May 21, 2024 • 34 mins
David Vassegh joins us as the Dodgers get set to host Arizona. Jonas Knox has issues with parking at Sofi Stadium. Vic the Brick haiku
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Elli continue on. Jonas knacks intoday for Rodney at five seventy LA Sports.
The parking nightmare that is that iscoming up in a bit. But
now let's bring on the real DavidVasse. Oh yeah, Dave, how
are you today? Oh? Ithought you said he was there. Okay,
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Well that's going to slow us down. Kevin is talking to the real
David vass A. Jonas well,Ronnie, let me know, Ronnie told
me he was ready. Okay,Well, wait to throw everybody out of
the bus. Jesus Well, I'mnot throwing anybody under the bus. Ronnie
says he's ready. Okay, Igo to him. Kevin goes, well,
I'll tell you when he's ready.Well, Ronnie just told me he
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was ready. But now he's ready. So let's bring on David Vasse.
Hello, Dave, who's ready?I'm ready? Exactly exactly. Dave Otani's
first walk off hit was that oneof the great moments because people seem to
make it in history. I thoughthe drove in a run of ext ratings
and it worked. I mean it'sa great moment to the start of his
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Dodger career. I mean, let'sface it, he is the most popular
baseball player, not only in thiscountry but also internationally. So it was
a big moment because there's been alot of talk that he cannot deliver with
the game on the line, hecannot deliver with runners in scoring position,
So all of that silenced the critics. Yesterday, dave I was making the
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point and making the case for Otaniearlier that when you consider just what was
going on, the expectations going intothe season, the big contract, the
interpreter, the stealing going overseas,coming back, his play and his performance
thus far is almost maybe even underappreciatedwhen you consider all the stuff that's happened
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around him to start out his Dodgercareer, We've seen a lot of players
either press or not be able todeliver, and he's delivered thus far.
And to have a guy like Fredjust dismiss all of that and just call
it a big deal. He gota hit and they won a game against
the Reds, I think was disrespectfulto Otani and to start his Dodger career.
I agree. Fred's very jealous ofother people's success, So it doesn't
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surprise me that Otani's success and howthe city has really taken to him.
And by the way, I mean, it's not like Otani's never done anything
in Major League Baseball before. Hehad played in Anaheim for six years.
But that just shows you how nothinghe did there really mattered. It seems
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like what he does with the Dodgers, even though he may had done it
before, means ten times more thananything he did wearing that other uniform.
So I guess what Tommy Lasorda usedto say is true. If you're playing
for another team, yeah, you'rein the major leagues. But when you
play for the Dodgers, you're inthe big leagues. It's so funny you
said that, because Jonas actually saidthat earlier, the same thing kind of.
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I said, he's playing an Anaheim, he goes what in front of
eleven people no one even knew,And isn't that interesting when you think about
it, Dave, he's done thisbefore in his career, but here it
seemed monumental because he's playing for theDodgers. Right yesterday was a sellout crowd
on his Sunday afternoon, fifty twothousand plus, and they were all there
in the tenth inning with two outsand two strikes on Otani and you know,
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that's why it's just such a biggerstage. And I agree with Jonas,
I'm not sure he gets enough creditfor being able to separate everything that
is still going on in his personallife, not to mention in spring training
he announced that he got married outof the blue, So all of these
things, it's remarkable that he's ableto compartmentalize all of it and be able
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to be right now, by theway, on the cusp of challenging for
the triple crown in the first half. What has he been like to cover
as far as there's been a lotof you know, big name players that
have had come through and been intown. But just thus far, you
know, we're approaching late May throughyou know, the first couple of months
of the season. What's he beenlike to cover for you? Well?
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Number one, he does things thatyou know, you've never seen anybody else
do. I mean, he's sucha great hitter. His teammates have said
that he's the greatest hitter they haveever seen. And it's not like he's
cadillacing it up to first base becauseof how great of a hitter he is.
That's the one part of his gamethat I feel is the most underappreciated.
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He plays so hard. Every timehe's at the he's playing between the
lines. I mean a ground ballto the second base in San Francisco,
he's running with reckless abandon hustling upthe line forces Biro Estrada to make a
throwing error. So he just playsso hard and plays the game with such
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joy and has so much risks effectfor the game of baseball. It's refreshing,
and I feel like that's the mostunderappreciated part of his game. And
as far as behind the scenes,players have told me that he's really funny.
They feel like they've been able toconnect with him a lot more ever
since Epey has been out of thepicture, and I would agree with that
as a media person, that he'sway more approachable now without having a human
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shield around in twenty four to seven, he is forced now to interact and
speak for himself. Hey, Dave, Mookie Betts said he's not been very
good at shortstop. Dave Roberts saidhe's fine, but not up to Mookie's
personal standards. All right, Sowhat is the story? How good at
or not good has he been?I feel like he's been in I believe
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the metrics show this as well,But just watching him, he's an average
shortstop, and I guess that's remarkableconsidering he just started playing it two weeks
before spring. But my personal opinionis you need better than average at shortstop
if you want to win the WorldSeries. Where this goes, I really
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don't know. I know it's goingat least until the trade deadline to see
what is available. If the Dodgersbelieve the pieces to the puzzle fit better
with Mookie going back to second baseand then being able to acquire a more
experienced shortstop, so it could meanthat the Dodgers decide to go with Miguel
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Rojas at shortstop. But right now, it feels like Mookie's ego now is
part of it as well, becausehe wants to prove that he could play
there, and that gets tricky.Is he getting better or is there just
a block in what he's able todo, because this is not something that
you can figure out in you know, before the start of spring training.
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This is something you got to workon in the offseason and you're just basically
pedaling and trying to tread water atthis point. How much better can he
actually get in season. That's agreat question, Jonas. I don't know.
I've never seen this happen. Wehave never seen this happen. Usually
shortstops that are thirty one move offof that position. They don't go there.
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And that's the one thing I feellike we all should appreciate about Mooki
because he is an MVP, He'sone of the biggest superstars in the game.
How many of these superstars would makethemselves as vulnerable as Mooky has by
going and saying, yes, Iwill move to shortstop because we don't have
a better option. So I believehe deserves credit for that. But how
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much better it gets, I don'tknow. We're almost in June. I
think we'll have to evaluate it whenMay is over Dave. With Max Munsey
placed on the injured list, MiguelVargas called back up. So now they're
going to take a look at himand really see if he's grown or progressed.
Is this a very critical appearance forhim with this big club. I
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mean, if he struggles as hedid, do you think they say he
might be a guy we can move. Yeah. I feel like he's had
a fourth in the road with hisDodger career, But it's going to be
hard for him because he's not playingevery day. He's you know, he's
started once since he's been called up. I'm not sure he's playing today or
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not. So it's hard to judgehim when he's not playing every day.
But certainly I would say it's nowor never for Miguel Vargas. What's the
thing you look when you're watching theDodgers and you're covering the team as much
as we celebrate O'tani and the topof the lineup, and look, you
know Betts struggles at shortstop, butyou know still at the plate, what's
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the one thing you look at themright now and say, this is something
to keep an eye on that maybeisn't being discussed that could be an issue
as the season progresses. Yeah,I would say the bullpen, Jonas.
I know it's been outstanding, butI would say the bullpen going down the
stretch. They always seem to finda way to make guys that you never
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heard of be very valuable. Butwith Blake Trenton coming back, that is
huge because he looks like himself again, but he is in the thirty five
year old range. You can't overdoit with him. So I would say
finding a solution defensively on the leftside of the infield, whether it's shortstop
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or third base, and also bringingin some reinforcements for the bullpen at the
trade deadline would be something I lookedat. Dave Dodgers made a move today
for cash Johann Ramirez, reliever fromthe Mets. Do you know anything about
him? Oh, come on,Fred, of course I know nothing about
him, the guy. I mean, come on, I mean this is
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another one of those depth moves thata lot of these similar thinking teams seem
to exchange these relievers when they needextra arms to be called up pressure arms.
So he falls into that category.Are they pleased with where Walker Bueller's
at? Is there the expectation thathe's going to get back to the pitcher
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he was or still too early totell. No. I mean, over
the weekend it was his best start, six scoreless innings, eight strikeouts that
looked like Walker Buehlers. So thatwas a huge step forward, and hopefully
he can keep on building on thatbecause it's not about May or June or
July. It's about having him athis best when it counts the most in
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October. That would be if hecould look like the way he pitched the
other day against the Reds, readyfor the postseason. All of a sudden,
you got something with glass. Nowmaybe I'mamoto and Walker Buehler to go
with Bobby Miller and Gavin Stone.All right, nice up date, thanks
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for coming on today. Very positiverad so you should try it sometime.
Very upbeat about the Dodgers. I'mglad you guys did your preparation today.
That was kind. Thank you.Goodbye. There he goes our good friend
David Vassa. See why why abackhanded slap like that on the way out?
Why it was so unnecessary? Iwas trying to be upbeat and try
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to be positive about this team allday long, and you came in sort
of poo pooing sho heyo Tani's walkoff yesterday. Not only did I not
pooh pull it, I put itinto the proper perspective. And there's a
difference pooh pulling it. It's nothing. Who cares. I didn't say that,
So I've just put it in perspective, and I think it's important for
someone like you to have that perspective. Okay, I mean, look,
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I just think this is a guywho's been through a lot, and the
way he's performed deserves I think alittle bit more credit than it's currently getting.
And on top of that, he'salso going to pitch eventually at some
point for this team as well too. It's only getting better and better and
better for show hayo tani Fred.Actually, that's when it's going to be
really fun next year when he pitches, that is going to be insane.
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That that's going to really be fun. And if he goes out and he's,
you know, good, because hehas been If he's good, oh
god, Now that's when it's gonnaget to be a lot of fun.
Yeah, watching him pitch hand hit, I mean think so fifty three thousand
people, yeah, for a gamein May. Have the Angels ever done
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that? Had a game in May? No? Look like, had that
many people show up to a gamethis early in the season, I would
say, no, yeah, Andlook at him just delivering game winning hits.
I don't know if they even seefifty three thousand down there. Yeah,
the answer may be never. Yeah, what is capacity at Angel Stadium?
If you had to guess right now, forty see I think it's around
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forty four, but I'll double check. Let's see, Angels. There you
go, forty four, I gotforty five thousand, fifty four or five
five? Oh, I mean,I can't and I don't know how to
track this. I don't know ifyou can find the last time they sold
out. I was gonna that's whatI was gonna ask. Next. Well,
I will say during Socia's run,when they were really good and kind
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of the class of the American League, they were in the top five of
sellouts in attendance throughout Major League Baseball. When they win, the fans turn
out. I will say that aboutAngel Stadium, there's's nothing to see the
last ten years. Why would youpay money to go see that? Geez,
I'm not especially now it makes sense. Why would you? That's what
teams don't understand, not get it. Kevin asked, Actually, he's an
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Angels fan, Like he's speaking onbehalf of you know, Angels Nation.
He is, Oh, yeah,I am. He's a huge Angels fan.
He loves the Angels, big supporterof Artie Moreno, let's not push
it, okay, all right,my bad, my bad. Tonight,
the Dodgers take on the Arizona Diamondbacksfirst pitch at seven. Listen to every
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The keyword is A five seventy LAsports. All right, Jonas, when
we come back, you can justget it off your chest. Yeah,
all right, have to Okay,Jonahs knocks them today for Rodney. All
right, So you have an issuewith parking at SOFI? Is that correct?
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You know? I don't even knowif it's just Sofi just in general
parking it like if you notice thatit seems like parking is worse and worse
at every new venue that is built, like it just feels like it gets
worse. And I don't know ifthis is just a Sofi thing or whatever.
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Like And the only reason I gotoff on this little like rant and
tangent over the weekend is because mykid loves Monster Jam, literally loves it.
And Monster Jam was at SOFI onSaturday and it was like their big
final event. Like he like,my son is three years old. I
can by alphabet, he can namea monster truck to represent every single letter
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of the alphabet. He loves it. It's literally he can do go down
the entire list and I'll just I'lldo that with him, and that's like
our little exercise. He loves it. And I'm like, you know,
you could probably get you know,tickets, I mean, yeah, every
ticket to every sporting event is prettypricey nowadays, unless it's like a w
NBA game and you want to goand watch something and get in pretty reasonably.
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But like for like big sporting events, everything's pretty expensive. But the
one reason I didn't take him wasit because of the price of the tickets.
It was just the getting in,parking and getting out of the venue.
It's a disaster. And I don'tknow why that's sort of an afterthought
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when when a lot of these placesare built, Like that's the one thing
I'll say about Angel Stadium. It'spretty easy to get in and out of
there, Like it's right next tothe freeway you're in, like like I'll
say that, And I don't knowif that's because it was built a while
back and maybe that was, youknow, part of it there was less
confused us. But it's pretty simpleto get the hell out of there,
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dude, so far is a disaster, Like just like the whole thing is
a mess. And I don't knowif if this is something that is just
an LA thing, but it feelslike this is a problem elsewhere. It
like the Chicago Bears put these renderingstogether for a brand new Soldier field where
they play right, and people noticein the renderings where's the parking? It
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was almost like that was the afterthought, just not included, like nowhere to
even be like that, that's justsort of the afterthought And everybody has the
same issues when it goes to Sofi. Listen, beautiful place. I call
it the world's largest gazebo because that'swhat it is. Beautiful place, fun
time. Maybe not fair to saythat great. I mean listen, it's
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a gazebo. Fread like it's itis. I mean look at it,
you know like it. I meanit rain gets inside the place and it's
got a roof. That's called agazebo. It's called natural. There's nothing
natural about Soli, nothing natural battle. But point is, everybody's got the
same grape. And I don't knowwhy this still happens when venues are built,
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since the thing that gets me aboutthat. When you park there's like
three ways to get in, likethree streets. Yes, that's the issue
I have. There aren't a lotof streets or ways to get in,
which means there aren't a lot ofways to get out. That's the issue
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now. Dodger Stadium very much thesame way. Parking there. Getting out
of there is insane. If yougo downtown to the Crypt, you can
park across the street at La Live, but it's gonna take a while to
get out of there as well.Yeah, they don't consider parking and then
they charge it for parking. That'sbit time and that's it. It's like
it's an afterthought, but it's aproblem. Like in some places it's eighty
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to one hundred dollars to park likethis. It's not like this is just
one of the big deal, youknow, four or five Like what's parking
at Santa Anita. I think it'slike five bucks? Right, is it
like five bucks or something like that? Like you roll into sant Anita,
you park, it's five bucks,like whatever. It's like going to a
local carnival like a church carnival,like whatever, big deal. But these
like these are real prices. Sometimesthe parking is more expensive than the tickets
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in some places, and it's justsort of like, uh, yeah,
well, we'll just throw some spotsthere and you guys can figure it out
and then, you know, justfollow the traffic as we're trying to get
out of there. And and look, I my heart is with the parents
of kids who went to Monster Jamat Sofi Stadium, trying to get them
out of there, breaking the newsthat it's over. There's no more monster
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trucks. No, you can't buyanything else because we've run out of money.
Oh and by the way, you'regonna have to sit in this car,
and I've got to listen to youscreaming why try and navigate through the
terrain that is Sofi's parking lot.I gets I just I don't get it.
Man. It feels like an afterthoughtevery time. Why Why do you
think it was so hard for parentswith kids when it was over. Maybe
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it was hard for the parents,Maybe they wanted more too, Maybe they
were just inconsolable. You ever beento Monster Jock, Yeah, like the
big monster truck. I've covered it. Sure, I can assure you.
You know who's excited when that thing'sover. Parents it's about time. Let's
go. Okay, they've got toearplugs in the entire time. And it's
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a great it's really fun, LikeI've had a blast both times i've gone.
But there gets to a certain pointwhere you're like, all right,
I'm good. You know, I'vei've I've seen it, I've got it.
Like it's loud, there's a lotgoing on, Like let's just try
and get to the car and getout of here. And then you've got
to like you've got to carry allthe stuff you bought, like these you
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know, like like inflatable monster trucksand like kids are drinking out of shark
cups because it looks like Megalodon,the the shark monster. Try like the
whole thing again. It's fun,it's a good time, but you just
want to be able to get inand get out. And that's just not
that doesn't exist anywhere anymore. Apparently, Well, one man that would know
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that's been here forever. I mean, he understands the parking not only in
Whittier but throughout southern California, andwe need to bring him on now.
He'll have a comment on it.It's vic to break with the daily haikup
at two and VIC that afternoon.Don't get me started with the parking,
for it there it is, Butthey have left your VIC. You haven't
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left your house in four years,so why would you know about parking,
Fred? Parking is part of theSouthern California experience. Are you kidding me?
Yeah? We all deal with itand it's turbulent. You must have
patience. The key is seven deepbreaths. No, the key is finding
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a spot fair point. By thetime you take those seven your breast,
there won't be anywhere to park.Last missed the spot. I want to
know who never uses valet ever refuses, doesn't care. Kevin Demoff of the
Rams, Oh yeah, will notuse a valet, does not care.
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He wants control. He wants controlof the car. I get that.
His wife yells at him. Hegoes, no, I'm not doing it.
I mean it's tough fun at aspot of clu and he's not impressed
with the Otani first walk off asa Dodger. You got to be kidding
me, Fred, Think you're drivinga running next Ran first walk in a
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Grand Slam home run? Who theWorld Series? You know? Two stripes,
two outs, Big game, youwant to take three out of four
from Cincinnati after you lose the opener, you want to take the next three.
You know what's rich about you knowwhat's rich about this whole thing.
Had he struck out or cost themthe game, Fred would be mutilating Otani
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on the air today. Luckily wedon't have to deal with that. Yeah,
but we can't even celebrate it becauseyou just downplayed the whole thing.
I have celebrated it, But really, Fred, what really? Fred?
You made it? You made itvery mundane and it was not a mundane
moment. Mondane mondays, Mundane mondayswith Fred Rogan. He's it for Rodney.
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He gave me lots of love forsupporting the show through all of seventeen's
turmoil. Jonas knots damn opuppy.All his love is now centered on baby
Oh, baby Oliver. Come onnow, okayik is baby oh one month
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old? Yet? Three weeks?Vic? Three weeks? By the way,
keV in it in it cool thatit wasn't on sinko to my own.
Imagine having to try and share thatholiday that'd be rough. Yeah f
that Yeah, No, glad wemissed that one. That was the expected
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date. By the way, it'slike dad another pinata right now? Ye,
love love, love, love isall you need. Roddie Fossio Ponto
will travel, y'all, let's kicka labor. Yeah, I'm celebrating O'tiny
Sign. That was a clutch hitman. That was a just this.
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I believe it was a seminal momentfor old Tiny Sign because in that situation,
let's face it, it's been tough. I mean, he's hitting three
fifty, he has certeen home runs, but in that high urgency situation,
he had not produced a walk off. So it was just a sensational moment
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for it. I believe he should. You should basking some afterglow. I
thought it was great. Vic LikeI said, he knocked in the winning
running extra innings. He'd'ted randslam in the Game seven of the World
Series and extra innings. Wow,I'm not downplaying anything, but let's just,
you know, try to keep ourheads here. It's not downplaying,
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it's just being honest. If hehits a home run, I'd probably be
a little more excited. Well,be excited for Andy Paes to run home
yesterday, all right, I'm excitedfor him. Land and knock solid performance.
Yaw borrow one and two thirds justto run? How about Vessia?
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Has he been just sensational? Oneand two thirds? Score is yesterday trying
h two one two out jam inthe eighth, struck out de la Cruz.
How about Anthony Banda Anthony's tenth BandaBondada said, I mean this tenth
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inning is you know, I reallyhate extra hand games? Is it just
me? I hated when a guy'son second and nobody's just to me.
It's so bizarre. But this is, this is the way it is.
But both teams have a guy onsecond. But you know, Bonda high
leverage, gets out of the tenth, gave the gave the Dodgers momentum.
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You have to score the run andyou know in their in their half.
But that was a laser by waslike last game winning hit forty four years
ago. You know back you know, back in the you know, in
the caves of Anaheim, no onewas there. I mean, you know
fifteen people are there. Like yousay, hardest hit ball the last two
decades, yesterday, every day forjust more history. So as they say
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in Japanese, we are very happyfor your happiness. Oh tiny sign.
I'm happy port How about the Angels? They messed with Texas took the series
in the World champions House, KevinPilaw. Can we give Kevin some love?
Out of West Hills, cal State, Domingus Hills, big pinch shit
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two runs single, he's hitting threethirty three. Give it up for Kevin
Pillaw. None in the you know, sweet homecoming for Ron Washington. Listen,
I know the Angels are really inthe doul drums. But that was
a big series. No, goodseries for the Angels. Yeah, not
for the Rangers. Big series.How many big series of the Angels actually
play in these days? None?Yeah, So it was nice. Happy
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for Kevin Pilaw. That was happyfor Ron washingtonpose, Fred would be happy
for somebody. I'm happy for thegirl in an American idol from the Desert,
right Fred, Abby Carter? Yeah, I thought the guy with the
beard was pretty talented too, theguy with the hat and the beard.
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Well, you're biased, Vic,so that makes sense. Bick. Let
me ask you this. Did itreally take three hours to do that?
They could have done it in fifteenminutes. Fred, you got to get
content for the show so you cansell it. Yeah, if America a
lot of guest stars, if AmericanIdol was taking place in my backyard,
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I'd go run errands. Who givesa rip? Well, if you win
your care sweet. I'm actually adevotee of the show you go, and
I been watching the last twenty years. It's a sensational show. Ryan does
a great job. Lost a littleof it's Lester Vicker? No is it
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what? Lost a little of itsluster? It's hard to maintain that intensity
for twenty years, but it stillis an edge. I love Linel,
Richie, I love them too.Linel so much fun. It's just a
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good, good chemistry of the holesand listen. Everyone wants to see an
underdog, you know, rise fromobscurity and become a star. It's It's
an incredible concept. Isn't the voicethe same thing? Yes, America's got
talent, same same flow. Underdogcoming out of nowhere. We've never seen
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this, this person perform before,out of obvious obscurity, into the limelights.
It is. It's an amazing thing. America America loves the story.
Jonas told us about a show thatI think is even better. Oh yeah,
uh tango talento, mucho talento.Or something like that. It's on
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one of the U the Spanish stations, I don't I don't remember which one.
I found it on Friday Night.It's brilliant. Like they've got this
button where they just say futa whichmeans out yea. So like these people
step up, like all their hopesand dreams are on that stage. They're
playing a guitar or a flute orwhatever they're doing to try and show them
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or sing for them, and thisis their big chance. And you got
these people up there that cannot waitto hit a button. We're talking like
eight ten seconds into their performance andthey hit futa and tell them to get
off the stage and security rushes themoff the stage. It is I love
it. And security is like thisguy who's like wearing a black suit and
tie because I looked it up Jonas'on YouTube. It's pretty epic. It's
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great, he's like King Kong Bundy. But in the suit and tie,
it just picked it just picks youup into the one arm. It just
grabs you off the stage and thesuit doesn't fit. It's not I didn't
think it's really I think it's likea pair of dickies and like some sport
code. He got in a goodwill and they roll him out there and
he just ushers these people off.It is great. I don't even care
if I know what they're saying.I'm watching fun we ky hot, wily
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kyting. It's gonna be hot,and Vick will continue with his heat when
we come back. All right.Jonas is sitting in today for Rodney,
but Vic continues on Vic. TheNBA Game Seven's got to give love to
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Low Lowbos. Of course, Denver, the champions were up fifteen and a
half, but Anthony Edwards blanketed JamalMurray in the second half. They hold
a nuggets such as thirty seven pointsin that second half. How about original
g point guard thirty six years stillfresh. Michael Conley was brilliant, yep.
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But who led Los Lobos and scoring. It wasn't Anthony Edwards. It
was a guy from the defunct Pactwelve University of Washington. Jade and McDaniels
had twenty three still flying that flagproudly. But this is Minnesota's time,
dynamic roster, excellent coaching in ChrisFinch, Micha and Norry low Lowbos and
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the Mavericks in the Western Finals.My Knicks went down hard all Indy at
the Garden Pacers unconscious from the floor, record tying sixty seven percent. I
remember New York played inspired hope allthrough the season. Just they had nothing
left. Even O g Anerobe channeledas inner Willis. Reid dragged his injured
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hammy onto the court, hit hisfirst couples jays Allah Willis, but the
Knicks were exhausted. Bronson returned toEarth with his broken hand. Josh Hart
the pain of the stomach injury thatif it was a regular season he'd be
out like a month. But Indyfive starters all poured in at least twenty
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They all look like Reggie Miller,lid By Halliburton's twenty six O'Connell off the
bench was a revelation for Indy.So now what for the Knicks. First
off, he got to extend headcoach Tom Thibodeau. Kobe once told me
the Black Mamba loved Thibodeau's defensive intensity, loved him as a head coach.
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So because extend him, they gotto extend Tibbs Colby's intensity. Vic he
loved anybody with that intensity. AndThibodeaux has it. So that's the first
order of business for the Knickerbockers.Plus he got to extend Bronson and on
Anobi he's always injured, but he'sa dog and quick thoughts. On Sumo
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day eight, everybody from Tokyo WakaTaka Kage, returned from the lower division,
has won his first two bouts.It's a lot of love for Walka
Taka Kage, but leading at sevenand one after eight days Taka refuji yah
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and the crowd loves on Nosato theyoung rock star. He's also seven and
one. Then you know where thatleads us to the source. Fred,
Yes, it's the source Hi coup. Yes, on this Monday, May
the twentieth, don't forget Dodgers ArizonaTonight. First pitch seven is shred here
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a five seven the La Sports.This is from core Vanden Huvel, Fred,
one of your favorites, the notwhole man. All right, let's
go. There's high coup for youfrom the Core cor Vandon Hoovel. Yes,
perfect game, end of seven inthe dugout. The picture sits alone.
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I'm a feeling your hoof. ThenI'll way to wrap it up.
Pretty deep today, Pretty deep allRonnie, thank you, great work.
Cavin appreciate it as always, andJonas thanks for hanging today. Let's do
it again tomorrow, Fred do ithell yeah, all right
Elli continue on. Jonas knacks intoday for Rodney at five seventy LA Sports.
The parking nightmare that is that iscoming up in a bit. But
now let's bring on the real DavidVasse. Oh yeah, Dave, how
are you today? Oh? Ithought you said he was there. Okay,
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Well that's going to slow us down. Kevin is talking to the real
David vass A. Jonas well,Ronnie, let me know, Ronnie told
me he was ready. Okay,Well, wait to throw everybody out of
the bus. Jesus Well, I'mnot throwing anybody under the bus. Ronnie
says he's ready. Okay, Igo to him. Kevin goes, well,
I'll tell you when he's ready.Well, Ronnie just told me he
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was ready. But now he's ready. So let's bring on David Vasse.
Hello, Dave, who's ready?I'm ready? Exactly exactly. Dave Otani's
first walk off hit was that oneof the great moments because people seem to
make it in history. I thoughthe drove in a run of ext ratings
and it worked. I mean it'sa great moment to the start of his
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Dodger career. I mean, let'sface it, he is the most popular
baseball player, not only in thiscountry but also internationally. So it was
a big moment because there's been alot of talk that he cannot deliver with
the game on the line, hecannot deliver with runners in scoring position,
So all of that silenced the critics. Yesterday, dave I was making the
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point and making the case for Otaniearlier that when you consider just what was
going on, the expectations going intothe season, the big contract, the
interpreter, the stealing going overseas,coming back, his play and his performance
thus far is almost maybe even underappreciatedwhen you consider all the stuff that's happened
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around him to start out his Dodgercareer, We've seen a lot of players
either press or not be able todeliver, and he's delivered thus far.
And to have a guy like Fredjust dismiss all of that and just call
it a big deal. He gota hit and they won a game against
the Reds, I think was disrespectfulto Otani and to start his Dodger career.
I agree. Fred's very jealous ofother people's success, So it doesn't
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surprise me that Otani's success and howthe city has really taken to him.
And by the way, I mean, it's not like Otani's never done anything
in Major League Baseball before. Hehad played in Anaheim for six years.
But that just shows you how nothinghe did there really mattered. It seems
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like what he does with the Dodgers, even though he may had done it
before, means ten times more thananything he did wearing that other uniform.
So I guess what Tommy Lasorda usedto say is true. If you're playing
for another team, yeah, you'rein the major leagues. But when you
play for the Dodgers, you're inthe big leagues. It's so funny you
said that, because Jonas actually saidthat earlier, the same thing kind of.
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I said, he's playing an Anaheim, he goes what in front of
eleven people no one even knew,And isn't that interesting when you think about
it, Dave, he's done thisbefore in his career, but here it
seemed monumental because he's playing for theDodgers. Right yesterday was a sellout crowd
on his Sunday afternoon, fifty twothousand plus, and they were all there
in the tenth inning with two outsand two strikes on Otani and you know,
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that's why it's just such a biggerstage. And I agree with Jonas,
I'm not sure he gets enough creditfor being able to separate everything that
is still going on in his personallife, not to mention in spring training
he announced that he got married outof the blue, So all of these
things, it's remarkable that he's ableto compartmentalize all of it and be able
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to be right now, by theway, on the cusp of challenging for
the triple crown in the first half. What has he been like to cover
as far as there's been a lotof you know, big name players that
have had come through and been intown. But just thus far, you
know, we're approaching late May throughyou know, the first couple of months
of the season. What's he beenlike to cover for you? Well?
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Number one, he does things thatyou know, you've never seen anybody else
do. I mean, he's sucha great hitter. His teammates have said
that he's the greatest hitter they haveever seen. And it's not like he's
cadillacing it up to first base becauseof how great of a hitter he is.
That's the one part of his gamethat I feel is the most underappreciated.
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He plays so hard. Every timehe's at the he's playing between the
lines. I mean a ground ballto the second base in San Francisco,
he's running with reckless abandon hustling upthe line forces Biro Estrada to make a
throwing error. So he just playsso hard and plays the game with such
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joy and has so much risks effectfor the game of baseball. It's refreshing,
and I feel like that's the mostunderappreciated part of his game. And
as far as behind the scenes,players have told me that he's really funny.
They feel like they've been able toconnect with him a lot more ever
since Epey has been out of thepicture, and I would agree with that
as a media person, that he'sway more approachable now without having a human
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shield around in twenty four to seven, he is forced now to interact and
speak for himself. Hey, Dave, Mookie Betts said he's not been very
good at shortstop. Dave Roberts saidhe's fine, but not up to Mookie's
personal standards. All right, Sowhat is the story? How good at
or not good has he been?I feel like he's been in I believe
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the metrics show this as well,But just watching him, he's an average
shortstop, and I guess that's remarkableconsidering he just started playing it two weeks
before spring. But my personal opinionis you need better than average at shortstop
if you want to win the WorldSeries. Where this goes, I really
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don't know. I know it's goingat least until the trade deadline to see
what is available. If the Dodgersbelieve the pieces to the puzzle fit better
with Mookie going back to second baseand then being able to acquire a more
experienced shortstop, so it could meanthat the Dodgers decide to go with Miguel
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Rojas at shortstop. But right now, it feels like Mookie's ego now is
part of it as well, becausehe wants to prove that he could play
there, and that gets tricky.Is he getting better or is there just
a block in what he's able todo, because this is not something that
you can figure out in you know, before the start of spring training.
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This is something you got to workon in the offseason and you're just basically
pedaling and trying to tread water atthis point. How much better can he
actually get in season. That's agreat question, Jonas. I don't know.
I've never seen this happen. Wehave never seen this happen. Usually
shortstops that are thirty one move offof that position. They don't go there.
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And that's the one thing I feellike we all should appreciate about Mooki
because he is an MVP, He'sone of the biggest superstars in the game.
How many of these superstars would makethemselves as vulnerable as Mooky has by
going and saying, yes, Iwill move to shortstop because we don't have
a better option. So I believehe deserves credit for that. But how
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much better it gets, I don'tknow. We're almost in June. I
think we'll have to evaluate it whenMay is over Dave. With Max Munsey
placed on the injured list, MiguelVargas called back up. So now they're
going to take a look at himand really see if he's grown or progressed.
Is this a very critical appearance forhim with this big club. I
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mean, if he struggles as hedid, do you think they say he
might be a guy we can move. Yeah. I feel like he's had
a fourth in the road with hisDodger career, But it's going to be
hard for him because he's not playingevery day. He's you know, he's
started once since he's been called up. I'm not sure he's playing today or
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not. So it's hard to judgehim when he's not playing every day.
But certainly I would say it's nowor never for Miguel Vargas. What's the
thing you look when you're watching theDodgers and you're covering the team as much
as we celebrate O'tani and the topof the lineup, and look, you
know Betts struggles at shortstop, butyou know still at the plate, what's
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the one thing you look at themright now and say, this is something
to keep an eye on that maybeisn't being discussed that could be an issue
as the season progresses. Yeah,I would say the bullpen, Jonas.
I know it's been outstanding, butI would say the bullpen going down the
stretch. They always seem to finda way to make guys that you never
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heard of be very valuable. Butwith Blake Trenton coming back, that is
huge because he looks like himself again, but he is in the thirty five
year old range. You can't overdoit with him. So I would say
finding a solution defensively on the leftside of the infield, whether it's shortstop
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or third base, and also bringingin some reinforcements for the bullpen at the
trade deadline would be something I lookedat. Dave Dodgers made a move today
for cash Johann Ramirez, reliever fromthe Mets. Do you know anything about
him? Oh, come on,Fred, of course I know nothing about
him, the guy. I mean, come on, I mean this is
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another one of those depth moves thata lot of these similar thinking teams seem
to exchange these relievers when they needextra arms to be called up pressure arms.
So he falls into that category.Are they pleased with where Walker Bueller's
at? Is there the expectation thathe's going to get back to the pitcher
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he was or still too early totell. No. I mean, over
the weekend it was his best start, six scoreless innings, eight strikeouts that
looked like Walker Buehlers. So thatwas a huge step forward, and hopefully
he can keep on building on thatbecause it's not about May or June or
July. It's about having him athis best when it counts the most in
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October. That would be if hecould look like the way he pitched the
other day against the Reds, readyfor the postseason. All of a sudden,
you got something with glass. Nowmaybe I'mamoto and Walker Buehler to go
with Bobby Miller and Gavin Stone.All right, nice up date, thanks
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for coming on today. Very positiverad so you should try it sometime.
Very upbeat about the Dodgers. I'mglad you guys did your preparation today.
That was kind. Thank you.Goodbye. There he goes our good friend
David Vassa. See why why abackhanded slap like that on the way out?
Why it was so unnecessary? Iwas trying to be upbeat and try
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to be positive about this team allday long, and you came in sort
of poo pooing sho heyo Tani's walkoff yesterday. Not only did I not
pooh pull it, I put itinto the proper perspective. And there's a
difference pooh pulling it. It's nothing. Who cares. I didn't say that,
So I've just put it in perspective, and I think it's important for
someone like you to have that perspective. Okay, I mean, look,
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I just think this is a guywho's been through a lot, and the
way he's performed deserves I think alittle bit more credit than it's currently getting.
And on top of that, he'salso going to pitch eventually at some
point for this team as well too. It's only getting better and better and
better for show hayo tani Fred.Actually, that's when it's going to be
really fun next year when he pitches, that is going to be insane.
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That that's going to really be fun. And if he goes out and he's,
you know, good, because hehas been If he's good, oh
god, Now that's when it's gonnaget to be a lot of fun.
Yeah, watching him pitch hand hit, I mean think so fifty three thousand
people, yeah, for a gamein May. Have the Angels ever done
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that? Had a game in May? No? Look like, had that
many people show up to a gamethis early in the season, I would
say, no, yeah, Andlook at him just delivering game winning hits.
I don't know if they even seefifty three thousand down there. Yeah,
the answer may be never. Yeah, what is capacity at Angel Stadium?
If you had to guess right now, forty see I think it's around
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forty four, but I'll double check. Let's see, Angels. There you
go, forty four, I gotforty five thousand, fifty four or five
five? Oh, I mean,I can't and I don't know how to
track this. I don't know ifyou can find the last time they sold
out. I was gonna that's whatI was gonna ask. Next. Well,
I will say during Socia's run,when they were really good and kind
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of the class of the American League, they were in the top five of
sellouts in attendance throughout Major League Baseball. When they win, the fans turn
out. I will say that aboutAngel Stadium, there's's nothing to see the
last ten years. Why would youpay money to go see that? Geez,
I'm not especially now it makes sense. Why would you? That's what
teams don't understand, not get it. Kevin asked, Actually, he's an
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Angels fan, Like he's speaking onbehalf of you know, Angels Nation.
He is, Oh, yeah,I am. He's a huge Angels fan.
He loves the Angels, big supporterof Artie Moreno, let's not push
it, okay, all right,my bad, my bad. Tonight,
the Dodgers take on the Arizona Diamondbacksfirst pitch at seven. Listen to every
play of every Dodger game at Afive seventy LA Sports Live from the Galloping
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The keyword is A five seventy LAsports. All right, Jonas, when
we come back, you can justget it off your chest. Yeah,
all right, have to Okay,Jonahs knocks them today for Rodney. All
right, So you have an issuewith parking at SOFI? Is that correct?
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You know? I don't even knowif it's just Sofi just in general
parking it like if you notice thatit seems like parking is worse and worse
at every new venue that is built, like it just feels like it gets
worse. And I don't know ifthis is just a Sofi thing or whatever.
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Like And the only reason I gotoff on this little like rant and
tangent over the weekend is because mykid loves Monster Jam, literally loves it.
And Monster Jam was at SOFI onSaturday and it was like their big
final event. Like he like,my son is three years old. I
can by alphabet, he can namea monster truck to represent every single letter
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of the alphabet. He loves it. It's literally he can do go down
the entire list and I'll just I'lldo that with him, and that's like
our little exercise. He loves it. And I'm like, you know,
you could probably get you know,tickets, I mean, yeah, every
ticket to every sporting event is prettypricey nowadays, unless it's like a w
NBA game and you want to goand watch something and get in pretty reasonably.
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But like for like big sporting events, everything's pretty expensive. But the
one reason I didn't take him wasit because of the price of the tickets.
It was just the getting in,parking and getting out of the venue.
It's a disaster. And I don'tknow why that's sort of an afterthought
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when when a lot of these placesare built, Like that's the one thing
I'll say about Angel Stadium. It'spretty easy to get in and out of
there, Like it's right next tothe freeway you're in, like like I'll
say that, And I don't knowif that's because it was built a while
back and maybe that was, youknow, part of it there was less
confused us. But it's pretty simpleto get the hell out of there,
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dude, so far is a disaster, Like just like the whole thing is
a mess. And I don't knowif if this is something that is just
an LA thing, but it feelslike this is a problem elsewhere. It
like the Chicago Bears put these renderingstogether for a brand new Soldier field where
they play right, and people noticein the renderings where's the parking? It
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was almost like that was the afterthought, just not included, like nowhere to
even be like that, that's justsort of the afterthought And everybody has the
same issues when it goes to Sofi. Listen, beautiful place. I call
it the world's largest gazebo because that'swhat it is. Beautiful place, fun
time. Maybe not fair to saythat great. I mean listen, it's
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a gazebo. Fread like it's itis. I mean look at it,
you know like it. I meanit rain gets inside the place and it's
got a roof. That's called agazebo. It's called natural. There's nothing
natural about Soli, nothing natural battle. But point is, everybody's got the
same grape. And I don't knowwhy this still happens when venues are built,
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since the thing that gets me aboutthat. When you park there's like
three ways to get in, likethree streets. Yes, that's the issue
I have. There aren't a lotof streets or ways to get in,
which means there aren't a lot ofways to get out. That's the issue
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now. Dodger Stadium very much thesame way. Parking there. Getting out
of there is insane. If yougo downtown to the Crypt, you can
park across the street at La Live, but it's gonna take a while to
get out of there as well.Yeah, they don't consider parking and then
they charge it for parking. That'sbit time and that's it. It's like
it's an afterthought, but it's aproblem. Like in some places it's eighty
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to one hundred dollars to park likethis. It's not like this is just
one of the big deal, youknow, four or five Like what's parking
at Santa Anita. I think it'slike five bucks? Right, is it
like five bucks or something like that? Like you roll into sant Anita,
you park, it's five bucks,like whatever. It's like going to a
local carnival like a church carnival,like whatever, big deal. But these
like these are real prices. Sometimesthe parking is more expensive than the tickets
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in some places, and it's justsort of like, uh, yeah,
well, we'll just throw some spotsthere and you guys can figure it out
and then, you know, justfollow the traffic as we're trying to get
out of there. And and look, I my heart is with the parents
of kids who went to Monster Jamat Sofi Stadium, trying to get them
out of there, breaking the newsthat it's over. There's no more monster
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trucks. No, you can't buyanything else because we've run out of money.
Oh and by the way, you'regonna have to sit in this car,
and I've got to listen to youscreaming why try and navigate through the
terrain that is Sofi's parking lot.I gets I just I don't get it.
Man. It feels like an afterthoughtevery time. Why Why do you
think it was so hard for parentswith kids when it was over. Maybe
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it was hard for the parents,Maybe they wanted more too, Maybe they
were just inconsolable. You ever beento Monster Jock, Yeah, like the
big monster truck. I've covered it. Sure, I can assure you.
You know who's excited when that thing'sover. Parents it's about time. Let's
go. Okay, they've got toearplugs in the entire time. And it's
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a great it's really fun, LikeI've had a blast both times i've gone.
But there gets to a certain pointwhere you're like, all right,
I'm good. You know, I'vei've I've seen it, I've got it.
Like it's loud, there's a lotgoing on, Like let's just try
and get to the car and getout of here. And then you've got
to like you've got to carry allthe stuff you bought, like these you
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know, like like inflatable monster trucksand like kids are drinking out of shark
cups because it looks like Megalodon,the the shark monster. Try like the
whole thing again. It's fun,it's a good time, but you just
want to be able to get inand get out. And that's just not
that doesn't exist anywhere anymore. Apparently, Well, one man that would know
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that's been here forever. I mean, he understands the parking not only in
Whittier but throughout southern California, andwe need to bring him on now.
He'll have a comment on it.It's vic to break with the daily haikup
at two and VIC that afternoon.Don't get me started with the parking,
for it there it is, Butthey have left your VIC. You haven't
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left your house in four years,so why would you know about parking,
Fred? Parking is part of theSouthern California experience. Are you kidding me?
Yeah? We all deal with itand it's turbulent. You must have
patience. The key is seven deepbreaths. No, the key is finding
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a spot fair point. By thetime you take those seven your breast,
there won't be anywhere to park.Last missed the spot. I want to
know who never uses valet ever refuses, doesn't care. Kevin Demoff of the
Rams, Oh yeah, will notuse a valet, does not care.
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He wants control. He wants controlof the car. I get that.
His wife yells at him. Hegoes, no, I'm not doing it.
I mean it's tough fun at aspot of clu and he's not impressed
with the Otani first walk off asa Dodger. You got to be kidding
me, Fred, Think you're drivinga running next Ran first walk in a
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Grand Slam home run? Who theWorld Series? You know? Two stripes,
two outs, Big game, youwant to take three out of four
from Cincinnati after you lose the opener, you want to take the next three.
You know what's rich about you knowwhat's rich about this whole thing.
Had he struck out or cost themthe game, Fred would be mutilating Otani
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on the air today. Luckily wedon't have to deal with that. Yeah,
but we can't even celebrate it becauseyou just downplayed the whole thing.
I have celebrated it, But really, Fred, what really? Fred?
You made it? You made itvery mundane and it was not a mundane
moment. Mondane mondays, Mundane mondayswith Fred Rogan. He's it for Rodney.
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He gave me lots of love forsupporting the show through all of seventeen's
turmoil. Jonas knots damn opuppy.All his love is now centered on baby
Oh, baby Oliver. Come onnow, okayik is baby oh one month
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old? Yet? Three weeks?Vic? Three weeks? By the way,
keV in it in it cool thatit wasn't on sinko to my own.
Imagine having to try and share thatholiday that'd be rough. Yeah f
that Yeah, No, glad wemissed that one. That was the expected
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date. By the way, it'slike dad another pinata right now? Ye,
love love, love, love isall you need. Roddie Fossio Ponto
will travel, y'all, let's kicka labor. Yeah, I'm celebrating O'tiny
Sign. That was a clutch hitman. That was a just this.
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I believe it was a seminal momentfor old Tiny Sign because in that situation,
let's face it, it's been tough. I mean, he's hitting three
fifty, he has certeen home runs, but in that high urgency situation,
he had not produced a walk off. So it was just a sensational moment
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for it. I believe he should. You should basking some afterglow. I
thought it was great. Vic LikeI said, he knocked in the winning
running extra innings. He'd'ted randslam in the Game seven of the World
Series and extra innings. Wow,I'm not downplaying anything, but let's just,
you know, try to keep ourheads here. It's not downplaying,
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it's just being honest. If hehits a home run, I'd probably be
a little more excited. Well,be excited for Andy Paes to run home
yesterday, all right, I'm excitedfor him. Land and knock solid performance.
Yaw borrow one and two thirds justto run? How about Vessia?
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Has he been just sensational? Oneand two thirds? Score is yesterday trying
h two one two out jam inthe eighth, struck out de la Cruz.
How about Anthony Banda Anthony's tenth BandaBondada said, I mean this tenth
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inning is you know, I reallyhate extra hand games? Is it just
me? I hated when a guy'son second and nobody's just to me.
It's so bizarre. But this is, this is the way it is.
But both teams have a guy onsecond. But you know, Bonda high
leverage, gets out of the tenth, gave the gave the Dodgers momentum.
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You have to score the run andyou know in their in their half.
But that was a laser by waslike last game winning hit forty four years
ago. You know back you know, back in the you know, in
the caves of Anaheim, no onewas there. I mean, you know
fifteen people are there. Like yousay, hardest hit ball the last two
decades, yesterday, every day forjust more history. So as they say
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in Japanese, we are very happyfor your happiness. Oh tiny sign.
I'm happy port How about the Angels? They messed with Texas took the series
in the World champions House, KevinPilaw. Can we give Kevin some love?
Out of West Hills, cal State, Domingus Hills, big pinch shit
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two runs single, he's hitting threethirty three. Give it up for Kevin
Pillaw. None in the you know, sweet homecoming for Ron Washington. Listen,
I know the Angels are really inthe doul drums. But that was
a big series. No, goodseries for the Angels. Yeah, not
for the Rangers. Big series.How many big series of the Angels actually
play in these days? None?Yeah, So it was nice. Happy
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for Kevin Pilaw. That was happyfor Ron washingtonpose, Fred would be happy
for somebody. I'm happy for thegirl in an American idol from the Desert,
right Fred, Abby Carter? Yeah, I thought the guy with the
beard was pretty talented too, theguy with the hat and the beard.
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Well, you're biased, Vic,so that makes sense. Bick. Let
me ask you this. Did itreally take three hours to do that?
They could have done it in fifteenminutes. Fred, you got to get
content for the show so you cansell it. Yeah, if America a
lot of guest stars, if AmericanIdol was taking place in my backyard,
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I'd go run errands. Who givesa rip? Well, if you win
your care sweet. I'm actually adevotee of the show you go, and
I been watching the last twenty years. It's a sensational show. Ryan does
a great job. Lost a littleof it's Lester Vicker? No is it
(28:00):
what? Lost a little of itsluster? It's hard to maintain that intensity
for twenty years, but it stillis an edge. I love Linel,
Richie, I love them too.Linel so much fun. It's just a
(28:21):
good, good chemistry of the holesand listen. Everyone wants to see an
underdog, you know, rise fromobscurity and become a star. It's It's
an incredible concept. Isn't the voicethe same thing? Yes, America's got
talent, same same flow. Underdogcoming out of nowhere. We've never seen
(28:41):
this, this person perform before,out of obvious obscurity, into the limelights.
It is. It's an amazing thing. America America loves the story.
Jonas told us about a show thatI think is even better. Oh yeah,
uh tango talento, mucho talento.Or something like that. It's on
(29:03):
one of the U the Spanish stations, I don't I don't remember which one.
I found it on Friday Night.It's brilliant. Like they've got this
button where they just say futa whichmeans out yea. So like these people
step up, like all their hopesand dreams are on that stage. They're
playing a guitar or a flute orwhatever they're doing to try and show them
(29:26):
or sing for them, and thisis their big chance. And you got
these people up there that cannot waitto hit a button. We're talking like
eight ten seconds into their performance andthey hit futa and tell them to get
off the stage and security rushes themoff the stage. It is I love
it. And security is like thisguy who's like wearing a black suit and
tie because I looked it up Jonas'on YouTube. It's pretty epic. It's
(29:48):
great, he's like King Kong Bundy. But in the suit and tie,
it just picked it just picks youup into the one arm. It just
grabs you off the stage and thesuit doesn't fit. It's not I didn't
think it's really I think it's likea pair of dickies and like some sport
code. He got in a goodwill and they roll him out there and
he just ushers these people off.It is great. I don't even care
if I know what they're saying.I'm watching fun we ky hot, wily
(30:17):
kyting. It's gonna be hot,and Vick will continue with his heat when
we come back. All right.Jonas is sitting in today for Rodney,
but Vic continues on Vic. TheNBA Game Seven's got to give love to
(30:38):
Low Lowbos. Of course, Denver, the champions were up fifteen and a
half, but Anthony Edwards blanketed JamalMurray in the second half. They hold
a nuggets such as thirty seven pointsin that second half. How about original
g point guard thirty six years stillfresh. Michael Conley was brilliant, yep.
(31:00):
But who led Los Lobos and scoring. It wasn't Anthony Edwards. It
was a guy from the defunct Pactwelve University of Washington. Jade and McDaniels
had twenty three still flying that flagproudly. But this is Minnesota's time,
dynamic roster, excellent coaching in ChrisFinch, Micha and Norry low Lowbos and
(31:22):
the Mavericks in the Western Finals.My Knicks went down hard all Indy at
the Garden Pacers unconscious from the floor, record tying sixty seven percent. I
remember New York played inspired hope allthrough the season. Just they had nothing
left. Even O g Anerobe channeledas inner Willis. Reid dragged his injured
(31:47):
hammy onto the court, hit hisfirst couples jays Allah Willis, but the
Knicks were exhausted. Bronson returned toEarth with his broken hand. Josh Hart
the pain of the stomach injury thatif it was a regular season he'd be
out like a month. But Indyfive starters all poured in at least twenty
(32:09):
They all look like Reggie Miller,lid By Halliburton's twenty six O'Connell off the
bench was a revelation for Indy.So now what for the Knicks. First
off, he got to extend headcoach Tom Thibodeau. Kobe once told me
the Black Mamba loved Thibodeau's defensive intensity, loved him as a head coach.
(32:34):
So because extend him, they gotto extend Tibbs Colby's intensity. Vic he
loved anybody with that intensity. AndThibodeaux has it. So that's the first
order of business for the Knickerbockers.Plus he got to extend Bronson and on
Anobi he's always injured, but he'sa dog and quick thoughts. On Sumo
(32:58):
day eight, everybody from Tokyo WakaTaka Kage, returned from the lower division,
has won his first two bouts.It's a lot of love for Walka
Taka Kage, but leading at sevenand one after eight days Taka refuji yah
(33:22):
and the crowd loves on Nosato theyoung rock star. He's also seven and
one. Then you know where thatleads us to the source. Fred,
Yes, it's the source Hi coup. Yes, on this Monday, May
the twentieth, don't forget Dodgers ArizonaTonight. First pitch seven is shred here
(33:43):
a five seven the La Sports.This is from core Vanden Huvel, Fred,
one of your favorites, the notwhole man. All right, let's
go. There's high coup for youfrom the Core cor Vandon Hoovel. Yes,
perfect game, end of seven inthe dugout. The picture sits alone.
(34:09):
I'm a feeling your hoof. ThenI'll way to wrap it up.
Pretty deep today, Pretty deep allRonnie, thank you, great work.
Cavin appreciate it as always, andJonas thanks for hanging today. Let's do
it again tomorrow, Fred do ithell yeah, all right
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