The Dodgers traded Gavin Lux to Cincinatti. Could MLB change its rules so that teams can't defer payments? Bradley Beal to the Lakers? Doubtful
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, there we go, Fred Rogan, Rodney, Pete Ai
se La Sports off the top today, Rodney is everything
okay where you're at.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
No, it's crazy windy. Dogs are freaking out, fred Cats
are jumping everywhere. It's a madhouse where I am in
the valley. A lot of wind. And then there's some
fires happening around, you know, popping up different places. Palisades
got some fires. I know, some places out out really
out west and getting some fires. But yeah, the wind
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is crazy right now. So Panica, the internet went out
for a while for this morning. All right.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So my son lives Josh in Studio City with his
fiance and they live in an Adu in the back
of her parents' house, which is about eight minutes from
our house.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Rodney, Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
He sends me a video this morning of this giant tree.
I mean it was enormous, like a tree that had
been there thirty five forty years, blowing down and brushing
the top of a car crashing into the street, and
it was the length of the street, the width of
the street, and it just missed demolishing the car. I went,
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oh my god, where did that come from? That was
at his front yard. That was his future mother in
law's car. Oh wow, it would have crushed it to smithereens.
This wind is nothing to fool around with. There's a
brush fire in Palisage right now, two hundred plus acres.
Winds are augusting at fifty miles an hour. I understand
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Ventura County is going to get at the worst. But
it's supposed to hit the Valley Rodney, the San Fernando
Valley this afternoon. All I can say is, buckle down.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Buckle down. And if it's supposed to hit and what
did we hit this morning? What was that? If it's
not I it's supposed to hit the valley because we
got it bad. As you mentioned, your son Josh told
you about it. Yeah, we had some trees that were
not quite like that. But we're leaning sideways and if
we haven't gotten the worst of it, I can't imagine
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and what that's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, it's supposed to continue, So please be careful if
you are driving, be very very careful. I knew somebody
that was out on the freeway this morning driving and
that car was being blown back and forth, back and forth,
side to side. This is nothing to fool around with
be careful.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Even if you're in a car like you said, yeah,
that wind is strong enough to move it side and
all it takes is a little bit, you know, moving
into one lane another lane, and then all of a
sudden you're in an accident. So yeah, be conscious of that.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Especially our listeners that are drivers delivering people. This is
not a very good day for them. So everybody be
hyper vigilant. Please be careful, please please be careful. Okay,
well we talked about this when the Dodgers signed their
new infielder from Korea, and we thought, what's going to
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happen to Gavinlocks? What will happen to him? I mean,
you have signed somebody to a three year deal that
is supposed to be an outstanding defender, a lot of speed,
they said, a little soft on the stick, but Dodger
staff believes they can get him to hit the ball.
But what will happen to Gavinlocks? And yesterday it finally happened.
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Gavin Loocks is the odd man out. It finally happened.
And I think you brought this up on Friday, Rodney.
I think you brought this very question up on Friday,
and you said, what's going to happen to Gavinlocks. Yeah, yeah,
and I believe I said he's a tweinger that I
don't think they really know what to do. They don't
think he's hit his ceiling, but I don't know how
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much higher his ceiling is because they stuck by him,
and they hung by him, and they fought for him.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But finally it happened and he had a good year. Man,
I mean, coming off the injury, he had a good year. Actually,
down to stretch, he was he was pretty good. He
was a he was a very important part. I think
he ended up playing pretty much every day towards the
end and about the playoffs, whereas before I think he
was on a little bit of a platoon thing. But yeah, yeah,
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I think, and you talked about it. You know, he's
still got Chris Taylor, who can you know, obviously plays
a lot of second base and then fielding all around.
And then we also talked about key K. What happens
with key K? You know, and I know we all
know Kek is a fan favorite, he's a Dodger favorite,
and they're gonna find a way to keep him around.
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Do you think that solidifies Kyk is coming back now?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I think it makes it see him a lot better possibility. Yeah,
because no, and we talked about it. Look, somebody had
to go, Yeah, somebody had to go. And I read
the other day, well maybe they were talking about Mickey Rojas.
I couldn't see that happening though. I couldn't see them
moving him. And by the way, if they were to
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trade him for who and what, because he's a very
valuable player in his role and he can get hot
and he can play defense, but he can also he
gets nicked up and dinged up and banged up, so
he's not gonna be an everyday shortstop for anybody. So
I couldn't I read it, But I.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Didn't hurt him interest in him though, right there were
there are there are a few clubs that were interested
in in in Miggey Row because we threw him out
there is maybe he is. He may be the guy
that goes now that Mookie's gonna be the everyday shortstop.
But it turned out to be Gavin Lux. Do you
think they got enough for Gavin Lux?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
See that's the question, that's the question. And and I
think there's a backstory here. David Vassil come out at
two o'clock and we'll discuss it more. But the guy
they got for Gavin Lux is a guy they wanted
a long time ago. His name is Mike sar Rooda.
He was drafted in twenty twenty one by the Dodgers,
but he didn't sign with them then. It was the
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third round pick of the Reds in twenty four. He
hasn't even played in a minor league game yet. So
back twenty twenty one, the Dodgers targeted Sarota. That was
the guy they want. They draft him out of high school, right, Yeah,
that was the guy they wanted him. Then he wasn't ready.
So when they had a chance to go and get
him again, they did it, and they gave up. They
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gave the Reds a starting second basement. So they must
think pretty highly of this kid Sarota if they went
out three four years later and traded for him after
missing on him in twenty twenty one, So there must
be something to him. He's twenty one years old. Yeah,
there must be something to him.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, I mean I think oftentimes if you like a
kid coming out of high school who's a talented player
and sounds like I mean, I don't know his story,
but it sounds like he opted not to sign out
of high school and continue to play and then got
drafted again by the Reds. But you never take your
eye off him. You keep your eye on those kind
of kids. And evidently they something when he was coming
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out of high school and they like something now which
made him pull the trigger. But you're right, they have
to really like something to give up Gavin lux for him.
And it's what the other thing is what a conditional
draft choice? I mean, it's really him, It's really the
player that they were happy on high on Now.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I'm sure the Reds feel very good about this. They
got a bond to find second basement, they got, they
got a real player, they got a big league player,
and they have to believe with still good upside. So
how do we sum up Gavin Lutz's career in LA.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Mm hmmm. I think the first thing that pops in
my head is, man, it was it was incomplete, right,
it was incomplete because I think that the year before
the injury, he was slotted to be the everyday second
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basement or every day shortstop. Right when ain't gonna be
he was gonna be the every day short stuff. Yeah,
he Turner left and he was gonna be the every
day short stuff. Got hurt the last week of spring
training and towards knee, missed that whole season, struggled when
he first came back, but then got on a got
on a roll, and I think he was just coming
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into his own. He had some big hits for the Dodgers,
big plays for the Dodgers. I think he was just
coming back into his own because you remember early on
it was like it was so high on him, but
you didn't feel like he was ready. He didn't burst
on the scene right. He was a big time high prospect, uh,
you know from Wisconsin, right and and and it just
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didn't materialize right away, you know, like we've seen with
guys like Corey Seeger and and Cody Bellinger where they
burst on the scene after getting a lot of pub
And it didn't feel like he did that. It was
kind of a gradual grow. And then the year I
think that he had his best year was last year.
And so we really I don't think we really got
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to see the total best of Gavin Luck. I think
he's got a lot more in a tank. Okay, So
that's one way to look at it. And here's the
other way to look at it.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
That is the tank. He might have a little more,
but that's it. The ceiling isn't that much higher now.
The Dodgers gave him every opportunity, and the injury was
just tragic and devastating and curtailed what could have been
a very long run in LA. But it happened. I
don't think he ever fulfilled whatever extreme promise they thought
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he had, And maybe that's unfair. Maybe it's unfair to
put on him. Maybe they expected too much out of him.
Maybe when they analyzed, they thought this guy could be
a superstar. He's not. I don't think he's a superstar.
I think he's a solid player. I think he's a
young player. I think he has a big league career.
But they probably thought that Kim, the Korean second baseman
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that they hired, has more of an side and if
that was the case, who also hits left handed? If
that was the case, then they made the right call. Yeah,
So then the question becomes, Okay, you trade Gavin Lucke,
you insert Kim. Are you better today than you were
last week? That's the question, really, right, because what you're
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trying to do is improve every day. Are you better
today than you were last week? I gotta think the
answer is.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yesmer Brandy, yes, yes, or or yes or we're definitely
not worse.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I think yes, we're better. How do you know?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You don't even know if this kid can play.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
You're better. That's what I think. They believe we are
better today than we were a week ago. I do
not think their their thought processes, we're not worse. I
think they believe we're better. We'll find out if we're better.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Thank you well. I think that Thopas two is somebody
had to go. Somebody had to go. Who is gonna go?
Who's gonna go? Somebody had to go. And with them
signing Kim and having Chris Taylor and Key k and
even you know Tommy Edmond who can come in and
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play in field, I mean they've got a pluthorough Miggi
Rojas can play any position. He got a plethora up
guys that can play in field. It was not enough,
not enough room. There's not enough room. Somebody had to
go and and Gavin Lux became the odd man out. Yeah,
I don't know. Production wise, Gavin Lux was big for
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them last year down the stretch Fredd. I don't know
they I mean the things he did were pretty good
for them and had some big hits for him, and
then you're talking about somebody that's unproven. I don't know.
I think it's more of the somebody. There was no
way they could keep all of those guys with Key K,
Chris Taylor, Gavin Lux and signing this kid.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
So when Brandon Golds was on last week after Tiascar
Hernandez's news conference, I am ask them the question about uh,
about the new second basement they signed and what it
all meant. Now, let's see if we can take anything
from this answer.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, I think those are We would love to have
those good problems as we've had over the last few years.
Those things tend to work themselves out, you know, whether
it be injuries or guys just playing into a more
consistent role. And you know, one of the things that
Top does such a great job of is making sure
guys are staying relevant and mixing in because it is
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a long season and having guys fresh for the stretch
run in October is really important. So as these guys perform,
you know, things inevitably happen to allow for some consistent
playing time, So I don't see that being a factor.
If you know, if all those things play.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Out, Okay, Well, the question was, you know, what do
you do? What do you do if Kim is such
a good player, he's got to be in the lineup,
right and you have all these guys, what do you do?
So well, you know that's a good problem to have. Well,
they they eliminated part of that problem.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Now, yeah, it was abundance of riches, you know. And
I think they I think, I really think that the
trying to figure out what to do with Keyk really
factored in it. This Keyk is such a favorite and
has produced so much for them in the postseason. I
think that.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
They had a priority try to sign him back.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Now we'll see that with that happened, But I think
that that that weighed into their decision making of who
was going to go because it's definitely too many. It
was too many cooks in that kitchen.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And again we'll keep an eye on Mike Sroda. Just
remember that name. They wanted him before and they went
and got him this time. So there's got to be
something to him. Obviously the Reds didn't think so, but
the Dodgers really do. And the Dodgers are very analytical
and they have books on everybody. So we'll see how
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Soota plays out. One other thing I want to talk
about here in the first segment today Rodney former Marlin
front office executive David Sampson. He believes that the MLB
is going to change deferral rules because the Dodgers have
simply gone too far. They've taken advantage of the situation.
They have a billion dollars in deferrals. That's not what
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it was set up to be. And Samson now believes
it's really unfair and MLB will eventually change that rule
to stop teams from doing that. Do you think MLB
should do that? I well, first I'll say I think
they will. I think they will modify it because it
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feels like right now is just unlimited. You can do
whatever you want to do, And does that give somebody
a competitive advantage?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah? Probably, I think that they have to. It's almost
like to me, it's going to turn in into like
the college nil situation, where is a little bit of
town round sheriff and they're going to have to figure
out how to make that happen, because, yeah, a billion
dollars in deferrals when you when you think about it,
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First of all, not many teams can do that, and
the Dodgers are owned by, you know, some financial guys,
so they know how to make the money work. But
I could see other teams out there being jealous, and
they came down to a vote. I'm sure most of
the owners are going to vote against it. What do
you think? Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Well, I think I think the owners will definitely vote
to change it. Yeah, oh, one hundred percent. Because they
pleaded poverty. They can't do it. It's unfair and it's
hurting all of us. It's I don't get why in
pro sports, I really don't. You can plead this is unfair.
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It's unfair. What they're doing is unfair. It's just not right.
What's not right about it? When else do you get
to plead that in your life?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
That's not fair?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
That guy over there has four cars and I only
have one.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
That's not fair. What other business? What other business limits
what you can pay your employees? I mean what other business?
I mean the guy's out there, the guys out there
making a you know, two billion dollars a year, you know,
as the chief executive offers of Xyz Company or the
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Exxon Petroleum probably got fifteen of them making over billions
of dollars a year. So I mean, why is sports
the only profession that limits what you can play your
paying employees?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Right? Do Apple and Google have a conversation and decide, well,
we're going to limit the amount of money we pay
our executives. Is that how it works? Does Nissan have
a conversation with Mercedes Benz and they decide, well, we
can't pay our executives any more than this.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
It's just.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
My god. If you do a better job of operating
your company and you make more money, well that's unfair
to us. So we're going to equal the playing field.
We're going to level it so everybody has a chance.
How does that work in life? Does everybody have an
equal chance at everything? They really don't. Your goal in
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life and for the majority of people, is to overcome
your environment and do the very best you can. We
all come from a certain place, We've all grown up
a certain way. We've all dealt with individual hardships, some
worse than others, but that's life, and we've all dealt
with those. Why would you say, well, the Dodgers have
done something that makes an awful lot of sense, and
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by the way, financially, they can. But that's unfair to
everybody else. Why does it have to be fair to
everybody else? Why it doesn't have to be fair to
Ardi Moreno, it doesn't have to be fair to al Steinbrenner. Yeah,
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it to be fair to the Ricketts family in Chicago.
It doesn't have to be fair. Why does it have
to be fair?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
It doesn't.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Is it fair? The Rams play in beautiful Sofi Stadium
and the Browns play where they play? Probably not? Is
it fair? But it is what it is. If that
was the case, why wouldn't everybody play in the exact
same stadium. Every stadium was built the exact same way,
with the exact same dimensions, in the exact same seating.
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That would be fair. Nobody could make more money than
anybody else from attendance. Why wouldn't we do that? Make
it fair? Everything looks alike, everything is alike.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
That would be fair.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Then you couldn't distinguish between anything, but everybody would It
would be fair. Why don't we do that? So when
David Samson says the Dodgers have gone too far, too far,
aware we have they gone too far. They didn't violate
the rules, they didn't break the rules, they didn't right
the rules, they lived within the rules. Well, how could
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you go too far? Those are the rules? Maybe the
rules are unfair.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
And as good as the Dodgers are and were last year,
and granted, everybody has injuries. Now there's such an abundance
of good players in professional sports that there's not enough
room on one team to have everybody. And as good
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as the Dodgers were in their roster, it was still competitive.
There was dogfights for the Dodgers. Now, look at they
kind of rolled the Yankees, but leading up to that,
that Padres series was giveing go anybody's ballgame and it
could have gone either way, argue. Some would argue that
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the Padres had more talent at that time. So you know,
there's teams out there now, you're looking at the Mets.
The Mets got talent. There's teams out there that have talent.
There's abundance of players nowadays, and this is not nineteen
seventy five, where you know ownerships and the owners of
these teams are you know, they're not billionaires like they
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were like they are now. Now. Everybody that owns a
team is in the billions. They're in the billions. Now,
there's a handful they're not still they're mom and pops
that are still out there. But if you're owning a
team in twenty twenty five, the money part should not
be the option should not be the hole back right
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to your point, it should not be fair. If you
got it, you can spend it how you want to
spend it.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
To your point, the Pindaris are pretty good last year.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
We'll talk about them later because that make him crumbling down,
But we'll talk about that later. But they were pretty
good last year. Would you say, yes, I will make
the argument this second best team in baseball?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I would make the argument when the Dodgers beat the Padres,
that was the World Series. That's how good the Padres work.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Fair? Fair?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Okay, So if that had gone the other way, for
argument's sake, and the Padres had won, would anybody look
and say, well, the Dodgers, it's just unfair what they're doing.
It's unfair. No deferring all this money, that's unfair. If
the Padres had won last year, would anyone have had
a gripe with what the Dodgers did No nobody. You
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know why because in the minds of people, and people
are sheep, and sheep will follow a flock. In the
minds of the sheeple, if the Dodgers had not won
last year, it didn't work, and the perception would have been,
it doesn't matter how much money you spent. See, these
guys think they're so big and bad, and they spent
all this money. It didn't work. Nobody would complain. Nobodybody
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would complain.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
You're right. But because they won, because they took it all.
Now it's a problem. Now it's a problem. And people
think they dominated it. They think they rolled through. The
regular season. Was a dogfight too to win the West. Well,
the way people are talking, they lost twenty games all year, right, right,
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it was a dog fight for the Dodgers to win
the West and then get to the World Series.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
So you're right.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Had they not won, people would have like pointed their
finger and laughed at the Dodgers. See, ha ha. They
spent all that money and deferred all that and gave
old Tany all this and you know, Yama Modo all
the money and glass now all the money, and they
still didn't win.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Ha.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Ha, Right, they're idiots the way they're idiots. You used
to point out the Yankees. Oh they didn't win, they
spent all the money.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Hi pay.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yankees.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Right, they're idiots. They look like fools. We would never
do that. We're smarter than that. We would never be
in that position. We would never do that kind of
thing because we know it doesn't work unless it does. Yes,
and when it does, all of a sudden, Well, now
the Dodgers have made a mistake, and it's unfair to everybody. Look,
you're not gonna win the World Series every year. It's
not gonna happen. Listen, We've sat here and we've watched this.
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You know how fragile it is. You know how it
could go any way at any point. You know, one
or two injuries and you're out. You know, if you
don't hit October with the right momentum, you're debt. We
know that, we've lived it, we've seen the movie. We
got it. So there's no guarantee, no matter how much
money you defer, that you're gonna win the World Series.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
But I'll tell you this. I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Given the way the Dodgers are operating, they are making
a statement to their fan base and their market. We're
in it to win it. We are investing in the team,
you are investing in us. We are all investing together.
That's the statement here. When you plead poverty, you don't
have the investment, but the Dodgers do and they are investing,
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and in return, the fans invest. What do you think
when you go to Pittsburgh there's nobody in the Crown
or Cincinnati. I've been to a day game in Cincinnati.
There's nobody there. Why well, Cincinnati is not as big
as La. No, it's because they're not investing, so the
fans aren't as invested. Now at Dodgers Stadium, you don't
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want to miss a game Rodney. And we know for
some you have a mortgage your house to go. Got
it understood. That's the price of doing business. Now when
you have a team like this, Yeah, it sucks. The
place to be it's the place to be, right.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
You've got to go.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Sort of like back in the day when the Laker
games were the place to be, you had to be there,
you had to go. Now the Dodgers play eighty one
times and you still have to go. You have to
be there. That's because of the investment they have made
in the marketplace and the team. So why don't they
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have that in Tampa? Why don't they have that in Miami?
Why don't they have that every day in clean Eveland?
Why why don't the White Sox have that? Because they
haven't invested, and because a White Sox suck, but because
they haven't invested. People not invest in you unless you
invest in them, and to invest in them, you have
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to do things.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
To show people you're serious. Absolutely, when people complain about
the Dodgers deferring money and spending money, well that's your problem.
They have shown everyone in this city they're serious.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
They're serious, and that's okay.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, And as much as you know, they're on the
other side of the country. But don't you got to
love what Cohen is doing with the Mets. He's not
afraid to spend the money. If you're a Mets fan,
you gotta be excited about what he's doing with that team.
You may not like him, you may rub you the
wrong way, but the fact that is, he ain't cheap.
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He is going to do what it takes to bring
a winner. And that's his mentality. And like I said,
this twenty twenty five. You can't be cheap as an owner.
It doesn't work. And always, whether it's paying your players,
whether it's your stadium, whether it's your the the environment
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that the fans come in, you gotta you better make
it right. You think stan KRUNKI spent that money and
went over the budget to build so Far. It is
now the mecca it is. It is a place to be.
People want to go see a game at so Far.
It is that beautiful. So you better make it right
if you're an owner and you cannot be cheap these days.
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You know, the one thing I hit it when people
say I told you so, hate it, hate it, But
I told you so, And that's next.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It is a beautiful Tuesday, beautiful but wendy Tuesday. So
be careful out there. Winds are still going picking up
as Fred said, it gonna pick up even more in
the afternoon. So if you don't have to be out there,
don't get out there. And if you're in an area
where there's fires and could be fires, just be safe.
Don't wait for the last minute to evacuate. When they
tell you to get out, you got to get out
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right now. Yeah, Pacific Palisades is still bad. I'm looking
right now at a car in pch that is just
on fire. Oh no, it's on fire. People are staring
at the car. People are trying to get out of
the way. So don't make the mistake. I'm thinking you're
a hero if somebody tells you to go, go evacuate.
And if you are driving, please understand it is so
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windy and your car could be blown. You could be swerving.
Be careful. I'm just looking at some pictures of the coast.
How gray and dark it is over by a palisades
up in that area. It's just ooh, really bad, really bad. Okay,
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see the plane flying through frit Yeah, well, I know
the president President Biden.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
People said, well, the President is coming to the Coachella
Valley to name this national monument. And then of course
they thought, well it was Trump. No, he's not the
president yet, it's President Biden. And I started laughing, Oh, no,
Trump will be here. No, it's still Biden. He's the
president and he was going to come out here. He
landed at Lax He was supposed to come out and
(28:30):
I don't know, sign the paperwork and christened this national
monument called Chuck Walla. His play never took off from Lax.
He turned around and went back to Washington.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah he did.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
That's how bad it is. He couldn't even fly to
Palm Springs from Los Angeles, which is like a twenty
five minute flight, So it is bad. Be careful, all right.
So Lakers lost to Houston. They came back from twenty
two down on Sunday, and that's good, another moral victory.
Houston jung and athletic and the Lakers weren't run off
the floor and they were able to come back, and
kind of that's where we're at, right, that's kind of
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where we're at.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Hey, well that was a good kid. Don't get beat
too bad.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, just don't go out there and you know, against
a good team, don't get smoked.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
So that was good.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, yeah, that's a good one for the Lakers. You know,
trade deadlines are coming up. They will not be hunting
for a superstar. That's what dan Wyki reported. They will
not be hunting for a superstar because they still feel
scorned by the Russell Westbourg deal. Now here's why I
bring that up. So, you know, Bradley Beal is somebody
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that may be leaving Phoenix. He's got a no trade,
so he's got to approve wherever he goes. They've sat
him on the bench. They want him to go. And
when I told you in the teas, I told you so.
I told you when Bradley Beal was acquired by the Suns,
they were finished. They would not win, they would not
win a title. And they have not won a title.
And now Bradley Beal has to go. He's got two
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years left on his deal. He makes forty million dollars
a year. Who wants that deal?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Who wants it?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Who wants that deal? It was a bad decision by
the Suns. You know why the Sons did that because
their new owner came in and he wanted to make
a splash and show everybody were all in. And that
was the incorrect way to do it.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Big three with no bench and nobody else to play
with the big three. That's exactly what I said when
they did it. Well let's go back to Russell Westbrook
and the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Well, now what do you do? You got no other players.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
It was stupid.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
It was a bad decision, and perhaps it was done
out of excitement and trying to get fans to understand
that he was all in. But it's just your franchise
back and it's a bad call.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Just is.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
And the way these teams are now constructed in the NBA,
you're in trouble. I have to tell you. If you
have somebody on your roster for a long period of time,
you're in trouble because unless that person is an incredibly
talented superstar beyond all belief, you're in trouble.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Because you're stuck with him. And to make it worse,
you traded for him. And now what are you going
to do with him? He ruined your opportunity. Well, he
didn't do what he's a human being.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
You did by making that move, So acquiring Bradley Beal
would be insanity. They can't do it. This is when
fans start playing the name game. Oh my god, Bradley
Beal will hell, we ought to go get him right
now if he's available. No, we shouldn't. No, we should
not go get Bradley Beal right now. The son should
not have traded for Bradley Beal, a guy making forty
(31:33):
million dollars a year. I mean, if you're a Laker
fan and you know they are what they are, they
do what they do great. But if you're a Laker
fan and you know Lebron plays above all levels of expectation,
you know, not every night, but i'd say more than not.
He's pretty good. He's pretty good, and you got to
see him.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
But you understand if let's say that hasn't that been
proven though right now, like let's go back to the
days where it takes and that takes two, it takes,
it takes at least five, and then you better have
a bench. You better have seven guys that can play. Yes,
you better have seven guys that can play. We saw
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it last and when the year that Ad and Lebron
had last year and they still had to go to
the play in game, right.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Because you can't building correctly because you're paying two guys
too much. Yes, So if you like Lebron you want
to see him playing, maybe you should. And if you haven't,
you really should go watch him. If you want to
go watch the Lakers win the NBA Championship, don't go.
Don't go. As constructed, they can't win. You're paid a
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forty year old guy sixty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
He needs help. I don't know if he could have
done it by himself when he was twenty five years old,
twenty seven years old. I don't know, but certainly not
at this point. No, not now. So then you're bringing
Bradley Beal. What's that gonna do? Nothing? You're gonna do
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absolutely nothing. But it is Rodney. What's it gonna do
besides people go, oh god, we have Bradley Beal. I
won't go back and get Chris Paul. He's available. I'm
sure once you go get him. Want you bring Dominique
Wilkins out of retirement. Let's go be him. Hey that
cod with nick I interestand but he's not quite the
guy was. I remember at the end of Metaworld piece
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he went up to Donkey couldn't get the ball over
the rim. I mean, you can't do that anymore. You
can't go out and get these guys anymore. Stop committing
all of this money to these guys. You've got to
build a team. You nailed it. You nailed it. You
got to build a team, not two guys or three
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and everybody else shows up. It doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
No, but you will. People will say, well, how did
Boston do it? Boston's got a big payroll. They're paying
two guys max and they got just paid another guy
who's their fifth starter, a bunch of money. They're paying Porzingis.
How does Boston do it? Fred? Two of those guys.
(34:16):
They drafted two of those guys. They drafted teams guys
that are paying the max too, But.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
They drafted them, so they can do that. I think
you can go out and support them with other players.
That's how they did it. How did OKC do it?
Or how are they doing it? They haven't won it yet,
but they're pretty good. You could argue the best team
in the West. Well, they just gave everything up and
(34:43):
started again. And now look at them, and they got
they they got the right guy to lead them through
the way. Imagine who Clippers still had SGA and who
fought to draft him. Whose idea was it to draft
him for the clip? Jerry West, that was the guy.
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Jerry said, go get Sga.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Look at him now.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Now, I don't fault the Clippers for making that move
at that time.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
They went for it.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
I give them credit.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
They went for They got Paul Georgan, right, they got
Paul George and they got who else? Oh?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I got Kawhi that was the deal. I'm Paul Paul George.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
He got Paul George and then they gave up with
what else did they give up? But they but you're right.
Oklahoma City said, Okay, we'll take s g A and
we'll build around him. We'll build it through the draft.
It's Chet Holmgren. We'll get some other guys around him
and we'll be pretty good in two three years. And yeah,
because they had a team. Mm hmm, right, you can't.
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That's not gonna happen with Bradley Beal. That's not gonna happen,
you know.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Jimmy Butler, that's another one. No, no, no, Jimmy Butler. No,
Jimmy Butler. No, we don't need Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler just a misdisgruntled guy. Every three
years he's disgruntled, wants to get out of somewhere. It's
the beautiful, best place in the world, and in three
years he's ready to go.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Yeah. No, Jimmy Butler, that's another guy. No, stop stop
playing the name game.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
All right.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Next hour with the Salta Adam Austin will join the program.
We'll get more into it. Also some turmoil with the
Padres we'll get into as well.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
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a much anticipated debut album and the Works that will
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Speaker 1 (37:13):
All right now our first weekly chatter the year with
our friend Jacob and Ronnie and Jacob.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Happy New Year, Happy year, gentlemen. How are you fantastic?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Fantastic Jacob, thank you very much for asking.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
I hope you both had an incredible New Year. And
I always get a smile on my face when I
get to start the new year with my two good,
good good friends right home.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Jacob, let me ask you a question. What time do
you go to bed on New Year's Eve? You go
to bed at nine thirty. You watch the East Coast,
you stay up from midnight.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
No, this year, I went to bed after after midnight.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
You know, I was.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
I had an opportunity to to be with some great friends.
And you know, as the kids get a little bit
older and they can stay up a little bit, you
start to cherish some of those opportunities, uh, you know,
to make some memories with them. So that that's how
my New Years went this year.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
New Year's out here where I'm at ended six thirty at.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Night, when you're a bit you're at bed seven.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Good night, everybody happy new.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
I mean, I know, make the East Coast be yeah,
different time zone.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Used to be friend you Okay, I'll stay up with
an East Coast and go to bed. Now you now
you're doing it in London. You making sure the London
London New Year happens.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
You're out.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
That's exactly right. I can see that happening, all right, Jacob.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
So here we go. The trade deadline is just around
the corner. You are a proud partner and big time
Laker fan. You've got the inside, Jacob. What are they
gonna do?
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Well? First of all, I don't know what you guys
think I'm sure you guys are chatted about this. I
you know, didn't mind that, you know, trade for Dorian
Finny Smith and Shake Milton. I think everything that I've
been hearing is that what you know Dorian Finney Smith
does does not show up in the box score. But
he's a great locker room guy. A lot of people,
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you know, we're comparing him to a CACP type of guy. Well,
he'll do the dirty work. He's good for the locker room,
you know, which appears to be a sort of an
addition right off the bat. And you know, from everything
I'm hearing is, you know, so many things are popping
up that our new stories that you know, we're gonna
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stay nice and patient, hoping that we get the right opportunity.
And just like every year, I don't think we're going
to panic into anything you know that's going to handcuff
us for the next few years.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
And and by not doing much or trying to really
go out and make a big flag, you know, people
will often say it, have said in the past couple
of years, with time is ticking, with Lebron here and
even with ad here now, so why are we not
being ultra aggressive at this time of the year.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
Jacob, Yeah, I think. I think. I think sometimes when
you are ultra aggressive, you end up, you know, getting
into a worse situation. I mean, I remember a few
years back when they you know, had a trade in
place for Buddy Healed and potentially enough money to go
out and get DeMar DeRozan, and last second, they felt
that just because then Nets you know, had three stars
(40:33):
and they were supposed to be their favorite, you know,
KD was there and Harden was there, and uh, you know,
they felt they had to go out there and get
Russ and they ended up getting a lot out and
that didn't really work out at least, you know, not
for us. So I think you got to be ultra aggressive.
I think the need for a big center, a backup
center is you know, the most important thing you need
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to do. I think you need to do what you
need obviously off an opportunity, you know, for a star
you know, shows up, then you go get that star.
But just trying to bring somebody who's a star doesn't
necessarily mean that you're going to become a tremendously better team.
And I think we saw that a few years ago
with the you know, with the trade they made for us.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Yeah, here's the thing. I call it the name game.
Don't play the name game. The name game is oh
my god, is he Bradley Beal? Is he available? Well,
we've got to grab Bradley Beal right now, don't play
the name game. That's how you get into trouble. You
have to make smart, calculated moves. You have to have
a plan. You can't just grab somebody because everybody knows them,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
Yeah, look, you're or you're you're watching Okay, see out there.
I still watch that team and I don't know half
those people that are running around on that team, and
you know, they're winning and they all just look like
you know, college kids that just came out. And honestly,
there's there's not a real known name except for you know,
Shay and those guys are getting the job done. And
(41:58):
I think you know, if you look at Okay see
rebuilding for the second time. They did it one time
with good draft picks. They had Harden, they had Russ,
they had KD and you know, they made some deep
runs and then they went back and they started all over.
I know, you know, La is not the type of
town where we like to, you know, break it all
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down and start all over. As fans, we will not
accept that. But with you know what's happening right now,
with the salary cap and you know, the first apron
and second apron and all that other stuff, it's just
a lot more difficult for you to go make major trades.
But I think there's still a lot of small trades
and we still have ad, we still have Lebron. You know,
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Reeves is playing well. I think the trade ever since
d Loo's gone. You know, Max Christy has shown what
you know, we all have been hoping for him to do.
So I think you've got some pieces and you're hoping
that the right opportunity falls in your lap so you
can go get it done so we can have a
deeper playoff run than we've had in the past.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Yeah, no doubt. Jacob. On on a serious note of
what's going on today, man, with with all the high winds,
we often talk about the weather and if it's raining
out there, what did you do? And and on on
holidays like New Year's like we just talked about how
you know what you to do and signs to be
aware of when it's windy like this, and the dangers
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of of high voltage and fires and things like that,
it's got to be more heightened sensitivity. And then in
your business, I mean, are you do you hear more
and more, get more and more calls in this type
of weather.
Speaker 4 (43:38):
Absolutely, And I think it's important to talk about it.
I mean, you know, we've had cases where tractor trailers
are going through the wind and they try to make
a turn and with the winds and everything, you have
the trailer slip over.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (43:52):
You know, we're currently working on a case that about
a year and a half ago, because of the you know,
incredible winds, power lines basically came down and literally took
off the top the basically the top of a car,
one of our clients' cars and have major, major injuries.
And you know, we settle that case for multi million dollars.
(44:16):
And I think the reason it's important to talk about
things like this is that when the conditions out there
are not normal, we all react different ways. But when
you've got wins like this, there's a lot of you know,
additional distractions that are occurring to the drivers, and you
just have to be really really careful. You have to
(44:38):
be aware of your surroundings and you just need to
make sure to get yourself out of harm's way. I mean, today,
we already know the Malibu fires are going crazy. You know,
we've seen We've gotten a lot of calls where you know,
we had a call this morning that a tree fell
on a car that our client was sitting in outside
parked and a tree fell on carn you know, we're
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meeting with that client in the afternoon. So unfortunately, there's
a lot of stuff that happens, and I just want
to make sure the listeners know that, you know, you
just have to be super safe and if you have questions,
obviously you know I'm here, our team is here in
order to talk to you. There's no you know, there's
no such thing as a bad question, and we just
want to be there for everybody.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Right Well, Jason, Jacob, great advice, Thanks for coming on.
I showed I talked earlier. I'm proud of my son's house.
A giant tree and they caught it on the ring
camera came crashing down and almost smashed his future mother
in law's car, just missed it. Yeah, And the tree
was so large, Jacob, it covered the width.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Of the street.
Speaker 4 (45:44):
Well, wow, yeah, I'm telling you things like this are happening,
and you know, you don't realize it. You know, they
call it a freak accident, but there's nothing freak about that.
I mean, you know, there's a lot of old trees.
I mean, we do a lot of treecases unfortunately, and
sometimes you know, they lay they blame it on the
tree not being upcapped. Sometimes they say it's the tree
that's been gone on this long. Is it the city?
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Is it from a private property? So there's a lot
of you know, complicated stuff that we have to maneuver
through when we get a call, as you know, as
simple as a tree fell on me or you know,
ran into a tree because as I was driving it
just kind of landed in front of me, and then
we have to do all the research to find out
whether it's a city claim, whether it's a private property. So,
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I mean that's what we're here for. You know, we
want people to be safe. You know, give us the headaches,
and if you are injured, we want you to get better.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
All right, Jacob, thank you, and I look forward to
giving you every headache I ever get.
Speaker 4 (46:39):
Thanks you, guys. I look forward to coming to seeing
you guys in person, hopefully so.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
All right, Jacob, take care, all right, bye bye, Hey,
Cawi is back. That means we have to bring the
salty A back for his first appearance of twenty twenty five,
and that is next
All right, there we go, Fred Rogan, Rodney, Pete Ai
se La Sports off the top today, Rodney is everything
okay where you're at.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
No, it's crazy windy. Dogs are freaking out, fred Cats
are jumping everywhere. It's a madhouse where I am in
the valley. A lot of wind. And then there's some
fires happening around, you know, popping up different places. Palisades
got some fires. I know, some places out out really
out west and getting some fires. But yeah, the wind
(00:29):
is crazy right now. So Panica, the internet went out
for a while for this morning. All right.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So my son lives Josh in Studio City with his
fiance and they live in an Adu in the back
of her parents' house, which is about eight minutes from
our house.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Rodney, Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
He sends me a video this morning of this giant tree.
I mean it was enormous, like a tree that had
been there thirty five forty years, blowing down and brushing
the top of a car crashing into the street, and
it was the length of the street, the width of
the street, and it just missed demolishing the car. I went,
(01:07):
oh my god, where did that come from? That was
at his front yard. That was his future mother in
law's car. Oh wow, it would have crushed it to smithereens.
This wind is nothing to fool around with. There's a
brush fire in Palisage right now, two hundred plus acres.
Winds are augusting at fifty miles an hour. I understand
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Ventura County is going to get at the worst. But
it's supposed to hit the Valley Rodney, the San Fernando
Valley this afternoon. All I can say is, buckle down.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Buckle down. And if it's supposed to hit and what
did we hit this morning? What was that? If it's
not I it's supposed to hit the valley because we
got it bad. As you mentioned, your son Josh told
you about it. Yeah, we had some trees that were
not quite like that. But we're leaning sideways and if
we haven't gotten the worst of it, I can't imagine
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and what that's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, it's supposed to continue, So please be careful if
you are driving, be very very careful. I knew somebody
that was out on the freeway this morning driving and
that car was being blown back and forth, back and forth,
side to side. This is nothing to fool around with
be careful.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Even if you're in a car like you said, yeah,
that wind is strong enough to move it side and
all it takes is a little bit, you know, moving
into one lane another lane, and then all of a
sudden you're in an accident. So yeah, be conscious of that.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Especially our listeners that are drivers delivering people. This is
not a very good day for them. So everybody be
hyper vigilant. Please be careful, please please be careful. Okay,
well we talked about this when the Dodgers signed their
new infielder from Korea, and we thought, what's going to
(02:53):
happen to Gavinlocks? What will happen to him? I mean,
you have signed somebody to a three year deal that
is supposed to be an outstanding defender, a lot of speed,
they said, a little soft on the stick, but Dodger
staff believes they can get him to hit the ball.
But what will happen to Gavinlocks? And yesterday it finally happened.
(03:17):
Gavin Loocks is the odd man out. It finally happened.
And I think you brought this up on Friday, Rodney.
I think you brought this very question up on Friday,
and you said, what's going to happen to Gavinlocks. Yeah, yeah,
and I believe I said he's a tweinger that I
don't think they really know what to do. They don't
think he's hit his ceiling, but I don't know how
(03:39):
much higher his ceiling is because they stuck by him,
and they hung by him, and they fought for him.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But finally it happened and he had a good year. Man,
I mean, coming off the injury, he had a good year. Actually,
down to stretch, he was he was pretty good. He
was a he was a very important part. I think
he ended up playing pretty much every day towards the
end and about the playoffs, whereas before I think he
was on a little bit of a platoon thing. But yeah, yeah,
(04:07):
I think, and you talked about it. You know, he's
still got Chris Taylor, who can you know, obviously plays
a lot of second base and then fielding all around.
And then we also talked about key K. What happens
with key K? You know, and I know we all
know Kek is a fan favorite, he's a Dodger favorite,
and they're gonna find a way to keep him around.
(04:27):
Do you think that solidifies Kyk is coming back now?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I think it makes it see him a lot better possibility. Yeah,
because no, and we talked about it. Look, somebody had
to go, Yeah, somebody had to go. And I read
the other day, well maybe they were talking about Mickey Rojas.
I couldn't see that happening though. I couldn't see them
moving him. And by the way, if they were to
(04:53):
trade him for who and what, because he's a very
valuable player in his role and he can get hot
and he can play defense, but he can also he
gets nicked up and dinged up and banged up, so
he's not gonna be an everyday shortstop for anybody. So
I couldn't I read it, But I.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Didn't hurt him interest in him though, right there were
there are there are a few clubs that were interested
in in in Miggey Row because we threw him out
there is maybe he is. He may be the guy
that goes now that Mookie's gonna be the everyday shortstop.
But it turned out to be Gavin Lux. Do you
think they got enough for Gavin Lux?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
See that's the question, that's the question. And and I
think there's a backstory here. David Vassil come out at
two o'clock and we'll discuss it more. But the guy
they got for Gavin Lux is a guy they wanted
a long time ago. His name is Mike sar Rooda.
He was drafted in twenty twenty one by the Dodgers,
but he didn't sign with them then. It was the
(05:54):
third round pick of the Reds in twenty four. He
hasn't even played in a minor league game yet. So
back twenty twenty one, the Dodgers targeted Sarota. That was
the guy they want. They draft him out of high school, right, Yeah,
that was the guy they wanted him. Then he wasn't ready.
So when they had a chance to go and get
him again, they did it, and they gave up. They
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gave the Reds a starting second basement. So they must
think pretty highly of this kid Sarota if they went
out three four years later and traded for him after
missing on him in twenty twenty one, So there must
be something to him. He's twenty one years old. Yeah,
there must be something to him.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, I mean I think oftentimes if you like a
kid coming out of high school who's a talented player
and sounds like I mean, I don't know his story,
but it sounds like he opted not to sign out
of high school and continue to play and then got
drafted again by the Reds. But you never take your
eye off him. You keep your eye on those kind
of kids. And evidently they something when he was coming
(07:01):
out of high school and they like something now which
made him pull the trigger. But you're right, they have
to really like something to give up Gavin lux for him.
And it's what the other thing is what a conditional
draft choice? I mean, it's really him, It's really the
player that they were happy on high on Now.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I'm sure the Reds feel very good about this. They
got a bond to find second basement, they got, they
got a real player, they got a big league player,
and they have to believe with still good upside. So
how do we sum up Gavin Lutz's career in LA.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Mm hmmm. I think the first thing that pops in
my head is, man, it was it was incomplete, right,
it was incomplete because I think that the year before
the injury, he was slotted to be the everyday second
(07:57):
basement or every day shortstop. Right when ain't gonna be
he was gonna be the every day short stuff. Yeah,
he Turner left and he was gonna be the every
day short stuff. Got hurt the last week of spring
training and towards knee, missed that whole season, struggled when
he first came back, but then got on a got
on a roll, and I think he was just coming
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into his own. He had some big hits for the Dodgers,
big plays for the Dodgers. I think he was just
coming back into his own because you remember early on
it was like it was so high on him, but
you didn't feel like he was ready. He didn't burst
on the scene right. He was a big time high prospect, uh,
you know from Wisconsin, right and and and it just
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didn't materialize right away, you know, like we've seen with
guys like Corey Seeger and and Cody Bellinger where they
burst on the scene after getting a lot of pub
And it didn't feel like he did that. It was
kind of a gradual grow. And then the year I
think that he had his best year was last year.
And so we really I don't think we really got
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to see the total best of Gavin Luck. I think
he's got a lot more in a tank. Okay, So
that's one way to look at it. And here's the
other way to look at it.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
That is the tank. He might have a little more,
but that's it. The ceiling isn't that much higher now.
The Dodgers gave him every opportunity, and the injury was
just tragic and devastating and curtailed what could have been
a very long run in LA. But it happened. I
don't think he ever fulfilled whatever extreme promise they thought
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he had, And maybe that's unfair. Maybe it's unfair to
put on him. Maybe they expected too much out of him.
Maybe when they analyzed, they thought this guy could be
a superstar. He's not. I don't think he's a superstar.
I think he's a solid player. I think he's a
young player. I think he has a big league career.
But they probably thought that Kim, the Korean second baseman
(09:58):
that they hired, has more of an side and if
that was the case, who also hits left handed? If
that was the case, then they made the right call. Yeah,
So then the question becomes, Okay, you trade Gavin Lucke,
you insert Kim. Are you better today than you were
last week? That's the question, really, right, because what you're
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trying to do is improve every day. Are you better
today than you were last week? I gotta think the
answer is.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yesmer Brandy, yes, yes, or or yes or we're definitely
not worse.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I think yes, we're better. How do you know?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You don't even know if this kid can play.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
You're better. That's what I think. They believe we are
better today than we were a week ago. I do
not think their their thought processes, we're not worse. I
think they believe we're better. We'll find out if we're better.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Thank you well. I think that Thopas two is somebody
had to go. Somebody had to go. Who is gonna go?
Who's gonna go? Somebody had to go. And with them
signing Kim and having Chris Taylor and Key k and
even you know Tommy Edmond who can come in and
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play in field, I mean they've got a pluthorough Miggi
Rojas can play any position. He got a plethora up
guys that can play in field. It was not enough,
not enough room. There's not enough room. Somebody had to
go and and Gavin Lux became the odd man out. Yeah,
I don't know. Production wise, Gavin Lux was big for
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them last year down the stretch Fredd. I don't know
they I mean the things he did were pretty good
for them and had some big hits for him, and
then you're talking about somebody that's unproven. I don't know.
I think it's more of the somebody. There was no
way they could keep all of those guys with Key K,
Chris Taylor, Gavin Lux and signing this kid.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
So when Brandon Golds was on last week after Tiascar
Hernandez's news conference, I am ask them the question about uh,
about the new second basement they signed and what it
all meant. Now, let's see if we can take anything
from this answer.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, I think those are We would love to have
those good problems as we've had over the last few years.
Those things tend to work themselves out, you know, whether
it be injuries or guys just playing into a more
consistent role. And you know, one of the things that
Top does such a great job of is making sure
guys are staying relevant and mixing in because it is
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a long season and having guys fresh for the stretch
run in October is really important. So as these guys perform,
you know, things inevitably happen to allow for some consistent
playing time, So I don't see that being a factor.
If you know, if all those things play.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Out, Okay, Well, the question was, you know, what do
you do? What do you do if Kim is such
a good player, he's got to be in the lineup,
right and you have all these guys, what do you do?
So well, you know that's a good problem to have. Well,
they they eliminated part of that problem.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Now, yeah, it was abundance of riches, you know. And
I think they I think, I really think that the
trying to figure out what to do with Keyk really
factored in it. This Keyk is such a favorite and
has produced so much for them in the postseason. I
think that.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
They had a priority try to sign him back.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Now we'll see that with that happened, But I think
that that that weighed into their decision making of who
was going to go because it's definitely too many. It
was too many cooks in that kitchen.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And again we'll keep an eye on Mike Sroda. Just
remember that name. They wanted him before and they went
and got him this time. So there's got to be
something to him. Obviously the Reds didn't think so, but
the Dodgers really do. And the Dodgers are very analytical
and they have books on everybody. So we'll see how
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Soota plays out. One other thing I want to talk
about here in the first segment today Rodney former Marlin
front office executive David Sampson. He believes that the MLB
is going to change deferral rules because the Dodgers have
simply gone too far. They've taken advantage of the situation.
They have a billion dollars in deferrals. That's not what
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it was set up to be. And Samson now believes
it's really unfair and MLB will eventually change that rule
to stop teams from doing that. Do you think MLB
should do that? I well, first I'll say I think
they will. I think they will modify it because it
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feels like right now is just unlimited. You can do
whatever you want to do, And does that give somebody
a competitive advantage?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah? Probably, I think that they have to. It's almost
like to me, it's going to turn in into like
the college nil situation, where is a little bit of
town round sheriff and they're going to have to figure
out how to make that happen, because, yeah, a billion
dollars in deferrals when you when you think about it,
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First of all, not many teams can do that, and
the Dodgers are owned by, you know, some financial guys,
so they know how to make the money work. But
I could see other teams out there being jealous, and
they came down to a vote. I'm sure most of
the owners are going to vote against it. What do
you think? Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Well, I think I think the owners will definitely vote
to change it. Yeah, oh, one hundred percent. Because they
pleaded poverty. They can't do it. It's unfair and it's
hurting all of us. It's I don't get why in
pro sports, I really don't. You can plead this is unfair.
(15:53):
It's unfair. What they're doing is unfair. It's just not right.
What's not right about it? When else do you get
to plead that in your life?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
That's not fair?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
That guy over there has four cars and I only
have one.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
That's not fair. What other business? What other business limits
what you can pay your employees? I mean what other business?
I mean the guy's out there, the guys out there
making a you know, two billion dollars a year, you know,
as the chief executive offers of Xyz Company or the
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Exxon Petroleum probably got fifteen of them making over billions
of dollars a year. So I mean, why is sports
the only profession that limits what you can play your
paying employees?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Right? Do Apple and Google have a conversation and decide, well,
we're going to limit the amount of money we pay
our executives. Is that how it works? Does Nissan have
a conversation with Mercedes Benz and they decide, well, we
can't pay our executives any more than this.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
It's just.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
My god. If you do a better job of operating
your company and you make more money, well that's unfair
to us. So we're going to equal the playing field.
We're going to level it so everybody has a chance.
How does that work in life? Does everybody have an
equal chance at everything? They really don't. Your goal in
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life and for the majority of people, is to overcome
your environment and do the very best you can. We
all come from a certain place, We've all grown up
a certain way. We've all dealt with individual hardships, some
worse than others, but that's life, and we've all dealt
with those. Why would you say, well, the Dodgers have
done something that makes an awful lot of sense, and
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by the way, financially, they can. But that's unfair to
everybody else. Why does it have to be fair to
everybody else? Why it doesn't have to be fair to
Ardi Moreno, it doesn't have to be fair to al Steinbrenner. Yeah,
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it to be fair to the Ricketts family in Chicago.
It doesn't have to be fair. Why does it have
to be fair?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
It doesn't.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Is it fair? The Rams play in beautiful Sofi Stadium
and the Browns play where they play? Probably not? Is
it fair? But it is what it is. If that
was the case, why wouldn't everybody play in the exact
same stadium. Every stadium was built the exact same way,
with the exact same dimensions, in the exact same seating.
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That would be fair. Nobody could make more money than
anybody else from attendance. Why wouldn't we do that? Make
it fair? Everything looks alike, everything is alike.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
That would be fair.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Then you couldn't distinguish between anything, but everybody would It
would be fair. Why don't we do that? So when
David Samson says the Dodgers have gone too far, too far,
aware we have they gone too far. They didn't violate
the rules, they didn't break the rules, they didn't right
the rules, they lived within the rules. Well, how could
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you go too far? Those are the rules? Maybe the
rules are unfair.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
And as good as the Dodgers are and were last year,
and granted, everybody has injuries. Now there's such an abundance
of good players in professional sports that there's not enough
room on one team to have everybody. And as good
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as the Dodgers were in their roster, it was still competitive.
There was dogfights for the Dodgers. Now, look at they
kind of rolled the Yankees, but leading up to that,
that Padres series was giveing go anybody's ballgame and it
could have gone either way, argue. Some would argue that
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the Padres had more talent at that time. So you know,
there's teams out there now, you're looking at the Mets.
The Mets got talent. There's teams out there that have talent.
There's abundance of players nowadays, and this is not nineteen
seventy five, where you know ownerships and the owners of
these teams are you know, they're not billionaires like they
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were like they are now. Now. Everybody that owns a
team is in the billions. They're in the billions. Now,
there's a handful they're not still they're mom and pops
that are still out there. But if you're owning a
team in twenty twenty five, the money part should not
be the option should not be the hole back right
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to your point, it should not be fair. If you
got it, you can spend it how you want to
spend it.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
To your point, the Pindaris are pretty good last year.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
We'll talk about them later because that make him crumbling down,
But we'll talk about that later. But they were pretty
good last year. Would you say, yes, I will make
the argument this second best team in baseball?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I would make the argument when the Dodgers beat the Padres,
that was the World Series. That's how good the Padres work.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Fair? Fair?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Okay, So if that had gone the other way, for
argument's sake, and the Padres had won, would anybody look
and say, well, the Dodgers, it's just unfair what they're doing.
It's unfair. No deferring all this money, that's unfair. If
the Padres had won last year, would anyone have had
a gripe with what the Dodgers did No nobody. You
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know why because in the minds of people, and people
are sheep, and sheep will follow a flock. In the
minds of the sheeple, if the Dodgers had not won
last year, it didn't work, and the perception would have been,
it doesn't matter how much money you spent. See, these
guys think they're so big and bad, and they spent
all this money. It didn't work. Nobody would complain. Nobodybody
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would complain.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
You're right. But because they won, because they took it all.
Now it's a problem. Now it's a problem. And people
think they dominated it. They think they rolled through. The
regular season. Was a dogfight too to win the West. Well,
the way people are talking, they lost twenty games all year, right, right,
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it was a dog fight for the Dodgers to win
the West and then get to the World Series.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
So you're right.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Had they not won, people would have like pointed their
finger and laughed at the Dodgers. See, ha ha. They
spent all that money and deferred all that and gave
old Tany all this and you know, Yama Modo all
the money and glass now all the money, and they
still didn't win.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Ha.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Ha, Right, they're idiots the way they're idiots. You used
to point out the Yankees. Oh they didn't win, they
spent all the money.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Hi pay.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yankees.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Right, they're idiots. They look like fools. We would never
do that. We're smarter than that. We would never be
in that position. We would never do that kind of
thing because we know it doesn't work unless it does. Yes,
and when it does, all of a sudden, Well, now
the Dodgers have made a mistake, and it's unfair to everybody. Look,
you're not gonna win the World Series every year. It's
not gonna happen. Listen, We've sat here and we've watched this.
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You know how fragile it is. You know how it
could go any way at any point. You know, one
or two injuries and you're out. You know, if you
don't hit October with the right momentum, you're debt. We
know that, we've lived it, we've seen the movie. We
got it. So there's no guarantee, no matter how much
money you defer, that you're gonna win the World Series.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
But I'll tell you this. I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Given the way the Dodgers are operating, they are making
a statement to their fan base and their market. We're
in it to win it. We are investing in the team,
you are investing in us. We are all investing together.
That's the statement here. When you plead poverty, you don't
have the investment, but the Dodgers do and they are investing,
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and in return, the fans invest. What do you think
when you go to Pittsburgh there's nobody in the Crown
or Cincinnati. I've been to a day game in Cincinnati.
There's nobody there. Why well, Cincinnati is not as big
as La. No, it's because they're not investing, so the
fans aren't as invested. Now at Dodgers Stadium, you don't
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want to miss a game Rodney. And we know for
some you have a mortgage your house to go. Got
it understood. That's the price of doing business. Now when
you have a team like this, Yeah, it sucks. The
place to be it's the place to be, right.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
You've got to go.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Sort of like back in the day when the Laker
games were the place to be, you had to be there,
you had to go. Now the Dodgers play eighty one
times and you still have to go. You have to
be there. That's because of the investment they have made
in the marketplace and the team. So why don't they
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have that in Tampa? Why don't they have that in Miami?
Why don't they have that every day in clean Eveland?
Why why don't the White Sox have that? Because they
haven't invested, and because a White Sox suck, but because
they haven't invested. People not invest in you unless you
invest in them, and to invest in them, you have
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to do things.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
To show people you're serious. Absolutely, when people complain about
the Dodgers deferring money and spending money, well that's your problem.
They have shown everyone in this city they're serious.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
They're serious, and that's okay.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, And as much as you know, they're on the
other side of the country. But don't you got to
love what Cohen is doing with the Mets. He's not
afraid to spend the money. If you're a Mets fan,
you gotta be excited about what he's doing with that team.
You may not like him, you may rub you the
wrong way, but the fact that is, he ain't cheap.
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He is going to do what it takes to bring
a winner. And that's his mentality. And like I said,
this twenty twenty five. You can't be cheap as an owner.
It doesn't work. And always, whether it's paying your players,
whether it's your stadium, whether it's your the the environment
(26:23):
that the fans come in, you gotta you better make
it right. You think stan KRUNKI spent that money and
went over the budget to build so Far. It is
now the mecca it is. It is a place to be.
People want to go see a game at so Far.
It is that beautiful. So you better make it right
if you're an owner and you cannot be cheap these days.
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You know, the one thing I hit it when people
say I told you so, hate it, hate it, But
I told you so, And that's next.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It is a beautiful Tuesday, beautiful but wendy Tuesday. So
be careful out there. Winds are still going picking up
as Fred said, it gonna pick up even more in
the afternoon. So if you don't have to be out there,
don't get out there. And if you're in an area
where there's fires and could be fires, just be safe.
Don't wait for the last minute to evacuate. When they
tell you to get out, you got to get out
(27:22):
right now. Yeah, Pacific Palisades is still bad. I'm looking
right now at a car in pch that is just
on fire. Oh no, it's on fire. People are staring
at the car. People are trying to get out of
the way. So don't make the mistake. I'm thinking you're
a hero if somebody tells you to go, go evacuate.
And if you are driving, please understand it is so
(27:44):
windy and your car could be blown. You could be swerving.
Be careful. I'm just looking at some pictures of the coast.
How gray and dark it is over by a palisades
up in that area. It's just ooh, really bad, really bad. Okay,
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see the plane flying through frit Yeah, well, I know
the president President Biden.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
People said, well, the President is coming to the Coachella
Valley to name this national monument. And then of course
they thought, well it was Trump. No, he's not the
president yet, it's President Biden. And I started laughing, Oh, no,
Trump will be here. No, it's still Biden. He's the
president and he was going to come out here. He
landed at Lax He was supposed to come out and
(28:30):
I don't know, sign the paperwork and christened this national
monument called Chuck Walla. His play never took off from Lax.
He turned around and went back to Washington.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah he did.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
That's how bad it is. He couldn't even fly to
Palm Springs from Los Angeles, which is like a twenty
five minute flight, So it is bad. Be careful, all right.
So Lakers lost to Houston. They came back from twenty
two down on Sunday, and that's good, another moral victory.
Houston jung and athletic and the Lakers weren't run off
the floor and they were able to come back, and
kind of that's where we're at, right, that's kind of
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where we're at.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Hey, well that was a good kid. Don't get beat
too bad.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, just don't go out there and you know, against
a good team, don't get smoked.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
So that was good.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, yeah, that's a good one for the Lakers. You know,
trade deadlines are coming up. They will not be hunting
for a superstar. That's what dan Wyki reported. They will
not be hunting for a superstar because they still feel
scorned by the Russell Westbourg deal. Now here's why I
bring that up. So, you know, Bradley Beal is somebody
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that may be leaving Phoenix. He's got a no trade,
so he's got to approve wherever he goes. They've sat
him on the bench. They want him to go. And
when I told you in the teas, I told you so.
I told you when Bradley Beal was acquired by the Suns,
they were finished. They would not win, they would not
win a title. And they have not won a title.
And now Bradley Beal has to go. He's got two
(29:55):
years left on his deal. He makes forty million dollars
a year. Who wants that deal?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Who wants it?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Who wants that deal? It was a bad decision by
the Suns. You know why the Sons did that because
their new owner came in and he wanted to make
a splash and show everybody were all in. And that
was the incorrect way to do it.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Big three with no bench and nobody else to play
with the big three. That's exactly what I said when
they did it. Well let's go back to Russell Westbrook
and the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Well, now what do you do? You got no other players.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
It was stupid.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
It was a bad decision, and perhaps it was done
out of excitement and trying to get fans to understand
that he was all in. But it's just your franchise
back and it's a bad call.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Just is.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
And the way these teams are now constructed in the NBA,
you're in trouble. I have to tell you. If you
have somebody on your roster for a long period of time,
you're in trouble because unless that person is an incredibly
talented superstar beyond all belief, you're in trouble.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Because you're stuck with him. And to make it worse,
you traded for him. And now what are you going
to do with him? He ruined your opportunity. Well, he
didn't do what he's a human being.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
You did by making that move, So acquiring Bradley Beal
would be insanity. They can't do it. This is when
fans start playing the name game. Oh my god, Bradley
Beal will hell, we ought to go get him right
now if he's available. No, we shouldn't. No, we should
not go get Bradley Beal right now. The son should
not have traded for Bradley Beal, a guy making forty
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million dollars a year. I mean, if you're a Laker
fan and you know they are what they are, they
do what they do great. But if you're a Laker
fan and you know Lebron plays above all levels of expectation,
you know, not every night, but i'd say more than not.
He's pretty good. He's pretty good, and you got to
see him.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
But you understand if let's say that hasn't that been
proven though right now, like let's go back to the
days where it takes and that takes two, it takes,
it takes at least five, and then you better have
a bench. You better have seven guys that can play. Yes,
you better have seven guys that can play. We saw
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it last and when the year that Ad and Lebron
had last year and they still had to go to
the play in game, right.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Because you can't building correctly because you're paying two guys
too much. Yes, So if you like Lebron you want
to see him playing, maybe you should. And if you haven't,
you really should go watch him. If you want to
go watch the Lakers win the NBA Championship, don't go.
Don't go. As constructed, they can't win. You're paid a
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forty year old guy sixty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
He needs help. I don't know if he could have
done it by himself when he was twenty five years old,
twenty seven years old. I don't know, but certainly not
at this point. No, not now. So then you're bringing
Bradley Beal. What's that gonna do? Nothing? You're gonna do
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absolutely nothing. But it is Rodney. What's it gonna do
besides people go, oh god, we have Bradley Beal. I
won't go back and get Chris Paul. He's available. I'm
sure once you go get him. Want you bring Dominique
Wilkins out of retirement. Let's go be him. Hey that
cod with nick I interestand but he's not quite the
guy was. I remember at the end of Metaworld piece
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he went up to Donkey couldn't get the ball over
the rim. I mean, you can't do that anymore. You
can't go out and get these guys anymore. Stop committing
all of this money to these guys. You've got to
build a team. You nailed it. You nailed it. You
got to build a team, not two guys or three
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and everybody else shows up. It doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
No, but you will. People will say, well, how did
Boston do it? Boston's got a big payroll. They're paying
two guys max and they got just paid another guy
who's their fifth starter, a bunch of money. They're paying Porzingis.
How does Boston do it? Fred? Two of those guys.
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They drafted two of those guys. They drafted teams guys
that are paying the max too, But.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
They drafted them, so they can do that. I think
you can go out and support them with other players.
That's how they did it. How did OKC do it?
Or how are they doing it? They haven't won it yet,
but they're pretty good. You could argue the best team
in the West. Well, they just gave everything up and
(34:43):
started again. And now look at them, and they got
they they got the right guy to lead them through
the way. Imagine who Clippers still had SGA and who
fought to draft him. Whose idea was it to draft
him for the clip? Jerry West, that was the guy.
(35:03):
Jerry said, go get Sga.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Look at him now.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Now, I don't fault the Clippers for making that move
at that time.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
They went for it.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
I give them credit.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
They went for They got Paul Georgan, right, they got
Paul George and they got who else? Oh?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I got Kawhi that was the deal. I'm Paul Paul George.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
He got Paul George and then they gave up with
what else did they give up? But they but you're right.
Oklahoma City said, Okay, we'll take s g A and
we'll build around him. We'll build it through the draft.
It's Chet Holmgren. We'll get some other guys around him
and we'll be pretty good in two three years. And yeah,
because they had a team. Mm hmm, right, you can't.
(35:48):
That's not gonna happen with Bradley Beal. That's not gonna happen,
you know.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Jimmy Butler, that's another one. No, no, no, Jimmy Butler. No,
Jimmy Butler. No, we don't need Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler just a misdisgruntled guy. Every three
years he's disgruntled, wants to get out of somewhere. It's
the beautiful, best place in the world, and in three
years he's ready to go.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Yeah. No, Jimmy Butler, that's another guy. No, stop stop
playing the name game.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
All right.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Next hour with the Salta Adam Austin will join the program.
We'll get more into it. Also some turmoil with the
Padres we'll get into as well.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
That's right. Today's Afternoon Delight is Floppy Disk by Alchemists.
The Star Producer and MC dropped this track last weekend.
And what is his first release since last September's compilation
album entitled The Genuine Articulate, which featured artists like Schoolboy Q, Action, Bronson,
(36:52):
Havoc and Moore. Late last year, the Star Producer announced
that he has formed a new duel Well Ye I've
Seen Bay formerly known as Moss del name Forensics and
a much anticipated debut album and the Works that will
be released later this year. Again, Today's Afternoon Delight is
Floppy Disk by the Alchemists.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
All right now our first weekly chatter the year with
our friend Jacob and Ronnie and Jacob.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Happy New Year, Happy year, gentlemen. How are you fantastic?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Fantastic Jacob, thank you very much for asking.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
I hope you both had an incredible New Year. And
I always get a smile on my face when I
get to start the new year with my two good,
good good friends right home.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Jacob, let me ask you a question. What time do
you go to bed on New Year's Eve? You go
to bed at nine thirty. You watch the East Coast,
you stay up from midnight.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
No, this year, I went to bed after after midnight.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
You know, I was.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
I had an opportunity to to be with some great friends.
And you know, as the kids get a little bit
older and they can stay up a little bit, you
start to cherish some of those opportunities, uh, you know,
to make some memories with them. So that that's how
my New Years went this year.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
New Year's out here where I'm at ended six thirty at.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Night, when you're a bit you're at bed seven.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Good night, everybody happy new.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
I mean, I know, make the East Coast be yeah,
different time zone.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Used to be friend you Okay, I'll stay up with
an East Coast and go to bed. Now you now
you're doing it in London. You making sure the London
London New Year happens.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
You're out.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
That's exactly right. I can see that happening, all right, Jacob.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
So here we go. The trade deadline is just around
the corner. You are a proud partner and big time
Laker fan. You've got the inside, Jacob. What are they
gonna do?
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Well? First of all, I don't know what you guys
think I'm sure you guys are chatted about this. I
you know, didn't mind that, you know, trade for Dorian
Finny Smith and Shake Milton. I think everything that I've
been hearing is that what you know Dorian Finney Smith
does does not show up in the box score. But
he's a great locker room guy. A lot of people,
(39:15):
you know, we're comparing him to a CACP type of guy. Well,
he'll do the dirty work. He's good for the locker room,
you know, which appears to be a sort of an
addition right off the bat. And you know, from everything
I'm hearing is, you know, so many things are popping
up that our new stories that you know, we're gonna
(39:38):
stay nice and patient, hoping that we get the right opportunity.
And just like every year, I don't think we're going
to panic into anything you know that's going to handcuff
us for the next few years.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
And and by not doing much or trying to really
go out and make a big flag, you know, people
will often say it, have said in the past couple
of years, with time is ticking, with Lebron here and
even with ad here now, so why are we not
being ultra aggressive at this time of the year.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
Jacob, Yeah, I think. I think. I think sometimes when
you are ultra aggressive, you end up, you know, getting
into a worse situation. I mean, I remember a few
years back when they you know, had a trade in
place for Buddy Healed and potentially enough money to go
out and get DeMar DeRozan, and last second, they felt
that just because then Nets you know, had three stars
(40:33):
and they were supposed to be their favorite, you know,
KD was there and Harden was there, and uh, you know,
they felt they had to go out there and get
Russ and they ended up getting a lot out and
that didn't really work out at least, you know, not
for us. So I think you got to be ultra aggressive.
I think the need for a big center, a backup
center is you know, the most important thing you need
(40:55):
to do. I think you need to do what you
need obviously off an opportunity, you know, for a star
you know, shows up, then you go get that star.
But just trying to bring somebody who's a star doesn't
necessarily mean that you're going to become a tremendously better team.
And I think we saw that a few years ago
with the you know, with the trade they made for us.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Yeah, here's the thing. I call it the name game.
Don't play the name game. The name game is oh
my god, is he Bradley Beal? Is he available? Well,
we've got to grab Bradley Beal right now, don't play
the name game. That's how you get into trouble. You
have to make smart, calculated moves. You have to have
a plan. You can't just grab somebody because everybody knows them,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
Yeah, look, you're or you're you're watching Okay, see out there.
I still watch that team and I don't know half
those people that are running around on that team, and
you know, they're winning and they all just look like
you know, college kids that just came out. And honestly,
there's there's not a real known name except for you know,
Shay and those guys are getting the job done. And
(41:58):
I think you know, if you look at Okay see
rebuilding for the second time. They did it one time
with good draft picks. They had Harden, they had Russ,
they had KD and you know, they made some deep
runs and then they went back and they started all over.
I know, you know, La is not the type of
town where we like to, you know, break it all
(42:19):
down and start all over. As fans, we will not
accept that. But with you know what's happening right now,
with the salary cap and you know, the first apron
and second apron and all that other stuff, it's just
a lot more difficult for you to go make major trades.
But I think there's still a lot of small trades
and we still have ad, we still have Lebron. You know,
(42:40):
Reeves is playing well. I think the trade ever since
d Loo's gone. You know, Max Christy has shown what
you know, we all have been hoping for him to do.
So I think you've got some pieces and you're hoping
that the right opportunity falls in your lap so you
can go get it done so we can have a
deeper playoff run than we've had in the past.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Yeah, no doubt. Jacob. On on a serious note of
what's going on today, man, with with all the high winds,
we often talk about the weather and if it's raining
out there, what did you do? And and on on
holidays like New Year's like we just talked about how
you know what you to do and signs to be
aware of when it's windy like this, and the dangers
(43:22):
of of high voltage and fires and things like that,
it's got to be more heightened sensitivity. And then in
your business, I mean, are you do you hear more
and more, get more and more calls in this type
of weather.
Speaker 4 (43:38):
Absolutely, And I think it's important to talk about it.
I mean, you know, we've had cases where tractor trailers
are going through the wind and they try to make
a turn and with the winds and everything, you have
the trailer slip over.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (43:52):
You know, we're currently working on a case that about
a year and a half ago, because of the you know,
incredible winds, power lines basically came down and literally took
off the top the basically the top of a car,
one of our clients' cars and have major, major injuries.
And you know, we settle that case for multi million dollars.
(44:16):
And I think the reason it's important to talk about
things like this is that when the conditions out there
are not normal, we all react different ways. But when
you've got wins like this, there's a lot of you know,
additional distractions that are occurring to the drivers, and you
just have to be really really careful. You have to
(44:38):
be aware of your surroundings and you just need to
make sure to get yourself out of harm's way. I mean, today,
we already know the Malibu fires are going crazy. You know,
we've seen We've gotten a lot of calls where you know,
we had a call this morning that a tree fell
on a car that our client was sitting in outside
parked and a tree fell on carn you know, we're
(45:01):
meeting with that client in the afternoon. So unfortunately, there's
a lot of stuff that happens, and I just want
to make sure the listeners know that, you know, you
just have to be super safe and if you have questions,
obviously you know I'm here, our team is here in
order to talk to you. There's no you know, there's
no such thing as a bad question, and we just
want to be there for everybody.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Right Well, Jason, Jacob, great advice, Thanks for coming on.
I showed I talked earlier. I'm proud of my son's house.
A giant tree and they caught it on the ring
camera came crashing down and almost smashed his future mother
in law's car, just missed it. Yeah, And the tree
was so large, Jacob, it covered the width.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Of the street.
Speaker 4 (45:44):
Well, wow, yeah, I'm telling you things like this are happening,
and you know, you don't realize it. You know, they
call it a freak accident, but there's nothing freak about that.
I mean, you know, there's a lot of old trees.
I mean, we do a lot of treecases unfortunately, and
sometimes you know, they lay they blame it on the
tree not being upcapped. Sometimes they say it's the tree
that's been gone on this long. Is it the city?
(46:06):
Is it from a private property? So there's a lot
of you know, complicated stuff that we have to maneuver
through when we get a call, as you know, as
simple as a tree fell on me or you know,
ran into a tree because as I was driving it
just kind of landed in front of me, and then
we have to do all the research to find out
whether it's a city claim, whether it's a private property. So,
(46:26):
I mean that's what we're here for. You know, we
want people to be safe. You know, give us the headaches,
and if you are injured, we want you to get better.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
All right, Jacob, thank you, and I look forward to
giving you every headache I ever get.
Speaker 4 (46:39):
Thanks you, guys. I look forward to coming to seeing
you guys in person, hopefully so.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
All right, Jacob, take care, all right, bye bye, Hey,
Cawi is back. That means we have to bring the
salty A back for his first appearance of twenty twenty five,
and that is next
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