With the Dodgers set to face the woeful Rockies, we wonder if pro sports like MLB and the NBA would be better off retracting instead of expanding. Walker Buehler got lit up in Anaheim last night and has been terrible for Boston - might the Dodgers look to bring him back for pennies on the dollar? Luka Doncic is reportedly eating better and losing weight.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, here we go a two hour show with
the Rodgers in Colorado, Fred Rogan and Rodney Pink on
AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Rodney, how you doing today, Freddie? I'm doing good? Man,
I am? I am. I'm doing good on this Tuesday.
How you doing doing well?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Doing well? Ok? All right, So the Dodgers play the
Rockies tonight. The Rocky is the worst team in baseball. Actually,
if we're to be completely honest, are you Oh, they're
well passed. No hope. They are an embarrassment to professionals school,
they're well passed. No hope, They're an embarrassment. They're an embarrassment.
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I actually thought the White Sox were more of an embarrassment.
I think it's pretty close. Now. Ownership with a White
Sox just destroyed the franchise and now they find themselves
trying to rebuild their awful just terrible. It's difficult to watch,
and I'm sure, aside from the fact people get paid there,
nobody's having very much fun.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Don't the Rockies draw? Still, they're not the last team
in turn of attendants, are.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
They No, they're not the last team. But they have
the largest stadium. It's cavernous it is. Yeah, more people
can sit there than any stadium, and because they don't,
it looks far more empty. Now, maybe with the Dodgers
in town, there'll be some people there. But I think
when you look at the Rockies and you've seen what's
going on there, it is the exact way not to
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build something. It is the exactly you know what it is.
It's sort of like, with all due respect to the
new owner of the Phoenix suns Oh, he is systematically
running his team into the ground because he doesn't know
what he's doing. These people in Colorado have done such
a poor job of putting the franchise together for sustained success,
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or for any success for that matter, that it's really
really bad and it gets you to think it about something.
You know, the NBA is going to expand and there'll
be Las Vegas and Seattle. I'm sure there's a lot
of people buying for those franchises. But Rodney, I think
we both can agree it'll be Las Vegas and Seattle
right for NBA.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
NBA Yeah, Yeah, definitely, Las Vegas and Seattle is shown
that it's a market. I think when they went to
Oklahoma City, there was a lot of people complaining about
it and wanted to see it come back. And I
definitely see Seattle coming back as as definitely the second
one because Vegas is inevitable. Vegas is happening, and in baseball,
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you gotta believe if and when they go again, Nashville
will be one of the cities.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Ya, hope. Yeah, I think it'd be Nashville. I don't know,
Maybe Salt Lake just depends on cities getting larger. Broke
ground in Vegas, right, A's just broke ground in Vegas today. Yeah,
it's gonna like the Sydney Opera House. That's what their
stadium is gonna look for. Yeah. But when you look at, okay,
expansion in sports, and eventually the NFL will expand by
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two that'll happen as well. But when you look at expansion,
you get excited if you're in a city that gets
that team. But there are some real dog teams, I mean,
real bad teams. The Rockies is the example. And because
as you continue to expand, the player pool becomes a
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little smaller, right, I mean, there are only so many
great players. Everybody in the bigs in any sport is
a pro. But there's a difference between you know, the
twenty fifth guy and the roster and Shoho tani. So
it's harder to find these people, and it gets you
to thinking, you know, maybe instead of expanding, maybe they
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should contract. Oh maybe that's what should happen. Maybe there
are too many teams or too many people that don't
know how to run organizations. The quality isn't as good. Look,
anything could happen. The Dodgers could get swept. You know,
(04:00):
I could grow nine feet tall and play in the NBA,
So anything could happen.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
But do you believe that you believe that the quality
has diminished, because I don't. I think maybe the organizations
and the people running them have diminished. But I think
there are more good players in all sports than there
ever have been before. I think there's more basketball players,
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more baseball players, more good players at a professional level
than there ever has been before. You know, you've got
guys that are in Triple A, or you got kids
in college. I mean, I think that they're the abundance
and the talent pool is as good as it's ever been.
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And to me is more of the organizations that are
being run have run them into the ground. And I
don't know what happened going back to Colorado, because when
they first on the scene, everybody believed that was a
great market and going to be a tremendous franchise to
be a part of. Now, from a pitcher standpoint, you said,
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the park is cavernous, and they almost had to do
it that way because the ball flies out in Colorado
it's my high areas. Then you had a pop fly,
it's a home run. So a lot of pitchers don't
want to go there, but it's a hitters haven. You
want to go there if you're a hitter. So and
for years they well not I wouldn't say years, you know, consecutively,
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but over time they've had some really good teams and
some teams that right on, you know, kind of on
the brink of pushing through. But in the last four
or five years they have taken a dramatic one to
eighty turn and become the worst organization in baseball. And
I don't know what happened. Well, they obviously stopped investing,
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they obviously made wrong decisions. I'm sure they don't have
the infrastructure of a team like the Dodgers. Not many do,
but they probably don't, so the result is that.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Can they win? Can anybody win in Colorado? Well?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, I mean they've done it before, so I'm saying
going forward, can When people look at that, are they
saying can't win in Colorado?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Aristoot?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Then it's not conducive for you know, defensive baseball.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You're never gonna get any good pitching there to be
there sign their long term. But again that goes back
to the talent pool. I think there's enough pictures out
there you pay. You're gonna have to maybe overpay with
some pictures to go there, but it is. It is
a beautiful place to go play, and I just don't
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know why they can't get it right.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Well, uh, look, when they signed Chris Bryant, they signed
into a long term deal for a lot of money.
That was a terrible signing. Chris Byant had back problems.
So they signed a guy, yeah, for a lot of
years for a lot of and what happened, Oh he's
got back problems.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Okay, Well, but he came off of what World Series MVP.
I believe he was The Cubs just won the World Series.
At the time, he was the hottest guy. Can't you
You can't really necessarily fault him for bringing in a
superstar like that at the time. It's kind of like
it's almost like the Anthony Redon where Anthony Rendon had
an unbelievable season with the Nationals to win a World Series,
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the Angels go sign him and he hadn't played since. Right, Well,
I can blame both teams. I can blame the Rockies
because World Series MVP whatever, the guy has back problems,
he had him, He's got him, and that's what you got. So,
you know, good for Chris Bryant, good for his family.
That's wonderful. That was a complete waste.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Of money, had a lot of money. Anthony Roundon, Thank
god he didn't want to play for the Dodgers. And
knowing what we know now, maybe the Dodgers would have
walked away. Again, that was a knee jerk. He's good,
great World Series, let's get him. And that's what the
Angels did. Yeah, And really, the difference between the Rockies
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and the Angels is the Angels aren't as bad as
the Rockies, but their organization is pretty much kind of
the same. They just are a little better. Now that's unfair,
a lot better because the Rockies are awful, just awful,
just Terri.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
But it wasn't too long ago, Fred, that the Rockies
were battling for the division. Yeah, you know, you think
about Nolan Arenato, Trevor Story, black Men. They had a
great lineup offensively, especially put up a lot of runs.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You know, it went too long ago. They were battling
the Dodgers for one sixty three, right, and then they
just fell off a cliff. And it's the same ownership,
isn't it. They hadn't changed, right, and he ran out
of money. That had to be I just have to be.
It's your conversations with the Lions when you played. Hey,
we had a pretty good year. We just need a
(09:06):
left tackle. Yeah, okay, well not only are we not
signing a left tackle now, we need a right guard
because we let that guy go and we need a receiver.
What happened to him, Well, we let him go to
We're just going to live on this for a couple
of years and not spend. Could be that could be
as simple as that. But what the fans in Colorado
should get and I'm sorry nobody wants to hear this.
(09:29):
Those tickets, I mean, they are basically mathematically eliminated right now,
They're terrible. Okay, that price rest of the season, the
owners have to pay. The owners have to pay. They
have to be held accountable for what they've done, for
what that organization has done. You must be held accountable.
(09:51):
And the only way to hold somebody accountable in that
regard is to take their money. So the kind thing
for the owners of the Colorado Rockies to do would
be tickets are half price, half price.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
We know where we're June what, June twenty fourth, twenty fourth?
You know the Rockies are thirty games out.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
They're done now.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Looking by the way, there's only so much you can cut.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I mean the getting price right now for a Rockies
ticket is six dollars.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I mean, so you're not even turning a profit based
on that.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I'm looking at their well, I guess they're equivalent of
Dugout Club for their most for their most recent game,
not for the Dodger series or previously. It's like eighty
eight bucks. Really, can you get more affordable? I mean,
how much more do you want them to slash for it?
I mean, my god, eighty eight bucks, eighty eight dollars.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Six dollars is get in so that's the worst seat
in the house is six.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Dollars, six dollars to get in. Hell, they're gonna have
to let people in free.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Now, I mean they, I mean they kind of are
at this point.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
They are doing what you're saying. I guess they get it.
I guess I understand it.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I don't wonder why they're not lasting attendance, getting free
day ye, rounding up people at the bus stop to
bring them to the game.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Yeah, I'm looking at today's game against the Dodgers right now.
You can get field level seats just up the right
field line for sixty eight dollars each, sixty eight bucks to.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
See the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
And that's a premium price, I'm sure it is. Yeah, Yeah,
that's a premium in June.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
June good point.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, what are they behind the plate? Kevin? Can you
find those again? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Let me see if I can dig those up one more time.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah, let's se what those are the eighty eight dollars
dugout club seats.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
When if that comes out, the closest seat that I'm
seeing right now is one hundred and thirteen dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Wow, oh my god. The imagine a dugout club seat
for one hundred and thirteen dollars.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Oh excuse me, I found one right behind the visitors dugout.
This is about as seven eight rolls up, two hundred
and thirteen dollars. Still exactly, that's what I'm small point
two hundred and thirteen dollars. Most expensive seat I'm seeing
on stuff up right now for today's game is two
hundred and thirteen dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
God, when you hear this, are there tickets the cheapest
in baseball?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
They might be.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Six dollars? Wow?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
That And the thing about Colorado is it's beautiful in
the summertime. Yeah, you know, we're not talking what Arizona
with one hundred and fifteen degrees even though the rufe
is closed, he's still feeling that heat. We're talking Colorado,
which is people travel there for the summertime. Or it's
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not you know, Florida or some of those places that
it just humidities out of control. It's beautiful there, and
there's still the cheapest tickets.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
In the league.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
So I just I'm sorry righting, go on.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
No, no look ahead.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Also, I was just so looking ahead to their next
home series. It's against Houston, who's playing better, but they're
not Houston from six years ago, and it's not the Dodgers,
a division opponent. So that's same two hundred and thirteen
dollars per seat ticket seventy nine dollars, which is probably
more standard, probably more standard for a non premium you know, opponent.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Listen, If you like baseball seriously and you want to
get out of California, but you want to go to
baseball games, move to Denver immediately. Moved to Denver immediately
because you can get into those games very spend the summer. Yes,
go spend your summer in Denver. Well, then I give
I give them credit. They know how bad they are,
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or they realize that if they charge any more than that,
no one will show up.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
That's what it is. Yeah, how can we justify charging more?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Right? Because you looked up I looked up that.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I mean I was watching this the other day on
something and I was like, oh, it's got to be
the worst attendance in the league, got to be Colorado,
and they're not.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
They're not. They're like middle of the pack.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I just looked it up a few minutes ago when
you were talking about it. They're nineteenth.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, I mean you would think that Colorado would be
the worst team in the league in terms of attendance,
and they're nineteenth because those ticket prices are basically free. Right, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Hey,
take notice. Can you imagine make it up at the
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concession stand, Fred.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Right, it cost you six dollars to get in and
a hot dog was forty seven to fifty. Right, they'll
just make it up right there. Yeah, you want to
bear thirty five dollars enjoy Rocky Mountain High All right,
So that's where the Dodgers are tonight. Listen, if you
want to go to a game, I jump on a plane. Now.
(14:39):
You might be able to make it, could get there
in time for the game, and certainly you can afford
the tickets. I'm so there are plenty of tickets available.
Bring no family, Why not? I swear to God, if
we have time, we should go. I'd go up there
eighty eight bucks to sit by home plate.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Your flight to Denver costs more than to get into
the game, significantly more.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, we'd have to drive a road trip, and why
not road trip we'd have to put again, Colorado is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
It been to Park City or Denver, and the I
have in the summertime. I mean, I know it's known
for skiing and you know Aspen and all that, but man,
summertime in Colorado is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
It really is. Yeah, it's gorgeous. So the Dodgers are
there tonight. Two pitching situations. Want to discuss now. First
in the Times this morning, sho heo Tani and what
the Dodgers are doing with him now. Of course, yesterday
I made the comment, I don't know why everybody's so excited.
I mean, we've seen him pitch now, now we want
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them to pitch more. Then you get excited, right next
outing two innings, Okay, I'm a little more excited than
three innings. Okay, I'm a little more excited. It's really
a Novelties pitched in the past, and now he's pitched
twice for the Dodgers. The Dodgers will not subscribe to
my theory. What's that Let's go get him out there
and let's have him start working three innings the next game,
(16:06):
five innings the next game. Let's just let him go.
Just ramp it up as quickly as you can. Just go.
That's right, get out there and pitch. No, it's not
gonna happen. No, it's not gonna happen. And you don't
believe that yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I was just watching you say that out of your
mouth and it didn't even come out right.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You know what I'm saying is I'd like to see
him go longer than I.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Bet you would, But you don't want to see that.
You don't want to see that because you'd risk so much.
What about the notion of instead of him opening, let
him close, you know, and put him in some high
leverage situations, much like they did in the WBC where
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he came in and the in for Japan and had
that ninth inning where he struck out trout to end
the game. Put him in that and have him geared
up for October as a closer or or the high
leverage guy late in the game.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Well, first, they have to have him start now because
they have no starters, so I mean they've got to
use him. I see what you're saying about later in
the year. I'm just wondering how that would work. So,
what he just hit and then we expect him to
go an inning from now, so we send him out
of the bullpen to warm up. Yeah, Well, if there
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seems to be concern about him pitching and then coming
in and immediately hitting. Is there going to be proper
time for him to warm up during a game to
go out there because he might have to bat. What
if he's in the bullpen coming up and he's on deck, Yeah,
what's he going to do sprint back in and grab
a bat Yeah, you know, you just have to gauge it.
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If it's the eighth inning and.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
You know he's fourth up, he's got to be ready
to hit, right and they go, you know, they happen
to go. One guy gets on and he's got to
go ready to hit, but he's down there warming up
prior to that. Yeah, he's gonna have to sprint from
the bullpen to get in on deck circle. That's not
gonna happen. That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Not gonna happen. One of those to see the bullpen
gate open and all of a sudden he comes springing it,
grabs a batman helmet. Well, you know, it's not gonna happen.
If he's at home.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
With the way Dodger Stadium is laid out, in a
new state of the art clubhouse they have, he won't
have to sprint. He just goes in the back and
they've got, you know, situations where he could kind of
warm up back there. But if he's on the road,
you don't know what kind of situations they have. You know,
if he's in Chicago or of one of those old
buildings that just as just nineteen seventy five bullpens, then
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he's gonna have to do that. But at home it
wouldn't be a problem. But yeah, no, I don't know.
I mean, I actually do like him opening the game.
And if he goes and he's only thrown nine pitches,
ten pitches in the first inning, let him go a
couple more as as we go forward. We've seen him
do two of these games where he's only pitched in
any so based on pitch count, let him go and
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just play it by ear. But it certainly will. What
do you what do you think that gate opens in
the bottom of the ninth, That gate opens in the
bottom of the ninth, you got a one run lead
and it's the it's the NLCS or it's the World Series,
and that gate opens and it's and it's like, and uh,
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well would that stadium be like.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Oh'd be too much? You're insane. Other picture. We want
to touch on somebody that you, as a fan, wanted
to come back last year, and I think a lot
of people were disappointed when he didn't come back, and
he provided the lasting image of the Dodgers winning the
World Series. It's Walker Buler now if you remember that.
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Went back and forth for a while, and eventually he
signed with Boston. Dodger said, go out see what's out there.
Check it out. I think once the Dodger signed Sazaki,
the handwriting was on the wall for Walker Bueller. But
here's what's interesting about this. So they know their players
better than anybody, and they really chose not to re
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sign him. Now, if you had to play for a
million dollars, it would have been a different story. But
they chose not to resign him. So he signs with Boston. Now.
I have watched a few of his games pitching for
the Red Sox, the infamous game where he was tossed early,
where he threw it right down the middle, let the
umpire know it and he was run. He had another
(20:47):
rough outing last night in Anaheim. Before you know what,
he gave up five runs. Right now, he has the
highest era of any starter in the American League. So
that's what he's doing the year. And then you think
back and you go, why didn't the Dodgers resign him?
Why would they even give him a chance to look elsewhere?
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Why wouldn't they make him that offer? But they didn't.
They let him go. Yeah, and maybe they know something.
Well I'm sure they do, but maybe they saw something
or their analytics told them something that he wasn't going
to be the same guy. So that being said, Rodney,
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if the Red Sox are sellers at the trade deadline
and Walker Buehler is available, and you're the Dodgers and
you can use another arm and you remember him standing
on the mound after winning the World Series, what would
you do?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I'd go getting, Oh, yeah, look at you, Look at you.
If I just sat back in his seat and like,
what the hell are you talking about? What are you doing?
I go getting, I go getting because guys are different
when they are comfortable, and Walker Bueller is a Dodger.
And sometimes, as we talk about all the time on
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this show, you know, sometimes the change of environment, change
the scenery, brings out the best in certain guys. Sometimes
the change of scenery brings out the worst in certain guys,
and then when they get back to their comfort zone,
then they go back to being the guy that everybody
believed that they were before they left. And I think
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Walker Buehler could be that guy. I think the move
to Boston he was not ready for that. He came
off of injury last year, didn't you know, struggled and
then got it, then found it again late in the
season and again. The image of him winning the World Series,
of being out on the mound at the end of
the World Series was great. But I believe that you
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put him back in a Dodger uniform, there is a
resurrection of Walker Buehler if he comes back. So yeah,
I mean everything has to be right. Certainly, you're not
gonna overpay or not over you know, give away the
farm or anything like that, don't get me wrong. But
if there's a chance to get him for a reasonable
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price and reasonable situation, absolutely absolutely bring.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I don't think I don't think I would do it.
I don't think I would. I think they knew something
before they decided not to tender him last year. They
knew it.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
But if the price was right, they would have they
would have signed him back. They didn't. They felt at
the right price, they could bring him back. It wasn't like,
see you later, Walker, We're not going to sign you back.
Go see what you can get, and if you get
something better then uh than what we're you know, willing
to give you, then we're not gonna match it. But
if there's no takers out there, we certainly want you back.
(23:54):
I think it was that situation more so than see
you later. You know, and you know, but the Dodgers
have been right in all those situations. Most of those situations.
You talked about this in the past with they know
the ceiling of certain guys. They knew Yasiel Puigue there
was he had a ceiling and he had reached that
ceiling and was not gonna get any better, and they
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were not going to bring him back. And I think
the same thing with Jack Peterson. I think they felt
that he had reached his ceiling and they weren't going
to bring him back. Alex Berdugo, I mean you can
go on and on of different guys that might have
been big time prospects. Cody Bellinger, I mean that you think,
maybe this guy is gonna be a Dodger for life.
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But they thought and the way their analytics work saw
something different. I think the only guy that they might
have gone, man, we should have tried to keep him
is probably Corey Seeger.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, but Corey Seager still gets hurt. Yeah, he still
gets hurt. But yeah, they probably wish they would have
hung Yeah, he's the he's the one that got away. Yeah,
that's the one that got away. Anyway, I don't think
I would bring Walker Reviewer back.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Even if it doesn't cost you anything.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Like, he gets a DFAID and Boston it decides to
sell and you give up basically cash considerations or no
name prospect to get him back.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
What what does it hurt.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
If he's dfaid. Yeah, so it costs you nothing. Correct, Oh, yeah,
i'd got him then.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I'm not talking about Well, I don't think rotten your
eye talking about selling the farm to go.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
No, you're not.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, you're not giving up prospects or anything like that
to get him. But if you get him cheap and
you got a chance to get him back here, I
think he's a he's a He would be a totally
different picture than he is in Boston right now. If
he came back to the Dodger.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I don't know, and well, and Fred, if he's not,
then don't use him. Didn't didn't cost you that much exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, and if you're gonna do that, then you got
to do it right at the trade deadline and see
what he's about, because you don't have a luxury of guessing,
you know what I mean. It's like last year when
he was struggling, we were saying, okay, every time they're
getting closer to making a decision, and it just worked out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Well then he had a couple good outings right leading
up to the playoffs and like, okay, okay, it just
worked out.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
All right, Well, you guys would do it. I guess
for the right price, I would do it as well.
You have more confidence in what would happen if he
came here, though, than I do. And I hope he comes.
He's great because everybody loves him. Yeah, but right now
it's Christmas and he's getting lit like a tree. Okay,
(26:40):
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Speaker 1 (27:06):
Oh, come on.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Two hours show today on a Tuesday. Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan,
Let's go, Freddy, Let's go. It is summer time and
it's the off season. Is that the time to kind
of relax and fat cat it a little bit?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Fred?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Apparently not? Well, not for Luca Dancers. It's not. Apparently
he has slum down. He's been very committed to his
conditioning this offseason, drops significant weight. He is working on
a strict diet, some cardio, and apparently he already looks different. Now,
I don't know. With a strict diet, cardio and you
(27:45):
have somebody monitoring everything, how long does it take it'll
lose twenty five pounds? And I don't have that answer.
I don't know. I mean, I want to diet one
time and I lost ten pounds in two weeks. Depends
on if he's on ozipic or not. If you're let
me ask you this. Let me ask you this. If
you took that, If you took that, do you think
(28:07):
professional athletes would take it Rodney or that whatever the
other supplement is that you can inject yourself with. Do
you think pro athletes would use that?
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Then?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I guess the question be comes after you've lost the weight,
and I know people that have lost a lot of weight,
how to do it? Yeah? How do you keep it off? Well?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah, you you can't just take it, lose the weight
and then think it was going to you know, it's
going to continue to be this way. You have to
change your lifestyle. You have to change your habits along
the way, because if you don't change your habits along
the way, then it's going to come right back on.
(28:46):
So you have to once you start this as a program,
then you have to be committed to saying, Okay, I'm
going to change my eating habits. I'm going to change
my diet along the way. I'm not just going to
continue to eat fast food and cheese, burgers and all
that stuff and lose weight and then go back to
(29:07):
doing that after I'm off of this cycle of ozimpic
and expect the weight to still stay off.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It's going to come right back. So you have to
change your lifestyle. But I know there's no question that many.
I'm sure many athletes are utilizing this, you know, which
was originally brought onto the market as a diabetes drug,
(29:37):
and then they found out that it had you could
lose a lot of weight from it, and now it's
been promoted as a weight loss drug. But that's similar
to you know, the way viagra started bag or it
was not viagra to begin with. It was utilized for
something else, and then men started taking it, and then
all of a sudden they realized that in ninety percent
(29:58):
of the men they were able to get an erection again.
And that's the story of viagra. Same thing with oz impic. So, no,
you cannot just go willy nilly, oh I'm gonna lose
twenty five pounds. You lose the twenty five pounds, and
then you go off of it and you think, oh,
I'm gonna continue to eat the way I did.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
No, it doesn't work that way. What was Viegra originally
created for?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I forgot? I forgot, But it certainly wasn't too I'm
not sure.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Heard it says angina. So hard issues?
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Was that what it was? Yeah? Okay, yeah, so it
was hard issues.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And then obviously people found out and the men found
out that it was you know, it gave them erections
and and the rest is history. But it was not
intended for that same thing with oz impics, it was not.
It's really a you know, for for a diabetic or
to treat diabetes. And it turns out that people were
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losing a lot of weight from it, and so now
it's promoted as that, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
It's an appetite supressor. Yes, that's what it turned out
to be. Right.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
So I don't know if he's on that or not.
I have no idea, but you know, if that's good though,
that he's he's committed this summer. Right, that's what people
want to hear from the Lakers, because that was a
big criticism that he you know, even from Dallas. Why
he got you know, they got rid of him in
Dallas because he didn't have a good offseason work ethic
and was a little pudgy and a little overweight, and
(31:32):
it caused some problems and they were, you know, worried
that going forward was he going to be as effective
because he wasn't committed to being in shape.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
So it's good.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
He's also the contract year correct, correct, Now, let me
ask you this, he's in a contract year, right right,
which I believe this is why he was probably even
more upset with Mavericks. He's in a contract year. But
in this contract year, by him being traded to the Lakers,
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he's not eligible for an extra hundred million dollars that
he would have gotten from the supermacs Supermax, right right, Yeah. Now,
if you're him and you're in that position, you got
a chance to make four hundred million, but yet you
only make three hundred million because Dallas traded you and
(32:36):
you're not eligible for the Supermax? Does that upset you
that much? Three hundred million versus four hundred million? Like,
what can you buy for four hundred million that you
can't buy for three hundred millions?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
More of something? A lot more of something? Does Does
that affect me? Yeah? I'm pretty upset, to be honest
with you. No, I mean, right, it's all funny, stupid money.
But the point is that's one hundred million dollars. One
hundred million, and because they moved him because they didn't
think he was in good shape, and he too much
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and they were going to have to pay him the Supermax,
right you know, I mean there's no way they had
to pay him, so they just got rid of him.
And now when he looks at it, he probably says
to himself that that was a wake up call. That
was a wake up call. But here's the other thing.
So let's say now he drops twenty five thirty pounds. Okay,
(33:34):
well he'd be as good, you know what I mean.
He's a big guy, but he uses a lot of
body strength to move people around. Weight.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Yeah, he puts his weight on people. And yeah, like
you said, leans on guys. How much is that going
to really affect him, affect him? Hmm, I don't know.
I think I think I think i'd lean on. It's
always better to be leaner and in better shape than
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to be thick. You know, Charles Barkley was effective as
the round mound of rebound, but he really became a
superstar when he lost that weight in Philadelphia and became
that dominant power forward that could run the floor and
jump out of the gym as opposed to being that
just big body that would just body people out of
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the way.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
And I know guys do it when they get older
because it's easier. But Lebron's done it.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
He's certainly gotten thinner over the last five six years
as he's gotten older, and he's just as effective. Dwight
Howard used to be super swoll and by I'd say
the last five seven years of his career leaned out
and was obviously not the same dominant force, but was
still a pretty damn good player.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah, but Kevin, isn't there a difference from the way
they leaned out and what Luca has to do?
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (34:52):
I mean, yes, he's doing cardio, who's to say that
he's also not weightlifting making sure that he still maintained
some strength and muscle on top of that. People are
going to look at the weight on the it's how
the weight is distributed on your body, so you can
be better cardiovascularie and have more stamina while still maintaining
strength at the same time, which I'm sure is something
he's focusing on for the reasons you guys just mentioned.
(35:12):
But it's not just I don't think he's running eighteen
miles a day trying to get as skinny as possible
and he's going to come in and have no strength whatsoever.
Nobody would ever recommend him do that either, So I'm
sure there's a balance in there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Oh yeah, definitely a balance. Definitely a balance. I mean,
you can't and you can't do it. You know, we
just talked about the ozempic and you know these fast
weight loss things, you don't you want to do it gradually.
And if you do it gradually, then it becomes a
lifestyle change, right, and it becomes something that's embedded into you.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
But if you if you.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Lose twenty pounds in two weeks, then it's a quick
fix and that's easily put back on. So I think
what they're trying to do with him and what he's
trying to do, I believe is trying to make this
a pattern and a change in terms of a workout
and his diet and all those things, so he doesn't
fluctuate back and forth.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Top of the hour, we'll go to Denver David Bessey
with the Dodgers. He is standing by and we will
check in with him.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
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Speaker 2 (36:33):
Today's afternoon delight is drive by Ed Shearon. This song
appears on the recently released F One soundtrack, which debuted
ahead of the release of the feature film, which debuted
in theaters today. In an interview about jumping on the soundtrack,
Shearon said, movies are my hobby and probably the only
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thing other than sport that I get it like a
star struck. To be a part of not just directors
or actors or whatever, but being a part of the
journey of a movie is so exciting for me. Again,
Today's afternoon Delight is Drive by Ed Sharritt. A lot
(37:19):
of hype on this F one movie. You guys excited
to see that when Brad Pitt and uh has an indriest.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yeah, I am Yeah, I am too. Yeah, I think
it'd be good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
A lot a lot of hype, a lot of lead
into this one, so hopefully it's good.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
All right.
Speaker 6 (37:36):
And now.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
From the court to the court Room with Jacob em Ronni.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Are weekly chat with our friend Jacob em Ronni.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Jacob, how are you today, gentlemen? How are you today?
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Good? I want to start with this, Jacob, you tell
me if this is a valid lawsuit. Woman goes to
Halloween horror Nights at Universal Studios. She knows what she's doing.
She goes in, she freaks out. She sues Universal Studios
for mental anguish. What do you think of that?
Speaker 6 (38:09):
What did she freak out about?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Just she was terrified it was too much for her, Jacob,
she couldn't take Universal was too much for Yeah, that
once she went to Halloween Hohrn Nights.
Speaker 6 (38:20):
So it was more scary than she would have thought.
Is that basically what the what the cause of action
is going to be for d Yes, I don't think
she has you know, I don't think she's got a
real case. But remember, unfortunately sometimes these lawsuits, you know,
(38:40):
providers may go ahead and pay some nuisance to get
rid of it. But is it really a case that
I can see having some real life to it. No,
I would not think in any way, shape or form.
I mean, these are you know, and in the state
of you talk about assumption of the risk. There are
certain things that we do and you have to understand
(39:01):
that you're assuming the risk, just like you know, going
on certain roller coasters or you know, doing certain types
of you know, there's this bungee jumping that occurs or
a bunch of these places here in LA where people
are going jump up and down and you know, and
then they come down and they break their ankle. So
a lot of those things, these these places actually get
(39:23):
you to sign a release. You know, you can get
around the release. But no, in that situation, I would say, yeah,
not much of the lossuit.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
No, Jacob, You've been with us for a number of
years now, and you always talk about the different cases
you're involved in, and some of them are extraordinary that
you know, a lot of them should be part of
a movie. We could probably put together a bunch of
them and create our own feature film on some of
the cases that you presented to us. But how often
(39:53):
do you get those wild, outlandish, you know, reports, or
somebody's trying to claim something that you look up and go,
this is absolutely ridiculous, And you know, in your mind,
even though you would never do this because you're a
nice guy, you just want to hang up on the person.
Speaker 6 (40:12):
Yeah, you know, Rodnie, that's a great question based on
the fact that you know, we give free consultations and
you know, over the years being with you guys, many
people have us on their speed dial. We get a
lot of phone calls. We get people who call us
when somebody was a route to them at the restaurant
(40:32):
and they want us do the restaurant. You know, we
get calls that are outlandish, but I will tell you
sometimes they're all calls that come in that may not
necessarily be your typical case, but they actually make law.
You know, I'll never forget a friend of mine who
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does the same kind of words. Head a case where
there was this copy maker and it was sitting on
top of a shelf and a little, you know, four
year old reached up and pulled on it, and there
was hot coffee on it, and it ended up falling
and burning this young boy. And these people had gone
(41:18):
to at least ten or fifteen attorneys, and they all
said that they don't see any type of a liability here,
and it's you know, it was the young boy's fault,
and it's a parent's fault for having put it at
the reach of a young boy. But you know, an
attorney friend of mine, who handles very very few cases,
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but picks and chooses his cases that he says can
make law, took that case and they ended up they
were able to prove that there was a lip on
the side of the coffee maker that could have actually
stopped this from pouring over and falling on this young boy.
(41:59):
And if this manufacturer had made the lip another two
inches higher, they could have prevented this from occurring. And
they recovered almost four and a half million dollars for
that case. So you know, as attorneys, there's going to
be cases that are the run of the mill that
happen every day, but there's always going to be those
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cases that you really have to look at and see
if you can actually do something for a client, and
your clients are our clients are usually the driver of
that decision. If you have a client that seems credible,
a client that can tell their story and is not
necessarily doing it just to get paid, that makes it
a bit easier to be able to, you know, convince
(42:45):
a jury or a judge or the other insurance company
that they need to pay them. But you'd be surprised.
I mean, we got those every.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Day, Robbie. All right, Jacob, your new billboards they're great.
I'm gonna give you three slogans. Tell us what they mean.
Why'd you put them up there? Have a great day,
smile it's free, and do it for you.
Speaker 6 (43:05):
Yeah, you know, I mean, I think anyone who's listening
or anybody who drives around probably has had enough of
all these billboards. And it's a lot of my colleagues,
and it's a lot of our billboards and other people's billboards,
all of them you know, just as injured or you know,
been a truck accident. And I think after a while,
people just are not really are kind of sick of
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seeing those. And you know, we felt that when people
drive around sometimes people just need a little bit of
positive enforcement, reinforcement, some motivation. I know sometimes I leave
you know, the house in the morning and I need
to get myself going. Sometimes, you know, a lot of
helps that. But I think, you know, being when you
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tell somebody have a great day, you can make their day.
You know, we put up have a great day because
I would love people who tell me I have a
great day. I mean that positivity is great. We have
billboard saying smile it's free, and it's true. You know,
a lot of people have so much they're dealing with,
and you don't know what's going on in each person's lives,
and we all have our problems, and sometimes, you know,
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a smile or something that puts a smile on someone's
face can make their day and you know, do it
for you. It's true because I think very often we
need to self motivate and I think sometimes even when
people doubt us from being able to achieve something that
may just be much bigger than maybe what their mentality
allows it, we have to do it for us. And
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we've gotten some really great reaction to some of these
billboards that we put up that has you know, positive messages.
You know, we also have other ones that says, enjoy
the now. I think a lot of us don't live
for the moment. I think we're all worried about the
past or the future. Or another one that says don't
just exist live I think that falls them. The same
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thing is we all have to live each day because
you don't know what tomorrow brings. So, you know, I'm
hoping that we can bring a smile or some type
of a motivation to people who see these billboards every
day and go buy them and hopefully we can make
their day better. That was really the you know, the
purpose behind you know these billboards.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Love it? That is great, all right, Jacob, good stuff,
Thanks for coming on, Thanks for sharing that with us.
We appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (45:20):
Appreciate you guys. Have a good rest of your week.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
All right. When we come back, we'll go up to
Denver David Vasse with the Dodger standing by.
All right, here we go a two hour show with
the Rodgers in Colorado, Fred Rogan and Rodney Pink on
AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Rodney, how you doing today, Freddie? I'm doing good? Man,
I am? I am. I'm doing good on this Tuesday.
How you doing doing well?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Doing well? Ok? All right, So the Dodgers play the
Rockies tonight. The Rocky is the worst team in baseball. Actually,
if we're to be completely honest, are you Oh, they're
well passed. No hope. They are an embarrassment to professionals school,
they're well passed. No hope, They're an embarrassment. They're an embarrassment.
(00:36):
I actually thought the White Sox were more of an embarrassment.
I think it's pretty close. Now. Ownership with a White
Sox just destroyed the franchise and now they find themselves
trying to rebuild their awful just terrible. It's difficult to watch,
and I'm sure, aside from the fact people get paid there,
nobody's having very much fun.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Don't the Rockies draw? Still, they're not the last team
in turn of attendants, are.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
They No, they're not the last team. But they have
the largest stadium. It's cavernous it is. Yeah, more people
can sit there than any stadium, and because they don't,
it looks far more empty. Now, maybe with the Dodgers
in town, there'll be some people there. But I think
when you look at the Rockies and you've seen what's
going on there, it is the exact way not to
(01:21):
build something. It is the exactly you know what it is.
It's sort of like, with all due respect to the
new owner of the Phoenix suns Oh, he is systematically
running his team into the ground because he doesn't know
what he's doing. These people in Colorado have done such
a poor job of putting the franchise together for sustained success,
(01:42):
or for any success for that matter, that it's really
really bad and it gets you to think it about something.
You know, the NBA is going to expand and there'll
be Las Vegas and Seattle. I'm sure there's a lot
of people buying for those franchises. But Rodney, I think
we both can agree it'll be Las Vegas and Seattle
right for NBA.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
NBA Yeah, Yeah, definitely, Las Vegas and Seattle is shown
that it's a market. I think when they went to
Oklahoma City, there was a lot of people complaining about
it and wanted to see it come back. And I
definitely see Seattle coming back as as definitely the second
one because Vegas is inevitable. Vegas is happening, and in baseball,
(02:24):
you gotta believe if and when they go again, Nashville
will be one of the cities.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Ya, hope. Yeah, I think it'd be Nashville. I don't know,
Maybe Salt Lake just depends on cities getting larger. Broke
ground in Vegas, right, A's just broke ground in Vegas today. Yeah,
it's gonna like the Sydney Opera House. That's what their
stadium is gonna look for. Yeah. But when you look at, okay,
expansion in sports, and eventually the NFL will expand by
(02:52):
two that'll happen as well. But when you look at expansion,
you get excited if you're in a city that gets
that team. But there are some real dog teams, I mean,
real bad teams. The Rockies is the example. And because
as you continue to expand, the player pool becomes a
(03:15):
little smaller, right, I mean, there are only so many
great players. Everybody in the bigs in any sport is
a pro. But there's a difference between you know, the
twenty fifth guy and the roster and Shoho tani. So
it's harder to find these people, and it gets you
to thinking, you know, maybe instead of expanding, maybe they
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should contract. Oh maybe that's what should happen. Maybe there
are too many teams or too many people that don't
know how to run organizations. The quality isn't as good. Look,
anything could happen. The Dodgers could get swept. You know,
(04:00):
I could grow nine feet tall and play in the NBA,
So anything could happen.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
But do you believe that you believe that the quality
has diminished, because I don't. I think maybe the organizations
and the people running them have diminished. But I think
there are more good players in all sports than there
ever have been before. I think there's more basketball players,
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more baseball players, more good players at a professional level
than there ever has been before. You know, you've got
guys that are in Triple A, or you got kids
in college. I mean, I think that they're the abundance
and the talent pool is as good as it's ever been.
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And to me is more of the organizations that are
being run have run them into the ground. And I
don't know what happened going back to Colorado, because when
they first on the scene, everybody believed that was a
great market and going to be a tremendous franchise to
be a part of. Now, from a pitcher standpoint, you said,
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the park is cavernous, and they almost had to do
it that way because the ball flies out in Colorado
it's my high areas. Then you had a pop fly,
it's a home run. So a lot of pitchers don't
want to go there, but it's a hitters haven. You
want to go there if you're a hitter. So and
for years they well not I wouldn't say years, you know, consecutively,
(05:34):
but over time they've had some really good teams and
some teams that right on, you know, kind of on
the brink of pushing through. But in the last four
or five years they have taken a dramatic one to
eighty turn and become the worst organization in baseball. And
I don't know what happened. Well, they obviously stopped investing,
(05:57):
they obviously made wrong decisions. I'm sure they don't have
the infrastructure of a team like the Dodgers. Not many do,
but they probably don't, so the result is that.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Can they win? Can anybody win in Colorado? Well?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, I mean they've done it before, so I'm saying
going forward, can When people look at that, are they
saying can't win in Colorado?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Aristoot?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Then it's not conducive for you know, defensive baseball.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You're never gonna get any good pitching there to be
there sign their long term. But again that goes back
to the talent pool. I think there's enough pictures out
there you pay. You're gonna have to maybe overpay with
some pictures to go there, but it is. It is
a beautiful place to go play, and I just don't
(06:44):
know why they can't get it right.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Well, uh, look, when they signed Chris Bryant, they signed
into a long term deal for a lot of money.
That was a terrible signing. Chris Byant had back problems.
So they signed a guy, yeah, for a lot of
years for a lot of and what happened, Oh he's
got back problems.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Okay, Well, but he came off of what World Series MVP.
I believe he was The Cubs just won the World Series.
At the time, he was the hottest guy. Can't you
You can't really necessarily fault him for bringing in a
superstar like that at the time. It's kind of like
it's almost like the Anthony Redon where Anthony Rendon had
an unbelievable season with the Nationals to win a World Series,
(07:28):
the Angels go sign him and he hadn't played since. Right, Well,
I can blame both teams. I can blame the Rockies
because World Series MVP whatever, the guy has back problems,
he had him, He's got him, and that's what you got. So,
you know, good for Chris Bryant, good for his family.
That's wonderful. That was a complete waste.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Of money, had a lot of money. Anthony Roundon, Thank
god he didn't want to play for the Dodgers. And
knowing what we know now, maybe the Dodgers would have
walked away. Again, that was a knee jerk. He's good,
great World Series, let's get him. And that's what the
Angels did. Yeah, And really, the difference between the Rockies
(08:11):
and the Angels is the Angels aren't as bad as
the Rockies, but their organization is pretty much kind of
the same. They just are a little better. Now that's unfair,
a lot better because the Rockies are awful, just awful,
just Terri.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
But it wasn't too long ago, Fred, that the Rockies
were battling for the division. Yeah, you know, you think
about Nolan Arenato, Trevor Story, black Men. They had a
great lineup offensively, especially put up a lot of runs.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You know, it went too long ago. They were battling
the Dodgers for one sixty three, right, and then they
just fell off a cliff. And it's the same ownership,
isn't it. They hadn't changed, right, and he ran out
of money. That had to be I just have to be.
It's your conversations with the Lions when you played. Hey,
we had a pretty good year. We just need a
(09:06):
left tackle. Yeah, okay, well not only are we not
signing a left tackle now, we need a right guard
because we let that guy go and we need a receiver.
What happened to him, Well, we let him go to
We're just going to live on this for a couple
of years and not spend. Could be that could be
as simple as that. But what the fans in Colorado
should get and I'm sorry nobody wants to hear this.
(09:29):
Those tickets, I mean, they are basically mathematically eliminated right now,
They're terrible. Okay, that price rest of the season, the
owners have to pay. The owners have to pay. They
have to be held accountable for what they've done, for
what that organization has done. You must be held accountable.
(09:51):
And the only way to hold somebody accountable in that
regard is to take their money. So the kind thing
for the owners of the Colorado Rockies to do would
be tickets are half price, half price.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
We know where we're June what, June twenty fourth, twenty fourth?
You know the Rockies are thirty games out.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
They're done now.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Looking by the way, there's only so much you can cut.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I mean the getting price right now for a Rockies
ticket is six dollars.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I mean, so you're not even turning a profit based
on that.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I'm looking at their well, I guess they're equivalent of
Dugout Club for their most for their most recent game,
not for the Dodger series or previously. It's like eighty
eight bucks. Really, can you get more affordable? I mean,
how much more do you want them to slash for it?
I mean, my god, eighty eight bucks, eighty eight dollars.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Six dollars is get in so that's the worst seat
in the house is six.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Dollars, six dollars to get in. Hell, they're gonna have
to let people in free.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Now, I mean they, I mean they kind of are
at this point.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
They are doing what you're saying. I guess they get it.
I guess I understand it.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I don't wonder why they're not lasting attendance, getting free
day ye, rounding up people at the bus stop to
bring them to the game.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Yeah, I'm looking at today's game against the Dodgers right now.
You can get field level seats just up the right
field line for sixty eight dollars each, sixty eight bucks to.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
See the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
And that's a premium price, I'm sure it is. Yeah, Yeah,
that's a premium in June.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
June good point.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, what are they behind the plate? Kevin? Can you
find those again? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Let me see if I can dig those up one more time.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah, let's se what those are the eighty eight dollars
dugout club seats.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
When if that comes out, the closest seat that I'm
seeing right now is one hundred and thirteen dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Wow, oh my god. The imagine a dugout club seat
for one hundred and thirteen dollars.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Oh excuse me, I found one right behind the visitors dugout.
This is about as seven eight rolls up, two hundred
and thirteen dollars. Still exactly, that's what I'm small point
two hundred and thirteen dollars. Most expensive seat I'm seeing
on stuff up right now for today's game is two
hundred and thirteen dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
God, when you hear this, are there tickets the cheapest
in baseball?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
They might be.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Six dollars? Wow?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
That And the thing about Colorado is it's beautiful in
the summertime. Yeah, you know, we're not talking what Arizona
with one hundred and fifteen degrees even though the rufe
is closed, he's still feeling that heat. We're talking Colorado,
which is people travel there for the summertime. Or it's
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not you know, Florida or some of those places that
it just humidities out of control. It's beautiful there, and
there's still the cheapest tickets.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
In the league.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
So I just I'm sorry righting, go on.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
No, no look ahead.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Also, I was just so looking ahead to their next
home series. It's against Houston, who's playing better, but they're
not Houston from six years ago, and it's not the Dodgers,
a division opponent. So that's same two hundred and thirteen
dollars per seat ticket seventy nine dollars, which is probably
more standard, probably more standard for a non premium you know, opponent.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Listen, If you like baseball seriously and you want to
get out of California, but you want to go to
baseball games, move to Denver immediately. Moved to Denver immediately
because you can get into those games very spend the summer. Yes,
go spend your summer in Denver. Well, then I give
I give them credit. They know how bad they are,
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or they realize that if they charge any more than that,
no one will show up.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
That's what it is. Yeah, how can we justify charging more?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Right? Because you looked up I looked up that.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I mean I was watching this the other day on
something and I was like, oh, it's got to be
the worst attendance in the league, got to be Colorado,
and they're not.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
They're not. They're like middle of the pack.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I just looked it up a few minutes ago when
you were talking about it. They're nineteenth.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, I mean you would think that Colorado would be
the worst team in the league in terms of attendance,
and they're nineteenth because those ticket prices are basically free. Right, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Hey,
take notice. Can you imagine make it up at the
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concession stand, Fred.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Right, it cost you six dollars to get in and
a hot dog was forty seven to fifty. Right, they'll
just make it up right there. Yeah, you want to
bear thirty five dollars enjoy Rocky Mountain High All right,
So that's where the Dodgers are tonight. Listen, if you
want to go to a game, I jump on a plane. Now.
(14:39):
You might be able to make it, could get there
in time for the game, and certainly you can afford
the tickets. I'm so there are plenty of tickets available.
Bring no family, Why not? I swear to God, if
we have time, we should go. I'd go up there
eighty eight bucks to sit by home plate.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Your flight to Denver costs more than to get into
the game, significantly more.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, we'd have to drive a road trip, and why
not road trip we'd have to put again, Colorado is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
It been to Park City or Denver, and the I
have in the summertime. I mean, I know it's known
for skiing and you know Aspen and all that, but man,
summertime in Colorado is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
It really is. Yeah, it's gorgeous. So the Dodgers are
there tonight. Two pitching situations. Want to discuss now. First
in the Times this morning, sho heo Tani and what
the Dodgers are doing with him now. Of course, yesterday
I made the comment, I don't know why everybody's so excited.
I mean, we've seen him pitch now, now we want
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them to pitch more. Then you get excited, right next
outing two innings, Okay, I'm a little more excited than
three innings. Okay, I'm a little more excited. It's really
a Novelties pitched in the past, and now he's pitched
twice for the Dodgers. The Dodgers will not subscribe to
my theory. What's that Let's go get him out there
and let's have him start working three innings the next game,
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five innings the next game. Let's just let him go.
Just ramp it up as quickly as you can. Just go.
That's right, get out there and pitch. No, it's not
gonna happen. No, it's not gonna happen. And you don't
believe that yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I was just watching you say that out of your
mouth and it didn't even come out right.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You know what I'm saying is I'd like to see
him go longer than I.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Bet you would, But you don't want to see that.
You don't want to see that because you'd risk so much.
What about the notion of instead of him opening, let
him close, you know, and put him in some high
leverage situations, much like they did in the WBC where
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he came in and the in for Japan and had
that ninth inning where he struck out trout to end
the game. Put him in that and have him geared
up for October as a closer or or the high
leverage guy late in the game.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Well, first, they have to have him start now because
they have no starters, so I mean they've got to
use him. I see what you're saying about later in
the year. I'm just wondering how that would work. So,
what he just hit and then we expect him to
go an inning from now, so we send him out
of the bullpen to warm up. Yeah, Well, if there
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seems to be concern about him pitching and then coming
in and immediately hitting. Is there going to be proper
time for him to warm up during a game to
go out there because he might have to bat. What
if he's in the bullpen coming up and he's on deck, Yeah,
what's he going to do sprint back in and grab
a bat Yeah, you know, you just have to gauge it.
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If it's the eighth inning and.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
You know he's fourth up, he's got to be ready
to hit, right and they go, you know, they happen
to go. One guy gets on and he's got to
go ready to hit, but he's down there warming up
prior to that. Yeah, he's gonna have to sprint from
the bullpen to get in on deck circle. That's not
gonna happen. That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Not gonna happen. One of those to see the bullpen
gate open and all of a sudden he comes springing it,
grabs a batman helmet. Well, you know, it's not gonna happen.
If he's at home.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
With the way Dodger Stadium is laid out, in a
new state of the art clubhouse they have, he won't
have to sprint. He just goes in the back and
they've got, you know, situations where he could kind of
warm up back there. But if he's on the road,
you don't know what kind of situations they have. You know,
if he's in Chicago or of one of those old
buildings that just as just nineteen seventy five bullpens, then
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he's gonna have to do that. But at home it
wouldn't be a problem. But yeah, no, I don't know.
I mean, I actually do like him opening the game.
And if he goes and he's only thrown nine pitches,
ten pitches in the first inning, let him go a
couple more as as we go forward. We've seen him
do two of these games where he's only pitched in
any so based on pitch count, let him go and
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just play it by ear. But it certainly will. What
do you what do you think that gate opens in
the bottom of the ninth, That gate opens in the
bottom of the ninth, you got a one run lead
and it's the it's the NLCS or it's the World Series,
and that gate opens and it's and it's like, and uh,
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well would that stadium be like.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Oh'd be too much? You're insane. Other picture. We want
to touch on somebody that you, as a fan, wanted
to come back last year, and I think a lot
of people were disappointed when he didn't come back, and
he provided the lasting image of the Dodgers winning the
World Series. It's Walker Buler now if you remember that.
(20:03):
Went back and forth for a while, and eventually he
signed with Boston. Dodger said, go out see what's out there.
Check it out. I think once the Dodger signed Sazaki,
the handwriting was on the wall for Walker Bueller. But
here's what's interesting about this. So they know their players
better than anybody, and they really chose not to re
(20:25):
sign him. Now, if you had to play for a
million dollars, it would have been a different story. But
they chose not to resign him. So he signs with Boston. Now.
I have watched a few of his games pitching for
the Red Sox, the infamous game where he was tossed early,
where he threw it right down the middle, let the
umpire know it and he was run. He had another
(20:47):
rough outing last night in Anaheim. Before you know what,
he gave up five runs. Right now, he has the
highest era of any starter in the American League. So
that's what he's doing the year. And then you think
back and you go, why didn't the Dodgers resign him?
Why would they even give him a chance to look elsewhere?
(21:07):
Why wouldn't they make him that offer? But they didn't.
They let him go. Yeah, and maybe they know something.
Well I'm sure they do, but maybe they saw something
or their analytics told them something that he wasn't going
to be the same guy. So that being said, Rodney,
(21:29):
if the Red Sox are sellers at the trade deadline
and Walker Buehler is available, and you're the Dodgers and
you can use another arm and you remember him standing
on the mound after winning the World Series, what would
you do?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I'd go getting, Oh, yeah, look at you, Look at you.
If I just sat back in his seat and like,
what the hell are you talking about? What are you doing?
I go getting, I go getting because guys are different
when they are comfortable, and Walker Bueller is a Dodger.
And sometimes, as we talk about all the time on
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this show, you know, sometimes the change of environment, change
the scenery, brings out the best in certain guys. Sometimes
the change of scenery brings out the worst in certain guys,
and then when they get back to their comfort zone,
then they go back to being the guy that everybody
believed that they were before they left. And I think
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Walker Buehler could be that guy. I think the move
to Boston he was not ready for that. He came
off of injury last year, didn't you know, struggled and
then got it, then found it again late in the
season and again. The image of him winning the World Series,
of being out on the mound at the end of
the World Series was great. But I believe that you
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put him back in a Dodger uniform, there is a
resurrection of Walker Buehler if he comes back. So yeah,
I mean everything has to be right. Certainly, you're not
gonna overpay or not over you know, give away the
farm or anything like that, don't get me wrong. But
if there's a chance to get him for a reasonable
(23:15):
price and reasonable situation, absolutely absolutely bring.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I don't think I don't think I would do it.
I don't think I would. I think they knew something
before they decided not to tender him last year. They
knew it.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
But if the price was right, they would have they
would have signed him back. They didn't. They felt at
the right price, they could bring him back. It wasn't like,
see you later, Walker, We're not going to sign you back.
Go see what you can get, and if you get
something better then uh than what we're you know, willing
to give you, then we're not gonna match it. But
if there's no takers out there, we certainly want you back.
(23:54):
I think it was that situation more so than see
you later. You know, and you know, but the Dodgers
have been right in all those situations. Most of those situations.
You talked about this in the past with they know
the ceiling of certain guys. They knew Yasiel Puigue there
was he had a ceiling and he had reached that
ceiling and was not gonna get any better, and they
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were not going to bring him back. And I think
the same thing with Jack Peterson. I think they felt
that he had reached his ceiling and they weren't going
to bring him back. Alex Berdugo, I mean you can
go on and on of different guys that might have
been big time prospects. Cody Bellinger, I mean that you think,
maybe this guy is gonna be a Dodger for life.
(24:38):
But they thought and the way their analytics work saw
something different. I think the only guy that they might
have gone, man, we should have tried to keep him
is probably Corey Seeger.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, but Corey Seager still gets hurt. Yeah, he still
gets hurt. But yeah, they probably wish they would have
hung Yeah, he's the he's the one that got away. Yeah,
that's the one that got away. Anyway, I don't think
I would bring Walker Reviewer back.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Even if it doesn't cost you anything.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Like, he gets a DFAID and Boston it decides to
sell and you give up basically cash considerations or no
name prospect to get him back.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
What what does it hurt.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
If he's dfaid. Yeah, so it costs you nothing. Correct, Oh, yeah,
i'd got him then.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I'm not talking about Well, I don't think rotten your
eye talking about selling the farm to go.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
No, you're not.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, you're not giving up prospects or anything like that
to get him. But if you get him cheap and
you got a chance to get him back here, I
think he's a he's a He would be a totally
different picture than he is in Boston right now. If
he came back to the Dodger.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I don't know, and well, and Fred, if he's not,
then don't use him. Didn't didn't cost you that much exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, and if you're gonna do that, then you got
to do it right at the trade deadline and see
what he's about, because you don't have a luxury of guessing,
you know what I mean. It's like last year when
he was struggling, we were saying, okay, every time they're
getting closer to making a decision, and it just worked out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Well then he had a couple good outings right leading
up to the playoffs and like, okay, okay, it just
worked out.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
All right, Well, you guys would do it. I guess
for the right price, I would do it as well.
You have more confidence in what would happen if he
came here, though, than I do. And I hope he comes.
He's great because everybody loves him. Yeah, but right now
it's Christmas and he's getting lit like a tree. Okay,
(26:40):
now listen, when the Lakers start, you better shake the
cobwebs out because you might not recognize somebody.
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Speaker 1 (27:06):
Oh, come on.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Two hours show today on a Tuesday. Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan,
Let's go, Freddy, Let's go. It is summer time and
it's the off season. Is that the time to kind
of relax and fat cat it a little bit?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Fred?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Apparently not? Well, not for Luca Dancers. It's not. Apparently
he has slum down. He's been very committed to his
conditioning this offseason, drops significant weight. He is working on
a strict diet, some cardio, and apparently he already looks different. Now,
I don't know. With a strict diet, cardio and you
(27:45):
have somebody monitoring everything, how long does it take it'll
lose twenty five pounds? And I don't have that answer.
I don't know. I mean, I want to diet one
time and I lost ten pounds in two weeks. Depends
on if he's on ozipic or not. If you're let
me ask you this. Let me ask you this. If
you took that, If you took that, do you think
(28:07):
professional athletes would take it Rodney or that whatever the
other supplement is that you can inject yourself with. Do
you think pro athletes would use that?
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Then?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I guess the question be comes after you've lost the weight,
and I know people that have lost a lot of weight,
how to do it? Yeah? How do you keep it off? Well?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah, you you can't just take it, lose the weight
and then think it was going to you know, it's
going to continue to be this way. You have to
change your lifestyle. You have to change your habits along
the way, because if you don't change your habits along
the way, then it's going to come right back on.
(28:46):
So you have to once you start this as a program,
then you have to be committed to saying, Okay, I'm
going to change my eating habits. I'm going to change
my diet along the way. I'm not just going to
continue to eat fast food and cheese, burgers and all
that stuff and lose weight and then go back to
(29:07):
doing that after I'm off of this cycle of ozimpic
and expect the weight to still stay off.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It's going to come right back. So you have to
change your lifestyle. But I know there's no question that many.
I'm sure many athletes are utilizing this, you know, which
was originally brought onto the market as a diabetes drug,
(29:37):
and then they found out that it had you could
lose a lot of weight from it, and now it's
been promoted as a weight loss drug. But that's similar
to you know, the way viagra started bag or it
was not viagra to begin with. It was utilized for
something else, and then men started taking it, and then
all of a sudden they realized that in ninety percent
(29:58):
of the men they were able to get an erection again.
And that's the story of viagra. Same thing with oz impic. So, no,
you cannot just go willy nilly, oh I'm gonna lose
twenty five pounds. You lose the twenty five pounds, and
then you go off of it and you think, oh,
I'm gonna continue to eat the way I did.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
No, it doesn't work that way. What was Viegra originally
created for?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I forgot? I forgot, But it certainly wasn't too I'm
not sure.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Heard it says angina. So hard issues?
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Was that what it was? Yeah? Okay, yeah, so it
was hard issues.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And then obviously people found out and the men found
out that it was you know, it gave them erections
and and the rest is history. But it was not
intended for that same thing with oz impics, it was not.
It's really a you know, for for a diabetic or
to treat diabetes. And it turns out that people were
(31:01):
losing a lot of weight from it, and so now
it's promoted as that, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
It's an appetite supressor. Yes, that's what it turned out
to be. Right.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
So I don't know if he's on that or not.
I have no idea, but you know, if that's good though,
that he's he's committed this summer. Right, that's what people
want to hear from the Lakers, because that was a
big criticism that he you know, even from Dallas. Why
he got you know, they got rid of him in
Dallas because he didn't have a good offseason work ethic
and was a little pudgy and a little overweight, and
(31:32):
it caused some problems and they were, you know, worried
that going forward was he going to be as effective
because he wasn't committed to being in shape.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
So it's good.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
He's also the contract year correct, correct, Now, let me
ask you this, he's in a contract year, right right,
which I believe this is why he was probably even
more upset with Mavericks. He's in a contract year. But
in this contract year, by him being traded to the Lakers,
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he's not eligible for an extra hundred million dollars that
he would have gotten from the supermacs Supermax, right right, Yeah. Now,
if you're him and you're in that position, you got
a chance to make four hundred million, but yet you
only make three hundred million because Dallas traded you and
(32:36):
you're not eligible for the Supermax? Does that upset you
that much? Three hundred million versus four hundred million? Like,
what can you buy for four hundred million that you
can't buy for three hundred millions?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
More of something? A lot more of something? Does Does
that affect me? Yeah? I'm pretty upset, to be honest
with you. No, I mean, right, it's all funny, stupid money.
But the point is that's one hundred million dollars. One
hundred million, and because they moved him because they didn't
think he was in good shape, and he too much
(33:12):
and they were going to have to pay him the Supermax,
right you know, I mean there's no way they had
to pay him, so they just got rid of him.
And now when he looks at it, he probably says
to himself that that was a wake up call. That
was a wake up call. But here's the other thing.
So let's say now he drops twenty five thirty pounds. Okay,
(33:34):
well he'd be as good, you know what I mean.
He's a big guy, but he uses a lot of
body strength to move people around. Weight.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Yeah, he puts his weight on people. And yeah, like
you said, leans on guys. How much is that going
to really affect him, affect him? Hmm, I don't know.
I think I think I think i'd lean on. It's
always better to be leaner and in better shape than
(34:04):
to be thick. You know, Charles Barkley was effective as
the round mound of rebound, but he really became a
superstar when he lost that weight in Philadelphia and became
that dominant power forward that could run the floor and
jump out of the gym as opposed to being that
just big body that would just body people out of
(34:26):
the way.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
And I know guys do it when they get older
because it's easier. But Lebron's done it.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
He's certainly gotten thinner over the last five six years
as he's gotten older, and he's just as effective. Dwight
Howard used to be super swoll and by I'd say
the last five seven years of his career leaned out
and was obviously not the same dominant force, but was
still a pretty damn good player.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah, but Kevin, isn't there a difference from the way
they leaned out and what Luca has to do?
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (34:52):
I mean, yes, he's doing cardio, who's to say that
he's also not weightlifting making sure that he still maintained
some strength and muscle on top of that. People are
going to look at the weight on the it's how
the weight is distributed on your body, so you can
be better cardiovascularie and have more stamina while still maintaining
strength at the same time, which I'm sure is something
he's focusing on for the reasons you guys just mentioned.
(35:12):
But it's not just I don't think he's running eighteen
miles a day trying to get as skinny as possible
and he's going to come in and have no strength whatsoever.
Nobody would ever recommend him do that either, So I'm
sure there's a balance in there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Oh yeah, definitely a balance. Definitely a balance. I mean,
you can't and you can't do it. You know, we
just talked about the ozempic and you know these fast
weight loss things, you don't you want to do it gradually.
And if you do it gradually, then it becomes a
lifestyle change, right, and it becomes something that's embedded into you.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
But if you if you.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Lose twenty pounds in two weeks, then it's a quick
fix and that's easily put back on. So I think
what they're trying to do with him and what he's
trying to do, I believe is trying to make this
a pattern and a change in terms of a workout
and his diet and all those things, so he doesn't
fluctuate back and forth.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Top of the hour, we'll go to Denver David Bessey
with the Dodgers. He is standing by and we will
check in with him.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
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Speaker 2 (36:33):
Today's afternoon delight is drive by Ed Shearon. This song
appears on the recently released F One soundtrack, which debuted
ahead of the release of the feature film, which debuted
in theaters today. In an interview about jumping on the soundtrack,
Shearon said, movies are my hobby and probably the only
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thing other than sport that I get it like a
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journey of a movie is so exciting for me. Again,
Today's afternoon Delight is Drive by Ed Sharritt. A lot
(37:19):
of hype on this F one movie. You guys excited
to see that when Brad Pitt and uh has an indriest.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yeah, I am Yeah, I am too. Yeah, I think
it'd be good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
A lot a lot of hype, a lot of lead
into this one, so hopefully it's good.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
All right.
Speaker 6 (37:36):
And now.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
From the court to the court Room with Jacob em Ronni.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Are weekly chat with our friend Jacob em Ronni.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Jacob, how are you today, gentlemen? How are you today?
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Good? I want to start with this, Jacob, you tell
me if this is a valid lawsuit. Woman goes to
Halloween horror Nights at Universal Studios. She knows what she's doing.
She goes in, she freaks out. She sues Universal Studios
for mental anguish. What do you think of that?
Speaker 6 (38:09):
What did she freak out about?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Just she was terrified it was too much for her, Jacob,
she couldn't take Universal was too much for Yeah, that
once she went to Halloween Hohrn Nights.
Speaker 6 (38:20):
So it was more scary than she would have thought.
Is that basically what the what the cause of action
is going to be for d Yes, I don't think
she has you know, I don't think she's got a
real case. But remember, unfortunately sometimes these lawsuits, you know,
(38:40):
providers may go ahead and pay some nuisance to get
rid of it. But is it really a case that
I can see having some real life to it. No,
I would not think in any way, shape or form.
I mean, these are you know, and in the state
of you talk about assumption of the risk. There are
certain things that we do and you have to understand
(39:01):
that you're assuming the risk, just like you know, going
on certain roller coasters or you know, doing certain types
of you know, there's this bungee jumping that occurs or
a bunch of these places here in LA where people
are going jump up and down and you know, and
then they come down and they break their ankle. So
a lot of those things, these these places actually get
(39:23):
you to sign a release. You know, you can get
around the release. But no, in that situation, I would say, yeah,
not much of the lossuit.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
No, Jacob, You've been with us for a number of
years now, and you always talk about the different cases
you're involved in, and some of them are extraordinary that
you know, a lot of them should be part of
a movie. We could probably put together a bunch of
them and create our own feature film on some of
the cases that you presented to us. But how often
(39:53):
do you get those wild, outlandish, you know, reports, or
somebody's trying to claim something that you look up and go,
this is absolutely ridiculous, And you know, in your mind,
even though you would never do this because you're a
nice guy, you just want to hang up on the person.
Speaker 6 (40:12):
Yeah, you know, Rodnie, that's a great question based on
the fact that you know, we give free consultations and
you know, over the years being with you guys, many
people have us on their speed dial. We get a
lot of phone calls. We get people who call us
when somebody was a route to them at the restaurant
(40:32):
and they want us do the restaurant. You know, we
get calls that are outlandish, but I will tell you
sometimes they're all calls that come in that may not
necessarily be your typical case, but they actually make law.
You know, I'll never forget a friend of mine who
(40:53):
does the same kind of words. Head a case where
there was this copy maker and it was sitting on
top of a shelf and a little, you know, four
year old reached up and pulled on it, and there
was hot coffee on it, and it ended up falling
and burning this young boy. And these people had gone
(41:18):
to at least ten or fifteen attorneys, and they all
said that they don't see any type of a liability here,
and it's you know, it was the young boy's fault,
and it's a parent's fault for having put it at
the reach of a young boy. But you know, an
attorney friend of mine, who handles very very few cases,
(41:39):
but picks and chooses his cases that he says can
make law, took that case and they ended up they
were able to prove that there was a lip on
the side of the coffee maker that could have actually
stopped this from pouring over and falling on this young boy.
(41:59):
And if this manufacturer had made the lip another two
inches higher, they could have prevented this from occurring. And
they recovered almost four and a half million dollars for
that case. So you know, as attorneys, there's going to
be cases that are the run of the mill that
happen every day, but there's always going to be those
(42:20):
cases that you really have to look at and see
if you can actually do something for a client, and
your clients are our clients are usually the driver of
that decision. If you have a client that seems credible,
a client that can tell their story and is not
necessarily doing it just to get paid, that makes it
a bit easier to be able to, you know, convince
(42:45):
a jury or a judge or the other insurance company
that they need to pay them. But you'd be surprised.
I mean, we got those every.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Day, Robbie. All right, Jacob, your new billboards they're great.
I'm gonna give you three slogans. Tell us what they mean.
Why'd you put them up there? Have a great day,
smile it's free, and do it for you.
Speaker 6 (43:05):
Yeah, you know, I mean, I think anyone who's listening
or anybody who drives around probably has had enough of
all these billboards. And it's a lot of my colleagues,
and it's a lot of our billboards and other people's billboards,
all of them you know, just as injured or you know,
been a truck accident. And I think after a while,
people just are not really are kind of sick of
(43:28):
seeing those. And you know, we felt that when people
drive around sometimes people just need a little bit of
positive enforcement, reinforcement, some motivation. I know sometimes I leave
you know, the house in the morning and I need
to get myself going. Sometimes, you know, a lot of
helps that. But I think, you know, being when you
(43:50):
tell somebody have a great day, you can make their day.
You know, we put up have a great day because
I would love people who tell me I have a
great day. I mean that positivity is great. We have
billboard saying smile it's free, and it's true. You know,
a lot of people have so much they're dealing with,
and you don't know what's going on in each person's lives,
and we all have our problems, and sometimes, you know,
(44:11):
a smile or something that puts a smile on someone's
face can make their day and you know, do it
for you. It's true because I think very often we
need to self motivate and I think sometimes even when
people doubt us from being able to achieve something that
may just be much bigger than maybe what their mentality
allows it, we have to do it for us. And
(44:33):
we've gotten some really great reaction to some of these
billboards that we put up that has you know, positive messages.
You know, we also have other ones that says, enjoy
the now. I think a lot of us don't live
for the moment. I think we're all worried about the
past or the future. Or another one that says don't
just exist live I think that falls them. The same
(44:55):
thing is we all have to live each day because
you don't know what tomorrow brings. So, you know, I'm
hoping that we can bring a smile or some type
of a motivation to people who see these billboards every
day and go buy them and hopefully we can make
their day better. That was really the you know, the
purpose behind you know these billboards.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Love it? That is great, all right, Jacob, good stuff,
Thanks for coming on, Thanks for sharing that with us.
We appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (45:20):
Appreciate you guys. Have a good rest of your week.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
All right. When we come back, we'll go up to
Denver David Vasse with the Dodger standing by.
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