June 2, 2026 • 36 mins
David Vassegh hops on from Phoenix as the Dodgers get set for game 2 against the D-Backs tonight. Its Lit features an update on a potential Aaron Donald return to the Rams and a former Angel is on his way to college to play football.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The All right, we continue on Fred Rogan or Rodney
Pink on five seventy LA Sports. Just a very brief
two hour program for us today. Thank goodness you are
healthy after going out working out yesterday suffering a few injuries.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, yeah, Fred, You know, you know your mind tells
you you can do certain things, but your body at
a certain day it says, not so fast, not so fast.
But you know, all the excitement surrounding the rams and
the signings and where the NFL is happening right now?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Who knows? Who knows? Fred? Who knows? Well, maybe this
man will know, Maybe he'll supply the answer. A man
who played hurt. I just saw that video again the
other day, and I'm sure it's painful every time he
thinks about it. He's in Phoenix, the Valley of the Sun,
where it's over one hundred degrees. Let's welcome on David
Beth's say Dave, good afternoon, guy.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah. I'm standing outside of Chase Field in one hundred
and two degree weather talking to you guys. Oh, why
you're welcome?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Why why are you outside?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Because I just arrived to the ballpark and I was
going to go through the media security line. But I said,
Kevin called me and I said, oh, okay, I'll peel
off right here. So I'm standing in the sun one
hundred and two degree weather to talk to you guys.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Hey, can I ask you a question? That's mild the summer, Dave,
I want to ask you something. Can you see that
giant building? I don't know exactly where you guys go in,
Maybe it's the other side, but there was a huge
building right outside the gate where you walk in the
main entrance.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Are you near Thereah, I'm standing right here. I'm standing
right at the main entrance.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Okay, you see that building and it'll be right across
the street. It's a bunch of condos there. It's like
an apartment building.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
There's a Sweet James sign at the bottom of it.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's huge, Fred, are you talking about the courthouse that
you spend a lot of time in?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Is that not that they called Copper Square Day? For
years we wanted to buy a spot there because you're
gonna walk right to the Diamondbacks. You can oversee all
of Phoenix from that building. Do you find that interesting?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Not at all?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Okay, I'm wondering how the building look. David. Need that
from the jeez, go ahead, right.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Oh hey, Dave, I don't know it just the perception wise,
you win him every single day, and it just feels
down they're you know, they're five on the Padres, five
and a half on the Diamondbacks, and Diamondbacks surprisingly are
writ in a mix as they have been. We were
talking about them and Tory Lavello over the years where
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he was almost fired I think a couple of times,
but he's maintained and really kept the Diamondbacks kind of relevant.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I think he's done a really good job in Arizona.
What do you think about his job and his tenure there?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, I mean, I won't say that he's one of
the best tacticians in Major League Baseball. I think he's
made some critical mistakes over the years to cost them
games and playoffs series. But I think it goes back to,
you know, the line of thinking where you don't want
to have constant turnover. You want to have some continuity
with your GM, with your manager, and that's part of
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the reason why Toy Lavello has lasted as long as
he has. He has a great relationship with his GM,
Mike Hazen, who's a really good GM and they want
to keep continuity. And let's face it, I mean, there's
been limitations to the rosters and you can't really point
to toy Levello for that. But getting to the World
Series a few years ago certainly bought him some time
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and some benefit of the doubt to keep his job.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yante I was telling Rodney earlier, I think the people
in Phoenix just like the Dodgers more than the people
in San Diego. What do you think.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
City of Phoenix now with so many people that left
LA and California. I think, you know, just by the
looks of it the last five years, there's a lot
more Dodger fans at Chase Field and there are Arizona
Diamondback fans. There's so many transplants in this city that
from what I was told, Cubs games gets sold out
with a lot of Cubs fans. You get a lot
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of Dodger fans for this series. So it still feels
like it's the visiting team city unless you get to
the World Series or the NBA Finals. The one thing
for sure as far as the sports landscape in Phoenix,
the Suns are the team that everybody's behind. The Suns,
but the Diamondbacks. They still have to have consistent, good
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winning seasons for everybody to buy in.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, I agree, and I remember growing up too, it
was the only thing you heard on the radio, TV
was Dodgers. Dodgers were the home team of Arizona because
they didn't have a Diamondbacks back then. But I'm not
surprised with like you said, everybody a lot of people
moving from from California to Arizona and Nevada that the
Dodger fans are in full force. They and also with
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this team now that they're up, it just feels like
they're they're cruising ho humming, and it's not They haven't
even hit their stride. A lot of the guys are,
you know, not really playing their best baseball. Mookie still
hitting I think under two hundred, and Kyle Tucker hasn't
really gotten going. Freddy seems to start to get going
a little bit. But but yet they they still are
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five games up and it doesn't even feel close to
them hitting their stride, even with all the injuries. It
just feels like it's business like Dave and that at
some point the distance is really gonna get great. If
these teams don't start stepping it up, meaning San Diego
and Arizona.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, if you look at the rest of the division, Rodney,
there's a lot of dysfunction in the NL West. The
Rockies are trying to start from ten years of being
in the hole, so they're not going anywhere. The Giants
have had three third base coaches in the last three weeks,
and Tony Votello is in a complete mess up there
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in San Francisco. That's a complete dysfunction right now. And
the Padres are in a transition with the new ownership.
The Diamondbacks might be the most stable out of all
these other also rans in the division. But you're right,
the Dodgers starting pitching. They've logged more innings than any
other teams starting staff in the National League. They have.
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They're in the top two of starting era starting batting
average against. And that's what's really carried the Dodgers so
far at the beginning of this season is they're starting
pitching their bullpen because the offense has had inconsistent moments
because a lot of guys still have not hit their stride.
But in general, the demeanor around the team is there's
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no panic at all. They've been through this before. They
understand how to navigate a regular season. They've seen what
happens when you don't try to overemphasize every single game,
every single series. And it kind of feels like the
way the Yankees with Jeter Pisada, Pettit and those guys
treated the regular season as an appetizer for the postseason.
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So that's where this veteran team is. It's kind of
it's a team that understands that they're good enough, they're
talented enough, they're still going through the process and working
hard enough. But it feels like, you know, I'm not
going to say they're coasting, but they're very even paced
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to this season.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
That's a good way to put it. Yeah, Dave, what
happened to Brustark Retterol? That's heartbreaking to me.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, he posted on his Instagram story that he had surgery.
It turned out it was back surgery, and his season
is probably over and he was working so hard to
come back from shoulder surgery and he was pitching in
a rehab game and from what I was told, came
back the next day and reported back issues and it
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turned out that he needed back surgery. So disappointing for him,
and the reality is he hasn't pitched since Game five
of the twenty four World Series, and during that twenty
fourth season, he only pitched in seven regular season games,
so he really hasn't been a big factor since twenty
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twenty four.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Wow, Yeah, that's uh, that's that that's uh, Dave, What's
what's your thoughts on what's going to happen with Hasan Kim?
Now that he got sent down and you got freelin
coming up? He hits a home run over the weekend
against the Phillies, Ryan Ward got his first Dodger home run,
got some young guys coming up. The competition's great, and
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still you're going to have you know, Tommy Edmond, and
you know at some point Key K's coming back. What
do you see the future for Kim?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
He has to show that he can consistently hit major
league pitching. And he started off really good and spring
training started the year in Oklahoma City doing what the
Dodgers saw him do in spring training. And then once
he got an everyday opportunity after the Dodgers decided to
go with him over Freeland about three or four weeks ago,
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he started to expand his zone. His swing got loop year,
and he just went back and reverted back to who
he was last year. The game was getting sped up.
It seemed like he was underwater, and the Dodgers just
felt like, you know, we're back to where we were
last year and he needs a reset and as Dave
Roberts likes to say, kind of get him out of
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the pressure cooker of playing in major league games and
go down to the miners and be able to you know,
reset the swing, get back to where he was a year,
or get back to where he was in spring training.
But the reality is like, I don't I think the
jury is still very much out. If Hayes and Kim's
an everyday player, I.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Think people really like him, Dave, I think he's fun
to watch.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't
know what he's done why fans are still in love
with him.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
You don't think he's exciting to watch in the bass pas, Seriously.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
You have to get on to get on the bass paths.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Oh what, you know what? So that's just a small issue.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
That's just a small Well, he doesn't take walk here's
my thing. He doesn't take walks. He doesn't know how
to bunt. He's really doesn't have the instincts of a
great speed bas runner. So you know, there's a lot
to learn for him to be able to be an
every day player at the major league level. Does he
show glimpses of it, of course he does, But I
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think he needs to understand who he is in the
major league And when he was playing in the KBO,
he was the cleanup hitter for his team. He didn't
really play small ball, and that's who he should be
in major league Baseball, I know.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
But he has a likable guy, Dave. He got the
baby face.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
And oh yeah, very likable. But I like him a lot.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
But you got to perform, right at this level, you
got to perform. Other Wise, teammate somebody teammate, I agree,
but somebody doesn't take his spa, you don't perform. It's
just it is a business too. Uh. Why can you
tell us something from an entry standpoint with Tommy Edmonds
and some of the other guys that might be coming
back to summer day.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, Tommy Edmund's in the same process that Key k
Hernandez was when he started his rehab. Assignment and spring
training players usually get fifty plate appearances, fifty at bats,
and that's what it's going to take for Tom Yetman
to be ready for the rest of the regular season.
So he's in the process of doing that. I saw
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the other night that he played center field, which is
a great sign that his right ankle is feeling good
to be able to go out there. But when he returns,
he's going to be the everyday second baseman. Maybe spots
start in center if they feel like Pahz needs a
day off in the second half. But yeah, that I
feel like tom Y Edman's the forgotten man here and
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he's a big part of this Dodger lineup. Can you
imagine having tom Yedman hitting eighth or ninth and turning
the lineup over. I mean, we're talking about the guy
that was the NLCSMVP a couple of years ago. So yeah,
they and his defense with a healthy right ankle, that's
going to be a big boost for this Dodger team
in about three to four weeks.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
All right, And what can you tell us about Tyler Glass? Now?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
He's playing like catch these days. There doesn't seem to
be a lot of certainty on when he may start
throwing a bullpen session. So that's all I know as
far as that goes. I guess this back injury was
more serious than Dave Roberts originally thought, because it's obviously
lingered longer than anybody anticipated.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Hey, Dave, I know it's a you know, a ways off,
but it's still it feels like with every week the
subject matter keeps coming up with the lockout. What are
you hearing from both sides of is this going to
happen or there's no way that Baseball is going to
let a lockout happen?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
What are you hearing?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, well it's so early, Rodney, But I'll tell you
this that the players are are pretty adamant they're not
going to accept a salary cap, and if the owners
are adamant they want to implement a salary cap, then
this is going to linger into spring training and probably
into what should be Opening Day. But that's so far away,
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and there's so many more negotiations and talks to have,
and there's going to be ups and downs. You're going
to hear a lot of negativity, I'm sure, But until
there's a deadline of opening day, when we get closer
to that, I don't think you're really going to see
these two sides get serious about what they can where
they can meet in the middle to make a deal.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Day we were kicking this around, just I want your take.
Then we'll let you get out of the sun. When
you look at LA Sports and you've been here.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
So I'm under a canopy now, Oh you're good.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You're over there by the little ars.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, exactly, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
We were trying to figure out the top front offices.
The Dodgers by far number one, not even close, maybe
the best in professional sports. Then we put the Rams too.
Would you agree with that?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, without a doubt. I don't think it's even close.
The Dodgers are number one, and less Need and Sean McVay.
I mean, you think about the consistency and continuity of
GM and head coach or president of baseball operations and manager.
I mean when you say less Need, you instantly think
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of Sean McVay. They're symbiotic. Same thing with Andrew Freeman
and Dave Roberts. I mean, Andrew Freeman and Dave Roberts
have lasted longer together than most marriages in Los Angeles.
So that just tells you how strong continuity is with
the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
All right, get out of the sun, go inside.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Okay, guys, thanks, Thanks Dave.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
There is David Vasse right outside Chase Field. I'm a
little bummed. I can lie to you. Why are you bummed?
I love that building right next to Chase Field. You
say you almost bought in there. Yeah, here's the thing.
A couple of times. Because I'm from Phoenix, my brother
lives there, my daughter lived there for a while. We're
not moving to Phoenix. It was just a place to
have in Phoenix anymore. No, she came back.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
She came back because didn't she live downtown too? She
was like, when't she ready to look downtown?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
But she lived out in Gilbert Oh okay, yeah, but
everybody know where in Scottsdale.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I promise you that she was a legend of scotts
They all know her. Hey, that's the place to be,
I'm telling you. But we've looked at that place for years.
And if you go up there, you can sit and basically,
I don't know if you can see directly inside, but
you are right next to Chase Field, and you're two
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blocks away from where the sun's play, and if you
look straight ahead, it's the entire valley of the Sun.
It's Phoenix lights at night.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
It is great. We never did it, never did it. Yeah,
But that building and it's like in probably now it's
probably tripled, I'm sure it is. Yeah. And I've got
all these little restaurants and bars downtown, right, it's beautiful
down there. Yeah. I mean, if there's not a game,
you don't want to go outside. But aside from that, yeah,
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it's a great spot. It really is. God, can you
imagine how much Phoenix has grown. That's crazy. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
And like like we were saying, Dave said it, you know,
there's so many people moving there, you know, for a
variety of different reasons.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
But you wonder about that.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
And I know a lot of people get out of
town in the summertime when it gets too hot and
gets into the hundreds on a regular basis. But still,
the quality of life in Phoenix and that surrounding area
and how it's grown. I mean, you just mentioned Scottsdale
and it used to be just like that small little
area of Scottsdale. Now it's grown, and it's you got
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North Scottsdale. You got all the golf courses going on
way out there, past that. It's It's like, if it's
not the fastest growing city, it's definitely in the top
three or four.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Really is. But the thing is, you have to be
prepared for the heat.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yes you do, Yes, you do. It's a different hot heat. Yeah,
then you know, it's a complete different type of heat.
And I don't be Well, it's a dry heat, so
it doesn't No, No, one hundred and ten hits you
in the face. You don't care if it's dry, wet,
sour or whatever. It is hitting you right in the mouth,
and you go outside for three seconds, thirty seconds, red,
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you're ready to come back in and you're sweating.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah. And the other side of it is, let's say
it's eighty five and you think, oh, this is great,
I'm gonna go outside. Because of the way the sun
just bakes the city. Eighty five seems like one hundred
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, yeah, it does, it does. It's hot, it does.
But December, January, February can't beat it.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
No, Well, how about no, you know what, you're good October, November, December. Yeah,
you're good, you're good.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
But that's why all the people come there in December
January and February used to call them the snowbirds, right,
the snows exactly right, because of those months.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
But yeah, you're good.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
At the end of September it starts to be bearable,
and October through, say through March is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
April starts to get a little warm. If you're gutsy,
you'll stick it out through April. Yeah, if you're gutsy,
you'll stick it out through April and then go back
to where you came from.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah. That's why. By the way, the Diamondbacks draw like
twenty five thousand fans a game, because that's really everybody's left. Yeah, yeah,
that's the problem. Phoenix would draw more, but the people leave, Yeah,
because it's too hot.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
They leave for the summer. You're right. They they go
back east, or they go to come to California for
the summer.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
I had a lot of friends that live there, but
they spend their summers over here, exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, yeah, a lot of people like that. All right,
let's get you caught up on what's happening, and Kevin
will do that next with its lip.
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Speaker 1 (20:15):
Fred.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yes, oh good, let's tell hey, let's find out what's happening,
Kevin take.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
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Speaker 5 (20:31):
All right, Before we provide an update on the newest
Ram who they did trade for yesterday, we'll go back
to someone who were rumored to be interested in the
off season, and that was AJ Brown, who, of course
was traded to the Patriots yesterday. There's a report from
the Philadelphia Inquirer that the reason why the Rams backed
off of their pursuit from AJ Brown, and something you
brought up to yesterday, Fred, as far as why the
market was so low for him, is, uh, there may
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be some issues on the medicals with him. They said
he had medical issues. They weren't satisfied with what they
saw and that was why they backed out. Explains why
Brown's value on the market was not what people expected
it to be. So they saw something in his medical
history that scared them off, and that is why they
backed off of their pursuit. And that is why someone
who's in the prime of his career didn't net a
larger return.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Oh, I thought they backed off because Diana Ruscini said,
don't make it all.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Knew I knew it. I knew it. You couldn't resist.
Did you too soon? Too soon for that?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Hey, they put themselves in it. I can't say anything.
Rams did their due diligence. Kevin. It's pretty simple. They
looked into it. They saw something, and to be fair,
they don't make many mistakes in that regard. So why
if you are on the cusp of winning a super
Bowl before you even kicked the season, are you going
to put yourself in a position where if you acquire
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someone you're counting on, there's a possibility they're not going
to make it through the season. Anybody can get a hurt,
but why would you want to compound those odds? So
I get that, and it does speak to why they
didn't get as much for him as we thought. Yeah,
you may have a problem.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, the medical as you get older becomes more serious.
I think as you're Yes, he's still in his prime,
but he's kind of on the middle mid level of
that between going up the slope as supposed to going
down the slope. So medical becomes more of a factor
at his age. Plus I think some of the I
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don't even call him off the field, some of the
sideline antics, some of the things that you hear or
heard from from the Eagles when he was there and
his tenure there of being unhappy. Did the Rams really
want to bring that into their locker room? And as
we know, the Rams, like the Dodgers, run a tight
tip and it's about character as much as it is
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about ability. So that probably was a factor as well.
And he just the way he carried himself I think
with Philadelphia probably cost him some money.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
All right. So now we'll move on to Mile the way.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Miles Garrett schedule to be introduced to the media here
within the next hour hour and a half once the
Rams Ota practice wraps up here here in the next
thirty minutes or so, so awaiting their arrival, the official
arrival of Miles Garrett, and something we brought up yesterday.
It was a lot of Twitter fodder yesterday. Roddy and
Fred and I talked about this yesterday in this segment
about the possibility of Aaron Donald coming out of retirement
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and rejoining the Rams, and both of us were kind
of in agreement, like, that's fun to kick around, but
it's probably not gonna happen. I'm gonna give you, guys,
just a kind of a rundown from a lot of
different information coming from a lot of different sources, and
then you guys can put it all together and tell
me what you think is ultimately gonna happen. So this morning,
Michael Brocker's former teammate of Aaron Donald here at the Rams.
He said on the Lockdown Rams podcast that he has
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knowledge others might not have that my guy stays ready
so he doesn't have to get ready. So does that
really say anything? No other than the fact that Aaron
Donald keeps himself in shape.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Pat McAfee on his show this.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Morning, said he actually tected Aaron Donald directly to see
if a comeback was possible, and the response he got
from Aaron Donald was quote, is sure got me thinking?
He further on replied with I'm thirty five, removed from
playing two years ago. Got to see if I can
light that fire back up. Adam Shefter this morning talking
about it, says he brought up the idea to the Rams,
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someone in the RAMS office about potentially asking Donald to
come back. He says, right now, they don't have any money.
They've spent all their money. Of course, you know a
lot of money for Garrett and the trade they made
from Kansas City. They spent a lot of money in
free agency. But another team official later told Schefter, even
though they might be out of money now, in this league,
you can always find money. Aaron Donald's wife posted a
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video of Aaron asleep on the couch yesterday afternoon and
said something to the effect of, you guys are asking
if he's coming back. Here's your answer. It doesn't really
say one thing or other. He's just taking a nap.
Aaron Donald's wife about an hour ago, tweeted out, y'all
are funny, with no context whatsoever. I give you all
of that information from all of those different sources, and
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that tells you.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
What tells me, No, I want him to come back,
That's what it tells me.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You want him to come back or he's coming back.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
No, I want him to come back.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
It's the same thing if I don't want The question
is do you think he's coming back?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Do you think he will come back?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Now?
Speaker 6 (25:20):
What we want? I think we want him to come back.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I don't think he will, do you, Rodney? Uh No, No,
I don't think so. Two years removed at that position. Uh,
he certainly could do it. And I've seen Aaron recently
as well, in the last couple of months. But he
is He is a guy that always stays in shape.
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I mean, he looks as good now as he did
when he was playing. So he's gonna continuously work out.
But I just don't. I just don't see him coming back.
And plus when the wife gets involved, and I'm sure
she heard all the noise and gets all kind of
calls from her friends and people that know her, Hey
is there coming back? They aren't coming back. He got
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fed up and says that ain't happening. And when she
says that ain't happening, he ain't coming back.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Bizarre story out of Major League Baseball slash college football.
So Jordan Adams was a kid that the Angels drafted
back in twenty eighteen, actually came up and played with
them a little bit at the big league level, But
he has now decided he's leaving Major League baseball re
enrolling at He's enrolling at SMU and plans to play
college football next season, still at eligibility left. He's twenty
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six years old. He was a the number three receiver
recruit in the country in the same class, behind two
guys you've heard of. I'man Ross Saint Brown Jamar Chase.
He was number three behind those two guys in the
class that they came out in, so obviously supremely talented.
But now he looks to go back in college football
at the age.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Of twenty six.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
And I'm sure you guys have heard about the whole legislation,
the bill that's hoping to be passed when it comes
to college football. Part of that bill is having an
age requirement five to play five and after. I believe
you're not eligible to start until your nineteenth birthday or
a couple of months or a year before you graduate
high school, or you reach your nineteenth birthday, and then
after five years past you're now ineligible. So if this
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gets passed and he's in the midst of playing college football.
I don't know how that works, retroactively speaking, if they
can say, well, you'll let you in before under the
old rules, but now the new rules are in and
we're sorry, man, but you can't play anymore.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
I have no idea how that's going to happen.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
But as of right now, he is eligible, and as
of right now he's enrolling at SMU to play football.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Well, that rule is not in place yet, and if
he is enrolled and does it, then they can't. They're
not going to be able to retroactively kick him out.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
I wouldn't have thought that either.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, so that's not gonna happen. But yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Interesting at twenty six that he's going to come back
and play receiver. I think it was one thing if
he said, Okay, I'm gonna come back and try out.
The fact that he's going to go back to college
to get himself ready to play football might be, you know,
might be a good thing. Hey, I still have one
year left of eligibility and baseball at USC Can I
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go back and play? Say, I'm thinking everybody should be
allowed to play at like fifty Yeah, what's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
What is a big deal?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So is that that law include the people that go
to service or going to mission.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Kevin, There are waivers for people so BYU and Mormon missions,
military service, even maternity lea for female athletes. So there
is a waiver that you can sign up for, so
that will not apply to you if you fill out
that way.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
See, here's what you have to do. You have to
think of it like this. If you're listening at a
certain age, if you did go to college, it was
four years, you're done, you're out, see you later, and
there was none of this. You know. Yeah, guys got
paid under the table, but it wasn't the way it
is today where anything goes. Guys can transfer six times,
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and back then they did kind of indicate college was
more important the school work. It did happen.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I mean that when Rodney players before them for that Yeah, yeah,
class there was an eligibility factor you had to do.
You had guys that that didn't couldn't play certain years, eight.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Guys and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Yeah, you had to get a certain have a certain
grade point at it to play. And we had guys
that had to sit out a season because they were
academically in algebra.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
No longer the case. No, no longer the case, but
so you go. God, things have really changed and guys
can play or women can play when they're older. Look
at it like this, a local high school. You know,
if you have kids, you might have gone through this,
and if you didn't have kids, you were one. At
a certain times. Back in the day, the neighborhood kids
grew up and they went to the local high school
and they made up the teams, and everybody knew everybody
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because oh, once in a while somebody would move in,
but more often than not, it was the kids in
the neighborhood and that was their high school, and they
were on the teams and they played. It's not remotely
close to that anymore. No, you can go recruit a
whole group of people or go to your high school
and play, and the neighborhood kids are out of luck.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
In there in there a special train that goes from
l A to down. The modern day, I think from
LA kids to just go to school every day, they
got that special transit Well or Bosco or one of those.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Schools there, you know. Yeah, yeah, back in the day,
my friend, there were people in town cars that picked
kids up and drove them to Sierra Canyon back in
the day. I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Uh huh, yeah, yeah, what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
I'll tell you what. There were a bunch of kids
in Calabasas. I don't even know. I didn't even know
those apartments existed. All of a sudden, the whole group
were living there. Yeah, from Calabasas home. There's some nice
homes near near Sierra Canyon there too. That Uh I
heard it for transfer students out of the country, like
exchange students, right, I mean out of the country could
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be competent, out of the country, could be Lancaster. Yeah,
so they had those homes there. But I'm just saying
everything is so different. Everything is different, and it's never
going back here.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
No, it's not another quasi pro slash college story. So
we've talked about Brennan Sowersby. He's the Texas Tech quarterback
that gambled on games when he was at Indiana. There's
a whole court case right now. There was supposed to
be a resolution yesterday that didn't happen. The judge as
yet to make a decision as to whether or not
he'd be eligible to return and play college football. But
The question was brought up to Todd Monkin, the head
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coach of the Browns, as to whether or not if
he were to be ruled and eligible and sign up
for the supplemental NFL Draft, would he be somebody that
you would end up looking at. If Todd Munkins said this,
I think it's a slippery slope when you go down
that road. The irrespective of talent, in terms of the
situation that he put himself in. We all know what
that is. He put himself in that situation, and we've
seen in other sports with players that have been banned
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for life for betting on professional sports. For my end,
it's a tough angle to go down that road and
think it's going to be your franchise quarterback if he's
ever even eligible to play in the NFL. So his
argument is, you know.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
He got caught doing this at the college level.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
I know he's doing rehab and all that other stuff,
But if this comes back around again, now we're asked
out our starting quarterback because he got caught up in
a gambling situation, which we know he committed the card
and a rule gambling on the sport that you play in.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah, well, you know here's the thing. Do people deserve
a second chance? And to what degree? That's a pretty
important position, quarterback, that's a pretty important position. Now he
can say he'll never do it again, and he may
never do it again, but it comes down to in
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this situation, do you have the faith and the belief
that he'll not do it again? That's really the question here.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, it's it's really crazy the way you know the
world we live, and you can do a lot of things.
You can he can be involved in d wise and
domestic violence and all kinds of different things and they'll
give you a second chance. But that the ultimate red
flag is gambling in sports, and that is the one
thing that usually is unforgiven.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
And Monking is right.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You know, you go down that road and there's going
to be always questions of is he gambling? Is he
going to gamble again? Do we put our faith in
that guy that might we might lose him.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Halfway through the season. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
The gambling thing is it's like it's like a child
molester Fred that goes to prison.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
You know that you go there.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
You can do a lot of different things, but if
you mess with kids in prison, you're in trouble.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
You are in trouble. That is the taboo of that.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
That's the way they draw the line, even in prison,
that's where they draw the line. So gambling is kind
of on those lines of you just can't do it
in sports.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
And that's what's sliding up the headlines.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
I just said that because your time in prison, Fred,
That's why I was just we've all had a pass,
but it wasn't about kids. I want to clarify that,
you know, yes, never mind, all right, we'll come back around.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
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Speaker 1 (34:31):
Oh, welcome back as we wrap this up, Freddie.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Been a good Tuesday, A nice tuesday, not quite one
hundred and two like it is in Phoenix for David
Bassey and the Dodgers, but a beautiful day here in
southern California.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
All right, thanks today for jumping on, by the way
and back. He absolutely absolutely good stuff. Eric Lawer pitches
for the Dodgers tonight. Interesting because is he going to
be the real deal or is his stopcap. Is he
a guy that they've just grabbed. He's a typical guy
they find. Yeah, you know what, that guy was good?
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We can fix him, right, isn't that what he is? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
And next thing, you know, the guy turns into being
something special. You know, we'll just he's gonna be a
guy we fill in while we're dealing with our entries
and he turns out to be good. Dodgers got him
in the pipeline, Fred, they got they got so much
depth in their organization. Just look at a guy like Robleski,
right that, you know, not even when he when it
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came to starting pitchers going into the season, you're not
thinking about him. You're thinking about the rotation of Yamamoto,
tany Glass, now Snell, Roki, Sazaki. Then he get a
guy like Robo who came out of you know, came out,
had his coming out party last year and loved his
attitude in the World Series where I forget who it was,
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tried to uh get hit on purpose with his hand
and and Robo wasn't having it and went at him
a little bit. He got that dog in him. So
the Dodgers, they just keep trotting guys out. Fred You're like,
where that guy come from? Where that guy come from?
Who is that?
Speaker 1 (36:12):
That's typical for them? Yeah, yeah, you know, it's like
how many times have we said it. You're sitting there,
the game starts to go, who is that guy? Yep,
when did he get here? Where's he from? They just
find these guys. So hopefully Eric Lauer will be solid tonight.
He's going to pitch against Michael Soroka and you'll hear
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the game right here on the radio station. Two hours
and we're done, Ronnie, thank you, terrific work today. Kevin
outstanding as always, and Rodney we will get him again
tomorrow at noon, right on
The All right, we continue on Fred Rogan or Rodney
Pink on five seventy LA Sports. Just a very brief
two hour program for us today. Thank goodness you are
healthy after going out working out yesterday suffering a few injuries.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, yeah, Fred, You know, you know your mind tells
you you can do certain things, but your body at
a certain day it says, not so fast, not so fast.
But you know, all the excitement surrounding the rams and
the signings and where the NFL is happening right now?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Who knows? Who knows? Fred? Who knows? Well, maybe this
man will know, Maybe he'll supply the answer. A man
who played hurt. I just saw that video again the
other day, and I'm sure it's painful every time he
thinks about it. He's in Phoenix, the Valley of the Sun,
where it's over one hundred degrees. Let's welcome on David
Beth's say Dave, good afternoon, guy.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah. I'm standing outside of Chase Field in one hundred
and two degree weather talking to you guys. Oh, why
you're welcome?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Why why are you outside?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Because I just arrived to the ballpark and I was
going to go through the media security line. But I said,
Kevin called me and I said, oh, okay, I'll peel
off right here. So I'm standing in the sun one
hundred and two degree weather to talk to you guys.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Hey, can I ask you a question? That's mild the summer, Dave,
I want to ask you something. Can you see that
giant building? I don't know exactly where you guys go in,
Maybe it's the other side, but there was a huge
building right outside the gate where you walk in the
main entrance.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Are you near Thereah, I'm standing right here. I'm standing
right at the main entrance.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Okay, you see that building and it'll be right across
the street. It's a bunch of condos there. It's like
an apartment building.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
There's a Sweet James sign at the bottom of it.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's huge, Fred, are you talking about the courthouse that
you spend a lot of time in?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Is that not that they called Copper Square Day? For
years we wanted to buy a spot there because you're
gonna walk right to the Diamondbacks. You can oversee all
of Phoenix from that building. Do you find that interesting?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Not at all?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Okay, I'm wondering how the building look. David. Need that
from the jeez, go ahead, right.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Oh hey, Dave, I don't know it just the perception wise,
you win him every single day, and it just feels
down they're you know, they're five on the Padres, five
and a half on the Diamondbacks, and Diamondbacks surprisingly are
writ in a mix as they have been. We were
talking about them and Tory Lavello over the years where
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he was almost fired I think a couple of times,
but he's maintained and really kept the Diamondbacks kind of relevant.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I think he's done a really good job in Arizona.
What do you think about his job and his tenure there?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, I mean, I won't say that he's one of
the best tacticians in Major League Baseball. I think he's
made some critical mistakes over the years to cost them
games and playoffs series. But I think it goes back to,
you know, the line of thinking where you don't want
to have constant turnover. You want to have some continuity
with your GM, with your manager, and that's part of
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the reason why Toy Lavello has lasted as long as
he has. He has a great relationship with his GM,
Mike Hazen, who's a really good GM and they want
to keep continuity. And let's face it, I mean, there's
been limitations to the rosters and you can't really point
to toy Levello for that. But getting to the World
Series a few years ago certainly bought him some time
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and some benefit of the doubt to keep his job.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yante I was telling Rodney earlier, I think the people
in Phoenix just like the Dodgers more than the people
in San Diego. What do you think.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
City of Phoenix now with so many people that left
LA and California. I think, you know, just by the
looks of it the last five years, there's a lot
more Dodger fans at Chase Field and there are Arizona
Diamondback fans. There's so many transplants in this city that
from what I was told, Cubs games gets sold out
with a lot of Cubs fans. You get a lot
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of Dodger fans for this series. So it still feels
like it's the visiting team city unless you get to
the World Series or the NBA Finals. The one thing
for sure as far as the sports landscape in Phoenix,
the Suns are the team that everybody's behind. The Suns,
but the Diamondbacks. They still have to have consistent, good
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winning seasons for everybody to buy in.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, I agree, and I remember growing up too, it
was the only thing you heard on the radio, TV
was Dodgers. Dodgers were the home team of Arizona because
they didn't have a Diamondbacks back then. But I'm not
surprised with like you said, everybody a lot of people
moving from from California to Arizona and Nevada that the
Dodger fans are in full force. They and also with
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this team now that they're up, it just feels like
they're they're cruising ho humming, and it's not They haven't
even hit their stride. A lot of the guys are,
you know, not really playing their best baseball. Mookie still
hitting I think under two hundred, and Kyle Tucker hasn't
really gotten going. Freddy seems to start to get going
a little bit. But but yet they they still are
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five games up and it doesn't even feel close to
them hitting their stride, even with all the injuries. It
just feels like it's business like Dave and that at
some point the distance is really gonna get great. If
these teams don't start stepping it up, meaning San Diego
and Arizona.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, if you look at the rest of the division, Rodney,
there's a lot of dysfunction in the NL West. The
Rockies are trying to start from ten years of being
in the hole, so they're not going anywhere. The Giants
have had three third base coaches in the last three weeks,
and Tony Votello is in a complete mess up there
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in San Francisco. That's a complete dysfunction right now. And
the Padres are in a transition with the new ownership.
The Diamondbacks might be the most stable out of all
these other also rans in the division. But you're right,
the Dodgers starting pitching. They've logged more innings than any
other teams starting staff in the National League. They have.
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They're in the top two of starting era starting batting
average against. And that's what's really carried the Dodgers so
far at the beginning of this season is they're starting
pitching their bullpen because the offense has had inconsistent moments
because a lot of guys still have not hit their stride.
But in general, the demeanor around the team is there's
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no panic at all. They've been through this before. They
understand how to navigate a regular season. They've seen what
happens when you don't try to overemphasize every single game,
every single series. And it kind of feels like the
way the Yankees with Jeter Pisada, Pettit and those guys
treated the regular season as an appetizer for the postseason.
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So that's where this veteran team is. It's kind of
it's a team that understands that they're good enough, they're
talented enough, they're still going through the process and working
hard enough. But it feels like, you know, I'm not
going to say they're coasting, but they're very even paced
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to this season.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
That's a good way to put it. Yeah, Dave, what
happened to Brustark Retterol? That's heartbreaking to me.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, he posted on his Instagram story that he had surgery.
It turned out it was back surgery, and his season
is probably over and he was working so hard to
come back from shoulder surgery and he was pitching in
a rehab game and from what I was told, came
back the next day and reported back issues and it
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turned out that he needed back surgery. So disappointing for him,
and the reality is he hasn't pitched since Game five
of the twenty four World Series, and during that twenty
fourth season, he only pitched in seven regular season games,
so he really hasn't been a big factor since twenty
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twenty four.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Wow, Yeah, that's uh, that's that that's uh, Dave, What's
what's your thoughts on what's going to happen with Hasan Kim?
Now that he got sent down and you got freelin
coming up? He hits a home run over the weekend
against the Phillies, Ryan Ward got his first Dodger home run,
got some young guys coming up. The competition's great, and
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still you're going to have you know, Tommy Edmond, and
you know at some point Key K's coming back. What
do you see the future for Kim?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
He has to show that he can consistently hit major
league pitching. And he started off really good and spring
training started the year in Oklahoma City doing what the
Dodgers saw him do in spring training. And then once
he got an everyday opportunity after the Dodgers decided to
go with him over Freeland about three or four weeks ago,
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he started to expand his zone. His swing got loop year,
and he just went back and reverted back to who
he was last year. The game was getting sped up.
It seemed like he was underwater, and the Dodgers just
felt like, you know, we're back to where we were
last year and he needs a reset and as Dave
Roberts likes to say, kind of get him out of
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the pressure cooker of playing in major league games and
go down to the miners and be able to you know,
reset the swing, get back to where he was a year,
or get back to where he was in spring training.
But the reality is like, I don't I think the
jury is still very much out. If Hayes and Kim's
an everyday player, I.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Think people really like him, Dave, I think he's fun
to watch.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't
know what he's done why fans are still in love
with him.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
You don't think he's exciting to watch in the bass pas, Seriously.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
You have to get on to get on the bass paths.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Oh what, you know what? So that's just a small issue.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
That's just a small Well, he doesn't take walk here's
my thing. He doesn't take walks. He doesn't know how
to bunt. He's really doesn't have the instincts of a
great speed bas runner. So you know, there's a lot
to learn for him to be able to be an
every day player at the major league level. Does he
show glimpses of it, of course he does, But I
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think he needs to understand who he is in the
major league And when he was playing in the KBO,
he was the cleanup hitter for his team. He didn't
really play small ball, and that's who he should be
in major league Baseball, I know.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
But he has a likable guy, Dave. He got the
baby face.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
And oh yeah, very likable. But I like him a lot.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
But you got to perform, right at this level, you
got to perform. Other Wise, teammate somebody teammate, I agree,
but somebody doesn't take his spa, you don't perform. It's
just it is a business too. Uh. Why can you
tell us something from an entry standpoint with Tommy Edmonds
and some of the other guys that might be coming
back to summer day.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, Tommy Edmund's in the same process that Key k
Hernandez was when he started his rehab. Assignment and spring
training players usually get fifty plate appearances, fifty at bats,
and that's what it's going to take for Tom Yetman
to be ready for the rest of the regular season.
So he's in the process of doing that. I saw
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the other night that he played center field, which is
a great sign that his right ankle is feeling good
to be able to go out there. But when he returns,
he's going to be the everyday second baseman. Maybe spots
start in center if they feel like Pahz needs a
day off in the second half. But yeah, that I
feel like tom Y Edman's the forgotten man here and
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he's a big part of this Dodger lineup. Can you
imagine having tom Yedman hitting eighth or ninth and turning
the lineup over. I mean, we're talking about the guy
that was the NLCSMVP a couple of years ago. So yeah,
they and his defense with a healthy right ankle, that's
going to be a big boost for this Dodger team
in about three to four weeks.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
All right, And what can you tell us about Tyler Glass? Now?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
He's playing like catch these days. There doesn't seem to
be a lot of certainty on when he may start
throwing a bullpen session. So that's all I know as
far as that goes. I guess this back injury was
more serious than Dave Roberts originally thought, because it's obviously
lingered longer than anybody anticipated.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Hey, Dave, I know it's a you know, a ways off,
but it's still it feels like with every week the
subject matter keeps coming up with the lockout. What are
you hearing from both sides of is this going to
happen or there's no way that Baseball is going to
let a lockout happen?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
What are you hearing?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, well it's so early, Rodney, But I'll tell you
this that the players are are pretty adamant they're not
going to accept a salary cap, and if the owners
are adamant they want to implement a salary cap, then
this is going to linger into spring training and probably
into what should be Opening Day. But that's so far away,
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and there's so many more negotiations and talks to have,
and there's going to be ups and downs. You're going
to hear a lot of negativity, I'm sure, But until
there's a deadline of opening day, when we get closer
to that, I don't think you're really going to see
these two sides get serious about what they can where
they can meet in the middle to make a deal.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Day we were kicking this around, just I want your take.
Then we'll let you get out of the sun. When
you look at LA Sports and you've been here.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
So I'm under a canopy now, Oh you're good.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You're over there by the little ars.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, exactly, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
We were trying to figure out the top front offices.
The Dodgers by far number one, not even close, maybe
the best in professional sports. Then we put the Rams too.
Would you agree with that?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, without a doubt. I don't think it's even close.
The Dodgers are number one, and less Need and Sean McVay.
I mean, you think about the consistency and continuity of
GM and head coach or president of baseball operations and manager.
I mean when you say less Need, you instantly think
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of Sean McVay. They're symbiotic. Same thing with Andrew Freeman
and Dave Roberts. I mean, Andrew Freeman and Dave Roberts
have lasted longer together than most marriages in Los Angeles.
So that just tells you how strong continuity is with
the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
All right, get out of the sun, go inside.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Okay, guys, thanks, Thanks Dave.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
There is David Vasse right outside Chase Field. I'm a
little bummed. I can lie to you. Why are you bummed?
I love that building right next to Chase Field. You
say you almost bought in there. Yeah, here's the thing.
A couple of times. Because I'm from Phoenix, my brother
lives there, my daughter lived there for a while. We're
not moving to Phoenix. It was just a place to
have in Phoenix anymore. No, she came back.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
She came back because didn't she live downtown too? She
was like, when't she ready to look downtown?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
But she lived out in Gilbert Oh okay, yeah, but
everybody know where in Scottsdale.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I promise you that she was a legend of scotts
They all know her. Hey, that's the place to be,
I'm telling you. But we've looked at that place for years.
And if you go up there, you can sit and basically,
I don't know if you can see directly inside, but
you are right next to Chase Field, and you're two
(16:14):
blocks away from where the sun's play, and if you
look straight ahead, it's the entire valley of the Sun.
It's Phoenix lights at night.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
It is great. We never did it, never did it. Yeah,
But that building and it's like in probably now it's
probably tripled, I'm sure it is. Yeah. And I've got
all these little restaurants and bars downtown, right, it's beautiful
down there. Yeah. I mean, if there's not a game,
you don't want to go outside. But aside from that, yeah,
(16:41):
it's a great spot. It really is. God, can you
imagine how much Phoenix has grown. That's crazy. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
And like like we were saying, Dave said it, you know,
there's so many people moving there, you know, for a
variety of different reasons.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
But you wonder about that.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
And I know a lot of people get out of
town in the summertime when it gets too hot and
gets into the hundreds on a regular basis. But still,
the quality of life in Phoenix and that surrounding area
and how it's grown. I mean, you just mentioned Scottsdale
and it used to be just like that small little
area of Scottsdale. Now it's grown, and it's you got
(17:19):
North Scottsdale. You got all the golf courses going on
way out there, past that. It's It's like, if it's
not the fastest growing city, it's definitely in the top
three or four.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Really is. But the thing is, you have to be
prepared for the heat.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yes you do, Yes, you do. It's a different hot heat. Yeah,
then you know, it's a complete different type of heat.
And I don't be Well, it's a dry heat, so
it doesn't No, No, one hundred and ten hits you
in the face. You don't care if it's dry, wet,
sour or whatever. It is hitting you right in the mouth,
and you go outside for three seconds, thirty seconds, red,
(17:57):
you're ready to come back in and you're sweating.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah. And the other side of it is, let's say
it's eighty five and you think, oh, this is great,
I'm gonna go outside. Because of the way the sun
just bakes the city. Eighty five seems like one hundred
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, yeah, it does, it does. It's hot, it does.
But December, January, February can't beat it.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
No, Well, how about no, you know what, you're good October, November, December. Yeah,
you're good, you're good.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
But that's why all the people come there in December
January and February used to call them the snowbirds, right,
the snows exactly right, because of those months.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
But yeah, you're good.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
At the end of September it starts to be bearable,
and October through, say through March is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
April starts to get a little warm. If you're gutsy,
you'll stick it out through April. Yeah, if you're gutsy,
you'll stick it out through April and then go back
to where you came from.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah. That's why. By the way, the Diamondbacks draw like
twenty five thousand fans a game, because that's really everybody's left. Yeah, yeah,
that's the problem. Phoenix would draw more, but the people leave, Yeah,
because it's too hot.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
They leave for the summer. You're right. They they go
back east, or they go to come to California for
the summer.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
I had a lot of friends that live there, but
they spend their summers over here, exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, yeah, a lot of people like that. All right,
let's get you caught up on what's happening, and Kevin
will do that next with its lip.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
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Speaker 2 (19:58):
Oh yes, short two hour show for US today, Rodney Pete,
Fred Rgan many thanks to our man David Basstai, who
is enduring the heat of Phoenix, Arizona. He said one
O two probably be one O nine by the time
he got off that interview.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Fred.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yes, oh good, let's tell hey, let's find out what's happening,
Kevin take.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Its lift stories lighting up their sports headbox.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
All right, Before we provide an update on the newest
Ram who they did trade for yesterday, we'll go back
to someone who were rumored to be interested in the
off season, and that was AJ Brown, who, of course
was traded to the Patriots yesterday. There's a report from
the Philadelphia Inquirer that the reason why the Rams backed
off of their pursuit from AJ Brown, and something you
brought up to yesterday, Fred, as far as why the
market was so low for him, is, uh, there may
(20:53):
be some issues on the medicals with him. They said
he had medical issues. They weren't satisfied with what they
saw and that was why they backed out. Explains why
Brown's value on the market was not what people expected
it to be. So they saw something in his medical
history that scared them off, and that is why they
backed off of their pursuit. And that is why someone
who's in the prime of his career didn't net a
larger return.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Oh, I thought they backed off because Diana Ruscini said,
don't make it all.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Knew I knew it. I knew it. You couldn't resist.
Did you too soon? Too soon for that?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Hey, they put themselves in it. I can't say anything.
Rams did their due diligence. Kevin. It's pretty simple. They
looked into it. They saw something, and to be fair,
they don't make many mistakes in that regard. So why
if you are on the cusp of winning a super
Bowl before you even kicked the season, are you going
to put yourself in a position where if you acquire
(21:48):
someone you're counting on, there's a possibility they're not going
to make it through the season. Anybody can get a hurt,
but why would you want to compound those odds? So
I get that, and it does speak to why they
didn't get as much for him as we thought. Yeah,
you may have a problem.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, the medical as you get older becomes more serious.
I think as you're Yes, he's still in his prime,
but he's kind of on the middle mid level of
that between going up the slope as supposed to going
down the slope. So medical becomes more of a factor
at his age. Plus I think some of the I
(22:31):
don't even call him off the field, some of the
sideline antics, some of the things that you hear or
heard from from the Eagles when he was there and
his tenure there of being unhappy. Did the Rams really
want to bring that into their locker room? And as
we know, the Rams, like the Dodgers, run a tight
tip and it's about character as much as it is
(22:52):
about ability. So that probably was a factor as well.
And he just the way he carried himself I think
with Philadelphia probably cost him some money.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
All right. So now we'll move on to Mile the way.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Miles Garrett schedule to be introduced to the media here
within the next hour hour and a half once the
Rams Ota practice wraps up here here in the next
thirty minutes or so, so awaiting their arrival, the official
arrival of Miles Garrett, and something we brought up yesterday.
It was a lot of Twitter fodder yesterday. Roddy and
Fred and I talked about this yesterday in this segment
about the possibility of Aaron Donald coming out of retirement
(23:27):
and rejoining the Rams, and both of us were kind
of in agreement, like, that's fun to kick around, but
it's probably not gonna happen. I'm gonna give you, guys,
just a kind of a rundown from a lot of
different information coming from a lot of different sources, and
then you guys can put it all together and tell
me what you think is ultimately gonna happen. So this morning,
Michael Brocker's former teammate of Aaron Donald here at the Rams.
He said on the Lockdown Rams podcast that he has
(23:49):
knowledge others might not have that my guy stays ready
so he doesn't have to get ready. So does that
really say anything? No other than the fact that Aaron
Donald keeps himself in shape.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Pat McAfee on his show this.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Morning, said he actually tected Aaron Donald directly to see
if a comeback was possible, and the response he got
from Aaron Donald was quote, is sure got me thinking?
He further on replied with I'm thirty five, removed from
playing two years ago. Got to see if I can
light that fire back up. Adam Shefter this morning talking
about it, says he brought up the idea to the Rams,
(24:22):
someone in the RAMS office about potentially asking Donald to
come back. He says, right now, they don't have any money.
They've spent all their money. Of course, you know a
lot of money for Garrett and the trade they made
from Kansas City. They spent a lot of money in
free agency. But another team official later told Schefter, even
though they might be out of money now, in this league,
you can always find money. Aaron Donald's wife posted a
(24:44):
video of Aaron asleep on the couch yesterday afternoon and
said something to the effect of, you guys are asking
if he's coming back. Here's your answer. It doesn't really
say one thing or other. He's just taking a nap.
Aaron Donald's wife about an hour ago, tweeted out, y'all
are funny, with no context whatsoever. I give you all
of that information from all of those different sources, and
(25:05):
that tells you.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
What tells me, No, I want him to come back,
That's what it tells me.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You want him to come back or he's coming back.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
No, I want him to come back.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
It's the same thing if I don't want The question
is do you think he's coming back?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Do you think he will come back?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Now?
Speaker 6 (25:20):
What we want? I think we want him to come back.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I don't think he will, do you, Rodney? Uh No, No,
I don't think so. Two years removed at that position. Uh,
he certainly could do it. And I've seen Aaron recently
as well, in the last couple of months. But he
is He is a guy that always stays in shape.
(25:43):
I mean, he looks as good now as he did
when he was playing. So he's gonna continuously work out.
But I just don't. I just don't see him coming back.
And plus when the wife gets involved, and I'm sure
she heard all the noise and gets all kind of
calls from her friends and people that know her, Hey
is there coming back? They aren't coming back. He got
(26:04):
fed up and says that ain't happening. And when she
says that ain't happening, he ain't coming back.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Bizarre story out of Major League Baseball slash college football.
So Jordan Adams was a kid that the Angels drafted
back in twenty eighteen, actually came up and played with
them a little bit at the big league level, But
he has now decided he's leaving Major League baseball re
enrolling at He's enrolling at SMU and plans to play
college football next season, still at eligibility left. He's twenty
(26:34):
six years old. He was a the number three receiver
recruit in the country in the same class, behind two
guys you've heard of. I'man Ross Saint Brown Jamar Chase.
He was number three behind those two guys in the
class that they came out in, so obviously supremely talented.
But now he looks to go back in college football
at the age.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Of twenty six.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
And I'm sure you guys have heard about the whole legislation,
the bill that's hoping to be passed when it comes
to college football. Part of that bill is having an
age requirement five to play five and after. I believe
you're not eligible to start until your nineteenth birthday or
a couple of months or a year before you graduate
high school, or you reach your nineteenth birthday, and then
after five years past you're now ineligible. So if this
(27:14):
gets passed and he's in the midst of playing college football.
I don't know how that works, retroactively speaking, if they
can say, well, you'll let you in before under the
old rules, but now the new rules are in and
we're sorry, man, but you can't play anymore.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
I have no idea how that's going to happen.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
But as of right now, he is eligible, and as
of right now he's enrolling at SMU to play football.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Well, that rule is not in place yet, and if
he is enrolled and does it, then they can't. They're
not going to be able to retroactively kick him out.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
I wouldn't have thought that either.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, so that's not gonna happen. But yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Interesting at twenty six that he's going to come back
and play receiver. I think it was one thing if
he said, Okay, I'm gonna come back and try out.
The fact that he's going to go back to college
to get himself ready to play football might be, you know,
might be a good thing. Hey, I still have one
year left of eligibility and baseball at USC Can I
(28:06):
go back and play? Say, I'm thinking everybody should be
allowed to play at like fifty Yeah, what's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
What is a big deal?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So is that that law include the people that go
to service or going to mission.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Kevin, There are waivers for people so BYU and Mormon missions,
military service, even maternity lea for female athletes. So there
is a waiver that you can sign up for, so
that will not apply to you if you fill out
that way.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
See, here's what you have to do. You have to
think of it like this. If you're listening at a
certain age, if you did go to college, it was
four years, you're done, you're out, see you later, and
there was none of this. You know. Yeah, guys got
paid under the table, but it wasn't the way it
is today where anything goes. Guys can transfer six times,
(28:52):
and back then they did kind of indicate college was
more important the school work. It did happen.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I mean that when Rodney players before them for that Yeah, yeah,
class there was an eligibility factor you had to do.
You had guys that that didn't couldn't play certain years, eight.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Guys and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Yeah, you had to get a certain have a certain
grade point at it to play. And we had guys
that had to sit out a season because they were
academically in algebra.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
No longer the case. No, no longer the case, but
so you go. God, things have really changed and guys
can play or women can play when they're older. Look
at it like this, a local high school. You know,
if you have kids, you might have gone through this,
and if you didn't have kids, you were one. At
a certain times. Back in the day, the neighborhood kids
grew up and they went to the local high school
and they made up the teams, and everybody knew everybody
(29:47):
because oh, once in a while somebody would move in,
but more often than not, it was the kids in
the neighborhood and that was their high school, and they
were on the teams and they played. It's not remotely
close to that anymore. No, you can go recruit a
whole group of people or go to your high school
and play, and the neighborhood kids are out of luck.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
In there in there a special train that goes from
l A to down. The modern day, I think from
LA kids to just go to school every day, they
got that special transit Well or Bosco or one of those.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Schools there, you know. Yeah, yeah, back in the day,
my friend, there were people in town cars that picked
kids up and drove them to Sierra Canyon back in
the day. I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Uh huh, yeah, yeah, what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
I'll tell you what. There were a bunch of kids
in Calabasas. I don't even know. I didn't even know
those apartments existed. All of a sudden, the whole group
were living there. Yeah, from Calabasas home. There's some nice
homes near near Sierra Canyon there too. That Uh I
heard it for transfer students out of the country, like
exchange students, right, I mean out of the country could
(30:55):
be competent, out of the country, could be Lancaster. Yeah,
so they had those homes there. But I'm just saying
everything is so different. Everything is different, and it's never
going back here.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
No, it's not another quasi pro slash college story. So
we've talked about Brennan Sowersby. He's the Texas Tech quarterback
that gambled on games when he was at Indiana. There's
a whole court case right now. There was supposed to
be a resolution yesterday that didn't happen. The judge as
yet to make a decision as to whether or not
he'd be eligible to return and play college football. But
The question was brought up to Todd Monkin, the head
(31:32):
coach of the Browns, as to whether or not if
he were to be ruled and eligible and sign up
for the supplemental NFL Draft, would he be somebody that
you would end up looking at. If Todd Munkins said this,
I think it's a slippery slope when you go down
that road. The irrespective of talent, in terms of the
situation that he put himself in. We all know what
that is. He put himself in that situation, and we've
seen in other sports with players that have been banned
(31:52):
for life for betting on professional sports. For my end,
it's a tough angle to go down that road and
think it's going to be your franchise quarterback if he's
ever even eligible to play in the NFL. So his
argument is, you know.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
He got caught doing this at the college level.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
I know he's doing rehab and all that other stuff,
But if this comes back around again, now we're asked
out our starting quarterback because he got caught up in
a gambling situation, which we know he committed the card
and a rule gambling on the sport that you play in.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah, well, you know here's the thing. Do people deserve
a second chance? And to what degree? That's a pretty
important position, quarterback, that's a pretty important position. Now he
can say he'll never do it again, and he may
never do it again, but it comes down to in
(32:40):
this situation, do you have the faith and the belief
that he'll not do it again? That's really the question here.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, it's it's really crazy the way you know the
world we live, and you can do a lot of things.
You can he can be involved in d wise and
domestic violence and all kinds of different things and they'll
give you a second chance. But that the ultimate red
flag is gambling in sports, and that is the one
thing that usually is unforgiven.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
And Monking is right.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You know, you go down that road and there's going
to be always questions of is he gambling? Is he
going to gamble again? Do we put our faith in
that guy that might we might lose him.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Halfway through the season. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
The gambling thing is it's like it's like a child
molester Fred that goes to prison.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
You know that you go there.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
You can do a lot of different things, but if
you mess with kids in prison, you're in trouble.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
You are in trouble. That is the taboo of that.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
That's the way they draw the line, even in prison,
that's where they draw the line. So gambling is kind
of on those lines of you just can't do it
in sports.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
And that's what's sliding up the headlines.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
I just said that because your time in prison, Fred,
That's why I was just we've all had a pass,
but it wasn't about kids. I want to clarify that,
you know, yes, never mind, all right, we'll come back around.
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Speaker 1 (34:31):
Oh, welcome back as we wrap this up, Freddie.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Been a good Tuesday, A nice tuesday, not quite one
hundred and two like it is in Phoenix for David
Bassey and the Dodgers, but a beautiful day here in
southern California.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
All right, thanks today for jumping on, by the way
and back. He absolutely absolutely good stuff. Eric Lawer pitches
for the Dodgers tonight. Interesting because is he going to
be the real deal or is his stopcap. Is he
a guy that they've just grabbed. He's a typical guy
they find. Yeah, you know what, that guy was good?
(35:06):
We can fix him, right, isn't that what he is? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
And next thing, you know, the guy turns into being
something special. You know, we'll just he's gonna be a
guy we fill in while we're dealing with our entries
and he turns out to be good. Dodgers got him
in the pipeline, Fred, they got they got so much
depth in their organization. Just look at a guy like Robleski,
right that, you know, not even when he when it
(35:33):
came to starting pitchers going into the season, you're not
thinking about him. You're thinking about the rotation of Yamamoto,
tany Glass, now Snell, Roki, Sazaki. Then he get a
guy like Robo who came out of you know, came out,
had his coming out party last year and loved his
attitude in the World Series where I forget who it was,
(35:56):
tried to uh get hit on purpose with his hand
and and Robo wasn't having it and went at him
a little bit. He got that dog in him. So
the Dodgers, they just keep trotting guys out. Fred You're like,
where that guy come from? Where that guy come from?
Who is that?
Speaker 1 (36:12):
That's typical for them? Yeah, yeah, you know, it's like
how many times have we said it. You're sitting there,
the game starts to go, who is that guy? Yep,
when did he get here? Where's he from? They just
find these guys. So hopefully Eric Lauer will be solid tonight.
He's going to pitch against Michael Soroka and you'll hear
(36:33):
the game right here on the radio station. Two hours
and we're done, Ronnie, thank you, terrific work today. Kevin
outstanding as always, and Rodney we will get him again
tomorrow at noon, right on
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