7-2 H2: Adam Auslund; Do the Dodgers need Pham?

Adam Auslund talks about why the Clippers losing Paul Geroge might not be the worst thing in the world and what the Lakers can do this offseason despite having no open roster spots at the moment. Should the Dodgers make a move for someone like Tommy Pham?

Episode Transcript

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day. Dodgers playing at the stadiumtonight. We'll get into that in a
bit. Let's walk. Come innow the Saltier. Our friend Adam Auslin.
Adam, how are you. What'sup, Freddie? Thanks for being
sick last week. Appreciate your bigdog. Yeah, Adam, I'm sick.

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Somebody's got to fill in, Adamsays, I know, just the
guy who is it him? Iwas produce it. I had a little
bit of a little bit of juice. Hey, Adam, did you get
a double paycheck as well because youproduced too as well? Oh, we
could talk about that off the air. Rod ye come on now, Martin
hooking my man up. I appreciateyou. Yeah, Rodney, you know

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where we work. Why would youeven ask that question? I know,
I know you got to throw itout there sometimes though, my man.
It's time to move on from thissubject, all right. So adam NBA
free agency, Uh, we're gonnado Lakers. Then we're gonna do Clippers
and Paul George. But Lakers first. Does nobody want to take their money?
What money? How much do theyhave to play with? They haven't

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signed Lebron James yet. You don'tknow how much money they're gonna have.
Are they gonna be a second Apronteam? I know they don't want to
be. But look at it thisway. When it comes to the Lakers'
salary cap. I did a deepdive recently. I talked to the Duke
of Sports. No. I lookedat it and I saw that, Okay,
they're about thirty six million dollars.Just for reference here, because it's

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really not that hard to understand thenew salary cap situation. So the cap
is at one forty, the firstapron is at one seventy eight, the
second aprons at one eighty eight.Once you get over one seventy, you're
in the luxury tax. You knowwhat that means. You start getting hit
hard, like Steve Balmer having topay one hundred and fifty million dollars in

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luxury tax money last season because theywent thirty six million dollars over the calf.
But the Lakers right now the thirtysix million to thirty eight million underneath
the first apron. But they haven'tpaid Lebron James. He just made forty
eight million, forty nine million dollarslast season, so if he does take

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a pay cut, it is conceivable. And I gotta give my man Rodney
credit, because he pointed this outlast week. I didn't think it would
matter because I thought, oh,the Lakers, I mean, they must
spend money. They're probably way overthe calf. Foolish of me to think
something like that, the Lakers spendinga ton of money. They weren't already
over the calf. They're not rightnow. And if Lebron took twenty million

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dollars or something around there, theymight have eighteen to twenty million more dollars
to play with, plus the fullmid level exception. That's thirteen million dollars
plus the bi annual exception that's anotherfive million dollars, so it is significant.
If Lebron does end up taking thatpay cut, it will really help
out the Lakers. But he says, if I'm gonna do that for you,

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you better make sure to go outthere and get somebody for me.
And I understand that. Why notput pressure on the franchise. I don't
hate that, Fred, Oh absolutely, you know if I'm gonna take that
pay because it better be worth ourworth, mine and our while for me
to do that, how much ofa wrench did it throw into uh to
the Lakers with these guys opting ind Low and Readish and those guys opting

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in and saying, Okay, I'lltake this because there's not a market out
there for me. And people aresaying, well, he did that because
it's a you know, a signand they can trade him. He's like,
I don't know if the trade marketis great for d Lo there.
Adam, No, I'm with you. I didn't expect that. I don't
think anyone did. After bowing outonce again, the way he played against
the Denver Nuggets in the first round, you felt like it was inevitable.

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He was no longer going to bea Laker. But if he can't get
around you know, eighty million dollarsover four years or anything like that.
I mean in the market, itmay have just dried up on him.
So yeah, they could trade him. Who wants him? Do they have
to attach a pick to get ridof him? Is it going to be
like the Chicago Bulls who apparently aredangling Zach Levine, who has injury issues.

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I do like him as a player, but the rumor is they got
to give a first round pick justto get rid of that contract. Now
it's still an expiring deal after thisyear. The eighteen million that de Loo
makes, I'm assuming somebody, ifyou pair that with a second round pick,
will do the deal, especially becausepeople are talking about DeMar derozen with
the Lakers. Well, he's anunrestricted free agent. If it's a sign

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in trade, he's doing Chicago asolid to get something for him. Would
they take de Lo as a rentalfor one year because you know he's coming
off the books. I think there'ssomething that out there that's possible. But
yeah, I don't think the Lakersexpected him and Reddish and others to opt
in like this. Rodney. Ido think that made things a lot more

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tangled up. Adam is Demarty rosein a good fit for the Lakers or
a name that everybody knows well.I believe he's gonna be thirty six by
the end of this season. Now, to his credit, he's always hit
the fountain of youth. He stillplays at a very high level and he's
a mid range master. But that'swhere things could get a little bit dicey,

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because guys like that can clog upthe paint in this space and pace
league where you want to stretch thefloor, and he's looking to take sixteen
to eighteen foot jumpers. He doesn'toffer the spacing because he only attempted I
think three to three pointers per gamelast season. He's been taking a little
bit more as his career has gonealong, but it's still all about two
pointers with him, which he isreally efficient at. But it's just it's

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a it's a cog in the machinea little bit sometimes when you have a
guy like that, and you alreadyhave Anthony Davis, who you want playing
in the paint, and Lebron Jamesgoing downhill. So I don't know if
having another non three point shooter outthere on the floor would be as big
as a get of a get forthe Lakers as some people are saying it
would be. We hit go onand talk about the Lakers forever. Let's

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move to the Clippers, Adam.I just want to ask you, you
know, because we talked about thislast week of where Paul George may land
ends up landing in Philadelphia, gettingthat extra year and that money, how
was just overall? How is this? How is this going to land for
the Clippers now this summer and goingforward? What's their direction? Hey?

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Look, Paul George did what wasbest for Paul George. The Clippers did
what was best for the Clippers organization. I don't think there's much blame to
go around here. Paul George endedup with at least sixty two million dollars
taking that deal. Guys at leastthat much more money. The Clippers didn't
want to give him the fourth year. Why because they all ready yours paying
call Leonard, they're paying James Hardenand both of those guys took pay cuss

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the deal they got James Harden on, I couldn't believe. I thought for
sure he was gonna get a threeyear deal. He basically got a one
plus one seventy million dollars total,so thirty five million this year and next.
But if he has a great year, he's probably gonna opt out and
then go for a bigger deal.So the Clippers have a lot more flexibility
now within the cap. They're hardcapped to the first apron because they already

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spent their taxpayer mid level exception.But Paul George, look, I'm gonna
think of him as a good Clipper. I am I'm gonna remember him fondly.
It didn't go as planned, butyou know why, because the majority
of the reason this era of Clippersbasketball with him and Kawhi Leonard hasn't worked
out was because of things outside oftheir control, all the injuries going on.

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I fully believe they would have wonin twenty twenty one had Kawhi Leonard
not have done his knee, andwe may look back and say that was
the moment where things truly ended,because then he misses an entire year and
now he's had a meniscus tear,he's had swelling in that knee. Sounds
like he's healthy and ready to gofor the Olympics. So that's good to

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see at least. But Paul George, he missed one hundred and thirty three
games, Kawhi Leonard missed one hundredand seventy eight games. They just could
never be out there enough together,even though when they were, they wanted
a seven hundred win percentage. That'selite, that's fantastic, that's what you
wanted from that duo. They justcouldn't stay out there enough and be healthy

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out there on the court. Isit a missed opportunity? You know what
if? Yeah, it feels alittle bit like uh T Mac and Grant
Hill to some degree, those twoguys not being able to stay healthy,
especially Grant Hill. But I stillam gonna I'm not gonna completely flip or
turn on Paul George. I wishhim nothing but the best unless he's playing
the Clippers. I've be rooting forthe Clippers in those games. But I

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some people are upset because they wanthim to stay and take a hometown discount
basically, but guys over sixty milliondollar more to go to the Philadelphia seventy
six ers, Rodney, you getthis more than anyone an athlete's time span
to make the majority of the moneythey're gonna make in their life happens within
five, ten or fifteen years.If you're lucky, right, you gotta

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take advantage of that. I'm nevergonna fault anyone for taking the most money
possible. Did the Clippers sign thewrong guy? Should they have signed Paul
Georgia, not Kawhi now Kawhi Leonard. I think it's honestly an easy answer.
When Kawhi is healthy, he playslike a top five player out there.
He plays like an MVP player.He's an all time one of the

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greatest playoff performers in NBA history.I understand he's missed about forty more games
than Paul George is a Clipper,and that's including the fact that he missed
an entire season after tearing his ACLBut when he's been healthy, he's been
very much more reliable and consistent withhis play. The knock on Paul George,
and I said this before, youdon't understand night tonight, whether he's

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gonna be a top ten player levelor a top thirty five player level.
His play fluctuated much more, especiallyin the playoffs, than Kawhi Leonard.
Kawhi was the clear number one PaulGeorge said it multiple times. He's the
number one. I'm the number two. You pay the number one guy.
Oh he said out of his mouth. Adam, what do you say when

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people look up and the casual fangoes, well, look at Boston,
man, they got two Supermax guysand they got supporting cats. How do
they do it? And we don't. We can't do it. The Boston
Celtics drafted both of those guys.They've had them on the cheap for some
time. They only recently got thesedeals where combined I think they're making six
hundred million dollars, which is crazy. By the way. On a side

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note, the Boston Celtics just wonthe championship with two players on their roster
combined to make over six hundred milliondollars, and both of them I don't
believe for top five players in theleague. They're both very good. Jason
Tatum certainly plays like a top fiveplayer at times. I would say he
has some of the same issues asPaul George. You don't know what you're
getting from him offensively, but he'sso damn well rounded it almost doesn't matter.

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And the team is constructed so perfectlywhere you can play five out with
a bunch of two way guys.They played both ends of the court,
and they also all shoot three pointers. You know who was doing that before
anyone? The Clippers in twenty twentyone Wing stop Clippers when it looked like
they were going to win the championship, they haddle that versatility. But Kawhi

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Leonard did his acl The rest ishistory. Maybe, So the Boston Celtics
did everything right, and they hada little bit of good fortune along the
way, and they finally got overthe top. And they didn't listen to
dumbasses who said they needed to breakit up and get rid of Jalen Brown
or people I don't know, likeFred on this show who said they shouldn't
paid him three hundred million dollars.I don't know if Fred said that or

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not. But you know, okay, Bred, how many people said it
going into this past season that youcan't pay Jalen Brown three hundred million dollars.
Guess who was Finals MVP? JalenBrown. I think it worked out
all right, Adam, Right now, who would you rather be? The
Lakers are the Clippers? Right now? Fred, you know I'm going to

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say the Clippers what kind of questions. Yes, well, all right,
but from the basketball perspective, ananalyticals perspective, I like the Clippers flexibility
they have right now in the waythat they have scrambled here because they always
had a backup plan. They knew, guys, this was not a surprise
to them. This stalemate has beengoing on four months, and it was

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always the impasse was they don't wantto give him the fourth year. If
he could get the MAX from anyoneelse, he was likely going to take
it. He got it from Philly. The Clippers are not surprised from this
or reeling or didn't have backup optionsalready. When they signed Derek Jones Junior
right away on Sunday, you knewit was on. By the way,
that was the guy who shut downPaul George for the most part in the

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first round series for the Dallas Mavericks. Kind of interest there, But they
got Chris Dunn in there. Nicholasbatoum all time Clipper favorite, one of
the best role players of his generation, is back. They have Mobamba,
and they still have more moves tomake because they're under salary cap. Hell
now they're under the second apron andthe first Apron. So people said,

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oh, you just lost Paul Georgefor nothing. No they didn't, not
at all. It opened up allthese other options and possibilities, and now
they can go from a team thatthe last seventy games of last season,
believe it or not, the Clipperswere twenty first defensively. Now they can
improve on the defensive end to makeup for the loss of Paul George.

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Offensively where yeah, they were outstandingon that end, and that made up
for their poor defense last year.The only way to still be as competitive
is if you shore up the defensenow, and it looks like they're trying
to have a defensive identity. Ilove that the Lakers still just have so
many unknowns right now going on withthis offseasonde of the Broni stuff. Who's
going to be the guy? IsLebron going to be happy with whoever they

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bring in? Because somebody is coming. And I saw at the press conference
earlier they said for the right guy, we will give up future first round
picks. But who they believe isthe right guy and who Lebron thinks is
the right guy to bring in rightnow may differ. Because I think the
Lakers are looking at the next tenyears and Lebron's obviously looking at the next
two. So there's somewhat even ifit's not outwardly a schism, there are

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different philosophies going on with the Lakersorganization between their best player, who I
think is still their best, mostimportant player, which is crazy to say
at this point at the age offorty, and the front office. Yeah
so yeah. I mean, wehear the press conference with the Lakers,
and you know, it's about culture. But we've seen the last what three

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coaches. They say that and thentwo years later the coaches fired. Do
you think this time around with JJ, because they it feels like they're in
no man's land even with Lebron playing, still playing at a high level.
They got ad, but the supportingcast is not really assisted them into moving
further than where they are. Arethey willing with Lebron, like you mentioned,

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having about two more years left,willing to play the long game With
JJ? I think the thing Imost encouraged about with JJ Reddick. Look,
it may not work out, buthe at least has said the right
things that they should be doing,which is winning more on the margins,
which is crashing offensive rebounds with guardswith teams are doing a ton now because

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it's not just the NFL that talksabout the possession battle. That talk has
lingered into the NBA the last coupleof years. That has been the buzzword.
The team that has more possessions,that gets more shots up is going
to win the ball game because everybodywho is shooting a very high percentage right
now. If you look at teamsand shooting charts and shot profiles, most
teams understand through the analytics what shotsare good shots and what shots are bad

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shots. Like that level playing fieldhas occurred in the NBA where everybody's kind
of on the same page there,although the Lakers have been behind in that
area for some time and JJ Reddicksaid, we have to take more threes.
Guys. The Boston Celtics led theleague and three porters attempted. It's
not just because they had the personnelthat is an analytics play, because the

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deal is this, shooting thirty threepercent from three is the equivalent of shooting
fifty percent from two. So evenwhen you're shooting below league average, which
is like thirty five thirty six percentfrom the outside, at thirty three percent
you're still hanging in there like soeverybody is doing it. Because of that,
you have to evolve with the times. The Lakers have been dragging their

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feet into the twenty first century whenit comes to NBA basketball because they could
still just pick up star players andit's okay, and we can mask any
deficiencies we have or dysfunction within theorganization because superstars will always and save us.
But the new CBA is changing that, guys, I'm telling you it
is so much more difficult. Forinstance, let me throw out a couple

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of restrictions now at the second aprinThis is what happens. If you get
above one hundred and eighty eight milliondollars. You can have first round picks
that are seven years out, whichteams typically trade, like the Lakers did
with the New Orleans Pelicans. Theyget frozen. You can't move them,
you can't do anything with them.Oh and guess what else. Those first

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round picks they move to the backof the line. They're a thirtieth pick
now, so when you get tothem, you're screwed too. Oh guess
what else? You see a playerout there that makes thirty million dollars,
you can't aggregate contracts to go gethim. You can't take two of your
guys that make fifteen million dollars togo get one player that makes thirty.
That's how restrictive it is. That'show punitive it is. They've done all

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this and try to stop big spenderslike the Clippers and Steve Balmer, like
Joe lacub with the Golden State War, and it's going to work. We're
just seeing it right now with theClippers, they're becoming a little bit.
Maybe you could say Paul George isa cap casualty because I don't think they
had this new CBA they'd be soworried about the fourth year. But it
changes everything. Every team is gonnahave to deal with this now. It's

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a completely different landscape in the NBAwhen it comes to organizing front offices and
what you prioritize and knowing what yourwindow is to win in the league,
or whether or not you should havemore flexibility on the roster because you might
have to rebuild in the next coupleof years. Do the new CBA,
All right, Hey, breaking itdown down, Adam. That's Adam,

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good job, good insight, Thanksman. I love you guys. Thanks
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Back to it, Freddy, comeon now on a Tuesday, Rodney pet
fred Rogan, let's go Dodgers atthe stadium. David Vasse joins us at
two o'clock. So they're back,and uh, I think pretty much where
people thought they would be in firstplace in the division at the beginning of
the year. Of course, aDodger fans thought, well, they'd win

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every game. I mean, theywouldn't even lose. This would be a
no brainer. I like the waythe season is playing out for them right
now. I liked it there,I do. I do. Little adversity.
We've seen what happens when they wonone hundred games. We get that.
We've seen that movie a few timesnow, little adversity, keep it

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moving, be in first place.They're gonna win one hundred games this year.
Fat yeah, But it's like onehundred and eleven, one hundred and
five. I said before the seasonstarted. I don't even care if they
went a hundred. To me,it means nothing. To me. It
means be as healthy as you canbe, have a little momentum, have
dealt with some adversity, get hotat the right time, and go.

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So. I think it's fine.I think it's fine where they're at right
now. Reports interesting with the tradedeadline coming up, and Vic said it,
and I kind of pooh pooed him, but he had a point.
Garrett Crochet of the White Sox,now they would move him. He is
a very talented young pitcher under clubcontrol for a few more years. He
could become a bona fide ace,a number one. If you're the White

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Sox, even though you're god awful, I don't know why you'd move him.
Somebody could build around. But maybethey think they could get something for
him, So they're exploring that possibility. And the Dodgers have certainly kicked the
tires on Crochet. They kicked thetires. But here's what's interesting. According

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to reports during the offseason, theDodgers had a lot of interest in somebody
Gavin Stone. David Vassay said beforethe season started, this guy could be
a cy young winner. And youknow, Dave's with him every day.
He knows better than anybody what theyare and how they'll play. But I
heard that, and what are youkidding, Gavin Stone. Well, Dave's

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right. Dave's right. The Dodgershad numerous numerous offers for him, and
they turned down each and every one, so they know what they're doing.
You've got to believe that Gavin Stonegive them the He's pitched this year.
Rodney's sort of like an acquisition theymade because maybe they expected him to do

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this. I don't think anybody elsedid, so he's kind of a bonus,
like a guy they trained for.That's pretty good so far, you
know what I mean. Yeah,I think outside of the Dodgers organization,
nobody really knew what he was about. But then we're finding out that there
were a few teams that did knowwhat he was about and that had interest
in him. And I think therewere reports out there that during the offseason

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he was working on some things andMark Pryor to pitching staff and the coaches
were looking at him and say,you know, why are you not throwing
this pitch? More, why areyou not throwing that pitch? So they
worked on a few things, givenit a little bit more arsenal, and
it's turned out to be fantastic.The question now is how do you how

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do you manage his workload? Muchlike Tyler Glass. Now you know Tyler's
not you know, he's approaching asmany innings as he's ever pitched, and
how do you dial him back alittle bit? And same thing with Gavin
Stone is that he's he's a youngpitcher that hasn't gone this long and especially
in the major leagues. So whatdo you do with him? Do you

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keep trotting him out there to keepgetting experienced, or do you dial him
back so you can be ready forOctober? And the problem that the Dodgers
have, and yes, they're gonnahave guys coming back off of injury.
But you don't know how those guysare gonna come back. And you've got
two guys that have been proving themselvesthat you look up to October and say,
we got to have these two guysready to go, because we don't

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know if Walker is gonna get itturned around, and we don't know Bobby
Miller gets it, gets his formback. We don't know about some of
the y Kershaw is supposed to comeback, We don't know he had to
set back. So we got aYashinobyl. I mean, you know,
Yamamoto. We don't know how he'sgonna come back. So I mean with
the two guys that they got,they got to really protect him, like

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those are our two aces. Fred. Yeah, I would go easy with
Klass now. I would I goeasy, you know, if he can
skip a starter or two here orthere, just to try to remain strong,
I would do that. I wouldnot push it with him because he's
in uncharted territories, and obviously forStone as well, but Stone's not had
the injury history of a Glass now. So the trade deadline, obviously,

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arms are always a premium. Dodgerswill be looking around see if they can
kick the tires on somebody other thingthe outfielder now say, says, go
get Tommy fam Yes, he's acomplete pain and a bit of a psycho,
but you'll only have him for halfa season, and that's that dog
you want, and he'll be ableto leave these guys and fire him up.

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But let me suggest this to you, all of a sudden, the
forgotten man, Chris Taylor is startingto play a little bit Rodney a little
bit. I'm not saying he's tearingthe cover off the ball, but he's
starting to play a little bit,and maybe it is the start of something.
If he plays, if he comesaround, if he gets it together,

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isn't that like you went out andtraded for somebody, Because quite frankly,
he has not made very much ofan impact at all. So if
he plays the way they hoped hewould when they signed him, haven't you
just added to your roster with aguy sitting there. Yeah, you can
look at it that way that hehadn't give you any really real production through
the first half of the season,and now he is starting to get hot.

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The thing with Chris Taylor is thatyou know what he can do,
and you know what he can doin the postseason, and if he does
continue the way he's gone the lastweek and a half or so, I'm
willing to roll that dice and lethim keep going Fred because I, like
I said, he's got history withus, and he's got history and big
time moments with us. Tommy Fam, I think it's just, you know,

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it's a roll of the dice.He please played well in Spurts,
and yes, he's got the fieryattitude, but is that something you want
to bring into the locker room midseason? I don't know if it's me,
No, I'm rolling the dice withChris Taylor what I got. I don't
mind. I don't like Fam,but I don't mind him. I don't
mind him on your team. It'syou know, he's what he's doing.

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He's our guy. Theory, ifhe's your guy, I hate you.
But if you're our guy, maybeI like you. Yeah. But you
think it'd be too much of adisruption period, Yeah, just yeah.
I don't think it's the impact onthe game physically, you know, is
is bad or his defense and allthat. I don't think it's that impactful

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that you got to go bring himin and make an effort to really go
bring him in, and then helet a ball go off his glove for
a home run when they play recently, you know, and he's got his
history. Look, I guess Inever I never got over the attack on
Jock Peterson for fantasy football. Ijust never got over that. So I'm

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not a big fan. And youknow what, and I get that because
guys have done stuff. Honestly,it's like the Region Rondo. Oh,
he's such a great guy and he'dbe a wonderful coach. What he did
to the reference Billy Kennedy. I'llnever get over it. I can never
get over that. You're I getwhat you're saying. Some things just hit
you a certain way for whatever reason. You can't get over it. You

(28:11):
Everything, everything they do is coloredby that. Yeah, yeah, Yeah,
I'm with you. I'm with you. So I don't know. Unless
he's a you know, just amonumental talent that is going to immediately make
a real difference on your team.Guys like that that are edgy like that,
I don't know if you bring themin. Yeah, I hear you,

(28:34):
I hear you. Well, we'llsee, I mean, Dave will
be on top of the two o'clockhour, and he'll tell us why Tommy
Fam should be in the lineup tonight. It'll be pretty simple. He'll just
jump in here and explain why we'reboth wrong and why Tommy Fam should be
playing tonight. There you go,Uh, you know what we have done.
Let's do this. Let's play it. We haven't played Know Your Squad
in a while? No, wehaven't. Should we play Know your Squad?

(28:56):
Today? Come on? Why not? Oh? Wait, did you
tell Kevin Well? I've got itin front of me. So and he's
not yelled at me yet. No, Rodney, he did not tell me.
I didn't think so, but Idid not. Whatever what is that
supposed to mean? Whatever? Youknow what it means, Kevin? All

(29:18):
right, So we'll play Know yourSquad coming up after the break. But
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en. Let's see if you gotwhat it takes. Come on, it's

(30:55):
two, say y'all. Summertime ishere July second? Wow, ready is
July already? I know? Headto your Southern California Ford dealers for great
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(31:17):
little know your squad. H Danielin Baldwin Park. Are you there,
Daniel? You there? Yeah,I'm I'm here. How you doing today?

(31:37):
I got you? I'm doing good? All right, So we're gonna
play your what's the matter. I'mtrying to get this win today. Right,
Well, let's see if you yougot it in you. I like
the attitude, Daniel like the attitude. Baby, Let's go, Thank you,
Thank you, know your squad.I'll give you a question and five
choices. Answer. Before I giveyou all five choices, you're locked out.

(32:00):
You have a challenge us your challenge. It's upheld. You retain your
challenge. Usual challenge it's denied.You're locked out of the next question.
You got that, got it?Cool? Ronnie? You ready? Good
afternoon, Rogan and Rodney. Iam ready to play this game. Now
let's go. Come on. Bythe way, it's no your UCLA Bruins.
Oh no, yeah, I'm gonnacheck out now, come on.

(32:22):
Daniel knows the Bruins, He's ready. Who holds the school record for most
points scored in a single game withforty four? Loewel Sindor, Bill Walton,
Gail Goodrich, Kevin Love or brotherLove, Leuel Sindor Bill Walton is
correct? Rodney's on the board.Yeah, just that easy, just that
quick, just like that. Whichof these basketball players holds the school mark

(32:45):
for most games played with one hundredand forty seven? Darren Collison, Josh
Ship, Michael Roll, Norman Paulor Colin Poul Eric Collison, No,
Michael Rolls correct, Daniel boy Fred, you're not getting the names out there?
Very good? Why Colin Power?They tripped you up? Huht one

(33:07):
for you? Well, I keepthinking Colin, Colin Cowherd. That's what
gets me. The last name wasPowell. Why would you think Colin because
it's the first name Colon Colin.That's why? All right? Who holds
the school record for most free throwsmade in a single season with two O
two Kevin Love, Reggie Miller,Don McClain, Bill Walton or Bill Denton.

(33:30):
Reggie Reggie Miller's correct? It isRonnie. Wow. All right,
we've played three questions and we've gota three way time. Uh. Who
let the Bruins and touchdowns from scrimmagelast season with nine? T J Harden,
Logan Lawyer, Kegan Jones, CarsonSteele or Sage Steele, Carson Steele,

(33:51):
Leacan, Lly Holmes, who RondyOlms, Logan, Ksey Holmes.
The second guy that you said,Fred DJ Holmes Home Holmes Kid. No,
No, there's one you've not named. Carson. Say the names again,

(34:12):
Fred, Sage Steele, Carson Steele, Keegan Jones or t J.
Harden, t J Harden, tJ Harden, t J Harden. That's
what I said, Kegan Jones,Ronnie gets it? Jones Harden. That
was that was very baffling. Uhokay, prior, do you see Las

(34:34):
win in the LA Bowl earlier thisyear? Their last Bowl victory was in
the Alamo Bowle in twenty fifteen,which are these players accounted for three of
the team's four touchdowns that day.Paul Perkins, Brett Hundley, Jordan James,
Nate Starks or Nick Dogg Brett,Helen Perkins. Brett Hundley is correct,
Ronald, thank you, Frederick thatthank you. Yes, I want

(34:55):
to go formal names now, sothat means Ronnie you have one, but
we'll play the last one out.Who led the men's basketball team of the
scoring gage of twelve point nine pointsper game? Adam Bona, Will McClendon,
Dylan Andrews, Sebastian mac or Sebastianbach Bona. Dylan Andrews is correct,

(35:16):
and that would be Daniel. No, that was rod No, that
would be Rodney. That would beright. I said, Adam, Okay,
so here we are. It's over, Ronnie. You won. Way
to go because we are out ofquestions. What do you want me to

(35:36):
do? I want you to runthe game right? You're rusty? Yeah,
Fred Waiter, I thought I ranthe game very well today. No,
you got some of the names wrong. Fred. It was rather confused.
You didn't even give it to him. It's just come on, Fred,
Jesus all right. Anyway, Uh, way to go, Ronnie.
Rodney finished second, but Daniel yougot one. You were on the board,

(35:59):
so that's pretty cool. Nice job, Thank you, thank you,
appreciate the time. Guys. Allright, you have a great fourth of
July. Be safe. Thank you. Uh As we get started with our
three, David Bassett joins us withthe Dodgers back in town.