June 17, 2025 • 34 mins
David Vassegh joins us from Dodger Stadium to recapOhtani's pitching debut with the blue and preview tonights game against the Padres. The Dodgers are mentioned in literally every MLB telecast. Wait a minute, so I can't clap for my kindergardener at their graduation!?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Alright, we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on a
five to seventy LA Sports. I don't know what was
bigger last night. The Dodgers continuing to win, beating the
Padres and increasing their leader in the National League. Wife,
that was pretty big. Dodgers came from behind in the game,
they were down one nothing. That was pretty big. Yes,
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But it's funny how all of that paled in comparison
to one inning. The first inning, actually the top of
the first inning. What happened after that didn't seem to
matter much because everybody was focused on that. Let's bring
up people.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
People can leave the stadium after that, after that first inning.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
They might as well have Dave, Welcome to the show.
How are you today?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Talk about the show? Fred. I would not have left
after that first inning. I would have stayed the show.
You know, you got so many great players that he's
still hitting too. I mean, that's part of the equation day.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
What was it like last night?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Fred, You and Rodney can appreciate this. This was not
just another baseball game. It was a sporting event, and
I would venture to say that it may be one
of the top Los Angeles sporting events of the season.
I mean, that's how big it was. That was the
electricity in the stadium last night. And look, there's fans here.
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They don't just arrive late all the time, but they're
doing stuff. They're joined the new center field plaza. But
last night was different. An hour before the game, fans
were already in their seats getting ready for first pitch.
And not just first pitch, they were getting ready to
see Otani warm up before the game. They were anticipating
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his emergence out of that dugout as a pitcher, and
when he did, it was a standing ovation an hour before,
about forty minutes before first pitch. Forty to fifty minutes
before first pitch. That doesn't happen every game, for every picture.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, yeah, Dave, you mentioned it.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Man, it was the anticipation of the whole night and
we didn't get a whole lot of time. Dave, it was,
you know, all along, everybody was reporting. I know, you know,
you're always up up on everything that is going on
with the team. But for the fans, we were thinking, okay,
after all Star break, that's when we're going to see him.
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And that's what the reports were all the way. When
you first heard that he was pitching on Monday. First
of all, how how how early.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Did you know that?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And secondly, when you heard that that was going to happen,
that he was going to go last night, what was
your reaction.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I found out almost around the same time the Giants
traded for Raphael Devers on Father's Day. I found out
around the first inning of Sunday's game that that was
the plan, and that was going to be a postgame announcement.
So obviously not mind Lane to break that type of news,
but nonetheless that's when I found out, and Brandon Gomes,
the Dodgers GM said before the game yesterday, the decision
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was made twenty four to forty eight hours prior to
last night, that this was the route they were going
to go in. And I was talking to doctor Elatraj, who,
as you know, performed both elbow surgeries on Otani, and
he was still invested in last night, just like he
is with so many of the professional athletes he's worked on.
It's not just all right, I'm performing the surgery and
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you're out the door. But he was like an expectant
father during that first inning, and he was part of
the conversation with Otani and Andrew Friedman about what is
the best thing for Otani. So Rodney, they the plan
was always still to have him built up for after
the All Star Game. They just changed the method and
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the way they're going to do it. Rather than having
Otani pitch a simulated game every week, cool down and
then come back to play and DH they just figured
that that was not good for the recovery process and
could you know, risk fatigue, and as you know, fatigue
leads to injury. So that's why they all put their
heads together and felt like this was the best way
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to finish his rehab because he is in the final
stages of rehab, but he's doing it in a game.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That being said Dave, and we kicked it around. I'm
sure you feel the same way. He'd gone back out
and pitched again. So to him, he wants to go
how is this going to progress? Already worked one inning,
what twenty eight pitches? So what is the progression we're
going to see?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Yeah, Dave Roberts when I asked him after the game,
you know that first inning started to get a little extended.
Twenty eight pitches, and Dave Roberts said his last batter
was going to be Xander Bogart's and the pitch limit
was thirty pitches, So that gives you a sense of
where their head was that going into last night's game.
So he's going to pitch again in a week, and
I would venture to say he'll be allowed to go
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out there for a second inning, possibly a third if
he's efficient, and then from there gradually build up the
next time, four innings and so on. So by the
time it's post All Star Break is first start, he'll
be built up for a normal start, just like they
had anticipated going into this season.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, And Dave, you know, it was reported that you know,
as you said, you know, you talk to Brandon Gomes
and you talk to Dave Roberts, and they collectively said,
you know, we can't send him to a rehab assignment
in Ranchell, Cuckamonga or Oklahoma City, and why is he
doing these simulated games. We might as well just put
him in a real game and let him finish his
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rehab that way. And a lot of reports said that
it was a lot of it was Otani saying I'm ready,
let's go. I'm ready to go. When he goes out
the next time, and the next time and the next time.
How much is it going to be on the Dodgers
to kind of protect Otani from him, because I'm sure
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he's going to say, I can go fifty pitches, I
can go seventy pitches, let me go three. I mean,
he's probably that kind of competitor that wants to go
as long as he can to keep ramping up for
for not only the rest of the season, but for
the postseason. But is that a thing that the Dodgers
have to really be careful is protecting him from himself.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Well, Otani is very well aware that this is the
final stages of the rehab process, so I don't believe
he's going to try to push for more before the
All Star break. But once everybody declares them a normal
picture that is no longer rehabbing, then you may run
into that. Of course, I'm not sure if he ever
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tried to push Phil Nevin or Joe Madden for all that,
but certainly he's a competitor, and you know, in this
whole process, so Tani has been driving it because he's
been through it before. Dave Roberts conceded that the Dodgers
have never been through this before, so they allowed Otani
to drive of it, and you're just going to trust
have to trust him and what he's telling you.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Okay, Dave lost in all of this before we let
you go. Dodgers are playing pretty well now to two
or three from the Padres, two or three from the Giants.
Now they got the first one against the Padres again.
How are you feeling watching them against these good teams
during this stretch. Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Right, They're almost at the end of this twenty nine
game stretch where they were facing really good teams that
are in the playoff hunt. Again, they have found a
way to win. It didn't look great in Saint Louis,
and then they found a way to win the bookends
in San Diego to really get the good feeling back
after that blowout loss in the middle game. But it's
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all about the offense s threatch. It goes back to
the World Series last year, the postseason. The Dodger offense
makes this team go. If the offense is not scoring runs,
they are not going to win. At this point in time,
with how thin their pitching is, the offense has willed
them to a lot of wins. They have come back
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in games more than any other team in Major League
Baseball over twenty wins from behind, including last night. So
it's all about the offense. I know, we get so
caught up in the pitching and we take this offense
for granted that is tops in every single major category
in Major League Baseball. But it's all about the offense.
Is this is a full octane offense and if it
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gets shut down, it's going to be tough to win.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
All right, Dave, thanks for coming on. Really appreciate it.
By the way, You're on Sports dot LA again tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Right, yeah, back again tonight and Kirsten Watson will be
back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
All right, Dave, let me ask you this because you
know I had some experience in TV. Are you wearing
makeup when you're on TV?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
They have me put on making What kind of question
is that?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Fred? You know he is everybody does. No, I didn't
know if you were working the sideline. If you're working
the sideline, yes, everybody does. You have a makeup person
and they tell you, yes, get a little makeup, get
the shine off. Right? Why are you asking.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Him that I normally do? Is that what he's he's like? No,
this guy does not look this good.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
No, not at all. But I was just killing don't dummy, Allen,
don't dumb me up.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I know what he's doing, Rodney, and I have no
I have no qualms about admitting what goes on behind
the curtains.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I would make up all the time. We makeup. So
why are you asking that? Yeah, listen, I mean I
don't even work on TV anymore, and I wear makeup,
I know, But why are you asking that? Because you
know the answer. No, I really didn't know.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Videos you look makeup. You got a lot of makeup
on Fred on those Instagram videos.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Well yeah you can tell, right Dave. Yeah, body all right, Dave,
thank you, appreciate it. Man, have a good afternoon.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Thank you, guys.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
There goes David. There is some thing that we have
noticed what we watch baseball, Rodney. I want to talk
about that when we come back. Okay. You know, if
you pay close attention to things, you pick stuff up.
We watch a lot of baseball, and there's one continuing
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theme and we should talk about it.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
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Speaker 2 (10:38):
Oh come on now, come on now, it's winding down
on a Tuesday ride to Pete Fred Rogan.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Come on. So we watch a lot of baseball. My
wife and my sons do. Yeah, and when I'm there,
I do as well. We have the MLB package. Everybody
watches baseball all the time. I mean weekend games start
ten o'clock on a Saturday morning, all the way through
the Dodgers at night. There's always a baseball game on.
We love watching baseball. And there's something they picked up
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which I hadn't noticed, because they actually watch it more
than I do because they have the opportunity to. It
doesn't matter what game you're watching. Pick a game Toronto Miami.
If you're watching the Blue Jays and the Marlins, at
some point, somebody's gonna mention the Dodgers on the broadcast,
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just something they've done, a player they've acquired. Maybe it's Otani.
If you're watching the Reds and the Mariners, at some point,
somebody will bring up the Dodgers. Every time they have
watched a game out of market, someone has brought up
the Dodgers. Every single time, and that if you really
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think about it, is it doesn't matter who's playing. Somehow
the Dodgers come up. That tells you how baseball feels
about the Dodgers. That tells you what the country believes
when it comes to the Dodgers. It emphasizes that everybody thinks,
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what do they win it all or not? The Dodgers
are the best organization, Rodney, and they do it the
right way. Yes, yes, no, I would agree with you.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And you know, the Dodgers have always been that iconic
franchise that other franchise has aspired to be and they've
they've done that for a number of years. Even when
they were back in Brooklyn before we were born. They
were a great franchise that rivaled the Yankees, and they
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had to battle with the Yankees while in New York,
Dodgers in Brooklyn, you know, Yankees in the Bronx there
was it was the city was split between the both
of them. Dodgers town. They have their own identity and
they created that here in la which was really an
iconic move in which they did it because there were
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any MLB teams west of the Mississippi at that point
and the Dodgers were the first. They convinced the Giants
to come with them, and the Giants and the Dodgers.
You know, obviously we created that rivalry which they had
in New York and they created it out here out west.
But nowadays, yes, it's hard to look at Major League
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Baseball or talk about Major League Baseball without mentioning the Dodgers.
Even if you're in a casual conversation, the Dodgers will
always come up because of Number one, the brand, the
number two of the stars that they have, and number three.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
The one star that is global in Otani. Yeah, it's
it's fascinating. I've never seen anything like it. I mean,
you sit in and watch these games. Uh, you know, Arizona
and Colorado, they don't mention the Yankees. They mentioned the Dodgers.
Saint Louis and Detroit. Dodgers will come up. Every game
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somebody says something about the Dodgers, despite the fact the
Dodgers aren't playing there. Yeah, it's it's really fascinating, and
it just speaks to what they've done and what they've
built and the way. Are you surprised a little bit?
Are you a little bit? I can't believe everybody can
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work the Dodgers into a conversation once again, HM, Seriously,
Kansas City is playing Texas. At one point somebody will
say something about the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Maybe it's it's Kevin Bacon syndrome, right, it's the you know,
sixth degrees of separation, but it's Kevin Bacon and that,
regardless of you're talking about, there was some interaction with
the Dodgers. You said you mentioned Texas. Obviously Corey Seeger
plays for the Rains. You go, you know, so there's
going to be that reference to the Dodgers. You go
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around the league, you talk about Boston in this Raphael
Devers big gigantic trade, which is you know, was the.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Move of the year.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
In twenty twenty five of him going from Boston to
the San Francisco Giants. But in the midst of that conversation,
it didn't even have to go that long that people
start talking about, well, let's look at the Red Sox
and the Red Sox obviously they traded and got rid
of Mookie Betts, who's at the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yes, right, so they likeing that.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So there's always some sort of relatability of the Dodgers
to every situation that you talk about and sports, especially
baseball nowadays.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I know it's just interesting, all right. No, I want
to give you a scenario. Yeah, in today's world, if
you have little kids, not when we grow up, but
if you have little kids, are you one of these?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Everybody gets a trophy. Everybody's a winner. Everybody's a winner.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I don't care if you just went out and finished
dead last and whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
You're a winner. You know why you tried. We're gonna
build your self esteem. So everybody's a winner. Everybody gets
a trophy. I don't want to relive the Little Owen story,
but everybody gets a trophy. We don't want anybody upset.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah, we're not gonna really haven't told that. You haven't
told that story in a couple of years. Fred, I can't.
I'm not gonna tell Little Owen. We're here to have
I know Ronnie. I know Ronnie. Ronnie was looking forward
to it. Here now, Little Owen, we're here to have fun.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
No, Owen, we're here to win. Winning is fun. Losing
makes you a loser. Are you a winner or a loser?
You want to have five?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
How old was this?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Like?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Seven? Acies? What does that mean? That mean mean Kevin?
What was that means? You're a mean old man? No
little much for us?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
If he was seventeen maybe seven.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's right, that's the problem. If you don't learn its seven,
you won't know it's seventeen, all right, all right? Anyway? Cool? So, uh,
what do you think of this, because apparently it's happening.
If you have kids, you've been to their graduation and
you know it won't matter what grade your child is in.
When they graduate, you cheer. The more people you bring,
the louder they yell. Probably gets loudest at college, right,
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they've committed four years, they pay, they've completed college, they're
ready to move out on their life. And when they
announce the name of the person walks across the stage,
everybody goes crazy and cheers.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
I'm especially partial to the people that have like the
giant horns and everything.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
That's my baby, that's why, that's right.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
That's my baby right.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
There, right. And you know what, normally, if you're a kid,
you're embarrassed if your parents or your family does that.
In that scenario, you're not. That's pretty cool. You made it,
you did it. Here's your degree. Off off to life.
You go, so, what do you think about this? There
is Oh, by the way, this happens when you graduate
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kindergarten too. The kids are a little smaller obviously, you know,
they know what they know. They really don't know what's
going on, but they know that they're going to have
their name announced, and they're going to walk across the
stage and wave and their parents are going to cheer.
But at this one school, there was some confusion and
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a concern. So somebody started to think, you know what,
not every kid that walks across the stage is going
to have the same number of people in the crowd.
You know, you might have mom and dad. This person
might have mom, dad, and grandma. You might only have
dad or mom. And we think it's going to be scarring,
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scarring if some kids get more applause than others, if
some kids get more reaction or response than others. So
what they did They instituted this rule. Here is the rule.
When someone rocks across the stage and their name is announced,
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you can do this. That's it. On clap. One clap,
Rodney Pete. That's it. One clap, not to one. Everybody
gets one clap because they don't want anybody upset, Rodney.
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It's not right if you have three people cheer for
you and little Owen has one. So what we'll do
is we'll make it fair for everybody. One clap.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Is that not one of the most absurd things you've
ever heard?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Okay, yes it is.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
You can't you can't regulate if you're a family that
you your kid may you know, nobody expected him to
graduate and everybody shows up and you've got a hundred
people showing up and you expect them to do only
one clap?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Are you kidding me? People that saw it said it
felt like a cult, a cult. We can't have anybody upset. Well,
you know, see this is a problem.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
This is a real problem with people not getting it
and we all were all the same, and we can't
have anybody emotionally upset.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
We can't do that. We won't do that. We're not
going to scour anyone's self esteem. But what we will
do to guarantee we don't hurt you is punish you.
You've got your grandparents, you've got your aunt and uncle,
you've got your brother. I know you're a little kid,
but everybody loves you. We can't do anything, because if
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we do, Ashley could be upset, and we don't want
to upset Ashley. She only has three people, you have six.
Therefore we can't upset her because that will ruin Ashley.
Forget you, You're unimportant, But Ashley, we can't upset. So
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one clap for everybody. How'm controlling? Is that? That's exactly
why we're where we're at right now?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
What what again? Remind us? What what year are we
in on this graduation?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
This is what?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
These are kindergarteners. These are kindergarteners. Yeah, and we are
not allowed to celebrate. No, the kindergarteners. Well, you can
with one clap, but you can't do anymore. How is
this even a rule? Well, how is it even get
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passed by the principal, the school board, anybody, superintendent, anybody
that this is something that is enforceable, because I'm telling
you right now, my family comes to either my graduation
or my kids graduating, my family, they will all be
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hooting and hollering and yelling and screaming and clapping, and
they're gonna have to run us about the building that
would not fly, And I'm sure it doesn't fly.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
With a number of families out there. This is so
stupid the more I read it. And somebody trying to
defend their position, and you know how you back yourself
into a corner you can't get out. Well, I do
it all the time on this show. But you know
how that works. You just pack yourself in trying to
double down. You keep doubling down on what you think
is right.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
And you, yeah, you back yourself even to corner by
saying just keep talking and you should not do that.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
What may it? Yeah, this is ridiculous. Well, here's the thing.
Here's the thing. How about this. How about no matter
whose name is announced, everybody claps day before the ceremony. Duh, Look,
the kids are all going to be here. There's twenty
of them. Everybody give them a round of applause when
they get announced. So then nobody feels like they're left out.
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And if you want to cheer a little louder for
your kids, feel free. But everybody give them a hand.
How about that instead of one clap?
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Now, this happens sometimes too. They'll say hold your applause
till the end, especially if it's a larger commencement and
there's a lot of people and They don't want a
lot of interruptions or whatnot. They'll just say, please, I
know you're excited that your son or grandson whoever's graduating.
Just hold your applause to the end. I would rather
that than one clap.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, you know, just like do that.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Hold your applause until
we tell you can clap or to the end, and
you can clap and go crazy to do whatever. But
to tell people and family members that you can't get
excited about your son, grandson, daughter, granddaughter, whomever, nephew, niece,
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that's absurd, it's ridiculous. Well I'll lead that uptight.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Yeah. I just think it's more. And this is where
we're at, and you may love it, you may not.
This is where we're at. Everybody's the same, everybody is
the same. We got to take care of everybody. You know,
this kid is really a good student. This kid right here,
this is a straight a student.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Okay, But you know something, we're not gonna you're not
gonna get anything for that. There's gonna be no reward
because billy who's battling, doesn't show up, doesn't do his homework,
who's got c's and d's. He's just as important and
if we salute you, then Billy you'll feel badly.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
We can't have that. We don't have Billy upseid, despite
the fact Billy doesn't work as hard, isn't as smart
and really doesn't care. We can't do that to Billy.
So you straight a's we will not even acknowledge. We're
not going to do that. It's little upset Billy. It's
asked backwards. It is backwards. Why are we not allowing
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people to clap for their kids because this one will
get upset? Why are we not acknowledging someone who has
accomplished something because this person will be be sad that
they didn't. That's why we where we're where we're at.
Everybody's not the same, and everybody knows that. It's like
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we're creating a generation of just robot using.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Everybody knows that, which I would say everybody knows that,
but not everybody accepts that.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
That's a thousand percent fair. Yeah, that is a thousand
percent fair. Not everybody accepts it, But there's so you're
gonna penalize the people. You're gonna penalize people for success.
You're gonna remove love from their families because it's unfair,
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is Kevin? Is it just me? Or is this messed up? Well?
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Yeah, the argument of what's going to cause emotional distress?
Maybe it does, but they're what five, They're not even
gonna remember this four years later, So this is not
something that's gonna scar them for life. If heaven forbid,
they had two people clap for them as opposed to
eight like one of their classmates did.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
If it does, and if it does, then the child
has bigger issues than that, correct, and the family has
bigger issues, I should say than that.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
So if the argument is that the kid's gonna be distraught,
maybe they will be, but it'll be temporary. They'll forget
about it pretty quickly after that, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
All right, Well, I just thought it was really interesting
and just ridiculous that you're gonna do that. That's why
I think that's why when people post on social media
and somebody comes back and refuse what they say or
basically calls them out, they become upset. What what what
are you talking about? What in the world are you
talking about? Don't you understand I said something? Yeah, but
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there's a consequence to that. No, there's not. There's no
consequence to anything. I can do whatever I want. Now,
you're being mean to me. Why would you be mean?
You ever notice that? I noticed that.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
All the time somebody posts something, someone says that's not right.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Or corrects it or calls them out. All of a sudden,
you're being mean. Why would you do something like that?
I guys, I told you the story about the guy
that said to Luca Lake and Burdbank, don't touch. Guy
on Facebook out here watches our little sit don't touch. Yeah,
here it is. I said, we live into Luca Lake
and it's right by the Burbank Airport. The guy says, no,
it's not. He writes, no it's not. I said, what
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do you mean I live there? Yeah, but I have
a map. It proves I live there. I know if
it touches. He goes, they don't. The neighborhoods don't even connect. Then,
what do you mean touch?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
You're talking about the neighborhoods don't touch each other, don't
connect each other, but they do.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Like I can't walk from one side of the street
and be into Luke Lake and be on the other
side of the street and be in Burbank.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Yes you can, because I'm pretty sure you can, be right.
So I said that you know what? He said, Uh huh,
I have a map and it says you can't do that.
I said, no, I know what it is. No, sorry,
you're wrong. So then what do I do? I explained it.
I explained it because this became kind of a deal.
(28:38):
So I put it on the show and said, well,
now here's what he said. But for you people that
don't understand, no, this is the reality. You know what
the guy says, Why were you mean to me? Why'd
you use my name? Now?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Why the hell did you write it in the first place?
Why do you mean so mean to me? Really? Right,
he puts it back on me. That's that's where we're at.
Why you be so mean to me? Don't clap for
this kid. If that one doesn't get applause either, it's
just a different time, Yes it is.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
My initial reaction was to say, you gave the guy
what he wanted, which was airtime. That's what I thought
he was fishing for. Here, I'll get to this back
and forth with Fred, and then Fred will mentioned me
and I'll get my time to shine. Whether I'm wrong
or not, because that's part of this social media thing too,
when people responding, oh.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yeah, reaction, reaction, reaction, reacting, reaction, they are.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Just trying to get a rise out of you.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, not the way it works out here. The last
thing you want to do is have me mention you.
That's the last thing.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
But worse than the police, Yeah, Fred, you're yeah, you are,
they do not want me to mention them. Every night
before we start, I say to the producer, all right,
who were going to piss off tonight?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Let's go oh, we're gonna get tonight. And we never
try to Oh oh no.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
I remember when we were out there doing that Spotlight
twenty nine and there were a number of people. It
was a it was a pro pro Fred crowd, don't
get me wrong, Prori, but there were little one sprinkled
in there that were like, Bred is a disruptor. For
Bred is a disruptor in this town. He has come
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in and ruffled some feathers, boy.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
And that's shocker, shocker. And you know what, And those
people that feel that way, they're the ones that go
for the one clap. They're the one clap people. When
they're here, they are yeah, okay, oh, we want to
go to soccer. Should we give you soccer tickets away? Oh?
We got to get him away, Freddie, come on, okay,
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Come on, come on, let's say let's finish strong Freddy
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Let's go all right, Kevin? Do we have a winner?
We do?
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love Cup, Club World Cup. I love the way you.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, your your global pronunciation tread is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Look, maybe you don't understand this, but I try to
Americanize everything. That's what I approach it. You know my problem.
If this was the Premier League, I can nail those
because I watched the Premier League, Golden Time other Premier
League before.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
But if you've not been to a English Premier League
game or match, I should say, because it's different, that's
got to be on a bucket list.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
You gotta go.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
You got to go to a Premier League game match.
Got keep saying game match. It's not like you've seen
in the States. The crowd, the energy, the atmosphere. If
you are watching Manchester United versus Liverpool, it will be
something that you've never seen before.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
It really is right, it has to be on your
bucket list. So years ago I think I told the story.
We saw Tottenham in their old stadium years ago. The
kids were little against Chelsea. They're so concerned about how
the supporters will react towards each other. They have horses
the sizes of dinosaurs lined up and if you're with
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the home team Tottenham and in with the old stadium,
you walk that side of the horse, and if you
were Chelsea you went on this side of the horse,
and monstrous.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
They did not want them interacting with each other going
into the stadium at the same time, crossing over and everybody.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Wore their colors, right, everybody wears the.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Colors of their team and you know who you're four
going in, So that doesn't surprise me that they had
the big giant what it's Clydesdale's. I mean it's not
quite Clydesdale, but same size as Clydesdale that were separating
the fan bases from each other.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah, they're huge. And then we went and saw Chelsea
play Everton at Chelsea some years later, a couple of
years ago, we went to Chelsea to Stamford Bridge. You
know they stand the whole game. Oh, the whole game.
It's like you're such a A and M. You're standing
the whole game. Yeah, and people are singing. Yeah, it's incredible. Yeah,
it's a great experience. Okay, well that'll put a button
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on this one for us today. See how the Dodgers
do again tonight, bullpen going Dodgers, bullpen game, still got them, Ronnie,
thank you, Kevin appreciated very much. Rodney back at it tomorrow,
right home.
Alright, we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on a
five to seventy LA Sports. I don't know what was
bigger last night. The Dodgers continuing to win, beating the
Padres and increasing their leader in the National League. Wife,
that was pretty big. Dodgers came from behind in the game,
they were down one nothing. That was pretty big. Yes,
(00:24):
But it's funny how all of that paled in comparison
to one inning. The first inning, actually the top of
the first inning. What happened after that didn't seem to
matter much because everybody was focused on that. Let's bring
up people.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
People can leave the stadium after that, after that first inning.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
They might as well have Dave, Welcome to the show.
How are you today?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Talk about the show? Fred. I would not have left
after that first inning. I would have stayed the show.
You know, you got so many great players that he's
still hitting too. I mean, that's part of the equation day.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
What was it like last night?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Fred, You and Rodney can appreciate this. This was not
just another baseball game. It was a sporting event, and
I would venture to say that it may be one
of the top Los Angeles sporting events of the season.
I mean, that's how big it was. That was the
electricity in the stadium last night. And look, there's fans here.
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They don't just arrive late all the time, but they're
doing stuff. They're joined the new center field plaza. But
last night was different. An hour before the game, fans
were already in their seats getting ready for first pitch.
And not just first pitch, they were getting ready to
see Otani warm up before the game. They were anticipating
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his emergence out of that dugout as a pitcher, and
when he did, it was a standing ovation an hour before,
about forty minutes before first pitch. Forty to fifty minutes
before first pitch. That doesn't happen every game, for every picture.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, yeah, Dave, you mentioned it.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Man, it was the anticipation of the whole night and
we didn't get a whole lot of time. Dave, it was,
you know, all along, everybody was reporting. I know, you know,
you're always up up on everything that is going on
with the team. But for the fans, we were thinking, okay,
after all Star break, that's when we're going to see him.
(02:26):
And that's what the reports were all the way. When
you first heard that he was pitching on Monday. First
of all, how how how early.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Did you know that?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And secondly, when you heard that that was going to happen,
that he was going to go last night, what was
your reaction.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I found out almost around the same time the Giants
traded for Raphael Devers on Father's Day. I found out
around the first inning of Sunday's game that that was
the plan, and that was going to be a postgame announcement.
So obviously not mind Lane to break that type of news,
but nonetheless that's when I found out, and Brandon Gomes,
the Dodgers GM said before the game yesterday, the decision
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was made twenty four to forty eight hours prior to
last night, that this was the route they were going
to go in. And I was talking to doctor Elatraj, who,
as you know, performed both elbow surgeries on Otani, and
he was still invested in last night, just like he
is with so many of the professional athletes he's worked on.
It's not just all right, I'm performing the surgery and
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you're out the door. But he was like an expectant
father during that first inning, and he was part of
the conversation with Otani and Andrew Friedman about what is
the best thing for Otani. So Rodney, they the plan
was always still to have him built up for after
the All Star Game. They just changed the method and
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the way they're going to do it. Rather than having
Otani pitch a simulated game every week, cool down and
then come back to play and DH they just figured
that that was not good for the recovery process and
could you know, risk fatigue, and as you know, fatigue
leads to injury. So that's why they all put their
heads together and felt like this was the best way
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to finish his rehab because he is in the final
stages of rehab, but he's doing it in a game.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That being said Dave, and we kicked it around. I'm
sure you feel the same way. He'd gone back out
and pitched again. So to him, he wants to go
how is this going to progress? Already worked one inning,
what twenty eight pitches? So what is the progression we're
going to see?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Yeah, Dave Roberts when I asked him after the game,
you know that first inning started to get a little extended.
Twenty eight pitches, and Dave Roberts said his last batter
was going to be Xander Bogart's and the pitch limit
was thirty pitches, So that gives you a sense of
where their head was that going into last night's game.
So he's going to pitch again in a week, and
I would venture to say he'll be allowed to go
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out there for a second inning, possibly a third if
he's efficient, and then from there gradually build up the
next time, four innings and so on. So by the
time it's post All Star Break is first start, he'll
be built up for a normal start, just like they
had anticipated going into this season.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, And Dave, you know, it was reported that you know,
as you said, you know, you talk to Brandon Gomes
and you talk to Dave Roberts, and they collectively said,
you know, we can't send him to a rehab assignment
in Ranchell, Cuckamonga or Oklahoma City, and why is he
doing these simulated games. We might as well just put
him in a real game and let him finish his
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rehab that way. And a lot of reports said that
it was a lot of it was Otani saying I'm ready,
let's go. I'm ready to go. When he goes out
the next time, and the next time and the next time.
How much is it going to be on the Dodgers
to kind of protect Otani from him, because I'm sure
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he's going to say, I can go fifty pitches, I
can go seventy pitches, let me go three. I mean,
he's probably that kind of competitor that wants to go
as long as he can to keep ramping up for
for not only the rest of the season, but for
the postseason. But is that a thing that the Dodgers
have to really be careful is protecting him from himself.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Well, Otani is very well aware that this is the
final stages of the rehab process, so I don't believe
he's going to try to push for more before the
All Star break. But once everybody declares them a normal
picture that is no longer rehabbing, then you may run
into that. Of course, I'm not sure if he ever
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tried to push Phil Nevin or Joe Madden for all that,
but certainly he's a competitor, and you know, in this
whole process, so Tani has been driving it because he's
been through it before. Dave Roberts conceded that the Dodgers
have never been through this before, so they allowed Otani
to drive of it, and you're just going to trust
have to trust him and what he's telling you.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Okay, Dave lost in all of this before we let
you go. Dodgers are playing pretty well now to two
or three from the Padres, two or three from the Giants.
Now they got the first one against the Padres again.
How are you feeling watching them against these good teams
during this stretch. Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Right, They're almost at the end of this twenty nine
game stretch where they were facing really good teams that
are in the playoff hunt. Again, they have found a
way to win. It didn't look great in Saint Louis,
and then they found a way to win the bookends
in San Diego to really get the good feeling back
after that blowout loss in the middle game. But it's
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all about the offense s threatch. It goes back to
the World Series last year, the postseason. The Dodger offense
makes this team go. If the offense is not scoring runs,
they are not going to win. At this point in time,
with how thin their pitching is, the offense has willed
them to a lot of wins. They have come back
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in games more than any other team in Major League
Baseball over twenty wins from behind, including last night. So
it's all about the offense. I know, we get so
caught up in the pitching and we take this offense
for granted that is tops in every single major category
in Major League Baseball. But it's all about the offense.
Is this is a full octane offense and if it
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gets shut down, it's going to be tough to win.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
All right, Dave, thanks for coming on. Really appreciate it.
By the way, You're on Sports dot LA again tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Right, yeah, back again tonight and Kirsten Watson will be
back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
All right, Dave, let me ask you this because you
know I had some experience in TV. Are you wearing
makeup when you're on TV?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
They have me put on making What kind of question
is that?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Fred? You know he is everybody does. No, I didn't
know if you were working the sideline. If you're working
the sideline, yes, everybody does. You have a makeup person
and they tell you, yes, get a little makeup, get
the shine off. Right? Why are you asking.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Him that I normally do? Is that what he's he's like? No,
this guy does not look this good.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
No, not at all. But I was just killing don't dummy, Allen,
don't dumb me up.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I know what he's doing, Rodney, and I have no
I have no qualms about admitting what goes on behind
the curtains.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I would make up all the time. We makeup. So
why are you asking that? Yeah, listen, I mean I
don't even work on TV anymore, and I wear makeup,
I know, But why are you asking that? Because you
know the answer. No, I really didn't know.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Videos you look makeup. You got a lot of makeup
on Fred on those Instagram videos.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Well yeah you can tell, right Dave. Yeah, body all right, Dave,
thank you, appreciate it. Man, have a good afternoon.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Thank you, guys.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
There goes David. There is some thing that we have
noticed what we watch baseball, Rodney. I want to talk
about that when we come back. Okay. You know, if
you pay close attention to things, you pick stuff up.
We watch a lot of baseball, and there's one continuing
(10:17):
theme and we should talk about it.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
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Speaker 2 (10:38):
Oh come on now, come on now, it's winding down
on a Tuesday ride to Pete Fred Rogan.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Come on. So we watch a lot of baseball. My
wife and my sons do. Yeah, and when I'm there,
I do as well. We have the MLB package. Everybody
watches baseball all the time. I mean weekend games start
ten o'clock on a Saturday morning, all the way through
the Dodgers at night. There's always a baseball game on.
We love watching baseball. And there's something they picked up
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which I hadn't noticed, because they actually watch it more
than I do because they have the opportunity to. It
doesn't matter what game you're watching. Pick a game Toronto Miami.
If you're watching the Blue Jays and the Marlins, at
some point, somebody's gonna mention the Dodgers on the broadcast,
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just something they've done, a player they've acquired. Maybe it's Otani.
If you're watching the Reds and the Mariners, at some point,
somebody will bring up the Dodgers. Every time they have
watched a game out of market, someone has brought up
the Dodgers. Every single time, and that if you really
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think about it, is it doesn't matter who's playing. Somehow
the Dodgers come up. That tells you how baseball feels
about the Dodgers. That tells you what the country believes
when it comes to the Dodgers. It emphasizes that everybody thinks,
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what do they win it all or not? The Dodgers
are the best organization, Rodney, and they do it the
right way. Yes, yes, no, I would agree with you.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And you know, the Dodgers have always been that iconic
franchise that other franchise has aspired to be and they've
they've done that for a number of years. Even when
they were back in Brooklyn before we were born. They
were a great franchise that rivaled the Yankees, and they
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had to battle with the Yankees while in New York,
Dodgers in Brooklyn, you know, Yankees in the Bronx there
was it was the city was split between the both
of them. Dodgers town. They have their own identity and
they created that here in la which was really an
iconic move in which they did it because there were
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any MLB teams west of the Mississippi at that point
and the Dodgers were the first. They convinced the Giants
to come with them, and the Giants and the Dodgers.
You know, obviously we created that rivalry which they had
in New York and they created it out here out west.
But nowadays, yes, it's hard to look at Major League
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Baseball or talk about Major League Baseball without mentioning the Dodgers.
Even if you're in a casual conversation, the Dodgers will
always come up because of Number one, the brand, the
number two of the stars that they have, and number three.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
The one star that is global in Otani. Yeah, it's
it's fascinating. I've never seen anything like it. I mean,
you sit in and watch these games. Uh, you know, Arizona
and Colorado, they don't mention the Yankees. They mentioned the Dodgers.
Saint Louis and Detroit. Dodgers will come up. Every game
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somebody says something about the Dodgers, despite the fact the
Dodgers aren't playing there. Yeah, it's it's really fascinating, and
it just speaks to what they've done and what they've
built and the way. Are you surprised a little bit?
Are you a little bit? I can't believe everybody can
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work the Dodgers into a conversation once again, HM, Seriously,
Kansas City is playing Texas. At one point somebody will
say something about the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Maybe it's it's Kevin Bacon syndrome, right, it's the you know,
sixth degrees of separation, but it's Kevin Bacon and that,
regardless of you're talking about, there was some interaction with
the Dodgers. You said you mentioned Texas. Obviously Corey Seeger
plays for the Rains. You go, you know, so there's
going to be that reference to the Dodgers. You go
(15:13):
around the league, you talk about Boston in this Raphael
Devers big gigantic trade, which is you know, was the.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Move of the year.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
In twenty twenty five of him going from Boston to
the San Francisco Giants. But in the midst of that conversation,
it didn't even have to go that long that people
start talking about, well, let's look at the Red Sox
and the Red Sox obviously they traded and got rid
of Mookie Betts, who's at the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yes, right, so they likeing that.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So there's always some sort of relatability of the Dodgers
to every situation that you talk about and sports, especially
baseball nowadays.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I know it's just interesting, all right. No, I want
to give you a scenario. Yeah, in today's world, if
you have little kids, not when we grow up, but
if you have little kids, are you one of these?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Everybody gets a trophy. Everybody's a winner. Everybody's a winner.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I don't care if you just went out and finished
dead last and whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
You're a winner. You know why you tried. We're gonna
build your self esteem. So everybody's a winner. Everybody gets
a trophy. I don't want to relive the Little Owen story,
but everybody gets a trophy. We don't want anybody upset.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah, we're not gonna really haven't told that. You haven't
told that story in a couple of years. Fred, I can't.
I'm not gonna tell Little Owen. We're here to have
I know Ronnie. I know Ronnie. Ronnie was looking forward
to it. Here now, Little Owen, we're here to have fun.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
No, Owen, we're here to win. Winning is fun. Losing
makes you a loser. Are you a winner or a loser?
You want to have five?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
How old was this?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Like?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Seven? Acies? What does that mean? That mean mean Kevin?
What was that means? You're a mean old man? No
little much for us?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
If he was seventeen maybe seven.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's right, that's the problem. If you don't learn its seven,
you won't know it's seventeen, all right, all right? Anyway? Cool? So, uh,
what do you think of this, because apparently it's happening.
If you have kids, you've been to their graduation and
you know it won't matter what grade your child is in.
When they graduate, you cheer. The more people you bring,
the louder they yell. Probably gets loudest at college, right,
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they've committed four years, they pay, they've completed college, they're
ready to move out on their life. And when they
announce the name of the person walks across the stage,
everybody goes crazy and cheers.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
I'm especially partial to the people that have like the
giant horns and everything.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
That's my baby, that's why, that's right.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
That's my baby right.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
There, right. And you know what, normally, if you're a kid,
you're embarrassed if your parents or your family does that.
In that scenario, you're not. That's pretty cool. You made it,
you did it. Here's your degree. Off off to life.
You go, so, what do you think about this? There
is Oh, by the way, this happens when you graduate
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kindergarten too. The kids are a little smaller obviously, you know,
they know what they know. They really don't know what's
going on, but they know that they're going to have
their name announced, and they're going to walk across the
stage and wave and their parents are going to cheer.
But at this one school, there was some confusion and
(18:33):
a concern. So somebody started to think, you know what,
not every kid that walks across the stage is going
to have the same number of people in the crowd.
You know, you might have mom and dad. This person
might have mom, dad, and grandma. You might only have
dad or mom. And we think it's going to be scarring,
(18:55):
scarring if some kids get more applause than others, if
some kids get more reaction or response than others. So
what they did They instituted this rule. Here is the rule.
When someone rocks across the stage and their name is announced,
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you can do this. That's it. On clap. One clap,
Rodney Pete. That's it. One clap, not to one. Everybody
gets one clap because they don't want anybody upset, Rodney.
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It's not right if you have three people cheer for
you and little Owen has one. So what we'll do
is we'll make it fair for everybody. One clap.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Is that not one of the most absurd things you've
ever heard?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Okay, yes it is.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
You can't you can't regulate if you're a family that
you your kid may you know, nobody expected him to
graduate and everybody shows up and you've got a hundred
people showing up and you expect them to do only
one clap?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Are you kidding me? People that saw it said it
felt like a cult, a cult. We can't have anybody upset. Well,
you know, see this is a problem.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
This is a real problem with people not getting it
and we all were all the same, and we can't
have anybody emotionally upset.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
We can't do that. We won't do that. We're not
going to scour anyone's self esteem. But what we will
do to guarantee we don't hurt you is punish you.
You've got your grandparents, you've got your aunt and uncle,
you've got your brother. I know you're a little kid,
but everybody loves you. We can't do anything, because if
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we do, Ashley could be upset, and we don't want
to upset Ashley. She only has three people, you have six.
Therefore we can't upset her because that will ruin Ashley.
Forget you, You're unimportant, But Ashley, we can't upset. So
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one clap for everybody. How'm controlling? Is that? That's exactly
why we're where we're at right now?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
What what again? Remind us? What what year are we
in on this graduation?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
This is what?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
These are kindergarteners. These are kindergarteners. Yeah, and we are
not allowed to celebrate. No, the kindergarteners. Well, you can
with one clap, but you can't do anymore. How is
this even a rule? Well, how is it even get
(22:01):
passed by the principal, the school board, anybody, superintendent, anybody
that this is something that is enforceable, because I'm telling
you right now, my family comes to either my graduation
or my kids graduating, my family, they will all be
(22:24):
hooting and hollering and yelling and screaming and clapping, and
they're gonna have to run us about the building that
would not fly, And I'm sure it doesn't fly.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
With a number of families out there. This is so
stupid the more I read it. And somebody trying to
defend their position, and you know how you back yourself
into a corner you can't get out. Well, I do
it all the time on this show. But you know
how that works. You just pack yourself in trying to
double down. You keep doubling down on what you think
is right.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
And you, yeah, you back yourself even to corner by
saying just keep talking and you should not do that.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
What may it? Yeah, this is ridiculous. Well, here's the thing.
Here's the thing. How about this. How about no matter
whose name is announced, everybody claps day before the ceremony. Duh, Look,
the kids are all going to be here. There's twenty
of them. Everybody give them a round of applause when
they get announced. So then nobody feels like they're left out.
(23:24):
And if you want to cheer a little louder for
your kids, feel free. But everybody give them a hand.
How about that instead of one clap?
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Now, this happens sometimes too. They'll say hold your applause
till the end, especially if it's a larger commencement and
there's a lot of people and They don't want a
lot of interruptions or whatnot. They'll just say, please, I
know you're excited that your son or grandson whoever's graduating.
Just hold your applause to the end. I would rather
that than one clap.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, you know, just like do that.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Hold your applause until
we tell you can clap or to the end, and
you can clap and go crazy to do whatever. But
to tell people and family members that you can't get
excited about your son, grandson, daughter, granddaughter, whomever, nephew, niece,
(24:17):
that's absurd, it's ridiculous. Well I'll lead that uptight.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Yeah. I just think it's more. And this is where
we're at, and you may love it, you may not.
This is where we're at. Everybody's the same, everybody is
the same. We got to take care of everybody. You know,
this kid is really a good student. This kid right here,
this is a straight a student.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Okay, But you know something, we're not gonna you're not
gonna get anything for that. There's gonna be no reward
because billy who's battling, doesn't show up, doesn't do his homework,
who's got c's and d's. He's just as important and
if we salute you, then Billy you'll feel badly.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
We can't have that. We don't have Billy upseid, despite
the fact Billy doesn't work as hard, isn't as smart
and really doesn't care. We can't do that to Billy.
So you straight a's we will not even acknowledge. We're
not going to do that. It's little upset Billy. It's
asked backwards. It is backwards. Why are we not allowing
(25:19):
people to clap for their kids because this one will
get upset? Why are we not acknowledging someone who has
accomplished something because this person will be be sad that
they didn't. That's why we where we're where we're at.
Everybody's not the same, and everybody knows that. It's like
(25:40):
we're creating a generation of just robot using.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Everybody knows that, which I would say everybody knows that,
but not everybody accepts that.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
That's a thousand percent fair. Yeah, that is a thousand
percent fair. Not everybody accepts it, But there's so you're
gonna penalize the people. You're gonna penalize people for success.
You're gonna remove love from their families because it's unfair,
(26:13):
is Kevin? Is it just me? Or is this messed up? Well?
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Yeah, the argument of what's going to cause emotional distress?
Maybe it does, but they're what five, They're not even
gonna remember this four years later, So this is not
something that's gonna scar them for life. If heaven forbid,
they had two people clap for them as opposed to
eight like one of their classmates did.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
If it does, and if it does, then the child
has bigger issues than that, correct, and the family has
bigger issues, I should say than that.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
So if the argument is that the kid's gonna be distraught,
maybe they will be, but it'll be temporary. They'll forget
about it pretty quickly after that, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
All right, Well, I just thought it was really interesting
and just ridiculous that you're gonna do that. That's why
I think that's why when people post on social media
and somebody comes back and refuse what they say or
basically calls them out, they become upset. What what what
are you talking about? What in the world are you
talking about? Don't you understand I said something? Yeah, but
(27:17):
there's a consequence to that. No, there's not. There's no
consequence to anything. I can do whatever I want. Now,
you're being mean to me. Why would you be mean?
You ever notice that? I noticed that.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
All the time somebody posts something, someone says that's not right.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Or corrects it or calls them out. All of a sudden,
you're being mean. Why would you do something like that?
I guys, I told you the story about the guy
that said to Luca Lake and Burdbank, don't touch. Guy
on Facebook out here watches our little sit don't touch. Yeah,
here it is. I said, we live into Luca Lake
and it's right by the Burbank Airport. The guy says, no,
it's not. He writes, no it's not. I said, what
(27:56):
do you mean I live there? Yeah, but I have
a map. It proves I live there. I know if
it touches. He goes, they don't. The neighborhoods don't even connect. Then,
what do you mean touch?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
You're talking about the neighborhoods don't touch each other, don't
connect each other, but they do.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Like I can't walk from one side of the street
and be into Luke Lake and be on the other
side of the street and be in Burbank.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Yes you can, because I'm pretty sure you can, be right.
So I said that you know what? He said, Uh huh,
I have a map and it says you can't do that.
I said, no, I know what it is. No, sorry,
you're wrong. So then what do I do? I explained it.
I explained it because this became kind of a deal.
(28:38):
So I put it on the show and said, well,
now here's what he said. But for you people that
don't understand, no, this is the reality. You know what
the guy says, Why were you mean to me? Why'd
you use my name? Now?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Why the hell did you write it in the first place?
Why do you mean so mean to me? Really? Right,
he puts it back on me. That's that's where we're at.
Why you be so mean to me? Don't clap for
this kid. If that one doesn't get applause either, it's
just a different time, Yes it is.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
My initial reaction was to say, you gave the guy
what he wanted, which was airtime. That's what I thought
he was fishing for. Here, I'll get to this back
and forth with Fred, and then Fred will mentioned me
and I'll get my time to shine. Whether I'm wrong
or not, because that's part of this social media thing too,
when people responding, oh.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yeah, reaction, reaction, reaction, reacting, reaction, they are.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Just trying to get a rise out of you.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, not the way it works out here. The last
thing you want to do is have me mention you.
That's the last thing.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
But worse than the police, Yeah, Fred, you're yeah, you are,
they do not want me to mention them. Every night
before we start, I say to the producer, all right,
who were going to piss off tonight?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Let's go oh, we're gonna get tonight. And we never
try to Oh oh no.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
I remember when we were out there doing that Spotlight
twenty nine and there were a number of people. It
was a it was a pro pro Fred crowd, don't
get me wrong, Prori, but there were little one sprinkled
in there that were like, Bred is a disruptor. For
Bred is a disruptor in this town. He has come
(30:15):
in and ruffled some feathers, boy.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
And that's shocker, shocker. And you know what, And those
people that feel that way, they're the ones that go
for the one clap. They're the one clap people. When
they're here, they are yeah, okay, oh, we want to
go to soccer. Should we give you soccer tickets away? Oh?
We got to get him away, Freddie, come on, okay,
(30:40):
it's the twenty twenty five FIFA Club World Cup at
the Rose Bowl. Eight six six nine eighty seven two
five seventy Rodney. Who's going? I like number four?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
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Speaker 2 (31:13):
Come on, come on, let's say let's finish strong Freddy
Rodney p Fred Rogan on a beautiful Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Let's go all right, Kevin? Do we have a winner?
We do?
Speaker 5 (31:28):
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not the World Cup, this is World Cup. Yes, club
love Cup, Club World Cup. I love the way you.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, your your global pronunciation tread is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Look, maybe you don't understand this, but I try to
Americanize everything. That's what I approach it. You know my problem.
If this was the Premier League, I can nail those
because I watched the Premier League, Golden Time other Premier
League before.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
But if you've not been to a English Premier League
game or match, I should say, because it's different, that's
got to be on a bucket list.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
You gotta go.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
You got to go to a Premier League game match.
Got keep saying game match. It's not like you've seen
in the States. The crowd, the energy, the atmosphere. If
you are watching Manchester United versus Liverpool, it will be
something that you've never seen before.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
It really is right, it has to be on your
bucket list. So years ago I think I told the story.
We saw Tottenham in their old stadium years ago. The
kids were little against Chelsea. They're so concerned about how
the supporters will react towards each other. They have horses
the sizes of dinosaurs lined up and if you're with
(33:31):
the home team Tottenham and in with the old stadium,
you walk that side of the horse, and if you
were Chelsea you went on this side of the horse,
and monstrous.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
They did not want them interacting with each other going
into the stadium at the same time, crossing over and everybody.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Wore their colors, right, everybody wears the.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Colors of their team and you know who you're four
going in, So that doesn't surprise me that they had
the big giant what it's Clydesdale's. I mean it's not
quite Clydesdale, but same size as Clydesdale that were separating
the fan bases from each other.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah, they're huge. And then we went and saw Chelsea
play Everton at Chelsea some years later, a couple of
years ago, we went to Chelsea to Stamford Bridge. You
know they stand the whole game. Oh, the whole game.
It's like you're such a A and M. You're standing
the whole game. Yeah, and people are singing. Yeah, it's incredible. Yeah,
it's a great experience. Okay, well that'll put a button
(34:29):
on this one for us today. See how the Dodgers
do again tonight, bullpen going Dodgers, bullpen game, still got them, Ronnie,
thank you, Kevin appreciated very much. Rodney back at it tomorrow,
right home.
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