June 5, 2026 • 35 mins
Ned Colletti joins us to talk Dodgers, potential Skubal trade and more. A young Red Sox pitcher took issue with the media questioning his effectiveness as a starting pitcher - the next morning he got demoted. Would you pull a gun on someone for cooking fish at work? One guy almost did.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, we continue on. Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on a
five to seventy LA sports a pair of tickets for
the Dodgers Angels game, and I believe it is on Sunday.
We will give those away today this hour. So stay
with us throughout the hour. You'll have a chance to win.
Let's bring on the mantle of the bread. You did
that well, good job. Well, but there's more to it,
and I didn't want to screw it up. Yeah, just
(00:22):
keep it simple. You know. We have one pair this hour.
Now we have another pair next hour. Just let it go.
We got one pair this hour, there's more coming next hour.
That's how we do it. Okay, Yes, you should have
done that, not me. You you knew how to do it.
I did not. All right, But now, but now let's
bring on the man with the big chair, our good
(00:43):
friend Net COLLETTI Ned, good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
To you, Good afternoon, guys, good to be with you.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Good afternoon, Ned. Hey, Ned, when you were on, you're
on with me. Fred was out, But I told you
before Fred had he had a yellow meter. He had
a yellow meter for the first time. I want to
talk about that red yellow I got. I got a
little yellow. I'm not gonna lie to you. I was
a little concerned. I'm not concerned anymore. Ned, I'm not concerned,
but I was a little concerned. But I'm not concerned.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Is that okay? Well talking about it was.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Orange, Rodney red, That's what it was. It's the panic meter,
Ned red being oh my god, oh yeah, orange and
then yellow? Is it orange and green or red? Or red? Orange? Green? Green? Green?
That's all good. No, no worries orange. He's a little worried.
He was a little worried.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Ned. Yeah, I was a little worried about and five.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I had a moment that it happens.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, yeah, once a week when they fall behind by
three year us in the first inning and something, Oh
this is the beginning. Oh yeah, two hours later it's
seven to three. Yeah, okay, yeah, Well wait.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
A minute, when you say this is the beginning, Tanner
Scott had two bad outings this week? Is that the beginning?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
There? You go? Well, you know what. I was looking
at it, and I swear I said, next time i'm
with Fred, I'm going to hear about this. I knew it.
I knew that's where we were going. Yep, don't worry
about us. Jeez. Yeah, you would have been a very
tough assistant GM. You enough I was. You would have
(02:38):
drove me crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You would have had opposite ends of the building, new you.
You couldn't have been close to him as assistant.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
GM with a different phone number.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah. Yeah, you'd have to go through three secretaries to
get to get to NED if you were on there
in their friend three.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Screens only Fox SMI if it's good news.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Net Nett. Have you have you dealt with anything like
this where you know, there were reports that Tanner Scott
and getting threats and its family getting threats and things
like that. We've heard about it in sports quite a
bit and over the years of you know, different sports,
different guys get threats because of a bad outing or
a bad game or things like that. Have you been
around anything like that in your tenure?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Not really. You know, it's it probably gets worse and
worse with you know, the way the world works and
social media and different things. You know that I can't
say that I can recall anything that was of bad ILK,
especially when you're talking about family and about things like that.
(03:45):
I mean, that's you know, we're talking about sports, we're
talking about you know a game really, I mean, yeah,
people get paid and all of that. They're also the
best in the world, so you know, it gets taken
to a stream that then that's you know, the one
of the cases. But I can't recall anything of that
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nature and of that that magnitude.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, it, you know, it's a very different world we
live in now. I think so much of this has
to do with gambling things like that.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Ned yes, I agree.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah. And you know, if you're spending that much money
and you're upset with somebody because they have a bad
outing or they lose the game that's on, you don't
blame them. You know. It turns these guys into pawns. Really,
it turns the players just into pawns in someone else's game.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
You know. And I'm wondered as all of that started
to become more and more of a the public domain
of you know, there's some I think some arenas, some
stadiums with sports boots inside of them.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I mean, if you and I think about the NBA
all the time, when somebody sitting courtside, you know, it's like,
oh goodness, well what was you know, what would that
be like? You know, for a player perspective, be at
the free throw line and having somebody underneath the basket
that's you know that got something resting out a free throw? Yeah,
(05:10):
and they let you know, Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, it's it's a scary thing. It's a scary thing. Ned,
we chopped it around earlier, and Fred has the full
and I'll let Fred, you know, break it down because
he had the full scope of how they get Trek
Scugle at the trade deadline? Do you want to break
it down the net, how that happens and who's giving up? Well,
and Ned, I'm glad you're on because you know you
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obviously done this for a living. So if you're negotiating
with me and you have Trek Schooble and you want
to move with the trade deadline, and I'm the Dodgers,
you're gonna say, well, give me. What are you gonna
ask for? Ned, you're the Tigers. I'm the Dodgers. What
are you gonna ask for? We'll just do it right now.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well, I'm probably gonna ask for two, maybe two and
a half, real players, not guys that are if come.
Maybe I'm talking prospects. I'm not talking about guys on
your staff now or on your team now, perhaps maybe
one or some, but really real players, not guys that
you think might make it, or if they do make it,
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they're going to be extra guys or relief pieces, you know,
for somebody of this ILK. You know, I think that
if you're Detroit, I mean, you got to make sure
you're getting true big league guys that are going to
be everyday players, and maybe one of them is going
to be an impact player. You've got somebody that is unique,
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is unique as a talent that the deadline as anybody
in recent memory. You know, I go back to you know, CCSI,
back to be trying to get him an eight from
from Cleveland and unable to do it for a weason
besides the players that was offering. But you know, he's
he's every bit as he was in it. And see
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she was eleven and two from Milwaukee, you know, and
we and we couldn't do it. But you know, it's
it's where you get somebody like that. He is, You're
talking about a very very good pitching staff already, and
I'd argue that if you acquired him and he's he's healthy,
that he would go to the copy of your staff
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he would go to a lot of top top of
everybody's staff. But we're talking about the Dodger's pitching and
their staff, and he would go to the top of
that or at least next Guyamamoto or whoever people think
is the the ace of the aces. You know, that's
that's unique. So that's his talent level. So if I'm Detroit,
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you know I can't get somebody that you well, we
think this guy's going to plan a big reason that's
not good enough. You'd have to you'd have to really
get make somebody pay for it, and get a lot
of people involved, as many teams involved as possible, and
get it done that way, because this is their chance.
You know, they're they've had an upside down season already.
(08:05):
You know they're they're they're far down in the division
in the league. That's that's pretty much mediocre. But you know,
you've got to be able to cash this, and you
know you probably can't if he is proving to be healthy.
When you get down to it, you've got to be
able to help your organization because people are going to go,
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you know, what do they get and there's always a
chance you can never get what the value is. I mean,
that happens a lot, you know. I think maybe that's
what was going to happen with with Anaheim and Otani back,
you know, when they had him sitting on his walk here.
But you know you've got it, you've got to be
able to cash it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So here's what we kicked around here, was you know,
and you just told us something. We looked at it
a little differently. We thought it was going to be like,
you have to give up Emma Robleskian and a top
minor leaguer.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
But that be too much, right, probably, But again, you know,
you're you're you're not. You know, you're talking about two
really good, young young pitchers, but you're not. You know,
you're not not talking about guys that are at the
very very top of that rotation. They've been they've been good,
and they're going to get better. But it may it
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may take something like that, but I think it's probably
it may take one of them and one of the
great young outfeelers that are sitting in the minor leagues,
and then you could if I'm detroyed, then I could
go to somebody that we think is going to be
a big league player, but not necessarily an impact guy.
But you've got to get people. You've got to get
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at least I would say at least two that are
gonna be big league that given the big league guys
are going to help you win. And that's just I mean,
there's guys that can play in the big leagues, right,
There's always guys that can play in the league. But
if you're if you're trying to really win a division,
win a a series or two, or get to the
(10:02):
Fall Classic, there's there's only certain guys that are going
to be able to do this from a young player perspective,
and you've got to really know that that's who they are.
And you've got to probably go back to your amateur
Scottland reports if you if you watch these guys as
amateurs and and maybe you had, you know, the conversations
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with them, maybe admit their family and the more information
you've got that that will lead you one way or
the other to go into this with with half the
info or or not enough to really know. You know,
that's a tough place to be that you've got somebody
that can change your franchise, you know, I mean, he's
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learned a few players that can change both franchises, the
one he's going to and the one he's leaving.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt. Uh net. How how how much
we also skipt this around the negotiation cbaut happening at
the end of the season. How much is that factor
into teams making deals at this trade deadline as opposed
to and agents as well involved in this because we
(11:13):
talked about, you know a lot of borises guys and
what he's going to do because he likes to take
him to free agency, but if there's something going on,
it might get delayed. Well, how is this going to
affect this trade deadline this year?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Well, the only thing that I could see affecting is
and some people will use it, and maybe rightly, so
it's an excuse, you know, I would I don't know
that anybody that acquires him, except maybe maybe LA is
going to be able to acquire him and sign him
before the end of the season, and maybe that would happen.
(11:49):
But I mean, you know, you characterize Scott, He's probably
the best agent that I've ever been around, and I've
had many moments with him for many years. But you know,
he he likes to take guys when they're done and
you know, in Schooble's waited this long, and you know
he would be eight weeks, nine weeks, ten weeks away
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from from you know, up in the Anne. So you know,
I think that that would be the only thing that
would would stop a club from doing it. But I
don't think there's many clubs that would be in the
position that the Dodgers are in. Who if they if
they want them and they want them long term, and
they're going to be one of the main players for
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them when you get to the end of the World
Series and free agency opens, you know that it may
it may affect them, but are then again it may not.
I mean they, you know, when they have their eyes
on somebody, I don't think they missed many times. I
don't think they. I don't think they've missed for a
long time. If they really want somebody, you know, they
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they typically get them. It's it's the best destination in
North American sports right now, any sport.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Uh okay, need looking at the Dodgers now. Really it's
just keep keep trucking, keep pushing along here. I think
it's going pretty much as scripted. And the thing about
it is, you don't and Rodney said, you know, with
the panic meter, here's a deal. You don't get too
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excited or you don't get too depressed. It doesn't matter
who they beat in any game, the expectations they're going
to win. So it seems like this is now just
very business like to me. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah? And then it has been really you know, this
is this is how many of these seasons are played out. Yeah,
some have been a little bit closer, but you know,
they started to put a gap between them and the
second place team, and who knows who that's going to
be by the time to get to October, you know,
you know, and they manage you know, there's you hear
about load management and other sports. You don't hear about
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it in baseball. But they do that very very well.
And that's why, you know, they build the depth. They
built so that they can have guys miss a couple
of weeks here and there, and they've got enough depth
to survive that, and they got enough time to keep
guys fresh fresher than anybody else. Most of the teams
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that are going to fight for a second place in
this division or wildcard spots in this lead by the
time they get to the end. I mean, their guys
are going to have another twenty innings in them at
their pitchers, or another ten appearances in them that they
if they relieve us. And that's that's how the Dodgers
play it, and they play it. They play it better
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than anybody. So you can't have an injury that's going
to take somebody out for three or four or five months.
You can't have that. But if somebody's going to be
out for a short period of time, you know they've
got enough depth that it's not going to necessarily affect
the success of their regular season club. And at the
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end of the day, it may prove to be a
bit of a blessing that player because they gazelle be less,
less wear and terribley the time you get to the postseason,
and in the meantime they get a chance to play
some of your younger guys and give them opportunities. So
when they get to the end of September on October,
you know they feel more comfortable and they've got more
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of a track record, both you know, from a scouting perspective,
but also from an internal perspective of knowing they can
do it. So you know that's as I watch it
unful day after day, week after week, month after month.
Now for years, you know, they play it. They play
it the way every other team wishes they could play it.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, Net you've talked about this in the past and
different scenarios. You look up and you said, they're starting
to widen the gap with some of the other teams.
They split with Arizona, but yet still six and a
half games up on them. San Diego just got swept
by the Phillies. They're seven of them them. This thing
starts to get out of hand soon. They got the
anger is coming to town like and Fred mentions that said,
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that's a good remedy for anybody struggling. So it could
be a good thing this weekend for them to widen
that lead, is it? And they've had to they've had
to kind of battle towards the end of the season
the last couple of years that they've wanted. Which one
would you prefer that them being in the race where
they got to continue to work for it at the
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end of the season, or having that cushion where they can,
like you say, rest guys, bring some other guys, get
some other guys playing time. As we hit September.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I'd probably like a combination of both. I like a
good enough lead that you didn't you didn't have to
overextend people. But I think what is what has challenged
them a little bit in the month of October is
that the regular season, by and large is lacks a
lot of competition. And I think that the more teams
that can compete that they have to compete against and
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and work the seventh in and work the eighth and
they worked the ninth in the continue to have great
advance as a season wears on and as as you
get late in games. I think that that's what the
playoffs are going to be. That's what they are. And
you know, teams usually get teams that struggle during the
regular season that do make it now they do turn
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it up in the postseason, and it's I think that's
probably the only only drawback I see to them being
as successful as they have is you can't just turn
on compete when you get to the end. And not
that they do, but it's I think that's the one
thing that I love when they get challenged, because I
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think it makes them better and I think you start
to see the best of what they've got when when
they when they trail late in games, or when teams
that are are pushing for a division in one of
the other divisions pushing for the lead, or you know
you're at Atlanta or you know in Phillies, heyday, you're
a Philly And I think those games are definitive to
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good teams. And I think that the more you have
of that, the better you're going to be in October.
So they answer the question, I think it's for me,
it's a combination. I want them to have to compete
as you get through September, to compete against some of
those teams I can really play, But I also want
to be able to rest guys and not have not
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have guys over extended. I want to go in with
the with the way I built the club, with all
the depth and all all the maneverability and where you
don't depend on one guy, you know, every it's a
great team. I mean, it's a team team and that
you know. That's that's the way I would like it
to be. But I don't want it to be, uh
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you know a twenty two and eight September that that
to me is I mean, you'll take it, certainly, but
I think that that may be the only thing that
would that I would not be concerned about, but I
you know, I would I would rather have it be
be it tougher September four, all right. But see, but
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we're nitpicking here too, you know. It's like we're you know,
we're looking for something to think about.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah. Yeah, And that's the issue. It's like the way
you talk about them, and I tell you they're very
business like. They get it done and just keep keep
moving forward. What do you pick apart here? There's really
nothing to pick apart. They're just doing what they're supposed
to do.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
And that's one of the great parts about what they
do and why I give Dave robertson his staff so
much credit, because in this day and age, or even
day in age a little bit, you know, ten years ago,
it's tough to be that hungry that long. Think how
long they've been hungry. And it starts with ownership. It
starts right with Mark because you know he he you
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know I and I know him. I'm going to talk
to him for a few years here. But I obviously
I worked from the treers at GM and then did
TV under their domain for a while. He It's like
the Dodgers have never won under his leadership, that's how
hungry they are. And yet you know, they've done pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Love it. Love it being a guy that's played for
organization as owners that didn't care about winning. I love it,
I really do, because there are those out theres that
really don't care.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
They're unique. I mean, it's just a unique place in time,
and you know, people should never take it for granted
because this isn't everywhere. Nope, this is a This is
a rare, rare moment in time in the history of
the sport and maybe in the history of any sport,
especially when you have you know, because nobody's you know,
teams have done this, and teams have been great, and
the Yankees won five World Series in a row once,
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you know, years ago, and then they had a great,
great run with Joe managing them. But you know, the
salaries and then when they won five in a row,
I mean it was the fifties, late forties and the fifties,
you know, the salaries were not what they are today.
And sometimes it's tough to you know, to pay somebody's
twenty five to thirty million a year and have them
still be hungry. But you look at this club. I
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mean I never see anybody that looks like they're satisfied.
And I think that starts right with the owner, the
main I mean the main guy at the top mark
and everybody else, you know, with them staying and on
and on. You know, it's there's no there's no there's
no letting up. And I think that is so rare
in this day and age, in any sport. I say,
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this is this is a precious point in time, and
I don't see it ending anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You're right, We're always said when our time with you
wins ned. I'm being very honest with you. We're always
sad when it's over.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Well, I'd love talking to you guys. We talk good stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
All right, Well, we'll talk to you again soon. Have
a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Okay, you're in the midst of a terrible season. Somebody
asked you a question, should you lose your mind?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
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Speaker 1 (22:28):
All right, let's keep it going. Mini. Thanks to our
man who's sat in the big chair. Very wise, Ned
Coletti for joining us. Always gives great insight. Freddy Absolutely
all right, So here's the deal. You tell me. Boston
Red Sox are not having a good year, very disappointing.
(22:49):
They fired Alex Korra, They're kind of falling apart. And
there's a reason they're not very good. Why don't we
start with that. They're simply not very good, and they're
not they're in the midst of trying to figure things out.
So why why why kay? They got a wealthy owner,
don't they Yeah, but they were not built for sustained success,
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and they tried to, you know, they had some good
years and then they said, well that's it. It's the
Detroit model, Detroit line. We've got a trade where we
are everything right and start fresh. Well, it takes time,
and they've made some mistakes. So Brion Bellow is a
picture and a young guy, and by far he is
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Boston's worst starting pitcher. Now that's not certainly a moniker
you want to carry. So it is, in fact the truth,
and you know, they they expect him to be a
pretty good guy, but he's really struggling anyway. Anyway, after
he gave a five runs in the first inning the
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other day, he started yelling at the media. He started
yelling at the media, he threw a tantrum, and then
he was sent down to the miners. So they are
yelling at the media after the game. And what happened
was somebody asked him about you know where he's at
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right now? I mean, it's basically it. You know, you
went out, you got rocked. What do you think's going
on here? And he just lost it. He started yelling
at people for asking him that question. Now, I understand
he's frustrated. I understand he's frustrated, but I mean his
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ere is six point thirty four. He's currently two and
six on the season, and he's not having a good year.
But he simply lost it. He threw a tantrum, started
yelling at people, and then they sent them to the miners.
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I thought, this is it now. Obviously this guy is
frustrated and the team's not very good, and you know,
Boston's a tough place to play if you lose, so
you know, it's not like you're in Kansas City. It's
Boston and they're gonna get on you a little bit.
But Rodney, he just he went berserk and then they
sent him to the miners. You played, Yeah, you can't
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do that well from an athlete's perspective, Go ahead, and
it's hard. I'm sure he got a lot of tough
and he's frustrated himself and the season that they're not
only that the team's happen, but he's having as well.
And the last thing you want to hear is question
after question of why you struggling? Why are you struggling?
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Why are you struggling? And then people have certain answers
and you get defensive. At those moments, you've got to
really really fight yourself to understand that this is a business,
and it's hard to do. I don't know how old
it is, but it's hard to do as a young
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player for sure. But as you get older you start
to understand that this is a business. They're gonna ask
me questions. Less is more, And when you learn less
is more, then you're better off because once you start
to start explaining or defending yourself, all of a sudden,
you start rambling and you say things that you shouldn't say,
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and it becomes worse. So try to keep it short
and try to keep it And I learned this well.
I had a lot of practice. I mean it was
well done at USC, but going into Detroit was a
similar situation where we weren't very good first couple of
years and a lot of questions, a lot of finger
pointing at always at the quarterback. And so you got
to be able to handle that and take it. And
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you got to just be able to take it and sometimes,
like I said, less is more and just say, hey,
well you know, we didn't get it done today, We'll
get it done next time. And I got to play
better and just move on and don't take things personally
because everybody's got to do a job. Yeah, here's the thing.
He's a young guy. I think that makes it worse, right, Right,
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if you're a veteran, you've been there, you get a
little frustrated. Okay, this is a young guy about it?
Think about all those guys have had success their whole career,
or they wouldn't be there, right, Very rarely do they
have to face humility or a situation where they've failed
on a regular basis. And he's been failing in the
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job that he's you know, supposed to do. So it's
an unfamiliar territory for him. And again it's it's it's
not easy, it's not tough. But but you also got
to understand this is also business. It's not high school,
this is not college. It's his business where they don't
pull any punches. It's real. You're making money now, so
they all gloves are off. Yeah. Does that hurt his
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chances now or do they get him a pass? M
I don't know if I think this is a lesson
for him. I don't think it hurts his chances now
if he hasn't learned from this when he if he
indeed gets called back up and hasn't learned and has
the same reactions to this, then then it may be
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you know, curtains. But I think he gets uh. I
think he gets another chance. Okay, who wants to see
the Angels and Dodgers Sunday at the stadium? Who wants
to go eight six, six, nine, eighty seven, two five seventy?
Rodney would call a number were looking at. I like
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number five it And by the way, you better take
that fish out of the microwave or I'll shoot.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
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Speaker 1 (28:50):
Come on, let's go, let's keep it moving. Freddie Rodney, Pete,
Fred Rogan on a we Don't Care Friday. Come on,
never been arounding anybody that grills fish in a house?
Fish smells, you know what I mean? Seriously, the grills
(29:12):
fish in the house instead of outside on the grill. Yeah,
fish smells. Matter of fact, if you cook fish in
the house, I don't care what you do. Put it
in a microwave, whatever. Fish. Windows, open the windows like candles.
Have that fan on if you're cooking. You got a
fan on your stove, make sure that's on. But yeah,
you got to open the windows when you cook fish,
(29:32):
for sure. Just protect everybody else, right, I mean, I've
been at a house. Somebody's not that. Everybody complains. Now,
I don't think it it you know, in that situation,
it's to a point where you pull a gun on somebody. Oh,
of course not. I mean I don't think they're cooking
and it smells. Somebody pulled a gun for it. Yeah,
I don't think that's necessary. You know, if you're not
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happy somebody made a mistake or somebody intentionally put a
fish in the microwave and you don't like it because
it's smells, I don't think the appropriate behavior is to
pull a gun on somebody. No, come on, come on,
and I'll tell you where. It's even more inappropriate in
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a police station. It's more inappropriate in a police station
if you were to pull a gun on somebody because
they were microwaving fish. And I'll go one step further. Please,
it's even more inappropriate to pull a gun in a
police station because somebody is grilling fish and you're a
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police officer pointing it at another police officer. Oh, come on,
that is the height of impropriety. And that apparently is
what happened in South Carolina a police station there, South Carolina,
of course it would be I'll see Alabama, South Carolina,
(30:56):
get it, West Virginia. Yeah, okay, okay, So what happened
was the police station, in the lunch room, the breakroom,
somebody put a piece of fish in the microwave, and
all of a sudden, you know what happens. It doesn't
smell good, Rodney, No, no, it doesn't. Another officer, to
be specific, a detective in the room is not pleased
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with the fact that now the room smells like this
is in the lunchroom, the lunch or whatever cafeteria lunch
room that they had, right breakroom, breakroom, put the fish
in the microwave and the fish to smell. And the
person that did it was a police officer, right, okay, Well,
another officer who happens to be a detective did not
take kindly to that. As a matter of fact, was offended,
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and there was only one way to handle it. So
he pulled his gun and pointed it at the guy.
So the detective pulled his gun and pointed it at
another police officer because he put fish in the microwave
and it smelled. M yeah, so that that didn't play well.
(32:03):
I mean you could imagine that I'm assuming this the
police officer pulled the gun on the person cooking the
fish outranked the guy putting the food in the microwave. Yeah, yeah,
it wouldn't happen the other way around, right, No, No,
I just gotta be honest with you. And here's a
tip to you kids out there. That didn't play well.
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That didn't go over well in the police station. So
people were a bit concerned by the way he didn't
shoot the guy, and they weren't sure the gun was
even loaded. But I don't know why a guy would
be carrying a weapon. He's a policeman. He's gonna have
it on his side and not have it loaded. Yeah right,
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I mean, do you think police officers walk around and
they have their their side arm and it's not loaded. No,
they're police officers. They loaded, it's loaded. That's what I said.
Maybe it's the safety's on right to even pull it
and right pull it out on someone. That's ridiculous. Yeah, so, uh,
you know, they looked into this, they did an internal investigation,
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but how much investigating did you really need to do?
It was quite a parent what happened. The answer is
the detective was fired. Yeah. Yeah, he's lucky they didn't
charge him with anything. Yeah, assault or yeah, with a
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deadly weapon whatever they could have gone at him with.
He gotta go though, that's that's a loose cannon. Imagine
if the guy I'm saying, tell you put that gun
at member that good and it just they got into
an argument because he pulled a gun. It might have
he might have went to the next level, because if
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you can pull a gun on your fellow officer in
the cafeteria, in the break room, you're capable of doing
way too much. That's exactly what I thought. Yeah, that's
not a guy you want to don't need to be.
You don't need to have a uniform, right, you don't
need to have a uniform. Imagine if it was a
citizen that Nate rubbed him the wrong way, that he
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was arrested, by the way, but he had to be arrested,
but he's been fired. Yeah, and imagine if that was
a citizen. Yeah, just pulled the gun because you put
fish in the microwave. Man, I'm glad he wasn't cooking
possum or something that would have been really bad. Who
knows what the guy would do pulled out of machee
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ain't gone after him. Have you ever had possum print
a raccoon or anything like that roadkill like our boy
Eric Dickinson has. I've never had that, Rodney. I've never
had it either. I've got cousins to have certainly do well,
you know, what I say. We're the lucky ones because
we never had to eat it. Yeah, we are all right.
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Coming up next hour, we have two more sets of
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hour and also Dan Woike you will join us
Okay, we continue on. Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on a
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the Dodgers Angels game, and I believe it is on Sunday.
We will give those away today this hour. So stay
with us throughout the hour. You'll have a chance to win.
Let's bring on the mantle of the bread. You did
that well, good job. Well, but there's more to it,
and I didn't want to screw it up. Yeah, just
(00:22):
keep it simple. You know. We have one pair this hour.
Now we have another pair next hour. Just let it go.
We got one pair this hour, there's more coming next hour.
That's how we do it. Okay, Yes, you should have
done that, not me. You you knew how to do it.
I did not. All right, But now, but now let's
bring on the man with the big chair, our good
(00:43):
friend Net COLLETTI Ned, good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
To you, Good afternoon, guys, good to be with you.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Good afternoon, Ned. Hey, Ned, when you were on, you're
on with me. Fred was out, But I told you
before Fred had he had a yellow meter. He had
a yellow meter for the first time. I want to
talk about that red yellow I got. I got a
little yellow. I'm not gonna lie to you. I was
a little concerned. I'm not concerned anymore. Ned, I'm not concerned,
but I was a little concerned. But I'm not concerned.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Is that okay? Well talking about it was.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Orange, Rodney red, That's what it was. It's the panic meter,
Ned red being oh my god, oh yeah, orange and
then yellow? Is it orange and green or red? Or red? Orange? Green? Green? Green?
That's all good. No, no worries orange. He's a little worried.
He was a little worried.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Ned. Yeah, I was a little worried about and five.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I had a moment that it happens.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, yeah, once a week when they fall behind by
three year us in the first inning and something, Oh
this is the beginning. Oh yeah, two hours later it's
seven to three. Yeah, okay, yeah, Well wait.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
A minute, when you say this is the beginning, Tanner
Scott had two bad outings this week? Is that the beginning?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
There? You go? Well, you know what. I was looking
at it, and I swear I said, next time i'm
with Fred, I'm going to hear about this. I knew it.
I knew that's where we were going. Yep, don't worry
about us. Jeez. Yeah, you would have been a very
tough assistant GM. You enough I was. You would have
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drove me crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You would have had opposite ends of the building, new you.
You couldn't have been close to him as assistant.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
GM with a different phone number.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah. Yeah, you'd have to go through three secretaries to
get to get to NED if you were on there
in their friend three.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Screens only Fox SMI if it's good news.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Net Nett. Have you have you dealt with anything like
this where you know, there were reports that Tanner Scott
and getting threats and its family getting threats and things
like that. We've heard about it in sports quite a
bit and over the years of you know, different sports,
different guys get threats because of a bad outing or
a bad game or things like that. Have you been
around anything like that in your tenure?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Not really. You know, it's it probably gets worse and
worse with you know, the way the world works and
social media and different things. You know that I can't
say that I can recall anything that was of bad ILK,
especially when you're talking about family and about things like that.
(03:45):
I mean, that's you know, we're talking about sports, we're
talking about you know a game really, I mean, yeah,
people get paid and all of that. They're also the
best in the world, so you know, it gets taken
to a stream that then that's you know, the one
of the cases. But I can't recall anything of that
(04:05):
nature and of that that magnitude.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, it, you know, it's a very different world we
live in now. I think so much of this has
to do with gambling things like that.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Ned yes, I agree.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah. And you know, if you're spending that much money
and you're upset with somebody because they have a bad
outing or they lose the game that's on, you don't
blame them. You know. It turns these guys into pawns. Really,
it turns the players just into pawns in someone else's game.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
You know. And I'm wondered as all of that started
to become more and more of a the public domain
of you know, there's some I think some arenas, some
stadiums with sports boots inside of them.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I mean, if you and I think about the NBA
all the time, when somebody sitting courtside, you know, it's like,
oh goodness, well what was you know, what would that
be like? You know, for a player perspective, be at
the free throw line and having somebody underneath the basket
that's you know that got something resting out a free throw? Yeah,
(05:10):
and they let you know, Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, it's it's a scary thing. It's a scary thing. Ned,
we chopped it around earlier, and Fred has the full
and I'll let Fred, you know, break it down because
he had the full scope of how they get Trek
Scugle at the trade deadline? Do you want to break
it down the net, how that happens and who's giving up? Well,
and Ned, I'm glad you're on because you know you
(05:36):
obviously done this for a living. So if you're negotiating
with me and you have Trek Schooble and you want
to move with the trade deadline, and I'm the Dodgers,
you're gonna say, well, give me. What are you gonna
ask for? Ned, you're the Tigers. I'm the Dodgers. What
are you gonna ask for? We'll just do it right now.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well, I'm probably gonna ask for two, maybe two and
a half, real players, not guys that are if come.
Maybe I'm talking prospects. I'm not talking about guys on
your staff now or on your team now, perhaps maybe
one or some, but really real players, not guys that
you think might make it, or if they do make it,
(06:16):
they're going to be extra guys or relief pieces, you know,
for somebody of this ILK. You know, I think that
if you're Detroit, I mean, you got to make sure
you're getting true big league guys that are going to
be everyday players, and maybe one of them is going
to be an impact player. You've got somebody that is unique,
(06:38):
is unique as a talent that the deadline as anybody
in recent memory. You know, I go back to you know, CCSI,
back to be trying to get him an eight from
from Cleveland and unable to do it for a weason
besides the players that was offering. But you know, he's
he's every bit as he was in it. And see
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she was eleven and two from Milwaukee, you know, and
we and we couldn't do it. But you know, it's
it's where you get somebody like that. He is, You're
talking about a very very good pitching staff already, and
I'd argue that if you acquired him and he's he's healthy,
that he would go to the copy of your staff
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he would go to a lot of top top of
everybody's staff. But we're talking about the Dodger's pitching and
their staff, and he would go to the top of
that or at least next Guyamamoto or whoever people think
is the the ace of the aces. You know, that's
that's unique. So that's his talent level. So if I'm Detroit,
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you know I can't get somebody that you well, we
think this guy's going to plan a big reason that's
not good enough. You'd have to you'd have to really
get make somebody pay for it, and get a lot
of people involved, as many teams involved as possible, and
get it done that way, because this is their chance.
You know, they're they've had an upside down season already.
(08:05):
You know they're they're they're far down in the division
in the league. That's that's pretty much mediocre. But you know,
you've got to be able to cash this, and you
know you probably can't if he is proving to be healthy.
When you get down to it, you've got to be
able to help your organization because people are going to go,
(08:25):
you know, what do they get and there's always a
chance you can never get what the value is. I mean,
that happens a lot, you know. I think maybe that's
what was going to happen with with Anaheim and Otani back,
you know, when they had him sitting on his walk here.
But you know you've got it, you've got to be
able to cash it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So here's what we kicked around here, was you know,
and you just told us something. We looked at it
a little differently. We thought it was going to be like,
you have to give up Emma Robleskian and a top
minor leaguer.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
But that be too much, right, probably, But again, you know,
you're you're you're not. You know, you're talking about two
really good, young young pitchers, but you're not. You know,
you're not not talking about guys that are at the
very very top of that rotation. They've been they've been good,
and they're going to get better. But it may it
(09:20):
may take something like that, but I think it's probably
it may take one of them and one of the
great young outfeelers that are sitting in the minor leagues,
and then you could if I'm detroyed, then I could
go to somebody that we think is going to be
a big league player, but not necessarily an impact guy.
But you've got to get people. You've got to get
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at least I would say at least two that are
gonna be big league that given the big league guys
are going to help you win. And that's just I mean,
there's guys that can play in the big leagues, right,
There's always guys that can play in the league. But
if you're if you're trying to really win a division,
win a a series or two, or get to the
(10:02):
Fall Classic, there's there's only certain guys that are going
to be able to do this from a young player perspective,
and you've got to really know that that's who they are.
And you've got to probably go back to your amateur
Scottland reports if you if you watch these guys as
amateurs and and maybe you had, you know, the conversations
(10:22):
with them, maybe admit their family and the more information
you've got that that will lead you one way or
the other to go into this with with half the
info or or not enough to really know. You know,
that's a tough place to be that you've got somebody
that can change your franchise, you know, I mean, he's
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learned a few players that can change both franchises, the
one he's going to and the one he's leaving.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt. Uh net. How how how much
we also skipt this around the negotiation cbaut happening at
the end of the season. How much is that factor
into teams making deals at this trade deadline as opposed
to and agents as well involved in this because we
(11:13):
talked about, you know a lot of borises guys and
what he's going to do because he likes to take
him to free agency, but if there's something going on,
it might get delayed. Well, how is this going to
affect this trade deadline this year?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Well, the only thing that I could see affecting is
and some people will use it, and maybe rightly, so
it's an excuse, you know, I would I don't know
that anybody that acquires him, except maybe maybe LA is
going to be able to acquire him and sign him
before the end of the season, and maybe that would happen.
(11:49):
But I mean, you know, you characterize Scott, He's probably
the best agent that I've ever been around, and I've
had many moments with him for many years. But you know,
he he likes to take guys when they're done and
you know, in Schooble's waited this long, and you know
he would be eight weeks, nine weeks, ten weeks away
(12:09):
from from you know, up in the Anne. So you know,
I think that that would be the only thing that
would would stop a club from doing it. But I
don't think there's many clubs that would be in the
position that the Dodgers are in. Who if they if
they want them and they want them long term, and
they're going to be one of the main players for
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them when you get to the end of the World
Series and free agency opens, you know that it may
it may affect them, but are then again it may not.
I mean they, you know, when they have their eyes
on somebody, I don't think they missed many times. I
don't think they. I don't think they've missed for a
long time. If they really want somebody, you know, they
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they typically get them. It's it's the best destination in
North American sports right now, any sport.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Uh okay, need looking at the Dodgers now. Really it's
just keep keep trucking, keep pushing along here. I think
it's going pretty much as scripted. And the thing about
it is, you don't and Rodney said, you know, with
the panic meter, here's a deal. You don't get too
(13:20):
excited or you don't get too depressed. It doesn't matter
who they beat in any game, the expectations they're going
to win. So it seems like this is now just
very business like to me. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah? And then it has been really you know, this
is this is how many of these seasons are played out. Yeah,
some have been a little bit closer, but you know,
they started to put a gap between them and the
second place team, and who knows who that's going to
be by the time to get to October, you know,
you know, and they manage you know, there's you hear
about load management and other sports. You don't hear about
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it in baseball. But they do that very very well.
And that's why, you know, they build the depth. They
built so that they can have guys miss a couple
of weeks here and there, and they've got enough depth
to survive that, and they got enough time to keep
guys fresh fresher than anybody else. Most of the teams
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that are going to fight for a second place in
this division or wildcard spots in this lead by the
time they get to the end. I mean, their guys
are going to have another twenty innings in them at
their pitchers, or another ten appearances in them that they
if they relieve us. And that's that's how the Dodgers
play it, and they play it. They play it better
(14:36):
than anybody. So you can't have an injury that's going
to take somebody out for three or four or five months.
You can't have that. But if somebody's going to be
out for a short period of time, you know they've
got enough depth that it's not going to necessarily affect
the success of their regular season club. And at the
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end of the day, it may prove to be a
bit of a blessing that player because they gazelle be less,
less wear and terribley the time you get to the postseason,
and in the meantime they get a chance to play
some of your younger guys and give them opportunities. So
when they get to the end of September on October,
you know they feel more comfortable and they've got more
(15:18):
of a track record, both you know, from a scouting perspective,
but also from an internal perspective of knowing they can
do it. So you know that's as I watch it
unful day after day, week after week, month after month.
Now for years, you know, they play it. They play
it the way every other team wishes they could play it.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, Net you've talked about this in the past and
different scenarios. You look up and you said, they're starting
to widen the gap with some of the other teams.
They split with Arizona, but yet still six and a
half games up on them. San Diego just got swept
by the Phillies. They're seven of them them. This thing
starts to get out of hand soon. They got the
anger is coming to town like and Fred mentions that said,
(16:02):
that's a good remedy for anybody struggling. So it could
be a good thing this weekend for them to widen
that lead, is it? And they've had to they've had
to kind of battle towards the end of the season
the last couple of years that they've wanted. Which one
would you prefer that them being in the race where
they got to continue to work for it at the
(16:25):
end of the season, or having that cushion where they can,
like you say, rest guys, bring some other guys, get
some other guys playing time. As we hit September.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I'd probably like a combination of both. I like a
good enough lead that you didn't you didn't have to
overextend people. But I think what is what has challenged
them a little bit in the month of October is
that the regular season, by and large is lacks a
lot of competition. And I think that the more teams
that can compete that they have to compete against and
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and work the seventh in and work the eighth and
they worked the ninth in the continue to have great
advance as a season wears on and as as you
get late in games. I think that that's what the
playoffs are going to be. That's what they are. And
you know, teams usually get teams that struggle during the
regular season that do make it now they do turn
(17:18):
it up in the postseason, and it's I think that's
probably the only only drawback I see to them being
as successful as they have is you can't just turn
on compete when you get to the end. And not
that they do, but it's I think that's the one
thing that I love when they get challenged, because I
(17:38):
think it makes them better and I think you start
to see the best of what they've got when when
they when they trail late in games, or when teams
that are are pushing for a division in one of
the other divisions pushing for the lead, or you know
you're at Atlanta or you know in Phillies, heyday, you're
a Philly And I think those games are definitive to
(18:04):
good teams. And I think that the more you have
of that, the better you're going to be in October.
So they answer the question, I think it's for me,
it's a combination. I want them to have to compete
as you get through September, to compete against some of
those teams I can really play, But I also want
to be able to rest guys and not have not
(18:26):
have guys over extended. I want to go in with
the with the way I built the club, with all
the depth and all all the maneverability and where you
don't depend on one guy, you know, every it's a
great team. I mean, it's a team team and that
you know. That's that's the way I would like it
to be. But I don't want it to be, uh
(18:48):
you know a twenty two and eight September that that
to me is I mean, you'll take it, certainly, but
I think that that may be the only thing that
would that I would not be concerned about, but I
you know, I would I would rather have it be
be it tougher September four, all right. But see, but
(19:09):
we're nitpicking here too, you know. It's like we're you know,
we're looking for something to think about.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah. Yeah, And that's the issue. It's like the way
you talk about them, and I tell you they're very
business like. They get it done and just keep keep
moving forward. What do you pick apart here? There's really
nothing to pick apart. They're just doing what they're supposed
to do.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
And that's one of the great parts about what they
do and why I give Dave robertson his staff so
much credit, because in this day and age, or even
day in age a little bit, you know, ten years ago,
it's tough to be that hungry that long. Think how
long they've been hungry. And it starts with ownership. It
starts right with Mark because you know he he you
(19:54):
know I and I know him. I'm going to talk
to him for a few years here. But I obviously
I worked from the treers at GM and then did
TV under their domain for a while. He It's like
the Dodgers have never won under his leadership, that's how
hungry they are. And yet you know, they've done pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Love it. Love it being a guy that's played for
organization as owners that didn't care about winning. I love it,
I really do, because there are those out theres that
really don't care.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
They're unique. I mean, it's just a unique place in time,
and you know, people should never take it for granted
because this isn't everywhere. Nope, this is a This is
a rare, rare moment in time in the history of
the sport and maybe in the history of any sport,
especially when you have you know, because nobody's you know,
teams have done this, and teams have been great, and
the Yankees won five World Series in a row once,
(20:50):
you know, years ago, and then they had a great,
great run with Joe managing them. But you know, the
salaries and then when they won five in a row,
I mean it was the fifties, late forties and the fifties,
you know, the salaries were not what they are today.
And sometimes it's tough to you know, to pay somebody's
twenty five to thirty million a year and have them
still be hungry. But you look at this club. I
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mean I never see anybody that looks like they're satisfied.
And I think that starts right with the owner, the
main I mean the main guy at the top mark
and everybody else, you know, with them staying and on
and on. You know, it's there's no there's no there's
no letting up. And I think that is so rare
in this day and age, in any sport. I say,
(21:34):
this is this is a precious point in time, and
I don't see it ending anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You're right, We're always said when our time with you
wins ned. I'm being very honest with you. We're always
sad when it's over.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Well, I'd love talking to you guys. We talk good stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
All right, Well, we'll talk to you again soon. Have
a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Okay, you're in the midst of a terrible season. Somebody
asked you a question, should you lose your mind?
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Speaker 1 (22:28):
All right, let's keep it going. Mini. Thanks to our
man who's sat in the big chair. Very wise, Ned
Coletti for joining us. Always gives great insight. Freddy Absolutely
all right, So here's the deal. You tell me. Boston
Red Sox are not having a good year, very disappointing.
(22:49):
They fired Alex Korra, They're kind of falling apart. And
there's a reason they're not very good. Why don't we
start with that. They're simply not very good, and they're
not they're in the midst of trying to figure things out.
So why why why kay? They got a wealthy owner,
don't they Yeah, but they were not built for sustained success,
(23:13):
and they tried to, you know, they had some good
years and then they said, well that's it. It's the
Detroit model, Detroit line. We've got a trade where we
are everything right and start fresh. Well, it takes time,
and they've made some mistakes. So Brion Bellow is a
picture and a young guy, and by far he is
(23:34):
Boston's worst starting pitcher. Now that's not certainly a moniker
you want to carry. So it is, in fact the truth,
and you know, they they expect him to be a
pretty good guy, but he's really struggling anyway. Anyway, after
he gave a five runs in the first inning the
(23:54):
other day, he started yelling at the media. He started
yelling at the media, he threw a tantrum, and then
he was sent down to the miners. So they are
yelling at the media after the game. And what happened
was somebody asked him about you know where he's at
(24:16):
right now? I mean, it's basically it. You know, you
went out, you got rocked. What do you think's going
on here? And he just lost it. He started yelling
at people for asking him that question. Now, I understand
he's frustrated. I understand he's frustrated, but I mean his
(24:38):
ere is six point thirty four. He's currently two and
six on the season, and he's not having a good year.
But he simply lost it. He threw a tantrum, started
yelling at people, and then they sent them to the miners.
(25:00):
I thought, this is it now. Obviously this guy is
frustrated and the team's not very good, and you know,
Boston's a tough place to play if you lose, so
you know, it's not like you're in Kansas City. It's
Boston and they're gonna get on you a little bit.
But Rodney, he just he went berserk and then they
sent him to the miners. You played, Yeah, you can't
(25:21):
do that well from an athlete's perspective, Go ahead, and
it's hard. I'm sure he got a lot of tough
and he's frustrated himself and the season that they're not
only that the team's happen, but he's having as well.
And the last thing you want to hear is question
after question of why you struggling? Why are you struggling?
(25:42):
Why are you struggling? And then people have certain answers
and you get defensive. At those moments, you've got to
really really fight yourself to understand that this is a business,
and it's hard to do. I don't know how old
it is, but it's hard to do as a young
(26:03):
player for sure. But as you get older you start
to understand that this is a business. They're gonna ask
me questions. Less is more, And when you learn less
is more, then you're better off because once you start
to start explaining or defending yourself, all of a sudden,
you start rambling and you say things that you shouldn't say,
(26:23):
and it becomes worse. So try to keep it short
and try to keep it And I learned this well.
I had a lot of practice. I mean it was
well done at USC, but going into Detroit was a
similar situation where we weren't very good first couple of
years and a lot of questions, a lot of finger
pointing at always at the quarterback. And so you got
to be able to handle that and take it. And
(26:45):
you got to just be able to take it and sometimes,
like I said, less is more and just say, hey,
well you know, we didn't get it done today, We'll
get it done next time. And I got to play
better and just move on and don't take things personally
because everybody's got to do a job. Yeah, here's the thing.
He's a young guy. I think that makes it worse, right, Right,
(27:05):
if you're a veteran, you've been there, you get a
little frustrated. Okay, this is a young guy about it?
Think about all those guys have had success their whole career,
or they wouldn't be there, right, Very rarely do they
have to face humility or a situation where they've failed
on a regular basis. And he's been failing in the
(27:27):
job that he's you know, supposed to do. So it's
an unfamiliar territory for him. And again it's it's it's
not easy, it's not tough. But but you also got
to understand this is also business. It's not high school,
this is not college. It's his business where they don't
pull any punches. It's real. You're making money now, so
they all gloves are off. Yeah. Does that hurt his
(27:49):
chances now or do they get him a pass? M
I don't know if I think this is a lesson
for him. I don't think it hurts his chances now
if he hasn't learned from this when he if he
indeed gets called back up and hasn't learned and has
the same reactions to this, then then it may be
(28:10):
you know, curtains. But I think he gets uh. I
think he gets another chance. Okay, who wants to see
the Angels and Dodgers Sunday at the stadium? Who wants
to go eight six, six, nine, eighty seven, two five seventy?
Rodney would call a number were looking at. I like
(28:30):
number five it And by the way, you better take
that fish out of the microwave or I'll shoot.
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Speaker 1 (28:50):
Come on, let's go, let's keep it moving. Freddie Rodney, Pete,
Fred Rogan on a we Don't Care Friday. Come on,
never been arounding anybody that grills fish in a house?
Fish smells, you know what I mean? Seriously, the grills
(29:12):
fish in the house instead of outside on the grill. Yeah,
fish smells. Matter of fact, if you cook fish in
the house, I don't care what you do. Put it
in a microwave, whatever. Fish. Windows, open the windows like candles.
Have that fan on if you're cooking. You got a
fan on your stove, make sure that's on. But yeah,
you got to open the windows when you cook fish,
(29:32):
for sure. Just protect everybody else, right, I mean, I've
been at a house. Somebody's not that. Everybody complains. Now,
I don't think it it you know, in that situation,
it's to a point where you pull a gun on somebody. Oh,
of course not. I mean I don't think they're cooking
and it smells. Somebody pulled a gun for it. Yeah,
I don't think that's necessary. You know, if you're not
(29:53):
happy somebody made a mistake or somebody intentionally put a
fish in the microwave and you don't like it because
it's smells, I don't think the appropriate behavior is to
pull a gun on somebody. No, come on, come on,
and I'll tell you where. It's even more inappropriate in
(30:14):
a police station. It's more inappropriate in a police station
if you were to pull a gun on somebody because
they were microwaving fish. And I'll go one step further. Please,
it's even more inappropriate to pull a gun in a
police station because somebody is grilling fish and you're a
(30:35):
police officer pointing it at another police officer. Oh, come on,
that is the height of impropriety. And that apparently is
what happened in South Carolina a police station there, South Carolina,
of course it would be I'll see Alabama, South Carolina,
(30:56):
get it, West Virginia. Yeah, okay, okay, So what happened
was the police station, in the lunch room, the breakroom,
somebody put a piece of fish in the microwave, and
all of a sudden, you know what happens. It doesn't
smell good, Rodney, No, no, it doesn't. Another officer, to
be specific, a detective in the room is not pleased
(31:18):
with the fact that now the room smells like this
is in the lunchroom, the lunch or whatever cafeteria lunch
room that they had, right breakroom, breakroom, put the fish
in the microwave and the fish to smell. And the
person that did it was a police officer, right, okay, Well,
another officer who happens to be a detective did not
take kindly to that. As a matter of fact, was offended,
(31:41):
and there was only one way to handle it. So
he pulled his gun and pointed it at the guy.
So the detective pulled his gun and pointed it at
another police officer because he put fish in the microwave
and it smelled. M yeah, so that that didn't play well.
(32:03):
I mean you could imagine that I'm assuming this the
police officer pulled the gun on the person cooking the
fish outranked the guy putting the food in the microwave. Yeah, yeah,
it wouldn't happen the other way around, right, No, No,
I just gotta be honest with you. And here's a
tip to you kids out there. That didn't play well.
(32:27):
That didn't go over well in the police station. So
people were a bit concerned by the way he didn't
shoot the guy, and they weren't sure the gun was
even loaded. But I don't know why a guy would
be carrying a weapon. He's a policeman. He's gonna have
it on his side and not have it loaded. Yeah right,
(32:48):
I mean, do you think police officers walk around and
they have their their side arm and it's not loaded. No,
they're police officers. They loaded, it's loaded. That's what I said.
Maybe it's the safety's on right to even pull it
and right pull it out on someone. That's ridiculous. Yeah, so, uh,
you know, they looked into this, they did an internal investigation,
(33:08):
but how much investigating did you really need to do?
It was quite a parent what happened. The answer is
the detective was fired. Yeah. Yeah, he's lucky they didn't
charge him with anything. Yeah, assault or yeah, with a
(33:30):
deadly weapon whatever they could have gone at him with.
He gotta go though, that's that's a loose cannon. Imagine
if the guy I'm saying, tell you put that gun
at member that good and it just they got into
an argument because he pulled a gun. It might have
he might have went to the next level, because if
(33:51):
you can pull a gun on your fellow officer in
the cafeteria, in the break room, you're capable of doing
way too much. That's exactly what I thought. Yeah, that's
not a guy you want to don't need to be.
You don't need to have a uniform, right, you don't
need to have a uniform. Imagine if it was a
citizen that Nate rubbed him the wrong way, that he
(34:11):
was arrested, by the way, but he had to be arrested,
but he's been fired. Yeah, and imagine if that was
a citizen. Yeah, just pulled the gun because you put
fish in the microwave. Man, I'm glad he wasn't cooking
possum or something that would have been really bad. Who
knows what the guy would do pulled out of machee
(34:34):
ain't gone after him. Have you ever had possum print
a raccoon or anything like that roadkill like our boy
Eric Dickinson has. I've never had that, Rodney. I've never
had it either. I've got cousins to have certainly do well,
you know, what I say. We're the lucky ones because
we never had to eat it. Yeah, we are all right.
(34:58):
Coming up next hour, we have two more sets of
Angel Dodger tickets, two sets coming up in the next
hour and also Dan Woike you will join us
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