June 2, 2025 • 43 mins
The Dodgers took 2 of 3 against the Yankees over the weekend, which included a comeback win over Max Fried and a blowout victory on Saturday afternoon. Could the NFL Draft eventually go away? After all of the talk of Bronny James being lightyears away from being an NBA player, one NBA executive thinks he will be in the Lakers' regular rotation next season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sports Rodney, How you doing today, Ah, Freddie, I'm doing good.
I'm doing good. Had a good weekend. How about yourself?
Doing fine? Thanks for asking. Saw you at the game
on TV with Magic Friday. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was
doing uh doing doing the rounds, Freddy. I was doing
the rounds man, just enjoying myself and it was a
great atmosphere. I was able to go Saturday as well.
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But yeah, Friday night and Saturday were great, especially you know,
the Friday night come back. I was that was fantastic.
But it did you know, it definitely had the energy
of a playoff atmosphere. And obviously when you get the
Yankees and Dodgers together, normally it's that way, but the
two World Series teams it even added to it. But
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but no, it was great. I thought it was great
for a great weekend for the Dodgers, considering the ups
and downs, the amount of people that's been hurt, and
to come out and have that kind of showing this
weekend was great. It would have been fantastic to get
the sweet but two out of three from those guys
is still pretty good. I was pretty pretty upset though,
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after I saw the Apple broadcast to be honest with you.
When I was watching Upset, I was upset and I
was upset at the amount of disrespect shown you. Is
they some guy sitting next to Magic? I mean I
was actually pretty ticked off you were. Yeah, So I'm
saying I didn't see it. I didn't see it, So
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why were you right? You couldn't You wouldn't see it.
And that's my point. They zoom it on Magic, right,
and I knew you were sitting next to him because
I saw your arm. Okay, then they took another shot
of him and it came around the other way and
it conveniently framed you out. Oh no, And my point
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was this, And you know, everybody can do whatever they want.
And Apple did a nice job doing the game. Their
production crew. Don't they know who you are? And I'm
not and I'm not talking about a guy that does
a radio show now, I'm not talking about that. You
know what I'm talking about. Don't know. You made international
news exactly by saving your wife's life in Japan, exactly exactly,
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Fred Least, my guys that Fox understood they got me.
They got me, you know when that happened in Japan.
But Apple, you know, Apple still got a ways to go, Freddie,
They've still got a ways to go in covering sports
and baseball in particularly. So, yeah, I just wanted to
point that out, Rodney, I wasn't. I appreciate it. I
appreciate it, you know, I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Crap.
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All right, yeah, all right, So let's talk about the
games over the weekend. We both thought they would win
two of three. We thought they would win Friday and
Sunday and Saturday they would get beat. We could not
have been more wrong about Saturday. Yeah, but let's start
with the Friday game. Uh, you know, Aaron Judge AT's
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the home run on the first inning, and I'm thinking,
oh god, here we go, all right, I mean, this
guy is as advertised. And then Otani ends up hitting one,
and then Otani hits two, and then the Dodgers methodically
beat them in that Friday night game. If it was
a duel, And we said going into that, you know,
you have Otani and you have Aaron Judge, and really
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those are the headliners, right, Yeah, you know, hey, we're
having a show here, but the headliners are and Otani.
One night, one, big time and nationally, nationally, I think,
and it's impossible to do, but he get it up
the stock. He won Night one big time, and the
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Dodgers winning that game, Oh yeah, without a doubt. I
thought it was fantastic. You know, anytime you get to
respond like Otani did. Look, Aaron Judge is phenomenal, you know,
and we're heavily Otani on you know, this side of
the Mississippi and everywhere else but back east. You know,
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Aaron Judge is still Aaron Judge. What Aaron Judge has
done in the last three years is phenomenal, phenomenal and
just a tremendous hitter. And every time he steps up,
you feel like that ball is going to be crushed somewhere.
And he let off that game with that home run.
Freddie's like ooh. The crowd was like ooh ah, you know,
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like every crowd does when he's up with the plate
and it's home run. But for Otani to respond like
that in the first inning had got everybody on their
feet was amazing because it was you know, we always
talk about Otani he's kind of like the mild mannered guy,
but deep down inside, and we've said this, he got
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a lot of dog in him Fred, He's got a
lot of dog in him. And I guarantee you he's
sitting there on the bench watching that home run by Judge,
He's like, I gotta get one. I gotta get one,
and he sure enough did and brought the house down,
which it was incredible response to that of their Yankee
power guy, say no, we got ours, we got our guy,
and he responded in that fashion that which was fantastic.
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It just and it set the tone for the night
and for the whole series, which was great because the
two superstars came to play. Yeah, that was a great start.
They get the first one. You're feeling good. Max Freed,
by the way, I know you love Max Freed. I
just have never look Blake Snell hadn't pitched, and I
think the Dodgers made a better choice and sign of
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Max Freed. I know you love him. I know you've
known him since he's a kid. I know he's from
out here. I don't every time I see him, he
just doesn't instill a lot of confidence in me, despite
the fact he was unbeaten coming into the game. Yeah,
how does that work? I don't know, I don't know.
I think it is Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you what
I think it is because I've had him in fantasy
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so many times. I really watch him, Okay, I mean
I really in baseball season because we played fantasy baseball,
so I really watch guys. And every time I've had him,
he's never done anything for me. So that's why you
blame him. Like that guy he used to came up
come up to me after game, said I lost money
on you. You guys didn't cover Rodney what. I don't
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even know what the spread was. We talk about it
didn't cover. I'm not I'm not playing for you. And
that's the way you are. Fred With Max Freed, he
was the ace for the Atlanta Braves and was their guy.
Got paid a ton of money to go to the Yankees.
He's their ace and we got after him a little bit. Yes,
but Max Freed is top three pitcher in the league. Freddy, Okay, well,
I wouldn't sign him on my fantasy team. I'm just
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saying that, and that's always the barometer for me. Okay,
I get it. I get it. You know, I only
have so much money to spend too on my fantasy team.
So if I'm not going to sign a guy, then
I've already put him in a certain category. All right, Now,
let's go to Saturday. What happened Saturday? And there were
a few times and you listen to the radio station
and you're a sports fan, so we talk about stuff.
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I have to tell you, honestly, whether you believe it
or not, the majority of people do not talk about sports.
The majority of people. We're a small group that speaks loudly.
Most people could care less. Sunday, I must have run
into ten people that said to me, oh my god,
did you see what the Dodgers did to those guys
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last night? That is random, random people, random people. That
was sort of life changing. That was a beat down
to the ultimate degree. And here's the thing. You're not
gonna have a good game every game. You know, once
in a while, you're gonna get beat Somebody clubbed the
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Dodgers earlier this year. Yeah, not too long ago. They
got beat down where it was over in the fifth inning. Yeah,
they get to remember that. Mickey Rojas's pitching. Yeah, all right,
it was one of those. But the problem was, in
this situation, it's the Yankees and the Dodgers. You don't
want to get beat down in this one. If Cincinnati
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got you on a random Thursday, Okay, that's fine. I
mean it happened. But this on national television. These two
to get destroyed like that, that hurts. That is humiliating.
That's not one they're going to forget. It's that's more
than one in you know, one sixty two. That is
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one that's going to stay with them for years. To
get pummeled like that. You were there, What was it like?
It was? It was a party for it. That's the
only way I could describe it. It was a party
in the stands from get go, you know, from that
first inning on. I think that what they score four
to six in the first inning, six or four in
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the second inning, it was it was a party and
it just like now it's time to celebrate, and everybody was.
It was, like you said, you don't expect to beat
down that when two Titans play and it's on national TV,
you know, and especially the way the game went Friday
night where the Dodgers came back and won it, you know,
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kind of a little bit of a dogfight. But to
get that kind of performance and beat down eighteen to
two against the Yankees, you know, best team in the
American League. You didn't expect it, and you get it
at home. It was it was phenomenal. So yeah, it
was a party. It was a party from the first
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pitch and on at Dodger Stadium, and everybody loved it.
And even it was a you know a lot of
times when it gets into the sixth seventh inning and
like and it's that kind of blowout. You see people leaving.
People didn't leave. People wanted to see it be twenty
five to two. You know. Of course, the only two
runs where again Aaron Judge hit two home runs, were
the only two runs for the Yankees. But it almost
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made it. And maybe this was psychological for the Dodgers.
It almost made Sunday kind of whatever. You know, I
know that everybody's looking for the sweep, Dodger fans looking
for the sweep, and you got Yamamoto on the mound.
But after you come off of eighteen to two beat
down like that Saturday night to take two out of
the first two games from the Yankees, it is like, okay,
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that that is gravy. And if we sweep, yeah that's
you know, a little extra. But if we don't, we
still beat him eighteen to two on Saturday, you know,
and so I guess it didn't make the the Dodgers
not sweeping sting as hard as is. Maybe it would
have been if the game was tight or you know,
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certainly if the Dodgers lost. But yeah, so Sunday was
kind of okay, we got beat, we got beat. But man,
the first two nights it was dominant Dodgers. I look
at it the same way. I felt badly for Yamamoto.
I don't like to see him get knocked around. Yeah,
I'm just not a fan of that. I liked to
see ya Momoto really perform. It's been hit a little
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bit lately, he has, But you know, you look at these,
you know, you look at the game and you start
to analyze it and the series of events that happened
along the way that causes that. You had a chance
to get out of that inning first in with only
one run, and you remember there's a base at the
paez and he overthrew the catcher will Smith, And that
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was the first thing, because the guy was dead to rights.
I think he started to throw when the guy was
barely touching third base. I don't know why the third
base coach sent them, but he just to any kind
of throw where he would have him out at the
plate for the third out, and then he overthrows him
and Yamamoto gets it and throws theakiki at second base.
They got him at second base and KK dropped the ball.
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They're out of that inning, and that led to I
think three more runs or two more runs in that inning,
which then led to him throwing thirty something pitches in
that inning as well. So it's just and I know
it wasn't his best day to have his best stuff,
but I gotta believe that's certain things. If they got
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out of that inning the way they should have got
out of it, anying, it might have been a different store. Yeah,
you're right, that's fair, and that pretty much set the tone.
They just didn't have the juice to come back on Sunday.
But overall, a very successful series against the Yankees and
the beginning of a very difficult stretch because here come
to Mets. Now, everybody in this next series of games
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the next week and a half or so can play,
so this will be pretty good to see how the
Dodgers fare against competitors like this year at the Mets,
the Giants, the Padres, so it'll be fun to watch
these games coming up. But it is remarkable that the
Dodgers are where they're at. We said it last week,
but when you actually look, when you actually look at
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this number, this one number, it's insanity. First, after starting
eight to no, they are twenty eight and twenty three,
all right, so there's still more up than down. And
if you want to look at legitimate championship contenders, they're
twelve and ten, okay, so they're still more up than down.
But this is insane when you think about it. They
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now have this season fifteen pitchers on the injured list.
Fifteen granted some of them haven't shown up yet, but
they're still on the injured list. They were guys that
were going to be counted on codepak, that kind of thing.
Fifteen pitchers, that's insanity. That would decimate another organization, That's
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what I was going to say. Or what other organization
could withstand that? What I mean, I don't know if
there's another one that could withstand that fifteen on the
on the IL and they're still where they are. Only
the Dodgers could do that. Only the Dodgers, with that
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lineup and the depth that they have could pull that off,
and if another team couldn't, you wouldn't be surprised. We say, oh, well,
you know it's expected because you know they got so
many guys injured. But with the Dodgers, you look at
it and go, you still Dodger fans still go, we
should be better than what we are right now. We should.
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I mean, I know we got a pretty good record,
but we should be better that they ain't taking an
into account that there's so many games. Well, but it
is remarkable that they're able to withstand all of that.
Just imagine, imagine when they start to get guys coming back.
All right, do you know all fifteen? Uh Luis Garcia
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just went with a right abductor strain. Kirby Yates is on.
Sazaki's on. Evan Phillips, he's done for the year. Blast
now he's transferred to the sixty day il Blake trying
and Blake Snell. Michael Grove, well, he's done for the year.
Graderol hadn't even shown up yet. Emma Sheen, don't forget
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about him. He's there. Edgardo Enriquez is there, River Ryan
is there. Don't forget about him. Gavin Stone fifteen guys
fifteen and some of those guys on there, like Gavin
Stone River, Ryan Abe, they would be the guy who yeah,
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absolutely and that we're big for him last year. Yeah yeah,
but you know, but that's the Dodgers. They're getting tremendous
you know performance out of cesspitus, right, They're getting you know,
Landing Neck had a great performance. You know. You know,
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banda had a couple of struggles of late, but band
has been pretty good for him. So they've they the
depth is the thing that's pretty encouraging because every time
he said this a couple of years ago, who is
that guy pitching? They had a couple of that guy
on the hell they had a couple of those guys. Yeah,
I said, watch him one night last night. Where'd that
guy come from? Who's that is that guy? Yeah? Yeah,
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they're they're they're getting that division. So many guys are hurt.
They're getting close to the who the hell is that?
Where'd he come from? Yeah? It was crazy with the
you know, looking at that game on Sunday yesterday, you know,
the Dodgers obviously faced Freed and they got you know,
their big time guys and then uh Yarborough comes in
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who was a Dodger who you know, his fastball tops
out at ninety. You know, he's throwing, you know, from
a ninety mile an hour fastball to a seventy six
mile an hour curveball. And they could not hit him.
They couldnot touch him. You know, I think that what
the top four guys went over and didn't get a hit.
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He was spectacular for them, which I did not expect him.
And he speaks pretty good and he's crafty, and that
just goes to show you that if you hit your
spots and location, you know, like we were talking about,
is that we were just talking about, he's just not
hitting his spots, he's just not hitting his location. Last
week that Dave Roberts said as well, Tanner Scott, Tanner Scott, Yes,
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Tanner Scott, he was throwing the ball right down the
middle and he was getting hit where y'all bro if
the way he was pitching, he was nibbling around the corners, nibbling, nibbling, nibbling,
making guys chase, getting enough cold strike here and there,
and they just could not touch him. They could not
touch him. So it's an art always, and we've said
this is art to pitching. You can't just be a thrower.
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You got to be a pitcher. And he pitched yesterday
and it was very impressive. That guy's pretty good, even
when he was with the Dodger. Yes, the majority of
his out were very solid. Yeah, you know. And then
somebody said, oh my god, I just realized he's throwing
forty three miles an hour. I'll hit him. I mean,
that happened. But aside from that, I mean, he was
pretty gun when I was here. One is our intact
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that occurred. Mooky, Oh, Mooky fractured his tall and didn't
play and there's nothing they can do about it. It's
just pain tolerance. Did you ever injure yourself like that?
Oh yeah, yeah, I remember. It's almost similar. Stuffed my
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toe slipping out out of the shower and it is
uh and but this was my big toe. And I
don't think this is Mookie's big toe. I think it's
the second digit, right, But I stuffed. I stubbed my
big toe and it was a painful, painful thing. And
it was on my right foot. So as a quarterback,
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you plant on your right foot, and it was extremely
painful to be able to do that. And be able
to go out and try to play with that, and
then you know, it bothers you for a few weeks afterwards.
So you know, thank god it's not the big toe,
but even still, when it's on your foot and you
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got to turn and twist and not only at the
plate but all the movements that you got to do
playing shortstop. Hopefully it's not too bad, but that could
be very difficult going forward for him, and he's just
you know, he's he's had a tough go to start
the season with the sickness and the illness, losing thirty
pounds and then trying to come back from that and
then now you got the toe. What is it just
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pain management? Now? Yeah, it's it's pain management and basically
stand off of it for like they you know, obviously
didn't play him. But there's not much you can do.
I mean you can't. You can't really go have surgery.
Surgery's not gonna really do anything, you know, it's just
really a matter of managing the pain. I don't know
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if he's gonna have to get it shot up before
every game and you' want to continue doing that, but
there will be moments I think that he will they
will protect him and not put him in the lineup
night in the night out. I think he'll have some
rest over the next couple of weeks when he starts playing.
But but it's one of those things. Unfortunately, get can
linger for a long period of time. So what are
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you saying, you shoot him up here? He plays in
the shot yet last one game or two? Oh no,
it'll last just one game. Okay, you have to get
that thing shot up, you know, every time he goes
out and plays, you said next week or so. Yeah,
but you don't want to do it all the time. No, no,
you don't want to live and you know with that
every single week for the next month, you know, which
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is why I'm sure they'll give him some days off.
And then the worst part is that you don't want
to have a setback because the least little thing will
set you back to square one. So I think they
are being very cautious with him when he comes back
and held him out. So it starts to feel better.
But it's a freaky thing and everybody's different, so you
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don't know how long it's gonna linger. But no, you
do not want to have to shoot it up every
single game. You play different different in football because it's
once a week, right, you know, we're in baseball, you're
playing every day pretty much, and that would be an
everyday shot. All right, let's do some housekeeping. I should
have mentioned this at the top, but I didn't, so
I'll mention it now. Somebody's going to see the Dodgers
and Mets tonight. Oh yes, did I kind of bury
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the lead today on that cap a little bit just
to smich. Yeah, I should have mentioned that when we
came on the air. We have two pairs of tickets
for you. You're not gonna win both pairs. You get
a pair at a time, but you could win a
pair of tickets to the game tonight against the Mets
at the stadium, and two pairs. So what we'll give
one pair away this hour to give people notice. Is
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that how we should do it?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Or we can do that, or we can do one
next hour, one in the two o'clock hour. The world
is your oyster, Fred.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Let's do that one during the one o'clock hour, one
pair during the two o'clock hour. That still gives you
a chance to get there and tell your ballsh you
have to leave early, all right, So that we have
and we have this. We invite you to the All
New Sketchers store on PCH at Crenshawn Torrents. We're gonna
be there Friday from noon to two. Now I learned
today at that event Rodney, we're giving away ten pairs
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of tickets to a Dodger game. Wow, ten in ten
pairs in two hours. In two hours. So yeah, I
tell you what. Get back to the people. That's what
we do. Well, they never let us out of here,
so apparently they're gonna let us out one time and
they're gonna let us go crazy. So we have ten
pairs of Dodger tickets to give away between noon and
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two at the New Sketchers and Torrents. It's on PCH. Also,
the first thousand customers some will score a free Sketcher's
tote or hat, so they've got swag. There is more.
If you get there early enough for a limited time,
they'll buy you buy two pairs of shoes, you get
a third free. So they're going all out for this thing. Okay,
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buy two pair, get a third free. I like that. Yeah,
I might have to do that myself, but you got
to get there early. Yeah, you do you got to
get there early. So that's on Friday noon, did you owe?
And Norman Powell the Clippers will be there, that's right
as our guest shooting some threes. I bet you he will.
And again, if you didn't hear us when we talked
about it Friday, I will warn you now, do not
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piss off Norman Powell. Do not make that mistake that guy.
When you watch him play, he gives you a look.
I'm surprised at night, like ten people dead because his
looks killed. He is not a guy to mess around with.
Could be the nicest guy in the planet. But just
don't give him a dirty look, all right, don't upset
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him because if you do, you're going to pay the price.
And when when everybody have fun at Sketchers, I wonder if, yeah,
I might ask him Fred I wonder if he works
on that look or is it something that's just always
been in him and we got to ask him that, Yeah,
and you ask him, Yeah, I'll ask him. Yeah, I'm
not asking them. I'll not making that mistake. You don't
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want to get that look. I want to get out
of there a live Friday, so you know the deal.
Sketcher's Friday, we want everybody there pch and Torrents and
today two pairs of Dodger Mets tickets. So you think
all my ideas are stupid, I know you do. Guess what,
maybe one of my ideas was pretty good and other
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people are now talking about it and we'll talk about
it next. Oh that's right, Hope. You had a great weekend.
The Dodgers did, Rodney Pete Fred Rogan on a Monday
full So today, baby, let's go. All right? So I
said this, everybody thinks I'm crazy. I understand the way
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teams are built in this country is wrong, and the
draft is awful. And I've said and Kevin got mad,
and Rodney you said I was nuts. There's a problem
with the draft. When leagues allow players to be selected,
they do it basically in reverse order finish, because they
want parody and all of the owners to have an
opportunity to market and make money. My theory is this,
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if you win, you get the first pick, you get
the top pick. If you win, you don't get rewarded
for losing. The counter argument to that is, well, then
how in the world do you improve? You can never improve,
You're just stuck. You can't climb out of the hole
because the best team always gets the best players, all right,
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And everybody thinks I'm stupid for saying that I got
it first. I'm not, but I got it, no problem.
So Mike Florio Pro Football Talk was writing, and Peter King,
noted football writer for years NFL expert, has been writing,
I think the draft is wrong. The idea of the
draft is incorrect. Now, the NFL makes a lot of
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money on the draft, so they know how to market everything,
and I've turned it into a major two night TV event.
But it's wrong. And they're saying there needs to be
a new system to select players that come out of college.
This work, This does not work. And they called un american,
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So Rodney, if you disagree with them, that means you're
a communist. And I don't think you want to be
a communist. Yeah, communy, stop it, stop it. They're wrong too.
But are they suggesting the same thing that you suggest,
Fred when they say the draft is wrong and unamerican
and all of that. Are they suggesting that the top teams,
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the teams that finish at the top to get the
first pick. Are they suggesting that I don't think they are, Fred, No,
they're not. At least I have a suggestion. They're not
suggesting that approach, but they are suggesting something else other
than this. Because I think this is wrong. I'm sorry.
You do not get rewarded for sucking. You should not.
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You shouldn't get a prize for finishing last. So so
in the years that you know, when the Lakers had
a three peat and Golden State won three out of four, right,
so you're suggesting that the Golden State Warriors should have
gotten the top pick in the draft three out of
those four years to make them an even better team
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and stronger team and more of a dynasty. Yes, imagine
if there was Yeah, imagine if it was just now
right that the Golden State was in this run right now,
whomever is in a run. So you're suggesting that that
team would get that team went back to back, one title,
back to back. Sure they would get Wemby. Yes, but
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here's and Cooper flag. Correct, but here on a team
that just won the title. Yes, But now we have
to add something, as you were speaking that does seem
a little absurd.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
A little take thank Fred.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
First of all, I don't know why you had to
jump in on that and second of all, to use
the qualifier a little. So here's what you would have
to do. So I'm kind of working it out right now,
but I think it's a good plan. Okay, you do
get the number one pick if you win, but you
must give up and all the players would be have ratings.
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So in other words, if a guy's a ten a
ten rating, Steph Curry's a ten rating, okay, if you
take the number one pick, you must sacrifice your ten rating.
You must put them into the pool to go to
another team. So if Wemby is a ten, Wemby's first
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pick and Steph Curry is a ten rating, you can
take Wemby, but you have to give up Steph Curry,
or you keep Steph Curry and you pass on your
first round pick. How about that? That's the dumbest thing
I've ever heard? Is that dumb? Oh? You know that
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didn even warn a response. So, okay, so you have it.
You have picks, and you gotta your picking. What's the
what would be the point of winning to get the
first pick if you got to give up your superstar
Because in theory, if you think Wemby's a ten, everybody
gets raided now, so if Wemby's at ten, you have
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to give up a ten. Maybe the first pick is
only a six this year, okay, And we do it analytically,
so everybody has a number value a rating. So if
the first pick is a six and you want it,
you have to give up one of your sixes, and
that person goes immediately into the draft. That's terrible. That's
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never going to work. Okay. Oklahoma City gets it right. Okay,
so they got the Cooper flag comes out. There's no
way they're taking Cooper flag and to give up SGA correct,
So that means they've lost their draft pick and the
second get a draft pick. No, they're out. Now, that's
the dumbest thing in the world. I I don't even
know how you open your mouth. He say something like that.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
So well, the one thing I'll say in Florio has
been on this for years too, is just like Peter
King wrote this a couple of weeks ago, and he
jumped on board and say, wow, someone actually sort of
agrees with me. His issue is more about the aspect
of labor versus ownership, and in what other situation does
the labor not have the opportunity to choose where they go.
He's on that side of it. It's not about the
worst teams having the first shot to get the best players.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
And I didn't think so. I didn't think they agree
with Fred.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, it's more about labor versus ownership and me not
having the right to choose or the ability to choose
even a couple of places where I can go, and
me just being automatically drafted to whoever decides they.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Want to choose me.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
That's the angle that he's coming at with.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
This is for that right. So, yeah, if if Cleveland
or Jacksonville has the first pick, that whoever it is,
the top rated player as a choice of going there,
or five other teams if he wants to, or six
other teams or ten other teams if he wants to,
as opposed to being slotted to go to Cleveland. Correct, Yeah,
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but that means he gets to pick where he goes,
and I don't think the teams are That's un american, Fred,
that's un american. You can talk about un american, right,
that's an American. Is not allowing somebody to pick where
they want to go, right, I understand, But that's not
gonna happen because you're not gonna let this guy pick
wherever he wants to go, because what the hell, Cooper Flag,
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you know where I'm going. I'm going to Oklahoma City.
That's my decision. I get to pick. Are they gonna
let that happen? Really? I will pick the best team
to go to. That is my call. Caleb Williams to
talk of him not wanting to go to the Bears.
Maybe he wanted to he said this year, Well, that
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wasn't such a bad idea where he wanted to go.
I want to go to the Rams? Does that mean
the Rams get him? He gets to pick. That's not
gonna work. That'll never work. I gotta let guys pick
where they go. That's even dumber than my idea.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
No, it's not personal. It's you're right, that's not gonna
happen either. But your idea is absolutely not happening.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Makes the most sense. That absolutely does not make this
most sense is absurd.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Not even come up with these arbitrary rave who's a
one or ten?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Exactly? And then so so you you go through a
draft and if you decide I want to keep my
players because we just want to tiele, why am I
going to break this up? So you don't even get
a draft pick. You're out. No. Wait, so see there's drama,
an intrigue, and you have to think about it. You
have to make a decision. Maybe it would you maybe
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you would pick a player given a five value and
then move one of your fives out right. You wouldn't
have to necessarily pick the top player, but you could.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Where are these value systems coming from there? And is
this like a BCS kind of thing going on with
computers and stuff? Red, like, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
No, it's going to be it's going to be analytically driven.
It's your numbers with your age factored in and other things,
and we'll put it into the computer and it'll spit
it out and that's your rating. And we'll do the
same thing for the college college kids coming out, and
we'll put it in and that's your rating. So if
you have the first pick, you want to take a ten,
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you have to give up a ten. And if you
want to take a seven, you got to give up
to seven. That's how you do it. You should be
rewarded for winning, not penalized. The current system penalizes you
for winning, and that's wrong. You all laughed. One day,
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they're going to have computers called balls and strikes. That'll
never happen. Okay, well I did, and I was on
board from day one on that, so okay, well it's
going to happen, all right. Now, you're completely different than
it is doing. What you're talking about is just you know,
the rating system for guys being drafted that is never
going to happen. Look, I disagree. I get why you
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said this. When I had the idea if baseball games
going to extra innings and they are putting that guy
in second base, remember my idea.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yes, a home run derby, home run derby, Justin Turner,
agree with you, by the way, home run going to
question both of you on that.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
See that would have been the best idea, very exciting
home run derby. We don't even need to keep playing
home run run derby. Kind of like penalty kicks in soccer.
Huh exactly. Yeah. One guy goes up, he gets uh,
what do you have ten swings? Let's give him ten
and only one guy, Only one guy gets to go.
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You pick one guy from each team, right, It's like
a shootout in hockey. You pick one at a time.
If we're tied after the first home run derby, another
guy goes up, but then you get five swings after
the first ten, so it doesn't go on as well.
That's a good rule, don't you think? No? Why? Why
is that a bad rule?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
At least with the man on second base, you still
have to earn that run and get the guy across.
There's still a semblance of baseball being played. Home run
derby's a gimmick.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
You know what? And later we'll talk about this. Why
don't you go tell the Savannah Bananas they're a gimmick.
I want to talk about that. Excuse me? Did they
sell out a couple of stadiums here?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
They did?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Major league stadiums, Yes, they did. And what does that tell.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
You that people love gimmicks when they know that it's
a gimmick.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Oh, they think that's real. They do. Nobody thinks that's
a gimmick.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
All right, everybody's haying the Savannah Bana's play the Dodgers tomorrow.
We'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Yeah, why you got to dog people out for what
they like? That's what I want to know. Somebody likes
something you're saying, they don't think it's a gimmick. It's
definitely they know it's a gimmick when they go into
the stadium and once the guys with crazy hats on
their heads and and wearing their jock straps on the
outside of their pants and dancing in between innings. They
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know it's a gimmick. You're saying, they don't know it's
a gimmick. Why do you have to be the arbiter
of what people like? People like what they like? Okay, now,
what I'm gonna tell you is not a joke. Not
a joke, and if you look at the numbers, it
kind of makes sense. Kind of Ronnie James could be
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in the Laker rotation next year. So let's talk about that, Okay.
Today's afternoon Delight is Easy Lover by Myrie Silis. This
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song is one of thirteen tracks that appears on a
singer's ninth studio album. It's titled Something Beautiful What's Dropped
over the Weekend. The album rise ahead of the premiere
of It's a Company short film, which set to debut
tomorrow at the Tribeca Film Festival before theaters nationwide next Thursday. Again,
Today's Afternoon Delight is Easy Lover by Miley Cyrus. Yes,
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easy lover all right. So what we have here is
an unnamed NBA executive, and the executive says that Bronnie
James is likely to be in the regular rotation next
year for the Lakers. Why this person would say it,
I don't know who said it. It's put your name
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on it if you go say it, unnamed, unnamed NBA executive.
Why would they do that? Maybe they believe it. Uh
maybe as a friend to Clutch Sports, I don't know,
don't know, but they said it. But then you look
at this and you look at something. Because when I
was talking to Kevin about it this morning and went, oh, God,
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that cannot be this guy. No, there's no way he
can be a rotation player for the Lakers. But then
when you look at something, you go, oh, maybe things
are a little different than you thought. So the executive
said that what he had done Rodneys, he had grown
a great deal during the season, but when he started
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to the end, split in time with the Lakers and
the G League. But by the end of the season
in the G League he was averaging twenty one point
nine points a game. Now with the Lakers, he didn't,
you know, he didn't do much. But did you know that?
Did you know that? No? I did not, And I
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looked at Kevin and I went, oh god, well then
maybe I didn't know that either. You didn't know it either. No, No,
there was almost twenty two points a game in the
G League. Oh yeah, you didn't hear a who a
lot about that. You didn't hear anything about it. Yeah,
he only played what eleven games in the G League,
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but he's averaging twenty two points a game. If that
obviously it's real because we pulled it up. If that's real,
I guess you could see him. I mean, he'd be
like that guy. But he's not what I'm saying, nobody's
I don't think he's saying that he's gonna be the
six guy off the bench and win six Man of
the Year. But if he's, you know, I think they're
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looking up and going, wow, look at Okay. See they're
playing with ten eleven guys and you know, uh, you know, Indiana,
they're nine ten players deep in their rotations. Why not us?
Not every one of those guys from seven through ten
are superstars, but they're filling time, they fill a role.
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So maybe they're looking at like this that this is
a this is a new wave of the NBA. As
the Lakers found out, you can't play the same five
guys for the entire second half. You have to you
have to find guys that can rotate in it. And
even if it's you know, two three minutes at a time,
you can do that. So I don't put it past
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him to have a lot of growth from year one
U two, getting in the NBA, being around that atmosphere,
working at his game, working at his craft, and then
they see something going, okay, we can utilize him in
special situations or in certain situations where you can give
us two to three minutes perhaps, or something like that.
Not the realm. Again, I'm not saying or I'm sure
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they're not saying that he's going to be six Man
of the Year, but who knows. Yeah, well right now
they're not even saying they're going to do that. But
someone is saying they're going to do that. And when
you look at it, you think, wow, it was just
it was really striking to see what he had done.
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It was striking to see that he had done that. Yeah,
and then you think to yourself, at least this is
just me, Okay, if he was able to do that,
why in the world wouldn't they have left him down
there more to get even better? You know, if he
was able to do that. Okay, well what if he
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had played thirty games down there? Yeah? How many games
did they actually play in the G League? Well, you
know this has eleven.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
No, no, no, a total schedule of games.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Okay, yeah, check that, you know, And I know it
is a big deal. I'm with you, though, I think
he should have spent the majority time in the G
League working on it, given the fact that he didn't
didn't play much at USC, given and you know, the
hard situation that he had there, he needed to just
go play, and you know, probably should have played a
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lot more than what he did and it continued to
work on his craft. But I think they did. They
probably saw something. It's like, Okay, you got more potential
than we thought he did or what people think he does.
And and and we're gonna we got a full off
season to try to work on this and and see
what we can come up with and get him some
playing time.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
They played thirty four games this past thirty four.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Yeah, they have been good. If he played like twenty
twenty five games. It would have been It would have
been great for him.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
He's are an argument to be made. And I know
they don't practice much today in the NBA, of him
going up and playing in practice against the big time
Laker team every now and then. Now granted they practiced
what once twice a week if even that these days,
but they playing practicing against the best versus playing real
games against lesser competition. Getting a mix between the two.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Yeah, I mean, maybe to go out and practice once
in a while. But they played thirty four games and
he got hurt, right, he was hurt for a little
bit four stretch there. Yeah, Okay, I think he should
have played every game in the G League except when
he was hurt. If he missed three four games, however
many it was, then he misses those games. But he
doesn't go traveling all over the country with the Lakers.
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He stays in the G League and gets better. Because
if this is what he really did, and apparently is
what he really did, then you gotta let him continue
to grow. You got to. You have to come that opportunity.
So yeah, and I know people pooh poo on the
G League, but they you know, it's still pretty good
competition down there, Guys trying to make it, Guys trying
to make a name for himself. And you know, you know,
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it's not gonna be a bunch of slackers in the
G League because they're all trying to make it to
the NBA. So guys were competing. I'm not saying it's like,
you know, the NBA or any stretched like that, but
there was competition for him to deal with, and I thought,
you know, I agree with you. I think it had
been better if he if he played at least twenty
games down there. Okay, don't forget next hour, we're gonna
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get our first pair of tickets away for the Dodgers
and Mets. The game is tonight at the stadium. You'll win,
you go to the stadium. It'll be that simple. Also,
when we come back, Ned Colletti joins the show.
Sports Rodney, How you doing today, Ah, Freddie, I'm doing good.
I'm doing good. Had a good weekend. How about yourself?
Doing fine? Thanks for asking. Saw you at the game
on TV with Magic Friday. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was
doing uh doing doing the rounds, Freddy. I was doing
the rounds man, just enjoying myself and it was a
great atmosphere. I was able to go Saturday as well.
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But yeah, Friday night and Saturday were great, especially you know,
the Friday night come back. I was that was fantastic.
But it did you know, it definitely had the energy
of a playoff atmosphere. And obviously when you get the
Yankees and Dodgers together, normally it's that way, but the
two World Series teams it even added to it. But
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but no, it was great. I thought it was great
for a great weekend for the Dodgers, considering the ups
and downs, the amount of people that's been hurt, and
to come out and have that kind of showing this
weekend was great. It would have been fantastic to get
the sweet but two out of three from those guys
is still pretty good. I was pretty pretty upset though,
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after I saw the Apple broadcast to be honest with you.
When I was watching Upset, I was upset and I
was upset at the amount of disrespect shown you. Is
they some guy sitting next to Magic? I mean I
was actually pretty ticked off you were. Yeah, So I'm
saying I didn't see it. I didn't see it, So
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why were you right? You couldn't You wouldn't see it.
And that's my point. They zoom it on Magic, right,
and I knew you were sitting next to him because
I saw your arm. Okay, then they took another shot
of him and it came around the other way and
it conveniently framed you out. Oh no, And my point
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was this, And you know, everybody can do whatever they want.
And Apple did a nice job doing the game. Their
production crew. Don't they know who you are? And I'm
not and I'm not talking about a guy that does
a radio show now, I'm not talking about that. You
know what I'm talking about. Don't know. You made international
news exactly by saving your wife's life in Japan, exactly exactly,
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Fred Least, my guys that Fox understood they got me.
They got me, you know when that happened in Japan.
But Apple, you know, Apple still got a ways to go, Freddie,
They've still got a ways to go in covering sports
and baseball in particularly. So, yeah, I just wanted to
point that out, Rodney, I wasn't. I appreciate it. I
appreciate it, you know, I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Crap.
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All right, yeah, all right, So let's talk about the
games over the weekend. We both thought they would win
two of three. We thought they would win Friday and
Sunday and Saturday they would get beat. We could not
have been more wrong about Saturday. Yeah, but let's start
with the Friday game. Uh, you know, Aaron Judge AT's
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the home run on the first inning, and I'm thinking,
oh god, here we go, all right, I mean, this
guy is as advertised. And then Otani ends up hitting one,
and then Otani hits two, and then the Dodgers methodically
beat them in that Friday night game. If it was
a duel, And we said going into that, you know,
you have Otani and you have Aaron Judge, and really
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those are the headliners, right, Yeah, you know, hey, we're
having a show here, but the headliners are and Otani.
One night, one, big time and nationally, nationally, I think,
and it's impossible to do, but he get it up
the stock. He won Night one big time, and the
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Dodgers winning that game, Oh yeah, without a doubt. I
thought it was fantastic. You know, anytime you get to
respond like Otani did. Look, Aaron Judge is phenomenal, you know,
and we're heavily Otani on you know, this side of
the Mississippi and everywhere else but back east. You know,
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Aaron Judge is still Aaron Judge. What Aaron Judge has
done in the last three years is phenomenal, phenomenal and
just a tremendous hitter. And every time he steps up,
you feel like that ball is going to be crushed somewhere.
And he let off that game with that home run.
Freddie's like ooh. The crowd was like ooh ah, you know,
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like every crowd does when he's up with the plate
and it's home run. But for Otani to respond like
that in the first inning had got everybody on their
feet was amazing because it was you know, we always
talk about Otani he's kind of like the mild mannered guy,
but deep down inside, and we've said this, he got
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a lot of dog in him Fred, He's got a
lot of dog in him. And I guarantee you he's
sitting there on the bench watching that home run by Judge,
He's like, I gotta get one. I gotta get one,
and he sure enough did and brought the house down,
which it was incredible response to that of their Yankee
power guy, say no, we got ours, we got our guy,
and he responded in that fashion that which was fantastic.
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It just and it set the tone for the night
and for the whole series, which was great because the
two superstars came to play. Yeah, that was a great start.
They get the first one. You're feeling good. Max Freed,
by the way, I know you love Max Freed. I
just have never look Blake Snell hadn't pitched, and I
think the Dodgers made a better choice and sign of
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Max Freed. I know you love him. I know you've
known him since he's a kid. I know he's from
out here. I don't every time I see him, he
just doesn't instill a lot of confidence in me, despite
the fact he was unbeaten coming into the game. Yeah,
how does that work? I don't know, I don't know.
I think it is Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you what
I think it is because I've had him in fantasy
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so many times. I really watch him, Okay, I mean
I really in baseball season because we played fantasy baseball,
so I really watch guys. And every time I've had him,
he's never done anything for me. So that's why you
blame him. Like that guy he used to came up
come up to me after game, said I lost money
on you. You guys didn't cover Rodney what. I don't
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even know what the spread was. We talk about it
didn't cover. I'm not I'm not playing for you. And
that's the way you are. Fred With Max Freed, he
was the ace for the Atlanta Braves and was their guy.
Got paid a ton of money to go to the Yankees.
He's their ace and we got after him a little bit. Yes,
but Max Freed is top three pitcher in the league. Freddy, Okay, well,
I wouldn't sign him on my fantasy team. I'm just
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saying that, and that's always the barometer for me. Okay,
I get it. I get it. You know, I only
have so much money to spend too on my fantasy team.
So if I'm not going to sign a guy, then
I've already put him in a certain category. All right, Now,
let's go to Saturday. What happened Saturday? And there were
a few times and you listen to the radio station
and you're a sports fan, so we talk about stuff.
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I have to tell you, honestly, whether you believe it
or not, the majority of people do not talk about sports.
The majority of people. We're a small group that speaks loudly.
Most people could care less. Sunday, I must have run
into ten people that said to me, oh my god,
did you see what the Dodgers did to those guys
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last night? That is random, random people, random people. That
was sort of life changing. That was a beat down
to the ultimate degree. And here's the thing. You're not
gonna have a good game every game. You know, once
in a while, you're gonna get beat Somebody clubbed the
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Dodgers earlier this year. Yeah, not too long ago. They
got beat down where it was over in the fifth inning. Yeah,
they get to remember that. Mickey Rojas's pitching. Yeah, all right,
it was one of those. But the problem was, in
this situation, it's the Yankees and the Dodgers. You don't
want to get beat down in this one. If Cincinnati
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got you on a random Thursday, Okay, that's fine. I
mean it happened. But this on national television. These two
to get destroyed like that, that hurts. That is humiliating.
That's not one they're going to forget. It's that's more
than one in you know, one sixty two. That is
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one that's going to stay with them for years. To
get pummeled like that. You were there, What was it like?
It was? It was a party for it. That's the
only way I could describe it. It was a party
in the stands from get go, you know, from that
first inning on. I think that what they score four
to six in the first inning, six or four in
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the second inning, it was it was a party and
it just like now it's time to celebrate, and everybody was.
It was, like you said, you don't expect to beat
down that when two Titans play and it's on national TV,
you know, and especially the way the game went Friday
night where the Dodgers came back and won it, you know,
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kind of a little bit of a dogfight. But to
get that kind of performance and beat down eighteen to
two against the Yankees, you know, best team in the
American League. You didn't expect it, and you get it
at home. It was it was phenomenal. So yeah, it
was a party. It was a party from the first
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pitch and on at Dodger Stadium, and everybody loved it.
And even it was a you know a lot of
times when it gets into the sixth seventh inning and
like and it's that kind of blowout. You see people leaving.
People didn't leave. People wanted to see it be twenty
five to two. You know. Of course, the only two
runs where again Aaron Judge hit two home runs, were
the only two runs for the Yankees. But it almost
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made it. And maybe this was psychological for the Dodgers.
It almost made Sunday kind of whatever. You know, I
know that everybody's looking for the sweep, Dodger fans looking
for the sweep, and you got Yamamoto on the mound.
But after you come off of eighteen to two beat
down like that Saturday night to take two out of
the first two games from the Yankees, it is like, okay,
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that that is gravy. And if we sweep, yeah that's
you know, a little extra. But if we don't, we
still beat him eighteen to two on Saturday, you know,
and so I guess it didn't make the the Dodgers
not sweeping sting as hard as is. Maybe it would
have been if the game was tight or you know,
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certainly if the Dodgers lost. But yeah, so Sunday was
kind of okay, we got beat, we got beat. But man,
the first two nights it was dominant Dodgers. I look
at it the same way. I felt badly for Yamamoto.
I don't like to see him get knocked around. Yeah,
I'm just not a fan of that. I liked to
see ya Momoto really perform. It's been hit a little
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bit lately, he has, But you know, you look at these,
you know, you look at the game and you start
to analyze it and the series of events that happened
along the way that causes that. You had a chance
to get out of that inning first in with only
one run, and you remember there's a base at the
paez and he overthrew the catcher will Smith, And that
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was the first thing, because the guy was dead to rights.
I think he started to throw when the guy was
barely touching third base. I don't know why the third
base coach sent them, but he just to any kind
of throw where he would have him out at the
plate for the third out, and then he overthrows him
and Yamamoto gets it and throws theakiki at second base.
They got him at second base and KK dropped the ball.
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They're out of that inning, and that led to I
think three more runs or two more runs in that inning,
which then led to him throwing thirty something pitches in
that inning as well. So it's just and I know
it wasn't his best day to have his best stuff,
but I gotta believe that's certain things. If they got
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out of that inning the way they should have got
out of it, anying, it might have been a different store. Yeah,
you're right, that's fair, and that pretty much set the tone.
They just didn't have the juice to come back on Sunday.
But overall, a very successful series against the Yankees and
the beginning of a very difficult stretch because here come
to Mets. Now, everybody in this next series of games
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the next week and a half or so can play,
so this will be pretty good to see how the
Dodgers fare against competitors like this year at the Mets,
the Giants, the Padres, so it'll be fun to watch
these games coming up. But it is remarkable that the
Dodgers are where they're at. We said it last week,
but when you actually look, when you actually look at
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this number, this one number, it's insanity. First, after starting
eight to no, they are twenty eight and twenty three,
all right, so there's still more up than down. And
if you want to look at legitimate championship contenders, they're
twelve and ten, okay, so they're still more up than down.
But this is insane when you think about it. They
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now have this season fifteen pitchers on the injured list.
Fifteen granted some of them haven't shown up yet, but
they're still on the injured list. They were guys that
were going to be counted on codepak, that kind of thing.
Fifteen pitchers, that's insanity. That would decimate another organization, That's
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what I was going to say. Or what other organization
could withstand that? What I mean, I don't know if
there's another one that could withstand that fifteen on the
on the IL and they're still where they are. Only
the Dodgers could do that. Only the Dodgers, with that
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lineup and the depth that they have could pull that off,
and if another team couldn't, you wouldn't be surprised. We say, oh, well,
you know it's expected because you know they got so
many guys injured. But with the Dodgers, you look at
it and go, you still Dodger fans still go, we
should be better than what we are right now. We should.
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I mean, I know we got a pretty good record,
but we should be better that they ain't taking an
into account that there's so many games. Well, but it
is remarkable that they're able to withstand all of that.
Just imagine, imagine when they start to get guys coming back.
All right, do you know all fifteen? Uh Luis Garcia
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just went with a right abductor strain. Kirby Yates is on.
Sazaki's on. Evan Phillips, he's done for the year. Blast
now he's transferred to the sixty day il Blake trying
and Blake Snell. Michael Grove, well, he's done for the year.
Graderol hadn't even shown up yet. Emma Sheen, don't forget
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about him. He's there. Edgardo Enriquez is there, River Ryan
is there. Don't forget about him. Gavin Stone fifteen guys
fifteen and some of those guys on there, like Gavin
Stone River, Ryan Abe, they would be the guy who yeah,
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absolutely and that we're big for him last year. Yeah yeah,
but you know, but that's the Dodgers. They're getting tremendous
you know performance out of cesspitus, right, They're getting you know,
Landing Neck had a great performance. You know. You know,
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banda had a couple of struggles of late, but band
has been pretty good for him. So they've they the
depth is the thing that's pretty encouraging because every time
he said this a couple of years ago, who is
that guy pitching? They had a couple of that guy
on the hell they had a couple of those guys. Yeah,
I said, watch him one night last night. Where'd that
guy come from? Who's that is that guy? Yeah? Yeah,
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they're they're they're getting that division. So many guys are hurt.
They're getting close to the who the hell is that?
Where'd he come from? Yeah? It was crazy with the
you know, looking at that game on Sunday yesterday, you know,
the Dodgers obviously faced Freed and they got you know,
their big time guys and then uh Yarborough comes in
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who was a Dodger who you know, his fastball tops
out at ninety. You know, he's throwing, you know, from
a ninety mile an hour fastball to a seventy six
mile an hour curveball. And they could not hit him.
They couldnot touch him. You know, I think that what
the top four guys went over and didn't get a hit.
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He was spectacular for them, which I did not expect him.
And he speaks pretty good and he's crafty, and that
just goes to show you that if you hit your
spots and location, you know, like we were talking about,
is that we were just talking about, he's just not
hitting his spots, he's just not hitting his location. Last
week that Dave Roberts said as well, Tanner Scott, Tanner Scott, Yes,
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Tanner Scott, he was throwing the ball right down the
middle and he was getting hit where y'all bro if
the way he was pitching, he was nibbling around the corners, nibbling, nibbling, nibbling,
making guys chase, getting enough cold strike here and there,
and they just could not touch him. They could not
touch him. So it's an art always, and we've said
this is art to pitching. You can't just be a thrower.
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You got to be a pitcher. And he pitched yesterday
and it was very impressive. That guy's pretty good, even
when he was with the Dodger. Yes, the majority of
his out were very solid. Yeah, you know. And then
somebody said, oh my god, I just realized he's throwing
forty three miles an hour. I'll hit him. I mean,
that happened. But aside from that, I mean, he was
pretty gun when I was here. One is our intact
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that occurred. Mooky, Oh, Mooky fractured his tall and didn't
play and there's nothing they can do about it. It's
just pain tolerance. Did you ever injure yourself like that?
Oh yeah, yeah, I remember. It's almost similar. Stuffed my
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toe slipping out out of the shower and it is
uh and but this was my big toe. And I
don't think this is Mookie's big toe. I think it's
the second digit, right, But I stuffed. I stubbed my
big toe and it was a painful, painful thing. And
it was on my right foot. So as a quarterback,
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you plant on your right foot, and it was extremely
painful to be able to do that. And be able
to go out and try to play with that, and
then you know, it bothers you for a few weeks afterwards.
So you know, thank god it's not the big toe,
but even still, when it's on your foot and you
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got to turn and twist and not only at the
plate but all the movements that you got to do
playing shortstop. Hopefully it's not too bad, but that could
be very difficult going forward for him, and he's just
you know, he's he's had a tough go to start
the season with the sickness and the illness, losing thirty
pounds and then trying to come back from that and
then now you got the toe. What is it just
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pain management? Now? Yeah, it's it's pain management and basically
stand off of it for like they you know, obviously
didn't play him. But there's not much you can do.
I mean you can't. You can't really go have surgery.
Surgery's not gonna really do anything, you know, it's just
really a matter of managing the pain. I don't know
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if he's gonna have to get it shot up before
every game and you' want to continue doing that, but
there will be moments I think that he will they
will protect him and not put him in the lineup
night in the night out. I think he'll have some
rest over the next couple of weeks when he starts playing.
But but it's one of those things. Unfortunately, get can
linger for a long period of time. So what are
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you saying, you shoot him up here? He plays in
the shot yet last one game or two? Oh no,
it'll last just one game. Okay, you have to get
that thing shot up, you know, every time he goes
out and plays, you said next week or so. Yeah,
but you don't want to do it all the time. No, no,
you don't want to live and you know with that
every single week for the next month, you know, which
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is why I'm sure they'll give him some days off.
And then the worst part is that you don't want
to have a setback because the least little thing will
set you back to square one. So I think they
are being very cautious with him when he comes back
and held him out. So it starts to feel better.
But it's a freaky thing and everybody's different, so you
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don't know how long it's gonna linger. But no, you
do not want to have to shoot it up every
single game. You play different different in football because it's
once a week, right, you know, we're in baseball, you're
playing every day pretty much, and that would be an
everyday shot. All right, let's do some housekeeping. I should
have mentioned this at the top, but I didn't, so
I'll mention it now. Somebody's going to see the Dodgers
and Mets tonight. Oh yes, did I kind of bury
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the lead today on that cap a little bit just
to smich. Yeah, I should have mentioned that when we
came on the air. We have two pairs of tickets
for you. You're not gonna win both pairs. You get
a pair at a time, but you could win a
pair of tickets to the game tonight against the Mets
at the stadium, and two pairs. So what we'll give
one pair away this hour to give people notice. Is
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that how we should do it?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Or we can do that, or we can do one
next hour, one in the two o'clock hour. The world
is your oyster, Fred.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Let's do that one during the one o'clock hour, one
pair during the two o'clock hour. That still gives you
a chance to get there and tell your ballsh you
have to leave early, all right, So that we have
and we have this. We invite you to the All
New Sketchers store on PCH at Crenshawn Torrents. We're gonna
be there Friday from noon to two. Now I learned
today at that event Rodney, we're giving away ten pairs
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of tickets to a Dodger game. Wow, ten in ten
pairs in two hours. In two hours. So yeah, I
tell you what. Get back to the people. That's what
we do. Well, they never let us out of here,
so apparently they're gonna let us out one time and
they're gonna let us go crazy. So we have ten
pairs of Dodger tickets to give away between noon and
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two at the New Sketchers and Torrents. It's on PCH. Also,
the first thousand customers some will score a free Sketcher's
tote or hat, so they've got swag. There is more.
If you get there early enough for a limited time,
they'll buy you buy two pairs of shoes, you get
a third free. So they're going all out for this thing. Okay,
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buy two pair, get a third free. I like that. Yeah,
I might have to do that myself, but you got
to get there early. Yeah, you do you got to
get there early. So that's on Friday noon, did you owe?
And Norman Powell the Clippers will be there, that's right
as our guest shooting some threes. I bet you he will.
And again, if you didn't hear us when we talked
about it Friday, I will warn you now, do not
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piss off Norman Powell. Do not make that mistake that guy.
When you watch him play, he gives you a look.
I'm surprised at night, like ten people dead because his
looks killed. He is not a guy to mess around with.
Could be the nicest guy in the planet. But just
don't give him a dirty look, all right, don't upset
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him because if you do, you're going to pay the price.
And when when everybody have fun at Sketchers, I wonder if, yeah,
I might ask him Fred I wonder if he works
on that look or is it something that's just always
been in him and we got to ask him that, Yeah,
and you ask him, Yeah, I'll ask him. Yeah, I'm
not asking them. I'll not making that mistake. You don't
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want to get that look. I want to get out
of there a live Friday, so you know the deal.
Sketcher's Friday, we want everybody there pch and Torrents and
today two pairs of Dodger Mets tickets. So you think
all my ideas are stupid, I know you do. Guess what,
maybe one of my ideas was pretty good and other
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people are now talking about it and we'll talk about
it next. Oh that's right, Hope. You had a great weekend.
The Dodgers did, Rodney Pete Fred Rogan on a Monday
full So today, baby, let's go. All right? So I
said this, everybody thinks I'm crazy. I understand the way
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teams are built in this country is wrong, and the
draft is awful. And I've said and Kevin got mad,
and Rodney you said I was nuts. There's a problem
with the draft. When leagues allow players to be selected,
they do it basically in reverse order finish, because they
want parody and all of the owners to have an
opportunity to market and make money. My theory is this,
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if you win, you get the first pick, you get
the top pick. If you win, you don't get rewarded
for losing. The counter argument to that is, well, then
how in the world do you improve? You can never improve,
You're just stuck. You can't climb out of the hole
because the best team always gets the best players, all right,
(25:36):
And everybody thinks I'm stupid for saying that I got
it first. I'm not, but I got it, no problem.
So Mike Florio Pro Football Talk was writing, and Peter King,
noted football writer for years NFL expert, has been writing,
I think the draft is wrong. The idea of the
draft is incorrect. Now, the NFL makes a lot of
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money on the draft, so they know how to market everything,
and I've turned it into a major two night TV event.
But it's wrong. And they're saying there needs to be
a new system to select players that come out of college.
This work, This does not work. And they called un american,
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So Rodney, if you disagree with them, that means you're
a communist. And I don't think you want to be
a communist. Yeah, communy, stop it, stop it. They're wrong too.
But are they suggesting the same thing that you suggest,
Fred when they say the draft is wrong and unamerican
and all of that. Are they suggesting that the top teams,
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the teams that finish at the top to get the
first pick. Are they suggesting that I don't think they are, Fred, No,
they're not. At least I have a suggestion. They're not
suggesting that approach, but they are suggesting something else other
than this. Because I think this is wrong. I'm sorry.
You do not get rewarded for sucking. You should not.
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You shouldn't get a prize for finishing last. So so
in the years that you know, when the Lakers had
a three peat and Golden State won three out of four, right,
so you're suggesting that the Golden State Warriors should have
gotten the top pick in the draft three out of
those four years to make them an even better team
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and stronger team and more of a dynasty. Yes, imagine
if there was Yeah, imagine if it was just now
right that the Golden State was in this run right now,
whomever is in a run. So you're suggesting that that
team would get that team went back to back, one title,
back to back. Sure they would get Wemby. Yes, but
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here's and Cooper flag. Correct, but here on a team
that just won the title. Yes, But now we have
to add something, as you were speaking that does seem
a little absurd.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
A little take thank Fred.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
First of all, I don't know why you had to
jump in on that and second of all, to use
the qualifier a little. So here's what you would have
to do. So I'm kind of working it out right now,
but I think it's a good plan. Okay, you do
get the number one pick if you win, but you
must give up and all the players would be have ratings.
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So in other words, if a guy's a ten a
ten rating, Steph Curry's a ten rating, okay, if you
take the number one pick, you must sacrifice your ten rating.
You must put them into the pool to go to
another team. So if Wemby is a ten, Wemby's first
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pick and Steph Curry is a ten rating, you can
take Wemby, but you have to give up Steph Curry,
or you keep Steph Curry and you pass on your
first round pick. How about that? That's the dumbest thing
I've ever heard? Is that dumb? Oh? You know that
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didn even warn a response. So, okay, so you have it.
You have picks, and you gotta your picking. What's the
what would be the point of winning to get the
first pick if you got to give up your superstar
Because in theory, if you think Wemby's a ten, everybody
gets raided now, so if Wemby's at ten, you have
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to give up a ten. Maybe the first pick is
only a six this year, okay, And we do it analytically,
so everybody has a number value a rating. So if
the first pick is a six and you want it,
you have to give up one of your sixes, and
that person goes immediately into the draft. That's terrible. That's
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never going to work. Okay. Oklahoma City gets it right. Okay,
so they got the Cooper flag comes out. There's no
way they're taking Cooper flag and to give up SGA correct,
So that means they've lost their draft pick and the
second get a draft pick. No, they're out. Now, that's
the dumbest thing in the world. I I don't even
know how you open your mouth. He say something like that.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
So well, the one thing I'll say in Florio has
been on this for years too, is just like Peter
King wrote this a couple of weeks ago, and he
jumped on board and say, wow, someone actually sort of
agrees with me. His issue is more about the aspect
of labor versus ownership, and in what other situation does
the labor not have the opportunity to choose where they go.
He's on that side of it. It's not about the
worst teams having the first shot to get the best players.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
And I didn't think so. I didn't think they agree
with Fred.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, it's more about labor versus ownership and me not
having the right to choose or the ability to choose
even a couple of places where I can go, and
me just being automatically drafted to whoever decides they.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Want to choose me.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
That's the angle that he's coming at with.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
This is for that right. So, yeah, if if Cleveland
or Jacksonville has the first pick, that whoever it is,
the top rated player as a choice of going there,
or five other teams if he wants to, or six
other teams or ten other teams if he wants to,
as opposed to being slotted to go to Cleveland. Correct, Yeah,
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but that means he gets to pick where he goes,
and I don't think the teams are That's un american, Fred,
that's un american. You can talk about un american, right,
that's an American. Is not allowing somebody to pick where
they want to go, right, I understand, But that's not
gonna happen because you're not gonna let this guy pick
wherever he wants to go, because what the hell, Cooper Flag,
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you know where I'm going. I'm going to Oklahoma City.
That's my decision. I get to pick. Are they gonna
let that happen? Really? I will pick the best team
to go to. That is my call. Caleb Williams to
talk of him not wanting to go to the Bears.
Maybe he wanted to he said this year, Well, that
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wasn't such a bad idea where he wanted to go.
I want to go to the Rams? Does that mean
the Rams get him? He gets to pick. That's not
gonna work. That'll never work. I gotta let guys pick
where they go. That's even dumber than my idea.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
No, it's not personal. It's you're right, that's not gonna
happen either. But your idea is absolutely not happening.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Makes the most sense. That absolutely does not make this
most sense is absurd.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Not even come up with these arbitrary rave who's a
one or ten?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Exactly? And then so so you you go through a
draft and if you decide I want to keep my
players because we just want to tiele, why am I
going to break this up? So you don't even get
a draft pick. You're out. No. Wait, so see there's drama,
an intrigue, and you have to think about it. You
have to make a decision. Maybe it would you maybe
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you would pick a player given a five value and
then move one of your fives out right. You wouldn't
have to necessarily pick the top player, but you could.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Where are these value systems coming from there? And is
this like a BCS kind of thing going on with
computers and stuff? Red, like, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
No, it's going to be it's going to be analytically driven.
It's your numbers with your age factored in and other things,
and we'll put it into the computer and it'll spit
it out and that's your rating. And we'll do the
same thing for the college college kids coming out, and
we'll put it in and that's your rating. So if
you have the first pick, you want to take a ten,
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you have to give up a ten. And if you
want to take a seven, you got to give up
to seven. That's how you do it. You should be
rewarded for winning, not penalized. The current system penalizes you
for winning, and that's wrong. You all laughed. One day,
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they're going to have computers called balls and strikes. That'll
never happen. Okay, well I did, and I was on
board from day one on that, so okay, well it's
going to happen, all right. Now, you're completely different than
it is doing. What you're talking about is just you know,
the rating system for guys being drafted that is never
going to happen. Look, I disagree. I get why you
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said this. When I had the idea if baseball games
going to extra innings and they are putting that guy
in second base, remember my idea.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yes, a home run derby, home run derby, Justin Turner,
agree with you, by the way, home run going to
question both of you on that.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
See that would have been the best idea, very exciting
home run derby. We don't even need to keep playing
home run run derby. Kind of like penalty kicks in soccer.
Huh exactly. Yeah. One guy goes up, he gets uh,
what do you have ten swings? Let's give him ten
and only one guy, Only one guy gets to go.
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You pick one guy from each team, right, It's like
a shootout in hockey. You pick one at a time.
If we're tied after the first home run derby, another
guy goes up, but then you get five swings after
the first ten, so it doesn't go on as well.
That's a good rule, don't you think? No? Why? Why
is that a bad rule?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
At least with the man on second base, you still
have to earn that run and get the guy across.
There's still a semblance of baseball being played. Home run
derby's a gimmick.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
You know what? And later we'll talk about this. Why
don't you go tell the Savannah Bananas they're a gimmick.
I want to talk about that. Excuse me? Did they
sell out a couple of stadiums here?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
They did?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Major league stadiums, Yes, they did. And what does that tell.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
You that people love gimmicks when they know that it's
a gimmick.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Oh, they think that's real. They do. Nobody thinks that's
a gimmick.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
All right, everybody's haying the Savannah Bana's play the Dodgers tomorrow.
We'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Yeah, why you got to dog people out for what
they like? That's what I want to know. Somebody likes
something you're saying, they don't think it's a gimmick. It's
definitely they know it's a gimmick when they go into
the stadium and once the guys with crazy hats on
their heads and and wearing their jock straps on the
outside of their pants and dancing in between innings. They
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know it's a gimmick. You're saying, they don't know it's
a gimmick. Why do you have to be the arbiter
of what people like? People like what they like? Okay, now,
what I'm gonna tell you is not a joke. Not
a joke, and if you look at the numbers, it
kind of makes sense. Kind of Ronnie James could be
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in the Laker rotation next year. So let's talk about that, Okay.
Today's afternoon Delight is Easy Lover by Myrie Silis. This
(36:46):
song is one of thirteen tracks that appears on a
singer's ninth studio album. It's titled Something Beautiful What's Dropped
over the Weekend. The album rise ahead of the premiere
of It's a Company short film, which set to debut
tomorrow at the Tribeca Film Festival before theaters nationwide next Thursday. Again,
Today's Afternoon Delight is Easy Lover by Miley Cyrus. Yes,
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easy lover all right. So what we have here is
an unnamed NBA executive, and the executive says that Bronnie
James is likely to be in the regular rotation next
year for the Lakers. Why this person would say it,
I don't know who said it. It's put your name
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on it if you go say it, unnamed, unnamed NBA executive.
Why would they do that? Maybe they believe it. Uh
maybe as a friend to Clutch Sports, I don't know,
don't know, but they said it. But then you look
at this and you look at something. Because when I
was talking to Kevin about it this morning and went, oh, God,
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that cannot be this guy. No, there's no way he
can be a rotation player for the Lakers. But then
when you look at something, you go, oh, maybe things
are a little different than you thought. So the executive
said that what he had done Rodneys, he had grown
a great deal during the season, but when he started
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to the end, split in time with the Lakers and
the G League. But by the end of the season
in the G League he was averaging twenty one point
nine points a game. Now with the Lakers, he didn't,
you know, he didn't do much. But did you know that?
Did you know that? No? I did not, And I
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looked at Kevin and I went, oh god, well then
maybe I didn't know that either. You didn't know it either. No, No,
there was almost twenty two points a game in the
G League. Oh yeah, you didn't hear a who a
lot about that. You didn't hear anything about it. Yeah,
he only played what eleven games in the G League,
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but he's averaging twenty two points a game. If that
obviously it's real because we pulled it up. If that's real,
I guess you could see him. I mean, he'd be
like that guy. But he's not what I'm saying, nobody's
I don't think he's saying that he's gonna be the
six guy off the bench and win six Man of
the Year. But if he's, you know, I think they're
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looking up and going, wow, look at Okay. See they're
playing with ten eleven guys and you know, uh, you know, Indiana,
they're nine ten players deep in their rotations. Why not us?
Not every one of those guys from seven through ten
are superstars, but they're filling time, they fill a role.
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So maybe they're looking at like this that this is
a this is a new wave of the NBA. As
the Lakers found out, you can't play the same five
guys for the entire second half. You have to you
have to find guys that can rotate in it. And
even if it's you know, two three minutes at a time,
you can do that. So I don't put it past
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him to have a lot of growth from year one
U two, getting in the NBA, being around that atmosphere,
working at his game, working at his craft, and then
they see something going, okay, we can utilize him in
special situations or in certain situations where you can give
us two to three minutes perhaps, or something like that.
Not the realm. Again, I'm not saying or I'm sure
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they're not saying that he's going to be six Man
of the Year, but who knows. Yeah, well right now
they're not even saying they're going to do that. But
someone is saying they're going to do that. And when
you look at it, you think, wow, it was just
it was really striking to see what he had done.
(40:42):
It was striking to see that he had done that. Yeah,
and then you think to yourself, at least this is
just me, Okay, if he was able to do that,
why in the world wouldn't they have left him down
there more to get even better? You know, if he
was able to do that. Okay, well what if he
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had played thirty games down there? Yeah? How many games
did they actually play in the G League? Well, you
know this has eleven.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
No, no, no, a total schedule of games.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Okay, yeah, check that, you know, And I know it
is a big deal. I'm with you, though, I think
he should have spent the majority time in the G
League working on it, given the fact that he didn't
didn't play much at USC, given and you know, the
hard situation that he had there, he needed to just
go play, and you know, probably should have played a
(41:36):
lot more than what he did and it continued to
work on his craft. But I think they did. They
probably saw something. It's like, Okay, you got more potential
than we thought he did or what people think he does.
And and and we're gonna we got a full off
season to try to work on this and and see
what we can come up with and get him some
playing time.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
They played thirty four games this past thirty four.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Yeah, they have been good. If he played like twenty
twenty five games. It would have been It would have
been great for him.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
He's are an argument to be made. And I know
they don't practice much today in the NBA, of him
going up and playing in practice against the big time
Laker team every now and then. Now granted they practiced
what once twice a week if even that these days,
but they playing practicing against the best versus playing real
games against lesser competition. Getting a mix between the two.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Yeah, I mean, maybe to go out and practice once
in a while. But they played thirty four games and
he got hurt, right, he was hurt for a little
bit four stretch there. Yeah, Okay, I think he should
have played every game in the G League except when
he was hurt. If he missed three four games, however
many it was, then he misses those games. But he
doesn't go traveling all over the country with the Lakers.
(42:43):
He stays in the G League and gets better. Because
if this is what he really did, and apparently is
what he really did, then you gotta let him continue
to grow. You got to. You have to come that opportunity.
So yeah, and I know people pooh poo on the
G League, but they you know, it's still pretty good
competition down there, Guys trying to make it, Guys trying
to make a name for himself. And you know, you know,
(43:04):
it's not gonna be a bunch of slackers in the
G League because they're all trying to make it to
the NBA. So guys were competing. I'm not saying it's like,
you know, the NBA or any stretched like that, but
there was competition for him to deal with, and I thought,
you know, I agree with you. I think it had
been better if he if he played at least twenty
games down there. Okay, don't forget next hour, we're gonna
(43:27):
get our first pair of tickets away for the Dodgers
and Mets. The game is tonight at the stadium. You'll win,
you go to the stadium. It'll be that simple. Also,
when we come back, Ned Colletti joins the show.
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