June 9, 2025 • 40 mins
The Dodgers salvaged a game in St Louis and Fred and Rodney debate whether the Cardinals playing a video of Matt Adams taking Kershaw deep in a playoff game was off base. Now the Dodgers head to San Diego to face the Padres. Is San Diego their biggest rival right now? Chris Paul is a free agent and may want to keep playing hoops close to home - could he join Lebron and Luka with the Lakers?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fred rug and Rodney Pete. I am five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Rodney.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
How you doing today? Doing good? Fred? How are you?
How are you doing well?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Doing well?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
As we get ready for the big series down in
San Diego. Two hour show for US today. Jack Harritts
at the Times joins us at one o'clock from San Diego.
So for Saint Louis, at least the bats woke up
on Sunday. You'll take it and get the hell out,
That's what I say. You don't want to be swept,
So get one and get out. Rodney, what do you
think of the weekend series?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, get one and get out is absolutely right.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
They needed, they needed to get that game yesterday. You know,
I just I think it was some carryover that they
had gone into a little bit of a slump offensively.
And I'm not just talking one guy. I thought it
was a whole team for two straight actually three games,
and and thank god they finally woke up on Sundays.
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But it didn't seem like the Dodgers were playing their
best baseball in Saint Louis. I don't know if it was,
you know, a tired get out of town road trip
that put him there and there were some jet lag
going on, but those first two games it didn't look
like the Dodgers were themselves.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
So basically after a note show on Friday and Saturday,
Bats woke up seven to three win. Mookie had a
home run, Edmund had three RBI, Kim had a hit
two RBI, Kirby Yates, Michael Kopik each with a scoreless inning.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
So that was the positive.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
But I think the biggest positive to come out of
the weekend series was the performance of Clayton Kershaw. He
gave him five, gave up six hits, a run, struck
out seven. Right now, for Clayton Kershaw, that's like one
of the cy Young Rodney. He had a terrific outing,
desperately needed and he gave him just enough enough of
what they needed. You can't expect him to go seven innings,
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eight innings. He struck out seven. That's pretty remarkable. I mean,
he had his curve ball working big time yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Striking out seven was a thing that impressed me the
most because that's where he's not that guy anymore in
terms of strikeouts. I know he's chasing the you know,
he's chasing the strikeout board, but that's not what he
does anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
But to see him go the length.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
That he went and to be effective, I thought it
was big time positive signs for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Now, the thing that really kind of, I don't know,
kind of sucked really is when the Cardinals decided they
were going to run a video.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
During the game.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Sorry anyway, So they ran a video on the big
screen during the game, highlight video of the Cardinals Matt
Adams three run homer fourth game of the twenty fourteen NLDS,
and they played that repeatedly on a loop before the
first pitch of the game was thrown. Clayton Kersher thought
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that was that was kind of low class. Gotta be
honest with you, that was kind of local. Last that
really was to do that, to basically call out the
opposing picture. It wasn't funny, that's for sure. And if
you're going to show great moments of matter, wait, they.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Just showed the ad.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
They just showed the clip of him hitting the home
run off Clayton.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
M HM. Now if Matt Adams is then it's Matt
Adams day. That's one thing.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
It was how many clips did the Dodgers show after
they're getting ready to play opponent. Did they not repeatedly
show Aaron Drugs dropping the ball? I mean, didn't they
show the meltdown that the Yankees had in Game five?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
They repeatedly showed that. Yeah, but they they didn't. Rodney
stopped crying for it. That's what my point is. Stop crying,
stop whining.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
You don't think that was poor taste?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
No, not at all. It was a It was a
was it a playoff game against the Dodgers? That's what, Yeah,
playoff game.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Against the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
They're playing the Dodge.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
There's a not hardcore rival, but a rival and has
been some knockdown, drag out battles with the Dodgers and
Cardinals back in the day. So yeah, somewhat of a
somewhat of a rivalry it is with the Cardinals. So no,
I don't have a problem with doing it at all,
not at all.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Suck it up.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
So what they did a video montage to pump their
crowd and their team up of a playoff, big game
of importance that they played against the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
From twenty fourteen against Clayton Kershaw. It was not the
game happened last year and what damn s doesn't make
it was a moment. Honestly, you don't think that was
a cheap shot?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
No, not at all.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
How did it happen? It did happen, Okay, So how's
a cheap shot? It happened Clayton Kershaw was pitching. Okay,
there's a significance of that. So what do you have
a problem with. You don't want them to show any
bad moments. You want them to show Clayton Kershaw's striking
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out the Cardinals Instead, what do you want them to
show Fred as they get ready to play the world
champion Dodgers?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
What do you want them to play?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Okay, well, the first thing is they would not show
and thanks for bringing this up. Clayton Kershaw striking out
the Cardinals. You're right, that's not gonna happen. But I
think if you have to go back eleven years to
find a clip because Kershaw is pitching on this day,
and go back eleven years and show it on a loop, that.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Wasn't paying tribute. It wasn't paying tribute to Matt Adams.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Normally, when you see those clips, you're paying tribute to somebody.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
This was just an all out of salt, and I thought.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
It was tech please please and an assault. Really, that's
an assault. An assault would be showing, you know, fifteen
different clips of Clayton Kershaw losing or having a bad
outing or getting hit for home runs. That would have
been their insulting part. But showing that particular game, a
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playoff game. Nonetheless, you know how many moments actually are
there of Clayton and the Cardinals that have big moments.
I mean, lately he hasn't pitched, so they got to
go back a little ways.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You are kidding me. You are kidding me. Not why
do you Why would you be offended?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
And then that when you want your home crowd and
home marketing and video people to do, Yeah, why is
that offensive?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Did it happen? Again? I ask you? Did it happen?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
You know what it is in the books, showing it
something that knows that didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
They're not creating an AI.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Of Clayton Kershaw getting beat up over a three game span. No,
they showed a play that actually happened. I get it,
and you have a problem with it.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I do, Kevin. Did you see it? By the way
of the actual video itself?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
For like the whole.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
No, I read about it.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
I didn't actually see it in motion.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
No, okay, but from reading about it, let's just get
different perspectives, because I could be way off base here.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I could be missing the point entirely. What is it
from your perspective?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Ya that it was unnecessary? But I don't know if
it's the biggest deal in the world. I think Clayton
Kershaw said it was bush Lee a little strong for me,
but I would say that it wasn't necessary, and they
were trying to get at him a little bit as
he was getting ready to get out there on the
mound and knew he would notice it. So maybe it's
gamesmanship to a certain degree, but it's not something that
I'm giantly, crazily opened up in arms about.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
All right, Ronnie, did you hear about it?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Fred, What do you think? I feel the same gamesmanship?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I mean, yeah, it was dunimporte, but nevertheless, I mean
it's taking with a grain of salt.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Move on, just win the games.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
The fact that Clayton said that it was bush League
tells you that he noticed it, which tells me that
it had its intended effect.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
It did his job, It did its job. Exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
It didn't work because Clayton went out their lights out.
Maybe it did the reverse. It's like Spike Lee pumping
up Reggie Miller, you know, it's like he's thinking talk,
you know, talking trash. Reggie Miller was gonna slow him
down and actually fed him and got him hyped even more.
So maybe that's what happened. You know, they played that,
Clayton saw it, didn't like it at all, took offense
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to it, and went out and pissed the best game
he had this season. So thank you Cardinals. You should
be saying thank you Cardinals and be on your way, Fred,
instead of whining and crying about it.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
So your class is half full? Your class is half full? Really?
Is that what you're gonna complain about?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
When, oh, they random video of me getting hitting and
play a home run?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
How dare them?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
How dare they do that? Stage left, stage right? Even?
Come on, I thought it was important. I'm sorry, I'm
the only one I thought it was.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Is this poor taste?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Is it poor taste to show that the clip of
Aaron Judge dropping the ball?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
This is eleven years ago, Rodney, not last season.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
What difference does it make? What difference does it make?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
It's showing someone in a bad light and not their
best outing.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
You certainly got that right.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
It's showing something. Doesn't every highlight do that.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
You don't think the Padres are gonna show clips of
them beating the Dodgers and somebody getting hit for a
three run homer to walk it off or uh profar
taunting Dodger fans in the stands if you caught that
ball enough field. You don't think the padre is gonna
show any kind of clips. Are you thinking they're gonna
be nicey nice and say, oh, let's show something where
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both teams did well, let's show the.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Dodgers in a positive light. Now, come on the hell
out of here, all right? Well, so they did that
to Clayton. He was apparently he overreacted, Kevin, what I
have heard today, he overreacted dramatically. But this is not
an overreaction. Tony Gonsolin is now on the injured list.
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He's back. These guys can't stay healthy. They cannot stay healthy.
He's not on the injured list. You're down another picture,
Rodney Man, oh man.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I just it's just and it feels like these guys
come back, and that's why you're afraid for you know,
Blake Snell coming back, Glass Now comes back and gets hurt.
Everybody comes back and then they're they're they're banged.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Up again within a few weeks.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
You hope that doesn't happen to Yates and Kopek as
they just come back.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
But man, I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Why I'd be so nervous about I'd be very nervous
about Otani pitching, you know, without a full off season,
spring training, whole deal of him pitching. I'd like to
see him go through a spring training of he has
a few outings at spring training. But this is a
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scary proposition because you can't, absolutely cannot lose his bat.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
No, and there was some thought written about today, well
maybe what you do is use him as a reliever.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Absolutely not at this point. Do not do that.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
You lose his bat.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
And I don't think you can afford to lose his
bat at a critical time in the game.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
No, No, you can't, you know, unless you want to
move him. And it's you're gonna roll the dice in
the ninth inning, extra inning where you know, but you
don't want to roll that dice. You certainly rolled it
after he has come up in the batting order. You
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don't want to roll that dice. You know, if if
he's due up third or fourth in the next inning,
you can't roll that dice.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
So that leads us to the business at hand and
the beginning of the series with the Podres, they will
get to know each other very well as a square
off down in San Diego and this series, this series.
Kevin Ace of the the paper down in San Diego,
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he wrote something he said, the Padres are trying to
look at this as just another series, but acknowledging that
we all know it isn't.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Is that accurate, Rodney? Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
You keep trying to tell yourself this is just another game,
this is just one of one sixty two, and you
try to play mind tricks on yourself, but it never
works because the moment you step out of the clubhouse
and you go on to that field, you can already
feel the difference, You feel the excitement.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
This is a bigger game than just one game, and.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
It just happens automatically that your body and the juices
start flowing a little bit sooner and better and bigger
in games like this, And it's an involuntary response. So
you can tell yourself all you want that this is
another game, but your.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Body will say otherwise. Your mind will say.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Otherwise, bigger series for either team or equally bigger for both.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I mean first place is on the line here, Yeah,
I think.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
This point, I would say equally equally big for both teams.
You know, if Padres have had their ups and downs
two and lost some games, they probably think think back
and go, man, we should have how do we get
be two out of three by those guys? So at
this point I would say, you know, I would say
it's big for both teams. I wouldn't say one has
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the more of an advantage or it needs it more
than the other. Because we're still in early June, and
you know, take me to August, late August, and now
I can tell you, yeah, I would pick one team
it's going to be bigger for But right now, now,
right now, it doesn't whoever wins two out of three
or wins a series.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Now, they don't have much of an impact in September.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
That being said, and we know that place will be
crazy down there tonight that we do. Now the traditional question,
now have we found a rivalry between these two?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
The Dodgers' rivals always were the Giants.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Now the people in Arizona they thought, well, the Diamondbacks
have now become the Dodger's rival.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Well the division.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
But I think when it comes to the Padres, do
we have a serious rivalry now, Rodney.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I think so. Yeah, I think so. Is it as
strong and as deep as the Giants? No, but it's
right now. It's as intense as those giant rivalries used
to be when both teams were competing for the for
the National League West Division. But the Giants have been
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down for a little while, so they kind of been
out of sight, out of mind. But the Padres have
been there and they've been right at the Dodgers' heels
for the last three four years.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
And talent wise, they feel.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Like they stack up just as well with the Dodgers,
with their superstars and their lineup. So they are certainly
not in awe, not scared, and not in fear of
the Dodgers one way or another, and they.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Feel they can beat them.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
And also going back to life last year when even
the Dodgers players said that that's the best team we
faced and it was a dogfight. Yeah, it's every year
it's turned into more of a rival. And as long
as as Manny Machado and Tattoos and arise and now
they're they're new guy Merrill, as long as those guys
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are there, that rivalry is going to be there for
a long time because both Tattoos and Machado will make
it that way because they are those villainous type of
guys that people love to hate. And when you have
those guys that are talented on the other side, it
just builds up the rivalry.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So, Dodger fans, first hour today, let's top them the
phone lines. We're only on for two, so let's open
them right now. Eight six six nine, eight seven two
five seventy. How big a rivalry is this?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Now?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Is this?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
It?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Are the Podres now the Dodgers public enemy number one?
Have they even surpassed the Giants? And what do you
expect to happen? And what do you hope to see
beginning tonight? Hopefully the sun of you shining for the
Dodgers down in San Diego. Here here's your question as
they begin, and at last glance, I've got tonight's starter
is undecided.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Jack Harris will know when he comes out at one o'clock. Uh,
Dylan Cease goes for the Padres.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
What do you think, Freddy before we get to the callers,
is it a rival yeah?
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
It is a rivalry, no question about it.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Now. It wasn't for years, Rodney. And even though people
tried to make it a rivalry, it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Now it is.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I mean, everybody looks forward to these two getting together.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
That's all. That's how big it's because yeah, and it's
got to be. You know, over the years. The doctor
just manhandled the Padres for so many years that you
didn't really consider it.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Oh that's right. I'm sorry. Kevin just told me.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I should have known that he's on my fantasy team.
Dustin May is starting, Thank Kevin.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Why is that undecided? It's Dustin May? Yeah, Okay, go ahead, Rodney.
I wanted to correct that.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
No, just I was just saying, you know, for a
rivalry to be a real rivalry, you got to be
both sides got to be competitive, right at some point.
You can't go through a ten year drought of not
being competitive. You've got to have some sort of competition
where you're not sure who's gonna win. And that's the
way it's been with the Padres. Over the last three four.
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Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Well, now we do know it's a question of who's
going to win, but we want it to be the Dodgers.
So let us go. How big a rivalry is this?
What do you think is going to happen ed in winninger?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Go ahead?
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Hey, Rogan and Rodney, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 10 (18:48):
Love listening to.
Speaker 11 (18:49):
You guys every day.
Speaker 9 (18:51):
In terms of this rivalry right here, I would say
in the last couple of years, like you said, probably three, four,
maybe five years, it's been a strong ride. I would
say about an eight out of ten if we're being honest.
The Padres probably take it eleven out of ten. But
the Dodgers we have, I mean, they've been around forever,
the Giants, that's the ten out of ten rivalry for
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the Dodgers. This is an important series. Hopefully the Dodgers
can take it and may goes the distance today. Hopefully
he does at least six.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
We'll see, all right, Ronnie, what do you think of that?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Yeah, no, I think he's right. I think it's not
as big as a Giants. They got to keep doing it.
But for the last five years, as he said, yes,
the Padres have been right in the mix. You know,
even knocked Dodgers out at one point. So it is,
it is, And if we're.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Living in the present, then yes they are rival Kahala's
at Huntington Beach.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Khala.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You say it's not a rivalry, right.
Speaker 11 (19:50):
Hey, guys, it's your resident Dave Roberts tater. This is
not a rivalry. You have to win. Sides have to
win something. The Padres have never won anything, nor will
they ever. They're San Diego, they're Chargers and Clippers.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
None of them will ever win squat.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
But the Dodgers have how many I don't know how
many World Championships the Dodgers have. Padres have zero. So
to me, until the Padres do something, then it's not
a rivalry. You know, the Dodgers have a rivalry.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
At the Giants.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
The Giants have some rings.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I get that, but no, right, all right, thanks Cahala,
Thanks Cahla. Uh I just agree with Khala, but thanks.
I mean, but do you get what he's saying. No,
but here's the thing, the emotions surrounding this, the fan bases. Uh,
I mean, this is going to be very heated. This
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is very real.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And think about it though, go aheah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, Freddy,
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
No.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
My point is this, people are really fired up for
this thing now. They are really fired up for it.
And that being said, I think it's a rivalry. Yeah,
And we're not saying that Dodger fans that you need
to put the padres on a pedal store or they're
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on par with the Dodgers, And we're not saying that.
But from a competitive standpoint, you do have both fan
bases really not liking each other and.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Really wanting to beat the other team. And it's fierce.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
We don't like you know, a lot of Dodger fans
don't like the way Dodger fans and the team is
treated down in San Diego and vice versa.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
And we know that from last year.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
So it is, but you don't feel that same way
about the Diamondbacks, right, it's not that burning beat deep like, oh,
both fan bases are at each other's roads and going
back and forth with each other when it comes to
the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
No, the Giants and now the Padre.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Always felt that about the Giants, but now it's the
Padres have entered that mix. And I think it's been
five at least five consistent years that the Padres have
been really good and threatened the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
All right, let's go to Temecula, Denise in Wine Country.
All right, Denise, you don't think that the Padres are
actually their.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Rival, right?
Speaker 12 (22:42):
I don't think there's bigger rival as the Giants. I
feel like for it to be a true rivalry, there
needs to be some level of respect there, and I
don't feel like there's. I personally don't have any respect
for the Padre organization or the players. You know, they
don't sell tickets to us on playoffs. That jumbo tron
thing was classless, and then the players themselves just do
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things that I just go what, And so it makes
me not respect them and makes the Giants a bigger
rivalry to me.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Okay, got that appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, you know, I don't like that they pulled the
old ticket game either, Rotney. I'm at the nise on
that you still can get them. They're just making a statement,
but you can still get the tickets if you want them.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yeah, I don't. I don't like playing the ticket game.
But you got to understand it, though, if you're in
that market, you're pissed off that the stadium is more
of the opponent than of you. I mean, didn we
used to say that about Charger games. You know how
how demoralizing that is for the home team to have
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more fans in the stadium.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
So I understand.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Trying to make it more difficult for the visiting team
to come in there when it's the Dodgers to get
their tickets to really, you know, sell out as much
as the stadium as they can and make it blue.
But yeah, being being that home team in that situation,
looking at looking up at that, you're like, we don't
how do we prevent this, how do we do something
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against this?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
And this is their way. I don't like it either,
but I understand.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
All right, let's go down to a Pico Ribera, Paul,
appreciate your holding.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
You think, yes, this.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Is a rivalry.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Anyways, up Fellas, Yeah, I mean I think it.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Is a rivalry.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
Like you know, they the projects weren't relevant.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
For the longest.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Now that they are and you know they're good, that's
the biggest rivalry. And you know the Giants, that's a
historical rivalry that came with us from New York. So
that's a little different. But I mean the fan bases
that we don't get along with each other. They talk
their mess we talk ours, and so it is. I mean,
I think as of now it's a it's a rivalry.
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And then once they start, I mean, if they start winning,
it's going to become even bigger because that's going to
be our biggest challenge. And then just to make a point,
like the Saint Louis thing, they did that on purpose,
that that was to get under Kershaw's skin. But that's
no different than the Dodgers doing it.
Speaker 11 (25:15):
So the Padres, because.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
When they come to town, we're giving away a replica trophy,
that's a spit in their face to say, look what
we got something you guys don't.
Speaker 11 (25:23):
And that's what you.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
Know, fuels this rivalry is the organization's even kind of
get involved in.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
It, well said, Well said, I think he's because he
agreed with me. Well, of course, if anybody agrees with you,
they're brilliant. They're like a MENSA member. Carlos and Valencia.
Is this the Dodgers biggest rival?
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Yeah it is now. Yeah, but you know, I hate
to agree with Rodney, but I think I think so
because you know this, this this last guy had it right.
It comes with the geography of the history. You can't
replicate one hundred plus years of rivalry. And first of all,
nobody can pronounce that damn word. So it's rivalry. Yeah, everybody,
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everybody rivalry. Everybody in your division is your rival, right,
But there are two.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Rivals, right like the Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
In the NL, it's always going to be the Giants
Padres and like I said, until they win something and
then you know, in the AO it's the Yankees. Why
because they were all in the same city. So that's
the way it goes. It's you can't replicate history, and
and the Padres have only been around since what the
nineteen sixties, Uh so can't can't can't roll like that.
(26:37):
So for sure, it is now because they're hot, but
until they do something, and this year we'll be telling
this year is going to be the year whether we
see if the cream really rises to the top, and
if that's going to be the Dodgers, then go, you know,
well well done.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
All right, thanks for the call. Uh, let's go to
the four or five freeway check in with Edgar. Edgar,
we appreciate you holding. You say it is not a rivalry.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Is that correct?
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (27:07):
Correct? First of all, happy six nine days. It's ju nine.
Second of all, it's not a rivalry. They're a mean.
There's a little brother means there's a little annoying brother
mean that wants to be us. The only reason it's
a rivalry is because the games are so I guess intense.
But in order to be a rivalry, you have to
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win something. I mean, they have their wild card banners
at their stadium. You know, that's that's great little brother complict.
You know, the Dodgers are like one hundred games over
the Podges in the regular season, like five nineteenth to
four eighteen, something like that, And when it comes to
the postseason, they've only seen each other three times and
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the Doctors one. In twenty and obviously twenty four. They
beat us in twenty two, they celebrate it. And what
happened in the NFCS they got blown out by the
Phillies rivalry. It's a little brother complex. What we need
to do is just not give in to the trolling,
especially on next That's where it essentially comes from. It's
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the trolling on except the San Diego Padger fans give
us whenever they win a game, and that's just not
even a series. Just they win a game and it's
like casation. I remember last three years ago or something
like that, they had a celebration because they want a
regular season games.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Got it, Thanks for the call, appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
So that's that's the second time somebody said you got
to win something. What do they gotta win? They gotta
win a World Series? They gotta win what because they've
been to the World Series and won. You know, they've
been to the playoffs several times and you know, gone deep,
I mean, what do you got to win?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
You gotta win a.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
World Series before it become a rivalry. I'm trying to
get I'm trying to grasp why people are saying that,
because I don't remember last time UCLA won a national
title in football?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Have they ever? I don't. I mean, I'm not being
jokingly or trying to.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Make a dig, but I don't remember them ever winning
a national title in football. Yet they are our rival
when it comes to us. See, so I'm trying to
figure out the rationale as to why what do you
have to win to make that happen?
Speaker 5 (29:25):
To answer your question, Rodney, yes, it was only a
couple of years ago, nineteen fifty four. So you see
the college football National Championship.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
There you go, bang bang boogie.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Okay, so they did win, yeah, in fifty four, Roody
in Ontario.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
You say it's not a rivalry. The Padres are still
a little brother, all.
Speaker 10 (29:45):
Right, No, we're a big brother. They're little brother. They
act immature when they do beat us by putting chains
around their neck. You don't see Dodgers or Yankees doing
stuff like that. Respect your opponent, Yeah, give them props
when they're doing. Don't choose on the point, think and
cuss at him as you're running through the dugout, or
throw the ball at the manager. Seriously, you guys are professional.
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What does that say to the fan that's seen his
first ball game, and he says Mania Otado is the
highest play player on the Fadre team, but yet he
acts like a college kid. Come on, grow up. And
until you win a championship and you could point a
finger at us where a championship ring on it, Manny,
then talk your talk. But until then, you really don't
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have too much to say about that.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
All right, I hear you. Would you agree with that, Rodney?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Respect his opinion, Respected his opinion. I mean, rivals, it's
a tricky.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Thing because.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
It just doesn't matter with time, and it does, you know,
and call her brought up the Giants and Dodgers, you know,
moving out here from New York, which created an automatic rival,
and they were rivals back in way back in New
York times, and then coming to the West coast to
set up baseball west of the Mississippi. They had a
lot in common, and they you know, played each other
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a lot because they were really the only two teams
out here. And they both have won. To the other
callers point, they both have won titles and championships, and
one of them recently, so they they are and will
forever be a rival. But I think you can't put
the Padres in that same category, but you can also
acknowledge that the Padres have been one of the Dodgers'
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fiercest competitors over the last five to seven years.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Well, I don't think Chris and Mallible agrees with you, Rodney,
so let's bring Chris. So thanks for holding go ahead, Chris.
Speaker 14 (31:41):
Actually I do agree with Rodney. Are you kidding? Yes,
the Pods are, without a doubt, the biggest rival for
the Dodgers as of right now, not the Yankees, not
the Giants. It's the Padres. On your trailer when you
start the Dodger Games, do you or do you not
say the Potters can kiss our eon? They don't say
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the Giants can kiss our eon or the Yankees can
kiss our eon. They say the Pod race. So obviously
I think we actually, you know, acknowledge the fact that
they are a big rival, and the fact is they are.
I think this is the biggest series that people get
worked up for. This is the guys that have worked
are putting the biggest pressure on the Dodgers every year
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for the last like Rodney said, for the last five
to seven years, and so without a doubt, as of now,
these guys are the biggest rival for the Dodgers. And
also Rodney was right about the thing they were running
over in Saint Louis. Every team is going to try
to push our buttons to beat us because we're the champs.
So we got to just deal with that and swallow
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it up. That's my opinion.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
All right, that might be the best call we've ever had.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Sying joking. I like him. I like him a lot.
Should we bring back you can do another, absolutely call that.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
You agree with.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Rodney. Wan't just sit in with us on the second hour.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Come on, all right, let's just do one more. Let's
do line eight. Vicky VICKI in La Vicky. You don't
think that the Padres are the biggest rival?
Speaker 15 (33:16):
Hello, Yeah, I'm actually the best car. Let me tell
you why. Every time every team is our rival, Padres
are not. They're not our biggest rival. The Giants are.
Padres plays hard and always will because we are their
world series. Wasn't it Mookie Best that said last year
we are everyone's world series.
Speaker 14 (33:36):
That's the truth.
Speaker 15 (33:36):
The Padres will always play us hard, and Rodney big
Trojan fan all day long.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
No, I don't think we're arguing that the Giants are
the biggest rivalry. They are the biggest rival for the
Dodgers is the Giants. But you can also have a
rivalry with someone else like the Padres, like us he
does with UCLA and Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Right, so you can have.
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Speaker 2 (34:29):
You tell me Lakers are trying to piece me all.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Roster basically around Lebron and Luca because they make so
much money.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
You also have Austin Reeves.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Now, we know they need a big guy, but I'm
of the opinion if they had somebody that could play,
somebody that could contribute, and somebody that was affordable, they
would probably sign them. Do you think that's somebody this
go round could be? Chris Paul? Now, hold on, hold on,
hold on, I know what you're gonna say. Well, my god,
why would you sign him? He's always hurt. I don't
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think he got hurt last year. I think he averaged
about twenty eight minutes a game, and at the right
price point, despite the fact if he plays I don't know,
twenty eight thirty minutes a game.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Is that a bad pickup?
Speaker 10 (35:17):
No?
Speaker 4 (35:18):
I mean, if he's willing to work the price with
the Lakers and it's not gonna cost him much and
he's willing to take the veteran minimum, I don't think
that hurts you at all, you know, I really don't.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I don't think it hurts you at all.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Because you've got a guy that's a leader.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Now you're gonna figure out you got to figure.
Speaker 13 (35:35):
Out who.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Who's gonna handle the ball. Not enough balls go around
between him, Lebron and Luca. But certainly in a second
wave or a second unit that comes in, he certainly
can be the leader of that and really keep things together.
So again, it comes down to price, and if they
can get him at a very cheap price.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
It wouldn't hurt for it. Put it that way, how
do you feel about it.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
I don't think it would hurt either.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
I've never been a proponent of it because he costs
too much. Just another guy that makes too much money
and actually a guy on the wrong side. I mean,
he's going the other way now. So you can't count
on him to run the team, lead the team, be
the key.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
He can't. He can't do it.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
But if he can give you twenty eight to thirty
minutes a night and he's healthy, and you know, he
made a very good point. He was talking to uh
Pat McAfee and basically what he said was he'd like
to be around his family.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
His son just turned sixteen, his daughter is twelve.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
The past six seasons, he's lived without them San Antonio, Phoenix,
Golden State, OKC. But he's been around his kids the
last couple of years, six years, and.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
He'd like to spend some time with him.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
I get that. It makes sense to me. And he
lives here. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Yeah, you know, it becomes more and more apparent and
more and more important as your kids start to get
into that age group of you know, understanding life and
you want to be there to walk throughm through life.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
And it's tough when you're on the road.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
And you're right, he lives near me and I've you know,
his kids play at the same Little League, And I
know how important that was for me growing, you know,
after I got done playing, to see my kids grow
and flourish and play Little League and go to their
class functions and things like that. That's important. That's important
piece of life. So I get it. But yet you
(37:34):
wrestle with I'm not ready to retire, because some people
will say, well, just retire. Then, if that's so important,
you just retire. Well, the problem with athletes is that
it's not like a normal job. You're retiring at thirty eight,
thirty nine, forty, where the rest of the world and
the rest of the professions are just getting started. And
(37:56):
so it's a tough thing because you look up and
go with going to do the next twenty years of
my life, and regardless of what you go into, it
is always a transition that is very difficult. And so
for him, he's gonna play it as long as he can.
And that same thing with Lebron or anybody Steph all
those guys that are in their late thirties and forty,
you know, they understand more so than we used to
(38:19):
back in the day, that you know when it's over,
it's gonna be over.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
There's no, you know old.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Timers, old timers league Fred that they can walk into
and make the same kind of money. It's not gonna happen.
So you got you walking away at forty years old.
You're like, I'm still young. I need to do more things,
and you don't want to give that up if you
don't have to. But I get the part about being
around my family. But yeah, going back to the original question,
I don't think if he makes it.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Cheap for the Lakers to get him, how does it hurt.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
It doesn't hurt. And it comes down to this, and
everybody has to make a decision on their own. You
just pointed this out. He's made his money. Now we
can always make more. I don't care how much you have.
You'd certainly like to have more. There are people that say,
well you've got too much. Well you can make that determination.
Other people would say, yeah, I got a lot, but
I don't have enough. So if he wants to continue
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to play, but it's realistic about where he's at, and
the reality is veteran's minimum that might not be a
bad paycheck for him if you got to stay home.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Oh yeah, and we're not talking minimum wage either. We're
talking veteran minimum is not a bad deal either, but
there is a You really can't put a price on
being at home with your family, sleeping in your own
regular bed, and being able to take your kids to school.
All those things matter, and they matter more as your
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kids get older, because you can see and you can
feel that there's going to come a time when they
are out of the house. You know how that goes
fred and then you know you reminisce about those days
of that may not be big to any nobody else,
but dropping my kids off and picking them up from
carpool was a cool thing I look forward to that,
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you know, seeing them in their little school play was
very cool. I remember picking my kids up and no
matter what kind of day I was having, when they
got out of school and they saw me or saw
the car, and the way they ran to the car
jump in. Those moments are priceless, priceless, and the more
(40:28):
you can get, the more you want.
Fred rug and Rodney Pete. I am five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Rodney.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
How you doing today? Doing good? Fred? How are you?
How are you doing well?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Doing well?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
As we get ready for the big series down in
San Diego. Two hour show for US today. Jack Harritts
at the Times joins us at one o'clock from San Diego.
So for Saint Louis, at least the bats woke up
on Sunday. You'll take it and get the hell out,
That's what I say. You don't want to be swept,
So get one and get out. Rodney, what do you
think of the weekend series?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, get one and get out is absolutely right.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
They needed, they needed to get that game yesterday. You know,
I just I think it was some carryover that they
had gone into a little bit of a slump offensively.
And I'm not just talking one guy. I thought it
was a whole team for two straight actually three games,
and and thank god they finally woke up on Sundays.
(00:57):
But it didn't seem like the Dodgers were playing their
best baseball in Saint Louis. I don't know if it was,
you know, a tired get out of town road trip
that put him there and there were some jet lag
going on, but those first two games it didn't look
like the Dodgers were themselves.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
So basically after a note show on Friday and Saturday,
Bats woke up seven to three win. Mookie had a
home run, Edmund had three RBI, Kim had a hit
two RBI, Kirby Yates, Michael Kopik each with a scoreless inning.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
So that was the positive.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
But I think the biggest positive to come out of
the weekend series was the performance of Clayton Kershaw. He
gave him five, gave up six hits, a run, struck
out seven. Right now, for Clayton Kershaw, that's like one
of the cy Young Rodney. He had a terrific outing,
desperately needed and he gave him just enough enough of
what they needed. You can't expect him to go seven innings,
(01:50):
eight innings. He struck out seven. That's pretty remarkable. I mean,
he had his curve ball working big time yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Striking out seven was a thing that impressed me the
most because that's where he's not that guy anymore in
terms of strikeouts. I know he's chasing the you know,
he's chasing the strikeout board, but that's not what he
does anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
But to see him go the length.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
That he went and to be effective, I thought it
was big time positive signs for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Now, the thing that really kind of, I don't know,
kind of sucked really is when the Cardinals decided they
were going to run a video.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
During the game.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Sorry anyway, So they ran a video on the big
screen during the game, highlight video of the Cardinals Matt
Adams three run homer fourth game of the twenty fourteen NLDS,
and they played that repeatedly on a loop before the
first pitch of the game was thrown. Clayton Kersher thought
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that was that was kind of low class. Gotta be
honest with you, that was kind of local. Last that
really was to do that, to basically call out the
opposing picture. It wasn't funny, that's for sure. And if
you're going to show great moments of matter, wait, they.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Just showed the ad.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
They just showed the clip of him hitting the home
run off Clayton.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
M HM. Now if Matt Adams is then it's Matt
Adams day. That's one thing.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
It was how many clips did the Dodgers show after
they're getting ready to play opponent. Did they not repeatedly
show Aaron Drugs dropping the ball? I mean, didn't they
show the meltdown that the Yankees had in Game five?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
They repeatedly showed that. Yeah, but they they didn't. Rodney
stopped crying for it. That's what my point is. Stop crying,
stop whining.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
You don't think that was poor taste?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
No, not at all. It was a It was a
was it a playoff game against the Dodgers? That's what, Yeah,
playoff game.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Against the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
They're playing the Dodge.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
There's a not hardcore rival, but a rival and has
been some knockdown, drag out battles with the Dodgers and
Cardinals back in the day. So yeah, somewhat of a
somewhat of a rivalry it is with the Cardinals. So no,
I don't have a problem with doing it at all,
not at all.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Suck it up.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
So what they did a video montage to pump their
crowd and their team up of a playoff, big game
of importance that they played against the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
From twenty fourteen against Clayton Kershaw. It was not the
game happened last year and what damn s doesn't make
it was a moment. Honestly, you don't think that was
a cheap shot?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
No, not at all.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
How did it happen? It did happen, Okay, So how's
a cheap shot? It happened Clayton Kershaw was pitching. Okay,
there's a significance of that. So what do you have
a problem with. You don't want them to show any
bad moments. You want them to show Clayton Kershaw's striking
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out the Cardinals Instead, what do you want them to
show Fred as they get ready to play the world
champion Dodgers?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
What do you want them to play?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Okay, well, the first thing is they would not show
and thanks for bringing this up. Clayton Kershaw striking out
the Cardinals. You're right, that's not gonna happen. But I
think if you have to go back eleven years to
find a clip because Kershaw is pitching on this day,
and go back eleven years and show it on a loop, that.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Wasn't paying tribute. It wasn't paying tribute to Matt Adams.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Normally, when you see those clips, you're paying tribute to somebody.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
This was just an all out of salt, and I thought.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
It was tech please please and an assault. Really, that's
an assault. An assault would be showing, you know, fifteen
different clips of Clayton Kershaw losing or having a bad
outing or getting hit for home runs. That would have
been their insulting part. But showing that particular game, a
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playoff game. Nonetheless, you know how many moments actually are
there of Clayton and the Cardinals that have big moments.
I mean, lately he hasn't pitched, so they got to
go back a little ways.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You are kidding me. You are kidding me. Not why
do you Why would you be offended?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
And then that when you want your home crowd and
home marketing and video people to do, Yeah, why is
that offensive?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Did it happen? Again? I ask you? Did it happen?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
You know what it is in the books, showing it
something that knows that didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
They're not creating an AI.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Of Clayton Kershaw getting beat up over a three game span. No,
they showed a play that actually happened. I get it,
and you have a problem with it.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I do, Kevin. Did you see it? By the way
of the actual video itself?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
For like the whole.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
No, I read about it.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
I didn't actually see it in motion.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
No, okay, but from reading about it, let's just get
different perspectives, because I could be way off base here.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I could be missing the point entirely. What is it
from your perspective?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Ya that it was unnecessary? But I don't know if
it's the biggest deal in the world. I think Clayton
Kershaw said it was bush Lee a little strong for me,
but I would say that it wasn't necessary, and they
were trying to get at him a little bit as
he was getting ready to get out there on the
mound and knew he would notice it. So maybe it's
gamesmanship to a certain degree, but it's not something that
I'm giantly, crazily opened up in arms about.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
All right, Ronnie, did you hear about it?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Fred, What do you think? I feel the same gamesmanship?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I mean, yeah, it was dunimporte, but nevertheless, I mean
it's taking with a grain of salt.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Move on, just win the games.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
The fact that Clayton said that it was bush League
tells you that he noticed it, which tells me that
it had its intended effect.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
It did his job, It did its job. Exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
It didn't work because Clayton went out their lights out.
Maybe it did the reverse. It's like Spike Lee pumping
up Reggie Miller, you know, it's like he's thinking talk,
you know, talking trash. Reggie Miller was gonna slow him
down and actually fed him and got him hyped even more.
So maybe that's what happened. You know, they played that,
Clayton saw it, didn't like it at all, took offense
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to it, and went out and pissed the best game
he had this season. So thank you Cardinals. You should
be saying thank you Cardinals and be on your way, Fred,
instead of whining and crying about it.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
So your class is half full? Your class is half full? Really?
Is that what you're gonna complain about?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
When, oh, they random video of me getting hitting and
play a home run?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
How dare them?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
How dare they do that? Stage left, stage right? Even?
Come on, I thought it was important. I'm sorry, I'm
the only one I thought it was.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Is this poor taste?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Is it poor taste to show that the clip of
Aaron Judge dropping the ball?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
This is eleven years ago, Rodney, not last season.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
What difference does it make? What difference does it make?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
It's showing someone in a bad light and not their
best outing.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
You certainly got that right.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
It's showing something. Doesn't every highlight do that.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
You don't think the Padres are gonna show clips of
them beating the Dodgers and somebody getting hit for a
three run homer to walk it off or uh profar
taunting Dodger fans in the stands if you caught that
ball enough field. You don't think the padre is gonna
show any kind of clips. Are you thinking they're gonna
be nicey nice and say, oh, let's show something where
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both teams did well, let's show the.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Dodgers in a positive light. Now, come on the hell
out of here, all right? Well, so they did that
to Clayton. He was apparently he overreacted, Kevin, what I
have heard today, he overreacted dramatically. But this is not
an overreaction. Tony Gonsolin is now on the injured list.
(10:33):
He's back. These guys can't stay healthy. They cannot stay healthy.
He's not on the injured list. You're down another picture,
Rodney Man, oh man.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I just it's just and it feels like these guys
come back, and that's why you're afraid for you know,
Blake Snell coming back, Glass Now comes back and gets hurt.
Everybody comes back and then they're they're they're banged.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Up again within a few weeks.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
You hope that doesn't happen to Yates and Kopek as
they just come back.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
But man, I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Why I'd be so nervous about I'd be very nervous
about Otani pitching, you know, without a full off season,
spring training, whole deal of him pitching. I'd like to
see him go through a spring training of he has
a few outings at spring training. But this is a
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scary proposition because you can't, absolutely cannot lose his bat.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
No, and there was some thought written about today, well
maybe what you do is use him as a reliever.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Absolutely not at this point. Do not do that.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
You lose his bat.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
And I don't think you can afford to lose his
bat at a critical time in the game.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
No, No, you can't, you know, unless you want to
move him. And it's you're gonna roll the dice in
the ninth inning, extra inning where you know, but you
don't want to roll that dice. You certainly rolled it
after he has come up in the batting order. You
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don't want to roll that dice. You know, if if
he's due up third or fourth in the next inning,
you can't roll that dice.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
So that leads us to the business at hand and
the beginning of the series with the Podres, they will
get to know each other very well as a square
off down in San Diego and this series, this series.
Kevin Ace of the the paper down in San Diego,
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he wrote something he said, the Padres are trying to
look at this as just another series, but acknowledging that
we all know it isn't.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Is that accurate, Rodney? Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
You keep trying to tell yourself this is just another game,
this is just one of one sixty two, and you
try to play mind tricks on yourself, but it never
works because the moment you step out of the clubhouse
and you go on to that field, you can already
feel the difference, You feel the excitement.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
This is a bigger game than just one game, and.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
It just happens automatically that your body and the juices
start flowing a little bit sooner and better and bigger
in games like this, And it's an involuntary response. So
you can tell yourself all you want that this is
another game, but your.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Body will say otherwise. Your mind will say.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Otherwise, bigger series for either team or equally bigger for both.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I mean first place is on the line here, Yeah,
I think.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
This point, I would say equally equally big for both teams.
You know, if Padres have had their ups and downs
two and lost some games, they probably think think back
and go, man, we should have how do we get
be two out of three by those guys? So at
this point I would say, you know, I would say
it's big for both teams. I wouldn't say one has
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the more of an advantage or it needs it more
than the other. Because we're still in early June, and
you know, take me to August, late August, and now
I can tell you, yeah, I would pick one team
it's going to be bigger for But right now, now,
right now, it doesn't whoever wins two out of three
or wins a series.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Now, they don't have much of an impact in September.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
That being said, and we know that place will be
crazy down there tonight that we do. Now the traditional question,
now have we found a rivalry between these two?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
The Dodgers' rivals always were the Giants.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Now the people in Arizona they thought, well, the Diamondbacks
have now become the Dodger's rival.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Well the division.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
But I think when it comes to the Padres, do
we have a serious rivalry now, Rodney.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I think so. Yeah, I think so. Is it as
strong and as deep as the Giants? No, but it's
right now. It's as intense as those giant rivalries used
to be when both teams were competing for the for
the National League West Division. But the Giants have been
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down for a little while, so they kind of been
out of sight, out of mind. But the Padres have
been there and they've been right at the Dodgers' heels
for the last three four years.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
And talent wise, they feel.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Like they stack up just as well with the Dodgers,
with their superstars and their lineup. So they are certainly
not in awe, not scared, and not in fear of
the Dodgers one way or another, and they.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Feel they can beat them.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
And also going back to life last year when even
the Dodgers players said that that's the best team we
faced and it was a dogfight. Yeah, it's every year
it's turned into more of a rival. And as long
as as Manny Machado and Tattoos and arise and now
they're they're new guy Merrill, as long as those guys
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are there, that rivalry is going to be there for
a long time because both Tattoos and Machado will make
it that way because they are those villainous type of
guys that people love to hate. And when you have
those guys that are talented on the other side, it
just builds up the rivalry.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So, Dodger fans, first hour today, let's top them the
phone lines. We're only on for two, so let's open
them right now. Eight six six nine, eight seven two
five seventy. How big a rivalry is this?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Now?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Is this?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
It?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Are the Podres now the Dodgers public enemy number one?
Have they even surpassed the Giants? And what do you
expect to happen? And what do you hope to see
beginning tonight? Hopefully the sun of you shining for the
Dodgers down in San Diego. Here here's your question as
they begin, and at last glance, I've got tonight's starter
is undecided.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Jack Harris will know when he comes out at one o'clock. Uh,
Dylan Cease goes for the Padres.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
What do you think, Freddy before we get to the callers,
is it a rival yeah?
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
It is a rivalry, no question about it.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Now. It wasn't for years, Rodney. And even though people
tried to make it a rivalry, it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Now it is.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I mean, everybody looks forward to these two getting together.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
That's all. That's how big it's because yeah, and it's
got to be. You know, over the years. The doctor
just manhandled the Padres for so many years that you
didn't really consider it.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Oh that's right. I'm sorry. Kevin just told me.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I should have known that he's on my fantasy team.
Dustin May is starting, Thank Kevin.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Why is that undecided? It's Dustin May? Yeah, Okay, go ahead, Rodney.
I wanted to correct that.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
No, just I was just saying, you know, for a
rivalry to be a real rivalry, you got to be
both sides got to be competitive, right at some point.
You can't go through a ten year drought of not
being competitive. You've got to have some sort of competition
where you're not sure who's gonna win. And that's the
way it's been with the Padres. Over the last three four.
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Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Well, now we do know it's a question of who's
going to win, but we want it to be the Dodgers.
So let us go. How big a rivalry is this?
What do you think is going to happen ed in winninger?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Go ahead?
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Hey, Rogan and Rodney, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 10 (18:48):
Love listening to.
Speaker 11 (18:49):
You guys every day.
Speaker 9 (18:51):
In terms of this rivalry right here, I would say
in the last couple of years, like you said, probably three, four,
maybe five years, it's been a strong ride. I would
say about an eight out of ten if we're being honest.
The Padres probably take it eleven out of ten. But
the Dodgers we have, I mean, they've been around forever,
the Giants, that's the ten out of ten rivalry for
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the Dodgers. This is an important series. Hopefully the Dodgers
can take it and may goes the distance today. Hopefully
he does at least six.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
We'll see, all right, Ronnie, what do you think of that?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Yeah, no, I think he's right. I think it's not
as big as a Giants. They got to keep doing it.
But for the last five years, as he said, yes,
the Padres have been right in the mix. You know,
even knocked Dodgers out at one point. So it is,
it is, And if we're.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Living in the present, then yes they are rival Kahala's
at Huntington Beach.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Khala.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You say it's not a rivalry, right.
Speaker 11 (19:50):
Hey, guys, it's your resident Dave Roberts tater. This is
not a rivalry. You have to win. Sides have to
win something. The Padres have never won anything, nor will
they ever. They're San Diego, they're Chargers and Clippers.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
None of them will ever win squat.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
But the Dodgers have how many I don't know how
many World Championships the Dodgers have. Padres have zero. So
to me, until the Padres do something, then it's not
a rivalry. You know, the Dodgers have a rivalry.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
At the Giants.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
The Giants have some rings.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I get that, but no, right, all right, thanks Cahala,
Thanks Cahla. Uh I just agree with Khala, but thanks.
I mean, but do you get what he's saying. No,
but here's the thing, the emotions surrounding this, the fan bases. Uh,
I mean, this is going to be very heated. This
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is very real.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And think about it though, go aheah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, Freddy,
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
No.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
My point is this, people are really fired up for
this thing now. They are really fired up for it.
And that being said, I think it's a rivalry. Yeah,
And we're not saying that Dodger fans that you need
to put the padres on a pedal store or they're
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on par with the Dodgers, And we're not saying that.
But from a competitive standpoint, you do have both fan
bases really not liking each other and.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Really wanting to beat the other team. And it's fierce.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
We don't like you know, a lot of Dodger fans
don't like the way Dodger fans and the team is
treated down in San Diego and vice versa.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
And we know that from last year.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
So it is, but you don't feel that same way
about the Diamondbacks, right, it's not that burning beat deep like, oh,
both fan bases are at each other's roads and going
back and forth with each other when it comes to
the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
No, the Giants and now the Padre.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Always felt that about the Giants, but now it's the
Padres have entered that mix. And I think it's been
five at least five consistent years that the Padres have
been really good and threatened the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
All right, let's go to Temecula, Denise in Wine Country.
All right, Denise, you don't think that the Padres are
actually their.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Rival, right?
Speaker 12 (22:42):
I don't think there's bigger rival as the Giants. I
feel like for it to be a true rivalry, there
needs to be some level of respect there, and I
don't feel like there's. I personally don't have any respect
for the Padre organization or the players. You know, they
don't sell tickets to us on playoffs. That jumbo tron
thing was classless, and then the players themselves just do
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things that I just go what, And so it makes
me not respect them and makes the Giants a bigger
rivalry to me.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Okay, got that appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, you know, I don't like that they pulled the
old ticket game either, Rotney. I'm at the nise on
that you still can get them. They're just making a statement,
but you can still get the tickets if you want them.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yeah, I don't. I don't like playing the ticket game.
But you got to understand it, though, if you're in
that market, you're pissed off that the stadium is more
of the opponent than of you. I mean, didn we
used to say that about Charger games. You know how
how demoralizing that is for the home team to have
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more fans in the stadium.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
So I understand.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Trying to make it more difficult for the visiting team
to come in there when it's the Dodgers to get
their tickets to really, you know, sell out as much
as the stadium as they can and make it blue.
But yeah, being being that home team in that situation,
looking at looking up at that, you're like, we don't
how do we prevent this, how do we do something
(24:16):
against this?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
And this is their way. I don't like it either,
but I understand.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
All right, let's go down to a Pico Ribera, Paul,
appreciate your holding.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
You think, yes, this.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Is a rivalry.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Anyways, up Fellas, Yeah, I mean I think it.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Is a rivalry.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
Like you know, they the projects weren't relevant.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
For the longest.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Now that they are and you know they're good, that's
the biggest rivalry. And you know the Giants, that's a
historical rivalry that came with us from New York. So
that's a little different. But I mean the fan bases
that we don't get along with each other. They talk
their mess we talk ours, and so it is. I mean,
I think as of now it's a it's a rivalry.
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And then once they start, I mean, if they start winning,
it's going to become even bigger because that's going to
be our biggest challenge. And then just to make a point,
like the Saint Louis thing, they did that on purpose,
that that was to get under Kershaw's skin. But that's
no different than the Dodgers doing it.
Speaker 11 (25:15):
So the Padres, because.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
When they come to town, we're giving away a replica trophy,
that's a spit in their face to say, look what
we got something you guys don't.
Speaker 11 (25:23):
And that's what you.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
Know, fuels this rivalry is the organization's even kind of
get involved in.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
It, well said, Well said, I think he's because he
agreed with me. Well, of course, if anybody agrees with you,
they're brilliant. They're like a MENSA member. Carlos and Valencia.
Is this the Dodgers biggest rival?
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Yeah it is now. Yeah, but you know, I hate
to agree with Rodney, but I think I think so
because you know this, this this last guy had it right.
It comes with the geography of the history. You can't
replicate one hundred plus years of rivalry. And first of all,
nobody can pronounce that damn word. So it's rivalry. Yeah, everybody,
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everybody rivalry. Everybody in your division is your rival, right,
But there are two.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Rivals, right like the Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
In the NL, it's always going to be the Giants
Padres and like I said, until they win something and
then you know, in the AO it's the Yankees. Why
because they were all in the same city. So that's
the way it goes. It's you can't replicate history, and
and the Padres have only been around since what the
nineteen sixties, Uh so can't can't can't roll like that.
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So for sure, it is now because they're hot, but
until they do something, and this year we'll be telling
this year is going to be the year whether we
see if the cream really rises to the top, and
if that's going to be the Dodgers, then go, you know,
well well done.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
All right, thanks for the call. Uh, let's go to
the four or five freeway check in with Edgar. Edgar,
we appreciate you holding. You say it is not a rivalry.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Is that correct?
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (27:07):
Correct? First of all, happy six nine days. It's ju nine.
Second of all, it's not a rivalry. They're a mean.
There's a little brother means there's a little annoying brother
mean that wants to be us. The only reason it's
a rivalry is because the games are so I guess intense.
But in order to be a rivalry, you have to
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win something. I mean, they have their wild card banners
at their stadium. You know, that's that's great little brother complict.
You know, the Dodgers are like one hundred games over
the Podges in the regular season, like five nineteenth to
four eighteen, something like that, And when it comes to
the postseason, they've only seen each other three times and
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the Doctors one. In twenty and obviously twenty four. They
beat us in twenty two, they celebrate it. And what
happened in the NFCS they got blown out by the
Phillies rivalry. It's a little brother complex. What we need
to do is just not give in to the trolling,
especially on next That's where it essentially comes from. It's
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the trolling on except the San Diego Padger fans give
us whenever they win a game, and that's just not
even a series. Just they win a game and it's
like casation. I remember last three years ago or something
like that, they had a celebration because they want a
regular season games.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Got it, Thanks for the call, appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
So that's that's the second time somebody said you got
to win something. What do they gotta win? They gotta
win a World Series? They gotta win what because they've
been to the World Series and won. You know, they've
been to the playoffs several times and you know, gone deep,
I mean, what do you got to win?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
You gotta win a.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
World Series before it become a rivalry. I'm trying to
get I'm trying to grasp why people are saying that,
because I don't remember last time UCLA won a national
title in football?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Have they ever? I don't. I mean, I'm not being
jokingly or trying to.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Make a dig, but I don't remember them ever winning
a national title in football. Yet they are our rival
when it comes to us. See, so I'm trying to
figure out the rationale as to why what do you
have to win to make that happen?
Speaker 5 (29:25):
To answer your question, Rodney, yes, it was only a
couple of years ago, nineteen fifty four. So you see
the college football National Championship.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
There you go, bang bang boogie.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Okay, so they did win, yeah, in fifty four, Roody
in Ontario.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
You say it's not a rivalry. The Padres are still
a little brother, all.
Speaker 10 (29:45):
Right, No, we're a big brother. They're little brother. They
act immature when they do beat us by putting chains
around their neck. You don't see Dodgers or Yankees doing
stuff like that. Respect your opponent, Yeah, give them props
when they're doing. Don't choose on the point, think and
cuss at him as you're running through the dugout, or
throw the ball at the manager. Seriously, you guys are professional.
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What does that say to the fan that's seen his
first ball game, and he says Mania Otado is the
highest play player on the Fadre team, but yet he
acts like a college kid. Come on, grow up. And
until you win a championship and you could point a
finger at us where a championship ring on it, Manny,
then talk your talk. But until then, you really don't
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have too much to say about that.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
All right, I hear you. Would you agree with that, Rodney?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Respect his opinion, Respected his opinion. I mean, rivals, it's
a tricky.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Thing because.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
It just doesn't matter with time, and it does, you know,
and call her brought up the Giants and Dodgers, you know,
moving out here from New York, which created an automatic rival,
and they were rivals back in way back in New
York times, and then coming to the West coast to
set up baseball west of the Mississippi. They had a
lot in common, and they you know, played each other
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a lot because they were really the only two teams
out here. And they both have won. To the other
callers point, they both have won titles and championships, and
one of them recently, so they they are and will
forever be a rival. But I think you can't put
the Padres in that same category, but you can also
acknowledge that the Padres have been one of the Dodgers'
(31:30):
fiercest competitors over the last five to seven years.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Well, I don't think Chris and Mallible agrees with you, Rodney,
so let's bring Chris. So thanks for holding go ahead, Chris.
Speaker 14 (31:41):
Actually I do agree with Rodney. Are you kidding? Yes,
the Pods are, without a doubt, the biggest rival for
the Dodgers as of right now, not the Yankees, not
the Giants. It's the Padres. On your trailer when you
start the Dodger Games, do you or do you not
say the Potters can kiss our eon? They don't say
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the Giants can kiss our eon or the Yankees can
kiss our eon. They say the Pod race. So obviously
I think we actually, you know, acknowledge the fact that
they are a big rival, and the fact is they are.
I think this is the biggest series that people get
worked up for. This is the guys that have worked
are putting the biggest pressure on the Dodgers every year
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for the last like Rodney said, for the last five
to seven years, and so without a doubt, as of now,
these guys are the biggest rival for the Dodgers. And
also Rodney was right about the thing they were running
over in Saint Louis. Every team is going to try
to push our buttons to beat us because we're the champs.
So we got to just deal with that and swallow
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it up. That's my opinion.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
All right, that might be the best call we've ever had.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Sying joking. I like him. I like him a lot.
Should we bring back you can do another, absolutely call that.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
You agree with.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Rodney. Wan't just sit in with us on the second hour.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Come on, all right, let's just do one more. Let's
do line eight. Vicky VICKI in La Vicky. You don't
think that the Padres are the biggest rival?
Speaker 15 (33:16):
Hello, Yeah, I'm actually the best car. Let me tell
you why. Every time every team is our rival, Padres
are not. They're not our biggest rival. The Giants are.
Padres plays hard and always will because we are their
world series. Wasn't it Mookie Best that said last year
we are everyone's world series.
Speaker 14 (33:36):
That's the truth.
Speaker 15 (33:36):
The Padres will always play us hard, and Rodney big
Trojan fan all day long.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
No, I don't think we're arguing that the Giants are
the biggest rivalry. They are the biggest rival for the
Dodgers is the Giants. But you can also have a
rivalry with someone else like the Padres, like us he
does with UCLA and Notre Dame.
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Right, so you can have.
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Speaker 2 (34:37):
You also have Austin Reeves.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Now, we know they need a big guy, but I'm
of the opinion if they had somebody that could play,
somebody that could contribute, and somebody that was affordable, they
would probably sign them. Do you think that's somebody this
go round could be? Chris Paul? Now, hold on, hold on,
hold on, I know what you're gonna say. Well, my god,
why would you sign him? He's always hurt. I don't
(35:00):
think he got hurt last year. I think he averaged
about twenty eight minutes a game, and at the right
price point, despite the fact if he plays I don't know,
twenty eight thirty minutes a game.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Is that a bad pickup?
Speaker 10 (35:17):
No?
Speaker 4 (35:18):
I mean, if he's willing to work the price with
the Lakers and it's not gonna cost him much and
he's willing to take the veteran minimum, I don't think
that hurts you at all, you know, I really don't.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I don't think it hurts you at all.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Because you've got a guy that's a leader.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Now you're gonna figure out you got to figure.
Speaker 13 (35:35):
Out who.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Who's gonna handle the ball. Not enough balls go around
between him, Lebron and Luca. But certainly in a second
wave or a second unit that comes in, he certainly
can be the leader of that and really keep things together.
So again, it comes down to price, and if they
can get him at a very cheap price.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
It wouldn't hurt for it. Put it that way, how
do you feel about it.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
I don't think it would hurt either.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
I've never been a proponent of it because he costs
too much. Just another guy that makes too much money
and actually a guy on the wrong side. I mean,
he's going the other way now. So you can't count
on him to run the team, lead the team, be
the key.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
He can't. He can't do it.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
But if he can give you twenty eight to thirty
minutes a night and he's healthy, and you know, he
made a very good point. He was talking to uh
Pat McAfee and basically what he said was he'd like
to be around his family.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
His son just turned sixteen, his daughter is twelve.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
The past six seasons, he's lived without them San Antonio, Phoenix,
Golden State, OKC. But he's been around his kids the
last couple of years, six years, and.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
He'd like to spend some time with him.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
I get that. It makes sense to me. And he
lives here. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Yeah, you know, it becomes more and more apparent and
more and more important as your kids start to get
into that age group of you know, understanding life and
you want to be there to walk throughm through life.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
And it's tough when you're on the road.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
And you're right, he lives near me and I've you know,
his kids play at the same Little League, And I
know how important that was for me growing, you know,
after I got done playing, to see my kids grow
and flourish and play Little League and go to their
class functions and things like that. That's important. That's important
piece of life. So I get it. But yet you
(37:34):
wrestle with I'm not ready to retire, because some people
will say, well, just retire. Then, if that's so important,
you just retire. Well, the problem with athletes is that
it's not like a normal job. You're retiring at thirty eight,
thirty nine, forty, where the rest of the world and
the rest of the professions are just getting started. And
(37:56):
so it's a tough thing because you look up and
go with going to do the next twenty years of
my life, and regardless of what you go into, it
is always a transition that is very difficult. And so
for him, he's gonna play it as long as he can.
And that same thing with Lebron or anybody Steph all
those guys that are in their late thirties and forty,
you know, they understand more so than we used to
(38:19):
back in the day, that you know when it's over,
it's gonna be over.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
There's no, you know old.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Timers, old timers league Fred that they can walk into
and make the same kind of money. It's not gonna happen.
So you got you walking away at forty years old.
You're like, I'm still young. I need to do more things,
and you don't want to give that up if you
don't have to. But I get the part about being
around my family. But yeah, going back to the original question,
I don't think if he makes it.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Cheap for the Lakers to get him, how does it hurt.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
It doesn't hurt. And it comes down to this, and
everybody has to make a decision on their own. You
just pointed this out. He's made his money. Now we
can always make more. I don't care how much you have.
You'd certainly like to have more. There are people that say,
well you've got too much. Well you can make that determination.
Other people would say, yeah, I got a lot, but
I don't have enough. So if he wants to continue
(39:11):
to play, but it's realistic about where he's at, and
the reality is veteran's minimum that might not be a
bad paycheck for him if you got to stay home.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Oh yeah, and we're not talking minimum wage either. We're
talking veteran minimum is not a bad deal either, but
there is a You really can't put a price on
being at home with your family, sleeping in your own
regular bed, and being able to take your kids to school.
All those things matter, and they matter more as your
(39:46):
kids get older, because you can see and you can
feel that there's going to come a time when they
are out of the house. You know how that goes
fred and then you know you reminisce about those days
of that may not be big to any nobody else,
but dropping my kids off and picking them up from
carpool was a cool thing I look forward to that,
(40:06):
you know, seeing them in their little school play was
very cool. I remember picking my kids up and no
matter what kind of day I was having, when they
got out of school and they saw me or saw
the car, and the way they ran to the car
jump in. Those moments are priceless, priceless, and the more
(40:28):
you can get, the more you want.
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