July 16, 2025 • 33 mins
MLB and the 2028 Olympic committee are at an impasse - will pro's be able to play in the Oylmpics? We take a look ahead to the 2nd half of the season for the Dodgers
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh yes, and we keep it moving. Final hour on
the show, Jonas knocked in for Fred Rogan, much much,
much appreciated. My brother.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Oh man, I got thoughts after what I just heard. Oh,
I mean, well, oh you getting tossed out of your
son's baseball game, because you are even like.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I was hot, man, I was hot, brother.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
How long ago was that did that take?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Oh my god, let's see, he was a twelve year old,
so it was he's twenty. Yeah, soil about ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So ten years later, you still remember.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Every detail, every detail about.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
The ball down the line, the shock flying.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Dock flying world. Do you not see the shock flying?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Deadpoll? A second time hits a home run? And you
couldn't just let.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That go, let it go on, couldn't let it go?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Was that effing fair? And the guy ran you?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
He ran me? Now. The beauty of that, though, was
the I can't even call it a crowd. I mean
it was his parents and families. But they enjoyed it.
They laughed at it. Oh my god, I definitely laughed
at it. But my wife rode me forever. He wasn't there,
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he wasn't there. My son was mortified. He was like, oh,
my god. He was mortified. He was so embarrassed, and
I was I felt bad for him because, you know,
at the end of the day, the the other his
teammates were loving it because I was, you know, just
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being I was obnoxious, but I was just being stand
up and it was it was kind of in the moment,
it was like kind of hardcore. But so his teammates
were like, yeah, your dad is cool, your dad is right,
and he was like, oh no, that was why why
why would you do that to me?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Did you ever see the ump who threw you out
of the game after that? Did you ever see him
call another game? I wonder if I've always wondered about
this with when it comes to umpires, especially umpires, I
wonder if part of them kind of walks around with
a badge of honor, like, oh, that Hall of Famer
I saw him out. Yeah, and I swear to god,
(02:20):
I wonder if that guy somewhere listens to a five
seven and he's like, oh, yeah, you know Rogan and
Rodney huh yeah, Rodney got tossed.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
And him, oh yeah, a story probably went crazy from
his perspectives. Yeah, I've gotten his grill. Yeah, that Rodney
Pete I got all up in his grill and then
tossed him. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, Look, my my son is four years old. He
played his first season of T ball, and like full disclosure,
I get emotional watching him, like not even like, I'm
just so proud of him when he gets a hit,
when he does something, because he loves baseball so much.
He loves playing. My wife looked at me one time,
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like his final game. So they had one final game
and you know, he's sitting off a tee, but he
piped a ball opposite field and he's running around and
he's like full ham. He's sliding when he doesn't need
to slide. He's doing he's doing all the celebrations around
because his favorite player is Pete Crow arms Strong of
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the Cubs. He loves Pee Crow Armstrong. So he's doing
the raise the roof, he's doing like all that's And
so my wife looks over at me and she's like,
are you crying? And I'm like, I'm just so happy
and proud of him, and she said, like, babe, it's
T ball. Like I'm thinking to myself, if I'm like
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this and he's four, what am I going to be
like if he hits a ball down the line that
hits the.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Jock in a call foul, and then right back and
bombs one. Yeah. You you would go absolutely nuts, nuts,
You're done. You're doing this at four right now at
T ball?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Oh yeah yeah. I can't even because because I was
talking to Petros a couple of weeks ago. He was
telling a story about how he went to his neighbors
were like, hey, you know, come by the game. There
was a little league game. It was like a championship game,
and Petros was sitting there watching, as you know, this
team was imploding on the mound and these parents are
devastated for their kids. Meanwhile, on the opposite side the
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opposing teams fans and parents are bumping chess and high
fiving and doing it. Petros is looking around, that's going
what is going on here?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Like?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It was amazing to see how into it people get
it just these small time events. Uh, but once you
once their family involved, it takes on a different it does.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You can tell yourself all you want, you know, driving
your kid to to warm up or to drop them
off before the game, and before the game he's out.
I'm just gonna sit there and just be calm. I'm
not going to do anything. I'm not going to say anything.
And you can't help it. You just can't help it, Okay,
can't help it. Cher, I can't. I couldn't help Hey,
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you know he's up up at the plate. Hey, hey,
be ready for the fastball. Be ready for I mean
you can't, you can't help it. Be ready to hit,
be ready to hit.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It, just like the whole the whole being. And I've
heard other people say that, were you more nervous? Are
you more nervous watching your kids? I never understood that
because I thought, man, you'd like, look, I don't know,
why would you ever be. I never get nervous doing radio.
I never get nervous ever. One time you do it enough.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
And it's.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
If he when he's swinging the bat off a t
he's four years old. There's kids that like, look like
they just learned to walk an hour ago. He's four
years old. And all I'm thinking, and I'm I'm nervous, thinking, man,
please hit this ball in the air, because if he
hits a ground ball, he's not gonna be happy and
I'm gonna have to wear it the rest of the day.
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He's gonna be pissed. He's that competitive, please hit it
in there. And I'm nervous and I never get nervous,
and I'm nervous watching him play T ball. When you're
a parent, everything.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Changes, Everything changes. Yeah, you wear every emotion of them
and more, Kevin, you coming coming, Vin, It is coming,
all right. So, so there's there's some talk out there
and and there there's a lot of talk obviously with
Major League Baseball. Obviously there's talk about possible you know,
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we we we talked about this with Bob Nightingale about
work stoppage and you know, salary cap. Is there going
to be a cap? Is gonna be a floor with
the players want with the MLB wants. Another issue is
does MLB accommodate the players and allow them to play
in the Olympics, which will be here in twenty twenty eight.
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Baseball is back into the Olympics now, and obviously it
is in the summer, and so there's talk of how
do we make this work? And the latest from Rob
Manfred is I'd like them to play, but we're not
moving the All Star Game. We're not going to move
the All Star Game to accommodate the Olympics, and I
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don't know, I don't know if it's a good idea
for the players to play in the Olympics. All of
most of the player I just didn't say all because
I don't know all of them, but most of the
players that have been asked say they want to play
for their respective countries. Yeah, you know, kind of like
the WBC. It's a it turned into the The WBC
turned into a big time hit.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
It's awesome, it is.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
And to see like remember when it was otaniut Yeah,
those are you know, teammates at the time, and they're
going against each other, yes, and you just see the
pride that they have for it.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
The Dominican versus Cuba, I mean Dominican versus Venezuela. All
those games were so so good, so good.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
And look, if you know anything about the history of
boxing Puerto Rico Mexico, that's always alway spicy. Always there's
always like there's a true rivalry. Yes, and you look,
you see it. Even with the Gold Cup. You know,
the USA you know, rolled out their CE team. Some
were calling it against Mexico, and you saw how fired
up people got for that. The WBC that's another one
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of those Major League Baseball stumbled upon and you realize, oh,
this is awesome. This is really a lot of fun.
You see, the stands are packed. People are fired up
for it, and I don't know why. I guess the
only drawback would be if the best players want to
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play for their respected countries, then you would have a
watered down version of that All Star Game. Would would
be my understand If that's the case, you're not going
to cancel it, you know, But.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
It's the it's like, it's like we're gonna we're gonna
have a standoff, right. It feels like and if you're
the look, the Olympics happens once every four years, agreed,
and and you know the All Star Game is every year, right, Yeah,
so if you got to move the All Star Game
up or back or whenever you move it, that's an
(09:27):
easier move than telling the Olympics, oh, if it coincides
with the All Star Game, our players are not going
to play because we're not going to move the All
Star Game.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I mean, players should have the opportunity to make that
choice for themselves. And I could understand why because you're
hearing stuff, you know, in the NFL about flag football.
Oh you know, you know our players are players in
the NFL going to play flag football and all this stuff,
and they're lining it up to where it'll happen before
training camps start. And you know, I just players should
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have that opportunity and should have that right because I
can understand from an owner's standpoint, you don't want your
guy getting injured. If you're paying that guy, you don't
want him getting injured doing something other than what he's
being paid for. You know, it's like any other off
season activity.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
But from me, do we want one Soto going to
play for Dominican and I get two weeks or ten
days for the Dominican and get hurt down there?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Or But from a big from a big picture standpoint
for the growth of the game, I only see upside letting.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Them only participants. I agree.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
So that that's that's why I wonder. And by the way,
how long has baseball been out of the Olympics? Has it?
Has it been out for a while? It came back
I think not this past cycle, but the cycle before that,
and then before that it was gone for like eight years.
It keeps coming and going for whatever reason. I don't
know what, Kevin, You got to be careful using the
term cycle it comes to baseball because people steroids. I
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just don't want to, you know, like I don't want
to want to he meant he meant hit. For the
second I was thinking something else.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
But yeah, so it's coming gone and and and and
now that it's uh that it's back. But the but
the game and where baseball is, which is which is
really weird that that Manfred is not really taking every
effort or making every effort to make this happen because
of what just happened in Japan when the Dodgers went
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and played the Cubs in Japan, and this game is
so global now and you've got you know, Korea is
a force. The Japan team obviously who won it, uh
won the w b C is a is a force. Obviously,
the the Dominican Puerto Rico, Mexican teams, Venezuela teams are
going to be a force. It's going to be very
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very competitive. Why not embrace that if you're major League Baseball, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Mean, if you're all about let's grow this sport, let's
get as many eyeballs on it as possible. I don't
know why you would be against it, you know, like, well,
we're not going to cancel the All Star Game. Oh okay,
I mean I get it.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I mean I just move it up. I don't three weeks.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I mean, I don't know what sort of financial impact
that hit that has on Major League Baseball. I'm not sure.
Obviously it's a big win for the city that's hoasting
the All Star Game, and so that you know, that
would that would hurt if you had to either get
rid of it or whatnot. But I just feel like
you can adjust and it doesn't have to be such
(12:40):
a hard line stance, especially to your point, if this
is something that comes up every four years, it's not
like you have to worry about this every year, like
you've got time to figure this out. You just adjust
accordingly and make it to where you can get the
best of both worlds, to where you can have your
All Star Game event and you can have these guys
be showcased in the Olympics and for a lot of
those guys, man, look, you say whatever you want about
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Carmelo Anthony, Oh, you never won a title. He never
won this dude guy won gold medals. Yeah, and like
that still I think matters to a lot of people,
and so if it's if it's an opportunity to grow
the game on that front, much like the WBC, which
has been awesome as we talked about, I don't know
why there would be pushback on it, I really do.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah. I don't either. I don't either. And we're you know,
we're just talking about the countries that we you know,
kind of know that it's been you know, infiltrated in
the MLB, like Puerto Rico and Dominican in Cuba and
Venezuela and Mexico. But Australia has got a great baseball
program down there. Now, some parts of Europe have great
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baseball programs.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I think, isn't that doesn't Ned Colletti have a role
in Italy?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yes, yes he does.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
He's the GM of the Italian WBC team. I love
that so much. I love that song much.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
How do you think that?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I just want to I want to, you know what, like,
tell any one of those meetings, right, tell me you guys,
you don't want to be in one of those meetings,
Like I just I just want to know what those
meetings are like because I'm picturing good fellas where they're
making pasta in jail. They're shaving the garlic, you know,
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and they're showing him how to do it like that. Like,
I love everything about Ned. I think it's awesome. I
think it's so much fun.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Oh my god, that is great. I I've just got
that picture in my mind. Ned. He's sitting around with
like twenty six guys all right, telling stories as he's
cooking pasta with the apron on to them. Yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
What do you want to do it?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Hey, that guy comes up again? I want to I
want to hit him right in, right in the temple.
Oh my god. Second half Dodgers getting ready to go
this weekend. Let's talk about it.
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Speaker 1 (15:15):
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(15:38):
I'm a I'm a I'm a burger guy more than
a hot dog guy. Yeah, I've always been a burger
guy versus a hot dog. Give me a burger every day.
Hot dogs? You know, when I started to figure out
what went into hot dog, I liked them less and less.
(15:59):
So you finally figured it out.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Uh, something still wonderful. You've see the you've seen the
great outdoors. Yes, yes, I'll say this because I think
Doghouse are they Is it their fifteen year anniversary?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, I think today's a fifteen year anniversary, which congratulations,
that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
They are amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
And I'll say this, if you get a good enough
and I might be in the minority on this, but
if you get a good enough hot dog like one
from the Doghouse, you don't need a whole hell of.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
A lot on it.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
No, really like if you have a if you have
a good bun, you don't like, you really don't need
and yeah, that that's it. If you if you have
the sweet bread what like and the dog man, you
could probably I've done what do you put? Okay, so
(16:53):
I've done the because I figured this out the hard way.
I've done the and I'll do this often. If we
ever have hot dogs, I'll go sweet bread, the King's Hawaiian,
I'll go the standard hot dog, and I might go
just chopped up onions or just sliced talapanos and go
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that with less because you don't need it. Like if
the bun is good enough, you don't need and if
it's and if the bun is soft enough, you don't
need anything else to add moisture to the dog, like,
you're good.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, So as long as you don't put ketchup on
a hot dog, I'm good with you. Agreed.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Agreed, Yeah, agreed, And it takes away there's something about it,
and you don't realize it because look, full disclosure. When
I was a kid, if we had mac and cheese,
like sometimes ketchup would find its way on mac and cheese.
All right, And now I look at that as I'm older,
and I go, you got to be ashamed of yourself.
You got to be ashamed of yourselves.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I swear to god. That was very strange. I don't
know why.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I don't know why. The thing only must but yeah,
onions and relish and everything, you can always do that
you can put everything else, but don't put don't put
ketchup on your hot dog.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Agreed, Yeah, agreed?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
All right, So now all Star break, it's over. Dodgers.
You know, again, we talked about this early in the
week with Fred about grades of the dog. He gave
them an A because they're five and a half games
up given all of the injuries that they've had, it's
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pretty remarkable. I don't care what team you are. If
you go through the injuries that the Dodgers have had
and you're still five and a half games up in
your division, it's it's pretty good. And you got to
reward that. And I know Dodger fans don't want to
believe that because they believe that the Dodgers should be
twenty games up at this point. Yeah, but it's still
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pretty good. Second half, Jonas, what do you think has
to happen for the Dodger or will happen for the Dodgers?
And will they will they be active in the trade situation,
trade deadline time or will they stay patent? Let those
guys get healthy and and and roll the dice that
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they're going to get everybody back.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You know, I wonder about that because if they if
they make a move, Like there's certain organizations to where
if they make a move on a player, you go, uh, oh,
what do they know that we don't Tommy Edmund for example,
Belichick did this in the NFL for years to where
everyone's like, man, you're signing Wes Welker. Why and then
lo and behold, oh yeah, that's why, like he knew
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he could see it. And so if they make a
move on a player outside from your just your your
standard big names that would be out there, whoever that
could be you know Suarez from you know the Diamondbacks
and all these guys, if they were to make a
move on a player, I look at that as I
trust that they recognize that's a guy that's a key
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part towards figuring out or at least adding depth to
be able to figure out possible situations that come up
later in the year. I just wonder if they look
at it and go all right, going into the year,
there was talk about a ten man rotation, that they
were so deep when it came to pitching that there
was a ten man rotation. Did they view the return
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of Otani at some point as their big deadline move
when it comes to the rushing staff, and that's why
I'm curious to see. Last year it felt like, you know, formality,
they were going to make a move, and at the
deadline they got edmund, they got flairity, They went out
and got aggressive and you know, Bob Nightingale was talking
about a bullpen arm do they go out and they
get the bullpen. The other part of this, it throws
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a wrinkle into things, is that with the expanded wild card,
you've got all these teams who think they've got a
legitimate shot, and so maybe some of those teams on
the fringe aren't going to be sellers. Maybe the you know,
the quantity is lower this year because of how many
teams have the potential, and it almost feels like the
next week or so, which is crazy to say because
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we've had, you know, one hundred games played or whatever
it is, the next week or so is going to
determine whether or not, you know, a team is a
buyer or a seller. And I think that kind of
changes things. But it's always the moves under the radar
that they make that I'm always fascinated by because you
know that they've done their due diligence have done their research,
and that's why they're making the make it.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Right right it is it always is. And and but
do you think that there are some big names out
there that could be moved at the deadline that are
I mean, not necessarily for the Dodgers, but in general,
do you think there's some big names that are out
there on teams that are you know, we talk about
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schemes that's not going to happen. Obviously Bob didn't think
that was gonna happen either, But and I don't see
that happen at least this year. But do you think
there are other names out there that possibly could shock
some people that oh my god, they moved him or
they got him, and and all of a sudden they're
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a different team because they got this particular player.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I mean, I would say, look, the big one was Devers,
Like I don't know, I don't know anybody saw that
that was going to happen the way that it did,
but that ended up happening. I kind of kicked around
just because I knew it. Would you know, give Ben
Maller a little bit of a red ass. Last week,
I said, you know, months he's going to be out
for a little while here. Maybe they're looking to add
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at third base, and maybe Alex Bregman could be a possibility.
I don't know, And of course you know that he
got a kick out of that. But I mean, if
you're looking at third base, Suarez from the Diamondbacks is
one of the most under the radar home run hitters
that we've seen, Guy mashes Bay. He's four home runs
in a game earlier this year. He's got thirty one
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at the break, which is crazy. Cal Rawley's got thirty
thirty eight or whatever it is, which which is even
more bananas. But maybe that's a move. And if you believe,
like Nightingale believes, and a lot of people believe that
the Diamondbacks are finished, maybe and Joe Davis and John
Smoltz brought this up that yeah, they could. There's pieces
there in Arizona, like there are pieces of Yead and
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so if you're looking to add a bat, that would
be a name that you could look at. I just
don't know if the Dodgers view the price being too
steep for their liking, and do they think that Mounsy's
going to be impacted for the entire season or he
comes back and he's ready to go right off the bat.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Are the Diamondbacks looking at it as this is a
aberration and we struggled, But we've got a good young
nucleus that we don't want to give up the farm
or we're not going to give up our key players
that have help us get there.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yeah, and then you know, you wonder, you know, inside
the division, not that that stopped teams from making deals before,
but inside the division to really want to give that
guy up to somebody else. I mean, it's it's it's
going to be really, really fascinating because I don't know
that there's a huge name that's out there. Al Contra
from Florida, from Miami rather has been talked about as
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one of the names that could be had. But you know,
when he's pitching, well, he's potentially as good as there is,
but there's been question marks there. So I just wonder
if they look at it and go, let's try and
get healthy perfectly, That's what I'm thinking about.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I think that's that's the dance, right, do we roll
the dice on us getting healthy? Because if we're healthy,
we've got all the guys we need. We don't need anybody.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
And also, look, I mean, what's going on with Mookie Vetts? Like,
what's what's going like?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Right? You got to believe it can't continue, Yes, struggles
can't continue. You got to get it turned around.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Like Freeman, you know, has been in this slump and
been in out of this slump, and you look at
that and go. And Dave Roberts even made the comment
recently where he was like, look, I just trust the player.
I trust the sample size we've it. Like, you don't
just stay in a slump that long if you are
the player that you are the you know, Mookie starts
to produce all of a sudden that helps out significantly,
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you know. Freeman's more like, I just I think that
there's answers on the roster now, as opposed to maybe
some of the answers that are out there elsewhere and
teams that may or may not want to part ways
because they either think that hey, we could be in
this thing, you know, in a couple of weeks with
it an opportunity to get to the wild card or
be you know, we're just not going to give up
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a guy, you know, for bottom barrel prices when we
feel like we can raid somebody's farm system for a
big addition.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, are you are you worried about Danner Scott.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I'm worried about if he has another bad outing, what
David Assay is going to do to him. That's what
I'm worried about. I mean, like that's like between David
and Fred, they both they will double team him. But like,
you know, it's funny. So the Sunday game was a
perfect example. Yeah, David, Yeah, Fred and David Like that
is you know, for two guys that don't get along,
they get along. They just don't know it, you know
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what I mean. But like for a Sunday's game, for example,
Tanner Scott goes out there, gives up this, gives up
the save, and you're looking at it, going, oh Christ,
here they go. And then James Autman of all people,
makes that play on deals and saves the game, like
literally saves the game. So you you look at that
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and you're like, they're so deep that even guys that
everybody recognizes as yeah he was off to a hot
start when he came up here, but he'll be included
in a trade. He's not going to be back. Even
that guy comes up with a play here or there.
That helps them to make the play on Sunday. So
when you have that much depth and that much potential
talent on your roster, it gives you so much more flexibility,
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but it also makes your decisions that much harder because
you don't know who to part with. So it'll be interesting, man,
it's gonna be an interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Deadthe I just think you can't. And Fred's ready to
deal him and get rid of him or change him
up and all that. I just don't think because the
Dodgers are the Dodgers, and they have the luxury of
being five and a half games up that they don't
have to panic. No, they don't have to panic. And look,
(27:16):
Tanner Scott, he's had a rough go. Let's let's be honest,
all right, right he is. I think he's the top
of the league and blown saves and he's had a
rough way to go, But that's not who he is
at the end of the day. At some point, I
(27:36):
gotta believe that he is going to figure it out,
turn it around and be back to the Tanner Scott,
the guy that they signed for seventy two million dollars. Yeah,
you know, and so and if this was you know,
the Diamondbacks or the Padres that are sitting there in
third place, going we gotta make we gotta make some move,
we gotta Well then yeah, you might make a move
(27:59):
at it. But the Rogers are five and a half
games up. You don't have to panic with Tanner Scott
right now.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
You know what's you know what's interesting too about the
Dodgers is that any other organization, say the Diamondbacks that
just won a World Series last year, say the Padres
just won a World Series last year, and whatever, we
got one. We're good, man, we got one, like you know,
like you've seen like the Marlins won won two World
Series and literally emptied the chamber on their team, on
their roster afterward they won. There's a god, we got one.
(28:26):
We're good here, Like the Cubs. Cubs won a World
Series and it was like the next dynasty gone, Like
everybody's gone that was on the team.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Thinking about Hobby Byers is an All Stars.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
At a third position, you know, like Schwarber was on
the team.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
He just won m VP.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
It comes like, now we don't need we got our
one week series. Yeah, I tell me about it. Like
Chris Bryant was the MVP, all those guys, uh, you know,
Kyle Hendrix, like all those guys that were part of
that team at Yeah, so all of them. You see
(29:04):
how you see how some of these organizations work. And
what's what's amazing about the Dodgers is that of anybody,
they could be sitting back and kind of kicking their
feet up and going, we don't need to be aggressive
at the deadline. We don't need to do it, make
a move at the deadline. We can just listen. We
got our World Series. We're gonna roll the dice and
try and get healthy and see where we go from there.
And something tells me, of all the teams that are
(29:24):
going to be kicking the tires and trying to make
a move, they're gonna be the ones. They're always the
most aggressive, and because of that they get rewarded for
it every year.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
One hundred percent. Man, all right, we'll be back to
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Speaker 1 (29:55):
Ah. Yes, it's been a great hump day, Rodney pet
Jonas knocks, it's been good, Jonas. You sent me something
early this morning man that I don't want to end
it on a down note, man, but you sent me
something that I want to say. It's an up note
(30:19):
because I got to mention it because it's an incredible
feat of this one hundred and fourteen year old gentleman.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, one hundred and fourteen years old Indian guy, one
hundred and fourteen years old. His nickname is the Turban
Tornado Urban Tornado, which is one of the great nicknames
of all time. Definitely, definitely in the top five the
guys of Buck fourteen and he started running marathons at
eighty nine years old. We were talking about the WAA.
He started at age ninety nine. Started at eighty nine
(30:50):
years old, so it wasn't like a runner in his
old life. Who knows he started eighty nine years old.
We were talking about the Olympics earlier. I think he
was the flag bearer for or. He was the torch
bearer for the or carrier, right, Yeah, yeah, he actually
(31:10):
he was friends with Jesse Owens. That is correct, but no,
he so he was. He represented India as part of
the Olympics as well. I don't know if he participated
obviously because of the age, but he was. Like he's
a legend in India because one hundred and fourteen years old,
runs marathons, walking across the street, gets killed by a
(31:31):
hit and run at one hundred and fourteen. Think about
all the crap that he's all the crap, all the pandemics,
all the world wars, all everything that he's lived through
in his life. He was born in nineteen eleven, okay and.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Nineteen eleven, both World War wars. Yea, every every war.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
How many pandemics, Like, how many pandemics he's seen that
he's like all covidel I mean, he's lived through everything. Assassination,
like he's seen it all. And at one hundred and
fourteen years old. Wow, guy's crossing the street and some
dumb ass hits him with the car and then just
(32:12):
drives off.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Like what it's like.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
If I were him, I'd be so pissed me. I
would be so pissed that bad whoever hit him all
and it was a hit and run, hit and run
just just took off. And then LeVar Yarrington we were
talking about this morning and Levar's like, well, listen, at
one hundred and fourteen years old, you know he could
have got him with like the side mirror and uh
and you know not even meant to hit a var
Come on, man, And I'm like, like, like, LaVar's got
(32:38):
like the like the guy put his windshield.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Put it.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
It's like LaVar's got it, Like the guy put his
windshield wipers on and the dude disappear because he's one
hundred and fourteen. But nonetheless, so it just goes to
show you anybody that's like making an excuse for not
getting into shape. At eighty nine, this guy started running.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Marathons and ever since.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
And the Turbine Tornado urbing, what a great name.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Unbelievable but again yeah, to go out like that as
just horrible or it sucks, but well, you know, Jonas,
thanks for man, thanks for stepping in man as you
always do. Brother. You're always great to fill in man.
Always good to talk to you and hang out with
you brother always.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
No listen, I'm a fan, I always have been. I
appreciate you guys. Letting me be a part of it
as always, and then you and Ronnie and Kevin make
it easy so it's always right on, right on. Thank
you guys, Ronnie, Kevin, thank you very much and we
will talk to you tomorrow
Oh yes, and we keep it moving. Final hour on
the show, Jonas knocked in for Fred Rogan, much much,
much appreciated. My brother.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Oh man, I got thoughts after what I just heard. Oh,
I mean, well, oh you getting tossed out of your
son's baseball game, because you are even like.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I was hot, man, I was hot, brother.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
How long ago was that did that take?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Oh my god, let's see, he was a twelve year old,
so it was he's twenty. Yeah, soil about ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So ten years later, you still remember.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Every detail, every detail about.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
The ball down the line, the shock flying.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Dock flying world. Do you not see the shock flying?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Deadpoll? A second time hits a home run? And you
couldn't just let.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That go, let it go on, couldn't let it go?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Was that effing fair? And the guy ran you?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
He ran me? Now. The beauty of that, though, was
the I can't even call it a crowd. I mean
it was his parents and families. But they enjoyed it.
They laughed at it. Oh my god, I definitely laughed
at it. But my wife rode me forever. He wasn't there,
(01:21):
he wasn't there. My son was mortified. He was like, oh,
my god. He was mortified. He was so embarrassed, and
I was I felt bad for him because, you know,
at the end of the day, the the other his
teammates were loving it because I was, you know, just
(01:41):
being I was obnoxious, but I was just being stand
up and it was it was kind of in the moment,
it was like kind of hardcore. But so his teammates
were like, yeah, your dad is cool, your dad is right,
and he was like, oh no, that was why why
why would you do that to me?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Did you ever see the ump who threw you out
of the game after that? Did you ever see him
call another game? I wonder if I've always wondered about
this with when it comes to umpires, especially umpires, I
wonder if part of them kind of walks around with
a badge of honor, like, oh, that Hall of Famer
I saw him out. Yeah, and I swear to god,
(02:20):
I wonder if that guy somewhere listens to a five
seven and he's like, oh, yeah, you know Rogan and
Rodney huh yeah, Rodney got tossed.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
And him, oh yeah, a story probably went crazy from
his perspectives. Yeah, I've gotten his grill. Yeah, that Rodney
Pete I got all up in his grill and then
tossed him. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, Look, my my son is four years old. He
played his first season of T ball, and like full disclosure,
I get emotional watching him, like not even like, I'm
just so proud of him when he gets a hit,
when he does something, because he loves baseball so much.
He loves playing. My wife looked at me one time,
(03:06):
like his final game. So they had one final game
and you know, he's sitting off a tee, but he
piped a ball opposite field and he's running around and
he's like full ham. He's sliding when he doesn't need
to slide. He's doing he's doing all the celebrations around
because his favorite player is Pete Crow arms Strong of
(03:28):
the Cubs. He loves Pee Crow Armstrong. So he's doing
the raise the roof, he's doing like all that's And
so my wife looks over at me and she's like,
are you crying? And I'm like, I'm just so happy
and proud of him, and she said, like, babe, it's
T ball. Like I'm thinking to myself, if I'm like
(03:50):
this and he's four, what am I going to be
like if he hits a ball down the line that
hits the.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Jock in a call foul, and then right back and
bombs one. Yeah. You you would go absolutely nuts, nuts,
You're done. You're doing this at four right now at
T ball?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Oh yeah yeah. I can't even because because I was
talking to Petros a couple of weeks ago. He was
telling a story about how he went to his neighbors
were like, hey, you know, come by the game. There
was a little league game. It was like a championship game,
and Petros was sitting there watching, as you know, this
team was imploding on the mound and these parents are
devastated for their kids. Meanwhile, on the opposite side the
(04:28):
opposing teams fans and parents are bumping chess and high
fiving and doing it. Petros is looking around, that's going
what is going on here?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Like?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It was amazing to see how into it people get
it just these small time events. Uh, but once you
once their family involved, it takes on a different it does.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You can tell yourself all you want, you know, driving
your kid to to warm up or to drop them
off before the game, and before the game he's out.
I'm just gonna sit there and just be calm. I'm
not going to do anything. I'm not going to say anything.
And you can't help it. You just can't help it, Okay,
can't help it. Cher, I can't. I couldn't help Hey,
(05:09):
you know he's up up at the plate. Hey, hey,
be ready for the fastball. Be ready for I mean
you can't, you can't help it. Be ready to hit,
be ready to hit.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It, just like the whole the whole being. And I've
heard other people say that, were you more nervous? Are
you more nervous watching your kids? I never understood that
because I thought, man, you'd like, look, I don't know,
why would you ever be. I never get nervous doing radio.
I never get nervous ever. One time you do it enough.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
And it's.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
If he when he's swinging the bat off a t
he's four years old. There's kids that like, look like
they just learned to walk an hour ago. He's four
years old. And all I'm thinking, and I'm I'm nervous, thinking, man,
please hit this ball in the air, because if he
hits a ground ball, he's not gonna be happy and
I'm gonna have to wear it the rest of the day.
(06:07):
He's gonna be pissed. He's that competitive, please hit it
in there. And I'm nervous and I never get nervous,
and I'm nervous watching him play T ball. When you're
a parent, everything.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Changes, Everything changes. Yeah, you wear every emotion of them
and more, Kevin, you coming coming, Vin, It is coming,
all right. So, so there's there's some talk out there
and and there there's a lot of talk obviously with
Major League Baseball. Obviously there's talk about possible you know,
(06:40):
we we we talked about this with Bob Nightingale about
work stoppage and you know, salary cap. Is there going
to be a cap? Is gonna be a floor with
the players want with the MLB wants. Another issue is
does MLB accommodate the players and allow them to play
in the Olympics, which will be here in twenty twenty eight.
(07:01):
Baseball is back into the Olympics now, and obviously it
is in the summer, and so there's talk of how
do we make this work? And the latest from Rob
Manfred is I'd like them to play, but we're not
moving the All Star Game. We're not going to move
the All Star Game to accommodate the Olympics, and I
(07:26):
don't know, I don't know if it's a good idea
for the players to play in the Olympics. All of
most of the player I just didn't say all because
I don't know all of them, but most of the
players that have been asked say they want to play
for their respective countries. Yeah, you know, kind of like
the WBC. It's a it turned into the The WBC
turned into a big time hit.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
It's awesome, it is.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
And to see like remember when it was otaniut Yeah,
those are you know, teammates at the time, and they're
going against each other, yes, and you just see the
pride that they have for it.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
The Dominican versus Cuba, I mean Dominican versus Venezuela. All
those games were so so good, so good.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
And look, if you know anything about the history of
boxing Puerto Rico Mexico, that's always alway spicy. Always there's
always like there's a true rivalry. Yes, and you look,
you see it. Even with the Gold Cup. You know,
the USA you know, rolled out their CE team. Some
were calling it against Mexico, and you saw how fired
up people got for that. The WBC that's another one
(08:32):
of those Major League Baseball stumbled upon and you realize, oh,
this is awesome. This is really a lot of fun.
You see, the stands are packed. People are fired up
for it, and I don't know why. I guess the
only drawback would be if the best players want to
(08:53):
play for their respected countries, then you would have a
watered down version of that All Star Game. Would would
be my understand If that's the case, you're not going
to cancel it, you know, But.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
It's the it's like, it's like we're gonna we're gonna
have a standoff, right. It feels like and if you're
the look, the Olympics happens once every four years, agreed,
and and you know the All Star Game is every year, right, Yeah,
so if you got to move the All Star Game
up or back or whenever you move it, that's an
(09:27):
easier move than telling the Olympics, oh, if it coincides
with the All Star Game, our players are not going
to play because we're not going to move the All
Star Game.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I mean, players should have the opportunity to make that
choice for themselves. And I could understand why because you're
hearing stuff, you know, in the NFL about flag football.
Oh you know, you know our players are players in
the NFL going to play flag football and all this stuff,
and they're lining it up to where it'll happen before
training camps start. And you know, I just players should
(10:04):
have that opportunity and should have that right because I
can understand from an owner's standpoint, you don't want your
guy getting injured. If you're paying that guy, you don't
want him getting injured doing something other than what he's
being paid for. You know, it's like any other off
season activity.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
But from me, do we want one Soto going to
play for Dominican and I get two weeks or ten
days for the Dominican and get hurt down there?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Or But from a big from a big picture standpoint
for the growth of the game, I only see upside letting.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Them only participants. I agree.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
So that that's that's why I wonder. And by the way,
how long has baseball been out of the Olympics? Has it?
Has it been out for a while? It came back
I think not this past cycle, but the cycle before that,
and then before that it was gone for like eight years.
It keeps coming and going for whatever reason. I don't
know what, Kevin, You got to be careful using the
term cycle it comes to baseball because people steroids. I
(11:04):
just don't want to, you know, like I don't want
to want to he meant he meant hit. For the
second I was thinking something else.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
But yeah, so it's coming gone and and and and
now that it's uh that it's back. But the but
the game and where baseball is, which is which is
really weird that that Manfred is not really taking every
effort or making every effort to make this happen because
of what just happened in Japan when the Dodgers went
(11:31):
and played the Cubs in Japan, and this game is
so global now and you've got you know, Korea is
a force. The Japan team obviously who won it, uh
won the w b C is a is a force. Obviously,
the the Dominican Puerto Rico, Mexican teams, Venezuela teams are
going to be a force. It's going to be very
(11:52):
very competitive. Why not embrace that if you're major League Baseball, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Mean, if you're all about let's grow this sport, let's
get as many eyeballs on it as possible. I don't
know why you would be against it, you know, like, well,
we're not going to cancel the All Star Game. Oh okay,
I mean I get it.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I mean I just move it up. I don't three weeks.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I mean, I don't know what sort of financial impact
that hit that has on Major League Baseball. I'm not sure.
Obviously it's a big win for the city that's hoasting
the All Star Game, and so that you know, that
would that would hurt if you had to either get
rid of it or whatnot. But I just feel like
you can adjust and it doesn't have to be such
(12:40):
a hard line stance, especially to your point, if this
is something that comes up every four years, it's not
like you have to worry about this every year, like
you've got time to figure this out. You just adjust
accordingly and make it to where you can get the
best of both worlds, to where you can have your
All Star Game event and you can have these guys
be showcased in the Olympics and for a lot of
those guys, man, look, you say whatever you want about
(13:03):
Carmelo Anthony, Oh, you never won a title. He never
won this dude guy won gold medals. Yeah, and like
that still I think matters to a lot of people,
and so if it's if it's an opportunity to grow
the game on that front, much like the WBC, which
has been awesome as we talked about, I don't know
why there would be pushback on it, I really do.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah. I don't either. I don't either. And we're you know,
we're just talking about the countries that we you know,
kind of know that it's been you know, infiltrated in
the MLB, like Puerto Rico and Dominican in Cuba and
Venezuela and Mexico. But Australia has got a great baseball
program down there. Now, some parts of Europe have great
(13:46):
baseball programs.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I think, isn't that doesn't Ned Colletti have a role
in Italy?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yes, yes he does.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
He's the GM of the Italian WBC team. I love
that so much. I love that song much.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
How do you think that?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I just want to I want to, you know what, like,
tell any one of those meetings, right, tell me you guys,
you don't want to be in one of those meetings,
Like I just I just want to know what those
meetings are like because I'm picturing good fellas where they're
making pasta in jail. They're shaving the garlic, you know,
(14:23):
and they're showing him how to do it like that. Like,
I love everything about Ned. I think it's awesome. I
think it's so much fun.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Oh my god, that is great. I I've just got
that picture in my mind. Ned. He's sitting around with
like twenty six guys all right, telling stories as he's
cooking pasta with the apron on to them. Yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
What do you want to do it?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Hey, that guy comes up again? I want to I
want to hit him right in, right in the temple.
Oh my god. Second half Dodgers getting ready to go
this weekend. Let's talk about it.
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(15:38):
I'm a I'm a I'm a burger guy more than
a hot dog guy. Yeah, I've always been a burger
guy versus a hot dog. Give me a burger every day.
Hot dogs? You know, when I started to figure out
what went into hot dog, I liked them less and less.
(15:59):
So you finally figured it out.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Uh, something still wonderful. You've see the you've seen the
great outdoors. Yes, yes, I'll say this because I think
Doghouse are they Is it their fifteen year anniversary?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
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that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
They are amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
And I'll say this, if you get a good enough
and I might be in the minority on this, but
if you get a good enough hot dog like one
from the Doghouse, you don't need a whole hell of.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
A lot on it.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
No, really like if you have a if you have
a good bun, you don't like, you really don't need
and yeah, that that's it. If you if you have
the sweet bread what like and the dog man, you
could probably I've done what do you put? Okay, so
(16:53):
I've done the because I figured this out the hard way.
I've done the and I'll do this often. If we
ever have hot dogs, I'll go sweet bread, the King's Hawaiian,
I'll go the standard hot dog, and I might go
just chopped up onions or just sliced talapanos and go
(17:14):
that with less because you don't need it. Like if
the bun is good enough, you don't need and if
it's and if the bun is soft enough, you don't
need anything else to add moisture to the dog, like,
you're good.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, So as long as you don't put ketchup on
a hot dog, I'm good with you. Agreed.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Agreed, Yeah, agreed, And it takes away there's something about it,
and you don't realize it because look, full disclosure. When
I was a kid, if we had mac and cheese,
like sometimes ketchup would find its way on mac and cheese.
All right, And now I look at that as I'm older,
and I go, you got to be ashamed of yourself.
You got to be ashamed of yourselves.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I swear to god. That was very strange. I don't
know why.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I don't know why. The thing only must but yeah,
onions and relish and everything, you can always do that
you can put everything else, but don't put don't put
ketchup on your hot dog.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Agreed, Yeah, agreed?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
All right, So now all Star break, it's over. Dodgers.
You know, again, we talked about this early in the
week with Fred about grades of the dog. He gave
them an A because they're five and a half games
up given all of the injuries that they've had, it's
(18:30):
pretty remarkable. I don't care what team you are. If
you go through the injuries that the Dodgers have had
and you're still five and a half games up in
your division, it's it's pretty good. And you got to
reward that. And I know Dodger fans don't want to
believe that because they believe that the Dodgers should be
twenty games up at this point. Yeah, but it's still
(18:51):
pretty good. Second half, Jonas, what do you think has
to happen for the Dodger or will happen for the Dodgers?
And will they will they be active in the trade situation,
trade deadline time or will they stay patent? Let those
guys get healthy and and and roll the dice that
(19:11):
they're going to get everybody back.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You know, I wonder about that because if they if
they make a move, Like there's certain organizations to where
if they make a move on a player, you go, uh, oh,
what do they know that we don't Tommy Edmund for example,
Belichick did this in the NFL for years to where
everyone's like, man, you're signing Wes Welker. Why and then
lo and behold, oh yeah, that's why, like he knew
(19:36):
he could see it. And so if they make a
move on a player outside from your just your your
standard big names that would be out there, whoever that
could be you know Suarez from you know the Diamondbacks
and all these guys, if they were to make a
move on a player, I look at that as I
trust that they recognize that's a guy that's a key
(19:58):
part towards figuring out or at least adding depth to
be able to figure out possible situations that come up
later in the year. I just wonder if they look
at it and go all right, going into the year,
there was talk about a ten man rotation, that they
were so deep when it came to pitching that there
was a ten man rotation. Did they view the return
(20:21):
of Otani at some point as their big deadline move
when it comes to the rushing staff, and that's why
I'm curious to see. Last year it felt like, you know, formality,
they were going to make a move, and at the
deadline they got edmund, they got flairity, They went out
and got aggressive and you know, Bob Nightingale was talking
about a bullpen arm do they go out and they
get the bullpen. The other part of this, it throws
(20:43):
a wrinkle into things, is that with the expanded wild card,
you've got all these teams who think they've got a
legitimate shot, and so maybe some of those teams on
the fringe aren't going to be sellers. Maybe the you know,
the quantity is lower this year because of how many
teams have the potential, and it almost feels like the
next week or so, which is crazy to say because
(21:04):
we've had, you know, one hundred games played or whatever
it is, the next week or so is going to
determine whether or not, you know, a team is a
buyer or a seller. And I think that kind of
changes things. But it's always the moves under the radar
that they make that I'm always fascinated by because you
know that they've done their due diligence have done their research,
and that's why they're making the make it.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Right right it is it always is. And and but
do you think that there are some big names out
there that could be moved at the deadline that are
I mean, not necessarily for the Dodgers, but in general,
do you think there's some big names that are out
there on teams that are you know, we talk about
(21:44):
schemes that's not going to happen. Obviously Bob didn't think
that was gonna happen either, But and I don't see
that happen at least this year. But do you think
there are other names out there that possibly could shock
some people that oh my god, they moved him or
they got him, and and all of a sudden they're
(22:06):
a different team because they got this particular player.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I mean, I would say, look, the big one was Devers,
Like I don't know, I don't know anybody saw that
that was going to happen the way that it did,
but that ended up happening. I kind of kicked around
just because I knew it. Would you know, give Ben
Maller a little bit of a red ass. Last week,
I said, you know, months he's going to be out
for a little while here. Maybe they're looking to add
(22:30):
at third base, and maybe Alex Bregman could be a possibility.
I don't know, And of course you know that he
got a kick out of that. But I mean, if
you're looking at third base, Suarez from the Diamondbacks is
one of the most under the radar home run hitters
that we've seen, Guy mashes Bay. He's four home runs
in a game earlier this year. He's got thirty one
(22:50):
at the break, which is crazy. Cal Rawley's got thirty
thirty eight or whatever it is, which which is even
more bananas. But maybe that's a move. And if you believe,
like Nightingale believes, and a lot of people believe that
the Diamondbacks are finished, maybe and Joe Davis and John
Smoltz brought this up that yeah, they could. There's pieces
there in Arizona, like there are pieces of Yead and
(23:12):
so if you're looking to add a bat, that would
be a name that you could look at. I just
don't know if the Dodgers view the price being too
steep for their liking, and do they think that Mounsy's
going to be impacted for the entire season or he
comes back and he's ready to go right off the bat.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Are the Diamondbacks looking at it as this is a
aberration and we struggled, But we've got a good young
nucleus that we don't want to give up the farm
or we're not going to give up our key players
that have help us get there.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yeah, and then you know, you wonder, you know, inside
the division, not that that stopped teams from making deals before,
but inside the division to really want to give that
guy up to somebody else. I mean, it's it's it's
going to be really, really fascinating because I don't know
that there's a huge name that's out there. Al Contra
from Florida, from Miami rather has been talked about as
(24:06):
one of the names that could be had. But you know,
when he's pitching, well, he's potentially as good as there is,
but there's been question marks there. So I just wonder
if they look at it and go, let's try and
get healthy perfectly, That's what I'm thinking about.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I think that's that's the dance, right, do we roll
the dice on us getting healthy? Because if we're healthy,
we've got all the guys we need. We don't need anybody.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
And also, look, I mean, what's going on with Mookie Vetts? Like,
what's what's going like?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Right? You got to believe it can't continue, Yes, struggles
can't continue. You got to get it turned around.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Like Freeman, you know, has been in this slump and
been in out of this slump, and you look at
that and go. And Dave Roberts even made the comment
recently where he was like, look, I just trust the player.
I trust the sample size we've it. Like, you don't
just stay in a slump that long if you are
the player that you are the you know, Mookie starts
to produce all of a sudden that helps out significantly,
(25:08):
you know. Freeman's more like, I just I think that
there's answers on the roster now, as opposed to maybe
some of the answers that are out there elsewhere and
teams that may or may not want to part ways
because they either think that hey, we could be in
this thing, you know, in a couple of weeks with
it an opportunity to get to the wild card or
be you know, we're just not going to give up
(25:29):
a guy, you know, for bottom barrel prices when we
feel like we can raid somebody's farm system for a
big addition.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, are you are you worried about Danner Scott.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I'm worried about if he has another bad outing, what
David Assay is going to do to him. That's what
I'm worried about. I mean, like that's like between David
and Fred, they both they will double team him. But like,
you know, it's funny. So the Sunday game was a
perfect example. Yeah, David, Yeah, Fred and David Like that
is you know, for two guys that don't get along,
they get along. They just don't know it, you know
(26:01):
what I mean. But like for a Sunday's game, for example,
Tanner Scott goes out there, gives up this, gives up
the save, and you're looking at it, going, oh Christ,
here they go. And then James Autman of all people,
makes that play on deals and saves the game, like
literally saves the game. So you you look at that
(26:23):
and you're like, they're so deep that even guys that
everybody recognizes as yeah he was off to a hot
start when he came up here, but he'll be included
in a trade. He's not going to be back. Even
that guy comes up with a play here or there.
That helps them to make the play on Sunday. So
when you have that much depth and that much potential
talent on your roster, it gives you so much more flexibility,
(26:45):
but it also makes your decisions that much harder because
you don't know who to part with. So it'll be interesting, man,
it's gonna be an interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Deadthe I just think you can't. And Fred's ready to
deal him and get rid of him or change him
up and all that. I just don't think because the
Dodgers are the Dodgers, and they have the luxury of
being five and a half games up that they don't
have to panic. No, they don't have to panic. And look,
(27:16):
Tanner Scott, he's had a rough go. Let's let's be honest,
all right, right he is. I think he's the top
of the league and blown saves and he's had a
rough way to go, But that's not who he is
at the end of the day. At some point, I
(27:36):
gotta believe that he is going to figure it out,
turn it around and be back to the Tanner Scott,
the guy that they signed for seventy two million dollars. Yeah,
you know, and so and if this was you know,
the Diamondbacks or the Padres that are sitting there in
third place, going we gotta make we gotta make some move,
we gotta Well then yeah, you might make a move
(27:59):
at it. But the Rogers are five and a half
games up. You don't have to panic with Tanner Scott
right now.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
You know what's you know what's interesting too about the
Dodgers is that any other organization, say the Diamondbacks that
just won a World Series last year, say the Padres
just won a World Series last year, and whatever, we
got one. We're good, man, we got one, like you know,
like you've seen like the Marlins won won two World
Series and literally emptied the chamber on their team, on
their roster afterward they won. There's a god, we got one.
(28:26):
We're good here, Like the Cubs. Cubs won a World
Series and it was like the next dynasty gone, Like
everybody's gone that was on the team.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Thinking about Hobby Byers is an All Stars.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
At a third position, you know, like Schwarber was on
the team.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
He just won m VP.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
It comes like, now we don't need we got our
one week series. Yeah, I tell me about it. Like
Chris Bryant was the MVP, all those guys, uh, you know,
Kyle Hendrix, like all those guys that were part of
that team at Yeah, so all of them. You see
(29:04):
how you see how some of these organizations work. And
what's what's amazing about the Dodgers is that of anybody,
they could be sitting back and kind of kicking their
feet up and going, we don't need to be aggressive
at the deadline. We don't need to do it, make
a move at the deadline. We can just listen. We
got our World Series. We're gonna roll the dice and
try and get healthy and see where we go from there.
And something tells me, of all the teams that are
(29:24):
going to be kicking the tires and trying to make
a move, they're gonna be the ones. They're always the
most aggressive, and because of that they get rewarded for
it every year.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
One hundred percent. Man, all right, we'll be back to
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Speaker 1 (29:55):
Ah. Yes, it's been a great hump day, Rodney pet
Jonas knocks, it's been good, Jonas. You sent me something
early this morning man that I don't want to end
it on a down note, man, but you sent me
something that I want to say. It's an up note
(30:19):
because I got to mention it because it's an incredible
feat of this one hundred and fourteen year old gentleman.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, one hundred and fourteen years old Indian guy, one
hundred and fourteen years old. His nickname is the Turban
Tornado Urban Tornado, which is one of the great nicknames
of all time. Definitely, definitely in the top five the
guys of Buck fourteen and he started running marathons at
eighty nine years old. We were talking about the WAA.
He started at age ninety nine. Started at eighty nine
(30:50):
years old, so it wasn't like a runner in his
old life. Who knows he started eighty nine years old.
We were talking about the Olympics earlier. I think he
was the flag bearer for or. He was the torch
bearer for the or carrier, right, Yeah, yeah, he actually
(31:10):
he was friends with Jesse Owens. That is correct, but no,
he so he was. He represented India as part of
the Olympics as well. I don't know if he participated
obviously because of the age, but he was. Like he's
a legend in India because one hundred and fourteen years old,
runs marathons, walking across the street, gets killed by a
(31:31):
hit and run at one hundred and fourteen. Think about
all the crap that he's all the crap, all the pandemics,
all the world wars, all everything that he's lived through
in his life. He was born in nineteen eleven, okay and.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Nineteen eleven, both World War wars. Yea, every every war.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
How many pandemics, Like, how many pandemics he's seen that
he's like all covidel I mean, he's lived through everything. Assassination,
like he's seen it all. And at one hundred and
fourteen years old. Wow, guy's crossing the street and some
dumb ass hits him with the car and then just
(32:12):
drives off.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Like what it's like.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
If I were him, I'd be so pissed me. I
would be so pissed that bad whoever hit him all
and it was a hit and run, hit and run
just just took off. And then LeVar Yarrington we were
talking about this morning and Levar's like, well, listen, at
one hundred and fourteen years old, you know he could
have got him with like the side mirror and uh
and you know not even meant to hit a var
Come on, man, And I'm like, like, like, LaVar's got
(32:38):
like the like the guy put his windshield.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Put it.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
It's like LaVar's got it, Like the guy put his
windshield wipers on and the dude disappear because he's one
hundred and fourteen. But nonetheless, so it just goes to
show you anybody that's like making an excuse for not
getting into shape. At eighty nine, this guy started running.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Marathons and ever since.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
And the Turbine Tornado urbing, what a great name.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Unbelievable but again yeah, to go out like that as
just horrible or it sucks, but well, you know, Jonas,
thanks for man, thanks for stepping in man as you
always do. Brother. You're always great to fill in man.
Always good to talk to you and hang out with
you brother always.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
No listen, I'm a fan, I always have been. I
appreciate you guys. Letting me be a part of it
as always, and then you and Ronnie and Kevin make
it easy so it's always right on, right on. Thank
you guys, Ronnie, Kevin, thank you very much and we
will talk to you tomorrow
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