred. Okay, Kevin,
you're the closest one sixty eight.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Still at a lost prices, right though.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, you're still at a lost prices, right. There'll be
no double showcase for you, right?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Will Smith go ahead game seven or seventh INNY? Game seven?
Not seven? Any eleventh inning, Game seven run went for
more than Mickey Rose.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, And you know what I would have thought, Mickey
Rose would have gone for more I would have too. Okay,
all right, now, let's talk about the third one. And
I think it was the shot heard around the world.
You couldn't miss this one. Otani's enormous blast against Milwaukee
that hit the roof, almost hit it out of the
entire stadium. That ball was sold at the same auction.
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What do you think that ball sold for?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Oh, that's got to be the highest one. I think
that's gotta be three fifty. You go three fifty, ken't
you want to jump in or that.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Was gonna be my guest. I'll say three forty five.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Okay, Ronnie, you got a shot, three twenty five, seventy,
two seventy. We're all over seventy. So here's the question.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
One went for one sixty eight, One went for one
fifty six, one went for two seventy. Are any of
those a bargain?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I Of of the three, I would say the Otani
one is the bargain really, first of all, because of
the old he said. Otani went for two seventy. Because
first of all, it's Otani, and he's gonna go down
as when the best ever or at least he's in
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the top two or three. And we're gonna see a
lot from him. But also I believe there's only been
what three or four people hit the ball out of
Dodger Stadium or on that roof or beyond. Yeah, and
so he's in a small small list of people. Will
he stard to will believe who else was it that
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was Schwarbers get out of the stadium too? He might
be the next one that that was incredible. That might
have been the latest one that before Otani that got
out of the stadium. But I know before that there
was only like two guys that hit it out at
the stadium like that that deep and Stargear was one
of them. But yeah, I think going down knowing that
there's only five balls tops that ever went out that
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far at Dodger Stadium, I think Otani is the bargain.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Okay, So I asked you if it was a bargain.
Now here's the question. Would any of you spend that
kind of money.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
In a ball? No? No, negative?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Okay, that's three that didn't take long. That didn't take long,
nor would I. But if you did, do you think
it would appreciate over the years. So, in other words,
it's an investment. I'm gonna spend two seventy on Otani's
ball because in ten years it'll be worth four hundred.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Do you think that way? Yeah? Again, I think and
uh listen, I think Otani's will maintain its strength and
probably appreciate. The one. I don't know if we'll appreciate
it is Will Smith. I think the miggi Row people
remember that one forever. It was so iconic and it
was so unbelievable and from you know, from a guy
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that you don't expected coming from. I think it will
live and Dodger Laurels forever. And so for that reason,
I think it's it's a good investment on the migi
Row one. I just wouldn't do it. That's not my
cup of tea. I would not know. I wouldn't do it.
But yes, if you know either one of these is
a good investment or it was gonna hold its value
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or you know, retain its value, what do you think,
Kevin and Ronnie?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I don't know if like. And also I think it
depends on what happens going forward, you know, if they
don't end up winning another World Series in this old
Tani era, I think there's a chance of an appreciating appreciating.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
A little bit more.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
So, I do think it just depends on what happens
in the future with the team. But I do agree
with the fact that I think Miguel Rojas's will appreciate
the most because most people might not even remember what
the go ahead run was for the Dodgers, but they
remember that they were basically dead before Miguel Rohass hit
that ball to tie the game up. So I agree
with that notion for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I agree with you. I think that was the key one.
I mean, good for Will Smith. Obviously you won the
World Series for the Dodgers with that home run. But
I think the Meggie home run. I think the Meggie
home run will go down in Los Angeles sports lore.
It's not Kirk Gibson and it's not Freddie's Grand Slam
against the Yankees, But you know what, that one is
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going to be on the top ten list.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Where do you think Freddy's ranks? Freddy's Grand Slam against
the Yankees ranks? Oh, that's up there, that's up there.
And how much do you think it goes for or
would have gone for if it did go or when
it goes.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I don't know if it would have gone for as
much as Otani's. I don't know if anything goes for
as much as otani m I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
That's interesting because you said Otani was two seventy Yeah, yeah, man,
that's that that one god, and that one's hard to beat.
Otani's was early in the game. The game was, you know,
it was a lot of game left. Freddy was to
walk it off the Grand Slam.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Freddy's went for one and a half million dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Oh did oh you almost had to h you know,
you almost had to dump me again for the second day.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
In a row. Oh my goodness. Yeah, wow, okay, yeah,
all right. Well and it was against the Yankees too, Yeah,
against the Yankees. How long How long after Kevin did
that go? That didn't take for that to sell?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
That was in December of last.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Year, so soon after the World.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Pretty soon after.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, it went for one and a half I want
and I wonder if the quicker you sell it, the
more you make, right, so they win the world serr,
he sell the ball immediately. Don't hold on to one
for two years. You think you make more money to go? Yeah,
thinking you're gonna make more money. I don't think so.
This is while it's fresh in everybody's mind. That's probably
when they're gonna pay the most.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
So just to like size it up with what we're
up against as far as like auctions. So, Freddy's ball
was the third most expensive ball ever sold. Show hayes
fifty fifty home run ball went for four point three
McGuire's seventieth home run ball went for three million. So
Otani's is the most.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So you were right about that, Rodney just Otani period. Yeah,
the ol Tani factor. Man can't get it around it.
So it's fiftieth home run yep. To to make it,
did he get did he get fifty bases before he
got the fifty home runs? I think he did? Didn't
he didn't he get fifty bases before fifty home runs?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I don't recall.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I think so, which means I could be wrong, but
I think so.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Because you have to remember, I think he got fifty
in Miami. Wasn't it that crazy game where he went
like four for five and hit three home runs or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
That's where he got the fifty home runs? I think so.
So then it comes down to did he have the
stolen bases? First? I think he did. But rightift matter
you think the fifty to put him over the top
drive the price up, or it doesn't matter that it
was like if he already had fifty stolen bases, the
thing that you're waiting on is the fiftieth home run,
and that becomes the anticipation. Is that more so than
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he's already got fifty three home runs where he's sitting
on forty nine stolen bases, So you know when he
gets that stolen base to be in the fifty to
fifty club, it's the opposite.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, it's the opposite. Yeah, you're right, You're right, it's
the home run you're waiting for. Right on the topic
of Otani, the WBC is coming up again. It's always
a lot of fun. Otani's going to be in the
WBC roster. Okay, you didn't like it, Fred, Right, you
don't like the WBC. I hate the WBC, But I
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like the crazy fans.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I do. I love the energy in the stadiums of
those games are incredible, incredible. You've got a chance to go,
you gotta go because it's a whole thing that we
don't see in this country. It's like Fred, you talk
about it's it's English premierly with baseball right right, and
it's uh, it's uh, it's a lot of pride with
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the countries.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
It's it's really a great atmosphere. So Otani's gonna pitch
for Japan. By the way, Yama are gonna play play
for Japan. Yamamoto and Sazaki will have that chance as well.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Did they say they're gonna play.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
No, but they'll have a chance. I mean they're not
gonna ding those guys if they want to be there,
So let's say they do. So the question becomes for
the Dodgers do you want Otani to pitch in the WBC?
But if he pitches, now, those are gonna be innings.
You know, the Dodgers just count innings. There are so
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many innings in a season, and everybody has to pitch
so many of them and stay healthy. That's how they
do pitching. So as they factor in, those innings are
gonna count against Otani. And on top of it, Otani
would be pitching, and.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Well, I don't think the question do you want him?
Because I don't think there's a Dodger out there, Dodger
fan or Dodger exec Dodger coach, manager, whatever, trainer, Dad
wants Otani to pitch, if there's anybody who wants a
Tani to pitch. So the question is what do the
Dodgers do about it? Can they do anything about it? Right?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
That's exactly right, that's exactly right. What can they do
about it? I mean, what could they do about Yamamoto
or Suzaki? Obviously Sazaki's in a different spot. He's not
Yamamoto or Otani. Nobody's Otani. So if Otani goes to
them and says, guys, I'm pitching. I gotta do it,
gotta represent my country. He's gonna pitch, right, gonna stop him?
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They're not gonna say, don't do that. I'm not so sure.
They couldn't block Suzaki Ki No, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, they could probably block Sazaki. Yeah, young fella, Hey,
young fella, you go, You're gonna have a few more
opportunities at this young fella. So, uh, you know, we
need to get you right. You didn't. You didn't, you
didn't overwhelm everybody, you were exciting, You had a lull,
you struggled. Let's work on that as you come back
for spring training in twenty six. But WBC you pitching fella.
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Uh no, young guy, No, no, no, So.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
They could probably block him strongly urge you not to
pitch right, and you know when you get to strongly urge,
you're not doing it all right, So that'll be it
for him. Now, what about Yamamoto.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
That's a tough one. That's a tough one. Yeah, you know,
because he you know a lot of people. Everybody remembers
the old Tawany Mike Trout match up in the WBC
from last time where O Tani struck out Mike Trout
and Japan won it, but it was Yamamoto who was
their ace yo. Yeah, Yama Moto was their guy that
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they trotted out there when they needed to win. And
so you know, it could go two ways because it's
it's like I already did it. I already won one
of these things, and I don't need to necessarily do
it again. Or is it okay? Now the stakes are
even higher. I'm playing for the Dodgers, and you know
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I'm I'm going to represent my country as I still
play for the Dodgers. Well, they look at me as
because now I'm a Dodger officially a Dodger. Then I'm
I'm selling out my country or I'm not backing my country.
I mean, there's gonna be a lot of things that
come into play and say, oh, he's only he's not
pitching because the Dodgers don't want him pitch, and it's
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picking the Dodgers over his country. Shame on Yamamoto, Shame
on him. People will look at it that way, and
is one winning one enough for him to go, Hey,
I got one of these things. I'm good. I don't
need to pitch.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
So now the bottom line is this, The Dodgers cannot
block Otani. He'll do whatever he wants. He'll just if
he wants a pitch, he's gonna pitch. Okay, no one's
gonna stop him. Now, I'm gonna say, they're not gonna
block Yamamoto if he wants a pitch, If he wants
a pitch, he's gonna pitch. Sazaki, they'll say, sit on,
you're not pitching. Yeah, I think that's how it's gonna
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play out.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, and Yamamoto, you feel is the same thing. Whatever
you want to do, mm hm, yes, oh my god.
He'll he's just gonna do what he wants to do.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Now, he's very respectful, by the way, He's very all
the Japanese players are. And I guess if Andrew Friedman
called him and said, come on, Yoshi now, he'd still pitch.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Am I wrong? Like Andrew, I love you, appreciate you,
thank you for all that money. But no, I still
got to do this.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yeah, I gotta go. I'm gonna do it, and I'll
tan you do whatever he wants.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Roki. I think they'll they can convince him not to
do it. Yeah. Yeah. Do you think Yamamoto would and
wants to even if they were like God, do we
wish you wouldn't yo? She We wish you wouldn't you
think he goes and does it? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Okay, did you see the guy that pitched for the
Dodgers in the World Series.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
We watched and we saw him, right, Yes, we did.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
We saw the guy pitch throughout the playoffs, correct we
did you think that guy's gonna say, I'm not gonna
do it.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
You think that guy is gonna turn around and go
you know what? You're right? He go out and pitch
right now if he could? True? Yeah, he's he's you know,
he's got a killer instinct.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I will say this too, and Jack Harrison, Dillar Hernandez
have Bo brought this up that in Japan we can
argue whether it's right or not. They hold the WBC
and higher esteem than they do the Major League Baseball season.
This is extremely important to them.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Oh yeah, so against the World.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Yeah, even more so than the World Series. Some people
have have said and written. So this is a big
deal to Susaki, Yamamoto and Otani. So it's not just like, ah,
we'd rather you're not pitch, We'd rather you're not It
is a big deal to them.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, so they'll be there. But that's okay because the
Dodgers at least going into the season and have ninety
seven healthy pitchers.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Well there's that.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
You can also play some strict You can request to
the national team that they put restrictions on them, like
what a certain amount of innings, certain amount of pitches,
certain amount of days. So that stuff can be negotiated too,
So there is a middle ground when it comes to that.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
What do you mean negotiated and call Mark de Rosive
right and just say Mark, yeah, man, come on, let's
keep that pitch count, you know, down to sixty pitches
for Yamamoto, that's not overworking, and Mark, we'll go yeah,
I get that.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
So there's no score, there's no score in the seventh
inning of the semi finals, and Yamamoto's gone sixty pitches.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Oh that's a different story.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Okay, Well, I don't think we're going to keep it down.
I think once those games start, correct me if I'm wrong.
But as a professional athlete, when the game starts, you
want to win. Yes, these are This is not the
NBA All Star Game. These guys want to win, and
they're gonna do whatever it takes to win in the
heat of the moment. So it's nice to say, you know,
we have an agreement. He's gonna go sixty pitches until
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he's throwing a no hitter in the sixth inning, until
we're in the seventh inning of the semi final, until
we're in the seventh inning of the quarter final, until
we're in the seventh inning of a game that will
determinedly be.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
And until there's always going to be a scenario that
you can justify leaving him in the game. Maybe they're
gonna have to create something on his body, his arm
or whatever, his legs, you know, those shopping carts. If
you get too far away from them. The store exactly
shut down him. Yeah, yeah, do something for him like that.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Ned COLLETTI will join us during the one o'clock hour.
We'll continue this conversation when we come back. We didn't
talk about it yesterday. Lincoln Riley, Well, is he back
in the hot seat?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
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Speaker 2 (29:42):
Oh yes, with all the rain, it's a beautiful sunshiny
Tuesday afternoon, Rodney, Pete, Fred Rogan, thank you for joining
us on this Thanksgiving week and make sure you are
being safe out there and no traveling could be crazy.
This year's probably more so than ever with the shutdown
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a few weeks ago. Just opening. So just I think
you're gonna have to be patient, Fred, be patient at
the airports, be patient with people, because I think there's
gonna be a lot of tempers flaring today and tomorrow
and then coming back if you're traveling by plane and
have to go to these airports.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
All right, So I've never been a big fan of
Lincoln Riley, no secret, no secret, no secret, Never been
a huge fan. Don't like the way. I just think
he was overmatched in the market. And I'm not saying
as a coach. I'm saying as a person wasn't ready
for a big market. He had that Norman Oklahoma mentality,
I'm the man, stay away from me, don't question me,
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and he said some stupid things. Okay, so I'm on
the record. I'm on the record. So USC loses to Oregon.
They got to be forty two to twenty seven, and
that basically eliminates them from the college football playoff contention.
Bill Plaski wrote that Lincoln Riley should be in the
hot seat because USC's zero and five against top ten teams.
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Ryan Carcy wrote, can this season even be considered a success?
I gotta be honest with you. I'm the guy that
openly admits I'm not a huge fan. I don't think
this season was bad. I'm the only guy that feels
that way. I think they have improved dramatically this season.
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I think they look like an entirely different program, and
now for the first time since they're in the Big Ten,
despite the fact Oregon spanked them, I think the future
looks pretty bright.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Have I lost my mind? Rodney? No, No, No, It's
just the expectations of USC are high, and you have
a chance, and oftentimes when it comes down and you know,
to winning a game or two here down the stretch
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or whenever you got to win a big game, people
are used to USC winning that big game, and they
haven't done that lately, and certainly haven't done it with
Lincoln Rally. You can you can go back to, you know,
some of those late games are you know, Pack twelve
championship game and when they did have Caleb and they
weren't able to get over the Utah hump, you know,
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the the Notre Dame games where it's critical this this
past year, you know, played them tough for a minute,
but then let the game get away. Same thing with Oregon.
That game was it was relatively in striking distance for
USC for for a lot of it, and then they
let it get away and just couldn't couldn't really hold up.
But I think because of the expectations spread, people are
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looking at this and the way it came late in
the season where everything was riding on the on the
Oregon game, like you make the playoffs if you're in
and if you win, and if you don't, you don't
and it's a big letdown if you don't the way
the playoff systems are nowadays, and so everybody the win
got taken out, everybody's sales with that loss to or again.
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So it's a feeling like where do we go from here?
Because now you know, even though the bowl situation is
not what it used to be, it used to be, Oh,
you're going to a big time bowl game anyway, Right,
you get to go to the Orange Bowl and you
play on New Year's Day and you know you didn't
win your conference and you're not playing for a national title.
But you're playing in one of those big bowls. Now,
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those bowl games don't really matter. It doesn't really matter.
It is like a consolation prize unless you're like, you know,
obviously one of those bowl games is for the semi
finals or whatever. But the pageantry of those specific bowls
is not about the bulls anymore. It's about where you
are placed in the playoff picture.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah, but here's the thing, and maybe it is expectation.
Maybe you're a hundred percent right. Here's the deal. Given
how they were playing, I think the season has been
a magnificent success.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
And again and go magnificent.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
No, given the way they were playing, they look a
thousand times back.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I agree. I agree, because the question was what can
they play smash mouth, big tough yrdos, physical football, and
I think they showed that they could. Right, they showed
that they could. And now here's the question, because this
is this is going to be the question for anybody
in college football going forward. Now, can you keep a
team together? Can you keep and build any kind of momentum?
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In college sports? Because so many people leave transfer, portal things,
guys go to the draft, all that kind of thing.
I mean, we're looking at USC and and you know
the king running running back for USC is everybody you
know loves it. Where did this guy come from? Where
he came? Because their guys got hurt, two guys hit him,
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got hurt, and so they have been injured. But you know,
to win and beating Michigan I think was a big
deal call. It granted, Michigan may not be in one
of their top years, but there still are Michigan, a
physical team that everybody knows. Beating Michigan, I think, beating
Eye when those conditions, even though it was here at
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the Coliseum, was big and they won some big games.
I think the Illinois game, Fred, was the one that
kind of that was a game that they had to have.
That was a game they had to have, and they
let that one get away from it from them. And
I think, you know, people were concerned about that game
because of the start time and you know, being so
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early in the morning for USC, but they let that game.
That Illinois game was a pivotal game in the in
the season for see, because it gave them no room
for air after that.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
All right, top of the hour, Ned Kaletti, the Man
of the Big Chair, joins the program.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
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Speaker 2 (36:01):
That's right, it's beautiful Tuesday. We are we are back
Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan on a full show for us
today as we head into Thanksgiving week, where Freddie is
cooking for everybody. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. I'm cooking
for everybody, all right. And now.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
From the court to the court room with Jacob em Ronni.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Our good friend, Jacob em Ronnie. Now, Jacob, are you
cooking for everybody for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Oh? Yes, you know, I think. I think Thanksgiving is
such a great time. You know, you get a chance
to spend time with family. You know, it's one of
the very few times during the year that you really
can't shut down because you know, I guess in some senses,
(36:53):
the offices aren't closed, but you know, we're always on.
You know, we're always on with our clients. But you know,
Thanksgiving is really, you know, a special time I think
where you get a chance to really be thankful for
what you have and you know what you have around you.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Well, I'll tell you what, Even on Thanksgiving, if somebody
gets into an accident, you'll have somebody working at eight
hundred three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine, Right, somebody
calls that number, your office is going to respond.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Yeah, we don't we don't have holidays. We're always available.
We always have you know, a team that's available to
talk to people because I think you know, when you're
in an accident, it's a traumatic time, and you know,
it's not a time where you want to call somebody
and you get a voicemail. You want to call people
that are going to be there for you. And we're
(37:45):
always there for our clients, at least to give them,
you know, some hope that you know everything will be okay.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Jacob, what what what keeps you going? Keeps you so
passionate after twenty eight years in the business helping people,
helping your clients? What is it that keeps you going man,
and make you be one of the most trusted names
out there when it comes to personal injury.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Well, you know, I appreciate that, Rodney. I think what
keeps me going is really the people. It's the you know,
one of the reasons I love doing personal injury law
is because you get a chance to meet individuals who
have been harmed by you know, the fault of somebody else,
not necessarily intentionally, but you know, the negligence of another person,
(38:37):
and you get a chance to help them out. You know,
you get a chance to help them out at some
of their toughest times. In their life. And you know,
most people, unless you've been involved in an accident, they
envision somebody getting hit, not a big deal, maybe a
little bit of pain and everything's fine. But that's far
from it. I mean, people's lives are affected. You know,
(38:59):
people be having financial problems. Now they get involved in
an accident. Now they can't go to work, so you
know there's pressure there. The car gets damaged, the other
party doesn't want to fix it, so now they're without
a car for a month, they can't get the kids
to school. There's a lot of you know, little things
(39:20):
that happened that unless you've gone through it, you can't
really appreciate. And I think my team and I get
a chance to see that every day, and those are
just the basic type of accidents. You know. Then we
get a phone call, you know, just this week, got
a phone call from this incredible lady who had called
us because her daughter had been involved in an accident
(39:40):
in Lancaster, had gotten hit by a big rick trailer
and had passed away on the spot. And you know,
having to console her, you know, for the first conversation
is not easy. And then she tells me twenty one
years ago she had lost her son to an autom accident.
(40:02):
You know, there's a lot of stories that you know,
we here and we get involved in. And that's what
drives me because if I can just get you know,
as much just as as I can for that mom,
for that you know, dad, for that brother or sister,
then you know it's been a good day because I
(40:23):
can't change the facts of what occurs, but I can
help them at least, you know, get better and you know,
move on. It's difficult, guys. We see a lot of
difficult things.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
So and Jacob, when somebody goes through something like that,
they never get over it, right, they just learn how
to deal with it.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Yeah, And you know the problem is I always tell
our clients who've maybe lost somebody in an accident, and guys,
a lot of accidents occur where there's fatalities. You have
people who are involved in major, major accidents. We're dealing
with a client who is a wide share drive whose
car ended up blowing a tire and he pulled over
(41:05):
with his passenger to the side of the street and
as he was fixing, you know, the tire, he gets
hit by a vehicle and unfortunately has to amputate his
right leg due to how bad that accident was. And
they're in the hospital and the wife calls us. They have,
you know, five kids. They don't know where the money's
(41:25):
going to come from. And you're right, coping is an
important part. But we always like to tell our clients
they need to heal while we deal with the legal
side of it. And trust me, no insurance company on
the other side is going to say, oh, you know,
your husband, you know is bad the injuries, let us
take care of you. Their job is trying to pay
as little as possible, and our job is to make
(41:48):
sure that they don't get away with, you know, with
their responsibility.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Well, Jacob, it's good to know that you are out
there for the people of southern California. And if you
don't know it, I mean we tell you every day,
but it's really important to remember. Jacob has a new
phone number you can go to call Jacob dot com
online at any point. But eight hundred three four five
sixty seven eight nine, eight hundred three four five six
seven eight nine, Jacob, you and the family have a
(42:19):
terrific Thanksgiving. Thank you for your friendship, and we'll talk
to you next week.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
And guys, I want to say during this pre Thanksgiving
how thankful I am for all their years of relationship
that I have with you guys and everybody at the station.
And I really do appreciate that we get as tends
to you know, talk every single week and share information.
And I am thankful to call you guys my friends.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
So happy Thanksgiving one hundred percent. Jacob, thank you so much,
and you are one of our friends as well. Man,
thank you for being who you are. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Okay, maybe we have found out what's wrong with the
Raiders now that'll be coming up. That'll be coming up
next hour. But when we come back, the man in
the Big Chair, Net Coletti joins the show
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