May 13, 2025 • 37 mins
Jerry Hairston Jr from Sportsnet LA hops on to talk about the current state of the Dodgers and the infamous celebration in the pool at Chase Field in 2013 when he was a player for the Dodgers. We talk about the drama surrounding Bill Belichick and his girlfriend, Jordan Hudson. Also, the Chargers are reportedly selling a piece of the team to a private equity firm.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And then we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Pete at
a five seventy LA Sports. Dodgers back home tonight. They've
got the athletics. They have no city. They were in Oakland,
currently in Sacramento. But we won't refer to them as
will everyone else until they get to Vegas as simply
the athletics. So it's the Dodgers and the Athletics at
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the stadium and joining the program. Now, our good friend
Jerry Harriston Junior. Jerry, thanks for jumping on here.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
How do you guys doing doing well?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I want to start with this because we were talking
about it yesterday. The year the Dodgers won in Arizona
and everybody went to the pool.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
All right, you were there, right, I was on the seat.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yes, Okay, what happened in the pool after the game? Jerry,
go ahead. I mean we were called it yesterday, but
we needed an eyewitness.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, this is what happened. This is why the players
decided to go to the pool. So we were instructed
by the I'm a Backs owner to not celebrate on
the field. And I don't think in the history of
this game, we've never had an owner tell a team
after they clinched, whether it's a playoff berth or division
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or advance to the next round, or we even won
the World Series, that you're not allowed to celebrate on
the field. You saw the Dowagers last year celebrate and
Yeken Stadium when they won the World Series. That has
come and practice in this game, right, Yeah, well yeah,
the d Backs owner told us specifically that we were
not allowed once we clinched the division to celebrate on
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the field. And you know that twenty thirteen team had
a brand of characters on it, you know, with Yaslo Pleague,
Nick Punto, Skip Schumacher, Michael Young joined our team as
well Kenley Janssen. So we decided, hey, out of respecting
the d Backs owner, we will not celebrate on the field.
So we decided to do because it was hot, as
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you guys know, the Arizona heat can be pretty grueling,
we decided to celebrate in the pool. We decided to
have a pool party. So that's why we celebrated in
the pool because we weren't allowed to celebrate on the field.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I've never heard of that either.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I've never heard opposing owner tell you can't celebrate after
winning that that's ridiculous to me, but I loved it
because it was probably even worse that you guys ran
and jumped into pool. You probably got furis and by
what he took back the fact that he told you
guys not to celebrate on the field.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And I would have jumped in the pool with the guys.
I had my son. Jackson was I think seven or
eight years old at the time, so you know, I
didn't want him to be a part of it. So
we celebrated in the clubhouse together and with the team.
But if I didn't have my son with me in
the clubhouse, I would have jumped in the pool as well.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Jared, did people peeing that pool?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You know what, I don't judge anybody. I can't confirm
or deny. I will say that there were a lot
of alcoholic beverages being consumed, and they were there for
quite some time, and I didn't see anybody come out
of the pool to take a bathroom break. I'm just
gonna leave it that all right, arrest your case.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
There it is, Fred, there it is.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yes, I cannot confirm or deny, but no one came
out to take a bathroom break.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I get it. I get it. Jerry Wood.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
He make this team so far. Look, they're there the
best record in baseball. Yet people seem, at least Dodger fans,
seem to be not satisfied with the way that Dodgers
have started, including the fact that you've had so many
injuries yet they're still winning and not really of it
theirs Dride, what do you make of this team so
far and some of the criticism they're getting already.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I love that the fans are not satisfied. I also
love that the players are not satisfied as well. I'm
gonna I'm gonna be completely honest. If you would have
told us that we'd have this record with the injuries
that we've had so far, to our pitching staff, we lost,
to our races Glass now has been lost for quite
some time, Blake Snell hasn't pitched really at all this season,
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and then we've lost Task Hernandez just recently on this
road trip, Tommy Edmond as well. To be sitting where
we're sitting with our record, I would have taken it.
You know, we are not at full strength. Our depth
has come into play a lot more than we would
have liked. But this is why you have a deep team.
So I think we've played exceptionally well with the amount
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of injuries that we had to the bullpen to our
starting rotation. And here's a stat that and you guys know,
I'm not the biggest stat guy. I hate this stat
that we lead major League Baseball in inings pitched by
our bullpen. That is not sustainable. And they know that.
They know that. That's why they're trying so hard to
stress guys out. We're gonna get Clayton Kershaw. You know,
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we hope sometime either this home stand on the road
trip to help us get us innings. Tony Gobson has
started to come in the form as well, so as
the season starts to go along, hopefully our starting pitchers
will pitch deep in the game to help relieve some
of that stressed Our bullpen has this thing so far
the season.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Uh, while we're talking about pitching, let's talk about Roki Sazaki.
His velocity is down, But Jerry, I make the point,
if he's not Sazaki, he's probably on another team and
he's in the minors and he's learning to pitch, and
his velocity might be down, his velocity might be up,
his control might not be where it needs to be,
but you wouldn't know anything about it. He's a young
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kid and he's basically learning to pitch in the majors.
Is there anything to be concerned about.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I'm not concerned. I think one of the reasons why
his velocity is a little down the last couple starts
is because he's trying to have better command, you know,
with his pitches. You know, sometimes when you're a little
out of lap with your delivery and you try to overthrow,
that's when your command starts to be all over the place.
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So I think that has been by design the last
couple starts to make sure take a little bit off
of his velocity and be able to pitch better with
control command. Listen, he's working through And I've said it before.
When we first signed him, he wasn't Yalomoto. You know,
Yalomoto was basically a finished product coming from Japan, very
accomplished picture in Japan. Sazaki is kind of a work
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in progress. And you're right, Fred, he probably would be
in the minor league, still working on his delivery, working
on his command, and he's learning on the fly right now.
So the talent is there. The makeup is there, and
hopefully he finds his delivery and really control of his pitchers,
because once he finds that, he has incredible stuff. But
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right now it's a little bit of a work in progress.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
And I heard you say, Terry, and I know this
is true from you know, when I was playing as well.
But I heard you say that. You know a lot
of guys, especially big league hitters, now get hit ninety
eight ninety nine mile out fastball if it comes right
down the middle. But it's location, it's command. Like you said,
If Payton the black and he's throwing it in the
right spots, it's probably why he's been told to take
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something off of it, because you know he's coming over
here ninety nine one hundred and if it's down the middle,
guy's gonna hit it. He's gonna get hit all over
the field.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, I talked to all sorts of athletes, Rodney. You
know you played college baseball, but you know this. As
a quarterback, would you rather have a guy up in
your face and try to complete a twenty yard pass?
Or would you like the clean pocket and the guy
is draped all over the receiver. But you know you
could put on the dive. You don't rather have the
clean pocket, right, It's just a same thing as a hitter.
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It's the same thing as a hitter.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Royal Holliday. I came up playing against roy Holliday. He
was with the Blue Jay's organization, with the Oriols. He's
throw ninety eight to one hundred miles an hour, but
it was straight okay, and he got hit around. He
went back down in the minor league and he changed
his arm slot and now they came back to the
bigby stowing ninety four to ninety six, but with movement,
and he became a nightmare dealer. We'd rather says ninety
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eight straight down in the middle, then somebody throwing ninety
three to ninety five with sick movement. So I think
Roki's starting to figure that out.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Jerry Harriston junior as well. Let's let's move to the
offensive side of the ball. Michael CONFORDO, Jerry, he has
been struggling. He's a bona fide big leaguer. He's had
good years in the majors. But when a guy is
struggling like this, what can he do to come out
of it?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Well, one thing I noticed on this road, he started
to hit the ball really hard and he wasn't having
any lucks to go with it, lining out the second base,
not lining up the center field the right fielder and
a couple of us suggested no more. Even made a
point to change your angles. So he either moved up
at the battle's box or moved back in the batter's box.
So when he does catch the ball, where he's catching it,
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instead of lining out to the second basement, he signs
that hole between first and second. I know it sounds
a little crazy, but that's an old school type of thinking.
Whereas you had your timing down, but if you change
your angle, basically it's math right. If you change your angle,
that line drives a secon is going to get through
the hole if you step back in the battles back
probably six to ten inches. So I think he's made
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that adjustment. It worked out for him his last start,
he got two hits, and hopefully, you know, he finds
his reven because as you mentioned, he is an accomplished
Big leaguer, and you know, we get him hot, he
has a twenty for forty stretch, he'll he'll be right
where he needs to be. And we need hit production
because to have a great season, as we all hope
to have to have a championship season, we have to
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have guys six, seven, eight nine be productive at the
bottom of the order.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
One hundred percent. You talk about being productive, how about
Freddy Freeman. I mean, he's he's been hurt pretty much
all season long. I know, I heard him say he's
getting two hours of treatment a day before he goes
out and warms up. And yet he's still hitting three
seventy six. I think Aaron Judge is only one hitting
higher than him. Are you surprised that he's off for
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this kind of start, considering the fact that he's got the.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Injured ankle, I'm not, you know, anything with Freddy Freeman,
I'm never surprised about it because he's as tough mentally
and physically as it comes. We talk about players playing
in different areas, Freddy could have played in any era.
You know, he loves the game. He is a master
of his craft. He wants to be in the lab
every single day. Whether he's at sixty percent doesn't matter.
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And I always thought, and I always found it amazing
to me when he was a free agent, no other
team wanted it. I can't believe Atlanta let him go
because it's not like he was a center fielder and
then his skills would decline. He was a first baseman
and he was a back to ball Skiells guy, and
that's going to play for twenty two years. So the
fact that he was a free agent for slawing so
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long and that the Dodgers had an opportunity to sign it,
and I'm so glad that he did. Him producing the
way he's producing, he could play at this level late thirties,
maybe early forties. Because he's a first baseman. It's not
a whole lot of wear and tear, you Aboudy. He's
not a catcher and he's not a center fielder. So
you know, it doesn't surprise me that Freddy Freeman is
doing so well. He works extreme hard, and he genuinely
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cares about his craft.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Jerry, I was surprised like you were when the Dodge
is able to sign him. I mean, he is the
pure definition of a professional hitter, and as long as
your eyesight or your quickness doesn't a road, he should
be able to do that for a number more years.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Absolutely, he doesn't rely on a fast twitch. Not to
say he's done have fast twitched fibers, but he doesn't
rely on it. He's not a guy that is a
one trick pony where he throws one hundred miles an
hour and that's it. He's got a variety of clubs
in his back, the driver, the short game in golf,
the putting. He does everything well in the batterspox So
that's why he's been able to have so much success,
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and he's going to have that sustaining power well into
his late dirties, probably or early forties, if he wants
to play that long.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
All right, Jerry.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
The home run that Otani hit in Arizona after Guriel
hit his Grand Slam lot of debate whether he mocked
him or pimped him, patrolled him. I'm one hundred percent
in the belief that he absolutely did. People that know him,
knowing you know him, he's got that dog in him.
Tell me, Jerry, he definitely definitely had something to say
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about that and that move that he does, because we
don't see that from him often, but that was something
to get back at Guriel.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I can confirm that it was an ode to mister
Guriel one hundred percent Now, the d Backs players didn't
take offense to it, because if you see them the
very next game, before the game, they go up to
a tiny I think it was the shortstop for the
d Back as well as Guriel, both of them. Both
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of them went up to tiny and started laughing because
they knew exactly what what Tani was doing. So listen,
that's some play for humor. Hey, if you could dish
it out, you better be able to take it. And
the d Backs were good with it. They were they
knew what they were doing. And listen, I don't mind
guys celebrating. I don't like when guys stand there for
ten minutes and in my home wrests. Okay, thatslip. Do
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what you want to do. Celebrate, but then get the jockey.
You know what I'm saying. Enjoy the home run. But
both teams understood, hey, if it is what it is,
they had fun with it and they moved on. So
it definitely was an ode to to uh Duriel.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
All right, Well, Jerry, thanks for coming on today. Really
appreciate the time, and we'll talk to you again soon anytime. Guys, Rodney,
you nailed that one. You nailed it. You knew that's
what OI did. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
He pimped at Freddy was it was a get back
and I loved every minute of it.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yes, you know, Rodney, they say love is blind. Let's
talk about that next. Let's say it again.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Fred Homer the world champion, la dodges rod and beat
Fred Rogan. Many thanks to Jerry Harriston Junior.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I like Jerry. Jerry breaks it down. Freddy breaks it
down right too.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
They did a good job on Yeah, and uh, I'm
glad he agreed with the pimping of show.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Hey o, Tommy, you nailed that.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
You.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I did not ask God, I didn't see that. I didn't.
I didn't realize it.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Yeah man, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
He had something to say about it. Free it. Oh
he had something to say. There's no question about that.
I love it. How much do you think he thought
about that?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Okay, I'm going up there when I if I hit
this home run, I'm I'm I'm gonna let them know
that I saw what he did three innings ago. Just
let me hit a home run and I'm a pimp
this bad boy right now. Oh, you know he was
thinking about it. You knew he was thinking about it.
As soon as I hit this thing, I'm gonna pimp it,
and he did it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, that that showed, we said the other day, still
waters run deep. You look at the guy. He's happy.
He shows very little emotion, and if he shows the emotion,
he's happy, he smiles, always says a little the empire.
I mean, he's like the most polite guy you've ever
seen out there. But that was great, and to me,
it just seems so organic, so genuine. But of course
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I know it did.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, But then of course the whole thing I think
I think I think it was in his mind soon
as he saw him do it, saw Gury'll do it earlier.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I think he I think he was like gearing up
for it. Man, let me get let me get hold
of one, let me get a hold of one. And
if I do, yeah, I will remember that. And he
did and he did.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Well, you're right, he's he's such a polite guy that
you don't always think of him that way, but you know,
people around him and people talk about him that he
is a fierce, fierce competitor.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
And he does have that dog in him, so you
like to see that sometimes. Okay, Rodney so you know,
love is blind, love is blind. It well, apparently for
Mill Melanchick it is. Uh yeah, that relationship is trending.
Jordan Hudson, she's twenty four. Bill actually could be her
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great grandfather. Now. To me, look, everybody's free to do
whatever they want with their life. Whatever you want to do,
do if you're not hurting anybody, fantastic, enjoy every second.
I always find it odd when you see somebody, let's saying,
there's seventies dating somebody who's twenty five. To me, there
just doesn't seem as if you have a lot in common.
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You know, if you're seventy, you know you've probably had
a broken hip, you know, I mean, what does somebody
twenty five know about that. If you're seventy, you've probably
gone through a number of life experiences that somebody at
twenty five probably is not gone through. I just think
that's fair by the way you did an older man did,
a younger woman did an older woman. Whatever. It's all good.
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Everything is good. But when you're the coach at North
Carolina and moreover, when you've won Super Bowl titles in
the NFL, and there's always a bit of a spotlight
on you and when you bring your girlfriend around, which
is your business. My god, there's nothing better than love,
young love, at least one half of it is young love.
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People are going to talk about it, and it's really
caused a stir. Now it's become a problem. And the
thing I don't know is is it a problem because
people want it to be a problem or is it
a problem because it's a problem. I don't I can't
tell which one it is. You can't.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Well, look, it's only a problem if it's you know,
it's affecting them in their relationship. Otherwise they could care less,
which it seems like they can care less. But you know, here,
you've got a guy, a eight times Super Bowl champ
and who already has a brand and already is a
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Hall of Fame coach and has had multiple experiences, like
you said, you know, of life and being in the media,
talking to the meeting. Now, he's not the most you know,
gracious guy when he's at the podium or talking to
the media. He's very land and very short and cold
and all that. But having someone that young kind of
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take over your brand, and you know, and the way
she acted in the in the CBS interview. It definitely
turned a lot of people off, and I think it
concerned a lot of people that are close to Bill Belichick.
Is that is he blinded, like you said, blinded by
this love and this young girl to where she is
damaging his reputation and damaging his image?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Well answer, does he care? Do we even need to
discuss that?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
The answers yes, Yeah, But what would you expect? You
have someone who has basically lived in the spotlight, and
then you have someone who has not. What do you
expect that would be like Bill, go ahead, that would
be like Bill Belichick dating my daughter Hailey. No, I'm sorry,
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even Haley is older than his girlfriend. Yeah, that would
be like Bill Belichick dating my daughter, and you go,
what are you doing? I mean, think about it. If
you have a daughter, and again, everybody can do what
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they want, live their life. But if you have a
daughter and she brings home someone, she says, I want
you to meet the person i'm dating. Okay, bring him over.
And the guy is older than you are as her father,
wouldn't you go what are you doing? Yeah? Well, what
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are you thinking here? What? What good could possibly come
from this? Well? I'm sure there are moments of greatness.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You found that fountain, Fred, he found that fountain of youth,
you know, trying to get he's reading, he's re energized.
But it's it's one thing too. I think people would
look at it sideways regardless, because like you said, she's
you could be your grandfather, and if your daughter brought
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home someone that was older than you, you look at
her sideways, what are you doing? And but but it
happens all the time right where you see older men
with younger women. This one makes people cringe because she's
basically taking over and running his life. It seems, you know,
from the branding, to social media to controlling all asked
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except his life, which is again why I think you know,
you hear that grumblings from the family members and close
friends of him that he is he's off the deep
end because he's allowing her to control the narrative and
their relationship and and his professional life as well. And
didn't I read something where North Carolina said she is
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not They like her, but she's not welcome and at
practices or meetings or anything like that on campus something
like that.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Well, and that was the controversy. There was a report
that that happened. Then the school, the school kind of
walked it bag. So wait a minute. You know, as
his personal brand ambassador, you know she is welcome here.
She is welcome, but you know she's not She's not
you know, she shouldn't show up at team meetings. That's
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what people are seeing. How often does somebody's girlfriend show
up at a team meeting? And not very often at all.
The fact that and my wife's in the law, Can
she sit in here in the quarterback room today? We
want to go over the game plan for Clemson this weekend.
It's gonna hang with us. Hey, she brought us snacks. No,
that doesn't happen. Yeah, she's as old as the players
that you're coaching, right, Jess sold if the players you're
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coaching and regardless, do you just have your spouse or
your partners sit in on team meetings? No? Right, No,
I mean that's like you go to the dentist and
the dentist's wife is sitting there and you go, why, well,
I just wanted to be with him today. Well, he's
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drilling my teeth. Why are you sitting here?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
And you asked the dentists a few questions about what
this procedure is, and she chimes in and says, no,
you can't ask that question and just sit there and
get your mouth fixed, right.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You know what I take to close your mouth, but
you can't to just open your mouth, but don't make
a sound. The next sound you hear will be the drill.
Go ahead, honey, let him happen. I mean, that doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
That was cringey though, And she said, no, we're not
answering that question. We are not answering that question in
that CBS interview. We're not going there. We're not answering
that question. She's sitting in the background on the couch.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, it's every part of it is a little, a
little off, a little weird again. You know, you can
do what you want to do.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
But I think the fact that he is not just
some ordinary guy, you know that nobody knows, he's got
a full on Hall of Fame career and reputation, that
you think that as controlling as he's always been and
we've perceived him to be, and now he's being it
feels like he's being controlled.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I mean ask you this, do you think if North Carolina,
or for any part of it, anyone would have known this.
I mean, everybody knew he was dating a younger person,
find whatever, but then started to realize this was the
dynamic and he's speaking and she's saying, we're now talking
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about it, and then she's showing up everywhere. If North
Carolina had known that, do you think they would have
hired him? Not in a million, I agree, not in
a million out of them, because they'd looked like fools now.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Right, And I'm sure he's got guaranteed parts of his contract,
so he's not going anywhere anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But you know, I don't think. I don't think if
they would have known that this would have his.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Or what it's like, No, they would have walked it
back and said, well, you know what, Bill, you know
we we we rethought this and uh we're gonna go
in a different direction, you know, thanks, but no, thanks,
good luck wherever you go. You know, I just don't
think that they don't want that drum as evident of
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what's already happened so far. Like you said, they had
to walk some things back already, and this ain't the
end of it. Wait till the season starts. Is she
gonna be in the postgame press conferences.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Oh, I hope so, God, I hope she is. That
would be great, that would be actually. But then you
know there'll be a point. By the way I've looked
at up be seventy three. God bless him, good for him,
good for him. But you see what's going to happen
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here if this continues, no one's gonna want to play
for him. No, because of this, because she became the story.
You're talking about college football players here. Guess what, They're
the story and they want to be the story. And
it's all about them. And you know that, Rodney. These
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kids are vying for a chance to play in the NFL.
There's nil money involved. These guys are the stars. These
guys may could go, and that's where the focus needs
to be. I mean, after the game, let's say their
quarterback as a hell of a game, right those five
touchdown passes six hundred yards, and he's sitting there and
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Belichick is sitting next to him, and she's off on
the side. Somebody asked the question and she shouts something out,
where's the attention gone? Where? What are we going to
be focused on? Right now? Her? It's over? So they
got it through five touchdowns, and six hundred yards. Right, Hey,
thanks for showing up here.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Yeah, he didn't, he didn't. He didn't get a chance
to answer any question, and it became all about her.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Right, how much do you think those kids are gonna
put up with that? Not much?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
And you know it, Fred, people talk, kids talk and
social media. Now it will be everywhere. Everything she does
with that team, if she's around it, we'll be posted,
we'll be talked about, we'll be out there. You know,
she got on the team bus, he got on the
team plane. She was sitting you know, in our meeting.
He came into the locker room at halftime. She even
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drew up a.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Play for it. And the good thing is Bill Belichick
is seemingly found love. And that actually is a very
cool thing. I'm that serious. Anytime you can find love,
it's a good thing, I would think, right, A companion,
a partner, yeah, someone to share your life with. Granted
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someone twenty four when you're seventy three and you really
don't have a lot in common. And no, she's showing
up to school. She's not the coach's girlfriend. She could
be a student there.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Absolutely absolutely, Like if he you imagine, like he met
her after he took this job at North Carolina, where
there would be so many investigations into you know, was
she on campus? Did he did he engage with a
student because she could have been, she could be she
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was probably a student a year or two ago. Yeah,
it's it's cringey, it's cringeworthy, Fred. And but you know,
you know, you know, maybe as you get older, some
of these men, some guys, you know, they get with
someone that young.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
And maybe she's got skills and she put it on
him for it.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
It should put it on and and and that is
what we call being sprung.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
That is God Rodney. Okay, listen, one of our teams,
local teams here, maybe selling a little piece of themselves.
You might be able to buy a part of one
of our local teams. And we'll talk about that next.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Oh, yes, we keep it moving on to Tuesday. Right
to beat Fred Rogan. Hey, I want to be clearfol Fred,
you know, to each his own. If you're seventy three,
you want to day a twenty four year old, go
for it. Do your think, sure, right, anybody can do
whatever they want to do, right, So it's all good
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for Bill, Bill, do your thing?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Is that the only point you wanted to make. I
thought you had some other point to make. Oh yeah, Bill, Bill,
you know he is a little bit sprung. You just
hope that it doesn't it doesn't turn into her making
football decisions for Bill Belichick going forward. That would be
the real disaster that you see his career.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Be diminished and defined by these last couple of years
of his career.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Let me ask you so them seriously, no, seriously, comedy
football decisions do you think he's actually gonna make Now
he's a head coach. He's brought all these people around him.
They'll handle it. He's there to be Bill Belichick, and
sure help out here and there. What does he know
about college football? It's a very different animal. He's got
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people there around him. He does and I think he's
gonna hate.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
He's gonna hate the the outside stuff, the stuff that
is not practice in games, in meetings. He's gonna hate
the the probably hates the nil. He's gonna hate to
have to continue to recruit his own guys to stay
there in college where people are coaching, or guys like
I'm going to get the money somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I'm going to transfer to Miami.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Uh, he's gonna hate that aspect of it, recruiting, maybe
going into the homes of parents, He's gonna hate that
part of it. But the x's and o's in the coaching.
On the field coaching, I think is something that is
embedded in him and he's always loved that and will
continue to love that, and that what is going to
drive him. But I think it's going to be one
of those he gets so irritated by the outside stuff
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that isn't on the field, football, teaching x's and o's
and games that it's going.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I just don't know how long it lasts. All right, Well,
we'll see. So when the Chargers came to Los Angeles,
there was talk that they didn't have the capital. Let's
just be honest. Dean's spanners had a lot of money, Yeah,
a lot of money, but he didn't have stand cronky money. Also,
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there were some concerns about the team and family members
getting their cut, and as these things oftentimes do look
at the Bus family with the Lakers, it gets all messy,
but somehow it gets all worked out. So there was
also a report or a rumor that at some time
Dean had planned to sell the Chargers. Here's where you're
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at right now. First, Dean Spanos is not selling the Chargers.
As a matter of fact, there was a report today
that they are in talks with Arctist Partners to sell
a stake of the team. So somebody would buy a
portion of the team. And it's this group, and you go, well,
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who in the world is this group? What do they do?
Look at it like this. There are I believe four
approved league private equity firms, because some years ago the
NFL said it just doesn't have to be your family.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yeah, to own money got too great, it got too expensive.
I mean, it was that time where you know, it
had to be an individual owner in the league, and
he had all these rules. But when the price tag
started skyrocketing to the billions, it's like, okay, we got
to open this up a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So, the league has four approved equity firms. I'm of
the opinion that not just the one I mentioned. I'm
of the opinion that the Chargers have talked with all
four of them. So they are looking for an investor
at this time. But doesn't mean they're stilling the team.
That doesn't even mean they're giving up the majority control
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of the team. No, but that there will be an investor. Yeah,
and that.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Which if you look at many teams now there there's
not just one person or one group that owns the team.
There are many minority owners of a particular franchise. Look,
Tom Brady, we don't know how much, but Tom Brady
owns a piece of the Raiders now, right. And you
know there are a number of number of people that
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own a piece of the Dodgers, right. And everybody's got
their different scale and how much they've they've bought into it.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
But the most teams will have multiple owners.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
So this is not out of the realm or out
of the imagine of doing something that has already been
done throughout the league and throughout all sports.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
I'll say too. I think it went under reported last year,
but Tom Gores, who owns the Detroit Pistons, owns twenty
seven percent of the Chargers. That happened last October and November,
I believe.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
So there you go. So that's why Kate Cunningham could
be a wide receiver next year. I'm sure.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
I'm not sure that's how that works.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Read but why not?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
No, No, Tom Gore is not gonna jeopardize his superstar
superstar with the Pistons to play football in LA with
the Charges.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Man But as I currently read it, it says the
Spanos family, which is Dean and Alex Michael, they all
owned twenty four percent couple combined together. There's a family trust,
and then there's Gores, and then there's legacy owners, which
I don't know exactly what that means that own four percent.
But the Spanels family as a collective and their trust
owned sixty nine percent as.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Of now, and that's it. They have the majority.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Correct And if this venture capital whatever this entity is,
does purchase a stake, it is reported to be a
minority stake. So to your point, Fred, he is not
selling the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
No, he's not. You know, you just said something, Rodney
Kate Cunningham. Tom Gore's not going to put his star
wide receiver for the Chargers. Well, the Celtics have lost
their star. Jason Tatum tore his achilles. Oh yeah, that
was just reported. It hurts. That hurts.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
That hurts, you know because it was reported early as
a legendary and now we found it out that's the achilles.
That's a tough one, you know, Boston was already struggling
in that series, and the Knicks have probably gone and
went it now for sure. But that's tough because he
he was facing, you know, so much criticism this year,
which is really weird that that he gets so much
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criticism as I don't know what people want him to be, right,
And he's a good dude. He works hard, he plays hard,
but I think they people want him to be more
vocal or more of a flashy superstar than he is.
But he was facing to criticism and now this happens
gonna he's gonna face it even more.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yeah. Also, Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson have been
reinstated into baseball. That happened about thirty five minutes ago,
which means both are eligible for the Hall of Fame.
Of course, that's all Pete Rose wanted, and he was
concerned that one day he might have that opportunity, but
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he would be dead. Well, they waited a little while. Yeah,
he's eligible now as a shoeless Joe Jackson. Why do
you think they waited? Why do you think he waited?
I waited. We got to talk about that more later.
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
Well, we can get into it later if you want.
But Rob Manfred did release a statement as to why
he waited until now.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
You want to do that later, Do that later? Yeah?
All right? Oh, and since this is the High Speed
Sports Wire, the Portland Trailblazers are officially for sale.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Anything else hacksaw.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Hey, I'm telling you rancho parisquitis. All right, salty A
Adam Auslin joins us next
And then we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Pete at
a five seventy LA Sports. Dodgers back home tonight. They've
got the athletics. They have no city. They were in Oakland,
currently in Sacramento. But we won't refer to them as
will everyone else until they get to Vegas as simply
the athletics. So it's the Dodgers and the Athletics at
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the stadium and joining the program. Now, our good friend
Jerry Harriston Junior. Jerry, thanks for jumping on here.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
How do you guys doing doing well?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I want to start with this because we were talking
about it yesterday. The year the Dodgers won in Arizona
and everybody went to the pool.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
All right, you were there, right, I was on the seat.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yes, Okay, what happened in the pool after the game? Jerry,
go ahead. I mean we were called it yesterday, but
we needed an eyewitness.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, this is what happened. This is why the players
decided to go to the pool. So we were instructed
by the I'm a Backs owner to not celebrate on
the field. And I don't think in the history of
this game, we've never had an owner tell a team
after they clinched, whether it's a playoff berth or division
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or advance to the next round, or we even won
the World Series, that you're not allowed to celebrate on
the field. You saw the Dowagers last year celebrate and
Yeken Stadium when they won the World Series. That has
come and practice in this game, right, Yeah, well yeah,
the d Backs owner told us specifically that we were
not allowed once we clinched the division to celebrate on
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the field. And you know that twenty thirteen team had
a brand of characters on it, you know, with Yaslo Pleague,
Nick Punto, Skip Schumacher, Michael Young joined our team as
well Kenley Janssen. So we decided, hey, out of respecting
the d Backs owner, we will not celebrate on the field.
So we decided to do because it was hot, as
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you guys know, the Arizona heat can be pretty grueling,
we decided to celebrate in the pool. We decided to
have a pool party. So that's why we celebrated in
the pool because we weren't allowed to celebrate on the field.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I've never heard of that either.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I've never heard opposing owner tell you can't celebrate after
winning that that's ridiculous to me, but I loved it
because it was probably even worse that you guys ran
and jumped into pool. You probably got furis and by
what he took back the fact that he told you
guys not to celebrate on the field.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And I would have jumped in the pool with the guys.
I had my son. Jackson was I think seven or
eight years old at the time, so you know, I
didn't want him to be a part of it. So
we celebrated in the clubhouse together and with the team.
But if I didn't have my son with me in
the clubhouse, I would have jumped in the pool as well.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Jared, did people peeing that pool?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You know what, I don't judge anybody. I can't confirm
or deny. I will say that there were a lot
of alcoholic beverages being consumed, and they were there for
quite some time, and I didn't see anybody come out
of the pool to take a bathroom break. I'm just
gonna leave it that all right, arrest your case.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
There it is, Fred, there it is.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yes, I cannot confirm or deny, but no one came
out to take a bathroom break.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I get it. I get it. Jerry Wood.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
He make this team so far. Look, they're there the
best record in baseball. Yet people seem, at least Dodger fans,
seem to be not satisfied with the way that Dodgers
have started, including the fact that you've had so many
injuries yet they're still winning and not really of it
theirs Dride, what do you make of this team so
far and some of the criticism they're getting already.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I love that the fans are not satisfied. I also
love that the players are not satisfied as well. I'm
gonna I'm gonna be completely honest. If you would have
told us that we'd have this record with the injuries
that we've had so far, to our pitching staff, we lost,
to our races Glass now has been lost for quite
some time, Blake Snell hasn't pitched really at all this season,
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and then we've lost Task Hernandez just recently on this
road trip, Tommy Edmond as well. To be sitting where
we're sitting with our record, I would have taken it.
You know, we are not at full strength. Our depth
has come into play a lot more than we would
have liked. But this is why you have a deep team.
So I think we've played exceptionally well with the amount
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of injuries that we had to the bullpen to our
starting rotation. And here's a stat that and you guys know,
I'm not the biggest stat guy. I hate this stat
that we lead major League Baseball in inings pitched by
our bullpen. That is not sustainable. And they know that.
They know that. That's why they're trying so hard to
stress guys out. We're gonna get Clayton Kershaw. You know,
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we hope sometime either this home stand on the road
trip to help us get us innings. Tony Gobson has
started to come in the form as well, so as
the season starts to go along, hopefully our starting pitchers
will pitch deep in the game to help relieve some
of that stressed Our bullpen has this thing so far
the season.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Uh, while we're talking about pitching, let's talk about Roki Sazaki.
His velocity is down, But Jerry, I make the point,
if he's not Sazaki, he's probably on another team and
he's in the minors and he's learning to pitch, and
his velocity might be down, his velocity might be up,
his control might not be where it needs to be,
but you wouldn't know anything about it. He's a young
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kid and he's basically learning to pitch in the majors.
Is there anything to be concerned about.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I'm not concerned. I think one of the reasons why
his velocity is a little down the last couple starts
is because he's trying to have better command, you know,
with his pitches. You know, sometimes when you're a little
out of lap with your delivery and you try to overthrow,
that's when your command starts to be all over the place.
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So I think that has been by design the last
couple starts to make sure take a little bit off
of his velocity and be able to pitch better with
control command. Listen, he's working through And I've said it before.
When we first signed him, he wasn't Yalomoto. You know,
Yalomoto was basically a finished product coming from Japan, very
accomplished picture in Japan. Sazaki is kind of a work
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in progress. And you're right, Fred, he probably would be
in the minor league, still working on his delivery, working
on his command, and he's learning on the fly right now.
So the talent is there. The makeup is there, and
hopefully he finds his delivery and really control of his pitchers,
because once he finds that, he has incredible stuff. But
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right now it's a little bit of a work in progress.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
And I heard you say, Terry, and I know this
is true from you know, when I was playing as well.
But I heard you say that. You know a lot
of guys, especially big league hitters, now get hit ninety
eight ninety nine mile out fastball if it comes right
down the middle. But it's location, it's command. Like you said,
If Payton the black and he's throwing it in the
right spots, it's probably why he's been told to take
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something off of it, because you know he's coming over
here ninety nine one hundred and if it's down the middle,
guy's gonna hit it. He's gonna get hit all over
the field.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, I talked to all sorts of athletes, Rodney. You
know you played college baseball, but you know this. As
a quarterback, would you rather have a guy up in
your face and try to complete a twenty yard pass?
Or would you like the clean pocket and the guy
is draped all over the receiver. But you know you
could put on the dive. You don't rather have the
clean pocket, right, It's just a same thing as a hitter.
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It's the same thing as a hitter.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Royal Holliday. I came up playing against roy Holliday. He
was with the Blue Jay's organization, with the Oriols. He's
throw ninety eight to one hundred miles an hour, but
it was straight okay, and he got hit around. He
went back down in the minor league and he changed
his arm slot and now they came back to the
bigby stowing ninety four to ninety six, but with movement,
and he became a nightmare dealer. We'd rather says ninety
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eight straight down in the middle, then somebody throwing ninety
three to ninety five with sick movement. So I think
Roki's starting to figure that out.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Jerry Harriston junior as well. Let's let's move to the
offensive side of the ball. Michael CONFORDO, Jerry, he has
been struggling. He's a bona fide big leaguer. He's had
good years in the majors. But when a guy is
struggling like this, what can he do to come out
of it?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Well, one thing I noticed on this road, he started
to hit the ball really hard and he wasn't having
any lucks to go with it, lining out the second base,
not lining up the center field the right fielder and
a couple of us suggested no more. Even made a
point to change your angles. So he either moved up
at the battle's box or moved back in the batter's box.
So when he does catch the ball, where he's catching it,
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instead of lining out to the second basement, he signs
that hole between first and second. I know it sounds
a little crazy, but that's an old school type of thinking.
Whereas you had your timing down, but if you change
your angle, basically it's math right. If you change your angle,
that line drives a secon is going to get through
the hole if you step back in the battles back
probably six to ten inches. So I think he's made
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that adjustment. It worked out for him his last start,
he got two hits, and hopefully, you know, he finds
his reven because as you mentioned, he is an accomplished
Big leaguer, and you know, we get him hot, he
has a twenty for forty stretch, he'll he'll be right
where he needs to be. And we need hit production
because to have a great season, as we all hope
to have to have a championship season, we have to
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have guys six, seven, eight nine be productive at the
bottom of the order.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
One hundred percent. You talk about being productive, how about
Freddy Freeman. I mean, he's he's been hurt pretty much
all season long. I know, I heard him say he's
getting two hours of treatment a day before he goes
out and warms up. And yet he's still hitting three
seventy six. I think Aaron Judge is only one hitting
higher than him. Are you surprised that he's off for
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this kind of start, considering the fact that he's got the.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Injured ankle, I'm not, you know, anything with Freddy Freeman,
I'm never surprised about it because he's as tough mentally
and physically as it comes. We talk about players playing
in different areas, Freddy could have played in any era.
You know, he loves the game. He is a master
of his craft. He wants to be in the lab
every single day. Whether he's at sixty percent doesn't matter.
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And I always thought, and I always found it amazing
to me when he was a free agent, no other
team wanted it. I can't believe Atlanta let him go
because it's not like he was a center fielder and
then his skills would decline. He was a first baseman
and he was a back to ball Skiells guy, and
that's going to play for twenty two years. So the
fact that he was a free agent for slawing so
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long and that the Dodgers had an opportunity to sign it,
and I'm so glad that he did. Him producing the
way he's producing, he could play at this level late thirties,
maybe early forties. Because he's a first baseman. It's not
a whole lot of wear and tear, you Aboudy. He's
not a catcher and he's not a center fielder. So
you know, it doesn't surprise me that Freddy Freeman is
doing so well. He works extreme hard, and he genuinely
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cares about his craft.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Jerry, I was surprised like you were when the Dodge
is able to sign him. I mean, he is the
pure definition of a professional hitter, and as long as
your eyesight or your quickness doesn't a road, he should
be able to do that for a number more years.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Absolutely, he doesn't rely on a fast twitch. Not to
say he's done have fast twitched fibers, but he doesn't
rely on it. He's not a guy that is a
one trick pony where he throws one hundred miles an
hour and that's it. He's got a variety of clubs
in his back, the driver, the short game in golf,
the putting. He does everything well in the batterspox So
that's why he's been able to have so much success,
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and he's going to have that sustaining power well into
his late dirties, probably or early forties, if he wants
to play that long.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
All right, Jerry.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
The home run that Otani hit in Arizona after Guriel
hit his Grand Slam lot of debate whether he mocked
him or pimped him, patrolled him. I'm one hundred percent
in the belief that he absolutely did. People that know him,
knowing you know him, he's got that dog in him.
Tell me, Jerry, he definitely definitely had something to say
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about that and that move that he does, because we
don't see that from him often, but that was something
to get back at Guriel.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I can confirm that it was an ode to mister
Guriel one hundred percent Now, the d Backs players didn't
take offense to it, because if you see them the
very next game, before the game, they go up to
a tiny I think it was the shortstop for the
d Back as well as Guriel, both of them. Both
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of them went up to tiny and started laughing because
they knew exactly what what Tani was doing. So listen,
that's some play for humor. Hey, if you could dish
it out, you better be able to take it. And
the d Backs were good with it. They were they
knew what they were doing. And listen, I don't mind
guys celebrating. I don't like when guys stand there for
ten minutes and in my home wrests. Okay, thatslip. Do
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what you want to do. Celebrate, but then get the jockey.
You know what I'm saying. Enjoy the home run. But
both teams understood, hey, if it is what it is,
they had fun with it and they moved on. So
it definitely was an ode to to uh Duriel.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
All right, Well, Jerry, thanks for coming on today. Really
appreciate the time, and we'll talk to you again soon anytime. Guys, Rodney,
you nailed that one. You nailed it. You knew that's
what OI did. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
He pimped at Freddy was it was a get back
and I loved every minute of it.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yes, you know, Rodney, they say love is blind. Let's
talk about that next. Let's say it again.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Fred Homer the world champion, la dodges rod and beat
Fred Rogan. Many thanks to Jerry Harriston Junior.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I like Jerry. Jerry breaks it down. Freddy breaks it
down right too.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
They did a good job on Yeah, and uh, I'm
glad he agreed with the pimping of show.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Hey o, Tommy, you nailed that.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
You.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I did not ask God, I didn't see that. I didn't.
I didn't realize it.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Yeah man, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
He had something to say about it. Free it. Oh
he had something to say. There's no question about that.
I love it. How much do you think he thought
about that?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Okay, I'm going up there when I if I hit
this home run, I'm I'm I'm gonna let them know
that I saw what he did three innings ago. Just
let me hit a home run and I'm a pimp
this bad boy right now. Oh, you know he was
thinking about it. You knew he was thinking about it.
As soon as I hit this thing, I'm gonna pimp it,
and he did it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, that that showed, we said the other day, still
waters run deep. You look at the guy. He's happy.
He shows very little emotion, and if he shows the emotion,
he's happy, he smiles, always says a little the empire.
I mean, he's like the most polite guy you've ever
seen out there. But that was great, and to me,
it just seems so organic, so genuine. But of course
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I know it did.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, But then of course the whole thing I think
I think I think it was in his mind soon
as he saw him do it, saw Gury'll do it earlier.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I think he I think he was like gearing up
for it. Man, let me get let me get hold
of one, let me get a hold of one. And
if I do, yeah, I will remember that. And he
did and he did.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Well, you're right, he's he's such a polite guy that
you don't always think of him that way, but you know,
people around him and people talk about him that he
is a fierce, fierce competitor.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
And he does have that dog in him, so you
like to see that sometimes. Okay, Rodney so you know,
love is blind, love is blind. It well, apparently for
Mill Melanchick it is. Uh yeah, that relationship is trending.
Jordan Hudson, she's twenty four. Bill actually could be her
(16:03):
great grandfather. Now. To me, look, everybody's free to do
whatever they want with their life. Whatever you want to do,
do if you're not hurting anybody, fantastic, enjoy every second.
I always find it odd when you see somebody, let's saying,
there's seventies dating somebody who's twenty five. To me, there
just doesn't seem as if you have a lot in common.
(16:25):
You know, if you're seventy, you know you've probably had
a broken hip, you know, I mean, what does somebody
twenty five know about that. If you're seventy, you've probably
gone through a number of life experiences that somebody at
twenty five probably is not gone through. I just think
that's fair by the way you did an older man did,
a younger woman did an older woman. Whatever. It's all good.
(16:49):
Everything is good. But when you're the coach at North
Carolina and moreover, when you've won Super Bowl titles in
the NFL, and there's always a bit of a spotlight
on you and when you bring your girlfriend around, which
is your business. My god, there's nothing better than love,
young love, at least one half of it is young love.
(17:12):
People are going to talk about it, and it's really
caused a stir. Now it's become a problem. And the
thing I don't know is is it a problem because
people want it to be a problem or is it
a problem because it's a problem. I don't I can't
tell which one it is. You can't.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Well, look, it's only a problem if it's you know,
it's affecting them in their relationship. Otherwise they could care less,
which it seems like they can care less. But you know, here,
you've got a guy, a eight times Super Bowl champ
and who already has a brand and already is a
(17:59):
Hall of Fame coach and has had multiple experiences, like
you said, you know, of life and being in the media,
talking to the meeting. Now, he's not the most you know,
gracious guy when he's at the podium or talking to
the media. He's very land and very short and cold
and all that. But having someone that young kind of
(18:25):
take over your brand, and you know, and the way
she acted in the in the CBS interview. It definitely
turned a lot of people off, and I think it
concerned a lot of people that are close to Bill Belichick.
Is that is he blinded, like you said, blinded by
this love and this young girl to where she is
damaging his reputation and damaging his image?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Well answer, does he care? Do we even need to
discuss that?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
The answers yes, Yeah, But what would you expect? You
have someone who has basically lived in the spotlight, and
then you have someone who has not. What do you
expect that would be like Bill, go ahead, that would
be like Bill Belichick dating my daughter Hailey. No, I'm sorry,
(19:20):
even Haley is older than his girlfriend. Yeah, that would
be like Bill Belichick dating my daughter, and you go,
what are you doing? I mean, think about it. If
you have a daughter, and again, everybody can do what
(19:41):
they want, live their life. But if you have a
daughter and she brings home someone, she says, I want
you to meet the person i'm dating. Okay, bring him over.
And the guy is older than you are as her father,
wouldn't you go what are you doing? Yeah? Well, what
(20:02):
are you thinking here? What? What good could possibly come
from this? Well? I'm sure there are moments of greatness.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You found that fountain, Fred, he found that fountain of youth,
you know, trying to get he's reading, he's re energized.
But it's it's one thing too. I think people would
look at it sideways regardless, because like you said, she's
you could be your grandfather, and if your daughter brought
(20:35):
home someone that was older than you, you look at
her sideways, what are you doing? And but but it
happens all the time right where you see older men
with younger women. This one makes people cringe because she's
basically taking over and running his life. It seems, you know,
from the branding, to social media to controlling all asked
(21:00):
except his life, which is again why I think you know,
you hear that grumblings from the family members and close
friends of him that he is he's off the deep
end because he's allowing her to control the narrative and
their relationship and and his professional life as well. And
didn't I read something where North Carolina said she is
(21:22):
not They like her, but she's not welcome and at
practices or meetings or anything like that on campus something
like that.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Well, and that was the controversy. There was a report
that that happened. Then the school, the school kind of
walked it bag. So wait a minute. You know, as
his personal brand ambassador, you know she is welcome here.
She is welcome, but you know she's not She's not
you know, she shouldn't show up at team meetings. That's
(21:52):
what people are seeing. How often does somebody's girlfriend show
up at a team meeting? And not very often at all.
The fact that and my wife's in the law, Can
she sit in here in the quarterback room today? We
want to go over the game plan for Clemson this weekend.
It's gonna hang with us. Hey, she brought us snacks. No,
that doesn't happen. Yeah, she's as old as the players
that you're coaching, right, Jess sold if the players you're
(22:16):
coaching and regardless, do you just have your spouse or
your partners sit in on team meetings? No? Right, No,
I mean that's like you go to the dentist and
the dentist's wife is sitting there and you go, why, well,
I just wanted to be with him today. Well, he's
(22:36):
drilling my teeth. Why are you sitting here?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
And you asked the dentists a few questions about what
this procedure is, and she chimes in and says, no,
you can't ask that question and just sit there and
get your mouth fixed, right.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You know what I take to close your mouth, but
you can't to just open your mouth, but don't make
a sound. The next sound you hear will be the drill.
Go ahead, honey, let him happen. I mean, that doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
That was cringey though, And she said, no, we're not
answering that question. We are not answering that question in
that CBS interview. We're not going there. We're not answering
that question. She's sitting in the background on the couch.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, it's every part of it is a little, a
little off, a little weird again. You know, you can
do what you want to do.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
But I think the fact that he is not just
some ordinary guy, you know that nobody knows, he's got
a full on Hall of Fame career and reputation, that
you think that as controlling as he's always been and
we've perceived him to be, and now he's being it
feels like he's being controlled.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I mean ask you this, do you think if North Carolina,
or for any part of it, anyone would have known this.
I mean, everybody knew he was dating a younger person,
find whatever, but then started to realize this was the
dynamic and he's speaking and she's saying, we're now talking
(24:08):
about it, and then she's showing up everywhere. If North
Carolina had known that, do you think they would have
hired him? Not in a million, I agree, not in
a million out of them, because they'd looked like fools now.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Right, And I'm sure he's got guaranteed parts of his contract,
so he's not going anywhere anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But you know, I don't think. I don't think if
they would have known that this would have his.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Or what it's like, No, they would have walked it
back and said, well, you know what, Bill, you know
we we we rethought this and uh we're gonna go
in a different direction, you know, thanks, but no, thanks,
good luck wherever you go. You know, I just don't
think that they don't want that drum as evident of
(25:01):
what's already happened so far. Like you said, they had
to walk some things back already, and this ain't the
end of it. Wait till the season starts. Is she
gonna be in the postgame press conferences.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Oh, I hope so, God, I hope she is. That
would be great, that would be actually. But then you
know there'll be a point. By the way I've looked
at up be seventy three. God bless him, good for him,
good for him. But you see what's going to happen
(25:34):
here if this continues, no one's gonna want to play
for him. No, because of this, because she became the story.
You're talking about college football players here. Guess what, They're
the story and they want to be the story. And
it's all about them. And you know that, Rodney. These
(25:54):
kids are vying for a chance to play in the NFL.
There's nil money involved. These guys are the stars. These
guys may could go, and that's where the focus needs
to be. I mean, after the game, let's say their
quarterback as a hell of a game, right those five
touchdown passes six hundred yards, and he's sitting there and
(26:15):
Belichick is sitting next to him, and she's off on
the side. Somebody asked the question and she shouts something out,
where's the attention gone? Where? What are we going to
be focused on? Right now? Her? It's over? So they
got it through five touchdowns, and six hundred yards. Right, Hey,
thanks for showing up here.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Yeah, he didn't, he didn't. He didn't get a chance
to answer any question, and it became all about her.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Right, how much do you think those kids are gonna
put up with that? Not much?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
And you know it, Fred, people talk, kids talk and
social media. Now it will be everywhere. Everything she does
with that team, if she's around it, we'll be posted,
we'll be talked about, we'll be out there. You know,
she got on the team bus, he got on the
team plane. She was sitting you know, in our meeting.
He came into the locker room at halftime. She even
(27:10):
drew up a.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Play for it. And the good thing is Bill Belichick
is seemingly found love. And that actually is a very
cool thing. I'm that serious. Anytime you can find love,
it's a good thing, I would think, right, A companion,
a partner, yeah, someone to share your life with. Granted
(27:34):
someone twenty four when you're seventy three and you really
don't have a lot in common. And no, she's showing
up to school. She's not the coach's girlfriend. She could
be a student there.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Absolutely absolutely, Like if he you imagine, like he met
her after he took this job at North Carolina, where
there would be so many investigations into you know, was
she on campus? Did he did he engage with a
student because she could have been, she could be she
(28:09):
was probably a student a year or two ago. Yeah,
it's it's cringey, it's cringeworthy, Fred. And but you know,
you know, you know, maybe as you get older, some
of these men, some guys, you know, they get with
someone that young.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
And maybe she's got skills and she put it on
him for it.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
It should put it on and and and that is
what we call being sprung.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
That is God Rodney. Okay, listen, one of our teams,
local teams here, maybe selling a little piece of themselves.
You might be able to buy a part of one
of our local teams. And we'll talk about that next.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Oh, yes, we keep it moving on to Tuesday. Right
to beat Fred Rogan. Hey, I want to be clearfol Fred,
you know, to each his own. If you're seventy three,
you want to day a twenty four year old, go
for it. Do your think, sure, right, anybody can do
whatever they want to do, right, So it's all good
(29:29):
for Bill, Bill, do your thing?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Is that the only point you wanted to make. I
thought you had some other point to make. Oh yeah, Bill, Bill,
you know he is a little bit sprung. You just
hope that it doesn't it doesn't turn into her making
football decisions for Bill Belichick going forward. That would be
the real disaster that you see his career.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Be diminished and defined by these last couple of years
of his career.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Let me ask you so them seriously, no, seriously, comedy
football decisions do you think he's actually gonna make Now
he's a head coach. He's brought all these people around him.
They'll handle it. He's there to be Bill Belichick, and
sure help out here and there. What does he know
about college football? It's a very different animal. He's got
(30:20):
people there around him. He does and I think he's
gonna hate.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
He's gonna hate the the outside stuff, the stuff that
is not practice in games, in meetings. He's gonna hate
the the probably hates the nil. He's gonna hate to
have to continue to recruit his own guys to stay
there in college where people are coaching, or guys like
I'm going to get the money somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I'm going to transfer to Miami.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Uh, he's gonna hate that aspect of it, recruiting, maybe
going into the homes of parents, He's gonna hate that
part of it. But the x's and o's in the coaching.
On the field coaching, I think is something that is
embedded in him and he's always loved that and will
continue to love that, and that what is going to
drive him. But I think it's going to be one
of those he gets so irritated by the outside stuff
(31:08):
that isn't on the field, football, teaching x's and o's
and games that it's going.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I just don't know how long it lasts. All right, Well,
we'll see. So when the Chargers came to Los Angeles,
there was talk that they didn't have the capital. Let's
just be honest. Dean's spanners had a lot of money, Yeah,
a lot of money, but he didn't have stand cronky money. Also,
(31:39):
there were some concerns about the team and family members
getting their cut, and as these things oftentimes do look
at the Bus family with the Lakers, it gets all messy,
but somehow it gets all worked out. So there was
also a report or a rumor that at some time
Dean had planned to sell the Chargers. Here's where you're
(32:03):
at right now. First, Dean Spanos is not selling the Chargers.
As a matter of fact, there was a report today
that they are in talks with Arctist Partners to sell
a stake of the team. So somebody would buy a
portion of the team. And it's this group, and you go, well,
(32:24):
who in the world is this group? What do they do?
Look at it like this. There are I believe four
approved league private equity firms, because some years ago the
NFL said it just doesn't have to be your family.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yeah, to own money got too great, it got too expensive.
I mean, it was that time where you know, it
had to be an individual owner in the league, and
he had all these rules. But when the price tag
started skyrocketing to the billions, it's like, okay, we got
to open this up a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So, the league has four approved equity firms. I'm of
the opinion that not just the one I mentioned. I'm
of the opinion that the Chargers have talked with all
four of them. So they are looking for an investor
at this time. But doesn't mean they're stilling the team.
That doesn't even mean they're giving up the majority control
(33:17):
of the team. No, but that there will be an investor. Yeah,
and that.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Which if you look at many teams now there there's
not just one person or one group that owns the team.
There are many minority owners of a particular franchise. Look,
Tom Brady, we don't know how much, but Tom Brady
owns a piece of the Raiders now, right. And you
know there are a number of number of people that
(33:46):
own a piece of the Dodgers, right. And everybody's got
their different scale and how much they've they've bought into it.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
But the most teams will have multiple owners.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
So this is not out of the realm or out
of the imagine of doing something that has already been
done throughout the league and throughout all sports.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
I'll say too. I think it went under reported last year,
but Tom Gores, who owns the Detroit Pistons, owns twenty
seven percent of the Chargers. That happened last October and November,
I believe.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
So there you go. So that's why Kate Cunningham could
be a wide receiver next year. I'm sure.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
I'm not sure that's how that works.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Read but why not?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
No, No, Tom Gore is not gonna jeopardize his superstar
superstar with the Pistons to play football in LA with
the Charges.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Man But as I currently read it, it says the
Spanos family, which is Dean and Alex Michael, they all
owned twenty four percent couple combined together. There's a family trust,
and then there's Gores, and then there's legacy owners, which
I don't know exactly what that means that own four percent.
But the Spanels family as a collective and their trust
owned sixty nine percent as.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Of now, and that's it. They have the majority.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Correct And if this venture capital whatever this entity is,
does purchase a stake, it is reported to be a
minority stake. So to your point, Fred, he is not
selling the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
No, he's not. You know, you just said something, Rodney
Kate Cunningham. Tom Gore's not going to put his star
wide receiver for the Chargers. Well, the Celtics have lost
their star. Jason Tatum tore his achilles. Oh yeah, that
was just reported. It hurts. That hurts.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
That hurts, you know because it was reported early as
a legendary and now we found it out that's the achilles.
That's a tough one, you know, Boston was already struggling
in that series, and the Knicks have probably gone and
went it now for sure. But that's tough because he
he was facing, you know, so much criticism this year,
which is really weird that that he gets so much
(35:55):
criticism as I don't know what people want him to be, right,
And he's a good dude. He works hard, he plays hard,
but I think they people want him to be more
vocal or more of a flashy superstar than he is.
But he was facing to criticism and now this happens
gonna he's gonna face it even more.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yeah. Also, Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson have been
reinstated into baseball. That happened about thirty five minutes ago,
which means both are eligible for the Hall of Fame.
Of course, that's all Pete Rose wanted, and he was
concerned that one day he might have that opportunity, but
(36:38):
he would be dead. Well, they waited a little while. Yeah,
he's eligible now as a shoeless Joe Jackson. Why do
you think they waited? Why do you think he waited?
I waited. We got to talk about that more later.
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
Well, we can get into it later if you want.
But Rob Manfred did release a statement as to why
he waited until now.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
You want to do that later, Do that later? Yeah?
All right? Oh, and since this is the High Speed
Sports Wire, the Portland Trailblazers are officially for sale.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Anything else hacksaw.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Hey, I'm telling you rancho parisquitis. All right, salty A
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