The Dodgers nearly squandered a dominant performance by Yoshi Yamamoto but came back to beat Arizona in extra innings to snap a 4 game losing streak. Could the Lakers trade for Kristaps Porzingis? A man killed a coyote who attacked him with his bare hands.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, there we go, bred Rogan, Rodney Peat and five
to seventy LA Sports three hour program. Hello everybody, Mark Medina,
we'll be on Talking NBA at one o'clock and Mintie
Bond signor from the NFL Owners meetings at two o'clock.
So last night was tense, It was emotion filled. It
was a rollercoaster, and there was a moment I couldn't
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have had a bigger smile on my face, and that
quickly evaporated into wanting to run and jump off a building.
But then in the end it was all okay, it
was all okay, what were your emotions watching that last night? Rodney?
I didn't want to run and jump off a building.
I'll tell you that, Britt I was closing in the world.
I was cu what moment are you talking about? Oh
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my god, when Tanner Scott gave up the home run,
I was like, oh god, no, no, no, no, no,
not now, not now. Yeah, all of that as hard
as they worked, Yamamoto was terrific. And then that and
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I thought, would you feel worse for? Who'd you feel
worse for? Tanner Scott or Yamamoto? You gonna You're gonna
find it interesting I think I felt worse for Tanner Scott,
and I felt worse for Tanner Scott because he knows
what he did to Yamamoto. That that's who I felt
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really bad for. You. I mean, Yamamoto was terrific. That
was top notch, cy young Worthy work out there last night.
And they didn't hit the ball a lot, but they
hit enough to take that lead in. Yamamoto was magnificent.
And then you get into that situation and he hits
the home run. I thought, oh my god, no, that
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that performance by Yamamoto. That's what an ace does, right,
That's what the ace does. You know, when you're going bad,
you lose four straight, you need somebody to come off
and turn off the water, shut it all down and
not let him breathe. And Yamamoto came in there for
seven innings and shut them down, shut him down. Had
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a no eater going into the seven, and so yeah,
you're thinking okay. And he got out of several jams
as well, thinking that seventh and he got out of
a big time jam where they had two guys on
Mann that base is loaded. But he got out of
a few jams and left the ball game with a
one run lead and but but for me, Fred, I
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could just I could feel it though, just the way
the Dodgers been going lately, I could feel that they
one run was not gonna be enough. It was not
gonna be enough. Arizona's gonna find a way to either
tie this up take a lead, because it's just not
been going that way for the Dodgers when they are
leading by just one run or the game is close,
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teams have come back and being able to take the lead.
And I just did not feel comfortable even with two
innings left, and you know, Tanner Scott coming in it
has been pretty good. I just I didn't feel it.
I didn't feel it. Sure enough, they tie it up
and then they go take the lead in the tenth,
and you're like, oh, there's no way after a performance
like that by Yamamodo, how in the world they're gonna
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lose this game. But thank god for the offense for
them waking up and and win it in a tenth. Yeah. Yeah,
And it was a great tenth inning. Of course they
were behind in the tenth, but it was really a
good tenth inning. And Max Munsey glad he just put
the bat on the ball Glad he made contact. Glad
he was able to knock in the run and save
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the day. But what are you talking about. Just put
the bat on the ball, Fred, That was a that
was textbook. I'm gonna hit the ball deep enough so
I can score the run to win the game. Well,
let's put it like, come on, he hit the ball
and it went deep enough. I'm just glad he hit it.
Let's just cut to the chase. I'm glad you hit it,
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and the Dodgers won. Now late in the season, Honestly,
these are the kind of games you could find yourself in,
and you know that because you were in them last year.
You've got to be able to protect that one run lead.
You have to, especially if you are the closer you
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were paid to come and close. You can't give up
that home run. And you're at home, and you're at home,
you cannot give up that home run. But they did
persevere last night, and that was important given the way
they had been playing, because everything wasn't firing on all
cylinders last night. Yamamoto was great, tight ball game, A
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mistake tied it. Then they're behind, but they were able
to come back and win it. I'm thinking Rodney, that
game will be one of the games they'll remember this year.
I surely. I certainly hope so, I hope. So it
was indicative of the way that Dodgers do things, the
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way they started the season, coming back from behind late
in the game and figuring out a way to win.
I mean, we've seen that so many times for the
Dodgers over the years, especially since Dave Roberts has been here.
They've found a way to win in late innings. And
but yeah, this one, you know, after ah, you know,
four straight losses, you're thinking, oh my god, this is
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this is this is one of those periods of time
in the season that they just can't get it right
even after a performance like that. Had it gone bad,
it would have been who knows where they go from there,
and it might have got worse. But thank god, we're
able to score and win that game. But you're right,
I think it could be. Now we'll see they, you know,
close out the series tonight, but it could be one
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of those moments, one of those games where when we
had to have it, which I think there's no must
wins in men, don't get me wrong, But it was
one of those games where they needed to win. They
needed to win that game, especially after the performance of Yamamoto. Yeah,
so that was a good one. Uh here's something interesting,
and it speaks to who you sign and why. So
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Wan Soto signed the seven hundred and sixty five million
dollar deal with the Mets. Good for him, you know,
get what you can on the open market. Otani signed
a seven hundred million dollar deal with the Dodgers. One
Soda has been criticized recently. Hit a single the other night,
didn't really run it was a single because he thought
it was a home run and bounced off the wall.
By time he started moving, he just ended up on
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first base. You don't expect that from somebody who makes
seven hundred million dollars. Seven hundred and sixty five million dollars,
You do not expect that. You expect that individual to
be Bryce Harper, to be a leader, to run everything out,
to set an example. But he just stood there and
watched it. And let's be honest, whatever the definition of
seven hundred and sixty five million dollars is. He's not
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hitting like it yet. I don't think he ever will.
But that's just me. What does that look like? What
does that what does that mean. That means you've got
to be around the three hundred. Uh you know, you
got to you gotta thirty home runs. I mean, that's
what it is. You've got to be a league leader.
That's what you have to be. You're saying he's not
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going to be that by the end of the season.
He's I'm not saying he won't. I'm not saying he won't.
I'm saying he's not. Now, all right, so Otani, it's
seven hundred million dollars and you go, well, and Otani's
having a pretty good start. Fine, whatever. Here's the thing
we've said all along, and I maintain this that the
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Otani deal made far more sense than the Soto deal,
and it made more sense from the perspective of what
happens off the field. You're paying Jan Soto to play baseball,
That's exactly what you're doing. That's what you got. You
got a baseball player an Otana. You have a marketing machine.
And the Dodgers knew that when they signed him to
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that deal. He is a machine. What has he done.
He has cleared the way for them to control the
Asian markets. That's huge. They are the team of record
in Japan in Korea with Kim, that's huge. Just from
a revenue standpoint and partnership standpoint, that's gigantic. They were
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able to do that. Soto can't do that. Here's something
else that was never taken into consideration. According to a
report we saw today, the head of the LA Tourism
Board says eighty percent of Japanese visitors to the city
of Los Angeles now go to Dodger Games. When they're here,
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it's an event if they If you're from Japan and
you're coming to LA for any reason, business, visit, family,
check out the United States States, one of your destinations
is Dodger Stadium. One of your destinations is Dodger Stadium
because you want to see Otani. You also want to
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see Amamoto, I'm sure, and Sazaki. But Otani really made
that happen. And that's why that deal made so much
business sense. And quite frankly and again, Juan Soto's got
his money, good for him. Steve Cohen can spend his
money in any way he wants, good for him. But
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that's why this deal with Otani makes far more sense
than the deal with Soto because of everything that comes
with it. Just not a baseball player everything that comes
with it. And I think after I saw this story
Rodney about the tourism board, yeah, I thought that should
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be pointed out. Yeah, but what was it like when
he played for the Angels. They didn't go to Angel games.
The agent population that visited didn't go to Angel games.
I wanted to see that study too, because I think
he's he's certainly a draw, and there's no denying the
impact that he has off the field, and you know,
and then you couple that with the Dodger brand. It's
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just a lightning, lightning in a bottle. But I pushed
back on not you know what a player should do
before you sign him for seven hundred and sixty five
million dollars. Okay, first of all, all indications that Jan
Soto's where he's been. He's been a really good teammate.
He's been a very good teammate. I mean, you not
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hold him. That's one of the things that people say
about him is that he's been a very good teammate,
whether he was in Washington, San Diego, the Yankees last
year and and and even with the Mets. Now, yeah,
there are some moments where it's if you eate them.
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You scratch your head a little bit about about Juan Soto.
Is he ever the Are the Mets ever gonna make
that up the way the Dodgers do off the field. No,
not even close. You know it's not. The opportunities and
Dominican Republic are not the same as they are in
Japan in the entire Asian market that Otani can bring.
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But I bet if you show me a clip of
everybody that hit a deep five ball in Boston off
the Green Monster or over the Green Monster that did
not watch it to see if it went out, I
bet it's ninety percent of the guys that didn't bust
it all the way down to the first baseline. It's
just in that park sometimes you hit a ball and
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it goes off the wall instead of going out because
it's the Green Monster, And you don't always how many
guys watch their home runs the whole league, the whole league,
does you know? So I'm not gonna jump down his
throat for that. And yes he is not. He is
not hitting the way they had hoped him to hit.
But it's still early in the season. Much like we
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talk about with the Dodgers, early in the season, let's
give it a full season before you figure out and
pass judgment on Soto if he had a good year
or not, and if he's worth it to them or not. Yeah,
but don't you think, and it's a guy that played
well first, you have a different view because you know
it doesn't matter how much money you get paid. You
can play as you can play like the other guys.
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Don't get out of the way because you make more
than them. So now we'll acknowledge that. But don't you
think there's a responsibility for someone who is obviously paid
at the top of the scale on his team to
lead by example. Don't you think that, Well, everybody admires
their balls when they're everybody admires a ball they hit
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it again. Yeah, everybody, Please, don't everybody admires they hit
in fen White granted, but you have to set an
example because you're the best player. People are gonna look
to you. I assure you if he hit that down.
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So I think people licked the Francisco Lindor on that team. Yeah,
but understood Lindor and and Pete Alonzo. No, I don't
I think you know what you're getting. He's not gonna
change just because you gave him seven hundred and sixty
million dollars. He's got to change the player that he is,
Manny Machado. You think because he came in a Dodger uniform,
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he was gonna change who he is. Now what he said,
he's not Johnny Hustle, even though his name is Charlie Hustle.
He said he's not Johnny Hustle. So you knew that,
and the Dodgers did not end up signing him back.
You knew what kind of guy he was. You knew
what kind of player he was. I mean, big times
Hall of Fame player. But is he a guy that's
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going to, as you mentioned, lead by example and run
every ground ball out as hard as he can't know?
You're not gonna be that guy. But Wan SODA's played enough.
You know what you're getting out of him, and you're
not going to change him overnight and make him be
a leader. Some guys are leaders and some guys aren't.
You're not going to make him be something that he's not.
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Then I never would assigned him for that, to be
honest with you. If that's the case, why were you
committing that to him? That was the market Dodgers were
in the six hundred million dollar range with him. I know,
but remember, if you remember correctly, we both sat here
and said, that's great, but they don't need him. They don't,
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but that's great, that's great. They were in the market though, yeah,
or maybe they were in the market to jack the
price up. Maybe they were in the market to do that. No,
they didn't need him, but if they could have got
him for somewhat cheaper than that, they would have got him,
even if it was for five hundred something million dollars. Well,
that's a blessing what they ought to do. If they're
gonna be in the market for anybody after this season,
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go sign Kyle Tucker. That's the guy to sign. That's
the guy to commit to. And he's old Tucker to
come in and be a leader, won't say a word,
Hilly by example, different ways. But you know who you're getting.
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There's enough studies on people, enough people to talk to.
You know what you're getting when you sign a guy
to that. You don't think the Mets did their homework
on who they're getting. Okay, we got a guy. He's
gonna you know, he's a little flashy, he's a little demonstrative,
but yeah, he's going to produce for us and like
he did for the Nationals, like he did for the Padres,
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like he did for the Yankees last year, help him
get to the World Series. So that's what we're getting.
I don't need the guy to be Rob Rob, mister
leader in the locker room. I didn't even be Wan Soto.
And you know it, the other night they got Boston
one soda. Yes they did, Yes, they did, And that's
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what they're going to get the rest of the season.
But they're not. I don't think they're surprised by it.
Even the manager it's like, hey, yeah, we'll have a
talk with him, but you know it's Wan's Wan yo.
Well what's the manager going to say. What's Carlos Mendoza
going to say, all right, that's it, I'm benching them. No,
of course not. He can't do that. No, And why
would you? Why would you? He is still one of
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the top five players in the game. So you know,
you again, you know what you're getting, which you're scouting
this guy. You're going to pay him a lot of money.
You've done your homework on him, you know who he is.
And to think that you're going to change him. It's
not going to happen. Everybody admires their balls. Okay, I tried.
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I tried to fix it. You know, I tried to
fix that. I did. I don't know anything. I don't
know what you tried to do. I don't know where
you were going with that, Freddy, Well obviously, yeah, I
understand it went south. That's where I was going. Okay,
possible idea for a Laker deal. Let's see what you
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think about it next. Okay, let's go. It's a hop day,
Rodney Pete, fred Rogan. Yeah, come on, Freddy, Come on, Freddy.
We're gonna do with those balls. Freddie, We're gonna do
with those balls. All right. Look, you know, it's just
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a good eye. It's a good idea to just keep
an eye on things like that. Just keep your eyes
open and you know you won't miss anything. Uh So,
when you look at the Lakers now, there has to
be a solution to the issue. How are we going
to get to the next level, How are we going
to take that step forward? And what's it going to
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take to get us there? That's on Rob Paulinka. He
knew during the regular season they were a big guy. Short.
They tried to acquire Mark Williams from Charlotte. It went south.
Nobody can figure out what happened. He's here, he's not here.
It's like Chris Paul had signed with the Lakers and
then ten minutes later he was signing with the Clippers.
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He was traded at the Clippers, right, So it didn't
The Mark Williams thing made no sense anyway. Rob Polinka
knew he needed a big guy. He knew they were
going to be vulnerable there, and they were vulnerable there.
That's exactly what happened. So now he needs a big guy.
And a bleacher report suggested this. I kick it around
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for a minute. Chris Dobsporzingis comes here and you send
Ruey Maxi Kleeber and two pickswaps. What does that do?
It gets the Lakers a big guy, a big guy
that albeit it gets hurt, and not a true center,
but a big guy that can play and shoot. And
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it would help the Celtics because they can offload salary.
If you're the Lakers, do you make that deal? Rodney? No?
Oh you don't, No, really, no, no, why because he's
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not been healthy. Well there's that there is that and
more often he's not been healthy. He got ridden, you know,
he couldn't play in New York and then this year.
So I mean he's a unicorn because he's seven foot
three and can run the floor and can shoot the three,
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and he's a rim protector. But how almost how much
can you count on him? So you got it, agent Lebron,
you got you know Luca who hopefully turns it around
starts to get in shape. That's another story. Like we're
talking about Wan Soto, you say the same thing about Luca. No,
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he seems to get a pass on that one, but
he you know, can you count on Porzingis? And I
don't know if you can. So I don't know if
you make that move well, And I kind of look
at it like this, poor Zingis is gonna help you
more than Ruie Max Kleeber and two pickswaps. You're not
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giving up Boston Reeve. You don't have to mortgage anybody else.
And if that's the case, maybe you take a flyer
and just what's what's the two pickswaps? What are we talking?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Thirty two? I think they will just have the right
to swap first round picks.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Okay, hmm. I don't know. That's a tough one. I'm
just saying because I don't know how much longer he's
got Once he got two years a Kenya, I think.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
He has two years left on his contract, so next
season on the following year, Ruey and Cleeber have expiring
contracts at the end of next season. This would be
the appeal for Boston because they're trying to get under
the second ape.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Correct, correct, it's good for Boston. I mean, but they
wanted but he hasn't been available for them, and I
think he would have made a difference. I mean, obviously
they lost Jayson Tatum in that series, but they missed him.
They missed him in that series. How much is he
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going to be available?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
He played forty two games this year and fifty seven
last year his first year in Boston. Yeah, yeah, sixty
five before that, so he has only he's played more
than seventy games, so the majority of the season exactly
won and like you mentioned riding, that was his rookie
year in New York.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, but sixty.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Six, forty eight missed an entire season with an injury.
Fifty seven, forty three, fifty one, sixty five fifty seven
forty two. So this guy's giving you at best fifty
games a year on average.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
And then you have to hope he's not hurt during
the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Correct during the playo when it matters most.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Well. Now, when I look at what Bleacher Report is proposing,
I would make the deal on a heart a heartbeat.
I don't even think i'd throw in the pick swaps
at this point though. I mean I would take him,
but when it certainly can help you when you're healthy.
Amate you're right, he's not available, you're one hundred percent Ryan,
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So okay, we'll take him. That's good because if he's healthy,
he'll help us. But we don't know when he'll be healthy,
but we'll still take him. We're not giving you a
lot in return. We're getting a guy that's damaged goods
and it's quite apparent because he doesn't play. That's I mean,
when you read how many games he played last year, Kevin,
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Oh my god, for.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
A guy that's making thirty million dollars a year, he's
not making chump change.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
And missed the playoffs. Right, Yeah, So I think I
would do it.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
But with all that, Fred, you'd still do it. That
is not deterring you from making the trade. No potential
lack of availability.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Well, no, I would do it for the right price.
I mean, at this point, after hearing those numbers, I'd
give him a couple of genileigue guys. You seriously so nope,
you take away the pick swaps, but you do it
for cleebrand and for ruly. Yeah, I would do that.
I get it. I would do that. Take a flyer
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on it. You know, you hope that he can give
you one year so you can go win it. Yeah,
go ahead, you get him for two. So let's see
using that math. In two years, he'd play one season. Okay,
but don't you gotta you gotta, and then you gotta
have a backup plan for him when he's out. Uh,
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and you're counting on him to be your guy. You
got Jackson Hayes.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Oh yeah, that worked out well for the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
When it he'll be a year better, Kevin, Well, he'll
he'll be a year older.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
He just like in his sixth seventh year. He's not
like a second year player. Fuck, I don't know how
much is how much more as sending he's gonna do.
He is what he is.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
He's like nineteen years old, even the front six years.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
He's far from that. I mean, yes, generally speaking, that
is true with how these NBA guys are fred.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Right, So I mean he'll he'll get stronger because that's
what you have. It doesn't matter who you bring in.
But it's almost like you better count on him though,
you're gonna have to count on him. Well, you're gonna
have to count on him in key moments. He's got
to pick the moments he's not hurt. He's got to
decide tonight, I'm not getting hurt. Tomorrow I might get hurt,
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but tonight I can't because it's a key moment. Yes.
Is that how it works and how it works? Yeah, No,
that's how it worked. Like in the old days, before
there was videotape and even before the games were all televised,
So this is like ancient times. We'd send a photographer
out to Dodger Stadium and they would be shooting film
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and that'd be the only way you get your TV
your sports highlights, and we'd put it on the eleven
o'clock news. Now, you have to understand when you're shooting film.
If you're going to shoot a nine inning baseball game,
that's a lot of film. Not only is it a
lot of film to shoot, it's a lot of film
to process and then splice or edit together. And nobody
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really wanted anybody to do that because it costs too
much money just to shoot film over and over. So
we used to tell the guy, listen, when you go
out there, really you only have to worry about one thing.
Just roll on the home runs. Just start rolling in
a home run. So you had to guess who would
get a home run. Now, this guy's not going to
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hit one. It wouldn't turn the cameraun, but this guy might,
so we'd roll same thing. You have to be ready.
You have to be ready when we need you. Well,
you couldn't do that now with the Dodger. You don't
know who's gonna hit a home run? Right, Well, that
would be a real problem if we were shooting film. Yeah, yeah,
everybody hitting a home runs? You know, no, oh, Tommy
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Edmonds coming up, he probably went on't well, he did
hit home run. You know, K's hitting eighth. Oh no, K,
he just hit home run. So let's say a guy
hit a home run back in the day in the
bottom of the ninth to win it. For the Dodgers,
for example. But our guy wasn't rolling because he either
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ran out of film or he didn't think this guy
would hit a home run. Here's how we do it
on the air. So tonight, the Dodgers won the game
in the bottom of the ninth against the Xbos five
to four. Rick Monday homwer. But this home run in
the first inning, which he recorded, started everything.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
This ain't Rick. It's something like this.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
The ball went out of the park just like that.
So don't even think about that's how we would do it.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I thought you guys were doing like the Japanese news animation.
Just had the animation department for drawing up and put
that up there.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, just have it in stock right, roll to it,
Roll to the animation.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah, here's a Rick Monday home run from when he
played with the Cubs. This is May and maybe what
it looked like last night earlier.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
You got them all. It could be in different uniforms
and teams. They played with the four and rig Monday
homers to win the game. Wait, he's in a cup uniform.
World that close enough. A home run by Rick Monday
is a home run by Rick Monday. That's kind of
by the way, what they do in little little market
TV everywhere in the country because they don't have the
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editing facilities or the library or the ability to intake
videos quickly and process it. So what they'll do is
they'll they'll say, the Dodgers played tonight, don't just show
pictures of them running out in the field before the game,
you know, guys pat in their gloved first base, getting ready.
Just stuff like that, and then they would talk about
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the whole game. You would they never you'd never see
what they were talking about. They just generic video, generic
video because they don't have any video.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Or maybe you guys, you had just re enacted it
in studio, it might have even better. Fritz could have
been the picture been the batter.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah, let's give you a demonstration of that home run
by Rick Monday. Yeah, you know what it used to do.
I used to make art cards with stick figures that
I did do. Stop it, seriously, stop yeah, stop it,
stop that. Don't say that out loud for it, But no,
I said it. It's true. I would hold up card
four figures. I would hold up you know, like picture board,
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and I draw sticks figure people on it. So it's
like you'd see a bat and the ball and it
looked like the bat was hitting it, and I'd hold
it up and I said, it looks something like this.
I just hold up these stick figures because we didn't
have any video. Same look, it's the same principle with
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Christophe Porsingez. You need to be helping home. That's right.
You got to tie it together now, because that's what
a good storyteller does. You. You've gotta be available when
we need you. Would you would you roll the dice
on that we're betting that he will be available in
(29:33):
games we need him. Would you roll the dice on that,
Rodney betting on when he's available he'll be good. But
but we're betting and we don't know. It's a crap shoot.
I mean, we play, you know, if you gotta, if
all you got to do is give up Kleeber and really, yeah,
(29:55):
I might take that. Yeah I would too. Right, we're
just gonna we're gonna gamble. We're gonna gamble that we
need you fifty times a year, the other thirty whatever.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Keep in mind for it. He didn't give Boston fifty
times this year.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I know he gave forty two, right, so tall as
right now doesn't he doesn't play until after Christmas, after
the new year. Right, he starts when he started. We
keep him when, we keep him outain until after they
all start breaking. And maybe you know with the new
Laker strength coach that they advertised on LinkedIn. By the way,
if you want to be the Laquer strength coach, go
(30:32):
to LinkedIn and you could apply. The job pays between
two hundred and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year,
and you might have to work some weekends and there
could be some overtime. That was the job posting. Anyway,
they get this guy in here and he starts building
up his body and maybe then the athletic trainer tapes
him up like a mummy. Wow, so nothing can come apart,
(30:54):
so no no part can disconnect from another one, and
they just have him run out there. How about that
you only need him and fifty games is too much, Kevin,
We'll make it forty. There you go, We'll make it forty.
You need him forty times a year. And how many
playoff games are there? We think seventeen something? You need?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I WoT sixteen to win the championship? Right, sixteen wins.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah, okay, sixteen wins, So you need sixteen wins. You'll
need him there. We said we need him forty times
a year. Yeah, but that's sixteen wins. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
You're not going to sweep your way through the I
mean you could theoretically, but not likely to sweep you
away through the entire postseason.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
No, this is going to be working it out. So
you figure that the playoffs will be twenty twenty eight,
twenty eight, twenty four. You gotta play twenty four to
twenty five games, okay, all right, you say twenty five games. Okay, Yeah,
So in this plan for this to be effective, and
we said he only has to play forty he needs
to play fifteen regular season games, that's all he needs
(31:54):
to play, but he has to have the other ones
in the playoffs. That'll get us to forty sixteen regular
season games. He plays sixteen regular season games, and then
he plays twenty four games in the playoffs. That gets
us to forty. All right, if you look at it
like that, would you make the move. I don't even
(32:16):
know why I'm playing this game with you. Uh, I know,
I know it's wrong, you Frid, But the bottom line,
you'd make the move. Bottom line, you make the move,
you can help you. I would make that move. I
definitely would make the move. You have nothing to lose.
And I think if he's healthy, you get better. Oh
(32:39):
when he's on the court, you're gonna be Yeah, You're
gotta be definitely better. Right, So, yeah, you roll that
dice and get him in here, because you got to
figure out I mean, you got clock is ticking on Lebron,
So you got to roll the dice somewhere. And why
not him? Why not him? Do you like coyotes? You
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ever see coyotes walking around you neighborhood? Oh? Yeah, all
the time, right, all the time. What do you do
if you see a coyote? We'll talk about that next. Yes,
Today's afternoon delight is we Don't have to be alone
by Three Sacred Souls. This song is the first release
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of twenty twenty five for the trio, who just announced
that they'll be joining kale Uchi's tour in August and September,
which includes a stop in the farm in Inglewood. The
song follows the release of their twenty twenty four album
entitled Got a Story to Tell, which has totaled over
well over ten million streams since its debut in October
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of last year. Again, Today's afternoon delight is we don't
have to be alone by three sacred souls. So the
one thing you don't want to be alone with is
a coyote. No, you don't, you don't. But they're afraid
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of us more than we're afraid of them until they're not,
until they're not. And it doesn't matter where you live.
If you live in the hills, then you're going to
be exposed to them. They're going to come around. And
you know they travel in packs. Even if you live
in the flats, you can see coyotes walking down the
street and especially now. But I would just say that
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do you see more of animals like that since the
fires have happened, you know, since their habitat has kind
of been you know, they've been forced out of their
their habitat in the hills, that they have come more
into residential areas, So you see more of I've seen
more coyotes in the last year that I've ever seen,
(34:59):
and you know, we live in a residential area. But
they're around, especially I mean obviously at night, and you're right,
they're always two to three deep at least. Yeah, and
it's terrifying if you have little animals. Oh yeah, I
mean we've lost we've lost animals to coyotes. Yeah, and
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it's not pleasant and it's not fun anyway. So what
do you do if you see a coyote? What should
you do? You know what to do? Right? What do
you do? It's like you should have a can filled
with coins and start banging it and making noise to
scare the coyote off. You have a can full of coins, yeah,
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and you start like banging it. Okay, So what if
you don't have a can full of coins, which you
know well not people walking around with a can full of.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Walk around with a can full of coins, Rodney, we
all know.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, it got it in my back pocket as I'm
going out to dinner. Yeah, keep that can of coins
in my back pocket. Okay. First thing I would do
probably is run. Now, tell me what do you do?
You're staring it down, don't make any can't run, I don't.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
It runs faster than you. It's just like the hippo
story from yesterday.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Correct, you can't run, you know, you just kind of
hope it goes away. You gotta face it off, you
gotta face off. You gotta freeze it and face off.
That's what you gotta do. Don't show no fear. No no,
it could smell it, Yeah they can. And and what's
happening is and look, I guess you can't really blame
the coyotes. They have the place, they've got a place
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to live too. They're trying to survive. Uh, this happened
in North Carolina. Look, it could have happened in Sherman Oaks.
To be honest with you, There's a guy seven o'clock
at night. He's out, as he says, I'm having a smoke.
So he's just enjoying himself. Wait, what do you say?
As he says, what you say it like that? As
he says, I'm having this. That's what he said, I'm
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having a smoke. As he's up to no good, sitting
there minding his own business. He's having a smoke. Okay,
what a coyote. He immerges from the woods and attacks him.
The coyote attacks him, jumps on him. The guy starts
fighting the coyote. The guy's left hand is stuck in
the coyotes mouth. Oh no, he rips his arm out
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of the coyotes mouth. He's trying to jostle to get
out of the way of the coyote. Somehow he gets
positioned on him and he actually chokes the coyote to death.
The police show up, they go, yeah, he had to
defend himself. He choked out the coyote. Then, of course
what happens he gets it MMA ran into the coyote.
(37:38):
I don't know how many MMA fighters are sitting out
having a smoke in the woods to choke the coyote out. Okay, okay,
I'm sorry, choke them out. Police come. Then of course,
you know what happens if you are bitten by an
animal like that. We all know what Today it comes
to rabies. Here comes the rabies. Those shots are worse
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than the attack. Those are the most painful shots you
can get. And I don't really understand why. Maybe because
the medication is so thick and you get it like
in the elephant syringe. I mean, look, you've been to
the doctor and you know, okay, we've got to give
you a shot. Okay, no problem, here's a little B
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twelve whatever done. Sometimes the medicine is a little thicker
and they go with the big shot and that's a problem.
That's painful. So this guy had to endure the raby
shots and now he's okay. I guess my question after
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this story, which is true, Now, aside from the fact
that you probably wouldn't be having a smoke, would you
if need be Russell a coyote? It sounds like you
didn't have a choice. The coyote attacked it, which is
which is weird in itself because unless they're back into
a corner. Usually, and that's most animals, you know, most
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animals won't just come up and attack you. Even possums,
your favorite possum, Fred usually won't come up and attack you,
you know, unless they're cornered or they feel like there's
no way out of the situation and they're fearing for
their life, and then they'll defend themselves. But it's rare
for coyote just to come up out of the blue
and attack somebody, and you know, and it may be,
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you know, we don't know the circumstances, but maybe you know,
obviously coyote scabbing for food all the time, and if
he's incredibly hungry, it might be the only way he
can survive. Is that I'm going to attack and get
past his human it's got food right behind him, or
he's oh yeah that's true. Yeah, because you're not thinking straight,
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so yeah, but yeah, you gotta do whatever you gotta do.
You gotta do whatever you gotta do. It's interesting that
he was able to choke it out though, Yeah, because
you got you know, choking it out. You gotta worry.
You know, you're still worried about some kind of bite
on you or him moved his head around, biting you
or clawing you. Man, that's got to be a scary thing.
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And he thank god that all accounts that it was
just one coyote. They didn't try. It wasn't in a pack,
It wasn't like two or three of them. Then he
would have been really in trouble. I mean, maybe that
coyote wanted to drag off a Marborough Maybe that was it.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Maybe he thought he was a road runner or something
that's what got him.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Maybe that was thought it was this guy that had
went out and had a smoke. Was he a little fella?
Don't know? Maybe he thought, yeah, maybe he thought it
was a small animal. A coyote would never attempt to
get into a fight with a big dog. Because it's
too much of a threat and attacked a human being, right,
That's why you're saying it either had to be rabbit
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or is desperate to find some food or whatever, or
something was right there that you know, maybe the guy
lived on a farm and had some chickens behind him.
I'm gonna get some and I'm gonna get some of
that food, and the only way to get it is
get past this guy. And if I attack him, maybe
the guy runs away and I can get the food.
I don't know. Let's want way to look at it.
I think coyotes are smart, except for Wiley. Wiley's not
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that smarty coyote anyway. Look, if you see a coyote
in your neighborhood, try to stay away from It's better
I have a rock or twig or stick or something.
That's that's impressive though. The guy choked the coyote out,
it really is. I mean, he fought that coyote was
(41:45):
meaning business and he fought the coyote and choked him out. Yeah,
I mean, would you think to choke a coyote out
or what would you do? Just kick it, punch it? Well,
how would you fight the coyote first? You'd want to
get something hit it obviously if you could. If you
didn't have anything, I think the normal reaction would be,
I'm gonna fight it off and try to get out
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of its way, pin it down or something like that.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Go for the eyes, go for the eyes, and try
to get away as usually if you're attacked by.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
An animal, Is that what it is?
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Yeah, if you try to try to gouge its eyes
so you can disorient it or get it all messed up,
and then you can try to unless you feel empowered
enough to try to kill it with your bare hands
like this guy, which I feel like most people wouldn't do.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
No, you'd have to get around behind it. It's what
you'd have to do, which.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Is what I'm asuming, which I'm assuming is what he did. Yeah, Yeah,
get behind it so it's jaws can't get to you,
and just kind of put it in the head lock
and just kind of rustle around with it and you know,
pin it down. Because coyotes are not that big. I
don't know how strong they are relative to their size,
but they're not big.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
They're usually thin too, you know, because they don't you know,
they scavenge for food. That they're really thin. They're not
like a house dog where you know, you feed them
all the time, and they're big. But yeah, and I
don't know how strong they would be. But yeah, if
you got behind it and and we're able to get
it around the throat and choke it out. But that's
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the thing. You better know how to choke something out,
because if he just held it, that coyote was going
to move his head around and find a way to
bite you. Yeah, yeah, okay, Well replete our segment on
coyote prevention safe Let's tell you about the raccoons eyesaw
one night. Oh yeah, tell us. I'm coming home too
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in the neighborhood. And these these are bold. It's like twilight.
Actually it's a little bit darker than it. And I'm
driving my car and I'm getting ready to go home,
you know, take try to get my dogs out for
one last walk. But I'm like, should I do it
at dark? At nighttime? And I'm driving home and three
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giant raccoons not just cross the street, but they mosy
across the street very slow that trying to run or anything.
They just like it was their neighborhood, it was their time.
Mosy across the street and then I just stop and
look at them, see where they're going. And they go
under the fence because they're I think they're they're in vertebrate, right,
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so they can they can move and get into small spaces,
and they got thumbs, they can climb, and they got
into this small space, got underneath and went to this
house and I know the house. The house has dogs,
and them raccoons were just roaming around. I stood there
for about five minutes and watch them there because you
could see their eyes right, their eyes are going in
the dark. And them raccoons were roaming around the front
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yard of this house just waiting and trying to find something,
just trying to go anywhere. And one of them was
at the front door, you know, trying to figure out
how to get inside the house. Oh god, yeah, scary, scary.
And this was a house that had a gate around
it and the fence around it, and they themselves underneath
the gate, get underneath, and they were running around the
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front yard. Like imagine you come out of your house
and there's three raccoons, big raccoons right there saying Hi,
I think there's a bigger concern. Imagine if you're sitting
in your house and the raccoon's open the door, which
they Catah, they can.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Rodney, I have a very similar story. I think I've
told this on the show before, and I remember exactly
when it happened. I was leaving my apartment when I
was doing overnights at Fox Sports Radio. So I'm leaving
my house at you know, ten fifteen at night whatever
it is. Open my door. Uh So, I have my
heavy door that I have my screen door, and looking
through my screen there's just one raccoon walks across. I
open it up. He turns and looks at me and
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almost gives me like a head nod, like, oh what's up?
Fan looks at me, slowly turns his head and keeps
on walking towards where my car is. So I kind
of wait a couple of minutes for him to pass by.
I follow out behind him. He looks behind back at me,
and at this point I think I'm na have to
like what am I do? I don't really know. At
this point, he looks at me again, just stares me
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for a half a second, turns around, slowly climbs forward,
and goes and climbs up a tree and literally sits
there and looks at me, just watching me. And I
slowly go open my car and I'm doing one of
those things where I'm like reaching for the handle of
my car while looking at the raccoon. I don't want
to take my eyes off of him. Slowly open it,
sit inside, and close the door, and he just watches
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me drive off. They have no fear whatsoever. They can
care less about it.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
They don't. They have no fear. They can't get what
they want to get. Guys, Rodney Kevin, I want you
to check your text. Oh I saw it our good
friend Donillies new version of the Bever. Can I ask
you something? Oh, honestly, Don we love you Don. How
(46:48):
many years did we work for Don forever? All of
them until this past one? Yeah, okay, we worked for
Don forever. I think this is the first time he
ever listened to our show.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
No, that's not true, but I've definitely gotten a caller
to saying, what man, what the hell of these guys
talking about? Yes, so you guys might have heard from him,
but I did.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Yeah he did. Oh man, that was good to hear
from you. Absolutely the raccoon stare down all right? Uh?
Let's go back into that possible Laker deal. Christophe porsingis,
would that be a good move? And now let's talk
about the playoffs as well. Minnesota's got an uphill battle
against okc uh. We'll do that next with Mark Medina.
Oh, there we go, bred Rogan, Rodney Peat and five
to seventy LA Sports three hour program. Hello everybody, Mark Medina,
we'll be on Talking NBA at one o'clock and Mintie
Bond signor from the NFL Owners meetings at two o'clock.
So last night was tense, It was emotion filled. It
was a rollercoaster, and there was a moment I couldn't
(00:23):
have had a bigger smile on my face, and that
quickly evaporated into wanting to run and jump off a building.
But then in the end it was all okay, it
was all okay, what were your emotions watching that last night? Rodney?
I didn't want to run and jump off a building.
I'll tell you that, Britt I was closing in the world.
I was cu what moment are you talking about? Oh
(00:45):
my god, when Tanner Scott gave up the home run,
I was like, oh god, no, no, no, no, no,
not now, not now. Yeah, all of that as hard
as they worked, Yamamoto was terrific. And then that and
(01:06):
I thought, would you feel worse for? Who'd you feel
worse for? Tanner Scott or Yamamoto? You gonna You're gonna
find it interesting I think I felt worse for Tanner Scott,
and I felt worse for Tanner Scott because he knows
what he did to Yamamoto. That that's who I felt
(01:27):
really bad for. You. I mean, Yamamoto was terrific. That
was top notch, cy young Worthy work out there last night.
And they didn't hit the ball a lot, but they
hit enough to take that lead in. Yamamoto was magnificent.
And then you get into that situation and he hits
the home run. I thought, oh my god, no, that
(01:51):
that performance by Yamamoto. That's what an ace does, right,
That's what the ace does. You know, when you're going bad,
you lose four straight, you need somebody to come off
and turn off the water, shut it all down and
not let him breathe. And Yamamoto came in there for
seven innings and shut them down, shut him down. Had
(02:13):
a no eater going into the seven, and so yeah,
you're thinking okay. And he got out of several jams
as well, thinking that seventh and he got out of
a big time jam where they had two guys on
Mann that base is loaded. But he got out of
a few jams and left the ball game with a
one run lead and but but for me, Fred, I
(02:36):
could just I could feel it though, just the way
the Dodgers been going lately, I could feel that they
one run was not gonna be enough. It was not
gonna be enough. Arizona's gonna find a way to either
tie this up take a lead, because it's just not
been going that way for the Dodgers when they are
leading by just one run or the game is close,
(03:00):
teams have come back and being able to take the lead.
And I just did not feel comfortable even with two
innings left, and you know, Tanner Scott coming in it
has been pretty good. I just I didn't feel it.
I didn't feel it. Sure enough, they tie it up
and then they go take the lead in the tenth,
and you're like, oh, there's no way after a performance
like that by Yamamodo, how in the world they're gonna
(03:20):
lose this game. But thank god for the offense for
them waking up and and win it in a tenth. Yeah. Yeah,
And it was a great tenth inning. Of course they
were behind in the tenth, but it was really a
good tenth inning. And Max Munsey glad he just put
the bat on the ball Glad he made contact. Glad
he was able to knock in the run and save
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the day. But what are you talking about. Just put
the bat on the ball, Fred, That was a that
was textbook. I'm gonna hit the ball deep enough so
I can score the run to win the game. Well,
let's put it like, come on, he hit the ball
and it went deep enough. I'm just glad he hit it.
Let's just cut to the chase. I'm glad you hit it,
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and the Dodgers won. Now late in the season, Honestly,
these are the kind of games you could find yourself in,
and you know that because you were in them last year.
You've got to be able to protect that one run lead.
You have to, especially if you are the closer you
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were paid to come and close. You can't give up
that home run. And you're at home, and you're at home,
you cannot give up that home run. But they did
persevere last night, and that was important given the way
they had been playing, because everything wasn't firing on all
cylinders last night. Yamamoto was great, tight ball game, A
(04:49):
mistake tied it. Then they're behind, but they were able
to come back and win it. I'm thinking Rodney, that
game will be one of the games they'll remember this year.
I surely. I certainly hope so, I hope. So it
was indicative of the way that Dodgers do things, the
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way they started the season, coming back from behind late
in the game and figuring out a way to win.
I mean, we've seen that so many times for the
Dodgers over the years, especially since Dave Roberts has been here.
They've found a way to win in late innings. And
but yeah, this one, you know, after ah, you know,
four straight losses, you're thinking, oh my god, this is
(05:31):
this is this is one of those periods of time
in the season that they just can't get it right
even after a performance like that. Had it gone bad,
it would have been who knows where they go from there,
and it might have got worse. But thank god, we're
able to score and win that game. But you're right,
I think it could be. Now we'll see they, you know,
close out the series tonight, but it could be one
(05:54):
of those moments, one of those games where when we
had to have it, which I think there's no must
wins in men, don't get me wrong, But it was
one of those games where they needed to win. They
needed to win that game, especially after the performance of Yamamoto. Yeah,
so that was a good one. Uh here's something interesting,
and it speaks to who you sign and why. So
(06:17):
Wan Soto signed the seven hundred and sixty five million
dollar deal with the Mets. Good for him, you know,
get what you can on the open market. Otani signed
a seven hundred million dollar deal with the Dodgers. One
Soda has been criticized recently. Hit a single the other night,
didn't really run it was a single because he thought
it was a home run and bounced off the wall.
By time he started moving, he just ended up on
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first base. You don't expect that from somebody who makes
seven hundred million dollars. Seven hundred and sixty five million dollars,
You do not expect that. You expect that individual to
be Bryce Harper, to be a leader, to run everything out,
to set an example. But he just stood there and
watched it. And let's be honest, whatever the definition of
seven hundred and sixty five million dollars is. He's not
(07:01):
hitting like it yet. I don't think he ever will.
But that's just me. What does that look like? What
does that what does that mean. That means you've got
to be around the three hundred. Uh you know, you
got to you gotta thirty home runs. I mean, that's
what it is. You've got to be a league leader.
That's what you have to be. You're saying he's not
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going to be that by the end of the season.
He's I'm not saying he won't. I'm not saying he won't.
I'm saying he's not. Now, all right, so Otani, it's
seven hundred million dollars and you go, well, and Otani's
having a pretty good start. Fine, whatever. Here's the thing
we've said all along, and I maintain this that the
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Otani deal made far more sense than the Soto deal,
and it made more sense from the perspective of what
happens off the field. You're paying Jan Soto to play baseball,
That's exactly what you're doing. That's what you got. You
got a baseball player an Otana. You have a marketing machine.
And the Dodgers knew that when they signed him to
(08:04):
that deal. He is a machine. What has he done.
He has cleared the way for them to control the
Asian markets. That's huge. They are the team of record
in Japan in Korea with Kim, that's huge. Just from
a revenue standpoint and partnership standpoint, that's gigantic. They were
(08:28):
able to do that. Soto can't do that. Here's something
else that was never taken into consideration. According to a
report we saw today, the head of the LA Tourism
Board says eighty percent of Japanese visitors to the city
of Los Angeles now go to Dodger Games. When they're here,
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it's an event if they If you're from Japan and
you're coming to LA for any reason, business, visit, family,
check out the United States States, one of your destinations
is Dodger Stadium. One of your destinations is Dodger Stadium
because you want to see Otani. You also want to
(09:12):
see Amamoto, I'm sure, and Sazaki. But Otani really made
that happen. And that's why that deal made so much
business sense. And quite frankly and again, Juan Soto's got
his money, good for him. Steve Cohen can spend his
money in any way he wants, good for him. But
(09:34):
that's why this deal with Otani makes far more sense
than the deal with Soto because of everything that comes
with it. Just not a baseball player everything that comes
with it. And I think after I saw this story
Rodney about the tourism board, yeah, I thought that should
(09:58):
be pointed out. Yeah, but what was it like when
he played for the Angels. They didn't go to Angel games.
The agent population that visited didn't go to Angel games.
I wanted to see that study too, because I think
he's he's certainly a draw, and there's no denying the
impact that he has off the field, and you know,
and then you couple that with the Dodger brand. It's
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just a lightning, lightning in a bottle. But I pushed
back on not you know what a player should do
before you sign him for seven hundred and sixty five
million dollars. Okay, first of all, all indications that Jan
Soto's where he's been. He's been a really good teammate.
He's been a very good teammate. I mean, you not
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hold him. That's one of the things that people say
about him is that he's been a very good teammate,
whether he was in Washington, San Diego, the Yankees last
year and and and even with the Mets. Now, yeah,
there are some moments where it's if you eate them.
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You scratch your head a little bit about about Juan Soto.
Is he ever the Are the Mets ever gonna make
that up the way the Dodgers do off the field. No,
not even close. You know it's not. The opportunities and
Dominican Republic are not the same as they are in
Japan in the entire Asian market that Otani can bring.
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But I bet if you show me a clip of
everybody that hit a deep five ball in Boston off
the Green Monster or over the Green Monster that did
not watch it to see if it went out, I
bet it's ninety percent of the guys that didn't bust
it all the way down to the first baseline. It's
just in that park sometimes you hit a ball and
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it goes off the wall instead of going out because
it's the Green Monster, And you don't always how many
guys watch their home runs the whole league, the whole league,
does you know? So I'm not gonna jump down his
throat for that. And yes he is not. He is
not hitting the way they had hoped him to hit.
But it's still early in the season. Much like we
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talk about with the Dodgers, early in the season, let's
give it a full season before you figure out and
pass judgment on Soto if he had a good year
or not, and if he's worth it to them or not. Yeah,
but don't you think, and it's a guy that played
well first, you have a different view because you know
it doesn't matter how much money you get paid. You
can play as you can play like the other guys.
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Don't get out of the way because you make more
than them. So now we'll acknowledge that. But don't you
think there's a responsibility for someone who is obviously paid
at the top of the scale on his team to
lead by example. Don't you think that, Well, everybody admires
their balls when they're everybody admires a ball they hit
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it again. Yeah, everybody, Please, don't everybody admires they hit
in fen White granted, but you have to set an
example because you're the best player. People are gonna look
to you. I assure you if he hit that down.
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So I think people licked the Francisco Lindor on that team. Yeah,
but understood Lindor and and Pete Alonzo. No, I don't
I think you know what you're getting. He's not gonna
change just because you gave him seven hundred and sixty
million dollars. He's got to change the player that he is,
Manny Machado. You think because he came in a Dodger uniform,
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he was gonna change who he is. Now what he said,
he's not Johnny Hustle, even though his name is Charlie Hustle.
He said he's not Johnny Hustle. So you knew that,
and the Dodgers did not end up signing him back.
You knew what kind of guy he was. You knew
what kind of player he was. I mean, big times
Hall of Fame player. But is he a guy that's
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going to, as you mentioned, lead by example and run
every ground ball out as hard as he can't know?
You're not gonna be that guy. But Wan SODA's played enough.
You know what you're getting out of him, and you're
not going to change him overnight and make him be
a leader. Some guys are leaders and some guys aren't.
You're not going to make him be something that he's not.
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Then I never would assigned him for that, to be
honest with you. If that's the case, why were you
committing that to him? That was the market Dodgers were
in the six hundred million dollar range with him. I know,
but remember, if you remember correctly, we both sat here
and said, that's great, but they don't need him. They don't,
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but that's great, that's great. They were in the market though, yeah,
or maybe they were in the market to jack the
price up. Maybe they were in the market to do that. No,
they didn't need him, but if they could have got
him for somewhat cheaper than that, they would have got him,
even if it was for five hundred something million dollars. Well,
that's a blessing what they ought to do. If they're
gonna be in the market for anybody after this season,
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go sign Kyle Tucker. That's the guy to sign. That's
the guy to commit to. And he's old Tucker to
come in and be a leader, won't say a word,
Hilly by example, different ways. But you know who you're getting.
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There's enough studies on people, enough people to talk to.
You know what you're getting when you sign a guy
to that. You don't think the Mets did their homework
on who they're getting. Okay, we got a guy. He's
gonna you know, he's a little flashy, he's a little demonstrative,
but yeah, he's going to produce for us and like
he did for the Nationals, like he did for the Padres,
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like he did for the Yankees last year, help him
get to the World Series. So that's what we're getting.
I don't need the guy to be Rob Rob, mister
leader in the locker room. I didn't even be Wan Soto.
And you know it, the other night they got Boston
one soda. Yes they did, Yes, they did, And that's
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what they're going to get the rest of the season.
But they're not. I don't think they're surprised by it.
Even the manager it's like, hey, yeah, we'll have a
talk with him, but you know it's Wan's Wan yo.
Well what's the manager going to say. What's Carlos Mendoza
going to say, all right, that's it, I'm benching them. No,
of course not. He can't do that. No, And why
would you? Why would you? He is still one of
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the top five players in the game. So you know,
you again, you know what you're getting, which you're scouting
this guy. You're going to pay him a lot of money.
You've done your homework on him, you know who he is.
And to think that you're going to change him. It's
not going to happen. Everybody admires their balls. Okay, I tried.
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I tried to fix it. You know, I tried to
fix that. I did. I don't know anything. I don't
know what you tried to do. I don't know where
you were going with that, Freddy, Well obviously, yeah, I
understand it went south. That's where I was going. Okay,
possible idea for a Laker deal. Let's see what you
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think about it next. Okay, let's go. It's a hop day,
Rodney Pete, fred Rogan. Yeah, come on, Freddy, Come on, Freddy.
We're gonna do with those balls. Freddie, We're gonna do
with those balls. All right. Look, you know, it's just
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a good eye. It's a good idea to just keep
an eye on things like that. Just keep your eyes
open and you know you won't miss anything. Uh So,
when you look at the Lakers now, there has to
be a solution to the issue. How are we going
to get to the next level, How are we going
to take that step forward? And what's it going to
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take to get us there? That's on Rob Paulinka. He
knew during the regular season they were a big guy. Short.
They tried to acquire Mark Williams from Charlotte. It went south.
Nobody can figure out what happened. He's here, he's not here.
It's like Chris Paul had signed with the Lakers and
then ten minutes later he was signing with the Clippers.
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He was traded at the Clippers, right, So it didn't
The Mark Williams thing made no sense anyway. Rob Polinka
knew he needed a big guy. He knew they were
going to be vulnerable there, and they were vulnerable there.
That's exactly what happened. So now he needs a big guy.
And a bleacher report suggested this. I kick it around
(18:51):
for a minute. Chris Dobsporzingis comes here and you send
Ruey Maxi Kleeber and two pickswaps. What does that do?
It gets the Lakers a big guy, a big guy
that albeit it gets hurt, and not a true center,
but a big guy that can play and shoot. And
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it would help the Celtics because they can offload salary.
If you're the Lakers, do you make that deal? Rodney? No?
Oh you don't, No, really, no, no, why because he's
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not been healthy. Well there's that there is that and
more often he's not been healthy. He got ridden, you know,
he couldn't play in New York and then this year.
So I mean he's a unicorn because he's seven foot
three and can run the floor and can shoot the three,
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and he's a rim protector. But how almost how much
can you count on him? So you got it, agent Lebron,
you got you know Luca who hopefully turns it around
starts to get in shape. That's another story. Like we're
talking about Wan Soto, you say the same thing about Luca. No,
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he seems to get a pass on that one, but
he you know, can you count on Porzingis? And I
don't know if you can. So I don't know if
you make that move well, And I kind of look
at it like this, poor Zingis is gonna help you
more than Ruie Max Kleeber and two pickswaps. You're not
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giving up Boston Reeve. You don't have to mortgage anybody else.
And if that's the case, maybe you take a flyer
and just what's what's the two pickswaps? What are we talking?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Thirty two? I think they will just have the right
to swap first round picks.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Okay, hmm. I don't know. That's a tough one. I'm
just saying because I don't know how much longer he's
got Once he got two years a Kenya, I think.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
He has two years left on his contract, so next
season on the following year, Ruey and Cleeber have expiring
contracts at the end of next season. This would be
the appeal for Boston because they're trying to get under
the second ape.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Correct, correct, it's good for Boston. I mean, but they
wanted but he hasn't been available for them, and I
think he would have made a difference. I mean, obviously
they lost Jayson Tatum in that series, but they missed him.
They missed him in that series. How much is he
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going to be available?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
He played forty two games this year and fifty seven
last year his first year in Boston. Yeah, yeah, sixty
five before that, so he has only he's played more
than seventy games, so the majority of the season exactly
won and like you mentioned riding, that was his rookie
year in New York.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, but sixty.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Six, forty eight missed an entire season with an injury.
Fifty seven, forty three, fifty one, sixty five fifty seven
forty two. So this guy's giving you at best fifty
games a year on average.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
And then you have to hope he's not hurt during
the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Correct during the playo when it matters most.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Well. Now, when I look at what Bleacher Report is proposing,
I would make the deal on a heart a heartbeat.
I don't even think i'd throw in the pick swaps
at this point though. I mean I would take him,
but when it certainly can help you when you're healthy.
Amate you're right, he's not available, you're one hundred percent Ryan,
(22:43):
So okay, we'll take him. That's good because if he's healthy,
he'll help us. But we don't know when he'll be healthy,
but we'll still take him. We're not giving you a
lot in return. We're getting a guy that's damaged goods
and it's quite apparent because he doesn't play. That's I mean,
when you read how many games he played last year, Kevin,
(23:05):
Oh my god, for.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
A guy that's making thirty million dollars a year, he's
not making chump change.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
And missed the playoffs. Right, Yeah, So I think I
would do it.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
But with all that, Fred, you'd still do it. That
is not deterring you from making the trade. No potential
lack of availability.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Well, no, I would do it for the right price.
I mean, at this point, after hearing those numbers, I'd
give him a couple of genileigue guys. You seriously so nope,
you take away the pick swaps, but you do it
for cleebrand and for ruly. Yeah, I would do that.
I get it. I would do that. Take a flyer
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on it. You know, you hope that he can give
you one year so you can go win it. Yeah,
go ahead, you get him for two. So let's see
using that math. In two years, he'd play one season. Okay,
but don't you gotta you gotta, and then you gotta
have a backup plan for him when he's out. Uh,
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and you're counting on him to be your guy. You
got Jackson Hayes.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Oh yeah, that worked out well for the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
When it he'll be a year better, Kevin, Well, he'll
he'll be a year older.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
He just like in his sixth seventh year. He's not
like a second year player. Fuck, I don't know how
much is how much more as sending he's gonna do.
He is what he is.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
He's like nineteen years old, even the front six years.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
He's far from that. I mean, yes, generally speaking, that
is true with how these NBA guys are fred.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Right, So I mean he'll he'll get stronger because that's
what you have. It doesn't matter who you bring in.
But it's almost like you better count on him though,
you're gonna have to count on him. Well, you're gonna
have to count on him in key moments. He's got
to pick the moments he's not hurt. He's got to
decide tonight, I'm not getting hurt. Tomorrow I might get hurt,
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but tonight I can't because it's a key moment. Yes.
Is that how it works and how it works? Yeah, No,
that's how it worked. Like in the old days, before
there was videotape and even before the games were all televised,
So this is like ancient times. We'd send a photographer
out to Dodger Stadium and they would be shooting film
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and that'd be the only way you get your TV
your sports highlights, and we'd put it on the eleven
o'clock news. Now, you have to understand when you're shooting film.
If you're going to shoot a nine inning baseball game,
that's a lot of film. Not only is it a
lot of film to shoot, it's a lot of film
to process and then splice or edit together. And nobody
(25:35):
really wanted anybody to do that because it costs too
much money just to shoot film over and over. So
we used to tell the guy, listen, when you go
out there, really you only have to worry about one thing.
Just roll on the home runs. Just start rolling in
a home run. So you had to guess who would
get a home run. Now, this guy's not going to
(25:58):
hit one. It wouldn't turn the cameraun, but this guy might,
so we'd roll same thing. You have to be ready.
You have to be ready when we need you. Well,
you couldn't do that now with the Dodger. You don't
know who's gonna hit a home run? Right, Well, that
would be a real problem if we were shooting film. Yeah, yeah,
everybody hitting a home runs? You know, no, oh, Tommy
(26:18):
Edmonds coming up, he probably went on't well, he did
hit home run. You know, K's hitting eighth. Oh no, K,
he just hit home run. So let's say a guy
hit a home run back in the day in the
bottom of the ninth to win it. For the Dodgers,
for example. But our guy wasn't rolling because he either
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ran out of film or he didn't think this guy
would hit a home run. Here's how we do it
on the air. So tonight, the Dodgers won the game
in the bottom of the ninth against the Xbos five
to four. Rick Monday homwer. But this home run in
the first inning, which he recorded, started everything.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
This ain't Rick. It's something like this.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
The ball went out of the park just like that.
So don't even think about that's how we would do it.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I thought you guys were doing like the Japanese news animation.
Just had the animation department for drawing up and put
that up there.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, just have it in stock right, roll to it,
Roll to the animation.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah, here's a Rick Monday home run from when he
played with the Cubs. This is May and maybe what
it looked like last night earlier.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
You got them all. It could be in different uniforms
and teams. They played with the four and rig Monday
homers to win the game. Wait, he's in a cup uniform.
World that close enough. A home run by Rick Monday
is a home run by Rick Monday. That's kind of
by the way, what they do in little little market
TV everywhere in the country because they don't have the
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editing facilities or the library or the ability to intake
videos quickly and process it. So what they'll do is
they'll they'll say, the Dodgers played tonight, don't just show
pictures of them running out in the field before the game,
you know, guys pat in their gloved first base, getting ready.
Just stuff like that, and then they would talk about
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the whole game. You would they never you'd never see
what they were talking about. They just generic video, generic
video because they don't have any video.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Or maybe you guys, you had just re enacted it
in studio, it might have even better. Fritz could have
been the picture been the batter.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah, let's give you a demonstration of that home run
by Rick Monday. Yeah, you know what it used to do.
I used to make art cards with stick figures that
I did do. Stop it, seriously, stop yeah, stop it,
stop that. Don't say that out loud for it, But no,
I said it. It's true. I would hold up card
four figures. I would hold up you know, like picture board,
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and I draw sticks figure people on it. So it's
like you'd see a bat and the ball and it
looked like the bat was hitting it, and I'd hold
it up and I said, it looks something like this.
I just hold up these stick figures because we didn't
have any video. Same look, it's the same principle with
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Christophe Porsingez. You need to be helping home. That's right.
You got to tie it together now, because that's what
a good storyteller does. You. You've gotta be available when
we need you. Would you would you roll the dice
on that we're betting that he will be available in
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games we need him. Would you roll the dice on that,
Rodney betting on when he's available he'll be good. But
but we're betting and we don't know. It's a crap shoot.
I mean, we play, you know, if you gotta, if
all you got to do is give up Kleeber and really, yeah,
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I might take that. Yeah I would too. Right, we're
just gonna we're gonna gamble. We're gonna gamble that we
need you fifty times a year, the other thirty whatever.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Keep in mind for it. He didn't give Boston fifty
times this year.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I know he gave forty two, right, so tall as
right now doesn't he doesn't play until after Christmas, after
the new year. Right, he starts when he started. We
keep him when, we keep him outain until after they
all start breaking. And maybe you know with the new
Laker strength coach that they advertised on LinkedIn. By the way,
if you want to be the Laquer strength coach, go
(30:32):
to LinkedIn and you could apply. The job pays between
two hundred and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year,
and you might have to work some weekends and there
could be some overtime. That was the job posting. Anyway,
they get this guy in here and he starts building
up his body and maybe then the athletic trainer tapes
him up like a mummy. Wow, so nothing can come apart,
(30:54):
so no no part can disconnect from another one, and
they just have him run out there. How about that
you only need him and fifty games is too much, Kevin,
We'll make it forty. There you go, We'll make it forty.
You need him forty times a year. And how many
playoff games are there? We think seventeen something? You need?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I WoT sixteen to win the championship? Right, sixteen wins.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah, okay, sixteen wins, So you need sixteen wins. You'll
need him there. We said we need him forty times
a year. Yeah, but that's sixteen wins. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
You're not going to sweep your way through the I
mean you could theoretically, but not likely to sweep you
away through the entire postseason.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
No, this is going to be working it out. So
you figure that the playoffs will be twenty twenty eight,
twenty eight, twenty four. You gotta play twenty four to
twenty five games, okay, all right, you say twenty five games. Okay, Yeah,
So in this plan for this to be effective, and
we said he only has to play forty he needs
to play fifteen regular season games, that's all he needs
(31:54):
to play, but he has to have the other ones
in the playoffs. That'll get us to forty sixteen regular
season games. He plays sixteen regular season games, and then
he plays twenty four games in the playoffs. That gets
us to forty. All right, if you look at it
like that, would you make the move. I don't even
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know why I'm playing this game with you. Uh, I know,
I know it's wrong, you Frid, But the bottom line,
you'd make the move. Bottom line, you make the move,
you can help you. I would make that move. I
definitely would make the move. You have nothing to lose.
And I think if he's healthy, you get better. Oh
(32:39):
when he's on the court, you're gonna be Yeah, You're
gotta be definitely better. Right, So, yeah, you roll that
dice and get him in here, because you got to
figure out I mean, you got clock is ticking on Lebron,
So you got to roll the dice somewhere. And why
not him? Why not him? Do you like coyotes? You
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ever see coyotes walking around you neighborhood? Oh? Yeah, all
the time, right, all the time. What do you do
if you see a coyote? We'll talk about that next. Yes,
Today's afternoon delight is we Don't have to be alone
by Three Sacred Souls. This song is the first release
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of twenty twenty five for the trio, who just announced
that they'll be joining kale Uchi's tour in August and September,
which includes a stop in the farm in Inglewood. The
song follows the release of their twenty twenty four album
entitled Got a Story to Tell, which has totaled over
well over ten million streams since its debut in October
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of last year. Again, Today's afternoon delight is we don't
have to be alone by three sacred souls. So the
one thing you don't want to be alone with is
a coyote. No, you don't, you don't. But they're afraid
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of us more than we're afraid of them until they're not,
until they're not. And it doesn't matter where you live.
If you live in the hills, then you're going to
be exposed to them. They're going to come around. And
you know they travel in packs. Even if you live
in the flats, you can see coyotes walking down the
street and especially now. But I would just say that
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do you see more of animals like that since the
fires have happened, you know, since their habitat has kind
of been you know, they've been forced out of their
their habitat in the hills, that they have come more
into residential areas, So you see more of I've seen
more coyotes in the last year that I've ever seen,
(34:59):
and you know, we live in a residential area. But
they're around, especially I mean obviously at night, and you're right,
they're always two to three deep at least. Yeah, and
it's terrifying if you have little animals. Oh yeah, I
mean we've lost we've lost animals to coyotes. Yeah, and
(35:20):
it's not pleasant and it's not fun anyway. So what
do you do if you see a coyote? What should
you do? You know what to do? Right? What do
you do? It's like you should have a can filled
with coins and start banging it and making noise to
scare the coyote off. You have a can full of coins, yeah,
(35:40):
and you start like banging it. Okay, So what if
you don't have a can full of coins, which you
know well not people walking around with a can full of.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Walk around with a can full of coins, Rodney, we
all know.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, it got it in my back pocket as I'm
going out to dinner. Yeah, keep that can of coins
in my back pocket. Okay. First thing I would do
probably is run. Now, tell me what do you do?
You're staring it down, don't make any can't run, I don't.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
It runs faster than you. It's just like the hippo
story from yesterday.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Correct, you can't run, you know, you just kind of
hope it goes away. You gotta face it off, you
gotta face off. You gotta freeze it and face off.
That's what you gotta do. Don't show no fear. No no,
it could smell it, Yeah they can. And and what's
happening is and look, I guess you can't really blame
the coyotes. They have the place, they've got a place
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to live too. They're trying to survive. Uh, this happened
in North Carolina. Look, it could have happened in Sherman Oaks.
To be honest with you, There's a guy seven o'clock
at night. He's out, as he says, I'm having a smoke.
So he's just enjoying himself. Wait, what do you say?
As he says, what you say it like that? As
he says, I'm having this. That's what he said, I'm
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having a smoke. As he's up to no good, sitting
there minding his own business. He's having a smoke. Okay,
what a coyote. He immerges from the woods and attacks him.
The coyote attacks him, jumps on him. The guy starts
fighting the coyote. The guy's left hand is stuck in
the coyotes mouth. Oh no, he rips his arm out
(37:14):
of the coyotes mouth. He's trying to jostle to get
out of the way of the coyote. Somehow he gets
positioned on him and he actually chokes the coyote to death.
The police show up, they go, yeah, he had to
defend himself. He choked out the coyote. Then, of course
what happens he gets it MMA ran into the coyote.
(37:38):
I don't know how many MMA fighters are sitting out
having a smoke in the woods to choke the coyote out. Okay, okay,
I'm sorry, choke them out. Police come. Then of course,
you know what happens if you are bitten by an
animal like that. We all know what Today it comes
to rabies. Here comes the rabies. Those shots are worse
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than the attack. Those are the most painful shots you
can get. And I don't really understand why. Maybe because
the medication is so thick and you get it like
in the elephant syringe. I mean, look, you've been to
the doctor and you know, okay, we've got to give
you a shot. Okay, no problem, here's a little B
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twelve whatever done. Sometimes the medicine is a little thicker
and they go with the big shot and that's a problem.
That's painful. So this guy had to endure the raby
shots and now he's okay. I guess my question after
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this story, which is true, Now, aside from the fact
that you probably wouldn't be having a smoke, would you
if need be Russell a coyote? It sounds like you
didn't have a choice. The coyote attacked it, which is
which is weird in itself because unless they're back into
a corner. Usually, and that's most animals, you know, most
(39:04):
animals won't just come up and attack you. Even possums,
your favorite possum, Fred usually won't come up and attack you,
you know, unless they're cornered or they feel like there's
no way out of the situation and they're fearing for
their life, and then they'll defend themselves. But it's rare
for coyote just to come up out of the blue
and attack somebody, and you know, and it may be,
(39:26):
you know, we don't know the circumstances, but maybe you know,
obviously coyote scabbing for food all the time, and if
he's incredibly hungry, it might be the only way he
can survive. Is that I'm going to attack and get
past his human it's got food right behind him, or
he's oh yeah that's true. Yeah, because you're not thinking straight,
(39:49):
so yeah, but yeah, you gotta do whatever you gotta do.
You gotta do whatever you gotta do. It's interesting that
he was able to choke it out though, Yeah, because
you got you know, choking it out. You gotta worry.
You know, you're still worried about some kind of bite
on you or him moved his head around, biting you
or clawing you. Man, that's got to be a scary thing.
(40:10):
And he thank god that all accounts that it was
just one coyote. They didn't try. It wasn't in a pack,
It wasn't like two or three of them. Then he
would have been really in trouble. I mean, maybe that
coyote wanted to drag off a Marborough Maybe that was it.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Maybe he thought he was a road runner or something
that's what got him.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Maybe that was thought it was this guy that had
went out and had a smoke. Was he a little fella?
Don't know? Maybe he thought, yeah, maybe he thought it
was a small animal. A coyote would never attempt to
get into a fight with a big dog. Because it's
too much of a threat and attacked a human being, right,
That's why you're saying it either had to be rabbit
(40:55):
or is desperate to find some food or whatever, or
something was right there that you know, maybe the guy
lived on a farm and had some chickens behind him.
I'm gonna get some and I'm gonna get some of
that food, and the only way to get it is
get past this guy. And if I attack him, maybe
the guy runs away and I can get the food.
I don't know. Let's want way to look at it.
I think coyotes are smart, except for Wiley. Wiley's not
(41:20):
that smarty coyote anyway. Look, if you see a coyote
in your neighborhood, try to stay away from It's better
I have a rock or twig or stick or something.
That's that's impressive though. The guy choked the coyote out,
it really is. I mean, he fought that coyote was
(41:45):
meaning business and he fought the coyote and choked him out. Yeah,
I mean, would you think to choke a coyote out
or what would you do? Just kick it, punch it? Well,
how would you fight the coyote first? You'd want to
get something hit it obviously if you could. If you
didn't have anything, I think the normal reaction would be,
I'm gonna fight it off and try to get out
(42:06):
of its way, pin it down or something like that.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Go for the eyes, go for the eyes, and try
to get away as usually if you're attacked by.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
An animal, Is that what it is?
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Yeah, if you try to try to gouge its eyes
so you can disorient it or get it all messed up,
and then you can try to unless you feel empowered
enough to try to kill it with your bare hands
like this guy, which I feel like most people wouldn't do.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
No, you'd have to get around behind it. It's what
you'd have to do, which.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Is what I'm asuming, which I'm assuming is what he did. Yeah, Yeah,
get behind it so it's jaws can't get to you,
and just kind of put it in the head lock
and just kind of rustle around with it and you know,
pin it down. Because coyotes are not that big. I
don't know how strong they are relative to their size,
but they're not big.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
They're usually thin too, you know, because they don't you know,
they scavenge for food. That they're really thin. They're not
like a house dog where you know, you feed them
all the time, and they're big. But yeah, and I
don't know how strong they would be. But yeah, if
you got behind it and and we're able to get
it around the throat and choke it out. But that's
(43:09):
the thing. You better know how to choke something out,
because if he just held it, that coyote was going
to move his head around and find a way to
bite you. Yeah, yeah, okay, Well replete our segment on
coyote prevention safe Let's tell you about the raccoons eyesaw
one night. Oh yeah, tell us. I'm coming home too
(43:32):
in the neighborhood. And these these are bold. It's like twilight.
Actually it's a little bit darker than it. And I'm
driving my car and I'm getting ready to go home,
you know, take try to get my dogs out for
one last walk. But I'm like, should I do it
at dark? At nighttime? And I'm driving home and three
(43:56):
giant raccoons not just cross the street, but they mosy
across the street very slow that trying to run or anything.
They just like it was their neighborhood, it was their time.
Mosy across the street and then I just stop and
look at them, see where they're going. And they go
under the fence because they're I think they're they're in vertebrate, right,
(44:18):
so they can they can move and get into small spaces,
and they got thumbs, they can climb, and they got
into this small space, got underneath and went to this
house and I know the house. The house has dogs,
and them raccoons were just roaming around. I stood there
for about five minutes and watch them there because you
could see their eyes right, their eyes are going in
the dark. And them raccoons were roaming around the front
(44:41):
yard of this house just waiting and trying to find something,
just trying to go anywhere. And one of them was
at the front door, you know, trying to figure out
how to get inside the house. Oh god, yeah, scary, scary.
And this was a house that had a gate around
it and the fence around it, and they themselves underneath
the gate, get underneath, and they were running around the
(45:03):
front yard. Like imagine you come out of your house
and there's three raccoons, big raccoons right there saying Hi,
I think there's a bigger concern. Imagine if you're sitting
in your house and the raccoon's open the door, which
they Catah, they can.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Rodney, I have a very similar story. I think I've
told this on the show before, and I remember exactly
when it happened. I was leaving my apartment when I
was doing overnights at Fox Sports Radio. So I'm leaving
my house at you know, ten fifteen at night whatever
it is. Open my door. Uh So, I have my
heavy door that I have my screen door, and looking
through my screen there's just one raccoon walks across. I
open it up. He turns and looks at me and
(45:41):
almost gives me like a head nod, like, oh what's up?
Fan looks at me, slowly turns his head and keeps
on walking towards where my car is. So I kind
of wait a couple of minutes for him to pass by.
I follow out behind him. He looks behind back at me,
and at this point I think I'm na have to
like what am I do? I don't really know. At
this point, he looks at me again, just stares me
(46:01):
for a half a second, turns around, slowly climbs forward,
and goes and climbs up a tree and literally sits
there and looks at me, just watching me. And I
slowly go open my car and I'm doing one of
those things where I'm like reaching for the handle of
my car while looking at the raccoon. I don't want
to take my eyes off of him. Slowly open it,
sit inside, and close the door, and he just watches
(46:22):
me drive off. They have no fear whatsoever. They can
care less about it.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
They don't. They have no fear. They can't get what
they want to get. Guys, Rodney Kevin, I want you
to check your text. Oh I saw it our good
friend Donillies new version of the Bever. Can I ask
you something? Oh, honestly, Don we love you Don. How
(46:48):
many years did we work for Don forever? All of
them until this past one? Yeah, okay, we worked for
Don forever. I think this is the first time he
ever listened to our show.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
No, that's not true, but I've definitely gotten a caller
to saying, what man, what the hell of these guys
talking about? Yes, so you guys might have heard from him,
but I did.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Yeah he did. Oh man, that was good to hear
from you. Absolutely the raccoon stare down all right? Uh?
Let's go back into that possible Laker deal. Christophe porsingis,
would that be a good move? And now let's talk
about the playoffs as well. Minnesota's got an uphill battle
against okc uh. We'll do that next with Mark Medina.
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