April 10, 2025 • 34 mins
Ned Collettii hops on as the Dodgers are smarting from a 2-4 east coast trip. 3 NFL officials are being demoted to college football? A restaurant is giving patrons a 'skinny discount.'
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, we continue on Fred Rugan, Rodney Pete and five
seventy LA Sports. The man of the Big Chair Net
Kalletti will be joining the program here in a couple
of minutes. You know, you said at the top of
the show today, Rodney Dodgers start ten and four. Yeah,
anybody would take that, of course, unless you live here
and you think, well, they should be twelve and two,
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there should be fourteen to Yeah. Yeah, I think I
think the expectations are very high. I start laughing because
it is funny, it.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Is anybody takes ten and before. Look, look, first of all,
did you we we know the Padres are a good,
good team, and I think the Padres, you know, barring
some catastrophic injuries that they may have during the season,
they will be there at the end. They will be
there again safe to say. But did you expect the
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Giants to get off to this kind of start? And
anybody see the giant is coming from the Giants. I
think we may have thought it comes from the Diamondbacks.
You know that they get off and they're going to be,
you know, in the mix in the end, But the Giants.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I didn't see this coming from the Giants and I
don't see it continuing from the Giants. I think, you know,
there's al and I think this is their run a
little soon. The run is a bit premature. Just ask
our guest if he believed that. Let's bring on the
man of the big chair, Ned Kaletti net How.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Are you hey, I'm doing good, gentlemen. Exciting little beginning here, huh.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, absolutely, we're just saying this. Rodney said, you know,
did you think the Giants would start this way? And
I said no, I didn't think they would start this way.
And I don't think they'll continue this way. I mean,
I think they're having their nice little run right now.
Do you see them playing this way over one hundred
and sixty two games?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Not really. I think will be better than they have been.
I think there's obviously, with Buster Posey sitting at the top,
they've had a different atmosphere. I spent a lot of
time with them in the spring doing the World BC
Team Middlely stuff, and you go, you could sense it,
you could see it. But many times you sense it
and see it and never really see it when the
season starts. But we have been able to see that.
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I think that they're playing good they're playing with a
good spirit, and they're playing with confidence, which they always
didn't do for a while, except for that one blip
on the screen a couple of years back. I think
they's going to be a good team. I think they'll challenge.
I think they'll aggravate. I think they'll be in fourth
place when the season ends.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, I agree with that. Now the Dodgers. Listen, everybody,
you know, there are a few people, including you know,
Red might being one of them, that they would win
one hundred and sixty games.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I don't think I was.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That guyet but they have. They had, you know, somewhat
of a rough road trip, had to call up some pitchers,
and didn't play well defensively, and things of that nature.
And I said this the way it looked to me
that they look. They looked fatigue. They looked like a
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team that just came off winning the World Series, played
longer than anybody else, then had the celebration of the offseason,
guys getting committed to doing different things. Otani's on every
billboard and every you know thing in Japan, and other
guys are getting publicity and winning the World Series got
their rings. Then you know, got to go to Japan
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for a week, and it just they looked like on
this road trip a team tired, fatigued, and and it
showed on the field.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
What do you think, Well, I think that you know,
you bring up certainly good points. And as we as
we go back a little deeper, you know, the team
opened in Korea a year ago, so that's a short winter.
A playoff team didn't go that long, but you still
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had a shorter into that anybody except for the team
you played in San Diego or in Korea. So you
got a shortened off season in twenty four, going into
the twenty fourth season, get to the twenty five season,
you got a long season and twenty four World Series
ends late, everything that goes with that, all the as
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you say, all the other things that come along with
having a championship and how cool that is. And then
you're starting early again. It's rare that a team will
start early back to back years. That typically doesn't happen.
But this is not a typical team. You know, it's
got a tremendous following and a tremendous draw in Asia.
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So you're going to go to Korea one year, You're
going to go to Japan the nets, and I think
that that certainly does you as a GM. You have
to take that into consideration if you're doing it once.
I did it a couple of times in springing, early
spring training exhibition games, won to Taiwan, went to Beijing,
and then we started, as you recall, in fourteen in Sydney, Australia.
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I can't remember exactly how we came back out of
that except that Clayton was hurt. But I don't know
if we came out of it as fired up and
as ready to go as if we would have started
this season when everybody else did. So it is part
of it, I guess, it's part of being the Dodgers,
as part of having the revenue. You've got, the fan
base you've got, and it's a good thing they've got
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the depth that they've got because if they are a
little bit tired at this point, I mean, and athletes
always get a second, third, fourth win, you know, it'll
it'll work itself out as as much and I guess
there might be a touch of concern because they haven't,
you know, won every game. They haven't gone fourteen and oh,
I guess to start the year. But you know they're
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still pretty good, so I wouldn't go too far off
the path here.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That they have it and Dave Roberts's set of two things. First,
they're not having quality at bats, but moreover, they're not
playing clean baseball, and that is not characteristic for the Dodgers.
Is not just a function of it's early in the year.
Maybe Rodney suggested they're still a little exhausted from last
year as they begin this season.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well, I don't have any doubt they know what they're
supposed to do. And sometimes when great players make mistakes,
fundamental mistakes, whether it's on the basis or defensively, a
lot of times it's just mental fatigue that doesn't last
in that six months. That will come and go as
time goes on, as they start to get their bearing.
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So I think that could be a part of it,
and players trying to try some new things out, trying
to see where they're at. You know, everybody says they're
playing with the house is money. Sometimes a player can
think the same way and say, you know, so what
if I get thrown out? You know we got a
chance to win anyway. I'm going to try and put
pressure on this team and maybe they'll they'll keep that
in my next time or playing them. So there's all
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different psychological approaches to it. You know, I'm a little
surprised of the mistakes here and there, but again it's
it's a human game. You're talking about a team that
just won the World Series handily once to the playoffs,
really with ease once in won five games in the
Game four and Game five against San Diego. So you know,
I got to cut them some break too. Something else
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I would never do is it's a propendance. I would
let the team play without much interaction from me except
to say hello and how we're doing. Until May. First,
you got to let things kind of settle in a
little bit, Let the other teams kind of settle in
a bit, Let those teams that have started off real hot,
you mentioned one of them, let them see where they're
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at after thirty days. So my first way evaluate every
day little by little by little, my first true evaluation
where I think I know what we've got, what we're
going to need, and what we need to to get
better at the usually that wait till the end of April,
beginning of May.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, and Nett, you mentioned that there. They're still pretty good.
You said that they're they're ten and four, not like
they're four and ten. I mean, they started out pretty good,
but the way they've started, you know, had some dramatic
comeback wins. They I think they've started almost probably eighty
percent of their their their games they've started out behind,
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other than the day before when they got out to
a four to nothing lead and then gave that up
and then came back and win it and won it,
but they started behind and had to come back. Is
that anything early in the season to read into. Is
it just the Dodgers so talented that no lead is safe?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, I definitely agree that. I agree to that. You know,
I'm saying in touch with John Hartungu and No Marl
when they're doing TV, and then they'll they'll send back
some of my lines. You know, the game is too
long for the opposition, and we see that so many times,
and that's that's still very very true. Some teams will
be able to hang in there for four, five, six innings.
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You get to seven, eight, nine, and both teams know
what one thing is going to happen. Dots know they're
going to win the game, and a team with the
tiny lead, knows they're going to give it up. So
you know that that I think we'll see all year long.
And I think you know when you think about the depth,
and we talked about depth November, December, January, February, March,
we talked about that depth. The depth not only helps
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you with injury that the depth helps you with load management,
and it helps you as your players get tired. In
late August September, heading into October, they'll have more players
that are arrested and more players that will not be
extended quite as long or struck quite as heavy, and
quite as with as much win it now type expectation
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as the rest of the group. I love when they
stay close actually there you know that they're a half
game out and there's the San Diego ahead of them
and the Giants ahead of them, but it'll even with
them at the half out, you know. I like that
right now. I think that's so much better than having
a three or four game lead. I think they get
they get tired of playing against the sport and having
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very few games that mean anything throughout a season. So
I love that there's some competition for it right now.
And I hope the Giants play this way for a
long time, and I hope San Diego does too. I
hope it goes down. I hope that the Dodgers, you know,
clinch it as you get to the twentieth of September,
sell plenty of time to put everything in order, but
that they've played big games before that. We've seen some
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seasons where they maybe hit five big games the entire
year until they get to the biggest games. Some of
those off seasons in govert where those postseasons didn't go
very well. So I think they're in a good spot.
I think, you know what. It also does, It also
lets all the players know, hey, we have to pay
better attention than we are, and that's not a bad thing.
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This would be even worse if they if they had
a three game lead and we're playing sometimes haphazardly because
people say, well, who cares? You know, we got this
big lead this way. You know, you got to tighten
it up a little bit. You listen to your your
great leader, Dave Roberts. He's talking about it. Your teammates
are talking about it. So let's play a little bit
more attention to detail going forward.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Now, the thing I've noticed I think it's heartening. Maybe
expected I didn't. When I looked at the Dodger lineup,
I thought, no, they're no easy outs here. But what
I didn't expect them to be able to do is
you're behind four nothing and come back and just waves
as they're doing. I mean, they can come back with
waves of runs and that I didn't expect, did you.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Well, they're pretty good. You know, when you've got when
the bottom of your order has got Kijak can compete
and hit. It's such a tough thing with the DH
in the Nation League now the last few years, one
of the most important batting places in the game for
me is eight and nine, especially when you got Otani
Betts and you know Freddie when he's healthy and Teal
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and so you know they don't have they still don't
have the week out. You know, Keyk is hitting a
hundred whatever. You know, he's still not easy to get out.
Muncie he's hitting an under two hundred, I think, but
you throw a pitch in the wrong spot. You know
he's changing the scoreboard with a swing. You know, Conforto's
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off to a decent start. Teal it's great. Edmund terrific
perfect doctor Mookie of course show Hey, you know they've
got you know, they've got a little bit of softness
here and there, but not not that doesn't also carries
some threat to it. But he could say, okay, keyk
is a soft hitter. But you can't really do that
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because you know there's going to be X number of
huge hits in there. You can't just throw the pitch
up there and think, Okay, this would be one less
guy I gotta deal with. Doesn't happen like that? Same
what Max? Doesn't happen like that? You start to get
lazy with guys like that, they'll be putting big numbers
of it. So you know it's that type of lineup,
and you know, moving or missing Freddy has been obviously
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you can't miss Freddy for long. Your three hitter, great hitter,
great leader, great guy on the team. So getting him
back this weekend should also be a plus. But it's
one of those lines lineups, and it's one of those
pitching staffs. You get into the bullpen, you got a
tight game. After the fifth inning, here they come. You know,
if you're the opposite team, who do you see getting
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up in the pen. You go great, can't wait for
him to get in here. That guy's not on the team.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Matt early in the season. You know when you when
you talk about injuries and how did you handle this?
When you when guys are nicked up or the guy
a little injury, are you overly cautious in April and
May as opposed to what you would be and August, September,
October because it's early. You're not trying to push some
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guy that might have something nagging or some little little
thing that he could probably play through, but it's April
and we're not going to do that. Are you overly
cautious this time of year?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah? On a scale from one to ten, probably a seven,
with ten being incredibly cautious. You don't want something to
drag out, You want something to become worse than it is.
You actually wanted to heal as best it can. Because
the seasons get the rest of the season is going
to continue to test that that injury and any other
potential injuries. And I think you gotta be careful in
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the month of September two even though and see this
is nothing where the debt comes in for them. Other
teams won't have the depth don't have some guy that's
finicky that's almost starting to irritate him or shoulders. You know,
they got to at hamstring, but you know what, they
got to win the game. So they're gonna be in
there and they're gonna they're gonna pitch like they're not hurt.
They're gonna run like they're not hurt, but they're gonna
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be hurt. And that's another aspect to it. I think
the one as many fundamentals that I've noticed in the
last ten years that they that they seem to do
and it's just a guess, but it's always a long game.
They don't ever play the short game until you're talking
about the very end of the season. It's always about planning.
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Let's lay this out, let's keep guys healthy, let's keep
let's keep injuries to the minimum and take care of
them immediately, and we'll play the long game. If we're
down by five, when we get to the All Star break,
we still know we've got a change, a really good
chance to win. The chances are they won't be down
by five, they'll be up by five. So you know,
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just a way the whole thing is set up, it's
it's set up as good as any organization could have
it set up and better then if you if you
map this out at the end of the last World Series,
if they're most ardentotrophan mapped out this team at the
end of the World Series. Realistically, what they did surpassed
what anybody whatever map out because of the bullpen, what
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they did there, how they kept going, And I think
it's I think during we're in a phenomenal time to
Dodger baseball. Not to be taken for granted, not to
think it's all just going to be easy, but to
watch a team play, watch how it's laid out, Watch
how they go about their business, Watch how the players
who lead lead and the manager who leads leads. I
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think it's a phenomenal study. And they're doing great.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
All right, Well, you always do great, need and we
appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Always a pleasure, gentlemen, always good stuff. I wasn't surprised
to hear that four and fourteen's got you.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
They got it, fine, they got him, he got him.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I'm good, all right, We'll talk to you all right, boys.
Take care guys.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
As a player on a pro team, if you struggle,
they can send you to the miners. I've never heard
of a league sending officials to the miners. But that's
how happening.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
And that's next. Oh yeah, outstanding, outstanding, Ronnie Outstanding, Rodney Pete,
Fred Rogan on a throwback Thursday. Come on, or I've
never heard this before. You played in the NFL. Yeah,
tell me if you've ever heard this before. Every year
of the league brings in new officials. Right, some guys retire,
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and there's usually a ranking system. I guess if you rank.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
In the bottom few each and every year, they can
move you out. But they do bring in new officials.
So they brought in a couple of new guys and
they didn't think the new guys are very good. Matter
of fact, they thought the new guys, we're ready. So normally,
in that situation, you go, well, thank you. You've had
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your time in the NFL. We appreciate your contribution. But
you know, we've looked at the tape, we've graded you
on your performance, and it's time to move on. But
what the NFL did, and I have never heard this,
they assign them to college. No, they don't have to
go back and take a four year degree. That's not
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what I mean. But somehow they worked out a deal
where these guys are going to start working college games
instead of NFL games, despite the fact they really have
no relationship. The NFL. College is not the NFL officiating
training ground. Sure, some officials come from college, but there's
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that a training program there. I've never heard of that before.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
No me either, And again to your point that it's
not an NFL training ground where you know, I guess
like minor league umpires eventually get to the major leagues
and there's a whole training system. But the NFL and
colleges are are totally different because there's each conference in
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conferences are becoming smaller and smaller, the few and fewer
of them, but each conference has their their own regulations
and have their own officials. As you'll see, sometimes it
will always be announced this crew is from the is
from the the old PAC twelve conference, or this crew
is from the Big Ten, this crew is from the
ACC conference, and they have their own regulations. But I've
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never heard the NFL being affiliated with with college officials
to the point where if you're if you're downgraded or
you receive a low grade, then you you're going back
to college. What does that do?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Does that bump the college official out who's getting ready
to call the Ohio State Michigan game? And an NFL
official has got three weeks of bad rating. So we're
gonna send you down and you do Michigan Ohio State
game or you do a USC UCLA game.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I don't understand how. I really don't understand how this works.
So are you being sent down to improve and then
you come back up? Are you being sent forever and
then you're done in the NFL? If there's no system
between the two, I mean, were you fired and they
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got you a job and the guys had got it?
Rodney I think had not been working very long at all.
A second year umpire, a third year line judge, and
a first year down judge. They were the officials sent
back to college. One of them didn't qualify for a
postseason game in her two seasons. One was a rookie
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and did not qualify for a postseason game. And they're gone.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I don't know the criteria. So is there only three
of them got sent down? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
And young ones or new ones, let's put it like that.
So maybe that makes you think the league looked at
it and thought, maybe we just hired the wrong people.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But the work, I don't know. Maybe it's that person
needs a little bit more work, and we're, you know,
we're not giving up on them, and we want to
see them get more work before they come back to
the league. But it would seem to me that there
would be an evaluation process before they got into the league.
That once you got in, it's kind of one of
those hard things to get out. Once you're in, you
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gotta be you gotta be so bad, you gotta be angels,
gotta be that bad, that that that everybody wants you
out before you get set down. That's a that's a
it seems like that's like a scarlet letter or a
red flag or whatever you want to call it. To
an official being sent down to college.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I mean, you can it. I mean, and I remember
some years ago, I can't remember the guy's name, but
he was a referee and they like demoted them to
side judge. Yeah, all right, now they put them down,
they switch them around. You're not the head guy anymore. Now,
you're you got one responsibility. You're not running things for
that crew. Yeah, that's a you know, yeah, and but
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not too you're no longer working in the league.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, I've never heard of that before.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I mean that's like the CIF taking a guy that's
worked ten championship games and saying, all right, now we've
looked at this and we're gonna move you down to
Pop Warner. You're gonna work Saturday for Pop Warner game
between the Little Broncos and Ravens. We're taking you off
the sideline of the CIA. But there's no correlation to anything.
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We're just doing it. So that's that trickled down. Like
if you'd like I mean you just said it.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
If if a college official of the Big ten is
not pulling this weight or grading out, well, do they
send him to Hoscue High School? Now? Hey, you you
didn't do well again that at U S e u
c L A game. Now we're now you're gonna officiate
modern day versus Bosco. Yeah, I mean does it? Does it?
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Will it happen with the college down to high school?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I mean look at it. Let's look at youth baseball.
In youth baseball, if you are a little leagu gunplayer
but you're awful, do they put you out on T
ball where you don't have to call balls and strikes
to keep moving you down.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, you don't.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
You shouldn't call balls and strikes anymore. You'll now do
t ball, right, Yeah, well you can't even do coach
pitch anymore? Is that just how it works?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Now?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Everybody's on the sliding scale. If you don't qualify, you
just keep moving down a level, moving down.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah, very interesting until you get to the end.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
So I don't know what's going to happen. But we
just found that fascinating. And it's a guy that played
in the NFL. I wondered if.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
You'd ever heard of that. I've never heard that. I heard.
You know, you know, you got to work to to
become a referee. But if if you don't grade out good,
obviously you don't get the playoffs and the Super Bowl,
and then, like you mentioned, you get now you're the
line judge or you're the back judge instead of the referee.
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But not going down to college. I've never heard of
that before. That's almost utalizing. Think of this for a second. Now, Okay,
if you go out to eat, do you think it's
too expensive? And I have to tell you right now,
with the economy the way it is, restaurants are suffering
a bit because people aren't going out as much. But
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what if there was a plan. What if there was
a new idea. What if you had to pay based
on your weight.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
So if you were larger, the restaurant would assume you
would eat more and you had to pay more. But
if you're real skinny, you could pay less because a
restaurant would assume you'd eat less. I know that is
the most absurd thing, and no one would ever try
it except someone is trying it, and we'll talk about
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it next.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, ye, throw back Thursday, riding the peat, Fred Rogan,
come on, come on, So the Masters, Fred, The Masters
have started today. Fred. What do you got?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, what do you got anything?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I got nothing, I got nothing except that, Yeah, it
just started today. I looked up and there was the
you know, the new technology nowadays where you got the
after you can watch like five different things. We can
watch the Amen corner, you can watch groups, and you
can watch so many things on one screen. It just
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popped up and said check out the Master's roy and
Rory Michael roy Is is playing and h I guess
Justin Rose is leading. So I mean, yeah, yeah, forget
about the Masters this time of year, you know, like
no other.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Like no other, or tradition like no other. Yes, did
you see white lotus?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I did?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
What do you think I did?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I've watched them all. I've watched all seasons, and this
was This was not the best one.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Okay. Everybody said that. Yeah, everybody said the messages were
too odd. Yeah, during the during the show and that,
and it was slow. It took a while to get
going and it got going.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And I think because it took a while to get going,
people were expecting way too much. And yeah, it just
it and then it left a lot of things at
the end. Yeah, it was for those I mean, I
don't want to spoiler for anybody. I hadn't seen everything,
but yeah, it was just you know, I guess it
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were people were used to something dramatic happening every single
episode and it didn't. This wasn't the case this year.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah, but what it did do if you've not seen it,
if you've seen it, you know, and if you've not.
It's based in Thailand, and people are now starting to
talk about Thailand and interesting story in Thailand. One restaurant
has a very unique way of charging people when they
come now, you know here, you sit down in the
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stake's forty nine ninety five. Whatever it is, Okay, it
doesn't matter, Rodney. It's the same price for you as
it is for me. It's the same price for anybody.
It's forty nine ninety five. But they do it differently
in Thailand. They have a different philosophy. Do you think
this would work here.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
There?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Basically, you get a discount depending on what you weigh.
All right, So if you are considered to be skinny,
and the way they determine this is they have a
rat and they have poles coming down the rack, and
it's what can you fit through easily? So if you
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can fit through the skinny pole, the skinny slot easily,
let's say you got a thirty percent discount.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
They got a rack of poles and you gotta slip
between them.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
So if you get through the skinny one, you get
the biggest discount because they're assuming you're not gonna eat
very much. Now, let's say you don't fit through the
skinniest one. If you fit through the let's say average one,
your discount isn't as great because they assume you'll eat
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more because of your body type. And let's say that
you are big and you can't get through either one.
You're not going to get a discount because they're concerned
that you'll just keep eating, so they're basing the price
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of the food on what you weigh. Basically, Wow, Some
people are saying, well, that's body shaming. I mean, if
you're gonna charge me more because I'm heavier, then you're
shaming me because of my weight. Skinny people think, well, yeah,
you might be, you know, shaming them. But for us,
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we pay lives. Do you think anything like that. We've
tried in this country.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Never. Never, they be out of business in two minutes,
maybe out of business two minutes. First of all, I
don't know about you, Fred, but the people that I
know that eat the most are the skinny people. So
for them to think that the skinny people don't eat
a lot and it's the larger folks that eat more,
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to me, it's just the opposite. I know, and I
know a lot of guys that are rail thread and
throughout my life and throughout the times I've played in football,
that guys that like the skinny guys that just will
sit down at a table and go to town and
you're like, where does he put it? And the metabolism
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is obviously greater than others. My son, RJ is is
like that. RJ can eat whatever, and he will eat
everything off his plate. Whenever we go out to dinner,
he'll eat He will eat two steaks with three mashed
potatoes and two baked potatoes and finish it all and
then that buttercake at the end. I mean, he will
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gobble up everything and won't gain announce. And it's still
kind of, you know, relatively skinny. So you know, the
theory that the skinny people don't eat it just is
first of all, that's off, and then it is a
form of discrimination. It is, and it would never fly
into states.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Would anybody be in favor of that? What Anyboddy? Yeah,
I think it's a good idea. It's kind of like
you have to pay per pound, not what you eat,
but what you weigh. That's what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Basically, what they're saying, you know, based on what you
get on the scale and then we're gonna determine how
much your meal is gonna cost.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
It's awful. It's just awful.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
And I've been to changed mine. I've been there it's
a beautiful place, majestic, really cool, a lot of elements, elephants,
it's a it's a beautiful area of Thailand. But I've
never heard of that. And it's weird that that they're
actually doing this there.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, it's happening there. You know, you just said elephant.
Can I tell which story? Okay, So out out in
the Coachella Valley, this family is really freaked out. They
look out their window in the morning and they see
a dead elephant. Now think about this for a minute,
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and the coal Yeah, think about this, and not an
elephant that escaped from the Living Desert zoo. It's in
a community and they see this dead elephant, so they
immediately freak out. They call the police. The police before
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they do anything, called animal control. So they rushed out
because they have this dead elephant, and no one knows
what to do. And the police get close and animal
control gets close, and they realize something. That elephant is
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not dead. It was a statue that blew over in
the wind. Oh no, yeah, true, And they thought I was.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
A dead elephant. No gotta say, what does the elephant
a wild elephant come in the Coachella Valley. We're not
in their Safari and Kenya. Come on, I mean when
they think it was just it was so they never
went up onto the elephant and actually touched it or
got close enough to see, hey, this is not real.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
No, but they all everybody freaked out. And when they
got there they said, oh no, this is just a
statue that blew over the window.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
They called they called Animal Services and everything. Get them
out there.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah, Michael, hurry, a dead elephan. You guys better get
out here immediately. How are we gonna move this thing?
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yeah? One, Animal Services said, you know, this would be
the first case of a dead elephant found in the
Coachella Valley.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Yeah. And you know what, now there still wasn't one. Okay,
Luca is woman to messing something special involving Luca and
any event, Dan Weiki will joined us now extent we'll
get into it.
Oh, we continue on Fred Rugan, Rodney Pete and five
seventy LA Sports. The man of the Big Chair Net
Kalletti will be joining the program here in a couple
of minutes. You know, you said at the top of
the show today, Rodney Dodgers start ten and four. Yeah,
anybody would take that, of course, unless you live here
and you think, well, they should be twelve and two,
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there should be fourteen to Yeah. Yeah, I think I
think the expectations are very high. I start laughing because
it is funny, it.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Is anybody takes ten and before. Look, look, first of all,
did you we we know the Padres are a good,
good team, and I think the Padres, you know, barring
some catastrophic injuries that they may have during the season,
they will be there at the end. They will be
there again safe to say. But did you expect the
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Giants to get off to this kind of start? And
anybody see the giant is coming from the Giants. I
think we may have thought it comes from the Diamondbacks.
You know that they get off and they're going to be,
you know, in the mix in the end, But the Giants.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I didn't see this coming from the Giants and I
don't see it continuing from the Giants. I think, you know,
there's al and I think this is their run a
little soon. The run is a bit premature. Just ask
our guest if he believed that. Let's bring on the
man of the big chair, Ned Kaletti net How.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Are you hey, I'm doing good, gentlemen. Exciting little beginning here, huh.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, absolutely, we're just saying this. Rodney said, you know,
did you think the Giants would start this way? And
I said no, I didn't think they would start this way.
And I don't think they'll continue this way. I mean,
I think they're having their nice little run right now.
Do you see them playing this way over one hundred
and sixty two games?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Not really. I think will be better than they have been.
I think there's obviously, with Buster Posey sitting at the top,
they've had a different atmosphere. I spent a lot of
time with them in the spring doing the World BC
Team Middlely stuff, and you go, you could sense it,
you could see it. But many times you sense it
and see it and never really see it when the
season starts. But we have been able to see that.
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I think that they're playing good they're playing with a
good spirit, and they're playing with confidence, which they always
didn't do for a while, except for that one blip
on the screen a couple of years back. I think
they's going to be a good team. I think they'll challenge.
I think they'll aggravate. I think they'll be in fourth
place when the season ends.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, I agree with that. Now the Dodgers. Listen, everybody,
you know, there are a few people, including you know,
Red might being one of them, that they would win
one hundred and sixty games.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I don't think I was.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That guyet but they have. They had, you know, somewhat
of a rough road trip, had to call up some pitchers,
and didn't play well defensively, and things of that nature.
And I said this the way it looked to me
that they look. They looked fatigue. They looked like a
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team that just came off winning the World Series, played
longer than anybody else, then had the celebration of the offseason,
guys getting committed to doing different things. Otani's on every
billboard and every you know thing in Japan, and other
guys are getting publicity and winning the World Series got
their rings. Then you know, got to go to Japan
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for a week, and it just they looked like on
this road trip a team tired, fatigued, and and it
showed on the field.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
What do you think, Well, I think that you know,
you bring up certainly good points. And as we as
we go back a little deeper, you know, the team
opened in Korea a year ago, so that's a short winter.
A playoff team didn't go that long, but you still
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had a shorter into that anybody except for the team
you played in San Diego or in Korea. So you
got a shortened off season in twenty four, going into
the twenty fourth season, get to the twenty five season,
you got a long season and twenty four World Series
ends late, everything that goes with that, all the as
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you say, all the other things that come along with
having a championship and how cool that is. And then
you're starting early again. It's rare that a team will
start early back to back years. That typically doesn't happen.
But this is not a typical team. You know, it's
got a tremendous following and a tremendous draw in Asia.
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So you're going to go to Korea one year, You're
going to go to Japan the nets, and I think
that that certainly does you as a GM. You have
to take that into consideration if you're doing it once.
I did it a couple of times in springing, early
spring training exhibition games, won to Taiwan, went to Beijing,
and then we started, as you recall, in fourteen in Sydney, Australia.
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I can't remember exactly how we came back out of
that except that Clayton was hurt. But I don't know
if we came out of it as fired up and
as ready to go as if we would have started
this season when everybody else did. So it is part
of it, I guess, it's part of being the Dodgers,
as part of having the revenue. You've got, the fan
base you've got, and it's a good thing they've got
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the depth that they've got because if they are a
little bit tired at this point, I mean, and athletes
always get a second, third, fourth win, you know, it'll
it'll work itself out as as much and I guess
there might be a touch of concern because they haven't,
you know, won every game. They haven't gone fourteen and oh,
I guess to start the year. But you know they're
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still pretty good, so I wouldn't go too far off
the path here.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That they have it and Dave Roberts's set of two things. First,
they're not having quality at bats, but moreover, they're not
playing clean baseball, and that is not characteristic for the Dodgers.
Is not just a function of it's early in the year.
Maybe Rodney suggested they're still a little exhausted from last
year as they begin this season.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well, I don't have any doubt they know what they're
supposed to do. And sometimes when great players make mistakes,
fundamental mistakes, whether it's on the basis or defensively, a
lot of times it's just mental fatigue that doesn't last
in that six months. That will come and go as
time goes on, as they start to get their bearing.
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So I think that could be a part of it,
and players trying to try some new things out, trying
to see where they're at. You know, everybody says they're
playing with the house is money. Sometimes a player can
think the same way and say, you know, so what
if I get thrown out? You know we got a
chance to win anyway. I'm going to try and put
pressure on this team and maybe they'll they'll keep that
in my next time or playing them. So there's all
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different psychological approaches to it. You know, I'm a little
surprised of the mistakes here and there, but again it's
it's a human game. You're talking about a team that
just won the World Series handily once to the playoffs,
really with ease once in won five games in the
Game four and Game five against San Diego. So you know,
I got to cut them some break too. Something else
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I would never do is it's a propendance. I would
let the team play without much interaction from me except
to say hello and how we're doing. Until May. First,
you got to let things kind of settle in a
little bit, Let the other teams kind of settle in
a bit, Let those teams that have started off real hot,
you mentioned one of them, let them see where they're
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at after thirty days. So my first way evaluate every
day little by little by little, my first true evaluation
where I think I know what we've got, what we're
going to need, and what we need to to get
better at the usually that wait till the end of April,
beginning of May.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, and Nett, you mentioned that there. They're still pretty good.
You said that they're they're ten and four, not like
they're four and ten. I mean, they started out pretty good,
but the way they've started, you know, had some dramatic
comeback wins. They I think they've started almost probably eighty
percent of their their their games they've started out behind,
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other than the day before when they got out to
a four to nothing lead and then gave that up
and then came back and win it and won it,
but they started behind and had to come back. Is
that anything early in the season to read into. Is
it just the Dodgers so talented that no lead is safe?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, I definitely agree that. I agree to that. You know,
I'm saying in touch with John Hartungu and No Marl
when they're doing TV, and then they'll they'll send back
some of my lines. You know, the game is too
long for the opposition, and we see that so many times,
and that's that's still very very true. Some teams will
be able to hang in there for four, five, six innings.
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You get to seven, eight, nine, and both teams know
what one thing is going to happen. Dots know they're
going to win the game, and a team with the
tiny lead, knows they're going to give it up. So
you know that that I think we'll see all year long.
And I think you know when you think about the depth,
and we talked about depth November, December, January, February, March,
we talked about that depth. The depth not only helps
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you with injury that the depth helps you with load management,
and it helps you as your players get tired. In
late August September, heading into October, they'll have more players
that are arrested and more players that will not be
extended quite as long or struck quite as heavy, and
quite as with as much win it now type expectation
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as the rest of the group. I love when they
stay close actually there you know that they're a half
game out and there's the San Diego ahead of them
and the Giants ahead of them, but it'll even with
them at the half out, you know. I like that
right now. I think that's so much better than having
a three or four game lead. I think they get
they get tired of playing against the sport and having
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very few games that mean anything throughout a season. So
I love that there's some competition for it right now.
And I hope the Giants play this way for a
long time, and I hope San Diego does too. I
hope it goes down. I hope that the Dodgers, you know,
clinch it as you get to the twentieth of September,
sell plenty of time to put everything in order, but
that they've played big games before that. We've seen some
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seasons where they maybe hit five big games the entire
year until they get to the biggest games. Some of
those off seasons in govert where those postseasons didn't go
very well. So I think they're in a good spot.
I think, you know what. It also does, It also
lets all the players know, hey, we have to pay
better attention than we are, and that's not a bad thing.
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This would be even worse if they if they had
a three game lead and we're playing sometimes haphazardly because
people say, well, who cares? You know, we got this
big lead this way. You know, you got to tighten
it up a little bit. You listen to your your
great leader, Dave Roberts. He's talking about it. Your teammates
are talking about it. So let's play a little bit
more attention to detail going forward.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Now, the thing I've noticed I think it's heartening. Maybe
expected I didn't. When I looked at the Dodger lineup,
I thought, no, they're no easy outs here. But what
I didn't expect them to be able to do is
you're behind four nothing and come back and just waves
as they're doing. I mean, they can come back with
waves of runs and that I didn't expect, did you.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Well, they're pretty good. You know, when you've got when
the bottom of your order has got Kijak can compete
and hit. It's such a tough thing with the DH
in the Nation League now the last few years, one
of the most important batting places in the game for
me is eight and nine, especially when you got Otani
Betts and you know Freddie when he's healthy and Teal
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and so you know they don't have they still don't
have the week out. You know, Keyk is hitting a
hundred whatever. You know, he's still not easy to get out.
Muncie he's hitting an under two hundred, I think, but
you throw a pitch in the wrong spot. You know
he's changing the scoreboard with a swing. You know, Conforto's
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off to a decent start. Teal it's great. Edmund terrific
perfect doctor Mookie of course show Hey, you know they've
got you know, they've got a little bit of softness
here and there, but not not that doesn't also carries
some threat to it. But he could say, okay, keyk
is a soft hitter. But you can't really do that
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because you know there's going to be X number of
huge hits in there. You can't just throw the pitch
up there and think, Okay, this would be one less
guy I gotta deal with. Doesn't happen like that? Same
what Max? Doesn't happen like that? You start to get
lazy with guys like that, they'll be putting big numbers
of it. So you know it's that type of lineup,
and you know, moving or missing Freddy has been obviously
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you can't miss Freddy for long. Your three hitter, great hitter,
great leader, great guy on the team. So getting him
back this weekend should also be a plus. But it's
one of those lines lineups, and it's one of those
pitching staffs. You get into the bullpen, you got a
tight game. After the fifth inning, here they come. You know,
if you're the opposite team, who do you see getting
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up in the pen. You go great, can't wait for
him to get in here. That guy's not on the team.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Matt early in the season. You know when you when
you talk about injuries and how did you handle this?
When you when guys are nicked up or the guy
a little injury, are you overly cautious in April and
May as opposed to what you would be and August, September,
October because it's early. You're not trying to push some
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guy that might have something nagging or some little little
thing that he could probably play through, but it's April
and we're not going to do that. Are you overly
cautious this time of year?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah? On a scale from one to ten, probably a seven,
with ten being incredibly cautious. You don't want something to
drag out, You want something to become worse than it is.
You actually wanted to heal as best it can. Because
the seasons get the rest of the season is going
to continue to test that that injury and any other
potential injuries. And I think you gotta be careful in
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the month of September two even though and see this
is nothing where the debt comes in for them. Other
teams won't have the depth don't have some guy that's
finicky that's almost starting to irritate him or shoulders. You know,
they got to at hamstring, but you know what, they
got to win the game. So they're gonna be in
there and they're gonna they're gonna pitch like they're not hurt.
They're gonna run like they're not hurt, but they're gonna
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be hurt. And that's another aspect to it. I think
the one as many fundamentals that I've noticed in the
last ten years that they that they seem to do
and it's just a guess, but it's always a long game.
They don't ever play the short game until you're talking
about the very end of the season. It's always about planning.
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Let's lay this out, let's keep guys healthy, let's keep
let's keep injuries to the minimum and take care of
them immediately, and we'll play the long game. If we're
down by five, when we get to the All Star break,
we still know we've got a change, a really good
chance to win. The chances are they won't be down
by five, they'll be up by five. So you know,
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just a way the whole thing is set up, it's
it's set up as good as any organization could have
it set up and better then if you if you
map this out at the end of the last World Series,
if they're most ardentotrophan mapped out this team at the
end of the World Series. Realistically, what they did surpassed
what anybody whatever map out because of the bullpen, what
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they did there, how they kept going, And I think
it's I think during we're in a phenomenal time to
Dodger baseball. Not to be taken for granted, not to
think it's all just going to be easy, but to
watch a team play, watch how it's laid out, Watch
how they go about their business, Watch how the players
who lead lead and the manager who leads leads. I
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think it's a phenomenal study. And they're doing great.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
All right, Well, you always do great, need and we
appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Always a pleasure, gentlemen, always good stuff. I wasn't surprised
to hear that four and fourteen's got you.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
They got it, fine, they got him, he got him.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I'm good, all right, We'll talk to you all right, boys.
Take care guys.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
As a player on a pro team, if you struggle,
they can send you to the miners. I've never heard
of a league sending officials to the miners. But that's
how happening.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
And that's next. Oh yeah, outstanding, outstanding, Ronnie Outstanding, Rodney Pete,
Fred Rogan on a throwback Thursday. Come on, or I've
never heard this before. You played in the NFL. Yeah,
tell me if you've ever heard this before. Every year
of the league brings in new officials. Right, some guys retire,
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and there's usually a ranking system. I guess if you rank.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
In the bottom few each and every year, they can
move you out. But they do bring in new officials.
So they brought in a couple of new guys and
they didn't think the new guys are very good. Matter
of fact, they thought the new guys, we're ready. So normally,
in that situation, you go, well, thank you. You've had
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your time in the NFL. We appreciate your contribution. But
you know, we've looked at the tape, we've graded you
on your performance, and it's time to move on. But
what the NFL did, and I have never heard this,
they assign them to college. No, they don't have to
go back and take a four year degree. That's not
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what I mean. But somehow they worked out a deal
where these guys are going to start working college games
instead of NFL games, despite the fact they really have
no relationship. The NFL. College is not the NFL officiating
training ground. Sure, some officials come from college, but there's
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that a training program there. I've never heard of that before.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
No me either, And again to your point that it's
not an NFL training ground where you know, I guess
like minor league umpires eventually get to the major leagues
and there's a whole training system. But the NFL and
colleges are are totally different because there's each conference in
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conferences are becoming smaller and smaller, the few and fewer
of them, but each conference has their their own regulations
and have their own officials. As you'll see, sometimes it
will always be announced this crew is from the is
from the the old PAC twelve conference, or this crew
is from the Big Ten, this crew is from the
ACC conference, and they have their own regulations. But I've
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never heard the NFL being affiliated with with college officials
to the point where if you're if you're downgraded or
you receive a low grade, then you you're going back
to college. What does that do?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Does that bump the college official out who's getting ready
to call the Ohio State Michigan game? And an NFL
official has got three weeks of bad rating. So we're
gonna send you down and you do Michigan Ohio State
game or you do a USC UCLA game.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I don't understand how. I really don't understand how this works.
So are you being sent down to improve and then
you come back up? Are you being sent forever and
then you're done in the NFL? If there's no system
between the two, I mean, were you fired and they
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got you a job and the guys had got it?
Rodney I think had not been working very long at all.
A second year umpire, a third year line judge, and
a first year down judge. They were the officials sent
back to college. One of them didn't qualify for a
postseason game in her two seasons. One was a rookie
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and did not qualify for a postseason game. And they're gone.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I don't know the criteria. So is there only three
of them got sent down? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
And young ones or new ones, let's put it like that.
So maybe that makes you think the league looked at
it and thought, maybe we just hired the wrong people.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But the work, I don't know. Maybe it's that person
needs a little bit more work, and we're, you know,
we're not giving up on them, and we want to
see them get more work before they come back to
the league. But it would seem to me that there
would be an evaluation process before they got into the league.
That once you got in, it's kind of one of
those hard things to get out. Once you're in, you
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gotta be you gotta be so bad, you gotta be angels,
gotta be that bad, that that that everybody wants you
out before you get set down. That's a that's a
it seems like that's like a scarlet letter or a
red flag or whatever you want to call it. To
an official being sent down to college.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I mean, you can it. I mean, and I remember
some years ago, I can't remember the guy's name, but
he was a referee and they like demoted them to
side judge. Yeah, all right, now they put them down,
they switch them around. You're not the head guy anymore. Now,
you're you got one responsibility. You're not running things for
that crew. Yeah, that's a you know, yeah, and but
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not too you're no longer working in the league.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, I've never heard of that before.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I mean that's like the CIF taking a guy that's
worked ten championship games and saying, all right, now we've
looked at this and we're gonna move you down to
Pop Warner. You're gonna work Saturday for Pop Warner game
between the Little Broncos and Ravens. We're taking you off
the sideline of the CIA. But there's no correlation to anything.
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We're just doing it. So that's that trickled down. Like
if you'd like I mean you just said it.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
If if a college official of the Big ten is
not pulling this weight or grading out, well, do they
send him to Hoscue High School? Now? Hey, you you
didn't do well again that at U S e u
c L A game. Now we're now you're gonna officiate
modern day versus Bosco. Yeah, I mean does it? Does it?
(23:01):
Will it happen with the college down to high school?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I mean look at it. Let's look at youth baseball.
In youth baseball, if you are a little leagu gunplayer
but you're awful, do they put you out on T
ball where you don't have to call balls and strikes
to keep moving you down.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, you don't.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
You shouldn't call balls and strikes anymore. You'll now do
t ball, right, Yeah, well you can't even do coach
pitch anymore? Is that just how it works?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Now?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Everybody's on the sliding scale. If you don't qualify, you
just keep moving down a level, moving down.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah, very interesting until you get to the end.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
So I don't know what's going to happen. But we
just found that fascinating. And it's a guy that played
in the NFL. I wondered if.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
You'd ever heard of that. I've never heard that. I heard.
You know, you know, you got to work to to
become a referee. But if if you don't grade out good,
obviously you don't get the playoffs and the Super Bowl,
and then, like you mentioned, you get now you're the
line judge or you're the back judge instead of the referee.
(24:06):
But not going down to college. I've never heard of
that before. That's almost utalizing. Think of this for a second. Now, Okay,
if you go out to eat, do you think it's
too expensive? And I have to tell you right now,
with the economy the way it is, restaurants are suffering
a bit because people aren't going out as much. But
(24:29):
what if there was a plan. What if there was
a new idea. What if you had to pay based
on your weight.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
So if you were larger, the restaurant would assume you
would eat more and you had to pay more. But
if you're real skinny, you could pay less because a
restaurant would assume you'd eat less. I know that is
the most absurd thing, and no one would ever try
it except someone is trying it, and we'll talk about
(25:04):
it next.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, ye, throw back Thursday, riding the peat, Fred Rogan,
come on, come on, So the Masters, Fred, The Masters
have started today. Fred. What do you got?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, what do you got anything?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I got nothing, I got nothing except that, Yeah, it
just started today. I looked up and there was the
you know, the new technology nowadays where you got the
after you can watch like five different things. We can
watch the Amen corner, you can watch groups, and you
can watch so many things on one screen. It just
(25:49):
popped up and said check out the Master's roy and
Rory Michael roy Is is playing and h I guess
Justin Rose is leading. So I mean, yeah, yeah, forget
about the Masters this time of year, you know, like
no other.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Like no other, or tradition like no other. Yes, did
you see white lotus?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I did?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
What do you think I did?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I've watched them all. I've watched all seasons, and this
was This was not the best one.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Okay. Everybody said that. Yeah, everybody said the messages were
too odd. Yeah, during the during the show and that,
and it was slow. It took a while to get
going and it got going.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And I think because it took a while to get going,
people were expecting way too much. And yeah, it just
it and then it left a lot of things at
the end. Yeah, it was for those I mean, I
don't want to spoiler for anybody. I hadn't seen everything,
but yeah, it was just you know, I guess it
(26:56):
were people were used to something dramatic happening every single
episode and it didn't. This wasn't the case this year.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah, but what it did do if you've not seen it,
if you've seen it, you know, and if you've not.
It's based in Thailand, and people are now starting to
talk about Thailand and interesting story in Thailand. One restaurant
has a very unique way of charging people when they
come now, you know here, you sit down in the
(27:27):
stake's forty nine ninety five. Whatever it is, Okay, it
doesn't matter, Rodney. It's the same price for you as
it is for me. It's the same price for anybody.
It's forty nine ninety five. But they do it differently
in Thailand. They have a different philosophy. Do you think
this would work here.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
There?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Basically, you get a discount depending on what you weigh.
All right, So if you are considered to be skinny,
and the way they determine this is they have a
rat and they have poles coming down the rack, and
it's what can you fit through easily? So if you
(28:09):
can fit through the skinny pole, the skinny slot easily,
let's say you got a thirty percent discount.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
They got a rack of poles and you gotta slip
between them.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
So if you get through the skinny one, you get
the biggest discount because they're assuming you're not gonna eat
very much. Now, let's say you don't fit through the
skinniest one. If you fit through the let's say average one,
your discount isn't as great because they assume you'll eat
(28:47):
more because of your body type. And let's say that
you are big and you can't get through either one.
You're not going to get a discount because they're concerned
that you'll just keep eating, so they're basing the price
(29:09):
of the food on what you weigh. Basically, Wow, Some
people are saying, well, that's body shaming. I mean, if
you're gonna charge me more because I'm heavier, then you're
shaming me because of my weight. Skinny people think, well, yeah,
you might be, you know, shaming them. But for us,
(29:30):
we pay lives. Do you think anything like that. We've
tried in this country.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Never. Never, they be out of business in two minutes,
maybe out of business two minutes. First of all, I
don't know about you, Fred, but the people that I
know that eat the most are the skinny people. So
for them to think that the skinny people don't eat
a lot and it's the larger folks that eat more,
(29:59):
to me, it's just the opposite. I know, and I
know a lot of guys that are rail thread and
throughout my life and throughout the times I've played in football,
that guys that like the skinny guys that just will
sit down at a table and go to town and
you're like, where does he put it? And the metabolism
(30:20):
is obviously greater than others. My son, RJ is is
like that. RJ can eat whatever, and he will eat
everything off his plate. Whenever we go out to dinner,
he'll eat He will eat two steaks with three mashed
potatoes and two baked potatoes and finish it all and
then that buttercake at the end. I mean, he will
(30:42):
gobble up everything and won't gain announce. And it's still
kind of, you know, relatively skinny. So you know, the
theory that the skinny people don't eat it just is
first of all, that's off, and then it is a
form of discrimination. It is, and it would never fly
into states.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Would anybody be in favor of that? What Anyboddy? Yeah,
I think it's a good idea. It's kind of like
you have to pay per pound, not what you eat,
but what you weigh. That's what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Basically, what they're saying, you know, based on what you
get on the scale and then we're gonna determine how
much your meal is gonna cost.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
It's awful. It's just awful.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
And I've been to changed mine. I've been there it's
a beautiful place, majestic, really cool, a lot of elements, elephants,
it's a it's a beautiful area of Thailand. But I've
never heard of that. And it's weird that that they're
actually doing this there.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, it's happening there. You know, you just said elephant.
Can I tell which story? Okay, So out out in
the Coachella Valley, this family is really freaked out. They
look out their window in the morning and they see
a dead elephant. Now think about this for a minute,
(32:06):
and the coal Yeah, think about this, and not an
elephant that escaped from the Living Desert zoo. It's in
a community and they see this dead elephant, so they
immediately freak out. They call the police. The police before
(32:27):
they do anything, called animal control. So they rushed out
because they have this dead elephant, and no one knows
what to do. And the police get close and animal
control gets close, and they realize something. That elephant is
(32:48):
not dead. It was a statue that blew over in
the wind. Oh no, yeah, true, And they thought I was.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
A dead elephant. No gotta say, what does the elephant
a wild elephant come in the Coachella Valley. We're not
in their Safari and Kenya. Come on, I mean when
they think it was just it was so they never
went up onto the elephant and actually touched it or
got close enough to see, hey, this is not real.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
No, but they all everybody freaked out. And when they
got there they said, oh no, this is just a
statue that blew over the window.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
They called they called Animal Services and everything. Get them
out there.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah, Michael, hurry, a dead elephan. You guys better get
out here immediately. How are we gonna move this thing?
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yeah? One, Animal Services said, you know, this would be
the first case of a dead elephant found in the
Coachella Valley.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Yeah. And you know what, now there still wasn't one. Okay,
Luca is woman to messing something special involving Luca and
any event, Dan Weiki will joined us now extent we'll
get into it.
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