March 24, 2025 • 45 mins
Rodney Peete returns and talks about his experience in Tokyo and the Muncy/foul ball play that went viral. Also, Mookie Betts is having unexplained stomach issues and may miss the home opener on Thursday. The Lakers got smoked by the Bulls on Saturday and Marcus Morris says Lebron was instumental in getting Markeiff traded to the Lakers in the Luka trade
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Oh yeah, I am back. I am back from Tokyo.
I have lots of stories to tell. I'm excited to
be back in studio here in Los Angeles and joining
me today sitting in for Fred is my man. Ben Mohler,
(00:21):
host of The Ben Mihler Show on a M five
seventy and Fox Sports Radio week nights from eleven to
three a m. You can follow him at Ben Mahler
M A L L E R.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Man? Why it's not about me, Rodney, It's about you.
I talk of everyone here the last last week craziness.
How was it? How was it living that? Man? Did
you realize when you were in Japan that everyone I
hear was talking about you, that everyone was buzzing about
your phone must have blown up?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
First of all, let me let me let me start
with Let me start with the the trip itself. First
of all, Japan is an amazing country. It really is.
If you have never been, or you have a chance
to go, please go visit Japan. There's so many great
places to go and to see. Tokyo obviously, is is
(01:19):
an incredible large New York style city, but outside of
that Osaka is a beautiful city, Kyoto is a beautiful city,
and Yokohama is a beautiful city. It's so many great
places in Tokyo, and it's such a great country. Uh Ben,
I don't know if you've ever been there, but I'm not.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'm not have you Have you been there before? I have?
I have.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I went a long long time ago. When I was
in college. We uh we actually played uh. When I
was at USC we actually played a football game in Tokyo.
We played against Oregon. I think it was my freshman year.
We played went over here, went over there and played.
But I hadn't been back since. But my son, my
middle son, Robinson, who was always infatuated and loved the
(02:06):
Japanese culture from the time he was born, loved anime,
loved you know, samurai, martial arts, all those things, graduated
high school and in the midst of the pandemic and decided, I,
you know, I just need something different, and and he
wanted to take a gap year and go to Japan,
and so he, you know, researched a kind of like
(02:30):
a prep school. It was a culture and language institute
over there in Tokyo, and got in and and it
was for a nine month program, went over there and
loved it and then decided to enroll at Temple University, Tokyo.
So now he's in his third year over there and
is absolutely loving it and thriving. And I will tell you, Benett,
it has really changed his life. His whole demeanor has
(02:52):
changed where it's more calm and and he was more
of the active wild kid. But he is is it is.
It has really changed. He takes all up his shoes
now when he enters the room. Ben, that's not how
you say. And he was he was mister pigpin back
in the day.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Is going to force you to see him.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I went to his apartment and I that was the
first thing I did, was take my shoes off, because
it's just kind of part of the culture. But just
to want to give a shout to the to to
the Japanese people and and and what they what they
did over there for a lot of the Americans that
came over for the Dodger and the Tokyo series, uh,
and it was just amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And and.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The amount of I guess, the the amount of hype
and knowledge that they have, first of all for baseball.
Baseball is huge in Japan. It's just a huge sport
from young to old high the high school tournaments that
they have in Tokyo and in Japan, they're getting thirty
(03:54):
five forty thousand people at those games, and and it's
it's really incredible. Baseball is a huge, huge deal over
there in Japan and for them to show the love
and support of MLB, but in particular the Dodgers. I mean,
I thought, look, when you think about brands, man, you
(04:18):
think about brands and sports. You think about Yankees, right,
you think about the Cowboys and football, the Lakers and basketball, Lakers,
Celtics and basketball, maybe the Knicks. I think now, just
witnessing that, I don't know if there's a bigger brand
and globally than the Dodgers and a lot you know,
obviously the old Tani effect for sure, but I don't
(04:40):
know if there's a bigger brand than the Dodgers. What
I saw over there was incredible. And it's not just
not just Japan, but it's all of Asia that is
infatuated with the Dodgers. And I know basketball probably dominates
Europe because baseball is not really you know, prominent in Europe,
and maybe the Lakers are more popular in those countries
because basketball is taken over and really big in France
(05:01):
and you know, Lithuania and Slovenia and all those countries
that basketball has become huge because we've got so many
now international players. But in Asia, baseball's king and and
the Dodgers are the number one brand, and I I
was blown away. I was blown away. I don't know
if there is really a bigger brand in sports than
(05:23):
the Dodgers, and.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Right, I saw some of the video clips from people
that were there and they're like, go Tani's faces like everywhere.
It's like, yeah, people are comparing it to Jordan back
in the nineties and stuff. Yeah you know what was
it like when you're.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Driving around everywhere you go? Yeah, I mean it's first
of all, and I'm sure he has a lot to do.
And there's a lot of those a lot of those
ads and commercials you don't see in the States, right,
they're only sown in Japan. Film of them are little corny,
but he is. Yeah, he's branded everywhere, from from you know,
pitching spatulas to clothing. Obviously his New Balance deal.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Go wrong in the kitchen, you need the right Spatu.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Swing it right, Ben, you know what I mean. And
obviously the new Balance is everywhere over there because that's
his that's his UH sponsor for his shoes and and equipment.
But he's on everything, food commercials, doing doing everything he
can to the point where I you know, he there's
no way he could have stayed at the at the
(06:29):
Team hotel. We actually stayed at the Team Hotel and
it was there was all kinds of people. There was
a lot of security to keep people away, but there's
still people hanging around, learning around thinking they were going
to see him. But it was incredible. So hats off
to the country of Japan just to the way it is.
And one of the things about Japan that you'll that
will blow you away is how clean it is. Tokyo
(06:52):
and in all of Japan, there is not a piece
of trash on the ground and any part of the city.
It is one of those things. I don't know if
you get I don't know, if you go to jail,
I don't know, if you get fine. I don't know
if you know if you drop some trash on the ground,
But there are and on top of that, there are
very few trash cans roddy if you are taught to
(07:14):
take your trash with you home and then throw it away.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, if they need trash riding, we have plenty of trash,
oh yeah, in the south lane. So if they want any,
we can export that. If they want, we can send
it right over them. They want to have the full
immersive experience, we can give them some of our trash
if they're interesting. I don't think they're interested in that ridding,
but they want we we have a lot of trash, yeah,
very large.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I don't know. They might put some tariffs on it though, Bill. Well,
you know, hey, so okay, so let's let's let's get
into the whole thing man, because and you're right. I
I my phone blew up like crazy after that foul ball.
So when you're in the Tokyo Dome, and we were
(07:57):
fortunate enough to have some really good seats, and and
so we were sitting in the second row down the
third baseline and on the aisle, and I at that place.
You know how they have it in the States with
the new role. I think a few years ago they
they they raised the netting down the first, first base
and third base lines in America and MLB and so
(08:21):
you're you're protected there. The netting is very low, so
you can still get drilled by a line drive foul ball.
And I I warned my wife Holly before we you know,
before the game started. I said, listen, the nets are low.
The ball is going to come into the stands. And
so make sure when there's a left handed hitter up
(08:44):
that you are your eyes are on the hitter because
nowadays everybody's on their phone during the games. They're doing
things their heads down. So make sure you pay attention.
I kept saying, every time I warn her, every time
a left handed hitter, Hey, hey, pay attention, left handed
hitter up, left handed hit her up. And to the
point where she got annoy with me too, telling me
that I got it, I got it, Leave me alone,
Leave me alone now, I just I just want to
(09:06):
do my thing. And they so they provided that whole
section is provided gloves, baseball gloves, and a helmet.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
See that's key writing, because I think a lot of
people thought you brought the glove and they were riding
shot that you're writing. They said, what do you know,
you're a growing ass man? What are you doing bringing
a glove to a game. Dude, what's wrong with you? Man?
Come on? So that changed when I heard that. That
changed things.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
These guys were busting your balls and were killing the glove. Man,
they were killing me. They were killing me. What is
you doing? What are you thirteen? What are you twelve?
Bringing a glove to the game in Japan? What's wrong
with you? But so, so yes, it was provided for you.
I think they you know, it's probably like I guess
two hundred people in that area that section that that
(09:50):
that they provided helmets and gloves and and and by
the way, it's it was, uh, I think it was
at the five and dime store gloves that they got
those glove I was from, So it was Wilson eight
two thousand, like you want it back in the day.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
She played for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Right right now. So they provide the glove, so that
that was out of the way. So I'm I'm reminding her.
And the first night of the games, there were a
couple of foul balls into the section that that went
over our heads. So we didn't, you know, we didn't
get any action. But I just felt something was going
to happen and we were gonna it was going to
come close to us, and I was more thinking about,
(10:29):
you know, a line drive that I would have to tendate,
you know, protect her, get in in the way, or
try to do something with And then it happened. And
when the ball was hit, I thought it was behind us,
and it's just I said, okay, we got no chance
of this. This is going about fifteen rows up. And
(10:51):
then it started to drift back towards us. And I
had no idea that because I thought it was behind
it years they thought it was behind I had no
idea that Max was even thinking about trying to make
a play on it because I thought it was so
far up in the stands. But it started to drift
back towards us, and the closer it guy was like
(11:13):
slow motion. It was like, oh no, this is coming,
this is coming close. This is going to come close,
and it's just like one of those cartoons slow motion
things where you see it just oh oh man, oh man,
oh man. And just naturally as it got close, because
it was going to land right in my wife's lap,
basically I reached over and had the glove on because
(11:37):
it was the left hand I think it was Ian
Happ had the glove on so I was ready for it,
and it was just a reaction because it was so
close to reach my glove down and catch it. And
immediately after I caught it, I look up and Max
is like maybe two feet from me. I'm like, he
(11:58):
didn't look happy, right, he was not He was not happy.
He was not happy at all. But he's two feet
from me. So I see him first of all, and
then I look at my wife and she's looking at
me like, what the hell did you do? What is
wrong with you? Like I reached over into the field
of play and caught the ball and stolen away from Max,
(12:19):
And so I was like, oh my god, did I
did I just take it out of his glove? Did
I just interfere with Max trying to make the catch?
And that's why I put the ball behind my back
real quick. I was like, oh wait, let me act
like I didn't. That wasn't me.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Very smooth.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Evidence man got high damns, you know, acting like it
wasn't me. And then I saw his reaction and was like, oh, man,
what did I do? What did I do? And thank
god I saw some replays and saw that his glove
was above my glove and my glove was below his
(12:58):
so either he was going to catch it or deflect
it before it got to me. So I was kind
of off the hook. And then, as you mentioned, my
phone started to blow up, and I could not believe
how many people in the states, in particularly in California,
that were watching that game live, because it was three
(13:20):
four o'clock in the morning here and people were watching
the game. My phone blew up immediately and like, oh,
we saw you catch the foul ball. Catch the foul ball.
And then it just went crazy, and you know, MLB
on Fox and all those folks started to get into it,
and they played the Larry David theme of Curby enthusiasmic it,
(13:41):
but it went Yeah, it went crazy on Twitter and
Instagram and all the social media sites, and even my
son who lives there, was like, Dad, you're all over
Japanese Twitter too, because then people started to put it together. Yeah,
like I was a football player, former NFL player, catching
the foul ball, and first they put it like stole
it from mony. See that was like gonna be villain.
(14:03):
I'm gonna be villain number one from the Dodgers. Not
gonna allow me to go back to any more games, man.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Sure sure, sure, you know. I was. Actually I was
at the gym. I told I was. I filled them
for you guys last week with Jonas and we were
I was like, I was at the gym and they
these old people in the gym, they don't want to
watch the game. So I was listening to it on
the radio and Rick Monday right away on AM five
seventy that's Rodney p He knew right away. Tim never
wasn't sure, but he knew right away it was you.
(14:29):
And then I went and I turned on you. I
went on the phone and I watched the clip and oh, yeah,
that's that's Rodney. That's Rodney. So what was the the
person that you heard from that was the most surprising.
Was there somebody in particular that reached out to you
that you hadn't heard from in a while and say, hey, Rodney,
I tell you on TV? Was it? There's a one
in particular, because it when this thing was seeing millions
(14:49):
and millions at times, this an went viral and all day,
all day it happened, you know, here in the middle
of the night, but all day it was playing on
the internet over and over and over. It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It was it was from everybody, from from Samuel L.
Jackson Wow, to Chris Rock to to Jim Rome. I mean,
it was everybody. And then certainly you know, my wife
was getting it too, and and and then all you know,
all the memes and all the wise cracks started Simon
(15:19):
in and all that kind of stuff. But it was, yeah,
it was absolutely.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Col The other thing, Rody, I have to ask you say,
the way it was written, like you always wonder what
people think of you. I think of you as the
USC quarterback. I think even the Lions, but a lot
of people said former Eagles quarterback. There were other things
written about it. Do you see that stuff? Because it
was it was interesting how they described you. It was
all over the map.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You know what was funny about it? It was probably
I don't know, it was probably a little bit after
the game that you know, I started kind of scrolling
through all the stuff that people were saying. And then
and then eventually USC chimed in. USC Athletics chimed in,
(16:06):
and they said, uh, it's now a good time to
mention that Rodney Pete was a two sport athlete at USC.
So they got into the mix, and I thought that
was pretty cool. And then they showed pictures of me
playing baseball at USC And because a lot of people
don't know that, like you mentioned, like people think, you know,
I played NFL for sixteen years. Obviously that that's what
(16:28):
people remember me by. Very few people remember that I
actually did play baseball the way through college and and
and played and also was drafted you know by four
four times by by Major League Baseball out of high
school and out of college. So people didn't know that
about me. And because they were like, how did you
catch that? You know, you know you're a football player,
(16:51):
you know, had a baseball player. Well, I did play
a little baseball back in the day a little bit.
Actually played and actually played third base, which is ironic
that I kind of maybe a stole the ball from Max.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, did you did you keep the ball? Did they
force you to take it? Did they take it from you?
Because there was kind of a violation of the baseball
code once he was trying to do you still have
possession of the ball? Where is the baseball? Right?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I still have possession of the baseball? Yes, I do.
I have it. I have it. I brought it home
with me, which was was crazy. Like you said, what's
the you know what was the reaction? Right after that,
one of the security guards, the Japanese security guards, came
down to the section and and looked at it. I
thought he was going to make me get up and
(17:33):
kicked me out because I am the walk is sane
to kick me out in the stadium and uh and
and then s and he was just trying to make
sure that I was okay and that didn't get hurt.
So thank god it didn't kick me out, because that
would have been that would have been the worst, like
fan interference. We're gonna have to escort you out of
the stadium. And then and then you know a lot
of the Dodger execs that I know, Lon Rosen and
(17:57):
in Magic Johnson, those guys were teasing going, okay, not
gonna uh your band from the Tokyo Dome from the
rest of your life now and yeah, and you're gonna
have to ask permission to go to Dodgers Stadium now.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Something like that.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Do not go to the stadium, go to the stadium, Rodney,
do not go to the stadium. And on top of that,
so the the to rept this whole thing up. So
my son, who RJ my other son r J, my oldest,
who actually has a clubhouse attendant for the Dodgers, So
he works for the for the team. It's an awesome
job and they've they've taken care of him. He's in
(18:36):
his tenth year there and UH just just amazing that
what they have allowed him to do and be a
part of. UH to be in there, and the players
treat him like family, like a little brother, and it's
really cool. So he didn't make the trip and because
he's he was back here kind of getting everything ready
(18:57):
for when they return and getting you know, they have
the new clubhouse now at Dodger Stadium, and so they
were they were moving things around, so they it was
all hands on deck back here while the team was
in Tokyo. And when that happened, because he had to
meet the team when they came back, when they flew back,
he got it all. He got it all from everybody.
(19:18):
What was your dad doing? What's wrong with your dad?
Why does your dad do that to months? What's going on?
R J?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
R J.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
We're gonna ban you from the clubhouse, man, what's going
on with you? What's your dad doing?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
So it's gonna be all year it's not. Anytime there's
a foul ball that's close, your name will be brought.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
It's gonna be crazy. It's gonna be crazy, Ben And uh,
you know, thank god that uh and he was he
was smart enough to defend it the right way. He said,
all he was doing was protecting my mom.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
That's all chivalry, right, chivalry, muscle memory, go with the chivalry.
Win in doubt, throw the chivalry card out. Now you
have a little bit of a kinship you already.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I know.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
This is kind of a day of reverence with this
guy named Steve Bartman. It was a playoff game, so.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Those references I got.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
You didn't wear headphones, you didn't have the turtleneck on,
so that's good. You had the Dodger hoodie thing on
that that was good. But Bartman was the most famous.
Oh yeah, O three about to go to the World Series.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, probably, Yeah, I would imagine this is the most
that moist is a loo name got brought up in
recent years because he was brought up a lot of
times in that whole situation. Yeah, people are calling me
Rodney Bartman. I mean, oh yeah, I got it. I
got it hard Well, lest you showed up though on
my Apartman disappeared. We know, you know, he's never done
(20:39):
an interview ever since then.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
He's never never he went into hiding. He just no one.
He's like a man of mystery. But at least you're writing,
you're owning. You're not hiding from me. Wow, you're owning.
And this was an internet You're like an international man
of mystery because you want to there's like two countries
involved in this, Rodney, Well yeah, exactly, I mean you
got this. There's much more to it because it's an
(21:01):
international thing. Unlike just the Cubs and the Marlins back
you three when they were playing each other.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Oh my god, yeah yeah, I got department things. So
and thank god that's my wife said too. Thank god
got into a rally after that, or happy hit a
home run or something happened and dodging end up losing
that game. It would have been ugly. I would have been.
I would have been right next to Bartman like a
mug shot. Yeah, oh, he would have been right next
to each other. You know, it would have been It
(21:28):
was crazy crazy. You have a kinship. What's that?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You have a kinship with Bartman? You track him? Then, right,
I'm sure Kevin will work on that right now, easy
to fight.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I hope not. I hope not. All right, Ben Maller
for Fred Rogan Today, We're gonna get into more Dodgers.
What's going on with Mookie. We gotta find out how
his illness is affecting him and when will he be back.
He's lost a lot of weight, but hopefully he comes
back soon. All that and more coming up on a
five seventy LA Sports. Oh Yes, back on a Monday,
(22:01):
Rodney Pete Ben Miler in for Fred Rogan today. Check
this out, hey. We will be broadcasting live this Thursday
from Dodgers Stadium nine am to twelve, and then PMS
is gonna take over from twelve to three, leading you
up to Dodgers pregame with Tim Kates and the first
pitch with the Dodgers and the Tigers. So tune in
(22:24):
all day Opening Day. We're gonna have it right here
on AM five seventy, that's right. And also Friday, Fred
and I will be out at Crony's Sports Bar in
Simi Valley twelve to three. Come on out. There might
be a chance that we, uh we give away some
tickets to the Dodger game. So check us out at
(22:45):
Crony's in Simi Valley. We always have a good time
out there. It's always fun, so make sure you check
us out. And also we'll be live again at Dodger
Stadium on Thursday, Opening Day from nine to noon.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Don't have to meet the people you're going to have
to meet, man, gotta be, got to be.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Got to get to people what they won't. Speaking of
giving the people what they want, I will say, you know,
and in in Tokyo, obviously, what was crazy about it
is how quiet then the crowd got when players were
up to bat. There's a lot of cheer, you know,
after they get a hit or a home run or
strikeout or things like that, but while the players are
(23:24):
are hitting, you could basically hear conversations that are happening.
Is that quiet it was? It was kind of an eerie,
different kind of feel to it.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yeah. I like that. Yeah, yeah. You go to a
Dodger game, people are drinking medellos, are having a good time,
and they're going not to the entire game.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
They're not waiting, they're going to while exactly you know,
you hear that. But one thing that stood out for
sure is that. Obviously, Otani hits the home run and
and and in Japan and gave him, you know, something
to cheer about and wanted. You know, that was a
great moment that he delivered and again giving to people
what they want. But you know, the thing going on
(24:08):
with Mookie and his illness is just something. It's something
kind of crazy because he has lost so much weight.
Wookie's not a big guy to begin with, but he's
lost like almost fifteen pounds with this illness. And I
saw him over there and he wasn't feeling very well.
Now he's continued to say that he really can't keep
anything down. But along with that story on Mookie Ben,
(24:35):
I'm just watching this team and how they've kind of
progressed through spring training and then as you see them
play throughout spring training and now they're playing the Angels
for a three game set. It's how deep this team is.
The depth of this team is incredible, and I don't
(24:57):
remember a team being this depth that can withstand and
something like a Mookie BET's a superstar that may may
not make opening Day, maybe out for a few games,
but and certainly they're gonna they're gonna miss him. All around.
But the Dodgers have so much depth that it's gonna
be incredible.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, I know, they're an absolute wagon. I mean, this
is why this is this is unusual. I mean it's
been been a number of years since the team is
as stacked as this Dodger team. And the one thing
about the baseball over Hodney, I have a feeling by
the time we I said this the other day, when
we get to the All Star break, Yeah, and then
the trade deadline, they'll still they're still gonna go out
and need to get a pitcher. So despite having all this,
(25:36):
but they are the most stacked team that we've seen
probably I don't know, I'm gonna be too dramatic here,
but some of those Yankee teams back in the Jeter days.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, when they're backing guys off the bench, like yeah,
they were stacking shep Field, guys off the beach. They
were bringing people off the bench that you didn't like.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Wait, well you look at it. They should the Dodgers
should overpower everyone. I mean, they should just steamer. We
know they won't, but I mean they're they're gonna have
some bumps in the road and all that, which is
good for us doing talk radio, but you know they
are loaded and Mookie, the Mookie thing. That's that's crazy,
the thing about he essentially said his body is kind
of like eating itself. Yeah, and they don't.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Know, like it's a weird way to describe it, right, Well, yeah, because.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
They know there's a lot of weird illnesses in Arizona.
I'm not a doctor, as you know, Rodney, but I
can play one on the radio. But there's like all
kinds of weird. You hear stories about people in Arizona
that get they like the desert fever or whateverything is
called something. There's different illnesses that you can get there.
And we obviously don't know what he has, but you
would assume you'd rule out right away if you were
a doctor. I've watched enough medical shows, Rodney, where you
(26:42):
rule out the obvious stuff, flu, the neuro virus, which
I guess used to be the flu but now it's
called the neuro virus, like and so that stuff. So
it's something they don't know what, they don't know exactly
what it is, and so they're trying to eliminate stuff.
And you're right, I mean, he's a he is kind
of a small guy compared to the rest of baseball,
and it was that much weight.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Someone said, he's like down to like one hundred and
like fifty seven pounds.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Now, yeah, he's like that's junior high school whale exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
And then you got to build that back up. And
I'm sure you know a guy like him, you know,
the metabolism is probably through the roof, which I wish
I had. Now you know it ended. My metabolism rate
ented at forty and I can't. I can't. I look
at food in that game weight now, but his is
(27:32):
probably off the chart.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Well, he said he can only eat smoothies. That's it.
He's the He's the smoothie king. That's all he can
put down. He can't and I've had the stomach. We've
all had the.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Stomach and they rolled down. It's just not just simple
food poisoning too, right, So it's not.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Well yeah, because the food poison doesn't as far as
I know, it doesn't last this long. I mean, your
food poison lasts. I've had food poisoning a couple of times.
I had some bad Mexican food. One time got food poisoning.
I had a bad hot dog in a baseball game.
I got not a Dodger game, by the way, food poisoning,
and it lasted a couple of days, and you had
your essentially dysentery for a couple of days and you're.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Back right, so right, which is yeah, so it's it's
very interesting and and what's what's it was probably bad
for him, and I know he cut his his trip
in Japan short. But one other thing that's incredible in
Japan is the food. The food is off the charts.
The food. If if you love to eat, which I
(28:28):
do and my family does, sure, it is one of
the best places in the world to find good food.
I mean even some of the things in the restaurants
in the back alleys have some of the best foods
that you will ever have. I mean, so that is
that was one of the downsides I remember talking to
was that I can't even eat what I want over
(28:49):
here because I can't keep anything down. And he ended
up coming home early.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
This is isn't that generally a rule of thumb though?
Right even here? You know, you go to those mom
and pop kind of shady looking restaurants and you're gonna
get larger portions of food you're gonna get to me
better food.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, I don't heart. It's not like quick serve or
anything like that. Put their feeling and their heart and
soul into it. You're absolutely right side roadsides or you know,
off the beaten path kind of restaurants that you you
go into and you're like, oh my god, this is
this is incredible. I'm used to getting like, you know,
a you know, tiny piece of steak. Now you're giving
(29:29):
me a full with the full porterhouse and you're giving me,
you know, full mash exactly. Well.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
The greatest is when you go to like a Chinese restaurant,
a mom and pop Chinese restaurant, and they give you
the styrofoam container and it's bulging out of the sides
of this home container so much food. You know. You
go to a chain restaurant, they measure everything. Obviously, they
don't want to lose money. The mom and pop place
is more like throw everything everything you're gonna get. You're
gonna be fat by the time you.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Have no leftovers here at the mom and pop stakes exactly.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
So.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
So Also, you know, I saw where Plaski wrote that
Bill Plaski of the Times wrote that that the dog.
He feels the Dodgers they have more pressure on them
this year than they did last year to win it all.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
You agree with that, Well, they have pressure every year
because they're all I mean, the Dodgers are. The amount
of money the ownership spending on the team is insane.
I mean, his argument was to be a dynasty, they
have to win, win again. But even if they win
this year, it's people are still gonna say, well, it's
not a dynasty enough, not enough, right, yeah, exactly, because
(30:33):
they're going to relate to what the Yankees went, what
they win four and five years or something like that. Yeah, yeah,
to win back to back. It hasn't happened since the
Yankees back in the day, and that would be obviously
great for this this Dodgers. This is like elongated thing.
I mean we to me, we haven't seen anything like
what the Dodgers doing. They make the playoffs every year.
(30:53):
Can you even remember the last time the Dodgers didn't
make the playoffs? I mean, they're guaranteed to be in
the playoffs every year. And this thing's like is barring
some kind of disaster, this is going to continue for
at least another five, six, seven years. Into the future
where they're going to be in the playoffs every single year.
So this is more like, I know, the Yankees want
(31:14):
a bunch back in the old days, the you know,
the the Themaggio days and that and Mickey Mantle and
those kind of guys. But this is more on par
with that kind of thing. We're talking about a generational
run by the Dodgers where they're going to be in
the Plauffs. You think twenty years, twenty five years, as
a generation, an entire generation, they're going to be in
the playoffs by the time you know, who knows where
(31:35):
we're going to be in there, you know it's already
it's already been twelve years or something like that. I think.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
So yeah, I mean I can't, like you said, I
can't remember the last time they weren't in the playoffs.
And in fact, they're like you said, generation, they're generation
of kids that are what twelve fifteen years old that
that's all they've known is the Dodgers in the playoffs. Yeah,
every single year, And that matters. I mean it matters
because I know as a as a as a player
(32:01):
and on the NFL side that you know, I've played
for six different teams, and not all of them had
that aspiration of winning every single year.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
And one in particular, Ride you played for Michigan.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah, exactly. It's a different Detroit team back then than
what it is now. You know, mentality was different back
then where it was you know, winning was not always
the most important thing, and and it matters to players.
And that's why you see so many players want to
play for the Dodgers and want to come here and
be a part of this because they know number one,
(32:35):
first of all, they know Dodgers got deep pockets. Come
here and play for the Dodger, but also that they're
going to be in the conversation every single year. They're
going to be in a conversation for a ring every
single year.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
But as far as like the dynasty stuff and all that,
I mean, this again is elongated thing they've already I
include twenty seventeen because the Astros cheated, So I include
that one as people don't have to include that. But
they cheated. I've not I know, it's been eight years.
I have a very long memory riding. I do not
forgive anyone involved in that. The cheating ahtros Is I
(33:08):
like to call him. So no, I mean the twenty
seven team will check that one twenty twenty, which was
the hardest World Series during a pandemic to win that,
And I maintained that people thought that James.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I just said that because there's so many people that
write those off that pandemic year.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Twenty twenty one in baseball in particular, because like right now,
if you play poorly for a couple of weeks, right
now in baseball, you got a whole bunch of games
to make it. But that year they only played sixty
games or whatever it was they only had. You could
not take a week off or you likely weren't even
gonna make the playoff. So that was much difficult. It
was totally different than the sport has normally played in
(33:47):
twenty twenty, so that was that was much more more difficult.
And then you know the win last year and to
beat the Yankees and the beating the way they did
to neutralize the Yankees, and you know the Freddie Freeman
Graham slam. The Holy was magical. That was the gibson
Esque and all that. So yeah, it's just been it's
been great. And now you look around and you're at
the top and If the Dodgers lose, they're gonna get killed.
(34:08):
Everyone around the baseball is upset with the Dodgers, right,
So that's kind of cool to me that I know
Stan Casta didn't want to embrace that. I would embrace it.
I think it's awesome. I think it's great. When I
years ago, Roddy, when I was doing I did Dodger
Talk very briefly in another lifetime, and I remember the
team didn't spend a lot of money, and they they
were always trying to nickel and diamond. And now they're
(34:29):
the They're what I was hoping they would be. At
that age. I was like, well, I want to see
them be like the Yankees were at that time. And
now they have become that. And I think it's great.
It's wonderful and and and they're really paying. All these
guys are being paid for twenty years down the line.
It's not even like they're all getting paid right now.
They're getting paid deferred money and all that, so they're
set up for years to come.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Hey, chake us out this Sunday afternoon from one to three.
Join us at the Ralph Lauren A store in Citadel Outlets,
Parpolo Ralph Lauren's Family Baseball Fan Experience host by David
Basset with a special appearance by a world champion and
home run Derby champion, to Oscar Hernandez. Test your fast pitch,
win prizes and join the fund. It's a day of
(35:12):
Baseball Fund you won't want to miss. Go Blue Details
at am five to seventy la sports dot Com. All right,
when we come back? How much did Lebron know? How
much did Lebron actually know about the Luca Dante jurie?
Speaker 2 (35:28):
The rest of the story, Riding.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
The rest of the story when we come back? All right, Now,
Today's Afternoon Delight. It's just Us by Doja Cat and
Jack Harlowe. The duo released this song along with a
music video over the weekend, and Harlow has been manifesting
(35:51):
this collab for years, admitting in the twenty twenty Instagram
Live that he has long been infatuated with Dosha. This
is the third track that Harlow has released so far
in twenty twenty five, which is fueled speculation that a
new project could drop later this year. Again, Today's Afternoon
(36:13):
Delight is just Us by Doja Cat and Jack Harlowe.
Uh All right, So Lakers get blown out by the Bulls.
That was not just a blowout.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
That was the running. That was the running of the
bulls they ran. That was like Jordan's Pippin. That was
a beat down, down down.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Jordan and Pippen were playing in that game, right, it
wasn't beat down.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
I think Dennis Robin got fifteen rebounds for the Bulls
in that game. Was wild. I believe Luke Longley scored
a couple of baskets. It was crazy how many. Yeah,
Ron Harper came off the bench. He had some baskets
as well. It was amazing performers they were. They were
like an all Harlem Bulk.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Roder type performance. Icag a few threes too.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
It was insane, absolutely saying so.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
So words comes out. So, uh Marcus Morris, twin brother
of Markith Morris, now with the Lakers, came out and
said that Lebron requested that his brother be a part
of the Luca trade. Yeah when that happened, that's.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
A great story, right, yeah, great story. This is the
plot thickens because team Lebron. What did Lebron? Right away?
I knew, right, my my BS detector was was buzzing
robbery the night the night of the trade, because I
was like, right away there was a story. Lebron had
no idea, you know, he's trying to process everything, and
then rich Paul, the agent came out, and I had
(37:50):
no idea. I'm glad I didn't know about this, and
now all of a sudden, we're here and well, wait
a minute, Well not only did Lebron know about it,
but according to Marcus Morris, who's who sees seems to
be like a guy that would know Rodney, he's a
twin brother of the guy that was in the trade.
And Marcus Morris is like, oh, yeah, Lebron requested that
my brother be part of the trade. Like that changes
(38:10):
things dramatically, and Lebron a cold blooded assassin to come, Oh,
I had no idea. I know, I know according to this,
you absolutely knew what was going on. This changes things
quite a bit for me. That And honestally, I don't
I don't like I take shots at Lebron, but on
this one, like you would rather have Luca than Anthony Davis.
(38:32):
But the fact that Lebron Rodney was like, oh no,
I had nothing to do with this, and yeah, well yeah,
it didn't pass the BS test right away, considering how
the Lakers have run things over there for a while,
and so.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Now least at least yeah, at least it was run
by him, right, I mean, because you can't say I
had no idea that this was going down, because this
is not nineteen seventy five, where you know, management just
does their thing. You know, you imagine it'd be like
(39:06):
it'd be like the Patriots and the height of Tom
Brady in their run saying, uh, we're going to trade
Rob Gronkowski in the middle of the night for Travis Kelcey,
you know, and and Tom Brady had no idea that
that was going to go down.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Yeah, I mean no. So I mean, plus, you look
at the Lakers. They drafted Lebron's kid, right, gave him
guaranteed four year contract. Uh, they hired his co host
on his podcast to be the co I mean, so
like this is we're we were supposed to believe that
this was where the Lakers put their foot down said
we're not gonna let Lebron know about the biggest transaction
the Lakers have made since what Shaquille O'Neal maybe in
(39:46):
terms of trades are concerned.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
And you know, yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't. It wasn't trading,
you know, Gay Vincent, right, it was trading. Anthony Davis,
who managed by same company Superstar, helped you win a
title in the bubble somebody that is a dear friend
(40:09):
of yours that you are not going to be aware of.
They're not going to do that. I don't know any
team and any sport is going to do that without
just running it by. Now, maybe they do. They do
something anyway, regardless of what your reaction may be, but
they're not going to do that without Hey, this is
going to go down. Just want to let you know.
(40:31):
You know, and he could he could push back, or
he could say Okay, you know, whatever you guys want
to do. But to suggest that I didn't know anything
about it, that's the part that's like okay, that that.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Yeah, it's just right away. We were like, come on,
I don't believe like Lebron. You know, this is another
example Lebron's so worried about his image. Rodney, he is
like immediately he was using his buddies in the media
to get the story out. He had nothing to do
with this, He had no idea, and now you know,
we're coming to hear something different here. I'm sure Lebron
at some point, maybe today, he'll be asked about this
(41:02):
and we'll hear what he says. Maybe he'll not answer it.
But I don't know what you're gonna say. But I
believe Marcus Morris. I stand with Marcus Morris. I believe
he didn't pull that out of his tooks. I think
he actually actually happened, and he just repeated the story.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Hey, I have I have twins myself, but they're you know,
they're there, boy and girl, but they're twins nonetheless, and
they speak their own language, and they have their their connections,
and when a twin says one thing, it's usually true,
it's usually true, you know. So you know again, a
superstar like that, as big as he is, there's no
(41:38):
way the Lakers make a move again. It's not like
the eleventh guy on the end of the bench that's
getting traded that. Okay, no, you know, no, Actually we're
talking about trading Anthony Davis for Luca Doncis.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
The other thing here, Roddy were talking about the Lakers,
was that an aberration. What happened against the Chicago Bulls
or is that a sign of coming attractions and they
only are capable of playing that terrible defense? I mean
there's a complete meltdown from top to bottom. And that's
the argument when remember they made the trade. What was
the artment where they're not gonna be very good defensively? Right,
(42:11):
They're gonna suck and they're not gonna stop anybody. And
that's that's how they played against the Bulls. Are we
going to see that once we get to the playoffs
and you know, another couple of months here, I guess
a month and a half and when the playoffs begins.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
You know, that's a that's a good question because you
don't know what team defensively is going to show up
or are they gonna rely totally on offense to get
them through and win games one forty, you know, one
thirty two or something like that because defense has not
been a strong point. You're right, you know, well, is
(42:47):
as good as he is offensively, he's not. He doesn't
play defense really, I mean, so you live with that,
but how is that going to be with the rest
of the team and are they going to rely that, hey,
we can now just outscore everybody. So we don't have
to really worry about that.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Well, the thing, but the Bulls too that you get
a little concerned about the Bulls from everything I read.
I'm not in Chicago, but they're tanking. They're putting out
handy downs. Yeah, you know, they got secondhand guys and
they're just taking the lottery balls. And they went out
there just this game.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Lose at this point in the season, Yeah, you should
not lose, and against teams you should lose. They I
think they got Orlando next. But I don't know. What
do you think about the Lakers' chances. Obviously they they've
got a jolt of excitement with Luca being here and
firepower and all that, and when they're all on the court,
(43:38):
they can I think they can beat anybody, But can
they beat anybody in a seven game series? Your thoughts
on how deep they can really go?
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Yeah, I think they're a second round team and then
that's after that, all bets are off. They'll win the
first round, although you know it depends on the seating
is completely helter skelter. It's it's it's a jumbled mess
right now, so you don't even know who they're gonna play.
You'd assume they're gonna finish in the top, you know,
number two or number three. They're winning off and then
(44:09):
usually if you if you finish in number two, you're
gonna play some but dragonal team. But there is a
scenario where they play the Clippers in the first round
and the Clippers are starting to play a little bit
better here, yeah they are, and Battle Battle of l
A and all that stuff, and the Clippers took Oklahoma
City down to the wire.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Yeah in that game, James Harden's ale is not too bad.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
But but yeah, yeah, it's a little messed up. And
U Kawai absolutely butchered the game winning shot at them
for the Clips. But but they were in the game
to the end. They beat Cleveland, So the Clippers are
playing better. And it obviously it's as they say, boxing
and basketball matchups. It's all about matchups, right school, You
match up against, you match up against that opponent.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
I mean the Lakers, they say, exactly.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
I mean you could you can match up against a
bunch of teams that the Lakers can just outscore and
you don't really have to worry about it. And then
you know, obviously clips back the other way. The one
thing about the Lakers, though, I know they're gonna get
the benefit of the doubt on every single from the officials. Rodney,
They'll get the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
You believe it. You believe in the Lakers are getting it.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
My entire life. That's the one constant thing. The Lakers
have always gotten the benefit of the doubt from the referee.
Here it's a fifty to fifty call, it's actually seventy
five to twenty five in favor of the Lakers on
those fifty to fifty calls. That's my experience, Roddy watching
him over the years.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
So you sound like a Celtic fan, man, No, No
Clipper fan, Cloper, Oh yeah, a Clipper to it all right,
more Dodgers that we get ready for Opening Day coming
this Thursday. David Bassey is going to join us on
the other side to kind of talk about what's going
to happen also starting opening Day, I believe it's going
(45:46):
to be my man, Blake Snell and then going forward.
So stay tuned. We get it right from the horse's mouth,
our man, David Bass five seventy LA Sports
Oh yeah, I am back. I am back from Tokyo.
I have lots of stories to tell. I'm excited to
be back in studio here in Los Angeles and joining
me today sitting in for Fred is my man. Ben Mohler,
(00:21):
host of The Ben Mihler Show on a M five
seventy and Fox Sports Radio week nights from eleven to
three a m. You can follow him at Ben Mahler
M A L L E R.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Man? Why it's not about me, Rodney, It's about you.
I talk of everyone here the last last week craziness.
How was it? How was it living that? Man? Did
you realize when you were in Japan that everyone I
hear was talking about you, that everyone was buzzing about
your phone must have blown up?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
First of all, let me let me let me start
with Let me start with the the trip itself. First
of all, Japan is an amazing country. It really is.
If you have never been, or you have a chance
to go, please go visit Japan. There's so many great
places to go and to see. Tokyo obviously, is is
(01:19):
an incredible large New York style city, but outside of
that Osaka is a beautiful city, Kyoto is a beautiful city,
and Yokohama is a beautiful city. It's so many great
places in Tokyo, and it's such a great country. Uh Ben,
I don't know if you've ever been there, but I'm not.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'm not have you Have you been there before? I have?
I have.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I went a long long time ago. When I was
in college. We uh we actually played uh. When I
was at USC we actually played a football game in Tokyo.
We played against Oregon. I think it was my freshman year.
We played went over here, went over there and played.
But I hadn't been back since. But my son, my
middle son, Robinson, who was always infatuated and loved the
(02:06):
Japanese culture from the time he was born, loved anime,
loved you know, samurai, martial arts, all those things, graduated
high school and in the midst of the pandemic and decided, I,
you know, I just need something different, and and he
wanted to take a gap year and go to Japan,
and so he, you know, researched a kind of like
(02:30):
a prep school. It was a culture and language institute
over there in Tokyo, and got in and and it
was for a nine month program, went over there and
loved it and then decided to enroll at Temple University, Tokyo.
So now he's in his third year over there and
is absolutely loving it and thriving. And I will tell you, Benett,
it has really changed his life. His whole demeanor has
(02:52):
changed where it's more calm and and he was more
of the active wild kid. But he is is it is.
It has really changed. He takes all up his shoes
now when he enters the room. Ben, that's not how
you say. And he was he was mister pigpin back
in the day.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Is going to force you to see him.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I went to his apartment and I that was the
first thing I did, was take my shoes off, because
it's just kind of part of the culture. But just
to want to give a shout to the to to
the Japanese people and and and what they what they
did over there for a lot of the Americans that
came over for the Dodger and the Tokyo series, uh,
and it was just amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And and.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The amount of I guess, the the amount of hype
and knowledge that they have, first of all for baseball.
Baseball is huge in Japan. It's just a huge sport
from young to old high the high school tournaments that
they have in Tokyo and in Japan, they're getting thirty
(03:54):
five forty thousand people at those games, and and it's
it's really incredible. Baseball is a huge, huge deal over
there in Japan and for them to show the love
and support of MLB, but in particular the Dodgers. I mean,
I thought, look, when you think about brands, man, you
(04:18):
think about brands and sports. You think about Yankees, right,
you think about the Cowboys and football, the Lakers and basketball, Lakers,
Celtics and basketball, maybe the Knicks. I think now, just
witnessing that, I don't know if there's a bigger brand
and globally than the Dodgers and a lot you know,
obviously the old Tani effect for sure, but I don't
(04:40):
know if there's a bigger brand than the Dodgers. What
I saw over there was incredible. And it's not just
not just Japan, but it's all of Asia that is
infatuated with the Dodgers. And I know basketball probably dominates
Europe because baseball is not really you know, prominent in Europe,
and maybe the Lakers are more popular in those countries
because basketball is taken over and really big in France
(05:01):
and you know, Lithuania and Slovenia and all those countries
that basketball has become huge because we've got so many
now international players. But in Asia, baseball's king and and
the Dodgers are the number one brand, and I I
was blown away. I was blown away. I don't know
if there is really a bigger brand in sports than
(05:23):
the Dodgers, and.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Right, I saw some of the video clips from people
that were there and they're like, go Tani's faces like everywhere.
It's like, yeah, people are comparing it to Jordan back
in the nineties and stuff. Yeah you know what was
it like when you're.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Driving around everywhere you go? Yeah, I mean it's first
of all, and I'm sure he has a lot to do.
And there's a lot of those a lot of those
ads and commercials you don't see in the States, right,
they're only sown in Japan. Film of them are little corny,
but he is. Yeah, he's branded everywhere, from from you know,
pitching spatulas to clothing. Obviously his New Balance deal.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Go wrong in the kitchen, you need the right Spatu.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Swing it right, Ben, you know what I mean. And
obviously the new Balance is everywhere over there because that's
his that's his UH sponsor for his shoes and and equipment.
But he's on everything, food commercials, doing doing everything he
can to the point where I you know, he there's
no way he could have stayed at the at the
(06:29):
Team hotel. We actually stayed at the Team Hotel and
it was there was all kinds of people. There was
a lot of security to keep people away, but there's
still people hanging around, learning around thinking they were going
to see him. But it was incredible. So hats off
to the country of Japan just to the way it is.
And one of the things about Japan that you'll that
will blow you away is how clean it is. Tokyo
(06:52):
and in all of Japan, there is not a piece
of trash on the ground and any part of the city.
It is one of those things. I don't know if
you get I don't know, if you go to jail,
I don't know, if you get fine. I don't know
if you know if you drop some trash on the ground,
But there are and on top of that, there are
very few trash cans roddy if you are taught to
(07:14):
take your trash with you home and then throw it away.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, if they need trash riding, we have plenty of trash,
oh yeah, in the south lane. So if they want any,
we can export that. If they want, we can send
it right over them. They want to have the full
immersive experience, we can give them some of our trash
if they're interesting. I don't think they're interested in that ridding,
but they want we we have a lot of trash, yeah,
very large.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I don't know. They might put some tariffs on it though, Bill. Well,
you know, hey, so okay, so let's let's let's get
into the whole thing man, because and you're right. I
I my phone blew up like crazy after that foul ball.
So when you're in the Tokyo Dome, and we were
(07:57):
fortunate enough to have some really good seats, and and
so we were sitting in the second row down the
third baseline and on the aisle, and I at that place.
You know how they have it in the States with
the new role. I think a few years ago they
they they raised the netting down the first, first base
and third base lines in America and MLB and so
(08:21):
you're you're protected there. The netting is very low, so
you can still get drilled by a line drive foul ball.
And I I warned my wife Holly before we you know,
before the game started. I said, listen, the nets are low.
The ball is going to come into the stands. And
so make sure when there's a left handed hitter up
(08:44):
that you are your eyes are on the hitter because
nowadays everybody's on their phone during the games. They're doing
things their heads down. So make sure you pay attention.
I kept saying, every time I warn her, every time
a left handed hitter, Hey, hey, pay attention, left handed
hitter up, left handed hit her up. And to the
point where she got annoy with me too, telling me
that I got it, I got it, Leave me alone,
Leave me alone now, I just I just want to
(09:06):
do my thing. And they so they provided that whole
section is provided gloves, baseball gloves, and a helmet.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
See that's key writing, because I think a lot of
people thought you brought the glove and they were riding
shot that you're writing. They said, what do you know,
you're a growing ass man? What are you doing bringing
a glove to a game. Dude, what's wrong with you? Man?
Come on? So that changed when I heard that. That
changed things.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
These guys were busting your balls and were killing the glove. Man,
they were killing me. They were killing me. What is
you doing? What are you thirteen? What are you twelve?
Bringing a glove to the game in Japan? What's wrong
with you? But so, so yes, it was provided for you.
I think they you know, it's probably like I guess
two hundred people in that area that section that that
(09:50):
that they provided helmets and gloves and and and by
the way, it's it was, uh, I think it was
at the five and dime store gloves that they got
those glove I was from, So it was Wilson eight
two thousand, like you want it back in the day.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
She played for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Right right now. So they provide the glove, so that
that was out of the way. So I'm I'm reminding her.
And the first night of the games, there were a
couple of foul balls into the section that that went
over our heads. So we didn't, you know, we didn't
get any action. But I just felt something was going
to happen and we were gonna it was going to
come close to us, and I was more thinking about,
(10:29):
you know, a line drive that I would have to tendate,
you know, protect her, get in in the way, or
try to do something with And then it happened. And
when the ball was hit, I thought it was behind us,
and it's just I said, okay, we got no chance
of this. This is going about fifteen rows up. And
(10:51):
then it started to drift back towards us. And I
had no idea that because I thought it was behind
it years they thought it was behind I had no
idea that Max was even thinking about trying to make
a play on it because I thought it was so
far up in the stands. But it started to drift
back towards us, and the closer it guy was like
(11:13):
slow motion. It was like, oh no, this is coming,
this is coming close. This is going to come close,
and it's just like one of those cartoons slow motion
things where you see it just oh oh man, oh man,
oh man. And just naturally as it got close, because
it was going to land right in my wife's lap,
basically I reached over and had the glove on because
(11:37):
it was the left hand I think it was Ian
Happ had the glove on so I was ready for it,
and it was just a reaction because it was so
close to reach my glove down and catch it. And
immediately after I caught it, I look up and Max
is like maybe two feet from me. I'm like, he
(11:58):
didn't look happy, right, he was not He was not happy.
He was not happy at all. But he's two feet
from me. So I see him first of all, and
then I look at my wife and she's looking at
me like, what the hell did you do? What is
wrong with you? Like I reached over into the field
of play and caught the ball and stolen away from Max,
(12:19):
And so I was like, oh my god, did I
did I just take it out of his glove? Did
I just interfere with Max trying to make the catch?
And that's why I put the ball behind my back
real quick. I was like, oh wait, let me act
like I didn't. That wasn't me.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Very smooth.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Evidence man got high damns, you know, acting like it
wasn't me. And then I saw his reaction and was like, oh, man,
what did I do? What did I do? And thank
god I saw some replays and saw that his glove
was above my glove and my glove was below his
(12:58):
so either he was going to catch it or deflect
it before it got to me. So I was kind
of off the hook. And then, as you mentioned, my
phone started to blow up, and I could not believe
how many people in the states, in particularly in California,
that were watching that game live, because it was three
(13:20):
four o'clock in the morning here and people were watching
the game. My phone blew up immediately and like, oh,
we saw you catch the foul ball. Catch the foul ball.
And then it just went crazy, and you know, MLB
on Fox and all those folks started to get into it,
and they played the Larry David theme of Curby enthusiasmic it,
(13:41):
but it went Yeah, it went crazy on Twitter and
Instagram and all the social media sites, and even my
son who lives there, was like, Dad, you're all over
Japanese Twitter too, because then people started to put it together. Yeah,
like I was a football player, former NFL player, catching
the foul ball, and first they put it like stole
it from mony. See that was like gonna be villain.
(14:03):
I'm gonna be villain number one from the Dodgers. Not
gonna allow me to go back to any more games, man.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Sure sure, sure, you know. I was. Actually I was
at the gym. I told I was. I filled them
for you guys last week with Jonas and we were
I was like, I was at the gym and they
these old people in the gym, they don't want to
watch the game. So I was listening to it on
the radio and Rick Monday right away on AM five
seventy that's Rodney p He knew right away. Tim never
wasn't sure, but he knew right away it was you.
(14:29):
And then I went and I turned on you. I
went on the phone and I watched the clip and oh, yeah,
that's that's Rodney. That's Rodney. So what was the the
person that you heard from that was the most surprising.
Was there somebody in particular that reached out to you
that you hadn't heard from in a while and say, hey, Rodney,
I tell you on TV? Was it? There's a one
in particular, because it when this thing was seeing millions
(14:49):
and millions at times, this an went viral and all day,
all day it happened, you know, here in the middle
of the night, but all day it was playing on
the internet over and over and over. It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It was it was from everybody, from from Samuel L.
Jackson Wow, to Chris Rock to to Jim Rome. I mean,
it was everybody. And then certainly you know, my wife
was getting it too, and and and then all you know,
all the memes and all the wise cracks started Simon
(15:19):
in and all that kind of stuff. But it was, yeah,
it was absolutely.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Col The other thing, Rody, I have to ask you say,
the way it was written, like you always wonder what
people think of you. I think of you as the
USC quarterback. I think even the Lions, but a lot
of people said former Eagles quarterback. There were other things
written about it. Do you see that stuff? Because it
was it was interesting how they described you. It was
all over the map.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You know what was funny about it? It was probably
I don't know, it was probably a little bit after
the game that you know, I started kind of scrolling
through all the stuff that people were saying. And then
and then eventually USC chimed in. USC Athletics chimed in,
(16:06):
and they said, uh, it's now a good time to
mention that Rodney Pete was a two sport athlete at USC.
So they got into the mix, and I thought that
was pretty cool. And then they showed pictures of me
playing baseball at USC And because a lot of people
don't know that, like you mentioned, like people think, you know,
I played NFL for sixteen years. Obviously that that's what
(16:28):
people remember me by. Very few people remember that I
actually did play baseball the way through college and and
and played and also was drafted you know by four
four times by by Major League Baseball out of high
school and out of college. So people didn't know that
about me. And because they were like, how did you
catch that? You know, you know you're a football player,
(16:51):
you know, had a baseball player. Well, I did play
a little baseball back in the day a little bit.
Actually played and actually played third base, which is ironic
that I kind of maybe a stole the ball from Max.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, did you did you keep the ball? Did they
force you to take it? Did they take it from you?
Because there was kind of a violation of the baseball
code once he was trying to do you still have
possession of the ball? Where is the baseball? Right?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I still have possession of the baseball? Yes, I do.
I have it. I have it. I brought it home
with me, which was was crazy. Like you said, what's
the you know what was the reaction? Right after that,
one of the security guards, the Japanese security guards, came
down to the section and and looked at it. I
thought he was going to make me get up and
(17:33):
kicked me out because I am the walk is sane
to kick me out in the stadium and uh and
and then s and he was just trying to make
sure that I was okay and that didn't get hurt.
So thank god it didn't kick me out, because that
would have been that would have been the worst, like
fan interference. We're gonna have to escort you out of
the stadium. And then and then you know a lot
of the Dodger execs that I know, Lon Rosen and
(17:57):
in Magic Johnson, those guys were teasing going, okay, not
gonna uh your band from the Tokyo Dome from the
rest of your life now and yeah, and you're gonna
have to ask permission to go to Dodgers Stadium now.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Something like that.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Do not go to the stadium, go to the stadium, Rodney,
do not go to the stadium. And on top of that,
so the the to rept this whole thing up. So
my son, who RJ my other son r J, my oldest,
who actually has a clubhouse attendant for the Dodgers, So
he works for the for the team. It's an awesome
job and they've they've taken care of him. He's in
(18:36):
his tenth year there and UH just just amazing that
what they have allowed him to do and be a
part of. UH to be in there, and the players
treat him like family, like a little brother, and it's
really cool. So he didn't make the trip and because
he's he was back here kind of getting everything ready
(18:57):
for when they return and getting you know, they have
the new clubhouse now at Dodger Stadium, and so they
were they were moving things around, so they it was
all hands on deck back here while the team was
in Tokyo. And when that happened, because he had to
meet the team when they came back, when they flew back,
he got it all. He got it all from everybody.
(19:18):
What was your dad doing? What's wrong with your dad?
Why does your dad do that to months? What's going on?
R J?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
R J.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
We're gonna ban you from the clubhouse, man, what's going
on with you? What's your dad doing?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
So it's gonna be all year it's not. Anytime there's
a foul ball that's close, your name will be brought.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
It's gonna be crazy. It's gonna be crazy, Ben And uh,
you know, thank god that uh and he was he
was smart enough to defend it the right way. He said,
all he was doing was protecting my mom.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
That's all chivalry, right, chivalry, muscle memory, go with the chivalry.
Win in doubt, throw the chivalry card out. Now you
have a little bit of a kinship you already.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I know.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
This is kind of a day of reverence with this
guy named Steve Bartman. It was a playoff game, so.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Those references I got.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
You didn't wear headphones, you didn't have the turtleneck on,
so that's good. You had the Dodger hoodie thing on
that that was good. But Bartman was the most famous.
Oh yeah, O three about to go to the World Series.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, probably, Yeah, I would imagine this is the most
that moist is a loo name got brought up in
recent years because he was brought up a lot of
times in that whole situation. Yeah, people are calling me
Rodney Bartman. I mean, oh yeah, I got it. I
got it hard Well, lest you showed up though on
my Apartman disappeared. We know, you know, he's never done
(20:39):
an interview ever since then.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
He's never never he went into hiding. He just no one.
He's like a man of mystery. But at least you're writing,
you're owning. You're not hiding from me. Wow, you're owning.
And this was an internet You're like an international man
of mystery because you want to there's like two countries
involved in this, Rodney, Well yeah, exactly, I mean you
got this. There's much more to it because it's an
(21:01):
international thing. Unlike just the Cubs and the Marlins back
you three when they were playing each other.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Oh my god, yeah yeah, I got department things. So
and thank god that's my wife said too. Thank god
got into a rally after that, or happy hit a
home run or something happened and dodging end up losing
that game. It would have been ugly. I would have been.
I would have been right next to Bartman like a
mug shot. Yeah, oh, he would have been right next
to each other. You know, it would have been It
(21:28):
was crazy crazy. You have a kinship. What's that?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You have a kinship with Bartman? You track him? Then, right,
I'm sure Kevin will work on that right now, easy
to fight.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I hope not. I hope not. All right, Ben Maller
for Fred Rogan Today, We're gonna get into more Dodgers.
What's going on with Mookie. We gotta find out how
his illness is affecting him and when will he be back.
He's lost a lot of weight, but hopefully he comes
back soon. All that and more coming up on a
five seventy LA Sports. Oh Yes, back on a Monday,
(22:01):
Rodney Pete Ben Miler in for Fred Rogan today. Check
this out, hey. We will be broadcasting live this Thursday
from Dodgers Stadium nine am to twelve, and then PMS
is gonna take over from twelve to three, leading you
up to Dodgers pregame with Tim Kates and the first
pitch with the Dodgers and the Tigers. So tune in
(22:24):
all day Opening Day. We're gonna have it right here
on AM five seventy, that's right. And also Friday, Fred
and I will be out at Crony's Sports Bar in
Simi Valley twelve to three. Come on out. There might
be a chance that we, uh we give away some
tickets to the Dodger game. So check us out at
(22:45):
Crony's in Simi Valley. We always have a good time
out there. It's always fun, so make sure you check
us out. And also we'll be live again at Dodger
Stadium on Thursday, Opening Day from nine to noon.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Don't have to meet the people you're going to have
to meet, man, gotta be, got to be.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Got to get to people what they won't. Speaking of
giving the people what they want, I will say, you know,
and in in Tokyo, obviously, what was crazy about it
is how quiet then the crowd got when players were
up to bat. There's a lot of cheer, you know,
after they get a hit or a home run or
strikeout or things like that, but while the players are
(23:24):
are hitting, you could basically hear conversations that are happening.
Is that quiet it was? It was kind of an eerie,
different kind of feel to it.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yeah. I like that. Yeah, yeah. You go to a
Dodger game, people are drinking medellos, are having a good time,
and they're going not to the entire game.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
They're not waiting, they're going to while exactly you know,
you hear that. But one thing that stood out for
sure is that. Obviously, Otani hits the home run and
and and in Japan and gave him, you know, something
to cheer about and wanted. You know, that was a
great moment that he delivered and again giving to people
what they want. But you know, the thing going on
(24:08):
with Mookie and his illness is just something. It's something
kind of crazy because he has lost so much weight.
Wookie's not a big guy to begin with, but he's
lost like almost fifteen pounds with this illness. And I
saw him over there and he wasn't feeling very well.
Now he's continued to say that he really can't keep
anything down. But along with that story on Mookie Ben,
(24:35):
I'm just watching this team and how they've kind of
progressed through spring training and then as you see them
play throughout spring training and now they're playing the Angels
for a three game set. It's how deep this team is.
The depth of this team is incredible, and I don't
(24:57):
remember a team being this depth that can withstand and
something like a Mookie BET's a superstar that may may
not make opening Day, maybe out for a few games,
but and certainly they're gonna they're gonna miss him. All around.
But the Dodgers have so much depth that it's gonna
be incredible.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, I know, they're an absolute wagon. I mean, this
is why this is this is unusual. I mean it's
been been a number of years since the team is
as stacked as this Dodger team. And the one thing
about the baseball over Hodney, I have a feeling by
the time we I said this the other day, when
we get to the All Star break, Yeah, and then
the trade deadline, they'll still they're still gonna go out
and need to get a pitcher. So despite having all this,
(25:36):
but they are the most stacked team that we've seen
probably I don't know, I'm gonna be too dramatic here,
but some of those Yankee teams back in the Jeter days.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, when they're backing guys off the bench, like yeah,
they were stacking shep Field, guys off the beach. They
were bringing people off the bench that you didn't like.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Wait, well you look at it. They should the Dodgers
should overpower everyone. I mean, they should just steamer. We
know they won't, but I mean they're they're gonna have
some bumps in the road and all that, which is
good for us doing talk radio, but you know they
are loaded and Mookie, the Mookie thing. That's that's crazy,
the thing about he essentially said his body is kind
of like eating itself. Yeah, and they don't.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Know, like it's a weird way to describe it, right, Well, yeah, because.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
They know there's a lot of weird illnesses in Arizona.
I'm not a doctor, as you know, Rodney, but I
can play one on the radio. But there's like all
kinds of weird. You hear stories about people in Arizona
that get they like the desert fever or whateverything is
called something. There's different illnesses that you can get there.
And we obviously don't know what he has, but you
would assume you'd rule out right away if you were
a doctor. I've watched enough medical shows, Rodney, where you
(26:42):
rule out the obvious stuff, flu, the neuro virus, which
I guess used to be the flu but now it's
called the neuro virus, like and so that stuff. So
it's something they don't know what, they don't know exactly
what it is, and so they're trying to eliminate stuff.
And you're right, I mean, he's a he is kind
of a small guy compared to the rest of baseball,
and it was that much weight.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Someone said, he's like down to like one hundred and
like fifty seven pounds.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Now, yeah, he's like that's junior high school whale exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
And then you got to build that back up. And
I'm sure you know a guy like him, you know,
the metabolism is probably through the roof, which I wish
I had. Now you know it ended. My metabolism rate
ented at forty and I can't. I can't. I look
at food in that game weight now, but his is
(27:32):
probably off the chart.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Well, he said he can only eat smoothies. That's it.
He's the He's the smoothie king. That's all he can
put down. He can't and I've had the stomach. We've
all had the.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Stomach and they rolled down. It's just not just simple
food poisoning too, right, So it's not.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Well yeah, because the food poison doesn't as far as
I know, it doesn't last this long. I mean, your
food poison lasts. I've had food poisoning a couple of times.
I had some bad Mexican food. One time got food poisoning.
I had a bad hot dog in a baseball game.
I got not a Dodger game, by the way, food poisoning,
and it lasted a couple of days, and you had
your essentially dysentery for a couple of days and you're.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Back right, so right, which is yeah, so it's it's
very interesting and and what's what's it was probably bad
for him, and I know he cut his his trip
in Japan short. But one other thing that's incredible in
Japan is the food. The food is off the charts.
The food. If if you love to eat, which I
(28:28):
do and my family does, sure, it is one of
the best places in the world to find good food.
I mean even some of the things in the restaurants
in the back alleys have some of the best foods
that you will ever have. I mean, so that is
that was one of the downsides I remember talking to
was that I can't even eat what I want over
(28:49):
here because I can't keep anything down. And he ended
up coming home early.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
This is isn't that generally a rule of thumb though?
Right even here? You know, you go to those mom
and pop kind of shady looking restaurants and you're gonna
get larger portions of food you're gonna get to me
better food.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, I don't heart. It's not like quick serve or
anything like that. Put their feeling and their heart and
soul into it. You're absolutely right side roadsides or you know,
off the beaten path kind of restaurants that you you
go into and you're like, oh my god, this is
this is incredible. I'm used to getting like, you know,
a you know, tiny piece of steak. Now you're giving
(29:29):
me a full with the full porterhouse and you're giving me,
you know, full mash exactly. Well.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
The greatest is when you go to like a Chinese restaurant,
a mom and pop Chinese restaurant, and they give you
the styrofoam container and it's bulging out of the sides
of this home container so much food. You know. You
go to a chain restaurant, they measure everything. Obviously, they
don't want to lose money. The mom and pop place
is more like throw everything everything you're gonna get. You're
gonna be fat by the time you.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Have no leftovers here at the mom and pop stakes exactly.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
So.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
So Also, you know, I saw where Plaski wrote that
Bill Plaski of the Times wrote that that the dog.
He feels the Dodgers they have more pressure on them
this year than they did last year to win it all.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
You agree with that, Well, they have pressure every year
because they're all I mean, the Dodgers are. The amount
of money the ownership spending on the team is insane.
I mean, his argument was to be a dynasty, they
have to win, win again. But even if they win
this year, it's people are still gonna say, well, it's
not a dynasty enough, not enough, right, yeah, exactly, because
(30:33):
they're going to relate to what the Yankees went, what
they win four and five years or something like that. Yeah, yeah,
to win back to back. It hasn't happened since the
Yankees back in the day, and that would be obviously
great for this this Dodgers. This is like elongated thing.
I mean we to me, we haven't seen anything like
what the Dodgers doing. They make the playoffs every year.
(30:53):
Can you even remember the last time the Dodgers didn't
make the playoffs? I mean, they're guaranteed to be in
the playoffs every year. And this thing's like is barring
some kind of disaster, this is going to continue for
at least another five, six, seven years. Into the future
where they're going to be in the playoffs every single year.
So this is more like, I know, the Yankees want
(31:14):
a bunch back in the old days, the you know,
the the Themaggio days and that and Mickey Mantle and
those kind of guys. But this is more on par
with that kind of thing. We're talking about a generational
run by the Dodgers where they're going to be in
the Plauffs. You think twenty years, twenty five years, as
a generation, an entire generation, they're going to be in
the playoffs by the time you know, who knows where
(31:35):
we're going to be in there, you know it's already
it's already been twelve years or something like that. I think.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
So yeah, I mean I can't, like you said, I
can't remember the last time they weren't in the playoffs.
And in fact, they're like you said, generation, they're generation
of kids that are what twelve fifteen years old that
that's all they've known is the Dodgers in the playoffs. Yeah,
every single year, And that matters. I mean it matters
because I know as a as a as a player
(32:01):
and on the NFL side that you know, I've played
for six different teams, and not all of them had
that aspiration of winning every single year.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
And one in particular, Ride you played for Michigan.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah, exactly. It's a different Detroit team back then than
what it is now. You know, mentality was different back
then where it was you know, winning was not always
the most important thing, and and it matters to players.
And that's why you see so many players want to
play for the Dodgers and want to come here and
be a part of this because they know number one,
(32:35):
first of all, they know Dodgers got deep pockets. Come
here and play for the Dodger, but also that they're
going to be in the conversation every single year. They're
going to be in a conversation for a ring every
single year.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
But as far as like the dynasty stuff and all that,
I mean, this again is elongated thing they've already I
include twenty seventeen because the Astros cheated, So I include
that one as people don't have to include that. But
they cheated. I've not I know, it's been eight years.
I have a very long memory riding. I do not
forgive anyone involved in that. The cheating ahtros Is I
(33:08):
like to call him. So no, I mean the twenty
seven team will check that one twenty twenty, which was
the hardest World Series during a pandemic to win that,
And I maintained that people thought that James.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I just said that because there's so many people that
write those off that pandemic year.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Twenty twenty one in baseball in particular, because like right now,
if you play poorly for a couple of weeks, right
now in baseball, you got a whole bunch of games
to make it. But that year they only played sixty
games or whatever it was they only had. You could
not take a week off or you likely weren't even
gonna make the playoff. So that was much difficult. It
was totally different than the sport has normally played in
(33:47):
twenty twenty, so that was that was much more more difficult.
And then you know the win last year and to
beat the Yankees and the beating the way they did
to neutralize the Yankees, and you know the Freddie Freeman
Graham slam. The Holy was magical. That was the gibson
Esque and all that. So yeah, it's just been it's
been great. And now you look around and you're at
the top and If the Dodgers lose, they're gonna get killed.
(34:08):
Everyone around the baseball is upset with the Dodgers, right,
So that's kind of cool to me that I know
Stan Casta didn't want to embrace that. I would embrace it.
I think it's awesome. I think it's great. When I
years ago, Roddy, when I was doing I did Dodger
Talk very briefly in another lifetime, and I remember the
team didn't spend a lot of money, and they they
were always trying to nickel and diamond. And now they're
(34:29):
the They're what I was hoping they would be. At
that age. I was like, well, I want to see
them be like the Yankees were at that time. And
now they have become that. And I think it's great.
It's wonderful and and and they're really paying. All these
guys are being paid for twenty years down the line.
It's not even like they're all getting paid right now.
They're getting paid deferred money and all that, so they're
set up for years to come.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Hey, chake us out this Sunday afternoon from one to three.
Join us at the Ralph Lauren A store in Citadel Outlets,
Parpolo Ralph Lauren's Family Baseball Fan Experience host by David
Basset with a special appearance by a world champion and
home run Derby champion, to Oscar Hernandez. Test your fast pitch,
win prizes and join the fund. It's a day of
(35:12):
Baseball Fund you won't want to miss. Go Blue Details
at am five to seventy la sports dot Com. All right,
when we come back? How much did Lebron know? How
much did Lebron actually know about the Luca Dante jurie?
Speaker 2 (35:28):
The rest of the story, Riding.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
The rest of the story when we come back? All right, Now,
Today's Afternoon Delight. It's just Us by Doja Cat and
Jack Harlowe. The duo released this song along with a
music video over the weekend, and Harlow has been manifesting
(35:51):
this collab for years, admitting in the twenty twenty Instagram
Live that he has long been infatuated with Dosha. This
is the third track that Harlow has released so far
in twenty twenty five, which is fueled speculation that a
new project could drop later this year. Again, Today's Afternoon
(36:13):
Delight is just Us by Doja Cat and Jack Harlowe.
Uh All right, So Lakers get blown out by the Bulls.
That was not just a blowout.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
That was the running. That was the running of the
bulls they ran. That was like Jordan's Pippin. That was
a beat down, down down.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Jordan and Pippen were playing in that game, right, it
wasn't beat down.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
I think Dennis Robin got fifteen rebounds for the Bulls
in that game. Was wild. I believe Luke Longley scored
a couple of baskets. It was crazy how many. Yeah,
Ron Harper came off the bench. He had some baskets
as well. It was amazing performers they were. They were
like an all Harlem Bulk.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Roder type performance. Icag a few threes too.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
It was insane, absolutely saying so.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
So words comes out. So, uh Marcus Morris, twin brother
of Markith Morris, now with the Lakers, came out and
said that Lebron requested that his brother be a part
of the Luca trade. Yeah when that happened, that's.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
A great story, right, yeah, great story. This is the
plot thickens because team Lebron. What did Lebron? Right away?
I knew, right, my my BS detector was was buzzing
robbery the night the night of the trade, because I
was like, right away there was a story. Lebron had
no idea, you know, he's trying to process everything, and
then rich Paul, the agent came out, and I had
(37:50):
no idea. I'm glad I didn't know about this, and
now all of a sudden, we're here and well, wait
a minute, Well not only did Lebron know about it,
but according to Marcus Morris, who's who sees seems to
be like a guy that would know Rodney, he's a
twin brother of the guy that was in the trade.
And Marcus Morris is like, oh, yeah, Lebron requested that
my brother be part of the trade. Like that changes
(38:10):
things dramatically, and Lebron a cold blooded assassin to come, Oh,
I had no idea. I know, I know according to this,
you absolutely knew what was going on. This changes things
quite a bit for me. That And honestally, I don't
I don't like I take shots at Lebron, but on
this one, like you would rather have Luca than Anthony Davis.
(38:32):
But the fact that Lebron Rodney was like, oh no,
I had nothing to do with this, and yeah, well yeah,
it didn't pass the BS test right away, considering how
the Lakers have run things over there for a while,
and so.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Now least at least yeah, at least it was run
by him, right, I mean, because you can't say I
had no idea that this was going down, because this
is not nineteen seventy five, where you know, management just
does their thing. You know, you imagine it'd be like
(39:06):
it'd be like the Patriots and the height of Tom
Brady in their run saying, uh, we're going to trade
Rob Gronkowski in the middle of the night for Travis Kelcey,
you know, and and Tom Brady had no idea that
that was going to go down.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Yeah, I mean no. So I mean, plus, you look
at the Lakers. They drafted Lebron's kid, right, gave him
guaranteed four year contract. Uh, they hired his co host
on his podcast to be the co I mean, so
like this is we're we were supposed to believe that
this was where the Lakers put their foot down said
we're not gonna let Lebron know about the biggest transaction
the Lakers have made since what Shaquille O'Neal maybe in
(39:46):
terms of trades are concerned.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
And you know, yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't. It wasn't trading,
you know, Gay Vincent, right, it was trading. Anthony Davis,
who managed by same company Superstar, helped you win a
title in the bubble somebody that is a dear friend
(40:09):
of yours that you are not going to be aware of.
They're not going to do that. I don't know any
team and any sport is going to do that without
just running it by. Now, maybe they do. They do
something anyway, regardless of what your reaction may be, but
they're not going to do that without Hey, this is
going to go down. Just want to let you know.
(40:31):
You know, and he could he could push back, or
he could say Okay, you know, whatever you guys want
to do. But to suggest that I didn't know anything
about it, that's the part that's like okay, that that.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Yeah, it's just right away. We were like, come on,
I don't believe like Lebron. You know, this is another
example Lebron's so worried about his image. Rodney, he is
like immediately he was using his buddies in the media
to get the story out. He had nothing to do
with this, He had no idea, and now you know,
we're coming to hear something different here. I'm sure Lebron
at some point, maybe today, he'll be asked about this
(41:02):
and we'll hear what he says. Maybe he'll not answer it.
But I don't know what you're gonna say. But I
believe Marcus Morris. I stand with Marcus Morris. I believe
he didn't pull that out of his tooks. I think
he actually actually happened, and he just repeated the story.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Hey, I have I have twins myself, but they're you know,
they're there, boy and girl, but they're twins nonetheless, and
they speak their own language, and they have their their connections,
and when a twin says one thing, it's usually true,
it's usually true, you know. So you know again, a
superstar like that, as big as he is, there's no
(41:38):
way the Lakers make a move again. It's not like
the eleventh guy on the end of the bench that's
getting traded that. Okay, no, you know, no, Actually we're
talking about trading Anthony Davis for Luca Doncis.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
The other thing here, Roddy were talking about the Lakers,
was that an aberration. What happened against the Chicago Bulls
or is that a sign of coming attractions and they
only are capable of playing that terrible defense? I mean
there's a complete meltdown from top to bottom. And that's
the argument when remember they made the trade. What was
the artment where they're not gonna be very good defensively? Right,
(42:11):
They're gonna suck and they're not gonna stop anybody. And
that's that's how they played against the Bulls. Are we
going to see that once we get to the playoffs
and you know, another couple of months here, I guess
a month and a half and when the playoffs begins.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
You know, that's a that's a good question because you
don't know what team defensively is going to show up
or are they gonna rely totally on offense to get
them through and win games one forty, you know, one
thirty two or something like that because defense has not
been a strong point. You're right, you know, well, is
(42:47):
as good as he is offensively, he's not. He doesn't
play defense really, I mean, so you live with that,
but how is that going to be with the rest
of the team and are they going to rely that, hey,
we can now just outscore everybody. So we don't have
to really worry about that.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Well, the thing, but the Bulls too that you get
a little concerned about the Bulls from everything I read.
I'm not in Chicago, but they're tanking. They're putting out
handy downs. Yeah, you know, they got secondhand guys and
they're just taking the lottery balls. And they went out
there just this game.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Lose at this point in the season, Yeah, you should
not lose, and against teams you should lose. They I
think they got Orlando next. But I don't know. What
do you think about the Lakers' chances. Obviously they they've
got a jolt of excitement with Luca being here and
firepower and all that, and when they're all on the court,
(43:38):
they can I think they can beat anybody, But can
they beat anybody in a seven game series? Your thoughts
on how deep they can really go?
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Yeah, I think they're a second round team and then
that's after that, all bets are off. They'll win the
first round, although you know it depends on the seating
is completely helter skelter. It's it's it's a jumbled mess
right now, so you don't even know who they're gonna play.
You'd assume they're gonna finish in the top, you know,
number two or number three. They're winning off and then
(44:09):
usually if you if you finish in number two, you're
gonna play some but dragonal team. But there is a
scenario where they play the Clippers in the first round
and the Clippers are starting to play a little bit
better here, yeah they are, and Battle Battle of l
A and all that stuff, and the Clippers took Oklahoma
City down to the wire.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Yeah in that game, James Harden's ale is not too bad.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
But but yeah, yeah, it's a little messed up. And
U Kawai absolutely butchered the game winning shot at them
for the Clips. But but they were in the game
to the end. They beat Cleveland, So the Clippers are
playing better. And it obviously it's as they say, boxing
and basketball matchups. It's all about matchups, right school, You
match up against, you match up against that opponent.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
I mean the Lakers, they say, exactly.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
I mean you could you can match up against a
bunch of teams that the Lakers can just outscore and
you don't really have to worry about it. And then
you know, obviously clips back the other way. The one
thing about the Lakers, though, I know they're gonna get
the benefit of the doubt on every single from the officials. Rodney,
They'll get the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
You believe it. You believe in the Lakers are getting it.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
My entire life. That's the one constant thing. The Lakers
have always gotten the benefit of the doubt from the referee.
Here it's a fifty to fifty call, it's actually seventy
five to twenty five in favor of the Lakers on
those fifty to fifty calls. That's my experience, Roddy watching
him over the years.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
So you sound like a Celtic fan, man, No, No
Clipper fan, Cloper, Oh yeah, a Clipper to it all right,
more Dodgers that we get ready for Opening Day coming
this Thursday. David Bassey is going to join us on
the other side to kind of talk about what's going
to happen also starting opening Day, I believe it's going
(45:46):
to be my man, Blake Snell and then going forward.
So stay tuned. We get it right from the horse's mouth,
our man, David Bass five seventy LA Sports
Roggin And Rodney News
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Cardiac Cowboys
The heart was always off-limits to surgeons. Cutting into it spelled instant death for the patient. That is, until a ragtag group of doctors scattered across the Midwest and Texas decided to throw out the rule book. Working in makeshift laboratories and home garages, using medical devices made from scavenged machine parts and beer tubes, these men and women invented the field of open heart surgery. Odds are, someone you know is alive because of them. So why has history left them behind? Presented by Chris Pine, CARDIAC COWBOYS tells the gripping true story behind the birth of heart surgery, and the young, Greatest Generation doctors who made it happen. For years, they competed and feuded, racing to be the first, the best, and the most prolific. Some appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, operated on kings and advised presidents. Others ended up disgraced, penniless, and convicted of felonies. Together, they ignited a revolution in medicine, and changed the world.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.