June 4, 2025 • 38 mins
Dan Woike talks NBA Finals, Tom Thibodeau being fired and the chances of the Lakers trading for Jarrett Allen. Why does Fred have it out for Juan Soto?
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Oh yes, and we continue on this hour. Yes, and
we ah, we do have one more pair of tickets
to give away this hour as well.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, we do. Stay tuned. We're gonna give those away soon.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
We're not fooling around Rodney, Not today, nobody, not on
a day where Tanner Scott was a stud the night
before he was. You know what I think? Honestly, I
think last night cemented his appearance in the All Star Game.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That's what I'm gonna comment on that, Freddie, what is
wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
But wait, there's even better news. Tanner Scott is on
Dan Wyke's fantasy team. We were going to talk some
basketball with Dan, but let's just start with this from
the La Times.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Dan.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Whykey, So last night was a big night for you.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Dan, Yeah, it was really good news for my fantasy team.
I feel like it's like one of the things I
think I heard someone once say that your fantasy team
and your dreams and what happened in your dreams are
two things no one else ever wants to talk about.
You tell people I had a crazy dream of ust
like guys also, but yeah, well I did have a
crazy Drebus and tennis. Scott got outs we did shut
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it down on the tenth big win for my squad.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, let me ask that Dan, what did you think
and you had a good dream, what you think saw
him on the mound?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
First off, I was actually sleeping, literally I was.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I was.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
I had one of those nights you guys know when
you got young kids and stuff like that, and you
do the whole like bedtime routine, like we sat down,
we read a story, we laid down, did that whole thing,
and I crashed out. I woke up at like eleven
o'clock in my kid's bed, really so so I didn't
see I remember. I will say though, I.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Will say I am.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I am as close as I've ever been as an
adult to becoming a Dodgers fan, like full on that,
Like I've been a White Sox fan my whole life.
It is a miserable life. It is not fun. They're
a terrible organization. I went to a Dodger in the other day.
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But it's just like, why why am I not doing this?
They should just be what I do I for, if
not for me, for my kids. Yes, like let that
let them enjoy otany, Let them enjoy MOVI and Freddy
Freeman instead of making them get excited about some slant
hitting infield like two eighty guy that the White Sox
got for you know, the cy young Derrick Cruche Like, like,
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what am I doing? So my fandom is close? And
you know what, Ronney, if the if the Bears can
figure out Taylor Williams, I may.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Have to find a new NFL team too, totally done.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh You're gonna leave Chicago permanent.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
And I've got dreams and I've got dreams to talk
about ever ride else too, by the way, if the
real problem is my family, see my real favorite sports teams.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Danny, but Danny, don't do.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Don't Once said I had dream that my my pillow
eight me.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No, you didn't dream that, didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I don't dream all right?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Fine? Yeah? Because do you remember your dreams? Are you
able to remember.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Your dreams periodically? Not that often though, it's mostly just
exhaustion and blink space.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, you remember your dreams?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Can you recall sometimes?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Do you do you have any reoccurrerent? Do you have
any reoccurring once.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Years ago? Yes? No longer I do.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I still get dropped out of a helicopter in the
middle of pitch black night in the middle of the
ocean where you cannot see land, so you don't you
don't know which way to swim. Yeah, like a navy seal,
you don't know which way to swim. You don't know
where the shore is. And I get kidnapped and dropped
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out there and I have to find my way back.
Really yeah, and I'm just swimming and swimming and swimming
and swimming, and then.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I always have I'm always trying to still graduate college.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
It's that and like like there's been a discovery that
I didn't take, like some specific class and I have
to redo it. Is the one is the reoccurring one.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That I have? Do you wake up in a sweat?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
It's always just like very odd. It's just like a
very odd like like you know, wondering like where your
oceanography homework is.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
It's a strange show.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Is it the same course that you didn't you forgot
to take.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
That you No, it's it's usually it's usually.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Something very bizarre. But no, that's my recurring trip.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
All right. But here's the thing. So you have these
reoccurring dreams. Do you ever go to the Book of
Dreams and what they mean.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
No, do you know what that?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You don't know what yours means? Dan Rodnie, do you
know what yours means?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
No? I don't want to get that deep into it.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I really do you want me to look it up
right now?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
No? I don't.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I want to know. I don't want to if it's
a good thing.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
It is.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
It is the type of thing Fred people say, like
the best exercise you can do right, And I've spent
a lot of time actually thinking about this, but thet
as someone who travels a lot, the best exercise you
can do on the road is swim. You can swim
laps right because you only have to bring one piece
of workout clothing the swim trunks, provided you're not going
to like European pools or something like that, but like
one piece of clothing and you can do it anywhere
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and it drives. You can do it the next day, right,
and it's it's a full body workouts, great.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
At in your joints.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
I have no desire to spend ten to twenty minutes
up with my own thoughts like that swimming laps. That's
like it's too quiet, too much time. I don't need
to know what's going out in my head. I'm best distracted.
I don't want to know.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I don't want to know. I don't I don't want
to know what.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I farborate either. Look at Fred, stop looking it up, Fred,
nobody wants to know.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I'm not going to read it. I don't care. I
just want to see. Maybe it's a really good thing.
If it is, i'll tell you. If not, I won't
say it. Are you really anything with the NBA Finals? Dan?
Besides watching?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
No?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I mean, I'm just going to kind of take it
in and I think, like it's it's sort of you know,
from my my perspective and from the job perspective. Right,
as always, it's usually pretty reactionary. Teams are pretty reactionary
to what plays out in front of them. What can
be sort of learned behavior from the teams that made it, Like,
what can be copied different things like that. I think,
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you know, really really interesting contrasts and styles. I believe
this is sort of the new NBA, Like, like I
think it's I mean, it's not shocking to say that
we're in a we're in a time of parody in
the league. It felt like a couple of years ago
that Denver would be there every year. They had the
best player, they had the perfect team around him. They
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have been back, you know, and I think it was
Dallas last year. It felt like, oh my god, Dallas,
you know, like that team is totally different now. And
while the Thunder feels sort of inevitable for a stretch
and they are in a better position than most to
like turn this into a multi year thing, there's some
all over the league, like we know so many chances
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these guys are going to get, and I think it's
going to be a really exciting series that in terms
of style teams that we don't normally see on this
stage and my hunches that we will learn that the
Thunder as their record has showed us all Yurope and
their point differential have showed us that they are the
best team in the NBA and will be a worthy champion.
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But it'll be fun to see these markets that that
don't normally get the shan get the shine.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeahs W, I think it's good.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And you mentioned it, you know, it's a copycat league
and pretty much all the sports, it's just what we're
going to start seeing, uh, And it was very evident
you know, the two teams did it right. They have depth, right,
and they actually play defense what they're known for. And
and we saw the flip of that with with the
Lakers having no depth, no big man, and not playing
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a whole lot of defense. Are we going to see
that be more of an emphasis going forward from the
other teams?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I mean, I think I think with both of these teams, like,
I think that's a little reduction, Runny. I mean, I think,
you know, I think what both of these teams are
is like they play to their strengths right, And that's
what with the second apron and the CBA rules and
the limitations you have on spending, you're you're not going
to be able to build a perfect team. So what
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you have to do is you have to build the
right The type of team that can hide its weakness
is best, and I think and find ways to do
it right. And in Indiana a team that that is okay,
I would say defensively, not a great, great defensive team,
but good enough. Like what they do is they have
a player and Marys Halliburton who initiates offense and does
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it without turning the ball over, and they do it
at a time in the league when you know, I
was talking to some executives about this yesterday. It is
like basketball can be complicated, but sometimes it's just about
creating more opportunities to score.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Than the other team.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
You know, that was one of the things J. J.
Reddick said about the Lakers, and it was true. They
didn't get enough rebounds. They turned the ball over too
much against Minnesota, but Timberls had more chances to score
than they did well. Tyres Tylerburton never turns the ball over,
and I think that is a huge factor in this series.
And if they're able to continue to generate offensive opportunities
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and do it at the speed at which they do,
because that's they don't let the playoffs slow them down.
The Thunder maybe the ones that's been able to do it,
but the Knicks couldn't do it, Cleveland couldn't do it.
They play fast like that is their advantage, and they
are built around their advantages. The Thunder's advantages are you know,
they're able to create They're able to create mismatches off
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the dribbles, shake gills with Alexander uh they have incredible
defensive tenacity and they make open shops. I think you
just got to kind of be who you are. Like
the Lakers aren't gonna be able to build a pacers
out roster right like they have luka Ocic, they Lebron James,
they have Austin Reeves like like that that is their core.
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They have to find the right players around those three
to maximize their strengths right, which are primarily offensively, and
hide their deficiencies which show up on the defensive end.
And I think that it's like that's not some you know,
aha moment lesson, but that that's that's the NBA. Now,
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that's what you have to do it and you can't
be wrong, Like you just can't be you can't you
can't sign a player like gave Vincent to the mid
level exception and Gave Vincent is a good BASKETBLL player.
He's not played well for the Lakers. He's a good
basketball player. His strengths don't fit like offensively, he needs
the ball more like that is he's in. He's more
of a rhythm point guard, you know, not really a
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point guard, but like he's a he's more of a creator.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
With the basketball.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
He's not gonna get the basketball a lot on the
team with le Bron, James Austin, he's certainly not on
one with with Luca Agit Stu. So it's like, you know,
when you have a player who you use one of
your few weapons to go a a player and he
doesn't fit your version of the roster, like that's that's
hard to overcome. And I think, you know, the Lakers
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in this summer, it's gonna be a real challenge. But
the task is, you know, to find with limited with
limited means and free agency, to find the right players,
that's it, and then to also use you know, the
assets they do have a first round pick, some swaps
don't connect, whatever it may be, some expiring contracts to
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now like go get the right kinds of players that
can make your core even stronger. And you know, I
think I think you've got to be the best version
of yourself. And I don't think the Lakers were necessarily
even that far off from that part of it. So
I don't think you have to do it exactly like
the PACER's exactly. It's the thunder. You just have to
do it the way that that that suits your roster best.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Dan Wykey is whethers all right? You hear Tom Thibodeau
has fired, and you thought.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Yeah, I was surprised at you know, I was surprised
at the timing, not surprised as the result. There have
been kind of rumblings in you know, NBA circles for
a few weeks you know, uh, at the end of
the regular season that it was like, you know, they
need to have a good playoff run from to keep
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your job. Well, they had a good playoff run, and
so that part of it is surprising. It's just a
reminder that, like a lot of this stuff, sometimes it's
like these.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Jobs are like they kind of come with term moments.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
They just sort of do. When you hear an organization
say like we need a new voice, and what they're
really saying is that, you know, we've heard enough, We've
done things in the same way for too long.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
And like we just have to try something different.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
I don't think it's smart in this case, again, a
team that I don't think was that far off from
being where it needed to be, a team that really
would have benefited from another year, I think together trying
to maximize the talented pieces and a team that could
that could you know, quite frankly like develop a little
better now. Look, the criticisms with TIBs today are the
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same that they've always been. Plays guys too much, runs
them into the ground, they're not ready for the playoffs,
or or they burn out eventually in the playoffs they
get broken down. That's been true for a long time.
But no team that's fired Tibbs has been immediately better.
It just hasn't happened yet. Didn't happen in Chicago, didn't
have in Minnesota. You know, we'll see here in New
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York because their timeline, like a lot of these teams,
particularly in the Eastern Conference next year with no Jason Tatum,
is now the timeline is now. Like like so, whoever
you're going to hire New York has to be ready
to go win now. And that that's not that's not
these tasks.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Anything with h them. You know you said it was
bound to happen. You're not overly surprised about Tips. Is
that the talk of maybe Michael Malone going to New
York is it could be a reason why they did
it till soon like.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
This, I think you you know, I was, I was
with some NBA types yesterday and that was sort of
the logic, was that you don't do this unless you know,
unless you know that you're is like who you're replating,
You're you're not doing this to open up a coaching search,
is the general idea, right? Is that? So you know
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you should whether it's Michael Malone, whether it's Johnny Bryant
who was a finalist in Phoenix for you know, Jordan
not got that job former Lakers assistant guys. Uh, it's
you know, Frank Vogel. I mean, like if you if
you're talking like championship pedigree coaches, right, there's only so
many who have done it. We're available. If that's kind
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of the road you're going, like, you better get on
it quickly, especially if you had an offseason. So I wouldn't.
I would not anticipate some long out, sort of dramatic
mixed coaching search.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Dan Adam Silver made the comment All Star Game this
year USA against the World. He doesn't really know what
that means, but he knows that's what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What do you think.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
It's sort of like the only song that's left left
to try to play, like we're running out of you know,
we're sort of running out of options. My hunch is
that it'll be good for a short amount of time,
like the first year of it could be really fun.
That game will be in Los Angeles, like, you know,
it could be really exciting to see. You know, you've
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got teammates that are going to match up against you,
like Lebron, James and Luca. You'll be on different teams
and stuff like that. Uh, you know, like any of
these things though, whether it's money, whether it's school yard
draft picks, right like, ultimately, but the league has to
the league kind of has to to figure out what
it wants from its players, right, Like on one hand,
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you say, we need you to try and I believe
this to actually be true that like you have to
try Hotter in our Offstar game that you know, this
is one of the few showcase products we have where
casuals watch, like we don't want to see, you know,
eighty three is jacked up, nobody playing any defense by
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like the middle of the first quarter, nobody trying, no excitement,
Like that's not that's not what we want. So you
introduce this as a way to like try to like
you get, give it a joke jolt and it will.
But at the same time too, like the league also
tells players like, we need you to be available in
the regular season. We need you to play every game.
If you don't play x amount of games, you're not
can make all NBA. Your roster bonuses are tied. This
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type of stuff. You know, in the Lakers case last year,
for instance, like you're playing games on the Wednesday after
the Alscar game, you know, or the Thursday right after that.
There's not much of a real break if the players
need one. So I do think there's mixed messaging in
the players end of the day. I think the players
should go play harder. Is sort of where it is
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that it's you know, is this gonna is this? Have
they solved anything with this?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
No?
Speaker 5 (17:27):
I mean I was in Chicago the first year they
did the target score and it was really really exciting.
Remember like the Alcar game, is we played in Kobe
Bryant's memory and for his legacy because Kobe tried hard
in the Alcer game and everybody was gonna be inspired
by like that spirit. I mean that lasted for a
year and then nobody cared again. So my hunch is
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that there will be more of this, But sure, you know,
bring Lee Green with out to say, God bless.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
The usaid before the game, I guess right to get
those fans all excited.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
I got I don't know, I mean like like we
like we might have a thin. It might be a moment.
And look, produced is a good game, that's great, you know,
but uh, you know, the format is what it is.
It's it's it's a it's a tough one to totally
you totally figure out.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
What about the real quick Dan, the word Jared Allen
might be a possibility for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
What do you hear? And is that even a possibility?
Speaker 5 (18:24):
I mean, I think he is. I I don't think
they would trade Austin Reeves to get Jared Allen. So
the question becomes, how do you get him?
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (18:33):
But I think he does a lot of the stuff
that that you would like. It's a name that's made
a lot of sense for them.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Cleveland's willingness to move off of him has always been
a little suspect. He's on a great contract. Guys had
an all star type season, had a horrible playoff, you know,
but does sort of the rim running, rim protection stuff
you want from that job. And and look, I can
tell you like I mean they have high aspirations for
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for this for whoever is going to play this position.
Whether or not they're able to get there, we don't know,
but it's like, you know, they're not They're not waiting
for the season to end to go race out and
sign you know, the backup center on the you know,
the Utah Jazz to go fill that job. Like that's
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not where their mindset is. Like they're they're gonna they're
gonna be aggressive. I'm a little skeptical that they'll be
able to get a big deal done, but I think
I think they believe they can get the right guy.
And you know, there are only so many who do
the kind of prototypical Lucas stuff, and Jared Allens one
of them. I mean, he's a guy that they they
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absolutely should call on. He's a guy they should absolutely
gage the price on. And you know, the question I
would have is do they have enough to get him?
That's the question if if Jared Allen's on the market,
is there you know, is there an other team that
would be able to do more than you know, a
first round pick.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Some swaps don't connect and expiring money.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Like like is there a team that has more to
offer and my hunch would be that there is, but
the Lakers need to be in that mix if that
indeed is a player that they can get at.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Okay, damn, good stuff. I appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Thanks for having me, guys. I appreciate it. I'm gonna go.
I'll have dreams about the segment tests.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
All right, Dan, take it easy. Okay, should we do
Dodger tickets now, Roddy.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it, all right. We
got to pay it into the stadium.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yeah, tonight Dodgers Mets. You win, you get the ticket.
You better head out there. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven,
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Speaker 1 (21:24):
On a hump Day, Wednesday, June fourth, Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan,
who we got, Freddie?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Who won?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Jose and Londale's going. That's it, Jose and Londale, You're
going to the game that I wait to go. You
win the tickets, have a great time. Hopefully you see
another great Tanner Scott outing. He's just on the bandwagon
of Tanner Scott now. I think, honest to god, he's
the greatest. Well, it might be a little much to say,
but one of the greatest relievers in baseball history. Maybe
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it's a little over the top, but woman's last night
spoke volumes to me, spoke town speaks. I listened to
the ground, and I listened, and the ground told me
he's back. Rodney Tanner Scott's back.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Well, let's hope, So, fred let's hope. Though.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I think he's got it, but he's got to streak
a couple of these together.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
And then we can say he's back.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Okay, Well, I hear you. I'm just telling you from
where I said, how I see it. You go out
there and do that last night against a team like
the Mets. You're a guy that should be out there
every single night.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
That's right. Well, and listen, the Mets and there are
no sloughs that lineup. You know.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
You know, we talk about the Dodger, but that lineup
is pretty good too. So yeah, you got to come
with it if you're going to shut those guys down.
And uh, but yeah, it'll be interesting. I think that
this is also I know you said this was a
must win last night, but I think, you know, winning
one of these next two games is also a must
for the Dodgers. They cannot lose three out of four
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to the Mets, and if they win three out of four,
I think it's watch out, watch out world, because now
they're about to go on a roll.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Has one sobto bothered you? No, no, no, not like
he's bothering a lot of folks, especially some met fans.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
But no, he doesn't bother.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Me, you know, I think he Uh in what way
would you say that that he's bothering you? Just on
general principles, like what he's not doing anything that he
didn't do for that when he was with the Nationals
or the Yankees last year.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I know, I just I don't like even at the
I don't like watching.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Him at the plate.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
There, I said, but that's not who he's always been
do the stare down and do that whole thing.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
There's little antics.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I think everybody knows that, so people don't get offended
by it, because that's who he's always been, regardless of
the team.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I know.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
But his helmet is too small, okay you no am?
I the only one that will say it out loud.
His helmet is too small and it drives me insane.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Vinet Bryce Young's helmet when he was a rookie, that
helmet was way too big.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Now he's saying, uh.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
I can't say. I can't say that that's necessarily stood
out to me. Fred, And even if it had, I
don't know if that's a big issue. Still a great player,
I don't care. Well, first of was you rather he
looked like Bartolo Colon up there and swing through his
heels and have the helmet fall off of his head
every time? Is that what you want to see? That's
what Fred wants.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I'm just telling you. I want to watch tonight and
then tell me is his helmet too small?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Because it is? Well, he grew on his hair, Freddy.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
He's letting his hair grow, so maybe that may be
a little bit issue of why it looks like that.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Okay, but then he needs a bigger helmet. It's safety issue. Now,
I'm serious riding it looks like you guys weren't a Yamaica.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
No, stop it, stop it, Fred, stop it.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You're not wearing them damn Yamaica.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Hey, that's where I draw the line. Buster. If you
want to say that, then I'm not putting up with it.
What was that? Just watch tonight? That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Did Wan Soto have a bad week in your fantasy
playoffs a couple of years ago or something? To Fred,
because that's that's kind of what I'm thinking right now.
Did you have this indebta against Wan Soda for some reason?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
No, he did not have a bad him.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I don't have an end for him every time.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
He just kids said that out of the blue.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
On so it'll bother you came on the air saying,
so why would he?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I just run through the wrong way. I'm really glad
the Dodgers didn't sign him. I am.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
So he does bother you. He does rub you the
wrong way, and you don't know why. I don't know,
but it can't be just because you think his helmet's
too small. I don't like his attitude.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I don't like when he goes up there every time
he's like, oh, I'm gonna fake bunt the first pitch.
Who I mean, do it or don't?
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Part of his gazemanship, fred That's what he's doing. He's
he's part of his strategy.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, you like he's acting like a little kid Freddi.
You don't like that part.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
No, I don't be like Freddie Freeman. Go up and
do your business. Go take care of your business. Be
like Otani.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
So not that there's anything wrong with Freddie or Atani.
Those guys are phenomenal in her own way. But you're
basically saying, Sodo, don't play with any emotion.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Yeah, that's what you're saying.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Basically, bring your hard hat, a hard helmet that barely
fits your head.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
You know what I can't. I can't.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I can't stand O'tani saying hello to everyone when he
gets up to the plate.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
That just rubs me the wrong way. I hate that, Fred.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Why he always waving to them?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yea?
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Why you gonna be so damn.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Nice manager of the other team. Why way saying hi
to the catcher? Come on, your enemies, Why are you
doing that? How are you doing that? Oh Tani, somebody.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Said that, I'd say, well, I disagreed dramatically because I
think it's a sign of professionalism and I respect it greatly.
I think everybody should be like that. Oh no, what
do we playing? Patty Cakes and Tilly winks. It's a
competitive game'd be smiling and chippy with the other team,
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and hey, how you doing waving? How's your how's your
how's your ankle?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Bob? Hey you good? How's that gallbladder? Oh? It's fine,
how you doing bladder?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
See?
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Fred, this is why people in your house call you
the old head, because see people like Rodney and I
want to see like the WBC or the Dominican Republic
is playing drums and having music and flares in the
stands and all.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
That that flipping and all of that.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Fred wants to take us back to the nineteen fifties
that was like here, crumbs, Jack didn't the blank?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
What you want? How that again?
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Marlboro? O, Mom, that's what you want, Fred, break out
the old rag time piano.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
U ball game, ball game.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
No, that's not what I want, by the way, And
you know I don't look at things like that.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
I am That's why I'm surprised that you're looking at
it like this.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Pull your bridges up, son?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Is it just me? Or does one showed one so
to look like when he's hitting hands like a case
of the shakes, does he No, he's like moving all around.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
No, he does. After he takes a pitch, he does
a little wiggle before he steps out. Thanks, I noticed it,
But it doesn't bother me. Who cares. That's what he does.
Used to step out of the box and unbuckle every
single piece of furniture or whatever that he's wearing, and
then step back in. I have a problem with that either. Whatever,
that's what guys do.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Undo his batting gloves every time and then get back
in and every.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Pitch, every single one.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, that's part of his thing. That's his routine. That's
how I got him going.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I don't know if you look at what Soto does. Again,
maybe it's just me. But I think a lot of
people agree with me.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
No, they don't.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I think No, I think a lot too.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
We don't have time to take calls today. Yeah, because
they don't agree with you. Every one of them would
not agree with Yeah, I'm gonna tell you this and
you can write this down and inc.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
We could take three hours of calls tomorrow about this topic,
and I think everybody would agree. But we don't have
a show tomorrow because the Dodgers are playing, So you'll
just have to take my word for it.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Yeah, you're saving grace there, Fred, because you know how
this would go, by the way how this always goes.
And then after we take fifteen calls, we disagree with
Fred says, See, I told you everyone agrees with me.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Well, and that's because, to be quite honest, you guys
hear what you want to hear.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I'd listen to people. Oh is that it?
Speaker 6 (30:03):
You listen to what they're not saying? Is that what
it is?
Speaker 3 (30:05):
For us?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
When Kevin rewinds the tape and plays it back, we
still hear what we want to hear.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
At that point, Rodney, I docked with the tape. You
know I used it. It was AI Fred, AI callers,
That's what it was.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Hey, can we do an AI person segment?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Kevin? What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Can I make like an AI talking person and let
the person do a segment.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
An entire segment?
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Well, they only talk for like eight seconds.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Maybe you might ever remember this fan. So back when
we first started with your show, I don't know if
Rodney was here yet or not, remember where we were
talking about doing automated game reports in the NBA. It
was Mark Cuban's idea way back when, and we actually
started doing that. An automated game report.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Wasn't that with Google Voice?
Speaker 6 (30:50):
It was I don't know if it was Google Voice.
It was a different online platform, and I would basically
te you know, pull back the curtain. Jay Stu was
still producing at the time. I was on the board,
but I would actually type up and make up these
fake game reports, type them up, and it was an
AI voice that would actually speak to it.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
We couldn't staff the Clipper Laker game last night, so
we actually had our automated reporter check in and I
will type in the most I will type in the
most ridiculous things.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Can we do that Friday? Sure?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Can you write one for Friday?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
But aren't we had sketchers? Are you gonna be able
to do that when we're there?
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Yeah, we can can't do it Friday, and we can
find a way to make it work.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
We should do one of those on Friday. That would
be very funny. All right, Yeah, and we mostly get
them for the Clipper games. Kevin Imber. Yes, we didn't
do real Clipper coverage.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
That's so horrible.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
We had an AHI voice.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
That's horrible.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
You wrote them.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yes, we need more of that stuff.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
I'll see if I can dig up some of the
old ones to give like an example of how they
used to sound. Oh, I have to save somewhere. Okay,
well look in the archive.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
All right, let's see if we can find that. All right,
so we already gave the tickets away, but here's a reminder. Friday,
we're gonna be at Sketchers. You know exactly where Sketchers is.
It is on pH at Crenshaw in Torrents. We're gonna
be there starting at noon, noon to two. We have
ten pairs of doctor tickets to give away. We will
give them away on the air. You cannot call. You
have to be there. And if you are there, you
(32:14):
will be one of many because the first thousands will
score a free Sketcher's tote or a hat. We've got
swagged to give away. We've got those tickets to give away.
And if that's not enough, how about this for a
limited time by two pairs and get a third pair
of Sketchers free.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Oh yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
And when I say that, I'm not talking about okay,
you buy these two irregular price, and the third one
are like little baby shoes.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
They're real shoes.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Why like little Why would you even say that?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I don't even know where that that's like, that's like
the one Soto out of the blue.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Why would you even say the third pair of baby shoes?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Because people don't think they would actually get a third
pair free. They think there'd be a catch. These are
not like once worn shoes, right, like a demo when
you buy a car.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
You think somebody who's actually thinking, oh if he's doing
a promotion for buy two shoes get one free. Yeah yeah,
that third shoe probably is some baby shoes. Nobody thinking
like except for you.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
I'm just trying. I'm just trying to avoid any problems
when we get there. That's it, and we're gonna have
special guest star. Butnoyd Benjamin, who's going to have fish
with lots of tartar sauce. Kevin suggests we buy the
fish at Whole Foods.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Gotta have it ready made that you're gonna have, you're
gonna have to cook it. If you can buy it there,
but you're gonna have to cook it.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
I just said that was the nearest store. There's a
Trader Joe's that's not that far from there as well,
but again you'd have to cook it.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Should we just get him raw fish and let them
cooking the fish market somewhere around the corner.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Should we should we go like to Long Johnson or
should we get him like raw fish?
Speaker 6 (34:03):
I feel like you would appreciate fish that he can
eat on site.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
You get some regular fish.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Let's find out what what fish store fish market is
close by that you can have it made.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
I mean, there's an Islands in that shopping center across
the way. Maybe get him a fish sandwich or something
from there. Islands has fish. I don't know if it's
kind of fish he's looking for, but they have it.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
He just wants a nice piece of fish. We have
a lot of tartar sauce.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
That's it. Huh. Maybe I don't know. You can go
to doing soul food, get him some catfish.
Speaker 6 (34:39):
We're talking.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yeah, is there a place down there for that?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
No, there's no there's no kitchen over there. No, no, no,
you gotta go to Inglewood for that.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Well yeah, he went on Crenshaw, but we got to
go somewhere that's open at eleven in the morning.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, all right, let's think on it. Nobody out there
got any suggestions, let us know, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Fish by the Sketchers on pch and Crunch on torns. Okay,
we'll take your suggestions and we'll wrap it up after this.
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Speaker 1 (35:39):
Oh yeah, come on, let's bring it on home. Freddie Rodney, Pete,
Fred Rogan on a hump day.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Let's go. All right.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
A couple of things we were talking about, these AI
generated kind of game stories we did years ago. When
I came back to the station and Kevin, you went
into the archive, found one in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
Yeah, so this is from January of twenty seventeen, the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
And this was the bad Well what was here then?
Speaker 6 (36:06):
I think that was I think you may have just
started Rodney at that point. So this is the Lakers
with D'Angelo Russell and Jordan Clarkson, and they were winning
like sixteen games a year, and this is a game
I guess they when they played San Antonio and this
is when Kawhi and Tim dunkin. They might have even
gone to the finals that year. So here's one of
the game quote unquote game recaps that we that we did.
Speaker 8 (36:25):
Thursday night in San Antonio. The Spurs defeated the Los
Angeles Lakers by the score of one hundred and thirty
four to ninety four. Wait, seriously, the Lakers lost by
forty points. Damn son. I know y'all are rebuilding, but
this is embarrassing. Kawhi Leonards scored thirty one points in
just three quarters of action. Well, former Laker Pau Gasol
(36:48):
scored twenty two points with nine rebounds and six assists.
Think the Lakers could have used him in this game.
I'd read off some of the Lakers stats, but why
bother They got straight up fitch slapped. The only positive
thing that happened to the Lakers is that the game
actually ended.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Kevin, we got to start doing that.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Was funny. And what.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
I would I typed those up and I will put
them into the automated system and it would voice them.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yes, oh yeah, we got to start doing those again.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
Jason Stewart is listening, by the way. He wanted to
make sure that everyone knew that it was his idea.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Yeah, we gotta start doing those. Well, then we'll get
them sponsored.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
Well, let's not get crazy for ye all right?
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Uh fish bonds, grill and Torrents just right around the
corner from sketchers. Okay, okay, this bond's grill, Fish Bonds, grill.
Keep that in mind for Benoit's Friday Fish. All right, Ronnie,
thank you, Kevin. Terrific work, Rodden. We're off tomorrow. We'll
see Friday at Sketchers right on, right on,
Oh yes, and we continue on this hour. Yes, and
we ah, we do have one more pair of tickets
to give away this hour as well.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, we do. Stay tuned. We're gonna give those away soon.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
We're not fooling around Rodney, Not today, nobody, not on
a day where Tanner Scott was a stud the night
before he was. You know what I think? Honestly, I
think last night cemented his appearance in the All Star Game.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That's what I'm gonna comment on that, Freddie, what is
wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
But wait, there's even better news. Tanner Scott is on
Dan Wyke's fantasy team. We were going to talk some
basketball with Dan, but let's just start with this from
the La Times.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Dan.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Whykey, So last night was a big night for you.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Dan, Yeah, it was really good news for my fantasy team.
I feel like it's like one of the things I
think I heard someone once say that your fantasy team
and your dreams and what happened in your dreams are
two things no one else ever wants to talk about.
You tell people I had a crazy dream of ust
like guys also, but yeah, well I did have a
crazy Drebus and tennis. Scott got outs we did shut
(01:20):
it down on the tenth big win for my squad.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, let me ask that Dan, what did you think
and you had a good dream, what you think saw
him on the mound?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
First off, I was actually sleeping, literally I was.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I was.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
I had one of those nights you guys know when
you got young kids and stuff like that, and you
do the whole like bedtime routine, like we sat down,
we read a story, we laid down, did that whole thing,
and I crashed out. I woke up at like eleven
o'clock in my kid's bed, really so so I didn't
see I remember. I will say though, I.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Will say I am.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I am as close as I've ever been as an
adult to becoming a Dodgers fan, like full on that,
Like I've been a White Sox fan my whole life.
It is a miserable life. It is not fun. They're
a terrible organization. I went to a Dodger in the other day.
(02:22):
But it's just like, why why am I not doing this?
They should just be what I do I for, if
not for me, for my kids. Yes, like let that
let them enjoy otany, Let them enjoy MOVI and Freddy
Freeman instead of making them get excited about some slant
hitting infield like two eighty guy that the White Sox
got for you know, the cy young Derrick Cruche Like, like,
(02:47):
what am I doing? So my fandom is close? And
you know what, Ronney, if the if the Bears can
figure out Taylor Williams, I may.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Have to find a new NFL team too, totally done.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh You're gonna leave Chicago permanent.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
And I've got dreams and I've got dreams to talk
about ever ride else too, by the way, if the
real problem is my family, see my real favorite sports teams.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Danny, but Danny, don't do.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Don't Once said I had dream that my my pillow
eight me.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No, you didn't dream that, didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I don't dream all right?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Fine? Yeah? Because do you remember your dreams? Are you
able to remember.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Your dreams periodically? Not that often though, it's mostly just
exhaustion and blink space.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, you remember your dreams?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Can you recall sometimes?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Do you do you have any reoccurrerent? Do you have
any reoccurring once.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Years ago? Yes? No longer I do.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I still get dropped out of a helicopter in the
middle of pitch black night in the middle of the
ocean where you cannot see land, so you don't you
don't know which way to swim. Yeah, like a navy seal,
you don't know which way to swim. You don't know
where the shore is. And I get kidnapped and dropped
(04:08):
out there and I have to find my way back.
Really yeah, and I'm just swimming and swimming and swimming
and swimming, and then.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I always have I'm always trying to still graduate college.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
It's that and like like there's been a discovery that
I didn't take, like some specific class and I have
to redo it. Is the one is the reoccurring one.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That I have? Do you wake up in a sweat?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
It's always just like very odd. It's just like a
very odd like like you know, wondering like where your
oceanography homework is.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
It's a strange show.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Is it the same course that you didn't you forgot
to take.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
That you No, it's it's usually it's usually.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Something very bizarre. But no, that's my recurring trip.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
All right. But here's the thing. So you have these
reoccurring dreams. Do you ever go to the Book of
Dreams and what they mean.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
No, do you know what that?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You don't know what yours means? Dan Rodnie, do you
know what yours means?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
No? I don't want to get that deep into it.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I really do you want me to look it up
right now?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
No? I don't.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I want to know. I don't want to if it's
a good thing.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
It is.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
It is the type of thing Fred people say, like
the best exercise you can do right, And I've spent
a lot of time actually thinking about this, but thet
as someone who travels a lot, the best exercise you
can do on the road is swim. You can swim
laps right because you only have to bring one piece
of workout clothing the swim trunks, provided you're not going
to like European pools or something like that, but like
one piece of clothing and you can do it anywhere
(05:38):
and it drives. You can do it the next day, right,
and it's it's a full body workouts, great.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
At in your joints.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
I have no desire to spend ten to twenty minutes
up with my own thoughts like that swimming laps. That's
like it's too quiet, too much time. I don't need
to know what's going out in my head. I'm best distracted.
I don't want to know.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I don't want to know. I don't I don't want
to know what.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I farborate either. Look at Fred, stop looking it up, Fred,
nobody wants to know.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I'm not going to read it. I don't care. I
just want to see. Maybe it's a really good thing.
If it is, i'll tell you. If not, I won't
say it. Are you really anything with the NBA Finals? Dan?
Besides watching?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
No?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I mean, I'm just going to kind of take it
in and I think, like it's it's sort of you know,
from my my perspective and from the job perspective. Right,
as always, it's usually pretty reactionary. Teams are pretty reactionary
to what plays out in front of them. What can
be sort of learned behavior from the teams that made it, Like,
what can be copied different things like that. I think,
(06:37):
you know, really really interesting contrasts and styles. I believe
this is sort of the new NBA, Like, like I
think it's I mean, it's not shocking to say that
we're in a we're in a time of parody in
the league. It felt like a couple of years ago
that Denver would be there every year. They had the
best player, they had the perfect team around him. They
(06:59):
have been back, you know, and I think it was
Dallas last year. It felt like, oh my god, Dallas,
you know, like that team is totally different now. And
while the Thunder feels sort of inevitable for a stretch
and they are in a better position than most to
like turn this into a multi year thing, there's some
all over the league, like we know so many chances
(07:20):
these guys are going to get, and I think it's
going to be a really exciting series that in terms
of style teams that we don't normally see on this
stage and my hunches that we will learn that the
Thunder as their record has showed us all Yurope and
their point differential have showed us that they are the
best team in the NBA and will be a worthy champion.
(07:43):
But it'll be fun to see these markets that that
don't normally get the shan get the shine.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeahs W, I think it's good.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And you mentioned it, you know, it's a copycat league
and pretty much all the sports, it's just what we're
going to start seeing, uh, And it was very evident
you know, the two teams did it right. They have depth, right,
and they actually play defense what they're known for. And
and we saw the flip of that with with the
Lakers having no depth, no big man, and not playing
(08:13):
a whole lot of defense. Are we going to see
that be more of an emphasis going forward from the
other teams?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I mean, I think I think with both of these teams, like,
I think that's a little reduction, Runny. I mean, I think,
you know, I think what both of these teams are
is like they play to their strengths right, And that's
what with the second apron and the CBA rules and
the limitations you have on spending, you're you're not going
to be able to build a perfect team. So what
(08:41):
you have to do is you have to build the
right The type of team that can hide its weakness
is best, and I think and find ways to do
it right. And in Indiana a team that that is okay,
I would say defensively, not a great, great defensive team,
but good enough. Like what they do is they have
a player and Marys Halliburton who initiates offense and does
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it without turning the ball over, and they do it
at a time in the league when you know, I
was talking to some executives about this yesterday. It is
like basketball can be complicated, but sometimes it's just about
creating more opportunities to score.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Than the other team.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
You know, that was one of the things J. J.
Reddick said about the Lakers, and it was true. They
didn't get enough rebounds. They turned the ball over too
much against Minnesota, but Timberls had more chances to score
than they did well. Tyres Tylerburton never turns the ball over,
and I think that is a huge factor in this series.
And if they're able to continue to generate offensive opportunities
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and do it at the speed at which they do,
because that's they don't let the playoffs slow them down.
The Thunder maybe the ones that's been able to do it,
but the Knicks couldn't do it, Cleveland couldn't do it.
They play fast like that is their advantage, and they
are built around their advantages. The Thunder's advantages are you know,
they're able to create They're able to create mismatches off
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the dribbles, shake gills with Alexander uh they have incredible
defensive tenacity and they make open shops. I think you
just got to kind of be who you are. Like
the Lakers aren't gonna be able to build a pacers
out roster right like they have luka Ocic, they Lebron James,
they have Austin Reeves like like that that is their core.
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They have to find the right players around those three
to maximize their strengths right, which are primarily offensively, and
hide their deficiencies which show up on the defensive end.
And I think that it's like that's not some you know,
aha moment lesson, but that that's that's the NBA. Now,
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that's what you have to do it and you can't
be wrong, Like you just can't be you can't you
can't sign a player like gave Vincent to the mid
level exception and Gave Vincent is a good BASKETBLL player.
He's not played well for the Lakers. He's a good
basketball player. His strengths don't fit like offensively, he needs
the ball more like that is he's in. He's more
of a rhythm point guard, you know, not really a
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point guard, but like he's a he's more of a creator.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
With the basketball.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
He's not gonna get the basketball a lot on the
team with le Bron, James Austin, he's certainly not on
one with with Luca Agit Stu. So it's like, you know,
when you have a player who you use one of
your few weapons to go a a player and he
doesn't fit your version of the roster, like that's that's
hard to overcome. And I think, you know, the Lakers
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in this summer, it's gonna be a real challenge. But
the task is, you know, to find with limited with
limited means and free agency, to find the right players,
that's it, and then to also use you know, the
assets they do have a first round pick, some swaps
don't connect, whatever it may be, some expiring contracts to
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now like go get the right kinds of players that
can make your core even stronger. And you know, I
think I think you've got to be the best version
of yourself. And I don't think the Lakers were necessarily
even that far off from that part of it. So
I don't think you have to do it exactly like
the PACER's exactly. It's the thunder. You just have to
do it the way that that that suits your roster best.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Dan Wykey is whethers all right? You hear Tom Thibodeau
has fired, and you thought.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Yeah, I was surprised at you know, I was surprised
at the timing, not surprised as the result. There have
been kind of rumblings in you know, NBA circles for
a few weeks you know, uh, at the end of
the regular season that it was like, you know, they
need to have a good playoff run from to keep
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your job. Well, they had a good playoff run, and
so that part of it is surprising. It's just a
reminder that, like a lot of this stuff, sometimes it's
like these.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Jobs are like they kind of come with term moments.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
They just sort of do. When you hear an organization
say like we need a new voice, and what they're
really saying is that, you know, we've heard enough, We've
done things in the same way for too long.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
And like we just have to try something different.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
I don't think it's smart in this case, again, a
team that I don't think was that far off from
being where it needed to be, a team that really
would have benefited from another year, I think together trying
to maximize the talented pieces and a team that could
that could you know, quite frankly like develop a little
better now. Look, the criticisms with TIBs today are the
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same that they've always been. Plays guys too much, runs
them into the ground, they're not ready for the playoffs,
or or they burn out eventually in the playoffs they
get broken down. That's been true for a long time.
But no team that's fired Tibbs has been immediately better.
It just hasn't happened yet. Didn't happen in Chicago, didn't
have in Minnesota. You know, we'll see here in New
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York because their timeline, like a lot of these teams,
particularly in the Eastern Conference next year with no Jason Tatum,
is now the timeline is now. Like like so, whoever
you're going to hire New York has to be ready
to go win now. And that that's not that's not
these tasks.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Anything with h them. You know you said it was
bound to happen. You're not overly surprised about Tips. Is
that the talk of maybe Michael Malone going to New
York is it could be a reason why they did
it till soon like.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
This, I think you you know, I was, I was
with some NBA types yesterday and that was sort of
the logic, was that you don't do this unless you know,
unless you know that you're is like who you're replating,
You're you're not doing this to open up a coaching search,
is the general idea, right? Is that? So you know
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you should whether it's Michael Malone, whether it's Johnny Bryant
who was a finalist in Phoenix for you know, Jordan
not got that job former Lakers assistant guys. Uh, it's
you know, Frank Vogel. I mean, like if you if
you're talking like championship pedigree coaches, right, there's only so
many who have done it. We're available. If that's kind
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of the road you're going, like, you better get on
it quickly, especially if you had an offseason. So I wouldn't.
I would not anticipate some long out, sort of dramatic
mixed coaching search.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Dan Adam Silver made the comment All Star Game this
year USA against the World. He doesn't really know what
that means, but he knows that's what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What do you think.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
It's sort of like the only song that's left left
to try to play, like we're running out of you know,
we're sort of running out of options. My hunch is
that it'll be good for a short amount of time,
like the first year of it could be really fun.
That game will be in Los Angeles, like, you know,
it could be really exciting to see. You know, you've
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got teammates that are going to match up against you,
like Lebron, James and Luca. You'll be on different teams
and stuff like that. Uh, you know, like any of
these things though, whether it's money, whether it's school yard
draft picks, right like, ultimately, but the league has to
the league kind of has to to figure out what
it wants from its players, right, Like on one hand,
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you say, we need you to try and I believe
this to actually be true that like you have to
try Hotter in our Offstar game that you know, this
is one of the few showcase products we have where
casuals watch, like we don't want to see, you know,
eighty three is jacked up, nobody playing any defense by
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like the middle of the first quarter, nobody trying, no excitement,
Like that's not that's not what we want. So you
introduce this as a way to like try to like
you get, give it a joke jolt and it will.
But at the same time too, like the league also
tells players like, we need you to be available in
the regular season. We need you to play every game.
If you don't play x amount of games, you're not
can make all NBA. Your roster bonuses are tied. This
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type of stuff. You know, in the Lakers case last year,
for instance, like you're playing games on the Wednesday after
the Alscar game, you know, or the Thursday right after that.
There's not much of a real break if the players
need one. So I do think there's mixed messaging in
the players end of the day. I think the players
should go play harder. Is sort of where it is
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that it's you know, is this gonna is this? Have
they solved anything with this?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
No?
Speaker 5 (17:27):
I mean I was in Chicago the first year they
did the target score and it was really really exciting.
Remember like the Alcar game, is we played in Kobe
Bryant's memory and for his legacy because Kobe tried hard
in the Alcer game and everybody was gonna be inspired
by like that spirit. I mean that lasted for a
year and then nobody cared again. So my hunch is
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that there will be more of this, But sure, you know,
bring Lee Green with out to say, God bless.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
The usaid before the game, I guess right to get
those fans all excited.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
I got I don't know, I mean like like we
like we might have a thin. It might be a moment.
And look, produced is a good game, that's great, you know,
but uh, you know, the format is what it is.
It's it's it's a it's a tough one to totally
you totally figure out.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
What about the real quick Dan, the word Jared Allen
might be a possibility for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
What do you hear? And is that even a possibility?
Speaker 5 (18:24):
I mean, I think he is. I I don't think
they would trade Austin Reeves to get Jared Allen. So
the question becomes, how do you get him?
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (18:33):
But I think he does a lot of the stuff
that that you would like. It's a name that's made
a lot of sense for them.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Cleveland's willingness to move off of him has always been
a little suspect. He's on a great contract. Guys had
an all star type season, had a horrible playoff, you know,
but does sort of the rim running, rim protection stuff
you want from that job. And and look, I can
tell you like I mean they have high aspirations for
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for this for whoever is going to play this position.
Whether or not they're able to get there, we don't know,
but it's like, you know, they're not They're not waiting
for the season to end to go race out and
sign you know, the backup center on the you know,
the Utah Jazz to go fill that job. Like that's
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not where their mindset is. Like they're they're gonna they're
gonna be aggressive. I'm a little skeptical that they'll be
able to get a big deal done, but I think
I think they believe they can get the right guy.
And you know, there are only so many who do
the kind of prototypical Lucas stuff, and Jared Allens one
of them. I mean, he's a guy that they they
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absolutely should call on. He's a guy they should absolutely
gage the price on. And you know, the question I
would have is do they have enough to get him?
That's the question if if Jared Allen's on the market,
is there you know, is there an other team that
would be able to do more than you know, a
first round pick.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Some swaps don't connect and expiring money.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Like like is there a team that has more to
offer and my hunch would be that there is, but
the Lakers need to be in that mix if that
indeed is a player that they can get at.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Okay, damn, good stuff. I appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Thanks for having me, guys. I appreciate it. I'm gonna go.
I'll have dreams about the segment tests.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
All right, Dan, take it easy. Okay, should we do
Dodger tickets now, Roddy.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it, all right. We
got to pay it into the stadium.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yeah, tonight Dodgers Mets. You win, you get the ticket.
You better head out there. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven,
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Speaker 1 (21:24):
On a hump Day, Wednesday, June fourth, Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan,
who we got, Freddie?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Who won?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Jose and Londale's going. That's it, Jose and Londale, You're
going to the game that I wait to go. You
win the tickets, have a great time. Hopefully you see
another great Tanner Scott outing. He's just on the bandwagon
of Tanner Scott now. I think, honest to god, he's
the greatest. Well, it might be a little much to say,
but one of the greatest relievers in baseball history. Maybe
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it's a little over the top, but woman's last night
spoke volumes to me, spoke town speaks. I listened to
the ground, and I listened, and the ground told me
he's back. Rodney Tanner Scott's back.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Well, let's hope, So, fred let's hope. Though.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I think he's got it, but he's got to streak
a couple of these together.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
And then we can say he's back.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Okay, Well, I hear you. I'm just telling you from
where I said, how I see it. You go out
there and do that last night against a team like
the Mets. You're a guy that should be out there
every single night.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
That's right. Well, and listen, the Mets and there are
no sloughs that lineup. You know.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
You know, we talk about the Dodger, but that lineup
is pretty good too. So yeah, you got to come
with it if you're going to shut those guys down.
And uh, but yeah, it'll be interesting. I think that
this is also I know you said this was a
must win last night, but I think, you know, winning
one of these next two games is also a must
for the Dodgers. They cannot lose three out of four
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to the Mets, and if they win three out of four,
I think it's watch out, watch out world, because now
they're about to go on a roll.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Has one sobto bothered you? No, no, no, not like
he's bothering a lot of folks, especially some met fans.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
But no, he doesn't bother.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Me, you know, I think he Uh in what way
would you say that that he's bothering you? Just on
general principles, like what he's not doing anything that he
didn't do for that when he was with the Nationals
or the Yankees last year.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I know, I just I don't like even at the
I don't like watching.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Him at the plate.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
There, I said, but that's not who he's always been
do the stare down and do that whole thing.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
There's little antics.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I think everybody knows that, so people don't get offended
by it, because that's who he's always been, regardless of
the team.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I know.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
But his helmet is too small, okay you no am?
I the only one that will say it out loud.
His helmet is too small and it drives me insane.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Vinet Bryce Young's helmet when he was a rookie, that
helmet was way too big.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Now he's saying, uh.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
I can't say. I can't say that that's necessarily stood
out to me. Fred, And even if it had, I
don't know if that's a big issue. Still a great player,
I don't care. Well, first of was you rather he
looked like Bartolo Colon up there and swing through his
heels and have the helmet fall off of his head
every time? Is that what you want to see? That's
what Fred wants.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I'm just telling you. I want to watch tonight and
then tell me is his helmet too small?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Because it is? Well, he grew on his hair, Freddy.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
He's letting his hair grow, so maybe that may be
a little bit issue of why it looks like that.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Okay, but then he needs a bigger helmet. It's safety issue. Now,
I'm serious riding it looks like you guys weren't a Yamaica.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
No, stop it, stop it, Fred, stop it.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You're not wearing them damn Yamaica.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Hey, that's where I draw the line. Buster. If you
want to say that, then I'm not putting up with it.
What was that? Just watch tonight? That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Did Wan Soto have a bad week in your fantasy
playoffs a couple of years ago or something? To Fred,
because that's that's kind of what I'm thinking right now.
Did you have this indebta against Wan Soda for some reason?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
No, he did not have a bad him.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I don't have an end for him every time.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
He just kids said that out of the blue.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
On so it'll bother you came on the air saying,
so why would he?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I just run through the wrong way. I'm really glad
the Dodgers didn't sign him. I am.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
So he does bother you. He does rub you the
wrong way, and you don't know why. I don't know,
but it can't be just because you think his helmet's
too small. I don't like his attitude.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I don't like when he goes up there every time
he's like, oh, I'm gonna fake bunt the first pitch.
Who I mean, do it or don't?
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Part of his gazemanship, fred That's what he's doing. He's
he's part of his strategy.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, you like he's acting like a little kid Freddi.
You don't like that part.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
No, I don't be like Freddie Freeman. Go up and
do your business. Go take care of your business. Be
like Otani.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
So not that there's anything wrong with Freddie or Atani.
Those guys are phenomenal in her own way. But you're
basically saying, Sodo, don't play with any emotion.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Yeah, that's what you're saying.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Basically, bring your hard hat, a hard helmet that barely
fits your head.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
You know what I can't. I can't.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I can't stand O'tani saying hello to everyone when he
gets up to the plate.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
That just rubs me the wrong way. I hate that, Fred.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Why he always waving to them?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yea?
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Why you gonna be so damn.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Nice manager of the other team. Why way saying hi
to the catcher? Come on, your enemies, Why are you
doing that? How are you doing that? Oh Tani, somebody.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Said that, I'd say, well, I disagreed dramatically because I
think it's a sign of professionalism and I respect it greatly.
I think everybody should be like that. Oh no, what
do we playing? Patty Cakes and Tilly winks. It's a
competitive game'd be smiling and chippy with the other team,
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and hey, how you doing waving? How's your how's your
how's your ankle?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Bob? Hey you good? How's that gallbladder? Oh? It's fine,
how you doing bladder?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
See?
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Fred, this is why people in your house call you
the old head, because see people like Rodney and I
want to see like the WBC or the Dominican Republic
is playing drums and having music and flares in the
stands and all.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
That that flipping and all of that.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Fred wants to take us back to the nineteen fifties
that was like here, crumbs, Jack didn't the blank?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
What you want? How that again?
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Marlboro? O, Mom, that's what you want, Fred, break out
the old rag time piano.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
U ball game, ball game.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
No, that's not what I want, by the way, And
you know I don't look at things like that.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
I am That's why I'm surprised that you're looking at
it like this.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Pull your bridges up, son?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Is it just me? Or does one showed one so
to look like when he's hitting hands like a case
of the shakes, does he No, he's like moving all around.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
No, he does. After he takes a pitch, he does
a little wiggle before he steps out. Thanks, I noticed it,
But it doesn't bother me. Who cares. That's what he does.
Used to step out of the box and unbuckle every
single piece of furniture or whatever that he's wearing, and
then step back in. I have a problem with that either. Whatever,
that's what guys do.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Undo his batting gloves every time and then get back
in and every.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Pitch, every single one.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, that's part of his thing. That's his routine. That's
how I got him going.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I don't know if you look at what Soto does. Again,
maybe it's just me. But I think a lot of
people agree with me.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
No, they don't.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I think No, I think a lot too.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
We don't have time to take calls today. Yeah, because
they don't agree with you. Every one of them would
not agree with Yeah, I'm gonna tell you this and
you can write this down and inc.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
We could take three hours of calls tomorrow about this topic,
and I think everybody would agree. But we don't have
a show tomorrow because the Dodgers are playing, So you'll
just have to take my word for it.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Yeah, you're saving grace there, Fred, because you know how
this would go, by the way how this always goes.
And then after we take fifteen calls, we disagree with
Fred says, See, I told you everyone agrees with me.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Well, and that's because, to be quite honest, you guys
hear what you want to hear.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I'd listen to people. Oh is that it?
Speaker 6 (30:03):
You listen to what they're not saying? Is that what
it is?
Speaker 3 (30:05):
For us?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
When Kevin rewinds the tape and plays it back, we
still hear what we want to hear.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
At that point, Rodney, I docked with the tape. You
know I used it. It was AI Fred, AI callers,
That's what it was.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Hey, can we do an AI person segment?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Kevin? What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Can I make like an AI talking person and let
the person do a segment.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
An entire segment?
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Well, they only talk for like eight seconds.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Maybe you might ever remember this fan. So back when
we first started with your show, I don't know if
Rodney was here yet or not, remember where we were
talking about doing automated game reports in the NBA. It
was Mark Cuban's idea way back when, and we actually
started doing that. An automated game report.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Wasn't that with Google Voice?
Speaker 6 (30:50):
It was I don't know if it was Google Voice.
It was a different online platform, and I would basically
te you know, pull back the curtain. Jay Stu was
still producing at the time. I was on the board,
but I would actually type up and make up these
fake game reports, type them up, and it was an
AI voice that would actually speak to it.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
We couldn't staff the Clipper Laker game last night, so
we actually had our automated reporter check in and I
will type in the most I will type in the
most ridiculous things.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Can we do that Friday? Sure?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Can you write one for Friday?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
But aren't we had sketchers? Are you gonna be able
to do that when we're there?
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Yeah, we can can't do it Friday, and we can
find a way to make it work.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
We should do one of those on Friday. That would
be very funny. All right, Yeah, and we mostly get
them for the Clipper games. Kevin Imber. Yes, we didn't
do real Clipper coverage.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
That's so horrible.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
We had an AHI voice.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
That's horrible.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
You wrote them.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yes, we need more of that stuff.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
I'll see if I can dig up some of the
old ones to give like an example of how they
used to sound. Oh, I have to save somewhere. Okay,
well look in the archive.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
All right, let's see if we can find that. All right,
so we already gave the tickets away, but here's a reminder. Friday,
we're gonna be at Sketchers. You know exactly where Sketchers is.
It is on pH at Crenshaw in Torrents. We're gonna
be there starting at noon, noon to two. We have
ten pairs of doctor tickets to give away. We will
give them away on the air. You cannot call. You
have to be there. And if you are there, you
(32:14):
will be one of many because the first thousands will
score a free Sketcher's tote or a hat. We've got
swagged to give away. We've got those tickets to give away.
And if that's not enough, how about this for a
limited time by two pairs and get a third pair
of Sketchers free.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Oh yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
And when I say that, I'm not talking about okay,
you buy these two irregular price, and the third one
are like little baby shoes.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
They're real shoes.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Why like little Why would you even say that?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I don't even know where that that's like, that's like
the one Soto out of the blue.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Why would you even say the third pair of baby shoes?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Because people don't think they would actually get a third
pair free. They think there'd be a catch. These are
not like once worn shoes, right, like a demo when
you buy a car.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
You think somebody who's actually thinking, oh if he's doing
a promotion for buy two shoes get one free. Yeah yeah,
that third shoe probably is some baby shoes. Nobody thinking
like except for you.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
I'm just trying. I'm just trying to avoid any problems
when we get there. That's it, and we're gonna have
special guest star. Butnoyd Benjamin, who's going to have fish
with lots of tartar sauce. Kevin suggests we buy the
fish at Whole Foods.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Gotta have it ready made that you're gonna have, you're
gonna have to cook it. If you can buy it there,
but you're gonna have to cook it.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
I just said that was the nearest store. There's a
Trader Joe's that's not that far from there as well,
but again you'd have to cook it.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Should we just get him raw fish and let them
cooking the fish market somewhere around the corner.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Should we should we go like to Long Johnson or
should we get him like raw fish?
Speaker 6 (34:03):
I feel like you would appreciate fish that he can
eat on site.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
You get some regular fish.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Let's find out what what fish store fish market is
close by that you can have it made.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
I mean, there's an Islands in that shopping center across
the way. Maybe get him a fish sandwich or something
from there. Islands has fish. I don't know if it's
kind of fish he's looking for, but they have it.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
He just wants a nice piece of fish. We have
a lot of tartar sauce.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
That's it. Huh. Maybe I don't know. You can go
to doing soul food, get him some catfish.
Speaker 6 (34:39):
We're talking.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yeah, is there a place down there for that?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
No, there's no there's no kitchen over there. No, no, no,
you gotta go to Inglewood for that.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Well yeah, he went on Crenshaw, but we got to
go somewhere that's open at eleven in the morning.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, all right, let's think on it. Nobody out there
got any suggestions, let us know, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Fish by the Sketchers on pch and Crunch on torns. Okay,
we'll take your suggestions and we'll wrap it up after this.
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Speaker 1 (35:39):
Oh yeah, come on, let's bring it on home. Freddie Rodney, Pete,
Fred Rogan on a hump day.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Let's go. All right.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
A couple of things we were talking about, these AI
generated kind of game stories we did years ago. When
I came back to the station and Kevin, you went
into the archive, found one in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
Yeah, so this is from January of twenty seventeen, the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
And this was the bad Well what was here then?
Speaker 6 (36:06):
I think that was I think you may have just
started Rodney at that point. So this is the Lakers
with D'Angelo Russell and Jordan Clarkson, and they were winning
like sixteen games a year, and this is a game
I guess they when they played San Antonio and this
is when Kawhi and Tim dunkin. They might have even
gone to the finals that year. So here's one of
the game quote unquote game recaps that we that we did.
Speaker 8 (36:25):
Thursday night in San Antonio. The Spurs defeated the Los
Angeles Lakers by the score of one hundred and thirty
four to ninety four. Wait, seriously, the Lakers lost by
forty points. Damn son. I know y'all are rebuilding, but
this is embarrassing. Kawhi Leonards scored thirty one points in
just three quarters of action. Well, former Laker Pau Gasol
(36:48):
scored twenty two points with nine rebounds and six assists.
Think the Lakers could have used him in this game.
I'd read off some of the Lakers stats, but why
bother They got straight up fitch slapped. The only positive
thing that happened to the Lakers is that the game
actually ended.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Kevin, we got to start doing that.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Was funny. And what.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
I would I typed those up and I will put
them into the automated system and it would voice them.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yes, oh yeah, we got to start doing those again.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
Jason Stewart is listening, by the way. He wanted to
make sure that everyone knew that it was his idea.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Yeah, we gotta start doing those. Well, then we'll get
them sponsored.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
Well, let's not get crazy for ye all right?
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Uh fish bonds, grill and Torrents just right around the
corner from sketchers. Okay, okay, this bond's grill, Fish Bonds, grill.
Keep that in mind for Benoit's Friday Fish. All right, Ronnie,
thank you, Kevin. Terrific work, Rodden. We're off tomorrow. We'll
see Friday at Sketchers right on, right on,
Roggin And Rodney News
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